Sunday 19 February 2017 Rātapu 19 Hui-tanguru 2017

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy; Piano Concertos, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in A; Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Op 1 - Midori Seiler (vln) (CBS MK 44944)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUBERT: Die Nacht; Die Nachtigall; Wehmut; Der Gondelfahrer; Mondenschein; Nachthelle; Das Dorfchen; Die Einsiedelei; Sehnsucht; Grab und Mond; Frühlingsgesang; Liebe; Widerspruch; An den Frühling; La pastorella; Ständchen; Der Entfernten - Karl Dent, Richard Clement (tens), Martha Hart (mezzo), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Mary Akerman (gtr), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  ELLER: Elegia for harp & strings; Five Pieces for string orchestra; Tone Poem, Dawn; RAID: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Eluned Pierce (harp), John Digney (ob), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  WALTON: Façade, Long Steel Grass; STEVENS: Symphony of Liberation, Resistance; FRANKEL: Symphony No 5 (1); SEARLE: Symphony No 2 (1); FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair; WALTON: Old Sir Faulk, from Façade; Touch her soft lips & part, from Henry V; Gloria, from Christopher Columbus; ALWYN: Lyra Angelica (1); Prelude to Odd Man Out; BLISS: Pastoral, The Pigeon Song, Lie strewn the white flocks; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; LEIGHTON: from Symphony No 3 (3) - Susana Walton (narrator), Della Jones (mezzo), Arthur Davies, Neil Mackie (tens), Michael Davis (vln), Rachel Masters (harp), Westminster Singers, London SO, Royal Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 7008)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  GALLAGHER: Quiet Reflections - London SO/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559768)

  DUNSTABLE: Veni Sancte Spiritus - Veni Creator Spiritus - Orlando Consort: Robert Harre Jones (countertenor), Charles Daniels, Angus Smith (tens), Don Greig (bass), with Simon Berridge, Steven Harrold (tens), Orlando Consort (Metronome MET CD 1009)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in C K336 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir), Ian Watson (org) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  PARRY: Hear my words, ye people - Daniel D'Souza (bass), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Douglas Tang (org) (Choir of King's College KGS 0011)

  SILVESTROV: Alleluia - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 12665)

  BACH: Chorale Prelude, Ich ruf' zu dir BWV639 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 68045)

  Cantata No 92, I have to God's own heart & mind my heart & mind surrendered - Miah Persson (sop), Wilke te Brummelstroete (contralto), James Oxley (ten), Jonathan Brown (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 153)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Ellen Sherman (cor anglais), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  PÄRT Fratres, for violin, strings & percussion - Gidon Kremer (vln), German CO (Teldec 0630 14654)

  MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/6, Venetian Gondola Song - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 421 119)

  TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

  DUROSOIR: Berceuse - Eric Picard (cello), Johan Farjot (pno) (Alpha 175)

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite (4) - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  TAVENER: Song for Athene - Westminster Abbey Choir/Martin Neary (Sony SK 66613)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  RODRIGO: Concierto pastoral - Jennifer Stinton (fl), English CO/Steuart Bedford (Alto ALC 1090)

  COPLAND: Rodeo - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559758)

• 10:00 AM. Spoleto Chamber Music Festival 2016

  For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina's historic theatres, churches, and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers

  PACHELBEL: Canon and Gigue in D - Geoff Nuttall, Scott St John, Daniel Phillips (vlns), Christopher Costanza (cello), Pedja Muzijevic (hpschd)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op. 24 - Andres Diaz (cello), Stephen Prutsman (pno)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise - Tara Helen O'Connor (fl), Anthony Manzo (dbass), Pedja Muzijevic (pno), St. Lawrence String Quartet

  BEETHOVEN: Fifth movement, Cavatina, from String Quartet in Bb Op 130 - St. Lawrence String Quartet

  MESSAGER arr Palmer: The Two Pigeons, Suite - James Austin Smith (ob), Todd Palmer (cl), Peter Kolkay (bsn), Daniel Phillips (vln), Christopher Costanza (cello), Pedja Muzijevic (pno) (WFMT)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 52, Hymn of Praise - Barbara Bonney, Edith Wiens (sops), Peter Schreier (ten), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch & Radio Chorus/Kurt Masur, Michael Schönheit (org) (Warner Classics & Jazz 2564 69272-9)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  SIBELIUS: Six songs Op 36, excerpts, No 1: Svarta rosor (Black roses); No 4: Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); No 5: Marssnön (March snow) - Jamie Barton (mezzo), Brian Zeger (pno) (Delos DE 3494)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10931)

  RAVEL arr R Williams: Piano Concerto in G (2) - Anna Markland (pno), I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth (Decca 479 9394)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 12 in A K414 - Kristian Bezuidenhout (fpno), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902218)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  A Tribute to Nicolai Gedda (1925-2017)

  Nicolai Gedda (ten), Margareta Hallin (sop), Swedish Radio Orch/Nils Grevillius

  Excerpts from WEBER: Oberon; GOUNOD: Romeo & Juliet; VERDI: Aida (EBU)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Shanghai Spring 2017

  Join pianist and composer Conrad Tao for broadcasts from the 33rd Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. This four-part series is a kaleidoscope of orchestral and chamber works, and the ancient instruments of the Silk Road

  (3) In this episode hear folk music developed along the Silk Road, a concerto for the Chinese Zither, the Guqin, as well as a cello piece composed by Andrew Rudin (WFMT)

• 3:00 PM. Sunday Concert

  Maria Mo (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 15 in D Op 28, Pastoral

  RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition

  (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:40 PM. An Afternoon Feast

  SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Belshazzar's Feast Op 51 - Turku Phil/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.573300)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Wedding Cake, Caprice-Valse Op 76 - Nicholas Walker (pno), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 570)

  MASCAGNI: Mamma, quel vino è generoso, from Cavalleria Rusticana - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Cristina Reale (mezzo), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (Decca 478 2258)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Folk Feast, from The Gadfly - Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 452 597)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  William Dart hosts a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, following a personal trail to explore where his ears, gaze and nose guide him (RNZ)

• 5:30 PM. Early Evening Classics

  BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - London Mozart Players/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.573426)

  FAURÉ: Dolly Suite - Eric Le Sage, Alexandre Tharaud (pno duet) (Alpha 603)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

  Twenty-four operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

  (7) PUCCINI: La Bohème, an opera in four acts, a

  tale of love and loss

  Mimi............................ Ailyn Pérez

  Rodolfo....................... Michael Fabiano

  Marcello....................... Alessio Arduini

  Colline......................... Christian Van Horn

  Schaunard.................... Alexey Lavrov

  Benoit/Alcindoro......... Paul Plishka

  Musetta........................ Susanna Phillips

  Parpignol...................... Daniel Clark Smith

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Carlo Rizzi (EBU)

• 9:10 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  NZ performers and composers

  GRENFELL: ... serenades and skirmishing - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  TERZI: Nevicata Op 29 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private

  RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 214)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SALIERI: Twenty-six Variations on La follia di Spagna - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9877)

  DRUSCHETZKY: Serenata in Eb - Zefiro (Ambroisie AMB 9925)

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 - Richard Egarr (hpschd/dir), Academy of Ancient Music (AAM Records AAM 003)

  F MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio Op 11 - Diana Ambache (pno), Sophie Langdon (vln), Susan Dorey (cello) (BBC Music BBC MM 45)

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