Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

12 February 2012 - 3:47 pm NZ time

Grace Notes

Sundays at 8 am.

Music to mirror the gentler start to the well-earned day of rest. An hour-long selection from our catalogue of Beauty Spots, reflective and calming.

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - London SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47001)

LISZT arr Milstein: Consolation No 3 in Db - Sarah Chang (vln), Sandra Rivers (pno) (EMI CDC 7 54352)

GLUCK: O del mio dolce ardor, from Paris & Helen - Keith Lewis (ten), NZSO CO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2022)

DELIUS arr Beecham: Fennimore & Gerda, Intermezzo - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

GIORGINAKIS: Therismos, from Greek Memories - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)

KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Royal Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (EMI CDC 7 47348)

O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

PELÉCIS: Flowering Jasmine - Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica CO/Gidon Kremer (dir/vln) (Nonesuch 287228)

WAGNER: Elsa's Dream, Einsam in trüben Tagen, from Lohengrin - Petra Maria Schnitzer (sop), Munich Radio Orch/Ulf Schirmer (Orfeo C 760 091 A)

RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Dejan Ivanovic (gtr) (Naxos 8.557038)

SVENDSEN: Romance in G Op 26 - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

RUBINSTEIN arr Traubas: Melody in F Op 3/1 - Vytautas Sondeckis (cello), Lithuanian CO/David Geringas (Naxos 8.554381)