Sound Lounge for Tuesday 24 December 2013

7:00 Resound 2013 (10 of 10)

Unlocking recordings of significant compositions from Radio New Zealand Concert's archive

WHITEHEAD: Tamatea Tutahi – Sarah Watkins (pno)
TREMAIN: Symphony for strings – NZSO/Franks
HARRIS: Ave Maris Stella – Baroque Voices
FRYKBERG: Virgin Mother – Baroque Voices (men only)
SHORTIS: Adam Lay Ibounden – Baroque Voices/Pepe Becker

8:00 Happy Birthday Philip Norman!

NORMAN: Birthday Music – Hugh Roberts (fl)
NORMAN: Plato’s Cave – Reuben Chin (sax), Peter Barber (vla), Jian Liu (pno)

(rec by RNZ)

8:25 December in China

Last week Ryan Smith took over Sound Lounge while Kate headed to Beijing to document an enchanting  project with the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra, the New Zealand String Quartet and a number of Chinese and New Zealand composers.  You can view her blog here: http://blog.festival.co.nz/ and here: http://katemead.co.nz/

Information about their NZ performances:  http://www.chambermusic.co.nz/whats-on/tales-from-the-forbidden-city-2014

DUCKWORTH:  Blue Grass
Xiao Ma, The Forbidden City CO
FCCO CD 13211

GAO WEIJIE & TRAD:  Three Strains of Yang Pass; Go upstairs & downstairs; Willow Rolling Gold
The Forbidden City CO
FCCO CD 13211

GAO PING: Piano Quintet, ‘Mei, Lan, Zhu, Ju’
Kreisler Quartet, Gao Ping (pno/voc)
Naxos 9.70186

9:30

MACMILLAN: O bone Jesu
SWR Folk Ensemble, Stuttgart/Marcus Creed
Hänssler SACD 93.250

PART: Symphony No 3
Berlin Radio SO/Kristjan Järvi
Sony 88697 72334

MACMILLAN: Màiri
SWR Folk Ensemble, Stuttgart/Marcus Creed
Hänssler SACD 93.250

10:20

VAN NESS: The Nine Orders of the Angels, excerpts
Tapestry
MDG 344 1193

PREISNER: Silence, Night & Dreams, excerpts
Teresa Salgueiro, Tom Cully (voc), Camerata Silesia/Marek Mos
EMI 3 93999

LUTOSLAWSKI: some Polish Christmas Carols
Polish Radio Chorus & Orch/Antoni Wit
Naxos 8.555994

11:00 New Music Dreams

SZYMANOWSKI: Mazurkas Op 50
Martin Jones (pno)
Nimbus NI 1750