Upbeat for Tuesday 5 August 2014
12:15 Jian Liu
Pianist performing the Ravel Concerto in G with Orchestra Wellington this weekend
12:40 David Alsop
Upbeat visual arts contributor
Arie Hellendoorn, Grounding, 2014
Robert Johnson looks at a recent recording of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius featuring conductor Edo de Waart
1:15 Owen Clarke
Conductor of the Royal New Zealand Navy Band talks about their current tour
Music played in this show
PUCCINI: Turandot
Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Joan Sutherland (sop), London Phil / Zubin Mehta
Decca 458 202
DEBUSSY: Étude 12 pour les accords
Jian Liu (pno)
RNZ Rec.12/05/2013
RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G, Presto
Martha Argerich (pno), London SO / Claudio Abbado
DG 423 665
STRAVINSKY: Song of the Nightingale
Cleveland Orch / Pierre Boulez
DG 471 197
ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55
Royal Flemish Phil / Edo de Waart
Pentatone PTC 5186 472
ELGAR: Sanctus Fortis, and Prosificere, anima Christiana, from The Dream of Gerontius
Peter Auty (ten), John Hancock (bar), Collegium Vocale Gent, Royal Flemish Phil / Edo de Waart
Pentatone PTC 5186 472
ELGAR: Praise to the Holiest, from The Dream of Gerontius
Hallé Youth Choir, Choir & Orch / Mark Elder
Hallé CD HLD 7520
POPE: Nightfall in Camp
Colin Clark (tpt), Royal New Zealand Navy Band / Owen Clarke
Royal NZ Navy NAVY 001
VIVALDI: Sposa son disprezzata, from Tamerlano
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), György Fischer (pno)
Decca 436 267