12 February 2012 - 6:31 pm NZ time
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Disc 1
SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)
1:05 approx - Disc 2
HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)
2:15 approx - Disc 3
STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by JL Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; J RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)
6:00 SanctuaryDESENCLOS: Pater noster - tenors of Les Eléments Chamber Choir/Joël Suhubiette, Frédéric Desenclos (org) (Hortus 009)
VICTORIA: Missa De Beata Maria Virgine - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67891)
ROREM: Prayers, No 1 & No 4, from Four Prayers - Marya Martin (fl), Colette Valentine (pno) (Naxos 8.559629)
POULENC: Four short prayers of St Francis of Assisi - Tenebrae/Nigel Short (Signum SIGCD 197)
JCF BACH: Wachet auf - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Rickman Godlee (cello), Christopher Allsop (chamber organ) (Conifer 75605 51306)
RHEINBERGER: Sarabande, from Suite for organ, violin & cello Op 149 - Christopher Herrick (org), Paul Barritt (vln), Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 66883)
MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 42 - Anna Korondi (sop), RIAS Chamber Choir, Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1786)
ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)
PÄRT: Cantique des degrés - RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Radio SO/Kristjan Järvi (Sony 88697 72334)
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)
SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 417 762)
ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)
HANDEL: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 7/6 - Richard Egarr (org/dir), Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7447.48)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Cologne Gürzenich Orch/Dmitrij Kitajenko (Oehms Classics OC 666)
Thirteen programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City
(13) Brahms & Dvorák
DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Jeremy Denk, Wu Han (pno duet)
BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Arnold Steinhardt, Jessica Lee (vlns), Beth Guterman (vla), Fred Sherry (cello) (WFMT)
Nine programmes
(7) Monteverdi Madrigals, Book 5
Cruda Amarilli; O Mirtillo, Mertill'anima mia; Era l'anima mia; Ch'io t'ami; Che dar più vi poss'io?; M'è più dolce il penar per Amarilli; Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro; Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore!; T'amo, mia vita!;
E così, a poco; Questi vaghi concenti - La Venexiana/Claudio Cavina (dir) (Glossa GCD 920 925)
SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33 - Zara Nelsova (cello), London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1953) (Decca 475 6327)
SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Carl Schuricht (rec 1959) (Hänssler CD 93.141)
Music from Bamboo
Six programmes by Allan Thomas
(4) Bamboo Mystery (RNZ)
Metropolitan Opera Season
Twenty-three operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House Programme
(6) HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, an opera in three acts
An English translation of the classic tale from the Brothers Grimm. The siblings Hansel and Gretel get lost in the forest and are caught by an evil old woman who puts a spell on them and intends to bake them in her magic oven
Peter............................. Dwayne Croft
Gertrud......................... Michaela Martens
Hansel........................... Alice Coote
Gretel............................ Aleksandra Kurzak
Witch............................ Robert Brubaker
Sandman............................Jennifer Johnson Cano
Dew Fairy............................Ashley Emerson
Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Children's Chorus & Orch/Robin Ticciati (EBU)
ROTA: Music from the film, Rocco & his brothers - La Scala Orch, Milan/Riccardo Muti (Sony SK 63359)
GRAINGER: The Rival Brothers - Danish National Radio Choir & Orch/Jesper Grove Jorgensen (Chandos CHAN 9721)
TRAD: Dearest sister, dance with me! - Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna CO/Uwe Christian Harrer (Philips 400 014)
GRAINGER: The Nightingale & the Two Sisters, from Danish Folk Music Suite - Kenneth Sillito (vln), Stephen Orton (cello), Hamish Milne (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9746)
WALTON ed Palmer: The Three Sisters - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Chandos CHAN 8870)
NZ musicians and composers
LILBURN: Piano Sonata (1949) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 58)
JANÁCEK arr Breiner: From the House of the Dead, Suite - Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570706)
Six programmes
(6) Chris Bourke looks at Newman's albums Bad Love, the two Songbooks, and Harps and Angels (RNZ)
Four programmes
(2) Competition Gala
With Bavarian Radio SO/Sebastian Tewinkel
HUMMEL: Trumpet Concerto in E - Manuel Blanco Gómez-Limón (tpt)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Alexej Gorlach (pno)
STRAUSS: Oboe Concerto in D - Philippe Tondre (ob)
HINDEMITH: Chamber Music No 7 Op 46/2 - Michael Schöch (org) (recorded in the Philharmonie am Gasteig, Munich by German Radio, Munich)
FASCH: Overture in A minor FWV K/a1 - Tempesta di Mare/Emlyn Ngai (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0783)
CURTIS: Divertimento concertante - Verity Butler (cl), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2055)
J STAMITZ: Symphony in Eb - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553194)
11:00 GIULIANI/MOSCHELES: Grand Duo Concertant - Paolo Pugliese (gtr), Giovanni Togni (fpno) (Brilliant Classics 94190)
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 3 in Bb D36 - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 350 030)
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