Sunday 14 February 2016 Rātapu 14 Hui-tanguru 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan; WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Franz-Paul Decker (Bell BELL-CD 1991)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  ROSSINI: Waltz in Eb; Thème; Allegretto; Scherzo in A minor; Un Rien; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, Morceau réservés; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 9 - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; A Song of Islands, Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Major Op 99; FUCHS: Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb minor Op 83; ZEMLINSKY: Cello Sonata in A minor - Johannes Moser (cello), Paul Rivinius (pno) (Hänssler CD 93.206)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  ELGAR: In the South Op 50; Froissart Op 19; Variations on an original theme, Enigma Op 36 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Conifer CDCF 187)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  VICTORIA: Missa O quam gloriosum - Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66114)

  VASKS: Fifth movement, Meditation, from String Quartet No 4 - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79695)

  HOLST: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Third Group, To the dawn; To the waters; To Vena; Hymn of the travellers - BBC Singers/Justin Doyle, Sioned Williams (harp) (BBC Music BBC MM 252)

  KREBS: Chorale Prelude, Jesu, meine Freude - Jane Downer (ob), Peter Hagen (chamber organ) (CHAN 0809)

  HANDEL: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah - Sinfonia Australis/Guy Noble (ABC Classics 472 044)

  DURUFLÉ: Messe Cum jubilo - Thomas Herford (bar), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Mark Williams (org) (Chandos CHAN 10357)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80543)

  K FUCHS: American Rhapsody - Michael Ludwig (vln), London SO/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559723)

  FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79 - Peter Lloyd (fl), Rebecca Holt (pno) (IMP PCD 991)

  PUCCINI: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Bohème - Renée Fleming (sop), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (Decca 467 049)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

  GÓRECKI: Wislo moja, Wislo szara Op 46 - Lira Chamber Chorus/Lucy Ding (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79348)

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Britten Sinfonia/Joanna MacGregor (SoundCircus SC 008)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  DUSSEK: Piano Concerto in Eb Op 70 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Ulster Orch (Hyperion CDA 68027)

  FOULDS: Undine Op 3 - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7307)

• 10:00 AM. Music@Menlo

  Around Dvorák

  Nine programmes from the 2014 three-week California summer music festival

  (8) LIGETI: Sonata for solo cello - Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)

  BARTÓK: 44 Duos Sz98, excerpts - Jorja Fleezanis (vln), Alexander Sitkovetsky (vln)

  DOHNÁNYI: Serenade in C Op 10 - Alexander Sitkovetsky (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello)

  DVORÁK: String Sextet in A Op 48 - Arnaud Sussmann, Nicolas Dautricourt (vlns), Paul Neubauer, Yura Lee (vlas), Narek Hakhnazaryan, David Finckel (cellos) (Music@Menlo 2014/08)

• 11:20 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - City of Birmingham SO/Edward Gardner (Chandos CHSA 5139)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

  CHOPIN: Introduction & Polonaise brillante in C Op 3 - Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Inon Barnatan (pno) (Decca 478 8416)

  BRITTEN: A New Year Carol; TRAD arr Scott: King Jesus hath a garden - Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York/John Scott, Sara Cutler (harp), Stephen Buzard (org) (Resonus RES 10158)

  BRUCKNER: Intermezzo in D minor - Fitzwilliam String Quartet, James Boyd (vla) (Linn CKD 402)

  LISZT: Three Petrarch Sonnets S270, Pace non trovo; Benedetto sia 'l giorno; I'vidi in terra angelici costumi - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Ivari Ilja (pno) (Ondine ODE 1277-2)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A - David Oistrakh (vln), Vladimir Yampolsky (pno) (rec 1958) (Testament SBT 1442)

  WIENIAWSKI: Three Etudes-Caprices, No 2 in Eb; No 5 in E; No 4 in A minor - David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh (vlns) (rec 1958) (DG 463 616)

  GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 82 - David Oistrakh (vln), USSR SO/Kirill Kondrashin (rec 1948) (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00239)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  Words and Music

  Five programmes in which Brian Kay explores some favourite territory displaying words and music in perfect combination

  (3) Ivor Novello

  A man of astonishing accomplishments: composer, playwright, actor, film star, producer and matinee idol but it's his songs - dripping with sentiment, romance and nostalgia - for which he is most remembered today (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

  Xing Wang (pno), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466; LILBURN: Symphony No 1 (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:30 PM. Instrumental Nostalgia

  ANIDO: Preludios Nostálgicos - María Isabel Siewers (gtr) (Acqua AQ 173)

  SICONG arr Wu Ruey-Chen: Nostalgia, from Inner Mongolia Suite - Lu Siqing (vln), Taipei Chinese Orch/Chung Yiu-Kwong (BIS SACD 2104)

  ZIEHRER: Nostalgia Waltz Op 436 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223815)

• 5:00 PM. These Hopeful Machines

  A six-part series in which James Gardner traces a personal path through the evolving world of electronic music - and meets some of the people who made it happen

  (1) Everything Audible in the World Becomes Material

  Recording and electricity crack open the world of sound. What happens next? (RNZ) (Programme 2 Tuesday 7.00pm)

• 6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

  Metropolitan Opera Season

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

  (7) BIZET: The Pearl Fishers, an opera in three acts

  Two friends are rivals for the love of the same woman, a priestess of Brahma, but what happens to this threesome if she breaks her religious vows?

  Leïla.................................. Diana Damrau

  Nadir................................ Matthew Polenzani

  Zurga................................ Mariusz Kwiecien

  Nourabad.......................... Nicolas Testé

  Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Gianandrea Noseda (EBU)

• 8:45 PM. Going Fishing

  BOYD: Goldfish through summer rain - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Aquarium, from Carnival of the Animals - Peter Katin, Philip Fowke (pno duo), Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (EMI CDS 7 81421)

  SMETANA: The Fisherman - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10413)

• 9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  KLECZYNSKI: String Trio in G Op 4/2 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

  CARR: Two Mansfield Poems, Sanary; Sleeping Together - Jennifer Paull (ob d'amore), Read Gainsford (pno) (Amoris AR 1003)

  JANÁCEK arr Breiner: The Makropulos Affair, Suite - Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570556)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 42 in G HobXVI/27 - Tzimon Barto (pno) (Ondine ODE 1154)

  GOSSEC: Symphony in F - Concerto Cologne/Werner Ehrhardt (dir) (Capriccio 67 073)

  SGAMBATI: Piano Quintet No 1 in F minor Op 4 - Roberto Plano (pno), Quartetto Noferini (Brilliant Classics 94813 BR)

  GOUNOD: Mass No 4 in G minor for choir & two organs - Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne/Michel Corboz, Daniel Fuchs (org) (Apex 8573 89235)

Next day - Mon 15

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