Sound Lounge for Wednesday 21 October 2009

Tuesday 20 October 2009

Presented by Robbie Ellis

7:04 - Broadcast première

A.RITCHIE: Double Concerto for bass clarinet & cello Op 93
Katherine Hebley (cello), Andrew Uren (bcl), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes
Atoll ACD 129
(From Anthony Ritchie's recently released CD, Remembering Parihaka.)

7:24 - Have a jolly good wine

VERDI: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (excerpt), from La Traviata
Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Roberto Alagna (ten), London Voices, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado
EMI 5 56656

EL-KHOURY: Symphonic Poem No 4 Op 59, Wine of the Clouds
National SO of Ukraine/Vladimir Sirenko
Naxos 8.557043

K.HUNTER: Drunk & Disorderly
Káren Hunter (vox, gtr, assorted background cacophony), Aaron Coddel (db), Shaun O'Kane (t.sax)
Monkey MON 016

BERG: Der Wein (sung in French)
Robert Murray (ten), Gothenburg SO/Mario Vengazo
Chandos CHSA 5074

H.ANGUS: The Wine Song
The Cat Empire: Felix Riebl, Harry Angus, Ollie McGill, Will Hull-Brown, Ryan Monro, Jamshid Khadiwala 'Jumps'
EMI 5 95740

8:02 - Stroma: Strange Loops

GRISEY: Périodes
DOWNES: Expulse* (première performance)
LARDELLI: Four Scenes (première performance)
HOLLOWAY: Strange Loops (première performance)
XENAKIS: Échange**

*Donald Nicolson (pno solo), **with Richard Haynes (bcl), Stroma/Hamish McKeich

(recorded 24 September 2008, Ilott Theatre, Wellington by Radio New Zealand Concert)

9:09 - San Fran

ELMSLY: Cello Symphony
James Tennant (cello), Auckland Phil/John Hopkins
Ribbonwood RCD 1003

PARTCH: San Francisco - A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties
Harry Partch (adapted vla, voice), Danlee Mitchell (kithara II), Elizabeth Gentry (chromelodeon)
New World 80622

MACKEY: San Francisco
Fred Sherry (cello), Steven Mackey (e.gtr)
Albany TROY 735

DUTILLEUX: San Francisco Night
Dawn Upshaw (sop), Jérôme Ducros (pno)
Erato 3984 27329

LIGETI: San Francisco Polyphony
Swedish Radio SO/Elgar Howarth
BIS CD 53

10:00 - Birthdays

ANTILL: Welcome Ceremony, from Corroboree
New Zealand SO/James Judd
Naxos 8.570241

The Sydney Opera House was officially opened on 20 October 1973, with a Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert featuring John Antill's Jubugalee and Beethoven's Symphony No 9.

SALONEN: Lachen verlernt
Leila Josefowicz (vln)
Warner 2564 61948

Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz was born on 20 October 1977 in Missisauga, Ontario, Canada.

CRESSWELL: Variations on a Theme by Charles Ives
Rosemary Eliot (fl), William Conway (cello)
NMC D 077

S.MONTAGUE: After Ives...: Four Studies
Philip Mead (pno), Elysian Quartet, Nancy Ruffer (fl), Stephen Montague (electronics & cond.), London Sousa Band
NMC D 118

CARTER: Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives
Thomas Demenga (cello)
ECM 1848

Charles Ives was born on 20 October 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA. He's also going to be Radio New Zealand Concert's Composer of the Week for 15-20 November.

11:07 - New Music Dreams

L.COOPER: Concerto for sopranino saxophone and strings
Lindsay Cooper (sop'nino sax), Orch del Teatro Comunale di Bologna/Franco Sebastiani
Impetus IMP CD 29831

COPLAND: Night Thoughts ('Homage to Ives')
Stephanie McCallum (pno)
ABC Classics 456 668

BODY: Nocturne
Katherine Hebley (cello), Dan Poynton (pno)
(RNZ)