Upbeat for Monday 19 May 2014

12:15 Tobias Cole

Australian countertenor performing with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra this week

12:40 Peter Mechen

Review of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Russian Fire concert

1pm Robbie MacRae

Director of the newly rebranded Auckland Live venue management organisation

Featured video: Chrissy Kokiri, New Zealand Dance Company

Music played in this show

SAINT-SAENS: Havanaise
Ben Morrison (vln), New Zealand SO / Wyn Davies
RNZ Rec.30/06/12

GLASS: Akhnaten, excerpt
Stuttgart State Opera Chorus & Orch / Dennis Russell Davies
CBS M2K 42457    

Vivaldi: Griselda
Tobias Cole (Countertenor) Orchestra of the Antipodes / Erin Helyard
PINCHGUT OPERA 2013                                              

RACHMANINOV: Caprice bohémien Op 12
New Zealand SO / Alexander Lazarev
RNZ Rec.17/05/14

SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54
Alexander Melnikov (pno), New Zealand SO / Alexander Lazarev
RNZ Rec.17/05/14

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 15 in A Op 141
New Zealand SO / Alexander Lazarev
RNZ Rec.17/05/14