Upbeat for Thursday 22 May 2014 Upbeat

12:15 Marc Taddei, Euan Harvey and Abbey Edlin

Orchestra Wellington music director joins two of his Wagner Tuba players to preview this weekend's Bruckner performance

12:40 Simon Romanos

Upbeat contributor on the world's great chamber ensembles

1pm Henry Wong Doe

New Zealand pianist performing with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra this weekend

WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act I
Quebec Conservatoire Orchestra / Franz-Paul Decker
BELL BELL-CD 1991

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 7 in E
Berlin State Orch / Daniel Barenboim
DG 479 0320

WAGNER: Träume, from Wesendonck Lieder
Nina Stemme (sop), Swedish CO / Thomas Dausgaard
BIS SACD 2022

JENNIFER HIGDON: Zaka
Eighth Blackbird
CEDILLE CDR 90000 094

THOMAS ALBERT: Thirteen Ways
Eighth Blackbird
CEDILLE CDR 90000 094

DANIEL KELLOGG : Divinum Mysterium
Eighth Blackbird
CEDILLE CDR 90000 094

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 28 in A Op 101
Henry Wong Doe (pno)
Private Recording 2003A

MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550, Menuetto
Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski
Archiv 477 5798

Upbeat for Thursday 22 May 2014