Sunday 24 December 2017 Rātapu 24 Hakihea 2017

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Sarah Chang (vln), Orpheus CO (EMI 3 94431)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 22 in Eb, Philosopher - BBC Phil/Nicholas Kraemer (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 307)

  J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus Quadrille - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (GLOBE GLO 5143)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 6 in D minor Op 104 - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 421 069)

  1:00 approx

  BEETHOVEN: Andante in F WoO57, Andante favori - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 457 493)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 15 in G D887 - Prazàk Quartet (PRAGA PRD 250 240)

  2:00 approx

  YIN/CHU/SHENG/LIU: Yellow River Piano Concerto - Yundi Li (pno), China NCPA Concert Hall Orch/Chen Zuohuang (EMI 0 88658)

  DUTILLEUX: Au gré des ondes - John Chen (pno) (NAXOS 8.557823)

  BORODIN: String Quartet No 2 in D - Takács Quartet (Decca 452 239)

  3:00 approx

  COATES: The Three Elizabeths Suite - East of England Orch/Malcolm Nabarro (ASV CD WHL 2053)

  BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 - Peter Schmidl (cl), Friedrich Dolezal (cello), András Schiff (pno) (Decca 410 114)

  DUSSEK: Sinfonia in Bb - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.572683)

  4:00 approx

  TELEMANN: Fantasy No 7 in Eb for solo violin - Lara Hall (vln) (Atoll ACD 341)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 5 in F Op 76 - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 417 597)

  SHEPHERD: cryosphere - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

  5:00 approx

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (OPUS 111 OPS 30-172)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 75 - Stephen Hough (pno), Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä (HYPERION CDA 67711/2)

  PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes - Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov (RCA RD 60370)

  HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - ASMF/Neville Marriner (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99986)

  LISZT: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Anne Queffélec (pno) (ERATO 4509 94692)

  ORTIZ: Recercada No 8 on La Folia - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)

  GRIEG: Norwegian Dance Op 35/2 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (SONY MLK 64064)

• 6:00 AM. Sanctuary

  MIŠKINIS: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (HYPERION CDA 67818)

  BACH arr Red Priest: Arioso - Red Priest (RED PRIEST RP 007)

  VICTORIA: Mass, O Magnum Mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

  GJEILO: Serenity - Bartosz Cajler (vln), Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  KOEHNE: To His Servant Bach, God Grants a Final Glimpse, The Morning Star - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC 476 6502)

  BUSTO: O magnum mysterium - New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)

  POULENC: Four Christmas Motets - RIAS Chamber Choir/Marcus Creed (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1588)

  DE LALANDE: Simphonies des noëls - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)

  ORA Advent Calendar of Carols

  BUXTEHUDE: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BuxWV223 - Ton Koopman (org) (Novalis 150 048)

• 7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

  A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns, presented by Robyn Jaquiery (RNZ)

• 8:00 AM. Grace Notes

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 (2) - Richard Mapp (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)

  MONTEVERDI: Pur ti miro, from L'incoronazione di Poppea - Natasha Marsh (sop), Fernando Lima (countertenor), London SO/Craig Leon (EMI 2 16109)

  GLAZUNOV: Chant du Ménestrel - Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Phil/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5153)

  GRANADOS: Oriental - Enrique Granados (pno roll) (NIMBUS NI 8813)

  PÄRT: Fratres - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  DOWLAND arr Bergeron/Dagher/Slattery: Come again, Sweet Love - Michael Slattery (ten), La Nef (Atma ACD2 2650)

  SCHUBERT: Ave Maria D839 - Guy Touvron (tpt), Olivier Vernet (org) (LIGIA LIDI 010 5220-10)

  SALAZAR: Atención, atención - Rose Ensemble (ROSE 6)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in A RV335, The Cuckoo - Andrew Manze (vln), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 455 653)

  COPLAND: Appalachian Spring - San Francisco SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (RCA 09026 63511)

• 10:00 AM. Spoleto Chamber Music Festival 2017

  MOZART: Concerto in B-flat K191 - James Austin Smith (ob), Todd Palmer (cl), Peter Kolkay (bsn), St Lawrence String Quartet, Anthony Manzo (dbass), Pedja Muzijevic (hpchd)

  JANÁČEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata - St Lawrence String Quartet

  RAVEL: Tzigane - Livia Sohn (vln), Stephen Prutsman (pno) (recorded in Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina by WFMT)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  CHEN/HE: Butterfly Lovers Concerto - Chen Jie (pno), New Zealand SO/Carolyn Kuan (Naxos 8.570607)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Christmas Eve, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8327/9)

• Noon The Critic's Choice

  RUTTER: All Bells in Paradise; LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Merton College Oxford/Benjamin Nicholas (Delphian DCD34192)

  HANDEL: Messiah (1754 version), excerpts - Sandrine Piau, Katherine Watson (sops), Anthea Pichanick (contralto), Rupert Charlesworth (ten), Andreas Wolf (bass), Concert Spirituel Orch & Chorus/Hervé Niquet (Alpha 362)

  SIBELIUS arr Elokas: Give me no Splendour, Gold or Pomp, from 5 Christmas Songs, Op 1/4; WHITTALL: Aattoilta (Christmas Eve); RAUTAVAARA: Christmas carol - Helsinki Chamber Choir/Nils Schweckendiek (BIS BIS-2322)

• 1:00 PM. Vintage Years

  HANDEL: He shall feed his flock, from Messiah - Marian Anderson (contralto), RCA SO/Robert Shaw (Nimbus NI 7882)

  ADAM: O Holy Night - Jussi Björling (ten), Royal Stockholm Orch/Nils Grevillius (Swedish Society SCD 1100)

  REGER: Maria Wiegenlied - Elisabeth Grummer (sop), Hugo Diez (pno) (EMI CHS 7 69741)

  JOLIVET: Pastorale de Noël (3) - Jacques Castagner (fl), Gérard Faisandier (bsn), Lily Laskine (harp) (Accord 476 7783)

  BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols Op 28, excerpts - Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Enid Simons (harp)/Benjamin Britten (London 436 394)

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini (RCA GD 60296)

  TRAD: Silent Night - The Comedian Harmonists (Livingera 250275)

• 2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

  The King's Singers turn 50

  Two programmes

  (1) Tim Dodd talks with Brian Kay, the original bass in the all-male a cappella group formed in the mid-sixties by six friends at King's College, Cambridge and still going strong. The ensemble celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2018 (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

  Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2015

  Second semi-final round

  With Michael Houstoun (pno), Ashley Brown (cello)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in D Op 70/1, Ghost - Eunae Koh (vln);

  Piano Trio in G Op 1/2 - Elly Suh (vln);

  Piano Trio in C minor Op 1/3 - Suyeon Kang (vln)

  (recorded in the Queenstown Memorial Centre by RNZ)

• 4:35 PM. Afternoon Classics

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Akiko Suwanai (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 454 180)

• 5:00 PM. New Horizons

  William Dart hosts a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, following a personal trail to explore where his ears, gaze and nose guide him (RNZ)

• 5:30 PM. Early Evening Classics

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Waltz, from Jazz Suite No 2 - Philadelphia Orch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)

  ORA Advent Calendar of Carols

  STRAUSS: Sonatina No 2 in Eb for winds (4) - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Andris Nelsons (BIS BIS 2163)

• 6:00 PM. Christmas at the Opera

  TRAD arr Cullen: Angels from the realms of glory - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Carl Davis (Decca 433 010)

  ADAM arr Gamley: O Holy Night - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Kurt Herbert Adler (Decca 433 010)

  TRAD arr Gamley: Deck The Hall - Joan Sutherland (sop), Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 095)

  TRAD arr Hazell: Wexford Carol; NUESTRA arr Wilberg: El Nacimiento - Bryn Terfel (bar), Rolando Villazón (ten), Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)

  TRAD: American Songs - Kathleen Battle (sop), Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Nancy Allen (harp), American Boychoir, Christmas Concert Chorus, Orch of St Luke's/André Previn (Sony SK 48235)

  TRAD arr MacGimsey: Sweet Little Jesus Boy - Leontyne Price (sop) (Decca 433 010)

  TORME/WELLS: The Christmas Song - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Kalle Moraeus (gtr), Bengan Jansson (acc) (DG 459 685)

  HUMPERDINCK: When at night I go to sleep - Anthony Way (treble), Barbara Bonney (sop), English Sinfonia/Neil Page (Decca 455 645)

• 7:00 PM. Bach's Christmas Oratorio

  Mary Bevan, Joanne Lunn (sops), Clare Wilkinson, Ciara Hendrick (mezzos), Nicholas Mulroy, Thomas Hobbs (tens), Matthew Brook, Konstantin Wolff (bass/bars), Dunedin Consort/John Butt (Linn CKD 499)

• 9:35 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  STATHAM: Suite for flute & string quartet - Ariana Lis (fl), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  WELLS: The shepherds' carol - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (ATOLL ACD 501)

  LISZT: Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland, excerpts - David James (pno) (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  REED: A Christmas Intrada - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Janet Gibbs (org)/Squadron Leader Graham Hanify (KIWI CD SLC 216)

  FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

  VAN EECHAUTE: Suite ancienne - Peter Vanhove (pno) (PAVANE ADW 7463)

  LARSSON: Pastoral Suite - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (NAXOS 8.553115)

  DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - Members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 425 537)

  ANON: Lullay, lullow: I saw a sweet semely sight;

  Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus; BRUMEL: Noe, noe, noe - Orlando Consort (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7418)

  TALLIS arr Kronos: Spem in alium - Kronos Quartet (ELEKTRA NONESUCH 7559 79242)

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