Fine Music Magazine - September 2019

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MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019

A MOVABLE MUSICAL FEAST Sydney Symphony’s 2020 Season

‘A GRAND PRIESTESS OF THE ART’ Clara Schumann’s 200th Anniversary

THE BAROQUE SECULAR CANTATA Following its Origin and Development

LEGACY OF A MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARY The Influence of Das Rheingold on Later Operas


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Contents VOL 46 No 9

2 A Movable Musical Feast 4 Balakirev’s Islamey Turning Old Music into New 5 ‘A Grand Priestess of the Art’ 6 Exploring Lesser-Known Music 7 The Baroque Secular Cantata 9 Legacy of a Musical Revolutionary 10 Program Guide and Composer List 41 What’s On in Music 42 Musical Families 43 Thanks for the Memories 44 CD Reviews 45 A Tribute to Ken Weatherley Jazz After Hours 46 Winter Suite A Musical Life in Brief: Peggy Glanville-Hicks 47 Music is an Essential Food: Dan Bickel 48 Notes from the Editor

THIS MONTH @ FINE MUSIC As I write this month’s editorial, we have just received the July 2019 McNair Listener Survey results. It is with gratitude to our loyal and new listeners that I can now report that these are the highest figures ever recorded for Fine Music. The figures represent a significant increase by just under one third of our audience in a two-year period. In the survey of the Sydney radio audience, our FM and DAB+ broadcasts combined recorded an average of 240,000 weekly listeners and 638,000 monthly listeners. As we celebrate this milestone achievement and approach our 45th anniversary, I want to highlight what an extraordinary feat it is that we have delivered such a highly respected and vitally important part of our cultural landscape. While our main competitors have access to many more resources than we do, including national coverage, government funding and larger professional staffing teams, we at Fine Music manage to deliver what is essentially the same service, with very limited resources, and have done so for almost 45 years. As Station Manager I want to acknowledge the hard work of our staff, programmers, presenters, librarians, receptionists, recording engineers, magazine writers, editors, and indeed all who, directly or indirectly, interact with our listener base. As a passionate music lover and loyal subscriber, we know that you appreciate our community radio station and the work that we do to encourage an active live classical and jazz music scene in our community. We hope you join us in celebrating this achievement and help us to spread the word. Fine Music is the radio station created by music lovers for lovers of music. Rebecca Beare Fine Music Station Manager

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A MOVABLE MUSICAL FEAST CATHERINE PEAKE OUTLINES SYDNEY SYMPHONY’S SEASON

Umberto Clerici with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra           Photo: Brooke Turnbridge

In 2020, the planned renovations of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, home of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, are due to commence. The renovations, the most comprehensive ever undertaken, are designed to improve acoustics and theatre systems as well as backstage and stage areas, and will also be directed towards improving access. With the renovations scheduled to begin early in the New Year, and expected to continue for two years, the orchestra’s temporary new residence will be the Sydney Town Hall which, incidentally, was its home before it took up permanent residence in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 1973. Situated in the centre of the city, Sydney Town Hall is an iconic Sydney landmark and well known for its Victorian architecture and imposing street presence. The projected move has not put a dampener on the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s program for 2020, and nine major concerts are planned. The extended program offers new concert series in addition to the continuation of previous series. A major strand of the 2020 program will highlight the work of four renowned conductors with strong links to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, with Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles and Simone Young presenting concerts of their own creation during the two years of the orchestra’s relocation. In recognition of his long-standing connection with the orchestra, eminent conductor Ashkenazy was this year named the first-ever Conductor Laureate of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2020, he will present a series entitled Northern Lights Festival. The first concert will feature Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites nos 1 and 2 and Sibelius’ Symphony no 5 in E flat major, op 82 with additional works by Sibelius planned for the second concert including his Karelia suite, op 11 and his Symphony no 1 in E minor, op 39. 2

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As the Sydney Symphony’s first Principal Guest Conductor, Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles will be leading the orchestra in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis in D major, op 123, considered one of Beethoven’s greatest achievements. The Sydney Philharmonia Choirs will be joining the orchestra for the performance. Runnicles will present more vocal work in his second concert Italian Opera Gala, with works by Verdi, Mascagni and Leoncavallo. He will also be conducting Mahler’s Symphony no 4 in G major, the final movement of which incorporates one of Mahler’s earlier songs Das himmlische Leben (The Heavenly life) sung by a soprano. Internationally distinguished conductor Simone Young will present the concert A Viennese Gala with works by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II, and will lead the orchestra in a concert featuring Brahms’ Symphony no 4 in E minor, op 98, the last symphony that he wrote. Following his final year in 2019 as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, David Robertson will be a guest conductor of the orchestra in 2020. He will lead a performance of Brahms’ A German

Requiem in which the orchestra will be joined by the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, and will also conduct Mendelssohn’s Symphony no 4 in A major, op 90, known as the Italian, as well as Richard Strauss’ Serenade in E flat major, op 7, a serenade for winds which has been described as ‘short as well as sweet’. In the absence of a chief conductor for 2020 several conductors, in addition to the four above, will be taking the podium next year. In 2022, and after an international search, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will announce its new chief conductor to coincide with its return to the Sydney Opera House. With the year 2020 being the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, American conductor Marin Alsop will lead the Sydney Symphony in a performance of Symphony no 9 in D minor, op 125. The concert will form part of a global celebration, the international ‘A Global Ode to Joy’ project, for which Alsop will conduct different orchestras around the world, offering re-imaginings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Alsop will present the Ninth Symphony with the Sydney Symphony collaborating with Indigenous musicians in a performance including traditional music

Elisabeth Leonskaja   Photo: Marco Borggreve


that will ‘seek to bring diverse communities together in themes that underpin Beethoven’s choral work’. In other concerts, Australian harpsichordist Erin Helyard will lead the Sydney Symphony in the complete Brandenburg concertos, BWV1046-1051, and conductor David Stern will present a Classics in the City concert with music by Handel and Telemann. Having previously worked with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conductor Alexander Shelley will

most popular concertos in the repertoire. The Grammy Award winning violinist performs a wide repertoire and is often referred to by colleagues as a ‘musician’s musician’. With conductor Fabien Gabel conducting the orchestra, renowned cellist Daniel MüllerSchott will perform Dvorák’s Cello concerto in B minor, op 104. Continuing the celebration of Beethoven’s anniversary, pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet will be joining conductor Kirill Karabits to

Donald Runnicles

conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade, op 35, and the conductor for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no 6 in B minor, op 74 will be Spaniard Jaime Martin. Although the work is known today as the Pathétique (pathetic) symphony, Tchaikovsky called it the Passionate symphony. In a concert that touches on the Germanic repertoire and the French Impressionists, Jun Märkl will present Ravel’s Piano concerto in G major, a concerto ‘heavily influenced by jazz’, as well as the concert overture The Hebrides by Mendelssohn and Debussy’s La mer. Finnish conductor and violinist Pietari Inkinen will conduct Stravinsky’s The rite of spring, and the orchestra will present more Sibelius with The swan of Tuonela. Australian composer and conductor Nicholas Buc will lead the Sydney Symphony in concert in conjunction with American singer-songwriter Ben Folds. In addition to renowned conductors joining it onstage in 2020, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will be presenting concerts with invited international and Australian artists. As part of the Sibelius concerts conducted by Ashkenazy, violinist Akiko Suwanai will perform the Violin concerto in D minor, op 47. Cited as being ‘symphonic in scope’, it is the only concerto that Sibelius wrote. Suwanai currently plays the 1714 Dolphin Stradivarius, on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation. Robertson will once again take the podium, this time in concert with violinist Augustin Hadelich who will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin concerto in E minor, op 64, one of the

Photo: Robert Catto

present the Piano concerto no 4 in G major, op 58. Beethoven was the soloist in the public premiere of the work, and a contemporary review stated that the concerto was ‘the most admirable, singular, artistic and complex Beethoven concerto ever’. Musicians from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will also take centre stage during concerts presented next year. In its 2020 Regional Tour, Principal Cello Umberto Clerici will conduct the orchestra with Concertmaster Andrew Haveron performing Bruch’s Violin concerto no 1 in G minor, op 26, one of the composer’s most famous works. Clerici will conduct again in a concert with international violinist Karen Gomyo performing Mozart’s Violin concerto no 3 in G major, K216, written by the composer when he was 19 years old. The orchestra’s Principal Trumpet David Elton will play Haydn’s Trumpet concerto in E flat major, Hob.VIIe:1, which has been listed as ‘a favourite of the trumpet repertoire and possibly Haydn’s most popular concerto’. Throughout its 2020-2021 residence in the Sydney Town Hall, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will also be performing in its other regular venues: the Sydney Opera House’s Utzon Room, the City Recital Hall and the new Sydney Coliseum Theatre in Rooty Hill. The Cocktail Hour series will once more be presented in the Utzon Room, where members of the orchestra will perform a variety of chamber works. A new Symphonic Hour series will incorporate hour-long concerts at the Sydney Town Hall featuring major works performed and conducted by international as

well as Australian artists. English conductor Alexander Shelley will take the podium in two separate concerts as the orchestra performs Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, and Australian conductor Alexander Briger will conduct Shostakovich’s Symphony no 5 in D minor, op 47. When first performed in 1937, the work was so well received that the audience gave it an ovation that lasted over half an hour. The Family Series concerts, designed for the younger audience, will take place at The Concourse in Chatswood. For the second concert in the series, Umberto Clerici will conduct the orchestra in Paul Patterson’s Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood with narration by media personality Wendy Harmer. Patterson wrote the piece for narrator and orchestra in 1992, basing it on a script by Roald Dahl that was intended for a possible television adaptation. Another series, Mozart in the City, will be expanded to create the new Classics in the City series, presenting rarely performed works from the Baroque and Romantic periods. The International Pianists in Recital series returns, with the 2020 program featuring pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja, Jonathan Biss, Cédric Tiberghien and Lauren Zhang, winner of the 2018 BBC Young Musician award. The Sydney Symphony Presents series will also continue, with the orchestra performing live in conjunction with film excerpts being shown on the big screen.

Marin Alsop         Photo: Adriane White

With the nine major concerts, new and established series and special guest artists onstage, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will continue to present its concert programs uninterrupted in 2020, from its temporary new home of the Sydney Town Hall and its other regular venues. For a comprehensive list of concerts, dates, venues, repertoire and bookings refer to the Sydney Symphony website or telephone 02 8215 4600. SEPTEMBER 2019

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BALAKIREV’S ISLAMEY ROBERT GILCHRIST DISCUSSES THE ‘UNPLAYABLE’ WORK “It’s unplayable,” said the virtuoso pianist and composer Mily Balakirev. “There are passages in this work that I simply can’t manage.” Even Alexander Skryabin seriously damaged his right hand while frantically practising this composition. The work was inspired by a series of musical excursions by Balakirev to the Caucasus Mountains in the 1860s. The region is home to more than 50 ethnic groups, and no fewer than three language families are unique to the area. During his working holidays, Balakirev was impressed by the region’s rich folk music traditions. It was here that he stumbled upon a melody that would later serve as the basis of a theme in his best-known piano piece, Islamey, an oriental fantasy. Balakirev made the acquaintance of a Circassian prince, who frequently played folk melodies on an instrument bearing a startling resemblance to a violin. One of these melodies was a dance tune called Islamey, which features in the first movement of Balakirev’s piano work. The second theme is based on a love song from the Crimean Tatars. Balakirev hurriedly completed Islamey in September

a number of ossia passages to technically simplify the musical text. Technical brilliance aside, the work attempted to preserve a national style of music. Although Islamey became popular abroad it was seldom played in Russia. However, Alexander Borodin included quotations from the piece in his opera Prince Igor, while Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov did the same in his symphonic suite Scheherazade. In fact, the melodies preserved in Balakirev’s Islamey are still present in current folk music of the former USSR.

Mily Balakirev

1869 to provide the pianist Nikolai Rubinstein with a ‘showstopper’ for a recital scheduled in December. Rubinstein claimed that he had struggled with the piece and found it so difficult that ‘few would be able to master it’. From the very beginning, it seems, Islamey gained the undeserved reputation of being unplayable. Balakirev revised the work in 1902, adding

Islamey became a favourite recital piece of many pianists including Liszt. It also influenced later composers, with Ravel saying that with Gaspard de la nuit his goal was to make it more difficult than Islamey. Leaving aside the enormous technical challenges of the work, Balakirev managed to create a lasting musical document to accompany the burgeoning awareness and awakening of his nation’s music. Composed 150 years ago this month, Islamey can be heard in The Piano Alone on Saturday 28 September at 9.05am.

TURNING OLD MUSIC INTO NEW ELAINE SIVERSEN DESCRIBES A LIFELONG FASCINATION a prominent feature of the work of several composers but Respighi’s interest was in preClassical music which he couched in 19th century Romantic forms such as is found in symphonic poems. An exception was the littleknown 19th century piano pieces of Rossini from which he brilliantly crafted the ballet La boutique fantasque. The Concerto à cinque for oboe, horn, violin, double bass, piano and string orchestra is based on a passacaglia of Tartini. It represents some affinity with the neoclassicists, but relies heavily on the Baroque concerto grosso and in particular on the concerti grossi of Telemann and Vivaldi.

Ottorino Respighi had a lifelong fascination with music of the past. His violin playing took him to St Petersburg as a young man where he played, not as a violinist, but as a violist in the St Petersburg Opera Theatre Orchestra. He took the opportunity while there to study orchestration with Nicolai RimskyKorsakov and, after returning to Italy, he began composing numerous works based on earlier music using the colourful orchestration techniques he had acquired in St Petersburg. His three suites of Ancient airs and dances easily come to mind, the title being indicative of the early music source. They are brilliant and tasteful reworkings of lute pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries. Another popular suite is The birds. Here Respighi’s source was music of the 17th and 18th centuries that represented an attempt to transcribe into musical notation birdsong and bird actions, such as fluttering wings or scratching feet. This love of early music led Respighi to investigate even earlier music resulting in his Concerto gregoriano for violin and orchestra, and the three piano Preludes on Gregorian themes. Concerto in modo misolidio for piano and orchestra uses plainchant as the 4

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Ottorino Respighi

basis of the first movement, moving through several different styles. In the Finale there is a passacaglia although this is more in the Romantic tradition of paying homage to the Baroque era. In the early 20th century, neo-classicism was

Respighi’s scholarly achievements included transcribing, modernising and publishing editions of several Baroque composers: Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna, Benedetto Marcello’s cantata Didone and music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Vitali. For Respighi ‘interpreting’ the old masters gave him a sense of fulfilment and, through his compositions and transcriptions, he showed an understanding of the spirit of this earlier music. Respighi’s ‘new from old’ music can be heard in Sunday Special at 3pm on 29 September.


‘A GRAND PRIESTESS OF THE ART’ PAUL COOKE CONSIDERS CLARA SCHUMANN’S LEGACY “The death is announced of Madame Clara Schumann, the eminent pianist, and widow of the famous composer, Robert Schumann.” So began an article in the Sydney Morning Herald published on 23 May 1896, which leaves us in little doubt as to the nature of Clara’s fame. The article went on to provide a not entirely accurate potted biography, together with an account of a visit by a young Australian pianist, Elsie Stanley Hall, perhaps ‘the very last person to have the honour of an interview with this renowned pianist and most kindly woman’. Clara was born on 13 September 1819 to Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher and instrument dealer, and Marianne Tromlitz, singer and pianist. They divorced in 1824 and thereafter Friedrich made it his life’s work to ensure that Clara became a concert pianist, enforcing a strict but enlightened regime that included study of counterpoint and composition. His persistence (and hers) certainly reaped rewards. Clara’s first public appearance was in 1828, playing a piano duet, Kalkbrenner’s Variations on a march from Moses, and she made her solo debut as a concert pianist in 1830. Her early repertoire, like that of her contemporaries, favoured technique over taste, and virtuosic theme-and-variation style music by composers such as Herz, Thalberg and Czerny predominated. Clara, however, increasingly programmed music with more substance: she introduced many of Beethoven’s piano sonatas to Berlin audiences, and championed younger composers such as Chopin and Mendelssohn and, later, Brahms. She also programmed music of the past, with performances of works by J.S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart. Allied to this increasingly sophisticated repertoire was her pioneering of the solo recital and of playing from memory. As a pianist she was very highly regarded. Liszt saw her as ‘a grand priestess of the art’; Paganini thought she ‘had a vocation for art because she had feeling’; Mendelssohn believed that she was the best interpreter of his Capriccio. The Manchester Guardian wrote, in 1856, when she visited Britain: “Comparing Madame Schumann with the leading pianists of the day, we would say at once that she surpasses them all in that great quality which we sum up expressively by the word ‘soul’. She is all music; and, as she bends over her instrument, it is very easy to see, from her expressive gestures, that the wooden instrument ... has become a golden gate through which her spirit passes into the purest regions of harmony.”

Clara Schumann

Clara’s praise of Elsie Stanley Hall’s pianism at their meeting (that ‘she played brilliantly, with grace and elegance’) reminds us too that Clara was a Professor of Piano at the conservatorium in Frankfurt from 1878: her students were exposed to a wide repertoire, much sight-reading, and opportunities to attend operas and orchestral rehearsals, following the music while reading a score. The courtship and marriage of Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann has been characterised as the ‘most feted Romantic love story in the history of Western music’, but their intended equal musical partnership did not last. Composing gave Clara great pleasure but she had little time for it: she made it possible for Robert to compose but she was increasingly occupied with the birth and care of children, at the same time as pursuing her performance career as the main breadwinner. Clara continued to perform for most of the 40 years after Robert’s death in 1856. Her most constant musical partner was the violinist Joseph Joachim, who had performed in the same Leipzig concert as Clara in August

1843. They gave over 238 concerts together, and were highly regarded for their playing of Beethoven’s violin sonatas. George V of Hanover described Joachim’s interpretation of Clara’s Three romances for violin and piano as a ‘marvellous, heavenly pleasure’. Although there was obviously a financial imperative, Clara insisted that she felt ‘a calling to reproduce great works, above all, also those of Robert, as long as I have the strength to do so’. To this end she edited, published, premiered and continued to perform his works. She may also have been guilty of preserving his legacy according to her own tastes, with Robert tending towards the experimental in the structure and style of his music but Clara praising those of his compositions that were ‘not too obscure’. She didn’t include his Violin Concerto in the first complete Schumann edition. Liszt, Spohr and Chopin all praised compositions by Clara, and Mendelssohn conducted the premiere of her Piano Concerto, but by the time of her death and until comparatively recently her composing career was largely ignored. Her early compositions, not all of which have survived, were intended to show off her virtuosic pianistic skills, but the Three romances of 1839 ushered in more intimate and considered pieces. In the next 15 years, until she ceased composing after the death of Robert, she continued to write solo works for the piano but also turned her hand to Lieder and chamber music. The Piano Trio, written while she was pregnant, and therefore unable to tour, is regarded as one of her finest works, displaying an ‘autumnal, melancholy quality’ and a ‘mastery of sonata form and polyphonic techniques’. Look for the special logo on Clara Schumann’s 200th anniversary programs during September.

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EXPLORING LESSER-KNOWN MUSIC ELAINE SIVERSEN HIGHLIGHTS THREE PROGRAMS Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel and Engelbert Humperdinck of the Romantic era may appear to be ‘odd bedfellows’ when placed in the Sunday Special program on 1 September at 3pm. While the music of these German composers is vastly different, the link is their entry into the world on, or just prior to, 1 September some 201 years apart. Humperdinck was born on that day in 1854 but Pachelbel’s birth was probably the day before because he was baptised on 1 September

It was at this time in 1890 that Humperdinck began work on Hansel and Gretel. Based on a tale by the Grimm Brothers, the opera premiered in Weimar on 23 December 1893 and since then has been considered to be a Christmas season opera. The music, a combination of German folk-style music and Wagnerian techniques, appealed to the audience and was an instant success. Humperdinck has a tenuous connection to Sydney: in 1914, he applied for the post of Director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but when war broke out the post went instead to the Belgian Henri Verbrugghen. Saturday Matinee on 7 September at 2.30pm features an oratorio by Antonio Caldara. Oratorios developed in the 17th century and, although similar in musical style to opera, were based on

Johann Pachelbel

1653. Both became significant composers of their eras although Pachelbel had more influence on musical development. Pachelbel was an organist and teacher who composed sacred and secular works in many genres. As an organist he was influential in bringing the South German Organ School to its peak. His main legacy is his contribution to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue which culminated in those of Johann Sebastian Bach. It seems that the nine-year old Bach met Pachelbel, a long-time friend of the Bach family, when Pachelbel was invited (along with other composers) to provide the music for the wedding of Sebastian’s older brother Johann Christoph Bach, who had been a pupil of Pachelbel and, in turn, taught the young Sebastian. Humperdinck is remembered mainly for his opera Hansel and Gretel, which tends to overshadow the rest of his works, but it’s his other music we’ll hear. Although he composed his first work at the age of seven and won several prestigious prizes, his career was not particularly illustrious; most of it was spent teaching, with one of his most important posts being a professorship at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. 6

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been added from John 11:1-2 and 12:1-4. He also included the figures of Celestial and Earthly Love (representing good and evil) for the dramatic purpose of staging a combat for the soul of Mary Magdalene. Her irresolution and anguish are movingly depicted although this is not in the Biblical narrative. Composers working in another 17th century Italian city will be heard in Baroque and Before on 27 September at 10pm. In Naples in the early part of the century several composers combined to write music for a 1620 masque called The sylvan and oceanic delights of Posilipo. Posillipo (modern spelling) is a promontory overlooking the sea near Naples and this masque included the usual nymphs and shepherds found in pastoral masques but also many aquatic creatures. It was commissioned by the viceroy Don Pedro Girón, Duke of Osuna, in an extravagant attempt to ingratiate himself with the Habsburg King Philip III of Spain. No record now exists of the music or even of the composers who contributed to this production and the recording being broadcast is a composite of works from the Naples of that time, most composers being little known. It was reconstructed by Philip Pickett in 1988 with sinfonie, balli and other dance movements alternating with songs and madrigals relating to woodland and sea creatures, and to minor deities.

Engelbert Humperdinck

religious themes rather than on mythological or heroic themes. They were intended to be ‘spiritual exercises’ or ‘edifying entertainment’ to be sung in the oratory or nave of the church. Caldara was one of the most prolific of the early oratorio composers with 43 oratorios to his name (and many more believed to have been lost). He wrote them for wealthy patrons in his native Venice and for other patrons in Rome, Antonio Caldara Florence, Mantua and Vienna. Caldara’s oratorio to be broadcast this month is Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (Magdalene at the feet of Christ). While the libretto by Lodovici Forni is based on the New Testament account in Luke 7:36-50, the character of Martha has

The masque is the centrepiece of the program, which includes works by Giovanni de Macque, a Netherlander who spent most of his life in Italy, and works of one of the most important composers of the time, Girolamo Frescobaldi.


THE BAROQUE SECULAR CANTATA REX BURGESS FOLLOWS ITS PROGRESS In the late 16th century there was a move by composers to imitate the use of recitative as practised by the ancient poets. The earliest examples are in operas by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini, each based on Ovid’s Orpheus and Eurydice, and having their first performances in Florence in 1600 and 1602 respectively. Initially confined to opera, the desire to include recitative soon extended to works suitable for performance in camera. Initially these were strophic renderings of short dramas or stories, sung by one voice, with a recurrent bass on a single instrument: normally lute, cello or harpsichord.

Alessandro Scarlatti

A cantata is normally a medium-length narrative-style composition for one or more voices with instrumental accompaniment. Its content may be either sacred or secular, the focus in this article being on the latter. Derived from cantare, the word is one of many introduced to music via the Italian language, others including sonata, toccata and ballata. The word’s first use is attributed to Alessandro Grandi, in four books published in the 1620s as Cantade et Arie, where the cantatas were strophic variations, while the arias were strophic continuo songs. Grandi’s term gradually was adopted by other composers, with its increasing use heralding the emergence of the chamber cantata, which was destined to become the dominant vocal form throughout the entire 17th century. After the introduction of the chamber cantata in its initial format, among the next innovations were the insertion of instrumental ritornelli and sinfonias, and an air repeated at different points in the narrative, thereby creating

a primitive kind of rondo. As the century progressed, the cantata in this style was brought to a high level of perfection by various composers, including Giacomo Carissimi, who sometimes introduced a second voice, although it was still usually with only a single accompanying instrument. The next development was in the accompaniment. More instruments were added with parts becoming increasingly elaborate. By way of illustration, the cello parts in some of Alessandro Scarlatti’s more than 600 cantatas were so difficult that it was considered the mark of a very distinguished artist to be able to play them. As the century advanced, the vocal part also expanded to include both recitatives and ariosi, and interspersed with strophic arias at key lyric or dramatic points. Roman composers led the way, especially Carissimi and Luigi Rossi, followed by a second wave including Antonio Cesti, Giovanni Legrenzi and Alessandro Stradella. At this point the Italian cantata may be seen as having reached its full maturity. It remained for later composers, notably Vivaldi, Antonio Caldara and especially Benedetto Marcello to add their contributions, in his case totalling almost 400 works. However, with the emergence of the Neapolitan school under its leader, Alessandro Scarlatti, composers then largely shifted their focus to the opera, which was then coming increasingly into vogue. By 1650 the Italian cantata had become so popular that its composers were producing them, in one writer’s words, ‘by the bushel’. With only a single Italian-style work by Charpentier from around 1683, it would, however, be more than 50 years before French composers began to create their own distinctive form, the cantate française.

Jean-Baptiste Morin being the first composer of works with an identifiably French flavour. The merits of French versus Italian music having become quite polarised, Morin’s stated objective was ‘to attempt to retain the sweetness of French melody, while using greater variety in the accompaniment, tempos and modulations characteristic of the Italian cantata’. This ‘sweetness’ consisted of a more smoothly flowing lyricism, able to move with the grace of the dance, and with delicate ornamentation capturing textual nuances. It was from these beginnings that the French cantata evolved, with the form being cultivated by numerous other composers, including André Campra, Michel de Montéclair, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, and especially LouisNicolas Clérambault, whose five books are considered the most valuable contributions to the repertoire. Starting in 1706, more than 1000 French cantatas were published up to the early 1730s, after which composers’ interest shifted instead to the shorter and less ambitious form, the cantatille. Despite the presence of Handel there from 1712 onwards, the secular cantata made only a brief and undistinguished appearance in England in the 18th century, Handel himself having written almost all his 100 cantatas while in Italy during the preceding four years. It remains to mention Germany, where the cantata was long cultivated as a primarily sacred genre. There are a few early Italianstyle examples, but it was only when the leading composers of the late baroque, Telemann, Hasse and occasionally Bach, turned their attention to it that the secular cantata achieved a standing comparable with that of its Italian and French counterparts.

Around the turn of the 18th century, French society started moving away from the operaoriented and otherwise sedate atmosphere at Versailles to the more cosmopolitan one in Paris. Italian arias were being published and Italian music performed increasingly often in salons and other establishments. Ensuing decades saw a large influx of musicians from across the Alps, with one writer ruefully observing that ‘cantatas and sonatas spring Benedetto Marcello right out of the ground here; no musician Cantatas by many of the composers mentioned arrives without a cantata or sonata in his can be heard in four monthly Sunday Special pocket’. programs, commencing at 3pm on Sunday 8 French cantatas soon started appearing, with September. SEPTEMBER 2019

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LEGACY OF A MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARY DAVID OGILVIE LOOKS AT WAGNER’S INFLUENCE “It’s so rich and deep, it’s like a drug sometimes. If you give up and let go, it really drags you into a mysterious world.”

— Jonas Kaufmann on the music of Richard Wagner

One hundred and fifty years after the premiere of Das Rheingold, it is hard to imagine the directions serious music, particularly opera, may have taken without the tremendous influence of the life and work of Richard Wagner. Scarcely any important musicians of the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century remained indifferent to his legacy, regardless of whether they considered themselves ‘Wagnerians’ or found themselves in opposing camps in both art and views of the world. His influence has spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre, right up to the present day. Wagner was a revolutionary. Not simply a supporter of the 1849 Dresden uprising, he was an active participant and was forced into exile. He wanted to change society and elevate the arts to the centre of the human experience. His operas exist on a scale of unprecedented ambition and employ concepts that transformed both the nature of the art form and the approach of later composers. Instead of opera progressing through individual arias, duets, etc., Wagner composed in ongoing, unbroken spans of music, its fabric woven out of leitmotifs, recurring themes symbolising characters, ideas or qualities, which are transformed according to the drama. Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute The ring, although it was written last and is in effect, a Prologue. The evil Alberich steals gold from the bottom of the Rhine, where it is being guarded by three Rhine maidens. He does this knowing that anyone who forges a ring from the gold, and renounces love, will gain power over the world. Thus begins a downward spiral of murder, abuse of power, industrialism and environmental destruction. But it is also a tale of love, liberation and atonement. All three of the other operas to be broadcast

Christopher Columbus

Entrance of The Gods into Valhalla, from Das Rheingold

by Fine Music in September, Rusalka, The wreckers, and Atlántida, bear the imprint of Wagner’s legacy in one form or another. Rusalka, like The ring, uses mythological subjects, most likely inspired by the fairy tale The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen leavened by the rusalki of pagan Slavic culture. Of Dvorák’s major operas, Rusalka is the most ‘Wagnerian’, with a variety of drama-creating musical techniques, elaborated with astonishing invention. These included the use of leitmotifs for Rusalka, her damnation, the water sprite and the forest, although he employed far fewer than Wagner. The orchestra is at least an equal partner to the vocal roles and, on many occasions, it could even be seen to be the chief bearer of the opera’s expression.

composer Manuel de Falla commenced work on Atlántida, over which he would labour for 20 years without being able to finish it. Inspired by the poem by Jacinto Verdaguer, he originally intended to create a great stage cantata to represent the mythological-allegorical story of the legendary city of Atlantis submerged by the sea, later connecting with the discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus, and signifying a celebration of Spain’s spread of Christianity. But after Falla’s death in Argentina, only 20 minutes of fully viable full score existed. The rest comprised outlines, sketches and fragments, which even decades of effort by his devoted pupil Ernesto Halffter never managed to work into a convincing whole. Yet scenes here and there, and above all, the formidable ten-minute Prologue, suggest the magnitude of the achievement, Ethel Smyth’s The wreckers is a different kettle had he ever managed to pull it together. of mermaids, more verismo than mythological. The plot details the events of a stormy night Interestingly, one of Falla’s main references for set in a poor late 18th-century Cornish Atlántida was Wagner’s Parsifal, ‘for its intense community, whose pious Methodism somehow and serene mystical expression, among the justifies their belief that God occasionally most sublime manifestations that we owe sends them wrecked ships to plunder (and to the art of all times’. Falla held conflicting incidentally, murder the survivors). Like attitudes towards the German composer, Dvorák, her greatest musical variously describing him as a ‘victim of his influence seems to have been times’, citing his ‘musical heterodoxy’ in his Wagner, with dense, brassy, avoidance of the laws of tonality, and his ‘facile’ rich orchestration and use of use of excessive sequences. Nevertheless, he repeating leitmotifs, together praises Wagner’s strivings to achieve a ‘pure with flourishes from Brahms ideal’ even though this eluded him, and as and even Sullivan, prompting Germán García Tomás writes in Opera World, critics to label her work a ‘listening to the vocal treatment of the seven synthesis drawing its ideas Pleiades it is difficult not to remember the song from others, a document of its of the Rhinemaidens’. time. These four operas can be heard in September In 1926, the Spanish at 8pm on Wednesdays. SEPTEMBER 2019

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Sunday 1 September

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC

14:00 FEATURING THE STREETON TRIO Kats-Chernin, E. Gypsy ramble (1996). www.streetontrio.com 11

Langlais, J. Te Deum. Naji Hakim, org. Signum Classics SIGCD 302 4

9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Stephen Matthews

Ravel, M. Piano trio (1914). www.streetontrio.com 28

Dering, R. Factum est silentium. 3

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Josquin Desprez. Missa gaudeamus (pub. 1502). Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips. Gimell CDGIM 050 36

Haydn, J. Piano trio in G, Hob.XV:25, Gypsy rondo (1795). Fine Music concert recording 15

Jommelli, N. Te Deum in D. Judy Berry, sop; Marta Benacková, cont; John LaPierre, ten; Prague Chamber Choir; Prague Virtuosi/ Hilary Griffiths. Orfeo C453 001 A 13

15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Two anniversaries Prepared by Chris Blower

10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Rex Burgess Cherubini, L. Overture to The crescendo (1810). Tuscan O/Donato Renzetti. Europa 350-221 12 Balbastre, C-B. Harpsichord sonata no 4 in D (1779). Concerto Rococo. Pierre Verany PV794043 13 Onslow, G. Toccata in C, op 6 (1811). Howard Shelley, pf. Hyperion CDA 67947 4 Rode, P. Variations on Nel cor più non mi sento, from Paisiello’s La Molinara (c1798). Friedemann Eichhorn, vn; Jena PO/Nicolás Pasquet. Naxos 8.573054 15 Boïeldieu, A. Maintenant, from La dame blanche (1825). Juan Diego Flórez, ten; Bologna Comunale Theatre Ch & O/Roberto Abbado. Decca 478 5948 9 Devienne, F. Flute quartet in A minor, op 66 no 1. Alexis Kossenko, fl; Quatuor Cambini. MBF 1108 15 Jadin, H. Piano sonata in F sharp minor, op 4 no 2 (pub. 1795). Jean-Claude Pennetier, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901189 14 Méhul, É-N. Symphony no 3 in C (1809). Gulbenkian Foundation O/Michel Swierczewski. Nimbus NI 5184/5 24 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Maureen Meers The early days of jazz and ragtime as recorded during the first 30 years of the 20th century 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Carole Garland Showcases diverse music from cultures around the world, both traditional and modern, featuring musicians from all corners of the globe, including Australia 10

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Streeton Trio (all above)

Pachelbel, J. Canon and gigue in D (c1690). Musica Antiqua Cologne. Archiv 437 089-2 5 Ingressus in G minor; Magnificat in F. King’s Singers; Charivari Agréable/Kah-Ming Ng. Signum SIGCD198 15 Ciacona in D minor. Piet Kee, org. Chandos CHAN 0520 6 Suite in G. Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 427 118-2 10 Humperdinck, E. Excerpts from The sleeping beauty (1902). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Virgin VC 7 91494-2 20 Piano quintet in G (1875). Andreas Kirpal, pf; Diogenes Quartet. cpo 777 547-2 30 Shakespeare suite no 1 (1905-07). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Schwann 3-1197-2 23 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Stephen Matthews Hymn: Let all the world in every corner sing. Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Graham Ross. Harmonia Mundi HMU907623 8 Holy, holy, holy. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury. Argo 414609-2 3 Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV136/1: Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre wein Herz. Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki. BIS BIS-CD-1951 4 Martin, G. Psalm 85. Choir of Salisbury Cathedral/David Halls. Priory PRCD1173 4 Macmillan, J. Sanctus; Benedictus. Graham Ross, cond. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902270 5 Wesley, S.S. Cast me not away from thy presence. Christopher Robinson, cond. Naxos 8.570318 4 Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (2 above)

Tallis, T. If ye love me. 2 Choir of York Minster/Robert Sharp (2 above) Regent REGCD 368 Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV138: Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz. La Petite Band/ Sigswald Kuijken. Accent ACC 25312 17 18:00 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Rex Burgess Buxtehude, D. Sonata in G minor, op 2 no 3 (pub. 1696). Boston Museum Trio. Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901089 12 Ravel, M. Introduction and allegro (1906). Neville Amadio, fl; Kevin Murphy, cl; June Loney, hp; Hazelwood Quartet. LP RCA VRL1 0122 10 Schubert, F. Violin sonata in A minor, D385 (1816). Gidon Kremer, vn; Oleg Maisenberg, pf. DG 437 092-2 25 Piazzolla, A. Café 1930, from Histoire du tango (1986). Virginia Taylor, fl; Timothy Kain, gui. ABC 456 691-2 6 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Paul Cooke Brouwer, M. Remembrances (1996). Royal Liverpool PO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.559250 15 Coleridge-Taylor, S. Violin concerto in G minor, op 80 (1912). Anthony Marwood, vn; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA67420 32 Mozart, W. Symphony no 41 in C, K551, Jupiter (1788). Freiburg Baroque O/René Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908409.16 36 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Calogero Panvino Dillon, J. East 11th St. NY 10003 (1982). Percussionists from Music Projects. NMC D004 20 Ferneyhough, B. Lemma-icon-epigram (1981). Ian Pace, pf. NMC D066 14 Dillon, J. Windows and canopies (1985). Members of Music Projects/Richard Bernos. NMC D004 20 Dench, C. Topologies. Ian Pace, pf. NMC D066 12 Dillon, J. La femme invisible (1989). Members of Music Projects/Richard Bernos. NMC D004 17 22:00 JAZZ AFTER HOURS with Sue Jowell


Monday 2 September Schumann, C. Soirées musicales, op 6 (1834-36). Yoshiko Iwai, pf. Naxos 8.553501 22 Schumann, R. Variations on a theme by Clara Wieck, op 14 (1833). Byron Janis, pf. Mercury 434 333-2 7 Schumann, C. Waltz (1834). Stephen Loges, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 3 Kalkbrenner, F. Nocturne in A flat, op 129 (1837). Nikolai Demidenko, pf. Hyperion CDA66781/2 4 Friedrich Schiller

Xaver Scharwenka

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Elaine Siversen

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1845 Prepared by Madilina Tresca Dreyschock, A. Morceau de concert in C minor, op 27 (1845). Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley. Hyperion CDA67950 17 Schumann, R. Six pieces in canonic form for piano, op 56 (1845; arr Kirchner). Christian Tetzlaff, vn; Tanja Tetzlaff, vc; Leif Ove Andsnes, pf. EMI 0 94180 2 18

Ciurlionis, M. The sea (1903-07). Slovak PO/ Juozas Domarkas. Marco Polo 8.223323 27 Scharwenka, X. Piano concerto no 1 in B flat minor, op 32 (1876). Alexander Markovich, pf; Estonian NSO. Chandos CHAN 10814(2) 30 Pärt, A. Symphony no 3 (1971). Gothenburg SO. DG 457 647-2 25 Neeme Järvi, cond (2 above) 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan Featuring bands of the 1930s swing era and the dance bands of the 1920s taken from radio broadcasts, transcriptions and recording sessions

Spohr, L. Concerto in A minor, op 131 (1845). Ernö Sebestyen, vn; Heidrun Ganz, vn; Hatto Beyerle, va; Martin Ostertag, vc; Berlin RSO/ Gerd Albrecht. Schwann 311 088 24

13:00 CLARA SCHUMANN 1830-1839 Prepared by James Nightingale

Liszt, F. Songs from Schiller’s William Tell (1845). Matthew Polenzani, ten; Julius Drake, pf. Hyperion CDA67782 15

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Mendelssohn, F. Song without words in D, op 109 (1845). Zoe Knighton, vc; Amir Farid, pf. Move MD 3338 6

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Czerny, C. Variations on a theme by Rode, op 33 (1830). Melvyn Tan, pf. Oryx ONYX 4156 10

CONTINUING PROGRAM SERIES Musical Families prepared by Jennifer Foong: Tuesdays 3, 17 at 2pm A Musical Caravan prepared by Frank Morrison: Fridays 6, 20 at 2pm A New Life on These Shores prepared by Frank Morrison: Tuesdays 10, 24 at 2pm The London Proms prepared by Ron Walledge: Fridays 13, 27 at 2.30pm Evenings with the Orchestra, Music from the New World prepared by David Brett: Friday 20 at 8pm Come to the Opera prepared by Derek Parker: Saturday 21 at 1pm New series: The Baroque Secular Cantata prepared by Rex Burgess: Sunday Special, 8 at 3pm Oratorio: Magdalene at the feet of Christ (Caldara) prepared by Chris Blower: Saturday Matinee, 7 at 2.30pm

Schumann, C. Piano concerto in A minor, op 7 (1835-36). Veronica Jochum, pf; Bamberg SO/Joseph Silverstein. Pro Arte CDD 395 21 Three romances, op 11 (1839). Yoshiko Iwai, pf. Naxos 8.553501 14 14:30 PEGGY GLANVILLE HICKS REMEMBERED Prepared by Chris Blower Glanville-Hicks, P. Overture to Sappho (1963). Gulbenkian O/Jennifer Condon Toccata TOCC 0154-55 4 Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird (1948). Lisa Harper-Brown, sop; David Wickham, pf. Stone Records 5060192780390 12 Sonata for harp (1950). Mary Anderson, hp. Tara Hall TH 1995 10 Ballet: Tragic celebration, Jephtha’s daughter (1966). Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills. ABC ABC 476 3218 16 Three gymnopédies (1934). Stables Ensemble. Wirripang WIRR 037 8 Concertino da camera (1946; arr.). Geoffrey Collins, fl; Catherine McCorkill, cl; Julian Smiles, vc; Catherine Davis, pf. Fine Music concert recording 8 Five songs by Housman (1944). Gerald English, ten; Roland Peelman, pf. Tall Poppies TP112 7 Etruscan concerto (1954). Keith Jarrett, pf; Brooklyn PO/Dennis Russell Davies. MusicMasters 01612-67089-2 14 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson SEPTEMBER 2019

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Tuesday 3 September

Johann Schobert

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Colours of the keyboard Prepared by Rex Burgess Debussy, C. Preludes, bk 1 nos 6 to 10 and 12 (1909-10). Walter Gieseking, pf. EMI 5 65855 2 20 Schobert, J. Piano trio in F, op 16 no 4 (pub. 1761-67). Chiara Banchini, vn; Philipp Bosbach, vc; Luciano Sgrizzi, fp. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901294 17 Alkan, C-V. Introduction, variations and finale in D for the right hand, op 76 (c1838). MarcAndré Hamelin, pf. Hyperion CDA66765 15 Cherubini, L. Keyboard sonata no 3 in B flat (1783). Laura Alvini, hpd. Nuova Era 6867 11 Brahms, J. Variations on a theme of Paganini, op 35 (1863). Yuja Wang, pf. DG 477 8795 19 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Gershwin, G. Cuban overture (1932). Rochester PO/Jeff Tyzik. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807441 11 Ravel, M. Une barque sur l’océan (1905). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 410 230-2 8 Grieg, E. Piano concerto in A minor, op 16 (1868). Amalie Malling, pf; Danish National RSO/Michael Schönwandt. Chandos CHAN 9699 31 Bizet, G. Symphony in C (1855). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 452 102-2 33 12

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12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes An eclectic blending of agreeable rhythm and melody from the New Orleans jazz roots through to recent decades, including many Australian bands 13:00 THE RISE OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Prepared by Albert Gormley Agricola, A. Trois chansons. Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel. Sony 88697478442 16 Praetorius, M. Six dances, from Terpsichore (pub. 1612). Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer. DG 469 244-2 15 Lawes, W. Royall consort no 2 in D minor. The Greate Consort/Monica Huggett. ASV GAU 147 15 Airs for three lyra viols. Fretwork. Virgin VC 7 91187-2 8 14:00 MUSICAL FAMILIES Caccini and Garcia families Prepared by Jennifer Foong Viardot, Paul. Violin sonata no 1 in G, op 5 (1883). Reto Kuppel, vn; Wolfgang Manz, pf. Naxos 8.573607 17 Garcia, M. E non lo vedo, from La figlia dell’aria (1826). International Chamber Soloists; O La Scintilla/Adám Fischer. Decca 475 9077 7 Viardot, Pauline. Havanaise. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf. Decca 455 981-2 5 Malibran, M. Rataplan. Benjamin Forster, drum; O La Scintilla/Adám Fischer. 2 Garcia, M. Yo que soy contrabandista, from El poeta calculista (1805). Claudio Mermoud, gui. 2 O La Scintilla/Adam Fischer (2 above) Decca 475 9077 Cecilia Bartoli, mezz (4 above) Viardot, Pauline. My river (1865). Miriam Alexandra, sop; Eric Schneider, pf. OEHMS OC 1878 7 Attrib. Caccini, G. Ave Maria (arr. Simonds). David Stanhope, pf. ABC 476 5950 5 Caccini, G. Baenful shores (pub.1600). Le Miroir de Musique. Ricercar RIC 354 6 Tu ch’hai le penne. Nadia Piave, sop; Jennifer Eriksson, bass viol; Raymond Harvey, hpd. Fine Music tape archive 6 Caccini, F. Chi è costei (1618). Maria Christina Kiehr, sop; Concerto Soave. Ambronay AMY025 5 Haec est dies. Benjamin Thorn, rec; Wayne Madden, spinet. Move MD 3219 2 Io mi distruggo (1618). Concerto Soave. Ambronay AMY025 4

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Caccini, G. Belle rose porporine, from Le nuovo musiche. Nigel Rogers, ten; Anthony Bailes, chitarrone; Pere Ros, violone; Jordi Savall, va da gamba; Colin Tilney, hpd. Archiv 479 1045 3 Vedro l’mio sol (1602). Catacoustic Consort/ Annalisa Pappano. Naxos 8.557538 4 Torna, deh torna (1614). Roberta Invernizzi, sop; Craig Marchitelli, archlute, theorbo. Glossa GCD 922902 5 Caccini, F. O che nuovo stupor. Catherine Bott, sop; New London Consort/Philip Pickett. L’Oiseau-Lyre 417 260-2 6 Viardot, Pauline. Violin sonatina in A minor (1874). Reto Kuppel, vn; Wolfgang Manz, pf. Naxos 8.573607 11 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps Smooth small group jazz from the 50s on, and with a visit from Miles Davis each week 20:00 RECENT RELEASES 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Paul Hopwood Arriaga, J. String quartet no 2 in A (1821-22). Chilingirian Quartet. CRD 33123 29 Bach, C.P.E. Flute sonata in D, Wq83 (c1747). Alain Marion, fl; Daniele Roi, hpd. Fonè 89 F 02-26 14 Brahms, J. Piano quartet no 1 in G minor, op 25 (1861). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; Leopold String Quartet. Hyperion CDA67471/2 40 Dohnányi, E. Sextet in C for clarinet, horn, piano and string trio, op 37 (1935). Endymion Ensemble. ASV DCA 943 30 “Art and life are not two separate things.” — Felix Mendelssohn


Wednesday 4 September 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale World-wide contemporary jazz including contributions from Australian artists and those from culturally emerging nations 13:00 GREETINGS FROM MEXICO Prepared by Frank Morrison Chávez, C. Mexican landscapes (1943). State of Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz. ASV DCA 927 16

Leos Janácek

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by literature Prepared by Dan Bickel Prokofiev, S. Natasha’s and Andrei’s waltz, from War and peace, op 91 (1941-43/46-52; transcr. Babayan). Martha Agerich, pf; Sergei Babayan, pf. DG 479 9854 5 Ford, A. War and peace: no man’s land (2004). Anna McMichael, vn; Claire Edwardes, perc. ABC 481 4828 7 Lambert, C. Suite from Anna Karenina (1948). National PO/Bernard Herrmann. Decca 448 954-2 11 Janácek, L. Suite from The house of the dead (1927-28). Czech PO/Frántisek Jílek. Supraphon/Denon 38C37 7303 20 Prokofiev, S. Four portraits, from The gambler, op 49 (1931). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8803 24 Tchaikovsky, P. Tatania’s letter scene, from Eugene Onegin (1879). Netania Davrath, sop; Vienna State Opera O/Vladimir Golschmann. Vanguard 089080 72 14 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Rita Felton Mozart, W. Overture to Don Giovanni, K527 (1787). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 419 635-2 6 Debussy, C. Nocturnes (1897-99). Philharmonia Ch & O; Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor. EMI CDM 1 66432 2 26 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 5 in E minor, op 64 (1888). Bournemouth SO/Andrew Litton. Virgin VC 7 91140-2 49

Padilla, J. de Incipit lamentatio Ieremiae prophetae. Choir of Westminster Cathedral; Andrew Watts, curtal; Andrew Lawrence-King, hp; Iain Simcock, org; James O’Donnell, cond. Hyperion CDA66330 14 Revueltas, S. Colorines (1932). English CO/ Gisèle Ben-Dor. Naxos 8.572250 7 Ponce, M. Symphonic divertimento: Ferial. Royal PO/Enrique Bátiz. ASV DCA 738 15 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans Each week we meet one of the world’s great musicians, singers, composers or conductors, along with up-and-comers and some of the men and women who influence the arts landscape. The program goes live to air so you never quite know what’s going to happen. 15:00 RICHARD STRAUSS EXPLORED Part 1 Strauss, R. Concertante in C (c1875); Festmarsch in D (1886); Piano trio no 1 in A, mvt 1 (1877). Max Mandel, va; Amelia Piano Trio. Naxos 8.570896 15 String quartet in A, op 2, mvts 1 and 2 (1880). Enso Quartet. Naxos 8.573108 13 Symphony in D minor, mvt 1 (1881). Hong Kong PO/Kenneth Schermerhorn. Hong Kong 8.220323 11 Die erwachte Rose (1880). Elizabeth Watts, sop; Roger Vignoles, pf. Hyperion CDA67844 3 Serenade, op 7 (1881). Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart. Philips 438 733-2 9 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz

Rafael Frübeck de Burgos

20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Falla, M. de Atlántida. Opera in a prologue and three acts (compl. and arr. Ernesto Halffter aft. 1946). Libretto by the composer after the Catalan poem L’Atlàntida by Jacint Verdaguer. First performed Barcelona, 1961. QUEEN ISABELLA: Enriqueta Tarrés, sop QUEEN PYRENE: Anna Ricci, mezz CORYPHAEUS, NARRATOR, OLD MAN: Vincente Sardinero, bar GERYON, the three-headed monster: Gregorio Oreja Amendariz, ten; José Gabriel Vivas Sayas, ten; Jésus Sanz Remiro, bass Children’s Choir of Our Lady of Remembrance; Spanish NO/Rafael Frübeck de Burgos. EMI 5 65997 2 1:46 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera 22:00 HEARING DOUBLE Prepared by Stephen Wilson Bach, J. Christian Sinfonia in E for double orchestra, op 18 no 5 (c1781). Failoni O/ Hanspeter Gmür. Naxos 8. 553367 15 Beach, A. Suite on Irish melodies for two pianos, op 104 (c1920). Virginia Eskin, pf; Kathleen Supove, pf. Koch 3-7254-2 24 Spohr, L. Double quartet no 1 in D minor, op 65 (1823). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Hyperion CDD22014 21 Mozart, W. String duo no 2 in B flat, K424 (1783). Gidon Kremer, vn; Kim Kashkashian, va. DG 415 483-2 24 Kats-Chernin, E. Concerto for eight double basses and orchestra: The witching hour (2016). Kees Boersma, db; Timothy Dunin, db; Alex Henery, db; Max McBride, db; Kirsty McCahon, db; Matthew McDonald, db; Robert Nairn Vigilante, db; Caro Vigilante, db; Australian World O/Alexander Briger. ABC 481 6430 25 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Thursday 5 September Juliet, op 17 (1839). Sydney SO/Robert Pikler. Chandos CHAN 6587 17 Sibelius, J. Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, op 46 (1905). Iceland SO/Petri Sakari. Chandos CHAN 9158 29 Albert, S. Cello concerto (1988-90). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Baltimore SO/David Zinman. Sony SK 57961 32 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC The instruments: Brass Prepared by Paul Cooke Mozart, W. Tuba mirum, from Mass no 19 in D minor, K626, Requiem (1791). Sara Macliver, sop; Sally-Anne Russell, mezz; Paul McMahon, ten; Teddy Tahu Rhodes, bassbar; Nigel Crocker, tb; O of the Antipodes/ Antony Walker. ABC 476 4064 4 Beethoven, L. Sextet in E flat, op 81b (1795). Gerd Seifert, hn; Manfred Klier, hn; Drolc Quartet. DG 439 852-2 17 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Trombone concerto (1877; arr. Zurmühle). Christian Lindberg, tb; Kosei Wind O/Chikara Imamura. BIS CD-848 12 Williams, G. Two choruses (1975). Frank Lloyd, hn; Christopher Larkin, hn; Caryl Thomas, hp; Richard Hickox Singers/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9617 10 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The Queen of Spades (1890; arr. Lindberg). Christian Lindberg, tb; Roland Pöntinen, pf. BIS CD-478 17 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg concerto no 1 in F, BWV1046 (1720). Julia Girdwood, ob; Hilary Storer, ob; Elizabeth Fyfe, ob; Martin Gatt, bn; Richard Bissil, hn; Stephen Sterling, hn; David Juritz, vn; Consort of London/Robert Haydon Clark. Collins 10792 19 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Giovanna Grech Berlioz, H. Love scene, from Romeo and 14

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13:00 CLARA SCHUMANN 1840-1852 Prepared by Anne Irish 1819-2019

Yoshiko Iwai

Covering the many aspects of jazz from Swing to Mainstream, with the Great American Songbook making regular appearances

Clara Schumann 200th Anniversary

Schumann, C. Sonata in G minor, op 22 (1833-38). Yoshiko Iwai, pf. Naxos 8.553501 20 I stood in dark dreams, op 13 no 1 (1842-3). Stephan Loges, bar. 2 They loved one another, op 13 no 2; Love’s magic, op 13 no 3 (1842-3). Susan Gritton, sop; Eugene Asti, pf. 5 Quietly glides the moon, op 13 no 4; I have in thine eyes, op 13 no 5; The quiet lotus flower. Stephan Loges, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. 7 Hyperion CDA67249 (3 above) Pièce fugitive, op 15 no 3 (1845). Helene Boschi, pf. Calliope CAL 9211 6 Joachim, J. Romanze, op 2 no 1 (c1850). Daniel Hope, vn; Sebastian Knauer, pf. DG 477 9301 5 Schumann, C. Prelude and fugue in D minor, op 16 no 3 (1845). Helene Boschi, pf. Calliope CAL 9211 5 Piano trio, op 17 (pub. 1847). Eva Zurbrügg, vn; Angela Schwartz, vc; Erika Radermacher, pf. SRI 002.2 27 14:30 CLARINET INTERLUDE Prepared by James Nightingale Verdi, G. Mercè, dilette amiche, from I Vespri siciliani (1855). Seunghee Lee, cl; Evan Solomon, pf. www.seunghee.com 4 Brahms, J. Clarinet sonata in F minor, op 120 no 1 (1894). Paul Dean, cl; Stephen Emmerson, pf. Melba MR301138 23

15:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: ENGLISH MASTER Prepared by Ray Lemond Vaughan Williams, R. Norfolk rhapsody no 1 in E minor (1905-06). Melbourne SO/Bernard Heinze. ABC 446 282-2 11 On Wenlock Edge (1908). Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ten; Graham Johnson, pf. Naxos 8.557559-60 4 Mass in G minor (1920-21). Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/David Willcocks. EMI 5 65595 2 24 Charterhouse suite (1923). English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.555068 14 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 THE WORLD OF A SYMPHONY Prepared by Chris Blower Parry, H. Overture to an unwritten tragedy (1894). Northern PO/David Lloyd-Jones. Hyperion CDA66515 11 Fantasie sonata in B (1878). Erich Gruenberg, vn; Roger Vignoles, pf. Helios CDH55266 14 Bennett, W. Sterndale Piano concerto no 1 in D minor, op 1 (1832; ed. Byers). Malcolm Binns, pf; London PO/Nicholas Braithwaite. Lyrita SRCD 204 24 Parry, H. Blest pair of sirens (1887). Waynflete Singers; Choir of Winchester Cathedral; Timothy Byram-Wigfield, org; Bournemouth SO/David Hill. Decca 478 2826 11 Stanford, C. Villiers Fantasy in A minor (1922). Stephen Stirling, hn; RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet. Hyperion CDA67434 12 Parry, H. Symphony no 2 in F, Cambridge. Royal Scottish NO/Andrew Penny. Naxos 8.553469 36 22:00 FEATURING BARBRA Prepared by Maureen Meers Fauré, G. Pavanne, op 50; Après un rêve (1887). 9 Handel, G. Dank sei dir, Herr. 7 Columbia SO/Claus Ogerman (4 above) Schumann, R. Mondnacht. Claus Ogerman, pf. 4 Orff, C. In trutina, from Carmina burana. Columbia SO/Claus Ogerman. 2 Ogerman, C. I loved you. Claus Ogerman, pf. 2 Barbra Streisand, voice (all above) CBS MK 33452 22:30 ULTIMA THULE Ambient and atmospheric music


Friday 6 September Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 17 in D minor, op 31 no 2, The tempest (1802). JeanEfflam Bavouzet, pf. Chandos CHAN 10798(3) 23 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphonic fantasy, The tempest, op 18 (1873). Bournemouth SO/ Andrew Litton. Virgin VC 7 91140-2 24 Sibelius, J. Suite no 1, from The tempest, op 109 no 2 (1925). Iceland SO/Petri Sakari. Naxos 8.554266 23

Kyrill Kondrashin

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Annabelle Drumm 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Elaine Siversen Mozart, W. Wind quintet after Piano sonata in B flat, K570 (1789; arr. Pikler). Guy Henderson, ob; Sydney Wind Quartet. Fine Music concert recording 14 Wagner, R. Overture to Tannhäuser (1845; arr. Liszt). Vladimir Leyetchkiss, pf. Centaur CRC 2088 17 Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887; arr. Gassot, Pepin). Sabine Meyer, cl; Alliage Quintet. Sony 88875190972 12 Satie, E. Gnossiennes (1889-97; arr. Groningen). Groningen Guitar Duo. Ottavo OTR C49135 19 Stravinsky, I. Suite after Pergolesi (1925). Ray Chen, vn; Timothy Young, pf. Melba MR 301128 18 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Ray Lemond Villa-Lobos, H. Guitar concerto (1951). Julian Bream, gui; London SO/André Previn. RCA 6525-2-RG 18 Mahler, G. Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor (1901-02). USSR RTV Large SO/Kyrill Kondrashin. Audiophile APL 101.501 1:04 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 TEMPESTATUM The tempest Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Ruge, F. Sinfonia, La tempète suivie du calme. Ensemble Flatus/Enrico Casularo. Brilliant Classics 95495 12

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE From villancicos to vihuelas Prepared by Susan Foulcher Anchieta, J. de Magnificat. Grupo de Música Alfonso X el Sabio/Luis Lonzano Virumbrales. Decca 436 116-2 6 Encina, J. del Four songs: Triste España sin ventura; Mas vale trocar; Cucu, cucu; Oy comamos y bebamos. Members of Hilliard Ensemble. Virgin 5 61394 2 8

Dvorák, A. Slavonic dance in A flat, op 46 no 3 (1878). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8406 4

Cabezón, A. de Pavana: Con su glosa; Diferencias sobre las vacas. Jordi Savall, va da gamba; Sergei Casademunt, va da gamba; Eunice Brandão, va da gamba; Lorenz Duftschmid, va da gamba; Rolf Lislevand, vihuela de mano. Alia Vox AVSA 9895 A/F 5

Wagner, R. Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1866-67). Vienna P/Zubin Mehta. Decca 475 7470 9

Morales, C. de Excerpts from Missa mille regretz. Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh. Archiv 479 1423 31

Humperdinck, E. Overture to Hansel and Gretel (1893). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Virgin VC 7 91494-2 8

Milán, L. de Four vihuela pieces. Christopher Wilson, vihuela. Naxos 8.553523 11

14:30 THE LONDON PROMS: SEPTEMBER 1900 Prepared by Ron Walledge

Tchaikovsky, P. Hamlet, fantasy overture after Shakespeare, op 67 (1888). Vienna PO/ Lorin Maazel. Decca 480 6617 17 Symphony no 4 in F minor, op 36 (1877). Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Decca 478 5867 43 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse An hour of the best in jazz with a weekly ‘album of the week’ feature and a guide to upcoming live jazz gigs in Sydney 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Robert Small Walton, W. Improvisations on an impromptu of Benjamin Britten (1970). BBC SO/Edward Gardner. Chandos CHSA 5153 14 Fibich, Z. Symphony no 3 in E minor, op 53 (1898). Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9328 37 Britten, B. Piano concerto, op 13 (1938). Gillian Lin, pf; Melbourne SO/John Hopkins. Chandos CHAN 6580 34 Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:7, Le midi (1761). La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken. Accent ACC 24272 25

Victoria, T. de Salve Regina. The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers. Collins 15012 8 Cabanilles, J. Tiento de primer tono de mano izquierda. John Butt, org. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907047 8 Marín, J. Two secular songs. Mercedes Hernández, sop; Francisco FernándezRueda, ten; Ars Atlántica/Manuel Vilas. Naxos 8.573678 9 Araujo, P. de Batalha. Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet. Radio Nederland MCCP123 6 Torrejón y Velasco, T. de Villancico: De esta Rosa tan bella. Marisu Pavón, sop; Xenia Meijer, mezz; Música Temprana/Adrián Rodriguez Van der Spoel. Etcetera KTC 1358 4 Murcia, S. de Jácaras por la E; La jota. Paul O’Dette, gui; Pat O’Brien, gui; Steve Player, gui; Andrew Lawrence-King, hp, psaltery; Pedro Estevan, perc. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907212 10 “[In the 13th century] once in a while, a composer would combine a sacred Gregorian cantus firmus in the tenor with another churchy Latin text in the second voice and a racy French love poem in the third voice. They considered this very naughty.” — David W. Barber

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Saturday 7 September 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Erikson, J. Concord march. Band of Yorkshire Imperial Metals/Trevor Walmsley. LP Astor CGS 1477 5 Chaplin, C. Smile. Tredegar Town Band/Ian Porthouse. Avanti EE1 4 Godard, B. Berceuse de Jocelyn. Stanshawe (Bristol) Band/W.B. Hargreaves. LP Decca SB 322 6 Dinu Lipatti

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 THE PIANO ALONE Prepared by Mariko Yata Mozart, W. Piano sonata no 8 in A minor, K310 (1778). Dinu Lipatti, pf. EMI CDH 5 65166 2 14 Brahms, J. Intermezzo in A, op 118 no 2 (1892). Radu Lupu, pf. Decca 417 599-2 6 Prokofiev, S. Piano sonata no 6 (1908-09). Stephen Hough, pf. ASV AMM 157R 29 10:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Chris Blower Bach, J.S. Overture no 2 in B minor, BWV1067 (c1739). Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66501 24 Alkan, C-V. Rondeau chromatique, op 12 (1833). Laurent Martin, pf. Brilliant Classics 95568 9 Foote, A. Sarabande and rigaudon, op 60 (1921). Fenwick Smith, fl; Marcus Thompson, va; Randall Hodgkinson, pf. Northeastern NR 227 8 Chabrier, E. Bourée fantasque (1891, orch. Koechlin 1924). SWR RSO/Heinz Holliger. SWR 19046 7 Chopin, F. Andante spianato (1834) and Grande polonaise brillante (1830-31), op 22. Kun-Woo Paik, pf; Warsaw PO/Antoni Wit. Decca 475 1692 16 Haydn, M. Six minuets (1784). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 436 222-2 11 Camus, P. Badinerie. Janet Webb, fl; Jocelyn Edey Fazzone, pf. www.fluteworthy.com.au 3 16

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Dunayevsky, I. The circus. Allentown Band/ Ronald Demkee. AMP 89111 4 Lecuona, E. Malagueña. Band of Yorkshire Imperial Metals/Trevor Walmsley. LP Astor GGS 1477 4 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 THE YEAR 1788 Prepared by Rex Burgess Garnier, J-F. Symphonie concertante for two oboes and orchestra. Claude Villevieille, ob; Talich CO/Jan Talich. Koch 3-1475-2 16 Haydn, J. String quartet in C, Hob.III:57 (1788). Kodály Quartet. Naxos 8.550395 20 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 26 in D, K537, Coronation (1788). Mitsuko Uchida, pf; English CO/Jeffrey Tate. Philips 475 7306 33 Ryba, J. Missa pastoralis in D (1788). Dagmar Vankátová, sop; Pavla Ksicová, cont; Vladimír Dolezal, ten; Václav Sibera, bass; Josef Ksica, org; Czech Madrigalists Ch & O/ Frantisek Xaver Thuri. Naxos 8.554428 13

René Jacobs

18:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Adam Bowen Chaplin, C. City lights overture to Unveiling the statue. City of Prague PO/Nic Raine. Silva Screen Records DB80624 4 Desplat, A. Suite from The twilight saga: New moon (2009). Original soundtrack recording. Summit EIE 2075 7 Woods, H. What a little moonlight will do. Billie Holiday, voice; O/Teddy Wilson. Hitbound records HB0085 3 Britell, N. Suite from Moonlight (2016). Original soundtrack recording. Lakeshore Records LKS349012 14 Gordon, C. The gift of light (2006). Emma-Jane Murphy, vc; Magic Fire O/Christopher Gordon. MFM 002 12 Desplat, A. Suite from The light between oceans. Original soundtrack recording. Sony/Lakeshore 88985312522 11 19:00 THE IBERIAN SYMPHONY Prepared by Chris Blower Arriaga, J. Overture to The happy slaves (c1820). Le Concert des Nations; La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall. Astrée E 8532 8

14:30 SATURDAY MATINEE Magdalene at the feet of Christ Prepared by Chris Blower

String quartet no 3 in E flat (1824). Quatuor Modigliani. Mirare MIR 168 22

Caldara, A. Oratorio: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (c1700). Maria Cristina Kiehr, sop; Rosa Dominguez, sop; Bernarda Fink, cont; Andreas Scholl, ct; Gerd Türk, ten; Ulrich Messthaler, bass; Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/René Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi HMC 905221.22 2:06

Symphony in D (c1824). Algarve O/Alvaro Cassuto. Naxos 8.557207 23

Benda, G. Sinfonia no 9 in A. Prague CO/ Christian Benda. Naxos 8.553409 12

Rameau, J-P. Overture to Zaïs (1748). Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset. L’Oiseau-Lyre 455 293-2 5

17:00 SOCIETY SPOT Folk Federation of NSW

Marchand, L. Fugue, from Organ pieces, bk 5 (1702). Gillian Weir, org. Argo 460 185-2 2

20:00 LIFE OF A COMPOSER Jean-Philippe Rameau Prepared by James Nightingale


Saturday 7 September

Sunday 8 September

Mikhail Glinka

Jan Ladislav Dussek

Jean Sibelius

Rameau, J-P. Cantata: Les amants trahis (1721). Philippa Hyde, sop; Peter Harvey, bar; London Baroque. BIS CD-1495 22

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Orli Zahava

La poule, from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (1728). Nicholas Parle, hpd. Tall Poppies TP057 6 Concert no 5, from Pièces de clavecin en concerts, op 2 no 2 (pub. 1741). Rachel Brown, fl; Mark Caudle, bass viol; James Johnstone, hpd. Chandos CHAN 0544 13 Un horizon serein; Contredanse en rondeau, from Les Boréades (1764). Sabine Devieilhe, sop; Les Ambassadeurs/Alexis Kossenko. Erato 50999 93414920 11 Pygmalion, acte de ballet (1748). MarieClaude Chappuis, sop; Céline Scheen, sop; Eugénie Warnier, sop; Cyrille Dubois, ct; Arnold Schönberg Choir; Les Talens Lyriques/ Christopher Rousset. Aparté AP155 47 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Krystal Li Glazunov, A. Concerto ballata in C, op 108. Yegor Dyachkov, vc; members of Sherbrooke SO; I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky. Chandos CHAN 9528 21 Medtner, N. Sonata-reminiscenza in A minor, op 38 no 1 (1920). Paul Stewart, pf. Grand Piano GP617 15 Shostakovich, D. Piano concerto no 2 in F, op 102 (1957). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MPK 44850 19 Glinka, M. Grand sextet in E flat for double bass, piano and string quartet (1832). Capricorn. Hyperion CDA66163 25 Arensky, A. Suite no 3 op 33, Variations (1894). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya Mel 10 00148 30

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Rex Burgess Lassus, O. de Psalm: Domine, ne in furore tuo (pub. 1584). Chiaroscuro Ensemble; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts/Nigel Rogers. Nuova Era 6741 12 Saint-Saëns, C. Dies irae (c1859). AndrewJohn Smith, org. Hyperion CDA 67922 7 Lalande, M-R. de Deitatis majestatem (c1681). Emmanuelle de Negri, sop; Dagmar Sasková, sop; Sean Clayton, ct; Cyril Auvity, ten; André Morsch, bass; Ensemble Aedes; Le Poème Harmonique/Vincent Dumestre. Alpha 968 34 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Chris Blower Myslivecek, J. Overture to Il demofoonte (1769). Orfeo Baroque O/Michi Gaigg. cpo 777 050-2 8 Pokorny, F. Horn concerto in D. Hermann Baumann, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown. Philips 422 346-2 16 Vanhal, J. Flute quartet in B flat, op 7 no 2 (1779-80). Uwe Grodd, fl; Janaki String Trio. Naxos 8.570234 19

14:00 FEATURING THE FLINDERS QUARTET Bach, J.S. O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross, BWV 622 (1713-15: transcr. Bowman). www.flindersquartet.com 5 Boccherini, L. Guitar quintet no 4 in D, Fandango (1798). Karin Schaupp, gui. ABC 476 4435 20 Sibelius, J. String quartet no 4, op 56 in D minor, Intimate voices (1909). ABC 481 1982 30 Flinders Quartet (all above) 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL The baroque secular cantata Prepared by Rex Burgess Monteverdi, C. Ohimè, ch’io cado. Rodolfo Farolfi, ten; Mariella Sorelli, hpd. Rivo Alto CRAL 89191 5 Merula, T. Hor ch’e di dormire. Jill Feldman, sop; Nigel North, theorbo. Linn CKD 005 7 Turini, F. Trio sonata in the second tone. Quadro Hottetere. Philips 442 782-2 7 Strozzi, B. Lamento: Lagrime mie, op 7 (pub. 1659). Jane Edwards, sop; Erin Helyard, hpd. Artworks AW033 11

Kozeluch, L. Piano sonata no 24 in D minor, op 20 no 3 (1786). Kemp English, fp. Grand Piano GP647 13

Carissimi, G. Piangete, aure, piangete. Roberta Invernizzi, sop; Craig Marchitelli, archlute, theorbo. Glossa GCD 922902 7

Pichl, V. Sinfonia in D, Diana (bef. 1803). Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon. Naxos 8557761 22

Neri, M. Sonata XI à 9. Musica Fiata/Roland Wilson. Harmonia Mundi RD77086 9

Dussek, J. Piano concerto in G minor, op 49 (1801). Andreas Staier, fp; Concerto Cologne. Capriccio 5072 31

Caresana, C. Il narciso. Juliette de Banes Gardonne, mezz; Ensemble Démesure. Brilliant Classics 95923 14

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan

Scarlatti, A. Lidio e Clori (c1699). Jane Edwards, sop; James Sanderson, ct; violins from Chacona/Rosalind Halton. ABC 461 687-2 15 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Sunday 8 September

Monday 9 September

Davies, H. Walford God be in my head. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Richard Farnes, org; Stephen Cleobury, cond. Decca 00066-47-02 2 Boulanger, N. Improvisation (1911). François-Henri Houbart, org. Delos DE 3496 4 18:00 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Friedrich Kuhlau

Lazzari, F. Sonata à 6 in D (c1700). Crispian Steele-Perkins, tpt; Alison Balsom, tpt; Peter Holman, org; Parley of Instruments. Hyperion CDA67359 6 Caldara, A. Soffri, mio caro, Alcino. Gérard Lesnie, ct. 8 Sonata da camera in D, op 2 no 3 (c1699). 6 Il Seminario Musicale (2 above) Virgin VC 5 45175 2 Vivaldi, A. All’ombra d’un bel faggio, RV649. Deirdre Moynihan, sop; Ensemble Nota Velata. Naxos 8.573003 10 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymns: The King of Love my Shepherd is. Choir of Paisley Abbey; Alexander Anderson, org; George McPhee, cond. 3 Let all mortal flesh keep silence; Lead us Heavenly Father. Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge; Brian Runnett, org; George Guest, cond. 6 Decca 00066-47-02 (2 above) Mendelssohn, F. Lift thine eyes, from Elijah (1846). Timothy Drake, treb; Joel Harvey, treb; Angus Buckley, treb. Knox 1 2 Bach, J.C.F. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (c1780). Rheinische Kantorei; Christoph Lehmann, org; Hermann Max, cond. Capriccio 10 292 16 Dvorák, A. Gloria, from Mass in D, op 86. Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Nicholas Cleobury, org; Simon Preston, cond. 9 Bruckner, A. Pange lingua (1868). Choir of German Opera, Berlin/Eugen Jochum. 4 Dvorák, A. Fac me vere tecum flere, from Stabat Mater. Stanford Olsen, ten; Atlanta Ch & SO/Robert Shaw. Telarc 80506 7 18

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Beethoven, L. String quintet in C, op 29 (1802). Pinchas Zukerman, va; Tokyo String Quartet. RCA 661 284-2 34 Brahms, J. Piano trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI 7 54725 2 21 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Delany, J. Overture to Captain Cook (1888). Adelaide SO/Carl Pini. LP ABC AC 1036 9 Telemann, G. Suite in D, La gaillarde. Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire. Brilliant Classics 94104 13 Kuhlau, F. Concertino in F minor, op 45 (1821). Ib Lanzky-Otto, hn; Frøydis Ree Wekre, hn; Odense SO/Othmar Maga. Unicorn-Kanchana DKPCD 9110 23 Spohr, L. Symphony no 8 in G, op 137 (1847). Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley. Hyperion CDA67802 35 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Kyrstal Li Pärt, A. Cantus in memorium Benjamin Britten (1977). Antal Eisrich, perc; strings of Hungarian State Opera O/Tamás Benedek. Naxos 8.558182-83 8 Arnalds, O. Eyes shut; Written in stone, after piano pieces by Chopin. Alice Sara Ott, pf; string quintet. Mercury 0028948114863 10 Sculthorpe, P. Requiem (1979). David Pereira, vc. MBS 16 16 Petrassi, G. Sestina d’autunno, Veni creator Igor (1981-82). New Music Ensemble of Münster SO/Andrea Molino. Stradivarius STR 33347 19 Dorman, A. Piano sonata no 1, Classical (1998). Eliran Avni, pf. Naxos 8.579001 15

Joshua Bell

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1839 Prepared by Anne Irish Gade, N. Piano trio movement in B flat (1839). Sophie Rowell, vn; Julian Smiles, vc: Kathryn Selby, pf. Fine Music concert recording 11 Glinka, M. Valse-fantasie in B minor (1839). Victor Ryabchikov, pf. BIS CD-979 8 Berlioz, H. Love scene, from Romeo and Juliet, op 17 (1839). Sydney SO/Robert Pikler. Chandos CHAN 6587 17 Arnold, M. Symphony no 4, op 71 (1960). National SO of Ireland/Andew Penny. Naxos 8.553739 38 Mendelssohn, F. Mary’s dream (1839). James Rutherford, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67753 5 Lanner, J. Marien-Walzer, op 143 (1839). Vienna Dance Quartet. Naxos 8.555689 7 Schumann, C. Three romances, op 11 (1839). Yoshiko Iwai, pf. Naxos 8.553501 14 Schumann, R. Three romances, op 28 (1839). Wilhelm Kempff, pf. DG 435 045-2 15 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Derek Parker Handel, G. Overture to Faramondo, HWV39 (1738). English CO/Richard Bonynge. ABC 482 1059 8

Carr-Boyd, A. Couperin (1974). Consort of Sydney. Wirripang WIRR 066 10

Brahms, J. Double concerto in A minor (1887). Steven Isserlis, vc; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Joshua Bell, vn & dir. Sony 88985321792 33

22:00 JAZZ AFTER HOURS with Keith Pettigrew

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan


Tuesday 10 September

13:00 CLARA SCHUMANN 1853 Prepared by Ron Walledge

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

1819-2019

Monday 9 September

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds

Clara Schumann 200th Anniversary

Schumann, C. Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann, op 20 (1853). Yoshiko Iwai, pf. Naxos 8.553501 11 Three romances, op 22 (1853). Joseph Silverstein, vn; Veronica Jochum, pf. Pro Arte CDD 395 9 Chopin, F. Nocturne in E flat, op 9 no 2 (1831). Daniel Barenboim, pf. DG 415 117-2 5 Schumann, C. The violet (1853). Stephen Loges, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 2 Schumann, R. Impromptu on a theme by Clara Wieck, op 5 (1833). Veronica Jochum, pf. Pro Arte CDD 396 18 Schumann, C. Six Lieder, op 23 (1853). Susan Gritton, sop; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 14 Brahms, J. Ballade in D minor, op 10 no 1 (1854). Claudio Arrau, pf. Philips 432 302-2 4 Schumann, R. Bei Schenkung eines Flügels an Clara. Orpheus Vocal Ensemble; Konrad Elser, pf; Gary Graden, cond. Carus 83.327 2 Schumann, C. Romances, op 21 nos 1 to 3 (1853). Helene Boschi, pf. Calliope CAL 9211 11 14:30 IN CONCERT Prepared by Albert Gormley Liszt, F. Piano concerto no 1 in E flat (184956). Isador Goodman, pf; Melbourne SO/ Patrick Thomas. ABC 432 209-2 18 Kodály, Z. Suite from Háry János, op 15 (1927). Budapest FO/Iván Fischer. Decca 478 5616 23 Brahms, J. Symphony no 4 in E minor, op 98 (1884-85). Royal Concertgebouw O/Herbert Blomstedt. Radio Nederland RCO12004 41 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Colours of the keyboard Prepared by James Nightingale Reicha, A. Piano sonata in F (c1800). Josquin Otal, pf. Alpha 369 16 Couperin, F. Les moissonneurs; Le gazouillement, rondeau; La commère, from Sixième ordre. Christophe Rousset, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 6 Viardot, Pauline. Violin sonatina in A minor (1874). Reto Kuppel, vn; Wolfgang Manz, pf. Naxos 8.573607 11 Franck, C. Pastorale, op 19 (1862). Michael Murray, org. Telarc CD-80096 8

Olga Kern

Trad. Tell me, mother. Lilia Silé, sop; Irina Klamka, pf. Fine Music concert recording 4 Bartolotti, A. Prelude, allemande, gavot, courante, sarabande, gigue, brand. Tommie Andersson, lute. Musica Rediviva MRCD 003 12

Debussy, C. Khamma, dance legend (1912). Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pf. Chandos CHAN 10545 20

Marshall-Hall, G. Symphony in E flat (1903). Queensland TO/Warren Bebbington. Move MD 3081 36

Fauré, G. Piano trio, op 120 (1923). Trio Wanderer. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902192 18

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm

10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Cooke

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

Glière, R. Overture to Shakh-Senem (1926/34). BBC PO/Vassily Sinaisky. Chandos CHAN 9518 16

20:00 RECENT RELEASES

Viotti, G. Violin concerto no 22 in A minor (c1792-97). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Brandenburg O/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66840 28

Robinovitch, S. Dance set no 2 (2003). Erika Raum, vn; David Moroz, pf. Centrediscs CMCCD 15410 14

Benjamin, A. Symphony no 1 (1944-45). Queensland SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Marco Polo 8.223764 38 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2019 Produced by Andrew Bukenya What’s on in concerts during the next month 14:00 A NEW LIFE ON THESE SHORES Prepared by Frank Morrison Schubert, F. Piano trio in E flat, D929 (1827). Susie Park, vn; Timo-Veikko Valve, vc; Kathryn Selby, pf. Fine Music concert recording 41 Keats, H. We sat entwined (1936). Wendy Dixon, sop; David Miller, pf. ABC 472 225-2 5 Overman, M. Piano sonata I (1939). Jeanell Carrigan, pf. Wirripang Wirr 060 11

22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Mariko Yata

Brahms, J. Clarinet quintet in B minor, op 115 (1891). Deborah de Graaff, cl; Georg Pedersen, vc; members of Mozart Piano Quartet. ABC 472 672-2 35 Duvernoy, F. Nocturne no 2. Sören Hermansson, hn; Erica Goodman, hp. BIS CD-648 7 Chopin, F. Piano sonata no 2 in B flat minor op 35. Olga Kern, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907464 28 Ravel, M. String quartet in F (1902-03). Australian String Quartet. ABC 434 721-2 28 Much of Canadian composer Sid Robinovitch’s music is based on folk material but most often has a contemporary flavour. Some influences on his work are Judeo-Spanish and Balinese music and rhythmic chanting from different cultures. He is best known for his choral music and Klezmer suites. SEPTEMBER 2019

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Wednesday 11 September 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by literature Prepared by Paul Cooke Arensky, A. Overture to The dream on the Volga (1891). Ukraine NSO/Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.554843 7 MacDowell, E. Six idylls after Goethe, op 28 (pub. 1887). James Barbagallo, pf. Marco Polo 8.223632 12 Jenkins, Cyril. Coriolanus. Sellers Engineering Band/Norman Law. Chandos CHAN 4531 9 Craeyvanger, K. Introduction and variations on a theme from Der Freischütz. Johannes Möller, gui. Naxos 8.572715 13 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from The snow maiden (1880-81). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572787 13 Tchaikovsky, P. Pot-pourri on themes from the opera, Pan Voyevoda (1869). Viktoria Postnikova, pf. Erato 2292-45968-2 14 Hasse, J. Quel candido armellino, from Mark Antony and Cleopatra (1725). Regula Muhlemann, sop; La Folia Baroque O. Sony 88985407012 11 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Anne Irish Gluck, C. Suite from Don Juan (1761). Rhenish CO/Jan Corazolla. Christophorus CHE 0064-2 19 Dvorák, A. Violin concerto in A minor, op 53 (1879). Anne-Sophie Mutter, vn; Berlin PO/ Manfred Honeck. DG 479 1060 34 Elgar, E. Variations on an original theme, op 36, Enigma (1899). Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Exton EXCL-00029 30 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 OPERA IN CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Borodin, A. Overture to Prince Igor (1887; reconstr. Glazunov). Royal Liverpool PO/ Charles Mackerras. Virgin VC 7 91174-2 11 20

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Barry Tuckwell

Ethyl Smyth

Leoncavallo, R. My fate is in your hands ... Then will you say why you have enslaved me, from Pagliacci (1892). Cheryl Barker, sop; William Dazeley, bar; London PO/David Parry. Chandos CHAN 3161 12

Madrigal, op 15 no 1 (1884-86); Breit über mein Haupt, op 19 no 2 (1885-88). Udo Reinemann, bar; Roger Vignoles, pf. Globe GLO 5024 5

Offenbach, J. Doll song, from The tales of Hoffmann (1881). Emma Matthews, sop; Monte Carlo PO/Brad Cohen. ABC 476 4991 5 Saint-Saëns, C. Air; Danse bacchanale, from Samson and Delilah (1877). Montreal SO/ Charles Dutoit. Decca 421 527-2 7 Gluck, C. J’ai perdu mon Eurydice, from Orpheus and Eurydice (1774). David Hobson, ten; Tasmanian SO/Marco Guidarini. ABC 461 677-2 4 Mozart, W. Ecco il punto, from La clemenza di Tito, K621 (1791). Joan Carden, sop; Queensland PO/Roderick Brydon. Walsingham WAL 8026-2CD 9 Flotow, F. M’appari, from Martha (1847). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; New PO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 475 9349 3 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 RICHARD STRAUSS EXPLORED Part 2 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Strauss, R. Horn concerto no 1 in E flat, op 11 (1883). Barry Tuckwell, hn; London SO/ István Kertész. Decca 478 6420 16 Symphony no 2 in F minor, op 12, mvt 2 (1884). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10236 X 7 Aus Italien, op 16, mvt 4 (1886). Slovak PO/ Zdenék Kosler. Naxos 8.550342 9 Allegro, from Macbeth tone poem. Bavarian RSO/Lorin Maazel. RCA Masters 8

Piano quartet in C minor, op 13, mvt 2 (188384). Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet. Ars FCD 368 312 7 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Angela Cockburn Smyth, E. The wreckers. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Henry Brewster. First performed Leipzig, 1906. PASCOE: Peter Sidhom, bar MARK: Justin Lavender, ten THIRZA: Anne-Marie Owens, mezz AVIS : Judith Howarth, sop Huddersfield Choral Society; BBC PO/ Odaline de la Martinez. Conifer Classics 75605 51250 2 2:08 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera 22:30 A FRENCH QUARTET Prepared by Ray Lemond Dukas, P. Overture to Polyeucte (1891). Rotterdam PO/David Zinman. Philips 454 127-2 15 Duruflé, M. Suite, op 5 (1933). Henry Fairs, org. Naxos 8.557924 23 Vierne, L. Evenings abroad, op 56 (1928). Yvan Chiffoleau, vc; Olivier Gardon, pf. Timpani 2C2019 26 Duruflé, M. Three dances, op 6 (1936). Sydney SO/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat. ABC 434 716-2 22


Thursday 12 September

Samuel Scheidt

János Starker

Jessye Norman

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Haydn, J. Flute trio in D, Hob.XV:16 (1790). Canterbury Belles. Move MCD 063 13

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC The instruments: Brass Prepared by Madilina Tresca Mozart, W. A musical joke, K522 (1787). Jan Opsitos, vn; Zdenek Tylsar, hn; Bedrich Tylsar, hn; Dvorák CO/Libor Pesek. Supraphon 10 3907-2 23 Macdonald, I. Three minatures. Peter Walmsley, tpt; Catherine Walmsley, tpt; Louise Balletti, hn; Justin Ilearin, tb; Matthew Walmsley, tuba. Fine Music tape archive 6 Curnow, J. Symphonic variants for euphonium. James Brice, euphonium; Jodie Lockyer, pf. AEMS JB001 16 Schütz, H. Fili mi, Absalon; Veni, dilecte mi, from Symphoniae sacrae, op 6 (pub.1629). Véronique Dietschy, sop; Brigitte Bellamy, sop; John Elwes, ten; Guy de Mey, ten; Bernard Fabré-Garrus, bass; Bernard Fourtet, sackbutt; François Février, sackbutt; Harry Ries, sackbutt; Richard Lester, sackbutt; Claire Giardelli, bass viol; Matthias Spaeter, chitaronne; William Jansen, org. LP Erato NUM 75234 10 Scheidt, S. Canzona on the French song, Est-ce Mars?; Galliard, La battaglia. Timothy Roberts, org. 8 Merula, T. Chiacona. Timothy Roberts, hpd. 3 His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts (2 above) Hyperion CDA66847 Gabaye, P. Récréation (1958). Thierry Caens, tpt; André Cazalet, hn; Michel Becquet, tb; Yves Henri, pf. Pierre Verany PV 793041 13

Berlioz, H. Overture: Les Francs-juges, op 3 (1827-28). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 452 480-2 12 Kuhlau, F. Suite from Elverhøj, op 100 (1828). Odense SO/Othmar Maga. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9132 33 Dvorák, A. Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). János Starker, vc; London SO/Antal Dorati. Mercury 432 001-2 38 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 WINTER DAYDREAMS Prepared by Stephen Wilson Fucik, J. Concert waltz: Winter storms. Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann. LP Orfeo S 147 861 B 12 Schubert, F. Eight songs from Winterreise (1827, arr. Roger Benedict). Roger Benedict, va; Simon Tedeschi, pf. ABC 481 6751 27 Holst, G. A winter idyll (1897). London PO/ David Atherton. Lyrita SRCD 209 7 Foster, G. The winter palace 1916-18, from The pearl of Dubai suite (2010-11). Novaya Rossia SO/Zaurbek Gugkaev. Quartz QTZ 2091 17 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 1 in G minor, op 13, Winter daydreams (1866). Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Decca 478 5867 44 15:00 CLASSICAL CHAMBER Prepared by Paul Hopwood Boccherini, L. String quartet in C, op 32 no 4 (pub. 1781). Esterházy Quartet. Teldec 4509-95988-2 16 Beethoven, L. Cello sonata no 1 in F, op 5 no 1 (1796). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, pf. CBS M2K 42446 26

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 THE WORLD OF A SYMPHONY Prepared by Dan Bickel Strauss, R. Tomorrow, from Four songs, op 27 (1894). Renée Fleming, sop; Paul Willey, vn; Osian Ellis, hp. Decca 458 858-2 3 Wolf, H. Der Corregidor (1896). Paris O/ Daniel Barenboim. Apex 0927-49582-2 8 Mahler, G. Symphony no 3 in D minor (189396). Jessye Norman, sop; Vienna Boys Choir; Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 410 715-2 1:43 22:00 BETTER IS PEACE Prepared by Elaine Siversen Prokofiev, S. Waltz, from War and peace, op 96 (1944). Boris Berman, pf. Chandos CHAN 9017 6 Rossini, G. Hymn to peace (1850). Michele Pertusi, bar; Nelson Calzi, pf; Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Ch & O/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 470 298-2 6 Routledge, K. My peace. Seunghee Lee, cl; Evan Soloman, pf. Musica Solus 20160817 2 Jenkins, K. Better is peace, from The armed man, a mass for peace (pub. 2001). National Youth Choir; London PO/Karl Jenkins. Virgin 8 11015 2 10 22:30 ULTIMA THULE “Without craftmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind”. — Johannes Brahms SEPTEMBER 2019

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Friday 13 September Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 3 in D, op 29, Polish (1875). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti. EMI 7 67742 2 43 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 SIXES AND SEVENS Prepared by Paul Cooke Saint-Saëns, C. Septet in E flat, op 65 (1881). Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67431/2 17 Andreas Ottensamer

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Annabelle Drumm 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Chris Blower Rachmaninov, S. Vocalise, op 34 no 14 (1915; arr. Leonard Rose). Martin Fröst, cl; Roland Pöntinen, pf. BIS SACD-1823 6 Puccini, G. Garret scene, from La bohème (arr. Hocking). West Australian SO/Dobbs Franks. ABC 476 1999 17 Weber, C.M. The tryst, from Der Freischütz, op 77 (1817-21; transcr. Stanhope 1978). David Stanhope, pf. Tall Poppies TP184 9 Bartók, B. Rumanian folk dances (1915; arr. Flinders Quartet). Flinders Quartet. Fine Music concert recording 12 Handel, G. Water music, HWV348-50 (1717; arr.). Crispian Steele-Perkins, tpt; Leslie Pearson, org. LDR 1006 19 Ravel, M. Suite no 2 from Daphnis et Chloé (1912; transcr. Garban). Duo Lechner Tiempo. Avanti 5414706 10312 15 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Respighi, O. Ancient airs and dances, suite no 2 (1924). Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati. Mercury 478 5092 19 Stamitz, J. Clarinet concerto in B flat. Andreas Ottensamer, cl; Potsdam Chamber Academy. Decca 481 4711 17 22

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Schumann, R. Four songs for double choir, op 141 (arr. Cox). Septura. Naxos 8.573314 13 Holbrooke, J. Sextet in D, op 43 (1902). Sándor Papp, vn; János Devich, vc; New Haydn Quartet. Marco Polo 8.223736 25 14:00 A MUSICAL CARAVAN Prepared by Frank Morrison Ysaÿe, E. String quartet, London (arr. Jacques Ysaÿe). Kryptos Quartet. Etcetera KTC 4034 14 Grétry, A-E-M. Je romps la chaine qui m’engage. Sumi Jo, sop; English CO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 440 679-2 5 Jongen, J. Concertino, op 111 (1940). Roger Benedict, va; Timothy Young, pf. Melba MR 301126 10 Hacquart, C. Sonata no 10 (pub. 1686). John Holloway, vn; Stanley Ritchie, vn; Andrew Manze, vn; Mary Springfels, bass viol; Nigel North, theorbo; John Toll, hpd, org. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907091 7 Fiocco, J-H. Recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis, Incipit oratio Ieremiae Prophetae (1733). Sergio Foresti, bass; Claudio Frigerio, vc; Roberto Gini, vc; Diana Petech, org. Giulia GS 201021 12 Servais, A-F. Grand fantaisie after Rossini’s The barber of Seville, op 6 (arr.). Wen-Sinn Yang, vc; Munich RSO/Terje Mikkelsen. cpo 777 542-2 14 Lekeu, G. Mon âme est triste jusqu’à la mort (1887). Members of Ensemble Musique Oblique. Harmonia Mundi 1901 455 14 Gossec, F-J. Symphony in E flat, op 5 no 2 (pub. 1761). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9661 13 Vieuxtemps, H. Ballad and polonaise, op 38 (1860). Misha Keylin, vn; Slovak RSO/ Andrew Mogrelia. Naxos 8.570974 15

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Prepared by Frank Morrison Gade, N. Overture: Echoes from Ossian, op 1 (1840). Dmitri Kitaienko, cond. Chandos CHAN 9422 15 Arensky, A. Suite no 2, op 23, Silhouettes (1892). Neeme Järvi, cond. Chandos CHAN 8898 19 Holmboe, V. Cello concerto, op 120 (1975). Erling Bengtsson, vc; János Ferencsik, cond. BIS CD-78 24 Sibelius, J. Pohjola’s daughter, op 49 (1906). Leif Segerstam, cond. Chandos CHAN 8965 14 Nielsen, C. Symphony no 4, op 29, The inextinguishable (1914-16). Ulf Schirmer, cond. Decca 452 486-2 36 Danish National RSO (all above) 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Andrew Dziedzic Pergolesi, G. Sinfonia in F. Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Raglan Baroque Players/ Nicholas Kraemer. Hyperion CDA67230 7 Salve Regina in C minor (1736). Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood. Decca 476 2488 4 Flute concerto in G. Giulio Giannelli Viscardi, fl; European Community CO/Eivind Aadland. Helios CDH88025 13 L’Olimpiade, Act I (1735). Raffaella Milanesi, sop; Olga Pasichnyk, sop; Ann-Beth Solvang, mezz; Jennifer Rivera, mezz; Martin Oro, ct; Jeffrey Francis, ten; Markus Brutscher, ten; Academia Montis Regalis/Alessandro de Marchi. DHM 88697807712 1:15 Double concerto. Ignacio Prego, hpd; Daniel Oyarzabal, hpd; La Ritirata/Josetxu Obregón. Glossa GCD 923106 12 Stabat Mater dolorosa, from Stabat Mater (1736). Sara Macliver, sop; Sally-Anne Russell, mezz; O of the Antipodes/Antony Walker. ABC 476 4621 4 “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings.” — W.A. Mozart


Saturday 14 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 THE PIANO ALONE Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies Saint-Saëns, C. Mazurka, op 66. FrançoisRené Duchâble, pf. EMI 5 72356 2 5 Debussy, C. Mazurka. Roy Howat, pf. Tall Poppies TP165 3 Falla, M. de Mazurka (1899). Benita Meshulam, pf. Brilliant Classics 9255 5 Fauré, G. Mazurka in B flat, op 32 (1878). Kathryn Stott, pf. Hyperion CDA66911/4 6 Granados, E. Mazurka, from Romantic scenes. Alicia de Larrocha, pf. Decca 433 920-2 6 Albéniz, I. Salon mazurkas, op 66 (c1885): no 1, Isabel; no 2, Casilda; no 3, Aurora; no 4, Sofia; no 5, Christa; no 6, Maria. Guillermo González, pf. Naxos 8.572196 22 10:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies Martinu, B. Suite no 2 from Istar (1917-21). Brno State PO/Jiri Waldhans. LP Supraphon 1 10 1634 23 Svoboda, T. Folk dance, op 132 (1988). Michael Anderson, cl. North Pacific Music NPM LD 016 3 Filtsch, C. Mazurka in E flat minor, op 3 no 3. Hubert Rutkowski, pf. Naxos 8.572344 4 Smetana, B. Dance of the comedians, from The bartered bride (1866). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 474 617-2 6 Novák, V. Serenades, op 9 (1895-96). Niel Immelman, pf. Meridian CDE 84555 10 Dvorák, A. Slavonic dances, op 72 (1886). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8406 34 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small Schubert, F. Marche militaire no 3. Andrew Stokes, cond. 6 Fucik, J. Florentiner march, op 214; Entry of the gladiators. 8 Saint-Saëns, C. Marche militaire française. 5 Phillip Anderson, cond (2 above)

Beethoven, L. Zapfenstreich. Matthew Klohs, cond. 5

19:00 THE IBERIAN SYMPHONY Prepared by Chris Blower

Royal Australian Navy Band (all above)

Seixas, C. Sinfonia in B flat. 8 Moreira, A. Sinfonia (1803). 5 Naxos 8.557207 (2 above)

Royal Australian Navy RAN-005 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD with Maureen Meers Nostalgic music and artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s and occasionally beyond, in a trip down many memory lanes 14:00 STAGING MUSIC Prepared by Angela Cockburn Japan and exotic locations 14:30 SATURDAY MATINEE Operetta in the afternoon Prepared by Elaine Siversen Lehár, F. Giuditta. Operetta in five scenes. Libretto by Paul Knepler and Fritz LöhnerBeda. First performed Vienna, 1934. GIUDITTA: Deborah Riedel, sop MANUELE: Jeffrey Carl, bar OCTAVIO: Jerry Hadley, ten English CO/Richard Bonynge. Telarc CD-80436 1:18 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Suppé, F. The beautiful Galathea. Operetta in one act. Libretto by ‘Poly Henrion’. First performed Berlin, 1865. GALATHEA: Anna Moffo, sop PYGMALION: René Kollo, ten GANYMEDE: Rose Wagemann, mezz MIDAS: Ferry Gruber, ten Bavarian Radio Ch; Munich RO/Kurt Eichorn. LP Eurodisc NCB EHO 138 39 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Overture to The Queen of Spades (1864); Overture to Morning, noon and night in Vienna (1844). Vienna PO/Zubin Mehta. CBS MK 44932 16 17:00 SOCIETY SPOT Organ Music Society of Sydney 18:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Rodgers, R. Excerpts from State Fair. John Davidson, Kathryn Crosby, Andrea McArdle, Ben Wright, Donna McKechnie, voices; members of original Broadway cast. DRG 94785 19 Coleman, C. Excerpts from Sweet Charity. Gwen Verdon, John McMartin, Helen Gallagher, voices. Columbia SK 60960 11 Herrman, J. Excerpts from Dear world. Angela Lansbury, Jane Connell, Carmen Matthews, voices. Sony Broadway SK 48220 19

Bomtempo, J. Symphony no 2 in D. Naxos 8.557163 42 Algarve O/Alvaro Cassuto (all above) 20:00 THE LIFE OF A COMPOSER Carl Czerny Prepared by Brian Drummond Czerny, C. Grand nocturne brilliant, op 95 (c1826). Rosemary Tuck, pf; English CO/ Richard Bonynge. Naxos 8.573417 19 Liszt, F. Variations on a waltz by Diabelli (1822). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDS44501 2 Czerny, C. Introduction, variations and presto finale on a popular theme from Bellini’s Norma (1833). Rosemary Tuck, pf; English CO/Richard Bonynge. Naxos 8.573254 17 Thalberg, S. Memories of Beethoven, grand fantasy on Symphony no 7, op 39 (c1835). Francesco Nicolosi, pf. Naxos 8.553701 17 Czerny, C. Andante and polacca (1848). Jean-Jacques Justafré, hn; François-René Duchable, pf. Pierre Verany PV793091 12 Symphony no 2 in D, op 781. Brandenburg State O, Frankfurt/Nikos Athinäos. Christophorus CHE 0140-2 41 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Gerald Holder Suppé, F. Overture to Poet and peasant (1846). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta. Decca 475 7470 9 Albrechtsberger, J. Double concerto in F (arr. Behrend). Marianne Klatt, fl; Michael Tröster, gui; German Plucked-String CO/ Siegfried Behrend. Thorofon CTH 2025 14 Beethoven, L. String quartet in F, op 18 no 1 (1800). Goldner String Quartet. ABC 476 3541 29 Gluck, C. Suite from Don Juan (1761). Rhenish CO/Jan Corazolla. Christophorus CHE 0064-2 19 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 9 in E minor, op 95, From the New World (1893). Berlin PO/ Herbert von Karajan. “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” — Confucius SEPTEMBER 2019

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Sunday 15 September

Anner Bijlsma

Louis de Caix d’Hervelois

Woldemar Bargiel

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

variations and polonaise. Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 454 262-2 20

Schumann, C. Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen; Liebst du um Schönheit; Warum willst du and’re fragen? from Liebesfrühling, op 12 nos 2, 4 and 11 (1840). Susan Gritton, sop; Stephen Loges, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 6

9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Chris Blower Howells, H. Magnificat; Nunc dimittis, from Gloucester service (c1946). Jeremy Cole, org; Choir of Trinity College/Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA67914 11 Bloch, E. Baal shem, three pictures of Chassidic life (1923). Michael Guttman, vn; Royal PO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 785 15 Gounod, C. Messe chorale. Ensemble Vocale de Lausanne; Daniel Fuchs, org; Michel Corboz, cond. apex 8573 89235 2 28 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Di Cox Beethoven, L. 12 Contredanses, WoO14 (1800-01). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner. EMI CDM 1 66426 2 11 Mozart, W. Andante with five variations in G, K501 (1786). Martha Argerich, pf; Stephen Kovacevich, pf. DG 476 114-7 7 Bach, C.P.E. Cello concerto in A, Wq172 (1753). Anner Bijlsma, vc; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt. Virgin VC 7 90800-2 19 Hummel, J. Piano trio no 7 in E flat, op 96 (c1822). Borodin Trio. Chandos CHAN 9529 20 Marcello, A. Oboe concerto in D minor (pub. c1717). Kirsten Barry, ob; Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 476 2840 11 Schubert, F. Im Gegenwärtigen Vergangenes, D710 (1821). Utrecht Vocal Soloists; Ronald Brautigam, pf; Udo Reinemann, bar & dir. Globe CD GLO 5021 6 Giuliani, M. Introduction, theme with 24

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Bach, J. Christian Symphony in E flat for double orchestra, op 18 no 1 (1779). Academy of Ancient Music/Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0540 14 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Linda Marr 14:00 FEATURING THE MARAIS PROJECT Marais, M. Suite no 2 in G minor, from Pièces en trio (1692). Fine Music concert recording 15 Bouteiller, P. O salutaris hostia. Belinda Montgomery, sop. Move MCD 424 4 Roman, J. Sonata (1727). Move MCD 512 13 Caix d’Hervelois, L. de Suite in D minor, from Premier livre de pièces de viole (pub. 1708). Jennifer Eriksson, va da gamba; Catherine Upex, va da gamba; Tommie Andersson, theorbo. Move MCD 564 11 Trad. Swedish folk music suite (arr Andersson). Move MCD 512 10 Marais Project (all above) 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Clara Schumann Prepared by Paul Cooke 1819-2019

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC

Clara Schumann 200th Anniversary

Schumann, C. Romance in C, op 3 (1833). Veronica Jochum, pf. Pro Arte CDD 396 9 Gade, N. Violin sonata no 1 in A, op 6 (1842). Christina Åstrand, vn; Per Salo, pf. Dacapo 8.226066 25

Mendelssohn, F. Song without words no 30 in A, op 62 no 6, Frühlingslied (1825-45). Victoria Postnikova, pf. Melodiya SUCD 10-00115 3 Schumann, C. Konzertsatz in F minor (compl. and orch. de Beenhouwer). Ambache CO/Diana Ambache, pf & dir. BBC Music MM45 13 Bargiel, W. Octet in C minor, op 15a (pub. 1877). Divertimenti. Helios CDH55043 34 Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Haydn, op 56b (1873). Martha Argerich, pf; Alexandre Rabinovitch, pf. Teldec 4509-92257-2 16 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge Hymns: O worship the king; All things bright and beautiful; Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; John Scott, org; Barry Rose, cond. Guild GMCD 7106 9 Psalm: No 138: I will give you thanks, O Lord. Cathedral Singers; Andrej Kouznetsov, org; Brett McKern, cond. TCS 02 3 Murrill, H. Magnificat; Nunc dimittis in E. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond. Helios CDH 55402 7 Stainer, J. Anthem: Lead kindly light. Tom Stringer, treb; Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne; Siegfried Franke, org; June Nixon, cond. Sound & Sense SPC 0699 9 Stanford, C. Villiers Anthem: The Lord is my Shepherd. Choir of Guildford Cathedral; Peter


Monday 16 September

Sunday 15 September

Shostakovich, D. Incidental music to King Lear, op 58a (1940). Louise Winter, mezz; Davd Wilson-Johnson, bar; City of Birmingham SO/Mark Elder. Cala CACD1021 25

Wright, org; Andrew Millington, cond. Priory PRCD 257 9 Hymns: There is a wideness in God’s mercy; Immortal, invisible, God only wise. Hyperion SPCC 2000 5 Wesley, S.S. Choral song and fugue. Ashley Grote, org. Priory PRCD 1153 7

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 TEMPESTATUM Sun and sunshine Prepared by Jacky Ternisien

18:00 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Krystal Li Schumann, R. Five pieces in folk-tone, op 102 (1849). Mischa Maisky, vc; Martha Argerich, pf. DG 469 524-2 17 Villa-Lobos, H. Five songs (1926-50). Lorna McGhee, fl; Alison Nicholls, hp. Naxos 8.557765 14 Piazzolla, A. The four porteño seasons (1969). Macquarie Trio. ABC 980 678-0 23 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Verdi, G. Overture to Aroldo (1857). Andrew Balio, tpt; State of Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz. ASV DCA 856 11 Hummel, J. Mandolin concerto in G (1799). Edith Bauer-Slais, mand; Vienna Pro Musica O/Vinzenz Hladky. Tuxedo TUXCD 1026 20 Khachaturian, A. Symphony no 2, The bell (1943). Royal Scottish O/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8945 51 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Nev Dorrington Beving, J. Prelude from Conatus (2018). Joep Beving, pf. DG 2894 7998 693 4 Lindhagen, J. Skõrheten. Jakos Lindhagen, pf. 1631 Recordings FRI-015 21 Beving, J. Solipsism. Joep Beving, pf. DG 2884 7974 697 48 Lindhagen, J. Forgotten; Afterwards; S,47. Jakos Lindhagen, pf. Feeder Recordings FRI-015 14 22:00 JAZZ AFTER HOURS with David Knapp Khachaturian’s Second Symphony was nicknamed The Bell or Symphony with Bells because of the bell motif that begins and ends the work. The bells are not joyous; the work expresses the pain and suffering of humanity. The composer described it as ‘a requiem of wrath, a requiem of protest against war and violence’.

Wilhelm Stenhammar

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1921 Prepared by Brian Drummond Stravinsky, I. Three movements from Petrushka (1921). Maurizio Pollini, pf. Philips 456 937-2 15 Stenhammar, W. Chitra, op 43 (1921). Uppsala Chamber Soloists. LCM C 115 19 Strauss, R. Hymne an die Liebe, op 71 (1921). Felicity Lott, sop; Royal Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8734 8 Sibelius, J. Suite mignonne, op 98a (1921). Gérard Schaub, fl; Kenneth Wihlborg, fl; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-384 7 Grainger, P. English dance for six hands on one piano (1921). Philip Martin, Martin Jones, Richard McMahon pf. Nimbus NI 5286 9 Saint-Saëns, C. Clarinet sonata, op 167 (1921). Richard Stoltzman, cl; Irma Vallecillo, pf. RCA RD 60198 20 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Jennifer Foong Joachim, J. Overture: Hamlet, op 4 (1853). Stuttgart RSO/Meir Minsky. Naxos 8.554733 17 Mendelssohn, F. Piano concerto no 1 in G minor, op 25 (1831). Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf; Gewandhaus O/Herbert Blomstedt. Decca 468 600-2 20 Strauss, R. Tone poem: Macbeth, op 23 (1888/91). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8834 20

Brumby, C. Symphony no 1, The sun (1981). Queensland SO/Robert Boughen. Jade JADCD 1049 27 Trad. Sunshine on Taxkorgan (arr. Gang Chen; orch. Yiu-Kwong Chung). Claude Delangle, sax; Taipei Chinese O/En Shao. BIS CD-1790 7 Boyd, A. Red sun, chill wind (1980). Geoffrey Collins, fl; David Miller, pf. Tall Poppies TP127 7 Anderson, Julian. The stations of the sun (1998). BBC SO/Oliver Knussen. Ondine ODE 1012-2 18 Withers, B. Ain’t no sunshine. Ray Vega, tpt; David Garrett, vn; Franck Van Der Heijden, gui; Rogier Van Wegberg, bass gui; John Hayward, pf; Steven Wolf, drums; Bulgarian SO/Ivan Kozhuharov. Decca 478 1122 3 Kats-Chernin, E. Sunshine journal (2011). Members of Australian World O. ABC 481 6430 18 14:30 ART AND MUSIC Prepared by Paul Cooke Brahms, J. Nänie, op 82 (1880-81). Sydney University Graduate Choir & O/Christopher Bowen. SUGC recording 14 Rachmaninov, S. The Isle of the Dead, op 29 (1909). Royal PO/Enrique Bátiz. Naxos 8.557930-31 23 Weigl, K. Isle of the Dead (1903). Joseph Banowetz, pf. Naxos 8.572423 13 Reger, M. Four Böcklin tone pictures, op 128 (1912). Norrköping SO/Leif Segerstam. BIS CD-601 30 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson SEPTEMBER 2019

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Tuesday 17 September

Jean-Philippe Collard

The fall of the leaf

Johannes Brahms

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

13:00 THREE’S COMPANY Prepared by Paul Cooke

Love on my heart, from Seven partsongs, op 44 (1925-26). Isobel Collyer, sop; Holst Singers & O/Hilary Davan Wetton. Hyperion CDA 66329 3

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Colours of the keyboard Prepared by Frank Morrison Fauré, G. Trio in D minor, op 120 (1923). Augustin Dumay, vn; Frédéric Lodéon, vc; Jean-Philippe Collard, pf. EMI CMS 7 62545 2 20 Bach, J.S. Prelude, BWV552.i (1708-48). John O’Donnell, org. Tall Poppies TP140 8 Roman, J. Suite no 1 in E flat. Joseph Payne, hpd. BIS CD-669/670 8 Czerny, C. Andante e polacca, op posth (1848). Barry Tuckwell, hn; Daniel Blumenthal, pf. Etcetera KTC1121 12 Bach, W.F. Polonaise no 10 in F minor (c1765). Steve Barrell, clvd. Globe GLO 5035 6 Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 21 in C, op 53, Waldstein (1803-04). Maurizio Pollini, pf. DG 427 642-2 23 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Rex Burgess Wagner, R. Overture and Venusberg music, from Tannhäuser (1845). Melbourne SO/ Charles Mackerras. ABC 476 3224 23 Debussy, C. Fantasia. Zoltán Kocsis, pf; Budapest FO/Iván Fischer. Philips 456 874-2 20 Karlowicz, M. Symphony in E minor, op 7, Rebirth (1903). BBC PO/Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10171 40 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 26

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Farrenc, L. Trio in E flat, op 44 (1854-56). Deborah de Graaff, cl; Georg Pedersen, vc; Natalia Sheludiakova, pf. Fine Music concert recording 27 Schumann, R. Trio no 3 in G minor, op 110 (1851). Susan Collins, vn; Sue-Ellen Paulsen, vc; Duncan Gifford, pf. ABC 476 5165 27 14:00 MUSICAL FAMILIES Father and daughter Prepared by Jennifer Foong Holst, G. Ballet music from The golden goose, op 45 no 1 (1926). English CO/ Imogen Holst. Lyrita SRCD 223 15 Holst, I. Welcome joy and welcome sorrow (1950). Choir of Clare College, Cambridge; Tanya Houghton, hp; Dmitri Ensemble/ Graham Ross. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907576 11 Holst, G. A Somerset rhapsody, op 21 no 2 (1910). Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar. EMI CDM 5 65130 2 10 Fugal concerto, op 40 no 2 (1923). William Bennett, fl; Peter Graeme, ob; English CO/ Imogen Holst. Lyrita SRCD 223 8 Holst, I. The fall of the leaf (1962). Thomas Hewitt Jones, vc. Court Lane Music CLM37601 8 String quartet no 1 (1946). Brindisi Quartet. Conifer CF 196 14 Holst, G. Quintet in A minor, op 3 (1903). Christopher O’Neal, ob; Julian Farrell, cl; Richard Skinner, bn; Christopher Blake, hn; Anthony Goldstone, pf. Chandos CHAN 9077 17 Egdon Heath, op 47 (1927). London PO/ Adrian Boult. Decca 440 318-2 13

Jupiter, from The planets. London PO/David Parry. LPO Live 0063 8 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Rex Burgess Françaix, J. L’heure du berger (1947). Gaudier Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67036 7 Ravel, M. Violin sonata (1927). Patricia Kopatchinskaja, vn; Fazil Say, pf. naïve V5146 18 Jolivet, A. Little suite (1941). Anna Noakes, fl; Jonathon Barrett, va; Gillian Tingay, hp. ASV DCA 948 12 Shostakovich, D. String quartet no 10 in A flat, op 118 (1964). Emerson String Quartet. DG 463 284-2 22 Brahms, J. Piano quartet no 2 in A, op 26 (186162). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; Leopold String Trio. Hyperion CDA67471/2 50 Polish composer Mieczyslaw Karlowicz was a great admirer of Tchaikovsky and his influence can be discerned in Karlowicz’ Symphony in E minor. Nevertheless Karlowicz developed an original musical language expressed through harmony and colourful orchestration. His life was cut short in 1909 at the age of 32 when he was caught in an avalanche while skiing in the Tatra Mountains. His music has an important place in the history of Polish music between that of Chopin and Szymanowski.


Wednesday 18 September

Claire Edwardes

Kirsten Flagstad and George London

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Roussel, A. Symphony no 1, op 7, Le poème de la forêt (1904-06). Rhineland Palatinate State PO/Leif Segerstam. Cybelia CY 801 32

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by literature Prepared by Paul Cooke

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 AROUND THE HORN Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Berlioz, H. Overture: Waverley, op 1 (182728). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 10412X 10

Weber, B. Horn sextet no 1 in F. Horns of Czech PO. Supraphon 11 0780-2 11

Ravenscroft, T. Yonder comes a courteous knight (pub. 1609; arr. Frederiksen). Ensemble Phoenix. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901983 6

Brahms, J. Trio in A minor, op 114 (1891). Leopold Wlach, cl; Franz Holetschek, hn; Franz Kwarda, vc. Westminster RC 8808678121735 23

Prokofiev, S. Suites from Romeo and Juliet (1936, 1947; arr. Wells 2013). Claire Edwardes, perc; Flinders Quartet. Fine Music concert recording 17

Blower, M. Horn concerto (1951). José Garcia Gutiérrez, hn; Malta PO/Michael Laus. Cameo Classics CC9032 20

Glazunov, A. To the memory of N. Gogol, symphonic prologue, op 87 (1909). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya SUCD 10-00163 10 Gade, N. Aarstidsbilleder, op 51 (1871). Elizabeth Rehling, sop; Hedwig Rummel, cont; Karl-Gustav Andersson, ten; Anne Øland, Finn de Roepstorff, pf; Radio Chamber Ch/Per Enevold. Danacord DACO 308 13 Bernstein, L. Suite, from West Side story (1960; arr. Crees). Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble. Decca 417 354-2 23 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Field Respighi, O. Metamorphoseon, theme and variations (1930). Philharmonia O/Geoffrey Simon. LP Chandos ABRD 1142 25 Salieri, A. Triple concerto in D (c1770). Heinz Holliger, ob; Thomas Demenga, vc; Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri, vn & dir. Archiv 410 599-2 25

14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 RICHARD STRAUSS EXPLORED Part 3 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Strauss, R. Burleske in D minor (1885-88). Daniel Barenboim, pf; Berlin PO/Zubin Mehta. CBS MK 42322 20 Tod und Verklärung, op 24 (1888-89). Vienna PO/Fritz Reiner. Decca 480 5006 24 All mein Gedanken, op 21 no 1. Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; Georg Solti, pf. Decca 478 6419 1 Till Eulenspiegel’s merry pranks, op 28, Till with a difference (1893-95; arr. Hasenöhri 1954). Nigel Westlake, cl; Gordon Skinner, bn; Robert Johnson, hn; Dene Olding, vn; Max McBride, db. Fine Music concert recording 8 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell

20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Camille Mercep

1869 2019

A Sesquicentenary Event

Wagner, R. Das Rheingold. Opera in one act. Libretto by the composer. First performed Munich, 22 September 1869. WOTAN: George London, bass-bar FRICKA: Kirsten Flagstad, sop ERDA: Jean Madeira, cont FASOLT: Walter Kreppel, bass-bar FAFNER: Kurt Böhme, bass ALBERICH: Gustav Neidlinger, bar Vienna PO/Georg Solti. Decca 478 3707 2:26 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Overture to Columbus (1835). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHSA 5092 8 Morgenlich leuchtend, from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868). Jonas Kaufmann, ten; Prague PO/Marco Armiliato. Decca 478 6029 5 Träume (1858; arr.). Sophia Reuter, vn; International Menuhin Music Academy, Gstaad/Yehudi Menuhin. Dinemec DCCD 014 5 23:00 SIXES AND SEVENS Prepared by Paul Cooke Kozeluch, L. Wind sextet no 3 in E flat. Consortium Classicum. Orfeo 442 981 12 Boccherini, L. String sextet in F minor, op 23 no 4 (1776). Mayumi Seiler, vn; Iris Juda, vn; Diemut Poppen, va; Werner Dickel, va; Richard Lester, vc; Howard Penny, vc. Brilliant Classics 94386 15 Corea, C. Septet (1982). Steve Kujala, fl; Peter Gordon, hn; Ida Kavafian, vn; Theodore Arm, vn; Steven Tebnebom, va; Fred Sherry, vc; Chick Corea, pf. ECM 1297 28 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Thursday 19 September 14:30 HOME GROWN Prepared by Albert Gormley Collins, B. Double trumpet concerto (2017). Phillip Chase-Hawkins, tpt; Andy Lottt, tpt; Maria Fuller, pf; 16 Mugungwha train. Philippa Collins, vn. 4 Scherzo (2014). Phillip Chase-Hawkins, tpt; Gabriel Lefkowitz, vn; Maria Fuller, pf. 5 Meale, R. String quartet no 2 (1980). Jonathan Allen, vn; Peter Exton, vn; Helen Sargeant, va; Susan Pickering, vc. Canberra School of Music CSM 10 25 Zoltán Molnár

Roger Norrington

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Frank Morrison

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC The instruments: Brass Prepared by Jennifer Foong Koechlin, C. Morçeau de lecture. Barry Tuckwell, hn. ASV DCA 716 3 Scheidt, S. Battle suite. Peter Walmsley, tpt; Catherine Walmsley, tpt; Louise Balletti, hn; Justin Kearin, tb; Matthew Walmsley, tuba. Fine Music tape archive 9 Schütz, H. Attendite, popule meus, SWV270, from Symphoniae sacrae, op 6 (pub.1629). Bernard Fabré-Garrus, bass; Bernard Fourtet, sackbutt; François Février, sackbutt; Harry Ries, sackbutt ; Richard Lester, sackbutt; Claire Giardelli, bass viol; Matthias Spaeter, chitaronne; William Jansen, org. LP Erato NUM 75234 7 Damase, J-M. Trio for trumpet, trombone and piano (1983). Wim van Hasselt, tpt; Jörgen van Rijen, tb; Alla Libo, pf. Channel CCS SA 36315 21 Liszt, F. Te Deum laudamus (1859). Hungarian State Ch; Ede Inhoff, tpt; Zoltán Molnár, tpt; Miklós Nagy, hn; István Borza, hn; Attila Kovács, tb; István Bazsinka, tb; Gábor Madarassy, timpani; László Révész, org; Gábor Ugrin, cond. Hungaroton HCD 31103 9

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Berlioz, H. Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, op 23 (1836-38). New York PO/Pierre Boulez. Sony SM3K 64 103 10 Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 1 in C, Hob.VII:1 (c1761-65). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; English CO/Daniel Barenboim. EMI CZS 5 68132 2 26 Sibelius, J. Symphony no 2 in D, op 43 (1901). Minnesota O/Osmo Vänskä. BIS SACD 1986 46 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 OF PRINCES AND PRINCESSES Prepared by Stephen Wilson Borodin, A. Overture to Prince Igor (1887; reconstr. Glazunov). Ukraine National RSO/ Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.557456 10 Ravel, M. Pavane for a dead princess (1899). Hartmut Lindemann, va; Günther Herzfeld, pf. Tacet 21 6 Korngold, E. Suite from The Prince and the pauper (1937). London SO/André Previn. DG 471 347-2 22 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Lullaby of the Sea Princess, from Sadko (1898). Galina Vishnevskaya, sop; London PO/Mstislav Rostropovich. EMI 5 65716 2 11 Tcherepnin, N. Prelude from The distant princess. Russian NO/Mikhail Pletnev. Newton 8802037 9

Schumann, R. Adagio and allegro in A flat, op 70 (1849). David Pyatt, hn; Martin Jones, pf. Erato 3984-21632-2 8

Clarke, J. The Prince of Denmark’s march (1700; arr. Wood). West Australian SO/ Benjamin Northey. ABC 481 1143 2

Reinecke, C. Sextet in B flat, op 271 (190708). Manfred Klier, hn; Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. BIS CD-612 21

Schmitt, F. Suite from Oriane et le Prince d’Amour, op 83 (1938). Rhineland State PO/ Pierre Stoll. Cybelia CY 816 19

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Hyde, M. Piano concerto no 1 in E flat minor (1933). Miriam Hyde, pf; West Australian SO/ Geoffrey Simon. ABC 446 285-2 30 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 THE WORLD OF A SYMPHONY Prepared by James Nightingale Bülow, H. Ballade, op 11. Werner Genuit, pf. LP Bellaphon EB 23.049 12 Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV150: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (c1708). Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki. BIS CD-9024/26 14 Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 7 in D, op 10 no 3 (1797-98). Paul Lewis, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901909.11 25 Strauss, R. Serenade, op 7 (1881). Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart. Philips 438 733-2 9 Liszt, F. Hungarian rhapsody no 2 in C sharp minor (1885). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDS44587 10 Brahms, J. Symphony no 4 in E minor, op 98 (1884-85). London Classical Players/Roger Norrington. EMI 5 56118 2 39 22:00 MUSIC OF THE 18TH CENTURY Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Bach, J. Christian Piano concerto in D, op 1 no 6 (1763). Ingrid Haebler, fp; Vienna Capella Academica/Eduard Melkus. Philips 438 712-2 13 Telemann, G. Sonata no 1 in A for transverse flute, violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord. Quatuor Ricercar. Ricercar RIC 043020 13 22:30 ULTIMA THULE “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” — Ludwig van Beethoven


Friday 20 September 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Development of the choral symphony Prepared by David Brett Brian, H. Judex, from Symphony no 1, Gothic (1919-27). Eva Jenisová, sop; Slovak Philharmonic Choir; Slovak Opera Choir; Slovak Folk Ensemble Choir; Lucnica Choir; Bratislava City Choir; Bratislava Children’s Choir; Youth Echo Choir; Czecho-Slovak RSO; Slovak PO/Ondrej Lenard. Marco Polo 8.223280/281 16

Christopher Herrick

Walter Braunfels

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WoO19 (1821). Karl Leister, cl; Stuttgart RSO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Orfeo C 088 201 A 28

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Annabelle Drumm 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Paul Cooke Sarasate, P. de Concert fantasy on themes from Mozart’s The magic flute, op 54. Gil Shaham, vn; Akira Eguchi, pf. DG 447 640-2 12 Rawsthorne, A. Suite for recorder and strings (c1945; arr. McCabe). John Turner, rec; Northern CO/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.553567 7 Sibelius, J. Finlandia, op 26 no 7 (18991900; arr. Fricker). Christopher Herrick, org. Hyperion CDA66676 9 Chaminade, C. Autumn (c1890; orch. Uy). Michael Guttman, vn; Royal PO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 855 7 Purcell, H. Suite of musicks and dances, from The fairy queen (1692; arr. Balsom). Alison Balsom, tpt; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. EMI 4 40329 2 14 Knussen, O. Music for a puppet court after John Lloyd, op 11 (1983). London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen. DG 449 572-2 9 Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D821, Arpeggione (1823; arr. Duka). Norbert Duka, db; Phillip Moll, pf. Naxos 8.572187 22 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by James Nightingale Prokofiev, S. Scythian suite, op 20 (1915). Czech PO/Zdenek Kosler. Supraphon SU 4093-2 23 Spohr, L. Clarinet concerto no 3 in F minor,

Braunfels, W. Sinfonia brevis, op 69 (1948). Rhineland-Pfalz State PO/Gregor Bühl. Capriccio C5354 31 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 ROMANTIC CHAMBER Prepared by Paul Hopwood Bruckner, A. String quintet in F (1879). Guus Jeukendrup, va; L’Archibudelli. Sony SK 66 251 44 Brahms, J. Piano trio no 1 in B, op 8 (1853/89). Macquarie Trio. ABC 472 668-2 38 14:30 THE LONDON PROMS: SEPTEMBER 1900 Prepared by Ron Walledge Smetana, B. Overture to The bartered bride. Vienna PO/James Levine. DG 419 768-2 7 Borodin, A. In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 455 632-2 7 Vieuxtemps, H. Violin concerto no 5 in A minor, op 37 (1861). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Paris O/Daniel Barenboim. EMI CDC 7 47165 2 21 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite no 3 in G, op 55 (1884). USSR Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya MA 3014 42 Halvorsen, J. Entry of the Boyars (1895). Bergen PO/Karsten Andersen. NKF 50013-2 4 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse

Mahler, G. Symphony no 8 in E flat. Alessandra Marc, sop; Julia Faulkner, sop; Cyndia Sieden, sop; Jard van Nes, cont; Birgit Remmert, cont; Gary Lakes, ten; Andreas Schmidt, bar; Robert Holl, bass; Boys’ Choir of St Bavo Cathedral, Haarlem; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Kühn Mixed Choir; Breda Sacraments Choir; Royal Concertgebouw O/Riccardo Chailly. Radio Nederland transcription 1:26 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Celebrating love Prepared by Elaine Siversen Vivaldi, A. Violin concerto in E, RV271, The lover, from The human passions (c1720). Giuliano Carmignola, vn; Sonatori de la Goiosa Marca. Divox CDX 79406 11 Handel, G. Delirio amoroso, HWV99 (1707). Ann Murray, mezz; The Symphony of Harmony and Invention/Harry Christophers. Collins 15032 35 Couperin, F. Neuvième concert: Ritratto dell’ amore, from Nouveau concerts ou Les goûtsréunis (pub. 1724). Trio Sonnerie. Harmonia Mundi HMT 7907081 20 Rameau, J-P. Rossignols amoureux, from Hippolyte et Aricie (1733). Kathrin Graf, sop; Peter Lukas Graf, fl; Alexander van Wijnkoop, vn; Raffaele Altwegg, vc; Michio Kobayashi, hpd. Claves CD 50-604 7 Couperin, F. le rossignol en amour, from Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin (pub. 1722; arr.). Walter van Hauwe, rec; Robert Clancy, theorbo. Fine Music concert recording 3 Muffat, G. Concerto XI in E minor, Delirium amoris (pub. 1701). Musica Aeterna/Peter Zajicek. Naxos 8.555743 9 Codax, M. Set cantigas de amigo (14th C). Hartley Newnham, ct, perc; Ros Bandt, rec, fl, perc; Ruth Wilkinson, fiddle; John Griffith, lute, chitarra saracenica. Move MD 3044 22 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Saturday 21 September Chopin, F. Ballet: Les sylphides (arr. Douglas 1909). National PO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 452 767-2 28 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Heath, R. Frolic for trombones. Band of Yorkshire Imperial Metals/Trevor Walmsley. LP Astor CGS 1477 3 Sousa, J.P. March: Comrades of the Legion (1920). Philip Jones Ensemble/Elgar Howarth. Decca 410 290-2 2 Carlos Baguer

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 THE PIANO ALONE Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 20 in G, op 49 no 2 (1797). Stephen Kovacevich, pf. EMI 5 56148 2 7 Mozart, W. Fantasia in C minor, K475 (1785). Alfred Brendel, pf. Philips 456 727-2 12 Dohnányi, E. Four piano pieces, op 2 (189697). Jenö Jandó, pf. Koch Schwann 3-1219-2 29 10:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Gerald Holder Ponchielli, A. Dance of the hours, from La Gioconda (1876). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 474 617-2 11 Massenet, J. Suite from Le Cid (1885). Suisse Romande O/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHSA 5137 20 Strauss, J. I Alice polka, op 238 (1849). London SO/John Georgiadis. Chandos CHAN 8739 3

Reisteter, S. March, from Freedom suite. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP 94141 4 Mussorgsky, M. St John’s Night on Bald Mountain. Band of Yorkshire Imperial Metals/ Trevor Walmsley. LP Astor GGS 1477 9 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 COME TO THE OPERA Prepared by Derek Parker Are you an opera fan? If not, why not? Together the story and the song make for great entertainment as well as great art. Derek Parker tells the story of Handel’s Julius Caesar, and plays some of the music that makes it a great opera 14:30 SATURDAY MATINEE Shostakovich ballet music Prepared by Chris Blower Shostakovich, D. Music from the film New Babylon (1929). Basel Sinfonietta. Naxos 8.572824-25 1:31 The girlfriends, op 41 (1934-35). Sheila Sheen, theremin; Camerara Silesia; Polish National RSO. Naxos 8.572138 47 Mark Fitz-Gerald, cond (2 above)

Strauss, J. II Reunion polka, op 142 (1853). Polish State PO/Oliver Dohnányi. Marco Polo 8.223208 3

17:00 SOCIETY SPOT Classical Guitar Society Prepared by Darryl Rule

Strauss, Josef. For ever polka, op 193 (1866). 3

18:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell

Strauss, E. Sow and reap polka, op 159 (1877). 2 Johann Strauss O/Jack Rothstein (2 above) Chandos CHAN 8527 Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Ch & O/Charles Mackerras. Virgin VC 7 91174-2 14 30

Tchaikovsky, P. Finale, from Symphony no 5. Stanshawe (Bristol) Band/W.B. Hargreaves. LP Decca SB 322 5

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Transports of delight: Getting from A to B on-screen 19:00 THE IBERIAN SYMPHONY Prepared by Chris Blower Baguer, C. Symphony no 12 in E flat (c1790s). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9456 15

Rodrigo, J. Fantasía para gentilhombre (1954). Marco Socías, gui; Granada City O/ Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi 2908530.34 22 Baguer, C. Symphony no 18 in B flat (c1790s). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9456 16 20:00 THE LIFE OF A COMPOSER Franz Liszt Prepared by Rex Burgess Liszt, F. Piano concerto no 2 in A (1839/49/61). Lazar Berman, pf; Vienna SO/ Carlo Maria Giulini. DG 478 4234 22 Paganini, N. Caprices, op 1 (1801-07): no 4 in C minor; no 24 in A minor. Frank Peter Zimmermann, vn. EMI 5 72854 2 12 Liszt, F. Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth (1883). Anna McMichael, vn; Daniel de Borah, pf. Tall Poppies TP254 7 Symphonic poem no 11: Battle of the Huns (1857). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.570154-55 16 Oh, when I sleep (1842); Ancestral tomb (1844). Thomas Hampson, bar; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. EMI 5 75187 2 11 Cujus animam, after Rossini’s Stabat Mater (1847). Christian Lindberg, tb; Gunnar Idenstam, org. BIS CD-488 7 Piano sonata in B minor (1852-53). Yuja Wang, pf. DG 477 8140 31 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Elaine Siversen Moszkowski, M. From foreign lands, op 23 (1884). Polish National RSO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.553989 22 Khachaturian, A. Trio for clarinet, flute and piano (1932; arr. Power of Three). Power of Three. ABC/Three Bracelets 94504 47232 17 Balakirev, M. Suite in D minor after Chopin (1910). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. LP Melodiya C10 234-5 001 22 Bortnyansky, D. Sacred concerto no 20 (c1792). Russian State Symphonic Capella/ Valery Polyansky. Chandos CHAN 9840 13 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The nutcracker, op 71a (1892; arr. Tarkmann for wind ensemble). Omega Ensemble. Fine Music concert recording 37


Sunday 22 September 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Anna Tranter 14:00 FEATURING THE SERAPHIM TRIO Weill, K. Suite from The threepenny opera (1928; arr Ledger). David Elton, tpt. Fine Music concert recording 22 Schubert, F. Trio movement in E flat, D897, Notturno (1828; pub. 1845). ABC 476 4741 9

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Mozart, W. Symphony no 38 in D, K504, Prague (1786; arr. Hummel). Diana Doherty, ob. Fine Music concert recording 23

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC

Seraphim Trio (all above)

9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Paul Cooke

15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Cinderella Prepared by Chris Blower

Friedrich Kalkbrenner

Jacquet de la Guerre, E-C. Judith (1708). Isabelle Poulenard, sop; Françoise Bloch, va da gamba; Guy Robert, theorbo; Brigitte Haudeborg, hpd. Arion ARN 268012 19 Hovhaness, A. Prayer of Saint Gregory, op 62b (1946). John Wallace, tpt; Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind O/Keith Brion. Naxos 8.559207 3 Mozart, W. Mass no 6 in C, K167, Trinitatis (1773). Leipzig Radio Choir; MichaelChristfried Winkler, org; Leipzig RSO/Herbert Kegel. Philips 422 264-2 32 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Krystal Li Albrechtsberger, J. Partita in F. Jana Bousková, hp; South West German CO/ Vladislav Czarnecki. Brilliant Classics 99512 18 Pixis, J. Grand oboe sonata, op 35. Paul Dombrecht, ob; Jos van Immerseel, pf. Accent ACC 78330 D 23 Kalkbrenner, F. Adagio ed allegro di bravura, op 102 (1830). Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Hyperion CDA67843 11 Beethoven, L. Piano trio in B flat, op 11 (1798). Ensemble Liaison. Tall Poppies TP217 21 Albrechtsberger, J. Trombone concerto in B flat (1769). Northern Sinfonia/Alain Trudel, tb & dir. Naxos 8.553831 17 Mozart, F. Polonaises mélancoliques, op 22 (1815-18). Yaara Tal, pf. Sony 88985446942 20

Rossini, G. Della fortuna istabile ... Nacqui all’affanno, from Cinderella (1817). Julia Lezhneva, sop; Warsaw Chamber Opera Choir; Sinfonia Varsovia/Marc Minkowski. naïve V 5221 10 Massenet, J. Suite from ballet, Cendrillon (1899). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner. Brilliant Classics 94355 21 Strauss, J. II Excerpts from Cinderella (1901). National PO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 430 852-2 15 Prokofiev, S. Suite no 3 from Cinderella, op 109 (1946). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8939 26 Reade, P. Excerpts from Cinderella (1992). National Youth Ballet O/Neil Thomson. ASV WHL 2084 17 Deutscher, A. Excerpts from Cinderella (2015-17). Venessa Becerra, sop; Karin Mushegain, mezz; Claudia Chapa, mezz; Jonas Hacker, ten; Nathan Stark, bass-bar; Opera San Jose Ch & O/Jane Glover. Sony 19075895049 19 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Jeremy Hall Stanford, C. Villiers O for a closer walk with God. Cambridge Singers; Wayne Marshall, org; John Rutter, cond. Collegium COLCD 118 3 Howells, H. Psalm 122. Owain Park, org. Hyperion CDA68105 3 Magnificat, from Gloucester service. Jeremy Cole, org. Hyperion CDA67914 6 Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Stephen Layton (2 above)

Bairstow, E. Blessed city, heavenly Salem. The Sixteen; Robert Quinney, org; Harry Christophers, cond. Decca B0013009-02 9 Monteverdi, C. Beatus vir. Cambridge Singers; La Nuova Musica/John Rutter. Collegium COL 134 8 Bruckner, A. Os justi. Voces8. Decca 478 5703 5 Harris, W. Prelude in E flat. Colin Walsh, org. Priory PRCD 379 3 Górecki, H. Totus tuus. Vasari Singers/ Jeremy Backhouse. EMI CFP 6076 9 Chilcott, R. Tallis canon. The Sixteen/Harry Christophers. Coro COR16111 2 18:00 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Frank Morrison Khachaturian, A. Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1932). Eimer Trio. Dynamic CDS60 16 Haydn, J. String quartet in D, Hob.III:42 (1782). Salomon Quartet. Hyperion CDA66682 17 Beethoven, L. Wind sextet in E flat, op 71 (1796). Classical Winds. Amon Ra SAR 26 21 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess Sauguet, H. Ballet: Les forains (1945). Lamoureux Concerts O/Henri Sauguet. Le Chant du Monde LDC 278.300 27 Britten, B. Double concerto in B minor (1932). Gidon Kremer, vn; Yuri Bashmet, va; Hallé O/Kent Nagano. Apex 2564 67391 7 22 Svendsen, J. Symphony no 1 in D, op 4 (18656). Danish National RSO/Thomas Dausgaard. Chandos CHAN 9932 35 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by James Nightingale Grime, H. Everyone sang (2010). Hallé O/ Jamie Phillips. NMC D199 10 Smalley, R. Trio (2001-02). Darryl Poulsen, hn, Paul Wright, vn; Roger Smalley, pf. Melba MR 301112 22 Okamoto, K. Suite (2006). Move MD 3319 26 Vine, C. Piano concerto (1997). Sydney SO/ Edo de Waart. ABC 456 698-2 23 Michael Kieran Harvey, pf (2 above) 22:00 JAZZ AFTER HOURS with Keith Pettigrew SEPTEMBER 2019

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Monday 23 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small

O’Reilly, C. Winter suite for solo trumpet and orchestra (2019). David Johnson, tpt. 9 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 6 in F, op 68, Pastoral (1808). 44

Liszt, F. Hungarian rhapsody no 2 in C sharp minor (1885). Lang Lang, pf. DG 477 9014 9

14:40 FIRST PERFORMANCES Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Saint-Saëns, C. Violin sonata no 1, op 75 (1885). Sarah Chang, vn; Lars Vogt, pf. EMI 5 57679 2 17 Strauss, J. II Here in this dear land, from The gypsy baron (1885). June Bronhill, sop; Ann Howard, cont; Nigel Douglas, ten; Sadler’s Wells Opera Ch & O/Vilem Tausky. EMI 3 89163 2 7 Klengel, J. Koncertstück in D minor, op 10 (1885). Martin Rummel, vc; Mari Kato, pf. Naxos 8.573793 14 Tchaikovsky, P. Let my prayer arise (1885). New York Russian Chamber Ch/Nikolai Kachanov. Koch International 3-7420-2 7 Satie, E. Valse-ballet (1885; arr. Nelson). Juliette Maxwell, accordian. Move MCD 557 3 Bassi, L. Fantasy on themes from Verdi’s Rigoletto (1885). Seunghee Lee, cl; Arlene Shrut, pf. Summit DCD 276 13 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Derek Parker Britten, B. Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell, op 34, The young person’s guide to the orchestra (1946). London PO/Adrian Boult. First Hand Records FHR06 19 Herbert, V. Cello concerto no 1 in D, op 8 (1884). Mark Kosower, vc; Ulster O/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573517 25 Mozart, W. Symphony no 41 in C, K551, Jupiter (1788). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. ABC 481 4571 34 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 PASTORAL Recorded by Peter Bell for FINE MUSIC Ravel, M. Le tombeau de Couperin (1917).16 32

Moore, K. Piano concerto: Beatrice (2019). Vivian Choi, pf. 23

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1885 Prepared by Derek Parker

Borodin, A. Nocturne, from String quartet no 2 (1885; transcr. Alexander). Jan Carter, gui; Alfred Alexander gui. LP RCA VRL1 0125 7

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Tuesday 24 September

Willoughby SO/Fabian Russell (all above)

Pantelidis, C. The Southern Cross (2014). Phoebe Gardner, vn; Willoughby SO/Paul Fitzsimon. 7 Yerzerski, M. Kaddish Avelim (2012). Sydney Chamber Choir; Julian Smiles, vc; Thomas Wilson, cond. 11 Fine Music concert recordings (2 above) 15:00 PROMENADE NORMANDE Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Boïeldieu, A. Overture to The Caliph of Baghdad (1800). New Philharmonia O/ Richard Bonynge. Decca 466 431-2 8 Sonata in E flat, op 8 (pub. 1818). Hans Rudolf Stalder, cl; Zsuzsanna Sirokay, pf. Jecklin 578-2 12 Caplet, A. À l’espagnole, from Deux divertissements (1924). Alice Giles, hp. Tall Poppies TP213 6 Missa à trois voix (1920). Parsons Affayre/ Dan Walker. Vox Foris MMPA004 7 Corrette, M. Organ concerto in G, op 26 no 1 (pub. 1756). René Saorgin, org; Nice Baroque Ensemble/Gilbert Bezzina. Harmonia Mundi HMA 2905148 10 Boïeldieu, A. M Fanchette et charmante, from Angéla (1814). Joan Sutherland, sop; Marilyn Horne, mezz; Richard Conrad, ten; New Symphony O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 440 844-2 4 Corrette, M. Sonata in F, op 20 no 1 (pub.1738-39). Opera Prima Ensemble/ Cristiano Contadin. Brilliant Classics 95265 7 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” — W.A. Mozart

Max Bruch

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Colours of the keyboard Prepared by Elaine Siversen Fischer, J. Caspar Passacaglia in D minor (1738). Rafael Puyana, hpd. Mercury 478 5092 7 Martinu, B. Four promenades (1939). Lenka Kozderková-Simková, fl; Adéla Stajnochrová, vn; Monika Knoblochová, hpd. Supraphon SU 3805-2 8 Mozart, W. Piano sonata no 8 in A minor, K310 (1778). Peter Waters, pf. Fine Music concert recording 16 Schumann, R. Piano quartet in E flat, op 47 (1842). Dimity Hall, vn; Hartmut Lindemann, va; Susan Blake, vc; Kathryn Selby, pf. Fine Music concert recording 25 Handel, G. Organ concerto in D minor, HWV309. Paul Nicholson, org; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA67291/92 14 Franck, C. Pièce héroïque (1878). Simon Preston, org. LP Argo 5BBA 1013-15 9 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Field Bartók, B. Divertimento (1939). Chicago SO/ Pierre Boulez. DG 445 825-2 26 Bruch, M. Double concerto in E minor, op 88 (c1912). Paul Meyer, cl; Gérard Caussé, va; Lyon Opera O/Kent Nagano. Erato 2292-45483-2 19 Mayer, E. Symphony no 4 in B minor (184950; arr. Malzew). New Brandenburg PO/ Stefan Malzew. Capriccio C5339 37


Wednesday 25 September

Tuesday 24 September 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 CLASSICAL CHAMBER Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mozart, L. Trio sonata no 4 in G. London Baroque. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901395 9 Meyerbeer, G. Clarinet quintet in E flat (1813). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Berlin Philharmonia Quartet. Orfeo C 213 901 A 21 Mozart, W. Sonata in D, K448 (1781). Christoph Eschenbach, pf; Justus Frantz, pf. DG 435 042-2 24 14:00 A NEW LIFE ON THESE SHORES Prepared by Frank Morrison Linger, C. Six interludes. Melbourne SO/ Richard Divall. LP ABC AC 1052 28 Mozart, W. Trio in E flat, K498, Kegelstatt (1786). Gabor Reeves, cl; Alexandru Todicescu, va; Rachel Valler, pf. Fine Music tape archive 20 Rodrigo, J. Concierto de Aranjuez (1939). Karin Schaupp, gui; Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey. ABC 476 3627 23 Hart, F. The bush, op 59 (1923). Melbourne SO/Richard Divall. Canberra School of Music CSM:38 40 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Paul Cooke Grétry, A-E-M. String quartet in G, op 3 no 1 (1761-65). Haydn Quartet. Koch 310 158 H1 8

Samuel Barber

Eugen Jochum

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by literature Prepared by Adam Bowen Frankel, B. Overture from Music for the film The importance of being earnest (1952). Queensland SO/Andreas Albert. cpo 999 809-2 1 Kilar, W. Suite from The portrait of a lady (1996). O/Stepan Konicek. London 455011-2 16 Barber, S. Suite from Medea, op 23 (1946). Eastman-Rochester O/Howard Hanson. Mercury 432-016-2 25 Adamo, M. Alcott music, from Little women (1999/2007). Eclipse CO/Sylvia Alimena. Naxos 8.559258 16 Galperine, E. - Galperine, S. Suite from Madame Bovary. Evgueni Galperine, vn, pf; Sacha Galperine, vn, pf. augustrecordings.com 9

Dauprat, L. Sonata in F. Luc Loubry, bn; Rachel Talitman, hp. Discover Int Di 920193 12

Korngold, E. Suite from Much ado about nothing, op 11 (1920). Gil Shaham, vn; André Previn, pf. DG 439 886-2 13

Forqueray, J-B-A. Premier divertissement. Charivari Agréable Simfonie. Signum SIG008 22

10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Frank Morrison

Bantock, G. Viola sonata in F, Colleen (1919). Sarah-Jane Bradley, va; Christian Wilson, pf. Naxos 8.572761 34 Fibich, Z. Quintet in D for clarinet, horn, violin, cello and piano, op 42 (1893). Endymion Ensemble. ASV DCA 943 36 “Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.” — Richard Strauss

Kuhlau, F. Overture to The elf’s hill, op 100 (1828). Odense SO/Othmar Maga. Unicorn-Kanchana DKPCD 9110 11 Paderewski, I. Piano concerto in A minor, op 17 (1888). Piers Lane, pf; BBC Scottish SO/ Jerzy Maksymiuk. Hyperion CDA66452 35 Bartók, B. Concerto for orchestra (1943). Budapest FO/Iván Fischer. Philips 456 575-2 36

13:00 CLASSICAL CHAMBER Prepared by Paul Hopwood Weber, C.M. Quartet in B flat, op 8 (1809). Isabelle Faust, vn; Boris Faust, va; Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, vc; Alexander Melnikov, fp. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902108 27 Schubert, F. String trio no 2 in B flat, D581 (1817). Members of Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet. Westminster RC 8808678121735 26 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 RICHARD STRAUSS EXPLORED Part 4 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Strauss, R. Also sprach Zarathustra, op 30, mvts 1 and 9 (1896). City of Birmingham SO/ Andris Nelsons. Orfeo C 878 141 A 6 Wiegenlied, op 41 no 1 (1899). Felicity Lott, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Champs Hill CHRCD037 5 Dance of the seven veils, from Salome, op 54 (1905). Richard Strauss, reproducing pf. Naxos 8.110678 9 Symphonia domestica, op 53, mvt 2 (190203). Vienna PO/André Previn. DG 449 188-2 6 How beautiful music is, from The silent woman (1935). Thomas Quastoff, bass-bar; Berlin Opera O/Christian Thielemann. DG 471 493-2 4 First suite of waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier (1911). Royal Concertgebouw O/Eugen Jochum. DG 480 0478 11 Di rigori armato il seno, from Der Rosenkavalier (1911). José Carreras, ten; Rotterdam PO/Edo de Waart. ABC 480 5629 3 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Wednesday 25 September

Cheryl Barker

The thieving magpie

Eugène Ysaÿe

Im Abendrot, from Four last songs, op posth (1948). Renée Fleming, sop; Munich PO/ Christian Thielemann. Decca 478 0647 8

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Mahler, G. Symphony no 1 in D (1888). Australian World O/Zubin Mehta. ABC 481 0847 1:01

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Dvorák, A. Rusalka. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil. First performed Prague, 1901. WATER SPRITE: Bruce Martin, bass RUSALKA: Cheryl Barker, sop JEZIBABA: Anne-Marie Owens, mezz PRINCE: Rosario La Spina, ten Opera Australia Ch; Australian Opera and Ballet O/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 10449 2:33

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore

13:00 ASPECTS OF DOMENICO SCARLATTI Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Vanhal, J. Double bass concerto in D (arr. Boldoczki). Gábor Boldoczki, flugelhorn; Prague PO/Emmanuel Villaume. Sony 88985443362 16

Che vidi, o ciel, che vidi (1730). Cyrille Gerstenhaber, sop. 16

Bizet, G. Duet, from The pearl fishers (arr. Fernie). Jonathan Beatty, tb; Mike Kilroy, euphonium; Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Peter Parkes. Chandos CHAN 4542 6

Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Five songs for male choir, op 27 (1878). Lund University Male Choir/Janåke Larson. Caprice CAP 21423 13

Hindemith, P. Tuba sonata (1955). Gene Pokorny, tuba; Theodor Lichtmann, pf. Summit DCD 115-2 11

23:00 SELDOM HEARD CLARINET WORKS Prepared by Frank Morrison

Arban, J-B. Fantaisie brillante (arr. Hunsberger). Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger. CBS MK 42137 8

Keuris, T. Music for clarinet, violin and piano (1973). Eimer Trio. Dynamic CDS60 8 Meyerbeer, G. Clarinet fantasy (1839). Members of Consortium Classicum/Dieter Klöcker, cl & dir. Orfeo C314 941 A 9 Eliasson, A. Notturno for bass clarinet, cello and piano (1981). Norrbotten NEO. BIS BIS-2270 13 Ponchielli, A. The get-together: divertimento for two clarinets (1868). Colin Bradbury, cl; Donald Watson, cl; Oliver Davies, pf. ASV DCA 701 10 SEPTEMBER 2019

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC The instruments: Brass Prepared by Chris Blower

Britten, B. Excerpts from Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op 31 (1943). Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ten; Michael Thompson, hn; Scottish NO/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8657 11

Kurpinski, K. Clarinet concerto. Ludwik Kurkiewicz, cl; Bydgoszcz PO/Zbigniew Chwedczuk. Concerto 25014 13

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Thursday 26 September

Holst, G. Duet for trombone and organ (1895). Alain Trudel, tb; Patrick Wedd, org. Naxos 8.553716 9 Mozart, W. Horn quintet in E flat, K407 (1782). Gerd Seifert, hn; Amadeus Quartet. DG 437 137-2 16 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Rossini, G. Overture to The thieving magpie (1817). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK 44719 10 Vivaldi, A. Piccolo concerto in C, RV443. William Bennett, picc; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 448 110-2 11

Scarlatti, D. Sinfonia (1730). 4

XVIII-21, Musique des Lumières/JeanChristophe Frisch (2 above) Astrée E 8673 Concerto grosso no 11 in G (arr. Avison; pub.1744). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 438 806-2 14 Three pieces (arr.). Swedish Saxophone Quartet. Chamber Sound CSCD 96015 10 Tommasini, V. Ballet: The good-humoured ladies, after Scarlatti (1917). Concert Arts O/ Robert Irving. EMI 5 65911 2 15 Scarlatti, D. The four seasons. Kari Lövaas, sop; Regina Marheineke, sop; Ria Bollen, mezz; Heiner Hopfner, ten; Munich Vocal Soloists; Munich CO/Hans Ludwig Hirsch. LP Tudor 73014 50 15:00 THREE’S COMPANY Prepared by Paul Cooke Ysaÿe, E. String trio, op posth, Le chimay (1927). Henning Kraggerud, vn; Lars Anders Tomter, va; Ole-Eirik Ree, vc. Naxos 8.570977 18 Bax, A. Elegiac trio for flute, viola and harp (1916). Members of Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA66807 10 Mendelssohn, Fanny. Piano trio in D, op 11 (1846). Oliver Butterworth, vn; Michael Evans, vc; Frank Wibaut, pf. Hyperion CDH55078 27


Thursday 26

Friday 27 September

Johann Albrechtsberger

Mikis Theodorakis

Umberto Giordano

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Annabelle Drumm

Harvey, R. Concerto antico (c1989). John Williams, gui; London SO/Paul Daniel. Sony SK 68337 29

20:00 THE WORLD OF A SYMPHONY Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Kraus, J.M. Overture to Proserpin, VB19 (fp 1781). Helsinki Baroque O/Aapo Häkkinen. Naxos 8.572865 8 Albrechtsberger, J. Harp concerto in C (1773). Elizabeth Hainen, hp; Bulgarian National RO/Rossen Milanov. Avie AV 2221 20 Cambini, G. Wind quintet no 1 in B. Avalon Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553410 15 Uttini, F. Overture to Aline (1776). National Museum CO/Claude Génetay. Musica Sveciae MSCD 407 6 Kraus, J.M. Vienna flute quintet in D (1783). Lena Weman, fl; Jaap Schröder, vn; Per Sandklef, vn; Björn Sjögren, va; Kari Ottesen, vc. Musica Sveciae MSCD 415 22 Haydn, J. Trumpet concerto in E flat, Hob. Vlle:1 (1796). Crispian Steele-Perkins, tpt; King’s Consort/Robert King. Hyperion CDA67266 14 Kraus, J.M. Symphony in C minor, Funèbre (1792). Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist. Naxos 8.554777 18 22:00 INTERLUDE Prepared by Jacky Ternisien Pikler, G. Trio for flute, clarinet and piano (1996; arr. Power of Three). Power of Three. ABC/Three Bracelets 94504 47232 13 Mozart, W. Ten variations in G on Unser dummer Pöbel meint by Gluck, K455 (1784). Mitsuko Uchida, pf. Philips 456 982-2 12 22:30 ULTIMA THULE

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Stephen Wilson Telemann, G. Oboe concerto in E minor (arr.). Maurice André, tpt; Hedwig Bilgram, hpd; Munich Bach O/Karl Richter. Decca 478 4664 10 Satie, E. Gnossiennes nos 1 to 3 (1890; arr. Kondonassis). Yolanda Kondonassis, hp. Telarc 80533 10 Purcell, H. Let the dreadful engines of eternal will (1694; arr. Britten 1971). Simon Keenlyside, bar; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDA67061/2 8 Theodorakis, M. Cretan concertino (2005, arr. Samprovalakis). Theodore Kerkezos, sax; Thessaloniki State SO/Myron Michailidis. Naxos 8.557992 11 Bellini, V. Paraphrase from La sonnambula (1831). Alessandro Carbonare, cl; Gilbert Monier, cl; Andrea Dindo, pf; Quatuor Z. Harmonia Mundi HMA 1951722 12 Trad. De las montanas venimos (arr. Evans). Renaissance Players/Winsome Evans. Celestial Harmonies 14197-2 5 Albéniz, I. Córdoba, from Cantos de España, op 232 (pub. 1896; transcr. P. Romero). Pepe Romero, gui. Decca 478 5669 7 Ravel, M. Mother Goose (1908-10; transcr. Walter). Claire Désert, pf; Moraguès Quintet. Le Chant du Monde LDC2781116 15 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Cooke Purcell, H. Suite from King Arthur (1691). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Capriccio C8001 19

Stanford, C. Villiers Symphony no 2 in D minor, Elegiac (1880). Bournemouth SO/ David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.570289 35 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 OPERA IN CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Rossini, G. Overture to Semiramide (1823). Melbourne SO/Hiroyuki Iwaki. ABC 442 368 12 Bellini, V. La mia canzon d’amore, from I Puritani (1835). Jesús León, ten; Royal Liverpool PO/Toby Purser. Opus Arte OA CD9035 D 9 Donizetti, G. Vien, Leonora, from La favorita (1840). Dmitri Hvorostovsky, bar; Philharmonia O/Ion Marin. Philips 434 912-2 6 Verdi, G. Vedi! Le fosche notturne … Stride la vampa!, from Il trovatore (1853). Lauris Elms, cont; Opera Australia Ch; Elizabethan Sydney O/Richard Bonynge. ABC 462 006-2 6 Gounod, C. Dieu! Quel frisson ... Amour ranime mon courage, from Romeo and Juliet (1867). Anna Netrebko, sop; Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Asher Fisch. DG 477 9903 6 Giordano, U. O pastorelle, addio; Signor Chénier?; Al mio dire perdono; Un dì all’azzurro spazio, from Andrea Chénier (1895). Hungarian State RT Ch; Hungarian State O/Giuseppe Patané. CBS M2K 42369 10 14:00 A MUSICAL CARAVAN Prepared by Frank Morrison Horneman, C. Overture to Aladdin (1864). Danish National RSO/Michael Schønwandt. Chandos CHAN 9373 11 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Friday 27 September

Saturday 28 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 THE PIANO ALONE Prepared by Jennifer Foong

1869 2019 Paavo Berglund

Nikolai Medtner

Kuhlau, F. Sonatina in C, op 88 no 1 (pub. 1827). Jenö Jandó, pf. Naxos 8.570710 6

Medtner, N. Piano concerto no 1 in C minor, op 33 (1918). Geoffrey Tozer, pf; London PO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9039 33

Holmboe, V. Seven folk ballads (1983). Bolette Roed, rec; Jesper Siveboek, gui. Dacapo 8.226143 6 Norgård, P. Frühlings-Lied, from Wie ein Kind (1979-80). Susse Lilesøe, sop; Marianne Lund, sop; Kim Nanfred, ten; Kasper Højby Nielsen, ten; Peter Fog, bar; Danish National Radio Chamber Choir/Stefan Parkman. Chandos CHAN 8963 7 Riisager, K. Six dances, from Twelve by the Mail, op 37 (1939). Helsingborg SO/Thomas Dausgaard. Marco Polo 8.224082 11 Buxtehude, D. Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BuxWV76 (1674). David Rumsey, org. MBS 33 6 Gade, N. String quartet in F minor (1851). Kontra Quartet. BIS CD-516 19 Mortensen, O. Danish summer, I love you. Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman. Chandos CHAN 9464 2 Lumbye, H. Finale galop, from Napoli (1842). Odense SO/Peter Guth. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9089 5 Nielsen, C. Symphony no 6, Sinfonia semplice (1924-25). Royal Danish O/Paavo Berglund. RCA 74321 20293 2 32 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Di Cox Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture: Russian Easter festival, op 36 (1888). Paris O/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky. EMI CDM 1 66428 2 16 36

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Kabalevsky, D. Suite from The comedians, op 26 (1940). Moscow SO/Vasily Jelvakov. Naxos 8.553411 15 Glière, R. Concerto in F minor for coloratura soprano and orchestra, op 82 (1943). Natalie Dessay, sop; Berlin SO/Michael Schønwandt. EMI 5 56565 2 14 Glazunov, A. Scènes de ballet, op 52 (1894). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8804 28 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Naples in the early 17th century Prepared by Paul Cooke Macque, G. de Prime stravaganze; Gagliarda prima (pub. 1546); Toccata (1617). Andrew Lawrence-King, baroque hp. Hyperion CDA66518 8 O anima sanctissima; Ardens est cor meum, from Sacrae cantiones bk II (1603). Vocalconsort Berlin/James Wood. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902123 6 Frescobaldi, G. Toccata and partite: variations on La romanesca (pub.1614/15/1628). Winsome Evans, hpd. Fine Music concert recording 14 Various. The sylvan and oceanic delights of Posilipo (1620). Patrizia Kwella, sop; Catherine Bott, sop; Christopher Robson, alto; Andrew King, ten; John Mark Ainsley, ten; Michael George, bass-bar; New London Consort/Philip Pickett. L’Oiseau-Lyre 425 610-2 1:01 Frescobaldi, G. Messa della Domenica, from Fiori musicali (pub. 1635). Schola Gregoriana Sciptoria; Fabiano Ruin, baroque tb; Roberto Loreggian, org; Nicola M. Bellinazzo, cond. Brilliant Classics 94111 23

A Sesquicentenary Event

Balakirev, M. Islamey: oriental fantasy, op 19 no 6 (1869/1902). Julius Katchen, pf. Decca 425 961-2 8 Ravel, M. Gaspard de la nuit (1908). Benjamin Grosvenor, pf. Decca 478 3206 21 Medtner, N. Fairy tales, op 51 no 1 (c1928). Boris Berezovsky, pf. Teldec 4509-96516-2 5 Glinka, M. The lark (1840; transcr. Balakirev). Evgeny Kissin, pf. Sony 88697301102 5 Liszt, F. Polonaise in E (1851). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDS44512 8 10:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Frank Morrison Ponchielli, A. Dance of the hours, from La Gioconda (1876). Czecho-Slovak RSO/ Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.550081 8 Beethoven, L. Mödlinger dances, WoO17 nos 1 to 8 (1819). Eduard Melkus Ensemble. Archiv 439 964-2 14 Debussy, C. Ballet: Jeux (1912). Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Philips 438 742-2 19 Edwards, R. Ecstatic dance no 2 (1990). Patricia Pollett, va; Gwyn Roberts, vc. Tall Poppies TP043 5 Chopin, F. Waltz no 1 in A flat, op 34, Valse brillante (1835). Artur Rubinstein, pf. RCA RD89564 5 Bartók, B. Rumanian dance (1917). Hungarian State SO/Adám Fischer. Nimbus NI 5309 7 Copland, A. Four dance episodes, from Rodeo (1942). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Stephen Gunzenhauser. Naxos 8.550282 21 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Chris Blower Arnold, M. Fantasy, op 114 (1974). Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Elgar Howarth. Sony 88875181702 11


Saturday 28 September Heaton, W. Contest music. Black Dyke Mills Band/Peter Parkes. Chandos CHAN 4509 14 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD with Maureen Meers Nostalgic music and artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s and occasionally beyond, in a trip down many memory lanes 14:00 THE VOICES, THE ROLES Prepared by Angela Cockburn Mezzos: maids and maidservants 14:30 SATURDAY MATINEE Operetta in the afternoon Prepared by Elaine Siversen German, E. Tom Jones. Operetta in three acts. Libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander Thompson. Lyrics by Charles Taylor. First performed Manchester, 1907. SOPHIA: Marianne Hellgren Stayko, sop TOM JONES: Richard Morrison, bar SQUIRE WESTERN: Donald Maxwell, bar BENJAMIN PARTRIDGE: Richard Suart, bar LADY BELLASTON: Gaynor Keeble, mezz National Festival Ch & O/David Russell Hulme. Naxos 8.660270-71 1:50 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Overture to Richard III (1889). RTE Concert O/Andrew Penny. Marco Polo 8.223695 9 Incidental music to Romeo and Juliet (1895). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.554711 14 17:00 SOCIETY SPOT Sydney Schubert Society Prepared by Ross Hayes 18:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Paul Cooke Nyman, M. A wild and distant shore, from The piano (1993). Members of the Munich PO/Michael Nyman. Virgin 7 88274 2 9 6 Sainton, P. Eerie calm, he rises, from Moby Dick (1956). Moscow SO/William Stromberg. Naxos 8.573367 10 Herrmann, B. Fahrenheit 451: suite for strings, harps and percussion. Los Angeles PO/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK 62700 17 Lloyd Webber, A. Excerpts from By Jeeves (1996). Original cast. Really Useful Records 533 187-2 20

Sunday 29 September

19:00 THE IBERIAN SYMPHONY Prepared by Chris Blower Vianna da Motta, J. Portuguese scenes, op 9. Sequeira Costa, pf. LP Marco Polo 6.220307 11 Symphony, op 13, À pátria (1895). Royal Liverpool PO/Álvaro Cassuto. Naxos 8.573495 43 20:00 THE LIFE OF A COMPOSER Enrique Granados Prepared by Madilina Tresca Granados, E. Spanish dance no 5: Andaluza (1892-1900; arr.). Sharon Kam, cl; Itamar Golan, pf. Berlin 0016342BC 3 La maja y el ruiseñor, from Goyescas (1911). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Philharmonia O/ Anatole Fistoulari. EMI CDH 7 64028 2 10 Piano trio, op 50 (1894). Lom Piano Trio. Naxos 8.572262 25 Spanish dances nos 1 to 3 (1892-1900; orch. Grignon). Eduardo Fernández, gui; Ulster O/ Josep Caballé-Domenech. BBC Music MM255 15 Turina - Farruca, from Colección de tonadillas. Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Gerald Moore, pf. Nimbus NI 7947 3 Chopin, F. Piano sonata, op 58 (1844). Sylvia Torán, pf. Quicksilva QS 6142 23 Granados, E. Suite on Galician songs (1899). Barcelona SO/Pablo González. Naxos 8.573263 30 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Chris Blower Rossini, G. Ballet music from William Tell (1829). Monte Carlo National Opera O/ Antonio de Almeida. Philips 422 843-2 18 Mahler, G. Songs of a wayfarer (1883). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; North German RSO/ John Eliot Gardiner. DG 439 928-2 16 Grofé, F. Grand Canyon suite (1931). Hollywood Bowl SO/Felix Slatkin. EMI 5 74117 2 32 Haydn, J. String quartet in D minor, op 42 (1785). The Lindsays. ASV QS 6145 14 Gounod, C. Symphony no 2 in E flat (1856). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 462 125-2 31

Arcangelo Corelli

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Robert Small Gabrieli, A. Missa Pater peccavi. His Majestys Consort of Voices; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts/Timothy Roberts. Hyperion CDA67167 28 Corelli, A. Concerto da chiesa in D, op 6 no 4 (pub 1714). New Dutch Academy CO/Simon Murphy. PentaTone PTC 5186 031 12 Poulenc, F. Four penitential motets. Groupe Vocal de France/John Alldis. EMI 5 65165 2 13 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Di Cox Cimarosa, D. Overture to The secret wedding (1791). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/ Alessandro Amoretti. Naxos 8.570508 6 Paisiello, G. Harp concerto in A. Jasna Corrado Merlak, hp; European Union CO/ Dmitri Demetriades. Helios CDH55035 12 Clementi, M. Sonata in C for piano four hands, op 14 no 1 (1786/1815). Genevieve Chinn, Allen Brings, pf. Centaur CRC 2046 18 Paganini, N. Guitar quartet no 1 in A minor, op 4 (1806-16). Anthea Gifford, gui; Mozart String Trio. Denon CO 77069 22 Boccherini, L. Symphony no 8 in A, op 12 no 6 (1771). London FO/Ross Pople. Hyperion CDA66236 23 Rossini, G. Introduction, theme and variations in B flat. Sharon Kam, cl; MDR RSO/Gregor Bühl. Berlin 0012862BC 13 Pugnani, G. Overture no 5 in E flat. Academia Montis Regalis/Luigi Mangiocavallo. Opus 111 OPS 30-151 15 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Sunday 29 September

Fritz Kreisler

Nicholas Parle

Ross Harris

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Jeannie McInnes

Telemann, G. Cantata for St Michael and all angels; Praise and thanks be sung to Thee, great God (1748-49). Klaus Mertens, bass; Siegen Bach Choir; Hannoversche Hofkapelle/Ulrich Stötzel. WDR 98-047 19

Quantz, J. Trio sonata in C for recorder, flute and basso continuo. Collegium Pro Musica/ Stefano Bagliano. Brilliant Classics 95386 11

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Gerry Myerson 14:00 FEATURING THE ACACIA QUARTET Kats-Chernin, E. Butterflying (2003); Blue silence (2006). Vexations840 840-1202 11 Mozart, W. Flute quartet in D, K285 (1777). Jane Rutter, fl. 14 Kreisler, F. String quartet in A minor (1919). 29 Fine Music concert recordings (2 above) Acacia Quartet (all above) 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Old music into new Prepared by Elaine Siversen Respighi, O. Three chorales of J.S. Bach (orch. Respighi). BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9311 12 Concerto gregoriano (1921). Vadim Brodsky, vn; Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia. Brilliant Classics 94394 32 Concerto à cinque (1933). Neil Black, ob; Graham Ashton, tpt; Ingolf Turban, vn; Stephen Williams, db; Ian Watson, pf; English CO/Marcello Viotti. Claves 50-9017 24 Concerto in modo misolidio (1925). Geoffrey Tozer, pf; BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9285 41 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymns: Angel voices ever singing; Thou whose almighty word; For all the saints. Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide/Leonie Hempton. Sounds of St Peter’s 9 Rutter, J. Pie Jesu, from Requiem (1985). Caroline Ashton, sop; Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter. Collegium COL 103 4 38

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Stanford, C. Villiers Magnificat; Nunc dimittis in A, op 12. Choir of Winchester Cathedral; Stephen Farr, org; David Hill, cond. Hyperion CDA 66964 12 Holst, G. Psalm 148; Song of the four angels (1912). James Goodard, bar; Amon-Ra Twilley, bar; City of London Choir; Chamber Choir of St Paul’s Girls’ School; Richard Pearce, org; Hilary Davan Wetton, cond. EM Records EMR 004 6 Mendelssohn, F. For He shall give His angels charge over thee, from Psalm 91. Stuttgart Chamber Choir/Frieder Bernius. Carus 83203 3 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Program of the Sydney Society of Recorder Players Prepared by Susan Foulcher Kats-Chernin, E. Re-invention 3 (2004). Carolyn Morris, pf. 3 Rose, P. I’d rather be in Philadelphia: Optometrist. 1 William Hardy, rec (2 above) 4MBS-Classic FM recording Bach, J.S. Trio sonata in F, arr. from Trio sonata in C for organ, BWV529 (c1727). Owen Watkins, rec; Nicholas Parle, hpd. Fine Music concert recording 14 Scarlatti, A. Concerto in C for recorder, two violins, cello and basso continuo. Tamara Lalo, rec; La Ritirata/Josetxu Obregón. Glossa GCD 923106 7 Boyd, A. Yuya (2006). Alicia Crossley, rec; Acacia Quartet. Move MCD 587 7

Telemann, G. Fantasias: no 1 in A; no 11 in G, from Twelve fantasias for solo flute (173233). Genevieve Lacey, rec. ABC 481 7630 7 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Krystal Li MacDowell, E. Suite, op 42 (1890-91). Eastman-Rochester O/Howard Hanson. Mercury 434 337-2 19 Beach, A. Piano concerto in C sharp minor, op 45 (1897-99). Danny Driver, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Rebecca Miller. Hyperion CDA68130 35 Diamond, D. Symphony no 8 (1958-60). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE 3141 30 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Robert Small Harris, Ross. Cello concerto (2011). Li-Wei Qin, vc; Auckland PO/Garry Walker. Naxos 8.573044 24 Carr-Boyd, A. Fantasy (2018). Verna Lee, hp; Steel City Strings/Shilong Ye. Wirripang WIRR 097 15 Zimmer, H. Gladiator orchestra suite, parts 1 to 3. ORF Vienna RSO/Martin Gellner. Sony 819075899052 15 Rihm, W. Gesungene Zeit, Song time for violin and orchestra no 2 (1991-92). Tianwa Yang, vn; Rheinland-Pfalz State PO/Darrell Ang. Naxos 8.573667 28 22:00 JAZZ AFTER HOURS “Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.” — Daniel Barenboim


Monday 30 September

Christoph Gluck

The frogs of Aristophanes

Paul Hindemith

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Massenet, J. Ah! Phanuel! from Hérodïade (1881). Dolora Zajick, mezz; Kenneth Cox, bass; San Francisco Opera Ch & O/Valery Gergiev. Sony SK 61 965 6

Bantock, G. The frogs of Aristophanes (1935). BBC Welsh NO/Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN 10797 8

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1765 Prepared by Rex Burgess Telemann, G. Overture in D, Darmstadt. Ensemble Cordia/Stefano Veggetti. Brilliant Classics 94104 17 Bach, C.P.E. Sonata in A, Wq55 no 4 (1765). Christopher Hinterhuber, pf. Naxos 8.557450 13 Mozart, W. Va, dal furor portata, K21 (1765). Thomas Moser, ten; Salzburg Mozarteum O/ Leopold Hager. Philips 464 880-2 7 Gluck, C. Ballet: Semiramis (1765). Tafelmusik/Bruno Weill. Sony SK 53119 21 Haydn, J. Quartet in D, Hob.III:8 (bef. 1765). Nils-Erik Sparf, vn; Lars Brolin, va; Olof Larsson, vc; Jakob Lindberg, lute. BIS CD-360 22 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by James Nightingale Goldmark, K. Overture to Sappho, op 44 (1893). Bamberg SO/Fabrice Bollon. cpo 555 160-2 19 Ben-Haim, P. Violin concerto (1960). Itamar Zorman, vn; BBC Welsh NO/Philippe Bach. BIS 2398 21 Bowen, Y. Symphony no 2 in E minor, op 31 (1909) BBC PO/Andrew Davis. Chandos CHAN 10670 43 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 OPERA IN CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Thomas, A. Overture to Mignon (1866). New Philharmonia O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 466 431-2 8

Catalani, A. Prendi, fanciul, e serbala, from La Wally (1892). Renata Tebaldi, sop; Lydia Marimpietri, sop; Monte Carlo Opera O/ Fausto Cleva. Decca 470 280-2 4 Cimarosa, D. Pria che spunti in ciel l’aurora, from The secret marriage (1792). Juan Diego Flórez, ten; Milan Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Ch & O/Carlo Rizzi. Decca 475 5502 7 Delibes, L. Ballet music from Lakmé (1883). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.550081 6 Offenbach, J. Les oiseaux dans la charmille, from The tales of Hoffmann (1881). Joan Sutherland, sop; Suisse Romande O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 475 6302 5 Leoncavallo, R. My fate is in your hands ... Then will you say why you have enslaved me, from Pagliacci (1892). Cheryl Barker, sop; William Dazeley, bar; London PO/David Parry. Chandos CHAN 3161 12 14:00 FROG DREAMING Prepared by Stephen Wilson Dowland, J. The frog galliard. Jürgen Hübscher, lute. Harmonia Mundi QUI 903012 3

Haydn, J. String quartet in D, Hob.III:49, Frog (1787). Sydney String Quartet. Fine Music concert recording 20 Dittersdorf, C. Sinfonia no 5 in A, Transformation of the Lycian peasants into frogs (1783). Failoni O/Hanspeter Gmür. Naxos 8.553369 23 Hindemith, P. Variations on A frog he went a-courting (1951). Pedro de Alcantara, vc: Fabio Gardenal, pf. Uqbar Records uqbar 001 7 Telemann, G. Violin concerto in A, The frogs. Midori Seiler, vn; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/Stephan Mai. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 13 May, B. Frog dreaming. Australian SO/Brian May. Southern Cross SCCD 1019 33 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm 19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson

Born in Munich in 1897, Paul Frankenburger was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924. He then served as conductor at Augsburg until 1931 after which he devoted himself to teaching and composition and held a post at the Shulamit Conservatory. He migrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1933, changed his name to Paul Ben-Haim and, after Israel gained independence in 1948, became a citizen. His compositions are in the late Romantic style with Jewish and Middle Eastern influences. He wrote chamber music, choral music, songs, and works for solo instruments and for orchestra. He contiued to teach and amongst his notable students were the conductor Eliahu Inbal and the composer and conductor Noam Sheriff. SEPTEMBER 2019

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The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the September dates listed Adamo, M. 20th c 25 Agricola, A. c1446-1506 3 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 14,27 Albert, S. 1942-1993 5 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 14,22,26 Alkan, C-V. 1813-1888 3,7 Anchieta, J. de 1462-1523 6 Anderson, Julian. b1967 16 Araujo, P. de 1640-1705 6 Arban, J-B. 1825-1889 26 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 7,11,13 Arnalds, O. b1986 8 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 9,28 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 3,7 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 3,15,30 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 4,15,19 Bach, J.C.F. 1732-1795 8 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 1,5,7,8,17,19,29 Bach, W.F. 1710-1784 17 Baguer, C. 1768-1808 21 Bairstow, E. 1874-1946 22 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 21,28 Balbastre, C-B. 1727-1799 1 Bantock, G. 1868-1946 24,30 Barber, S. 1910-1981 25 Bargiel, W. 1828-1897 15 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 13,24,25,28 Bartolotti, A. 17th c 10 Bassi, L. 1833-1871 23 Bax, A. 1883-1953 26 Beach, A. 1867-1944 4,29 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 5,6,8, 12,14,15,17,19,21,22,23,28 Bellini, V. 1801-1835 27 Ben-Haim, P. 1897-1984 30 Benda, G. 1722-1795 7 Benjamin, A. 1893-1960 10 Bennett, W. Sterndale 1816-1875 5 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 5,9,12,18,19 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 18 Beving, J. b1976 15 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 3,26 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 15 Blower, M. 1894-1982 18 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 8,12,18,29 Boïeldieu, A. 1775-1834 1,23 Bomtempo, J. 1771-1842 14 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 6,11,19,20,21,23 Bortnyansky, D. 1751-1825 21 Bowen, Y. 1884-1961 30 Boyd, A. b1946 16,29 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 3,5,7,8,9,10,15,16,17,18,19,20 Braunfels, W. 1882-1954 20 Brian, H. 1876-1972 20 Britell, N. b1980 7 Britten, B. 1913-1976 6,22,23,26 Brouwer, M. b1940 1 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 24 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 20 Brumby, C. 1933-2018 16 Bülow, H. 1830-1894 19 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 1,27

Cabanilles, J. 1644-1712 6 Caccini, F. 1587-1640 3 Caccini, G. c1545-1618 3 Caix d’Hervelois, L. de c1675-c1760 15 Caldara, A. c1670-1736 7,8 Cambini, G. 1746-1825 26 Caplet, A. 1878-1925 23 Caresana, C. c1640-1709 8 Carissimi, G. 1605-1674 8 Carr-Boyd, A. b1938 8,29 Chabrier, E. 1841-1894 7 Chaminade, C. 1857-1944 20 Chávez, C. 1899-1978 4 Cherubini, L. 1760-1842 1,3 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 7,10,21,28 Cimarosa, D. 1749-1801 29,30 Ciurlionis, M. 1875-1911 2 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 29 Codax, M. 13th-14th c 20 Coleman, C. 1605-c1664 14 Coleridge-Taylor, S. 1875-1912 1 Collins, B. 20th c 19 Copland, A. 1900-1990 28 Corea, C. b1941 18 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 29 Corrette, M. 1709-1795 23 Couperin, F. 1668-1733 10,20 Craeyvanger, K. 1817-1868 11 Curnow, J. b1943 12 Czerny, C. 1791-1857 2,14,17

Françaix, J. 1912-1997 17 Franck, C. 1822-1890 10,24 Frescobaldi, G. 1583-1643 27 Fucik, J. 1872-1916 12,14 Gabaye, P. 20th c 12 Gabrieli, A. c1510-1586 29 Gade, N. 1817-1890 9,13,15,18,27 Garcia, M. 1775-1832 3 Garnier, J-F. 1755-1825 7 German, E. 1862-1936 28 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 3 Giordano, U. 1867-1948 27 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 15 Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 7,18,27 Glière, R. 1875-1976 10,27 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 7,9,28 Gluck, C. 1714-1787 11,14,30 Godard, B. 1849-1895 7 Goldmark, K. 1830-1915 30 Gordon, C. 20th c 7 Górecki, H. b1933 22 Gossec, F-J. 1734-1829 13 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 15,27,28 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 16 Granados, E. 1867-1916 14,28 Grétry, A-E-M. 1741-1813 13,24 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 3 Grime, H. b1981 22 Grofé, F. 1892-1972 28

Keats, H. 1895-1945 10 Keuris, T. b1946 25 Khachaturian, A. 1903-1978 15,21,22 Kilar, W. 1932-2013 25 Klengel, J. 1859-1933 23 Knussen, O. b1952 20 Kodály, Z. 1882-1967 9 Korngold, E. 1897-1957 19,25 Kozeluch, L. 1747-1818 8,18 Kraus, J.M. 1756-1792 26 Kreisler, F. 1875-1962 29 Kuhlau, F. 1786-1832 8,12,25,27 Kurpinski, K. 1785-1857 25 Lalande, M-R. de 1657-1726 8 Lambert, C. 1905-1951 4 Lanner, J. 1801-1843 9 Lassus, O. de c1530-1594 8 Lawes, W. 1602-1645 3 Lazzari, F. 1678-1754 8 Lekeu, G. 1870-1894 13 Lehár, F. 1870-1948 14 Leoncavallo, R. 1858-1919 11,30 Lindhagen, J. 20th c 15 Linger, C. 1810-1862 24 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 2,9,19,21,23,28 Lloyd Webber, A. b1948 28

Macdonald, I. b1950 12 MacDowell, E. 1860-1908 11,29 Macmillan, J. b1959 1 Damase, J-M. 1928-2013 19 Macque, G. de c1548-1614 27 Dauprat, L. 1781-1861 24 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 6,12,20,26,28 3,4,10,17,28 Marais, M. 1656-1728 15 Delany, J. 1852-1907 8 Marcello, A. 1684-1750 15 Delibes, L. 1836-1891 30 Marín, J. c1619-1699 6 Dench, C. b1953 1 Marshall-Hall, G. 1862-1915 10 Desplat, A. b1961 7 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 14,24 Deutscher, A. b2005 22 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 Devienne, F. 1759-1803 1 21,22,30 Diamond, D. 1915-2005 29 May, B. 1934-1997 30 Dillon, J. b1950 1 Mayer, E. 1812-1883 24 Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 30 Meale, R. 1932-2009 19 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 3,21 Medtner, N. 1880-1951 7,27,28 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 27 Méhul, É-N. 1763-1817 1 Dorman, A. b1975 8 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 Dreyschock, A. 1818-1869 2 2,9,16 Dukas, P. 1865-1935 11 Mendelssohn, Fanny. Duruflé, M. 1902-1986 11 1805-1847 26 Dussek, J. 1760-1812 8 Merula, T. c1595-1665 8 Duvernoy, F. 1765-1838 10 Meyerbeer, G. 1791-1864 24,25 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 Milán, L. de c1500-c1561 6 8,11,12,14,25 Monteverdi, C. 1567-1643 8,22 Moore, K. b1979 23 Edwards, R. b1943 28 Jacquet de la Guerre, E-C. Morales, C. de c1500-1553 6 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 11 c1666-1729 22 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 21 Eliasson, A. b1947 25 Jadin, H. 1769-1802 1 Mozart, F. 1791-1844 22 Encina, J. del c1468-c1529 6 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 4 Mozart, L. 1719-1787 24 Jenkins, Cyril. 1889-1978 11 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 4,14 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 1,4,6,7,1 Jenkins, K. b1944 12 Farrenc, L. 1804-1875 17 1,12,15,21,22,23,24,26,29,30 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 5,10,14,17 Joachim, J. 1831-1907 5,16 Muffat, G. 1653-1704 20 Jolivet, A. 1905-1974 17 Ferneyhough, B. b1943 1 Murcia, S. de c1682-1740 6 Jommelli, N. 1714-1774 1 Fibich, Z. 1850-1900 6,24 Murrill, H. 1909-1952 15 Jongen, J. 1873-1953 13 Fiocco, J-H. 1703-1741 13 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 21 Josquin Desprez. c1440-1521 1 Fischer, J. Caspar Myslivecek, J. 1737-1781 8 c1670-1746 24 Kabalevsky, D. 1904-1987 27 Neri, M. c1615-1660 8 Foote, A. 1853-1937 7 Kalkbrenner, F. 1785-1849 22 Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 13,27 Ford, A. b1957 4 Karlowicz, M. 1876-1909 17 Norgård, P. b1932 27 Forqueray, J-B-A. 1699-1782 24 Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 Novák, V. 1870-1949 14 Foster, G. b1945 12 1,4,16,29 Hacquart, C. 1640-1730 13 Handel, G. 1685-1759 5,9,13,20,24 Harris, Ross. b1945 29 Hart, F. 1874-1949 24 Harvey, R. b1953 27 Hasse, J. 1699-1783 11 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 1,6,7,12,19,22,26,28,30 Haydn, M. 1737-1806 7 Heaton, W. 20th c 28 Herbert, V. 1859-1924 23 Herman, J. b1931 14 Herrmann, B. 1911-1975 28 Hindemith, P. 1895-1963 26,30 Holbrooke, J. 1876-1958 13 Holmboe, V. 1909-1996 13,27 Holst, G. 1874-1934 12,17,26,29 Holst, I. 1907-1984 17 Horneman, C. 1840-1906 27 Howells, H. 1892-1983 15 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 15 Humperdinck, E. 1854-1921 1,6 Hyde, M. 1913-2005 19

Nyman, M. b1948 28 O’Reilly, C. b1967 23 Offenbach, J. 1819-1880 11 Okamoto, K. 20th c 22 Overman, M. 1907-1993 10 Paderewski, I. 1860-1941 25 Padilla, J. de c1590-1664 4 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 21,29 Paisiello, G. 1740-1816 29 Pantelidis, C. b1994 23 Parry, H. 1848-1918 5 Pärt, A. b1935 2,8 Pergolesi, G. 1710-1736 13 Petrassi, G. 1904-2003 8 Piazzolla, A. 1922-1992 1,15 Pichl, V. 1741-1805 8 Pikler, G. 1910-2011 26 Pixis, J. 1788-1874 22 Pokorny, F. 1729-1794 8 Ponce, M. 1882-1948 4 Ponchielli, A. 1834-1886 21,25,28 Poulenc, F. 1899-1963 29 Praetorius, M. c1571-1621 3 Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 4,7,12,18,20,22 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 13 Pugnani, G. 1731-1798 29 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 20,27

Schubert, F. 1797-1828 1,10,12,14,15,20,22,25 Schumann, C. 1819-1896 2,5,9,15 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 2,9,13,15,17,19,24 Schütz, H. 1585-1672 12,19 Sculthorpe, P. 1929-2014 8 Seixas, C. 1704-1742 14 Servais, A-F. 1807-1866 13 Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 7,16,17,21 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 5,6,8,13,16,19,20 Smalley, R. b1943 22 Smetana, B. 1824-1884 14,20 Smyth, E. 1858-1944 11 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 2,4,8,20 Stainer, J. 1840-1901 15 Stamitz, J. 1717-1757 13 Stanford, C. Villiers 1852-1924 5,15,27,29 Stenhammar, W. 1871-1927 16 Strauss, J. II 1825-1899 22,23 Strauss, R. 1864-1949 4,11,16,18,19,25 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 6,16 Strozzi, B. 1619-1664 8 Suppé, F. 1819-1895 14 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 22

Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 4,5,6,11,12,13,20,21,23 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 Tcherepnin, N. 1873-1945 19 13,16 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 7,20 8,19,27,29,30 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 Thalberg, S. 1812-1871 14 1,3,10,13,17,19,23,27,28 Theodorakis, M. b1925 27 Ravenscroft, T. c1589-c1633 18 Thomas, A. 1811-1896 30 Rawsthorne, A. 1905-1971 20 Tommasini, V. 1878-1950 26 Reade, P. 1943-1997 22 Turini, F. c1589-1656 8 Reger, M. 1873-1916 16 Uttini, F. 1723-1795 26 Reicha, A. 1770-1836 10 Quantz, J. 1697-1773 29

Reinecke, C. 1824-1910 19 Respighi, O. 1879-1936 13,18,29 Revueltas, S. 1899-1940 4 Rihm, W. b1952 29 Riisager, K. 1897-1974 27 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 18441908 5,11,19,27 Robinovitch, S. b1942 10 Rode, P. 1774-1830 1 Rodgers, R. 1902-1979 14 Rodrigo, J. 1901-1999 21,24 Roman, J. 1694-1758 15,17 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 12,22,26,27,28,29 Roussel, A. 1869-1937 18 Ruge, F. c1725-c1767 6 Ryba, J. 1765-1815 7

Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 8,11,13,16,23 Sainton, P. 1813-1890 28 Salieri, A. 1750-1825 18 Sarasate, P. de 1844-1908 20 Satie, E. 1866-1925 6,27 Sauguet, H. 1901-1989 22 Scarlatti, A. 1659-1725 8,29 Scarlatti, D. 1685-1757 26 Scharwenka, X. 1850-1924 2 Scheidt, S. 1587-1654 12,19 Schmitt, F. 1870-1958 19 Schobert, J. 1740-1767 3

Vanhal, J. 1739-1813 8,26 Vaughan Williams, R. 1872-1958 5 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 15,27 Vianna da Motta, J. 1868-1948 28 Viardot, Paul. 1857-1941 3 Viardot, Pauline. 1821-1910 3,10 Victoria, T. de 1548-1611 6 Vierne, L. 1870-1937 11 Vieuxtemps, H. 1820-1881 13,20 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 6,15 Vine, C. b1954 22 Viotti, G. 1755-1824 10 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 8,20,26 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 6,17,18 Walton, W. 1902-1983 6 Weber, B. 1766-1842 18 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 13,25 Weigl, K. 1881-1949 16 Weill, K. 1900-1950 22 Wesley, S.S. 1810-1876 15 Williams, G. 1906-1977 5 Wolf, H. 1860-1903 12 Yerzerski, M. b1950 23 Ysaÿe, E. 1858-1931 13,26 Zimmer, H. b1957 29

Key Music duration is shown after the record and citation Orchestra Ch & O: Chorus & RTO: Radio & Television Orchestra CO: Chamber Orchestra Orchestra RTV SO: Radio and FO: Festival Orchestra Television Symphony NO: National Orchestra NSO: National Symphony Orchestra SO: Symphony Orchestra Orchestra PO: Philharmonic Orchestra TO: Theatre Orchestra alto: male alto RO: Radio Orchestra ban: bandoneon RSO: Radio Symphony

bar: baritone bshn: basset horn bass: bass bn: bassoon bass bar: bass baritone cl: clarinet clvd: clavichord cont: contralto cora: cor anglais ct: counter-tenor

db: double bass dbn: double bassoon did: didjeridu elec: electronic fl: flute fp: fortepiano gui: guitar hn: french horn hp: harp hpd: harpsichord

mand: mandolin mar: marimba mezz: mezzo-soprano narr: narrator ob: oboe org: organ perc: percussion pf: piano picc: piccolo rec: recorder

sax: saxophone sop: soprano tb: trombone ten: tenor timp: timpani tpt: trumpet treb: treble voice va: viola vc: cello vn: violin


WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC HEART * BEAT Australia Ensemble Saturday 14 September, 8pm Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW Please join us at 7pm for Jessica Wells Composer Conversation when she will talk about her new work. Tickets available online or on 02 9385 4874 $55/$42/$33

The featured work of the concert will be a new work by Jesssica Wells commissioned by the Australia Ensemble. Also on the program is Jacques Ibert’s Deux interludes and Johannes Brahms’ Clarinet trio in A minor, op 114. Guest artist Justin Williams will be playing the

additional viola in Felix Mendelssohn’s String quintet no 2 in B flat, op 87. AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE: Geoffrey Collins (flute), David Griffiths (clarinet), Dene Olding and Dimity Hall (violins), Irina Morozova (viola), Julian Smiles (cello) and Ian Munro (piano)

HANDEL AND DELIRIOUS LOVE Sara Macliver, soprano Ben Bayl, harpsichord and Guest Director Australian Haydn Ensemble (Skye McIntosh, Artistic Director) Sunday 29 September, 2.30pm Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Tickets: $35-$85 (students $25) Bookings: australianhaydn.com.au or phone 1800 334 388

One of Australia’s most loved and acclaimed sopranos, Sara Macliver and Australian-born international conductor Benjamin Bayl join the Australian Haydn Ensemble for a stunning program of Handel and Scarlatti. The program centres around the theme of ‘The Delirium of Love’. Handel’s cantata Il delirio amoroso was written during Handel’s time in Italy and was first performed in 1707. It features a virtuosic soprano line that is beautifully balanced by solo writing for oboe, recorder and cello. Handel later reused parts

ENJOY, LEARN, DISCUSS Spanish Music by Non-Spanish Composers Presenter: Marilyn Schock Sunday 15 September, 2.30pm 72-76 Chandos St, St Leonards Bookings: finemusicfm.com/ELD or 9439 4777 Tickets: $15 general or $5 for Fine Music subscribers and volunteers You are invited to stay for light refreshments after the talk

of the work in Acis and Galatea and Jephtha. Il delirio is beautifully contrasted by Silete venti, one of Handel’s most transcendent motets which traverses the boundaries of divine and mortal love. The program also features Handel’s beautiful and tragic love aria Tornami a vagheggiar from Alcina, along with two powerful concerto grossi: the first by Charles Avison, after Domenico Scarlatti; the second by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Can you think of any composers who wrote classical Spanish music, but were not Spanish? How about Rimsky-Korsakov with his Capriccio espagnole, Bizet’s Carmen, Ravel’s Bolèro and Rapsodie espagnole, Tchaikovsky’s Spanish dances from his ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, Debussy’s Ibéria, Chabrier’s España, Boccherini’s Fandango, Lalo, Liszt, … the list goes on! All wrote exhilarating music inspired by visits to and their music, Marilyn Schock will be Spain, and some hadn’t even been to Spain. If featuring them, and you may even be treated you’d like to know more about the composers to a live castanet display at the end! SEPTEMBER 2019

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MUSICAL FAMILIES ELIZABETH HILL EXPLORES MUSICAL INFLUENCERS The Italian early Baroque composer, Giulio Caccini, was one of the most influential creators of the new Baroque style.

Francesca Caccini

Recognising the young Caccini’s talent, Francesco de’ Medici took him to Florence where he became a famous tenor by the age of 30. Although well connected with prominent Florentine families, his advancement was not always honourably motivated and he was involved in various scandals. His intense rivalry with Emilio Cavalieri and Jacopo Peri caused him to scheme to have Cavalieri removed as music director for the wedding of Maria de’ Medici and Henry IV of France; and desperate to found the opera genre he rushed his opera Euridice to print some six weeks before Peri’s opera on the same subject was published.

life was the establishment of a famous singing group comprising his second wife and his three children. Caccini composed and taught until his death in 1618, with his foremost pupil being his daughter Francesca. Under her father’s tutelage, she showcased her talents in roles her father wrote for the stage, played lute, harp and keyboard, and taught singing, instrumental performance and composition. She was also a talented poet and wrote lyrics in Italian and Latin for most of her published songs. Her opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (the first opera by a woman) was written when Florence was under the control of the Grand Duchess Maria Magdalena and Christine of Lorraine who, in the works they commissioned, pushed for confident, righteous female protagonists. Sadly, only a few of Francesca’s compositions have survived, including Il Primo Libro delle Musiche, a collection of 32 songs and four soprano and bass duets. Spanish composer, impresario and influential vocal instructor, Manuel Garcia also sired a musical family. He was the celebrated tenor for whom Rossini created the role of Count Almaviva in The barber of Seville. A noted pedagogue, he was tyrannical in the musical education of his children, and was determined to make his daughter Maria one of the world’s most brilliant singers.

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Manuel Garcia Junior was a singer, educator and vocal pedagogue. He studied as a baritone, but retired from singing in 1829 to study the physiological aspects of the voice. A treatise he published in 1840 served as the foundation of all subsequent investigations into the voice, and his invention of the laryngoscope brought him world fame. He was a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, at the London Royal Academy of Music and at the Royal College of Music. He died in London at the age of 101.

Caccini received support from the Florentine noble Giovanni de’ Bardi who formed the Florentine Camerata, a movement of scholars, writers and musicians who influenced trends in the arts. With Caccini’s contribution, the Camerata developed the concept of stile recitativo, which resulted in the development of what came to be known as the Baroque style, and developed later into the operatic recitative. One of the earliest examples of music written in the early Baroque style is Caccini’s Nuove musiche (1602), a collection of madrigals and arias for voice and basso continuo, the introduction to which contains an important treatise on singing styles. Caccini trained many singers in this new style, including Giovanni Magli, the castrato who sang in the first production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo. This new style of solo singing and new type of musical drama is one that we now call opera.

Paris, London, Europe and New York. She was always known by her married name of Malibran although she left her husband after one year. Sadly, a month after her second marriage to the violinist Charles-Auguste de Bériot, she died at the age of 28 after collapsing on stage as the result of injuries sustained in a fall from a horse. Described as having an extraordinary voice, Maria had many admirers. Rossini said ‘she surpassed all who sought to emulate her, and with her superior mind, her breadth of knowledge and unimaginable fieriness of temperament she outshone all other women I have known’. While mostly remembered for her operatic performances, she also composed about 50 songs in French, Italian and English.

Manuel Garcia as Otello

Maria, who had a stormy personality, lived and died dramatically. She made her first stage appearance at five, and following her London debut at the age of 17 received acclaim in

Their sister Pauline’s place in the Garcia family’s artistic kingdom was secured at an early age. She studied singing with her father, and piano with Liszt, who said she was ‘the first woman composer of genius’. After her father’s death Pauline, managed by her husband Louis Viardot, focused her attention on singing but she remained an outstanding pianist throughout her life. Her operatic debut was as Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello and her extraordinary talent and charisma inspired dedications and roles written specifically for her. Not only a star of the operatic stage, she was a versatile musician who excelled as a


Combining the styles of Ravel and Stravinsky with English Romanticism, he anticipated many trends associated with later English composers. Wagner, Richard Strauss and Vaughan Williams were crucial in his musical development and he was inspired by the English folksong revival of the early 20th century. In turn he influenced a number of English composers, including Tippet and Britten.

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linguist, composer, collaborator, entrepreneur, costume designer and teacher. She retired from opera at the age of 41, but continued to give recitals and teach until her death at the age of 89. Pauline’s son Paul Viardot carried on the family tradition, becoming a violinist and musicologist. Encouraged by Bériot, his Aunt Maria’s husband, Paul studied at the Brussels Conservatory with Bériot’s successor Hubert Léonard. Another famous father, Gustav Holst, is often thought of as a one-work composer. Certainly his claim to fame came with the international success of his orchestral suite The planets, but his oeuvre contains opera, choral works and instrumental pieces that were played frequently in the early 20th century.

After graduating from the Royal College of Music he made his living playing trombone and teaching. His most important posts were as Music Master at St Paul’s Girls School and Director of Music at Morley College, and his pioneering teaching methods were influential in musical education in many English schools. The Holst Society, launched in 2017, is aiming to bring his work to a wider audience by promoting and sponsoring performances and recordings of his compositions, particularly the choral repertoire for which he was renowned.

Imogen Holst was the only child of Gustav and his wife Emily Harrison, a soprano and Gustav’s former student. Today, Imogen is perhaps best known as Benjamin Britten’s amanuensis (1952-1964), but she excelled as a composer and conductor. Like her father, she was a pioneer in 20th century British music, dedicated to the task of encouraging amateur music-making. During World War II she belonged to a group of musicians charged with organising musical activities in England’s rural areas. In 1943, she started a music training course at Dartington Hall in Devon, which became the remarkable music school, Dartington College. In the early 1950s she moved to Aldeburgh, working closely with Benjamin Britten and for the Aldeburgh Festival, of which she was artistic director for over 20 years. At the encouragement of Peter Pears she formed and conducted a chamber choir of young singers in London known as the Purcell Singers, giving concerts and broadcasts of works ranging from seldom heard medieval music to 20th century pieces. After retirement she devoted most of her time to completing a thematic catalogue of her father’s music, a proud tribute to his musical legacy.

Imogen Holst

Musical Families, featuring these three remarkable families, can be heard at 2pm on Tuesdays 3 and 17 September.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES FINE MUSIC FAREWELLS JOE NEUSTATL “Enjoy, Learn, Discuss was my meeting point with Joe,” says Mary Lenart. Joe Neustatl became very involved in this Sunday afternoon series, presenting some interesting talks based on his huge collection of CDs. At other talks he participated in the Q&A and Mary, as one of the organisers, was grateful for his assistance in preparing refreshments for the attendees. “His interest, his kindness and his friendly approach added to the pleasant atmosphere and value of the ELD presentations.” Long before Joe became involved in these talks, Mary had listened to Thanks for the Memory, a nostalgia program that Joe had programmed and presented for many years on 2MBS-Fine Music, until a few years ago. Having come from Czechoslovakia as an adult, Joe’s music choices were mainly influenced by Germanic and middle European culture. While the program was enjoyed by many people, Mary, who had come from Hungary, said that for the European-born audience, it brought back teenage memories. She said: “I would have never missed this program. We listened and sang together.”

Joe Neustatl

Joe’s other main programming contribution to Fine Music was operetta. He began in the early days with LPs but later, as technology progressed, he transferred many of them to CD so that we could still enjoy the many delightful recordings in his collection. An important contribution by Joe that is not

generally known is that he was involved in the project of transferring station LPs to CD. He didn’t do the transfers but was on hand to translate any LP notes that were in Czech for the booklets that we were making for the CDs. We had many recordings donated by the Czech Consulate but the text on the covers was mostly in the Czech language. This was a common problem with European recordings and we were fortunate to have so many volunteers who had come from European countries who were able to assist with translations. Mary Lenart was also involved in translating the Hungarian notes. This enabled us to make booklets with the full original notes. Joe Neustatl passed away recently at the age of 88 years. There are probably other aspects of his volunteer work of which most of us have no knowledge but we know that he was always so willing to do whatever was needed. He loved the ‘Fine Music family’ and is someone who will not be forgotten by those who worked with him. Since joining in the 1970s, Joe had given over 40 years of volunteer service to Fine Music. SEPTEMBER 2019

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CD REVIEWS THE GARDEN PARTY Celebrating Twenty Years of The Marais Project Guest artists: Belinda Montgomery, Melissa Farrow, Fiona Ziegler, Emily-Rose Sarkova Move MCD 592

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The Garden Party is the latest CD release by The Marais Project, Fine Music’s Artists-inResidence ensemble for 2019. The ensemble was formed in 2000 and this disc is a celebration of its music making since that time. How is it that a consort of viole da gamba, lute, theorbo and baroque guitar that specialises in music from 17th century France is still going from strength to strength after 20 years? Its success is due to the sunny personality and vision of its leader Jennifer Eriksson who has ensured that The Marais Project would be a contemporary as well as a historically-informed ensemble. On this disc commissioned works by composers such as Stephen Yates and Kevin Hunt feature side by side with those of Marais and Bouteiller. The title track The garden party is a new jazz/baroque fusion work by Jennifer herself! The Sydney-based ensemble Chaika takes its name from the Bulgarian word for seagull. It is an appropriate name: there is a distinctly Balkan sound to much of their music, and many of their compositions have the natural world as theme or setting. On Arrow, Chaika’s third album, the six musicians play clarinet, violin, accordion, piano, percussion, guitar and double bass, and all sing. Taking inspiration from jazz, classical music and various folk traditions, the result is music that blends and juxtaposes genres and textures, with instruments and voices sometimes intertwining, sometimes standing in isolation. The first song on the album, Little bird, by violinist Susie Bishop, is also the longest, with slow and sinuous violin and accordion followed by clarinet and double bass giving way to an increasingly fast and rhythmic passage with

MOVE 50 24 Australian composers celebrate 50 years of Move Records Various performers Move MD 3450 HHH½

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Move Records, the boutique music label from Melbourne that specialises in music recorded by Australian classical and jazz artists. To celebrate, Move has released a recording of works written to mark this milestone. Almost all of the pieces were specially composed for this recording, and originate from well-known composers such as Julian Yu and Brenton Broadstock, and from less familiar composers such as Eve Duncan and Linda Kouvaras. The most prominent artist on the recording is Michael Kieran Harvey, who performs on 15 of the 24 tracks. There is jazz from Tony Gould and Christopher Young alongside experimental music from Ron Nagorka and Warren Burt, and songs sung by

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Collaborations also extend to the excellent musicians who work with The Marais Project adding new colours and pleasure to the gentle braying of the viols. The beautiful soprano voice of Belinda Montgomery is particularly gorgeous in Bouteiller’s motet O salutaris hostia and Melissa Farrow’s powerful, yet oh-so-delicate, traverso playing and Fiona Ziegler’s tasteful violin virtuosity perfectly balance the continuo of bass viol and theorbo in Marais’ Pièces en trio in G minor. This being a Garden Party with the Marais Project don’t be surprised when singing accordionist EmilyRose Sarkova joins the fun. Light-hearted yet tasteful, serious but entertaining, The Garden Party is an irresistible treat. Robert Small

vocals, before dropping away to finish slowly. The other composition with an avian theme, Pinguinos, also by Susie Bishop, is an upbeat instrumental describing the movements of penguins. Two pieces are arrangements of traditional folk songs. I riden så (Ye ride so carefully through the grove with her) is Swedish and its haunting, evocative vocals convey its sombre theme. Çayelinden öteye (Let’s go beyond Çayeli) is Turkish and features much percussion and serpentine accordion. I found two songs by the clarinettist Laura Altman very appealing: Colour song has wordless vocals, at first ethereal, and then arpeggiated; Am I is quiet and dreamlike with massed wordless vocals over a piano figure. This disc is recommended for its diversity, unpredictability and rhythmic verve. Paul Cooke Merlyn Quaife and Lyndon Green. The CD as a whole resembles more a bag of lollies than a unified artistic voice, due to the large number of different composers and performers. This diversity ensures that the CD displays the breadth of contemporary Australian music. In this short review it would be unfair to pick out any particular pieces, but the CD has something for everyone. Throughout the recordings, the upwelling of respect and warmth towards Move from all the contributors is obvious, and the CD is a wonderfully fitting way for Move to celebrate this significant point in its history. This recording is a time capsule of the music of today. James Nightingale


A TRIBUTE TO KEN WEATHERLEY ROBERT VALE PROFILES A GENEROUS BENEFACTOR Young musicians are being assisted in their careers through the very generous support of Fine Music benefactors. Some years ago, the bequest of Stefan Kruger led to the Kruger Scholarship being set up for classical performers. Now, due to the generosity of Ken Weatherley, the Weatherley Scholarship for young jazz performers has been inaugurated. Fine Music Jazz presenter Ken Weatherley passed away on 4 July 2018 after a career in radio that spanned 40 years. Ken, a graphic design artist, was born in London and became a stalwart of that city’s jazz scene. It was a golden era that included such iconic figures as Johnny Dankworth, Stan Tracey and Tubby Hayes. Ken migrated to Melbourne in the early 1970s. With the advent of FM transmission in the mid-1970s he became interested in broadcasting and presented jazz on a Victorian community station for three years. Jazz was at the core of Ken’s life and the conduit to so many of his friendships. His radio career was inspired by his friendship with leading jazz presenter of the day, Ralph Rickman.

2017 presented the Monday night program Jazz Nice & Easy, a title which was not only musically apt but also an expression of Ken’s warm personality. Ken was also a major contributor to the launching of Fine Music DAB+ by producing and presenting over 300 hours of programs. These included highlights from his London listenings and from contemporary and Australian musicians whom he admired. He prepared his programs well in advance and put them aside so that his presentation on air was fresh as he found new delight in his choices.

Ken transferred to Sydney in the 1980s and was a long-time presenter at Eastside Radio. As well, he had a particular interest in the activities of the Jazz Department of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and was keen to see the fostering of young jazz talent. He joined Fine Music in 2013 and until

Following Ken’s death, a sizeable bequest was left to Fine Music to support young jazz talent. In accordance with Ken’s wishes Fine Music has created a scholarship named in his honour thereby perpetuating his memory. Ken also left his music collection to the Fine Music Jazz Library, so his wide choice of jazz will continue to be heard on our various programs. He is fondly and gratefully remembered by those who knew him and those who will benefit from his generosity. The recipient of the Ken Weatherley Jazz Scholarship will be announced soon.

JAZZ AFTER HOURS FINE MUSIC WELCOMES A NEW JAZZ TEAM does not lose the originating melody, and jazz for the 21st century. Sue (first Sunday) brings a wide background of knowledge and tastes and is not afraid to delve into classical roots and up-tempo jazz along with the Great American Songbook. David (third Sunday) was brought up listening to the greats of swing, so this genre is his first musical love. Classical music has enhanced his deep knowledge of jazz, all presented with his smooth style.

Jazz has a history of late-night listening, and Fine Music’s Jazz After Hours reflects this with music that is engaging and stimulating, improvised and cool, smooth and gentle. The program embraces the jazz genres, so expect to hear some traditional and big-band themes, some bebop and Latin, mainstream and swing, and emerging jazz of the 21st century. Fine Music has a goal to develop and promote emerging and Australian jazz, so included are live recordings, master musicians and exciting new student jazz. Presenters Keith Pettigrew, Sue Jowell and David Knapp are bringing a fresh style to this Sunday night program, which was previously presented for many years by our late colleague Kevin Jones. Each brings a different essence to the program, along with common themes. There is time to explore an album to reveal a performer’s craft through related tracks. There are also longer tracks to take listeners on a journey of inspiration and engagement, and of course there are some familiar favourites to stir the memories.

Jazz After Hours is a program for those who choose to engage with jazz and enjoy the stories that it tells along with the curiosities of its making. You can hear it on Sundays from 10pm till midnight on 102.5, DAB+ and live streaming.

Keith Pettigrew

Keith is the latest volunteer to join the jazz team and will broadcast on the second and fourth Sundays. He has a preference for the earthy, breathy sounds of the baritone and tenor sax and double bass, improvisation that

More about Jazz After Hours and other Fine Music jazz programs can be found on our jazz web pages. These are designed to add to your listening experience by providing playlists and on-demand sound files, along with links to relevant online resources that contribute to greater understanding of the music played. At finemusicfm.com/jazz you will find a schedule with links to specific program pages. SEPTEMBER 2019

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WINTER SUITE CALLUM O’REILLY WINS THE YOUNG COMPOSER AWARD have great potential. This year’s recipient was Daniel Riley from Melbourne.

“I’m excited and humbled to have been selected from such a strong field across Australia. Hopefully in this performance I can communicate something special to the audience through my music,” says Callum O’Reilly who has been awarded the 2019 Fine Music 102.5 / Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award. Winning this competition provides him with $5000 to assist him in furthering his career. As part of the prize, his Winter suite for solo trumpet and orchestra was premiered by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra early in June. To have his composition played by a symphony orchestra is an experience that Callum says is unforgettable. Winter suite, in three parts, represents Callum’s favourite aspects of winter: wind through leaves, rain and warmth from friends. Naturally he has dedicated it to his two best friends. His musical inspiration for the piece comes from 70s jazz, hip-hop, minimalism and classical music. The Fine Music 102.5 / Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award is the only national award of its kind. In its 14th year the

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competition attracted 18 entrants from all over Australia. The young winners gain recognition in the musical world and are given further opportunities to create music and to have it performed. Each year, as part of this competition, the Australian Performing Rights Association gives an Encouragement Award of $500 to a young composer considered to

Callum, who is 22 years of age, studied composition at the Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts and is currently writing his honours thesis. However, he was interested in music and composing from an early age. He played jazz and also guitar and classical drums in a concert band, but his inspiration to compose for orchestra came from listening to the music of Mahler, Copland, Bernstein and Gershwin, and to John Williams’ music for the Star Wars films. “I knew for sure that I wanted to compose orchestral music after listening to Mahler’s Second Symphony,” he says, and adds that the sound of the orchestra and the atmosphere of the concert hall really appeal to him. He is currently co-arranging music for the Perth Symphony Orchestra. Composing music is a personal journey for Callum. “I am pretty spiritual about my music and I believe it’s a great way to explore things deep within myself that I can’t express using words.” You can hear Callum’s Winter suite in the Willoughby Symphony concert, Pastoral, at 1pm on Monday 23 September.

A MUSICAL LIFE IN BRIEF ELIZABETH HILL PROFILES PEGGY GLANVILLE-HICKS In the late 1950s she retreated to Greece to write ‘the big works’, most notably the operas which lie at the heart of her creative output. Her compositional career ended prematurely, and tragically, in 1967 following surgery the previous year for a life-threatening brain tumour. Against all medical expectations she went on to live for a further 24 years, returning to Australia in 1975 amidst a dawning recognition that one of the country’s most significant composers had returned.

Although now acknowledged as a significant Australian composer, Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ most productive years were spent in England and America. Born in Melbourne in 1912, she began lessons in composition with Fritz Hart at the age of 15. In 1931 she won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied composition with Vaughan Williams, piano with Arthur Benjamin and conducting with Constant Lambert and later Malcolm Sargent. In 1936 she studied in Vienna with Egon Wellesz, and in Paris with the great pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger. Her training with Hart and Vaughan Williams (who were important figures in the revival of English, Welsh and Irish folk music) secured an affinity with English choral sound, consonant harmonies and modal melodies, especially traditional or folk melodies, and influenced her view on composing for the people. Her move to America in 1941 shaped the musical direction of her late works and she became a highly influential figure in the 46

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vibrant musical life of New York. After a brief neoclassical phase, she joined a small group of American composers who were using nonWestern music as their inspiration. During this time she also forged an illustrious career as a music journalist and arts administrator, working tirelessly to promote new music and the careers of young composers. Her forceful voice as a writer and commentator helped shape professional and public opinion on the state of American composing.

Glanville-Hicks’ career as a composer is impressive. She developed an interesting and distinctive style that reflected her ethnomusicological interests, and her fascination with Greek, Aegean demotic and Far Eastern music combined with contemporary techniques gave her a unique musical voice. She produced over 70 finelycrafted works, including operas, ballets, concertos, instrumental chamber pieces, songs and choral works. Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks can be heard on Monday 2 September at 2.30pm.


MUSIC IS AN ESSENTIAL FOOD MONA OMAR TALKS TO DAN BICKEL Music studio environment a stimulating one, attributing his enjoyment to his colleagues, an enthusiastic group of people, united by their depth of knowledge and passion for music, who have created a ‘self-selected refuge for like-minded individuals’.

Dan Bickel began listening to classical music on the radio from an early age. A native of Michigan, USA, he was able to listen to broadcasts on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio, given Michigan’s proximity to the Canadian border. “In the 1950s and 60s CBC had an excellent range of musical and cultural programs … compared to the United States which, apart from the East and West coasts, a few larger inland cities and major university towns, was a classical broadcasting wasteland.” He believes the role of radio broadcasting should be to provide a wide range of music with informative commentary and no baggage except for that which you carry away inside your head. It was this belief that led Dan to begin to listening to 2MBS-FM shortly after its establishment. He finally joined Fine Music as a volunteer in 2018 after retiring from a 35-year career as an entomologist at the Australian Museum. “I can kick myself for not coming in much earlier!” says Dan. When asked what influenced him to volunteer at Fine Music, Dan said that

Music has always been the centre of a wider cultural context for Dan, who believes listening to music exposes the listener to history, myth, geography and ethnic diversity. His music favourites include Sibelius, ‘for his profound and elemental music’, late 19th and 20th century composers, as well as a wide range of other music including jazz and contemporary music genres. He only recently started collecting recordings, as ‘they are a burden when moving around, and if you already know the pieces you are buying, you will never get a chance to hear new or exotic music’.

‘music is an essential food, it feeds the spirit … it is an important criterion for selecting the people you enjoy being with’. He finds the Fine

Although he learned to play the violin when he was younger, Dan discontinued playing after discovering he had many other interests, and is these days more than happy to help form the audience.

PERSONNEL MUSIC BROADCASTING SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES CO-OPERATIVE LTD, registered under the Co-operatives Act 1992 (NSW); owner and operator of Australia’s first community-operated stereo FM station, 2MBS-FM now known as Fine Music 102.5; annual membership fee is $33 and members are entitled to vote at Society general meetings. Enquiries: admin@finemusicfm.com VOLUNTEERS Fine Music 102.5 is run by volunteers supported by a small team of staff. To find out how to join our volunteers, visit finemusicfm.com or call 9439 4777. DIRECTORS Chair: David Brett; Deputy Chair: David James; Secretary: Christopher Waterhouse; Roger Doyle, Peter Kurti, Jayson McBride, Simon Moore, Katy Rogers-Davies COMMITTEE CHAIRS Management: David James; Programming: James Nightingale; Presenters: Ross Hayes; Jazz: Barry O’Sullivan; Technical: Roger Doyle; Library: Rex Burgess; Volunteers: Cynthia Kaye; Finance: Peter Poole; Work Health and Safety: Angela Cockburn; Emerging Artists: Rebecca Beare PROGRAMMERS AND PRESENTERS FOR SEPTEMBER Charles Barton, Peter Bell, Nena Beretin, Dan Bickel, Chris Blower, Adam Bowen, David Brett, John Buchanan, Andrew Bukenya, Rex Burgess, Lloyd Capps, Vince Carnovale, Lyn Chong, Adam Cockburn, Angela Cockburn, Liam Collins, Paul Cooke, Marc Cottee, Di Cox, George Cruickshank, Nick Dan, Jackson Day, Nev Dorrington, Susan Gai Dowling, Annabelle Drumm, Brian Drummond, Andrew Dziedzic, Rita Felton, Michael Field, Troy Fil, Owen Fisher, Jennifer Foong, Tom Forrester-Paton, Susan Foulcher, Carole Garland, David Garrett, Robert Gilchrist, Nicky Gluch, Joe Goddard, Albert Gormley, Giovanna Grech, Jeremy Hall, Austin Harrison, Celeste Haworth, Ross Hayes, Gerald Holder, Paul Hopwood, James Hunter, Leita Hutchings, Anne Irish, Sue Jowell, David Knapp, Peter Kurti, Ray Lemond, Ray Levis, Krystal Li, Lachlan Mahoney, Linda Marr, Meg Matthews, Stephen Matthews, Neil McEwan, Jeannie McInnes, Terry McMullen, Maureen Meers, Camille Mercep, Peter Mitchell, Saufian Mokhtar, Simon Moore, Frank Morrison, Michael Morton-Evans, Richard Munge, Gerry Myerson, Peter Nelson, James Nightingale, David Ogilvie, Barry O’Sullivan, Calogero Panvino, Derek Parker, Denis Patterson, Keith Pettigrew, Peter Poole, Frank Presley, Karoline Ren, Katy Rogers-Davies, Darryl Rule, Marilyn Schock, Debbie Scholem, Jon Shapiro, Julie Simonds, Elaine Siversen, Robert Small, Garth Sundberg, Jacky Ternisien, Anna Tranter, Madilina Tresca, Robert Vale, Richard Verco, Ron Walledge, Christopher Waterhouse, Chris Wetherall, Stephen Wilson, Glenn Winfield, Chris Winner, Mariko Yata, Orli Zahava, Tom Zelinka PROGRAM SUBEDITORS Jan Akers, Chris Blower, Maureen Chaffey, Di Cox, Noelene Guillemot, Elaine Siversen, Jill Wagstaff, Teresa White LIBRARIANS Jan Akers, Rex Burgess, Maureen Chaffey, John Clayton, Di Cox, Helen Dignan, Lynden Dziedzic, Peter Gair, Peter Goldner, Daniela Hartman, David Hilton, Dawn Jackson, Michael Marchbank, Phillip McGarn, Judy Miller, Rachel Miller, Helen Milthorpe, Susan Ping Kee, Mark Renton, Gary Russ, Jacky Ternisien, Andrew Treloar, Ricky Yu STATION OPERATIONS Transmitter: Max Benyon, John Shenstone; Studio operations: Roger Doyle, Robert Tregea; Live broadcasts and recordings: Jayson McBride; IT: Alice Roberts; Digitisation: John Xuereb STAFF Station Manager: Rebecca Beare; Office Manager: Sharon Sullivan; Community Access Manager: Sophie McCulloch; Community Engagement Manager: Mona Omar; Production Coordinator: Joe Goddard; Administration Assistant: Eddie Bernasconi SEPTEMBER 2019

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FINE MUSIC PATRONS Fine Music Honour Roll (Bequest Received 2009-2019) Dr Alison Burrell, Mr Keith John Cosack, Mr Paul de Leuil, Ms Jean Priscilla Deck, Mr Colin Enderby, Ms Rose Gibb, Mr David Henry James, Mr Leslie Kovacs, Mr Stefan Kruger, Mrs Myra Christina Polson, Mr Michael Patrick Sheehan, Mr Charles Herbert Stokes, Mr Ronald Tinslay, Mrs Rose Varga, Mrs Norma Walledge, Mr Ken Weatherley, Mr Colin Webb, Mr Barry Willoughby, Mr John Albert Wright

Fine Music Guardians (Known Future Bequests) Mr Geoffrey Anderson, Mr David Bell, Mr David Brett, Mrs Halina Brett, Mr Rex Burgess, Mr Lloyd Capps, Ms Marilyn Endlein, Mr Robin Gandevia, Mr Bruce Graham, Mr James Hunter, Mr David James, Ms Maureen Meers, Mr Glenn Morrison, Mr Desmond Mulholland, Mr Derek Parker, Dr Neil Radford, Mr Gregory Sachs, Ms Elaine Siversen, Mr Bruce Smith, Mr Anthony Tenney, Mr Ron Walledge

Titanium Patrons ($50,000 and above) Mr Max Benyon OAM, Mr Roger Doyle, Dr Jennifer Foong, Anonymous 1

Platinum Patrons ($25,000 – $49,999) Family Frank Foundation, Mr Michael Ahrens, Prof Clive Kessler, Garrett Riggleman Trust, Mr Ron Walledge, Mr Cameron Williams, Anonymous 2

Diamond Patrons ($10,000 – $24,999) Mr Robert O Albert, Mr J D O Burns, Mr Bernard Coles QC, Mrs Dorothy Curtis, Ms Jill Hickson Wran, Dr Janice Hirshorn, Mr Peter & Dr Linda Kurti, Mrs Patricia McAlary, Anonymous 4

Ruby Patrons ($5,000 – $9,999) Mrs Barbara Brady, Mr David Brett, Ms Janine Burrus, Mr Lloyd & Mrs Mary Jo Capps, Hon Mr Justice David Davies SC, Mr Francis Frank, Mr Ian & Mrs Pam McGaw, Ms Jeannie McInnes, Mrs Judith McKernan, Ms Nola Nettheim, Mr John Selby, Mr Anthony C Strachan, Mr Stephen and Mrs Therese Wilson, Anonymous 5

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Our major programming celebration in September is to recognise the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann. This is an opportunity to explore many of her compositions, most of which are not well known. In her lifetime she was acclaimed as a great pianist and the article on page 5 will show the high regard in which she was held. Other anniversary celebrations are for the completion of the thrilling piano work Islamey by Balakirev (150) and the premiere of Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold (150). The 2019 Fine Music / Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award recipient, Callum O’Reilly, is also being recognised and you’ll be able to hear his winning composition, Winter suite for

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Ms Sue Jowell, Mr Ian Juniper, Mr D & Mrs R Keech, Mr Ray McDonald, Ms Maureen Meers, Dr Andrew Mitterdorfer, Dr W J Poate, Mr Jude Rushbrooke, Mr Richard Thompson, Ms Wendy Trevor-Jones, Mr A G Whealy QC, Mr Richard Wilkins, The Yim Family Foundation, Anonymous 6

Gold Patrons ($1,000 – $2,499) Ms Jan Bowen AM, Mrs Di Cox, Dr Carolyn Currie, Mr David Jacobs, Mrs Barbara Johnson, Mr Reginald John Lamble AO, Mr Trevor Parkin, Mr Iain M Thompson, Ms Caroline Wilkinson, Anonymous 4

Silver Patrons ($500 – $999) Mr Claus Blunck, Mr Colin Boston, Mr Robert E S Clark, Mrs T Cox, Mr David Cummins OAM, Ms Prudence Davenport, Prof C E Deer, Mr Ian de Jersey, Mrs Dorothy Dunn, Mr John Fairfax AO, Dr David Gorman, Mr Paul Hopwood, Mrs Georgina Horton, Mrs Madeleine Juchau, Hon David Kirby QC, Mr Nicholas Korner, Mrs Jennifer Lewis, Dr Peter Lindberg, Mrs Meryll Macarthur, Mr M F Madigan, Mrs E M McKinnon, Mr Michael Morton-Evans OAM, Mr Julius Opit, Mr Andrew Patterson, Ms Susan Ping Kee, Dr Neil A Radford, Mr J A Roberts, Ms Catherine Ruff, Mr John Stevenson, Mr Larry Turner, Dr Paul Wormell, Anonymous 25

Bronze Patrons ($250 – $499) Ms Jacqui Axford, Ms Lily Bao, Ms Jane Barnes, Dr H Bashir, Mr Don Bennett, Mrs Susan Berger, Mr Stephen Booth, Mr David Branscomb, Mr Barrie Brockwell, Mrs Alexandra Buchner, Mr Ron Burgess, Dr Rhonda Buskell, Mr Dom Cottam & Ms Kanako Imamura, Ms Dora Den Hengst, Dr David Dixon, Hon J R Dunford QC, In Memory of David W Allen, Mrs Margaret Gibson, Mr Robert M Gilchrist, Mrs Jocelyn Hackett, Mr Geoffrey Hogbin, Prof Wendy Hu, Mr Paul Jackson, Mr Bill and Eva Johnstone, Mr Darren Jones, Mr Robert King, Mr Gerhard Koller, Mr Geoffrey Magney, Mrs Robyn Manoy, Dr Jim Masselos, Mr Stephen & Mrs Meg Matthews, Ms Kerrin McCormack, Mrs Shirley Ann McEwin, Mr Simon Moore, Ms Ursula Mooser, Mrs Jean Murphy, Ms Christina M Pender, Mr Peter Poole, Mr James Poulos QC, Mr Mike Price, Mr Gwynn Roberts, Dr Gideon Schoombie, Mrs Zvjezdana Skopelja, Ms Mei Wah So, Mrs Ruth A Staples, Ms Kathryn Tiffen, Mr Kevin Vaughan, Ms Rachel S Westwood, Mr Richard Williamson, Mr Alastair Wilson, Walkerville Pty Ltd, Anonymous 35

trumpet and orchestra, performed by the Willoughby Symphony in a concert recording to be broadcast on Monday 23 September at 1pm. Sadly, many volunteers who have given great service to 2MBSFine Music have passed on and we are unable to recognise them all in the magazine. However, this month we are remembering two volunteers who’ve contributed a great deal as programmers and presenters. Joe Neustatl, a volunteer since the 1970s, was mostly involved in nostalgia and operetta programs; Ken Weatherley, a more recent volunteer and member of the jazz team, has left a major bequest that has set up the Ken Weatherley Jazz Scholarship for young musicians. I haven’t mentioned every article but once again our volunteer writers have provided some interesting and informative reading for you. Enjoy! Elaine Siversen


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