Fine Music Magazine December Issue

DECEMBER 2018

OMEGA ENSEMBLE’S 2019 SEASON A CHRISTMAS OPERA DOUBLE BILL TCHAIKOVSKY’S OBSESSION WITH FATE JAZZ INFLUENCES ON MY LIFE

The Many Facets of Love Amahl and a Chimney Sweep An Early Love Discovered From Jazz Listener to Presenter

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Contents

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Omega Ensemble’s 2019 Season

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Sharing the Stories of the Music

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A Christmas Opera Double Bill

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The Consecration of a New Church Le Nuove Musiche

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Tchaikovsky’s Obsession with Fate

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Program Guide and Composer List

41 Musical Families 42 What’s On in Music 43 From Cristofori to Stuart & Sons 44 Classical CD Reviews 45 Intimate Voices

Jazz CD Review

46 Jazz Influences on My Life 47 Helping to Spread the Music: Ron Walledge

FROM THE CHAIR Every Spring Fine Music hosts A Celebration of Fine Music to thank our key sponsors, donors and volunteers for their support. This year’s event was held at the Mosman Art Gallery and was attended by nearly 130 members of the Fine Music family.

It was a time of genuine celebration as 2018 has seen Fine Music record its highest ever audience numbers and audience share, a record level of donations and increasing subscriber numbers. This year we have also expanded our programs to support aspiring young musicians. At the Mosman event, the focus was on the Kruger Scholarship. Current Scholar, composer Cameron Lam, spoke about the song cycle he has completed with our help, then former Scholars, Nick Russoniello (2014, saxophone) and Alicia Crossley (2015, recorder) performed two of Cameron’s compositions.

We finished the evening with the announcement of the 2019 Kruger Scholar, singer and composer, Nicholas Gentile. Nicholas is using the scholarship to support the writing and recording of a new opera, an ambitious undertaking which we will follow with interest. Nicholas brought the house down by concluding with a marvellous rendition of the music theatre classic and, given his project, perhaps an appropriate song: What kind of fool am I? Spring also sees the AGM of the Music Broadcasting Society. I want to acknowledge and thank three retiring directors, Lloyd Capps, Andrew Dziedzic and Jeannie McInnes. They have given sterling service to the Board over the past four years and are indefatigable volunteers for Fine Music. I shall be continuing as Chair of the Society for a further year, but I think this is an appropriate time to have a fresh perspective in these notes so, for 2019 I shall be handing over the writing to our Station Manager, Rebecca Beare. I know you will enjoy her insights.

It just remains for me to wish you and your loved ones a very Happy and Peaceful Christmas.

David Brett

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NICKY GLUCH INVESTIGATES THE MANY FACETS OF LOVE These are interesting times for classical music in Australia. On the one hand, there is a push for the industry to be more representative, through programs for female composers, for example.

On the other, the industry is struggling to be heard: according to Musica Viva, 63% of Australian primary schools do not offer classroom music, a statistic that it is trying to combat through wellgrounded research and the production of a documentary series Don’t Stop the Music.

program (featuring the Gran partita) in April.

Philia: Deep friendship

“As a musician you meet all sorts of incredible artists throughout your life, and these relationships often end up defining your own musical journey”, says Rowden in relation to working with the composer Nico Muhly. Rowden and Muhly met as students through a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Music (where Rowden studied) and the Juilliard School (Muhly’s alma mater). Muhly While Musica Viva was formed already had an esteemed with the express intent of career, working at the time as promoting a love of music, it Philip Glass’ compositional is not alone in pursuing this assistant and having arranged goal. Since the opening of the an album by Bjork, and Learning Centre, Fine Music has Rowden has enjoyed watching increased its efforts to connect his colleague go from strength with young musicians and, to strength. In October, for since 2014, has been nurturing example, Muhly’s latest opera up-and-coming ensembles. In Marnie was premiered at The the inaugural year, the Omega Met. Omega’s commission will Ensemble was one of these see Muhly’s music placed within ensembles. Now, at the launch the American contemporary Photo: Keith Saunders of the Omega Ensemble’s 2019 David Rowden, Clarinet tradition. The July concert will season, it is fitting to discuss its open with the Sonata for violin and piano by become sustainable. Would David Rowden ambassadorial role.

Philip Glass, followed

by John Adams’ Shaker have dared, in 2005, to dream of his Along with alpha, beta, omega and many ensemble’s 14th year? Thus it is testament loops and then two established works by other words, the Greeks gave the world many to Omega that it has continued on an upward Muhly, By all means and No uncertain terms.

The premiere will then step into the world different words for love. Aside from eros trajectory throughout its life. of eros, being a setting of a poem by the (passion), there is philia (deep friendship, from which stems storge or familial love), Speaking to this notion, Raspopova says she Egyptian-Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy. ludus (playful love), agape (love for everyone), finds it exciting that Omega is now approached Keeping the philia theme alive, the program will pragma (long-standing love) and philautia “…by musicians of a younger generation for feature violinist Alexandra Osborne. Although (love of the self), and it is these manifold help, advice and inspiration. It is a sign of an she is now working as concertmaster of the definitions that Omega seems to embrace. exciting growing industry where more and National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, Indeed, when speaking of composers whom more younger musicians are determined Osborne is originally from Australia and studied they have commissioned or musicians with to take matters into their own hands and at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the whom they will collaborate, Artistic Directors make their own opportunities”. Perhaps same time as Rowden and Raspopova. Of her David Rowden and Maria Raspopova exude Raspopova points these hopefuls to the friend, Raspopova remarks: “Alexandra is a an infectious appreciation. They mention Ensemble’s wisdom that sustainability comes leading example of an Australian talent who passion, relationships, excitation … words as much from having a strong foundation as must be heard in Australia. We are so pleased tinged with, well, love. looking to the future. Thus in a season filled to be able to give audiences this opportunity.” with premieres, Omega will also return to Come as strangers, leave as friends; it seems Pragma: Long-standing love longstanding favourites, such as Brahms’ Trio a fitting Omega adage.

It is common for young musicians to toy with in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano and Eros and storge: Passion and familial love the idea of starting their own ensemble. With Faure’s Requiem.

Rowden and Raspopova tell a sweet story a thirst to play, but insufficient employment opportunities, it is a way for new graduates The season opens with two such enduring of how they met. They were in the same to create their own developmental space: in programs: trios by Mendelssohn, Schoenberg harmony class at the Conservatorium when short, to grow, to explore and have fun. What (Verklärte Nacht in arrangement) and one day their eyes locked across the room. is rarer is that these fledgling ensembles Beethoven in February and an all-Mozart Rowden went over to introduce himself at 2

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the lesson’s end, but perhaps fortunately they didn’t end up going out as students. Rowden went to the UK and Raspopova received a scholarship to study in Manhattan, but somewhere a memory flickered. When they returned to Australia, Rowden got in touch, and the couple were married within the year.

Now, eight years later they have two children and since 2017 have also become professional partners with Raspopova appointed to the role of Omega’s Co-Artistic Director.

wide, from Musica Viva, which shares Craig’s pedagogic goal, to Maggie Beer who similarly has a passion for her state, South Australia.

Agape and ludus: Love for everyone and playful love From Don’t Stop the Music to Artaria, a desire to spread and share classical music seems a current, ardent force. This ‘love for everyone’ is shared

by Omega which will launch its own recording label, Omega Classics, this year. As well as allowing concerts to reach a wider audience through live recordings (extending Omega’s current OnDemand scheme), the label’s studio recordings will ensure Omega’s commissions live on beyond their premieres. This is agape but it is also ludus, a playful way of connecting with the world of today. As Rowden explains, “We are committed to engaging with our audiences beyond the concert hall. There are generations of people who have grown up in a digital-first world and we hope to connect with them on their terms”.

June’s concert, Brahms in Love, is a celebration of the multiplicity of their relationship. The program takes its name from a comment made about Brahms’ Trio in A minor for clarinet, cello and piano, that so filled is the piece by warmth, it sounds as if the instruments are in love. Along with this work, Omega will play three pieces written for Rowden and Raspopova’s partnership: George Palmer’s Sonata for clarinet and piano, Miniatures

by Andrew Anderson and a new commission for Nicole Brady.

Now living in Los Angeles, Brady knew Rowden and Raspopova “The music should never stop at different stages of their lives; when you leave the stage”, Rowden, when they were at Photo: KeithSaunders Rowden says, and so it seems school, and Raspopova at the Celia Craig, Oboe that Shakespeare’s sentiment Conservatorium.

Raspopova speaks of their friendship with great warmth, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and as remains. From eros, to philia, pragma to ludus, delighting in the way relationships can change much as Omega will embrace her with its own ‘if music be the food of love, play on’! in the most unexpected and exciting ways. philautia (for what an asset she will be), Craig has her own motivations for leaving. Seeing EVENTS, DATES AND VENUES “Every time we catch up,” Raspopova says, a crisis in South Australia’s music education, “we talk about things like philosophy, science Craig wants to address it. Her concern is that BEETHOVEN’S TRIO and fashion. [Nicole] is an incredibly talented numbers of oboe students are at a critical low, Saturday 16 February, 2.30pm musician and really curious about the world and that action must be taken to redress this, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House and it is nice to share other aspects of life lest the instrument become ‘extinct’. “Without [aside from] music. Next year when we oboes, orchestras can’t even tune up!” Craig GRAND MOZART perform the work she composed for us, I know expresses in an evocative way, capturing the Tuesday 9 April 7.30pm that her understanding and view of David and urgency.

City Recital Hall me as musicians will be influenced by how she knows us as people.” It will be enchanting to On a grander scale, Craig has founded a BRAHMS IN LOVE see how this notion emerges through sound. recording company, Artaria. The name is Saturday 15 June 2.30pm reminiscent of one of the greatest publishing Philautia: Love of the self Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House houses of the Classical era and, in the same As the philosopher Roman Krznaric explains, way that this company put Vienna on the AMERICAN MASTERS there are two types of self-love, the one we map, Craig hopes to endow South Australia.

Tuesday 2 July 7.30pm think of more readily, which can degrade Setting music against the backdrop of South City Recital Hall to narcissism, and the one which we need Australia, Artaria is a company for the visual to embrace, self-regard/compassion which age. Craig’s goal is to make classical music BOOKINGS increases one’s facility to love. more accessible for students, by providing Sydney Opera House or City Recital Hall Joining Omega as a principal musician in 2019 free resources for schools, as well as to Find future concerts at omegaensemble. will be English oboist Celia Craig. For the past connect with newer, and broader audiences. com.au/2019 seven years, Craig has been principal oboist The endorsements have come from far and DECEMBER 2018

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SHARING THE STORIES OF THE MUSIC Every piece of music has a story.

Perhaps it’s been written by a struggling composer trying to achieve fame, or by a successful composer going from strength to strength on a wave of popularity. Perhaps the composer is longing for unattainable love or perhaps the composer has found joy in the love of another. The music could be the result of an unhappy love affair, or the death of a loved one or an esteemed friend.

Maybe the composer has been struggling with inner demons and is expressing this through music. Some have written music in dire circumstances of disabling illness, poverty, even homelessness. Other works have been written in the fortuitous circumstance of having received an important commission. Many have been inspired by nature, travels, literature and legend, friendship, noble characters, evil characters, comic characters and an infinite number of other sources, both real and imaginary.

Sometimes the composer gives the work a title that fully describes the music (e.g.

Beethoven’s Rage over a lost penny); other titles describe only an impression woven into the fabric of the music. Some music is

programmatic and follows a story line (without words) and then we have the wonderful world of opera, operetta, oratorio, musicals and film where a whole story is told in a theatrical setting. Many a work is simply called sonata, quartet, symphony, concerto and the like, but has a story behind its composition that is not apparent when listening to the music.

These are some of the stories we tell in Fine Music magazine. We can’t tell all of them but we try to find some of the most interesting ones behind the music we are broadcasting that month. We hope that this encourages you to listen to these programs and, along with the presentation, makes your listening more enjoyable. The majority of our writers are programmers (some also presenters) who have developed great knowledge of music and love researching the stories associated with the music so that they can share them with you.

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A CHRISTMAS OPERA DOUBLE BILL ANGELA COCKBURN FINDS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES Master Sweep may be poor but that doesn’t make him good; and the privileged children don’t see any divide between themselves and Sammy, the impoverished little sweep. Menotti is much stronger on this. In his opera old King Kaspar may be kind and a bit dotty but he and the other visitors are quite definitely kings, and Amahl and his mother are very poor.

Amahl and the night visitors I met Benjamin Britten exactly once, or at least I was briefly introduced, and he kindly allowed me to watch a rehearsal. It was the 1970 Adelaide Festival and Britten was there with Peter Pears to present the three church parables. I wasn’t actually there for the music but because one of the parables, Curlew River, is closely based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa and I wanted to see what Peter Pears would make of the role of the Madwoman, following the Noh tradition of all male performers. As it turned out he was most impressive.

Britten impressed me for a quite different reason. He was also rehearsing a small group of boys from a local choir school and he was wonderful with them: clear, informative, courteous and not in the least patronising. He obviously liked children as regular people, and it showed. Combine that with his appreciation for the dynamics of English village life (think Peter Grimes or Albert Herring) and add his trust that people who are reasonably musical and reasonably educated can perform if it’s properly explained, and you have the thinking that informs Let’s make an opera and the opera that gets made: The little sweep.

Written for the second Aldeburgh Festival, The little sweep included songs written for the audience. He’d tried it before for the cantata St Nicolas and besides, as he wrote: “The cast consists of five professional singers and six children, and the audience constitutes the chorus (a neat device for saving money, don’t you think?)”. Of course, to be fair, people who go to music festivals are likely to be musically educated, apart from a few disgruntled relatives dragged along in tow.

Imogen Holst, who worked for Britten at the time, described the first performance ‘when hardened opera goers anxiously clutched their song sheets’ and a ‘tall thin music critic’ was uncertain of the precise divisi required for the four birdsong choirs. Maybe Britten wasn’t averse to challenging a critic, but an audience song made up of owls, herons, doves and chaffinches singing high Gs rhythmically in falsetto strikes me as great fun.

Britten had suggested William Blake’s poem The Chimney Sweeper to director/librettist Eric Crozier as the basis for a children’s opera. In Blake’s time, extremely young boys were sent to climb inside chimneys to clean them because they could fit inside the flues that linked from room to room and then out to the chimney pot, an effective form of early central heating. The boys were often even younger than Britten’s Sammy, who is eight, which is probably as young as you can get and still learn to sing a treble role in an opera.

Although Britten was certainly influenced by Blake, surely another influence was Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies, about a little sweep who drowns and lives a magical underwater life before redeeming his cruel master, interestingly called ‘Grimes’.

As an early Christmas special, we’re pairing The little sweep, with Giancarlo Menotti’s Amahl and the night visitors. There are parallels between Britten and Menotti’s lives: both in long-term partnerships with other musicians, both religious, both founders of enduring music festivals (Aldeburgh and Spoleto), and there are parallels, too, between the two operas.

Both look at the social divide between privilege and poverty; but Britten is more subtle. The

Amahl is lumped in with Menotti’s other children’s operas because it sprang from memories of Menotti’s own childhood.

However, if you only look at it that way it’s deeply weakened by the specious and sentimental assumption that a sacrifice made by a child is in some way more worthy than a sacrifice made by an adult, a premise found in that other Christmas perennial, The little drummer boy, written in 1941, ten years before Amahl. Just as well the character Amahl is a ‘spunky’ kid given to telling tall stories, or he’d be unbearable.

What makes Amahl special, in my view, is the mother: one of the passionate, strong, distressed women that Menotti portrays so well in The medium, The Saint of Bleeker Street and The consul. It’s her pain, her poverty and her despair that drives the plot. That’s one reason, I think, that Menotti insisted Amahl be sung by a boy and not a woman: the mother must relate to a real child. Add to that Menotti’s superb writing for the voice, with vocal lines that perfectly fit the dramatic situations and the opera more than deserves its popularity; but it’s not a ‘children’s opera’.

We’ll be broadcasting Amahl and the night visitors followed by The little sweep in At the Opera on Wednesday 19 December at 8 pm.

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THE CONSECRATION OF A NEW CHURCH PAMELA NEWLING EXPLORES AN EARLY MOZART MASS for this ceremony by Wolfgang Mozart, who is well-known because of his special talents and is the 12-year-old son of Leopold Mozart, who serves at the Court in Salzburg as Kapellmeister; it was performed by him personally, and he conducted with the greatest accuracy …”

Who would you commission for a task such as writing music for the consecration of a new church? An established composer with appropriate gravitas? Or a genius aged 12?

In 1768 Jesuit priest, Father Ignaz Parhamer, commissioned 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to write a Mass for the consecration of the new Orphanage Church in Vienna. The commission gave the Mass its nickname Orphanage Mass. The first performance of the Mass in C minor, K139 took place on 7 December 1768 at the church in the presence of the Emperor’s wife and children, and members of the court. It is considered Mozart’s most ambitious work to be performed up until that time.

The priest’s confidence in commissioning Wolfgang Mozart to write this work was probably influenced by the already prolific output of this child prodigy. By the time he was 12, Wolfgang had written 10 symphonies and performed for royalty, having begun composing at the age of five. He fulfilled his commission with ‘impressive assurance’ although his father, Leopold, added the figured bass to the work.

The young Mozart conducted a choir of orphans for the consecration of the church,

The current Kirche Maria Geburt was originally an orphanage with spiritual support, privately funded by Johann Michael Kienmayer, a wealthy entrepreneur who had made a fortune with a spinning company. The 20 orphans who stayed in the orphanage had to work in his spinning factory. It was under the rule of Empress Maria Theresa, that the old chapel of the orphanage was demolished and replaced by a proper church in 1768.

Despite its designation as a C minor Mass, the music is predominantly in C major.

Waisenhauskirche (Orphanage Church) of Vienna and a Viennese newspaper report about the opening ceremonies for the newly built church read: “…The entire music sung by the Waisenchor (orphanage chorus) for the High Mass, which met with universal approval and admiration, was completely newly composed

In his book Mozart: The Early Years 17561781, Stanley Sadie comments that, in the Classical period, Masses set wholly in a minor key were considered unusual and funereal; and this Mass was for a festive occasion.

The Mass, along with other early Mozart works, can be heard in Sunday Special at 3pm on 2 December.

LE NUOVE MUSICHE ANDREW DZIEDZIC CELEBRATES GIULIO CACCINI It was on 10 December 1618 that the Italian composer, singer, instrumentalist, pedagogue and musical theorist Giulio Caccini was buried.

The principal foundation of Caccini’s fame, still celebrated after 400 years, lies in his ability to compose in a style that he dubbed Le Nuove Musiche (the New Music), the title of a collection of songs published in 1602 that will be featured in Baroque and Before this month.

one style, the variety of his compositions in the operatic, madrigal and canzonetta styles showing the brilliance of this innovative composer. These works played an integral role in the development of the new operatic style being pioneered at this time (in particular the development of the recitative). The style Caccini developed was called the stile recitativo.

This collection came with an explanatory introduction that sought to explain the new semi-declamatory style of some of his songs that reflected the then current fascination with the musical theory of ancient Greece, with its focus on the power to move the emotions.

The collection had illustrations of the style of embellishments to be used and is a valuable original source for authentic performance practice.

Caccini’s wide musical influence is evident in the great number of his songs as well as arrangements of them that were included in contemporary music collections throughout the Continent and in England. His long-term musical legacy remains unquestioned.

Although he was born in Rome, from the age of 14 Florence became Caccini’s base for virtually his whole life. He was recruited at that young age by the great and powerful Medici family in whose service he then remained.

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Giulio Caccini It was there that he married a singer who gave birth to his two daughters (Settima and Francesca) who became famous singercomposers. Indeed, Caccini, his second wife, his daughters and an illegitimate son made up a famous vocal ensemble that performed at aristocratic celebrations all over Italy and even at a royal wedding in France.

Caccini’s output was never limited to any

Some of Caccini’s music will be included in Baroque and Before on Friday 7 December at 10pm. A special commemorative edition of Baroque and Before will feature several of his works in the new style with other songs and arias, and contrasting works by some of his contemporaries, including his daughter Francesca and the great Frescobaldi.

That’s on Friday 14 December at 10pm.

TCHAIKOVSKY’S OBSESSION WITH FATE RAJ GOPALAKRISHNAN DISCOVERS AN EARLY LOVE “Rarely have I met a woman so lovely, intelligent and kind.” – Tchaikovsky to his brother Anatoly, November 1868 Something unexpected occurred during the Russian autumn of 1868.

Tchaikovsky, then 28 years old and eager to make his mark as a composer, found himself in a slump and unable to compose anything of significance. When he attended the Bolshoi for a performance of Rossini’s Otello by a visiting Italian company, he found himself ‘bowled over’ by the Belgian soprano Désirée Artôt who was, by all accounts, the star of the season. The events of the following months would form an intriguing chapter of the budding composer’s life.

Tchaikovsky had briefly met Artôt earlier in the year, but this time he was completely captivated by her voice and personality. Within days, Tchaikovsky began sketches for a new single-movement symphonic fantasia titled Fatum (Fate). He worked on it sporadically, finding himself increasingly infatuated with Artôt. Eventually, Tchaikovsky set it aside to compose a Romance for piano which he dedicated to her, Peter Tchaikovsky followed by a set of recitatives and choruses that the composer remained silent, ‘went white for Artôt’s upcoming performance of Auber’s and walked out, then a few days later, was Le domino noir. unrecognisable … relaxed, at ease, and had only one consideration in the world, his work’.

Contrary to the prevailing myth that Tchaikovsky was greatly tormented by his homosexuality, In the midst of this whirlwind affair, Tchaikovsky recent research has revealed that he did not completed Fatum in December 1868. Fate is blame himself for these feelings, considering it omnipresent in many of his works; from the to be natural. However, there were pressures Byronic epic Manfred symphony to the operas and conventions that he could not ignore in Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades the conservative Russian society of the time. and the final three symphonies, culminating By the end of 1868, his friendship with Artôt in the Pathétique. However, Fatum stands out had progressed quickly to courtship and, with conspicuously since it is the only completed Tchaikovsky believing that he could perhaps work in his oeuvre that explicitly carries ‘fate’ in live a ‘heterosexual lifestyle’ the couple were its title without further clues from Tchaikovsky engaged to be married in the summer of 1869. as to its significance. If a program did in fact exist, he chose to keep it hidden.

Tchaikovsky’s friends, particularly Nikolai Rubinstein, were horrified and urged the The enigmatic title certainly raised some composer to reconsider as they believed it doubts prior to its premiere in February 1869. would be disastrous for him and his career. A bleak poem by Konstantin Batyushkov was Artôt’s mother, who was now probably aware hastily inserted in the concert program as of Tchaikovsky’s sexual orientation, strongly an epigraph: Do you recall the cry / Of grey disapproved and promptly intervened. Early Melchizedek as he prepared to die?/ Man, in the new year Artôt married a Spanish he exclaimed, is born a slave; a slave / He baritone while she was away in Warsaw. must descend into the grave / And Death will When Rubinstein delivered the news to hardly tell him why / He haunts the magic vale Tchaikovsky who was busy with rehearsals for of tears,/ Suffers and weeps, endures and his first opera The Voyevoda, it was reported disappears.

These verses do not truly reflect the range of moods within Tchaikovsky’s work and there are conflicting explanations for its appearance on the program. One account by Sergei Rachinsky, a botanist and admirer of Tchaikovsky’s music, contends that he was responsible for providing the poem to Rubinstein who thought some verses might alleviate the title’s ambiguity. Rubinstein was ‘won over by the beautiful melancholy’ of the poem and added the text without Tchaikovsky’s knowledge. Regardless of its origins, Batyushkov’s verses only further confounded the audience.

Nevertheless, the music was well received in Moscow.

Fatum’s next performance in St Petersburg, however, was a failure.

Balakirev, who conducted the work, did not hold back in his scathing assessment of the piece, yet he was happy to remain its dedicatee.

Tchaikovsky subsequently extracted the lyrical theme for a duet in his third opera The oprichnik, then destroyed the full score in the 1870s, along with his early operas The Voyevoda and Undina.

After his death, Fatum was reconstructed by Ivan Shorning from surviving orchestral parts and it was published posthumously in 1896. It remains a rarely performed curiosity.

Almost 20 years after their engagement had ended, Tchaikovsky met Artôt again while he was on tour in Berlin. Still mesmerised by her, their friendship was reignited and, when she requested a song for her recitals, Tchaikovsky offered instead a generous set of Six French songs, op 65. They remained in contact but Artôt’s insistence that he should meet with an overly eager French librettist regarding a new opera caused him to panic.

Overworked and unable to take on extra commitments, Tchaikovsky went to desperate lengths to thwart this meeting. However, to avoid irrevocable damage to their friendship, Tchaikovsky revealed the truth to Artôt in a long heartfelt apology (“You won’t be angry with me, will you? … I throw myself at your feet and kiss your dear hands”). She did not reply.

We do not know how Tchaikovsky reacted to her silence, but they never met again.

The symphonic poem titled Fatum can be heard in Sunday Special on 16 December at 3pm.

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Saturday 1 December As we approach Christmas, look for the wreath of Australian Christmas bush on programs with music written for this joyous season. Best wishes for a very happy Christmas from the Fine Music magazine team.

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 PERIODS AND THEIR PEOPLE 20th Century 1916-2000 Prepared by Brian Drummond Korngold, E. Suite from Much ado about nothing, op 11 (1920). Gil Shaham, vn; André Previn, pf.

DG 439 886-2 13 Barber, S. First essay for orchestra, op 12 (1937). Royal Scottish NO/Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.559024 8 Creston, P. Toccata, op 68 (1957). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.

Naxos 8.559153 14 Glass, P. Dance V, from In the upper room (1986). Ensemble/Michael Riesman.

Sony SMK87971 3 Bernstein, L. Divertimento for orchestra (1980). Israel PO/Leonard Bernstein.

DG 415 966-2 15 Zwilich, E. Millennium fantasy (2000). Jeffrey Biegel, pf; Florida State University SO/ Alexander Jimenez.

Naxos 8.559656 20 10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Stephen Wilson Buxtehude, D. Sonata in A, op 2 no 5 (pub.

1696). Members of Sydney Consort.

Sydney Consort SC004 9 Dvorák, A. Cypresses (1887). Quatuor Thymos.

Avie AV2234 16 Corelli, A. Violin sonata in D minor, op 5 no 12, La Follia (pub. 1700; arr.). Frans Brüggen, rec; Anner Bijlsma vc; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd.

Pro Arte CDD 291 9 Boccherini, L. Guitar quintet no 1 in D minor.

Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.

Decca 478 5669 18 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Dreyfus, G. Rush (1974; arr.). Kew Band/ Tom Paulin.

Move MD 3248 3 Bach, J.S. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, from

Cantata, BWV147 (1723; arr.). Men O’Brass/ Harry Mortimer.

LP EMI DUO 130 4 Barber, S. Commando march. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee.

AMP 21198 4 Rossini, G. Gallop and finale, from William Tell (1829; arr). Men O’Brass/Harry Mortimer.

LP EMI CHAN 8679 3 Reisteter, S. A Celtic Christmas. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee.

AMP 22173 10 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 THE PHOENIX COLLECTIVE Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC Biber, H. Mystery sonata no 3 in F, The nativity (pub. 1676). 14 Vivaldi, A. Sonata in G minor, op 2 no 1. 11 Corelli, A. Sonata in D minor, op 5 no 12 (pub. 1700). 13 Bach, J.S. Sonata no 3 in E, BWV1015 (bef.

1725). 18 Tartini, G. Sonata in G minor, Devil’s trill (pub. 1734). 16 Vivaldi, A. Violin concerto no 4 in F minor, RV297, Winter, mvt. 2 (pub. 1725; arr.). 4 Phoenix Collective (all above) 14:30 QUARTET Enescu, G. String quartet no 2 in E flat, op 22 no 2 (1950-53). Quatuor Ad Libitum.

Naxos 8.554721 27 15:00 SATURDAY MATINEE Operetta in the afternoon Prepared by Elaine Siversen Offenbach, J. La belle Hélène. Operetta in three acts. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. First performed Paris, 1864.

HÉLÈNE: Anna Moffo, sop PARIS: René Kollo, ten KALCHAS: Ivan Rebroff, bass MENELAUS: Josef Meinrad, ten Stuttgart Radio Choir & O/Franz Allers.

Philips 420 662-2 51 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Les bavards. Operetta in two acts. Libretto by Charles Nuitter. First performed Ems, 1862.

ROLAND: Aimé Doniat, ten INÈS: Hugette Boulangeot, sop BÉATRIX: Lina Dachary, sop SARMIENTO: René Terrasson, bass French Radio Lyric Ch & O/Marcel Couraud.

LP Erato DUE 20240 58 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera

Ballet from Orpheus in the Underworld (1858). Philharmonia O/Antonio de Almeida.

Philips 422 057-2 18 17:30 STAGING MUSIC Prepared by Angela Cockburn Titus Andronicus and Two gentlemen of Verona 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Folk Federation of NSW 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Annabelle Drumm 20:00 THE WORD TRANSFORMED Prepared by Paul Cooke Schumann, R. Overture to Manfred, op 115 (1848-49). Philharmonia O/Christian Thielemann.

DG 453 482-2 15 Andreae, V. Li-Tai-Pe, eight Chinese songs for tenor and orchestra, op 37 (1931).

Benjamin Hulett, ten; Bournemouth SO/Marc Andreae.

Guild GMCD 7400 22 Butterworth, G. A Shropshire lad (1912).

South Australian SO/Bernard Heinze.

ABC 446 282-2 11 MacDowell, E. Six idylls after Goethe, op 28 (pub. 1887). James Barbagallo, pf.

Marco Polo 8.223632 12 Myaskovsky, N. Silence, symphonic poem after Edgar Allen Poe, op 9 (1909). Russian Federation SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Warner Classics 69689-8 21 Lord, J. To notice such things, suite for flute, piano and string orchestra (2009). Bruce Martin, fl; Jon Lord, pf; Royal Liverpool PO/ Clark Rundell.

Avie AV 2190 27 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 3 in D minor, op 30 (1909). Lang Lang, pf; St Petersburg PO/Yuri Temirkanov.

DG 479 2236 44 Tchaikovsky, P. Valse-scherzo, op 34 (1878).

James Ehnes, vn; Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Sydney Symphony SSO201206 9 Borodin, A. Symphony no 2 in B minor (1869-76). Rotterdam PO/Valery Gergiev.

Philips 422 996-2 30 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from Le coq d’or (1907). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.

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Sunday 2 December 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide Showcases diverse music from cultures around the world, both traditional and modern, featuring musicians from all corners of the globe, including Australia 14:00 JOSÉ SEREBRIER: 80 YEARS Prepared by Frank Morrison Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 1 in D, op 25, Classical (1916-17). Scottish CO. ASV DCA 760 14

Jan Dismas Zelenka 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Robert Small Zelenka, J. Gloria, from Missa Dei Filii (174041). Nancy Argenta, sop; Michael Chance, ct; Christoph Prégardien, ten; Gordon Jones, bass; Stuttgart Chamber Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque O/Frieder Bernius.

Harmonia Mundi RD 77922 35 Tavener, J. The call (1988). Finzi Singers/ Paul Spicer.

Cantus CAN 301-2 9 Monteverdi, C. Magnificat II, from Selva morale e spirituale (pub. 1640). King’s Consort & Choir/Robert King.

Hyperion CDA67519 9 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Rebecca Zhong Bach, J. Christian Sinfonia concertante in A (1770). Zoltan Szábo, vc; Australian CO/Carl Pini, vn & dir.

Fine Music concert recording 15 Arriaga, J. String quartet no 2 in A (1821-22).

Chilingirian Quartet.

CRD 33123 29 Hummel, J. Piano sonata no 3 in F minor, op 20 (c1807). Ian Hobson, pf.

Arabesque Z 6566 21 Schubert, F. Einen Leichenphasie, D7 (1811). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf.

DG 477 5765 19 Crusell, B. Clarinet concerto no 2 in F minor, op 5, Grand (1808). Thea King, cl; London SO/Alun Francis.

Helios CDH55203 25 12:00 A HISTORY OF JAZZ IN AUSTRALIA Prepared by Bruce Johnson A 20-part series based on his comprehensive book on the development of jazz in Australia 10

Janácek, L. Jealousy, original prelude to Jenufa (1894). Czech State PO. Reference RR-75 6 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 8 in G, op 88 (1889). Sydney SO. LP RCA VRL1 0269 35 José Serebrier, cond (all above) 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Orphanage Mass Prepared by Di Cox Mozart, W. Serenade no 1 in D, K100 (1769).

Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard.

LP Erato NUM 75184 21 Keyboard concerto in D, K107 no 1 (1770).

Ronald Brautigam, fp; Cologne Academy/ Michael Alexander Willens.

BIS BIS-2084 12 String quartet no 1 in G, K80 (1770).

Festetics Quartet.

Hungaroton HCD 31443-45 18 Symphony in B flat, K45b (1768). Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 421 135-2 14 Mass in C minor/major, K139, Orphanage (1768). Sebastian Hennig, treb; Rafael Garten, alto; John Elwes, ten; Stephen Varcoe, bass; Hanover Boys’ Choir; Collegium Aureum/Heinz Hennig.

LP EMI 1C 065-99 910 43 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Stephen Matthews Carols: The first Nowell; The shepherd’s farewell; The Coventry carol. Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Graham Jackson, org; Richard Marlow, cond.

Conifer 75605 51754 2 13 Gibbons, O. This is the record of John. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Andrew Lucas, org; John Scott, cond.

Helios CDH554636 5 Buxtehude, D. Cantata for Christmas, BuxWV13. Savaria Vocal Ensemble; Capella Savaria/Pál Németh. 7 Handel, G. For unto us a Child is born; Glory to God, from Messiah, HWV56 (1741). Berlin Radio Ch & SO/Helmut Koch. 7

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Zelenka, J. Alma redemptoris Mater (172526). Collegium Marianum/Jana Semerádová.

Supraphon SU4002-2 9 Trad. Journey into light. Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge; Robert Dixon, org; Mark Williams, cond.

Signum SIGCD 0269 10 18:00 BEETHOVEN’S LAST QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Beethoven, L. 12 Variations on a theme by Handel from Judas Maccabaeus, WoO45 (1796). Anssi Karttunen, vc; Tuija Hakkila, pf. apex 0927-49595-2 11 String quartet no 15 in A minor, op 132 (1825). Tokyo String Quartet.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 807481.83 44 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Arensky, A. Suite from ballet, Egyptian nights, op 50a (1902). USSR RSO/Boris Demchenko.

Melodiya MEL 45002-2 20 Krommer, F. Clarinet concerto in E flat, op 36 (1803). Emma Johnson, cl; Royal PO/ Günther Herbig.

ASV DCA 763 22 Atterberg, K. Symphony no 2 in F, op 6 (1911-13). Frankfurt RSO/Ari Rasilainen. cpo 999 565-2 41 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Calogero Panvino Sculthorpe, P. Sonata no 1 for strings (1983). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

ABC 454 504-2 14 Boyd, A. Angklung (1974). Roger Woodward, pf.

ABC 462 007-2 10 Sculthorpe, P. Sonata no 2 for strings (1988). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

ABC 454 504-2 13 Boyd, A. Cloudy mountain (1981). Jim Denley, fl; Satsuki Odamura, koto.

Vox Australis VAST022-2 9 Book of the bells (1981). Sally Mays, pf.

Canberra School of Music CSM 3 19 Edwards, R. Piano concerto (1982). Dennis Hennig, pf; Queensland SO/Myer Fredman.

ABC 426 483-2 18 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones

Monday 3 December

Leonard Bernstein

Claudio Abbado

Yevgeny Svetlanov

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Brahms, J. Symphony no 3 in F, op 90 (1883). Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado.

DG 429 765-2 38

Arensky, A. Suite no 2: Silhouettes, op 23 (1892). Danish National RSO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8898 19

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Kalinnikov, Vasily. Symphony no 1 in G minor (1897). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Melodiya 10-00171 37

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1906 Prepared by Di Cox Harty, H. A comedy overture (1906). Ulster O/ Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 7035 14 Ravel, M. Introduction and allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet (1906). Sylvia Kowalczuk, hp; Hungarian Virtuosi CO/Aristid von Würtzler.

Hungaroton HCD 31550 11 Bridge, F. Three idylls (1906). Coull Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66718 15 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Introduction and hymn to the sun, from Le coq d’or (1906-07; arr. Bellison). Murray Khouri, cl; Rosemary Barnes, pf.

Portrait Continuum CCD 1014 5 Sibelius, J. Tone poem: Pohjola’s daughter, op 49 (1906). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson.

Chandos CHAN 6508 12 Faure, G. Dolly suite, op 56 (1906; arr.).

Amsterdam Guitar Trio.

Newton 8802093 14 Grieg, E. How fair is thy face, from Four Psalms, op 74 (1906). Håkan Hagegård, bar; Oslo Cathedral Choir/Terje Kvam.

Nimbus NI 5171 5 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Frank Morrison Bernstein, L. Symphonic dances, from West Side story (1957). London SO/Michael Tilson Thomas.

DG 439 926-2 22 Haydn, J. Oboe concerto in C, Hob.VIIg:C1 (1780-90). Derek Wickens, ob; Royal PO/ Elgar Howarth.

ASV ACA 1003 22

Featuring bands of the 1930s swing era and the dance bands of the 1920s taken from radio broadcasts, transcriptions and recording sessions 13:00 A CLASSICAL SELECTION Prepared by Paul Hopwood Arriaga, J. String quartet no 1 in D minor (1821-22). Chilingirian Quartet.

CRD 33123 30 Haydn, J. Piano sonata no 33 in C minor, Hob.XVI:20 (1771). Mikhail Pletnev, pf.

Virgin 5 45254 2 18

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

Paganini, N. Sonata no 4 in E (c1828). Luigi Alberto Bianchi, vn; Maurizio Preda, gui.

Dynamic CDS 34 9 Beethoven, L. Trio in B flat for clarinet, cello and piano, op 11 (1797). James Campbell, cl; Yuli Turovsky, vc; Luba Edlina, pf.

Chandos CHAN 8655 24 14:30 FROM RUSSIA Prepared by Robin Mitchell Weinberg, M. Trumpet concerto, op 94 (1966-67). Andrew Balio, tpt; St Petersburg State SO/Vladimir Lande.

Naxos 8.573190 26 CONTINUING PROGRAM SERIES A History of Jazz in Australia prepared by Bruce Johnson: Sundays 2, 16 at 12 noon Musical Families prepared by Jennifer Foong: Tuesdays 4, 18 at 2pm Sunday Special, Simply Shostakovich prepared by Paolo Hooke: Sunday 9 at 3pm Rossini 150, At the Opera, Ricciardo e Zoraide prepared by Colleen Chesterman: Wednesday 12 at 8pm Evenings with the Orchestra, The Symphonies of Vaughan Williams prepared by David Brett: Friday 21 at 8pm Died for Love, At the Opera, Tosca (Puccini) prepared by Camille Mercep: Wednesday 26 at 8pm DECEMBER 2018

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Tuesday 4 December 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 The colours of the keyboard Prepared by Rex Burgess Handel, G. Suite no 5 in E, HWV430, The harmonious blacksmith (pub. 1720). Alicia de Larrocha, pf.

Philips 456 886-2 13 Lawes, W. Sonata no 8 in D. Sigiswald Kuijken, vn; Wieland Kuijken, bass viol; Gustav Leonhardt, org.

RCA GD 71954 11 Schubert, F. Fantasie in F minor, D940 (1828). Stephen Emmerson, Bernard Lanskey, pf.

Tall Poppies TP154 20 Chopin, F. Piano sonata no 2 in B flat minor, op 35 (1840). Marc-André Hamelin, pf.

Hyperion CDA67706 22 Klengel, J. Koncertstück in D minor, op 10 (1885). Martin Rummel, vc; Mari Kato, pf.

Naxos 8.573793 14 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Marilyn Schock Glinka, M. Waltz-fantasy (1856). Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian.

ASV DCA 1075 9 Sibelius, J. Violin concerto in D minor, op 47 (1903-04). Pekka Kuusisto, vn; Helsinki PO/ Leif Segerstam.

Ondine ODE 878-2 34 Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 3 in A minor, op 44 (1935-36/38). St Petersburg PO/Mariss Jansons.

EMI 5 62809 2 38

Mikhail Glinka

14:00 MUSICAL FAMILIES Fathers and sons Prepared by Jennifer Foong

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

Bononcini, G. Sinfonia decima, op 3 no 7 (pub. 1685). John Wallace, tpt; John Miller, tpt; Philharmonia O/Christopher WarrenGreen.

Nimbus NI 5017 9

Bononcini, G.M. Trio sonata in G minor.

Musica Antiqua Latina/Giordano Antonelli.

DHM G010003430298B 5

Saint-Saëns, C. Caprice on Danish and Russian airs, op 79 (1887). Members of Nash Ensemble.

Hyperion CDA67431/2 11

Linley, W. Lawn, as white as driven snow.

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ten; Graham Johnson, pf.

Hyperion CDA66480 1 Bononcini, G. Divertimento da camera no 6 in C minor (pub. 1722). Michala Petri, rec; George Malcolm, hpd.

Philips 476 7072 7 Linley, T. the Younger To heal the wound a bee had made. Invocation/Timothy Roberts.

Hyperion CDA66698 3

An eclectic blending of agreeable rhythm and melody from the New Orleans jazz roots through to recent decades, including many Australian bands

Bononcini, G. Cello sonata in A minor (pub. 1748). Bruno Cocset, vc; Il Seminario Musicale.

Virgin VC 5 45000 2 9

13:00 ROMANTIC SONATAS Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Linley, T. the Younger Violin concerto in F (c1772). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman.

Helios CDH55260 16

Rachmaninov, S. Cello sonata in G minor, op 19 (1901). Pei-Sian Ng, vc; David Tong, pf.

Melba MR 301113 34

Smooth small group jazz from the 50s on, and with a visit from Miles Davis each week 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Michael Field

Violin sonata in A (c1768). Locatelli Trio.

Hyperion CDA66583 11

Skryabin, A. Piano sonata no 2 in G sharp minor, op 18 (1892-97). Yuja Wang, pf.

DG 477 8140 12

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

Linley, T. the Elder Elegy II: Ye sportive loves, that round me wait. Invocation/Timothy Roberts.

Hyperion CDA66698 6

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

Liszt, F. Die Lorelei (1861). Vladimir Leyetchkiss, pf.

Centaur CRC 2088 8

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Mariss Jansons

Bononcini, A. Stabat Mater (c1720). Felicity Palmer, sop; Paul Esswood, ct; Philip Langridge, ten; Christopher Keyte, bass; Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge; John Wilson, vn; Chris Wellington, va; Don McVeigh, va; John Scott, org; Philomusica of London/George Guest.

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22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Paul Cooke

Bloch, E. Violin sonata no 2, Mystical poem (1924). Leonard Friedman, vn; Allan Schiller, pf.

ASV DCA 714 22 Weber, C.M. Piano sonata no 1 in C, op 24 (1812). Stephanie McCallum, pf.

ABC 462 763-2 27 Ben-Haim, P. Clarinet quintet, op 31a (1941/65). Joaquin Valdepeñas, cl; Marie Bérard, vn; Steven Dann, va; Brian Epperson, vc.

Chandos CHAN 10769 27 Glinka, M. Grand sextet in E flat for double bass, piano and string quartet (1832).

Capricorn.

Hyperion CDA66163 25

Wednesday 5 December

Mily Balakirev

Clara Schumann

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Balakirev, M. Symphony no 1 in C (1897).

Philharmonia O/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Hyperion CDA66691-2 44

Prelude, from Symphony no 1 (1928).

Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.559359 7

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale

Burlesque, from Music for theatre. Columbia SO/Leonard Bernstein.

Past Classics 3

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 Composer focus Prepared by Frank Morrison Spohr, L. Overture to Der Alchymist (182930). Berlin RSO/Christian Fröhlich. cpo 999 093-2 8 Variations in A, op 8 (pub. 1807). Ernö Sebestyen, vn; Heidrun Ganz, vn; Wilfried Strehle, va; Martin Ostertag, vc.

Schwann 311 088 10 Sonata concertante in A, op 113 (1806).

Jean-Pierre Rampal, fl; Marielle Nordmann, hp.

Sony SK 44552 5 Sonata in C minor (c1805). Sophie Langdon, vn; Hugh Webb, hp.

Naxos 8.555364 16 Violin concerto no 13 in E, op 92 (1835). Ulf Hoelscher, vn; Berlin RSO/Christian Fröhlich. cpo 999 187-2 14 Slumber song, op 72 no 6 (1826). Marjorie Patterson, sop; Daniel Sarge, pf.

Marco Polo 8.223869 4 Double string quartet in D minor, op 65 no 1 (1823). Kreuzberg String Quartet; Eder Quartet.

Teldec 8.44049 20 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Giovanna Grech Mendelssohn, F. Overture: Calm sea and prosperous voyage, op 27 (1828). Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi.

Decca 460 239-2 12 Debussy, C. La mer (1903-05). Royal Scottish NO/Stéphane Denève.

Chandos CHSA 5102(2) 24

World-wide contemporary jazz including contributions from Australian artists and those from culturally emerging nations 13:00 TRIOS WITH THE SCHUMANNS Prepared by Chris Blower Schumann, C. Piano trio in G minor, op 17 (by 1846). Oliver Butterworth, vn; Michael Evans, vc; Frank Wibaut, pf.

Hyperion CDH55078 29 Schumann, R. Piano trio no 2 in F, op 80 (1847). Christian Tetzlaff, vn; Tanja Tetzlaff, vc; Leif Ove Andsnes, pf.

EMI 0 94180 2 26 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 COPLAND EXPLORED Part 1 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Copland, A. The cat and the mouse. Robert Silverman, pf.

Maquis Classics 4 Prelude no 1 (1917). Peter Zazofsky, vn; Paul Posnak, pf.

Naxos 8.559102 4 Dance symphony (1925). Bournemouth SO/ Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.559359 17 Piano concerto (1926). Gillian Lin, pf; Melbourne SO/John Hopkins.

Chandos CHAN 6580 17

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Tchaikovsky, P. Cherevichki. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Yakov Polonsky after Gogol’s Christmas Eve. First performed Moscow, 1887.

VAKULA: Valerij Popov, ten SOLOKHA: Ludmila Semciuk, mezz THE DEVIL: Albert Schagidullin, bass-bar OKSANA: Ekaterina Morosova, sop CHUB: Vladimir Ognovenko, bass PAN GOLOVA: Barseg Tumanyan, bass SCHOOLMASTER: Vladimir Okenko, ten Cagliari Lyric Theatre Ch & O/Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Brilliant Classics 94375 2:55 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Variations on a rococo theme for cello and orchestra, op 33 (1876). Mischa Maisky, vc; Orpheus CO. DG 453 460-2 19 23:30 CHAMBER MOZART Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mozart, W. Violin sonata no 23 in D, K306 (1778). Fabio Biondi, vn; Olga Tverskaya, pf.

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Thursday 6 December

Isaac Stern

Enrique Granados

Nicholas McGegan

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

Handel, G. Clori, Tirsi e Fileno, HWV96 (1707). Lorraine Hunt, sop; Jill Feldman, sop; Drew Minter, ct; Paul O’Dette, archlute; Philharmonia Baroque O/Nicholas McGegan.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907045 1:16

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 music salon Prepared by Paul Cooke Hasse, J. Flute sonata in B minor, op 2 no 6. Nancy Hadden, fl; Erin Headley, bass viol; Malcolm Proud, hpd.

CRD 3488 9 Schubert, F. The shepherd on the rock, D965 (1828). Jennifer Bates, sop; Nigel Westlake, cl; David Bollard, pf.

Tall Poppies TP011 12 Sutherland, M. Oboe sonatina (c1954). Jirí Tancibudek, ob; Noreen Stokes, pf.

ABC 461 703-2 7 Mozart, W. Violin sonata no 24 in F, K376 (1781). Hilary Hahn, vn; Natalie Zhu, pf.

DG 477 5572 18 Diabelli, A. Serenade for flute and guitar, op 99. Konrad Hünteler, fl; Reinbert Evers, gui.

Pantheon D 14 112 16 Beethoven, L. Variations in E flat on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, op 121a (c1823).

Isaac Stern, vn; Leonard Rose, vc; Eugene Istomin, pf.

Sony SM2K 64513 18 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. Overture to Leonore, op 72a no 3 (1814). Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan.

EMI CDM 1 66426 2 15 Brahms, J. Piano concerto no 2 in B flat, op 83 (1878-81). Alfred Brendel, pf; Berlin PO/ Claudio Abbado.

Philips 432 975-2 49 Boccherini, L. Symphony no 26 in D, op 42 (1787). London FO/Ross Pople.

Hyperion CDA66904 18 14

Covering the many aspects of jazz from Swing to Mainstream, with the Great American Songbook making regular appearances 13:00 ROMANTIC PIANO Prepared by Marilyn Schock Granados, E. Poetic waltzes (1887). Douglas Riva, pf.

Naxos 8.554629 15 Chabrier, E. Pièces pittoresques (1880).

Kathryn Stott, pf.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9158 40 14:00 MUSICA VIVA PRESENTS Goldner String Quartet Recorded by Peter Bell for FINE MUSIC Szymanowski, K. Quartet no 1 in C, op 37 (1917). 19 Brahms, J. Quartet in A minor, op 51 no 2 (1873). 37 Schubert, F. Quintet in C, D956 (1828).

Umberto Clerici, va. 55 Goldner String Quartet (all above) 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Debbie Scholem

22:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Prepared by James Nightingale Sculthorpe, P. Island songs (2012). Amy Dickson, sax; Sydney SO/Benjamin Northey.

ABC 481 1703 18 Haydn, J. Piano sonata no 47 in B minor, Hob.XVI:32 (1776). Geoffrey Lancaster, fp.

Tall Poppies TP 216 18 Scarlatti, A. Lidio e Clori (c1699). Jane Edwards, sop; James Sanderson, ct; Lucinda Moon, vn; Stephen Freeman, vn; Nicole Forsyth, vn; Jamie Hey, vc.

ABC 461 687-2 15 Respighi, O. Concerto in modo misolidio (1925). Geoffrey Tozer, pf; BBC PO/Edward Downes.

Chandos CHAN 9285 41 Françaix, J. Wind quintet no 1 (1948).

Sydney Omega Ensemble/David Rowden, cl & dir.

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19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS Shepherds and shepherdesses Prepared by Rex Burgess Monteverdi, C. Tirsi e Clori, ballo (1616).

Patrizia Kwella, sop; Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, ten; Lawrence Dale, ten; Alan Woodrow, ten; Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner.

Erato 2292-45984-2 14 Caldara, A. Clori, mia bella Clori. Andrew Rädley, ct; Sounds Baroque/Julian Perkins.

Avie AV2197 19

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Friday 7 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Elaine Siversen Paganini, N. La campanella, rondo from Violin concerto no 2 in B minor, op 7 (1826; arr. Wilhelmj). David Garrett, vn; Alexander Markovich, pf.

DG 479 0933 6 Albrechtsberger, J. Concerto in F for flute, guitar and plucked string orchestra (arr.

Behrend). Marianne Klatt, fl; Michael Tröster, gui; German Plucked String CO/Siegfried Behrend.

Thorofon CTH 2025 14

Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell, op 34, The young person’s guide to the orchestra (1946). Royal Liverpool PO/Libor Pesek.

Virgin 5 61782 2 17 Rejoice in the lamb, op 30 (1943). Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson.

Naxos 8.554791 16 O waly, waly, from Folk song arrangements (1943). Teddy Tahu Rhodes, bass-bar; Sharolyn Kimmorley, pf.

ABC 476 717-5 4 Symphony for cello and orchestra, op 68 (1963). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Moscow PO/Benjamin Britten.

EMI 5 62827 2 33 14:30 OPERA SHORTS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Beethoven, L. Allegro con brio, from Piano concerto no 3 in C minor, op 37 (1804; transcr. Alkan). Marc-André Hamelin, pf.

Hyperion CDA66765 19

Rossini, G. Overture to The barber of Seville (1816). Berlin State Opera House O/Pietro Mascagni.

Naxos 8.110714/5 8

Bach, J.S. Concerto in A minor after Vivaldi, BWV593 (c1714). Hans Fagius, org.

BIS CD-343/44 12

Donizetti, G. Tombe degliavi miei, from Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). Piotr Beczala, ten; Ilya Bannik, bass; Mariinsky TO/Valery Gergiev.

Mariinsky MARO512 10

Vivaldi, A. Concerto in G for two guitars (arr. from Concerto for two mandolins and strings).

Jan Carter, gui; Alfred Alexander, gui; Judy Milson, spinet.

LP RCA VRL1 0125 10 Mozart, W. Flute concerto in D, K314, (1777; arr. Simonds 2014 for flute, clarinet, horn and string quartet). Sydney Soloists.

Fine Music concert recording 18 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Gerald Holder Mozart, W. Serenade no 13 in G, K525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1787). Tasmanian SO/ Geoffrey Lancaster, hpd & dir.

ABC 434 899-2 20 Spohr, L. Clarinet concerto no 4 in E minor (1829). Sharon Kam, cl; MDR SO/Gregor Bühl.

Berlin 0012862BC 24 Shostakovich, D. Symphony no 5 in D minor, op 47 (1937). Leningrad PO/Yevgeny Mravinsky.

Audiophile Classics APL 101.503 41 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan

Rossini, G. Strahit auf mich der Blitz des Goldes, from The barber of Seville (1816).

Fritz Wunderlich, ten; Eberhard Wächter, bar; Vienna State Opera O/Karl Böhm.

DG 477 9109 8 15:00 CLASSIC KEYBOARD Presented by Marilyn Schock Mozart, W. Piano sonata no 15 in C, K545, For beginners (1788). András Schiff, pf.

Philips 456 925-2 10 Schubert, F. Piano trio no 2 in E flat, D929 (1827). Macquarie Trio.

ABC 465 792-2 42 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Peter Kurti 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

13:00 FOCUS ON BRITTEN Prepared by Emyr Evans

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Prepared by Robert Small

Britten, B. Five flower songs, op 47 (1950).

The Sixteen/Harry Christophers.

Collins 12862 10

Barber, S. Violin concerto, op 14 (1939-40).

Dene Olding, vn; Hiroyuki Iwaki, cond.

ABC 476 7182 23

Strauss, R. Thus spake Zarathustra, op 30 (1895-96). Andrew Davis, cond.

ABC 481 1122 34 Westlake, N. Paper planes, from the soundtrack of Paper planes (2015). Nigel Westlake, cond.

ABC 481 1477 46 Dvorák, A. Song to the moon, from Rusalka, op 114 (1901). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Vladimir Kamirski, cond.

ABC 456 695-2 6 Melbourne SO (all above) 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE A Sydney early music concert Prepared by Susan Foulcher Trad. In dulci jubilo (arr. Evans). Renaissance Players/Winsome Evans.

Celestial Harmonies 14197-2 5 Horwood, W. Gaude flore virginali. Parsons Affayre/Warren Trevelyan-Jones.

Vox Foris MMPA002 10 Cima, G. Sonata in D minor. Salut.

Walsingham WAL8024-2 4 Marais, M. Suite no 2 in G minor, from Pièces en trio (1692). Marais Project.

Move MCD 512 17 Caccini, G. Dalla porta d’oriente; Tu ch’hai le penne; Amor ch’attendi. Nadia Piave, sop; Jennifer Eriksson, bass viol; Raymond Harvey, hpd.

Fine Music Tape Archive 12 Locatelli, P. Pastorale, from Concerto grosso in F minor, op 1 no 8, Christmas. Sirius Ensemble.

ABC 480 148-9 5 Trad. Of the Father’s heart begotten; O come, O come Emmanuel. Choir of Christ Church St Laurence; Peter Jewkes, org; Neil McEwan, cond.

CCSL CD05 5 Handel, G. Suite in D. John Foster, tpt; Australian Baroque Brass; Sydney Consort.

Tubicium Records TR761903 7 Buxtehude, D. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied. Sydney Consort.

Sydney Consort SC003 9 Bach, J.S. Double violin concerto in D minor, BWV1043 (bef. 1730). Helena Rathbone, vn; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir.

ABC 481 4571 14 Rittler, P. Ciaccona à 7 in C (1678).

Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer.

ABC 481 6488 6 Trad. Coventry carol (arr. Palmer). Madison Nonoa, sop; Australian Brandenburg Choir; Ros Jorgensen, sackbut; Nigel Crocker, sackbut; Brett Page, sackbut.

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Saturday 8 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 PERIODS AND THEIR PEOPLE 20th Century 1916-2000 Prepared by Robert Small Glanville-Hicks, P. Etruscan concerto (1954).

Keith Jarrett, pf; Brooklyn PO/Dennis Russell Davies.

MusicMasters 01612-67089-2 14 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 3, Pastoral (1921). Yvonne Kenny, sop; London SO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8594 36 Lyne, P. Concerto for recorder and string orchestra (1990). Dan Laurin, rec; Sundsvall CO/Niklas Willén.

BIS CD-685 17 Whitacre, E. When David heard. Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison.

Naxos 8.559677 13 10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Frank Morrison Schubert, F. String trio in B flat, D471 (1816).

Members of L’Archibudelli.

Sony SK 53982 16 Kozeluch, L. Wind sextet no 3 in E flat.

Consortium Classicum.

Orfeo 442 981 12 Dvorák, A. Polonaise in A (1879). Heinrich Schiff, vc; Elisabeth Leonskaja, pf.

Philips 412 732-2 8 Bliss, A. Piano quartet (1915). Laurence Jackson, vn; Martin Outram, va; Michal Kaznowski, vc; Peter Donohoe, pf.

Naxos 8.555931 16 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small Ticheli, F. Wild nights! (2007). University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss.

Naxos 8.572129 7 Whitacre, E. October. Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/ Stephen L. Gage.

Naxos 8.570946 7 Giannini, V. Prelude and allegro (1958).

University of Houston Wind Ensemble/Tom Bennett.

Naxos 8.570130 7 Dreyfus, G. Rush (1974). Symphonic Wind Ensemble of the Johannes-Gutenberg University/George Dreyfus.

Move MCD 166 2 16

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 DEAR, OH DEAR! Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Verdi, G. Gualtier malde ... Caro nome, from Rigoletto (1851). Joan Sutherland, sop; Royal Opera House Ch & O/Francesco MolinariPradelli.

LP EMI DTS 571/72 6 Giordani, G. Caro mio ben. Janet Baker, mezz; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner.

Philips 475 156-2 3 Puccini, G. O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi (1918). Anna Netrebko, sop; Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado.

DG 479 7679 3 Handel, G. Mio caro bene! from Rodelinda, HWV19 (1725; arr. Hazell). Inessa Galante, sop; London Musici/Mark Stephenson.

Campion RRCD 1345 4 Rossini, G. Caro padre, madre amata, from The Turk in Italy (1814) Emma Matthews, sop; Melbourne SO/Andrea Molino.

ABC 481 4236 4 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 Liszt, F. Liebestraum no 3 in A flat (1850).

Mary Warnecke, pf.

Tall Poppies TP062 5 Wagner, R. Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59). Marilyn Richardson, sop; Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert.

ABC 426 999-2 17 15:00 SATURDAY MATINEE Coppélia and Carmen Prepared by Chris Blower Delibes, L. Ballet: Coppélia (1870). Suisse Romande O/Richard Bonynge.

Decca 478 4749 1:35 Shchedrin, R. Ballet: Carmen suite after Bizet (1967). Ukrainian State SO/Theodore Kuchar.

Naxos 8.553038 45 17:30 THE VOICES, THE ROLES Prepared by Angela Cockburn Sweet young things: sopranos 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame

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19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Adam Bowen Steiner, M. Gone with the wind (1939).

Westminster PO/Kenneth Alwyn.

Silva Screen Filmcd 144 12 Rota, N. Hurricane (1979). Studio O/Marcus Dodds.

Legend 22 8 Young - Skinner Written on the wind (1956). Universal International O/Joseph Gershenson.

Varese Sarabande VC 81074 5 Goldsmith, J. The wind and the lion (1975).

Graunke SO/Jerry Goldsmith.

Intrada MAF 7101 13 Venosta G. Agata e la tempesta (2004). O/ Giovanni Venosta.

CAM 515321-2 15 20:00 THE WORD TRANSFORMED Prepared by Chris Blower Lanchbery, J. The tale of Squirrel Nutkin; The mouse waltz, from The tales of Beatrix Potter (1970). Royal Opera House O/John Lanchbery.

EMI 7545372 12 Grainger, P. The fall of the stone; The Inuit; Mowgli’s song against people, from Jungle Book (1898-1959). Libby Crabtree, sop; John Mark Ainsley, ten; David Wilson-Johnson, bar; Polyphony; Polyphony O/Stephen Layton.

Hyperion CDA66863 8 Talbot, J. Alice’s adventures in wonderland (2011). Royal PO/Christopher Austin.

Signum SIGCD327 39 Wikström, I. Peter Pan, fairy tale suite (1831). Inger Wikström, pf. nosag CD 164 10 Mills, R. Ballet: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (c1987). Queensland SO/Richard Mills.

ABC 422 933-2 40 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Elaine Siversen Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture and suite from Christmas Eve (1895). Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin.

Naxos 8.553789 26 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The Nutcracker, op 71a (1892; arr. Tarkmann for wind ensemble). Omega Ensemble.

Fine Music concert recording 37 Davis, C. Suite from A Christmas carol (c1987). Northern Ballet TO/John PryceJones.

Naxos 8.553495 18 Mozart, W. Divertimento no 2 in D, K131 (c1772). Orpheus CO. DG 431 689-2 33

Sunday 9 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Richard Verco Allegri, G. Psalm 50 (51): Miserere mei Deus. Julius Foo, treb; Peter Hicks, treb; Thomas Mullock, treb; Leo Tomita, ct; Tristan Hambleton, bass; Basil McDonald, bass; Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/ Andrew Nethsingha.

Chandos CHSA 5085 14 Bruch, M. Kol nidrei, op 47 (1881). János Starker, vc; London SO/Antal Dorati.

Mercury 432 001-2 10 Salieri, A. Piccolo Requiem (1804). Iva Hospesova, sop; Magdalena Kozená, cont; Zoltán Korda, ten; Jirí Klecker, bass; Italian Chamber Choir; Concertino Notturno, Prague/ Andreas Kröper.

Milan Vicek SY 0008-2 29 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Richard Verco Weber, C.M. Overture to Oberon (1826).

Israel PO/Zubin Mehta.

Decca 475 7470 8 Cannabich, C. Symphony no 49 in F, op 10 (pub. 1772). Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/ Uwe Grodd.

Naxos 8.554340 13 Shield, W. String quartet in C minor, op 3 no 6 (c1800). Salomon Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66780 12 Field, J. Piano concerto no 3 in E flat (c1805). Benjamin Frith, pf; Northern Sinfonia/David Haslam.

Naxos 8.553770 31 Gluck, C. O del mio dolce ardor, from Paride ed Elena (1770). Teresa Berganza, mezz; Royal Opera House O/Alexander Gibson.

Decca 440 844-2 4 Crusell, B. Clarinet quartet no 2 in C minor, op 4 (1804). Thea King, cl; members of Allegri String Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66077 18 Hummel, J. Piano trio no 1 in E flat, op 12 (c1803). Borodin Trio.

Chandos CHAN 9529 21 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan The early days of jazz and ragtime as recorded during the first 30 years of the 20th century 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

14:00 IN PLAYFUL MOOD Prepared by Ron Walledge Prokofiev, S. Peter and the Wolf (1936).

Lenny Henry, narr; Nouvel Ensemble Instrumental du Conservatoire National de Paris/Jacques Pési.

Virgin 5 61782 2 27 Satie, E. Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1890-1903). Pascal Rogé, Jean-Philippe Collard, pf.

Decca 455 401-2 14 Bizet, G. Children’s games, op 22 (1871).

Consort of London.

Collins 11412 11 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Simply Shostakovich Prepared by Paolo Hooke Shostakovich, D. Violin sonata, op 134 (1968). David Oistrakh, vn; Sviatoslav Richter, pf.

Melodiya 74321 34182 2 31 Symphony no 15 in A, op 141 (1971).

Moscow RSO/Maxim Shostakovich.

Melodiya MEL 10 02431/10 42 Viola sonata, op 147 (1975). Yuri Bashmet, va; Mikhail Muntian, pf.

RCA 09026 61273 2 36 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Carol: Once in Royal David’s City. Andrew Bull, treb; David Chilton, treb; Gallery Choir, Kapella and congregation; Matthew Dalziel, tpt; Peter Kneeshaw, org; Meg Matthews, cond.

Knox 2 5 Sculthorpe, P. Morning song for the Christ child. 3 Brumby, C. Nowell, Nowell. 2 Quodlibet Singers/Ralph Morton (2 above) Tall Poppies TP 046 Carols: Christmas Day; The three drovers; Christmas tree (arr. Leek). Australian Voices/ Graeme Morton.

Voices 003 9 Chant and Carols: Introit: Puer natus est; A great and mighty wonder; A maiden most gentle; Carol of the bells. Choir of Christ Church St Laurence; Peter Jewkes, org; Alistair Nelson, org; Neil McEwan, cond; David Russell, cond.

CCSL 05 11 Carols: The Coventry carol; Noël nouvelet; The little drummer boy; Here is the little door.

Australian Brandenburg Ch & O/Paul Dyer.

ABC 476 4687 14 Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; Hark the herald angels sing. Choir of St Peter’s

Martha Argerich Cathedral, Adelaide; Shirley Gale, org; Anthony Hunt, org; Leonie Hempton, cond. 6 18:00 BEETHOVEN’S LAST QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Beethoven, L. Duo in E flat for viola and cello, with two obbligato eyeglasses, WoO32 (1796-97). Maxim Rysanov, va; Kristina Blaumane, vc.

Onyx 4108 13 String quartet no 13 in B flat, op 130 (182526). Melos Quartet.

DG 415 676-2 41 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Simone Vitiello Tchaikovsky, P. Hamlet, fantasy overture after Shakespeare, op 67a (1888).

Philadelphia O/Riccardo Muti.

EMI CDC 7 49859 2 19 Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 3 in C, op 26 (1917-21). Martha Argerich, pf; Swiss-Italian O/Charles Dutoit.

DG 477 9884 29 Mendelssohn, F. Symphony no 3 in A minor, op 56, Scottish (1842). Sydney SO/Eugene Goossens.

LP ABC/HMV OXLP 7620/21 35 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by James Nightingale Finsterer, M. Silva. Ensemble Offspring.

Ensemble Offspring Bites 1 15 Vines, N. Terraformation: Permafrost pump.

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, pf.

Navona NV6173 11 McCombe, C. The art of placing stones.

Marianne Rothschild, vn; Glenn Riddle, pf.

Tall Poppies TP249 11 Yoshimatsu, T. Symphony no 3, op 75 (1991-95). BBC PO/Sachio Fujioka.

Chandos CHAN 9737 45 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones DECEMBER 2018

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Monday 10 December

Piers Lane

John Eliot Gardiner

Alexander Borodin

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Derek Parker

Crotch, W. Symphony in E flat (1817). Milton Keynes CO/Hilary Davan Wetton.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD) 9126 12

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1899 Prepared by Chris Blower

Hess, N. Piano concerto. Lang Lang, pf; London CO/John Wates.

DG 477 9014 24

Kalinnikov, Vasily. Overture to Tsar Boris (1899). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8805 10

Foerster, J. Symphony no 4 in C minor, Easter (1905). Prague SO/Václav Smetácek.

LP Supraphon 1 10 0617 41

Balakirev, M. Reminiscences of the Glinka opera A life for the Tsar (1899). Nicholas Walker, pf.

ASV DCA 940 12 Alfvén, H. At the turn of the century, op 12 (1899). Lena Hoel, sop; Royal Philharmonic Choir Stockholm; Gävle SO/Stefan Parkman.

Sterling 1036-2 18 Saint-Saëns, C. Six études, op 111 (1899).

Piers Lane, pf.

Hyperion CDA67037 21 Mahler, G. Rheinlegendchen; Trost im Unglück; Aus! Aus!; Starke Einbildungskraft; Nicht wiedersehen, from The Youth’s magic horn (1899). Thomas Hampson, bar; Wolfram Rieger, pf.

Radio Nederland transcription 14 Sarasate, P. de Introduction and tarantella, op 43 (1899). Gil Shaham, vn; Castille and León SO/Alejandro Posada.

Canary CC07 5

Robert Schumann 18

Wagner, R. Overture to Rienzi (1840).

Munich PO/Hans Knappertsbusch.

DG 479 1148 14

Shostakovich, D. Sonata for violin and piano (1945) Linus Roth, vn; José Gallardo, pf.

Challenge Classics CC72680 5 Borodin, A. Symphony no 3 in A minor (1882; orch. Glazunov). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.

Naxos 8.572786 18 David, Félicien. String quartet no 4 in E minor (c1869). Quatuor Cambini.

Ambroisie AM206 7

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Glazunov, A. Symphony no 9 in D minor, mvt 1. USSR RSO/Gennady Yudin.

Melodiya MA 15745 10

13:00 KEYBOARDS AND TRIOS Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Offenbach, J. On s’amuse, on applaudit, from Belle Lurette (1880). Kathleen Battle, sop; Paris Opéra-Bastille Ch & O/MyungWhun Chung.

DG 479 1116 3

Arensky, A. Suite no 4, op 62. Stephen Coombs, pf; Ian Munro, pf.

Hyperion CDA66755 13 Albéniz, I. El Albaicin, from Iberia suite (1905-08; arr.). Trio Campanella.

Naxos 8.557064 7

Schubert, F. Symphony no 8 in B minor, D759 (1822). Vienna PO/Georg Solti.

Decca 414 371-2 29

Séverac, D. de Cerdaña (1908-11). Jordi Masó, pf.

Naxos 8.555855 34

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

14:00 OPUS UNFINISHED Prepared by Anne Irish

19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall

Schumann, R. Symphony in G minor, Zwickau (1832-33). O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner.

Archiv 457 591-2 19

20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson

The most famous of all unfinished works is undoubtedly Schubert’s Symphony no 8, a work so brilliant that it is one of the most popular of all symphonies. Some say that he was distracted with his inspiration to compose the Wanderer Fantasy.

Borodin as a busy research chemist left much music incomplete but it was his death in 1887 that caused his Third Symphony to be incomplete. Félicien David’s String quartet no 4 and Offenbach’s Belle Lunette met the same fate.

Some composers seem to have just lost interest. Crotch wrote a beautiful Adagio but didn’t continue with Symphony in E flat. Glazunov abandoned his Ninth Symphony and Shostakovich his 1945 Violin sonata many years before their demise, while Schumann seems not to have been satisfied with his first effort in writing a symphony, the so-called Zwickau.

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Tuesday 11 December

Eric Le Sage

Dene Olding

Louis Spohr

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Gade, N. Symphony no 2 in E, op 10 (pub.

1843). Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi.

BIS CD-355 25

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Rob Thomas

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

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Colours of the keyboard Prepared by Paul Cooke Lessel, F. Variations in A minor on the Ukrainian folk song, Jichaw kozak za Dunaju, op 15. Jerzy Sterczynski. pf.

Le Chant du Monde LDC 278 1092 9 Vierne, L. Cathédrales, from Pièces de fantaisie (1927). David Briggs, org.

Lammas LAMM 153D 10 Grieg, E. Violin sonata no 2 in G, op 13 (1867). Henning Kraggerud, vn; Helge Kjekshus, pf.

Naxos 8.553904 20 Heise, P. Dangerous dreams (1878). Mathias Hedegaard, ten; Tove Lønskov, pf.

Dacapo 8.226141 10 Satie, E. La belle excentrique (1920). Anne Queffélec, Catherine Collard, pf.

Virgin 59296 2 7 Farrenc, L. Sextet in C minor for winds and piano, op 40 (1852). Eric Le Sage, pf; Les Vents Français.

Warner Classics 0825646231850 24 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Denis Patterson Liszt, F. Symphonic poem no 1: What is heard on the mountain (1848-49/50/54). New Zealand SO/Michael Halász.

Naxos 8.557846 29 Hoffmeister, F. Viola concerto in B flat.

Victoria Chiang, va; Baltimore CO/Markand Thakar.

Naxos 8.572162 21

13:00 SIMPLY SCHUBERT Prepared by Georgina Sierra Schubert, F. Violin sonata no 3 in G minor, D408 (1816). Isaac Stern, vn; Daniel Barenboim, pf.

Sony SM2K 64528 17 Piano sonata no 21 in B flat, D960 (1828).

Andreas Haefliger, pf.

Avie AV 2148 41 Symphony no 3 in D, D200 (1815). Royal Concertgebouw O/Iván Fischer.

Radio Nederland RCO12004 20 14:30 RADICAL BUT APPROACHABLE Prepared by Albert Gormley Schoenberg, A. Chamber symphony no 1, op 9 (1906; arr. Webern). Geoffrey Collins, fl; Nigel Westlake, cl; Dene Olding, vn; David Pereira, vc; David Bollard, pf.

Entr’acte ESCD 6507 20

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with James Nightingale 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Mariko Yata Borodin, A. Piano quintet in C minor (1862).

Alexander Mndoiantz, pf; Moscow String Quartet.

Brilliant Classics 94410 26 Spohr, L. Nonet for strings and winds, op 31 (1813). Consortium Classicum/Dieter Klöcker.

Orfeo C 155 871 A 28 Higdon, J. Piano trio (2003). Anne Akiko Meyers, vn; Alisa Weilerstein, vc; Adam Neiman, pf.

Naxos 8.559298 13 Bax, A. Concerto for flute, oboe, harp and string quartet (1936). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.

Chandos CHAN 9602 19 Bach, J.S. Suite no 6 in D minor, BWV811, English (c1715). Angela Hewitt, pf.

DG 442 9446 26

Berg, A. Violin concerto, To the memory of an angel (1935). Isabelle Faust, vn; O Mozart/ Claudio Abbado.

Harmonia Mundi HMC902105 28 Stravinsky, I. Ballet: The rite of Spring (1913/47). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan.

Decca 4783729 34 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker 18:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2018 Produced by Andrew Bukenya What’s on in concerts during the next month

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Wednesday 12 December El Salón México (1934-36). New Philharmonia O/Aaron Copland.

CBS MK 42429 11 Waltz and celebration, from Billy the Kid (1938; arr.). Paul Watkins, vc; Huw Watkins, pf.

Chandos CHAN 10881 11 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell Aaron Copland

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 5 in B flat, op 100 (1944). Leningrad PO/Mariss Jansons.

Chandos CHAN 8576 38

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 Composer focus Randolph Magri-Overend Mussorgsky, M. Hopak, from Sorochintsky Fair (1880; arr. Rachmaninov). Tamara Anna Cislowska, pf.

ABC 476 6301 2 Coronation scene, from Boris Godunov (1874). Nikolai Ghiaurov, bass; Bulgarian A Capella Choir; Sofia State PO/Emil Chakarov.

LP Balkanton KKO 1004 10 Palkavodets, from Songs and dances of death. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, bar; Kirov O/ Valery Gergiev.

Philips 438 872-2 5 St John’s night on Bald Mountain (1867; ed.

Rimsky-Korsakov 1886; transcr. Chernov).

Boris Berezovsky, pf.

Teldec 4509-96516-2 11 The puppet-show (1870). Sergei Leiferkus, bar; Semion Skigin, pf.

Conifer 75605 51229 2 14 Pictures at an exhibition (1874). Nikolai Demidenko, pf.

Hyperion CDA67018 34 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Mödlinger dances, WoO17 (1819). Vienna Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky.

Decca 436 782-2 17 Arensky, A. Piano concerto in F minor, op 2 (1882). Stephen Coombs, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk.

Hyperion CDA66624 26 20

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 SONATINAS Prepared by Brian Drummond Paganini, N. Sonatina no 2 in C. Luigi Attademo, gui.

Brilliant Classics 94348 3 Karg-Elert, S. Sonatina in G minor, op 14 no 1 (1906). Johannes Matthias Michel, harmonium d’art. cpo 999 611-2 14 Beethoven, L. Sonatina in C minor, WoO43a (1796). Alison Stephens, mand; Richard Burnett, pf.

Amon Ra SAR 53 4 Delden, L. Sonatina, op 36 (1952). Ed Bogaard, sax; Paul Komen, pf.

BFO A-11 8 Ries, F. Sonatina in C, op 6. Susan Kagan, pf; Vassily Primakov, pf.

Naxos 8.573063 8 Milhaud, D. Trio sonatina, op 221 (1940).

String Trio of Paris.

Erato ECD 88254 6 Tórroba, F. Moreno Sonatina trianera for four guitars and castanets. Angelita Romero, castanets; Los Romeros.

Philips 412 609-2 8 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 COPLAND EXPLORED Part 2 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Copland, A. Symphonic ode (1927-29).

Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.

Delos DE 3154 20 Variations (1930). David Allen Wehr, pf.

Chandos CHAN 8761 11

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20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman 1792-1868

Modest Mussorgsky

GIOACHINO ROSSINI

Rossini, G. Ricciardo e Zoraide. Opera in two acts. Libretto by Francesco di Salsa. First performed Naples, 3 December 1818.

AGORANTE: Bruce Fore, ten ZORAIDE: Nelly Miriciou, sop RICCIARDO: William Matteuzzi, ten IRCANO: Alastair Miles, bar ZOMIRA: Della Jones, mezz Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/David Parry.

Opera Rara ORC 14 3:03 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Overture to The Italian girl in Algiers (1816).

New York PO/Leonard Bernstein.

CBS MYK 44719 7 23:30 THE BACHS Prepared by Brian Drummond Bach, J.S. Sinfonia, BWV42 (1725).

Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDA66501 6 Bach, J. Christian Piano concerto in C, op 1 no 5 (pub. 1763). Ingrid Haebler, fp; Vienna Capella Academica/Eduard Melkus.

Philips 438 712-2 8 Bach, C.P.E. Symphony no 2 in E flat, Wq183 no 2 (1775-76). Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman.

Erato ECD 75550 9

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he final offering in our year-long tribute to Gioachino Rossini takes us back to one of the operas composed when he was just 19 but already an established opera composer. Ricciardo e Zoraide, his 25th opera, was a great success at the time but had fallen out of favour by 1846 and was not performed again until 1990 when it was produced in Pesaro, Rossini’s birthplace.

Thursday 13 December Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 6 in B minor, op 74, Pathétique (1893). Concertgebouw O/ Antal Dorati.

Radio Nederland RCO 08005 46 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 CARNIVALS AND CLOWNS Prepared by Mariko Yata Schnittke, A. Soundtrack: Clowns and children (1976). Berlin RSO/Frank Strobel.

Capriccio C7196 9 Niccolò Paganini 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 music salon Prepared by Brian Drummond Hummel, J. Flute sonata in D, op 50 (181014). Marta Mazzini, fl; Stefano Fiuzzi, pf.

Dynamic CDS 128 19 Variations on a theme from Gluck’s Armide, op 57 (c1811-15). Howard Shelley, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9807 10 Paganini, N. String quartet no 2 (c1815).

Paganini String Quartet.

Dynamic CDS 134 23 Capriccios, op 1: nos 16 and 17 (1801-07).

Franco Gulli, vn.

Il Canale DC-U30 5 Beethoven, L. New love, new life, op 75 no 2 (1809); Wonne der Wehmut, op 83 no 1 (1810). Peter Schreier, ten; Walter Olbertz, pf.

Teldec 8.44061 6 Chopin, F. Introduction and polonaise brillante in C, op 3 (1829-30). Thomas Tsai, vc; Joshua Tsai, pf.

Fine Music concert recording 9 Nocturne in E minor, op 72 no 1 (1827).

Daniel Barenboim, pf.

DG 415 117-2 4 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mendelssohn, F. Overture: Calm sea and prosperous voyage, op 27 (1828). Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi.

Decca 460 239-2 12 Haydn, J. Violin concerto in A, Hob. VIIa:3 (1765-70). Augustin Hadelich, vn; Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl.

Naxos 8.570483 23

Schumann, R. Carnaval, op 9 (1833-35).

Myra Hess, pf.

Naxos 8.110604 27 Sondheim, S. Send in the clowns, from A little night music (1959). Toni Lamond, cont; Tasmanian SO/Guy Noble.

ABC 481 0378 5 Verdi, G. Rigoletto, concert fantasy (1851; arr. Herlinger, Gampieri). Sabine Meyer, cl; Zurich Opera O/Franz Welser-Möst.

EMI 5 56137 2 12 14:00 VOICES ABOUND Prepared by Emyr Evans Taverner, J. Magnificat for four voices. Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips.

Gimell CDGIM 045 11 Vaughan Williams, R. Toward the unknown region (1906). City of Birmingham Symphony Ch & O/Norman Del Mar. Varèse-Sarabande VCD47248 12 Holst, G. A choral fantasia, op 51 (1930).

Patricia Rozario, sop; Joyful Company of Singers; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9437 17 Walton, W. Coronation Te Deum (1952-53).

Finzi Singers; Andrew Lumsden, org; Paul Spicer, cond.

Chandos CHAN 9222 10 Rossini, G. Stabat Mater (1842). Helen Field, sop; Della Jones, mezz; Arthur Davies, ten; Roderick Earl, bass; London Symphony Ch; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 8780 59 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley

Bartel, H. David and Goliath (2000).

Alexander Paley, pf.

Blüthner BLT-AP10015 17 Charpentier, M-A. Excerpts from David and Jonathan (1688). O of the Antipodes/Antony Walker.

ABC 481 0348 6 Purcell, H. Saul and the witch at Endor (pub.

1693; arr. Britten 1947). Sarah Walker, mezz; John Mark Ainsley, ten; Simon Keenlyside, bar; Graham Johnson, pf.

Hyperion CDA67061/2 12 Wagenaar, J. Symphonic poem: Saul en David, op 24 (1906). Royal Concertgebouw O/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 425 833-2 12 Handel, G. Dead March, from Saul, HWV53 (1738; transcr. Stokowski). BBC PO/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9930 5 Jacoby, H. King David’s lyre. Zina Schiff, vn; Cameron Grant, pf.

4-tay 4002 9 Gombert, N. Lugebat David Absalon. David James, ct; Ashley Stafford, ct; Rogers CoveyCrump, ten; John Potter, ten; Mark Padmore, ten; Gordon Jones, bar; David Beavan, bass; Paul Hillier, bass & dir.

EMI CDC 7 49960 2 10 Bloch, E. Solomon, op posth (1959). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Baltimore SO/David Zinman.

Sony SK 57961 23 22:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Prepared by Paul Cooke Bernstein, L. Some other time, from On the town (1944). Imogen Manins, vc; David Jones, perc; Tony Gould, pf.

Move MD 3353 7 Hyde, M. Trio in G for flute, clarinet and piano (1948). Christine Draeger, fl; Anne Brisk, cl; James Muir, pf.

Walsingham 2WAL8036-2 11 Haydn, J. String quartet in G, Hob.III:81 (1799). Australian String Quartet.

ABC 426 805-2 25 Broadstock, B. I touched your glistening tears (1998). Stephen Robinson, ob; Elyane Laussade, pf.

Tall Poppies TP202 9

20:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Liszt, F. Suite: Christmas tree (1876). Leslie Howard, pf.

Hyperion CDS44518 33

Handel, G. Sinfonia, from Saul, Act I, HWV53 (1738). English Concert/Trevor Pinnock.

Archiv 479 1932 12

Dean, B. Viola concerto (2005). Brett Dean, va; Sydney SO/Simone Young.

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Friday 14 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Chris Blower Chopin, F. Ballade no 1 in G minor, op 23 (arr. Ysaÿe). Philippe Graffin, vn; Pascal Devoyon, pf.

Helios CDH55353 10 Telemann, G. Oboe concerto in E minor (arr. for trumpet). Maurice André, tpt; Hedwig Bilgram, hpd; Munich Bach O/Karl Richter.

Decca 478 4664 10 Glinka, M. Three Russian songs (arr.

Hermann). Marina Marsden, vn; Justine Marsden, va; Robert Chamberlain, pf.

Fine Music concert recording 10 Beethoven, L. Horn sonata in F, op 17 (1800; arr. for cello). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nina Tichman, pf.

Naxos 8.555785 14 Schubert, F. Sonata in D, D384 (1816; arr.

Bergström for violin and guitar). Gil Shaham, vn; Göran Söllscher, gui.

DG 479 2565 15 Schumann, R. Kinderszenen, op 15 (1838; arr. Gagné for flute, viola and harp). Trio Beau Soir.

Disques Boghei Records 90394 82011 20 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Beethoven, L. Overture: Consecration of the house, op 124 (1822). London SO/Yondani Butt.

Nimbus NI 6144 10 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 Mozart, W. Interlude, from Thamos, King of Egypt, K345 (1774). Radio Berlin Soloists; Staatskapelle Berlin/Bernhard Klee.

Philips 464 940-2 6 Wallace, W. Creation symphony (1899). BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDH55465 47 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 TWO MASSES; TWO CANTATAS Prepared by Frank Morrison Mozart, W. Mass no 10 in C, K220, Sparrow (1775). Edith Mathis, sop; Tatiana Troyanos, cont; Horst R. Laubenthal, ten; Keith Engen, 22

bass; Regensburg Cathedral Choir; Bavarian RSO/Raphael Kubelik.

DG 419 060-2 17

Enescu, G. Rumanian rhapsody in A, op 11 no 1 (1901). Rumanian RTO/Iosif Conta.

Marco Polo 8.223146 12

Bruckner, A. Mass in C (c1842). Ludmila Kuznetzova, mezz; Ludmila Golub, org.

Chandos CHAN 9863 12

Chopin, F. Piano concerto no 2 in F minor, op 21 (1830). Daniel Barenboim, pf; Staatskapelle Berlin/Andris Nelsons.

DG 477 9520 32

Stölzel, G. Cantata: Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Else Göhrum-Jennewein, vn; Bertha Krimm, vn; Marianne Ott, vn; Hermann Klaiss, vc; Hermann Werdermann, hpd.

Hänssler 94.218 12 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Cantata: From Homer, op 60 (1901). Elena Mitrakova, sop; Svetlana Sizova, mezz; Tatiana Fedotova, sop; Ch of the Moscow Academy of Choral Art Ch; Moscow SO/Vladimir Ziva.

Brilliant Classics 94495 12 14:00 LEONTYNE AT CHRISTMAS Prepared by Maureen Meers Handel, G. He shall feed his flock; How beautiful are thy feet, from Messiah. 9 Franck, C. Panis angelicus. 4 Trad. What Child is this? 3 Trad. I wonder as I wander. 2 Murray, J. Away in a manger. 2 Wade, J. O come, all ye faithful. Tudor Ensemble of Montreal. 3 Leontyne Price, sop; Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (all above) Decca 467 913-2 14:30 HIGH ROMANTICISM Prepared by Albert Gormley Liszt, F. Piano concerto no 2 in A (1835).

Wilhelm Kempff, pf; London SO/Anatole Fistoulari.

DG 479 1133 22 Wieniawski, H. Violin concerto no 2 in D minor, op 22 (1862). Mark Kaplan, vn; London SO/Mitch Miller.

Arabesque Z 6597 22 Brahms, J. Piano trio no 1 in B, op 8 (1853/89). Macquarie Trio.

ABC 472 668-2 38 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Peter Kurti 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Great young minds Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies Mendelssohn, F. Overture to A midsummer night’s dream, op 21 (1826). Tasmanian SO/ Sebastian Lang-Lessing.

ABC 476 773-6 12

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Mozart, W. Symphony no 17 in G, K129 (1772). English CO/Jeffrey Tate.

EMI 5 55480 2 11 Korngold, E. Ouverture: Schauspiel, op 4 (1911). MIT SO/David Epstein.

LP Vox/Turnabout TV 34760 15 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 1 in E flat, op 2 (1853). Vienna SO/Georges Prêtre.

Erato 2292-45695-2 29 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Giulio Caccini 400 Prepared by Andrew Dziedzic Caccini, G. Vedro ‘l mio sol (1602).

Catacoustic Consort/Annalisa Pappano.

Naxos 8.557538 4 Frescobaldi, G. Fortunata per me felice aurora (pub. 1608). Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini. naïve OP 30497 2 Vitali, F. O bei lumi (1618). Magdalena Kozená, mezz; Private Musicke/Pierre Pitzi.

DG 477 8764 3 Caccini, G. Perfidissimo volto, from Le nuovo musiche (pub. 1602). Nigel Rogers, ten; Anthony Bailes, chitarrone; Pere Ros, vle; Jordi Savall, va da gamba; Colin Tilney, hpd.

Archiv 479 1045 3 Frescobaldi, G. Se la dogliea e‘l martire (pub. 1608). Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini. naïve OP 30497 3 Caccini, G. Belle rose porporine, from Le nuovo musiche. Nigel Rogers, ten; Anthony Bailes, chitarrone; Pere Ros, vle; Jordi Savall, va da gamba; Colin Tilney, hpd.

Archiv 479 1045 3 Gesualdo, C. Gagliarda. l’Amoroso/Guido Balestracci.

Pan Classics PC 10233 2 Caccini, G. Udite, udite amanti, from Le nuovo musiche. 2 Peri, J. O durezza di ferro. 2 Nigel Rogers, ten; Anthony Bailes, chitarrone; Pere Ros, vle; Jordi Savall, va da gamba; Colin Tilney, hpd (2 above) Archiv 479 1045 Caccini, F. Lasciatemi qui solo (1618). Maria Christina Kiehr, sop; Concerto Soave.

Ambronay AMY025 7 Frescobaldi, G. Canzona no 5 (1628).

Christian Lindberg, tb; Neal Peres da Costa, hpd.

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Friday 14 December

Francesca Caccini

Ernö Dohnányi

Kiri Te Kanawa

Caccini, F. Prologo, from La liberazione di Ruggiero dall‘isola di Alcina (pub. 1625).

Raffaele Giordani, ten; Yiannis Vassilakis, bar; Allabastrina; La Pifarescha/Elena Sartori.

Glossa GCD 923902 9

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Handel, G. A royal fireworks. Canadian Brass.

Musica Viva MV 1011 3

Caccini, G. Funeste piaggie (pub.1600). Le Miroir de Musique.

Ricercar RIC 354 6 Torna, deh torna (1614). Roberta Invernizzi, sop; Craig Marchitelli, archlute, theorbo.

Glossa GCD 922902 5 Piccinini, A. Passacaglia. Jakob Lindberg, lute.

BIS CD-211 4 Caccini, G. Dovrò dunque morire? Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; Jakob Lindberg, theorbo.

Archiv 477 5114 3 Peri, J. Tra le donne. Nigel Rogers, ten; Anthony Bailes, chitarrone; Pere Ros, vle; Jordi Savall, va da gamba; Colin Tilney, hpd.

Archiv 479 1045 3 Caccini, F. Scena IV, from La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola di Alcina. Emanuela Galli, sop; Gabriella Martellacci, cont; Allabastrina; La Pifarescha/Elena Sartori.

Glossa GCD 923902 8 Caccini, G. Dalla porta d’Oriente (1614).

Roberta Invernizzi, sop; Craig Marchitelli, archlute, theorbo.

Glossa GCD 922902 2 Piccinini, A. Toccata; Partite variate sopra l’Alemania; Chiacona n partite varianti. Jakob Lindberg, lute. 9 Frescobaldi, G. Canzona no 3. Malcolm Proud, hpd.

Avie AV2202 4 Piccinini, A. Romanesca con partite variate.

Nigel North, chitarrone.

Arcana A 6 8 Caccini, G. Amarilli mia bella. Maryseult Wieczorek, sop; Amarillis. naive AM 9901 5

6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 PERIODS AND THEIR PEOPLE 20th Century 1916-2000 Prepared by Frank Morrison Kabalevsky, D. Suite: The comedians, op 26 (1940). Moscow SO/Vasily Jelvakov.

Naxos 8.553411 15 Ravel, M. Don Quixote to Dulcinea (1932-33).

Stephen Roberts, bar; Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 9202 7 Holland, D. Piano trio (1944). Shirin Lim, vn; Claire Oremland, vc; Greg Roberts, pf.

Jade JADCD 1027 17 Bartók, B. Concerto for orchestra (1943).

Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.

Delos DE 3095 37 10:30 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Prepared by Paul Hopwood Arensky, A. Piano trio no 1 in D minor, op 32 (1894). Borodin Trio.

Chandos CHAN 8477 32 Dohnányi, E. Cello sonata in B flat, op 8 (1899). Paul Katz, vc; Barry Snyder, pf.

Pro Arte CDD 239 23 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Adam, A. O holy night. Allentown Band/ Ronald Demkee.

AMP 22173 4 Lovett-Cooper, P. Child’s lullaby. Joanne Childs, flugelhorn; Cory Band/Robert Childs.

Doyen DOY 290 4 Sousa, J.P. Washington Post. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee.

Decca 410-290-2 2

Trad. A Christmas festival overture.

Huddersfield Choral Society; Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome.

Chandos CHAN 8679 6 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 JOYCE YANG IN RECITAL Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC Grieg, E. Five lyric pieces, from opp 12, 54 and 71 (1867, 1891, 1901). 14 Debussy, C. Estampes (1903). 15 Chopin, F. Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brilliante, op 22 (1830-34). 15 Younan, E. Piano sonata (2018). 16 Schumann, R. Carnaval, op 9 (1834). 33 Joyce Yang, pf (all above) 14:40 A LATE FIRST SONATA Schumann, R. Violin sonata no 1 in A minor, op 105 (1851). Miwako Abe, vn; David Miller, pf.

Fine Music Tape Archive 17 15:00 SATURDAY MATINEE Operetta in the afternoon Prepared by Elaine Siversen Strauss, J. II Die Fledermaus. Operetta in three acts. Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée. First performed Vienna, 1874.

Philips 432 157-2 1:52 EISENSTEIN: Wolfgang Brendel, bar ROSALINDA: Kiri Te Kanawa, sop DR FALKE: Olaf Bär, bar ADELE: Edita Gruberova, sop PRINCE ORLOFSKY: Brigitte Fassbaender, mezz COLONEL FRANK: Tom Krause, bar Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO/André Previn.

Philips 432 157-2 1:52 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera DECEMBER 2018

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Sunday 16 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Paul Roper 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Rex Burgess Fauré, G. Cantique de Jean Racine, op 11 (1865). Choir of Westminster Cathedral; Iain Simcock, org; James O’Donnell, cond.

Hyperion CDA66669 6

Ross Edwards

Jean Martinon

Tales from the Vienna Woods, op 325 (1868); Wine, women and song, op 333 (1869.) New York Vocal Arts Ensemble/Raymond Beegle.

Arabesque Z6586 18

Bach, J.C.F. Cassandra: Cantata for alto, strings and basso continuo (bef. 1770). Lena Susanne Norin, cont; Das Kleine Konzert/ Hermann Max. cpo 999 593-2 57

17:30 STAGING MUSIC Prepared by Angela Cockburn Love’s labour’s lost 18:00 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY Celebrating Ross Edwards Prepared by Sue McCreadie Edwards, R. Emily’s song. Duo Agostino.

Fine Music concert recording 2

Szymanowski, K. Isle of sirens; Calypso; Nausicaa, from Métopes, op 29 (1915). Piotr Anderszewski, pf.

Virgin 5 45730 2 20 Wolf, H. Symphonic poem: Penthesilea (1883-85). Paris O/Daniel Barenboim.

Apex 0927-49582-2 26

Corrette, M. Psalm 148: Laudate Dominum after Vivaldi’s Spring concerto (pub.

1766). Margaret Dixon-McIvor, sop; Anson Austin, ten; Grahame Tier, bass; Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir; John Harding, vn; Australian CO/Peter Seymour.

Fine Music concert recording 20 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Kuhlau, F. Overture to Lulu (1824). Odense SO/Eduard Serov.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9132 8

22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Haydn, J. Piano trio in A, Hob.XV:9 (1785).

Bartolozzi Trio.

Naxos 8.573128 12

Sculthorpe, P. From Kakadu (1983).

Jonathan Paget, gui.

Move MD 3378 11

Elgar, E. Serenade in E minor for strings, op 20 (1892). Capella Istropolitana/Adrian Leaper.

Naxos 8.554409 12

Mozart, W. Ah se in ciel, benigne stelle, K538 (1788). Krisztina Láki, sop; Vienna CO/ György Fischer.

Decca 430 300-2 7

Edwards, R. Blackwattle caprices (1998).

Tim Kain, gui.

Tall Poppies TP169 6

Danzi, F. Wind quintet in E flat, op 67 no 3 (1824). Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet.

BIS CD-532 17

Guitar dances (1926; arr. Walter). Alexande Tsiboulski, gui.

Lyrita SRCD215 10

Concerto for guitar and strings (1995). Karin Schaupp, gui; Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills.

ABC 480 6461 19 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell Longest running musicals: The gift that keeps on giving 20:00 THE WORD TRANSFORMED Women in music Prepared by James Nightingale Fauré, G. Prelude to Penelope, op 80 (1913).

Loire PO/Marc Soustrot.

Pierre Verany PV 792051 8

Boccherini, L. Cello concerto no 2 in D (c1760). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Collegium Musicum Zürich/Paul Sacher.

DG 479 2561 17 Infante, M. Andalusian dances (1921). Karin Lechner, Sergio Tiempo, pf.

EMI 3 58472 2 16 Dvorák, A. Gypsy songs, op 55 (1880). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; Bengt Forsberg, pf.

DG 463 479-2 13 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Marie-Claire Alain, org; French National RO/Jean Martinon. apex 8573 89244 2 35

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Schubert, F. German Mass, D872 (1827).

Vienna Boys Choir; Ch Viennensis; Rudolf Scholtz, org; Vienna SO/Uwe Christian Harrer.

Philips 468 312-2 28

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Jadin, H. String quartet, op 2 no 1 (1796).

Rasumovsky Quartet.

ASV GAU 151 18 Crusell, B. Clarinet concerto no 1 in E flat, op 1 (1803). Emma Johnson, cl; Royal PO/ Günther Herbig.

ASV DCA 763 23 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 6 in F, op 68, Pastoral (1808). Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Mackerras.

EMI 5 65788 2 39 12:00 A HISTORY OF JAZZ IN AUSTRALIA Prepared by Bruce Johnson 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide 14:00 THE SPANISH DOMAIN Music of the Spanish speaking world Prepared by Brian Drummond Galindo, B. Sones de mariachi (1941).

Mexico City PO/Enrique Bátiz.

EMI CDC 7 49785 2 7 Castillo, R. Organito de la tarde. Trio Pantango.

Arc Music EUCD 2346 3

Sunday 16 December Luzuriaga, D. Responsorio (2000).

Norwegian RO/Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907670 9 Zenamon, J. Retratos. Virginia Taylor, fl; Timothy Kain, gui.

Move MCD 454 9 Falla, M. de Nights in the gardens of Spain (1909-15). Javier Perianes, pf; BBC SO/ Josep Pons.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 902099 24 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL An enigmatic fate Prepared by Ral Gopalakrishnan

1868

Neeme Järvi

Richard Strauss

Church St Laurence; Peter Jewkes, org; Neil McEwan, cond.

CCSL 05 10

19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Gerald Holder

A Sesquicentenary Event Tchaikovsky, P. Overture: The storm, op 76 (1864). Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 9587 13 String quartet in B flat (1865). New Haydn Quartet, Budapest.

Naxos 8.550848 13 Overture in F. Russian NO/Mikhail Pletnev.

Newton 8802037 11 Excerpts from 50 Russian folk songs (186869). Peter Hill, pf; Benjamin Frith, pf.

Delphian DCD34191 12 Bastryukova’s aria, from The Voyevoda, op 3 (1867-68). Alexander Fedin, ten; Royal Opera House O/Neeme Järvi.

Royal Opera House Records 75605 55022-2 6 Overture to The Voyevoda. Ukraine NSO/ Theodore Kuchar.

Naxos 8.554845 9 Undina’s song, from Undina (1869). Marina Shaguch, sop; Royal Opera House O/Neeme Järvi.

Royal Opera House Records 75605 55022-2 3 Romance, op 5 (1868). Garrick Ohlsson, pf.

Sydney Symphony SSO201301 7 None but the weary heart, op 6 no 6 (1872). 3 Songs, op 65 (1888): no 1, Serenade; no 2, Deception; no 4, October poem; no 5, Tears. 10 Elisabeth Söderström, sop; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf (2 above) Decca 436 204-2 Symphonic poem: Fate, op 77 (1868; reconstr. Shorning 1896). Ukraine NSO/ Theodore Kuchar.

Naxos 8.554845 16 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge Hymns: Come, Thou long expected Jesus. Cathedral Singers; Brett McKern, org & dir.

The Cathedral Singers TCD 03 2 O come, O come Emmanuel; Lo, He comes with clouds descending. Choir of Christ

Noble, T. Evening service in B minor, op 6.

Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond.

Helios CDH 55402 8 Handel, G. For unto us a Child is born, from Messiah. Cantillation; O of the Antipodes/ Antony Walker.

ABC 476 5706 4 Carols: This is the trust sent from above; The angel Gabriel from heaven came; People, look east. Matthew Elliot, treb; Matthew Lenthall, ten; Choir of St Laurence, Ludlow; Jonathan Kingston, org; Shaun Ward, cond.

St Laurence Ludlow recording 8 Britten, B. Balulalow, from A ceremony of carols, op 28 (1942). Osian Ellis, hp; David Willcocks, cond.

EMI 9 68957 2 2 Ord, B. Adam lay y bounden. 1 Carol: A virgin most pure. 3 Ben-San Lau, org; Stephen Cleobury, cond (2 above) MCPS KGS 0001 Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (3 above) Carols: O little town of Bethlehem; While shepherds watched. Choir of Canterbury Cathedral/David Flood. 7 Dubois, T. Toccata (1886). 7 Michael Harris, org (2 above) 18:00 BEETHOVEN’S LAST QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Beethoven, L. Piano trio no 4 in B flat, op 11 (1797). Beaux Arts Trio.

Philips 438 948-2 18 String quartet no 14 in C sharp minor, op 131 (1825-26). Tokyo String Quartet.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 807481.83 37

Rossini, G. Overture to The thieving magpie (1817). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein.

CBS MYK 44719 10 Bach, C.P.E. Concerto in F for two harpsichords and orchestra, Wq46 (1740).

Tini Mathot, hpd; Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman, hpd & dir.

Erato ECD 75396 25 Ravel, M. Shéhérazade (1903). Teresa Berganza, mezz; Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson.

EMI 5 69299 2 16 Strauss, R. Thus spake Zarathustra, op 30 (1895-96). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta.

Decca 475 7470 33 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Nev Dorrington Minassian, L. Babaziz; Doudouk (2003).

Levon Minassian, duduk.

Long Distance France B00004VC7G 17 Trad. BooCheeMish, part 1 (2018). Lisa Gerrard, sop; Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.

Prophecy B07BF8554Y 14 Minassian, L. Songs from a world apart (2006). Levon Minassian, duduk; Armand Amar.

Harmonia B000ELLOQ1 39 Trad. BooCheeMish, part 2 (2018). Lisa Gerrard, sop; Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices.

Prophecy B07BF8554Y 8 Minassian, L. They have taken the one I love. Levon Minassian, duduk.

Long Distance France B00004VC7G 7 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones

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Monday 17 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small

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 A year in retrospect: 1950 Prepared by Rex Burgess Martinu, B. Concerto for flute, violin and orchestra (1950). Janne Thomsen, fl; Bohuslav Matousek, vn; Czech PO/ Christopher Hogwood.

Hyperion CDA67671 19

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Colours of the keyboard Prepared by Frank Morrison Schubert, F. Sonata in B flat for piano four hands, D617 (1818). Isabel Beyer, Harvey Dagul, pf.

Four Hands Music FHMD 891 20

Barber, S. Piano sonata (1950). Nicholas Zumbro, pf.

Kritonos records KR 2018 21

Maurice Ravel

Martin, F. Songs of Ariel (1950). The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers.

Collins 14672 12

Hovhaness, A. Elibris, dawn god of Urardu, op 50 (1944). John Chambers, va.

Crystal Classics CD810 10

Arutiunian, A. Trumpet concerto (1950).

Geoffrey Payne, tpt; Melbourne SO/John Hopkins.

ABC 982 697-6 15 Britten, B. Lachrymae, op 48a (1950).

Justine Marsden, va; Robert Chamberlain, pf.

Fine Music concert recording 14 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Schumann, R. Overture, scherzo and finale, op 52 (1841). O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner.

Archiv 457 591-2 17 Dvorák, A. Piano concerto in G minor, op 33 (1876). Rudolf Firkusny, pf; Vienna State Opera O/László Somogyi.

Westminster 471 266-2 38 Falla, M. de Ballet: El amor brujo (1915/16).

New York PO/Leonard Bernstein.

CBS MYK 44721 26 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 MAINLY STRINGS Prepared by Rex Burgess Ghedini, G. Sonata da concerto (1958).

Andrea Oliva, fl; strings of the Toscana O/ Daniele Rustioni.

Sony 88985366412 16 Haydn, J. Concerto in F for violin, organ and strings, Hob.XVIII:6 (c1766). Wanda Wilkomirska, vn; Roger Woodward, org; strings of the Sydney SO/Niklaus Wyss.

ABC 481 1322 20

Myaskovsky, N. Sinfonietta in A minor, op 68 no 2 (1947). Russian Federation SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Warner Classics 69689-8 30 Piazzolla, A. Sur: Regresso al amor. Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Hector Console, db; Nestor Marconi, ban; Leonardo Marconi, pf.

Sony SK 63122 6 15:00 FRENCH FLAIR Prepared by Marilyn Schock Satie, E. Je te veux (1900). Stephanie McCallum, pf.

ABC 481 0773 5 Ravel, M. Violin sonata in G (1923-27).

Jennifer Pike, vn; Martin Roscoe, pf.

Chandos CHAN 10667 18 Sonatine (1905). Jean-Philippe Collard, pf.

EMI 5 72376 2 11 Fauré, G. Cello sonata no 2 in G minor, op 117 (1918). Alban Gerhardt, vc; Cecile Licad, pf.

Hyperion CDA67872 18 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 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

Mendelssohn, F. String symphony no 9 in C, Swiss (1823). Members of the Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti.

Sony SK 57484 26 26

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Haydn, J. Keyboard trio in G, Hob.XV:25, Gypsy (1795). London Fortepiano Trio.

Hyperion CDA66297 15 Albrechtsberger, J. Prelude and fugue for organ four hands. Elizabeth Anderson, Douglas Lawrence, org.

Move MD 3180 6 Dohnányi, E. Violin sonata in C sharp minor, op 21 (1912). Peter Salaff, vn; Barry Snyder, pf.

Pro Arte CDD 239 17 Bach, W.F. Polonaise no 3 in D (c1765).

Steve Barrell, clvd.

Globe GLO 5035 5 Mendelssohn, F. Fantasy in F sharp minor, op 28 (1833). Nikolai Demidenko, pf.

Hyperion CDA66781/2 14 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Denis Patterson Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture on Russian themes, op 28 (1866/79-80). Seattle SO/ Gerard Schwarz.

Naxos 8.572788 12 Rossini, G. Bassoon concerto (1845). Patrick De Ritis, bn; Würzburg PO/Enrico Calesso.

Naxos 8.573382 18 Elgar, E. Symphony no 2 in E flat, op 63 (1911). London PO/Adrian Boult.

Lyrita SRCD.221 51 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 OPERA IN CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Mozart, W. Overture to Lucio Silla, K135 (1772). Mozarteum O/Leopold Hager.

DG 469 666-2 8 Gounod, C. L’amour, l’amour … Ah! lève-toi, soleil, from Romeo and Juliet (1867). Alfredo Kraus, ten; Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson.

EMI CDC 7 54016 2 4 Verdi, G. Pace, pace, mio Dio, from The force of destiny (1862). Ileana Cotrubas, sop; New Philharmonia O/John Pritchard.

LP CBS SBR 35850 5

Tuesday 18 December

Richard Wagner

Paavo Järvi

Carl Nielsen

Mascagni, P. Intermezzo, from Cavalleria rusticana (1890). West Australian SO/David Measham.

ABC 434 714-2 3

Stenhammar, W. Ballad, op 3 (1891). Peter Mattei, bar; Malmö SO/Paavo Järvi.

BIS CD-550 8

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

Tubin, E. Valse triste (1939). Gothenburg SO/ Neeme Järvi.

BIS CD-337 4

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Rob Thomas

Verdi, G. Vanne ... lasciami ... D’amor sull’ali rosee, from Il trovatore (1853). Maria Callas, sop; Conservatoire Concerts Society O/Nicola Rescigno.

EMI CDC 7 54437 2 6 Wagner, R. Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59). Cleveland O/ George Szell.

CBS M2YK 46466 17 Puccini, G. Tu, tu, amore? from Manon Lescaut (1893). Renata Tebaldi, sop; Franco Corelli, ten; Suisse Romande O/Anton Guadagno.

Decca 467 918-2 7 14:00 MUSICAL FAMILIES Järvi Family Prepared by Jennifer Foong Alfvén, H. Swedish rhapsody no 2, op 24 (1907). Stockholm PO. BIS CD-395 10 Prokofiev, S. Symphonic song, op 57 (1933).

Scottish NO. Chandos CHAN 8728 13 Neeme Järvi, cond (2 above)

Massenet, J. Méditation de Thaïs (1894).

Leila Josefowicz, vn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Philips 454 440-2 5 Sibelius, J. Autrefois, scène pastorale, op 96b (1919). Monica Einarson, sop; Charlotte Forsberg, mezz; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi.

BIS CD-384 6 Pärt, A. Collage on BACH (1964). Estonian NSO. Virgin 5 45630 2 7 Tüür, E-S. Inquiétude du fini (1992). Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Estonian National SO. Virgin 3 85785 2 18 Paavo Järvi, cond (2 above) Atterberg, K. Cello concerto, op 21 (1922).

Truls Mørk, vc; NorrlandsOperan SO/Kristjan Järvi.

BIS CD-1504 33

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Charles Barton 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Brian Drummond Kuhlau, F. Variations on an Irish air: The last rose of summer, op 105 (1829). Per Øien, fl; Geir Henning Braaten, pf.

LP Simax PN 2004 9 Berwald, F. Grand septet in B flat (1842).

Mikael Björk, db; members of Arion Wind Quintet; members of Schein String Quartet.

Naxos 8.553714 23 Grieg, E. Piano sonata in E minor, op 7 (1865). Leif Ove Andsnes, pf.

Virgin VC 7 59300 2 19 Sibelius, J. String quartet in D minor, op 56, Voces intimae (1909). Melos Quartet.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901671 31 Nielsen, C. Wind quintet, op 43 (1922). Oslo Wind Ensemble.

Naxos 8.553050 27

“It turned out as something wonderful. The kind of thing that brings a smile to your lips at the hour of death. I will say no more,” wrote Jean Sibelius to his wife in 1909 after completing his String quartet in D minor, op 56, later subtitled Voces intimae. Sibelius composed it in London in the period between the Third and Fourth Symphonies and it was his last work in this genre. A reviewer of the premiere in Helsinki in April 1910 wrote: “The composition attracted a great deal of attention, and it is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant products in its field. It is not a composition for the public at large, it is so eccentric and out of the ordinary.” Afterwards, Sibelius had second thoughts that the music could have been lighter and he might have made it sound more like a string quartet!

It’s a five-movement quartet with the central third movement an adagio that has been described as a ‘soulful quest for serenity’. The movement’s main key is F major but during the movement there are ‘three detached, soft chords in E minor, remote from any previous harmonic implications’. It is here that Sibelius wrote the words Voces intimae in a friend’s copy of the score. This is a fine appellation for a work that expresses, as the Latin title translates, ‘inner voices’ or ‘intimate voices’. The music is noted for its ‘conversational quality’ and the ‘inwardness’ of the music so that was perhaps the composer’s thoughts about the kind of music he would like to hear as he was drawing his last breaths.

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Wednesday 19 December 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 Composer focus Prepared by Jennifer Foong Lekeu, G. Adagio (1891). Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky.

Claves 50-9325 10 Piano sonata in G (1891). Jeannine Vieuxtemps, pf.

LP Pavane ADW 7088 19 Three poems (1892). Rachel Yakar, sop; Alice Ader, pf.

Harmonia Mundi 1901 455 13 Larghetto (1892). Elizabeth Veyrier, vc; Ensemble Musique Oblique.

Harmonia Mundi 1901 455 9 Violin sonata in G (1891). Christian Ferras, vn; Pierre Barbizet, pf.

DG 480 6655 29 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Field Menotti, G. My Christmas (1987). Members of Nashville Symphony Ch; Nashville SO/ George Mabry.

Naxos 8.669019 13 Respighi, O. Concerto gregoriano (1921).

Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; BBC PO/Edward Downes.

Chandos CHAN 9232 34 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 5 in D (1938-43/51). London SO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8554 39 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 THE SUN KING Prepared by Rodrigo Azaola Rameau, J-P. Chaconne, from Les Indes galantes (1735-36).

Archiv 479 1045 6 Lully, J-B. La cérémonie des Turcs, from Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670). Gilles Ragon, high ten; Michel Laplénie, ten; Michel Verschaeve, bar; Bernard Delétré, bass; Philippe Cantor, bass.

Erato 245 286-2 13 Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (2 above) Rameau, J-P. Orchestral suite, from Le temple de la gloire (1745). Philharmonia Baroque O/Nicholas McGegan.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907121 34 28

14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 COPLAND EXPLORED Part 3 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Copland, A. Our town, from film Our town (1940). London SO/Aaron Copland.

CBS MK 42429 11 Appalachian Spring (1943-44). CzechoSlovak RSO/Stephen Gunzenhauser.

Naxos 8.550282 23 Symphony no 3, mvt 4 (1946). New Zealand SO/James Judd.

Naxos 8.559106 13 Midday thoughts (1983). Bennett Lerner, pf.

Etcetera KTC 1019 3 Fanfare for the common man (1942). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta.

Decca 475 7470 3 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Angela Cockburn Menotti, G. Amahl and the night visitors.

Opera in one act. Libretto by the composer.

First performed New York, 1951.

AMAHL: Ike Hawkersmith, treb MOTHER: Kirsten Gunlogson, mezz KING KASPAR: Dean Anthony, ten KING MELCHIOR: Todd Thomas, bar KING BALTHAZAR: Kevin Short, bass-bar Members of Nashville Symphony Ch & Chicago Symphony Ch; Nashville SO/Alastair Willis.

Naxos 8.669019 49 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Britten, B. The little sweep, from Let’s make an opera, op 45. Opera for children in three scenes. Libretto by Eric Crozire. First performed Aldeburgh, 1949.

Decca 478 5364 44 SAMMY: David Hemmings, treb ROWAN: Jennifer Vyvyan, sop MISS BAGGOTT: Nancy Thomas, cont JULIET BROOK: April Cantelo, sop GAY BROOK: Michael Ingram, treb SOPHIE BROOK: Marilyn Baker, sop JOHN CROME: Robin Fairhurst, treb TINA CROME: Gabriel Soskin, sop HUGH CROME: Lyn Vaughan, treb BLACK BOB, TOM: Trevor Anthony, bass CLEM, ALFRED: Peter Pears, ten Choir of Alleyn’s School; English Opera Group O/ Benjamin Britten.

Decca 478-5364 44

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Unico van Wassenaer Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera Humperdinck, E. The Christmas dream, from The blue bird (1912). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher.

Virgin VC 7 91494-2 5 22:00 A DUTCH CAVALCADE Prepared by Rex Burgess Wassenaer, U. Concerto in A for strings, op 9 no 3, from Concerti armonici (pub. 1740).

Stuttgart CO/Karl Munchinger.

Decca 425 728-2 11 Van Bree, J. Allegro moderato for four string quartets (1845). Ferdinand Luitner, cond.

Olympia OCD 502 12 Verhey, T. Flute concerto no 1 in D, op 43 (c1880). Koos Verhuel, fl; Lucas Vis, cond.

Olympia OCD 503 12 The Hague Residency O (2 above) Wagenaar, J. Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac, op 23 (1905). Royal Concertgebouw O/ Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 425 833-2 14 Diepenbrock, A. Suite: Marsyas (1910).

Emmy Verhey, vn; The Hague Residency O/ Hans Vonk.

Chandos CHAN 8821 34 Andriessen, H. Variations on a theme by Couperin (1944). Paul Verhey, fl; Ernestine Stoop, hp; Netherlands Radio CO/David Porcelijn.

NM CLASSICS 92023 16 Leeuw, T. de Symphonies of winds (1963).

Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink.

Radio Nederland RCO 06004 9

Thursday 20 December

Malcolm Arnold

Geoffrey Simon

Erin Helyard

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Spohr, L. Symphony no 4 in F, op 86 (1832).

Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley.

Hyperion CDA67622 36

Szymanowski, K. Roxana’s song from King Roger, op 46 (1926). Barbara Zagórzanka, sop; Polish State PO/Karol Stryja.

Naxos 8.553688 6

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 music salon Prepared by Chris Blower

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 TEA AND SYMPHONY Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Mendelssohn, F. Frühlingslied, op 34 no 3 (1836); Die Nonne, op 9 no 12 (1846); Sehnsucht, op 9 no 7 (1830). Barbara Bonney, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf.

Teldec 2292-44946-2 7

Shostakovich, D. Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, op 35 (1933). William Vacchiano, tpt; André Previn, pf; New York PO/Leonard Bernstein.

CBS MPK 44850 22

Pasculli, A. Grand concerto on themes from The Sicilian Vespers by Verdi. Ivan Paisov, ob; Natalia Shcherbakova, pf.

Naxos 8.570567 15

Jazz suite no 2 (1938). Russian State SO/ Dmitri Yablonsky.

Naxos 8.555949 20

Mahler, G. Der Tamboursg’sell, from The youth’s magic horn (1899). Thomas Hampson, bar; Wolfram Rieger, pf.

Radio Nederland transcription 7 Kuhlau, F. Duo brilliant in E, op 102 no 2 (1829). Per Øien, fl; Robert Aitken, fl.

LP Simax PN 2004 12 Coleridge-Taylor, S. Scènes de ballet (1906). Robin Ruys, pf.

Fine Music concert recording 13 Fibich, Z. String quartet no 1 in A (1874).

Talich Quartet.

Calliope CAL 3332 23 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Tchaikovsky, P. Hamlet, fantasy overture after Shakespeare, op 67a (1888).

Philadelphia O/Riccardo Muti.

EMI CDC 7 49859 2 19 Arnold, M. Clarinet concerto no 2, op 115 (1974). Emma Johnson, cl; English CO/Ivor Bolton.

ASV DCA 922 16 Svendsen, J. Norwegian rhapsody no 4, op 22 (1877). Bergen PO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 10711 12

Symphony no 5 in D minor, op 47 (1937).

Leningrad PO/Yevgeny Mravinsky.

Audiophile Classics APL 101.503 41 14:30 A CLASSICAL COLLECTION Prepared by Paul Hopwood Haydn, J. Keyboard sonata no 62 in E flat, Hob.XVI:52 (1794-95). Mikhail Pletnev, pf.

Virgin 5 45254 2 23 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 1 in C, op 1 (1800). Sydney Youth SO/Stuart Challender.

Fine Music Tape Archive 28 Arriaga, J. String quartet no 1 in D minor (1821-22). Chilingirian Quartet.

CRD 33123 30 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Sue Jowell 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS Kings and queens Prepared by Raj Gopalakrishnan

Korngold, E. Suite from Elizabeth and Essex (1939). London SO/André Previn.

DG 471 347-2 14 Shostakovich, D. Incidental music to King Lear, op 137 (1940). Belgian RSO/José Serebrier.

RCA Victor RD 87763 20 Schmitt, F. Antony and Cleopatra: Suite no 1, op 69a; Suite no 2, op 69b (1920). Buffalo PO/JoAnn Falletta.

Naxos 8.573521 46 22:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Prepared by Elaine Siversen Bach, C.P.E. Cello concerto in A minor, Wq170 (1750). Daniel Yeadon, vc; Australian Haydn Ensemble/Erin Helyard. 27 Mahler, G. Abscheid, from Das Lied von der Erde (1908-09; arr. Schoenberg 1918-24).

Elizabeth Campbell, sop; David Nuttall, ob, cora; Robert Johnson, hn; Gordon Skinner, bn, contrabassoon; Dimity Hall, vn; Lorna Cummings, vn; Max McBride, db; Michael Askill, perc; Australia Ensemble/Dene Olding. 30 Fine Music concert recordings (2 above) Liszt, F. Christmas tree suite (1872-74).

Stephanie McCallum, pf.

ABC 476 4689 37 Palmer, G. Concerto for two clarinets and chamber ensemble, It takes two (2008).

Dimitri Ashkenazy, cl; David Rowden, cl; Omega Ensemble.

ABC 481 4667 20

Respighi, O. Belkis, Queen of Sheba (1931).

Philharmonia O/Geoffrey Simon.

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Friday 21 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Paul Cooke Schumann, C. Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, op 20 (1853). Veronica Jochum, pf.

Pro Arte CDD 396 11 Spohr, L. Potpourri in F, op 80 (1811).

Michael Collins, cl, Swedish CO/Robin O’Neill.

Hyperion CDA67509 10 Stravinsky, I. Suite from Pulcinella after themes, fragments and pieces of Giambatista Pergolesi (1925). Anthony Marwood vn; Thomas Adès, pf.

Hyperion CDA67723 16 Carulli, F. Variations in F on Beethoven’s 12 Variations for cello and piano, op 169.

Leopoldo Saracino, gui; Massimo Palumbo, fp.

Nuova Era 7167 11 Glass, P. Étude no 5, from Études (19942012; arr. Meijer). Lavinia Meijer, hp.

Sony G0100035642352 8 Mozart, W. Symphony no 38 in D, K504, Prague (1786; arr. Hummel). Diana Doherty, ob; Seraphim Trio.

Fine Music concert recording 23 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Nicky Gluch Duruflé, M. Three dances for orchestra, op 6 (1936). Sydney SO/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat.

ABC 434 716-2 22 Bach, C.P.E. Symphony in E flat, Wq179 (1757). O of the Age of Enlightenment/ Rebecca Miller.

Signum SIGCD395 12 Elgar, E. Symphony no 1 in A flat, op 55 (1907). London SO/Charles Mackerras.

Argo 430 835-2 50 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 IN DULCE JUBILO Music for the Christmas season Prepared by Stephen Matthews Ryba, J. Pastorella: Rozmily Slavícku.

Magdalena Kozená, mezz; Capella Regia Musicalis/Robert Hugo.

Archiv 477 8365 4 30

Bach, J.S. The first day of Christmas, from Christmas oratorio. Bach Academy, Stuttgart/ Hans-Christoph Rademann.

Carus 83.312 25 Scheidemann, H. Preambulum in D minor.

Allan Rasmussen, org.

Dacapo 6.220661 4 Ryba, J. Czech Christmas Mass (1796).

Magdalena Kozená, mezz; Capella Regia Musicalis/Robert Hugo.

Archiv 477 8365 40 Schmelzer, J. Sonata pastorella. L’Arpa Festante.

Carus 83.373 7

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV110: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (1725). Collegium Vocale/ Philippe Herreweghe.

Harmonia Mundi HM5908369.71 25

Five variants of Dives and Lazarus (1939).

City of Birmingham SO/Norman Del Mar. Varèse-Sarabande VCD47248 12

Trad. In dulce jubilo (arr. Reger). RIAS Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay.

Harmonia Mundi HMG 501794 2

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Christmas at Versailles Prepared by Elaine Siversen Couperin, F. Venite exultemus Domino. 4

15:00 FRENCH FLAIR Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Lambert, M. Dialogue de la paix et la félicité. 7

Saint-Saëns, C. Cello sonata no 1, op 32 (1872). Christian Poltéra, vc; Kathryn Stott, pf.

Chandos CHAN 10552 20

Du Mont, H. O nomen Jesu. 3 Adhoc Baroque/Peter Young (3 above) Artsound FM Canberra recording

Chaminade, C. Carnival waltz, op 73. Peter Jablonski, pf; Bengt Forsberg, pf.

DG 471 331-2 6

Allemande grave in D minor (1657); Allemande en tablature in A minor (1668).

Christophe Rousset, org.

Virgin 5 61531 2 8

Ravel, M. Piano trio in A minor (1914).

Florestan Trio.

Hyperion CDA67114

Clérambault, L-N. Hodie Christus natus est; Sonate en trio, La Magnifique. 14

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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Peter Kurti 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Symphonies of Vaughan Williams Prepared by David Brett Davies, P. Maxwell Cross Lane Fair (1994).

BBC PO/Peter Maxwell Davies.

Collins 14602 14 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 8 in D minor (1956). London SO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8828 30 Tuba concerto in F minor (1954). James Gourlay, tuba; Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland.

Naxos 8.557754 13 Symphony no 9 in E minor (1956-57). London SO/André Previn.

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Campra, A. Laudate Dominum; Jubilate Deo. 12

Exultabo te Domine; Motet pour le roy, Domine salvum fac regem. 7 Charpentier, M-A. Excerpts from Noëls pour les instruments; Ave Regina; Pour la conception de la Vierge. 9 Adhoc Baroque/Peter Young (4 above) Artsound FM Canberra recording Concertos in four parts for viols nos 1, 4 and 5. Les Arts Florissants/William Christie.

Archiv 477 8610 6 In nativitatem Domini nostri Jesu Christi, H414 (c1670). 15 Salvum fac regem. 2 Adhoc Baroque/Peter Young (2 above) Artsound FM Canberra recording Couperin, F. Concert royal no 3 in A, from Concerts royaux, troisième livre de pièces de clavecin (1714-15). Heinz Holliger, ob; Manfred Sax, bn; Thomas Brandis, vn; Josef Ulsamer, va da gamba; Christiane Jaccottet, hpd.

Archiv 427 119-2 17

Saturday 22 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Lucas, L. The amethyst march. 3

6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson

Stuart, L. Soldiers of the Queen. 2

9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney

Soho CD051 (all above)

9:05 PERIODS AND THEIR PEOPLE 20th Century 1916-2000 Prepared by Mariko Yata Shostakovich, D. Jazz suite no 1 (1934).

Russian State SO/Dmitri Yablonsky.

Naxos 8.555949 8 Webern, A. Four songs for voice and piano, op 12 (1915-17). Heather Harper, sop; Charles Rosen, pf.

Sony SM3K 45845 5 Ibert, J. Flute concerto (1934). James Galway, fl; Royal PO/Charles Dutoit.

RCA RD 60450 19 Pärt, A. Speigel im Spiegel (1978). Sally Maer, vc; Sally Whitwell, pf.

ABC 476 5162 9 Kats-Chernin, E. Torque (2002). James Crabb, accordian; Tamara-Anna Cislowska, pf; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

ABC 481 6430 15 Tippett, M. Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli (1953). Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9233 19 10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Rebecca Zhong Rameau, J-P. Quatrième concert, from Pièces de clavecin en concert (pub. 1741).

Lars Fryden, vn; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, va da gamba; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd.

Vanguard 08 2023 71 7 Franck, C. Piano quintet in F minor (187879). Richard Friedman, vn; Steven Smith, vn; Christopher Wellington, va; Ross Pople, vc; Pascal Rogé, pf.

ASV DCA 769 34

Regency Noble Footwear Band (2 above) 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 AN HOUR WITH MENDELSSOHN Prepared by Georgina Sierra Mendelssohn, F. Overture to A midsummer night’s dream, op 21 (1826). London SO/ Peter Maag.

Decca 478 2826 12 Variations concertantes in D, op 17 (1829).

Luca Fiorentini, vc; Stefania Redaelli, pf.

Brilliant Classics 94368 10 Overture: Calm sea and prosperous voyage, op 27 (1828). Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi.

Decca 460 239-2 12 Piano concerto no 1 in G minor, op 25 (1831).

András Schiff, pf; Bavarian RSO/Charles Dutoit.

Decca 414 672-2 19 15:00 SATURDAY MATINEE The Manger Prepared by Chris Blower Casals, P. The manger (1974). Olga Iglesias, sop; Maureen Forrester, cont; Paulino Saharrea, ten; Pablo Elvira, bar; Carlos Serrano, bass; Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music Ch; Casals FO of Puerto Rico/Pablo Casals.

LP Columbia M2 32966 1:44 Liszt, F. Christmas tree suite (1874-76).

Rhondda Gillespie, pf.

LP Chandos ABR 1006 40

Debussy, C. Violin sonata in G minor (191617). Shlomo Mintz, vn; Yefim Bronfman, pf.

DG 477 5448 13

17:30 THE VOICES, THE ROLES Prepared by Angela Cockburn

11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Paul Hopwood

18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Sydney Schubert Society Prepared by Ross Hayes

Sedaka-Cody. Solitaire. 5 Mozart, W. Overture to The magic flute, K620 (1791; arr. Kenyon). 7 Meyerbeer, G. Coronation march (arr.

Jakeway). 4 Rolls Royce Coventry Brass Band (3 above) Respighi, O. The pines of the Appian Way (arr. Graham). Sellers Engineering Brass Band. 5

Bad baritones

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Strouse, C. Excerpts from Annie (1977).

Andrea McArdle, Reid Shelton, Sandy Faison, Robert Fitch, voices; members of the original cast.

Columbia SK 60723 19

Herman, J. Excerpts from Mame (1966).

Angela Lansbury, Frankie Michaels, Beatrice Arthur, Charles Braswell, voices; members of the original cast.

Columbi SK 60959 19 Menotti, G. My Christmas (1987). Members of Nashville Symphony Ch; Nashville SO/ George Mabry.

Naxos 8.669019 12 20:00 THE WORD TRANSFORMED Prepared by Elaine Siversen Newman, A. Beau Gest, film music (1939; arr. Stromberg). Moscow SO/William Stromberg.

Naxos 8.570187 20 Gunning, C. Excerpts from Rebecca (1997).

Julia Bradshaw, vc; BBC PO/Rumon Gamba.

Chandos CHAN 10625 7 Williams, J. Jane Eyre (1971). Boston Pops O/John Williams.

Philips 420 946-2 13 Rózsa, M. Love theme, from Ben Hur (1959).

Royal PO/José Serebrier.

Sony 88697290382 5 March of the charioteers, from Ben Hur. Grimethorpe Colliery U.K. Coal Band.

RCA 74321 88393 2 3 Music from Ivanhoe (1952). National PO/ Charles Gerhardt.

RCA GD80911 5 Wagenaar, J. Overture: Cyrano de Bergerac, op 23 (1897). The Hague Residency O/Alain Lombard.

Olympia OCD 504 15 Foerster, J. Suite: Cyrano de Bergerac, op 55 (1903). Czech PO/Václav Smetácek.

LP Supraphon 1110 2456 39 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Rex Burgess Handel, G. Concerto grosso in B flat, op 3 no 1 (c1715-22). Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen. cpo 777488-2 10 Devienne, F. Flute concerto no 7 in E minor (1788). Marc Grauwels, fl; Walloon CO/ Bernard Labadie.

Naxos 8.555918 18 Mussorgsky, M. Pictures at an exhibition (1874). Julius Katchen, pf.

Decca 425 961-2 30 Francaix, J. Trio for clarinet, viola and piano (1992). Dimitri Ashkenazy, cl; Ada Meinich, va; Bernd Glemser, pf.

Paladino pmr 0074 22 Korngold, E. Symphonic serenade in B flat for strings, op 39 (1947-48). BBC PO/ Matthias Bamert.

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Sunday 23 December Praetorius, M. Vom Himmel hoch.

Blechbläserensemble/Ludwig Güttler.

Carus 83.241 4 Haydn, M. Heiligste Nacht. Vienna Chamber Choir/Johannes Prinz. 3 Gounod, C. Noël. I Vocalisti Chamber Choir/ Hans-Joachim Lustig. 8 Carus 83.369 (2 above) Trad. Noël nouvelet. Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. 4 Sumison, H. Prelude on The holly and the ivy. Daniel Hyde, org. 5 Barry Tuckwell

Édouard Lalo

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Grétry, A-E-M. String quartet in G, op 3 no 5 (1761-65). Haydn Quartet.

Koch CD 310 158 H1 10

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Paul Cooke Bruckner, A. Libera me (1854). Corydon Singers; Olga Hegedus, vc; Thomas Martin, db; John Scott, org; English CO Wind Ensemble/Matthew Best.

Hyperion CDA66177 9 Bach, J.S. Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV35 (1726). Marianne Beate Kielland, cont; Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl.

Naxos 8.557615 25 Wolf, H. Christnacht (1886-89). Shihomi Inou-Heller, sop; Maria Luise Wilke, cont; Klaus Thiem, bar; Berlin Philharmonic Choir; Berlin RSO/Uwe Gronostay.

Schwann 313 013 H1 19 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Denis Patterson Geminiani, F. Concerto grosso in A, after Corelli op 5 no 9 (c1716). Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907261.62 10 Hummel, J. Piano trio no 5 in E, op 83 (1819). Alessandro Deljavan, pf; Daniela Cammarano, vn; Luca Magariello, vc.

Brilliant Classics 94898 30 Tartini, G. Cello concerto in A (c1740).

Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Collegium Musicum Zürich/Paul Sacher.

DG 479 2561 15 Mozart, L. Horn concerto in D. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

EMI 5 69395 2 11 Haydn, J. Symphony in F sharp minor, Hob.I:45, Farewell (1772). O of St Luke’s/ Charles Mackerras.

Telarc CD-80156 34 32

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan

Opus Arte OA 9022 D (2 above) 18:00 BEETHOVEN’S LAST QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Beethoven, L. Piano trio in E flat, op 1 no 1 (1794-95). Macquarie Trio.

ABC 446 626-2 30

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

String quartet no 16 in F, op 135 (1826).

Guarneri Quartet.

Philips 420 926-2 25

14:00 AFFAIR ON CORFU Prepared by Dan Bickel

19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess

Lalo, E. Ballet: Namouna (1882). Monte Carlo PO/David Robertson.

Auvidis V 4677 56 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Musica Viva presents Goldner String Quartet with Piers Lane Recorded by Peter Bell for FINE MUSIC Younan, E. Interwoven, for string quartet. 7 Beethoven, L. String quartet in E minor, op 59 no 2 (1808). 37 Goldner String Quartet (2 above) Glazunov, A. Theme and variations for solo piano, op 72 (1900). Piers Lane, pf. 19 Borodin, A. Notturno, from String quartet no 2 (1881). 8 Piano quintet in C minor (1862). Piers Lane, pf. 24 Sculthorpe, P. String quartet no 10 (1983).

Tall Poppies TP090 13 Goldner String Quartet (3 above) 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Stephen Matthews Carols: O little town of Bethleham; The first Nowell; Away in a manger. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/David Willcocks.

EMI 5 56537 2 11 Telemann, G. In dulce jubilo. Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage.

Chaconne CHAN 0754 X 14 Ryba, J. Pastorale. Capella Regia Musicalis/ Robert Hugo.

Archiv 465 108-2 4

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Bach, J.S. Brandenburg concerto no 5 in D, BWV1050 (1708-21). Alison Mitchell, fl; Angela Hewitt, pf; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir.

Hyperion CDA67307 20 Elgar, E. Sea pictures, op 37 (1897-99).

Linda Finnie, cont; London PO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 9022 25 Kalinnikov, Vasily. Symphony no 1 in G minor. Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 9546 38 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Lyn Chong Westlake, N. Piano trio (2003). Niki Vasilakis, vn; Emma-Jane Murphy, vc; Kathryn Selby, pf. 21 Keane, R. Music for John Bell: Five Shakespearean miniatures (c2015). New Sydney Wind Quintet. 16 Kats-Chernin, E. The three dancers (c2015).

Amy Dickson, sax; Jack Liebeck, vn; Julian Smiles, vc; Rohan Dasika, db; James Crabb, accordion; Eugene Ughetti, perc; TamaraAnna Cislowska, pf. 23 Tavares, G. Ladainha, for cello octet (2009).

Cellists of The Metropolitan O. 10 Fine Music concert recordings (4 above) Coates, G. String quartet no 8 (2001-02).

Kreutzer Quartet.

Naxos 8.559152 15 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones

Monday 24 December 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: 1887 Prepared by Derek Parker Saint-Saëns, C. Havanaise in E, op 83 (1887). Ulf Hoelscher, vn; New Philharmonia O/Pierre Dervaux.

Brilliant Classics 94308 10 Debussy, C. Le jet d’eau, from Five poems of Baudelaire (1887-89). Stéphanie d’Oustrac, mezz; Pascal Jourdan, pf.

Ambronay AMY042 5 Granados, E. Valse poéticos (1887). Louis Fernando Pérez, pf.

Mirare MIR138 14 Albéniz, I. Rapsodia española, op 70 (1887).

Melani Mestre, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA67918 13 Dvorák, A. Romantic pieces, op 75 (1887).

Gil Shaham, vn; Orli Shaham, pf.

DG 479 2565 13 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite no 4 in G, op 61, Mozartiana (1887). Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet.

Decca 476 2723 26 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Derek Parker Hess, N. A Christmas overture. Royal PO/ John Rutter.

Collegium COLCD 133 7 Bruch, M. Violin concerto no 1 in G minor, op 26 (1866-67). Anne-Sophie Mutter, vn; Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan.

DG 479 4110 26 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 5 in E minor, op 64 (1888). Leningrad PO/Yevgeny Mravinsky.

DG 447 423-2 44 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 OPERA IN CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Thomas, A. Overture to Mignon (1866).

Sydney SO/Joseph Post.

LP ABC RRCS 1472 9 Puccini, G. O saro la più bella, from Manon Lescaut (1893). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; José Carreras, ten; Bologna Comunale TO/ Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 440 844-2 9

Verdi, G. Germont’s aria, from La traviata (1853). Robert Allman, bar; Sydney SO/Eric Clapham.

LP ABC AA9059 4

Tuesday 25 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Rossini, G. Tanti affetti in tal momento, from La donna del lago (1819). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; La Fenice Theatre Ch & O/Ion Martin.

Decca 436 075-2 8 Saint-Saëns, C. Bacchanale, from Samson and Delilah (1877). Detroit SO/Paul Paray.

Mercury 432 014-2 8 Massenet, J. Toi! Vous! … N’est ce plus ma main, from Manon (1884). Angela Gheorghiu, sop; Roberto Alagna, ten; Royal Opera House O/Richard Armstrong.

EMI 5 56117 2 7 Bellini, V. O rendetemi la spemem ... Qui la voce sua soave, from The Puritans (1835).

Emma Matthews, sop; Melbourne SO/Andrea Molino.

ABC 481 4236 5

On this Christmas Day relax with beautiful music selected by volunteer presenters who have chosen the music to share with you on this special day.

6:00 FINE MUSIC CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST with Julie Simonds

14:00 AUSTRALIAN MADE Prepared by Mariko Yata Edwards, R. Piano concerto (1982). Dennis Hennig, pf; Queensland SO/Myer Fredman.

ABC 426 483-2 18 Vine, C. Canzona (1985). Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner.

ABC 476 226-7 12 Gould, T. Kashmir remembered (1990). Sam Evans, tabla; Hiroki Hoshino, bass; Robert Burke, sax; Aaron McCullough, drums; Tony Gould, pf.

Move MD 3412 12 Hyde, M. Viola sonata (1937). Anne-Louise Comerford, va; James Muir, pf.

Walsingham 2WAL8036-2CD 16 Whiffin, L. Sonata for two trombones, mvt 1 (1993). Eric Klay, tb.

Move MD 3174 8 Koehne, G. Ballet: The selfish giant (1983).

Queensland PO/Stephen Barlow.

Tall Poppies TP115 45 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett

9:00 CHRISTMAS MORNING with Heather Middleton

12:00 CHRISTMAS MIDDAY JAZZ with Sue Jowell

14:00 CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON with Dan Bickel

16:00 FINE MUSIC HOLIDAY

19:00 CHRISTMAS EVENING

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 Adoration of the shepherds

Painting: Gerard van Honthorst

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Wednesday 26 December

Ottorino Respighi

Giacomo Puccini

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Ives, C. Set no 1 for small orchestra (190711). Gilbert Kalish, pf; Orpheus CO. DG 457 911-2 10

Intermezzo, from Manon Lescaut (1893).

Belgian RT PO/Alexander Rahbari.

Naxos 8.578066/67 6

Copland, A. Piano sonata (1939-41). Peter Lawson, pf.

Virgin VC 7 91163-2 24

Capriccio sinfonico (1883). Berlin RSO/ Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 410 007-2 12

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Rex Burgess Respighi, O. Suite: Rossiniana (1925).

Buffalo PO/JoAnn Falletta.

Naxos 8.557711 21 Il tramonto (1914). Elizabeth Campbell, mezz; Australian CO/Peter Robinson.

Fine Music concert recording 14 Six melodies (1909). Andrea Catzel, sop; Leonardo de Lisi, ten; Reinild Mees, pf.

Channel CCS 11998 12 Poema autunnale (1920-25). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; BBC PO/Edward Downes.

Chandos CHAN 9232 15 Piano quintet in F minor (1902). Nuovo Quartetto Modigliani.

Nuova Era SP 108 18 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Denis Patterson Weber, C.M. Overture to Der Freischütz (1821). New Zealand SO/Antoni Witt.

Naxos 8.570296 10 Paganini, N. Violin concerto no 4 in D minor (1829-30). Ernö Rózsa, vn; Slovak RSO/ Michael Dittrich.

Naxos 8.554396 34 Brahms, J. Symphony no 3 in F, op 90 (1883). West Australian SO/Asher Fisch.

ABC 481 4413 37 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale

Barber, S. Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947).

Dawn Upshaw, sop; St Luke’s O/David Zinman.

Elektra/Nonesuch 979 187-2 15 Antheil, G. Suite: Capital of the world (1953).

Frankfurt RSO/Hugh Wolff. cpo 777 040-2 17 Glass, P. Violin concerto (1987). Adele Anthony, vn; Ulster O/Takuo Yuasa.

Naxos 8.554568 25 15:00 ROMANTIC PIANO Prepared by Marilyn Schock Granados, E. Escenas románticos. Thomas Rajna, pf.

CRD 3322 26 Skryabin, A. Nine mazurkas, op 25 (189899). Beatrice Long, pf.

Naxos 8.553600 28 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Celeste Haworth 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Died for love Prepared by Camille Mercep Puccini, G. Tosca. Opera in three acts.

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica.

First performed Rome,1900.

FLORIA TOSCA: Leontyne Price, sop MARIO CAVARADOSSI: Plácido Domingo, ten BARON SCARPIA: Sherrill Milnes, bar CESARE ANGELOTTI: Clifford Grant, bass Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir; John Aldis Choir; New PO/Zubin Mehta.

Sony 88697448122 1:47

13:00 AN AMERICAN CAVALCADE Prepared by Rex Burgess Gottschalk, L. Romantic symphony, A night in the tropics (1859; reconstr. & ed.

Rosenberg). Hot Springs Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg.

Naxos 8.559320 16 Synopsis at finemusicfm.com/Opera 34 FOR A FULL DAB+ SCHEDULE VISIT WWW.FINEMUSICFM.COM

Se come voi piccina io fossi, from Le villi (1884). Leontyne Price, sop; New Philhamonia O/Edward Downes.

RCA RD 85999 5 Il bel sogno di Doretta, from La rondine (1917). Leona Mitchell, sop; National PO/Kurt Herbert Adler.

Decca 466 903-2 3 Nessun dorma, from Turandot (1920-24; compl. Alfano 1926). Plácido Domingo, ten; Royal Opera House Ch & O; London SO/Luis Cobos.

Sony 88697298152 5 22:30 A CLASSICAL COLECTION Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. Trio in B flat, for clarinet, cello and piano, op 11 (1797). James Campbell, cl; Yuli Turovsky, vc; Luba Edlina, pf.

Chandos CHAN 8655 24 Mozart, W. Symphony no 36 in C, K425, Linz (1783). Vienna PO/Carlos Kleiber.

Artists FED 013/14 29 Hummel, J. Piano sonata in F sharp minor, op 81 (1819). Pavel Gililov, pf.

Orfeo C 252 931 A 29

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eorge Antheil’s 1953 ballet The capital of the world (set in Madrid) has been described as having ‘the stamping energy of Falla’s The three-cornered hat’ and ‘World Fair nonchalance’ plus ‘the feline elegance of Copland, Chabrier-style Hispanics, sweet string music, jazziness, a touch of Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnole’. Fascinating!

It’s based on a short story by Antheil’s long-time friend Ernest Hemingway, obviously a kindred spirit. Hemingway’s wild lifestyle is well known and Antheil titled his autobiography Bad Boy of Music.

Thursday 27 December 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 music salon Prepared by Frank Morrison Wikmanson, J. String quartet in E minor, op 1 no 2 (c1790). Chilingirian Quartet.

CRD 3361 21 Schumann, R. The lion’s intended, op 31 no 1 (1840). Matthias Goerne, bar; Eric Schneider, pf.

Decca 475 6012 9 Villa-Lobos, H. The baby’s family no 1 (1918). Marcelo Bratke, pf.

Olympia OCD 455 16 Byström, T. Violin sonata no 1, op 1 (pub.

1799). Yoshiko Arai, vn; Izumi Tateno, pf.

Finlandia FACD 012 14 Beethoven, L. Wind sextet in E flat, op 71 (1796). European CO Wind Soloists.

ASV COE 807 20 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Di Cox Méhul, É-N. Overture to La chasse du jeune Henri (1797). Brittany O/Stefan Sanderling.

ASV DCA 1140 11 Alkan, C-V. Chamber concerto in A minor, op 10 no 1 (1832). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA66717 14 Berlioz, H. Orchestral music from Romeo and Juliet, dramatic symphony, op 17 (1839).

Chicago SO/Carlo Maria Giulini.

EMI 5 85974 2 53 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 ARMIDA Prepared by Rodrigo Azaola Handel, G. Cantata: Armida abbandonata, HWV105. Ann Murray, mezz; Symphony of Harmony and Invention/Harry Christophers.

Collins 15032 16 Graun, C. La gloria t’invita, from Armida (1751). Julia Lezhneva, sop; Luca Pianca, lute; Concerto Köln/Mikhail Antonenko.

Decca 483 1518 4 Salieri, A. E non degg’io seguirla … Lungi da te … Forse, chi sa? Veranno … Vieni a me sull’ali d’oro, from Armida (1771). Cecilia Bartoli, sop; O of the Age of Enlightenment/ Adám Fischer.

Decca 475 100-2 10

Bedrich Smetana

Richard Hickox

Cherubini, L. Qual da venti combattuta, from Armida abbandonata (1782). Maria Grazia Schiavo, sop; Auser Musici/Carlo Ipata.

Hyperion CDA67893 4

20:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS King Arthur Elgar, E. Suite from King Arthur (1923).

Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst.

Chandos CHAN 6582 23

Rossini, G. Se al mio crudel tormento, Dove son io! Èver, gode quest’anima, from Armida.

Joyce DiDonato, mezz; Lawrence Brownlee, ten; St Cecilia National Academy Ch & O/ Edoardo Müller.

Virgin 6 94579 0 13 Dvorák, A. Za stíhlou gazelou, from Armida, op 115 (1904). Renée Fleming, sop; Philharmonia O/Sebastian Lang-Lessing.

Decca 478 5107 5 14:00 FROM MY LIFE Smetana, B. String quartet no 1 in E minor, From my life (1880). Lindsay String Quartet.

ASV DCA 777 27 14:30 EARLY 20TH CENTURY PIANO Prepared by Albert Gormley Rachmaninov, S. Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, op 43 (1934). Julius Katchen, pf; London PO/Adrian Boult.

Philips 456 859-2 22 Piano concerto no 4 in G minor, op 40 (1926).

Sergei Rachmaninov, pf; Philadelphia / Eugene Ormandy.

Naxos 8.110602 24 Skryabin, A. Seven preludes, op 17 (189596). Yevgeny Zarafiants, pf.

Naxos 8.553997 11 Piano concerto in F sharp minor, op 20 (1896). Roger Woodward, pf; Sydney SO/Edo de Waart.

ABC 465 671-2 26 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley

Trad. King Arthur (arr Roberton).

Philharmonic Chamber Choir/David Temple.

Helios CDH88008 3 Britten, B. Suite from King Arthur (1937; arr.

Hindmarsh). BBC PO/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9487 26 Purcell, H. King Arthur (1691). Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDA67001/3 4 Strong, G. Symphonic poem: King Arthur (1916). Moscow SO/Adriano.

Naxos 8.559048 41 22:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Prepared by Chris Blower Mozart, W. Piano trio in E, K542 (1788).

Streeton Trio.

Fine Music concert recording 19 Hummel, J. Trumpet concerto in E flat (1803). Gordon Webb, tpt; Sydney SO/Robert Pikler.

LP RCA VRL1 0078 20 Hotteterre, J-M. Suite no 1 in D, from Première livres de pièces (pub. 1715).

Belinda Webster, fl; Tommie Andersen, theorbo.

LP Vox/Record Society S/6529-30-31 16 Liszt, F. Wanderer fantasy, after Schubert, op 15 (1854). Victor Sangiorgio, pf; Queensland SO/En Shao.

ABC 456 680-2 21 Chopin, F. Cello sonata in G minor, op 65 (1845-46). Julian Smiles, vc: Kathryn Selby, pf.

Fine Music concert recording 26 Graun, C. Horn concerto in D. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown.

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Friday 28 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Di Cox Albinoni, T. Concerto in D minor, op 9 no 2 (pub. 1721; arr. Thilde). Maurice André, tpt; London PO/Jésus López-Cobos.

EMI CMS 7 69880-2 9 Handel, G. Water music suite (c1717; transcr.

Stokowski). BBC PO/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9930 20 Boccherini, L. Introduction and fandango (arr. Bream). Martin Maria Krüger, gui; Klaus Schilde, pf.

Calig CAL 50912 6 Rossini, G. I palpiti, from Tancredi (1813; arr.

Paganini; rev. Kreisler). Gil Shaham, vn; Akira Eguchi, pf.

DG 447 640-2 10 Beethoven, L. Andante cantabile, from Septet, op 20 (1820; arr. Braun). Members of London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble.

Hyperion CDA67119 7 Tommasini, V. Ballet: The good-humoured ladies, after Scarlatti (1917). Concert Arts O/ Robert Irving.

EMI 5 65911 2 15 Bizet, G. Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen (1873-74; arr. Borne). Paula Robison, fl; Samuel Sanders, pf.

Vanguard OVC 4058 11 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Chris Blower Coates, E. London suite (1932). London Pops O/Frederick Fennell.

Mercury 478 5092 15 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Fantasia on Serbian themes, op 6 (1867). Moscow SO/Igor Golovchin.

Naxos 8.553513 8 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 1 in D, op 17 (1858). Stephen Hough, pf; City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo.

Hyperion CDA67331/2 26 Bantock, G. Hebridean symphony (1915).

Czecho-Slovak State PO/Adrian Leaper.

Naxos 8.555473 33 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 36

13:00 CONSIDERING CHOPIN Prepared by Georgina Sierra Chopin, F. Berceuse in D flat, op 57 (184344). Roger Woodward, pf.

Warner Music 450990318-2 5 Four mazurkas, op 24 (1833). Artur Rubinstein, pf.

Naxos 8.110656/7 10 24 Preludes, op 28 (1839; arr. Françaix).

Berlin RSO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher.

Schwann 311 060 H1 39 Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, op 22 (1834). Milos Mihajlovic, pf.

Bel Air Music BAM2046 14

Henry Purcell

Waltz in A minor, op 34 no 2 (1831; arr.

Ginsburg). Maria Kliegel, vc; Bernd Glemser, pf.

Naxos 8.553159 6

Moszkowski, M. Spanish dances, op 12 (1876). London SO/Ataulfo Argenta.

Decca 443 580-2 14

Nocturne in D flat, op 27 no 2 (1834-35).

Roger Woodward, pf.

Fine Music Tape Archive 6 14:30 TEA AND SYMPHONY Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Schumann, R. Overture to Manfred, op 115 (1848-49). Tasmanian SO/Sebastian LangLessing.

ABC 476 773-6 12 Liederkreis, op 24 (1840). Olaf Bär, bar; Geoffrey Parsons, pf.

EMI CDC 7 54027 2 23 Scenes from childhood, op 15 (1838). Artur Schnabel, pf.

Naxos 8.505189 17 Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 120 (1841/51).

Vienna PO/Georg Solti.

Decca 417 799-2 30 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Frank Morrison Veracini, F. Overture no 1 in B flat (c1716).

Accademia I Filarmonici/Alberto Martini.

Naxos 8.553412 14 Quantz, J. Flute concerto in G (1740).

Wolfgang Schulz, fl; Vienna CO/Philippe Entremont.

Teldec 8.44053 16 Schumann, R. Fantasy in C, op 131 (1853).

Thomas Zehetmair, vn; Philharmonia O/ Christoph Eschenbach. apex 0927-49592-2 15

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Strauss, R. The Marschallin’s monologue, from Der Rosenkavalier (1911). Lucia Popp, sop; Bamberg SO/Horst Stein.

Eurodisc 258938 8 Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 3 in D minor, op 30 (1909). Simon Trpceski, pf; Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko.

Avie AV2192 42 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Honoured in Westminster Abbey Prepared by Paul Cooke Gibbons, O. I am the Resurrection; O clap your hands. Choir of Christ Church St Laurence; David Drury, org; Neil McEwan, cond.

Walsingham WAL 8014-2 10 Handel, G. Concerto in C minor for recorder, bassoon and orchestra. Makiko Kurabayashi, bn; Ensemble 1700/Dorothee Oberlinger, rec & dir.

DHM 88875134062 10 Lawes, H. My soul the great God’s praises sings. Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley.

Hyperion CDA66135 10 Blow, J. A mournful masque, from Venus and Adonis (1683; arr. Knight). Septura.

Naxos 8.573386 16 Humfrey, P. Verse anthem: O Lord my God (1688). Monteverdi Choir; Marilyn Sansom, vc; Michael Lewin, lute; Alastair Ross, org; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner.

Erato 2292-45987-2 13 Purcell, H. Suite from King Arthur (1691) Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Capriccio C8001 19 Croft, W. Te Deum in D (1709). Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Parley of Instruments/John Scott.

Hyperion CDA66606 32

Saturday 29 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Krystal Li 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 PERIODS AND THEIR PEOPLE 20th Century 1916-2000 Prepared by Derek Parker Butterworth, G. Six songs from A Shropshire lad (1912). Benjamin Luxon, bar; David Wilson, pf.

London 430 368-2 15 Walton, W. Façade, an entertainment (1926/38). Edith Sitwell, narr; Peter Pears, narr; English Opera Group Ensemble/ Anthony Collins.

London 425 661-2 37

Emmanuel Pahud

Alma Deutscher

Dukas, P. The sorcerer’s apprentice (1897).

Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet.

Decca 478 5616 11

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell

Alwyn, W. Flute concerto (1980). Kate Hill, fl; Haffner Wind Ensemble/Nicholas Daniel.

Chandos CHAN 9152 18

Liszt, F. Gretchen, from A Faust symphony (1854-57; transcr. 1867). Leslie Howard, pf.

Hyperion CDS44517 16

Lord Berners. Spanish fantasy (1920). Royal Liverpool PO/Barry Wordsworth.

EMI CDC 7 47668 2 8

Berlioz, H. Symphonie fantastique, op 14 (1830). Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy.

Sony SBK 46 329 49

10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Derek Parker Mozart, W. A musical joke, K522, mvt 4 (1787). Jenó Keveházi, hn; Kodály Quartet.

Naxos 8.578281-82 5 Tchaikovsky, P. Piano trio in A minor, op 50, In memory of a great artist (1881-82).

Oistrakh Trio.

Brilliant Classics 9272 49 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Paul Cooke Bantock, G. Prometheus unbound. John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Geoffrey Brand.

Chandos CHAN 4510 10 Ives, C. Fugue in C (1896; transcr. Sinclair).

The President’s Own United States Marine Band/Timothy Foley.

Naxos 8.570559 7 MacCunn, H. The land of the mountain and the flood (1886). Williams-Fairey Engineering Band Delta 60357 9 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 A LITTLE FRIGHT MUSIC Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Gounod, C. Ballet music; Waltz, from Faust (1859). Berlin RSO/Ferenc Fricsay.

DG 474 045-2 22 Mussorgsky, M. St John’s night on Bald Mountain (1867; orch. Rimsky-Korsakov 1886). Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Mackerras.

Virgin VC 7 91174-2 11

15:00 SATURDAY MATINEE Prince of the Pagodas Prepared by Chris Blower Britten, B. Ballet: The prince of the pagodas, op 57 (1957). London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen.

Virgin VCD 7 91103-2 1:59 Lambert, C. Ballet: Pomona (1926). English CO/Norman Del Mar. Lyrita SRCD.215 21 17:30 STAGING MUSIC Prepared by Angela Cockburn Richard II 18:00 MAKE MINE MOZART Prepared by Rex Burgess Mozart, W. Masonic funeral music, in C minor, K477 (1785). London Mozart Players/ Jane Glover.

ASV DCA 757 6 Ah, lo previdi! ... Ah, t’invola, K272 (1777).

Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 425 835-2 11 Fantasia in C minor, K475 (1785). Stephen Hough, pf.

Hyperion CDA67598 12 Flute concerto no 1 in G, K313 (1778).

Emmanuel Pahud, fl; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado.

EMI 5 57128 2 25

Farewell 2018: Ah yes, I remember it!

20:00 THE WORD TRANSFORMED W.H. Auden and A.E. Housman Britten, B. Hymn to St Cecilia, op 27 (1930).

Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer.

Chandos CHAN 9511 11 Berkeley, L. Five poems, op 53. Philip Langridge, ten; Steuart Bedford, pf.

Naxos 8.557204 10 Bernstein, L. Symphony no 2 (after W. H. Auden), The age of anxiety (1947-49). Jeffrey Kahane, pf; Bournemouth SO/Andrew Litton.

Virgin VC 7 91433-2 35 Somervell, A. A Shropshire lad (1904). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Malcolm Martineau, pf.

DG 477 5336 22 Butterworth, G. A Shropshire lad, rhapsody (1912). London Mozart Players/Hilary Davan Wetton.

Naxos 8.573426 10 Vaughan Williams, R. On Wenlock Edge (1908). Steve Davislim, ten; Benjamin Martin, pf; Hamer Quartet.

Melba MR301131 21 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Chris Blower Harty, H. A John Field suite (1939). Ulster O/ Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 6583 20 Deutscher, A. Violin concerto in G minor (2014/17). Alma Deutscher, vn; Vienna CO/ Joji Hattori.

Private recording 33 Arensky, A. Piano trio no 1 in D minor, op 32 (1894). Borodin Trio.

Chandos CHAN 8477 32 Bruch, M. Symphony no 1 in E flat, op 28 (pub. 1870). Gewandhaus O/Kurt Masur.

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Sunday 30 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Poole 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Mendelssohn, F. Sing to the Lord a new song, op 91 (1844). Gulbenkian Ch & O/ Michel Corboz.

Erato 4509-94359-2 8 Bach, J.S. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225 (c1727). Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner.

Erato 2292-45979-2 19 Gibbons, O. O clap your hands. Sarum Consort.

Naxos 8.572582 5 Handel, G. Chandos anthem no 1: O be joyful in the Lord, HWV246 (1718). Lynne Dawson, sop; Ian Partridge, ten; Michael George, bass; The Sixteen Ch & O/Harry Christophers.

Chandos CHAN 8600 20 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Di Cox Stamitz, J. Orchestral trio in C, op 1 no 1 (1754-55). New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong.

Naxos 8.553213 17 Clementi, M. Piano sonata in F minor, op 25 no 5. Maria Tipo, pf.

EMI 7 54766 2 15 Boccherini, L. Guitar quintet no 9 in C, La ritirata di Madrid (1798). Alexander Schneider,vn; Felix Galimir, vn; Michael Tree, va; David Soyer, vc; Alirio Diaz, gui..

Vanguard OVC 8006 23 Stamitz, C. Clarinet concerto no 3 in B flat.

Sabine Meyer, cl; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown.

EMI CDC 7 54842 2 14 Haydn, M. Der Morgen im Lenz; Die Elfen.

Die Singphoniker. cpo 999 333-2 6 Dittersdorf, C. Symphony in C, The four ages of the world (pub. 1767). Failoni O/ Hanspeter Gmür.

Naxos 8.553368 17 Bach, J. Christian Quintet in D for flute, oboe, violin, viola and continuo, op 11 no 6 (1774). Members of Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 8.41062 14 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide 38

14:00 BADLY BEHAVED COMPOSERS Prepared by Robin Mitchell Beethoven, L. Rondo a capriccio in G, op 29, Rage over a lost penny (1795). Gianluca Cascioli, pf.

DG 453 422-2 7 Weelkes, T. Magnificat anima mea Dominum; Nunc dimittis. Peter Nagy, treb;John Brandon, treb; Michael Liley, alto, Andrew Bushell, alto; Winchester Cathedral Choir; James Lancelot, org; Consort of Musicke/Martin Neary.

ASV GAU 119 10 Bax, A. November woods (1917). Ulster O/ Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8307 18 Gesualdo, C. Ave dulcissima Maria (pub.

1603). Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly.

Naxos 8.550742 5 Handel, G. Concerto grosso in C minor, HWV327 (1739). English Concert/Trevor Pinnock.

Archiv 410 898-2 14 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Expectations of a New Year Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Franz Schubert Carols: While shepherds watched their flocks (1992); Unto us is born a Son (1994); The first Nowell (1998). Newcastle choirs/Philip Matthias. 3 Improvisation on Unto to us is born a son. 4 Anthony Jennings, org (2 above) Treehouse T9923 Holst, G. Long ago, prophets know (1582). 3 Kelly, B. Magnificat; Nunc dimittis. 7

Monteverdi, C. Mentre vaga angioletta, from Seventh book of madrigals (1619). Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley.

Decca 478 5637 9

Choir of Christ Church, South Yarra/Philip Nicholls (2 above)

Weiss, S. Lute sonata no 19 in F (1719).

Robert Barto, lute.

Naxos 8.570109 23

Siegfried Franke, org (3 above)

Schubert, F. Piano quintet in A, D667, Trout (1819). Schubert Ensemble of London.

Helios CDH55427 39 Falla, M. de Ballet: The three-cornered hat (1919). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Philharmonia O/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

EMI 5 65997 2 40 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymns: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; Hail to the Lord’s anointed; Of the Father’s heart begotten. Choir of Christ Church St Laurence; Peter Jewkes, org; Neil McEwan, cond.

CCSL 05 14 Carols: Come leave your sheep; Away in a manger; Wither’s rocking hymn. Christopher Bruerton, bar; David Childs, org. 7 Pearsall, R. In dulci jubilo (arr. Westbrook).

Godley Singers; Oxford Trio. 10 Boëly, A. Prelude: Esprit divins. David Childs, org. 1 Treehouse T9923 (3 above) Rutter, J. Shepherd’s pipe carol. Hunter Consort of Voices/Philip Matthias.

Carols from Christ Church 3138420022 3

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Bach, J.S. Little fugue in G minor, BWV578. 4 Advent SC004 18:00 SYDNEY SOCIETY OF RECORDER PLAYERS Prepared by Susan Foulcher Anon. Istampita Aquila altera. Little Consort Amsterdam.

Etcetera KTC-1005 2 Tallis, T. O sacrum convivium, from Cantiones sacrae (pub.1575). 5 Bach, J.S. Allegro, from Brandenburg concerto no 6, BWV1051 (1720). 6 Seldom Sene (2 above) Brilliant Classics 94871 Rojas, D. ... of magic and realism (2017).

Duo Blockstix.

Move MCD561 7 Warlock, P. Capriol suite (1974). Clas Pehrsson, rec; Anders-Per Jonsson, rec; Anders Mjönes, rec.

BIS CD-57 10 Rawsthorne, A. Suite (c1945; arr. McCabe).

John Turner, rec; Northern CO/David LloydJones.

Naxos 8.553567 7 Kats-Chernin, E. Re-inventions nos 1 and 2 for descant recorder after Inventions nos 8 and 13 in F, BWV779, by J.S. Bach (2004).

Sunday 30 December

Monday 31 December 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: 1860 Prepared by Frank Morrison Strauss, J. II Waltz: Accelerations, op 234 (1860). Vienna PO/Zubin Mehta.

Sony 88875035492 9

René Jacobs Genevieve Lacey, rec; Flinders Quartet.

Flinders Quartet 7 Garner, E. Misty (1954). 4 Mandell, J. The shadow of your smile (c1965). 3 Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (2 above) Decca 425 222-2 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Stephen Matthews Telemann, G. Orchestral suite: Alster.

Akademie für Alte Musik/René Jacobs.

Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908781.87 31 Graupner, C. Ach Herr mich armen Sunder.

Klaus Mertens, bass; Accademia Daniel/ Shalev Ad-El. cpo 777 644-2 12 Mozart, W. Divertimento in D, K251 (1776).

Camerata Academica des Mozarteum/Sandor Veigh.

Capriccio 7024 24 Abel, C. Symphony, op 17 no 5. Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead. cpo 999 214-2 11 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Robert Small Greenbaum, S. Trombone sonata (2015).

Don Immel, tb; Konrad Olszewski, pf.

Lyrebird LB061116 22 Westlake, N. Mosstrooper Peak. Slava Grigorian, gui; Leonard Grigorian, gui.

ABC 481 7031 25 Dorman, A. Mandolin concerto (2006). Avi Avital, mand; Metropolis Ensemble/Andrew Cyr. Naxos 8.559620 17 Fitkin, G. Pawn (2004). Sacconi Quartet.

Signum SGCD518 20 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones

Brahms, J. Two motets, op 29 (1860).

Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman.

Chandos CHAN 9671 12 Bruch, M. Fantasy for two pianos, op 11 (1860). Martin Berkofsky, pf; David Hagan, pf.

LP Turnabout TV 34732 10 Smetana, B. Symphonic poem: Hakon Jarl, op 16 (1860-61). Czech PO/Karel Sejna.

Supraphon SU 1915-2 001 16 Loewe, C. Nebo, op 136 (1860). Christian Elsner, ten; Cord Garben, pf. cpo 999 676-2 10 Borodin, A. Cello sonata in B minor (1860).

Ottó Kertész Jr, vc; Ilona Prunyi, pf.

Marco Polo 8.223172 22 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Wagner, R. Overture: Rule Britannia (1837).

Hong Kong PO/Varujan Kojian.

LP Marco Polo 6.220114 12 Stamitz, C. Concerto in B flat for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra (1896). Koji Okazaki, bn; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Kálmán Berkes, cl & dir.

Naxos 8.553584 24 Rubinstein, A. Symphony no 6 in A minor, op 111 (1880s). Hamburg SO/Heribert Beissel.

LP Turnabout TV-S 34577 47 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 MUSSORGSKY TO MESSIAEN Prepared by Andrew Parker

Olivier Messiaen Björling, ten; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino O/ Alberto Erede.

Decca 421 316-2 13 Messiaen, O. Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (1964). Concertgebouw O/ Bernard Haitink.

Philips 420 257-2 21 14:30 LULLABY Prepared by Stephen Wilson Tchaikovsky, P. Berceuse in A flat, op 72 no 2 (1893). Mikhail Pletnev, pf.

DG 477 5378 6 Ysaÿe, E. Berceuse in F minor, op 20.

Amaury Coeytaux, vn; Liège Royal PO/JeanJacques Kantorow.

Musique en Wallonie MEW 1681 6 Godard, B. Angels guard thee, from Jocelyn, op 109 (1888). Kenneth McKellar, ten; O/ Peter Knight.

Decca 448 9022 5 Busoni, F. Berceuse élégïaque, op 42 (1909).

Royal Concertgebouw O/Ed Spanjaard.

Radio Nederland RCO12004 9 15:00 ISN’T IT ROMANTIC Prepared by Paul Hopwood Brahms, J. Piano sonata no 2 in F sharp minor, op 2 (1852). Emanuel Ax, pf.

Sony SK 69284 26

Mussorgsky, M. Boris Godunov: Symphonic synthesis (1869-72; transcr. Stokowski). BBC PO/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9445 24

Stanford, C. Villiers Violin sonata no 2 in A, op 70 (c1898). Paul Barritt, vn; Catherine Edwards, pf.

Hyperion CDA67024 27

Mussorgsky, M. The joyous hour (1858).

Aage Haughland, bass; Poul Rosenbaum, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9336-8 2

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

Massenet, J. Orchestral suite no 3: Scènes dramatiques (1873). Monte Carlo Opera O/ John Eliot Gardiner.

Erato 2292-45858-2 19

19:00 JAZZ PULSE with Chris Wetherall

Mascagni, P. Tu qui, Santuzza? from Cavalleria rusticana (1890). Renata Tebaldi, sop; Rina Corsi, sop; Lucia Dani, mezz; Jussi

20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson DECEMBER 2018

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The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the December dates listed Abel, C. 1723-1787 30 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 10,24 Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 28 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 7,18 Alfvén, H. 1872-1960 10,18 Alkan, C-V. 1813-1888 27 Allegri, G. 1582-1652 9 Alwyn, W. 1905-1985 29 Andreae, V. 1879-1962 1 Andriessen, H. 1892-1981 19 Antheil, G. 1900-1959 26 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 2,3,10,12,15,29 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 20 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 2,3,20 Arutiunian, A. b 1920 17 Atterberg, K. 1887-1974 2,18

Byström, T. 1772-1839 27

Caccini, F. 1587-1640 14 Caccini, G. c1545-1618 7,14 Caldara, A. c1670-1736 6 Campra, A. 1660-1744 21 Cannabich, C. 1731-1798 9 Carulli, F. 1770-1841 21 Casals, P. 1876-1973 22 Chabrier, E. 1841-1894 6 Chaminade, C. 1857-1944 21 Charpentier, M-A. 1635-1704 13,21 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 4,13,14,15,27 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 30 Clérambault, L-N. 1676-1749 21 Coates, E. 1886-1957 28 Coates, G. b1938 23 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 Coleridge-Taylor, S. 12,16,20,21 1875-1912 20 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 Copland, A. 1900-1990 2,12,30 12,19,26 Bach, J.C.F. 1732-1795 15 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 1 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 Corrette, M. 1709-1795 16 1,7,11,12,21,23,30 Couperin, F. 1668-1733 21 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 Creston, P. 1906-1985 1 5,10 Croft, W. 1678-1727 28 Bantock, G. 1868-1946 Crotch, W. 1775-1847 10 28,29 Crusell, B. 1775-1838 2,9,16 Barber, S. 1910-1981 Danzi, F. 1763-1826 15 1,7,17,26 David, Félicien. 1810-1876 Bartel, H. 1932-2014 13 10 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 15 Davies, P. Maxwell Bax, A. 1883-1953 11,30 1934-2016 21 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 Davis, C. b1936 8 2,3,6,7,9,12,13,14,16,20,23, Dean, B. b1961 13 26,27,28,30 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 Ben-Haim, P. 1897-1984 4 5,15,22,24 Berg, A. 1885-1935 11 Delden, L. 1919-1987 12 Berkeley, L. 1905-1989 29 Delibes, L. 1836-1891 8 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 27,29 Deutscher, A. b2005 29 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 Devienne, F. 1759-1803 22 1,3,13,29 Diabelli, A. 1781-1858 6 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 18 Diepenbrock, A. 1862-1921 Biber, H. 1644-1704 1 19 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 9,28 Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 30 Bliss, A. 1891-1975 8 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 4,13 15,18 Blow, J. 1649-1708 28 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 7 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 Dorman, A. b1975 30 1,6,15,28,30 Dubois, T. 1837-1924 16 Bononcini, A. 1677-1726 4 Dukas, P. 1865-1935 29 Bononcini, G. 1670-1747 4 Duruflé, M. 1902-1986 21 Bononcini, G.M. 1642-1678 4 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 1,2,7,8,15,17,24 1,10,11,23,31 Edwards, R. b1943 2,15,24 Boyd, A. b1946 2 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 15,18,21,23,27 3,6,14,26,31 Enescu, G. 1881-1955 1,14 Bridge, F. 1879-1941 3 Britten, B. 1913-1976 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 7,17,19,27,29 16,17,30 Broadstock, B. b1952 13 Farrenc, L. 1804-1875 11 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 Faure, G. 1845-1924 9,24,29,31 3,15,16,17 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 14,23 3,15,16,17 Busoni, F. 1866-1924 31 Fibich, Z. 1850-1900 20 Butterworth, G. 1885-1916 Field, J. 1782-1837 9 1,29 Finsterer, M. b1962 9 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 Fitkin, G. b1963 30 1,2,7

Strauss, R. 1864-1949 7,16,28 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 11,21 Strong, G. 1856-1948 27 Gade, N. 1817-1890 11 Strouse, C. b 1928 22 Galindo, B. 1910-1993 16 Quantz, J. 1697-1773 28 Sutherland, M. 1897-1984 6 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 23 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 20 Ghedini, G. 1892-1965 17 Szymanowski, K. 1882-1937 1,4,27,28 Giannini, V. 1903-1966 8 6,15,20 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 Gibbons, O. 1583-1625 Lalo, E. 1823-1892 23 19,22 Talbot, J. b1971 8 28,30 Lambert, C. 1905-1951 29 Tartini, G. 1692-1770 1,23 Glanville-Hicks, P. Lambert, M. 1610-1696 21 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 Tavares, G. 20th c 23 1912-1990 8 Lanchbery, J. 1923-2003 8 3,15,16,17,21 Rawsthorne, A. 1905-1971 Tavener, J. 1944-2013 2 Glass, P. b1937 21,26 Lawes, H. 1596-1662 28 30 Taverner, J. c1490-1545 13 Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 Lawes, W. 1602-1645 4 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 10,23 Leeuw, T. de 1926-1996 19 Reisteter, S. 20th c 1 Respighi, O. 1879-1936 1,5,8,9,13,16,20,24,29,31 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 4,14 Lekeu, G. 1870-1894 19 6,19,20,22,26 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 Goldsmith, J. 1929-2004 8 Lessel, F. 1780-1838 11 Ries, F. 1784-1838 12 14,23,30 Gombert, N. c1495-c1560 Linley, T. the Elder Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 1844Thomas, A. 1811-1896 24 13 1733-1795 4 1908 1,8,14,18,28 Ticheli, F. b1958 8 Gottschalk, L. 1829-1869 26 Linley, T. the Younger Rittler, P. 1637-1690 7 Tippett, M. 1905-1998 22 Gould, T. b1940 24 1756-1778 4 Rojas, D. b1974 30 Tommasini, V. 1878-1950 28 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 Tórroba, F. Moreno 23,29 4,11,13,14,20,22,27,29 7,12,13,16,18,24,27,28 1891-1982 12 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 8 Loewe, C. 1796-1869 31 Tüür, E-S. b1959 18 Granados, E. 1867-1916 Lord Berners. 1883-1950 29 Rota, N. 1911-1979 8 Rubinstein, A. 1829-1894 31 6,24,26 Lord, J. 1941-2012 1 Van Bree, J. 1801-1857 19 Ryba, J. 1765-1815 21 Graun, C. 1704-1759 27 Lully, J-B. 1632-1687 19 Vaughan Williams, R. Graupner, C. 1683-1760 30 Luzuriaga, D. b1955 16 1872-1958 8,13,19,21,29 Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 Greenbaum, S. b1966 30 Lyne, P. b 1946 8 Venosta G. b1961 8 Grétry, A-E-M. 1741-1813 23 MacCunn, H. 1868-1916 29 4,10,14,15,21,24,28 Veracini, F. 1690-1768 28 Salieri, A. 1750-1825 9,27 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 8,13,18 MacDowell, E. 1860-1908 1 Sarasate, P. de 1844-1908 3,11,15,18 Verhey, T. 1848-1928 19 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 10,20 10 Gunning, C. b1944 22 Vierne, L. 1870-1937 11 Marais, M. 1656-1728 7 Satie, E. 1866-1925 9,11,17 Handel, G. 1685-1759 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 27 Martin, F. 1890-1974 17 Scarlatti, A. 1659-1725 6 2,4,6,7,13,14,22,27,28,30 Vine, C. b1954 24 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 17 Schmelzer, J. c1620-1680 Vines, N. b1956 9 Harty, H. 1879-1941 3,29 Mascagni, P. 1863-1945 31 21 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 1,7 Hasse, J. 1699-1783 6 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 Schmitt, F. 1870-1958 20 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 18,24,31 Schnittke, A. 1934-1998 13 Wagenaar, J. 1894-1971 3,6,13,16,17,18,20,23 McCombe, C. b1967 9 Schoenberg, A. 1874-1951 13,19,22 Heise, P. 1830-1879 11 Méhul, É-N. 1763-1817 27 11 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 Herman, J. b1931 22 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 8,10,18,31 Hess, N. b1953 10,24 5,9,13,14,17,18,20,22,30 2,4,6,7,8,10,11,14,16,18,30 Wallace, W. 1860-1940 14 Higdon, J. b1962 11 Menotti, G. 1911-2007 19,22 Schumann, C. 1819-1896 Walton, W. 1902-1983 13,29 Hoffmeister, F. 1754-1812 11 Messiaen, O. 1908-1992 31 5,21 Warlock, P. 1894-1930 30 Holland, D. 1913-2000 15 Milhaud, D. 1892-1974 12 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 Wassenaer, U. 1692-1766 Holst, G. 1874-1934 13 Mills, R. b1949 8 1,5,10,13,14,15,17,27,28 19 Horwood, W. c1430-1484 7 Minassian, L. 21st c 16 Sculthorpe, P. 1929-2014 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 Hotteterre, J-M. 1674-1763 Monteverdi, C. 1567-1643 2,6,15,23 4,9,26 27 2,6,30 Séverac, D. de 1872-1921 Webern, A. 1883-1945 22 Hovhaness, A. 1911-2000 17 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 10 Weelkes, T. 1576-1623 30 Humfrey, P. 1647-1674 28 28 Shchedrin, R. b1932 8 Weinberg, M. 1919-1996 3 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 Mozart, L. 1719-1787 23 Shield, W. 1748-1829 9 Weiss, S. 1686-1750 30 2,9,13,23,26,27 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 2, Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 Westlake, N. b1958 7,23,30 Humperdinck, E. 5,6,7,8,14,16,18,21,22,26, 7,9,10,20,22 Whiffin, L. 1930-2012 24 1854-1921 19 27,29,30 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 3,4,18 Whitacre, E. b1970 8 Hyde, M. 1913-2005 13,24 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 Skryabin, A. 1872-1915 Wieniawski, H. 1835-1880 22,29,31 4,26,27 14 Ibert, J. 1890-1962 22 Myaskovsky, N. 1881-1950 Smetana, B. 1824-1884 Wikmanson, J. 1753-1800 Infante, M. 1883-1958 15 1,17 27,31 27 Ives, C. 1874-1954 26,29 Somervell, A. 1863-1937 29 Newman, A. b1941 22 Wikström, I. b1939 8 Jacoby, H. 1909-1990 13 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 18 Williams, J. b1932 22 Jadin, H. 1769-1802 16 5,7,11,20,21 Noble, T. 1867-1953 16 Wolf, H. 1860-1903 15,23 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 2 Stamitz, C. 1745-1801 30,31 Offenbach, J. 1819-1880 1 Yoshimatsu, T. b1953 9 Stamitz, J. 1717-1757 30 Kabalevsky, D. 1904-1987 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 Younan, E. b1994 15,23 Stanford, C. Villiers 3,7,13,26 15 Ysaye, E. 1858-1931 31 1852-1924 31 Kalinnikov, Vasily. 1866-1901 Palmer, G. b1947 20 Steiner, M. 1888-1971 8 Zelenka, J. 1679-1745 2 3,10,23 Pärt, A. b1935 18,22 Stenhammar, W. Zenamon, J. b1953 16 Karg-Elert, S. 1877-1933 12 Pasculli, A. 1842-1924 20 1871-1927 18 Zwilich, E. b1939 1 Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 Pearsall, R. 1795-1856 30 Stölzel, G. 1690-1749 14 22,23,30 Piazzolla, A. 1922-1992 17 Strauss, J. II 1825-1899 Keane, R. b1948 23 Piccinini, A. 1566-1638 14 8,15,31 Foerster, J. 1859-1951 10,22 Francaix, J. 1912-1997 6,22 Françaix, J. 1912-1997 6,22 Franck, C. 1822-1890 22

Kelly, B. b1934 30 Klengel, J. 1859-1933 4 Koehne, G. b1956 24 Korngold, E. 1897-1957 1,14,20,22 Kozeluch, L. 1747-1818 8 Krommer, F. 1759-1831 2 Kuhlau, F. 1786-1832 16,18,20

Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 2,9,12,18 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 18,24,26 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 13,28

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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

MUSICAL FAMILIES ELIZABETH HILL LOOKS AT FATHERS AND SONS Giovanni Maria Bononcini, theorist and composer of cantatas, madrigals and trios (the latter of which were important precursors of Corelli’s trio sonatas) was the father of a musical family that included Antonio Maria, a gifted cellist and composer with some 40 cantatas and 24 stage works to his name, and his older brother, the renowned Giovanni Battista.

Giovanni Battista Bononcini Showing a precocious talent at an early age, Giovanni Battista Bononcini (Bononcini) was taught by his father, but after being orphaned at the age of eight studied with Giovanni Colonna in Bologna. At the age of 15 he published Trattenimenti da camera (for string trio), followed by a set of chamber concertos and instrumental duos, and Masses written for San Giovanni Cathedral in Monte, where at 17 he had become Maestro di Cappella.

In 1692 he accepted a post with Filippo Colonna in Rome. Sensing that art was a compilation of music and drama, he collaborated with the poet Silvio Stampiglia on six serenatas, an oratorio and five operas, of which the last, Il trionfo di Camilla, became so popular that it received 64 performances in English translation at London’s Theatre Royal, and began the English fashion for Italian opera.

became bitter rivals in the fierce competition to satisfy the English public’s appetite for Italian opera. After productions of two of Handel’s operas were unsuccessful, two operas by Bononcini played to packed houses, with his Astarto outshining Handel’s current operas.

Their rivalry was of such magnitude that it inspired the epigram by John Byrom that made the phrase ‘Tweedle-dum and Tweedledee’ famous. Their backing by opposing political and social factions ended in defeat for Bononcini, however, when the opera Muzio Scevola was looked upon as a public competition. Bononcini and Handel composed the second and third acts, respectively, and Handel was judged the winner.

It is ironic, given Handel’s propensity for ‘borrowing’ that Bononcini’s career in London would suffer under allegations of plagiarism.

In the early 1730s he left England in disgrace after submitting to the Academy of Ancient Music as his own composition a madrigal written by Antonio Lotti. He returned to Paris in the company of a swindler who cheated him out of his fortune, and spent the rest of his life in ‘obscure wanderings’. He died in Vienna aged 78, impoverished and largely forgotten.

regularly in concerts organised by their father.

Later, through a collaboration with his sonin-law, Richard Sheridan, Linley became part-owner and musical director of the Drury Lane Theatre.

His successes were marred by tragedy when, in 1778, his talented son Thomas died in a boating accident. With a reputation as the ‘English Mozart’, Thomas was performing at the age of seven, and at 12 studied under the violinist Pietro Nardini in Italy. Here he befriended the young Mozart and for the next ten years they corresponded until Thomas’ untimely death. Charles Burney wrote “The ‘Tommasino’, as he is called, and the little Mozart, are talked of all over Italy as the most promising geniuses of this age.”

Thomas Linley the Elder by Gainsborough

Thomas Linley the Younger by Gainsborough

Following this success Bononcini accepted a post in the Viennese Court and by 1705 was regarded as the leading composer in Europe.

His fame and financial standing allowed him to bring his younger brother to Vienna, as well as Silvio Stampiglia with whom he again took up a profitable collaboration.

Unlike Bononcini, Thomas Linley the Younger did not live to a ripe old age. His death at the age of 22 deprived English music of one of the most promising talents not just of the day, but in its entire history. On hearing of Linley’s death, Mozart wrote, “Linley was a true genius who, had he lived, would have been one of the greatest ornaments of the musical world.”

In 1720, Bononcini was brought to London by the Earl of Burlington who disliked the court of German-born King George I and, by association, the music of the Germanborn Handel. Bononcini became the darling of London, and the two composers soon

Thomas Linley the Elder, conductor, composer and theatrical impresario, was also highly regarded as a teacher. He taught his children, seven of whom would go on to musical careers of their own. Described by Charles Burney as a ‘Nest of Nightingales’, the family performed

Young Linley rapidly became a leading figure in London’s musical life, and in 1773 was appointed leader of the orchestra at Drury Lane. Not surprisingly, Linley’s output is small, though he is said to have composed some 20 violin concertos and seven violin sonatas.

Although only one of each survives, they attest to his mastery of melody, his gift for counterpoint and his musical imagination. He developed into a masterful composer of solo, chorus and orchestral material (both sacred and secular) and wrote ambitious works for concert halls at home and abroad.

His Lyric ode on the fairies, aerial beings and witches of Shakespeare, drew enthusiastic praise from the critics: “Neither Purcell nor Mozart ever gave stronger proofs of original genius than could be traced in this charming ode”.

These fathers and sons will be featured in Musical Families on Tuesdays 4 and 18 December at 2pm.

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WHAT’S ON Full of passion, drama and poignancy, it is the summation of the consummate opera composer’s life’s work. It is also technically skilful, reflecting Rossini’s study and love of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

ROSSINI’S PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLE Elke Hook, soprano; Ashlyn Tymms, mezzo-soprano; Ben Oxley, tenor; David Hidden, bass Sydney University Graduate Chamber Choir/ Christopher Bowen OAM (with two pianos and reed organ) Sunday 9 December, 5pm Great Hall, University of Sydney Tickets: Adults $45, pensioners $40, students $25 Bookings: sydunigradchoir.eventbrite.com, or at the door.

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HAYDN’S FAREWELL Australian Haydn Ensemble/Skye McIntosh Sunday 16 December, 2.30pm Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Bookings: (02) 9250 7777 or sydneyoperahouse.com Tickets: $35 - $80 Further information: australianhaydn.com.au

Written in 1863, this Mass is one of Rossini’s last compositions. Despite its title (Little solemn Mass), it is in fact a large-scale work, and is one of Rossini’s greatest achievements.

We conclude the year with our dear friend and regular collaborator Dr Erin Helyard, director of Pinchgut Opera, performing a wonderful orchestral program inspired by the Enlightenment.

Johann Christian Bach was an important influence on the young Mozart. Bach’s Symphony in G minor, op 6 no 6 is a signature work of the 18th century. Perhaps his darkest piece, it bursts with the essence of Sturm und Drang.

The program features Helyard as soloist in Mozart’s Piano concerto no 12 in A major, K414, an early work that pays homage to J.C. Bach’s influence by quoting his Overture to La calamita de’ cuori. Also on the program is Mozart’s Rondo in A major for piano and orchestra, K386, written around the same time.

ENJOY, LEARN, DISCUSS Bizarre Baroque Presenter: Ross Hayes Fine Music Centre, 72-76 Chandos St, St Leonards Sunday 9 December, 2.30pm Bookings: 9439 4777 or finemusicfm.com

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On this occasion it will be performed in its original form by the Sydney University Graduate Chamber Choir accompanied by two pianos and reed organ.

Our program closes with Haydn’s dramatic Farewell Symphony, a work in which Haydn displays his classic ability to marry great humour with great beauty, perhaps rather fittingly getting his point across to Prince Esterházy that it was time for the orchestra members to go home for the holidays!

Derived from the Portuguese word barroco, or ‘oddly shaped pearl’, the term ‘baroque’ has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to about 1760.

We mostly know baroque music to be a genteel, rather refined, musical form but from the archives, Ross will uncover some real odd-shaped gems for your delectation. Be beguiled by Baroque!

FROM CRISTOFORI TO STUART & SONS ELAINE SIVERSEN DESCRIBES THE EVOLUTION OF THE PIANO repertoire. In chamber music, the François Couperin, in the preface harpsichord had provided a bass to his first book of Harpsichord line, the continuo, but the piano Pieces, 1713, wrote: “The is an equal partner with the other Harpsichord is perfect as to its instruments with its own motifs. compass, and brilliant in itself, but The songs of Schubert would not as it is impossible to swell out or have been as beautiful if he had diminish the volume of its sound composed for harpsi­chord. The I shall always feel grateful to any piano plays an important part in who, by the exercise of infi­nite art every Schubert song, quite often a supported by fine taste, contrive descriptive role such as in rippling to render this instrument capable water or a galloping horse. of expres­sion.” So it was that the first pianoforte was introduced as By the late 19th century the great a disguised harpsichord. To gain piano-making firms such as acceptance it was described as Bösendorfer, Blüthner, Förster an improved harpsichord where 1720 Cristofori piano and Steinweg (Steinway) were the player could achieve loud and soft effects. Johann Sebastian Bach for a trial period but well established and making continuing Such an instrument was invented by Bach pointed out many defects in the design. improvements in the piano. The original Bartolomeo Cristofori around 1710, which In 1747, when Bach played a Silbermann Cristofori pianoforte had only four octaves. he called a gravicembalo col piano e forte fortepiano on a visit to Frederick the Great While the keyboard increased in length, (harpsichord with soft and loud). He trained as at Potsdam, he praised the instrument but many of Beethoven’s works were limited by a harpsichord maker in Padua and was known he never composed for it. It was his sons a five-octave piano. This inconvenience may as an inventor of musical instruments. At the and their contemporaries who took up the be shown in certain of his sonatas where a invitation of the Medici Prince Ferdinand, fortepiano although many of their works could long ascending passage moves back upon Cristofori moved to Florence to join his also be played on a harpsichord. Even Haydn itself before progressing upwards again to its household. The Prince was fascinated with and Mozart composed for the harpsichord and conclusion. machines; he collected over 40 clocks and a Beethoven’s keyboard works up to about 1800 As the number of octaves increased so did the great variety of intricate musical instruments. were for either instrument. opportunities for the virtuosic romantic piano He would have been interested in the concerto and we can chart the progression elaborate mechanical action which was at the Dr Charles Burney connects the devel­opment from the Mozart and Beethoven concertos of the piano in England with the settling in core of Cristofori’s work on the piano.

London of Johann Christian Bach, who was to those of Liszt (six octaves), Schumann Cristofori worked for the Prince tuning and a celebrated pianist. Burney wrote: “After the and Chopin (six and a half) and the standard maintaining instruments, restoring valuable arrival of John Chr. Bach in this country, and modern piano of Rachmaninov (seven and older harpsichords, and was encouraged to the establish­ment of his concert, in conjunction a quarter octaves, 88 notes). In the 1890s work on his new invention. He replaced the with Abel, all the harpsichord makers tried Bösendorfer built a 97-key piano for Ferruccio quills with hammers and achieved soft and their mechanical powers at pianofortes.” He Busoni so that he could transcribe Bach’s loud effects by the controlled rebound of the goes on to write about the various inventions organ works (composed for nine octaves). hammers and the use of dampers. Within ten including the Zumpe pianoforte: “He could not Recently Stuart & Sons built a nine-octave years he had improved the mechanism to make them fast enough to satisfy the craving piano with 108 keys. graduate the fall of the hammer and placed of the public. Pohlman, whose instruments dampers above the strings instead of under were very inferior in tone, fabricated an Colours of the Keyboard can be heard in them. Three of his early pianofortes are still almost infinite number for such as Zumpe Diversions in Fine Music every Tuesday at in existence in New York, Leipzig and Rome. could not supply. Large pianofortes afterwards 9am.

There had been an isolated experiment 100 receiving great improvement in years earlier by a Dutch instrument maker of the mechanism by Merlin and a harpsichord with hammers but no dampers. in the tone by Broadwood and Harp­sichord makers in France and Germany Stoddard, the harsh scratching during Cristofori’s time also experimented with of the quills of a harpsichord the instrument but it was from the Italian’s can no longer be borne.” From this time on the pianoforte invention that the modern piano developed. became the dominant domestic The firms of Gottfried Silbermann in Germany keyboard instrument as well and Johann Zumpe (Silbermann’s pupil) as the favoured instrument for in England improved on Cristofori’s early keyboard players in the concert creation. Zumpe introduced the ‘square piano’ hall. (really oblong-shaped) about 1760 while John Broadwood made his first square piano in The versatility of the piano has 1771. Silbermann’s 1726 piano was sent to great importance in the classical 1810 Broadwood fortepiano DECEMBER 2018

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CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS Ann Carr-Boyd is one of Australia’s most prolific composers and has a distinguished association with Fine Music as producer and presenter of the Fellowship of Australian Composers program. In July 2018 she celebrated her 80th birthday and a double CD has been released to mark this milestone. It brings together a set of old and new recordings of her works dating from 1973 to 2017, including her Fandango for mandolins, a piece that has been played on Fine Music ever since its first recording in the 1980s.

FANDANGO RETURNS Music by Ann Carr-Boyd

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Carr-Boyd has had many significant musical collaborators over the years and this CD features many of them. The recording of Sally Mays performing Carr-Boyd’s Piano concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is a good example and a welcome addition to the number of Australian piano concertos on disc.

REAL AND RIGHT AND TRUE Songs by Calvin Bowman Sara Macliver, Paul McMahon, Christopher Richardson, Ian Munro, Calvin Bowman Decca 481 7051

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“With a bit of luck / a duck / will come into your life”. For those who enjoy Michael Leunig’s cartoons this is significant because the duck is symbolic of happiness. These words begin one of nine Leunig poems set by Calvin Bowman under the composite title of Real and Right and True.

In this 2-CD set there are world premiere recordings of 54 songs composed in the tradition of the 19th and early 20th century art song, settings of poetry of mainly well-known poets. Favourites of the composer appear to be Hilaire Belloc and Walter de la Mare but Alfred Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, James McAuley, Christina Rossetti, David Campbell and A.E. Housman make several appearances.

The performances are excellent and the singers are interspersed sensitively throughout

COPPÉLIA Léo Delibes Orchestra Victoria/Barry Wordsworth ABC 481 7212

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Pieces inspired by Carr-Boyd’s cat, Razz, make several appearances, works that capture the humorously personal side of her music. This recording is a welcome marker of a significant milestone in the life of one of Australia’s most prolific female composers.

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the recording making this a joy to hear because of the variety. At no time does boredom set in although most songs are rather gentle with occasional livelier songs.

Christopher Richardson is described as ‘one of Australia’s exciting young bass-baritones’. At times he sings forcefully but has the ability to sing in a most tender way. His low-range voice acts as a foil to the soprano and tenor. Sara Macliver and Paul McMahon are no strangers to those who appreciate vocal music and both always offer a high standard of singing as they do here. The accomplished pianists are Ian Munro and Calvin Bowman, and Bowman also plays two of his piano miniatures.

This recording is highly recommended for lovers of art song.

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‘… what charm, what wealth of melody! It brought me to shame’ enthused Tchaikovsky on becoming acquainted with Léo Delibes’ ballet Coppélia, a complete Australian recording of which has recently been released.

It features Orchestra Victoria, the performance partner of The Australian Ballet, and the conductor Barry Wordsworth, who has been associated with The Royal Ballet in London for over 40 years. The music on this 2-CD set is notable for the clarity of the performance. I fancied I could hear every harp and triangle that Delibes employed.

with colourful and masterful orchestration.

He also has regard for the architecture of the complete work, contrasting passages that advance the narrative with those that concentrate on dance set-pieces. There are a variety of these: waltzes and mazurkas, and Hungarian, Spanish and Scottish dances. As Brahms did in his Hungarian dances (the first two books of which were published a year before Coppélia was first performed in 1870) Delibes unwittingly used a theme that he thought was a folk melody but turned out to be an original song by a living composer.

building on the example of his teacher Adolphe Adam, composer of Giselle, and taking great care not only in composing memorable melodies but also in scoring them

depth’. If you are looking for music that is witty, charming, elegant, graceful and colourful, this is highly recommended.

chesVic- Delibes is regarded as the first notableto- The philosopher and composer Nietzsche liked Bar- composer of ballet in the Romantic era,ry Delibes because he made ‘no pretensions to

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More or less a live performance, the recording is not perfectly balanced and I suspect the performance was rather under-rehearsed.

More convincing are the performances by the pianist John Martin and the harpsichordist Diana Weston. Selections from Martin’s many recordings of Carr-Boyd’s piano works are included alongside a series of pieces from her association with the Consort of Sydney in the 1970s.

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INTIMATE VOICES ELAINE SIVERSEN DEFINES CHAMBER MUSIC The modern conception of chamber music may be said to date only from Haydn and he, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert were the greatest creators of it in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

of four other instruments, each instrument is named in the title of the quartet.

Before the advent of public concert-giving in the late 18th century, any musical performance for the aristocracy with a small Acacia Quartet audience in a small room was known as ‘chamber music’. The music could be cantatas, songs, trios, quartets, concertos and symphonies of few parts. Later the term ‘chamber music’ came to describe only music for two to nine players with one instrument to a part.

Nowadays chamber music is not confined to a small chamber with a limited audience but is a regular feature of concerts, although the acoustics and intimacy of a small hall are preferable to those of a large auditorium.

Many chamber music lovers have great knowledge of the genre while others simply enjoy hearing different combinations of instruments in small ensembles where the sound of each instrument is prominent. For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the terminology for chamber music combinations, here are the chief combinations.

Duo: A duo is a combination of two different

instruments but mostly they are called sonatas or carry an imaginative title. The term duo is usually reserved for a composition for two of the same instrument such as the cello duos of Offenbach.

Trio: The most common trios are the string trio of violin, viola and cello and the piano trio of violin, cello and piano. Sometimes a trio is incorrectly named. Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio is a trio for clarinet, viola and piano and should not be called a piano trio or a clarinet trio. Brahms’ opus 40 Trio is for horn, violin and piano, and his opus 114 is for clarinet, cello and piano.

Once again, these should not be called piano trio, horn trio or clarinet trio.

Quartet: A string quartet comprises two violins, viola and cello. When one of the strings is replaced by another instrument such as flute, oboe, clarinet or piano, the quartet becomes a flute quartet, oboe quartet, clarinet quartet or piano quartet, etc. In combinations

Quintet: The usual combination for the string quintet is the string quartet with added viola although, on occasion, the added instrument may be a second cello. In rare instances, the combination may be for string quartet plus a double bass such as in Dvorák’s opus 77 String Quintet. Quintets such as clarinet quintet, guitar quintet, etc. are the string quartet with the added instrument.

Sextets, Septet, Octet, Nonet: These can be for strings only, winds only or for different combinations of winds and strings and sometimes piano. A most interesting combination is in the Septet of Saint-Saëns where he used trumpet, string quartet, double bass and piano. Many other interesting combinations also exist.

In Chamber Soirée (Tuesdays 10pm) we also include songs accompanied by a chamber ensemble and major keyboard works because so many were originally composed for small intimate salons. These are not called chamber music but are works suitable for a private soirée. In Diversions in Fine Music, we devote one program each week to The Music Salon (Thursdays 9am) where we hear some of the shorter works composed for an intimate setting.

JAZZ CD REVIEW JEREMY LEDBETTER TRIO Got a Light?

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Rarely does one hear so much variety on a trio album. Enter the world of Toronto pianist Jeremy Ledbetter. The broad palette splayed across these nine pieces is a reflection of the pianist’s immersion in a number of musical cultures which includes Brazil, Cuba and Trinidad. Moreover, his musical roots as a classical pianist underpin his approach to playing, his undulating use of dynamics compositionally and his deft use of melody.

It seems appropriate that the only cover on the album is a piece by The Tragically Hip called Gift shop. After the sensitive piano introduction stating the simple melody, the powerhouse rhythm section of Larnell Lewis (of Snarky Puppy fame), drums, and Rich Brown, sixstring electric bass, explode the arrangement into fragments of rock whereby each freely

and collectively picks up the pieces with group interplay until the trio arrives back at the point of departure before the solo piano retreats with a melodic decrescendo.

The title track is one of the highlights. Its unpredictable use of time and musical punctuation is dramatic to say the least. The intense storm that is Larnell Lewis’ thunderous drums alternately lit by the splashes of the cymbals are matched only by Ledbetter’s virtuosic rippling right hand. The album is tempered by the velvety voice of Venezuelan singer Eliana Cuevas with a beautiful song called Her new wings about the time in a daughter’s life when it’s time to let go and discover the world. Listening to this album would be a good entree.

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JAZZ INFLUENCES ON MY LIFE LLOYD CAPPS TELLS OF HIS JAZZ JOURNEY It’s not that there was no music in my childhood home in Adelaide, but rather the music we listened to tended to be whatever tunes my mother could play from the Boomerang songbook on our upright piano. These days you seldom hear When the red red robin comes bob bob bobbin’ along, but it was a real hit in our house back then.

of the stage with the yet-toappear Dizzy Gillespie as he softly played an improvised accompaniment to Ella Fitzgerald who was singing on stage. That very private and thrilling moment was unseen and unheard by the audience. What a privilege it was for me!

We had no record player, just our Bakelite AWA Fisk Radio which brought us daily serials every evening around dinner time, but little music, and certainly no jazz. After dinner, my father drifted off in his easy chair listening to parliament broadcasts. It was a crystal Miles Davis, July 1963 set that opened up a whole new world of music Studying architecture at university meant for me. I made the device out of scavenged long nights working on assignments to the spare parts, put it into a shoe box and accompaniment of 10” jazz albums brought marvelled at the loud and clear music I could in by fellow students. This was the first time hear and enjoy. That’s how I discovered jazz. I heard the album Kenton in Hi-Fi, Shorty The regular jazz programs on ABC radio’s 5CL Rogers’ Martians go home and sides from Art in Adelaide, Eric Child’s World of Jazz and Kym Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Maynard Bonython’s Tempo of the Times soon occupied Ferguson, Modern Jazz Quartet, and the the background to my school homework. I Australian Jazz Quartet (the local group clearly remember hearing Sarah Vaughan’s hitting the bigtime in the United States). As it Lullaby of birdland and Wild Bill Davis playing happened, the sister of Jack Brokensha, the In a mellow tone on his new Re-B electric AJQ’s vibes player, was in our student group organ as introductions to recorded jazz I had and I enjoyed meeting Jack and his band when they played at the Adelaide Town Hall. never experienced before.

When Adelaide’s art gallery owner, speedway driver, jazz entrepreneur and broadcaster Kym Bonython opened a record store in the city, I spent quite a bit of time there discovering more about the music he played. I started buying 78s, even though I had nothing to play them on at home. Whenever the opportunity arose to visit anyone who had a gramophone, I’d take my records along. I still have my first purchase from Kym Bonython, Stan Kenton’s Artistry in rhythm.

Around the same time, one of my high school friends, Don Hopgood, played the sousaphone at weeknight meetings of the Adelaide Jazz Society. The trad jazz they played didn’t become a favourite style for me, but it was fun and it was live. (Don went on to become a prominent state cabinet minister and has recently published a history of jazz in South Australia.)

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Fortunately, there were many opportunities in Adelaide to see some of the performers who gave me most pleasure, thanks to Kim Bonython and other jazz entrepreneurs. Don’t ask me how, but I managed to see most of them without it costing me a penny. My most memorable moment was standing at the side

Miles Davis, Howard McGee, Joe Albany, Brick Fleagle

In the late 1950s I became addicted to film noir, especially the films that used jazz to accentuate their dark moods. There were many opportunities to witness this coupling of film drama with jazz scores.

Standouts are The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), with powerful performances

by Shorty Rogers and the Giants; Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with music played by Duke Ellington with Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn and Clark Terry; I Want to Live (1958), with dramatic on-screen appearances of Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Bud Shank, Red Mitchell, Pete Jolly and Frank Rosolino.

I couldn’t get enough of this jazz noir in the cinema. I later discovered Louis Malle’s 1958 film Ascenseur pour l’échafaud with the haunting improvised score played by Miles Davis.

By now I had a record player and a transistor radio, both of which took my jazz listening to a new level. 1959 was a momentous year for jazz with the release of the Miles Davis recording Kind of Blue, the most significant jazz album for decades. That album became a soundtrack to the lives of many, including me. As many listeners to The Jazz Beat would know, I play a track from Miles Davis in every program. In addition, So what, the first track from the Kind of Blue album became the theme music to my program. Although I never had the chance to see Miles Davis perform, meeting up with Ron Carter, bass player with the Davis Quintet, has given me insights into what it was like to play with Miles.

On the local scene, I must make mention of the friendship I enjoyed with Bruce Viles, owner of The Rocks Push and The Basement, and with their resident group Galapagos Duck, but that’s another story.

You can hear Miles Davis with So what introducing The Jazz Beat every Tuesday at 7pm, and on 4 December listen to some of the tracks mentioned here.

HELPING TO SPREAD THE MUSIC PAUL COOKE TALKS TO RON WALLEDGE “What I most enjoy is being around classical music and helping to make it available to a wider public.”

Ron’s working life meant he had to spend much time overseas, but on home visits he had come across 2MBS-FM and had been very impressed both by the range of music played and by the obvious enthusiasm of the presenters. Within a month of retiring in 1993 he had joined the station, and within a year he had worked as a receptionist, a presenter, a presenter rosterer and a programmer. He had also been recruited onto the Board, initially as Secretary, responsible for both legal matters and minute-taking.

music in amateur settings in places as far flung as Alaska, Nigeria, The Netherlands and New Zealand: not always without incident, having had to contend with a leg of a grand piano collapsing mid-performance, and with falling off the stage while playing the double bass. As a schoolboy he often went to the London Proms and Wigmore Hall to hear the great pianists of the day, including Solomon whose performance inspired him to become more involved in music. In Sydney he has subscribed to and supported orchestral music.

Twenty-five years later, Ron is still a volunteer with Fine Music. He spent 11 years on the Board, three of them as Chair. He has recently retired from the Finance Committee but administers the station’s Donation Fund. He presented programs on air for 19 years and was also involved in training new presenters.

He continues to do rostering, and you will often see his name in the Fine Music Magazine as a creator of a wide range of programs: he has prepared about 2000 programs.

Ron spent two years in the RAF doing National Service, and then 12 years in Nigeria working for a West African trading company.

He continued to work in business, primarily in foodstuffs, and in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom in senior positions. He plays golf, and played Golden Oldies cricket and held a private pilot’s licence for many years, but his principal hobby is music and he has enriched the lives of many people in doing so.

Ron Wallege Born in London, Ron has been involved in music since the age of seven, playing piano and double bass. From a young age he accompanied choirs and played in chamber music groups as a pianist, and played double bass in an orchestra. He has enjoyed making

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