Fine Music Magazine - December 2015 by 2MBS Fine Music Sydney

December 2015

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COMING UP Former Chief Conductor, Edo de Waart returns for two thrilling concerts at the Sydney Opera House. CLASSICAL

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MOZART & ELGAR

Edo de Waart Returns

Experience signature music by Wagner and Richard Strauss’s famous Thus Spake Zarathustra. Plus a spectacular showpiece for organ with Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Former Chief Conductor, the renowned Edo de Waart, returns to Sydney with Elgar’s noble and majestic First Symphony and a sublime Mozart piano concerto with Ronald Brautigam.

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EDITOR’S DESK

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2 COVER STORY Maestro Edo de Waart returns to conduct SSO 4 Woodford Folk Festival celebrating 30 years 5 Sydney’s best young musicians compete in YV final 7 Voices from the Tiwi Islands – part one 9 Busy year ahead for Canberra Symphony Orchestra 10 Fine Music continues to capture the music of Sydney 13 Celebrating the centenary of Sinatra’s birth 15 Nick Dunn’s guide to studying music abroad 16 MUSICA VIVA 2016 PROGRAM 20 What’s On – Sydney and surrounds 23 CD Reviews 26 Jazz CD Reviews 27 Swinging on the Vine 29 December Program Highlights 64 Crossword and Trivia Quiz

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It is with pleasure that we share with you in this issue, our recent conversation with Maestro Edo de Waart whose upcoming visit to Australia will be very much about re-visiting ‘old friends’ – both in person and musically speaking. He will conduct the last two concerts of the season with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In December they will perform Elgar’s Symphony No.1, a work he conducted when he was the orchestra’s chief from 1993-2003. The first half of that concert will include Ross Edwards’ White Ghost Dancing and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. As much a Mozart enthusiast is fellow Dutchman, Ronald Brautigam who will be the soloist in this concert. Turn the page for details of the Maestro’s conversation with Fine Music’s Nicky Gluch. If you’re quick you might still be able to catch his performance with the SSO of Wagner and Strauss works, November 2528 – check the SSO website for details. We’re also pleased to bring you the first part in a fascinating two-part series on a unique inter-cultural musical project between classically trained musician Genevieve Campbell and the extraordinary musical culture of the Tiwi Islands. Recently in the Fine Music studios, to work on a CD of ancestral sounds mixed with contemporary voice and instrumentation, both Genevieve Campbell and a group from Tiwi spoke with Fine Music’s world music presenter Linda Marr. We’re hoping over the Christmas break you’ll be able to help us find out more about you - our reading and listening audience – and what you like about Fine Music 102.5. We have made a short survey and everyone who responds goes into a draw to win some great prizes. Go to finemusicfm.com and look for the survey link on the home page. And we’ve got all your holiday listening taken care of on Fine Music, with a bumper program guide and highlights on pages 28 and 29. We wish you all the best for this Xmas and New Year break… and we hope you have plenty of time to sit back, relax and take in some Fine Music.

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Sub editor: Norm Chosid Contributors: Nicky Gluch, Benjamin Samuels, Elaine Siversen, Leslie Khang, Michael Morton-Evans, Gwynn Roberts, Kevin Jones, Linda Marr, Richard Gate, Nick Dunn, Patrick D Maguire, Patrick Thomas, Tom Forrester-Paton, Frank Shostakovich, Emyr Evans, Michael Muir. Subscribe to Fine Music Magazine: visit www.finemusicfm.com or email friends@finemusicfm.com The views expressed by contributors to this magazine do not necessarily reflect or represent the views of the publisher, Fine Music 102.5. Cover image: Maestro Edo de Waart. Image - Jesse Willems

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MAESTRO RETURNS TO CONDUCT SYDNEY SYMPHONY Edo de Waart On Re-visiting ‘Old Friends’

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Speaking with Maestro Edo de Waart, it is clear just how much he loves music. When he assumes the helm as music director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in March next year, they will perform Mahler’s Symphony No.3 chosen, he says, “because I absolutely love it, I think it is one of the greatest pieces he wrote”. “After the 2nd, he came back and turned around and wrote another magnificent, fantastic, long, beautiful piece”. He adds, too that, “I’m of an age when you want to still do things a few times that you have loved doing your whole life”. It is in this vein of ‘revisiting’ that de Waart will grace our shores in the coming weeks. He will conduct the last two concerts of the season with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As the orchestra’s chief conductor from 1993-2003, it is a chance to spend time with “old friends”, be they the musicians or the works themselves. In December they will perform Elgar’s Symphony No.1 because “it was one of the things we played in my time there,” says de Waart. “I love Elgar, he’s a stunningly fantastic composer and the orchestra has always done it well, so it’s nice to re-visit an old friend, so to speak.” 2

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The first half of that concert will see the wonderful juxtaposition of Ross Edwards’ White Ghost Dancing and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. De Waart specifically chose the Edwards because “I wanted to do something Australian and… it needed something a little whimsical. Mozart is, with all that he was, a whimsical man and this works very well”.

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Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 is considered by many to be among his best, but de Waart won’t commit in such a fashion: “Well I’m always astounded” he says, “I mean you do one concerto and you think this is absolutely divine and then a few weeks later you get the chance to do another one and you think how’s that possible? “And it was particularly clear in the movie Amadeus when… Salieri has gotten a hold of a folder of Mozart’s music and he looks at it and he turns the pages and then when he turns the pages you hear what he sees and then you realise that every single piece that he was looking at was a masterpiece, was a world-class masterpiece,” said de Waart.

As much a Mozart enthusiast is fellow Dutchman, Ronald Brautigam who will be the soloist in this concert. Concertgoers will be lucky to witness someone de Waart describes as “a wonderful pianist, a great, great musician” with wonderful taste and “the heart to give great performances”. When they performed the piece together with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2009, it was to great acclaim. By sheer coincidence, the next concert that season featured Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante with the soloist Olivier Latry and that concert, too, will be revisited in Sydney. Depth of experience It is fascinating to compare the Hong Kong programs with the Sydney programs to see just how much thought de Waart gives to his selections. Where in Hong Kong the Jongen was preceded by Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony this time it is Strauss’ Thus Spake Zarathustra that will intone nature. To de Waart, music and nature have a synchronicity, both possessing a complexity of “emotions and feelings (as) nature can be incredibly violent and do horrible things”. “It can also be most peaceful and inspiring and

What’s ahead? So what does the future hold for this time straddling conductor? As mentioned, 2016 will see him begin his position as music director of the NZSO, taking over from Pietari Inkinen. He looks forward to spending time in the island nation explaining that it is not all that different from his home in Middleton, Wisconsin which he describes as being “very rural and green and a little bit more low key so there is a calmness and a peace that is not totally unlike rural Australia and New Zealand”. Next year will see the long awaited opening of the new Elisabethzaal (Elizabeth Hall) by de Waart with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. “It will be a busy year”, he says, “but not too busy, I’m trying to calm down a little bit, and that’s working out very well”. Ronald Brautigam

it’s totally unpredictable, you can’t control it. And so music tries to portray a lot of that.” Thus Spake Zarathustra might draw the crowds (especially those familiar with 2001: A Space Odyssey) but audiences will not be disappointed with the Symphonie Concertante; not just because it is one of nine original compositions written for the Wanamaker Organ of the Wanamaker’s (now Macy’s) department store in Philadelphia. It has become well established in de Waart’s oeuvre as he explains how he made one of the first recordings: “It’s a very unusual combination because the organ is already so complete in itself, such an enormous powerful instrument, so is the orchestra. The organ can actually drown out the orchestra and so that was quite a challenge.” It is a challenge, too, in that the soloist is separated from the orchestra and conductor and thus requires a “bit of give and take and enough rehearsal time to work out… cause he only hears himself and when he plays he doesn’t hear the orchestra”. It helps too, that de Waart has worked with Latry before. He recounts how after their last collaboration Latry invited him to see him in his ‘day-job’ as one of the organists at the Notre Dame in Paris. With joy he explains how he went “with the family and he invited us up to the organ loft where you could look down to the Notre Dame and see the church and he improvised and it was quite a wonderful experience”. One gets the feeling that de Waart loves sharing such musical experiences with his young family and that this contributes in part to his sense of currency. He may be of an age where he can relish in re-visiting but he is also still very much looking forward. Whilst Mozart and Beethoven may be among his favourite composers, so too is John Adams. It is why he admires a musician such as Latry, a musician with “a fertile mind” and who has chosen, quite specifically, to not specialise in music of any given time period.

After more than 50 years on the podium, winding down is just another stage in the evolution of what has been a very rich career. De Waart explains how his career has unfolded “very naturally and organically” starting out as conductor of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble whilst also holding “orchestral engagements in the Netherlands and other places”. “After a couple of years I had to give up the wind ensemble because it was no longer possible to schedule together. That is just a normal expansion, you know you start with one thing and then guest conductor things are added and so you spread your wings so to speak.” Every position was seen as a chance to expand his skills and musical vocabulary. He acknowledges that his experience as an oboist and with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble has helped him “to have an understanding of what goes on back there you know with the boys and the girls on the wind instruments”. When he conducts the preludes to Lohengrin in the November concert it will be as a conductor who has “done Lohengrin many times”. This is a great asset as de Waart believes that “when you do an opera you get great inspiration from the text”. “So I think it’s absolutely a must to know the text well, no matter what opera you do but especially with works by composers such as Wagner when the text and music are so, so one part.” Even though they will just be performing the preludes, he remarks that the opera means a lot to him. “From the very first notes it brings up something, you know the whole atmosphere at the beginning of that opera and especially also the end. It’s wonderful to do those things.” Wonderment is never far from the mind of the conductor who loves his job: “I’m very fortunate”, he says. And so too, are we. - Nicky Gluch

EVENT Thus Spake Zarathustra Edo de Waart Returns 25, 27, 28 November, 2015 WAGNER - Lohengrin: Act I Prelude JONGEN - Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra R STRAUSS - Thus Spake Zarathustra WAGNER - Lohengrin: Act III Prelude Some of Edo de Waart’s most exciting concerts with the SSO featured music by Wagner and Richard Strauss, and now he’s back with more of that signature repertoire. At the heart of this program is Thus Spake Zarathustra with its ‘Sunrise’ opening (famous from 2001 A Space Odyssey). And Olivier Latry, one of the principal organists at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, will play Joseph Jongen’s sumptuous and spectacular Concerto Symphony on the Grand Organ of the Sydney Opera House. The concert is framed by two preludes from Wagner’s opera Lohengrin: one of them visionary and shimmering, the other full of joyous energy. Edo conducts Mozart & Elgar 3, 4, 5 December, 2015 Sydney Opera House EDWARDS - White Ghost Dancing MOZART - Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K491 ELGAR - Symphony No.1 Ronald Brautigam, piano Edo de Waart returns to Sydney with Elgar’s First Symphony and music by Mozart and Ross Edwards. Ross Edwards believes that music has enormous therapeutic qualities: through music we find transformation and healing. And the enticing style of his White Ghost Dancing brings ritualistic rhythms and spiritual chanting to this final concert of the 2015 season. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.24 is full of passion and drama but it has something else: a sublime quality that takes it into another world of expression and feeling. Elgar continues the theme with a symphony that communicates the breadth of human experience and what he called ‘a massive hope in the future’. You’ll be moved by the First Symphony’s nobility, its optimism and its gorgeous slow movement. www.sydneysymphony.com December 2015

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ABUNDANCE OF FINE MUSIC AT WOODFORD Celebrating 30 Years of the Festival Woodford has always attracted a strong lineup of artists and this year is no exception. The organisers have been busy, booking an abundance of incredible acts across a huge range of artistic disciplines including music, talks, circus, traditional dance and vaudeville. Fine Music magazine spoke to Chloe Goodyear, programming director for Woodford Folk Festival, about this year’s program and about how far the festival has come. Woodford has developed from its simple grassroots beginnings 30 years ago, into an increasingly popular, internationally revered and fully immersive cultural experience that sees around 430 different groups and 3,000 individual artists all on site with festival patrons. “The things that have really been 30 years in the making have been the human content but also the site and the ethos and community behind it really. We now have over 204 volunteer department heads that put the festival together: also many of them have been part of the festival since its start, including our festival director Bill Haurtiz,” said Goodyear. The festival takes place in Woodfordia; a huge rural valley surrounded by natural bushland with incredible views of the Glass House Mountains from the surrounding hilltops of the festival grounds - located between the Brisbane Valley and the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. With strong support from the local community and many artists and organisations, Woodford is able to present a highly thoughtful, challenging and compelling program each year unique and different from the prior, but one that still reflects its roots. Through this local support Woodford is able to present many

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commissions, new bands and new artists. One such artist is Australian songstress Katie Noonan, who is returning this year to Woodford to mark the 30th anniversary. She will be performing with Katie Noonan’s Vanguard at the festival and has been commissioned to present a new work. It will be premiered on the opening night of Woodford with Noonan accompanied by a large community orchestra of local Sunshine Coast musicians and directed by Andrew Veivers from Flamenco Fire. Bringing folk into focus In regard to programming, Goodyear said: “I don’t know necessarily if Woodford has become any more commercial but rather the music that Woodford presents has become more popular and acceptable in the mainstream. “Folk and roots music has become one of the most popular streams of music in Australia,” she said. Goodyear mentioned that one of the highlights of this year’s festival is the World Folklines program which shows both the diversity of artists and great musicianship that Woodford is known for. “There are so many highlights in the program, but there is one project that I am very excited about this year and because it doesn’t have a large name attached to it, it probably won’t attract a huge amount of media attention but it’s going to be amazing,” said Goodyear, referring to the Uska Kan Orkestar.

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Alongside Uska Kan Orkestar are two other special projects also coming from Macedonia: Etno Malesh and Maleshevski Zurli. Etno Malesh

is a brilliant ensemble comprised of virtuoso Romany (Gypsy) multi-instrumentalists who present artful genre-bending world music influenced by the traditional flavours of Macedonian music. Maleshevski Zurli is one of Macedonia’s leading Zurla (traditional double reed instrument like an oboe) and Tapan (traditional drum) ensembles having played all over the world and renowned for its high energy and raucous performances. Another act that is coming especially for the 30th anniversary from afar is Maru Tang: Jeff Lang and Bobby Singh’s Indian music collaboration with Rajasthani musicians, Asin Langa and Bhungar Manganiyar. This band fuses ancient Rajasthani songs with Australian roots and seminal blues by Robert Johnson. Some other special acts include: Michael Franti, Courtney Barnett, Briggs and Marlon Williams, Dougie Maclean, The East Pointers, Moana and The Tribe, Ganden Jangtse Monks of Tibet, Musica Prima (early music ensemble), Madre Monte (Sydney Afro-Colombian powerhouse), Tinpan Orange (who originally formed at Woodford), Josh Pyke, Lanie Lane, Fourplay, Dubmarine, Trinity Roots, Harry Manx, The Poozis, Noel Pearson (indigenous activist and academia) and a Scottish traditional dance group to bring in the New Year. - Benjamin Samuels EVENT Woodford Folk Festival 27 December, 2015-1 January, 2016 www.woodfordfolkfestival.com

SYDNEY’S BEST YOUNG MUSICIANS COMPETE FOR TITLE

Young Virtuoso Award for NSW

Fine Music 102.5 presented one of the most hotly contested music finals in Sydney - the annual Young Virtuoso Award - on 18 October at the Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Six of Sydney’s best young musicians- aged between 16 and 24 years competed for this coveted award with $14,500 of prize money, presented by Fine Music 102.5 Station Patron Professor Dame Marie Bashir. The winner was cellist Vincent Lo, who performed Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso and the Solo Suite for Cello 3rd movement by Gaspar Cassado. The runner-up was flautist Chloe Chung and third place went to saxophonist Simon Watts. Lo said after his performance that it was an “amazing experience” but one he is glad is over. He was genuinely surprised to be placed first amongst a very strong field and said it was a “good experience to play in front of this crowd” and thanked all the volunteers for staging the event. All place-getters enjoyed the experience and were pleased to complete what has been nearly a yearlong process of moving through the elimination rounds and preparing their repertoire. Surprisingly none of them were focused on getting to the finals, least of all winning the title. “It’s one step at a time,” says Lo of his approach to the awards. “We’re lucky to be able to perform,” he said, “performing is already itself a gift”. “Even the semi-final, playing on radio, that’s not an experience a lot of people get, in the studio with the mics in front of you… there’s a lot of things this competition offers,” said Lo.

2015 Young Virtuoso Winner - Vincent Lo. Image – Charlie Chen

2015 Young Virtuoso ‘top three’: First place to Vincent Lo; Second place to Chloe Chung; and Third place to Simon Watts. YV Coordinator Judy Deacon in the background. Image – Charlie Chen

For Watts, one of the benefits of participating in the Young Virtuoso Award is that it gives him something to aim for. “I wasn’t necessarily expecting to get through any of the rounds but just to do my best and see what happens,” he said. In terms of repertoire, Lo was inspired to play a piece that his new teacher at the Conservatorium had played. Chung said of her repertoire: “They’re all pieces that I love… the Ballade is quite a showpiece so I’ve been working on that for a very long time and it’s always nice to include that in the program”. She was referring to the Ballade for flute and piano by Frank Martin that she played along with works by Debussy and Bach. Lo performed on cello, two contrasting pieces by Tchaikovsky and Cassado - one with accompaniment and a solo - that showed his remarkable skills. He wins $10,000, the opportunity to play a solo piece with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra and to represent NSW in the national finals. The four adjudicators of the award made comment on the high standard of all the finalists but were unanimous in choosing Lo as the winner. Vincent Lo is studying for a Bachelor of Music Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he holds a merit scholarship. He began learning the cello at the age of five, and under the tutelage of Georg Pedersen, made his soloist debut with the Suzuki international Conference orchestra in 2007.

For more than 30 years aspiring musicians and singers have competed for the Young Virtuoso award, which brings with it not only a generous cash prize, but career boosting broadcast opportunities. The first prize of $10,000 is provided by The Frank Family Foundation and Cameron Williams and the winner receives a performance with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The second place winner receives a $2,000 prize from Sydney Piano World. The NSW Doctors Orchestra donates the third place prize of $1,000. The remaining finalists will each receive $500. The awards and broadcast opportunities are open to performers and composers up to the age of 25 for instrument and 30 for singers and composers. The finalists for this year’s award included: Chloe Chung (flute); Josephine Chung (violin); Gemma Lee (violin); Vincent Lo (cello); Sarah Sung (viola); and Simon Watts (saxophone). For more information contact YV coordinator Judy Deacon: yv@finemusicfm.com EVENT Young Virtuoso National Finals Vincent Lo will now compete for the national title to be held in the Larry Sitsky Recital Room at the ANU School of Music in Canberra - 2pm on Sunday 29 November. December 2015

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UNIQUE INTER-CULTURAL MUSICAL VISION

Voices from the Tiwi Islands

Genevieve Campbell first heard Tiwi voices on an amateur recording made by a family friend who had captured the sound of some old ladies singing on his phone. There was something about the sound that Campbell fell in love with: “It was earthy and real – not pretentious at all”. Fine Music magazine spoke with Campbell and four Tiwi Islanders who travelled to Sydney recently as part of a project to make a CD known as Memorial Duets. They came to Fine Music 102.5 where musicians added violin, double bass and bass clarinet to ethnographic recordings of Tiwi singers made between 1912 and 1981. Campbell says: “We want to keep the recorded voice an equal partner in the duet as much as possible - as freshly heard and as prominent”. With basic information such as a translation but not too much preparation the musicians react to the voice as if they were another performer in the room. As we talk, a voice from the past accompanied by a violin comes wafting in from the studio next door. The voice rises and falls with the rhythmic words. The violin follows, then swoops up and hovers for a moment like a bird. Campbell trained as a French horn player in a culture where you are told you are either a musician or you are not. In contrast, on Tiwi everyone sings. When she met the Strong Women’s Group she discovered that they just sing – they don’t have rehearsals and they don’t use charts. Their bonds, strength and power come from the songs themselves as well as from the stories within them. “It’s about the wholeness of the song – you sing who you are,” said Campbell of the Tiwi culture. “Mary says she is crocodile woman – when she sings, she’s manifesting crocodile. As a western musician I don’t pretend to understand that feeling. Sure, I can think it’s working well tonight but it’s a craft rather than who I am.” I understand more of what she’s talking about when I interview Eustace, although he prefers his traditional name Yikliya. He tells me about the story of the moonfish or ‘alacri’, which is part of who he is. The moonfish live in a creek on the Darwin side of Melville Island. Tiwi is made up of two main islands separated by a narrow strait – the other one is Bathurst Island – which around 3,000 people call home. Yikliya

Group visiting Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies to audition and reclaim Tiwi song recordings. L-R standing: Regina Kantilla, Francis Orsto, Agnes Kerinaiua, Wally Kerinaiua, Stephen-Paul Kantilla, Eustace Tipiloura. L-R seated: Genevieve Campbell, Mary Elizabeth Moreen, Teresita Puruntatameri, Jacinta Tipungwuti, Leonie Tipiloura, Sheba Fernando

has a keen sense of humour. When I ask if he’s a senior man there he says: “I’m the old codger bloke of the island”. Yikliya and Mary are both traditional owners of the Milikapiti (formerly Snake Bay) Community on Melville Island. He is the senior song man on the islands, one of only four surviving senior men and women with full knowledge of the complex linguistic, musical and spiritual elements of traditional Tiwi song culture. He is central to the current transcription, translation and documentation work being done to preserve and maintain song texts and their embedded cultural and historical information. Improvisation and discovery The group Ngarukuruwala – We sing songs is a collaboration between Tiwi singers and nonTiwi instrumentalists. It all started off in 2007 with the senior women’s group singing with some jazz musicians jamming around them. There is a strong element of improvisation in Tiwi song already so it was a meeting of like minds. The song is still recognisable but there are “as many versions of crocodile as there are singers”. The Tiwi Strong Women’s Group have been singing together since they were young girls, learning the traditional songs of their people from their mothers and grandmothers. Now in their 50s, 60s and 70s, they still sing every day, and they are teaching the stories and traditional knowledge held in the songs to their grandchildren. They sing for funeral days, mourning ceremony, wedding celebrations

and other events. Through their connection with the group and the shared experience of singing they feel strength and pride. They work in the community as mentors, drawing on their knowledge of Tiwi song traditions to help young Tiwi people connect with their language and cultural identity. Campbell’s part in the discovery of the archived song recordings and her work with elders to document and preserve Tiwi song, language and melody has led to the completion of a PhD. The recordings were stored in the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies archives in Canberra. A lot of it hadn’t been well documented so there wasn’t open access. None of it had been digitised – it was still in the original format of tapes and wax cylinders. The possibility of access was kick started by the request but ironically it required the authorisation of elders who couldn’t listen to the recordings - a catch-22 situation. It couldn’t leave the building and it couldn’t be digitised until it had been cleared for release. So 11 Tiwi elders went to Canberra and listened to it. They gave the go-ahead. - Linda Marr This is the first part of a two-part story – the second part will be published in the January 2016 issue of Fine Music Magazine. December 2015

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BUSY YEAR AHEAD FOR CANBERRA SYMPHONY

An Important Part of Musical Community The Canberra Symphony Orchestra (CSO) dates from 1950 when it was first established as the Canberra Orchestral Society. It took a great step forward in 1965 when Ernest Llewellyn, then concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, came to Canberra to assume the directorship of the Canberra School of Music and became conductor of the orchestra. He was succeeded by Leonard Dommett, formerly concertmaster of the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, from 1982 to 1991. Richard Gill was conductor from 2001 to 2007. Since 2007 the conductor has been Nicholas Milton, now based in Germany but formerly the violinist in the Macquarie Trio. His contract has now been extended for another three years. Fine Music magazine spoke to Milton about the orchestra’s program for 2016, which includes four pairs of concerts in April, May, August and November as well as a concert in the grounds of Government House, a gala night of opera with singers from Opera Australia and a concert devoted to symphonic transcriptions of songs by The Beatles. Highlights of the year will be performances of works by Nigel Westlake and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with soloists from Opera Australia. The orchestra is an important part of Canberra’s musical scene, with a subscription renewal rate of 95%.

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It is not surprising to Milton that Canberra has sufficient musicians to constitute a symphony orchestra. He points out that “Canberra has a long tradition of musical excellence, extending back to the brilliant appointment of Ernest Llewelyn and the subsequent rejuvenation of the School of Music when the inimitable John Painter was head of the School.” It is quite hard to imagine an important musical organisation in Australia whose history was not profoundly and deeply connected with John Painter, according to Milton. His work with the Sydney and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras and as founder of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney String Quartet and as Director of both the Sydney Conservatorium and the School of Music at the ANU means that he has left a legacy that is nothing short of astonishing.

Canberra Symphony Orchestra conductor, Nicholas Milton

“Therefore, largely due to his efforts, it is not a surprise to me that many extraordinary musicians (many of them students or faculty member of the ANU during John Painter’s tenure) have chosen to live and work in Canberra,” said Milton. Music for the community Asked about the orchestra’s efforts to promote compositions by Australian composers, Milton says: “I am exceedingly proud that the Canberra Symphony Orchestra promotes and performs a proportionally large amount of Australian music. “But it is important to note that my pride is not so much directed towards the fact that we do it, but rather in relation to the fact that we have succeeded in establishing audiences that are eager to hear whatever we perform, whether it is Australian music or traditional music of the orchestral canon,” said Milton. He believes this has something to do with “how we engage our audiences and how the musicians approach our concert performances”. “In Canberra especially, our Australian composers generally come and chat with our audiences in pre-concert presentations and other events,” he noted. Milton also points out that the orchestra makes a determined effort to reach out to special groups such as children and disabled persons.

He says: “I am very proud of our community programs which make orchestral music accessible to all members of the community, which is of great importance to me and the orchestra”. The CSO’s Noteworthy and Meet the Music program ensures that thousands of primary, high school and college students in the ACT share in high quality music and interact with the orchestra in a variety of ways. Equally, the CSO outreach program allows the orchestra to perform for senior citizens and people with disabilities. “Seeing the music take hold of people in such a palpable way is truly a humbling and moving experience for both the audience and the musicians,” says Milton. “At our most recent concert, Canberra Weekly Matinee Magic: In the Mood, a mother with a recently upgraded Cochlear hearing device heard her daughter sing for the first time, which was an extremely emotional affair. “As the CSO is in partnership with Cochlear Australia, the orchestra has a close connection with the hearing impaired community and facilitates a number of concerts and workshops throughout the year specifically for people with hearing loss allowing them to get close to the vibrations of the instruments,” said Milton. - Richard Gate December 2015

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Nothing like being there…with Fine Music Continuing to Capture the Music of Sydney For the past 40 years, Fine Music 102.5 has been a valuable part of live music in Sydney - there has been a fine tradition of recording live recitals and concerts during that time. Some of the early recordings did not survive but many from the days of reel-to-reel, Beta, VHS and DAT tapes were saved and successively transferred to computer and CD. These, and later recordings, have been re-broadcast from time to time (such as Live and Local that airs on Thursdays at 8pm) and the best of these are now in the process of being processed into the library as individual works for use by programmers so they will be heard more often. These archives are a living treasure of Sydney’s musical life; one that general manager David Sidebottom believes will live on and grow stronger in 2016. “We’ve got the engineers, technical resources, air-time and not least the goodwill of the artists. In fact, what makes the recordings of Fine Music over the years remarkable is that they often feature performances and performers that may not have been picked up by other media and sit outside the major performing arts organisations.” Recordings in recent years have ranged from young and emerging musicians, to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva’s International Concert Series and Coffee Concert Series, and even the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, not to mention Fine Music’s own event which was broadcast over four hours live from Sydney Town Hall (in July). Along with our regular Studio C live performance broadcasts, the station will continue its major “Live From …” series, the next scheduled from the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith, on 31 July, 2016. The Young Virtuoso program is a particular favourite of Greg Ghavalas who regularly records our emerging young artists for broadcast on Wednesdays as well as many other performances for subsequent broadcast. Sound engineers’ perspectives From electrical black outs to performer ‘malfunctions’ to an absence of power points, the pitfalls and challenges of live recording have all been experienced by the team of volunteer engineers over Fine Music’s 40-year history. 10

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Setting up to record concert performances is often a time consuming job and one that involves lugging bulky equipment. Microphone positioning is a critical part of the sound engineer’s job to ensure the appropriate balance between artists, without impacting on audience sight lines. It’s important that the kind of live recordings made by Fine Music continues says retired Fine Music engineer Kerry Joyner: “All the major ensembles are catered for by the ABC but the second level they don’t cover those like the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra (WSO), our best orchestra outside of the SSO. “I think it’s important that these people get an airing.” After working with Fine Music for 20 years, Joyner retired in 2012. The WSO is now recorded by Jayson McBride and Joanna Wroblewska. Another long-term volunteer, Peter Bell who has been with the station for around 30 years, remembers his first recording, a performance of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for their 75th anniversary concert at the Sydney Opera House. He’s been on that beat ever since. Bell notes that Fine Music often captures the first performances of the work of Australian composers such as Elena Kats-Chernin; and in terms of broadcasts he singles out the live-toair of the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge as a favourite While he’s recorded most of the major choral works, Bell also did a recording of a quite young Simon Tedeschi who he found wandering around backstage at the Opera House trying to find the stage. Another engineer who has been working with the station for around 15 years is Greg Simmons, who mostly covers performances at City Recital Hall including those of Musica Viva. He said, as a sound engineer he would have had to work in Europe for twice that long perhaps, to be able to record the calibre of artists he does in Australia. “When you have someone like Paul Lewis or Steven Isserlis in a place like City Recital Hall, assuming they play well, the only thing that can go wrong is me,” said Simmons. “The education value is enormous,” he says, adding that he always brings students to assist him. He has some fascinating stories of ‘when things go wrong’, from musician’s bows breaking, to annoying audience noises, to forgetting to press the record button. One of the most

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alarming was when a 10-metre microphone cable was swinging above the audience after a winch malfunctioned. Looking forward As in the past, the recording schedule of the radio station is dependent on the relationships it forms with external organisations. Whilst this encompasses the valuable associations provided by volunteers and the management of the station, increasingly there has been a focus to build more formal arrangements with Fine Music’s arts partners. This year we will be offering live recording opportunities to all our arts partners, said Sidebottom. “They find these opportunities invaluable because they are able to share the performance with a larger audience.” Fine Music has relationships with more than 100 arts partners, including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Musica Viva and many more. In terms of the mix of live recordings done by Fine Music, it has also been influenced by the activities of the ABC, although recent changes have brought about opportunities. Anticipating more live recordings this year, Sidebottom can’t give away details as yet but said to keep checking the Fine Music magazine, website and social media for announcements. “We would like to open the invitation to as wide a range of organisations as possible, including young musicians, contemporary composers, ensembles etc. to take advantage of the recording skills and broadcasts opportunities of Fine Music,” he said. - Paula Wallace

Outstanding recordings on Fine Music In January 1988, our sound engineers recorded a number of recitals held in the Vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall. They were part of the Bicentennial Festival of Sydney. Two of the outstanding artists in this series were Lauris Elms and Roger Woodward. The voice of Lauris Elms at this time was at its peak and the recital consisted of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben (sic), Mahler’s Rückert Songs and several songs by Jesús Guridi. Roger Woodward’s recitals encompassed the complete piano works of Chopin and seven of these concerts were rescued from reel-toreel tape. Another early recording worthy of note was a concert of the Philharmonia Motet Choir and the Australian Chamber Orchestra with Peter Seymour conducting in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. It featured violinist John Harding playing the Vivaldi ‘Spring’ sonata. The Australian premiere of Michel Corrette’s setting of Psalm 148, Laudate Dominum based on Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ sonata

was performed by the choir and soloists who also sang Vivaldi’s Psalm 100, Dixit Dominus. Over many years, and still continuing today, we have had a strong relationship with the Sydney Mozart Society and have recorded their many high quality concerts featuring the most excellent chamber groups and instrumentalists. Special mention should be made of Donald Hazelwood, Carl Pini, Rachel Valler and their associated chamber musicians who provided so many outstanding concerts. Numerous recordings have been made of Kathryn Selby as a solo pianist and with the various chamber combinations which she has organised which have included violinists Charmian Gadd and Susie Park and cellist Timo-Veikko Valve. The Ku-Ring-Gai Virtuosi, organised by clarinettist Deborah de Graaff, was another group of musicians who also gave us excellent concerts featuring, amongst others, soprano Adele Johnston, violinists Charmian Gadd, Natsuko Yoshimoto and Marina Marsden, cellists Georg Pedersen and Timo-Veikko

Valve, and pianists John Winther, Len Vorster, Natalia Sheludiakova and Bernadette Balkus. Georg Pedersen has featured in two outstanding cello recitals: Masterpieces of the Franco-Belgian Repertoire (Ysaÿe, Franck, Debussy, Tortelier) with pianist David Miller and a recital of Grieg, Falla and Rachmaninov with pianist Natalia Sheludiakova. The Australian String Quartet (in various combinations over the years), the Sydney Soloists, the Australia Ensemble, the Goldner String Quartet, the Sydney Chamber Choir and the Sydney Philharmonia Choir have been regular subjects of our concert recordings. Newer ensembles have carried on the tradition of fine music excellence and they include the Omega Ensemble, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, Duo Histoire and the Acacia Quartet. There are many other excellent musicians who have been recorded both in concert and in the studio at Fine Music and we apologise for not mentioning them individually. - Elaine Siversen

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EXPLORING THE HEYDAY OF ONE OF THE GREATS Celebrating Centenary of Sinatra’s Birth

It’s been 100 years since Ol’ Blue Eyes was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 12 December. Fine Music will be marking the occasion with a tribute on the After Hours program on Fine Music’s digital channel Fine Mus. It will focus on the glory years of Frank Sinatra as a singer in the 1950s, yet he started the decade without a recording contract, no film career and a passionate but dying romance with Hollywood star Ava Gardner. However, by the end of the decade he was back at the top both as a singer and screen actor, a fascinating lesson on the reversals of fortune. The idealistic crooner of the 1940s had become the sophisticated swinger of the 1950s. The catalyst was signing with Capitol Records in 1953 where he began recording a number of albums which included definitive performances of some of the greatest American songs. He was also reunited with Axel Stordahl, the arranger who guided him Nelson Riddle and Frank Sinatra reviewing a score (1956) during his years with the Columbia label and was his exceptional ballad phrasing set against an band and a Hollywood studio orchestra. The responsible for some of the gems of melodic magic impressionistic background of brass and strings highlight: the artfully casual reading of Cole he recorded with Tommy Dorsey such as Jimmy Van where Bill Miller’s piano intertwines in chamber Porter’s I’ve Got You Under My Skin, jauntily Heusen-Johnny Burke standard Imagination. With like delicacy with the strings. But there are syncopated against a light, finger-snapping the backing of such other gifted arrangers as Nelson memorable solos by trombone (What’s New) beat. And Sinatra: He sings with such verve Riddle, especially, Billy May and Gordon Jenkins and the woodwinds (Goodbye). And then there and conviction that his 1940s recordings sound these albums, known as “the fabulous sixteen”, is Sinatra. As I said before, this is a personal bland in comparison. would become his enduring legacy. statement as he impresses his feelings, style and The musically sophisticated A Swinging Affair They were also the first real concept albums, Sinatra personality on the musical palette provided by (1957) is a brilliant follow-up to Songs For exploring the different styles and alternatives to the composers, lyricists and arranger. Swingin’ Lovers (1956) but whereas the latter love from the flippant (Swing Easy), reflective (In The Not far behind is In The Wee Small Hours (1955) with is lightly swinging, the other is brash. Both are Wee Small Hours), fun-loving (Songs For Swinging some of Sinatra’s warmest ballad performances essential for any serious Sinatra collection. It is Lovers), globe-trotter (Come Fly With Me) and, at in a sustained mood of quiet intimacy and the closest Sinatra came to a jazz album during another extreme, loner (Where Are You?). Nine of reminiscence. The songs are uniformly superb, his Capitol years as he improvises phrases with the albums were recorded with Riddle and it is to enhanced by Sinatra’s flawless delivery with every bravado and joy. these I turn to when selecting his five greatest. phrase articulated to perfection. He is profound - Kevin Jones Recorded in May and June of 1958, Only The Lonely and involved, transforming a novelty like When is Sinatra’s greatest album. It is his painful and Your Lover Has Gone into a tone poem of regret ON AIR heartbroken reflection on his doomed romance and there is no finer version of It Never Entered DIGITAL – FINEMUS with Gardner, the quintessential combination of My Mind on record. No surprise as Sinatra always AFTER HOURS deeply emotional and yet wonderful songs by such put the song first. Tribute to Sinatra masters of American popular music as Rodgers and Songs For Swingin’ Lovers (1956) is the perfect 12 December, 10pm Hart, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, Harold Sinatra-Riddle medium-tempo album, the Live from Studio C Arlen and Johnny Mercer and Gordon Jenkins. beginning of what became known as the Rob Thomas and band Ballads have never sounded better with Riddle swinging ballads with the arranger’s 35-piece 12 December, 12pm the cool master; Sinatra is at his peak with group combining the best elements of a swing Jazz lovers welcome the return of After Hours The popular jazz-based two-hour program After Hours will return to Fine Music 102.5 FM next month. Beginning on 3 January, it will be broadcast every Sunday from 10pm until midnight and on Fine Music’s digital channel from 8-10pm each Saturday beginning on 2 January. It is hosted by Kevin Jones, who draws on his wide knowledge of jazz and the music of Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Porter, Arlen, Kern and the other great popular composers whose timeless melodies adorn the pages of the Great American Songbook.

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A GUIDE TO STUDYING MUSIC ABROAD By Fine Music Presenter: Nick Dunn

After five flights in as many months, five auditions and an enrolment form with 16 attachments I am very pleased to announce that I have been accepted into the Conservatorium of Florence for a Masters in Piano. I’m Nick Dunn, a presenter at Fine Music and this is my guide/account to studying abroad. This odyssey began in June, when the deadline to apply to conservatories in Europe was fast approaching. This was the first of many forms and signatures, and for those thinking of studying music abroad, I have the following advice for you: make a friend at the Consulate and always, ALWAYS double the time you think it will take to get something done. This application form required me to get signatures and stamps from four different institutes saying that my Bachelor of Music was indeed “true”. Through a series of typos along the way, I ended up with a music degree from UNSW Nick Dunn with fellow performers at Siena Music Festival and a corrected degree from the Sydney no rules. The racers can push each other off The whole town of all ages goes, it’s a good Conservatorium. Both of which are authentic. horses and do whatever they want - basically month to be in Siena. So by the end of June I had successfully applied Renaissance Mario Kart. The Siena Music Between a month’s interlude in Sydney, I had to to the conservatories of Florence, Como Festival happens all through July in between return to Italy to do my Auditions in Florence, and Brescia in Italy and somehow received a these races. So there will be 2-3 concerts a day Como and Brescia. For each, I had to do a Bachelors from UNSW without setting a foot but further, each of the four districts of Siena practical audition (30 minutes of repertoire) and in Randwick. have their own parade and contrada to see a test to prove my fluency in Italian - basically In July, I went to Siena (40min drive from who can out-do each other. The contrada is doing the same tests five times over. The biggest Florence) to do a masterclass course with an Italian party located in whichever district is event in this time was at the Conservatory of pianist, Lylia Zilberstein. Of the 36 that applied I hosting (usually in a garden, down an alleyway, Florence, where the panel didn’t have my name was lucky enough to pass my audition and enter on the list. They called in the director and vicethe class of 16. Over two weeks we each had through a side-door sort of thing) in a large director of the conservatory and almost didn’t three masterclasses doing 6-10 a day. This is part open space with live bands, bars and cheap allow me to do the audition (keep in mind I of the Siena Summer Music Festival and took drinks. Since each contrada is trying to beat the came literally from the other side of the world place in Palazzo Chigiana; that’s right, a palace. previous one you can expect them to be good. for this). Further, an Italian friend (who was It’s a medieval palace filled with Renaissance art also auditioning) and I were planning on seeing and instruments including Liszt’s custom-made Madame Butterfly at 3.30 and this mess didn’t Beckstein and the oldest known Harpsichord resolve itself until 3.09. One of the teachers on in the world. If you are visiting Siena, I highly the panel (aware of our opera plans) tried to recommend taking the tour of this palace. It is a speed up my audition so we wouldn’t be late. I private collection made open to the public and finished around 3.23 and I ran across Florence to not your average museum. As students there, the opera house. I’d like to tell you that we made we were allowed open access to this museum the run in seven minutes to the opera house but to practice (there is a grand piano in each room unfortunately we missed the first half. filled with art), free tickets to any of the festival Here we are now. The audition went well in all concerts and also in our own public concert at three conservatories and I’ve just completed the conclusion of the festival. the 16 part enrolment form to Florence. So to July is also the best time to visit Siena because you fine listeners of Fine Music, I am afraid I the Palio is on. The Palio is a famous horse won’t be on the air for a little while but if you race (these days they do two, on 16 July and need any tips on Italy - music or tourist related; 8 August) that has been happening since the you know where to find me. Renaissance. This race goes around the main - Nick Dunn Piazza (del Campo) of Siena and there are Nick Dunn performing at Siena Music Festival December 2015

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WHAT’S ON: MUSICA VIVA 2016 Musica Viva’s Artistic Director, Carl Vine AO, is delighted to announce Musica Viva’s 2016 concert season, with some of the finest musicians from Australia and abroad performing as part of the International Concert Season, as well as the much-loved Coffee Concert series in Sydney and Melbourne. In June, Musica Viva is delighted to feature in both Sydney and Melbourne Coffee Concert series the 2015 Michael Hill International Violin Competition winner, Australian Suyeon Kang, who is currently based in Berlin. Kang will appear in concert with renowned New Zealand pianist, Stephen de Pledge. The 2016 International Concert Season comprises seven national chamber music tours commencing in February with Voyage to the Moon, a brand new chamber opera written and directed by theatrical luminary Michael Gow, with musical score constructed by international Baroque guru Alan Curtis and Australian musicologist Calvin Bowman. In April, acclaimed British-Australian pianist Stephen Hough returns with a wonderful recital program offering a listening experience of great emotion and breathtaking virtuosity.

2016 INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON VOYAGE TO THE MOON: 15 FEBRUARY–12 MARCH musicaviva.com.au/voyage Voyage to the Moon is a brand new chamber opera written and directed by theatrical luminary Michael Gow, with musical score constructed by international Baroque guru Alan Curtis and Australian musicologist Calvin Bowman. Voyage to the Moon is a contemporary take on an old practice: a pastiche of music where gems from Handel and Vivaldi are heard alongside rediscovered treasures from little known 18th-century composers, all put to new words by Gow, and woven seamlessly into a unified score by Curtis and Bowman. A hand-picked band of leading chamber musicians with expertise in period performance is led from the harpsichord by Phoebe Briggs, Head of Music at Victorian Opera. Voyage to the Moon is an exciting collaboration between Musica Viva and Victorian Opera, in partnership with a remarkable team of academics, led by Professor Jane Davidson, from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for The History of Emotions. Featuring Phoebe Briggs, Harpsichord; Emma Matthews, Soprano; SallySTEPHEN HOUGH: 14 APRIL–6 MAY musicaviva.com.au/hough

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Hough writes on many topics, paints, and composes, all with a high degree of excellence; he is also a noted connoisseur of fine tea, perfume, and hats. This wonderful recital program lightly references some of these extra-musical things, while offering a listening experience of great emotion and breathtaking virtuosity. It opens with one of Schubert’s late sonatas, a ‘sonata of sighs’, thought to have been written just after the diagnosis of what was to be his final illness. In 1884, César Franck composed what Hough considers “the most deeply felt and serious work for the instrument to come out of France in the 19th century – the Prélude, Choral et Fugue. Poignant, melodious and heavy with spiritual symbolism, the piece eloquently combines the inspiration of Bach with the rich Romanticism of the day. Such symbolism can also be traced in Hough’s own new Piano Sonata III, written for the

anniversary of The Tablet, an international Catholic magazine: he nicknames the sonata ‘Trinitas’. More familiar are the stunning pieces by Liszt which close the program: selections from the charming Forgotten Waltzes, and from the Transcendental Studies, which demand virtuosity with elegance – not a bad description of the performer himself! Program: SCHUBERT Piano Sonata no 14, D.784; FRANCK Prelude, Chorale and Fugue; HOUGH Piano Sonata III (Trinitas); LISZT Valses Oubliées no 1 and 2; LISZT Transcendental Études. This performance features Stephen Hough, Piano. ENSO STRING QUARTET: 30 MAY–18 JUNE musicaviva.com.au/enso Making its first appearance in the International Concert Season, the Enso String Quartet brings an extraordinary energy to the stage. Since its formation at Yale in 1999, the group’s sparkling sonorities and joyous teamwork have brought it countless accolades.

The Enso String Quartet is known for pursuing unusual corners of the repertoire. For its first Australian season, the programs are tinged with Spanish flavour. The Argentinian composer Ginastera is a particular favourite, and featured on the Quartet’s first Grammy-nominated album. The Spaniard Turina’s luscious Serenata is a delightful companion for Ginastera’s Second Quartet. In the second program, Spanish music appears again, but this time centuries older, among three compelling transcriptions of Renaissance pieces. There are great classics too: Enso acknowledges two of the cornerstones of a quartet’s life in Beethoven’s beloved ‘Harp’ Quartet, and in Ravel’s amazing, and only, foray into the form. In keeping with the group’s forward-looking nature, there is also a brand new work written just for them, by revered Australian composer Brenton Broadstock. PROGRAM ONE: (Sydney Weekday, Newcastle, Melbourne Weekday, Canberra, Adelaide) BROADSTOCK New Work (World Premiere)*; BEETHOVEN String Quartet no 10 in E-flat major op 74 ‘The Harp’; TURINA Serenata for String Quartet, op 87 (1942); GINASTERA String Quartet no 2 op 26 PROGRAM TWO: (Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne Weekend, Sydney Weekend) BROADSTOCK New Work (World Premiere)*; BEETHOVEN String Quartet no 10 in E-flat major, op 74 ‘The Harp’; Renaissance Medley arr. Maureen Nelson; RAVEL String Quartet in F major. This performance features Maureen Nelson, Violin; Ken Hamao, Violin; Melissa Reardon, Viola; Richard Belcher, Cello. * Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by an anonymous donor. CHOIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE: 17 JULY–4 AUGUST musicaviva.com.au/trinity Stephen Layton is one of the leading choral

directors of our time. His ‘home’ choir is at Trinity College, Cambridge, where the fresh young voices of male and female undergraduates are carefully auditioned for sought-after places in what was recently named one of Gramophone magazine’s 20 Greatest Choirs. Although most of its singing is done for services in the College’s chapel, the Choir’s repertoire is wide-ranging and innovative, not only drawing on the glorious tradition of British sacred music, but also reflecting its director’s expertise in new European music. For this tour they will perform one of the 20th century’s most beautiful choral works: the 1922 Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir by Frank Martin. The composer regarded it as an intensely personal spiritual expression – it took 40 years for him to allow it to be heard, and it has never left the spotlight since. Surrounding Martin’s masterpiece is a rich cache of smaller pieces. Of special note are two new works: one by the choir’s Organ Scholar, Owain Park; and another by the Australian Joe Twist, commissioned especially for this tour. PROGRAM ONE: (Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth: with organ)

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PÄRT Bogoróditse Djévo; BYRD O Lord, make thy servant; TALLIS Salvator mundi; STUCKY O sacrum convivium; PURCELL Remember not, Lord, our offences; EŠENVALDS The heavens’ flock; RAUTAVAARA Evening Hymn, Ekteniya; PARK The wings of the wind; HOWELLS Te Deum (Collegium Regale); TWIST New Work, World Premiere*; MARTIN Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir; ELGAR Give unto the Lord PROGRAM TWO: (Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle: a cappella) PÄRT Bogoróditse Djévo; BYRD O Lord, make thy servant; TALLIS Salvator mundi; STUCKY O sacrum convivium; PURCELL Remember not, Lord, our offences; EŠENVALDS The heavens’ flock; WHITACRE I thank You God for most this amazing day; RAUTAVAARA Evening Hymn, Ekteniya; ŁUKASZEWSKI Nunc Dimittis; TWIST New Work, World Premiere*; MARTIN Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir; PARK The wings of the wind. This performance features Stephen Layton, Director * Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Mary and Paul Pollard. JERUSALEM QUARTET: 13–27 SEPTEMBER musicaviva.com.au/jerusalem The renowned Jerusalem Quartet makes a welcome return to Australia, having last been

with Musica Viva in 2009. With three of the quartet having played together since their youth, there is a confidence and ease on stage that makes for memorable concerts. There is also great depth to their musical heritage, and it glows with authority in these programs of masterworks. In a description that’s hard to better, American musician Paul Epstein has called the four movements of Haydn’s well-loved ‘Lark’ Quartet “A story, a song, a dance, and a party”. It is matched by perhaps the most ‘Haydnish’ of Beethoven’s quartets, op 18 no 6. Beethoven is heard again in one of his more straightforward ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, whose Russian-tinged melodies acknowledge the princely heritage of its commissioner. And there is Dvoˇrák’s Quartet no 13, full of Bohemian tunefulness – but also, in its dashing rhythms, offering intriguing suggestions of one of Dvoˇrák’s great loves: trainspotting. At the heart of each program lies Ross Edwards’ String Quartet no 3, Summer Dances, whose rhythms reflect the natural world of its composer’s native Australia, and give the Jerusalem Quartet a chance to share a New World sunniness amongst Old World classics. PROGRAM ONE: (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne Weekend, Sydney Weekday) BEETHOVEN String Quartet no 6, op 18 no 6; EDWARDS String Quartet no 3 ‘Summer Dances’*; DVORˇ ÁK String Quartet no 13 op 106 PROGRAM TWO: (Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney Weekend, Melbourne Weekday) HAYDN String Quartet op 64 no 5 ‘The Lark’; EDWARDS String Quartet no 3 ‘Summer Dances’*; BEETHOVEN String Quartet no 7 in F major, op 59 no 1 ‘Razumovsky’. This performance features Alexander Pavlovsky, Violin; Sergei Bresler, Violin; Ori Kam, Viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, Cello. * Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Kim Williams AM in honour of the late Kenneth W Tribe AC. December 2015

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BEILMAN & TYSON: 3–25 OCTOBER musicaviva.com.au/beilman In one of the most exciting classical music debuts of the year, two brilliant young stars make their first recital tour of Australia. Benjamin Beilman and Andrew Tyson are both winners of the Young Concert Artist auditions in New York. The chance to put these two wonderful performers together for Musica Viva was irresistible for all concerned. The program reflects the equal nature of their roles. Mozart wrote his delightful Violin Sonata K454 for himself to play at the keyboard, accompanying a violin virtuoso – though the story goes that he ran out of time to write out

his own part before the premiere, and played from a blank page. Saint-Saëns’ First Violin Sonata also requires two virtuosi to bring it off: the two parts are equal in emotional expression and take turns in musical leadership, before joining for an exuberant finale which has been called “the most exciting in the repertoire”. Janácek’s Sonata is a darker beast, written at the onset of the Great War, with what the composer described as ‘the sound of metal clashing’ in his head. But it has a richly Romantic character too, and a wealth of Bohemian folk touches. A notable inclusion on the program is a purpose-built world premiere by Jane Stanley, an Australian composer now resident in Glasgow, whose distinctive musical language marries fiery technique with emotional impact. PROGRAM: MOZART Sonata no 32 in B-flat major, K. 454; JANÁCEK Violin Sonata; STANLEY New Work, World Premiere*; SAINTSAËNS Sonata no 1 in D minor, op 75. This performance features Benjamin Beilman, Violin; Andrew Tyson, Piano. * Commissioned by Musica Viva’s Hildegard Project. TRIO DALI - 7–19 NOVEMBER musicaviva.com.au/dali Trio Dali (named for the exquisite Chinese marble of that name, not the Surrealist painter) is an ensemble of soloists who come together for the love of playing chamber music. Such pleasure in performing is a pleasure for the listener, too. Amandine Savary, piano, and Christian-Pierre

GENEVIEVE LACEY & MUSICA VIVA: INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF MUSIC This year, Musica Viva launched its new artist development program, Futuremakers, describing it as Australia’s most holistic artist development program for professional musicians, to be guided by Genevieve Lacey as Artistic Director.

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Together they have chosen their favourite works: the late-Classical grace of Mendelssohn’s C minor Trio, op 66, and Beethoven’s op 1 no 1: perhaps the first piece to treat a piano trio as ‘serious’ concert music, not merely domestic. By the time Schubert got hold of the genre, at the end of his life, he took it very seriously indeed, creating an extensive work whose glories extend to a full concert half: a prime example of his famous ‘heavenly length’. There is also Chausson, for a glimpse into the innate but subtle expertise Trio Dali brings to French music. A stylish and elegant work, it hints at the Parisian salons where its composer was so much at home, in the heart of musical France’s Belle Époque. There are hints of Paris in Australian Roger Smalley’s delicious Piano Trio, too, with glimpses of Chopin’s delicate figurations in its shimmering tones. PROGRAM ONE: (Perth, Newcastle, Sydney Weekday, Melbourne Weekend) MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio no 2 in C minor, op 66; SMALLEY Piano Trio; SCHUBERT Piano Trio no 1 in B-flat major, op 99 D.898 PROGRAM TWO: (Adelaide, Sydney Weekend, Melbourne Weekday, Canberra) BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in E-flat major, op 1 no 1; SMALLEY Piano Trio; CHAUSSON Piano Trio in G minor, op 3. This performance features Jack Liebeck, Violin; Christian-Pierre La Marca, Cello; Amandine Savary, Piano.

The selection process involved enlisting the advice of peers and colleagues around the country and internationally, asking them to nominate the finest young Australian musicians they knew, up to the age of 30, either as individuals, or ensembles, working in the area of fine music. “We were very excited at the depth and breadth of talent,” said Genevieve Lacey.

FutureMakers aims to empower leading young virtuosi to become Australia’s next generation of outstanding musical performers who are “flexible and curious leaders”. Following an extensive application and audition process earlier this year, an ensemble of high calibre has been chosen to take part in the first two-year fellowship which commenced in September. The Arcadia Quintet are the musicians for the program’s first iteration, a woodwind ensemble comprising Kiran Phatak (flute), David Reichelt (oboe), Lloyd Van’t

La Marca, cello, are the French speakers in the group. To form the Trio, they are joined by notable young British violinist and regular visitor to Australia, Jack Liebeck.

Hoff (clarinet), Rachel Shaw (French horn) and Matthew Kneale (bassoon). The quintet formed at the Australian National Academy of Music in 2013 and is currently based in Melbourne.

“Arcadia Quintet are fantastically talented musicians, both as individuals, and as an ensemble. They’re brilliant, communicative musicians with a wonderful sense of humour and fun, they care deeply about education, and can’t wait to take their sounds and skills into many different contexts.” Hear Arcadia Quintet play as part of the Musica Viva Sydney Coffee concert series on Wednesday 3 August.

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theme by Handel. This performance features Andrew Haveron, Violin; Umberto Clerici, Cello. SUYEON KANG & STEPHEN DE PLEDGE: WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE In June 2015, Suyeon Kang became the first Australian to win the Michael Hill International Violin Competition (MHIVC), taking home both the audience prize and the major title. This esteemed contest has produced notable laureates; and Musica Viva is pleased to partner with the MHIVC by presenting Kang in recital as part of her prize winner’s tour of Australasia. Pianist Stephen de Pledge is a renowned New Zealand chamber musician, and the other essential ingredient of the tour, making his first appearances for Musica Viva.

The 2016 Sydney Coffee Concert season opens in style with a beautiful program from Australia’s leading chamber players. After more than 20 years together, the Goldner String Quartet brings its fine musicianship and almost uncanny sense of ensemble to great works by Borodin and Beethoven. PROGRAM: BORODIN String Quartet no 2: Nocturne; BEETHOVEN String Quartet no 12 op 127. This performance features Dene Olding, Violin; Dimity Hall, Violin; Irina Morozova, Viola; Julian Smiles, Cello. ANDREW HAVERON & UMBERTO CLERICI: WEDNESDAY 18 MAY Two of Sydney’s favourite musicians make a rare duo appearance for this memorable concert. Umberto Clerici’s rich-toned cello is a perfect foil for Andrew Haveron’s warmly lyrical violin, in engaging works by Ravel, Schulhoff and Halvorsen. PROGRAM: RAVEL Sonata for Violin & Cello; SCHULHOFF Duo for Violin & Cello; HALVORSEN Passacaglia in G minor on a

musicianship and questing imaginations of the Arcadia Quintet made them an easy choice. Here they perform some classics of their genre, with Carter’s colourful modernism contrasting with Nielsen’s glowing melodies and Ibert’s witty, lyrical short pieces. PROGRAM: CARTER Woodwind Quintet; NIELSEN Wind Quintet; IBERT Trois Pièces brèves. This program features Kiran Phatak, Flute; David Reichelt, Oboe; Lloyd van’t Hoff, Clarinet; Rachel Shaw, Horn; Matthew Kneale, Bassoon. GOLDNER STRING QUARTET: WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER What better way to finish the year than with a return performance by the Goldner String Quartet? In this program, Edwards brings sunshine to effortlessly counterbalance the darker passions of Shostakovich for an unmissable morning’s music. PROGRAM: EDWARDS String Quartet no 2 ‘Shekina Fantasy’; SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet no 9. This performance features Dene Olding, Violin; Dimity Hall, Violin; Irina Morozova, Viola, Julian Smiles, Cello.

PROGRAM: To be announced. This performance features Suyeon Kang, Violin; Stephen de Pledge, Piano. ARCADIA QUINTET: WEDNESDAY 3 AUGUST Musica Viva is pleased to introduce Melbourne’s stunning young wind ensemble, the Arcadia Quintet, as the company’s first FutureMakers. This program aims to develop Australia’s young artistic leaders, and the extraordinary

BOOKINGS FOR INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON 2016: MUSICAVIVA. COM.AU/2016 OR 1800 688 482. BOOKINGS FOR COFFEE CONCERT SERIES 2016: MUSICAVIVA.COM.AU/ COFFEE2016 OR 1800 688 482. Musica Viva began in 1945 as a chamber music organisation focused on just one ensemble. Over the years, the organisation has evolved to embrace hundreds of different musicians each year, bringing the finest groups from overseas to perform and teach across Australia, and promoting Australian ensembles to audiences across the continent. Under the leadership of Carl Vine, AO, the organisation is committed to live music performances of quality, diversity, challenge and joy. Its International Concert Season is what Musica Viva is most well-known for. A season of seven national tours featuring the world’s best international chamber musicians, presented in Australia’s major cities: Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth and Sydney.

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ENSEMBLE Haydn’s Esterhazy Orchestra The Australian Haydn Ensemble Guest co-director & violin: Marc Destrubé Co-director & harpsichord: Dr Erin Helyard Artistic Director: Skye McIntosh 20 December, 2.30pm & 21 December, 7pm Venue: The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Tickets: $30-$69 Bookings: www.sydneyoperahouse.com or 9250 7777 or purchase at the Box Office Information: www.australianhaydn.com.au Joseph Haydn was no fool. When he took up his position as composer at the Esterházy Palace he knew that it was not only the Prince with whom he would need to win favour, but also the musicians of his orchestra. The results of this musical flattery were his beautiful early Symphonies Le Matin, Le Midi & Le Soir; morning, noon and evening. Haydn’s three symphonies beautifully depict the life of a day. Each symphony features the principal players of the Esterházy Orchestra that Haydn would have had at his disposal, which was only a small band of 13-17 players. The composer himself also enjoyed showing off in the concertmaster’s chair, and thus there are many instances of flourishing violin solos. Playing the role of Maestro Haydn will be our dear friend and guest co-director, violinist Marc Destrubè from Vancouver. To complement these great works, guest codirector and soloist Erin Helyard will perform Haydn’s thrilling Concerto for Harpsichord in D Major - a magnificent end to our 2015 season. CHORAL Messiah Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Conductor: Brett Weymark Signing conductor: Alex Jones Soprano: Rachelle Durkin Alto: Louise Callinan Tenor: Jonathan Abernethy Bass: Rodney Earl Clarke Christmas Choir Symphony Chorus Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra 20

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RECITAL Musica Viva presents Maxim Vengerov Maxim Vengerov, violin Roustem Saitkoulov, piano 10 December, 7pm Tickets: From $95 (booking and transaction fees apply) Bookings: musicaviva.com.au/Vengerov or 1800 688 482 Information: musicaviva.com.au/Vengerov The jewel in the crown of Musica Viva’s 70th birthday celebrations is a gala recital performance by superstar violinist Maxim Vengerov accompanied by pianist Roustem Saitkoulov at the Sydney Opera House. Hailed as the successor to the mighty Russian school of playing, Vengerov studied with the legendary Zakhar Bron from the age of 10. From there he went on to win several major violin competitions, including two International Carl Flesch Competitions, by the time he was 15. As a recording artist, Vengerov is highly decorated, earning a Grammy Award for Best Young Artist of the Year, a prestigious Edison Award, and Best Concerto Recording and Best Record of the Year in the Gramophone

CHORAL Cog in the Machine Sydney Philharmonia Choirs VOX 5 December, 3pm and 6pm Venue: Glebe Town Hall 6 December, 2pm Venue: Bondi Pavilion Tickets $25 per person plus fees Family of 4 $80 – 2 Adults, 2 Children over 5 Groups 6+ $20 per person (full paying ticketholders) Children 0-5 FREE Bookings: 9251 2024 or sydneyphilharmonia. com.au/events/cog-in-the-machine

3 December, 8pm 5 December, 8pm 6 December, 1pm Venue: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Tickets: $50-$100 plus fees Bookings: 9251 2024 or 9250 7777 sydneyphilharmonia.com.au or sydneyoperahouse.com Information: www.sydneyphilharmonia.com. au/events/handel-messiah/

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Awards for his recording of the Prokofiev and Shostakovich First Violin Concertos. During the Musica Viva Gala Anniversary tour, Vengerov will present a program in the great tradition of violin recitals, contrasting works of the highest artistic and emotional demands with more light-hearted displays of almost superhuman technique. From the sublime beauty of Bach’s Chaconne from Violin Partita no 2 in D minor, to the breathtaking virtuosity of works by Ysaÿe and Paganini, Vengerov will captivate and enthral. Be part of this historic occasion and celebrate the unique joy of chamber music in an unforgettable evening with a true legend of our time. This December, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, in collaboration with Aria award-winning artist, Sally Whitwell, present a family Christmas tale with a twist. Cog in the Machine is a world premiere piece of musical theatre written by pianist, composer and conductor, Sally Whitwell. It’s the week before Christmas and typical suburbanites the Helpus family are struggling with school holiday boredom when they are sucked into a time machine that will revolutionise the way they see Christmas forever. Performed by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs youth choir, VOX, with members of Sydney Children’s Choir, these performances will be a perfect opportunity to kick off the festive season with an hour of family fun, including some good old-fashioned Christmas carol participation. Suitable for ages 8+

Handel’s greatest and most loved choral masterpiece sung by more than 400 voices at the Sydney Opera House. Brett Weymark conducts the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for three concert events to mark the start of the festive season. In a world first, and in collaboration with Accessible Arts and Sydney Opera House, the concerts will be signed live by a choir of 16.

OPERA L’Amant Jaloux (The Jealous Lover) by Grétry Pinchgut Opera Erin Helyard, Conductor Chas Rader-Shieber, Director Orchestra of the Antipodes 3, 5, 8 December, 7pm 6 December, 5pm Venue: City Recital Hall Tickets: $30-135 Bookings: 02 8256 2222 or www.cityrecitalhall.com/events/lamant-jaloux Information: www.pinchgutopera.com.au/gretry ORCHESTRAL NOËL! NOËL! Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Australian Brandenburg Choir and Orchestra Artistic Director and Conductor, Paul Dyer 16 December, 5pm, 7pm 19 December, 5pm, 7pm Venue: City Recital Hall Tickets: $35-$138 Bookings: www.cityrecitalhall.com/events/ noel-noel The Brandenburg’s Noël! Noël! concerts were created to provide a peaceful and beautiful setting in which audiences could reflect on whatever the Christmas period meant to them. Touching on the religious, but firmly grounded in the spiritual, these first concerts laid out their own musical traditions on which audiences have come to rely: Christmas Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, Once in Royal David’s City, and Stille Nacht. But each year there are also much anticipated surprises – revealed only on the eve of the concert. Freed from the usual strictures and formality of concert programming, these surprises have ranged from the modern to the medieval, whilst always staying true to the special nature of these concerts. Some prefer a church setting, some the concert hall. But one thing that never changes is the incredible demand to be part of this cherished annual event.

Pinchgut’s summer season features André Grétry’s brilliant comic masterpiece, L’Amant jaloux (The Jealous Lover) featuring mistaken identity, mysterious strangers, true love, duels and a happy ending. British tenor Ed Lyon joins a fabulous Australian cast with Celeste Lazarenko, Andrew Goodwin, Alexandra Oomens and David Greco returning to Pinchgut, and introducing Jessica Aszodi to our audience. This hugely successful opera, heard and admired by Mozart during his sojourn in France, began a new kind of French musical drama. Glorious orchestral colours and wickedly witty ensemble pieces reveal striking musical and dramatic ideas, embracing the daring new ideals of the Enlightenment, while laying bare the innermost thoughts and feelings of the characters in a way that would inspire Mozart’s partnership with his librettist da Ponte.

CHORAL Israel in Egypt Sydney University Graduate Choir Music Director, Christopher Bowen OAM 6 December, 5pm Tickets: $25-45 Bookings: Seymour Centre Box Office 9351 7940 or Ticketmaster 1300 723 038 or online https://singon.wordpress.com/hear-us/

CHORAL Voices of Angels: Gloria Sydney Children’s Choir Gondwana Choir 14, 15 December Venue: City Recital Hall Tickets: $39-$180 Bookings: www.cityrecitalhall.com/events/ voices-of-angels The magical young voices of Sydney Children’s Choir and Gondwana Voices will transport you to Christmas in 18th Century Venice with Vivaldi’s beloved masterwork Gloria, directed by Lyn Williams OAM. Works by Handel and new arrangements of beloved

The 2015 concert series of the Sydney University Graduate Choir concludes with Handel’s outstanding oratorio Israel in Egypt which unlike his other oratorios, contains more choral movements than arias. Water turning to blood, flies buzzing and hailstones raining down - all come to life in colourful and powerful choruses as Handel leads us through the plagues, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the drowning of Pharaoh’s armies. After attending a performance in Westminster Abbey Joseph Haydn is said to have wept, remarking of Handel, “He is the Master of us all!” The work is now recognised as one of the great oratorios of all time.

Christmas programming complete this year’s program of a true Sydney tradition. In 2015, Voices of Angels takes a decidedly 18th Century turn by looking to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. The Ospedale was a convent, orphanage, and music school that, by the 18th Century, was an orphanage for girls. Antonio Vivaldi served as violin teacher and conductor of La Pietà’s formidable orchestra. In fact, much of Vivaldi’s sacred vocal and instrumental music was written for performance at the Pietà, including his masterpiece Gloria. A choir of 200 angelic children’s voices will be accompanied by a baroque chamber orchestra for the evening. December 2015

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CD Reviews Lang Lang in Paris Composer: Chopin, Tchaikovsky Number of Discs: 2 ( + 1 DVD ) Label: Sony Classical Catalogue No:88875117612

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Lang Lang’s latest venture into the studio features a coupling of Chopin and Tchaikovsky not yet attempted in the classical recording genre. The four Scherzi of Chopin and The Seasons of Tchaikovsky yield some outstanding results. Lang Lang, love him or hate him, continues to leave an indelible mark on the classical music scene. I have found his efforts on this album to be by far and away his most mature and sensitive readings of romantic solo piano works to date. The first scherzo is attacked with brashness, power and vitality and gets the heart rate moving. No 2 in B Flat Minor, Op 31 has suffered somewhat

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Kaufmann is now regarded as the world’s most successful tenor. He is internationally acclaimed for his roles in Italian, German and French repertoire and he appears at all the leading international opera houses. Kaufmann, at the age of only 44, has already established his supremacy in an extensive repertoire, particularly in the operas of Richard Wagner. Among his most recent

over time from being overplayed. Lang Lang’s reading of this has had me listening to it over and over again. It is the most exciting, novel and innovative account I’ve heard of it in quite some time. The ternary form of the work along with its various repeats can lead to blandness but he treats each repeat and each section as an entity within itself. It works wonderfully well. Scherzo No 3 is delivered with dynamic invention, particularly the cascading 4th intervals which are frightfully difficult to play but under Lang Lang’s fingers, are projected in a smooth cohesive manner. Finally the 4th Scherzo rounds out the Chopin component of the disc and here, Lang Lang takes us on a fantastic voyage through the creative mire that is the genius of Chopin. There is virtuosity, there is sensitivity, there is boldness. There is also an inner beauty in this work that is only brought out by the very best

pianists. The Seasons complement the Scherzi well and as we move through the 12 minatures representing the 12 months of the year we discover that Lang Lang’s connection with the romantic idiom is both rich and wholesome. There are CD and digital download options which include videos of several of the works played. This is one for the Christmas hamper. - Frank Shostakovich

The collection spanning the years 1978 to 1991 is a celebration of Bonynge’s 85th birthday which in addition to 40 years of recordings includes previously unreleased performances by Joan Sutherland. It’s all a veritable treasure chest of four CDs with Bonynge at the helm and amongst the collection there are gems for all music lovers. Bonynge is joined by the great and the good of Australian musicians – amongst them singers who have become legends in their lifetimes: Sutherland, Pringle, Buchanan, Riedel, Kenny, Janes, Fowels, Begg, Austin and Longmuir along with the Adelaide, Queensland and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Sydney Lyric Orchestra and The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Bonynge is of course renowned as one of the finest opera conductors of his generation and his musicianship has been

acclaimed throughout the globe – but it is at home in Australia that many of his closest musical collaborations have developed. Included in the music of CD1 are Mozart arias - all the favourites from the Marriage of Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovanni and the Magic Flute. The French and Italian contributions in CD2 are taken from Adam, Donizetti, Delibes and Bellini whilst CD3 shows the lighter musical qualities of Viennese Operetta with Strauss II, Lehar and some surprising welcome works from Kreisler and Novello. The second CD of Volume II is devoted to a complete and impressive performance of Handel’s Rodelinda. In some ways the collection should be considered a stunning musical journey of one of Australia’s great sons. Acquire it and be stimulated. - Emyr Evans

performances was bringing down the house as well as the underwear at the famous Last Night of the Proms in the Albert Hall in London. He made Proms history by becoming the first German to sing the British patriotic anthem Rule Britannia at the BBC Proms. In return for offering a packed Albert Hall arias by Puccini and Lehár, a couple of overexcited Prommers responded by throwing their knickers at the superstar tenor who gave a spirited twirl before carrying them off presumably to his dressing room. Amongst the arias are all the better known contributions from Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Butterfly and Turandot. And as an additional incentive to buy

there’s a DVD – The making of Nessun Dorma with three excerpts from La Fanciulla del West. - EE December 2015

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CD Reviews Bruckner Symphony No 6 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Paavo Jarvi, conductor RCA Red Seal 88875 13126-2

✶✶✶✶✶ Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony is often regarded as the black sheep of his symphonic output and this could well be due to the lack of substantial recordings of the work. Paavo Jarvi, whose interpretations of Bruckner are well established returns here with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in a reading that can be described as generous in its dimensions and eloquent in its delivery. The tempo of the first movement is set at a half note = 72 and Jarvi adheres to this superbly. The Maestoso germinates with a solid base line intertwined with a series of tranquil woodwind interludes. The coda leading into

As the title and the cover suggests the focus of this disc are the ever amazing Northern lights. I decided to play some of this music whilst watching some YouTube videos of the Northern Lights on my big screen TV. The effect was quite mesmerising. Funnily enough, it seemed to work best with the Second Nocturne which is sparse, elegaic work but whose mood fits the title and provides a perfect back drop to viewing the dancing lights of the north. The actual Aurora Borealis work itself is a short three movement foray where the final movement itself, marked maestoso, is indeed majestic yet light in colour and gives the impression of the varying levels of light as they may be viewed with the naked eye. Herrera’s use of musical induction is evident throughout

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“The world is not enough”: this provocative James Bond title virtually springs to mind when one looks on CD releases by Igor Levit. The Bach and Beethoven works have long been considered acid tests of the performer’s art while Rzewski’s gigantic cycle on the Chilean revolutionary song has the reputation of being almost unplayable. In his playing, Levit is equally drawn strongly to the physical challenge of each of the 24

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the Adagio is the highlight of the recording and the orchestra appears to be well versed in the juxtaposition of the emotional stability and the intellectual capacity of the music. The interchange between the french horns and trumpets is simply outstanding. The Adagio is one of Bruckner’s symphonic highlights, equal to, if not surpassing the miracle of the slow movement of the Fifth Symphony. There is a sense of rawness in its cinematic quality and the repetitions create the driving force behind the exaltation and ecstasy one feels. The Scherzo transports the listener into a state of cosmic conscience as a new level of intensity is reached. Jarvi doesn’t overly press the point and the result is the opening of the finale not being underwhelming and anti-climatic. The fiery, blazing march at the conclusion of the finale rounds out what Bruckner himself described as his ‘boldest’ symphony. This

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works featured. Today after some ten years on the international scene this young artist has emerged as one of the leading pianists of our time combining supreme interpretative earnestness with a sparkling technique and extraordinary versatility. Levit made a deep study of the Diabelli Variations when he was 17 and Karl-Heinz Kammerling, legendary piano professor at Hanover University of Music had intuitively recognised that the Diabelli became the piece de resistance of Levit’s early career. Levit’s study of the Rzewski did more than open up a new pianistic universe and contributed to his view that Rzewski is one of the truly important composers of our time. Levit is to perform

symphony appears to be sourced from a single moment of inspiration. It is also the only one of Bruckner’s symphonies not to undergo extensive revision. There is therefore a sense of motivic, rhythmic and harmonic originality throughout the work which progresses very naturally from beginning to conclusion. - FS the second piano sonata. He assumes an individuality of sound combined with a variety of compositional techniques including some counterpoint in the first movement. The second and third movements offer a proof of his original premise that sound is not formed from just notes on a page but rather a translucence of reflective shimmering that, in this album, is portrayed by those mixtures of green yellow and red lights flooding the night skies. It is evident that Herrera is a talented composer with an excellent knowledge of the piano and the skill to write effectively for it. The most interesting disc by an Australian composer in quite some time. - FS

these sets of variations in various European cities during the next year and wouldn’t we hope that the itinerary might include the cities of Australia? Look out for Levit, a really inspiring and exciting performer. - EE

Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, K. 588. Highlights Simone Kermes (Fiordiligi), Malena Ernman (Dorabella), Kenneth Tarver (Ferrando), Christopher Maltman (Guglielmo), Anna Kasyan (Despina), Konstantin Wolff (Don Alfonso) Musicaeterna Orchestra and Chorus/ Teodor Currentzis) Sony 88765466162

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and vigorous; the ensembles in which she sings are sometimes bottom heavy and her arias are not always completely effective. The orchestra is obviously a first-rate and disciplined band. Tempos are fast, but such is the conductor’s control that there is never any question of missed notes or sloppy ensemble. Only in the Act 1 finale did the pace seem too hot. Full marks must be given both to the harpsichordist for his delightful elaboration of his part and the singers for their sensitive and tasteful ornamentation. The complete recording is also praiseworthy in that, unlike many performances of this opera, there are very few cuts. The only numbers omitted are Guglielmo’s No 15A, which is an alternative to his No 15 and Ferrando’s Ah! lo veggio players of viol, baroque cello and percussion with harpsichordist Nikolaus Newerkla as director. The music on the disc is a welcome mixture of very well known carols – O come Emmanuel, The First Nowell, The Three Kings, Noël Nouvelet, Blessed be that Maid Marie, along with other contributions from the Yuletide season. From Ireland comes the traditional jig A Merry Christmas and the traditional reel The Ivy Leaf whilst Scotland provides The traveller benighted in snow, Gloomy Winter, Early in the morning and Christmas comes but once a year. There is a charm and freshness to this unconventional edition, and most importantly a sense of joy and delight in music-making that cannot fail to cheer

which is hardly ever performed. There are no cuts within the numbers themselves. Those who purchase the highlights will be satisfied but it would be far better to purchase the complete recording. – Richard Gate

and lift the spirits even on the bleakest of winter nights and especially if you live in the Northern Hemisphere. - EE

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The Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter Arbors Records 19446

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In this outstanding release Warren Vache pays tribute to the composing skills of a jazz icon. Not only was Benny Carter one of the great alto saxophonists with a superb tone and flawless technique but he was also a firstclass arranger; his Kansas City Suite for Count Basie and the Duke Ellington songbook set by Sara Vaughan should be in every serious jazz collection. But Carter was also a melodist with that rare gift of creating songs that appealed to both musicians and listeners alike. In 1995 the Telarc label decided to bring together 15 singers to perform Carter’s songs, the featured soloists being the composer and Vache whose

cornet playing reached sublime heights on the project. His playing here, whether open (Souvenir) or delicately muted (When Lights Are Low), is inspired as he reprises some of the finest melodies of his late friend and mentor. Blue Star was one of the highlights of Carter’s 1961 classic album Further Definitions; given lyrics it became Evening Star but the words seem superfluous after hearing the gently soulful treatment of this lovely ballad by the big-toned tenor saxophonist Houston Person complemented by a stunning piano interlude from Tardo Hammer. With bassist Nicki Parrott and drummer Leroy Williams, Hammer is the epitome of relaxed eloquence on the aptly named Summer Serenade. Parrott’s vocals are always a pleasure to hear, especially on the samba-inflected Only Trust Your Heart.

Tony Bennett At Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert Columbia C2K64609 There could be no better introduction to the music of Tony Bennett than this reissue, the first complete recording of his concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall on the night of 9 June, 1962. In fact no fan of Bennett’s should be without it. Not only is the clarity of the recording amazing, but listening to Bennett’s voice, strong and vibrant over 44 tracks, it’s easy to understand why his good friend Frank Sinatra referred to him as the “best singer in the business... he gets across what his musical director and pianist Ralph Sharon, a the composer has in mind... and probably more”. line up which included such strong jazz soloists Bennett is superbly backed by the orchestra of as Al Cohn (tenor), Nick Travis (trumpet) and

Eddie Costa (vibraphone). Bennett always loved jazz and enjoyed listening to it but Sharon has taken credit for the style of music influencing Bennett’s singing; Sharon also introduced him to what has become his signature song: I Left My Heart in San Francisco. The tremendous applause is deafening after Bennett sings it. Although he reprises other Bennett standards, Just In Time and Stranger In Paradise for example, he extends his repertoire with great medleys made up of (I Like New York In June) How About You and April In Paris, and Put On A Happy Face and Comes Once In A Lifetime. If I was to have only one Bennett album this would be it.

It seems only appropriate that Mickey (The Stoker) Roker, one of the best drummers to have played with Dizzy Gillespie, should be on this marvellous disc. Not only has he been a favourite of Chuck Redd’s since his teenage years but he never missed an opportunity to hear Roker with vibraphone giant Milt Jackson’s quartet. It was after hearing the soulful Jackson on record with the Modern Jazz Quartet that he was inspired to add the instrument to his musical armoury. Redd was already established as a tastefully swinging drummer having played with everybody from Charlie Byrd to Gillespie, spent half a decade with Mel Torme, and 15 years with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He now plays both instruments with authority and on All God’s Children Got

Rhythm shows just how good a drummer he is with some superb brushwork in a duet with the remarkable Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello whose virtuosity enables him to play in any style. Redd is just as satisfying when switches to vibes for another duet with Sportiello on the delightful Gershwin gem My One And Only which owes its jazz status to the 1950 Decca recording by Ella Fitzgerald and pianist Ellis Larkins. With the addition of Houston Person’s big-toned tenor, the group melodically highlights the beauty of the ballad Moonlight In Vermont and tenderly massages another, Some Other Spring, with just the right degree of sophistication. The strong bass work of Bob Cranshaw is another plus on an album I can thoroughly recommend.

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SWINGING ON THE VINE Beat Out That Rhythm Stretched out on the floor of my Hunter Valley hideaway, Big J grunts as I lay down a beat with my hands on his massive stomach. Is it pain or pleasure? In such a state of mutual inebriation it is hard to tell but as is often the case when I am in the grip of the liquid nirvana of the red grape my thoughts turn to the yesterdays of my misspent youth. In a philosophical mood, I ask myself is today’s age of digital pop mayhem any different to my teenage years when the rise of junk music headed by rock was sweeping all before it on radio urged on by payolafed disc jockeys? I remember the inanities of 1956, two movies aimed at the growing teenage market. The first was Rock Around The Clock, where a big band promoter found new life and wisdom promoting rock ‘n’ roll, and Don’t Knock The Rock. The latter’s plot would massage the intellect of any half-wit: a disc jockey (eat your heart out Sigmund Freud) shows disapproving parents how the music won’t turn their children into juvenile delinquents. Drummer Buddy Rich, described by 1950’s “sick” comedian Lenny Bruce as “a Samson-like swinger”, had no time for tricks and gimmicks saying they bastardised music. As for rock: “Played by idiots for idiots!” But then Rich uninhibitedly sounded off about anything; 1950’s crooner Eddie Fisher was “the lowest”; beboppers had “set music and jazz back 10 years with their bad habits and foolishness”; as for drum solos: “Nobody knows what’s going on except the musicians.” No wonder some of his feuds became legend. As for juvenile delinquents! What must my parents thought as they sat uneasily and bored through a movie I had dragged them to in the local

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theatre as a jazz-starved teenager. The film made in 1954 was Carmen Jones based on Bizet’s opera, directed by Otto Preminger with a book by Oscar Hammerstein II, and an all Afro-American cast headed by Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. But for me the highlight was Pearl Bailey singing Beat Out That Rhythm On A Drum and the drummer? He was known in the movie as Max but in real life he was Max Roach, known then and now as the dean of modern jazz drummers. For me, Bizet never sounded better. (Tuning into Melbourne radio of a night I could hear the Carmen Boogie while the rest of the island south of Bass Strait luxuriated in the Singing Kettles rendering 365 Kisses. No wonder I muttered I’ve got to get out of here). Roach who recorded an album with Rich in 1959 was full of praise for him: “Buddy is a fabulous musician, either in a big band or with a small group”. As was Philly Joe Jones, a member of the legendary Miles Davis Quintet of the late 1950’s: “Buddy does things that are unbelievable for any drummer”. Or Joe Morello, the spark plug of Dave Brubeck’s greatest quartet: ”Rich is my drummer, I can sit for hours watching his hands and feet”. In mid-November, 1959 the music world was stunned to hear that one of jazz’s greatest drummers was in hospital in Atlanta, Georgia after suffering a heart attack, the culmination of a failed attempt at a singing career and the frustrations of forming a small group. One of the first to call him in hospital was Count Basie whose big band Rich called the “soul of jazz”. He was so enthused after talking to Basie that he began asking that his drums be shipped to Las Vegas so he could join the orchestra of Harry James. But the doctors would have none of it, banning all phone calls. He would later spend five weeks in a New York hospital but less than four months later Rich was back on the road with a small group. During one of his many periods with James, the trumpeter said, “For the first time in all the time I have led a band, I have a drummer who is driving me. Up to now, I’d always felt I had to carry the band. But now Buddy does it”. A Samson-like swinger indeed! - Patrick D.Maguire December 2015

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PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS SCHUBERT THIS MONTH A performance of Franz Schubert’s Mass No. 3 in B Flat took place in Salzburg Cathedral during the Cathedral’s celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany on 6 January. Whilst Schubert’s Mass No. 3 in B flat Major, Deutsch 324, written 200 years’ ago in 1815, is the main work in this forthcoming program, there will be two delightful choral pieces written by fellow Austrian, Joseph Leopold Eybler, interspersed throughout. Eybler was a contemporary of Mozart’s whom many considered something of a genius. One notable musician who praised Eybler was music’s elder statesman - and a distant cousin, Franz Joseph Haydn, who became his friend and patron. Eybler’s credentials were as good as any. After all, Mozart had given him lessons and the two men became lifelong friends, whose work in music often brought them together. Upon Mozart’s death, it was Joseph Eybler whom Mozart’s widow, Constanze, asked to complete her husband’s Requiem, although in the end, it was Franz Xaver Süssmayr who did so. The main work, Franz Schubert’s Mass No.3, he scored for SATB soloists and choir, with an orchestra consisting of strings, oboes, bassoons, 28

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trumpets, trombones, timpani, basso continuo and organ. At the time Schubert wrote this Mass (probably for Lichtental’s Parish Church) he also was deeply in love with the soprano, Therese Grob. As Fräulein Grob was a soloist in its premiere, maybe this was the late-teenage Franz’s way of spending more time with her? Some musicologists have described its large instrumental layout and extended orchestral interludes as “Haydnesque”, with Haydn’s Nelson Mass being considered a particularly strong influence. Mozart and Bach were thought to be added ones in the area of

counterpoint, but these aspects apart, the composer’s own melodic profusion is present, and its lyrical textures make it a wonderful work to sing. Beginning the performance, is the first of Eybler’s works Omnes de Saba Veniet (All they from Saba shall come, bringing gold and frankincense in praise to the Lord). Schubert’s Mass follows with the opening Kyrie, in which the trombones add a noticeable warmth to the score. The Gloria follows; then the Credo, in its various sections. Then comes the second of Joseph Eybler’s settings: Regens Tarsit (The Kings of Tharsis offer their gifts, as do the Kings of Arabia and Sheba). Schubert’s Mass continues with its Sanctus and Benedictus; with a jubilant Osanna, preceding the final peaceful Agnus Dei, before the work’s final bars, the tranquil and reassuring, Dona nobis pacem (Grant us Peace). - Patrick Thomas ON AIR Patrick Thomas presents 18 December, 1pm Schubert’s Mass no 3

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of the season in 17th Century English. And the youth choir Vox cast a spell of wonder with spine-tingling performance of Pretorius’ Ees ist ein Rose entsprungen. The whole shebang is deftly controlled by Brett Weymark.

Tuesday 1 December, 2pm - prepared by Sheila Catzel Itzhak Perlman is one of the truly great instrumentalists of the 20th century, and he continues into the 21st century as the Gold Standard in violin-playing and pedagogy. He has recorded practically anything written for his instrument that is worth recording and has appeared with every major orchestra in the world. Born just after the Second World War in Tel Aviv, Itzhak Perlman showed early talent for the violin. At four, a brush with polio deprived him of the use his legs. Medical opinion doubted his prospects as a performer, but perseverance and hard work proved them wrong, and he enrolled in the Music Academy of Tel Aviv, developing a significant performing career within Israel before his teens. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan show at the age of 13, several years’ study at the Julliard School followed. In 1963, Perlman made his debut at the Carnegie Hall, and his career on the world stage took off. This program covers much of the history of the modern violin. It ends with a performance of the Vivaldi triple concerto in which Perlman is joined by two other giants of the instrument, Pinchas Zuckerman and Isaac Stern. But the program starts with Perlman’s own arrangement of Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer, touching on Perlman’s “extra-classical” interests – he is an enthusiastic exponent of klezmer, and has recorded jazz albums with the likes of Oscar Peterson. Pablo Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy is his bestknown work, and considered a tour de force for virtuoso fiddlers. The program includes a landmark performance with the Royal Philharmonic. The three B’s are here, with Bach’s double concerto, a sonata from Beethoven and a Brahms’ piano trio. A performance of Mozart’s brilliantly virtuosic first violin concerto completes a fascinating program.

A 30-YEAR COLLABORATION: YO-YO MA & KATHRYN STOTT Monday 14 December, 1pm

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CHRISTMAS FROM THE OPERA HOUSE (Recorded at the Sydney Opera House, 7 December 2014) Thursday 24 December, 8pm Sydney Philharmonia Choirs now perform Handel’s Messiah every other year, and on the “odd” years perform a Christmas musical celebration from the Opera House. This year is a Messiah year, but, thanks to the magic of radio, you can enjoy the best of both worlds – take in a Messiah live and listen to Fine Music’s recording of last year’s performance of Christmas from the Opera House. Recorded on 7 December, the show features soprano Emma Matthews and actor John Bell, in a carefully crafted program that blends traditional Australian and English carols sung by the Sydney Symphony Chorus and the Festival Chorus, with Bell’s readings of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and other Christmas texts. There’s more than one sixpence in this Christmas pud, and Handel is not entirely forgotten. Emma gives a sparkling performance of Let the Bright Seraphim, and a cheekily bravura one of The Twelve Days of Christmas. The choir, lusty but precise, give orchestrated medleys of Christmas songs and carols. Guarding against a surfeit of levity, John Bell lends gravitas to the occasion with fine readings from “A Christmas Carol” and of “Ye Great Astonishment”, an anonymous tract that embodies the goodwill

Music is usually a collaborative affair. Orchestras, choirs and ensembles need to collaborate intensely to achieve worthwhile results. Most music collaboration is supervised by a conductor or director, and the chief virtue of a performer unerring compliance with his wishes. Even so, the ability to listen and respond to the other parts of the ensemble is a crucial skill. But of course there are many examples of collaboration between pairs of performers who must for the most part be their own directors. Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Gerald Moore formed a partnership whose centre of gravity was the vast lieder output of Schubert. Sutherland and Bonynge made a marriage of bel canto. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott first worked together in 1984, but they met 6 years earlier when she returned from holiday to find “a Chinese man in his underpants playing the cello”. Ma had rented a room from his friend Nigel Kennedy, who had neglected to explain that it was shared. Stott and Ma’s collaboration turns 30 this year, and Yo-Yo turns 60, so Fine Music decided that a retrospect of this remarkably productive pair was in order. If their collaboration has a centre of gravity, it is their performances of transcriptions for cello, many of them by Yo-Yo himself, of works for other forces. A 30-year collaboration neatly adumbrates this body of work, with a liberal sprinkling of composers from Yo-Yo Ma’s native France bookending Astor Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango - from their album The Soul of Tango, and the only piece in which the pair are joined by other musicians, in this case members of an Argentinian tango band. - Tom Forrester-Paton December 2015

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0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes An eclectic blending of agreeable rhythm and melody from the New Orleans jazz roots through to recent decades, including many Australian bands

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

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps Smooth small group jazz from the 50s on, and with a visit from Miles Davis each week

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Steven Osborne Prepared by Di Cox

13:00 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Produced by Simon Moore Highlights and previews of the month’s concerts including interviews with the key players

Beethoven, L. Piano sonata in C minor, op 13, Pathétique (1798). Hyperion CDA67662 19

14:00 ITZHAK PERLMAN CELEBRATES 70! Prepared by Sheila Catzel

22:00 INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Prepared by Emyr Evans

Joplin, S. The entertainer (1902; arr. Perlman). André Previn, pf. EMI CDB 7 62988 2 4

Bridge, F. Elegy for cello and piano (1905). Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; John McCabe, pf. ASV DCA 807

Sarasate, P. de Carmen fantasy, op 25 (c1883). Royal PO/Lawrence Foster. EMI CDB 7 62988 2 12

Benjamin, A. Ballade for string orchestra (1947). Queensland SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Marco Polo 8.223764 15

Bach, J.S. Double violin concerto in D minor, BWV1043 (1730-31). Isaac Stern, vn; New York PO/Zubin Mehta. Sony SMK 66 471 16

Brubeck, D. Chromatic fantasy sonata (1996). John Salmon, pf. Naxos 8.559212 29

Brahms, J. Piano trio in C minor no 3, op 101 (1886). Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI 7 54725 2 21

Vaughan Williams, R. Motet: A vision of aeroplanes (1956). Marianne Cotterill, sop; Finzi Singers; Harry Bicket, org; Paul Spicer, cond. Chandos CHAN 9019 10

Schubert, F. Rondo in A, D951 (1828). Paul Lewis, pf. Hyperion CDA67665 12 Britten, B. Piano concerto in D, op 13 (1938/45). BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov. Hyperion CDA67625

Schubert, F. Variations on an original theme in A flat, D813 (1824). Paul Lewis, pf. Hyperion CDA67665 18 Steven Osborne, pf (all above) 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:25 (c1764). Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Doráti. Decca 425 905-2 12 Hummel, J. Piano concerto in B minor, op 89 (1819). Martin Galling, pf; Stuttgart PO/ Alexander Paulmüller. Vanguard 08 9178 72 32 Bartók, B. Concerto for orchestra (1943). Melbourne SO/Hiroyuki Iwaki. Virgin VC 7 91106-2 30

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

Beethoven, L. Violin sonata no 5 in F, op 24, Spring (1800-01). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. Decca 421 453-2 24 Mozart, W. Violin concerto no 1 in B flat, K207 (1773). Vienna PO/James Levine. DG 427 813-2 21 Vivaldi, A. Triple concerto in F, RV551. Pinchas Zukerman, vn; Isaac Stern, vn; New York PO/ Zubin Mehta. Sony SM2K 66 472 11 Itzhak Perlman, vn (all above)

For a digital schedule turn to page 28 or find online: www.finemusicfm.com/digital.html

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Michael Field

Delius, F. Autumn, from North Country sketches (1913-14). Welsh National Opera O/ Charles Mackerras. 8 Argo 430 202-2 Bloch, E. Schelomo: Hebraic rhapsody (1915-16). Zara Nelsova, vc; Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel. Vanguard OVC 4047 19 Elgar, E. Severn suite, op 87. John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome. Chandos CHAN 4508 18

Wednesday 2 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

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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.

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Music of the 18th century Prepared by Rex Burgess Corelli, A. Concerto in D, op 6 no 1 (1714). Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66741/2 13 Ariosti, A. Cantata no 5: Il naufragio, from The flowering and fading of love (1723-24). Musica Solare Naxos 8.557573 11 Albinoni, T. Concerto a cinque in G minor, op 9 no 8 (1722). Heinz Holliger, ob; I Musici. Philips 420 189-2 11 Sammartini, G. Violin sonata no 1 in G (1727). Sydney Consort. Sydney Consort SC002 10 Bonporti, F. Concerto in F, op 11 no 5 (1727). I Virtuosi dell’Accademia. Nuova Era 7000 12 Fiocco, J-H. Lament: Matribus suis dixerunt: Ubi est triticum (1733). Cristina Miatello, sop; Claudio Frigerio, vc; Roberto Gini, vc; Diana Petech, org. Giulia GS 201021 14 Geminiani, F. Concerto grosso in D, op 3 no 1 (1732). Capella Istropolitana/Jaroslav Krecek Naxos 8.553019 10 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Overture: The merchant of Venice, op 76 (1933). West Australian SO/Andrew Penny. Naxos 8.572501 15 Stojowski, Z. Piano concerto no 1 in F sharp minor, op 3 (1890). Jonathan Plowright, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA67314 35 Fesca, F. Symphony no 1, in E flat, op 6 (181012). North German Radio PO/Frank Beermann. cpo 999 889-2 32 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale Jazz of many colours, some old, some new and all designed to inform and stimulate the senses

15:00 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture to May night (1880). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572788 8 Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 426 289-2 10 Glazunov, A. Lyric poem, op 12 (1884-87). USSR RSO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Melodiya MA 00057

Rachmaninov, S. Three Russian songs, op 41 (1926). Mariinsky Theatre Ch; BBC PO/ Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10706 11 Mussorgsky, M. St John’s night on Bare Mountain (1867; arr. Rimsky-Korsakov). Finnish RSO/Leif Segerstam. BIS CD-325 11 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton

Sir John Falstaff plans to acquire money by wooing two wealthy matrons, Alice Ford and Meg Page. He sends identical love letters to them. They and their friends, Nanetta and Mistress Quickly, decide to punish Falstaff by arranging a rendezvous between Alice and Falstaff. Bardolfo and Pistola tell Mr. Ford of Falstaff’s plan and he believes his wife is unfaithful. When Falstaff attempts to woo Alice, Mistress Quickly announces Meg’s arrival. Falstaff hides behind a screen. When Ford arrives to search the house, the women hide Falstaff in a hamper of dirty laundry which they throw out of the window. Another meeting is arranged between Alice and Falstaff at midnight in Windsor Park. He is to dress as the antlered Black Hunter. Fenton and the other women will dress as spirits.Mistress Quickly overhears Ford promise to wed his daughter Nannetta to Dr. Caius that night and that she will be dressed as the Fairy Queen. However, Nannetta loves Fenton. Falstaff meets Alice in the moonlit park. The spirits rush in and torment Falstaff and he begs for mercy. When the joke is over, he says it was well deserved. Ford then announces that he will marry Dr. Caius to the Fairy Queen and a second couple asks to be married. After the weddings, he learns that Bardolfo has changed into the Fairy Queen costume and the second couple was Fenton and Nannetta. Knowing that he was not the only one tricked, Falstaff proclaims it a good jest and everyone shares a hearty laugh. Strauss, R. Beim Schlafengehen; Im Abendrot, from Four last songs (1948). Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, sop; Philharmonia O/Otto Ackermann. EMI 7 61001 2 12 22:30 MUSIC FOR ROYALTY Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies

19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz

Walton, W. Coronation march: Crown imperial (1937). Tasmanian SO/Marc Taddei. 6 ABC 481 1143

20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Berlioz, H. Overture: King Lear, op 4 (1831). Philharmonia O/Jean-Philippe Rouchon. ASV DCA 895 16

Verdi, G. Falstaff. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Arrigo Boito after Shakespeare. First performed Milan, 1893. FALSTAFF: Tito Gobbi, bass ALICE FORD: Elisabeth Schwarzkopff, sop MEG PAGE: Nan Merriman, mezz NANETTA: Anna Moffo, sop MISTRESS QUICKLY: Fedora Barbieri, mezz BARDOLFO: Renato Ercolani, ten PISTOLA: Nicola Zaccaria, bass FORD: Rolando Panerai, bar DR CAIUS: Tomaso Spataro, ten FENTON: Luigi Alva, ten Philharmonia Ch & O/Herbert von Karajan. EMI 5 67083 2 2:00

Vaughan Williams, R. Fantasia on Greensleeves (1912). Tasmanian SO/David Stanhope. 5 ABC 476 695-5 Handel, G. Music for the royal fireworks, HWV351 (1749). English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 479 1932 18 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Procession of the nobles, from Mlada (1875). Bolshoi Ch & SO/ Alexander Lazarev. 5 Erato 4509-91723-2 Elgar, E. Pomp and Circumstance, military marches, op 39 (1901-30). BBC PO/Andrew Davis. Chandos CHAN 10709 29 December 2015

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Thursday 3 December 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Schumann, R. Fantasy for violin and orchestra, op 131 (1853). Lena Neudauer, vn; German Radio Philharmonic/Pablo González. SWR 93.258 16

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Gershwin, G. Te-oodle-um-bum-bo, from La-la-Lucille (1919). George Gershwin, player piano rolls. Foné 90 F 16 2 Nobody but you, from La-La-Lucille (1919). Simon Tedeschi, pf. ABC 481 0629

Swanee (1918). Naxos 8.120510

Rhapsody in blue (1924). Naxos 8.120510

George Gershwin, pf (2 above) The man I love, from Lady be good (1924). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; New Princess Theater O/John McGlinn. EMI CDC 7 47454-2 4 Piano concerto in F, mvt 3 (1925). Jon Nakamatsu, pf; Rochester PO/Jeff Tyzik. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807441

Warlock, P. Capriol suite (1926). Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA66938

Mozart, W. Sinfonia concertante no 2 in E flat, K364 (1779). Sigiswald Kuijken, va; La Petite Bande/Ryo Terakado. Denon CO-78837 30 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers Covering the many aspects of jazz from Swing to Mainstream, with the Great American Songbook making regular appearances 13:00 ARVO PÄRT INTERLUDE Prepared by Maureen Meers Pärt, A. Our garden, op 3 (1959). Ellerhein Girls’ Choir; Estonian NSO/Paavo Järvi. Virgin 5 45630 2 11 Es sang vor langen Jahren (1984). Susan Bickley, cont; Gidon Kermer, vn; Vladimir Mendelssohn, va. 6

Preludes: no 1 in B flat; no 2 in C sharp minor; no 3 in E flat (1926). George Gershwin, pf. Naxos 8.120510 5

An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten (1976-84). Lynn Dawson, sop; David James, ct; John Potter, ten; Paul Hillier, bar; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, org. 6

An American in Paris (1928). London SO/ Richard Williams. IMP PCD 909

Stabat mater (1985). Members of Hilliard Ensemble. ECM 1325 (3 above)

I got rhythm, from Girl crazy (1930). Jon Manasse, cl; Jon Nakamatsu, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907508 Cuban overture (1932). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart. ABC 462 013-2

Summertime, from Porgy and Bess (1934; arr. Cheeseman). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; Cheesman Singers; O/Oswald Cheesman, accordion. Decca 430 325-2 2

Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 3 in C, op 26 (1917-21). Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, pf; BBC PO/ Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10802(2) 28

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Impromptu, op 19 (1902/10). Dominante Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. 7 BIS CD-1906/08 String quartet in D minor, Voces intimae, op 56 (1908-09). Gabrieli String Quartet. Chandos CHAN 8742 34 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Debbie Scholem 19:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry Sullivan 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Part 1: Musica Viva presents Brisbane Chamber Choir Recorded by Peter Bell for FINE MUSIC at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney, 7 October 2014 Finzi, G. My spirit sang all day (1934-37).

Leek, S. High Places (1999).

Daunais, L. Le pont Mirabeau (1977).

Rathbone, J. Absolon, my son (2003).

14:00 SIBELIUS CELEBRATION Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Orlovich, M. Butterfies dance (2009).

Vaughan Williams, R. Rest (c 1902).

Sibelius, J. Incidental music to Swanwhite, op 54 (1908). Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-815 26

Swingle, W. Give us this day (2005).

Tomkins, T. Holy, holy, holy (1668).

The captive queen, op 48 (1906/10). YL Male Voice Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1906/08 9

Overture to Strike up the band (1932; arr. Rose). Howard Shelley, pf; BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9325 7

Incidental music to The lizard, op 8 (1909). Laura Vikman, vn; Jaakko Kuusisto, vn; Jyrki Lasonpalo, vn; Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, va; Taneli Turunen, vc; Eero Munter, db. BIS BIS-2065 17

Variations on I got rhythm (1934). Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf; Baltimore SO/Marin Alsop. Decca 478 2189 9

In memoriam, op 59 (1909). Danish National RSO/Leif Segerstam. Chandos CHAN 9107 14

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Edwards, R. Kyrie, from Mass of the dreaming; 2 Missa Alchera (2009). Morton, G. Lute book lullaby (2007).

Victoria, T. de Vere languores (1572).

Scarlatti, A. Exsultate Deo (1702).

McFerrin, B. Psalm no 23.

Brisbane Chamber Choir/Graeme Norton (all above)

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Thurs. 3 December 21:00 Part 2: Summer Nights Recorded by Belinda Webster for FINE MUSIC

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Raff, J. Six morceaux, op 85 (1859). Ingolf Turban, vn; Jascha Nemtsov, pf. cpo 999 768-2 20

Berlioz, H. Les nuits d’été, op 7 (1840-41). Lauris Elms, cont; David MIller, pf. 27

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus

Goldmark, K. Rustic wedding symphony, op 26 (1877). Royal PO/Yondani Butt. ASV DCA 791 47

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Wind combinations Prepared by Jennifer Foong

14:30 CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies

21:30 SHORTER COMPOSITIONS Prepared by Frank Morrison Just, J. Sonata no 4 in C, op 13 (pub. 1781). Philip Swanton, fp; Camerata Classica. Walsingham WAL 80422

Dvorák, A. Rondo in G minor, op 94 (1893). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nina Tichman, pf. Naxos 8.557613 8 Klein, G. Fantasy and fugue (1943). Joan Berkhemer, vn; Daniel Rowland, vn; Frank Brakkee, va; Taco Kooistra, vc. Radio Netherlands 93007

22:00 AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR Prepared by Emyr Evans Messiaen, O. Cinq rechants (1949). The Sixteen/Harry Christophers. Collins 14802 Carr-Boyd, A. Fandango (1995). Sydney Mandolins/Adrian Hooper. Jade JADCD 1059

Arnold, M. Eight children’s pieces, op 36. Benjamin Frith, pf. Koch 3-7162-2H1 10 Stanhope, D. Two folk-songs for quintet. Melbourne Brass Ensemble. Australian Brass Work ABW 4001

Saint-Saëns, C. Introduction and rondocapriccioso, op 28 (1863; arr. Brooks). Kathryn Thomas Umble, fl; Robert Fitzer, cl; Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Stephen L. Gage. Naxos 8.570946 10

Tippett, M. Little music for string orchestra (1946). Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas. Chandos CHAN 6576 10

Respighi, O. Wind quintet in G minor (1898). Wind Quintet of the Nineteen Hundreds. Fonè 90 F 01 15

Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 6 in B minor, op 74, Pathétique (1893). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti. EMI CZS 7 67318 2 46

Reicha, A. Wind quintet in D, op 91 no 3 (c1817-19). Academia Wind Quintet of Prague. Hyperion CDD22006 23

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

Strauss, R. Serenade for wind instruments, op 7 (1881). Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart. Philips 438 733-2 9

19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron Focus on the current Sydney jazz scene mixed with a range of international jazz stars and a weekly a cappella item

Danzi, F. Piano quintet in D minor, op 41 (pub. 1810). Love Derwinger, pf; Members of Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. BIS CD-552 23 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Judy Ekstein Schumann, R. Overture to Genoveva, op 81 (1850). Polish National RSO/Johannes Wildner. Naxos 8.550608 8 Mendelssohn, F. Violin concerto in E minor, op 64 (1844). Yehudi Menuhin, vn, London SO/ Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. EMI CDM 166433 2 27

Kats-Chernin, E. Variations in a serious black dress (1995). Stephanie McCallum, pf. ABC 456 468-2 11

Brahms, J. Hungarian dances nos 17 to 21 (1852-69; arr. Dvorák). Royal PO/Rafael Kubelik. EMI CZS 5 68223 2 10

Bowman, C. Homage to Mozart (2008). Flinders Quartet. www.flindersquartet.com

Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 2 in C minor, op 17, Little Russian (1872). London PO/Mstislav Rostropovich. EMI 5 65709 2 35

Poulenc, F. Concert champêtre (1927-28). Pascal Rogé, hpd; French NO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 476 2181 25

Arnold, M. Guitar concerto (1958-59). Julian Bream, gui; City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle. EMI 7 54661 2 23

12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell Accessible in-the-hammock jazz to ease you into the weekend

Koehne, G. Shaker dances (1994). Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills. ABC 476 650-2 21

13:00 ROMANTIC MORSELS Prepared by Phil Vendy Janácek, L. Suite: The beginning of a romance, op 3 (1891). Slovak PO/Libor Pesek. Naxos 8.555245 13

20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Robert Small Berlioz, H. The childhood of Christ, op 25 (1850-54). Veronique Gens, sop; Paul Agnew, ten; Olivier Lallouette, bar; Laurent Naouri, bass-bar; Frédéric Caton, bass; Collegium Vocale; La Chapelle Royale; Champs-Élysées O/Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMG 501632.33 1:35 Schubert, F. Fantasie in F minor, D940 (1828). Anne Queffélec, Imogen Cooper, pf. apex 0927 49812 2 19 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Robert Small Bach, J.S. Suite no 4 in D, BWV1069 (1725). Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr. ABC 481 1318 24 Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in G minor, op 6 no 8 (pub. 1714). Ensemble 415. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901406.07 15 Couperin, F. Concert à l’orgue de Covarrubias. Francis Chapelet, org. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908250.79 25 Charpentier, M-A. Pastorale on the nativity of Jesus Christ (c1670). Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2971082 42 December 2015

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Saturday 5 December 17:30 THE VOICES, THE ROLES Girls will be boys: mezzo and travesty roles with Angela Cockburn

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson

18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Folk Federation of NSW

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

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN with Anabelle Drumm

9:30 MINING THE MAJORS Prepared by Elaine Siversen Mozart, W. String quintet no 3 in C, K515 (1787). Cecil Aronowitz, va; Amadeus Quartet. DG 431 149-2 31 Clementi, M. Piano trio, op 21 no 1 (pub. 1788). Trio Fauré. Dynamic CDS 93 13 Salieri, A. Excerpts from Emperor Mass in D: Gloria; Sanctus; Agnus Dei (1788). St Florian Boys’ Choir; Anton Gansberger, org; Leonding SO/Uwe Christian Harrer. Koch 3-1288-2 H1 14 Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 29 in E flat, op 81a, Les Adieux (1809-10). Alfred Brendel, pf. Brilliant Classics 94272 15 Hummel, J. Piano concerto in B minor, op 89 (1819). Stephen Hough, pf; English CO/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8507 36

Barraclough, C. March Simoraine. Continental Airlines Auckland Brass/Errol Mason. AMP 28173B 4 Bach, J.S. Contrapunctus IX, from The art of fugue, BWV1080. American Brass Quintet. Delos D 3003 4 Kern, J. I won’t dance; Long ago and far away; Pick yourself up; All the things you are. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP 23192 7 Hawthorne, A. Listen to the mockingbird. Pioneer Brass. Centaur CRC 2131 1 12:00 JAZZ Saturday @ Studio A with Leita Hutchings 34

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13:00 CHINESE MOSAIC + POSTCARDS FROM SHANGHAI Prepared by Paolo Hooke An exploration of the best of Chinese classical, traditional and film music, incorporating material specially provided by Shanghai Radio

Marsh, J. Conversation symphony for two orchestras in E flat (1778). Matthias Bamert, cond. Chandos CHAN 10458 11 Cramer, J. Piano concerto no 8 in D minor, op 70 (pub. 1825). Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Chandos CHAN 10005 27 London Mozart Players (2 above)

14:00 VOCAL INTERLUDE Prepared by Rex Burgess Mendelssohn, F. The first Walpurgis Night, op 60 (1832/42). Brigitte Balleys, cont; Frieder Lang, ten; Gilles Cachemaille, bass; Gulbenkian Ch & O/Michel Corboz. Erato 2292-45462-2 36 Zemlinsky, A. Six songs to poems by Maurice Maeterlinck (1910-1913). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; North German RSO/John Eliot Gardiner. DG 439 928-2 20

11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Bernstein, L. America; Somewhere. Cory Band/Robert Childs. Doyen DOY 290

20:00 ENGLISH COMPOSERS OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD Prepared by Phil Vendy

15:00 NEW BABYLON Prepared by Chris Blower Shostakovich, D. Music from the film New Babylon (1929). Basel Sinfonietta/Mark FitzGerald. Naxos 8.572824-25 1:30 Spohr, L. Overture: The fall of Babylon, WoO63 (1840). Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley. Hyperion CDA67788 7 Drury, D. By the waters of Babylon (1990). Choir of Christ Church St Laurence; David Drury, org; Neil McEwan, cond. Walsingham WAL 8004-2 4 Handel, G. Suite in F, HWV348, from Water music (1717). English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Erato ECD 88005 36

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Garth, J. Cello concerto no 2 in B flat, op 1 (pub. 1760). Alexander Baillie, vc; European Union CO/Dmitri Demetriades. Helios CDH55035 11 Bishop, H. Lo! Here the gentle lark. Nellie Melba, sop. Larrikin LRH 475

Pinto, G. Piano sonata in A, op 3 no 2 (1801). Riko Fukuda, fp. Olympia OCD 494 22 Potter, C. Symphony no 8 in E flat (1828). Milton Keynes CO/Hilary Davan Wetton. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9091 35 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Rex Burgess Mozart, W. Violin concerto no 5 in A, K219, Turkish (1775). Arthur Grumiaux, vn; London SO/Colin Davis. Philips 438 323-2 27 Schumann, R. Carnaval, op 9 (1833-35). Mitsuko Uchida, pf. Philips 473 686 2

Beethoven, L. To the distant beloved, op 98 (1815-16). Wolfgang Holzmair, bar; Imogen Cooper, pf. Philips 454 475-2 13 Prokofiev, S. Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, op 64 (1935-36). Rotterdam PO/Valery Gergiev. Radio Netherland Worldwide RPHO2008-1 42

Sunday 6 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Boccherini, L. Oboe quintet in A, op 55 no 4 (1797). Lajos Lencsés, ob; Parisii Quartet. Brilliant Classics 94386 12 Poulenc, F. Sonata for clarinet and bassoon (1918/45). Ronald Van Spaendonck, cl; Laurent Lefèvre, bn. Naxos 8.553613 7 Boismortier, J. de Trio in E minor, op 37 no 2 (1732). London Baroque. BIS CD-1855 6 Raff, J. String octet in C, op 176 (1872). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 8790 24 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Weber, C.M. Overture to Der Freischütz (1821). Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow. BIS BIS-SACD-1760 8 Albrechtsberger, J. Fugue for quartet in C (c1770). Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri. Archiv 410 599-2 6 Reicha, A. Wind quintet in E flat, op 88 no 2 (1811-17). Academia Wind Quintet of Prague. Hyperion CDD22006 16 Haydn, J. Symphony in B flat, Hob.I:85, Queen (c1785). Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman. Erato 2292-45807-2 22 Baur, J.P. Meneut, from Sonata no 1 op 7 (1773). Marielle Nordmann, hp; Brigitte Haudebourg, hpd. Arion ARN 68285

Raupach, H. March; Hound, open wide your maw, from Alceste (1758). I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis. Decca 478 6767 9 Bortnyansky, D. Sacred concerto no 4 (1790s). Russian State Symphonic Cappella/Valery Polyansky. Chandos CHAN 9729 9 Schubert, F. German dance in C, D90 no 5, (1813). Kodály Quartet. Naxos 8.557125 5 Schubert, F. Fantasy in C, D760, Wanderer (c1823). Elisabeth Leonskaja, pf. Teldec 244 189-2 21

12:00 SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS Speak easy, swing hard with Richard Hughes The Golden Era of jazz, as seen through the knowledge and experience of one of Australia’s leading exponents

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews

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

Pachelbel, J. Prelude on Vom Himmel hoch. Peter Kneeshaw, org. Knox 2

Prætorius, M. Excerpts from Lutheran Christmas Mass: Processional; Introit; Kyrie; Gloria (c1569). Gabrieli Consort and Players; Boys’ Choir and Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark/Paul McCreesh. Archiv 439 250-2 23

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Prepared by David Brett

Sibelius, J. Tone poem: The oceanides, op 73 (1914: final version). Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1445 10 Serenade no 2 in G minor, op 69b (1913). AnneSophie Mutter, vn; Staatskapelle Dresden/ André Previn. DG 447 895-2 7 Serious melodies, op 77 (1914-15). Torleif Thedéen, vc; Folke Gräsbeck, pf. BIS CD817

Praetorius, M. Hymn: Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her. Gabrieli Consort & Players; Boys’ Choir & Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark/Paul McCreesh. 6 Archiv 439 250-2 Hymn: Quem pastores laudavere; Sanctus Motet: Jesaja dem Propheten das geschah. 11 Organ prelude; Communion motet based on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern; Recessional: In dulci jubilo. Timothy Roberts, org. 11 Gabrieli Consort & Players; Boys’ Choir & Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark/Paul McCreesh (3 above) Archiv 439 250-2 18:00 SUNDAY EVENING ENSEMBLE Prepared by Stephen Matthews

The flowers, op 85 (1916). Erik T. Tawaststjerna, pf. BIS CD-230 10

Haydn, J. Overture to La vera costanza (177885). Haydn Sinfonietta Wien/Manfred Huss. BIS CD-1818 8

The bard, op 64 (1913). Iceland SO/Petri Sakari. Naxos 8.555299 8

Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 6 in F (1795-8) Claudio Arrau, pf. Phillips 462 358-2 16

My own land, op 92 (1918). Jubilate Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1906/08 13 Five pieces, op 81 (1915-18). Nils-Erik Sparf, vn; Bengt Forsberg, pf. BIS CD-625 14 Symphony no 5 in E flat, op 82 (1915). London PO/Paavo Berglund. LPO Live LPO - 0065 32 16:00 SCARLATTI AND OTHER KEYBOARDS Prepared by Emyr Evans

Vivaldi, A. Cello concerto in B flat, RV423. Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman. Sony 8876543572 9 Telemann, G. Oboe concerto in E minor (arr.). Maurice André, tpt; Munich Bach O/Karl Richter. Decca 478 4664 10 Tchaikovsky, P. DG B0017522-02

19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Stephen Matthews

Scarlatti, D. Sonata, Kk380 (arr. Dodgson). Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Decca 425 727-2 3

Dvorák, A. Overture to Rusalka, op 114 (1901). CSSR State PO/Robert Stankovsky. Marco Polo 8.223272 4

Schumann, R. Fantasie in C, op 17 (1836-38). Jorge Bolet, pf. Decca 417 401-2 33

Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim. EMI CZS 5 68132 2

Arnold, M. Suite for two pianos, three hands, op 104 (1969). David Nettle, pf; Richard Markham, pf; Royal PO/Vernon Handley. Conifer 75605 51240 2 14

Symphony no 8 in G, op 88 (1892). London PO/ Charles Mackerras. EMI 5 65026 2 37 December 2015

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Sunday 6 December 20:30 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Rex Burgess

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Caplet, A. Conte fantastique (1908). Elisabeth Glab, vn; Marie-Josée Ritchot, vn; Michel Renard, va; Isabelle Veyrier, vc; Laurence Cabel, hp. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901417 17 Debussy, C. Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915). Members of Nash Ensemble. Virgin VC 7 91148-2 17 Fauré, G. Cello sonata no 1, op 109 (1917). Paul Tortelier, vc; Jean Hubeau, pf. Erato 2292-45738-2 19 Ravel, M. Sonata for violin and cello (1927). Oleg Kagan, vn; Natalia Gutman, vc. Live Classics LCL 121 20 Tailleferre, G. Pastorale (1942); Forlane (1972). Emily Benyon, fl; Andrew West, pf. Hyperion CDA 67204 7 Jolivet, A. Chant de Linos (1944). Emmanuel Pahud, fl; Eric Le Sage, pf. EMI 5 556488 2 11 Dupré, M. Trio for violin, cello and organ, op 55 (c1958). Timothy Durbin, vn; Clyde Beavers, vc; Bruce Neswick, org. Naxos 8.554378 21 22:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Phil Vendy Nin, Chan Ka. In search of... (2004). Rea Beaumont, pf. Shrinking Planet SPP 0088

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1923 Prepared by Brian Drummond Holst, G. The perfect fool, ballet music, op 39 (1923). Munich SO/Douglas Bostock. Classico CLASSCD 284 12 Milhaud, D. The creation of the world, op 81 (1923). Lausanne CO/Alberto Zedda. Virgin VC 7 91098-2 17 Strauss, R. Travel fever and waltz scene, symphonic interlude, from Intermezzo, op 72 (1923). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 426 480-2 9 Bartók, B. Dance suite (1923). Chicago SO/ Georg Solti. Decca 400 052-2 16 Fauré, G. String quartet in E minor, op 121 (1923-24). Ad Libitum Quartet. Naxos 8.554722 25 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Mozart, W. Overture to The magic flute, K620 (1791). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 431 291-2 7

Boehm, T. Grand polonaise (arr. Bennett). William Bennett, fl; English CO Wind Ensemble. EMI CFP 4555 10 Rameau, J-P. Scëne de chasse, from Hippolyte et Aricie (1733). Ensemble de Trompes de Chasse; Ensemble Stéphane Caillat; JeanFrançois Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard. Erato 2292-45565-2 10 Fiala, J. Double concerto in E flat. Zdenek Tylsar, hn; Bedrich Tylsar, hn; Capella Istrapolotana/Frantisek Vajnar. Naxos 8.550459 19 Reicha, A. Wind quintet in D, op 91 no 3 (c1817-19). Virtuosi di Praga/Oldrich Vlcek. Cantus CLassics CACD 8.00134D 22 14:30 VOICES FROM AUSTRIA AND AUSTRALIA Prepared by Philip Lidbury Biber, H. Gloria, from Missa Salisburgensis (1654). Adelaide Ch; Ann Whelan, hpd; David Swale, org; Adelaide CO/Patrick Thomas. 9 ABC 476 4565 Bach, J.S. Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV26 (1713-15). Paul Esswood, ct; Kurt Equiluz, ten; Siegmund Nimsgern, bass; Vienna Boys Choir; Ch Viennensis; Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 2564 69943-7 17 15:00 MUSIC AND WAR Prepared by Gerald Holder

Méhul, É-N. Symphony no 1 in G minor (1808-9). Gulbenkian Foundation O/Michel Swierczewski. Nimbus NI 5184/5 26

Shostakovich, D. Piano trio no 2 in E minor, op 67 (1944). Isabelle van Keulen, vn; Alexander Ivashkin, vc; Boris Berman, pf. ABC 465 841-2 29

Vassiliev, K. Dance of the forest ghosts, from Three forest paintings (2001). Irina Kulikova, gui. Naxos 8.573308 4

Holst, G. The planets, op 32 (1914-16). London PO/Georg Solti. Decca 440 318-2 50

Symphony no 9 in E flat, op 70 (1945). Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko. Naxos 8.572167 27

Armanini, M. Dance of many colours (c2002) Khac Chi, dan bau, bamboo fl; Huong Ng Bich, dan bau, koni; Latvian National SO/John Zoltek. Centrediscs CMCCD 13108 22

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan Featuring bands of the 1930s swing era and the dance bands of the 1920s taken from radio broadcasts, transcriptions and recording sessions

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

Gellman, S. Piano quartet (2003). Anne Robert, vn; Aaron Au, va; Paul Marleyn, vc; Stéphane Lemelin, pf. Ottawa CAM 11001 22

13:00 WIND COMBINATIONS

Mozetich, M. Scales of joy and sorrow (2007). Gryphon Trio. Centrediscs CMCCD 14009 18

Monday 7 December

Salieri, A. Double concerto in C. Clémentine Hoogendoorn, fl; Pietro Borgonovo, ob; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone. Erato 2292-45245-2 19

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19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY with Ken Weatherley 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson

Tuesday 8 December Shostakovich, D. Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, op 35 (1933). Raymond Simmons, tpt; Peter Jablonski, pf; Royal PO/ Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 436 239-2 23 Brahms, J. Symphony no 3 in F, op 90 (1883). Vienna PO/Leonard Bernstein. DG 410 083-2 42 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes Leonard Bernstein

13:00 FOR THE BIRTH DAY OF SIBELIUS Prepared by David Brett

Charles Mackerras

Symphony no 2 in D, op 43 (1901). Royal PO/ Charles Mackerras. Tring TRP013 43

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 Artist of choice: Heinz Holliger Prepared by Andari Anggamulia Pasculli, A. Omaggio a Bellini, after Bellini’s Il pirata, La sonnambula. Heinz Holliger, cora; Ursula Holliger, hp. Philips 426 288-2 8 Couperin, F. Concert royal no 1 in G, from Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin (1714-15). Manfred Sax, bn; Josef Ulsamer, va da gamba; Christiane Jaccottet, hpd. Archiv 427 119-2 12 Martin, F. Small lament (1941). John Constable, pf. Philips 434 105 2 4 Salieri, A. Triple concerto in D (c1770). Thomas Demenga, vc; Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri. Archiv 410 599-2 25 Rossini, G. Andante and variations on Tanti palpiti, from Tancredi (1813). Ursula Holliger, hp. Philips 426 288-2 4 Strauss, R. Oboe concerto in D (1945/48). New Philharmonia O/Edo de Waart. Philips 438 733-2 26

Sibelius, J. Finlandia, op 26 (1899-1900). Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer. ABC 476 3945

The swan of Tuonela, op 22 no 3 (1895/97). Susan Tyte, cora; Adrian Shepherd, vc; Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 6508 8 Finale, from Symphony no 5 in E flat, op 82 (1915/19). Vienna PO/Leonard Bernstein. DG 427 647-2 10 A song for Lemminkäinen, op 31 no 1 (1896). YL Male Voice Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS 1906/08 4 Karelia suite, op 11 (1893). New Zealand SO/ Pietari Inkinen. Naxos 8.572704 18 Violin concerto in D minor, op 47 (1903). Kyung Wha Chung, vn; London SO/André Previn. Decca 425 080-2 31 Impromptu in B minor (c1893). Folke Gräsbeck, pf. BIS BIS-2065 7 Tone poem: Tapiola, op 112 (1926). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-312 19

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker 18:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2015 Produced by Andrew Bukenya

What’s on in concerts during the next month 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Ogilvie 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Brian Drummond Elgar, E. Overture: Cockaigne, op 40, In London town (1901). London SO/Charles Mackerras. Argo 430 835-2 14 Debussy, C. Jeux (1912). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 8903 18 Hindemith, P. Kleine Kammermusik, op 24 no 2 (1922). Michael Thompson Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553851 13

10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Under the fir trees on the shore, op 13 no 1 (1890-92). Jorma Hynninen, bar; Tampere PO/ Leif Segerstam. Ondine ODE 823-2 5

Bax, A. Symphony no 6 (1934). London PO/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8586 40

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Capriccio espagnol, op 34 (1887). London PO/Adrian Boult. EMI CDM 1 66428 2 15

Valse triste, op 44 no 1 (1903/04). Tampere PO/ Tuomas Ollila. Ondine ODE 1037-2 5

Britten, B. String quartet no 1 in D, op 25 (1941). Allegri String Quartet. Decca 478 5364 24

Heinz Holliger, ob (5 above)

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WEDNESDAY 9 December

Fiorenza Cossotto

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Music of the 18th century Prepared by Frank Morrison Jommelli, N. Flute concerto in D. Carlo Ipata, fl; Auser Musici. Hyperion CDA67784 13 Haydn, M. String quintet in C (1773). L’Archibudelli. Sony SK 53987 20 Solère, E. Symphony concertante in F (pub. 1790). Thea King, cl; Georgina Dobrée, cl; English CO/Andrew Litton. Hyperion CDD 22017 18 Mozart, W. Symphony no 41 in C, K551, Jupiter (1788). Concertgebouw O/George Szell. Sony SMK 68445 31 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Brian Drummond Beethoven, L. Overture to Leonore, no 1, op 138 (1807). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos. Naxos 8.553431 10 Mendelssohn, F. Piano concerto no 1 in G minor, op 25 (1831). András Schiff, pf; Bavarian RSO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 414 672-2 19 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 5 in E minor, op 64 (1888). London SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. IMP PCD 875 47 Chabrier, E. Marche joyeuse (1890). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 421 527-2 4 38

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Shostakovich, D. Jazz suite no 1 (1934). Melbourne SO/Oleg Caetani. ABC 476 836-4

Tchaikovsky, P. Marche slave, op 31 (1876). London SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. IMP PCD 867 10 Stravinsky, I. Ballet: The rite of Spring (1913/47). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta. Decca 475 7470

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5:00pm with James Hunter 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Michael Tesoriero Bellini, V. Norma. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Felice Robani. First performed Milan, 1831. NORMA: Montserrat Caballé, sop ADALGISA: Fiorenza Cossotto, mezz POLLIONE: Carlo Cossutta, ten Wiener Staatsoper Ch & O/Riccardo Muti Exclusive EX 93 T 78/9 2:39

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The Gallic priestess Norma loves Roman Pollione and has borne him two children. But Pollione now loves Adalgisa and seeks to elope with her to Rome. Adalgisa confesses her love to Norma and begs to be relieved of her vows. Norma confesses her own love to Adalgisa and begs her to flee with Pollione and the children. Pollione is arrested in the temple and Norma resolves to offer him as a sacrifice to the goddess. But she confesses her guilt before all and seeks purification on the funeral pyre. Pollione is overwhelmed by her devotion. Norma gives her children to her father and, hand in hand, she and her lover walk into the flames. 23:00 SUITES Prepared by Phil Vendy Bach, J.S. Suite no 2 in B minor, BWV1067 (c1738). Crispian Steele-Perkins, tpt; Leslie Pearson, org. LDR 1006

Hughes, R. Suite: The forbidden rite (1961). Melbourne SO/Yuval Zaliouk. LP RCA VRL1 0192 15 Pierné, G. Suite from Ramuntcho no 2 (1910). BBC PO/Juanjo Mena. Chandos CHAN 10633 15 Telemann, G. Orchestral suite in B flat, Ouverture burlesque. Collegium Musicum 90/ Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0512 15

Thursday 10 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Meyerbeer, G. Ombre légère qui suis mes pas, from Dinorah (1859). Amelia Farrugia, sop; BBC SO/Alexander Briger. Decca 987 5237 7

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

Allworth, R. Where no shadows fall (1988). David Miller, pf. Jade JADCD 1031 17

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Raj Gopalakrishnan Rachmaninov, S. Romance, from String quartet no 1 (1889). Borodin Quartet. apex 0927 49815 2

Prélude in F (1891); Morceau de fantaisie in G minor (1899). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. Decca 478 2939 5 Prince Rostislav (1891). BBC PO/Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10677 15 Trio élégiaque no 1 in G minor (1892). Vadim Repin, vn; Mischa Maisky, vc; Lang Lang, pf. DG 479 2236 15 Bohemian caprice, op 12 (1892/94). Sydney SO/ Vladimir Ashkenazy. Exton EXCL-00018 17 Excerpts from Francesca da Rimini (1906). Mariana Zvetkova, sop; Boiko Zvetanov, ten; Peter Naydenov, bass; Sofia National Opera Ch & O/Nayden Todorov. Naxos 8.557817 22 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Overture to Leonore, no 3, op 72a (1814). Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM 1 66426 2 15 Sauer, E. Piano concerto no 1 in E minor. Stephen Hough, pf; City of Birmingham SO/ Lawrence Foster. Hyperion CDA66790 30 Kalinnikov, Vasily. Symphony no 2 in A (189597). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8805 37 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 LIGHT AND SHADE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Suppé, F. Overture to The Light Calvary (1866). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. EMI CDC 7 54056 2 7

Edwards, R. The hermit of green light; Geography VI; Geography III; And no bird sings, from The hermit of green light: (1979/83). Elizabeth Campbell, mezz; Anthony Fogg, pf. Canberra School of Music CSM 15 14 Westlake, N. Shadow dances (2000). Slava Grigoryan, gui; Melbourne SO/Nigel Westlake. ABC 476 574-4 13 Mahler, G. Urlicht, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1892). Maureen Forrester, cont; Vienna FO/Felix Prohaska. Vanguard 08 4045 71 5 Rutter, J. Shadows (1979). Jeremy Huw Williams, bar; Stewart Franch, gui. Naxos 8.557922

Vaughan Williams, R. The sons of light (1951). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and O/ David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.557798 19 15:00 ALTERNATIVE WOODWINDS Prepared by Gael Golla Vivaldi, A. Piccolo concerto in A minor, RV83. Gunilla von Bahr, picc; Willie Sundling, vn; Jan-Olav Wedin, vn; Lars Jonsson, va; LarsOlof Bergstrom, vc; Sten Westling, db; Eva Nordenfelt, hpd. BIS CD-21 11 Schubert, F. The trout, D667 (1819; arr. White). Frances Eustace, contra-bn; Paul Nicholson, fp. Amon Ra SAR 35 2 Trad. Tamuke. Riley Lee, shakuhachi. Tall Poppies TP015

Janácek, L. Mládí (1924). Harry Sparnaay, bass cl; Fodor Quintet. Ottavo OTR C69031 18 Ravel, M. Rhapsodie espagnole (1907). Colin Stark, cora; Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9202 16 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock

19:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Sydney Mozart Society presents Sydney Soloists and Enigma Quartet Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC at Gillian Moore Performing Arts Centre, PLC, on 10 July 2015 Haydn, J. String quartet in C, Hob.III:72 (1793). 22 Mozart, W. Clarinet quintet, in A, K581 (1789). Francesco Celata, cl. 31 Enigma Quartet (2 above) Beethoven, L. Quintet in E flat for winds and piano, op 16 (1796). Diana Doherty, ob; Francesco Celata, cl; Matthew Ockenden, bn; Rachel Silver, hn; Bernadette Harvey, pf. 27 21:30 FRENCH OPERA AND BALLET Massenet, J. Calmez donc vos fureurs, from Hérodiade (1881). Renée Fleming, sop; Plácido Domingo, ten; San Francisco Opera Ch & O/ Valery Gergiev. Sony SK 61 965 8 Gounod, C. Ballet music from Faust (1859). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 462 125-2 17 22:00 AFTER WORLD WAR II Prepared by Phil Vendy Chávez, C. Soli no 2 for woodwind quintet (1961). Quinteto Latino. Con Brio CBR21144 21 Boldemann, L. Notturno, op 14 (1958). Birgit Nordin, sop; Swedish RSO/Berislav Klobucar. Phono Suecia PSCD 29 16 Archer, V. Piano concerto no 1 (1956). Christina Petrowska Quilico, pf; CBC Vancouver O/John Eliot Gardiner. Centrediscs CMCCD 15610 19 Morawetz, O. Ten preludes for piano (1964). Darrett Zusko, pf. Centrediscs CMCCD 14309 25 Somers, H. Symphony no 1 (1951). National Arts Centre O/Victor Feldbrill. Centrediscs CMCCD 11306 31 December 2015

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FRIDAY 11 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

15:00 DANISH PASTRY Prepared by Chris Blower

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Nielsen, C. Piano music for great and small, bk I, op 53 (1930). Elisabeth Westenholz, pf. BIS CD-167/168 11

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus

Hartmann, E. Symphonic poem: Hakon Jarl, op 40 (1887). Copenhagen PO/Bo Holten. Dacapo 8.226041 21

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Wind combinations Prepared by Elaine Siversen Barsanti, F. Concerto grosso in D, op 3 no 4 (1743). Zdenek Tylsar, hn; Bedrich Tylsar, hn; Frantisek Thuri, hpd; Dvorák CO/Libor Pesek. Supraphon 103907-2 11 Myslivecek, J. Wind octet no 1 in E flat. Harmoniemusik of London. Virgin 5 61368 2 Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 1 in F minor, op 113 (1833). Alan Hacker, cl; Lesley Schatzberger, bshn; Richard Burnett, pf. Amon Ra CD-SAR 38

Bach, J. Christian Sinfonia concertante in C. Richard Adeney, fl; Peter Graeme, ob; Emmanuel Hurwitz, vn; Keith Harvey, vc; English CO/Richard Bonynge. ABC 475 070-2 22 Stravinsky, I. Suite from The soldier’s tale (1918). Rolfe Schulte, vn; John Feeney, db; William Blount, cl; Frank Morelli, bn; Chris Gecker, cornet; Michael Powell, tb; Gordon Gottlieb, perc. MusicMasters 01612-67152-2 25

13:00 THE DOUBLE BASS AND FRIENDS Prepared by Anne Irish Bottesini, G. Gran duo concertante (1880). Joshua Bell, vn; Edgar Meyer, db; Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff. Sony SK 60956 14 Dvorák, A. Intermezzo in B, op 77 (1874-83). Duncan McTier, db; Chilingirian Quartet. Chandos CHAN 9046 4 Sankey, S. Carmen fantasy after Bizet. Gary Karr, db; Adelaide SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 438 612-2 15 Larsson, L-E. Double bass concertino, op 45 no 11 (1954-57). Håkan Ehrén, db; Musica Vitae/ Ansgar Krook. BIS CD-474 12

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Lloyd Capps 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Judy Ekstein Schumann, R. Piano sonata in F sharp minor, op 11 (1832-35). Nikolai Demidenko, pf. Hyperion CDA66864 34 Weber, C.M. Clarinet quintet in B flat, op 34 (1815). Dieter Klöcker, cl; members of Consortium Classicum. Orfeo C314 941 A 27 Mendelssohn, F. String symphony no 9 in C minor (1822). London FO/Ross Pople. Hyperion CDS44081/3 24

10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Andari Anggamulia

Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D821, Arpeggione (1823; arr. Duka). Norbert Duka, db; Phillip Moll, pf. Naxos 8.572187 22

Mozart, W. Symphony no 38 in D, K504, Prague (1786). Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 421 085-2 32

Bottesini, G. Fantasia on Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda. Joel Quarrington, db; Andrew Burashko, pf. Naxos 8.557042 11

Tchaikovsky, P. Variations on a rococo theme, op 33 (1876). Liwei Qin, vc; Melbourne SO/ David Stanhope. ABC 456 356-2 19

14:30 VOICES Prepared by Phil Vendy

Bach, J.S. Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225 (c1727). BIS SACD-1841 12

Scarlatti, A. Cantata pastorale (1716). Miriam Allan, sop; James Sanderson, ct; Violins from Chacona. ABC 461 687-2 16

Christmas oratorio, BWV248, parts I to IV (1734-35). Monika Frimmer, sop; Yoshikazu Mera, ct; Gerd Türk, ten; Peter Kooij, bass. BIS CD-9022-1/2 1:38

Elgar, E. The snow, op 26 no 1 (1894). Liverpool Philharmonic Choir; Royal Liverpool PO/ Charles Groves. EMI CDC 7 47511-2 6

Bach Collegium Musicum Japan/Masaaki Suzuke, cond (2 above)

Elgar, E. Variations on an original theme, op 36, Enigma (1888-89). Vienna PO/John Eliot Gardiner. DG 463 265-2 31 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell 40

Peter Kooij

Kuhlau, F. Flute sonata in G minor, op 83 no 3 (1827). Uwe Grodd, fl; Matteo Napoli, pf. Naxos 8.555346 22

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Brahms, J. Piano trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886). Isaac Stern, vn; Leonard Rose, vc; Eugene Istomin, pf. Sony SM3K 64520 21 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Andrew Dziedzic

SATURDAY 12 December 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 9:30 MINING THE MAJORS Prepared by Frank Morrison Buxtehude, D. Sonata in B flat, BuxWV273. Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 427 118-2 15 Scheibe, J. Flute concerto in A. Maria Bania, fl; Concerto Copenhagen/Andrew Manze. Chandos CHAN 0535 16 Heise, P. Dangerous dreams (1878). Mathias Hedegaard, ten; Tove Lønskov, pf. Dacapo 8.226141 10 Kuhlau, F. Suite from Elverhøj, op 100 (1828). Odense SO/Othmar Maga. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9132 33 Gade, N. Symphony no 1 in C minor, op 5 (184042). Danish National RSO/Dmitri Kitaienko. Chandos CHAN 9422 36

15:00 NABAL Prepared by Di Cox Handel, G. Nabal, op posth. 147 (1764). Maya Boog, sop; Francine van der Heijden, sop; Linda Perillo, sop; Knut Schoch, ten; Stephan MacLeod, bass; Junge Kantorie; Frankfurt Baroque O/Joachim Carlos Martini. Naxos 8.555276-7 2:13

Cui, C. Concert suite for violin and orchestra, op 25 (1884). Takako Nishizaki, vn; Hong Kong PO/Kenneth Schermerhorn. LP Marco Polo 6.220308 21

Mozart, W. Prelude and fugue in F minor, K404a.6 (1782). Grumiaux Trio. Philips 422 513-2

Mussorgsky, M. A night on Bare Mountain (1869-72; orch. Stokowski 1922). BBC PO/ Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9445 10

17:30 STAGING MUSIC with Angela Cockburn

Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & O/Charles Mackerras. Virgin VC 7 91174-2 14

18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame Strauss, R. Fanfare: Der Stadt Wien (arr. M. Shelley). 2 Widor, C-M. Salve fac populum tuum.

Andante sostenuto, from Symphonie gothique, op 70.

Gabrieli, A. Canzon septimi toni a 8, from Sacræ symphoniæ. 3

11:30 ON PARADE with the MTSU Wind Ensemble Prepared by Robert Small

Crespo, E. Bruckner étude (arr. A. Heading). 6

Bolcom, W. First symphony for band (2008). Naxos 8.572732 19

Vierne, L. Marche triomphale du centenaire de Napoléon I. 7

Ticheli, F. Appolo unleashed, from Symphony no 2 for concert band (2004). 6

Howells, H. Master Tallis’ testament.

Matthias, W. Processional (arr. R. Ampt).

MTSU Wind Ensemble/Reed Thomas (2 above) Naxos 8.572732 12:00 JAZZ Saturday @ Studio A with Leita Hutchings 13:00 THEMES Prepared by Yvonne Laki Schubert, F. Adagio in E flat, D897, Nocturne (1827-28). Vienna Schubert Trio. Nimbus NI 6137 8 Janácek, L. Sinfonietta (1926). London SO/ Claudio Abbado. Decca 478 5365 24 Beethoven, L. 15 Variations and a fugue in E flat on an original theme, op 35, Eroica (1802). Olli Mustonen, pf. Decca 436 834-2 22 14:00 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

Balakirev, M. Islamey: oriental fantasy, op 19 no 6 (1869/1902). Boris Berezovsky, pf. Teldec 4509-96516-2 8

Handel, G. Sonata in F (arr. B. Tasker).

Amy Johansen, org; RAAF Brass Ensemble/ Matthew Shelley (all above) FINE MUSIC recording 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Porter, C. Excerpts from High society (1956). Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, voices. 19 Rodgers, R. Excerpts from Pal Joey, original soundtrack recording (1957; arr Russle). Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak; voices. 11 Porter, C. Excerpts from Can Can (1953). Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, voices. 18 EMI 7937872 (3 above) 20:00 THE RUSSIAN FIVE Prepared by Emyr Evans Borodin, A. Overture to Prince Igor (1887; orch. Glazunov). Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Mackerras. Virgin VC 7 91174-2 11

Mussorgsky, M. Farewell, prayer and death of Boris, from Boris Godunov (1874; orch. RimskyKorsakov). Fedor Chaliapin, bass: Royal Opera House Ch & O/Vincenzo Bellezza. EMI CDH 7 61009-2 12 Coronation scene, from Boris Godounov (arr. Shostakovich 1940). Kirov Opera Ch; Kirov O/ Valery Gergiev. Philips 442 775-2 6 Balakirev, M. Overture on three Russian themes (1858-1881). Philharmonia O/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Hyperion CDA66586 9 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Capriccio espagnol, op 34 (1887). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. DG 423 606-2 16 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Elaine Siversen Mozart, W. Serenade no 6 in D, K239, Serenata notturna (1776). English Concert/ Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907280 14 Laudate Dominum, from Solemn Vespers of the confessor, K339 (1780). Barbara Bonney, sop; English Concert Choir & O/Trevor Pinnock. Decca 476 2649 5 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite no 4 in G, op 61, Mozartiana (1887). Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9514 25 Brahms, J. Piano quartet no 2 in A, op 26 (1861-62). Marc-Andre Hamelin, pf; Leopold String Trio. Hyperion CDA 67471/2 50 Grieg, E. Holberg suite, op 40 (1884). Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due. Naxos 8.557890 19 December 2015

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SUNDAY 13 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Prepared by Ron Walledge

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes Taverner, J. Kyrie Le Roy; Alleluya V; Veni Electa Mea (c1526). Choir of Christchurch Cathedral/Stephen Darlington. Nimbus NI5360

9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Spohr, L. Fantasy and variations, op 81 (1814). Henk de Graaf, cl; Schubert Consort. Columns Classics 99168 7

Sibelius, J. Suite mignonne, op 98a (1921). Gérard Schaub, fl; Kenneth Whilborg, fl; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-384

Glass, P. Company (1983). Kronos Quartet. Nonesuch 979 111-2 8

Night ride and sunrise, op 55 (1908). New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen. Naxos 8.570763

Kodály, Z. Gloria; Credo, from Missa brevis (1945). Elizabeth Gale, sop; Sally le Sage sop; Alfreda Hodgson, cont; Ian Caley, ten; Michael Rippon, bass; Bright Festival Ch; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, org; Laszlo Heltay, cond. Decca 478 6964 11

Tavener, J. The lamb (1982).

Debussy, C. Violin sonata. Maurice Hasson, vn; Christian Ivaldi, pf. IMP MCD 37 13

Suite characteristique, op 100 (1922). Masayo Matsuo, hp; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-384 5

Saint-Saëns, C. Morceau de concert. New York Harp Ensemble/Aristid von Würtzler. Brilliant Classics 6425 9

Reicha, A. Wind quintet in E flat, op 88 no 2 (1817). Salzburg Wind Quintet. Forum 1/506 2242-2 14 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Di Cox Boïeldieu, A. Overture to Le calife de Bagdad (1800). New Philharmonia O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 440 844-2 8 Pleyel, I. Clarinet concerto in B flat. Paul Meyer, cl; Franz Liszt CO/Jean-Pierre Rampal. Denon CO-78911 23 Kalkbrenner, F. Adagio ed allegro di bravura, op 102 (1830). Tasmanian SO; Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Hyperion CDA67843 11 Onslow, G. String quartet in B flat, op 4 no 1. Mandelring Quartett. cpo 999 329-2 19 Reicha, A. 18 Variations and a fantasy on Mozart’s Se vuol ballare, op 51 (1804). JeanPierre Rampal, fl; Isaac Stern, vn; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc. Sony SK 44568 17

Song of the earth, op 93 (1919). Dominante Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1906/08 14 Andante festivo (1922). Finnish RO/Jean Sibelius. Ondine ODE 1037-2 6 Suite champêtre, op 98b (1921). Christer Throvaldsson, vn; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-384 9 Impromptu for strings (1893-94). Nordic CO/ Christian Lindberg. BIS CD-1538 8 Väinö’s song, op 110 (1926). Finnish National Opera Ch & O/Eri Klas. Ondine ODE 754-2 10 Symphony no 6 in D minor, op 104 (1923). Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel. Sony SK 53268

16:00 RUSSIAN CELLO Prepared by Emyr Evans

Kraus, J.M. Non temer. Barbara Bonney, sop; Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö, ten; Drottningholm Court TO/Thomas Schuback. Musica Sveciae MSCD 424 8

Shostakovich, D. Cello concerto no 1 in E flat, op 107 (1956). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Mason Jones, hn; Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy. CBS MPK 44850 27

Mozart, W. Symphony no 31 in D, K297, Paris (1778). Concertgebouw O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 8.42817 23

Bloch, E. Suite no 1 for solo cello (1956-57). Pieter Wispelwey, vc. Onyx ONYX4042 12

12:00 SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS 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

Berkeley, L. Andantino for cello and piano, op 21 no 2a (1936). David Berlin, vc; Len Vorster, pf. Naxos 8.557324 3 Boccherini, L. Cello sonata no 2 in C minor. Steven Isserlis, vc; Maggie Cole, hpd. Virgin VC 7 90805-2 8

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Vaughan Williams, R. Fantasia on Christmas carols (1912). Stephen Varcoe, bar; Stephen Orton, vc. 11 Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia/ John Rutter (2 above) Collegium CSCD 512 Various. Carols: The boar’s head; As with gladness; In dulci jubilo; Noel Nouvelet; It came upon the midnight clear; I can tell the world. Royal Choral Society; John Birch, org; Laszlo Heltay, cond. IMP Classics PCD 1026 15 18:00 PIANO PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown Bax, A. Festival overture (1909). Ashley Wass, pf; Martin Roscoe, pf. Naxos 8.570413 14 Bach, J.S. Passacaglia in C minor, BWV582 (arr. d’Albert). Angela Hewitt, pf. Hyperion CDA67309 12 Shostakovich, D. Two pieces from Ballet suite no 2 (1951; arr. Atovmyan). David Pereira, vc; David Bollard, pf. 8 Tall Poppies TP078 Haydn, J. Piano trio no 24 in G, Hob XV:2 Gypsy rondo (1795). Florestan Trio. Hyperion CDA67719 14 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Judy Ekstein Clementi, M. Symphony no 1 in C. Philharmonia O/Francesco d’Avalos. ASV DCS 247

David, Ferdinand. Violin concerto no 4 in E, op 23. Hagai Shaham, vn; BBC Scottish SO/ Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA67804 26 Schumann, R. Symphony no 1 in B flat, op 38, Spring (1841). O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner. Archiv 457 591-2

SUNDAY 13 December

MONDAY 14 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: 1793 Prepared by Derek Parker Cimarosa, D. Overture to I traci amanti (1793). New Philharmonia O/Raymond Leppard. Philips 446 569-2 4

Jörg Demus

13:00 A 30 YEAR COLLABORATION! Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott Prepared by Sheila Catzel Fauré, G. Sonata no 1 in A, op 13 (1875-76; transcr. Yo-Yo Ma). Sony SK 87287 25 Massenet, J. Méditation, from Thaïs (1894; transcr. Yo-Yo Ma). Sony SK 87287 6 Piazzolla, A. Le grand tango. Sony SK 63122

20:30 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Haydn, J. Symphony in E flat, Hob.I:99 (1793). Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl. Naxos 8.554110 24

Boccherini, L. Guitar quintet no 7 in E minor (1798). Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Philips 438 769-2 18

Beethoven, L. Piano concerto no 2 in B flat, op 19 (1793/95). Maurizio Pollini, pf; Vienna PO/ Claudio Abbado. DG 4790913 29

Beethoven, L. Quintet in E flat, op 16 (1796). Lothar Koch, ob; Karl Leister, cl; Günter Piesk, bn; Gerd Seifert, hn; Jörg Demus, pf. DG 439 852-2 26

Haydn, J. Andante and variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 (1793). Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Stradivarius STR 33343 13

Franck, C. Cello sonata in A (1886; transcr. Yo-Yo Ma). Sony SK 87287 27

Dussek, J. Sufferings of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, op 23 (1793). Jean-Michel Forest, narr; Andreas Staier, fp; Concerto Cologne. Capriccio 5072 12

Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Kahryn Stott, pf (all above)

Bridge, F. Cello sonata in D minor (1913-17). Bernard Gregor-Smith, vc; Yolande Wrigley, pf. ASV DCA 796 23 Beethoven, L. String quartet no 16 in F, op 135 (1826). Melos Quartet. DG 415 676-2 23 Berwald, F. Piano trio in C (1853). Susan Tomes, pf; Gaudier Ensemble. Hyperion CDA66835

22:30 NEW HORIZONS Sea and sky Prepared by James Nightingale

Mozart, W. Requiem aeternam, from Requiem in D minor, K626 (1791). Joanne Lunn, sop; Rowan Hellier, alto; Thomas Hobbs, ten; Matthew Brook, bass; Dunedin Consort/John Butt. Linn CKD 449 4 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker

Edwards, R. Full moon dances: Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra (2011). Amy Dickson, alto sax; Sydney SO/Miguel HarthBedoya. ABC 481 1703 29

Rossini, G. Overture to La gazza ladra (1817). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 446 196-2 10

Moore, K. Stories for ocean shells (2000). Saskia Lankhoorn, pf. ECM New New Series 2344 481 0963

Mozart, W. Sinfonia concertante no 2 in E flat, K364 (1779). Isaac Stern, vn; Pinchas Zukerman, va; English CO/Daniel Barenboim. Sony SM3K 66 475 33

Hosokawa, T. Circulating ocean (2005). Lyon NO/Jun Märkl. Naxos 8.573276 21 Pratt, D. Tide pool; Waves part 1 & 2; Seven mile beach, from Water settings (2005). Match: Daryl Pratt, perc; Alison Eddington, perc. Tall Poppies TP183 20

Catoire, G. Symphony in C minor, op 7 (c188991; orch. 1895-98). Royal Scottish NO/Martin Yates. Dutton Epoch CDLX 7298 42 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Tres minutos con la realidad. Nestor Marconi, ban; Antoni Agri, vn; Hector Console, db; Horacio Malvicino, gui; Oscar Castro-Neves, gui. Sony SK 63122 3 Saint-Saëns, C. Havanaise, op 83 (1887; transcr. Yo-Yo Ma). Sony SK 87287

14:30 INSPIRED LANDSCAPES Prepared by Rebecca Zhong Enescu, G. Rumanian rhapsody, op 11 no 1 (1901). Antal Doráti, cond Mercury 432 015-2

Holst, G. Japanese suite, op 33 (1915). Adrian Boult, cond. Lyrita SRCD.222 11 London SO (2 above) Sibelius, J. Tone poem: Tapiola, op 112 (1926). Royal PO/Thomas Beecham. EMI 1 66451 2 18 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 6 in F, op 68, Pastoral (1808). Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Mackerras. EMI 5 65788 2 39 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Field 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY with Ken Weatherley 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson December 2015

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TUESDAY 15 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

13:00 ROMEO AND JULIET Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in C minor, Kk115. András Schiff, pf. Decca 421 422-2 7

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

Prokofiev, S. Juliet as a young girl; Masks; Dance of the kinights, from Romeo and Juliet, ballet, op 64 (1938). Royal PO/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 478 4746 12

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Richard Tognetti Prepared by Elaine Siversen Bach, J.S. Violin sonata no 1 in B minor, BWV1014 (bef. 1725). Richard Tognetti, vn; Daniel Yeadon, vc; Neal Peres da Costa, hpd. ABC 476 594-2 13 Mozart, W. Violin concerto no 2 in D, K211 (1775). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir. BIS SACD-1755 19 Sculthorpe, P. Irkanda I (1955). Richard Tognetti, vn. Chandos CHAN 10063

Janácek, L. String quartet no 1, Kreutzer sonata (1923; arr. Tognetti) Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti. Chandos CHAN 10016 19 Bach, J.S. Violin partita no 3 in E, BWV1006 (1720). Richard Tognetti, vn. ABC 476 805-1 19 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Fantasia on Serbian themes, op 6 (1867). Philharmonia O/Yondani Butt. ASV DC DCA 1024 7 Davidov, K. Cello concerto no 2 in A minor, op 14 (1863). Alexander Ziumbrovsky, vc; I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky. Chandos CHAN 9622 26 Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 2 in E minor, op 27 (1906-07). Royal Concertgebouw O/Kyrill Kondrashin. Radio Nederland RCO 08005 48 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 44

Svendsen, J. Romeo and Juliet fantasia, op 18 (1876). Bergen PO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10693 10 Berlioz, H. Love scene, from Romeo and Juliet, op 17 (1839). Sydney SO/Robert Pikler. Chandos CHAN 6587 17 Pierson, H. Overture: Romeo and Juliet, op 86 (pub. 1874). English Northern Philharmonia/ David Lloyd-Jones. Hyperion CDA66515 10 Delius, F. The walk to the paradise garden, from A village Romeo and Juliet (1907). BBC SO/Andrew Davis. Teldec 4509-90845-2 11

James Judd

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Robert Small 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Rex Burgess Glière, R. Overture on Slavonic themes, op 4 (1902). Chandos 10 Balakirev, M. Symphonic poem: In Bohemia (1906). 12

Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet (1869/80). Sydney SO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 612 20

BBC PO/Vassily Sinaisky (2 above) Chandos CHAN 9667

14:30 PRACTISING COMPOSERS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Arensky, A. Six pieces, op 53 (1901). Adam Neiman, pf. Naxos 8.572233 16

Mozart, W. Ballet: Les petits riens, K299b (1778). Vienna Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky. Decca 436 782-2 21 Gershwin, G. Porgy and Bess, symphonic picture (1934-35; arr. Robert Russell Bennett). New Zealand SO/James Judd. Naxos 8.559107 25 Schumann, C. Volkslied (1840). Susan Gritton, sop; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 3 Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 2 in C minor, op 18 (1900-01). Isador Goodman, pf; Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 476 4570 33 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Andrew Dziedzic

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Glazunov, A. Violin concerto in A minor, op 82 (1904-05). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Israel PO/ Zubin Mehta. EMI CDC 7 49814 2 20 Grechaninov, A. Snowflakes, op 47 (1910). Ludmilla Kuznetsova, mezz; Russian State SO/ Valéry Polyansky. Chandos CHAN 9397 14 Medtner, N. Violin sonata no 1 in B minor, op 21 (1910). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Geoffrey Tozer, pf. Chandos CHAN 9293 21 Myaskovsky, N. Symphony no 13 in B flat minor, op 36 (1933). Russian Federation Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Olympia OCD 733 20

WEDNESDAY 16 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Music of the 18th century Prepared by Jennifer Foong Telemann, G. Quartet in F for treble recorder, oboe, violin and continuo, TWV43:G6 (pub. c1734). Chandos Baroque Players. Hyperion CDA66195 7

Natalie Dessay

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI

Heinichen, J. Sonata for oboe and bassoon in C minor à 2. cpo 777 115-2 11

14:00 FROM SPAIN WITH LOVE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Fasch, J. Trio in E minor for oboe, violin and continuo. cpo 777 204-2 11

Falla, M. de Interlude and dance, from La vida breve (1913). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 478 3156-67 7

Members of Epoca Barocca (2 above)

Albéniz, I. Asturias, op 47 no 5, from Suite española (1886; arr. Segovia). Alirio Diaz, gui. Vanguard 08 9003 72 5

Devienne, F. Oboe sonata in C, op 70 no 1 (1798-99). Peter Bree, ob; Roderick Shaw, fp. Etcetera KTC 1084 14 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

Krebs, J.L. Concerto in B minor for harpsichord and oboe. Heinz Holliger, ob; Christiane Jaccottet, hpd; Camerata Bern/ Alexander van Wijnkoop. Archiv 00289 477 5002 21 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Strauss, R. Four symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo (1916). Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9357 23 Bruch, M. Violin concerto no 2 in D minor, op 44 (1878). Salvatore Accardo, vn; Gewandhaus O/Kurt Masur. Philips 462 167-2 26 Mozart, W. Symphony no 38 in D, K504, Prague (1786). English CO/Jeffrey Tate. EMI 5 74185 2 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale

Sor, F. Six divertimenti, op 2 (c1810). Norbert Kraft, gui. Naxos 8.554196 16 Albéniz, I. Rapsodia española, op 70 (1911; arr. C. Halffter). Alicia de Larrocha, pf; London PO/ Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Decca 433 905-2 18 Falla, M. de El amor brujo (1914-15). Ginesa Ortega, voice; Teatre Lliure CO/Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi, France HMC 905213 37 Rodrigo, J. Concierto de Aranjuez (1939; transcr. 1974). Gwyneth Wentink, hp; Asturias SO/Maximiano Valdés. Naxos 8.555843 23 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 Michael Tesoriero

Delibes, L. Lakmé. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Edmond Condinet. First performed Paris, 1883.

LAKMÉ: Natalie Dessay, sop GERALD: Gregory Kunde, ten NILAKANTHA: José Van Dam, bass-bar MALLIKA: Delphine Haidan, mezz FREDERIC: Franck Leguérinel, bar Toulouse Capitole Ch & O/Michel Plasson. Lakmé, daughter of the priest Nilakantha, gathers flowers with her slave Mallika. British officers Gerald and Frederick break into the temple precinct and Gerald and Lakmé fall in love. Returning too late to catch Gerald, Nilakantha swears vengeance on the trespasser. At the bazaar, Nilakantha has Lakmé sing the Bell song to lure her unknown lover. Discovering that it is Gerald, he plots his murder. Lakmé plans to run away with Gerald, whose regiment is about to leave. But Gerald is stabbed and is carried to her forest hidingplace. Frederick arrives to remind Gerald of his military duty. Thinking she has lost him, Lakmé eats a deadly datura leaf. The lovers make a pledge with sacred water, protecting Gerald from Nilakantha’s revenge, but Lakmé dies soon after. 23:00 BEETHOVEN AND FRIENDS Prepared by Emyr Evans Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 29 in B flat, op 106, Hammerklavier (1817-19). Alfred Brendel, pf. Brilliant Classics 94272 43 Liszt, F. Soirées de Vienne, valse-caprice no 6 (c1850). Yevgeny Kissin, pf. Philips 456 871-2 6 Schubert, F. Eleven écossaises, D781 (1823). Alfred Brendel, pf. Philips 442 543-2 4 December 2015

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THURSDAY 17 December

Ludwig van Beethoven

Vladimir Fedoseyev

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Coates, E. London suite, London everyday (1932). BBC PO/Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN 9869 15

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore

Strauss, R. Oboe concerto in D (1945/48). Heinz Holliger, ob; New Philharmonia O/Edo de Waart. Philips 438 733-2 26

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Andari Anggamulia Lalo, E. Piano trio no 2 in B minor, mvt 2 (1852). Barbican Piano Trio. ASV DCA 899

Khrennikov, T. A hussar ballad (1980). USSR TV & Radio Large SO/Vladimir Fedoseyev. LP Melodiya A10 00035 008 44 6

Guitare. Felicity Lott, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901138 2 Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op 21, mvt 2. Isaac Stern, vn; Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy. CBS MPK 45555 4 Cello concerto in D minor, mvts 1 and 2 (1876). Paul Tortelier, vc; City of Birmingham SO/Louis Frémaux. EMI 7 69457 2 20 La sieste; Bacchanale, from Namouna (1882). Monte Carlo PO/David Robertson. Auvidis V 4677 8

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 BEETHOVEN AND FRIENDS Prepared by Emyr Evans Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 15 in D, op 28, Pastorale (1801). Daniel Barenboim, pf. EMI 5 73522 2 30 Schubert, F. Three piano pieces, D946 (1828). Imogen Cooper, pf. BBC Radio 3 AV 2156 24 14:00 SIBELIUS CELEBRATION Prepared by Elaine Siversen

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm With Sue Jowell 19:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Penrith Symphony Orchestra Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC at the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith, on 23 May 2015 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 6 in F, op 68, Pastoral (1807-08). 47 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Amy Johansen, org. 38 Penrith SO/Paul Terracini (2 above) 21:35 CHAMBER INTERLUDE Prepared by Elaine Siversen Molique, B. Flute quintet in D, op 35. John Wion, fl; Eric Lewis, vn; Andrew Berdahl, va; Rosemary Glyde, va; Judith Glyde, vc. Hart HMP4W91514 24 22:00 AFTER WORLD WAR II Prepared by Di Cox

Symphony in G minor, mvts 2, 3 and 4 (188586). French National RO/Thomas Beecham. EMI 5 62948 2 19

Sibelius, J. Incidental music to Scaramouche, op 71 (1913). Petra Vahle, va; Mats Levin, vc; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-502 1:04

Stravinsky, I. Divertimento after the ballet, Le baiser de la fée, (1934/49). Royal Concertgebouw O/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Radio Nederland RCO11004 24

Overture to Le roi d’Ys (1875). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 425 083-2 12

Scènes historiques, suite no 2, op 66 (1912). New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen. Naxos 8.57008 20

Andres, B. Le jardin des Paons. Lipman Harp Duo. Harmonious Resonance HR20130313 9

De tous côtés j’aperçois dans la plaine, from Le Roi d’Ys (1888). DG 479 0071 6

Suites nos 1 and 2, from Incidental music to The tempest (1925). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-448 26

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Messiaen, O. Turangalîla-symphonie (1990). Howard Shelley, pf; Valérie Hartmann-Claverie, ondes martenot; BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9678 1:16

FRIDAY 18 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 Wind combinations Prepared by Elaine Siversen Schütz, H. Domine, labia me aperies, SWV271, no 15, from Symphoniae sacrae, op 6 (pub. 1629). Véronique Dietschy, sop; John Elwes, ten; Philippe Matharel, cornett; François Février, ten sackbutt; Jean-Luis Fiat, bass double-curtall; Claire Giardelli, vc; William Jansen, org. Erato NUM 75234 4 Schütz, H. Buccinate in neomenia tuba, SWV275; Jubilate Deo, SWV276. John Elwes, ten; Guy de Mey, ten; Bernard Fabré-Garrus, bass; Jean-Luis Fiat, bass double-curtall; Philippe Matharel, cornett; Jean-Pierre Canihac, tpt; Bernard Fourtet, bass sackbutt; Matthias Spaeter, chitarrone; William Jansen, org. Erato NUM 75234 4 Hertel, J. Double concerto in E flat. Maurice Bourge, ob; Maurice André, tpt; Württemberg CO/Jörg Faerber. EMI CMS 7 69880-2 18 Anon. Ballo divertissement for clarinet and three basset horns. Swiss Clarinet Players. Claves 50-9212 10 Mozart, W. Divertimento no 7 in D, K205 (1775). Danilo Marchello, hn; Thomas Heissbauer, hn; Salzburg Chamber Soloists/ Lavard Skou Larsen. Denon CO-78918 18 Berwald, F. Quartet in E flat (1819). Richard Hosford, cl; Robin O’Neill, bn; Jonathan Williams, hn; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66834 23 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Glinka, M. Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (1842). Austrian State O/Pyotr Sokolov. Award AWPD 32058 6 Brahms, J. Double concerto in A minor, op 102 (1887). Emmy Verhey, vn; Janos Starker, vc; Amsterdam PO/Arpad Joó. Sony ECD 71010 34

Tchaikovsky, P. Suite no 3 in G, op 55 (1884). Audrey Park, vn; National SO of Ireland/Stefan Sanderling. Naxos 8.550728 43

Copland, A. Piano quartet (1950). Charles Rex, vn; Rebecca Young, va; Alan Stepansky, vc; Israela Margalit, pf. EMI 5 55405 2 20

12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

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

13:00 PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS Schubert’s Mass no 3 Eybler, J. Omnes de Saba venient.

Schubert, F. Kyrie; Gloria; Credo, from Mass no 3 in B flat, D324 (1815). 19 Eybler, J. Regens tarsit (1807).

19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans

Schubert, F. Sanctus; Benedictus, Agnus Dei, from Mass no 3 in B flat, D324 (1815). 11

Schumann, R. Märchenerzählungen, op 132 (1853). Peter Schmidl, cl; Heinrich Koll, va; Madoka Inui, pf. Naxos 8.557606 14

Charlotte Pistor, sop; Monika Wäckerle, cont; Bernhard Berchthold, ten; Martin Cooke, bar (all above)

Taneyev, S. Symphony no 1 in E minor (1874). Novosibirsk Academic SO/Thomas Sanderling. Naxos 8.570336 34

Gruber, F. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (1818). Heribert Metzger, org; Salzburg Cathedral Choir & O/Janos Czifra.

Moszkowski, M. Piano concerto in E, op 59 (1898). Markus Pawlik, pf; Polish National RSO/ Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.553989 38

14:00 20TH CENTURY PIANO PLUS Prepared by Gael Golla Debussy, C. First rhapsody (1911). Gervase de Peyer, cl; Gwenneth Pryor, pf. Chandos CHAN 8526 8 Ginastera, A. Pampeana no 2, op 21 (1950). Aurora Natola-Ginastera, vc; Alberto Portugheis, pf. ASV DCA 865 10 Poulenc, F. Trio (1926). François Leleux, ob; Jean-François Duquesnoy, bn; Emmanuel Strosser, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMN 911556 13 Ravel, M. Cinq mélodies populaires grèques (1904-06). Bernard Kruysen, bar; Noël Lee, pf. Auvidis V 4700 6

Schoenberg, A. Transfigured night, op 4 (1899). Concertgebouw O/Otto Klemperer. Memories HR 4248/49 27 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Elaine Siversen Couperin, F. Ritratto dell’amore (pub. 1724). Trio Sonnerie. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907081 20 Motet for Easter day (pub. c1630). Judith Nelson, sop; Emma Kirkby, sop; Jan Ryan, bass viol; Christopher Hogwood, org. L’Oiseau-Lyre 430 283-2 6

Marais, M. La sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris (1723). Alice Harnoncourt, vn; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, va da gamba; Herbert Tachezi, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90414 9

Shostakovich, D. Piano concerto no 2 in F, op 102 (1957). Dimitri Shostakovich, pf; I Musici de Montréal/Maxim Shostakovich. Chandos CHAN 8443 18

Lully, J-B. Overture and suite from Amadis (1684). Collegium Aureum/Reinhard Peters. LP Harmonia Mundi HM 20322 23

Schmitt, F. Suite, op 133 (1955). Håkan Hardenberger, tpt; Roland Pöntinen, pf. Philips 426 144-2

Szymanowski, K. Nocturne and tarantella, op 28 (1915). Wanda Wilkomirska, vn; Tadeusz Chmielevsky, pf. Muza PNCD 065 11 Bozza, E. Three impressions for flute and piano (1953). Robert Aitken, fl; Robin McCabe, pf. BIS CD-184 7

Le Camus, S. Theorbo pieces after Estienne Lemoyne. Pascal Monteilhet, theorbo. fnac 592294 12 Le Jeune, C. Missa Ad placitum (pub. 1607). Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom. Hyperion CDA66387 38 December 2015

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SATURDAY 19 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 CHAMBER INTERLUDE Reicha, A. Clarinet quintet in B flat (1820). Wolfhard Pencz, cl; Amati Quartet. Divox CDX 29105 27 9:30 MINING THE MAJORS Prepared by Brian Drummond Joachim, J. Overture: Hamlet, op 4 (1855). Stuttgart RSO/Meir Minsky. Naxos 8.554733 17 Schumann, C. Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann, op 20 (1853). Veronica Jochum, pf. Pro Arte CDD 396 11 Dvorák, A. Symphonic poem: The golden spinning wheel, op 109 (1896). Czech PO/ Václav Neumann. Supraphon 2 SUP 0009 25 Dohnányi, E. Aria, op 23 no 1 (1916). Milton Hallman, pf. Centaur CRC 2025 5 Joachim, J. Notturno. Daniel Hope, vn; Royal Stockholm PO/Sakari Oramo. DG 477 9301 9 Brahms, J. Violin concerto in D, op 77 (1878). Issac Stern, vn; New York PO/Zubin Mehta. Sony SM2K 66 941 40 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher 12:00 JAZZ Saturday @ Studio A with Leita Hutchings 13:00 BACH TO BRAHMS Prepared by Yvonne Laki Bach, J.S. Brandenburg concerto no 3 in G, BWV1048 (1720). Australian Brandenburg O/ Paul Dyer. ABC 434 720-2 13 Vivaldi, A. Concerto grosso in F, RV567, from L’estro armonico (pub. 1711). Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 434 720-2 8 Beethoven, L. Seven variations in E flat on the theme Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen, WoO46 (1801). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Daniel Barenboim, pf. EMI CZS 5 68132 2 11 Brahms, J. Rhapsody in B minor, op 79 no 1 (1879). Ivo Pogorelich, pf. DG 479 4350 11 48

14:00 VOCAL INTERLUDE Prepared by Susan Briedis Purcell, H. If music be the food of love (1692); One charming night (1692); Since my dear Astrea’s sight (1690). James Bowman, ct; King’s Consort/Robert King. Hyperion CDA66288 8 Elgar, E. There is sweet music; Deep in my soul; O wild west wind; Owls, an epitaph, from Four partsongs, op 53 (1907). Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer. Chandos CHAN 9269 17 Tomkins, T. When David heard. The Sixteen/ Harry Christophers. Decca 9870128 5 Ravel, M. Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis, from Three songs (1915). Accentus Chamber Choir/ Laurence Equilbey. Pierre Verany PV794042 3 Brahms, J. Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang, op 17 no 1 (1860). Monteverdi Choir; Anthony Halstead, hn; Christian Rutherford, hn; Delyth Wynne, hp; John Eliot Gardiner, cond. Philips 432152-2 3 Schubert, F. Gretchen am spinnrade, D118 (1814). Lauris Elms, cont; John Winther, pf. ABC 476 4232 4 Rodrigo, J. ¿Con qué la lavaré?, from Collection of love songs (1947); Vos me matásteis; ¿De dónde venis, amore?; De los álamos vengo, madre, from Four love songs (1947). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Conservatoire Concert Society O/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. EMI CMS 5 65061 2 8 Tosti, P. La serenata (1888). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Leone Magiera, pf. Decca 466 350-2 3 15:00 LA BOHÈME, THE BALLET Prepared by Di Cox Puccini, G. La bohème (arr. Hocking). West Australian SO/Dobbs Franks. ABC 476 1999 1:57 Chopin, F. Piano sonata no 2 in B flat minor, op 35 (1839). Leif Ove Andsnes, pf. Virgin 7 59072 2 24 17:30 THE VOICES, THE ROLES Bass bases: the villains with Angela Cockburn 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Classical Guitar Society Prepared by Sue McCreadie Brouwer, L. El decamerón negro. Antigoni Goni, gui. Naxos 8.553774 14 Sonata (1990). Johannes Möller, gui. Naxos 8.572715 14 Retrats Catalans (1983). Eduardo Fernández, gui; English CO/Barry Wordsworth. Decca 430 233-2 16 Cuban landscape with rumba (c1985). Guitar Symphionetta/Leo Brouwer. Giulia GS20100 7

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19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell A salute to entertainers who left us this year 20:00 RACHEL VALLER AND FRIENDS Prepared by Stephen Wilson Mozart, W. Sonata in A, K526 (1787). Donald Hazelwood, vn. 21 Hummel, J. Piano quintet in E flat, op 87 (1802). Donald Hazelwood, vn; Peter Pful, va; Patricia Mendelow, vc; Kees Boersma, db. 24 Fauré, G. Piano quartet in C minor, op 15 (1876-79). Warrawee Ensemble.

Rachel, Valler, pf (all above) Fine Music Concert Recording 21:30 FOUR COMPOSERS; FOUR CENTURIES Prepared by Frank Morrison Torelli, G. Concerto for 2 trumpets (1688-96). David Staff, tpt; Mark Bennett, tpt; St James Baroque Players/Ivor Bolton. Teldec 4509-91192-2 6 Salieri, A. Sinfonia in pantomime, from Armida (1771). Mannheim Mozart O/Thomas Fey. 6 Hänssler 98.506 Franck, C. Cantabile (1878). Piet Kee, org. Chandos CHAN 8891

Villa-Lobos, H. Elégie, op 87 (1916). Rebecca Rust, vc; David Apter, pf. 6 Marco Polo 8.223527 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Frank Morrison Veracini, F. Ouverture no 2 in F (1716). Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 439 937-2 19 Tartini, G. Violin concerto in D minor. Pesaro Rossini O/Felix Ayo, vn & dir. Dynamic CDS 92 18 Vivaldi, A. Sonata no 12 in C, RV754. Fabio Biondi, vn; Maurizio Naddio, vc; Paulo Pandolfo, db; Rolf Lislevand, lute; Rinaldo Alessandrini, hpd. Arcana A 5 10 Benda, F. Flute concerto in G. Neil McLaren, fl; Cambridge Baroque Camerata. Amon Ra SAR 52 19 Rieti, V. Serenade for violin and small orchestra (1931). Carlo Feige, vn; Harmonia Ensemble/Giuseppe Grazioli. Giulia GS 201009

Debussy, C. La mer (1903-05). Detroit SO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9072 24

SUNDAY 20 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Paul Roper 9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mozart, W. Sonata in F, K13 (1764). Marc Grauwels, fl; Guy Penson, pf. Hyperion CDA66391 13 Berwald, F. Quartet in E flat (1819). Richard Hosford, cl; Robin O’Neill, bn; Jonathan Williams, hn; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66834 23 Glinka, M. Trio pathétique in D minor (1832). Trio d’Amsterdam. Koch 3-7015-2 HI 15 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Denis Patterson Auber, D-F-E. Overture to La muette de Portici (1828). Polish National RSO/Richard Hayman. Naxos 8.553264 10 Gluck, C. Ballet: Alessandro (1764). Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 445 824-2 24 Bach, C.P.E. Organ sonata in D, Wq70 no 5 (1755). Herbert Tachezi, org. Teldec 8.44064 14 Arne, T. Symphony no 2 in F (1767). Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery. LP EMI ESD 1060241 10 Schubert, F. Fantasie in F minor, D940 (1828). Wyneke Jordans, Leo van Doeselaar, pf. Globe GLO 5049 19 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 27 in B flat, K595 (1791). Imogen Cooper, pf; Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti. Philips 476 209-5 PM3 31 12:00 SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS Speak easy, swing hard with Richard Hughes

Cantata for the university degree ceremony of 1897, op 23 (1897). Jubilate Choir/Astrid Riska. BIS CD-998 19

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide 14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Prepared by Chris Blower

Carols: Veni, veni Emmanuel; God rest ye merry gentlemen. The Ten Tenors. Tenology 5101112212

Sibelius, J. Tone poem: Tapiola, op 112 (1926). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 6508 16 Five piano pieces, op 101 (1923). Erik T. Tawaststjerna, pf. BIS CD-278 14 Theme and variations (c1887). Torleif Thedéen, vc. BIS CD817 11 Väinämöinen’s song, op 110 (1926). Dominante Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1906/08 9 Five country dances, op 106 (1925). Nils-Erik Sparf, vn; Bengt Forsberg, pf. BIS CD-625 19

Symphony no 7 in C, op 105 (1926). Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer. ABC 476 3945 20 16:00 BAROQUE WOODWINDS Prepared by Gael Golla Heinichen, J. Concerto a 8 for four recorders and strings. Clas Perhrsson, rec; Musica Dolce Ensemble; Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble. BIS CD-8 7 Bach, J.S. Bassoon sonata in A minor, BWV1034 (c1717-20). Matthew Wilkie, bn; Kees Boersma, db; Neal Peres da Costa, hpd. Melba MR 301124 15 Albinoni, T. Oboe concerto in B flat, op 9 no 11 (pub. 1722). Pierre Pierlot, ob; I Solisti Veneti/ Claudio Scimone. apex 0927 49020 2 11 Telemann, G. Trio sonata in A minor. Lorenzo Cavasanti, rec; Paolo Faldi, ob; Sergio Ciomei, hpd. Nuova Era 7067 10 Vivaldi, A. Flute concerto in A minor, RV80. JeanPierre Rampal, fl; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone. CBS M2YK 45623 10 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge Carols: Stille Nacht; Three kings; Good King Wenceslas; Little road to Bethlehem; Away in a manger. Choir of Canterbury Cathedral; Michael Harris, org; David Flood, cond. York 109 14 Praetorius, M. Hymn: A great and mighty wonder. 4 Sumsion, H. Service in G: Benedictus.

Choir of Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney; Peter Jewkes, org; Neil McEwan, cond (2 above) CCSL 05 7

Hymns: Come, thou long expected Jesus; It came upon a midnight clear. Cathedral Singers; Brett McKern, org & dir. TCS 03 6 Carols: Adam lay ybounden; A virgin most pure; The holly and the ivy; Once in Royal David’s city. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Ben-San Lau, org; Stephen Cleobury, cond.

Dubois, T. Toccata for organ. David Flood, org. York 109 7 18:00 PIANO INTERLUDE Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Albéniz, I. Iberia: bk 1, Evocación (1906). JeanFrançois Heisser, pf. Erato 4509-94807-2 5

Liszt, F. Hungarian rhapsody no 13 (1846-85). Arcadi Volodos, pf. Sony 886970 5002 8 Maroufi, J. Armenian rhapsody. Amir Farid, pf. Move MD 3380 5 Ravel, M. Alborada del gracioso, no 4 of Miroirs (1905). Stephen Hough, pf. Hyperion CDA67890 6 Debussy, C. La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes (1903). Claudio Arrau, pf. Philips 432 304-2 6 Falla, M. de Serenata (1901). Daniel Ligorio, pf. Naxos 8.555065 3 Ravel, M. Rhapsodie espagnole (1907). Louis Lortie, pf; Hélène Mercier, pf. Chandos CHAN 8905 15 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Handel, G. Concerto grosso in A, op 6 no 11 (1739). Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 476 3436 16 Finzi, G. Clarinet concerto in C minor, op 31 (194849). Emma Johnson, cl; Royal PO/Charles Groves. ASV DCA 787 27 Elgar, E. Gavotte, from Contrasts, op 10 no 3 (1899). Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar. Chandos CHAN 6544 8 Strauss, R. Dance suite after François Couperin, op 60 (1918). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 446 696-2 28 20:30 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Röntgen, J. String trio no 14 in C minor (1928). Offenburg String Trio. Naxos 8.573384 21 Berwald, F. Piano trio no 2 in F minor (1851). Marieke Blankestijn, vn; Christopher Marks, vc; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66834 22 Myaskovsky, N. Sonata no 1 for cello and piano, op 12. Truls Mørk, vc; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf. Virgin 5 45119 2 20 Schumann, R. String quartet in A minor, op 41 no 1 (1842). Zehetmair Quartet. ECM 1793 23 Romberg, A. Quintet in F, op 41 no 3. Vladislav Brunner, fl; Victor Simcisko, vn; Milan Telecky, va; Ján Cút, va; Juraj Alexander, vc. Naxos 8.554765 22 22:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Nev Dorrington Gerrard, L. Whalerider, soundtrack suite (2003). Lisa Gerrard. 4AD CAD 230420 35 Preisner, Z. Ten pieces for orchestra (2015). Callsia Philharmonic/Adam Klocek. New Music 975486443 54 December 2015

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MONDAY 21 December Glinka, M. Variations on a theme by Mozart (1822). Natalia Shameyeva, hp. Le Chant du Monde LDC 288 068 5 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen MacDowell, E. Suite no 2, op 48, Indian (189195). Ulster O/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.559075 30 Herbert, V. Cello concerto no 2 in E minor, op 30 (1894). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; New York PO/Kurt Masur. Sony SK 67173 21

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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: 1822 Prepared by Madilina Tresca Chopin, F. Polonaise in G sharp minor, op posth (1822). Anatol Ugorski, pf. DG 00289 477 8445

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Hanson, H. Symphony no 1 in E minor, Nordic (1922). Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn. Naxos 8.559072 32

Paganini, N. Violin concerto no 4 in D minor (1829-30). Gidon Kremer, vn; Vienna PO. Philips 446 718-2 32

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Brahms, J. Alto rhapsody, op 53 (1869). Jessye Norman, sop; Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia; Philadelphia O. Philips 426 253-2 12

13:00 BEETHOVEN AND FRIENDS Prepared by Emyr Evans Beethoven, L. Piano sonata no 1 in F minor, op 2 no 1 (1795). Stephen Kovacevich, pf. EMI 5 62700 2 15

Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 6 in B minor, op 74, Pathétique (1893). Philharmonia O. EMI CZS 7 67318 2 46

Rossini, G. Ah, non potrian resistere, from Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1822). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Teatro la Fenice Ch & O/Ion Martin. Decca 436 075-2 8

Ries, F. Fantasie on Mozart’s The marriage of Figaro (1817). Christian Lambour, pf. Schwann 310 120 15

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Schubert, F. Symphony no 8 in B minor, D759, Unfinished (1822). Symphony Nova Scotia/ Georg Tintner. Naxos 8.557234 27

Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D821, Arpeggione (1824; arr. Williams, Gunning). John Williams, gui; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Sony SK 63385 22

Dussek, S. Introduction and waltz for harp and pianoforte (1822). Masumi Nagasawa, hp; Richard Egarr, fp. Etcetera KTC1436 4

14:00 LEGENDARY CONDUCTORS Riccardo Muti Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Mendelssohn, F. Sinfonia no 8 in D (1822). Orpheus CO. DG 437 528-2 26

Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasie overture: Romeo and Juliet (1869/80). Philharmonia O. EMI CDM 1 66420 2 19

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY with Ken Weatherley 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson

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TUESDAY 22 December

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0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 4 in F minor (1935). London SO/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8633 33

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

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 FLUTE PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Yo-Yo Ma Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. Cello sonata no 2 in G minor, op 5 no 2 (1796). Emanuel Ax, pf. CBS M2K 42446 26 Korngold, E. Suite for 2 violins, cello and piano left hand, op 23 (1930). Joseph Silverstein, vn; Jaime Laredo, vn; Leon Fleisher, pf. Sony SK 48253 38 Bach, J.S. Cello suite no 1 in G, BWV1007 (c1720). CBS M2K 37867

Yo-Yo Ma, vc (3 above) 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Britten, B. Canadian carnival, op 19 (1939). Wesley Warren, tpt; City of Birmingham SO/ Simon Rattle. EMI 5 55394 2 14 Addinsell, R. Warsaw concerto (1941). Isador Goodman, pf; Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 434 714 - 2 8 Somervell, A. Piano concerto in A minor, Highland (1921). Martin Roscoe, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA 67837 27

Bach, C.P.E. Flute quartet no 1 in A minor, Wq93 (1788). Les Adieux. DHM GD 77052 17 Mozart, W. Flute concerto no 1 in G, K313 (1778). William Bennett, fl; English CO/George Malcolm. Decca 460 302-2 25 Bach, J.S. Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV1013 (after 1723). Gunilla von Bahr, fl. BIS CD-21 10 14:00 FIRST STRING QUARTETS Prepared by Ross Hayes Dohnรกnyi, E. String quartet no 1 in A, op 7 (1899). Kodรกly Quartet. Hungaroton HCD 11853 29 Bartรณk, B. String quartet no 1, op 7 (1908). New Budapest Quartet. Hyperion CDA66581/2 30 Kodรกly, Z. Adagio for cello and piano (1905). Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Alexandre Tharaud, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMG 501735 9 String quartet no 1 in C minor, op 2 (1908-09). Dante Quartet. Hyperion CDA67999 41 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Charles Barton 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Judy Ekstein Barber, S. Capricorn concerto, op 21 (1944). Joseph Mariano, fl; Robert Sprenkle, ob; Sidney Mear, tpt; Eastman-Rochester O/Howard Hanson. Mercury 475 6274 15 Gould, M. Spirituals (1959). Eastman-Rochester O/Howard Hanson. Mercury 475 6274 18 Bartรณk, B. Contrasts (1938). Michael Collins, cl; Krysia Osostowicz, vn; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66415 17 Ives, C. Symphony no 3, The camp meeting (1903-04). 21 Rogers, B. Once upon a time: Five fairy tales (1934). 13 Eastman-Rochester O/Howard Hanson (2 above) Mercury 475 6274 Szymanowski, K. Violin concerto no 1, op 35 (1916). Xiao-Dong Wang, vn; Adelaide SO/Omri Hadari. ABC 476 718-2 24

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WEDNESDAY 23 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Massenet, J. Ballet music from Le Cid (1885). City of Birmingham SO/Louis Frémaux. EMI 5 65150 2 20

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

Ravel, M. Asia, from Shéhérazade (1903). Magdalena Kožená, mezz; Berlin PO/Simon Rattle. DG 479 0065 10

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Music of the 18th century Prepared by Frank Morrison Benda, G. Trio sonata in E. David Oistrakh, vn; Igor Oistrakh, vn; Vladimir Yampolsky, pf. DG 463 616-2 15 Neruda, J. Trumpet concerto in E flat. John Wallace, tpt; Leslie Pearson, hpd; Philharmonia O/Christopher Warren-Green. Nimbus NI 7016 14 Zelenka, J. Psalm 126: Nisi dominus (c1726). Cantilena Singers/Peter Roennfeldt. Cantilena Singers CS12189 6 Pichl, V. Sinfonia in D, Diana (1764-1803). Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon. Naxos 8.557761

Dussek, J. Piano concerto in C, op 29 (1795). Ulster O/Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Hyperion CDA68027 23 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish Tchaikovsky, P. Overture: 1812 (1880). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 434 717-2 15 Rachmaninov, S. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op 43 (1934). Ayako Uehara, pf; Sydney SO/Edvard Tchivzhel. ABC 461 654-2 25 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 7 in A, op 92 (1811-12). Vienna PO/Claudio Abbado. Decca 478 5365 42 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI 14:00 FROM FRANCE WITH LOVE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Berlioz, H. Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, op 23 (1836-38). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 452 480-2 10 Gounod, C. Mon coeur est pénétré d’épouvante … Attends! Voici la rue … Alerte! ou vous êtes perdus, from Faust (1859). Geraldine Farrar, sop; Enrico Caruso, ten; Marcel Journet, bass. RCA GD 60495 10 52

Bizet, G. Children’s games, op 22 (1871). Consort of London. Collins 11412

Debussy, C. Prélude à l’après-midi d’une faune (1892-94) Lyon NO/Jun Märkl. Naxos 8.570759 10 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Wayne Marshall, org; Oslo PO/Mariss Jansons. EMI CDC 5 55184 2 35 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Trisha McDonald 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Humperdinck, E. Hansel und Gretel. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Adelheid Wette. First performed Weimar, 1893. HANSEL: Elisabeth Grümmer, sop GRETEL: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, sop GERTRUD: Maria von Ilosvay, mezz PETER: Josef Metternich, bar SANDMAN/DEW FAIRY: Anny Felbermayer, sop WITCH: Else Schürhoff, cont Laughton Girls’ High School Choir; Bancroft’s School Choir; Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan. Naxos 8.110897 2:07 Gertrud sends Hansel and Gretel into the forest to pick wild strawberries. Their father, Peter, returns home and tells his wife that the forest is haunted by a wicked witch who lures children into her gingerbread house in order to eat them. They go into the forest in search of their children. In the forest, Hansel and Gretel play until dusk then find that they are lost. The sandman comes, sprinkles their eyes with sand and the children fall asleep with angels from heaven watching over them. The dew fairy

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wakens them in the morning and the children see a gingerbread house. The witch comes out of the house and invites them in, offering sugary treats. She puts Hansel in a cage and tries to fatten him in order to eat him. When she demands to feel his finger, Hansel sticks out an old chicken bone. She decides that Hansel is just too skinny to be eaten and makes Gretel give him more food. Gretel steals the witch’s wand and loosens the lock on Hansel’s cage. The witch shows Gretel how to check the oven by sticking her head inside but the children shove the witch inside the oven which explodes. Hansel and Gretel’s parents find them and the children are full of repentance. Trad. The first nowell. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, sop; Denis Vaughan, org; Ambrosian Singers; Philharmonia O/Charles Mackerras. 6 EMI CDM 7 63574 2 22:30 POULENC AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Prepared by Gael Golla Poulenc, F. Elegy for horn and piano (1957). André Cazalet, hn; Pascal Rogé, pf. Decca 443 968-2 11 Honegger, A. Pastorale d’été, symphonic poem (1920). Bavarian RSO/Charles Dutoit. 8 Erato 2292-45242-2 Jolivet, A. Serenade for two guitars (1956). Groningen Guitar Duo. Ottavo OTR C49135 12 Ibert, J. Trois pièces brèves (1930). Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. BIS CD-536

Debussy, C. The engulfed cathedral, from Preludes, bk 1 (1910). Krystian Zimerman, pf. 7 DG 435 773-2 Stravinsky, I. Septet (1952-53). Charles Neidich, cl; Frank Morelli, bn; William Purvis, hn; Rolf Schulte, vn; Toby Appel, va; Fred Sherry, vc; Christopher Oldfather, pf; Robert Craft, cond. Music Masters 67158-2 11 Ravel, M. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques, from Five popular Greek melodies (1904-06). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Malcolm Martineau, pf. 3 Walsingham Classics WAL 8022-2 Milhaud, D. Concerto for marimba and vibraphone (1947). Rainer Kuisma, mar, vibraphone; Norrköping SO/Jorma Panula. BIS CD-149 19

THURSDAY 24 December Hoffmeister, F. Horn quintet in E flat. Nury Guarnaschelli, hn; Signum Quartet. Capriccio C 5059 10

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore

14:30 CHRISTMAS TIME Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Name the composer Be the first to identify the mystery composer and win a CD. All other correct answers go in a draw for a second CD: 9439 4777 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Brian Drummond Rachmaninov, S. Scherzo (1888). Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi. Telarc CD-80670 5 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 2 in G minor, op 22 (1868). Pascal Rogé, pf; Royal PO/ Charles Dutoit. Decca 478 3156-67 24 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 6 in D, op 60 (1880). London SO/István Kertész. Decca 417 598-2 46 Tchaikovsky, P. Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin (1879). Bournemouth SO/Andrew Litton. Virgin VC 7 90761-2 5 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

Prokofiev, S. Tröika. Mount Marty College Ch & O/Sean Vogt. Con Brio CBR21142 3 Finzi, G. In terra pax (1954). Jane Manning, sop; John Noble, bar; John Alldis Choir; New Philharmonia O/Vernon Handley. Lyrita SRCD.237 16 Humperdinck, E. The Christmas dream, from The blue bird (1912). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Virgin VC 7 91494-2 5 Lane, P. Three Christmas pictures. Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland. Marco Polo 8.225185 12

14:00 FIVES Prepared by Phil Vendy Roussel, A. Divertissement for wind quintet and piano, op 6. Daniel Wiesner, pf; members of Czech Nonet. Praga Da Camera PRD 350 018 6 Mozart, W. String quintet no 5 in D, alternative finale, K593 (1790). Louise Williams, va; The Lindsays. ASV DCA 1018 5

Trad. Twelve days of Christmas (arr. D. Gamley). Emma Matthews, sop; Sydney Philharmonia Choir, Festival Ch, Vox.

Sydney Philharmonia O/Brett Weymark (5 above) Ye great astonishment John Bell, narr.

Berlin, I. White Christmas (arr. John Moss). Emma Matthews, sop. Martin-Blane Merry little Christmas (arr. John 5 Whitney). Emma Matthews, sop. Trad. Deck the halls (arr. David Wilcocks). 2

Trad. We wish you a merry Christmas (arr. John Rutter).

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Polonaise, from Christmas Eve (1895). USSR Academic SO/ Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya MA 19303

Sydney Philharmonia Choir; Festival Ch; Vox (3 above) 5

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

Godowsky, L. Symphonic metamorphosis after J. Strauss II’s Artist’s life (1907). Earl Wild, pf. Vanguard OVC 4033 13

The many moods of Christmas, suite 2 (arr. Robert Shaw; Robert Russell Bennett). 10

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in D minor, Kk141. Elizabeth Anderson, hpd. Move MD 3078

Piazzolla, A. Three preludes (1987). Peter Waters, pf. Divox CDX 29103 16

Gold, M. Abigail’s song (orch. Ben Foster). Emma Mathews, sop; Sydney Philharmonia 4 Choir; Festival Ch; Vox.

Trad. O come all ye faithful (arr. David Wilcocks)

13:00 SCARLATTI AND OTHER KEYBOARDS Prepared by Emyr Evans

Bach, C.P.E. Six sonatas for fortepiano, clarinet and bassoon, Wq92 nos 1 to 6 (pub. 1780). Fiati con Tasto. cpo 999 508-2 16

Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in G minor, op 6 no 8, Christmas (c1690). Peter Hanson, vn; Walter Reiter, vn; Jane Coe, vc; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 437 834-2 14

Hely-Hutchinson, V. Carol symphony (c1928). Pro Arte O/Barry Rose. EMI 7 64131 2 24

Anderson, L. Sleigh ride.

20:00 CHRISTMAS FROM THE OPERA HOUSE Prepared by Peter Bell The many moods of Christmas, suite 1 (arr. Robert Shaw; Robert Russell Bennett). 11 2

Handel, G. Hail the bright seraphim. Emma Matthews, sop. 5 James, W. Silver stars; Carol of the birds. Sydney Philharmonia Choir; Festival Ch; Vox. 4 Sydney Philharmonia O/Brett Weymark (4 above) 4 A Christmas carol. John Bell, narr.

21:30 EVOCATIONS Borodin, A. In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880). Ukraine National RSO/Theodore Kuchar. 8 Naxos 8.557456 Slowly the day was fading, from Prince Igor (1890). Sergei Larin, ten; Philharmonia O/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky. 6 Chandos CHAN 9603

19:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan

James, W. The three drovers. Sydney Philharmonia Choir; Festival Ch; Vox.

Sydney Philharmonia O/Brett Weymark (5 above)

Praetorius, M. Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen. Vox/Brett Weymark. 4 The many moods of Christmas, suite 3 (arr. Robert Shaw; Robert Russell Bennett). 12

Polovtsian dances with chorus, from Prince Igor. Bolshoi Ch & SO/Alexander Lazarev. Erato 4509-91723-2 11 22:00 AFTER WORLD WAR II Prepared by Robert Small Meyer, K. Piano quintet, op 76 (1991). Piotr Salajczyk, pf; Silesian String Quartet. Naxos 8.573357 40 Penderecki, K. Symphony no 1 (1973). National Polish RSO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.554567 30 Górecki, H. Totus Tuus (1987). Holst Singers/ Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA66928 11 Panufnik, A. Violin concerto. Yehudi Menuhin, vn; Menuhin FO/Andrzej Panufnik. EMI EMD 5525 25 December 2015

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FRIDAY 25 December

David Garrett

Stephen Wilson

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

12:00 CHRISTMAS NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

6:00 CHRISTMAS MORNING BREAKFAST with David Garrett 9:00 LIGHT AND DARK ANGELS A miscellany for Chrismas morning Prepared by Heather Middleton

14:00 CHRISTMAS AFTERNOON with Sue Jowell 16:00 FINE MUSIC CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY with Stephen Wilson

Sue Jowell

19:00 JAZZ 20:00 CHRISTMAS EVENING with Nicky Gluch 22:00 CHRISTMAS LATE with Bob Gilchrist

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SATURDAY 26 December 13:00 FRENCH ROMANTIC Prepared by Sarah Cachia

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell

Debussy, C. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894). St Cecilia Academy O/Leonard Bernstein. DG 429 728-2 12

9:00 FESTIVITIES Prepared by Chris Blower Humperdinck, E. Festive music, from The sleeping beauty (1902). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Virgin VC 7 91494-2

Verdi, G. Throw down and shatter the festive decorations, from Nabucco. Ch & O of Teatro alla Scala/Claudio Abbado. ABC 480 7518 5 Telemann, G. Festive suite in A. Northwest CO/Alun Francis. Helios CDH88028 17 9:30 MINING THE MAJORS Prepared by Di Cox Tchaikovsky, P. Festive overture on the Danish national anthem, op 15 (1866). SO of Russia/Veronika Dudarova. Olympia OCD 512 A&B 14 Saint-Saëns, C. Caprice on Danish and Russian airs, op 79 (1887). Members of Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67431/2 11

Saint-Saëns, C. Allegro appassionato, op 70 (1884). Stephen Hough, pf; City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo. Hyperion CDA67331/2 5 Fauré, G. Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, op 80 (1898). Monte Carlo PO/Lawrence Foster. Claves 50-9102 17 Bizet, G. Children’s games, op 22 (1871). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. EMI CDM 1 66424 2

Massenet, J. Méditation, from Thaïs (1894). Michel Schwalbé, vn; Berlin Philharmonic/ Herbert von Karajan. DG 479 0540 6 14:00 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 15:00 CHRISTMAS ORATORIO

Delius, F. In the garden of the seraglio; Irmelin Rose, from Seven Danish songs (1897). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Piers Lane, pf. Hyperion CDA67594 5

Bach, J.S. Christmas oratorio, BWV248 (173435). Monika Frimmer, sop; Yoshikazu Mera, ct; Gerd Türk, ten; Peter Kooij, bass; Bach Collegium Musicum Japan/Masaaki Suzuki. BIS CD-9022-1/2 2:25

Kuhlau, F. Suite from Elverhøj, op 100 (1828). Odense SO/Othmar Maga. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9132 33

17:30 STAGING MUSIC with Angela Cockburn

Grainger, P. Jutish medley no 8, from Danish folk music settings (1928). Marc-André Hamelin, pf. Hyperion CDA66884 8 Nielsen, C. Symphony no 3, op 27, Sinfonia espansiva (1910-11). Pia Raanoja, sop; Knut Skram, bar; Gothenburg SO/Myung-Whun Chung. BIS CD-614/616 37 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Paul Hopwood Sousa, J.P. Untitled march (1930); Suite: at the movies (1922). Naxos 8.559059 20 The invincible eagle (1901). Naxos 8.572651-52 Royal Artillery Band/Keith Brion (all above) 12:00 JAZZ Saturday @ Studio A with Leita Hutchings

18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Sydney Schubert Society Prepared by Ross Hayes Schubert, F. Geheimnis an Franz Schubert, D491 (1816). Margaret Price, sop; Wolfgang Sawallisch, pf. Orfeo C 001811 A 2 Notturno in E flat, D897 (1828). Trio Wanderer. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902002/03 9 Schubert - Berio. Rendering (1989-90). Royal Concertgebouw O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Radio Nederland RCO12004 35 Schubert, F. The golden song, from Lilac time (arr. Berté, Clutsam, 1928). June Bronhill, sop; Thomas Round, ten; O/Michael Collins. EMI 3891632 4 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Herbert, V. Excerpts from Naughty Marietta (1910). John Pickle, Ted Christopher, Ann Marie

Wilcox, voices; Ohio Light Opera Ch & O/ Steven Byess. Troy 432 18 Excerpts from Orange blossoms (1922). Glenn Seven Allen, Natalie Ballenger, Sarah Callinan, Lisa Flanagan, voices; Light Opera of New York O/Evans Haile. Troy 1535 13 Excerpts from Sweethearts (1913.) Suzanne Woods, Cassidy King, Alta Boover, voices; Ohio Light Opera O. Troy 546/547 19 20:00 LEGENDARY CONDUCTORS Malcolm Sargent Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Sullivan, A. Overture to The yeomen of the guard (1888). Royal PO. Decca 480 1285 5 Wagner, R. Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59). Kirsten Flagstad, sop; BBC SO. Notes PGP 11019 7 Britten, B. Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell, op 34, The young person’s guide to the orchestra (1946). BBC SO. EMI 1 66442 2 17 Bliss, A. Piano concerto (1938). Trevor Barnard, pf; Philharmonia O. The divine art 2-4106 38 Bach, J.S. Have mercy, Lord, on me, from St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (1727). Kathleen Ferrier, cont; David McCallum, vn; National SO. Decca 475 078-2 8 Coleridge-Taylor, S. Hiawatha’s wedding feast, op 30 no 1 (1898). Richard Lewis, ten; Royal Choral Society; Philharmonia O. LP HMV ESD 7161 32 Malcolm Sargent, cond (all above) 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Smetana, B. Die Moldau, from My country (1872-79). Israel PO/István Kertész. Decca 476 2453 11 Mahler, G. Songs of a wayfarer (1884). Hidenori Komatsu, bar; Royal PO Hanover/Cord Garben. Naxos 8.554164 16 Suk, J. String quartet no 2, op 31 (1911). Suk Quartet. CRD 3472

Benda, G. Sinfonia no 6 in E flat. Prague CO/ Christian Benda. Naxos 8.553408 11 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 9 in E minor, op 95, From the New World (1893). Royal Liverpool PO/Libor Pesek. Virgin VC 7 90723-2 44 December 2015

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SUNDAY 27 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett 9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Piano trio no 11 in G, op 121a, Kakadu variations (1792-95). Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 438 948-2 17 Gade, N. String quartet in F minor (1851). Kontra Quartet. BIS CD-516

Poulenc, F. Violin sonata (1942-43). Chantal Juillet, vn; Pascal Rogé, pf. Decca 443 968-2 18 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Sheila Catzel Gluck, C. Suite from Don Juan (1761). Rhenish CO/Jan Corazolla. Christophorus CHE 0064-2 19 Albrechtsberger, J. Double concerto in F (1771). Fritz Mayr, jew’s hp; Dieter Kirsch, mandora; Munich CO/Hans Stadlmair. Orfeo C 035 821 A

Abel, C. String quartet in A, op 8 no 5 (1769). Salomon Quartet. Hyperion CDA66780 12 Pichl, V. Symphony in D, Mars. Oradea PO/ Romeo Rîmbu. Olympia OCD 434 18 Wagenseil, G. Cello concerto in C. Györgyi Körösi, vc; Salieri CO/Tamás Pál. Arkadia CDAK 130.1 24 Haydn, J. Piano trio in F sharp minor, Hob. XV:26 (1795). London Fortepiano Trio. Hyperion CDA66297 17 12:00 SYDNEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS Classic jazz and ragtime With John Buchanan

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Compositions of World War I Prepared by Gael Golla Delius, F. Violin sonata no 1 (1905-15). Susanne Stanzeleit, vn; Gusztáv Fenyó, pf. Naxos 8.572261 21 Prokofiev, S. The ugly duckling, op 18 (1914). Carole Farley, sop; Scottish CO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 760 12

Schumann, R. Fantasie in C, op 17 (1836-38). Jorge Bolet, pf. Decca 417 401-2 33

16:00 ITALIAN INSPIRATIONS Prepared by Denis Patterson

Arnold, M. Suite for two pianos, three hands, op 104 (1969). David Nettle, pf; Richard Markham, pf; Royal PO/Vernon Handley. Conifer 75605 51240 2 14

Geminiani, F. Violin sonata in A, op 1 no 1 (c1716). Locatelli Trio. Hyperion CDA66583

Scarlatti, D. Tinte a note di sangue. Kate Eckersley, sop; Iona Davies, vn; Peter Fender, vn. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9119 13 Torelli, G. Sonata in D for trumpet, strings and continuo (1690). Ludwig Güttler, tpt; Roland Straumer, vn; Heinz-Dieter Richter, vn; Virtuosi Saxoniae. Berlin Classics 0012892BC 9 Albinoni, T. Concerto in F, op 10 no 7 (1736). Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0769 9 Pergolesi, G. Violin concerto in B flat. Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer. Hyperion CDA67230

19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess Lalo, E. Concerto russe, op 29 (1879). Olivier Charlier, vn; BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9758 31 Berlioz, H. Marguerite’s romance, op 1 (1829). Susan Graham, sop; Montreal Symphony Choir & O/Charles Dutoit. Decca 475 097-2 10 Dukas, P. Symphony in C (1896). Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos. Telarc 80515 41 20:30 CHAMBER SOIRÉE

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle Carols from Brisbane: Star carol; Infant Holy, infant lowly; Sir Christèmas. Choir of St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane; Alan Moffat, org; Robert Boughen, cond. Lodestar 01 7 Carols from Montréal: There is no rose of such virtue; Today the Virgin; Dans les ombres de la nuit; Glory’s dawn. Choir of Christchurch Cathedral, Montréal/Patrick Wedd. ATMA ALCD 2 1017 10 Carols from Truro: The angel Gabriel; The truth from above; Angels from the realms of glory; Christians awake. Choir of the Cathedral BVM, Truro; Christopher Gray, org; Robert Sharpe, cond. Regent REGCD 281 9 Carols from Perth: O little town of Bethlehem; In the bleak midwinter; Hark the herald angels sing. Choir of St George’s Cathedral, Perth; Stewart Smith, org; Joseph Nolan, cond. Private recording 10

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

Ravel, M. Piano trio in A minor (1914). Florestan Trio. Hyperion CDA67114

Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 2, London (1913/20/33). London PO/Adrian Boult. EMI CDC 7 47214 2 43

Krommer, F. Partita in B flat, op 67 (pub. c1825). Rotterdam Philharmonic Wind Ensemble. Brilliant Classics 93759

Haydn, J. String quartet in C, Hob.III:39, The bird (1781). Henschel Quartet. Mediaphon MED 72.148 19 Telemann, G. Sonata in A minor. Jérôme Simonpoli, ob; Daniel Matrone, org. BMG Classics 29892-2

Brahms, J. Piano trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886). Macquarie Trio. ABC 472 668-2 22 Janitsch, J. Quartet in F. Parnassus Ensemble. Accent ACC 47806 D 14 Mendelssohn, F. Variations concertantes, op 17 (1829). Lynn Harrell, vc; Bruno Canino, pf. 9 Decca 466 437-2 Mozart, W. Quartet in B flat, K370. Israeli Wind Virtuosi and friends. Koch International 3-7401-2-41 16

Carols from Cambridge: While shepherds watched; Ding, dong! merrily on high; O come all ye faithful. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Ben-San Lau, org; Stephen Cleobury, org. King’s College KGS0001 10

22:30 NEW HORIZONS New music from Eastern Europe Prepared by Robert Small

Sumsion, H. Four preludes on well known carols: no 1, Adeste fideles. Jane Watts, org. Priory PRCD 775 5

Pavlova, A. Symphony no 3 (2000). Russian Philharmonia O/Alexander Vedernikov. Naxos 8.557157 41

18:00 SCARLATTI AND OTHER KEYBOARDS Prepared by Emyr Evans

Nielsen, C. Serenata in vano (1914). Bergen Wind Quintet. BIS CD-428 7

Scarlatti, D. Sonata, Kk380 (arr. Dodgson). Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Decca 425 727-2 3

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Meyer, K. Piano quartet, op 112 (2009). Piotr Salajczyk, pf; Silesian String Quartet. Naxos 8.573357 25

Svoboda, T. Clarinet sonata, op 167 (2001). Michael Anderson, cl; Tomas Svoboda, pf. North Pacific Music NPM LD 016 18

MONDAY 28 December

Mstislav Rostropovich

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: 1827 Prepared by Chris Blower Beethoven, L. Grosse Fuge in B flat, op 134 (1827). Cullan Bryant, Dmitry Rachmanov, pf. Naxos 8.572519-20 17 Mayr, S. Cantata for the death of Beethoven (1827). Talia Or, sop; Altin Piriù, ten; Nikolay Borchev, bass; Simon Mayr Choir; Ingolstadt Georgian CO/Franz Hauk. Naxos 8.557958 15 Chopin, F. Variations in B flat on Mozart’s Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni, op 2 (1827). Ian Munro, pf; Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn. ABC 465 424-2 17 Berlioz, H. The death of Orpheus (1827). Daniel Galvez Vallejo, ten; Northern Region Choir; Lille NO/Jean-Claude Casadesus. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901542 13 Mendelssohn, F. Fantasy on the last rose of summer, op 15 (1827). Simon Tedeschi, pf. Sony SK89233 8 Schubert, F. Der Lindenbaum; Frülingstraum, from Winterreise, D911 no 5 (1827). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Jörg Demus, pf. DG 447 421-2 9 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker

Peter Donohoe

Elgar, E. Overture: In the South, op 50, Alassio (1904). Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Exton EXCL-00029 21 Beethoven, L. Triple concerto in C, op 56 (180304). David Oistrakh, vn; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Sviatoslav Richter, pf; Berlin PO. EMI 5 66902-2 36 Mozart, W. Symphony no 41 in C, K551, Jupiter (1788). Vienna PO. Decca 478 5630 29 Herbert von Karajan, cond (2 above) 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 LEGENDARY CONDUCTORS Claudio Abbado Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Wagner, R. Overture to Tannhäuser (1845). Berlin PO. DG 474 377-2 14 Debussy, C. Iberia, from Images for orchestra (1905-12). London SO. DG 423 103-2 19 Ravel, M. Piano concerto in G (1931). Martha Argerich, pf; London SO. DG 476 114-7 22

15:00 SCARLATTI AND OTHER KEYBOARDS Prepared by Eymr Evans Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E minor, Kk263. Maggie Cole, hpd. Amon Ra SAR 27 6 Hovhaness, A. Fantasy on Japanese woodprints, op 211 (1965). Robert van Sice, mar; RTE SO/Colman Pearce. Etcetera KTC 1085 13 Mystic flute, op 22; Andante, from Sonata Ananda, op 303. Tamara Anna Cislowska, pf. Artworks AW010 6 Tippett, M. Sonata no 3 (1973). Peter Donohoe, pf. Naxos 8.557611

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Stephen Wilson 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY with Ken Weatherley 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson

Schubert, F. Mass in G, D167 (1815). Barbara Bonney, sop; Jorg Pita, ten; Andreas Schmidt, bass; Vienna State Opera Ch; CO of Europe. Decca 478 3640 21 Mussorgsky, M. Pictures from an exhibition (1874; arr. Ravel). Berlin PO. DG 445 238-2 32 Claudio Abbado, cond (all above)

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TUESDAY 29 December Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 19 in F, K459 (1784). London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Chandos CHAN 9256 27 Brahms, J. Symphony no 4 in E minor, op 98 (1884-85). Vienna SO/Wolfgang Sawallisch. Decca 478 5609 39 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 MUSIC OF WALES, THE LAND OF SONG Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies

Wolfgang Sawallisch

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Gwynn Williams, W. My little Welsh home (1950). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Welsh National Opera O/Gareth Jones. DG 463 593-2 3

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Anner Bijlsma Prepared by Chris Blower Chopin, F. Grand duo concertant in E (1831). Lambert Orkis, pf. DG 00289 477 8445 13 Corelli, A. Sonata in E flat, op 5 no 9 (pub. 1700). Frans Brüggen, rec; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd. Pro Arte CDD 291 9 Beethoven, L. Duo for viola and cello in E flat, WoO32 (1796-97). Jürgen Kussmaul, va. Sony SK 48076 14 Haydn, J. Piano trio no 44 in E, Hob.XV:28 (bef. 1797). Robert Levin, fp; Vera Beths, vn. Vivarte SK53120 16 Boccherini, L. Cello concerto no 6 in D (pub. 1770). Concerto Amsterdam/Jaap Schröder. apex 0927 49805 2 15 Anner Bijlsma, vc (5 above)

John Neschling

Finch, C. Celtic concerto. Catrin Finch, hp; Sinfonia Cymru/John Rutter. DG 479 0497 13

Miaskovsky, N. Cello concerto in C minor, op 66 (1944). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Moscow PO/Kyrill Kondrashin. Brilliant Classics 9240 27

Parry, J. Myfanwy. Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir. Move MCD 070 5

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans

Tomkins, T. O Lord, let me know mine end (c1625). Choir of New College, Oxford; David Burchell, org; Edward Higginbottom, cond. CRD 3467 7

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

Mathias, W. Piano concerto no 1, op 2 (1955). Mark Bebbington, pf; Ulster O/George Vass. Somm SOMMCD 246 25 14:00 SCARLATTI AND OTHER KEYBOARDS Prepared by Emyr Evans Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E minor (arr. Diaz). Alirio Diaz, gui. Vanguard 08 9003 72

Ibert, J. Little suite fifteen pictures (1943). Hae-won Chang, pf. Naxos 8.554720 16

Bach, J.S. Flute sonata in E, BWV1035 (c1741). Frans Brüggen, fl; Anner Bijlsma, baroque vc; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd. RCA RL 30426 14

Mussorgsky, M. Pictures at an exhibition (original version 1874). Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Philips 454 167-2 31

10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison

15:00 FEATURING THE CELLO Prepared by Frank Morrison

Goldmark, K. Overture: Sakuntala, op 13 (1865). Royal PO/Yondani Butt. ASV DCA 791

Svendsen, J. Cello concerto in D, op 7 (1870). Truls Mørk, vc; Bergen PO/Neem Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10711 19

Offenbach, J. Cello duet in C, op 49 no 1 (c1847). Andrea Noferini, vc; Giovanni Sollima, vc. Brilliant Classics 94475 7

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20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Stephen Wilson 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Robert Small Ibert, J. The ballad of Reading Gaol (1921). Slovak RSO/Adriano. Naxos 8.555568 23 Respighi, O. Metamorphosen (1930). Royal Philharmonic of Liege/John Neschling. BIS BIS-2130 29 Stravinsky, I. The Rite of Spring (1911-13) Jean Efflam Bacouget, pf; Francois-Frederic Guy, pf. Chandos CHAN 10867 32 Nielsen, C. Clarinet concerto, op 57 (1928). Olle Schill, cl; Gothenburg SO/Myung-Whun Chung. BIS CD-614/616 25

WEDNESDAY 30 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

14:00 FROM GERMANY WITH LOVE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Music of the 18th century Prepared by Chris Blower Geminiani, F. Concerto grosso no 4 in B minor (1735). Barbara Jane Gilby, vn; Peter Edwards, vn; Sue-Ellen Paulsen, vc; Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players/Geoffrey Lancaster. ABC 472 424-2 7 Zipoli, D. Organ toccata (1716; arr. Ginastera). Fernando Viani, pf. Naxos 8.557911 7 Locatelli, P. The plaint of Ariadne, op 7 no 6 (1741). Renato Biffoli, vn; Milan Angelicum O/ Newell Jenkins. LP Nonesuch H-71151 17 Boccherini, L. String quintet in E flat, op 25 no 2, G296 (1778). La Magnifica Comunità. Brilliant Classics 94386 18 Salieri, A. Oboe concerto in C (1774). Peter Lloyd, fl; Anthony Camden, ob; City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward. Naxos 8.554772 19 Veracini, F. Sonata sesta in A minor, op 2 no 6 (1744). Parnassus Avenue. BIS CD-945 11 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Rebecca Zhong Turina, J. La procesion del Rocio, op 9 (1913). Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos. Telarc 80574 9 Rodrigo, J. Concierto de Aranjuez (1939). Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 478 5669 22 Montsalvatge, X. Sinfonia Mediterranea (1948). PO of Grand Canary Island/Adrian Leaper. ASV DCA 1060 23 Márquez, A. Danzón no 2 (1993). Simón Bolívar Youth O of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel. DG 477 7457 10 Baguer, C. Symphony no 18 in B flat (c1790s). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9456 16 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale

Wagner, R. Prelude, from Die Meistersinger (1866-67). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart. ABC 462 013-2 10 Weber, C.M. Invitation to the dance (1819; orch. Berlioz). Sydney SO/Tibor Paul. ABC 442 377-2 10 Strauss, R. Dance of the seven veils, from Salome, op 54 (1905). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 434 716-2 10 Schumann, R. In der Nacht, op 74 no 4 (1849). Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, sop; Dietrich FischerDiskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf. HMV/WRC R 02333 5 Bruch, M. Violin concerto no 1 in G minor, op 26 (1868). Gil Shaham, vn; Philharmonia O/ Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 427-656-2 25 Bach, J.S. Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV565 (bef. 1708). Marie-Claire Alain, org. Erato 2292-45976-2 9 Brahms, J. Symphony no 3 in F, op 90 (1883). London PO/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557430 37 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Opera oscura: the Don in Berlin Prepared by Paul Roper Mendelssohn, F. Die Hochzeit des Camacho. Opera in two acts. Libretto by Karl Klingemann, after Cervantes. First performed Berlin, 1827. QUITERIA: Rosmarie Hofmann, sop BASILIO: Scot Weir, ten LUCINDA: Andrea Ulbrich, mezz VIVALDO: Huw Rhys-Evans, ten CARRASCO: Waldemar Wild, bar CAMACHO: Nico van der Meel, ten SANCHO PANZA: Ulrik Malmberg, bass DON QUIXOTE: Ulrik Cold, bass Aachen Youth Choir; Modud Novus Choir; Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel. Channel Classics CCS 5593 1:51

Quiteria loves Basilio but her father Carrasco has promised her to rich landowner Camacho. Basilio tries to rescue Quiteria from her engagement party when Sancho Panza announces the arrival of Don Quixote. Camacho is tricked into believing that Quiteria is promised to Basilio. Camacho learns this to be untrue but by now Quiteria and Basilio have fled, separately. They are about to be reunited in the woods when mistaken identity prevents this. At the wedding breakfast, Quiteria laments that she is to marry the wrong man. Basilio, believed dead, interrupts to claim Quiteria as his wife. Driven off by the families, Basilio pretends to stab himself and declares his dying wish to marry Quiteria. Comacho sees nothing to lose and agrees. The ceremony is performed, whereupon Basilio springs back to life. Comacho admits defeat and the festivities continue, with Basilio as the groom. Weber, C.M. Violin sonata in F (1810). Alexander Melnikov, fp; Isabelle Faust, vn. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902108

Mozart, W. Overture; Se a caso madama; Se vuol ballare signor contino; Non più andrai, from Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (1786; arr. Sartorius, c1800). Ayako Oshima, cl; Dennis Godburn, bn; Michael O’Donovan, bn; William Purvis, hn; Stewart Rose, hn; Marji Danilow, db; Charles Neidich, cl & dir. Sony SK 53965 12 22:30 FROM THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Emyr Evans Brumby, C. Festival overture on Australian themes. West Australian SO/Richard Mills. 9 ABC 442 374-2 Reich, S. Music for pieces of wood (c1994). Safri Duo; Danish National RSO/Thomas Dausgaard. Chandos CHAN 9645 12 Khachaturian, A. Suite: Masquerade (1941). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8542 16 Bowen, Y. Rhapsody for cello and orchestra, op 74 (c1924). Raphael Wallfish, vc; BBC Concert O/Martin Yates. Epoch CDXL 7263 24 Hovhaness, A. Symphony no 2, op 132, Mysterious mountain (1955). American Composers O/Dennis Russell Davies. Musicmasters 7021-2-C December 2015

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0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore

19:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Rex Burgess

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Sydney Mozart Society presents Mozart and friends Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC

Glinka, M. Serenade on themes from Donizetti’s Anna Bolena (1832). Bolshoi TO Soloists/Alexander Lazarev. Le Chant du Monde LDC 288 068 17 I know by mercy of the gods (1828). Yevgeny Nesterenko, bass; Yevgeny Shenderovich, pf. Melodiya 200 958-366 2 Septet in E flat (1823). Alexander Koreshkov, ob; Alexander Petrov, bn; Igor Makarov, hn; Alexei Bruni, vn; Mikhail Moshkunov, vn; Erik Pozdeev, vc; Rustem Gabdulin, db. Olympia MKM 76 20 Why are you crying, beautiful maiden?; I was bewitched. Nicolai Gedda, ten; Lija Mogilevskaja, pf. LP Melodiya/Eurodisc 203284-366

Overture and suite from A life for the Tsar (1836). Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian. ASV DCA 1075 34 10:30 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Paul Cooke Elgar, E. Overture: Cockaigne, op 40, In London Town (1900-01). BBC SO/Andrew Davis. Teldec 9031-73279-2 15 Henze, H. Concerto for oboe and harp (1966). Heinz Holliger, ob; Ursula Holliger, hp; Royal Concertgebouw O/Hans Werner Henze. Radio Netherlands RCO 05001 30 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 7 in A, op 92 (1811-12). Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn. ABC 461 920-2 36 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

Neville Marriner

Mozart, W. Il mio tesoro, from Don Giovanni, K527 (1787). Joshua Oxley, ten. 4

Walton, W. A wartime sketchbook (arr. Palmer). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner. Chandos CHAN 8870 25

Beethoven, L. Trio in B flat for clarinet, cello and piano, op 11, Gassenhauer (1798). Teije Hylkema, vc. 22

Handel, G. Te Deum for the peace of Utrecht, 7 July 1713, HWV278. Julia Gooding, sop; Sophie Daneman, sop; Robin Blaze, ct; Rogers CoveyCrump, alto; Mark Le Brocq, ten; Andrew Dale Forbes, bass; Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Parley of Instruments/John Scott. Hyperion CDA67009 18

Schubert, F. The shepherd on the rock, D965 (1828). Imogen-Faith Malfitano, sop.

Foster, G. Rhapsody: War, peace love. Grant Foster, pf; Sydney SO/Julian Lee. EMI CDMID 166264 20

Mozart, W. Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola and piano, K498, Kegelstatt (1786). Peter Jenkin, cl; Tony Gault, va. 20

Verdi, G. Pace, pace mio Dio, from Force of Destiny (1862). Birgit Nilsson, sop; Royal Opera House O/Argo Quadri. Decca 473 794-2 6

Dearest youth, from The impresario, K486 (1786). Imogen-Faith Malfitano, sop.

Holst, G. Mars, from The planets, op 32 (191416; arr. Sauer). Summit Brass. Summit DCD 171 8 Grainger, P. The warriors, music to an imaginary ballet (1916). City of Birmingham SO/ Simon Rattle. EMI 5 56412 2 19 15:00 STRINGS: TRIO, QUARTET, QUINTET Prepared by Frank Morrison Schubert, F. String trio no 1 in B flat, D471 (1816). Members of Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet Westminster RC 8808678121735 12

13:00 WAR AND PEACE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Bartók, B. String quartet no 3 (1927). Levon Chilingirian, vn; Mark Butler, vn; Louise Williams, va; Philip de Groote,vc. Chandos CHAN 8634 15

Mendelssohn, F. Overture and war march of the priests, from Athalie, op 74 (1845). Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi. Decca 460 239-2 14

Smyth, E. String quintet in E, op 1 (1884). Joachim Griesheimer, vc; Mannheim String Quartet. cpo 999 352-2 26

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Phillip Jenkin, cl (2 above) Beethoven, L. Adelaïde, op 46 (1795). Joshua Oxley, ten. 6

Phillip Shovk, pf (all above) 21:30 SOUNDS OF SAINT-SAËNS Prepared by David Rossell Saint-Saëns, C. Overture: Spartacus (1863). Orchestral Ensemble of Paris/Jean-Jacques Kantorow. EMI 5 55587 2 15 Drinking song of yesteryear; Nocturne; Violins in the evening. François le Roux, bar; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDA66856 11 22:00 AFTER WORLD WAR II New Year’s Eve concert in Vienna Prepared by Robert Small Various. New Year’s Day concert, 2015. Vienna PO/Zubin Mehta. Sony 88875035492 1:45

The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the December dates listed Abel, C. 1723-1787 27 Addinsell, R. 1904-1977 22 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 16,20 Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 2,20,27 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 6,27 Allworth, R. b1943 10 Andres, B. b1941 17 Archer, V. b1913 10 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 15 Ariosti, A. 1666-c1729 2 Armanini, M. 20th c 6 Arne, T. 1710-1778 20 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 3,6,27 Auber, D-F-E. 1782-1871 20 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 20,22,24 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 11,16 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 1,4,7,9,11,13,1 5,19,20,22,26,29,30 Baguer, C. 1768-1808 30 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 12,15 Barber, S. 1910-1981 22 Barsanti, F. 1690-1772 11 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 1,7,22,31 Bax, A. 1883-1953 8,13 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 1,5, 6,9,10,12,13,14,16,17,19,21,22,23,2 7,28,29,31 Benda, F. 1709-1786 19 Benda, G. 1722-1795 23,26 Benjamin, A. 1893-1960 1 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 2,3,4,23,27,28 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 5,15 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 13,18,20 Biber, H. 1644-1704 7 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 23,26 Bliss, A. 1891-1975 26 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 1,13 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 6,13,29,30 Boehm, T. 1794-1881 7 Boïeldieu, A. 1775-1834 13 Boismortier, J. de 1689-1755 6 Bolcom, W. b1938 12 Boldemann, L. 1921-1969 10 Bonporti, F. 1672-1749 2 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 2,12,24 Bortnyansky, D. 1751-1825 6 Bottesini, G. 1821-1889 11 Bowen, Y. 1884-1961 30 Bowman, C. b1972 3 Boyd, A. b1946 15 Bozza, E. 1905-1991 18 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 1,4,8,11,12,18,19,21,27,29,30 Bridge, F. 1879-1941 13 Britten, B. 1913-1976 1,8,22,26

Brouwer, L. b1939 19 Brubeck, D. b1920 1 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 16,30 Brumby, C. b1933 30 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 12

Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 15 Ginastera, A. 1916-1983 18 Glass, P. b1937 13 Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 2,15 Glière, R. 1875-1976 15 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 18,20,31 Caplet, A. 1878-1925 6 Gluck, C. 1714-1787 20,27 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Godowsky, L. 1870-1938 24 1895-1968 2 Goldmark, K. 1830-1915 4,29 Catoire, G. 1861-1926 14 Górecki, H. b1933 24 Charpentier, M-A. 1635-1704 4 Gould, M. 1913-1996 22 Chávez, C. 1899-1978 10 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 10,23 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 15,26,31 19,21,28,29 Grechaninov, A. 1864-1956 15 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 5,13 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 12 Coates, E. 1886-1957 17 Coleridge-Taylor, S. 1875Handel, G. 1685-1759 1912 26 2,5,12,20,24,31 Copland, A. 1900-1990 18 Hanson, H. 1896-1981 21 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 2,4,24,29 Hartmann, E. 1836-1898 11 Couperin, F. 1668-1733 4,8,18 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 Cramer, J. 1771-1858 5 1,6,10,13,14,27,29 Crespo, E. b1956 12 Haydn, M. 1737-1806 9 Cui, C. 1835-1918 12 Heinichen, J. 1683-1729 16,20 Heise, P. 1830-1879 12 Danzi, F. 1763-1826 4 Hely-Hutchinson, V. 1901David, Ferdinand. 1810-1873 13 1947 24 Davidov, K. 1838-1889 15 Henze, H. b1926 31 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 Herbert, V. 1859-1924 21,26 6,8,13,15,18,19,20,23,26,28 Hertel, J. 1727-1789 18 Delius, F. 1862-1934 1,27 Hindemith, P. 1895-1963 8 Devienne, F. 1759-1803 16 Hoffmeister, F. 1754-1812 24 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 22 Holst, G. 1874-1934 7,14,31 Dubois, T. 1837-1924 20 Honegger, A. 1892-1955 23 Dukas, P. 1865-1935 27 Hosokawa, T. b1955 13 Dupré, M. 1886-1971 6 Hovhaness, A. 1911-2000 28,30 Dussek, J. 1760-1812 14,23 Howells, H. 1892-1983 12 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 3,19,24,26 Hughes, R. b1912 9 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 1,5,19 Edwards, R. b1943 10,13 Humperdinck, E. 1854-1921 24 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 1,2,8,11,19,20,28,31 Ibert, J. 1890-1962 23,29 Enescu, G. 1881-1955 14 Ives, C. 1874-1954 22 Eybler, J. 1765-1846 18 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 16 4,10,12,15 Fasch, J. 1688-1758 16 Janitsch, J. 1708-1763 27 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 6,7,14,19,26 Joachim, J. 1831-1907 19 Fesca, F. 1789-1826 2 Jolivet, A. 1905-1974 6,23 Fiala, J. 1748-1816 7 Jommelli, N. 1714-1774 9 Finch, C. b1980 29 Just, J. c1750-1791 3 Finzi, G. 1901-1956 20,24 Fiocco, J-H. 1703-1741 2 Kalinnikov, Vasily. 1866Foster, G. b1945 31 1901 10 Franck, C. 1822-1890 14,19 Kalkbrenner, F. 1785-1849 13 Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 3 Gade, N. 1817-1890 12,27 Kern, J. 1885-1945 5 Garth, J. 1722-1816 5 Khachaturian, A. 1903-1978 30 Gellman, S. b1947 6 Khrennikov, T. b1913 17 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 2,27,30 Klein, G. 1891-1945 3 Gerrard, L. b1961 20 Kodály, Z. 1882-1967 13,22

Koehne, G. b1956 3 Korngold, E. 1897-1957 22 Kraus, J.M. 1756-1792 13 Krebs, J.L. 1713-1780 16 Krommer, F. 1759-1831 27 Kuhlau, F. 1786-1832 11,12,26 Lalo, E. 1823-1892 17,27 Lane, P. b1950 24 Larsson, L-E. 1908-1986 11 Le Camus, S. c1610-1677 18 Le Jeune, C. c1529-1600 18 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 16,20 Locatelli, P. 1695-1764 30 Lully, J-B. 1632-1687 18 MacDowell, E. 1860-1908 21 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 10,15,26 Marais, M. 1656-1728 18 Márquez, A. b1950 30 Marsh, J. 1752-1828 5 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 10,14,23,26 Mathias, W. 1934-1992 29 Mayr, S. 1763-1845 28 Medtner, N. 1880-1951 15 Méhul, É-N. 1763-1817 7 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 4,5,9,11,15,21,27,28,31 Messiaen, O. 1908-1992 3,17 Meyer, K. b1943 24,27 Meyerbeer, G. 1791-1864 10 Miaskovsky, N. 1881-1950 29 Milhaud, D. 1892-1974 7,23 Molique, B. 1802-1869 17 Montsalvatge, X. b1912 30 Moore, K. b1979 13 Morawetz, O. b1917 10 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 18 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 1,3,5,7,9,1 0,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,19,20,22,24,27 ,28,29,30,31 Mozetich, M. b1948 6 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 2,12,28,29 Myaskovsky, N. 1881-1950 15,20 Myslivecek, J. 1737-1781 11 Neruda, J. 1707-1780 23 Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 11,26,27,29 Nin, Chan Ka. b1949 6 Offenbach, J. 1819-1880 29 Onslow, G. 1784-1853 13 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 21 Panufnik, A. 1914-1991 24 Pärt, A. b1935 3 Pasculli, A. 1842-1924 8

Pavlova, A. b1952 27 Penderecki, K. b1933 24 Pergolesi, G. 1710-1736 27 Piazzolla, A. 1922-1992 14,24 Pichl, V. 1741-1805 23,27 Pierné, G. 1863-1937 9 Pinto, G. 1785-1806 5 Pleyel, I. 1757-1831 13 Porter, C. 1891-1964 12 Potter, C. 1792-1871 5 Poulenc, F. 1899-1963 4,6,18,23,27 Prætorius, M. c1571-1621 6 Pratt, D. b c1958 13 Preisner, Z. 20th c 20 Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 3,5,27 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 19 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 19 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 2,10,15,23,24 Raff, J. 1822-1882 4,6 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 7 Rathbone, J. 20th c 3 Raupach, H. 1728-1778 6 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 6,10,18,20,23,27,28 Reich, S. b1936 30 Reicha, A. 1770-1836 4,6,7,13,19 Respighi, O. 1879-1936 4,29 Ries, F. 1784-1838 21 Rieti, V. 1898-1994 19 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 18441908 2,8,12,15 Rodgers, R. 1902-1979 12 Rodrigo, J. 1901-1999 16,19,30 Rogers, B. 1893-1968 22 Romberg, A. 1767-1821 20 Röntgen, J. 1855-1932 20 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 14,21 Roussel, A. 1869-1937 24 Rutter, J. b1945 10 Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 4,13,14,17,23,24,26,31 Salieri, A. 1750-1825 5,7,8,19,30 Sammartini, G. 1693-1750 2 Sankey, S. 1927-2000 11 Sarasate, P. de 1844-1908 1 Sauer, E. 1862-1942 10 Scarlatti, A. 1659-1725 11 Scarlatti, D. 1685-1757 15,27,28 Scheibe, J. 1708-1776 12 Schmitt, F. 1870-1958 18 Schoenberg, A. 1874-1951 18 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 1,4,6,11,12,17,18,20,21,28,31 Schumann, C. 1819-1896 19 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 3,4,5,6,11,13,18,20,27,30 Sculthorpe, P. b1929 15

Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 5,7,8,9,13,18,19 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 3,6,8,13,14,17,20 Smetana, B. 1824-1884 26 Smyth, E. 1858-1944 31 Solère, E. 1753-1817 9 Somers, H. 1925-1999 10 Somervell, A. 1863-1937 22 Sor, F. 1778-1839 16 Sousa, J.P. 1854-1932 26 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 5,13 Stojowski, Z. 1870-1946 2 Strauss, R. 1864-1949 2,4,7,8,16,17,20,30 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 9,11,17,23,29 Suk, J. 1874-1935 26 Sullivan, A. 1842-1900 26 Suppé, F. 1819-1895 10 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 29 Svoboda, T. b1939 27 Szymanowski, K. 1882-1937 18,22 Tailleferre, G. 1892-1983 6 Taneyev, S. 1856-1915 18 Tartini, G. 1692-1770 19 Taverner, J. c1490-1545 13 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 4,6,9,11,12,18,21,23,26 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 6,9,16,20,26,27 Ticheli, F. b1958 12 Tippett, M. 1905-1998 4,28 Tomkins, T. 1572-1656 29 Torelli, G. 1658-1709 19,27 Turina, J. 1882-1949 30 Vaughan Williams, R. 18721958 1,2,10,13,22,27 Veracini, F. 1690-1768 19,30 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 26,31 Vierne, L. 1870-1937 12 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 19 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 1,6,10,19,20 Wagenseil, G. 1715-1777 27 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 26,28,30 Walton, W. 1902-1983 2,31 Warlock, P. 1894-1930 3 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 6,11,30 Westlake, N. b1958 10 Widor, C-M. 1844-1937 12 Zelenka, J. 1679-1745 23 Zemlinsky, A. 1871-1942 5 Zipoli, D. 1688-1726 30

Key Music duration is shown after the record and citation SO: Symphony Orchestra Orchestra bshn: basset horn

PO: Philharmonic Orchestra NO: National Orchestra RO: Radio Orchestra FO: Festival Orchestra CO: Chamber Orchestra TO: Theatre Orchestra RSO: Radio Symphony Orchestra RTO: Radio & Television

Prom O: Promenade Orchestra Ch & O: Chorus & Orchestra NSO: National Symphony Orchestra alto: male alto ban: bandoneon bar: baritone

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 elec: electronic eng horn: English horn 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 December 2015

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Owner and operator of Australia’s first community operated stereo FM station, 2MBS-FM now known as Fine Music 102.5. The Objects of the Society are primarily to broadcast fine music and operate one or more FM broadcasting stations for the encouragement of music. Another is to be part of Sydney’s cultural landscape networking with musical and arts communities to support and encourage local musicians and music education and to use our technical and broadcast resources to further this aim. Our mission is to be Sydney’s preferred fine music broadcaster. Member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. DIRECTORS Janine Burrus – Chair, Lloyd Capps – Deputy Chair, Andrew Dziedzic - Secretary, David Brett, Ian Dunbar, Jeannie McInnes, Simon Moore, Stephen Wilson STAFF David Sidebottom - General Manager, Peter Bailey - Technical Manager, Sue Ferguson - Financial Administrator, Michael Guilfoyle- Production Coordinator, Steve-Marc McCulloch - Program Coordinator, Dave Nolan - Sponsorship Manager, Alix Fiveash - Marketing Manager. COMMITTEE CHAIRS Programming - Chris Blower, Presenters - Ross Hayes, Technical - Max Benyon, Volunteers - Sissi Stewart, Finance – David Brett, Jazz - Jeannie McInnes, Library- Bob Hallahan, Young Virtuosi - Troy Fil/Conan Tran, Work Health and Safety - John Mitchelll FRIENDS OF FINE MUSIC ADMINISTRATOR Allen Ford YOUNG VIRTUOSI COORDINATOR Judy Deacon MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTION Sissi Stewart INTERNSHIP COORDINATOR Heather Middleton PROGRAM SUBEDITORS Jan Akers, Chris Blower, Di Cox, Colleen Chesterman, Susanne Hurst, John Nowlan, Elaine Siversen, Jill Wagstaff, Teresa White LIBRARIANS Jan Akers, Barbara Brady, Gaby Brown, Lynn Forrester, Valerie Haynes, Bob Hallahan, David Hieron, Helen Milthorpe, Mike Marchbank, Philip McGarn, Susan Ping Kee, David Richardson, Gary Russ, Mark Renton, Manfred Stauber, Ray Thatcher, Anne Wiseman. VOLUNTEER RECORDING ENGINEERS Peter Bell, Roger Doyle, Greg Ghavalas, George Hilgevoord, John Ingham , Alicia Limasa, Jayson McBride, Tim Saddler, Greg Simmons, Conan Tran, Joanna Wroblewska VOLUNTEER PROGRAMMERS AND PRESENTERS Andari Anggamulia, Matt Bailey, Warwick Bartle, Charles Barton, Peter Bell, Chris Blower, David Brett, Susan Briedis, Barrie Brockwell, Jan Brown, John Buchanan, Andrew Bukenya, Rex Burgess, Janine Burrus, Sarah Cachia, Sally Cameron, Lloyd Capps, Vince Carnovale, Sheila Catzel, Colleen Chesterman, Chloe Chung, Andrew Clark, Angela Cockburn, Liam Collins, Paul Cooke, Angus Cornwell, Marc Cottee, George Coumbis, Di Cox, George Cruickshank, Nick Dan, Kate Delaney, Nev Dorrington, Susan Gai Dowling, Annabelle Drumm, Brian Drummond, Andrew Dziedzic, Judy Ekstein, Emyr Evans, Michael Field, Troy Fil, Owen Fisher, Jennifer Foong, Tom Forrester-Paton, Carole Garland, David Garrett, Robert Gilchrist, Nicky Gluch, Gael Golla, Raj Gopalakrishnan, Andrew Grahame, Giovanna Grech, Jeremy Hall, Austin Harrison, Ross Hayes, Elizabeth Hayllar, Andre Hayter, Gerald Holder, Paolo Hooke, Paul Hopwood, Richard Hughes, James Hunter, Leita Hutchings, Anne Irish, Paul Jackson, Kevin Jones, Rhiannon Jones, Sue Jowell, David Knapp, Peter Kurti, Yvonne Laki, Ray Levis, Philip Lidbury, Linda Marr, Meg Matthews, Stephen Matthews, Randolph Magri-Overend, Sue McCreadie, Trisha McDonald, Jeannie McInnes, Terry McMullen, Maureen Meers, Heather Middleton, Peter Mitchell, Simon Moore, Frank Morrison, Michael Morton-Evans, Richard Munge, Gerry Myerson, Peter Nelson, James Nightingale, David Ogilvie, Josh Oshlack, Barry O’Sullivan, Derek Parker, Denis Patterson, Katy Rogers-Davies, Paul Roper, David Rossell, Genji Sato-Fraser, Marilyn Schock, Debbie Scholem, Jon Shapiro, Julie Simonds, Elaine Siversen, Robert Small, Manfred Stäuber, Garth Sundberg, Heather Sykes, Michael Tesoriero, Patrick Thomas, Anna Tranter, Madilina Tresca, Robert Vale, Phil Vendy, Richard Verco, Ron Walledge, Brendan Walsh, Ken Weatherley, Alastair Wilson, Stephen Wilson, Glenn Winfield, Chris Winner, John Yates, Orli Zahava, Tom Zelinka, Rebecca Zhong MEMBERSHIP The Music Broadcasting Society of NSW Co-Operative Ltd is registered under the Co-operatives Act 1992 (NSW). Annual membership fee is $22 and members are entitled to vote at Society general meetings. Enquiries - admin@finemusicfm.com VOLUNTEERS Fine Music’s many volunteers are supported by a small team of staff. To find out how to join our volunteers visit finemusicfm.com or call 9439 4777.

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PLATINUM PATRONS ($2500-$49,999)

Mr Michael Ahrens, Mr J D O Burns, The Berg Family Foundation, Frank Family Foundation, Yim Family Foundation, Mrs Freda Hugenberger, Prof Clive Kessler, Ms Aino Mackie, Mr Anthony C Strachan, The Garrett Riggleman Trust, Mr Ron Walledge, Anonymous 1

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Name:_______________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________ Tel:______________ Email_______________________________ To go in the draw to win a copy of Ken Herrera’s Aurora Borealis from Move Records, email your crossword answers to: competitions@finemusicfm.com by 23 December 2015

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1 Go easy on the piano part (4,5) 4 Player of loud keyboards starts a dance (5) 6 Start one choir arragement for instruments (13) 9 English encore (5) 10 The chant Olympians sing for their supper (9) 12 Do not abuse leading genetic profiler (3) 13 Short recipe ingredients for Praetorius dances (11) 14 16 down found our Bax composition (11) 17,21 French light music by Britten (3,13) 18 Spanish instruments for Italian fishermen (9) 20 Disco music hides a masque (5) 21 See 17 across 22 “Time!” says Herb (5) 23 Musicians play on model utensils (9)

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Pause to digest farm tea (7) I spread wild despondency (7) Fuel is able to be stored in it (6,3) Italian composer found lion frenzied with ecstasy ...(5) … when headless chook recalled Haydn’s 83rd (3) Gleans fragments for heavenly creatures (6) French encore (3) Abscond with blemish (6) Notation indicates drum accompanying overture finale (9) Employ topless 13 across (3) Some modes can transform accompaniment (7) Last men play bagpipe pieces (7) Be sly. Change Australian pianist (5) Sound Australian call for Russian composer (3)

CROSSWORD SOLUTION - NOVEMBER 2015

Across: 1 Catalyst, 5 Piston, 10 Playgroup, 11 Disco, 12 Ibert, 13 Denigrate, 14 Cor Anglais, 17 Lisp, 20 Orca, 21 Ophicleide, 23 Carpenter, 25 Unite, 27 Least, 28 Cognitive, 29 Enesco, 30 Crotchet Down: 1 Capriccio, 2 Trace, 3 Lightens, 4 Sword, 6 Indigo, 7 Toscanini, 8 Noose, 9 Spontini, 15 Ricercare, 16 Lipstick, 18 Precedent, 19 Flautist, 22 Celtic, 23 Chloe, 24 Reger, 26 Irish

The Crossword 72-76 Chandos Street St Leonards NSW 2065

MUSICAL TRIVIA WITH MICHAEL MORTON-EVANS How well do you know the world of classical music? Test your knowledge with these musical brain teasers from Fine Music 102.5 presenter, Michael Morton-Evans. 1. Who wrote the chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia? 2. Which German composer declared that the first eight notes of Rule, Britannia perfectly expressed the British national character? 3. Tchaikovsky wrote 12 characteristic pieces called The Months, each with a special sub-title. To which month did he attribute The Song of the Lark? 4. Which famous 19th/20thcentury German composer’s father was known as the “Joachim of the French horn?” 5. Who wrote the music for the 1927 operetta Show Boat? 6. What is the name given to the longest note used in modern music? 7. Tommy Dorsey is well-known as a 20th century American bandleader. What was his instrument? 8. In Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals, the march of which animals features in the introduction?

Tommy Dorsey

TRIVIA ANSWERS

1. Benjamin Britten 2. Richard Wagner 3. March 4. Richard Strauss 5. Jerome Kern 6. Breve 7. Trombone 8. Lions. 64

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Met Opera

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LIVE ON SCREEN

THE MET OPERA’S AWARD WINNING SERIES OF OPERAS CAPTURED LIVE IN HIGH DEFINITION CONTINUES FOR IT’S 10TH YEAR, FEATURING SIX NEW PRODUCTIONS, INCLUDING A MET PREMIERE, SCREENING CONCURRENTLY WITH THE NEW YORK SEASON.

TANNHAUSER

MANON LESCAUT

Johan Botha/ Eva-Maria Westroek.

Kristine Opolais/ Jonas Kaufmann.

Wagner

DEC 5/6/10 AT 11.30AM.

Puccini

APR 30/MAY 1 &5 at 11.30AM.

LULU

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Marlis Petersen/Susan Graham/Daniel Brenna.

Kristine Opolais/ Roberto Alagna.

Berg

FEB 6/7/11 at 11.30AM.

Puccini

JUNE 4/5/9 at 11.30AM.

THE PEARL FISHERS

ROBERTO DEVEREUX

Diana Damrau/ Matthew Polenzani/ Mariusz Kwiecien.

Sondra Radvanovsky/ Matthew Polenzani.

Bizet

MAR 5/6/10 AT 11.30AM.

Donizetti

JULY 2/3/7 AT 11.30AM.

TURANDOT

ELEKTRA

Nina Stemme/ Marco Berti.

Nina Stemme/ Waltraud Meier.

Puccini

JUNE 4/5/9 at 11.30AM.

Strauss

AUGUST 6/7/11 AT 11.30AM.

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