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MAGAZINE
50 YEAR MILESTONE
Willoughby Symphony Orchestra
AUSTRALIA’S TOP 40 COMPOSERS
Stephen Pleskun’s picks
CONTEMPORARY CONDUCTORS Gustavo Dudamel
J S BACH’S ORCHESTRAL SUITES
Academy of Ancient Music’s newest release
Australia’s FIRST FM STATION
Fine Music 102.5 turns 40
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Season’s Greetings from your Orchestra! Treat yourself or the one you love with the gift of great music this Christmas
2015 CONCERTS
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4 FEB A special concert in the tradition of the New Year’s Day celebration. Thrill to captivating songs from operettas like Die Fledermaus, Paganini and The Gypsy Princess, music by Viennese legends like Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, and of course Strauss, includes distinguished musical guests from Vienna Ola Rudner, and Elisabeth Flechl.
The Schumann Symphonies APT MASTER SERIES
11–21 FEB David Robertson will conduct all four symphonies in two weeks. Experience Schumann’s unique world of musical feeling, agility and exhilarating romanticism. Internationally acclaimed violinist Christian Tetzlaff will perform concertos by Mendelssohn and Widmann.
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Tristan und Isolde, one of the world’s great tragic love stories – sublimated passion unleashed, trust and betrayal, and a love potion masquerading as poison. Featuring a stellar cast including Stuart Skelton & Christine Brewer plus stunning visual interpretation by S Katy Tucker.
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Janine Jansen plays Brahms APT MASTER SERIES
18 – 21 MAR The Dutch violin virtuoso Janine Jansen performs Brahms’s poetic violin concerto. Then experience Sibelius’s unforgettable fifth symphony which moves with driving intensity to its blazing, unforgettable finale.
Romeo & Juliet with Bell Shakespeare PREMIER PARTNER CREDIT SUISSE
20–24 AUG With the help of John Bell and actors of Bell Shakespeare, Prokofiev’s heartfelt ballet score and Shakespeare’s deeply moving play Romeo & Juliet will come alive in the concert hall. A truly unforgettable, romantic experience awaits.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Dvořák PREMIER PARTNER CREDIT SUISSE
23–26 SEP “The queen of the violin” cannot get enough of Australia – and the feeling is mutual. Anne SophieMutter brings her peerless musical insight to Dvořák’s expressive violin concerto and his song-like Romance for violin and orchestra. Also on this program Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 (Eroica).
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CONTENTS VOL 41 No 12
2 COVER STORY The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s 2015 5 Academy of Ancient Music’s latest release 7 Contemporary Conductors, Gustavo Dudamel 8 Top 40 Australian Composers 10 40 Through the Ages 11 Flashback – Derek Parker 12 Early Days of Jazz on FM 14 2MBS-FM – The Founders 16 CD Reviews 19 Swinging on the Vine 21 Young Virtuosi 22 What’s On 24 Musica Viva 2015 64 Crossword and Trivia Quiz
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40 YEARS 1974 - 2014
Chairman’s Foreword Think Big won the Melbourne Cup, Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Ricky Ponting was born, Frank Packer died, the Brisbane River broke its banks, President Nixon resigned, Dutchman Willem van Otterloo wielded the baton over the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister, and Australia’s population was just 13.5 million. It was 1974 and, among other notable events, the nation’s first FM station 2MBS - took to the airwaves. At 12 noon on 15 December the ambitious community broadcaster was launched by an enthusiastic and dedicated group of amateurs who shared a passion for high quality sound and fine music. For forty years, 2MBS, which became Fine Music 102.5 in 2012, has been broadcasting to an audience that now numbers some 240,000 each week. The organisation remains volunteer-driven and community funded, and today there are 300 of us working across the station in many roles from reception to library to programing to presenting and much more. Three of our volunteers - Charles Barton, Max Benyon and Andrew Parker have been here for all 40 years. Elizabeth Barton, one of our early volunteers, who in fact met her husband Charles while working at 2MBS (attracted initially by a fine pair of legs apparently), writes in this special 40th anniversary issue about the founders of the station and Trevor Jarvie who was the leader of those passionate pioneers. We also hear from regular magazine contributor and broadcaster Derek Parker, who along with Dick Hughes and Maureen Meers are among our “living treasures” - octogenarians behind the mic whose energy and talent belie their years. Throughout the coming 12 months on Fine Music we will be celebrating many milestones of the station’s first year with special programming and events. But what we will celebrate too with great fondness is you, our listeners our wonderful, generous music loving kindred spirits. It’s thanks to your practical support through donations and subscriptions that Fine Music has been able to broadcast as Sydney’s only independent classical station for 40 years. Thank you! Peter Kurti, Chairman
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WILLOUGHBY SYMPHONY CELEBRATES 50 YEARS FROM TOWN HALL TO CONCOURSE
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Part of its longevity is due to the Willoughby City Council, one of the few local governments in the country supporting a professional symphony orchestra, and as a result, the orchestra brings a real cultural vitality and artistic maturity to the region. Audiences over the decades have come to know that attending a WSO concert is as striking and satisfying as many of the other professional orchestras around the nation. Although community based, the WSO has
attracted over 200 instrumentalists, 140 singers Rutter, Tamara-Anna Cislowska, Jane Edwards, and many of the leading conductors in its Deborah de Graaf, Geoffrey Chard, Lauris Elms, annual series of concerts. Marilyn Richardson, Charmian Gadd and ShuThe many renowned conductors who have Cheen Yu, to name a few. worked with the WSO reads like a Who’s Who Over its five decades, the WSO has of Australian music elite: Richard Gill, Simon commissioned new music, recorded, broadcast, Kenway, Roland Peelman, Wilfred Lehmann, and performed live concerts. It has been at Clive Pascoe, Leonard Dommett OBE, Johannes the heart of the local community and made Fritsch, Tommy Tycho, Myer Friedman, John its mark on the national scene as well. In Hopkins and Andrew Greene. the Bicentennial year (1988), the orchestra The internationally celebrated Australian commissioned Wilfred Lehmann to compose a conductor, Patrick Thomas AM MBE reminisced Festival Overture. about his conducting of the orchestra during Whilst much of its past repertoire featured the the period 1981-2002. great symphonies, there were many concerts Maestro Thomas was influenced by Darryl which also included oratorios, masses, requiems Miley (a program controller at the ABC at and operatic works, requiring a symphony chorus. the time), who convinced him to find time This came about when the Northside Choral in his busy international career to conduct at Society merged with the WSO in 1973, and went Willoughby. He remembers fondly conducting on to produce many a fine choral and orchestral some powerful concerts, such as the first time concert - most notable was the live recording, the orchestra played Mahler’s First Symphony. made in 2002, of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius. At a time when a lot of orchestras around the WSO is easily comparable world are going to the wall, Thomas believes with the specialist orchestras that “a first class regional orchestra such as of the ballet houses like Covent WSO fills a void”. Garden, Stuttgart and New York. It helps to build community, and this lauded Most recently, the orchestra worked with the conductor believes that the WSO has a great English National Ballet on its tour to Sydney last future ahead of it, providing it retains a strong year. The ballet company’s Principal Conductor, financial base. Gavin Sutherland was glowing in his praise “It is so important for Council and private of the WSO. “Not only is it a great-sounding enterprise to keep its financial support up ensemble, but in this discipline of ballet for the orchestra. When this happens, the accompaniment, which demands great focus orchestra will deliver on its musical excellence.” and pinpoint accuracy and interpretation of Along with a lineup of wonderful conductors the conductor’s (and, ultimately, the dancer’s) gracing the WSO stage, there has been a huge work, they have far exceeded any expectation array of leading soloists including Donald and have the right to list this skill as a natural Hazelwood, Carl Pini, Simon Tedeschi, Jane and instinctive one,” he said, adding - “In my
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Fifty years of performance for any music organisation these days is worth popping the champagne. For the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, 2015 will potentially be its very best year with a bumper crop of outstanding artists. Considered the best regional orchestra, the WSO won Orchestra Australia’s Best Community Orchestra Award for two consecutive years (2005-06). Beginning in 1965 as a novice orchestra, formed by the late Albert Keats, the organisation started its life playing at the Chatswood Town Hall. Whilst performance venues have come and gone (the Town Hall was demolished and rebuilt in 1972 and re-branded as the Willoughby Civic Centre), the orchestra has gone from strength to strength, and is now resident at the architecturally and acoustically superb Concert Hall at The Concourse. Its subscription series has been the WSO’s forte and is what landed the orchestra on its financial feet from the very beginning, with droves of subscribers from the North Shore and elsewhere, helping to fund its continued existence.
Korngold is perhaps best known for his lush film score to Errol Flynn’s captivating Robin Hood, and his Violin Concerto is quite incredible for its coupling of Hollywood heroism, Viennese charm and European elegance. When first released, the work was championed by the legendary Jascha Heifetz, and in this performance by the WSO it will feature the outstanding young Australian violinist, Doretta Balkizas, fresh from triumphant appearances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. One of the truly inspirational elements of the WSO is its Composer-in-Residence program. 2015 sees the acclaimed Australian composer, Elena Kats-Chernin take up this mantle. Born in Uzbekistan, she studied in Moscow, Sydney and Hanover. Today Kats-Chernin is regarded as one of the leading lights in the world of new music. Her styles almost defy categorisation, as her works range from rags to operas and full-scale symphonies. Her music has been heard at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and her famous and well-loved Eliza’s Aria, from her ballet score Wild Swans, was used by Lloyd Banks’s 2007 advertising campaign. A new work by Kats-Chernin (inspired by the music of Astor Piazzolla), Recollecting ASTORoids, will be premiered by the WSO in its June series, and will transform the symphony orchestra into a “giant tango band”. Australian pianist Andrea Lam will also perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C (the memorable work now always linked with the film Elvira Madigan), with Dvorak’s Sixth Symphony bringing the orchestra’s colours to the forefront. The major work for the Symphony Choir will be Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, adding its massive choral impact to the orchestra in its August series. Sitting next to the Orff will be another powerful and energetic work, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Two new works will feature in September, with a return of Kats-Chernin’s evocative piece titled
Mythic, and a work by the winner of the 2015 Fine Music Young Composer Award. As well, audiences will love the sonorous lyricism in Schumann’s Cello Concerto (with soloist Ruben Palma) and Beethoven’s Symphony No 8. Ending the concert series for the year is a spectacular recreation of the visionary Sir Henry Wood’s Last Night of the Proms, in which the orchestra and chorus will have listeners believing they are at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Typically, the thrilling masterpieces of Elgar (Land of Hope and Glory), Parry (Jerusalem), Handel (Zadok the Priest and Hallelujah Chorus), and Walton (Crown Imperial) will be heard, culminating with the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. And to finish what will be a remarkable year in the life of the orchestra, it will conclude its celebrations with The Magic of Christmas.
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twenty years’ experience of ballet conducting, the WSO is easily comparable with the specialist orchestras of the ballet houses like Covent Garden, Stuttgart and New York.” Extraordinary praise, which will undoubtedly build upon expectation as audiences greet the orchestra’s 2015 program, dubbed as “electrifying and intense”. In an ambitious offering, the WSO is embarking on a large-scale performance program. A Grand Opera Gala opens the series in February with the Symphony Chorus, and soprano Regina Daniel, tenor Matthew Reardon and baritone Alexander Knight singing arias, duets, trios and choruses from the great operas of La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, The Magic Flute, Carmen, Die Fledermaus, Lohengrin, Nabucco, Aida, La Traviata, The Barber of Seville, The Pearl Fishers, The Tales of Hoffman and The Merry Widow. A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium, Regina Daniel was the 2014 winner of the prestigious Dame Joan Sutherland Scholarship. She was also Young Artist for Pacific Opera and is an award winning coloratura soprano, who has worked with some great singers, such as Lisa Gasteen. Like Daniel, Alexander Knight is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium Opera School. He has sung with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and appeared in opera and in concert as a baritone. Matthew Reardon has performed with WA Opera and Opera Australia, and was a graduate of WAAPA. The winner of many operatic scholarships, Reardon is an up and coming singer - one to watch out for in future. In May, the second concert in the series takes audiences on a journey to the United States, with favourites from Bernstein - Overture and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man. Whilst these works are well-known to most audiences, another work - Eric Korngold’s Violin Concerto will be a new experience.
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Of course, this series doesn’t just happen. It is the result of a hard working team, who under the direction of the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton will create a year of extraordinary musical achievement. “I often reflect on the miraculous organisms that are orchestras - humans getting together to create a moment in time of absolutely stunning beauty,” said Milton. “It’s quite remarkable when you think about it, and I often think about this tiny miracle when I am privileged enough to stand in front of my fellow musicians in the WSO.” The transition of the orchestra from suburban entity to major arts body replicates its move from the former Chatswood Town Hall to The Concourse. And, it is from this newest of Sydney’s concert halls that the WSO inspires and engages its audiences and continues its stunning impact on the vibrant orchestral life of Sydney. - Barry Walmsley
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“The finest period-instrument orchestra in the world” CLASSIC FM (UK) Hear the sublime Academy of Ancient Music in a stunning new recording of the Bach Orchestral Suites, one of the finest works of the Baroque repertoire.
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BIRTH OF THE SYMPHONY – HANDEL TO HAYDN
J S BACH’S ORCHESTRAL SUITES
LATEST ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC RECORDING was a generous “ Christopher and immaculately spoken
musician who changed the face of early music in the UK and the world, Richard Egarr
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Founded by the late Christopher Hogwood in 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music grew in stature over 40 years to be held in regard as the finest period-instrument orchestra in the world. Under their current director, Richard Egarr, who took over from Hogwood in 2006, the Academy has recorded J S Bach’s harpsichord concertos and Brandenburg Concertos. Recent releases on ABC Classics include Birth of the Symphony Handel to Haydn and this year’s J S Bach’s St John Passion . And now comes the latest addition to the Academy’s lauded works - a superb new recording of one of the most iconic works of the baroque – J S Bach’s Orchestral Suites. “The Bach Orchestral Suites are pieces that I have been playing frequently with the AAM Richard Egarr. Photo – Patrick Harrison over the last seven years, and it was natural to amazing trumpet team). Our recording also I record them to follow on from our recording hope breaks the trend in recent recordings of of the Brandenburg Concerti from a few years the Suites to play the music at ever-increasing ago,” said Egarr. speed and with less and less musical content.” His approach, to use one player per part has created a wonderful chamber-music feel. “As Egarr says the Academy will continue with its with our Brandenburg recording, we decided to Bach choral music recordings and already has use ‘French’ baroque pitch (that is a whole tone the St Matthew Passion “in the can” for release lower than modern concert pitch) which is next Easter. certainly one of the options for the Orchestral Suites. The same goes for only using one player Grace, Clarity & Originality per part. I feel very strongly that pumping up In June, Egarr visits Australia as guest director of the string section causes all sorts of balance the Australian Chamber Orchestra to perform problems for these pieces. I’m lucky enough in their “Egarr & The Golden Age” concerts. The to have incredible players who are concerned collaboration follows a tour with the ACO in with creating a natural balance (particularly our 2012 which attracted acclaim, including from
Herald journalist Peter McCallum who said in his concert review, “In addition to his skills as a musician and engaging communicator, harpsichordist and leader Richard Egarr brings the keenest intellect and instinct to the shaping of melody and structure. The chemistry between this approach and the always responsive Australian Chamber Orchestra resulted in performances of glowing grace, clarity and originality.” Egarr’s 2015 program with ACO will feature Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen: Suite, William Lawes’ Consort set in 6 parts in C major, J S Bach’s Violin Concerto in A minor, Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto in D major and his Symphony No.44 in E minor. Hearing the music of Purcell and Lawes on the ACO’s burgeoning collection of 17thand 18th-century instruments will be according to the ACO, “Like travelling in time. Led by a master of historically informed performance, Bach and Haydn will be a revelation.” - Lizzie Herbert AAM’s Bach Orchestral Suites is available throught ABC Classics ON AIR Fine Music’s “A Tribute To Christopher Hogwood” goes to air on Monday 8 December 1pm.
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CONTEMPORARY CONDUCTORS GUSTAVO DUDAMEL
2005 and was appointed its music director initially until 2009 but this has since been extended to include the 2018-2019 season. He is also currently the honorary conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with whom he has been associated since replacing an ailing Neeme Jarvi at short notice. His first stint with the orchestra was at the BBC Proms.
Some people call him a genius. Others claim he was at the right place at the right time. Some claim that it is purely hype and spin that has made him famous. Whatever you choose to believe, Gustavo Dudamel is probably the most exciting person to have emerged in the classical music world since Pope St Gregory the Great supposedly invented Gregorian chant. I’m joking, of course, but you get my drift. Now 33, Dudamel has been conducting orchestras in the higher echelons of music since he was 18. His progression to the musical elite has been remarkable and although hardly known in this country he is probably the most sought-after conductor both in Europe and the USA. In fact, according to Alexander Briger he was one of the conductors considered for the Australian World Orchestra in their recent set of concerts in Australia but “he was out of our league” in terms of salary. At 23 he first came to prominence when he won the Gustav Mahler conducting prize in Germany. He was also instrumental in the late Claudio Abbado agreeing to conduct the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Dudamel’s native Venezuela.
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Both Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra are the product of Venezuela’s El Sistema. Founded in 1975 by economist and
musician José Antonio Abreu it is a national program that oversees the 125-plus youth orchestras in Venezuela. It is responsible for the instrumental training of between 310,000 and 370,000 children in its music schools with over 70 percent of its pupils coming from a low socio-economic background. In addition, once they become active members of the orchestra, the students help in tutoring the less advantaged pupils. Since its inception Abreu has created new musical ensembles from the original orchestra. In 2010, one of the offshoots, the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra with Dudamel conducting, received universal praise when it performed at the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Following its success it continued its trail-blazing musical adventure to great acclaim in Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid and London. There are now replicas of the El Sistema philosophy throughout the world, especially prevalent in the USA. As you might imagine Dudamel’s roots are musical. His father played the trombone and his mother was a singing teacher while Dudamel junior started musical life as a violinist. The pupil turned teacher, and he was soon giving lessons. Abreu himself realised Dudamel’s potential when he observed the latter, then only 15, directing the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra. Five years later Dudamel was appointed musical director of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. Dudamel made his conducting debut in the USA with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in
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Dudamel has also conducted the San Francisco Symphony (2008), the Stuttgart Radio Symphony (2007), the Vienna Philharmonic (2007) and the La Scala, Milan in a production of Don Giovanni in 2006. In 2011 he was named the Gramophone Magazine artist of the Year. But it is with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra that he is principally associated and with whom he has received the most recognition. They may be called a youth orchestra but, especially under the direction of Dudamel, they play with the mature confidence that rivals the Berlin Philharmonic or any other world-class orchestra. Incidentally it appears that the word “Youth” has been removed from the orchestra’s title following the comments from The Guardian’s Tom Service remarking that “….it is youthful no longer”.
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Dudamel is very philosophical about his own success and that of El Sistema. Quoting from one of Dudamel’s Deutsche Grammophon recordings (Gustavo Dudamel Discoveries - DG 479 0305 which also includes an illuminating DVD of how the orchestra prepares for the performance of Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony at the Beethovenfest in Bonn) he declares that El Sistema is “the most important cultural project in my home country. It has changed how people view classical music through the relationship it promotes between art and society. Being part of an orchestra when they have nothing else gives these children the chance to start building a real bridge towards the dream of playing with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra - or the Vienna Philharmonic. Little by little it becomes reality rather than fantasy.” He concludes: “Music is a human right. That is the idea behind El Sistema.” - Randolph Magri-Overend ON AIR - CONTEMPORARY CONDUCTORS Gustavo Dudamel - Tuesday 9 December 2pm December 2014
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AUSTRALIA’S TOP 40 COMPOSERS When editor Lizzie Herbert engaged me to compile this list, to coincide with the station’s anniversary, I became excited and daunted simultaneously. Selected from the more than 800 composers in the four-volume A Chronological History of Australian Composers and their Compositions (1901-2013) I must begin by making sincere and unreserved apologies to the more than 750 who missed out. Given my task, it is an unavoidable consequence. Ranking the composers is similar to ranking fruit: it would depend on personal taste, occasion, circumstance and season, so I have demurred from doing that. Instead I have approached this in the manner of a sports coach and named a squad I believe would compete successfully with the very best that any other nation could muster from their composing ranks in the last 100 years. The first lot of composers were the easiest to pick but the further I went, the harder it got. In the end there were nothing but line-ball decisions and the last dozen or so that made the cut could be replaced from a selection of many others who would not do any appreciable damage to the squad. In fact, with my limited knowledge of their entire output and latest compositions they may well enhance it. Such is the strength of Australian music composition; and it is something of which we should all be proud. Initially it was suggested I nominate a top 10. In deference to Australia’s favourite summer sport, I will go to 11 plus 12th man and manager as shown in the superimposed photograph of Australia’s first cricket team. I have indicated with an asterisk the seven definite starters below. It is now your task, dear reader, to complete the squad with six more. Early entries with the same team as mine will be presented with an autographed watermelon to enjoy during the summer months! For those of you who may wish to second guess me, the methodology I used to select this team is as follows: The emphasis was on the music itself and on all that I know of, and have heard of the composer’s output over many years whether through recordings, broadcasts or concerts. This immediately put some composers at a disadvantage; my fault...but it cannot be helped. I have to make decisions here and now with what I have experienced. Fellowships, grants, commissions and any other public or private bestowals were deemed irrelevant. Similarly, popularity, discography and amount of media broadcasting were treated as the distortions they are, and unconsidered. Composers whose main output was of a 8
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particular kind (piano music, woodwind music) were not treated as generously as those whose composition spectrum was broader, unless there were special circumstances. Credit was given to individuality, distinctiveness, technical accomplishment, imagination and how the musical material was wrought and presented. Composers with a substantial output of quality music received marginally greater favour than those with smaller amounts. Demerits were administered for unoriginality, banality, being too derivative or even technical accomplishment when a work sounded like it was composed by someone who had gained distinctions in all the A.M.E.B. Theory exams but was not showing much beyond that in their work. Banal arrangements of banalities incurred double demerits. After those considerations, a large part of the selection process came to this: were a composer’s entire corpus performed and recorded professionally who would I choose to listen to over and over for enjoyment, edification or in order to discover more insights into what music is. And further to that, who would I promote confidently on the world musical stage? So...following are the short-listed candidates arranged alphabetically from whom you may choose a further six to comprise the Fine Music ‘Team Australia’ of composers. Be assured that whoever your choice, it will be someone exceptional, that my selections are not definitive, and most important of all, please just have FUN with this: Roy Agnew: At a time when Australia was extremely provincial Roy absorbed, and composed with contemporary European techniques which he introduced to Australian audiences during radio recitals in the late 1930s and early 1940s. *Don Banks: Comfortable with any instrumental combination; fusing contemporary classical techniques with jazz and electronics, no finer, nor more convincing ‘Third Stream’ composer has ever lived. Arthur Benjamin: As was the man himself, Arthur’s music is stylish, classy, cosmopolitan and debonair. Anne Boyd: Composes instrumental and choral music expertly crafted, of immediate appeal, usually subtle and with a tasteful use of space. Hooper Brewster-Jones: A musical pioneer with a substantial body of work who used bird song as a basis for his piano compositions before the idea was contemplated by Messiaen. Brenton Broadstock: Technically assured, distinctive and engaging composer in the very many successful forms of music he has essayed.
Gerard Brophy: Continually producing interesting works in a multitude of fields that sometimes turn out to surprise him as much as his audience. Colin Brumby: Australia’s most prolific composer has an output in almost all areas including children’s opera and with an emphasis on the nowadays unfashionable writing of church music. Nigel Butterley: Composer of a deeply individual, personal music unlike any other and across all genres. Ann Carr-Boyd: Works assiduously mainly in the chamber music field and has produced a very diverse body of work that exudes charm amid its impeccable workmanship. Barry Conyngham: Accomplished in all musical endeavours, his compositions always have the enviable quality of being approachable yet modern sounding. *Brett Dean: Absorbing some of the latest musical ideas from performing in one of the world’s great orchestras under some of the finest conductors, he uses this knowledge to telling effect in all his compositions. Ross Edwards: Stopped composing for a couple of years to purge himself of music composition methods he no longer desired to use. Found the voice he wanted and forged the necessary technique to realise it. Mary Finsterer: Mary was scary, or at least her early music sounded that way: uncompromising, restless and relentless. She has put more poise and nuance into her work since then to display her comprehensive knowledge of every compositional skill. Andrew Ford: Possibly the most self-critical composer in this compendium, and that ensures high quality input in all of his output which he will allow to be presented. *Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Emphasising rhythm and melody over harmony, nobody understood prosody better than Peggy and no-one applied it better. Percy Grainger: Beyond the polished piano pieces and arrangements, his orchestral and choral music is outstanding, and his ‘Free Music’ pioneering. During the 1920’s he was the most performed ‘Anglo’ composer in Britain and his sheet music sales exceeded those of others. Fritz Hart: The most prolific composer of English ‘Art Song’ last century with over 500 to his name (and about 200 destroyed) he composed with alacrity similar to Schubert. Matthew Hindson: Facile and eclectic composer in any genre, highly regarded by his peers and always writing at a high standard of interest and excellence.
Claire Maclean: Pretty much limits herself to vocal music that is so exquisite it bears comparison with the very best from any time, any place. Richard Meale: Almost single-handedly introduced Australian audiences to the astringency of the European avant-garde before gracing us with music using lush melodies and harmonies. Richard Mills: Knows the orchestra inside out, writes dramatically and lyrically in a mainly diatonic language, and constantly expands any instrumentalist’s musical sensibilities. Anthony Pateras: One of the tests of a composer/instrumentalist is how well he/she can perform live. This lad always delivers...in spades. Andrian Pertout: Versatile, imaginative and prolific composer across the entire musical spectrum even with toy instruments! Commission what you like...quality assured. Andrew Schultz: Wrote rather pointillist chamber music before composing orchestral works of expansive and unfolding contemplation. *Peter Sculthorpe: Pioneering composer who changed the way that Australians and the rest of the world thought about and perceived music. *Larry Sitsky: Mysticism and extended techniques are forged into sonic architecture by a powerful intellect whose music rewards repeated listening.
Elena Kats-Chernin: Probably the most commissioned composer in Australia for some years. Can compose fluently to order and has had a substantial amount of her music performed, recorded and broadcast. Gordon Kerry: Master of orchestral, vocal and instrumental colour which he uses to great effect in all of his superbly designed compositions. Graeme Koehne: Caused controversy when he decided to compose what pleased him. Many orchestral players and audience members were also pleased. Others likened his position in classical music as similar to that of the Bay City Rollers in Rock. Georges Lenz: Fastidious composer of sonic constellations the like of which cannot be found in any orchestration manual. *Liza Lim: Forges a unique and fascinating sound drawn from Oriental and Occidental sources. Musically, Liza is no shrinking violet and her complex rhythms, instrumental interactions and ensuing astringent harmonies will not be everyone’s cup of Oolong. David Lumsdaine: Was a significant, and highly respected, member of the European avant-garde for decades producing some of the finest cutting edge music of the time.
Roger Smalley: Thoroughly versed in contemporary classical music techniques including serialism his music sounds wonderfully organic rather than contrived by formulas (even though they are often there). Margaret Sutherland: Of her own volition developed and cultivated an individual and distinctive musical voice out of her rather conservative English music education. *Carl Vine: Technically perfect, immediately engaging and challenging music in all forms. Always produces the goods. Felix Werder: An uncompromising modernist who stuck by his beliefs and produced hundreds of pieces of ‘hard listening’ music that were rarely performed until he won a quinella on the races and could afford to fund his own ensemble. Nigel Westlake: An exceptional instrumentalist who picked up a lot of compositional knowledge from plying his trade in performance. He has composed compelling chamber music and beguiling film scores. Malcolm Williamson: Eclectic composer whose music often features interesting and surprising juxtapositions inspired by his twin roles as cabaret pianist and church organist. Julian Yu: Multi award winning composer with a refined sense of instrumental colouring and form.
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HOW TO ENTER: 1. Choose the remaining six members of this Aussie Composer Squad 2. Email your entry to competitions@finemusicfm.com or enter online at www.finemusicfm.com 3. Winner will be the first drawn entry where the selections match those of Stephen Pleskun, editor and author of A Chronological History of Australian Composers and their Compositions (1901-2013). 4. The winner will receive a 2015 double pass to the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra Subscriptions Series at The Concourse, Chatswood. December 2014
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING FORTY
Fine Music 102.5 presenter, journalist, author and trivia tragic, Michael Morton-Evans muses on the matter of all things 40. When the famous Australian paediatrician Sir Lorimer Dodds turned 40 he was with his unit in the Western Desert during World War II. His wife sent him a telegram which read simply: “Don’t you dare!” She was of course referring to the old adage “Life begins at 40!” Where did this notion start? Well, in 1932, the American psychologist Walter Pitkin published the self-help book Life Begins at Forty. In it Pitkin stated confidently: “Life begins at forty. This is the revolutionary
outcome of our New Era. Today it is half a truth. Tomorrow it will be an axiom.” His idea was not entirely revolutionary. The 19th century German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, wrote: “The first forty years of life give us the text. The next thirty supply the commentary.” There were those on the other hand who claimed that from forty on it was all downhill! So given that Fine Music 102.5 – and its alter ego 2MBS – has reached her 40th birthday, is this the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? Well I’ve been doing some research into the number 40 and its meaning and I’m full of hope for the future. Well, I mean, just consider these facts….. for a start Forty is the only number in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order, that has to mean something. Then there’s the fact that, as keen Monopoly players will know, there are 40 spaces on a Monopoly board, so on your 40th you have to pass Go again. Then there’s the irrefutable evidence that 40 is the end of childhood and the beginning of adulthood. How? Well 40 is the highest number ever counted to on Sesame Street. Proof indeed! Now 40 is a very important number indeed if you happen to be Rumanian? Why? Well it’s the dial code for your Mother country and if you happen to be an inveterate catnapper then what better than 40 Winks?
But where the number 40 really comes to life is in the Bible. The religious implications of this neat little number are endless. Take Lent for a start – 40 days of not eating chocolate! Want to wander in the wilderness? Then follows Christ’s example – it’s a 40 day wander. Perhaps you’d prefer to be like Moses and climb Mt. Sinai. That’s fine, but you have to spend 40 days up there. Or there was poor old Noah who had to endure 40 days stuck in that ark. Can you imagine 40 days of animals two by two and the defecation problem? And I’m absolutely certain that it’s no coincidence that the Sistine Chapel is exactly 40 feet wide and is divided into 40 sections. Taking most of that, it would seem that 40 days was a time of trial and testing. So what have we been doing in the past 40 years? Trialling and testing, that’s what and I think we’ve pretty well got it now. So I think you can say that life is now beginning for us and you can safely ask your friends to become our “friends.” Oh and just one last word…. The Latin word forte means strong. We’ve reached Forte and are stronger than ever! - Michael Morton-Evans
A Chronological History Of Australian Composers And Their Compositions Volume 1 To Volume 4: 1901-2013
Researched, compiled and edited by Stephen Pleskun Covering a history of classical music from Federation through to recent years, this 4 volume set details more than 800 composers, 30,000 compositions and so much more. “This is the most comprehensive account of Australian Classical Music making ever undertaken…” Simon Moore, Fine Music 102.5, October 2014. Volumes 1-4 available in print and e-book through www.amazon.com http://bookstore.xlibris.com 10
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Flashback
with Derek Parker THERE WAS MUSIC AT THE STATION FOR THE WORD HAD PASSED AROUND…
Not too long afterwards I was driving up Chandos Street, and saw a sign announcing the 2MBS studios; so I stopped, and poked my head around the door - and that was the beginning of a happy decade in and around the station.
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I can’t honestly say that the building itself was specially attractive; it was “fit for purpose”, as they say - the bits that needed to work, worked - but there was a fine air of je ne sais quoi about the structure as far as health and safety were concerned: the stairs were clearly rehearsing to become a death trap, and the first time when, alone in the building at night, I mounted to the library and switched on the light a rustling sound accompanied the hurried departure from the floor of a large colony of cockroaches, making for their home in the convenient space between Beethoven, L. and Behr, F. (Incidentally, when 2MBS moved across the road into an ex-hat shop while the studios were being re-built, there were still unconventional visitors: while presenting Recent Releases one evening I was visited by a delightful pair of mice, who sat and listened attentively for three or four minutes to a new recording of Josef Suk’s serenade for string orchestra before vanishing, presumably to
go about the business of raising a new young family of miniature music-lovers. There was talk of a gynormous rat, but I think he may have been mythical. The station had been gratifyingly pleased when I suggested I might perhaps join the force. I had, I hasten to say, realised by then that everyone in sight was actually a volunteer - that is presenters, programmers, librarians, technicians, all, as they do now, worked for nothing; so I wasn’t going to make my fortune - I was just, I hoped, going to help out with whatever experience I had, and at the same time have a certain amount of fun. I can say that having fun was the easy part of it. “Experience” – well, um, ah. The only thing I was good for was to work as a presenter, which would involve doing more or less what I’d done in England for the BBC for the past fifty years. Easy peasy. I’d never had a problem with communicating on-air - in fact I felt more comfortable in front of a microphone than pretty much anywhere else in life. “We must get you on-air as soon as possible,” said the kindly gentleman who offered to show me “How Things Worked”. Yes, well, very nice of him. But the problem was that anything other than just opening my mouth and speaking was a complete mystery to me. Sitting in front of two banks of controls and four machines into which, presumably, CDs must be placed, I froze solid. See, all I had done for the BBC was open
my mouth. Next door, behind a glass panel, would always be a man who dealt with the fiddly bank of controls, a young assistant who put on the discs, and a producer who sat with a stop-watch smiling benignly and occasionally telling me how good I was. All I had to do was wait for the little green light to come on, and then speak.
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I found Fine Music - or rather 2MBS, as it was then - by accident, as I was driving to the office of Pickfords to ask whether there was any hope of their delivering our piano before Christmas (there wasn’t; and by the time it arrived they’d had it in storage so long that every single ivory fell off every single key). Fiddling, as you do, with the radio, I found myself listening to a station to which I instantly took a liking. The presenters were friendly and unobtrusive, and while it was occasionally evident that someone was not quite as perfectly in command of, say, Polish, as to be able to pronounce Wojciech ´Zywny with complete confidence, I’d had enough trouble of that kind myself to sympathise.
I looked desperately around. No green light, not anywhere. No producer. Nobody even to hand me the right disc. I can honestly say I didn’t panic. Panic would have been easy. What I did, was everything wrong. For several weeks it was a common sight to see a small group of people outside the studio trying desperately to indicate by a variety of intricate gestures through the glass, that I’d either forgotten to switch the microphone on, or to turn it off, or to press the button to start the disc or to turn up the volume.…enthusiastic listeners became used to prolonged silences, punctuated occasionally by sharp indrawn breaths, and once by a cry of “F@#*!” Ten years later things are different but still the same. 2MBS has become Fine Music 102.5. We still all work for nothing. We still have fun. I sometimes press the right buttons. Roll on, the golden jubilee. - Derek Parker December 2014
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FINE MUSIC JAZZ JUST A MEMORY
I remember it well. Sitting in front of a microphone in a cramped small room, feeling slightly nervous as I spoke about the music I was about to play on my first jazz broadcast on the new station 2MBS. Beside me, to lend moral support and guidance was leading Sydney saxophonist and arranger Laurie Lewis, one of the pioneer jazz broadcasters in the new medium of community radio. His help and advice were invaluable - especially during that initial broadcast. The track my listeners expected to hear was a 1955 version of Shoe Shine Boy from The Jo Jones Special, one of the classic albums on the Vanguard label produced by John Hammond. It featured three-quarters of Count Basie’s All American rhythm section - Jones on drums, guitarist Freddie Green and bassist Walter Page, with Nat Pierce, then considered the second best big band pianist in jazz, filling in for the Count. As I told my audience, Basie was a surprise visitor near the end of the session and sat in as the original Basie rhythm session reprised Shoe Shine Boy, which the Count and Jones had first recorded in October, 1936. It took only a few bars for me to realise that it wasn’t Shoe Shine Boy. I had played the wrong side of the album! Nearly 40 years have passed since that day but the memory lingers on. How did I end up in this small studio? Thereby hangs a tale: It was a time of the jazz evenings when a small group of friends would get together each month with their latest albums and share and discuss the music over a meal and consume copious quantities of wine. I had first heard of such evenings as a cadet journalist on my local newspaper in Tasmania when, while working, I would often listen to the late Eric Child on the ABC’s Rhythm Unlimited on a Saturday morning. He had spoken about taking the album, a track from which he was about to play, to a party the night before. The album was Bobby Hackett’s famous Coast Concert with Jack Teagarden. I can’t remember the track.
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Jazz presenter Kevin Jones with station general manager David James in the 1980s.
Nest to St Leonards and as I had an extensive record collection would I like to become a broadcaster. My audition was reading the liner notes of an album! Those were the days: when I would walk into the studio before noon and start the transmitter for the day’s broadcasting which began with jazz; the air of camaraderie, the relaxed atmosphere, the satisfaction of sharing the joy of music with listeners who had probably never heard many of the tracks I played. There were many updates on the panel as we moved into new studios; all learnt on the job as it were, the only way to do it. Dare I say it: it was fun, although I shudder when I think of some of my early comments on air: especially reading out the musicians - and complete personnel - in the lineups of some of the big bands when there really was no need to do so. For nearly four decades, on so many different time slots, I have been living a dream, playing the music I love to an appreciative audience. And if you made a mistake, a listener would ring up to set you right: Like the time
I attributed I Can’t Get Started to Gershwin George’s brother Ira wrote the lyrics but the melody was written by Vernon Duke. My faux pas ended in a phone call from an avid listener only too eager to set me right. As a boy, the radio and reading were my escapes from the boredom of growing up in a backwater like Burnie on the north-west coast of Tasmania. On Friday nights and Saturday mornings I was glued to the radio, listening to the variety of music coming from what we called the mainland - Melbourne and later Sydney. These were the green shoots which led to my appreciation of fine music. Although I sometimes fantasised as a teenager about having my own radio show playing my kind of music, I never thought I would one day be broadcasting jazz to a Sydney audience - let alone writing about it on a major Australian national paper during the autumn of my journalistic career and interviewing some of its biggest names.
My aim has always been playing music that has a wide appeal. Duke Ellington said it should not be categorised - music is either good or bad. Clarinettist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski, in an interview, told me: “Listen to your ears. Let them be the judge.” Former Basie blues shouter Joe Williams said: “This music (jazz) is not for everyone.” Maybe, but I lost count of the number of people I have met during my journalistic career, many of them women, who were introduced to jazz through Benny Goodman, arguably the most popular figure the music has known. I was lucky to be able to cast my musical net so wide and keep it fresh on air. Because of a strong Australian dollar in the 1970s I was able to take advantage of the endless albums from Ray Avery’s Rare Records in Glendale, California and Chris Wellard in London. Labels such as First Heard (Armed Forces Radio Service broadcasts by the cream of the big bands especially Woody Herman’s magnificent First Herd) and the cream of mainstream jazz on Black Lion (Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Ruby Braff and Earl Hines), Fontana (Ben Webster and Bud Freeman) and Famous Door (Zoot Sims and Red Norvo). Mainstream? The late Joya Jensen, one of the station’s early jazz announcers, once quipped that my program was very mainstream. Why not? The music swung and it was melodic and in the hands of some of the greatest soloists of the Swing Era, still formidable musicians in the 1960s, was manna to the ear. I was told by the wife of one dedicated listener when I rang to answer a query that when I was on air he was never to be disturbed. I must have been doing something right. It is with amusement that I often look at the lists of top 10 Desert Island Discs, not only because of the boredom factor in playing them endlessly if such a situation arose but the riches in recorded jazz which would have to be passed over. Take Ellington as an example: Billy Strayhorn’s Chelsea Bridge and the surging blues Main Stem would head the list of discs but what about Across The Track Blues, KoKo, Warm Valley, Cotton Tail, Concerto For Cootie, Take The A Train and Perdido - and that’s not even scratching the surface. It’s more like an exercise in frustration. As for building a jazz record collection - listen to your ears when finding a sound which appeals to you. Then use the “greats” as your foundation. I grew up in the best of times for fine music the birth of the long playing album in the 1950s when fine music was a premium before it was
brushed aside by the tidal wave of rock and marketing forces. My early record collecting was built on the foundation of three artists Ellington, Goodman and the Chicago jazz of guitarist Eddie Condon and his All Stars. The Duke led me to the small Ellingtonian recording groups on Norman Granz’s Clef, Norgran and Verve labels and to his roster of great artists who, as he told the bean counters, should be recorded because they deserved to be. With Goodman it was the big bands, especially Woody Herman’s Herds which resulted in an early appreciation of Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. The Condon groups included such former star big band sidemen as Billy Butterfield, Lou McGarity, Cutty Cuttshall and George Wettling which opened up even more new vistas. And this amazing journey of musical appreciation continues to this day as I find satisfaction in a new generation which includes vocalist Stacey Kent with her husband, the Getz inspired saxophonist Jim Tomlimson, pianist John DiMartino and the timeless tenor of Harry Allen. (Is that sirens I can hear in the background? Is it the “Jazz Police” on my trail with their contemporary cutting edge handcuffs?)
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would feature instrumentals, mainly ballads, and the cream of the best jazz and popular singers including legends like Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O’Day and Shirley Horn and the best of today’s crop - Diana Krall, Stacey Kent and Alexis Cole. And so began After Hours, a jazz-based program which in reality was a celebration of The Great American Songbook, the songs and its composers led by Gershwin, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The music which Tony Bennett recently claimed would be regarded as America’s classical music in 100 years. The stress of coming to terms with the whims of Netia (computer software) in those early weeks have been more than compensated by the overwhelming favourable response to the program from listeners during the past 12 months. After Hours, despite its demands on my energy and time, remains my most satisfying achievement at Fine Music 102.5. Others may not agree, but the station deserves a program of this stature and the listeners the opportunity to hear music of this quality.
Feeling increasingly mellow, I now look forward to the next 10 years with my kind of music which has always been my mistress. ..a cocktail of pain and pleasure.. - Kevin Jones
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But if there is one artist who has given me songs for all the seasons of my life so far it’s Frank Sinatra. Happy or sad, triumphant or humiliated, extrovert or dark, these neverending songs were signposts from my youth onwards. Happiness was personified by hearing him swing through Billy May’s arrangement of Come Fly With Me or South Of The Border and Witchcraft with Nelson Riddle. Feeling moody but mellow? I would try The One That Got Away (again with Riddle) or Gordon Jenkins’ chart of Autumn Leaves. Or despondent and downhearted after a broken love affair - and there were many - I would suffer, a cocktail of pain and pleasure, through I’m A Fool To Want You, probably Axel Stordahl’s greatest arrangement, One For My Baby (Riddle) or Jenkins’ 1959 take on the touching I’ll Never Smile Again, a big hit for Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey in 1940. It was Sinatra’s singing through this period that not only elevated his own stature but that of the classic American popular song. I mentioned earlier that as a teenager I would fantasise about having my own radio show, especially late in the evening in the style of Clint Eastwood in Play Misty For Me (without Frank Sinatra. Photo - William P Gottlieb the scissors and the predatory female). It collection Library of Congress. December 2014
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AUSTRALIA’S FIRST FM RADIO STATION THE FOUNDERS
At 12 noon on 15 December 1974 FM radio was launched in Australia by 2MBS-FM from a tiny self-built studio in Alexander Street, Crows Nest. From about 1971 a group of enthusiastic, forwardthinking men and women of varying ages, talents, ideas and occupations (including an oyster farmer, chocolate maker, stockbroker, retired naval officer, transport planner and academics) banded together under the leadership of an organic chemist turned university English tutor, Trevor Jarvie, to break down the red-tape barrier against the introduction of FM radio transmission. Their mutual interest was the love of fine music, which back then was only intermittently transmitted to listeners on the AM band. Pending the issue of a licence which had to be under the Wireless Telegraphy Act (because the Broadcasting Act had no provisions governing what the group wanted to do), Max Benyon, Graeme Tait and Grahame Wilson constructed two small FM transmitters. The licence was granted and a co-operative society (The Music Broadcasting Society of NSW Co-op Ltd – hence 2MBS) was formed. Having been given a room at Crows Nest in a building owned by Mr Shirley, an early supporter, the group then set about building the studio, the equipment having been donated or loaned by the Hi-Fi and electronics industries, except for the microphone which was the property of one of the group, David James, who became the station manager.
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One of the original volunteers of 2MBS-FM (these days Fine Music 102.5) was Elizabeth Barton who, in this article, walks us through the early years and introduces us to some of the great characters who were the trailblazers of Australian FM radio.
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It is difficult to outline personal histories of each member of this enterprising group because many of them were what could be named “behind the scenes creators of a destiny”. However, having met, known and become friends with some, I am able to open a few pages of hidden talents. Trevor Jarvie was the instigator of the commencement of FM radio broadcasting in New South Wales (and indeed in Australia). To quote, Trevor says of himself – “I’ve outlived most of my family (apart from the Cousin from Hell); 2MBS-FM is my main claim to my 15 minutes of fame.” Without Trevor’s vision, optimism and persistence, 2MBS-FM would never have been a reality. He even persuaded David James to give up a secure career in television to become the manager of a new non-profit organisation with almost no money. Trevor was commonly referred to as OBF (our beloved founder). Max Benyon, outside of his normal field of power engineering, master-minded the construction of the first transmitter, ably assisted by Grahame Wilson and Graeme Tait,
Neville Wran with founder, Trevor Jarvie
and has been enthusiastically involved in the design, construction and maintenance of later transmitters and our now state-of-the-art equipment. Charles Barton (then a chemist in TAFE, now a solicitor) worked with other technical volunteers (including Harold Downey and Gary Levin) in studio construction, had become a broadcaster by Christmas 1974, and is still a periodic broadcaster and recording technician. In fact, he is the longest serving FM broadcaster in Australia. Howard Cocks was an early broadcaster (which we preferred to call “presenter”) and programmer before leaving the station to train for the Anglican priesthood.
Who were our founders and what were they then doing in their non-volunteering creative time...?
Walter Dullo as a musicologist was also a founder of Musica Viva. Whilst at 2MBS he completed the unfinished F# minor and F minor
Max Keogh
THE FOUNDERS Trevor Jarvie Max Benyon Charles Barton Howard Cocks George Cromarty Harold Downey Walter Dullo David James Doug Keech Max Keogh Michael Law
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Gary Levin Charles Noble Andrew Parker David Rumsey Neil Runcie Lindsay Somerville Graeme Tait Phillip Weate Grahame Wilson Colin Wrightson
Electrical Technician Water Board Retiree Chemical Plant Manager Organist and Teacher Professor of Economics, UNSW Typesetting Sales Representative Post Graduate Physics Student Stockbroker Technical Officer for TV company Bank Officer
Neil Runcie was the foundation Chairman of 2MBS-FM, he then went on to become the Foundation Chairman of Radio for the Print Handicapped of NSW Co-operative Ltd (2RPH) and other similar ventures. Lindsay Somerville was a very early receptionist/supervisor. Grahame Wilson was a television technician and amateur radio operator, subsequently he became a manager of technical services at the Sydney Opera House. voiced his opinion when doubtful enterprises were contemplated. Max had also been a professional broadcaster and a respectable composer. Michael Law, a retired Radar Officer for the Home Fleet of the Royal Navy, was Trevor Jarvie’s right hand man for lobbying politicians and government agencies.
Max Benyon upgrading transmitter
Sonatas of Schubert, later played by Romola Costantino and recorded by 2MBS at the Clancy Auditorium. This was released commercially as MBS4. It is sad to note that in 1978 whilst doing what he loved (programming chamber music for broadcast) he died suddenly in the library in our original premises at Chandos Street. David James, a man of great imagination and a people inspirer, was the first manager and after retiring from his later work, is now back on the technical team. David’s good-humoured manner of dealing with this diverse band of volunteers was responsible for the smooth running of the station. While David managed the station, Charles Noble managed the office (one small room at Alexander Street) with similar tact and expertise.
Andrew Parker, a great organiser, every alternate Wednesday evening he still carries out the duties of what was once named “supervisor on duty” (SOD). As a chemical company manager (now a part-time physics teacher) he delivered at night our first printed program Guide to the GPO for postage, but in February 1975 when the printed Guide for March was delivered too late for postage, he exclaimed “No worries, why don’t we handdeliver them”. That practice has continued and is now carried out by 128 volunteers with significant saving in postage costs. David Rumsey, now living in Switzerland, was the first voice heard on 2MBS. As an organist he was recorded on MBS1 (our first commercially released recording, on LP of course) and several subsequent international labels. He was a respected teacher at the Sydney Conservatorium.
Doug Keech was working on a major transport planning study for Sydney. His Land Rover and a company truck comprised the 2MBS logistics fleet, moving everything from a cannibalised transmitter to a harpsichord and a radio mast. His home was the scene of several planning meetings, a Chinese banquet and a memorable first 2MBS wine bottling, as well as storing the station’s first (Bechstein) piano during the upgrade of Studio C. Doug ran the computerisation of our subscriber mailing list (punch cards in those days!), allowing the development of our unique volunteer guide delivery system, and data entry sheets for computerising the catalogue of the station’s growing (vinyl) record collection. Max Keogh, with his pipe which tinged his thick grey/white beard was a man of ideas and
Unfortunately, five of these our founders are deceased - George Cromarty, Walter Dullo, Max Keogh, Michael Law and Charles Noble. On the happier side, two of our then and now volunteers, Max Benyon and Charles Barton, have had their life achievements recognised with the OAM.
Charles Barton with wife-to-be Elizabeth Buckley
There were those who made valuable contributions but for various reasons were not able to continue through to the launch of 2MBS in December 1974, including Ken Farrand (the oyster farmer), Wendy Garvin, Pam Mitchell and others. It gives me great pleasure to be part of an organisation which commenced as a dream and is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. There are now about 270 volunteers and seven staff. Four of the founders are still volunteers. There is no doubt about it - as David James put it when manager, by way of a stamp manufactured by Lindsay Somerville - “This is a do-it-yourself radio station” -throwing in ideas and working on ideas keeps 2MBS-FM, now known as Fine Music 102.5, alive and well.
David Rumsey
This is a brief outline of the people involved in 1974 and before. The full history is the subject of a book in preparation by David Garrett, another early volunteer who is still broadcasting regularly. - Elizabeth Barton December 2014
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CD Reviews
YOU MEAN THE WORLD TO ME Jonas Kaufmann, tenor with contributions from Julia Kleiter, soprano Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Jochen Reider Sony Classical
THE ESSENTIAL JAMES GALWAY James Galway - flute, with various orchestras Double CD, Sony Classical Hands up those who’ve never heard of James Galway? Not many, of course. In fact you would probably have been living in splendid isolation in a Filipino rain forest and not realised that the Second World War had ceased (forgive the long sentence), not to have heard of him. This “essential” album is hardly new, however. It is made up of tracks he recorded many moons ago and some even before that. As you’ve probably already guessed, it’s an anniversary issue - Galway’s 75th birthday - and in it he displays his usual virtuosity and lyricism. Alas,
BLOCH: PIANO QUINTETS Goldner String Quartet and Piers Lane, piano Hyperion CDA67638
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Regardless of the current stature of Jonas Kaufmann this album is one you either love or one you’ll give a shrug-the-shoulder treatment to. It’s the type of CD that one person would send to impress another or one that suitors, separated by countless miles, would share because it is schmaltzy and crammed full of nostalgia. The title says it all. And yet, it is that sense of longing and harking back to yesteryear that is almost this album’s failing. More in a moment. The songs can be narrowed down to the music Franz Lehar wrote for Richard Tauber, Tauber wrote for himself and in general mirrors the musical mood that existed in the recession years between 1925 and 1935. It is reminiscent of megaphones, when crooning was taking a foothold and when the
voices singers used could be likened to singing sotto-voce to prevent neighbours from banging on the walls. There are exceptions: My Song Goes Round the World, made famous by Josef Schmidt, has a direct quality; Kunneke’s Das Lied vom Leben des Schrenk is almost operatic and there are also two versions, one in English and the other in French of Dein ist Mein Ganzes Herz. I still prefer the Domingo version sung in German. But the real show-stopper is the evocative duet between Kaufmann and soprano Julia Kleiter of Korngold’s Gluck Das Mir Verblieb from “Die tote Stadt”. It’s a dreamy piece sung with ardour and an irresistible heart-tugging romanticism. Even I was moved. Must be almost Christmas! - Randolph Magri-Overend
there’s more lyricism than aplomb, meaning most of the tunes he plays are of the more languorous type than the ones that wake you up with “fuoco con brios” or even “allegros”. There are the standards that Galway himself has popularised – Danny Boy, Annie’s Song, Henry Mancini’s Cameo for Flute and even Waltzing Matilda - but the rest are so well known you become oblivious to them after a while. But this does not diminish in any way the impact that Galway has made on the music industry. Since he departed von Karajan’s Berlin Philharmonic as their chief whistle-blower in 1975 he has sold 30 million albums and toured extensively. His magic golden flute has piedpiped many of us from birth to adulthood (and beyond) and this album will ensure
that those who follow will also be charmed by his talent. Happy Birthday Sir James! - RMO
The music of Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) is not heard as much now as it was fifty years ago, possibly because it is difficult to categorise. Bloch was born in Switzerland, spent most of his active life in the United States and attempted to express in his music his Jewish background. But there is little that is Swiss, American or Jewish in this music. In fact, Bloch seems to have been a deeply original composer whose music has no obvious antecedents. Critics agree that the Piano Quintet No 1 (1921) is possibly his finest work. Like much of Bloch’s music, it is dense in texture and structure, deeply emotional and highly concentrated, although it lasts over thirty minutes. It is a finer work than the Quintet No2 (1957). The latter is somewhat
lighter in mood, lasts only eighteen minutes, but does have some fine pages. The other works on the disc, all for string quartet, are short and add nothing of great substance to the program. The three Paysages (Landscapes) depict the frozen north, Switzerland and the Pacific islands. Having spent some years in the latter area, I did not find Bloch’s evocation of it convincing. The Goldners and Piers Lane, who are doing a very thorough job of exploring the byways of chamber music for Hyperion, give excellent accounts of all the works on the disc. - Richard Gate
CD Reviews
TANEYEV – PIANO QUINTET IN G MINOR Op 30 ARENSKY – PIANO QUINTET IN D MAJOR Op 51 Goldner String Quartet and Piers Lane, piano Hyperion CDA 67965
BIRDSONG AT DUSK William Barton ABC Classics 359614 Acclaimed didgeridoo soloist William Barton parades his multitude of talents in his latest release. Barton once again succeeds in conjuring the strident Australian landscape through his musical language. In the same vein as Sculthorpe’s Earth Cry, (for which Barton is often soloist) he seeks to marry two very complex sounds; that of the ancient didgeridoo and the more structured restrained world of classical music. In his program notes, Barton talks of the importance of balancing elements from both histories, accurately notating and articulating for the chamber musicians, but allowing room to improvise freely. For this very
MAHLER - SYMPHONY NO 1, STRAVINSKY - THE RITE OF SPRING Australia World Orchestra, Zubin Mehta ABC Classics 359622
The Russian composers Taneyev (1856-1915) and Arensky (1861-1906) have been overshadowed by the nationalists surrounding RimskyKorsakoff and Mussorgsky and the genius of Tchaikovsky. Their neglect may be partly due to the fact that their music is not written in the Russian idiom. Both works were written under the influence of Nicholas and Anton Rubinstein and their efforts to found a “cosmopolitan” style of chamber music in Russia. The idiom of both quintets is more Germanic than anything else; Taneyev (like Medtner) has been called “the Russian Brahms”. Taneyev’s quintet (which lasts 44 minutes) is a grand and ambitious affair which, on the whole, lives up to its pretentions. The first and last movements are both complex and elaborate and the two middle movements reason, the live tracks have the most impact. The strength of communication that occurs between improvisers is palpable. The addition of guitar (also played by Barton) adds a more popular sound for Dreamtime Duet. The lack of traditional major harmonies adds an ominous tone to the entire record, and each piece is infused with an anxious and energetic quality. The title track Birdsong at Dusk, is a lengthy experimentation between didgeridoo and traditional string quartet. Employing both lyrical and extended string technique, each part is played brilliantly by the Kurilpa String Quartet. Some of the more exposed violin intervals in Birdsong are reminiscent of Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Barton says that he wrote the work on the ocean’s edge in Mackay and so this likeness is fitting. Both composers use their native musical language This double disc release is the first realisation by the Australia World Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, performing at the Victorian Arts Centre. The recording is a truly professional reading and interpretation of two of the concert staples, when it comes to the expansive use of a large orchestra. The colourful horn calls in the first movement are counter balanced with the sparseness of the string writing and the richness of the woodwinds especially in the lower registers. The inclusion of the Blumine movement is innovative, giving the listener an insight into his original thoughts at this point of the symphony. The inner movements provide an interlude to the rampaging, forceful finale. Mahler has “unleashed the beast” and the enthusiasm
attractive. Arensky’s quintet, which lasts only 23 minutes, is somewhat more immediately enjoyable, possibly because Arensky was a better melodist than Taneyev. Although Taneyev’s symphonie (especially the first), which have been recorded at various times, are well worth getting to know, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the Russian nationalists and Tchaikovsky wrote music that is of more lasting value and interest than the works of the “cosmopolitan” school, however attractive these latter might be. The quintets have difficult piano parts which are executed brilliantly by Piers Lane and the string playing is equally accomplished. - RG
to evoke the unique landscape before them. This is overall an unusual and interesting collaboration. – Sascha Kelly
of the audience is reflective of a fresh, bright and vivid account of this masterpiece. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring is a perfect partner. From the sublime opening bassoon solo through to the violent syncopation of the strings in Danse de Adolescentes the AWO displays its talent for tackling such a complex and difficult score with professionalism and virtuosity. This continues right through to the Danse Sacrale where Stravinsky’s magnificent blending of orchestral colours brings this banal, ritualistic ballet score to its inevitable conclusion. This is the best disc that I listened to all year and I eagerly await the next collaboration. - Frank Shostakovic December 2014
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JAZZ CD REVIEWS Discourse with Kevin Jones
FLYING OVER RIO Harry Allen’s All Star Band Arbors ARCD19425 It is 50 years since Stan Getz’s The Girl From Ipanema toppled The Beatles from the top of the American music charts - a rarity for anybody then, let alone a jazz musician although Louis Armstrong would do it with Hello Dolly. It was also a phenomenon: the intermingling of Brazilian music and jazz popularised by a Jewish saxophonist from the Bronx in New York of Ukrainian-Russian ancestry. Harry Allen is no stranger to the sound of one of the true titans of the jazz tenor saxophone which is why in his celebration of the remarkable bossa nova era his tone is light, liquid and, dare I say it, lovely.
COLEMAN HAWKINS The Hawk Relaxes Prestige/Moodsville PRCD-8106-2
CLOSE TO YOU AND MORE Frank Sinatra Capitol 72435 33743 2 7 Recorded over four sessions from March to October, 1956, with the gifted arranger Nelson Riddle, this album with the Hollywood String Quartet is one of the very best of Frank Sinatra’s “fabulous 16” concept albums he recorded for Capitol Records from 1953 to 1960. A concept album is a collection of songs built around a single theme or mood which Sinatra helped pioneer in 1946 with Axel Stordahl, his best arranger during his years with Columbia Records. Close To You was squeezed between two of Sinatra’s three masterpieces - In The Wee Small Hours (1955) and Songs 18
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His version of Ipanema opens with Guilherme Monteiro’s guitar slightly embroidering the familiar melody but still making it sound fresh. From all accounts Allen was very happy with this version. All the numbers, a mixture of Brazilian music, standards and originals, had been played regularly for some time by Allen with this Latin group. Monteiro, who had been playing guitar since the age of 15, was a late addition - and a plus - for the recording date which also highlights Klaus Mueller’s piano playing and the light-fingered bass of Nilson Matta. The impressive Maucha Audnet, who sings in both Portuguese and English, was one of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s favourite vocalists and sang with him in his final 10 years as an artist. Pianist Bill Charlap once quipped that she could sing the phone book and it would In 1961 when this valuable reissue was recorded, Down Beat magazine gave the jazz critics in its annual poll the opportunity to vote for their initial Hall of Fame winner. Not surprisingly they chose Coleman Hawkins, one of the two fountainheads of the tenor saxophone (Lester Young was the other). Eight years later Hawkins would be gone but this session, part of the label’s Moodsville series, shows the old master’s playing with its grace, depth and beauty still distills the essence of jazz balladry. This is ballad playing at its finest, Hawkins gliding through chorus after chorus on some of the gems from The Great American Songbook. Leading American critic John S. Wilson had two words to describe Hawkins in such form - “subtle magic”. Hawkins is also For Swingin’ Lovers (1956); the third was his greatest, Only The Lonely (1958). Despite the unusual instrumentation, Riddle excelled himself with some of his most imaginative writing for the small ensemble. At times the charts are melancholy and reflective but all have an overtone of beauty which Sinatra complemented with definitive performances of such great American songs as Rodgers and Hart’s It’s Easy to Remember and Oscar Levant’s Blame It On My Youth. Listen to how he transforms a popular trifle like P.S. I Love You into something of substance. It highlights the genius of Sinatra’s art - his ability to take a song and expose its melody, lyrics and feeling. His sculpturing of musical material has never been matched. This is a classic ballad album made even better by the addition of three numbers
sound great. This material is better than that as the superb Allen, shows especially on the title track by drummer Duduku Da Fonseca.
complemented beautifully by guitarist Kenny Burrell, another musician with an appreciation and understanding of ballads; sensitive and imaginative sum up his contributions to the date. Listen to them together on Just A Gigolo, a memorable music conversation, or When Day Is Done, with bassist Ron Carter, a young musician on the verge of a brilliant career which would culminate in him playing in one of Miles Davis’ greatest groups. But Hawkins always had an open mind: the drummer Andrew Cyrille would become a leader of the avant garde. This finely-tuned group is rounded out by the under-rated pianist Ronnell Bright. My favourite track: the gently swinging Moonglow, a number I’ve always been fond of since hearing it played by Benny Goodman many years ago.
from the original session not released on the original LP - If It’s The Last Thing I Do, There’s A Flaw In My Flue and Wait Till You See Her.
SWINGING ON THE VINE WHO’S HARRY? swinging brightly with arranger Nelson Riddle’s Orchestra. She sparkles - upbeat, joyous and irrepressible stars out tonight? “ (InAremythecondition I wouldn’t know) I don’t know if it’s cloudy or bright. (Sums it up perfectly), ‘Cause I only have eyes for you . . . (That’s Big J’s line)
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Shivering in the early morning dew and with the rising sun all but blinding me, I attempt to roll over on the grass. My head throbs with each movement. “Little men with hammers,” I mutter, as they do their best impression of Gene Krupa laying down the beat on Jimmy Mundy’s chart of Caravan before it morphed into his famous “head” arrangement of Sing, Sing, Sing for Benny Goodman. I blearily gaze at the shape beside me. It’s Big J, my one true friend, concern etched in his piggy eyes. On hands and knees I crawl towards the duck pond, push aside the green weed, and bury my head in its cold, soothing waters. I swallow a mouthful and am violently ill. Big J nuzzles me with his nose as shaking and panting I attempt to stand up, one hand resting on his back. Somehow he guides me to my Hunter Valley hideaway where I slide down against the wall before attempting to drain the dreg from a bottle of Padthaway shiraz. I am again violently ill. How did I get in this condition? My fuddled brain tries to recall the previous 24 hours. Then I remember! Again it was the insufferable Clifford who ended my dream of a quiet afternoon watching the AFL grand final between the mighty Hawks and the so-called Bondi millionaires. Not only did he arrive out of the blue with his Medusa-like partner Cherry Poobsy-Pie Flowering Blossom but also with several celebrity tragics. As far as they were concerned the game was over before it had even started. The sound of corks popping from bottles of champagne was drowned out by the endless out-of-tune inane choruses of “Onward To Victory” punctuated by squeals of delight as the minxes took topless selfies. So different from half-way through the second quarter when the dead silence was punctuated by my bellicose roaring as I became increasingly fuelled by increasing quantities of red wine. Through an increasing alcoholic fog I bellowed the club’s victory song but after that… The heat is increasing as I struggle to my feet before grasping a bottle of ice cold mineral water and taking several long mouthfuls, all the way watched by Big J his eyes mirroring his faithful adoration. His tail wags as I fill his bowl with a prize winning pinot noir. I nudge the button on my CD player and hear the soothing (hopefully) sounds of Ella Fitzgerald
The song shows lyricist Al Dubin’s gift of matching the composer’s warm, insistent melody with casually conversational phrases which proved the ideal vehicle for Dick Powell when he introduced I Only Have Eyes For You in the 1934 movie Dames. One of the most recorded songs of all time, it was written by Harry Warren, sometimes called the “invisible man” because his songs were more famous than he was. Yet Warren wrote some of America’s best loved standards ranging from the foottapping 42nd Street and The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe to such beautifully melodic ballads as At Last and You’ll Never Know.
Al Dubin and Harry Warren
Prolific as well as gifted Warren wrote more than 800 songs between 1918 and 1991, 500 of which were published. Many of his hits were in the 1920s, melodies that perfectly blended with the intoxicating verve that crystallised the spirit of the so-called “Jazz Age”. He wrote many songs for 18 Berkeley Busby films, his melodies a perfect match for Busby’s flamboyant choreography. With Dubin, he was a major force in launching the era of the Hollywood musical beginning in 1922 with 42nd Street, However, unlike his peers and collaborators Warren was not Jewish but an Italian American born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna in Brooklyn, New York. His father anglicised their name when Warren was 10. He may have been anonymous as far as the general public is concerned but many great artists cherished his songs such as Mel Torme who said: ”Harry Warren was an absolute giant -one of the great songwriters. I’d lump him with Kern, Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, Porter and Berlin. He stands head and shoulders with each of them.” Like Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, Warren was a melodist who collaborated with some of the greatest lyricists including Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Mack Gordon and, of course, Dubin with whom he won an Academy Award for best song with Lullaby Of Broadway in 1934. He would win two more - You’ll Never Know (1942) with Gordon and The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe (1946) with Mercer and was nominated 11 times. He would collaborate in different ways with each lyricist. With Dubin, Warren would write the melody without giving any thought to the words then give it to his partner to write the lyric. It was different with Mercer: they did it together! Warren recalled: “Mercer would sit in a room with you and just stare silently. I would play him a melody and he’d listen to it and he’d sit there without talking.” He may not be a household name today but the popularity of Harry Warren’s songs persists. In 1941, he wrote the beautifully romantic At Last with Gordon - Beyonce sang it at the 2009 Presidential inauguration ball for Barack and Michelle Obama’s first dance. - Patrick D Maguire December 2014
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Benedict Cumberbatch as English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II.
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Michael Keaton and Edward Norton in the most critically praised indie film of the year!
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A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking (played by Eddie Redmayne) and his wife.
YOUNG VIRTUOSI
BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS Fine Music’s Young Virtuosi broadcasts for December begin with NSW Arts North Choral Concert recorded at the Sydney Opera House on 18 September and presented by Christina McGuinness. The students in this concert come from government primary and secondary schools in north, west and southern Sydney and the NSW Central Coast. Through the rest of the month, you will hear performances from violinist Anna da Silva Chen, clarinettist Ben Mellefont and the acclaimed Orava Quartet. The Orava Quartet Recognised as one of Australia’s most exciting young string quartets, the Orava Quartet has been applauded by the Sydney Morning Herald for their “warmth of sound, sublime inner-voicing and spontaneity”. Members of the Orava Quartet are brothers Daniel and Karol Kowalik, David Dalseno and Thomas Chawner. They have recently returned home to Australia after two years in the USA, where they were mentored by the Takács String Quartet.
This year the Quartet began its partnership with the Camerata of St John’s - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra. Their role as Quartet in Residence is the first of its kind in Australia and was formed specifically for the Oravas. This program involves the collaboration of both ensembles with appearances as members of Camerata and regular features throughout their concert season. In addition to their Camerata appearances, their 2014 program has included performances throughout North Queensland, The Melbourne Festival, Tyalgum Music Festival, and broadcasts on Fine Music 102.5 and ABC. In 2015, members of the quartet will be making solo appearances with the Camerata featuring works by Sarasate and Hindemith. The quartet will also be collaborating with prominent Australian and International artists, including American clarinetist Narek Arutyunian, Brisbane based guitarist Karen Schaupp, Sydney based pianist Vatche Jambazian and Sydney soprano LucindaMirikata Deacon. The Oravas have a busy
concert schedule in 2015 with appearances at the Musica Viva Chamber Music Festival in Sydney, Musica Viva Coffee Concert series in Melbourne, Trinity Grammar for the Society of the Arts, Music By The Sea Festival Brisbane, as well as their own concert series throughout Sydney, Newcastle, Gold Coast and Brisbane. Ben Mellefont Before switching to clarinet when he was eight years old, Ben Mellefont played piano and violin. He is currently in his final year at The Royal College of Music, London and has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, with Sinfonia Cymru as part of the “Small Nations, Big Sounds” festival, Royal Welsh College of Music and the English National Opera at the Coliseum. Anna da Silva Chen Recent highlights in the blossoming career of violinist, Anna da Silva Chen, Fine Music’s 2011 Young Performer Award winner, include a performance with Delta Goodrem and the Veronica Sisters at the Stars, in an event organised by Sony. This year she has also performed in ABC Symphony Australia, the Young Musicians Festival on the Sunshine Coast and with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra at Government House. That concert, sponsored by the French Embassy was to commemorate World War II. YOUNG VIRTUOSI BROADCASTS Wednesdays 1pm 3 Dec - NSW Arts North Choral Concert 10 Dec - Alumni Ben Mellefont clarinet 17 Dec - Fine Music 40th Anniversary week 24 Dec - Anna da Silva Chen violin 31 Dec - Orava Quartet Presenters - Troy Fil, Christine McGuiness, Katherine Ly, Alison Zhou, Chloe Chung. Audio engineer - Alicia Limasa. Co ordinator- Judy Deacon, yv@finemusicfm.com
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What’s On CHAMBER AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE CPE BACH’S 300TH ANNIVERSARY Thursday 18 December 7pm Sunday 21 December 2.30pm Sydney Opera House, Utzon Room Tickets: $40-$65 Bookings: 9250 7777 www.australianhaydn.com.au ORCHESTRAL SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ENIGMA VARIATIONS ZIMMERMANN PLAYS SIBELIUS Wednesday 3 December 8pm Friday 5 December 8pm Saturday 6 December 8pm Tickets: $39-$139 Bookings: 8215 4600 www.sydneysymphony.com Joined by guest artist, renowned German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra ends the year on a high note with a program of favourites, including the Sibelius violin concerto and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Donald Runnicles conducts three works that put their composers on the map and have become popular classics of the concert hall. There’s Britten’s poignant music: partly a private lament, partly a protest against war. Sibelius’s violin concerto was written by a frustrated violinist, but that hasn’t stopped it entering the repertoire as one of a handful of truly great concertos for the instrument. And then there’s the Enigma Variations: affectionate portraits of Elgar’s friends and the source of such musical beauties as the ‘Nimrod’ variation. This is the kind of masterpiece that doesn’t seek to dazzle you but invites you in for tea and scones and heart-warming conversation.
The Australian Haydn Ensemble celebrates the 300th birthday of CPE Bach in style! The ensemble welcomes back Erin Helyard to direct a program led from the violin by international soloist Catherine Mackintosh. Expanding to a small chamber orchestra, the group also welcomes Australian Chamber Orchestra cellist, Daniel Yeadon, performing Bach’s famous A minor cello concerto. It CHORAL/ORCHESTRAL SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS & ORCHESTRA CAROLS AT THE HOUSE Saturday 6 December 2pm Sunday 7 December 5pm Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Tickets: $50-$100 Bookings: 9251 3115 www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au Celebrate the festive season and enjoy Christmas favourites with a touch of Broadway flair! Actor John Bell of Bell Shakespeare renown and star soprano Emma Matthews join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for a concert of classic carols and songs in orchestrations made famous by the great Robert Shaw Chorale in the 1960s and which are still topping the charts today.
EDUCATION 2015 SHORT COURSES SYDNEY CONSERVATORUM OF MUSIC Bookings: 9351 1208 www.openacademy.sydney.edu.au The Conservatorium Open Academy’s flagship community education program provides adults and life-long learners with entertaining, challenging and inspiring ways into the world of music and the Sydney Conservatorium’s vibrant culture. The Open Academy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music offers many short courses designed 22
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wouldn’t be a CPE Bach celebration without the inclusion of his rare and amazing double concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano, performed by Erin Helyard and Neal Peres Da Costa. The program also includes Haydn’s 1773 version of his Symphony no. 22 with flutes in place of the Cor Anglais. A finale to the year that should not be missed!
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Also to be performed is a selection of the ever-popular Australian Christmas Carols to bring it all back home. With Brett Weymark as conductor and the talents of Stuart Maunder as director and writer, Carols at the House will feature well over 500 choristers from the Sydney Philharmonia Choir, Festival Chorus and youth choir VOX. Bring your best festive voice as singing along will be encouraged! collaborative group-learning environment. Courses cater for beginners right through to experienced musicians. Class topics include basic music theory to music composition, beginner piano to jazz improvisation, a range of singing classes and much more! The eight week summer term for 2015 starts the week commencing 2 February. The website has all the information you need to enrol or join the mailing list. If you enrol three weeks before the start of any new term you will receive the Early Bird 15 percent discount!
CHORAL SYDNEY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA AN ENGLISH WINTER’S EVENING Sunday 7 December 5pm Great Hall, University of Sydney Tickets: $25-$42 Bookings: 9351 7940 www.sydneyuniversitygraduatechoir.com.au The Sydney University Graduate Choir and Orchestra present a concert of music evoking still and quiet, reflecting the chill beauty of deep winter. The performance will feature two works by Gerald Finzi: In Terra
Pax, which juxtaposes text by English poet Robert Bridges with the story of the Nativity as told in St Luke’s Gospel, and Requiem da Camera, an evocation of pastoral England set in counterpoint to reflections on the futility of the war that had just decimated Finzi’s generation. Also, two works by Ralph Vaughan Williams: The First Nowell, written late in Vaughan Williams life, and Fantasia on Greensleeves. Christopher Bowen, OAM, Music Director will conduct the Sydney University Graduate Choir, orchestra which will be joined by outstanding soloists including baritone David Greco.
2015 SYDNEY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS March – November 2015 Various venues Bookings: 9251 2422 www.syo.com.au
CHORAL THE IDEA OF NORTH WITH THE CHOIR OF ST JAMES’ SONGS OF CHRISTMAS Saturday 6 December 5pm St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney Tickets: $10-$50 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.sjks.org.au Vocal group The Idea of North will perform songs from their highly acclaimed Christmas album including The Christmas Song, Mary’s Boy Child, This Christmas, The Silver Stars are in the Sky and A Christmas Medley. They will also perform a delightful selection of arrangements from their ARIA Award-winning album Smile. The Choir of St James’, one of Australia’s oldest musical institutions, can trace its lineage back to the early years of the parish. For much of its almost two hundred years of ministry the Choir has been regarded as one of Australia’s foremost Anglican choirs. The Choir of St James’ will join The Idea of North for some seasonal items to get you in festive spirit. Come to St James’ for a feast of beautiful Christmas music, and of course some good old TION-style entertainment. CHILDREN THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - BABIES PROMS #4 29 November- 21 December 2014 Sydney Opera House Tickets: $25-$30 Bookings: 9250 7777 www.sydneyoperahouse.com
Join the Sydney Youth Orchestras in 2015 for what is set to be a vibrant year of new commissions, old favourites, and SYO’s very first opera in collaboration with Pacific Opera. Subscriptions are available now and you can choose from either a four, three or two concert package. Concerts are Legends of the Past - a program of music from Howes, Gleitzman, Sutton and Brahms with guests Dimity Hall, violin, Julian Smiles cello, John Thompson baritone, and Paul William Mawhinney actor; The Ride of the Valkyries – works from Walton, Bracegirdle ORCHESTRAL/CHORAL AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA NOËL! NOËL! CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST Saturday 13 December 5pm and 7pm Wednesday 17 December 7pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $68-$160 Bookings: 9328 7581 www.brandenburg.com.au
and Wagner; Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen With Pacific Opera and; Romance and Tragedy - featuring Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet Overture and Mahler’s Symphony No.5. Conductors of are Max McBride, Alex Briger and Brian Buggy. Other SYO events during 2015 include: Meet the Orchestra Concerts and Family Concerts at various venues. Image credit – Robert Catto.
wonderful series. Along with the serene beauty of the strings, we hear the gorgeous sound of a single soprano, medieval hymns infused with contemporary sounds and much more. The program includes Gregorian chant, medieval carols, French and German hymns, English Christmas songs and many favourites such as Christmas Night; O Come All Ye Faithful; Once in Royal David’s City; and Stille Nacht.
This immensely popular series is not just carols but a mischievous affirmation of life that fuses the modern with the ancient. The angelic voices of the Brandenburg Choir combine with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra on period instruments to present a sound that is simple, pure and completely joyous. The result will leave you uplifted. It is absolute bliss. Paul Dyer loves to surprise us each year with this The much loved story of The Little Drummer Boy comes to life in the Babies Proms Christmas special. Since its publication in 1941, The Little Drummer Boy has been counted among the most popular Christmas carols. The story of a young boy who offers baby Jesus the gift of
music reminds us all that simple gifts are often the best! Suitable for children two to five years. During the performance, each child will have the opportunity to play along on a small drum, which will be collected by staff at the end of the show. December 2014
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WHAT’S ON: MUSICA VIVA 2015 70 Years of Fine Chamber Music Musica Viva’s Artistic Director, Carl Vine AO, presents an epic 2015 season in celebration of this leading arts company’s 70th year. Musica Viva’ popular International Concert Series will feature some of the favourite ensembles that have performed in their recent seasons, a national concert tour by Maxim Vengerov - one of the world’s great violinists, the return of the much-loved biennial Musica Viva Festival, and the organisation’s adored Coffee Concert series with a bumper crop of wonderful music and internationally renowned musicians. “2015 celebrates the 70 years in which Musica Viva has brought the world’s finest chamber music to Australia, and there is much to celebrate!” says Vine. “This landmark year in Musica Viva’s history will be honoured in a number of ways, the first being to bring back our most admired and loved performers of recent times in the 2015 International Concert Series.”
2015 INTERNATIONAL CONCERT SEASON Tafelmusik: 19 February-4 March The Baroque era comes alive in Tafelmusik’s House of Dreams, a stunning exploration of music, art and drama. Alison Mackay (creator of The Galileo Project) has woven together a magical journey that allows audiences to step into the world of Bach and Vivaldi by imaginatively “visiting” five historic European houses. On the walls hung works by Vermeer, Canaletto and Watteau; the airy rooms rang to the sounds of the finest composers and performers. In these concerts, the music is provided by the period instruments of the renowned Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. Accompanied by images from London, Paris, Delft, Leipzig and Venice, House of Dreams draws us into the very buildings where the great composers and their patrons once walked, played, and listened, and includes detailed projections of the now-famous paintings that were new to these characters. Narrator Blair Williams is the tour guide, leading us through the hallways and salons, sharing stories of the people who lived, worked and dreamed in these remarkable homes. Program includes - Handel Music from Theodora and selections from Concerti grossi op 3 & 6, Vivaldi Selections from the instrumental Concerti, Sweelinck Engelse Fortuyn, Purcell Fantasia in Three Parts Upon a Ground, Marais Suite from Alcyone, Bach Selections from the chamber music, concerti and cantatas, Telemann Overture from Wassermusik Jeanne Lamon, Music Director, Alison Mackay, Concept, Script & Program, Marshall Pynkoski, Stage Direction, Glenn Davidson, Lighting & Set Design, Blair Williams Narrator.
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Four friends, three pieces, two married couples, one quartet: this tour celebrates the 20th anniversary of Australia’s pre-eminent chamber ensemble. Critics and audiences around the globe have warmed to the musical and emotional insights brought to light by this extraordinary quartet. The Goldners have chosen works of great personal meaning for this tour. Literally engaging with matters of life and death, Ligeti’s searing and revolutionary Quartet no 1 was considered too dangerous to premiere behind the Iron Curtain. This is paired with the almost unbearable beauty of Beethoven’s Op 132, which was written as a “holy song of thanksgiving from a convalescent” following the composer’s severe illness. Together these pieces are truly music from the heart; and whether listeners enter the concert hall needing to share in Ligeti’s darkness, or to be consoled and uplifted by Beethoven, the power of this program will leave no one unmoved. The other work on the program looks forward: Paul Stanhope’s third string quartet, newly commissioned for the Goldners by the audience of the Huntington Estate Music Festival, makes its first appearance outside the Mudgee-based festival. Theatre director Rodney Fisher AM brings his imagination and creative talents to the medium of a quartet concert, highlighting and enhancing this celebratory story of four remarkable musicians. Program: Ligeti String Quartet no 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes, Stanhope String Quartet no 3 Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Huntington Estate and friends, Beethoven String Quartet no 15 in A Minor, op 132. Dene Olding, violin, Dimity Hall, violin, Irina Morozova, viola, Julian Smiles, cello.
Steven Isserlis with Connie Shih: 4 June-20 June Isserlis is revered amongst cellists not just for his technical mastery, but also for his enquiring mind which seeks out lesser known repertoire (and tells you about it), as well as his vibrant stage presence which carries his enthusiasm straight to every listener. Joined by brilliant young Canadian pianist Connie Shih, he creates an unforgettable emotional journey, traversing glorious works by four great composers united by their love of all things French. “The cello, of all instruments, makes one dream of Elsewhere when one hears it,” says composer Thomas Ades. He wrote his evocative, colourful picturescapes Lieux Retrouvés (Remembered Places) for Isserlis, and seized the opportunity to push some limits, causing the cellist to claim the finale as “the hardest piece I’ve ever learned!” But there are plenty of surprises elsewhere in the program, too. A far cry from the famous “Swan”, Saint-Saens’ first cello sonata is wild and dramatic, with a gripping opening giving way to passionate storms and voyages. The second sonata by his student and compatriot Faure is a late work, noted for its beautiful, funereal
slow movement and sparkling, optimistic ending. Cesar Franck’s Sonata was a marriage gift for the famous musician Eugene Ysaye, and finishes appropriately enough with peals of bells – a wonderful way to end a concert. Program: Saint-Saëns Cello Sonata no 1 in C minor op 32, Fauré Cello Sonata no 2 in G minor, op 117, Adès Lieux retrouvés, Franck Cello Sonata, from Violin Sonata in A major. Steven Isserlis, cello, Connie Shih, piano.
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the great master whose works, he felt, were so good as to make life almost impossible for the composers who came after him. Paul Lewis will bookend this program with two of Beethoven’s last works for piano, highlighting the musical relationships between the composers. The word “monumental” is sometimes applied too lightly, but here it’s completely apt. With these late sonatas Beethoven did what he had previously done to the concerto and the symphony - turned them from showpieces or mere entertainment, into art. Program: Beethoven Piano Sonata no 30 in E major, op 109, Brahms Four Ballades, op 10, Three Intermezzi, op 117, Beethoven Piano Sonata no 32 in C minor, op 111. Paul Lewis, piano. Modigliani Quartet: 5 October-17 October
This exciting English vocal ensemble makes its debut Australian national tour with a characteristic mix of old and new, tossing early madrigals in with spectacular new works to create a delicious musical salad! Pronounced Ee far-joe-LEE-nee (“the little beans”), the group is acclaimed for its fearless performances of music that demand the utmost from its singers. Director Robert Hollingworth leads the singers and audience effortlessly through countries and centuries, and pays tribute to his native Great Britain with Adrian Williams’ extraordinary Hymn to Awe and the exquisite sentiments of Inheritance, which was Herbert Howell’s contribution to the Queen’s coronation. The concert also features a new piece by Australian composer Andrew Schultz, especially commissioned for I Fagiolini and Musica Viva by Geoff Stearn. Lovers of great singing and choral music will welcome making the acquaintance of this superb group! Program: Victoria Alma redemptoris mater, Gibbons O clap your hands, Croce Il gioco dellócca, Monteverdi Selected madrigals, Janequin La Chasse, Poulenc Sept chansons, Howells Inheritance, Schultz New Work Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia by Geoff Stearn. World Premiere performances Williams Hymn to Awe, Various Selection: ‘Insalata I Fagiolini’. Robert Hollingworth, director. Paul Lewis: 27 August-12 September A great piano recital is chamber music in its purest form, intimate but universal. In the hands of a master such as Paul Lewis, it can be a transcendent experience and a personal sharing of ideas and emotions. Music by Brahms lies at the centre of this program. His Ballades op 10 were written when he was a very young man, and their easy melodiousness is tempered by melancholy. The Intermezzi op 117 came at the other end of his life, when his vows of retiring were often stalled by the creation of new pieces of innovative beauty. Brahms always struggled with “the heavy tread” of Beethoven,
Since their first Australian tour (with clarinettist Sabine Meyer), the Modigliani Quartet have gone from strength to strength, and now look well-placed to assume the mantle of the top French quartet of their generation. Elegant and masculine, the crisp articulation and rich timbres of this acclaimed ensemble are a perfect match for masterpieces which demand both strength and clarity. Haydn’s quartets bring a natural lightness with their clear, Classical straightforwardness, paving the way for more powerful explorations from Beethoven and Schubert. The Hungarian Dohnanyi found his distinctive voice in his Quartet no 3, straddling the 19th and 20th centuries and moving engagingly between the folk inspirations of his homeland and the excitement of new artistic freedom. Nigel Westlake’s second quartet takes the journey another step forward, to a shining world filled with glittering textures, evocative melodic lines and exhilarating rhythms. “A human adventure with friends” is how cellist Francois Kieffer describes life in a string quartet; which can only truly exist when there is an audience to participate in the same wonderful, ephemeral quest. Program One: Haydn String Quartet no 36 in B flat major, op 50 no 1, Schubert String Quartet no 10 in E flat major, op 125, Westlake String Quartet no 2, Beethoven String Quartet no 11 in F minor, op 95 ‘Serioso’.
Program Two: Haydn String Quartet no 42 in C major op 54 no 2, Westlake String Quartet no 2, Schubert String Quartet no 12 in C minor ‘Quartettsatz’, Dohnanyi String Quartet no 3 in A minor op 33. Philippe Bernhard, violin, Loïc Rio, violin, Laurent Marfaing, viola, Francois Kieffer, cello. Eggner Trio: 7 November-21 November There is a special connectedness that lights up the stage when the Eggner brothers perform. The almost telepathic power of any good chamber ensemble is, with them, magically enhanced by lifelong familiarity. Christoph, Georg and Florian Eggner make a welcome return to some of their favourite concert halls, sharing their joy in music full of warmth and passion. Their programs draw listeners into the emotional intensity of the 19th century, seen through the lens of Johannes Brahms and his friends Robert and Clara Schumann. The melodiousness and technical assurance of Clara’s Trio was praised by Mendelssohn – and may have inspired her husband Robert to try his hand at the same extended form. His third Trio was admired by Clara as “unique, and full of passion”. Brahms’ youthful Trio op 8 was quickly taken up by both amateur and professional performers drawn to its nobility (and gorgeous tunes) and no doubt was wellknown to Dvorák, whose irresistible Dumky is a good fit for the Eggners. Music from wartime Melbourne by Dulcie Holland, created in 1944 when war had cut short her London studies, offers a fascinating musical and societal contrast and parallel. Her extensive career as an awardwinning composer is sometimes overshadowed by her educational work – but this Trio is rightly described as a gem of Australian music, crammed with inventiveness, and richly satisfying. Program One: Robert Schumann Piano Trio no 3 in G minor, op 110 Holland Piano Trio, Dvorák Piano Trio no 4 in E minor, “Dumky”, op 90. Program Two: Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor, op 17, Holland Piano Trio, Brahms Piano Trio no 1 in B major op 8. Georg Eggner, violin, Florian Eggner, cello, Christoph Eggner, piano.
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MUSICA VIVA GALA RECITAL Sydney Opera House: Thursday 10 December 7pm Musica Viva celebrates its 70th birthday with a gala recital tour by superstar violinist Maxim Vengerov. This highly anticipated musical event-of-the-year sees the legendary performer make his international comeback with this Australian visit. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most dynamic artists, Grammy award-winner Vengerov has performed sold-out concerts with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors and has given solo recitals in every major city in the world. Hailed as the successor to the mighty Russian school of playing, Vengerov presents 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. 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. Program: Bach Chaconne from Violin Partita no 2 in D minor BWV1004, Prokofiev Sonata no 1 in F minor op 80, Brahms Scherzo from Sonata F-A-E, Brahms Hungarian Dance no 2, Dvorák Slavonic Dance no 2, Wieniawski Legende op 17, Kreisler Schön Rosmarin, Kreisler Liebesfreud, Paganini Caprice no 24, Ysaÿe Sonata no 3: ‘Ballade’, Ysaÿe Caprice d’après l’étude en forme de valse de SaintSaëns, Maxim Vengerov, violin with Roustem Saitkoulov piano.
MUSICA VIVA FESTIVAL 9 APRIL – 12 APRIL 2015 The 2015 Festival hosts a feast of concerts, master classes, open tutorials, music workshops, seven festival concerts, guided tours of the Conservatorium and much more at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The Festival bursts into life with one of the ultimate expressions of chamber music: a solo cello suite by Bach, performed by the legendary Mischa Maisky.
Concert 1: Thursday 9 April 7.30pm Bach - Cello Suite no 3 in C major, Adès - Piano Quintet, Brahms Clarinet Sonata no 2, op 120, Dvorák - String Quartet no 10 ‘Slavonic’. Mischa Maisky, Aleksandar Madžar, Doric String Quartet, Narek Arutyunian, Daniel de Borah, Pavel Haas Quartet Concert 2: Friday 10 April 7.30pm Boccherini - Guitar Quintet no 4, ‘Fandango’; Puts - Arches; Britten - Cello Sonata in C major, op 65; Françaix - Clarinet Quintet; Bach - Cello 26
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Suite no 2 in D minor. Orava Quartet, Karin Schaupp, Bella Hristova, Nicolas Altstaedt, Aleksandar Madžar, Narek Arutyunian, Mischa Maisky Concert 3: Friday 10 April 10pm Bryars - Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet This special performance involves most of the Festival artists, and images from the exhibition “Through Your Eyes” (2008): photographs taken by homeless people in Sydney of each other and their surroundings. Concert 4: Saturday 11 April 2pm Bach Cello - Suite no 1 in G major; Edwards - String Quartet no 3; ‘Summer Dances’; Skipworth - Piano Trio - World Premiere Performance; Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello, op 7; Haydn - String Quartet op 76 no 1. Mischa Maisky, Orava Quartet, Aleksandar Madžar, Bella Hristova, Nicolas Altstaedt, Doric String Quartet, Umberto Clerici Concert 5: Saturday 11 April 7.30pm Ravel - Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn; Ravel Gaspard de la nuit; Haas - String Quartet no 2, op 7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’; Gnattali - Sonata for Cello and Guitar; Glazunov - String Quintet, op 39. Aleksandar Madžar, Pavel Haas Quartet, Timothy Constable, Karin Schaupp, Nicolas Altstaedt, Doric String Quartet, Umberto Clerici, Timothy Constable
Concert 6: Sunday 12 April 11.30am Adès - String Quartet, ‘The Four Quarters’ op 28; Turina - Guitar Sonata, op 61; Schoenfield Clarinet Trio ‘Klezmer’; Grandage - Black Dogs; Stockhausen - In Freundschaft; Vine - Inner World. Doric String Quartet, Karin Schaupp, Narek Arutyunian, Bella Hristova, Daniel de Borah, Orava Quartet, Nicolas Altstaedt
Concert 7: Sunday 12 April 4.30pm Williams - Octet, World Premiere Performance; Giuliani - Gran Sonata Eroica, op 150; Brahms Clarinet Trio, op 114; Fauré - Violin Sonata no 1, op 13, Mustonen - String Nonet no 2. Doric String Quartet, Pavel Haas Quartet, Karin Schaupp, Narek Arutyunian, Nicolas Altstaedt, Daniel de Borah, Aleksandar Madžar, Bella Hristova, Kees Boersma
SYDNEY COFFEE CONCERTS Blah blah blah, Schoenberg The Longsuffering Lover, Hollaender O just suppose and Chuck out the men, Barber Promiscuity, Adès Life Story, Bolcom Toothbrush time, Sondheim It’s the little things, Vine Aria, Barry Diamonds are forever, Weill What good would the moon be? Mary Carewe, soprano, Philip Mayers piano. Grand Prize Winner: Tuesday 21 July Once every four years, Chamber Music Australia draws the world’s best young chamber music talent to Australia for its internationally renowned Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Previous prize-winners include Musica Viva favourites the Eggner Trio and Kelemen Quartet, now celebrated amongst the world’s very finest chamber ensembles. From 11 – 19 July 2015, sixteen brilliant young piano trios and string quartets will compete in Melbourne. The Grand Prize winners will then travel to Sydney to appear in the Musica Viva Coffee Concert series. Seven Harp Ensemble: Tuesday 10 March Led by pre-eminent harpist Alice Giles, the heavenly sounds of Seven Harp Ensemble open the 2015 Sydney Coffee Concert Season. A rich and diverse program shows off the extraordinary talents of seven of Australia’s finest harpists in this graceful and spectacular ensemble. Program: Handel Lentement and Bourrée from Water Music Suite no 2 in D major HWV349 (arr. I. Bauer), Schultz The Meaning of Water, Debussy Pour invoquer Pan (arr. A. Giles) Claire de Lune (arr. C. Salzedo), Wesley-Smith Alice in the Garden of Live Flowers, Sitsky Fantasia no 13: Perpetuum Mobile, Lecuona Malagueña (arr. J. Andrews). Alice Giles Director, Genevieve Lang Huppert, Laura Tanata, Melina Van Leeuwen, Hannah Lane, Tegan Peemoeller, Ingrid Bauer. Mary Carewe and Philip Mayers, Serious Cabaret: Tuesday 26 May The songs of this “serious cabaret” straddle that enigmatic, intriguing space between high art and light entertainment, where composers dip their toes in the world of jazz, musical theatre, or 1930s Berlin. The expressive voice of British singer Mary Carewe is the perfect medium for the witty arrangements of pianist Philip Mayers, in their celebrated partnership. Program: Britten Tell me the truth about love and When you’re feeling like expressing your affection, Mayers My mother rings up, Gershwin
The Marais Project: Tuesday 25 August Four of Australia’s most revered period-instrument performers are featured in this concert by The Marais Project. Director Jennifer Eriksson explores the wonderful range of colours and emotions offered by these exquisite instrumental treasures from the past – flute, violin, viola da gamba, and various plucked cousins of the lute – in a program drawing on delicious works of the Baroque and beyond.
Program: Roman Sonata no 1 for flute and continuo, d’Hervelois Pièces de viole, Premiere Livre, suite in D minor for viola da gamba and continuo, Marais Suite no 2 in G minor from Pièces en Trio for flute, violin and continuo, Kats-Chernin Revolving Doors, various Swedish folk music selection, arr. Tommie Andersson. Jennifer Eriksson, director, Melissa Farrow, baroque flute, Fiona Ziegler baroque violin, Tommie Andersson, theorbo and classical guitar. Enigma Quartet Tuesday 17 November. The freshness, vigour and musical commitment of this young Sydney ensemble makes an instant connection with audiences. Here they show off their versatility, moving easily between the classical elegance of Haydn and the energetic beauty of Szymanowski’s second quartet. Emerging composer Alice Chance steps into the spotlight with the world premiere of her new String Quartet, commissioned by the Silo Collective. Program: Haydn String Quartet no 57 in C major op 74 no 1, Chance String Quartet Commissioned for Musica Viva by the Silo Collective. World Premiere Performance. Szymanowski String Quartet no 2 op 56, Marianne Broadfoot, violin, Kerry Martin, violin Shelley Soerensen, viola, Rowena Macneish, cello. 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, the organisation is committed to live music performances of quality, diversity, challenge and joy. Its International Concert Season is what Musica Viva is most wellknown 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. www.musicaviva.com.au December 2014
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Jazz Standards – featuring important compositions
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Jazz Biography highlighting a musician and their work
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December PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS A TRIBUTE TO CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD Monday 8 December 1pm-2pm Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood (1941-2014), conductor, harpsichordist, musicologist and champion of the early music revival movement from the 1960s on, was born in Nottingham, England in 1941. He studied music and classical literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge, followed by further studies with performance masters and in Prague for a year on a British Council scholarship. He died on 24 September 2014 at his home in Cambridge, England at the age of 73. Hogwood is best known for his establishment and direction of the Academy of Ancient Music in 1973 following stints with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields as a continuo player and then as a founder member of the Early Music Consort in 1965. His approach was energetic, scholarly and thorough, seeking to understand and recreate the original intentions of the composers using authentic period instruments. The Academy of Ancient Music performed and recorded widely, moving from the baroque era to the classical and beyond. Although not immune to criticism of his conducting style and the worth of performing on old rather than modern instruments, his work inspired new knowledge and understanding of the early music repertoire. In 2008 Hogwood was succeeded as music director of the AAM by harpsichordist Richard Egarr, but continued his close association as director emeritus. Christopher Hogwood’s career was multifacetted and his influence and presence ubiquitous. In the 1980s he had celebrity status, with recording sales exceeded only by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa in the 1983 Billboard chart but ahead of any other conductor. He was in demand as guest conductor of major orchestras and performed extensively in the US and Europe as his work and recordings drew early music into the mainstream of the musical repertoire. Among other posts, from 1989 to 1993 he was artistic advisor to the Australian Chamber Orchestra. In all, he made over 200 recordings including the complete symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven and many of Mozart’s piano concertos, with Robert Levin and a wide range of other music including conducting and recording operas. And he wrote many books, edited the works of composers, served on editorial and advisory boards and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours as
MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS Tuesday 23 December 1pm-2.30pm From the start of the common era to the present, there has always been music associated with Christmas, both as the foundation Christian story and as a marker of the end of the calendar year. Christmas music is both sacred and joyous, religious and social, the music of the church and the concert hall and a folk music of the people. As a prelude to our Christmas Day programs, Anne Irish has dipped into the vast storehouse of Christmas music to set the mood for the season. The program ranges from a Concerto Grosso by Corelli to familiar carols including Percy Grainger’s Sussex Murmurs, and from Liszt’s Christmas Tree Suite to the Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah. We hope you will find the program an enjoyable prelude to a season which will include happy and relaxing listening with fine music for your company and inspiration. - Cynthia Kaye/Frank Morrison Christopher Hogwood
well as holding positions as visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music (1992-2008) and King’s College, London (1992-96), honorary professor at Cambridge University (2002-2008) and professor at Gresham College, London (from 2010). Our tribute program can only touch on his breadth of musical knowledge and skill both as conductor and keyboard player, with some fine examples including his playing the fortepiano in the C P E Bach Quartet No 2, several harpsichord pieces including Handel’s Suite in F and J S Bach’s Suite in E and as conductor of the Academy of Ancient Music with Emma Kirkby, soprano, in Mozart’s Laudate Dominum. PHANTASTIC! Monday 22 December 1pm-3pm The “fantasy” or “fantasia” in music suggests improvisation and imagination. It can take the form the composer wishes, without any strict rules about its construction or content. Stephen Wilson has chosen “fantasies” from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by musicians including Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Saint- Saëns, Paganini and Schumann to suggest the range of this form, creating a two hour program of enchanting and varied music.
NOT TO BE MISSED Friday 19 December 2pm-4pm Sonatas, Cantatas and Toccatas Sunday 28 December 2pm-4pm Sunday Special: British Landscapes Tuesday 30 December 2pm-4pm The Classical Voice CONTINUING SERIES OPERA - Wednesdays 8pm 3 December, Gluck, Orpheus Reimagined Orphee and Euridice 10 December, Puccini - Manon Lescaut (Legendary Met Performances, 10 December 1949) 17 December, Giordano – Andrea Chenier (Legendary Met Performances, 28 December 1957) 24 December, Richard Strauss - Capriccio 31 December, Respighi - Belfagor Tuesdays 8pm-10pm Recent Releases Tuesdays 10pm-Midnight Into the Twentieth Century Thursdays 8pm-10pm Evenings with the Orchestra Thursdays 10pm-Midnight Chamber Soiree Fridays 10pm-Midnight December 2014
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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 By arrangement Prepared by Madilina Tresca Dvorák, A. Sonatine in G, op 100 (1892-95; arr. Nordmann). Patrice Fontanarosa, vn; Marielle Nordmann, hp. EMI 5 56359 2 18 Tartini, G. Violin concerto in D, op 1 no 4 (pub. 1728; arr. Abbado). Symphonia Perusina O/Felix Ayo, vn & dir. Dynamic CDS 131 20 Albrechtsberger, J. Double concerto in F (arr. Behrend). Marianne Klatt, fl; Michael Tröster, gui; German Plucked-String CO/Siegfried Behrend. Thorofon CTH 2025 14 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Ron Walledge Tchaikovsky, P. Capriccio italien, op 45 (1880). Kirov O/Valery Gergiev. Philips 442 775-2 15 Weber, C.M. Clarinet concerto no 2 in E flat, op 74 (1811). Janet Hilton, cl; City of Birmingham SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8305 22 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 2, London (1913/20/33). London PO/Adrian Boult. EMI CDC 7 47214 2
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11:30 THE FIRST DECADE: 1600s Prepared by Rex Burgess
14:30 GERMAN ROMANTICS Prepared by Gael Golla
Hume, T. What greater gifts, from Music for viols, lute and voice - vol 1 (1607). Daniel Taylor, ct; Francis Colpron, rec; Stephen Stubbs, lute; Paul Audet, lute; Réjean Poirier, hpd; Les Voix Humaines. Naxos 8.554126 8
Wagner, R. Die Frist ist um, from The flying Dutchman (1841). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Metropolitan Opera O/James Levine. DG 445 866-2 12
Dowland, J. I saw my lady weepe (1600). Michael Chance, ct; Christopher Wilson, lute. Chandos CHAN 0538 6 Monteverdi, C. Lamentio d’Arianna (1608). Helga Müller Molinari, mezz; Concerto Vocale/ René Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi HMX 290605.07 12 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 13:00 RAPHAEL AND ELIZABETH Prepared by Sheila Catzel Haydn, J. Sinfonia concertante in B flat, Hob.I:105 (1792). Anthony Robson, ob; Felix Warnock, bn; David Watkin, vc; O of the Age of Enlightenment; Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn & dir. Virgin 5 61301 2 21 Boccherini, L. Cello concerto no 9 in B flat. Raphael Wallfisch, vc; Northern CO/Nicholas Ward. Naxos 8.557589 18 Vivaldi, A. Concerto in A, RV335, The Cuckoo. Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 476 923-3 9 Grieg, E. Cello concerto, op 36 (1883). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; London PO/Vernon Handley. ASV DCA 1176 30
Brahms, J. Sonata no 2 in A, op 100 (1886). Krysia Osostowicz, vn; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66465 20 Mendelssohn, F. Psalm 11: Warum toben die Heiden, op 78 no 1 (1843). Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury. 8 Decca 480 2475 Strauss, R. Horn concerto in E flat, op 11 no 1 (1883). Barry Tuckwell, hn; London SO/István Kertész. Decca 425 754-2 15 Schumann, R. Piano trio no 2 in F, op 80 (1847). Vienna Brahms Trio. Naxos 8.553836 26 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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Romberg, S. You will remember Vienna, from Viennese nights (1930). Shirlee Emmons, sop; O/Sigmund Romberg. Naxos 8.110886 5
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Janine Jansen Prepared by Di Cox Saint-Saëns, C. Introduction and rondo capriccioso in A minor, op 28 (1863). Royal PO/ Barry Wordsworth. Decca 475 011-2 9 Mozart, W. Allegro in B flat, KAnh.91/K516c (1787). Martin Fröst, cl; Boris Brovtsyn, vn; Maxim Rysanov, va; Torleif Thedéen, vc. BIS BIS-1893 7 Vaughan Williams, R. The lark ascending (1914/20). Royal PO/Barry Wordsworth. Decca 475 011-2 15 Ravel, M. Sonata in G (1923-27). Itamar Golan, pf. Decca 478 2256 18
Strauss, J. II Tik-Tak polka, op 365. Vienna PO/ Willi Boskovsky. Decca 478 3156-67 3 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes An eclectic blending of agreeable rhythm and melody from the New Orleans jazz roots through to recent decades, including many Australian bands 13:00 DANIEL MOULT AT THE ORGAN Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC Buxtehude, D. Præludium in C, BuxWV137. 6 Bach, J.S. Trio on Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV655. 4 Mozart, W. Fantasia in F minor, K608.
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Shostakovich, D. Romance, from The gadfly, op 97a (1955). Royal PO/Barry Wordsworth. Decca 475 011-2 3
Gárdonyi, Z. Mozart changes.
Janine Jansen, vn (all above)
Whitlock, P. Folk tune, from Five short pIeces. 4
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Emyr Evans
Farrington, I. Live wire!
Sculthorpe, P. Memento mori (1993). Adelaide SO/David Porcelijn. ABC 454 505-2 14 Kodály, Z. Suite from Háry János (1926). Hungarian State O/Mátyás Antal. Naxos 8.550142
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Stanford, C. Villiers Fantasia and toccata, op 57. 11
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Poulenc, F. Concerto in G minor. Sydney Grammar School O/Robert Wagner. 24 Daniel Moult, org (all above)
Martin Yates. Photo - Eric Richmond
Falla, M. de Suite populaire espagnole (1914-15). Rachel Scott, vc; Anthony Schulz, accordion. 9 Rachel Scott 2014 Bloch, E. Suite Hébraïque (1950). Simon Rowland-Jones, va; Niel Immelman, pf. Etcetera KTC 1112
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Piazzolla, A. Tango suite (1984). Slava Grigoryan, gui; Leonard Grigoryan; gui. ABC 472 824-2
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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Andrew Dziedzic 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps Smooth small group jazz from the 50s on, and with a visit from Miles Davis each week 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Michael Field 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Phil Vendy
14:20 ANYONE FOR SUITES? Prepared by Gael Golla Scheidt, S. Suite (pub. 1621). London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble. ASV QS 6013 8
Britten, B. Violin concerto in D minor, op 15 (1939/58). Gil Shaham, vn; Boston SO/Juanjo Mena. Canary Classics CC12 33
11:30 VIENNA, CITY OF SONG Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans
Bach, J.S. Suite no 4 in E flat, BWV815, French (c1722). Gustav Leonhardt, hpd. RCA GD 71963 13
Bush, A. Concert suite, op 37 (1952). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; BBC Concert O/Martin Yates. Epoch CDXL 7263 37
Sieczynski, R. Vienna, city of my dreams, from Heart’s desire. Richard Tauber, ten. Conifer TQ 122
Blavet, M. Suite in E (1775). Masahiro Arita, fl; Kiyomi Suga, fl. Denon CO-75957/8 12
Wordsworth, W. Symphony no 2 in D, op 34 (1947-48). London PO/Nicholas Braithwaite. Lyrita SRCD 207 44
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Balakirev, M. Symphony no 1 in C (1864-97). BBC PO/Vassily Sinaisky. Chandos CHAN 9667 42
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Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The sleeping beauty (pub. 1899). London SO/Richard Williams. IMP PCD 884
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Wednesday 3 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 Aspects of early music Prepared by Francis Frank Anon. Suite of dances (c1550; arr. Moderne). Piffaro Renaissance Band. Archiv 447 107-2 6 Clemens non Papa, J. Motet: Ego flos campi. Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips. Gimell CDGIM 013 4 Leclair, J-M. Sonata in E minor, op 9 no 2 (pub. 1743). Barthold Kuijken, fl; Wieland Kuijken, bass viol; Robert Kohnen, hpd. Accent ACC 58436 D 16 Sermisy, C. de Dont vient cela. Musica Antiqua of London. Amon Ra CD-SAR 51
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Bach, J.S. Partita in B flat, BWV825 (1725-31). Angela Hewitt, pf. Hyperion CDA67191/2 18 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Delius, F. Intermezzo, from Fennimore and Gerda (1938; arr. Fenby). Welsh National Opera O/Charles Mackerras. Argo 433 704-2 6 Shostakovich, D. Cello concerto no 1 in E flat, op 107 (1959). Mstislav Rostropovitch, vc; London SO/Seiji Ozawa. Erato ECD 75485 26 Bruckner, A. Symphony no 3 in D minor (1873-77/88-89). New PO of Westphalia/ Johannes Wildner. Naxos 8.555928/9 50 11:30 THE FRENCH MÉLODIE Prepared by Rex Burgess
20:00 AT THE OPERA Orpheus reimagined Prepared by Paul Roper
13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI NSW Arts North choral concert with Troy Fil; recorded by Alicia Limasa
Gluck, C. Orphée et Eurycide. Tragédie opéra in three acts. Libretto by Pierre-Louis Moline, after Raniero de’ Calzabigi. First performed Paris, 1774.
14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music? Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it.
EURYDICE: Mireille Delunsch, sop ORPHÉE: Richard Croft, ten AMOUR: Marion Harousseau, sop A BLESSED SOUL: Claire Delgado-Boge, sop Musiciens du Louvre Ch; Musiciens du Louvre/ Marc Minkowski. Archiv 471 582-2 1:49
15:00 THREE BEATS TO THE BARK Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans
Poet and singer Orfeo, grieving at the tomb of his young wife, Euridice, resolves to go to Hades to find her. The god, Amor, announces that the other gods, moved by Orfeo’s grief, have decided to allow him to bring Euridice back on condition that he does not look at her until they have returned. At the entrance to Hades, the Furies bar Orfeo’s way but he calms them by playing his lyre and singing an eloquent song of his grief. They relent and allow Orfeo to pass into the underworld. In the Elysian Fields, the Blessed Spirits dance and the Shades bring in his veiled wife. The Blessed Sprits wish them well as they start the journey to the upper world. Euridice becomes agitated because Orfeo will not look at her and fears that he no longer loves her. Unable to resist her anguished pleas, Orfeo turns and embraces her and she dies in his arms. Overcome with grief and remorse, Orfeo plans to take his own life. Amor appears saying that because Orfeo has passed the test of faith and constancy, Euridice is restored to life.
Beethoven, L. Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59, Für Elise (1808). Gerard Willems, pf. ABC 476 4113 3 Wagner, R. Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1866-67). Philharmonia O/Otto Klemperer. EMI CDC 7 47255 2 11 Chopin, F. Waltz in D flat, op 64 no 1, Minute (1847). Roger Woodward, pf. ABC 476 3927 2 Sullivan, A. Overture to Patience (1881). New SO of London/Isidore Godfrey. Decca 480 1285 5 Smyth, E. The march of the women (1911). Eiddwen Harrhy, sop; Plymouth Festival Ch & O/Philip Brunelle. Virgin VC 7 91188-2 3 Busoni, F. Variations on Kommt ein Vogel geflogen (1886). Wolf Harden, pf. Naxos 8.555699 6 Hahn, R. There are trees (1923). Felicity Lott, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDA67141/2 3
Haydn, J. Baryton trio in A, Hob,XI:5 (c1765). Michael Brüssing, baryton; András Bolyki, va; Maria Andrásfalvy-Brüssing, vc. Brilliant Classics 93907 7 Mozart, W. Symphony no 21 in A, K134 (1772). Academy for Early Music, Berlin. Berlin Classics BC 1104-2 18 22:00 VARIOUS VARIATIONS Prepared by Derek Parker
Elgar, E. G.R.S., from Enigma variations, op 36 (1898-99). Vienna PO/Georg Solti. Decca 452 853-2 1
Verdi, G. Variations (c1837). Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf; Milan Giuseppe Verdi SO/ Riccardo Chailly. Decca 473 767-2 20
Ludions (1923). Hugues Cuénod, ten; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. Nimbus NIM 5027 4
Shostakovich, D. Polka, from The age of gold, op 22a (1930). Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormándy. Sony SBK 53 261 2
Vaughan Williams, R. Variations (1957; arr Jacob). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner. Decca 442 8341 12
Tendrement (1902). Elaine Bonazzi, mezz; Frank Glazer, pf. Vox CDX 5107 5
Serebrier, J. Canine suite (1957). Michael Askill, perc; Australian Wind Virtuosi. ASV DCA 774 10
Tchaikovsky, P. Variations on a rococo theme, op 33 (1876). Mischa Maisky, vc; Orpheus CO. DG 453 460-2 19
Daphénéo; La statue de bronze, from Trois mélodies (1916). Hugues Cuénod, ten; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. Nimbus 5027 3
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton
Franck, C. Symphonic variations (1885). Clifford Curzon, pf; London PO/Adrian Boult. Decca 425 082-2 15
Satie, E. Elégie; Les fleurs (1886). Carole Farley, sop; RTBF SO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 605 5
Je te veux (1897). Carole Farley, sop; RTBF SO/ José Serebrier. ASV DCA 643 6 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
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19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz
Britten, B. Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell, op 3, The young person’s guide to the orchestra (1946). London SO/Benjamin Britten. Decca 478 5364 17
Thursday 4 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Rodgers, R. Ten cents a dance, from Simple Simon (1930). Kim Criswell, voice; London Sinfonietta/John McGlinn. EMI 5 73764 2 4
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore
Gilbert, H. The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. Michael Goldthorpe, ten; Margaret Lion, pf. Griffin GCCD 4009
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Harris, R. Symphony no 3 in one movement (1939). New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein. DG 419 780-2 19 American ballads, set 2 (1945). Geoffrey Burleson, pf. Naxos 8.559664
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Symphony no 7 (1952-55). Ukraine NSO/ Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.559050
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Symphony no 5 (1942). Louisville O/Robert S. Whitney. First Edition Music FECD-0005 6 Epilogue to Profiles in courage: J.F.K. (1964). Ukraine NSO/Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.559050 8 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Berwald, F. Overture to The Queen of Golconda (1868). Royal PO/Ulf Björlin. EMI CDM 5 65073 2
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Sinding, C. Piano concerto in D flat, op 6 (1889/90). Eva Knardahl, pf; Oslo PO/Øivin Fjeldstad. NKFCD 50016-2 31 Cherubini, L. Sinfonia, Il Giulio Sabino (1786). Zurich CO/Howard Griffiths. cpo 999 5212 11 Bizet, G. Roma symphony (1860-68/71). Royal PO/Enrique Bátiz. Brilliant Classics 94404 33 11:30 SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Diack, J. Michael Sing a song of sixpence (arr. Mackerras). Owen Brannigan, bass-bar; Pro Arte O/Charles Mackerras. Decca 442 9077 2 Warren, H. The gold diggers’ song. Judy Blazer, voice; London Sinfonietta Ch & O/John McGlinn. EMI 5 73763 2 5
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Trad. Lord, I married me a wife (arr. Britten). Juan Jackson, ten; Andrew Greene, pf. ABC 476 616-9 1 Beethoven, L. Rondo a capriccio in G, op 129, Rage over a lost penny (1795). Grigory Ginsburg, pf. Philips 456 802-2 6 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 THE HANOVER BAND Prepared by Angela Bell Boyce, W. Overture: Birthday ode for George III (1768). Graham Lea-Cox, cond. ASV GAU 176 8 Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I:3 (c1762). Roy Goodman, cond. Hyperion CDA66524 17
Platti, G. Sonata no 4 in A minor (pub. 1746). Diana Petech, hpd. 8 Nuova Era 6984 Mozart, W. Sonata no 6 in D, K284 (1774). Klára Würtz, pf. Brilliant Classics 99147 25 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Debbie Scholem 19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey Contemporary and modern sounds of now in jazz from all corners of the globe 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Denis Patterson Dvorák, A. Symphonic variations, op 78 (1880). Decca 452 946-2 23 Mozart, W. Cantata: Dir Seele des Weltalls, K429 (1785). Werner Krenn, ten; Tom Krause, bar; Edinburgh Festival Ch. 8 Decca 452 643-2 Ravel, M. Piano concerto in G (1931). Julius Katchen, pf. Decca 478 3156-67 22 Brahms, J. Serenade no 2 in A, op 16 (1858-59). Decca 466 459-2 30
Bach, J. Christian Violin concerto in C, from Symphonies concertantes vol 4. Anna McDonald, vn; Anthony Halstead, cond. cpo 999 627-2 21
Kodály, Z. Psalmus Hungaricus, op 13 (1923). Lajos Kozma, ten; Brighton Festival Ch; Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir. Decca 480 4853 23
Handel, G. Cara sposa amante cara, from Rinaldo, HWV7a (1711). Nathalie Stutzmann, cont; Roy Goodman, cond. Newton 8802094 11
London SO/István Kertész (all above)
Schumann, R. Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 120 (1841/50). Roy Goodman, cond. RCA 09026 61931 2 23
Debussy, C. Piano trio no 1 in G (1880). Australian Trio. ABC 476 123-1
Hanover Band (all above)
Dohnányi, E. Serenade in C, op 10 (1902). Mayumi Seiler, vn; Douglas Paterson, va; Jane Salmon, vc. Hyperion CDA66786 21
14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Clementi, M. Sonata in C, op 2 no 2. Costantino Mastroprimiano, pf. Brilliant Classics 93685
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Ries, F. Trio in G minor, op 28. Vlad Weverbergh, cl; Jadranka Gasparovic, vc; Vasily Llisavsky, pf. Brilliant Classics 93684 24 Chopin, F. Polonaise no 6 in A flat, op 53, Heroic (1842). Maurizio Pollini, pf. EMI CDM 1 66427 2
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Nocturne in E flat, op 9 no 2 (1830-31). Daniel Adni, pf. EMI CDM 1 66427 2 4
22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel
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Taneyev, S. Quintet in G minor, op 30 (pub. 1911). Vadim Repin, vn; Ilya Gringolts, vn; Nobuko Imai, va; Lynn Harrell, vc; Mikhail Pletnev, pf. DG 477 5419 44 Villa-Lobos, H. String quartet no 2 (1915). Danubius Quartet Marco Polo 8.223394 22
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Friday 5 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 Exploring chamber Prepared by Francis Frank Albinoni, T. Adagio in G minor (arr. Mageau). Brisbane Baroque Trio. Jade JADCD 1030 4 Vivaldi, A. Concerto in C, RV425 (arr. Behrend). Craig Ogden, gui; Alison Stephens, mand. Chandos CHAN 9780 8 Humble, K. A music for baroque ensemble. Vernon Hill, fl; Jindrich Degan, ob; John Mowson, db; Sergio de Pieri, hpd. LP ABC AC 1011 10 Scarlatti, D. Two sonatas, Kk430 and Kk518. Guitar Trek. ABC 442 508-2 7 Geminiani, F. Trio sonata in D, Bush aboon Traquair (1749). Kirra Thomas, vn; Nicole Forsyth, vn; Tim Blomfield, vc; Chris Berensen, hpd. Salut Baroque SAL006 4 Handel, G. Largo, from Xerxes. Canterbury Belles. Move MCD 063 5 Dowland, J. Sorrow, stay (1600). Gerald English, ten; Jonathon Rubin, lute; Sharyn Wicks, va da gamba. Move MD 3151
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Biber, C. Sonata in D. Paul Plunkett, tpt; Julie Hewison, vn; Lucinda Moon, vn; Jenny Ingram, va; Miriam Morris, vc; Linda Kent, org. Move MD 3127 6 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown Weber, C.M. Overture to Oberon (1826). Staatskapelle Dresden/Gustav Kuhn. Brilliant Classics 99935
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Piano concerto no 1 in C, op 11 (1810). Peter Rösel, pf; Staatskapelle Dresden/Herbert Blomstedt. Brilliant 99935 20 Bach, J.S. Suite no 3 in D, BWV1068 (c1731). Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger. Decca 458 169-2 18 34
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Mendelssohn, F. Symphony no 1 in C minor, op 11 (1824). Tasmanian SO/Sebastian LangLessing. ABC 476 3623 31
Maxwell Davies, P. An Orkney wedding, with sunrise (1985). Max Hobart, vn; Nancy Crutcher Tunnicliffe, bagpipes; Boston Pops O/John Williams. Philips 420 946-2 14
11:30 CHAMBER ENCORE Prepared by Chris Blower
Goldmark, K. Rustic wedding symphony, op 26 (1877). Irish National SO/Stephen Gunzenhauser. Naxos 8.550745 42
Weber, C.M. Introduction, theme and variations in B flat for clarinet and string quartet. Dieter Klöcker, cl; members of Consortium Classicum. Teldec 8.44051
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Bach, J.S. Sonata in G, BWV1021 (1730-34). Andrew Manze, vn; Richard Egarr, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907250-1
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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh
Mendelssohn, F. Theme and variations, op 81 no 1 (1847). New Zealand String Quartet. Naxos 8.570003 6 Hultqvist, A. The queen went into the parlour eating bread and honey. JP Nyströms; Norrbotten CO/Petter Sundkvist. Swedish Society SCD 1130 12 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell Accessible in-the-hammock jazz to ease you into the weekend 13:00 THE DELIGHT OF PIANO TRIOS Prepared by Ron Walledge
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 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Robert Small Brahms, J. Variations and fugue on a theme by Haydn, op 56a (1873). Cédric Tiberghien, pf; BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908401.08 19 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 1 in G minor, op 13, Winter daydreams (1866). Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Decca 478 5867 44 Schumann, R. String quartet in F, op 41 no 2 (1842/52; arr. Dresel). Eckerle Piano Duo. Naxos 8.572878 28
Bridge, F. Nine miniatures (1908). Jack Liebeck, vn; Alexander Chausian, vc; Ashley Wass, pf. Naxos 8.570792 25
Mendelssohn, F. Psalm 115: Not unto us, O Lord, op 31 (1830). Eiddwen Harrhy, sop; Hervé Lamy, ten; Peter Kooy, bar; Leo van Doesalaar, org; La Chappelle Royale; Collegium Vocale; Paris Orchestral Ensemble/Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi 901272 17
14:00 TILL DEATH US DO PART Prepared by Stephen Wilson
22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Robert Small
Brian, H. Comedy overture: The tinker’s wedding (1948). Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Mackerras. EMI CDC 7 49558-2 7
Bertali, A. Ciaconna in C.
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Chopin, F. Trio in G minor, op 8 (1829). Trio Orfeo. Calig CAL 50 880 28
Britten, B. A wedding anthem, op 46 (1949). Margaret Phillips, org; The Sixteen/Harry Christophers. Decca 478 5364 10 Mozart, L. Peasant wedding. Eduard Melkus Ensemble. Archiv 427 122-2 13 Stravinsky, I. The wedding (1923). Alison Wells, sop; Susan Bickley, mezz; Martyn Hill, ten; Alan Ewing, basso-profundo; Simon Joly Chorale; International Piano Quartet; Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble/Robert Craft. Naxos 8.557499 24
Le Concert Brisé (2 above) Accent ACC 24260 Handel, G. Pastoral ode: L’Allegro Il Penseroso ed il moderato, HWV55 (1740). Michael Ginn, treb; Patrizia Kwella, sop; Marie McLaughlin, sop; Jennifer Smith, sop; Maldwyn Davies, ten; Martyn Hill, ten; Steven Varcoe, bass; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner. Erato 2292 45377-2 56 Telemann, G. Suite in E minor, from Tafelmusik I (pub. 1733). Wilbert Hazelzet, fl; Kate Clark, fl; Rémy Baudet, vn; Sayuri Yarnagata, vn; Musica Amphion/Pieter-Jan Belder. Brilliant Classics 94104 29
Saturday 6 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
13:00 CHINESE MOSAIC + POSTCARDS FROM SHANGHAI Prepared by Paolo Hooke A monthly exploration of the best of Chinese classical, traditional and film music, incorporating material specially provided by Shanghai Radio
6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney
Strauss, J. II Excerpts from The gypsy baron. Helga Hildebrand, sop; Christel Willenberg, sop; Erika Koth, sop; Sieglinde Wagner, mezz; Rudolph Schock, ten; Walter Rausch, ten; Marcel Cordes, bar; Benno Kusche, bar; Wilhelm Streinz, bass; Berlin Opera Ch; Berlin SO/Werner Schmidt-Boelke. LaserLite 16 041 15
9:30 SCHUBERT PANORAMA Prepared by Jan Brown
14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music
Schubert, F. Overture to The magic harp, D644 (1820). Cleveland O/George Szell. Sony SBK 60267 11
15:30 AMERICAN ROMANTICS Prepared by Angela Bell
Sonata no 3 in G minor, D408 (1816). Midori Seiler, vn; Jos van Immerseel, pf. Harmonia Mundi ZZT060501 16
Fry, W. The breaking heart. Royal Scottish NO/Tony Rowe. Naxos 8.559057 11
Variations on an original theme, D968a (c1824). Jenö Jandó, Zsuzsa Kollár, pf. Naxos 8.554513 10
Foote, A. Trio no 1 in C minor, op 5 (1882-84). Arden Trio. Marco Polo 8.225117 32
20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Wyvern Music ‘Sunrise’ Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC on 9 March 2014 at OLGC Church, Forestville
Das Wandern; Wohin?; Morgengruss; Der Müller und der Bach; Des Baches Wiegenlied, from Die schöne Müllerin, D795 (1823). Jonas Kaufman, ten; Helmut Deutsch, pf. Decca 478 1528 20
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
Haydn, J. Quartet no 63 in B flat, op 76 no 4, Sunrise (c1799). Liisa Pallandi, vn; Nicholas Waters, vn; Carl Lee, va. 21
MacDowell, E. Sonata no 3, op 57, Norse (1900). James Barbagallo, pf. Marco Polo 8.223632 17
Nielsen, C. Serenata in vano (1914). Alexei Dupressoir, cl; Timothy Murray, bn; Brendan Parravicini, hn; Aurora Henrich, db. 7
Chadwick, G. Quartet no 4 in E minor (1896). Portland String Quartet. Northeastern NR 234 28
Hindson, M. Rush. Georgina Roberts, ob. 11
Introduction and variations in E minor on a theme from Die schöne Müllerin, D802 (1824). Emmanuel Pahud, fl; Eric Le Sage, pf. naïve V 4863 20 Symphony no 4 in C minor, D417, Tragic (1816). Royal Concertgebouw O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 4509-91184-2
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11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Barlow, W. The winter’s past. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP 28173A
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Bach, J.S. The cathedral, from Magnificat in D (1732-35) Canadian Brass. Musica Viva MVCD 1011 7 Bagley, E. National emblem march. University of Michigan Symphony Band/H. Robert Reynolds. Chandos CHAN 4521 3 Dewhurst, R. Brasilia. Chris Thomas, tb; Cory Band/Robert Childs. Doyen DOY 290 4 Lear, W. Chinese take away. Buy As You View Band/Robert Childs. Doyen DOY 215 4 12:00 A LITTLE TASTE OF JAZZ with Rob Thomas
Gluck, C. Ombre larve, from Alceste (1770). Theresa Ringholz, sop; Drottningholm TO & Ch/Arnold Ostman. Naxos 8.555097-38 4
Straus, O. Excerpts from A waltz dream. Anneleise Rothenberger, sop; Edda Moser, sop; Brigitte Fassbender, mezz; Nicolai Gedda, ten; Willi Brokmeir, ten; Wolfgang Anheisser, bar; Munich Bayerischen Staatsoper Ch, Graunke SO/Willi Mattes. LaserLite 21
Reger, M. Lyrisches andante.
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Mozart, W. Grand nonet (arr. Roman Benedict, from Sinfonia concertante in E flat, K297b, 1778). Georgina Roberts, ob; Alexei Dupressoir, cl; Timothy Murray, bn; Brendan Parravicini, hn. 30 Aurora Henrich, db (2 above)
Berlioz, H. Sérénade, from La damnation de Faust (1846). Gérard Souzay, bar; O de Théåtre National de l’Opéra/Georges Prétre. EMI 5 8621129 2
Liisa Pallandi, vn; Nicholas Waters, vn; Carl Lee, va (3 above)
Verdi, G. Excerpt from La traviata, Act III (1853). Joan Sutherland, sop; Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Carlo Bergonzi, ten; Robert Merrill, bar; O de Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/John Pritchard; National PO/Richard Bonynge. London 443828-2 20
21:30 VARIATIONS IN A THEME Prepared by Elaine Siversen
18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with Paul Jackson 19:00 MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Derek Parker Kálman, E. Excerpts from The circus princess. Margit Schramm, sop; Guggi Lowenger, sop; Julius Katona, ten; Rudolph Schock, ten; Ferry Gruber, ten; Bruno Fritz; gesang; Deutschen Oper Berlin Ch, Berlin SO/Robert Stolz. Eurodisk 74321 21354 2 19
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Spohr, L. Variations in B flat on Euer Liebreiz, eure Schönheit, from Alruna (1809). Michael Collins, cl; Swedish CO/Robin O’Neill. 8 Hyperion CDA67509 Arutiunian, A. Trumpet variations. Bibi Black, tpt; Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian. Chandos CHAN 9668 18 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones Laid back late night music to give a wonderfully smooth end to the busy day; lie back, relax and enjoy
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Sunday 7 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Prepared by Frank Morrison Bach, J.S. Sonata in C, BWV1033 (c1736). Vernon Hill, fl; Jacqueline Johnson, vc; Roger Heagney, hpd. Move MD 3118 9 Donizetti, G. String quartet no 11 in C (1821). Revolutionary Drawing Room. cpo 999 279-2 17 Busoni, F. Sonata in C (1876). Cristiano Rossi, vn; Marco Vincenzi, pf. Dynamic CDS 87 12 Shostakovich, D. Trio no 1 in C minor, op 8 (1925). Trio Suleika. Radio Nederland MCCP123 14 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Cirri, G. Cello concerto in C (pub. 1780). Markus Nyikos, vc; Carol Tainton, hpd; Berlin RSO/Hans Maile. Schwann 11624 18 Frederick II. Flute sonata in C. Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0541
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Saint-Georges, J. Symphonie concertante in G, op 13 (1782). Miriam Fried, vn; Jaime Laredo, vn; London SO/Paul Freeman. LP CBS SBR 235692 15 Majo, G. Neapolitan sonata. Caterina Lichtenberg, mand; Mirko Schrader, gui. Schwann 3-6435-2
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Vanhal, J. Sinfonia in F. Umea Sinfonietta/ Jukka-Pekka Saraste. BIS CD-288 14 Dittersdorf, C. Divertimento in D. Ondrej Kukal, vn; Petr Pribyl, va; David Rejchrt, vc. Campion RRCD 1342 10 Haydn, J. Eloquence, Hob.XXVc:4 (bef. 1799). Netherlands Chamber Choir; Glen Wilson, fp; Uwe Gronostay, cond. Globe GLO 5080 2 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 15 in B flat, K450 (1784). Alfred Brendel, pf; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 442 571-2 26 12:00 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 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 36
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14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Imogen Cooper and friends Prepared by Stephen Wilson
Charlton, R. Southern Cross dreaming. Karin Schaupp, gui. KIN Music 3713279 4
Schubert, F. Moments musicaux, D780 (1823-28). Ottavo OTR C128715 29
Dreams and dances on Moreton Bay. Guitar Trek. Tall Poppies TP221 4
Beethoven, L. Adelaïde, op 46 (1795-96); An die ferne Geliebte, op 98 (1815-16). Wolfgang Holzmair, bar. Philips 454 475-2 19
Sculthorpe, P. Into the dreaming (1994). John Williams, gui. Sony SK 53361 6
Rachmaninov, S. Sonata in G minor, op 19 (1901). Sonia Wieder-Atherton, vc. Philips 476 209-5 38 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 7 in F, K242, Lodron (1776). Alfred Brendel, pf; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 416 364-2 23
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19:00 PRESENTING JANE EDWARDS Prepared by Rex Burgess Monteverdi, C. Laudate Dominum (pub. 1641). Luke Green, hpd. Walsingham WAL8024-2 4 Caccini, F. Maria, dolce Maria; Jesu corona virginum (pub. 1618). Marshall McGuire, hp; Erin Helyard, hpd. Artworks AW033 6
Imogen Cooper, pf (all above) 16:00 AT THE BALLET Prepared by Yvonne Laki Tchaikovsky, P. Dances of the sugar plum fairy and Prince Charming, from The nutcracker suite, op 71a (1892). Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert. ABC 480 6403 9 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from The golden cockerel (1909). Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev. Erato 4509-94808-2 27 Prokofiev, S. Suite from The love for three oranges, op 33 (1919). Vienna PO/Constantin Silvestri. EMI 5 74115 2 16 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymns: Laudes Regiae; Matins responsory after Palestrina; Ecce concipies; Echo carol; Rejoice in the Lord alway; This is the record of John. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Andrew Lucas, org; John Scott, cond. Helios CDH 55463 24 Various. Lo how a rose e’re blooming; The silver stars. Suzanne Handel, hp; Elizabeth Koch, fl. Move MD 3169 5 Psalms: no 24, Ye gates lift up your heads; no 48, The Saviour died but rose again; no 130, Lord from the depths to thee I cried; no 2, O God of Bethel. Scottish Philharmonic Singers; John Langdon, org; Ian McCrorie, cond. Abbey SCS Music SCSCD 2830 9 Carols: King Jesus hath a garden; Gabriel’s message; Up Christian folk and listen; Donkey carol. 12 18:00 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY Into the dreaming: remembering Peter Sculthorpe Prepared by Sue McCreadie Sculthorpe, P. Djilile (1988). John Williams, gui. JCW Recordings JCW2 5 From Kakadu. David Leisner, gui. Azica Records ACD-71218
Nourlangie (1989). Karin Schaupp, gui; Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills. ABC 481 0961
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Isabella Leonarda. Volo Jesum. Salut. Walsingham WAL8024-2
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Scarlatti, A. E come, oh Dio (c1698). ABC 461 687-2
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Jane Edwards, sop (all above) 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Jennifer Foong Moniuszko, S. Overture to Paria (1859-69). Warsaw PO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.572716 10 Myslivecek, J. Violin concerto no 4 in B flat (c1772). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Brandenburg O/ Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66840 17 Cimador, G. Double bass concerto in G. Gianni Amadio, db; O Interpreti Veneziani. Newton 8802200 13 Stamitz, C. Viola concerto in D, op 1 (pub. 1774). Tabea Zimmermann, va; European Union CO/Dmitri Demetriades. Helios CDH55035 21 Saint-Saëns, C. Cello concerto no 1 in A minor, op 33 (1872). Gautier Capuçon, vc; Radio France PO/Lionel Bringuier. Erato 934134 2 8 20 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Phil Vendy Talbot, J. Fool’s paradise (2007). Royal PO/ Christopher Austin. Signum SIGCD327 28 Pott, F. Amore langueo (1989). Rebecca Outram, sop; Deborah Mackay, cont; Benett Coldstream, ten; Michael McCarthy, bass; Schola Cantorum of Oxford/Jeremy Summerly. Hyperion CDA67575 16 Maxwell Davies, P. The Beltane fire (1995). BBC PO/Peter Maxwell Davies. Collins 14642 38 22:30 ULTIMA THULE Ambient and atmospheric music: www. ultimathule.info for detailed playlist
Monday 8 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Stephen Wilson Puccini, G. Double duet: Mimi, Rodolfo, Musetta and Marcello go their separate ways, from La bohème (arr. Hocking). West Australian SO/Dobbs Franks. ABC 476 1999 8 Albinoni, T. Concerto in D minor, op 9 no 2 (pub. 1721; arr. Thilde). Maurice André, tpt; London PO/Jésus López-Cobos. EMI CMS 7 69880-2 9 Pugni, C. Pas de quatre (1845; arr. McDermott). London SO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 452 772-2 14 Rossini, G. Quartet no 3 in F (1804; arr. Berr). Michael Thompson Wind Quartet. Naxos 8.554098 13 Paganini, N. Caprice in A minor, op 1 no 24 (c1807; arr. Grigorian). Slava Grigorian, gui. ABC 472 224-2 5 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Britten, B. Four sea interludes, op 33a, from Peter Grimes (1944-45). London SO/Steuart Bedford. Naxos 8.557196 17 Tippett, M. Piano concerto (1953-55). Howard Shelley, pf; Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9333 35 Haydn, J. Symphony in E flat, Hob.I:103, Drumroll (1795). Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer. LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 29 11:30 CHOIRS AND PLACES Prepared by Philip Lidbury Gabrieli, G. Quem vidistis pastores? from Symphoniae sacrae (pub. 1615). Charles Brett, ct; William Kendall, ten; Peter Hall, ten; Ian Caddy, bass; Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Stephen Layton, org; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Stephen Cleobury. Decca 448 993-2 9
Gibbons, O. Nunc dimittis, from Second evening service (1641). Choir of St George’s Cathedral, Perth; Daniel Hyde, org; Simon Lawford, cond. ABC 465 689-2 3 Haydn, J. Missa brevis in F, Hob.XXII:1 (1749/1805). Ann Hoyt, sop; Julie Liston, sop; Richard Lippold, bass; Trinity Choir; Rebel Baroque O/J. Owen Burdick. Naxos 8.572127 12 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan
15:00 REACH FOR THE STARS Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Williams, J. Across the stars, from Star Wars II: Attack of the clones (arr. Saunders). Royal PO/Paul Bateman. 6 Sony 88697161052 Kreisler, F. Stars in my eyes (1936; arr. Gamley). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Melbourne SO/Richard Bonynge. ABC 476 690-5 3
13:00 A TRIBUTE TO CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD 10.9.1941-24.9.2014 Prepared by Elaine Siversen Marais, M. La sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris (1723). Monica Huggett, vn; Christophe Coin, bass viol; Christopher Hogwood, hpd. L’Oiseau-Lyre 436 185-2 8 Handel, G. Sonata in F, HWV369. David Munrow, rec; Oliver Brookes, vc; Christopher Hogwood, hpd. Decca 440 079-2 8 Mozart, W. Laudate Dominum, from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339 (1780). Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood. Decca 476 2488 4 Bach, C.P.E. Quartet no 2 in D, Wq94 (1788). Nicholas McGegan, fl; Catherine Mackintosh, va; Anthony Pleeth, vc; Christopher Hogwood, fp. L’Oiseau-Lyre 433189-2 15 Bach, J.S. Suite in E, BWV817 (c1724). Christopher Hogwood, hpd. LP L’Oiseau-Lyre 411 811-1
Chausson, E. Poème de l’amour et de la mer, op 19 (1882). Lauris Elms, cont; Sydney SO/ Robert Pikler. ABC 446 279-2 25
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14:00 THE FRENCH AT SEA Prepared by Stephen Wilson Debussy, C. La mer (1903-05). Strasbourg PO/ Alain Lombard. Erato 2292-45082-2 23 Alkan, C-V. Prelude in A flat minor, op 31 no 8 Le chanson de la folle au bord de la mer (1847). Stephen Hough, pf. Hyperion CDA67890 4
Carr-Boyd, A. Look at the stars (1978). Ann Carr-Boyd, pf. Jade JADCD 1031 7 Trad. Twinkle, twinkle little star (arr. Finch). Lily Grabham, sop; Choir of the Creigiau Primary School; Catrin Finch, hp. DG 479 1482 3 Lehár, F. Give me all the stars in the world, from Gypsy love (1910). Marilyn Hill Smith, sop; Chandos Concert O/Stuart Barry. Chandos CHAN 8978 5 Puccini, G. E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca (1900). Thomas Edmonds, ten; Adelaide SO/ James Christiansen. ABC 438 196-2 3 Koechlin, C. Charlie Chaplin variations, from Seven stars symphony, op 132 (1933). Monte Carlo PO/Alexandre Myrat. LP HMV ASD 1731 16 Coates, E. Dancing nights, concert valse (1912). BBC Concert O/John Wilson. 8 ASV WHL 2112 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie 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 2014
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Tuesday 9 December Rubinstein, A. Don Quixote, humoresque for orchestra, op 87 (1870). Slovak PO/Michael Halász. Marco Polo 8.220359 21 11:30 MASTER AND PUPIL Prepared by Elaine Siversen Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Not the wind, blowing from the heights, op 43 no 2 (1897); Summer’s night dream, op 56 no 2 (1898). Anna Netrebko, sop; Daniel Barenboim, pf. DG 477 8589 8 Radu Lupu
Respighi, O. Adagio con variazioni (1920). Luca Signorini, vc; Francesco Nicolosi, pf. Nuova Era 7191 11
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Withered flower, op 51 no 3; The nightingale and the rose, op 2 no 2 (1865-66). Sergej Larin, ten; Eleonora Bekova, pf. Chandos CHAN 9547 6
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Radu Lupu
Schubert, F. Impromptu in B flat, D935 no 3 (1827). Decca 411 711-2 12 Debussy, C. Sonata (1916-17). Kyung Wha Chung, vn. Decca 421 154-2
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Brahms, J. Intermezzo in A, op 118 no 2; in B flat minor, op 117 no 2; in C, op 119 no 3 (1892). 13 Radu Lupu, pf (all above) Decca 417 599-2 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Dauvergne, A. Concert de simphonies in F, op 3 no 2 (pub. 1751). Concerto Cologne. FNAC 592295 23 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 1 in D, op 17 (1858). Stephen Hough, pf; City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo. Hyperion CDA67331/2 26 Debussy, C. Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune (1892-94). Melbourne SO/Jorge Mester. ABC 481 0408 10 38
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Salzedo, C. Sonata. Alice Giles, hp; Arnan Wiesel, pf. Schwann 3-1765-2 12 Mozart, W. Flute concerto no 2 in D, K314 (1778). Jane Rutter, fl; Sydney Bach O/Richard Bonynge. ABC 476 647-5 19 Donizetti, G. Sonata in G minor/major. JeanPierre Rampal, fl; Marielle Nordmann, hp. Sony SK 44552 5 Romberg, B. Sonata in B. Klaus Storck, vc; Helga Storck, hp. LP Telefunken 6.41020 11 Weber, C.M. Sonata no 3 (1810). Emmanuel Pahud, fl; Eric Le Sage, pf. naïve V 4863 5 14:00 CONTEMPORARY CONDUCTORS Gustavo Dudamel Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend
Stravinsky, I. The rite of spring (1913). DG 477 8775
Beethoven, L. Symphony no 3 in E flat, op 55, Eroica (1803). DG 479 0250 53
Simón Bolívar Youth O of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (all above)
13:00 FOR FLUTE AND HARP Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans
Revueltas, S. Sensemayá (1938). DG 477 7457
Romero, A. Fuga con pajarillo, from Suite for strings no 1. 7 DG 477 7457
Bernstein, L. Mambo, from West Side story (1957). 2 DG 477 7457
12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes
Mozart, W. Fantasia in F minor, K608 (1789-91). Murray Perahia, pf. Sony SK 4495 10
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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Ogilvie 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Madilina Tresca Walton, W. Suite from film, Henry V (1944; arr. Mathieson). Philharmonia O/William Walton. EMI 5 65003 2 15 Hubay, J. Violin concerto no 2 in E, op 90 (1900). Chloë Hanslip, vn; Bournemouth SO/ Andrew Mogrelia. Naxos 8.572078 27 Ravel, M. La valse (1920). Royal Concertbouw O/Bernard Haitink. Decca 478 4740 13 Still, W. Symphony no 1 (1930). Detroit SO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9154 24
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Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 2 in C minor, op 18 (1900-01). Isador Goodman, pf; Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 476 4570 33
Wednesday 10 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances: 10 December 1949 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti
Puccini, G. Manon Lescaut. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Ruggiero Leoncallo, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. First performed Turin, 1893.
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of early music Prepared by Di Cox Schmelzer, J. Cuckoo sonata. Romanesca. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907143 6 Bach, J. Unser Leben ist ein Schatten. Collegium Vocale; Ricercar Consort/Philippe Herreweghe. Ricercar RIC 017001 7 Starzer, J. Divertimento in C. Camerata Bern/ Thomas Füri. Archiv 410 599-2 16 Weiss, S. Sonata in F. Lutz Kirchhof, lute. Sony S2K 48391
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Wagenseil, G. Trombone concerto in E flat (1751-63). Warwick Tyrrell, tb; Adelaide SO/ Nicholas Braithwaite. ABC 438 825-2 10 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Raj Gopalakrishnan Arriaga, J. Symphony in D minor (1824). Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras. Hyperion CDA66800
MANON LESCAUT: Dorothy Kirsten, sop DES GRIEUX: Jussi Björling, ten GERONTE DI RAVOIR: Salvatore Baccaloni, bass Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Giuseppe Antonicelli MYTO 931 73 1:59
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Palestrina, G. da Stabat mater. Choir of Ormond College/Douglas Lawrence. Move MD 3220
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12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Alumni series: clarinettist Ben Mellefont with Katherine Ly 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music? Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it. 15:00 FROM THE 1920s AND 30s Prepared by Frank Morrison
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Rodrigo, J. Concierto para una fiesta (1981). Craig Ogden, gui; BBC PO/Sachio Fujioka. Chandos CHAN 9604 28 Albéniz, I. Iberia (1906-08; orch. Arbos). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 433 905-2 30 11:30 CHOIRS AND PLACES Prepared by Philip Lidbury Sibelius, J. The origin of fire, op 32 (1902/10). Tommi Hakala, bar; YL Male Voice Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1906/08 9 Rossini, G. Nacqui all’affanno ... Non più mesta, from Cinderella (1817). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Arnold Schönberg Choir; Vienna Volksoper O/Giuseppe Patanè. Decca 425 430-2 8
Manon Lescaut is travelling to be educated in a convent when Des Grieux, a student, falls in love with her on sight and suggests that he elope with her to Paris. Their relationship becomes difficult when he runs out of money and Geronte, a wealthy elderly roué, makes Manon his mistress. When she discovers that Des Grieux is about to take holy orders, she reaffirms her love for him. Wanting money, she encourages Des Grieux to gamble. They are both charged with cheating. He is released, but she is sentenced to transportation as a dissolute woman. Des Grieux signs on as a crew member on the ship taking her to New Orleans but after landing she dies in his arms. 22:30 FANTASY Prepared by Angela Bell
Prokofiev, S. Suite from Lieutenant Kijé, op 60 (1933-34). Malmö SO/James DePreist. BIS CD-531 22
Dyson, G. Fantasy (1935). Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. 6 Philips 442 8415
Bartók, B. Quartet no 3 (1927). New Budapest Quartet. Hyperion CDA66581/2 17
Smetana, B. Fantasia on Czech folksongs (1862). Kathryn Stott, pf. Chandos CHAN 10430 10
Sibelius, J. Tone poem: Tapiola, op 112 (1926). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 6508 16
Rodrigo, J. Fantasia for a gentleman (1954). Narciso Yepes, gui; English CO/Garcia Navarro. Decca 480 3913 22
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter
Alkan, C-V. Fantasy in A flat for the left hand, op 76 (c1838). Marc-André Hamelin, pf. 9 Hyperion CDA66765
19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell
Respighi, O. La boutique fantasque, op 40, after Rossini (1919). Vienna FO/Antonio Janigro. Vanguard 08 9001 71 34
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Thursday 11 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Raj Gopalakrishnan Tchaikovsky, B. Moderato; Molto vivace, from The murmuring forest (1953). Suite: After the ball (1952).
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Saratov Conservatory SO/Kirill Ershov (2 above) Naxos 8.570195 Juvenile, poem for orchestra (1984). Boris Tchaikovsky, pf; Alexander Petrov, va d’amore; USSR TV & Radio Large SO/Vladimir Fedoseyev. Melodiya SUCD 10-00235 31 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel Tchaikovsky, P. Overture in F. Russian NO/ Mikhail Pletnev. Newt On 8802037 11 Myaskovsky, N. Cello concerto in C minor, op 66 (1944-45). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Philharmonia O/Malcolm Sargent. EMI 5 65701 2 28 Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 1 in D minor, op 13 (1895). Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Exton EXCL-00018 43 11:30 CHAMBER ENCORE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Tchaikovsky, P. Danses caractéristiques, from The nutcracker, op 71a (1892). Martha Argerich, pf; Nicolas Economou, pf. DG 477 9523 11
Cowen, F. Concert piece (1897; pub. 1900). Martin Roscoe, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA 67837 20
Martinu, B. Thunderbolt P-47 (1945). Brno State PO/Petr Vronsky. Supraphon SU 3058-2 011 11
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock
Field, J. Piano concerto no 5 in C, Fire by lightning (1815). Benjamin Frith, pf; Northern Sinfonia/David Haslam. Naxos 8.554221 27
19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey
Young, A. Thunderstruck. David Garrett, vn; Franck Van Der Heijden, gui; Rogier Van Wegberg, bass gui; Steven Wolf, drums; Bulgarian SO/Ivan Kozhuharov. Decca 478 1122 3
14:00 CLASSICAL WINDS Prepared by Stephen Wilson
Zubin Mehta, cond (2 above)
Briccialdi, G. Il carnevale di Venezia, op 78. Sharon Bezaly, fl; Ervin Nagy, pf. BIS CD-1039 8
22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Fank Morrison
Cambini, G. Quintet no 3 in F. Avalon Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553410 15
Zelenka, J. Trio sonata in F (1719-22). Ingo Goritzki, ob; Burkhard Glaetzner, ob; Knut Sönstevold, bn; Achim Beyer, vn; Siegfried Pank, bass viol; Walter Bernstein, hpd. Berlin 0012852BC 17
Mozart, W. Adagio in F, K580a (1782-83). Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 9284
Haydn, J. String quartet no 10 in B flat, Hob. III:12 (bef. 1765). Kodály Quartet. Naxos 8.550732 18
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14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Chris Blower Pinto, G. Grand sonata in E flat minor, op 3 no 1 (c1800). Míceál O’Rourke, pf. Chandos CHAN 9798 18 Stanley, J. Voluntary in G, op 7 no 9 (pub. 1754). David Kinsela, org. Walsingham WAL 8030-2 4
12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers
Moeran, E.J. Theme and variations (1920). Iris Loveridge, pf. Lyrita REAM 1103 12
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Bruckner, A. Mass no 2 in E minor (1866/82). Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO. Decca 425 075-2 34 Symphony no 8 in C minor (1884-87/89-90). Los Angeles PO. Decca 475 7470 1:19
Coleridge-Taylor, S. Piano quintet in G minor, op 1 (1893). Members of Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67590 26
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Strauss, J. II Thunder and lightning polka, op 324 (1868). Hallé O/John Barbirolli. EMI CDM 1 66422 2 3
Rachmaninov, S. Piano trio no 1 in G minor, Élégïaque (1892). Moscow Conservatory Trio. Origin OR 009 14
13:00 STORMY WEATHER Prepared by Derek Parker 40
Rossini, G. Overture; Thunderstorm, from La Cenerentola (1817). European CO Per Musica/ Julian Reynolds. Globe GLO 6014 10
Smetana, B. Trio in G minor, op 15 (1855/57). Smetana Trio. Supraphon SU 3810-2 27 Korngold, E. Suite from Much ado about nothing, op 11 (1920). Gil Shaham, vn; André Previn, pf. DG 439 886-2 13 Shostakovich, D. Two pieces, op 11 (1924-25). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 9131 10 Beethoven, L. Trio in B flat, op 11 (1797). James Campbell, cl; Yuli Turovsky, vc; Luba Edlina, pf. Chandos CHAN 8655 24
Friday 12 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Schubert, F. Romanze, D114 (1814). Sarah Walker, mezz; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDJ33008
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 Exploring chamber Prepared by Sheila Catzel Strauss, R. Romance in F (1883). Mischa Maisky, vc; Pavel Gililov, pf. DG 477 7465
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Stanford, C. Villiers Fantasy no 1 in G minor (c1921). Thea King, cl; Britten String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66479 12
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Glück, F. In einem kühlen Grunde (1814; arr. Reger). Darmstadt Concert Choir/Wolfgang Seeliger. Christophorus CHE 0132-2 2
19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron
12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell
Beethoven, L. Quartet no 16 in F, op 135 (1826). Lindsay String Quartet. ASV DCS 403
13:00 PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS The supremacy of Beethoven Beethoven, L. Overture to The creatures of Prometheus, op 43 (1801). 5 Symphony no 3 in E flat, op 55, Eroica (1804). 47
Respighi, O. Snuffbox suite (1930). Antonio Plotino, fl; Alberto Boschi, fl, picc; Paolo Bottini, ob; Sergio Dagnino, ob, cora; Gabriele Screpis, bn; Luigi Tedone, bn; Hector Moreno, Norberto Capelli, pf. Dynamic CDS 96 10
Anima Eterna Brugge/Jos van Immerseel (2 above) Zig Zag 080402.6
Carmichael, J. Quartet, Sea changes. Antony Gray, pf; Belinda McFarlane, vn; Morgan Goff, va; Matthew Lee, vc. ABC 476 156-1 19
Chadwick, G. Overture: Melpemone (1887). Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn. Naxos 8.559117 15
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Janácek, L. Taras Bulba, rhapsody (1915-18). Brno State PO/Frantisek Jílek. Supraphon 11 1521-2 031 22 Khachaturian, A. Suite from Masquerade (1941). Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian. ASV DCA 773 18 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 13 (1874). Czech PO/Libor Pesek. Virgin VC7 91144-2 42 11:30 COMPOSED 200 YEARS AGO Prepared by Francis Frank. Giuliani, M. Grande overture, op 61 (1814). Dimitri Illarionov, gui. Naxos 8.557293 8 Schubert, F. Sailor’s song to the Dioscuri, D360 (c1822). Ian Bostridge, ten; Julius Drake, pf. EMI 5 57141 2 3 Beethoven, L. The parting kiss, from Welsh songs, WoO155 (1817). David Parker, ten; Alwyn Elliott, vn; Algimantis Motiekaitis, vc; Marie van Hove, pf. LP ABC/WRC R 03641 4
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Wagner, R. Prelude to Act I of The mastersingers of Nuremberg (1866-67). New York PO/Pierre Boulez. Sony SMK 64 108 11 Brahms, J. Trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI 7 54725 2 21 Beethoven, L. 33 variations on a waltz by Diabelli, op 120 (1819-23). Benjamin Frith, pf. ASV DCA 715 50
14:00 AMERICAN ROMANTICS Prepared by Jan Brown
Beach, A. Sonata in A minor, op 34 (1896). Terri Pontremoli, vn; Anita Pontremoli, pf. Centaur CRC 2119 30 Ballad in D flat, op 6. Virginia Eskin, pf. Koch 3-7254-2
20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Judy Ekstein
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15:00 THE CELLO IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Gael Golla Debussy, C. Sonata (1915). Paul Tortelier, vc; Jean Hubeau, pf. Erato 2292-45738-2 11 Honegger, A. Trois contrepoints (1922). Alain Marion, fl; Christian Moreaux, ob; Don-Suk Kan, vn; Rahael Wallfisch, vc. Timpani 1C1010 6 Prokofiev, S. Sonata, op 133 (1953). Steven Isserlis, vc. Virgin VC 7 90811-2 8 Ravel, M. Madagascan songs (1922-26). Jessye Norman, sop; Michel Debost, fl; Renaud Fontanarosa, vc; Dalton Baldwin, pf. EMI 5 69299 2 13 Martinu, B. Concertino in C minor (1924). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; members of Czech PO/ Jirí Belohlávek. Chandos CHAN 10547 X 14
22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Telemann and friends Telemann, G. Sinfonia in F. Peter Holtslag, rec; Mark Caudle, bass viol; Parley of Instruments/ Roy Goodman. 7 Hyperion CDA66413 Oboe d’amore concerto in G. Paul Goodwin, ob d’amore; King’s Consort/Robert King. Helios CDH55269 16 Bach, C.P.E. Sonata in F for two violins and basso continuo, Wq154. London Baroque. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 14 Telemann, G. Moral cantata: Modest happiness (1736-37). Martin Klietmann, ten; Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage. 7 Chandos CHAN 0525 Handel, G. Organ concerto in B flat, op 4 no 6 (1736). Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr, org & dir. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807446 13 Telemann, G. Concerto in D, TWV40:202. Salut! Salut! Baroque SAL002
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Bach, J.S. Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225. Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner. Monteverdi Productions SDG 716 17 Telemann, G. Overture in C, Hamburg ebb and flow (1723). Maurice Steger, rec; Akademie für Alte Musik/George Kallweit. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901917 25 December 2014
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Saturday 13 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
Handel, G. Final scene, from Act III of Julius Caesar (1723). Barbara Schlick, sop; Jennifer Larmore, mezz; Concerto Cologne/René Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901 385.87 14
18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Frank Morrison
9:30 A DISAPPOINTED MAN Prepared by Stephen Wilson
Saint-Saëns, C. Africa, op 89 (1891). Stephen Hough, pf; City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo. Hyperion CDA 67331/2 10
Hyde, M. Trio in G (1948). Christine Draeger, fl; Anne Brisk, cl; James Muir, pf. Walsingham 2WAL8036-2CD 11
German, E. Overture to Richard III (1889). RTE Concert O/Andrew Penny. Marco Polo 8.223695 9
Berlioz, H. La mort de Cléopâtre (1829). Yvonne Minton, mezz; BBC SO/Pierre Boulez. Sony SM3K 64 103 23
Glorious Devon (1905). Peter Dawson, bass-bar. EMI CDMID 166187 3
Verdi, G. Possente Fthà ... numi custode e vindice from Aïda (1871). Lucia Vallentini Terrani, mezz; Plácido Domingo, ten; Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass; La Scala Ch & O/Claudio Abbado. DG 477 5605 11
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
Suite: Nell Gwynn: (1900). Czecho-Slovak RSO/ Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.554713 18 Intermezzo. Janet Webb, fl; Jocelyn Edey Fazzone, pf. Fluteworthy Aug2012
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The seasons (1899). RTE Concert O/Andrew Penny. Marco Polo 8.223695 39
15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Pat Hopper
She had a letter from her love, from Merrie England (1902). June Bronhill, sop. LP HMV OASD 7580 4
Williams, J. Excerpts from Star wars. London SO/John Williams. Polydor 800.097 50
Symphony no 2 in A minor, Norwich (1893). National SO of Ireland/Andrew Penny. Marco Polo 8.223726 32
Excerpt from Close encounters of the third kind. NSO/John Williams.
11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small Ticheli, F. Wild nights (2007).
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Etezady, R. The flight of night from Anahita (2005). Naxos 8.572129 (3 above) Gould, M. Marche, from Symphony no 4, West Point (1952). Naxos 8.572629 University of Kansas Wind Ensemble (all above) 12:00 A LITTLE TASTE OF JAZZ with Rob Thomas 13:00 ASIAN MUSIC Prepared by Stephen Schafer A monthly exploration of music from across Asia 14:00 MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS Pole to Pole Prepared by Stephen Schafer 42
Glass, P. The city: dance; Hymn, from Akhnaten (1984). Paul Esswood, ct; Stuttgart State Opera Ch & O/Dennis Russell Davies. Sony SM2K 41141 19
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16:30 ARTS IN FOCUS With Musica Viva Produced by Simon Moore 17:00 COLOURS OF THE KING Program of the Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame Bach, J.S. Choral preludes: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV599; Gottes Sohn ist kommen, BWV600; Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV603; Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604; In dulci jubilo, BWV608; Jesu, meine Freude, BWV610. George Ritchie, org. Raven OAR-875-8 10 Canonic variations on the Christmas carol: Vom Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her, BWV769 (c1747). Hans Fagius, org. BIS CD-439 11 Wills, A. Variations on I sing the birth. Michael Dudman, org. Chartreuse CRCD 1794 15 Ampt, R. Australian Christmas suite (1988). Amy Johansen, org. Newington College CDNC3 11
Sutherland, M. Concerto for string orchestra. Queensland SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 446 285-2 11
Edwards, R. Ab estatis foribus (1979). Sydney Chamber Choir. Tall Poppies TP126 10 Hill, A. Symphony no 7 in E minor (1956). Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann. Marco Polo 8.223537
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19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Strouse, C. Excerpts from Annie (1977). Andrea McArdle, Reid Shelton, Sandy Faison, Robert Fitch, voices. Columbia SK 60723 17 Porter, C. Excerpts from Silk stockings (1955). Hildegarde Neff, Don Ameche, Gretchen Wyler, voices. RCA DRG 19118 13 Cohan, G. Excerpts from George M. Joel Grey, voice. Columbia CK 3200 19 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Part 1: Sydney Soloists at the Sydney Mozart Society Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC on 11 July 2014 at the Gillian Moore Performing Arts Centre Mozart, W. Flute concerto in D, K314 (arr. Simonds). Emma Scholl, fl. 19 Horn concerto in E flat, K495 (1786; arr. Simonds). Robert Johnson, hn.
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Clarinet concerto in A, K622 (1791; arr. Simonds). Francesco Celata, cl.
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Sydney Soloists (all above) Part 2: More Mozart Mozart, W. Symphony no 28 in C, K200 (1774). Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. Fine Music Tape Archive 19 21:30 HOFFMEISTER IN CHAMBER Prepared by Elaine Siversen Hoffmeister, F. Quartet no 3 in D. Ernö Sebestyén, vn; Helmut Nicolai, va; Martin Ostertag, vc; Norbert Duka, db. Naxos 8.572187
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Parthia no 3 in B flat. Consortium Classicum. cpo 999 107-2 14 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones
Sunday 14 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 Imogen Cooper and friends Prepared by Stephen Wilson
9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Beethoven, L. Rondino in E flat, WoO25 (1793). RSO Leipzig Wind Ensemble. Edel 0041-2
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Walther, J.J. Sonata no 10, Imitation del cuccu. Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Rosanne Hunt, vc; Linda Kent, hpd. ABC 465 269-2 8 Parish Alvars, E. Serenade. Philippa Davies, fl; Thelma Owen, hp. IMP PCD 835 8 Spohr, L. Double quartet no 1 in D minor, op 65 (1823). Eder Quartet; Kreuzberger String Quartet. Teldec 2292-42444-2 20 Barsanti, F. Sonata in A minor. Michel Henry, baroque ob; Roberto Gini, vc; Diana Petech, hpd. Arts 447141-2 9 14:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Sheila Catzel Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 4 in G, K41 (1767). English CO/Daniel Barenboim, pf & dir. EMI CDC 7 47987-2 14 Ries, F. Trio in B flat, op 28. Jürgen Demmler, cl; Markus Tillier, vc; Peter Grabinger, pf. Naxos 8.553389 23 Schubert, F. Polonaise in F, D824 no 2 (1826). Anne Queffélec, Imogen Cooper, pf. apex 0927 49812 2 4 Krommer, F. Quintet no 2 in E flat. Nancy Ambrose King, ob; Solomia Soroka, vn; Eva Stern, va; Joseph Kam, va; Natalia Khoma, vc. Naxos 8.557669 24
Schumann, R. Davidsbündlertänze, op 6 (1837). Ottavo OTR C39027 36 Schubert, F. Songs from Die schöne Müllerin, D795 (1823): no 1, Das Wandern; no 5, Am Feierabend. Wolfgang Holzmair, bar. Philips 456 581-2 5 Trio 1 in B flat, D898 (1827). Raphael Oleg, vn; Sonia Wieder-Atherton, vc. Phillips 476 209-5 41 Mozart, W. Double concerto in E flat, K365 (1779). Alfred Brendel, pf; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 416 364-2 25 Imogen Cooper, pf (all above)
Debussy, C. Fast and furious; Jazz novelty, from Le petit nègre (1909; arr. Briegel). Chicago Saxophone Quartet. Centaur CRC 2086 1
Sousa, J.P. Jazz America (1925). Royal Norwegian Navy Band/Keith Brion. Naxos 8.559397
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Martinu, B. Jazz suite (1928). Zdenek Jílek, pf; Members of Prague SO/Zbynek Vostrák. Supraphon SU 3058-2 011 12 Tournier, M. Jazz-band. Naoko Yoshino, hp. Philips 446 064-2 4
Hoffmeister, F. Viola concerto in B flat. Victoria Chiang, va; Baltimore CO/Markand Thakar. Naxos 8.572162 21
Gershwin, G. Rhapsody in blue, jazz band version (1924). Stefano Bollani, pf; Gewandhaus O/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 478 2739 16
Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:48, Maria Theresia (c1769). Capella Istropolitana/Barry Wordsworth. Naxos 8.550382 21
17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes
12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan The early days of jazz and ragtime as recorded during the first 30 years of the 20th century
Hymns: Radiant light; We hymn Thee; Creed. Holst Singers; James Bowman, ct; Stephen Layton, cond. Hyperion CDA 66928 11 Advent hymns: Remember O thou man; On Jordan’s bank; Gabriel’s message; O come, O come, Emmanuel. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; Simon Preston, org; David Willcocks, cond. Belart 450 112-2 15 18:00 SYDNEY SCHUBERT SOCIETY Prepared by Ross Hayes Schubert, F. Der Schnee zerinnt, D130 (c1815). Die Singphoniker. 1 cpo 999 400-2 Der Winterabend, D938 (1828). Ian Bostridge, ten; Leif Ove Andsnes, pf. 7 EMI 5 57901 2
16:00 CLASSICAL JAZZ Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans
Shostakovich, D. Jazz suite no 1 (1934). Melbourne SO/Oleg Caetani. ABC 476 836-4
Ryba, J. Missa pastoralis (1788). Dagmar Vankatova, sop; Pavla Ksicova, ct; Vladimir Dolezal, ten; Vaclav Sibera, bass; Josef Ksica, org; Czech Madrigalists Choir & O/František Xaver Thuri. Naxos 8.5544 28 13
Hymns: Rorate Caeli; Advent Responses; O come, O come Emmanuel; Drop down ye heaven from above. David Russell, cantor; Choir of Christ Church St Laurence; Peter Jewkes, org; Neil McEwan, cond. CCSL CD05 13
Ballet music from Rosamunde, D797 (1823). Vienna SO/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Apex 0927 498132 16 Das Wirtshaus, from Winterreise, D911 no 21 (1827). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Jörg Demus, pf. 4 DG 447 421-2 String quartet no 2 in C, D32 (1812). Melos Quartet. DG 419 879-2
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In the cold, unfriendly North, from Heliopolis no 1, D753 (1822). Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf. 4 DG 477 5765 19:00 BROWSING THE BAROQUE Prepared by Rex Burgess Wert, G. de Giunto all tomba. Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley. Columns 070990
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Merula, T. Hor ch’è ... Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nana. Jill Feldman, sop; Nigel North, theorbo. 7 LINN CXD 005 Schein, J. O Scheiden, O bitter Scheiden. René Jacobs, ct; Konrad Junghänel, lute. Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901183
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India, S. d’ Interdette speranz’e van desio. Chiaroscuro Vocal Ensemble; Jacob Lindberg, lute; London Baroque/Nigel Rogers. 7 EMI CDM 7 63065 2 December 2014
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Sunday 14 December 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess Dohnányi, E. Piano concerto no 2 in B minor, op 42 (1946-47). Martin Roscoe, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Fedor Glushchenko. Hyperion CDA66684 30 Mahler, G. Rückert-Lieder (1902). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; North German RSO/John Eliot Gardiner. DG 439 928-2 20 Debussy, C. Images (1905-12). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 8850 34 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Troy Fil Convery, R. Christmas daybreak (1996). The Crossing/Donald Nally. Innova 853 4 Ticheli, F. Rest (2011). Mansfield University Concert Wind Ensemble/Adam Brennan. Mark Records 50836-MCD 7 Burhans, C. Magnificat (2004). Trinity Wall Street Choir; Caleb Burhans, org & dir. Cantaloupe CA-21094 6 Torke, M. Country folk arrive; Surprise gifts, from An Italian straw hat (2004). National Ballet of Canada O/Ormsby Wilkins. Ecstatic ER092207 7 Luque, S. My idea of fun (2010). Michael Kornacki, cl; Christina Fong, va; Glenn Freeman, perc. OgreOgress 20383 7 Chilcott, R. On Christmas night (2010). Laurie Ashworth, sop; Commotio; Alice James, fl; Tim Elton, ob; Tanya Houghton, hp; Richard Pearce, org; Matthew Berry, cond. Naxos 8.573159 23 Aho, K. Black snow; Christmas darkness, from Theremin concerto, 8 seasons (2010). Carolina Eyck, theramin; Lapland CO/John Storgards. BIS BIS-2036 8
0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
13:00 AT SIXES AND SEVENS Prepared by Angela Bell
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter
Reinecke, C. Wind sextet in B flat, op 271 (1905). Members of Boston SO. Naxos 8.570777 20
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Aimée Palfreeman Kreisler, F. Liebesfreud (c1910; arr. Rachmaninov). Sergei Rachmaninov, pf. Telarc 80489
Respighi, O. Six pieces for children (1926). Hector Moreno, Norberto Capelli, pf. Dynamic CDS 96 11
Szymanowski, K. String quartet no 2, op 56 (1923; arr. Tognetti). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Chandos CHAN 10016 19
Saint-Saëns, C. Septet in E flat, op 65 (1881). Paul Archibald, tpt; Marcia Crayford, vn; Jeremy Williams, vn; Roger Chase, va; Christopher van Kampen, vc; Rodney Slatford, db; Ian Brown, pf. Virgin VC 7 90751-2 18
Satie, E. Trois sarabandes (1887; arr. Miolin). Anders Miolin, alto gui. BIS CD-586 16
Pärt, A. Seven Magnificat antiphons (1988-91). Paul Hillier, bar; Theatre of Voices. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907182 15
Servais, A-F. Grande fantaisie, op 6 after Rossini’s Le barbier de Seville (arr.). Sen-Sinn Yang, vc; Munich RSO/Terje Mikkelsen. cpo 777 542-2 14
Schumann, R. Six pieces in canonic form, op 56 (1844-45; arr. Kirchner). Vienna Brahms Trio. Naxos 8.553837 17
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10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Di Cox Franck, C. The accursed huntsman (1882). Paris O/Daniel Barenboim. DG 476 2800 16 Offenbach, J. Cello concerto in G, Concerto militaire (1847). Guido Schiefen, vc; Cologne WDR Radio O/Helmut Froschauer. cpo 777 069-2 24 Mozart, W. Symphony no 36 in C, K425, Linz (1783). Prague PO/Jirí Belohlávek. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901891 39 11:30 CHAMBER SONATAS Prepared by Paul Hopwood Rossini, G. Sonata à quattro no 4 in B flat (1804). Members of Serenata of London. ASV DCA 767 13
Blanc, A. Septet, op 40. Octuor de France. Caliope CAL 9384 27 15:00 A HUNTING WE WILL GO Prepared by Sheila Catzel Rossini, G. La rendez-vous de chasse (1828). Horns of Australian Baroque Brass. 5 Tubicium Records TR761901 Mozart, W. String quartet no 17 in B flat, K458, Hunt (1785). Guarneri Quartet. Philips 426 392-2 25 Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:73, Hunt (c1781). Hanover Band/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66520 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY with Ken Weatherley
Chan, L. Smoke weather stone weather (2013). The noise. Vexations 840-1301 14
Bach, J.S. Trio sonata in F, BWV529 (c1730). Palladian Ensemble. Linn CKD 036 13
20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg
Bingham, J. Christmas past, Christmas present (1989). David Jones, pf. Toccata TOCC0181 3
12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan
22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson
22:30 ULTIMA THULE 44
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Tuesday 16 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
14:30 BROWSING THE BAROQUE Prepared by Rex Burgess
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Hässler, J. Grand sonata in C. Alexander Bakhchiyev, Yelena Sorokina, pf. Chandos CHAN 9418
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
Lalande, M-R. de Cantique quatrieme (pub. 1687). Little Singers of St Francis. Jade JACD 004 12
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Steven Isserlis Prepared by Frank Morrison Schumann, R. Fantasy pieces, op 73 (1849). Dénes Varjon, pf. Hyperion CDA67661 11 Bach, J.S. Cello suite no 1 in G, BWV1007 (c1720). Hyperion CDA67541/2
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Liszt, F. Die Trauergondel (1882-85). Thomas Adès, pf. Hyperion CDA67948 8 Boccherini, L. Cello concerto no 7 in G (1770). Ostrobothnian O/Juha Kangas. Virgin VC 7 90805-2 17 Steven Isserlis, vc (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Ron Walledge Ravel, M. La valse (1921). Los Angeles PO/ Zubin Mehta. Decca 475 7470 12 Lalo, E. Symphonie espagnole in D minor, op 21 (1873). Maxim Vengerov, vn; Philharmonia O/ Antonio Pappano. EMI 5 57593 2 34 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Marie-Claire Alain, org; French NRO/Jean Martinon. apex 8573 89244 2 35 11:30 ENCORE Prepared by Chris Blower Lalo, E. Chants russes (1879). Maria Kliegel, vc; Bernd Glemser, pf. Naxos 8.554469 6 Ravel, M. Sonatine (1903-5). Martha Argerich, pf. EMI 5 57101 2 9 Saint-Saëns, C. Scherzo, op 87 (1889). Pascal Rogé, pf; Ami Rogé, pf. Onyx ONYX 4117 10
15:00 THREE AND EIGHT Prepared by Chris Blower Steven Isserlis
Lalo, E. Piano trio no 3 in A minor, op 26 (1881). Trio Henry. Pierre Verany PV 794031 30
12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 IN PAGANINI MOOD Prepared by Francis Frank Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Capriccio diabolico, op 85, Omaggio a Paganini (1935). Norbert Kraft, gui. Chandos CHAN 9033 8 Lutoslawski, W. Variations on a theme by Paganini (1941). Martha Argerich, pf; Nelson Freire, pf. DG 476 114-7 5 Kreisler, F. Tempo di menuetto in the style of Paganini. Oscar Shumsky, vn; Milton Kaye, pf. ASV QS 6039 4 Horovitz, J. Variations on a theme of Paganini. City of London Brass Quartet. LDR LDRCD 1012 8
Raff, J. String octet in C, op 176 (1872). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 8790 24 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Andrew Dziedzic 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Robert Small 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Di Cox Rózsa, M. Three Hungarian sketches, op 26 (1938). New Zealand SO/James Sedares. Koch 3-7191-2H1 19
Lehár, F. Gern hab’ ich die Frau’n geküsst, from Paganini (1925). Richard Tauber, ten; German Artists TO/Ernst Hauke. EMI CDH 7 69787-2 4
Rajna, T. Harp concerto (1990). Moya Wright, hp; NSO/Allan Stephenson. Claremont GSE 1526 25
Blacher, B. Variations on a theme of Paganini, op 26 (1947). Vienna PO/Georg Solti. Decca 452 853-2 14
Kodály, Z. Lovely is the forest; Wheelcart, barrow; A little sad song (1938-39). Lucia Popp, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. 7 Orfeo C 363 941 B
Williams, L. Paganini variations. Michael Conn, gui; English CO/Leslie Williams. Decca 480 3913
Veress, S. Four Transylvanian dances (1943-49). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Sony SK 62005 13
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Rachmaninov, S. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op 43 (1934). Earl Wild, pf; Royal PO/ Jascha Horenstein. Chandos CHAN 6605 21
Ligeti, G. Ten pieces for wind quintet (1968). Stockholm Philharmonic Wind Quintet. EMI 7638672 15 Bartók, B. The miraculous mandarin, op 19 (1919-26). Melbourne SO/Hiroyuki Iwaki. Virgin VC 7 91106-2 30 December 2014
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Wednesday 17 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti
19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of early music Prepared by Jennifer Foong
20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances: 28 December, 1957 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero
Locatelli, P. Concerto grosso in F, op 1 no 7 (pub. 1721). Raglan Baroque Players. Hyperion CDD22066 7
Giordano, U. Andrea Chénier. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Luigi Illica. First performed Milan, 1896.
Matteis, N. Fantasia in B flat (pub. 1676). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn. Hyperion CDA67238
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Marini, B. Romanesca. Convivium. Hyperion CDA66985
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Corelli, A. Trio sonata in A minor, op 3 no 10 (pub. 1689). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Catherine Mackintosh, vn; Richard Boothby, vc; Jakob Lindberg, theorbo; Robert Woolley, org. Chandos CHAN 0532 5 Vivaldi, A. Cello concerto in G minor, RV416. Raphael Wallfisch, vc; City of London Sinfonia. Naxos 8.550910 9 Bach, J.S. Violin concerto in D minor, BWV1052 (1735-40). O of the Age of Enlightenment/ Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn & dir. Virgin 5 45095 2 23 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Janácek, L. Lachian dances (1890). Slovak RSO/ Ondrej Lenárd. Naxos 8.550411 19 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Guitar concerto no 1 in D, op 99 (1939). Nicola Hall, gui; London Mozart Players/Andrew Litton. ABC 480 6461 21 Dvorák, A. Czech suite, op 39 (1879). Scottish CO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 765 23 Sibelius, J. Symphony no 7 in C, op 105 (1926). Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer. ABC 476 3945 20
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11:30 SONATAS FOR TWO Prepared by Paul Hopwood Busoni, F. Sonata in C (1876). Cristiano Rossi, vn; Marco Vincenzi, pf. Dynamic CDS 87 12 Devienne, F. Oboe sonata in C, op 70 no 1 (1798-99). Peter Bree, ob; Roderick Shaw, fp. Etcetera KTC 1084 14 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Fine Music 40th anniversary with Troy Fil 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music? Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it. 15:00 A FIELD TRIP Prepared by Stephen Wilson Field, J. Sonata in A, op 1 no 3 (1801). Pietro Spada, pf. Arts 47178-2 17 Quintet in A flat (1815). David Juritz, vn; Jennifer Godson, vn; Sarah-Jane Bradley, va; Julia Desbruslais, vc. Chandos CHAN 9534 11 Piano concerto no 5 in C, L’incendie par l’orage (1817). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9495 27 Míceál O’Rourke, pf (2 above)
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ANDREA CHÉNIER: Richard Tucker, ten CARLO GÉRARD: Leonard Warren, bar MADDALENA DE COIGNY: Zinka Milanov, sop Metropolitan Ch & O/Fausto Cleva Walhall WLCD 0342 2:03 Chénier, a poet newly arrived in Paris, is entertained at the noble Coigny household and falls in love with the daughter Maddalena. Shocked by the abject conditions of the poor, he joins a mob, led by Gérard, once a servant of the Coignys. The cruelty of the mob upsets the poet who criticises the leaders. Gérard interrupts an assignation between Chénier and Maddalena, whom he loves, and a fight ensues. Gérard is wounded and the lovers escape. Gérard, driven by his hopeless love, falsely charges Chénier with treason. Maddalena, unable to save her lover, bribes his gaoler to let her into the prison and she joins him in the tumbril. 22:30 PIANO PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown Smetana, B. Bagatelles and impromptus (1844). Radoslav Kvapil, pf. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9139
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Dvorák, A. Piano quartet in D, op 23 (1875). Domus. Hyperion CDA66287 34 Schumann, R. Piano concerto in A minor, op 54 (1841). Francesco Piemontesi, pf; BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek. naive V 5327 31
Thursday 18 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore
19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus
20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Judy Ekstein
Bruch, M. Jubilate, op 3 (1858). Aleksandra Baranska, sop; Elzbieta Towarnicka, sop; Halina Matuszek, sop; Cracow Philharmonic Ch & O/ Roland Bader. Koch Schwann 3-1253-2 5
Pleyel, I. Symphony in G, op 68 (1804). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9525 24
Overture to Die Loreley, op 16 (1863). Rhenish PO/Wolfgang Balzer. EBS ebs6071 4 Violin concerto no 1 in G minor, op 26 (1868). Niki Vasilakis, vn; Tasmanian SO/Sebastian Lang-Lessing. ABC 476 923-7 27 Kol nidrei, op 47 (1881). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Gerald Moore, pf. EMI CZS 5 68132 2 10 Piece in B minor, op 83 no 2 (pub. 1910). Nobuko Imai, va; Janet Hilton, cl; Roger Vignoles, pf. Chandos CHAN 8776
12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 ALPHABETICAL COMPOSERS The Fs Prepared by Chris Blower Falla, M. de Final dance, jota, from The three cornered hat (1919). West Australian SO/Jorge Mester. ABC 438 198-2 7 Fibich, Z. Piano trio in F minor (1872). Smetana Trio. Supraphon SU 3927-2 16
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Lasst uns das Kindelein wiegen. RIAS Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2971794 2 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Khachaturian, A. Suite no 2 from Spartacus (1943). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8927 21 Tchaikovsky, P. Violin concerto in D, op 35 (1878). David Oistrakh, vn; Moscow PO/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Brilliant Classics 9239 34 Spohr, L. Symphony no 5 in C minor, op 102 (1837). Czecho-Slovak PO/Alfred Walter. Marco Polo 8.223363 29 11:30 ENCORE Prepared by Chris Blower Khachaturian, A. Sonatina (1959). Murray McLachlan, pf. Olympia OCD 423 9 Tchaikovsky, P. Solo, from The sleeping beauty (1889; transcr.). Alexander Ivashkin, vc; Ingrid Wahlberg, pf. Manu MANU 1426 5 Spohr, L. Fantasy in B minor on themes of Danzi and Vogler, op 118 (1814). Sophie Langdon, vn; Hugh Webb, hp. Naxos 8.555365
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Finzi, G. Farewell to arms (1926-45). James Gilchrist, ten; Bournemouth SO/David Hill. Naxos 8.570417 9 Fossa, F. de Quartet no 1 in D (c1826). Kenneth Sillito, vn; Ian Jewel, va; Keith Harvey, vc; Simon Wynberg, gui. LP Chandos ABRD 1109 19 Fauré, G. Madrigal, op 35 (1882); Pavane, op 50 (1887). Jean Sourisse Vocal Ensemble; Emmanuel Strosser, pf; Jean Sourisse, cond. FNAC 592224 8 Field, J. Piano concerto no 1 in E flat (1799). Benjamin Frith, pf; Northern Sinfonia/David Haslam. Naxos 8.553770 21 14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Paul Hopwood Grieg, E. Sonata in E minor, op 7 (1865). Einar Steen-Noekleberg, pf. Naxos 8.550881 18 Chausson, E. Piano quartet, op 30 (1897). Les Musiciens. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908250.79 38 Bach, J.S. Concerto in F, BWV971, Italian (1735). Nicholas Parle, hpd. Tall Poppies TP057 15 Clementi, M. Sonata in F, op 36 no 2 (c1777). László Simon, pf. BIS CD-36 10
Haydn, J. Horn concerto no 1 in D, Hob.VIId:3 (1762). Hector McDonald, hn; Academy of Melbourne/Brett Kelly. Tall Poppies TP042 18 Albrechtsberger, J. Double concerto in F (arr. Behrend). Marianne Klatt, fl; Michael Tröster, gui; German Plucked-String CO/Siegfried Behrend. Thorofon CTH 2025 14 Hummel, J. Trumpet concerto in E (1803). Håkan Hardenberger, tpt; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 420 203-2 18 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 9 in E flat, K271, Jeunehomme (1777). English CO/Murray Perahia, pf & dir. Sony SX4K 46442 31 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Stamitz, C. Quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello in E flat, op 8 no 4. Salzburg Soloists. Masters of the millenium MM 2081 12 Mayer, E. Sonata in E minor, op 19 (1867). Aleksandra Maslovaric, vn; Anne-Lise Longuemare, pf. Feminae 30 Capirola, V. Renaissance dances. Eckart Haupt, fl; Monika Rost, gui. Edel 0059-2
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Boccherini, L. String quintet in A, op 10, G265 (1771). La Magnifica Communità. Brilliant Classics 92503 20 Bärmann, H. Adagio in D flat, op 23. Henk de Graf, cl; Schubert Consort. 5 Columns Classics 99168 Cambini, G. Trio V in C. Trio Tourte. Tactus TC 740302
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Mozart, W. Quintet for piano and wind instruments in E flat, K452 (1784). Dennis Russel Davies, pf; members of Stuttgart Wind Quintet. Mediaphon 72.120 27 December 2014
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Friday 19 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 Exploring chamber Prepared by Jan Brown Mendelssohn, Fanny. String quartet in E flat (1834). Erato Quartet Basel. cpo 999 679-2 20 Tchaikovsky, P. String quartet in B flat (1865). New Haydn Quartet, Budapest. Naxos 8.550848 13 Bruch, M. Quintet in E flat (1918). Kazuki Sawa, va; Henschel Quartett NEOS Classics NEOS 30901 19 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen Bax, A. Tintagel (1917-19). Royal Scottish NO/ David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.578017-18 15 Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 3 in D minor, op 30 (1909). Byron Janis, pf; London SO/Antal Dorati. Mercury 432 759-2 38 Schumann, R. Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 120 (1841/51). Vienna PO/Georg Solti. Decca 417 799-2 30 11:30 FOR MIGNON Prepared by Elaine Siversen Schumann, R. Mignon’s song, op 98a no 1 (1849). Christine Schäffer, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDJ 33101
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12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell
19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron
13:00 THE DELIGHT OF PIANO TRIOS Prepared by Ron Walledge
20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Heather Sykes
Smetana, B. Trio in G minor, op 15 (1855/57). Yuval Piano Trio. DG 457892-2 28
Delius, F. Florida Suite (1887). English SO/ William Boughton. Nimbus NI 5450/3 37
Debussy, C. Piano trio no 1 in G (1879). Joachim Trio. Naxos 8.550934 25
Bruckner, A. Symphony no 4 in E flat, Romantic (1874/80; ed. Haas). Royal Scottish NO/Georg Tintner. Naxos 8.554128 1:13
14:00 SONATAS, CANTATAS & TOCCATAS Prepared by Gael Golla Albinoni, T. Sonata no 1 (1692). Graham Ashton, tpt; Irish CO/Ian Watson. Virgin VJ 791563-2 Frescobaldi, G. Toccata IX (pub. 1627). Lorenzo Ghielmi, hpd. Nuova Era 6799
22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Italian virtuoso musicians Prepared by Elaine Siversen 7
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Pergolesi, G. Cantata: Questo è il piano. Marianne Pizzolato, cont; O dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome/Antonio Pappano. DG 477 9337 13 Beethoven, L. Sonata no 5 in D, op 102 no 2 (1815). Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Philips 464 677-2 18 Finzi, G. Grand fantasia and toccata in D minor, op 38 (c1928/53). Peter Donohoe, pf; Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths. Naxos 8.555766 14 Bax, A. Sonata (1934). Emma Johnson, cl; Malcolm Martineau, pf. ASV DCA 891
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Mignon, from Album of songs for the young, op 79 (1849). Bernarda Fink, mezz; Roger Vignoles, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMG 501753 4
Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1724). Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Archiv 437327-2 14
Mignon; Rememberance, from Album for the young, op 68 (1832-45). Angela Brownridge, pf. Helios CDH55039 4
Brahms, J. Sonata no 3 in D minor, op 108 (1886). Krysia Osostowicz, vn; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66465 21
Requiem for Mignon, op 98b (1849). William Dazeley, bar; Hanover Boys Choir; O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner. Archiv 457 660-2 13
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh
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Rippe, A. de Fantasias nos 2 and 16. Hopkinson Smith, lute. LP Astrée AS 18
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Vivaldi, A. Violin concerto in A, RV552 (1740). Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze, vn & dir. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907541.45 15 Magnificat, RV611. Deborah York, sop; Patrizia Biccire, sop; Sara Mingardo, cont; Akademia; Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini. naive OP 30195 20 Trio sonata in D, RV84. Darja Grossheide, fl; Gabriele Nussberger, baroque vn; Robert Nikolayczik, vc; Willi Kronenberg, hpd. 7 Naxos 8.557573 Rippe, A. de Fantasias nos 1 and 2. Hopkinson Smith, gui. LP Astrée AS 18 8 Tartini, G. Sonata in G minor, Devil’s trill (arr. Kreisler). David Garrett, vn; Alexander Markovich, pf. DG 479 0933 17 Flute concerto in G (c1720). Neil McLaren, fl; Cambridge Baroque Camerata. 8 Amon Ra CD-SAR 52 Violin concerto in E flat minor, D56 (arr. Scimone). Symphonia Perusina O/Felix Ayo, vn & dir. Dynamic CDS 131 18
Saturday 20 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 CLASSICAL CHAMBER Mozart, W. String quartet no 23 in F, K590 (1790). Hagen Quartet. DG 00289 477 5081 27 9:30 CZECH HERITAGE Prepared by Jan Brown Smetana, B. Grand overture in D (1848). BBC PO/Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10413 8 Stamitz, C. Clarinet concerto in B flat, op 91. Tomoko Takashima, cl; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Kálmán Berkes, cl & dir. Naxos 8.553584 19 Zelenka, J. Capriccio no 3 in F. Das NeuEröffnete O/Jürgen Sonnentheil. cpo 999 458-2 20 Janácek, L. Lachian dances (1890). Slovak RSO/ Ondrej Lenárd. Naxos 8.550411 19 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 13 (1874). Czech PO/Libor Pesek. Virgin VC7 91144-2 42 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Trad. A Christmas festival overture. Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome. Chandos CHAN 8679 6 Anderson, L. Sleigh ride. Allentown Band/ Ronald Demkee. AMP 22173 3 Trad. A Christmas fantasy. Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome. Chandos CHAN 8679 7 Reisteter, S. Eighth candle; Prayer and dance for Hanukka. Chris Thomas, tb; Cory Band/ Robert Childs. Doyen DOY 290 8 12:00 A LITTLE TASTE OF JAZZ with Rob Thomas
13:00 HISTORIC RECORDINGS Pianists born in the 19th century: Rachmaninov Prepared by Brian Drummond
Berlioz, H. Symphonie fantastique, op 14 (1830). Sydney SO/Willem van Otterloo. ABC 476 595-7 49
Rachmaninov, S. Polichinelle; Serenade in B flat minor, op 3 nos 4 and 5 (1892). Decca 425 964-2 7 Chopin, F. Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, op 35, Funeral march (1837). Fidelio 8830 18 Grieg, E. Sonata in C minor, op 45 (1886-87). Fritz Kreisler, vn. Fidelio 8830 23 Various. Hopak; The brooklet, from Die schöne Müllerin; The flight of the bumble bee, from The tale of Tsar Saltan (arr. Rachmaninov). Decca 425 964-2
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Mozart, W. Martern aller Arten, from The abduction from the seraglio, K384 (1782). Joan Sutherland, sop; Royal Opera House O/ Francesco Molinari-Pradelli. 9 Decca 475 6302 Wagner, R. Wotan’s farewell and fire music, from The Valkyrie (1854-56). René Pape, bass; Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim. DG B0015297-02 15 18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with John Penhallow 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell A Musical Christmas
Sergei Rachmaninov, pf (all above) 14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music
20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Selby and friends: basically Beethoven Recorded by Tim Sadler for FINE MUSIC on 13 May 2014 at City Recital Hall, Angel Place
15:30 FANTASTIC MUSIC Prepared by Anne Irish Lumbye, H. The sandman galop fantastique (1851). Odense SO/Peter Guth. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9089 11 Bizet, G. Chasse fantastique (1865). Julia Severus, pf. Naxos 8.570831-32
17:30 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Jan Brown
Beethoven, L. Trio in E flat, WoO38 (1791). Timo-Veikko Valve, vc. 15 Sonata in F, op 24, Spring (1800-01).
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Sonata in D, op 102 no 2 (1815).
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Delius, F. Fantastic dance (1931). Royal Scottish NO/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.557143 4
Trio in E flat, op 70 no 2 (1808). Susie Park, vn. 30
Liszt, F. Rondo fantastique sur un thème espagnol (1836). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDS44536
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Suk, J. Fantastické scherzo, op 25 (1903). Czech PO/Jirí Belohlávek. Chandos CHAN 8897 14 Paderewski, I. Cracovienne fantastique. Ignaz Paderewski, reproducing pf. Nimbus NI 8802 4
Timo-Veikko Valve, vc (2 above)
21:35 IT’S A LAUGHING MATTER Mozart, W. A musical joke, K522 (1787). Jan Opsitos, vn; Zdenek Tylsar, hn; Bedrich Tylsar, hn; Dvorak CO/Libor Pesek. Supraphon 103907-2 23 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones
Shostakovich, D. Three fantastic dances, op 5 (1922). Cristina Ortiz, pf. Brilliant Classics 9412 4 December 2014
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Sunday 21 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSIC FOR SMALL FORCES Prepared by Anne Irish Fauré, G. Papillon, op 77 (1884). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nina Tichman, pf. Naxos 8.557889 3 Beethoven, L. Trio no 11 in G, op 121a, Kakadu variations (1792-95). Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 438 948-2 17 Piazzolla, A. Libertango (1973). Macquarie Trio. ABC 980 678-0 4 Gade, N. String octet in F, op 17 (pub. 1848). L’Archibudelli; Smithsonian Chamber Players. Sony SK 48307 29 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Krommer, F. Italian concertino (1809). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Waldemar Wandel, cl; Stuttgart RSO/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. Schwann 3-1077-2 12
Mozart, W. Symphony no 40 in G minor, K550 (1788). Australian CO. Fine Music Tape Archive 28 Mendelssohn, F. Symphony no 4 in A, op 90, Italian (1833). O of the Eighteenth Century. Glossa GCD 921117 30 Frans Brüggen, cond (all above). 16:00 POST-ROMANTIC STRINGS Prepared by Chris Blower Respighi, O. Suite for flute and strings (1905). Fabio Fabbrizzi, fl; Haydn Philharmonia O/Ezio Rojatti. Nuova Era 6876 18 Dohnányi, E. Serenade, op 10 (1902). Donald Weilerstein, vn; Atar Arad, va; Paul Katz, vc. Pro Arte CDD 238 19 Villa-Lobos, H. Suite for strings (1912). I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky. Chandos CHAN 9434 17
Spohr, L. Sonata in C minor (c1805). Sophie Langdon, vn; Hugh Webb, hp. Naxos 8.555364 16
17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes
Field, J. Piano concerto no 2 in A flat (1811). Míceál O’Rourke, pf; London Mozart Players/ Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9368 35
Hymns: Child in a manger; The shepherd’s farewell; Quelle est cette odeur agréable. Choir of Clare College, Cambridge; Academy of St Martin in the Fields Choir & O. ABC 461 678-2 11
Rossini, G. Sonata à quattro no 6 in D (c1804). Members of Serenata of London ASV DCA 767 15 Schubert, F. Symphony no 4 in C minor, D417, Tragic (1816). Royal Concertgebouw O/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 4509-91184-2 31 12:00 SPEAK EASY, SWING HARD with Richard Hughes 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide 14:00 FRANS BRÜGGEN THE CONDUCTOR Prepared by Robert Small Mozart, W. Clarinet concerto in A, K622 (1791. Erich Hoeprich, basset cl; O of the 18th century. Philips 420242-2 28 50
Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV82: Ich habe genug (1727). Max von Egrond, bar; Baroque Ensemble. RCA GD 71956 21
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Anon. Advent plainchant. Scholars of the Hofburg Chapel, Vienna/P. Hubert Dopf. Decca 478 4671 13 Matin responsory for Advent: Veni veni Emmanuel; Novai, novai; Magnificat. Choir of Christ and Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Virginia; Allen Shaffer, org & cond. Pro Organo 7192 15 Remember O Lord; This lovely lady sat and sang. Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral, Dundee/ Robert Lightband. Alpha CDCA 926 15 18:00 A FIELD OF TALL POPPIES with Julie Simonds A monthly program of recordings selected from the Tall Poppies label
19:00 PRESENTING JANE EDWARDS Prepared by Rex Burgess Strozzi, B. Cantata, Lagrime mie. Luke Green, hpd. Walsingham WAL8024-2 10 Scarlatti, A. Olimpia (c1690). Chacona/ Rosalind Halton. ABC 461 687-2
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Jane Edwards, sop (2 above) 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Adam, A. Ballet music, from Giselle. Nurnberg SO/Hanspeter Gmur. Point Classics 2671222 24 Boieldieu, A. Harp concerto in 3 tempi. Marisa Robles, hp; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown. Decca 452 585-2 20 Charpentier, G. Impressions d’Italie (1887-89). Paris Conservatoire O/Albert Wolff. Decca 480 2882 39 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Nev Dorrington Vangelis. Bon voyage. Vangelis, pf. Atlantic 829 532
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Preisner, Z. From the Abyss; Lament loss; Epitaph, from Diaries of hope (2013). Lisa Gerrard, sop; Warsaw Philharmonic CO. Preisner Productions 2013 37 Hoppé, M. The parting. Vangelis, pf. Spring Hill Music SHM 60422
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Mythodea, mvts 4, 8, 9 and 10. Kathleen Battle, sop; Jessye Norman, sop; National Opera of Greece Choir; London Metropolitan O/Blake Neely. Sony Classical SK 89191 19 Opening, from Athens Olympic Ceremony (2004). Vangelis, keyboards. 4 Private recording Like a dream; The prayer; Aria, from Mask. Montserrat Caballe, sop; Vangelis, keyboards. RCA 88697276572 10 22:30 ULTIMA THULE
Monday 22 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Stephen Wilson Prokofiev, S. Andante, from Piano sonata no 4, op 29bis (1934; arr. Prokofiev). Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8728 8 Cui, C. Tarentelle, op 12 (1885; arr. Liszt). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA66984 9
Beethoven, L. Symphony no 2 in D, op 36 (1801-02). Vienna PO/Simon Rattle. EMI 5 57448 2 32
Turina, J. Danzas fantásticas, op 22 (1920). Guitar Trek. ABC 476 3389 15
Dussek, J. Piano concerto in G minor, op 49 (1801). Andreas Staier, fp; Concerto Cologne. Capriccio 5072 31
Paganini, N. Moses phantasy. Agnes Szakály, cimbalom; Norbert Szelecsényi, pf. 8 Hungaroton HCD 31571
11:30 CHOIRS AND PLACES Prepared by Philip Lidbury
Vieuxtemps, H. Fantasia appassionata, op 35 (c1860). Georges Octors, vn; Belgian RTCO/ Edgard Doneux. LP EMI 4C 161-96986/989 20
Purcell, H. They that go down to the sea in ships (1685). Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, org; Simon Preston, cond. Archiv 459 487-2 10
Glier, R. Coloratura concerto (1942-43; arr. Yu). Australia Pro Arte CO/Jeffrey Crellin, ob & dir. Move MD 3312 14
Lassus, O. de Aurora lucis rutilat (pub. 1604). Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones. ABC 472 310-2 6
Mussorgsky, M. Joshua (1877; arr. RimskyKorsakov). Elena Zaremba, mezz; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 445 238-2
Rossini, G. Mura felici, from La donna del Iago (1819). Marilyn Horne, mezz; Ambrosian Opera Ch; Royal PO/Henry Lewis. Decca 476 1223 9
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Tchaikovsky, P. Excerpt from Symphony no 2, Little Russian (arr. Gordon). Sellers Engineering Brass Band. Soho SOHOCD051 6 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Introduction and Dodon’s sleep, from The golden cockerel suite (1909; arr. Glazunov, Steinberg). Lamoureux O/ Igor Markevitch. DG 479 0530 9
12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 PHANTASTIC! Prepared by Stephen Wilson Schubert, F. Fantasy in C, D760, Wanderer (c1823). Marina Kolomiiseva, pf. ABC 476 160-3 20
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker
Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet (1880). Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard. BIS SACD-1959 19
Smetana, B. Overture and dances from The bartered bride (1866). London SO/Geoffrey Simon. LP Chandos ABRD 1149 24
Saint-Saëns, C. Fantasy for violin and harp, op 124 (1907). Duo Capriccio. Berlin 0012902BC 14
Schumann, R. Drei Fantasiestücke, op 73 (1849). Paul Dean, cl; Stephen Emmerson, pf. Melba MR301138 10 15:00 CLASSICAL VIOLA Prepared by Angela Bell Beethoven, L. Theme and variations, from Serenade in C, op 8 (1796-97). Maxim Rysanov, va; Jacob Katsnelson, pf. Onyx 4108 10 Glinka, M. Sonata in D minor (1825-28). Norbert Blume, va; Olga Tverskaya, fp. Opus 111 OPS 30-230
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Dittersdorf, C. Viola concerto in F. Petr Pribyl, va; South Bohemia Chamber PO/Ondrej Kukal. Campion RRCD 1342 25 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie 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 23 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Sonata in D minor, HWV359a. Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Philips 412 603-2 8
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 MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS Prepared by Anne Irish
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: David Pereira Prepared by Madilina Tresca Nin, J. Chants d’Espagne (1923). David Bollard, pf. Tall Poppies TP078 10 Conyngham, B. Cello concerto (1984). Australian CO. Canberra School of Music CSM 9
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Dallapiccola, L. Piccolo musica notturna (1954). Geoffrey Collins, fl; Anne Gilby, ob; Murray Khouri, cl; Dene Olding, vn; Irena Morozova, va; Alice Giles, hp; David Bollard, celesta; Graham Hair, cond. Entr’acte ESCD 6504 6 Mozart, W. Quintet in E flat (1782; arr. from Horn quintet, K407). Hartmut Lindemann, va; Australia Ensemble. ABC 481 0853 15 David Pereira, vc (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Finzi, G. Five bagatelles, op 23a (1943; arr. Ashmore). Robert Plane, cl; Northern Sinfonia/ Howard Griffiths. Naxos 8.553566 15 Strauss, R. Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1912). Australian CO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Omega OCD 1011 38 Grieg, E. Symphony in C minor (1864). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. DG 427 321-2
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11:30 BROWSING THE BAROQUE Prepared by Rex Burgess Handel, G. Trio sonata in C minor. I Quattro Temperamenti. BIS CD-403 10 Gentle Morpheus, son of night, from Alceste, HWV45 (1749). Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 443 200-2 7 52
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Hess, N. A Christmas overture. Royal PO/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD 133 7 Gade, N. Christmas bells in F, op 56 (1859). Anker Blyme, pf. Marco Polo DCCD 9117 1 Grainger, P. Sussex mummers Christmas carol (1905-11). Paul Coletti, va; Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA66687 4 Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in G minor, op 6 no 8, Christmas (1712). Philharmonia Baroque O/Nicholas McGegan, hpd & dir. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907015 12 Müller, M. Sonata per il Natale. Annerös Hulliger, org; Andrea Marcon, org; Philip Swanton, org. Schwann 3-1047-2
14:30 FOCUS ON STRINGS Prepared by Emyr Evans Haydn, J. Violin concerto in C, Hob.VIIa:1 (c1785). Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas, vn & dir. Chandos CHAN 8488 19 Corigliano, J. The red violin caprices (2002). Philippe Quint, vn. Naxos 8.559364 10 Bach, J.S. Double concerto in D minor, BWV1043 (1730-31). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Isaac Stern, vn; New York PO/Zubin Mehta. Sony SMK 66 471 16 Prokofiev, S. Five melodies, op 35 bis. Vadim Repin, vn; Boris Berezovsky, pf. Erato 0630-10698-2 12 Barber, S. Violin concerto, op 14 (1939-41). Dene Olding, vn; Melbourne SO/Hiroyuki Iwaki. ABC 439 900-2 23 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans
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Liszt, F. Suite: Christmas tree (1876). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA66388 33 Berlioz, H. L’Adieu des bergers à la Sainte Famille, from L’enfance du Christ (1850-54). La Chapelle Royale; Collegium Vocale; ChampsÉlysées O/Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMX2978223 4 Wade, J.F. O come all ye faithful (arr. Willcocks). Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne; Jonathan Bradley, org; Australian Chamber Brass Ensemble/Michael Leighton Jones. ABC 534 6760 6 Nielsen, C. The dream of Merry Christmas (1905). Mina Miller, pf. Hyperion CDA66231 2 Handel, G. Hallelujah! from Messiah, HWV56 (1742). Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; Sydney Philharmonia O/Antony Walker. ABC 476 3335 4
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 Kabalevsky, D. Violin concerto in C, op 48 (1948). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8918 16 Shostakovich, D. Ballet suite no 2 (1951). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 7000/1 20 Medtner, N. Sonata in G minor, op 22 (c190910). Geoffrey Tozer, pf. Chandos CHAN 9050 19 Myaskovsky, N. String quartet no 3 in D minor, op 33 no 3 (1910-30). Taneyev Quartet. Russian RD 11 031 25 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from Le coq d’or (1907). Russian NO/Mikhail Pletnev. DG 447 084-2 27
Wednesday 24 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman logo STRAUSS 150
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti
Strauss, R. Capriccio. Opera in two acts. Libretto begun by Stefan Zweig, developed by Joseph Gregor, finally written by conductor Clemens Krauss and the composer. First performed Munich, 1942.
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of early music Prepared by Elaine Siversen Anon. Rotta: Lamento di Tristano; Istampita ghaetta; Istampita: Cominciamento di gioia. Ulsamer Collegium/Josef Ulsamer. DG 469 244-2 14 Geminiani, F. Concerto grosso in D minor, after Corelli op 5 no 7 (c1716). Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907261.62 10 Rossi, L. Cantata: Quando spiega la notte? Judith Nelson, sop; Wieland Kuijken, va da gamba; William Christie, org. LP Harmonia Mundi HM 1010 7 Veracini, F. Overture no 2 in F (c1716). Accademia I Filarmonici/Alberto Martini. Naxos 8.553412
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COUNTESS: Kiri Te Kanawa, sop COUNT: Håkan Hagegård, bar FLAMAND: Uve Heilmann, ten OLIVIER: Olaf Bår, bar LA ROCHE: Victor von Halem, bass CLAIRON: Brigitte Fassbaender, cont Vienna PO/Ulf Schirmer. Decca 478 6499
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12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI featuring violinist Anna Da Silva Chen with Alison Zhou 14:00 A LIFE CUT SHORT Ernest Chausson Prepared by Stephen Wilson Chausson, E. Paysage, op 38. Stephanie McCallum, pf. ABC 461 798-2
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10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish
Poem, op 25 (1896). Leila Josefowicz, vn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 454 440-2 17
Grieg, E. Old Norwegian romance with variations, op 51 (1906). Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset. Naxos 8.557991 22
Mélodies, op 2 (c1882). Jessye Norman, sop; Michel Dalberto, pf. Erato 2292 45368-2 9
Stenhammar, W. Piano concerto no 2 in D minor, op 23 (1904-07). Cristina Ortiz, pf; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi. BIS CD-476 29
Concert for in D, op 21 (1889-91). Bruno Canino, pf; Salvatore Accardo, vn; Ida Levin, vn; Margaret Batjer, vn; Toby Hoffman, va; Peter Wiley, vc. Dynamic CDS 44 42
Gade, N. Symphony no 7 in F, op 45 (pub. 1865). Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-355 31 11:30 REGER FOR ORGAN Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Réveil, op 11 no 2 (1883). Jean Sourisse Vocal Ensemble/Jean Sourisse; Emmanuel Strosser, pf. FNAC 592224 4
Reger, M. Prelude and fugue in C sharp minor, op 85 no 1 (1904). Bernard Haas, org. Naxos 8.553926 10
Symphony in B flat, op 20 (1889-90). O symphonique et lyrique de Nancy/Jérôme Kaltenbach. Naxos 8.553652 34
Chorale fantasia on Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, op 27 (1898). Martin Welzel, org. Naxos 8.570455 16
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Camille Mercep
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Countess Madeleine is a devotee of music; her brother, the Count, loves poetry and an actress, Clairon). On the Countess’ birthday, a poet, Olivier, and a composer, Flamand, vie for her love by producing their favourite compositions. LaRoche, a theatre director, reminds them that they need directors and impresarios to present their work to the public. By the end of the afternoon Madeleine is still unable to decide between the love of the poet or the composer, the words or the music. She persuades them to collaborate on an opera to be produced by LaRoche, about the events of the afternoon. 22:30 CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC Prepared by Gael Golla Haydn, J. String quartet in E flat, Hob.III:80 (1797). Panocha Quartet. Supraphon 11 0362-2 131 21 Beethoven, L. Piano trio no 4 in B flat, op 11 (1797). Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 438 948-2 18 Giuliani, M. Gran duetto concertante, op 52. Mikael Helasvuo, fl; Jukka Savijoki, gui. BIS CD-411 15 Mozart, W. Clarinet quintet in A, K581 (1789). Members of Vienna Octet. Decca 417 643-2 28
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Thursday 25 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 CHRISTMAS POT-POURRI with Randolph Magri-Overend 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914 with Sue Jowell 16:00 CHRISTMAS ON STAGE with Derek Parker 19:00 CHRISTMAS JAZZ with Rob Thomas 20:00 CHRISTMAS EVENING A programme of popular classics with Stephen Wilson Glazunov, A. Ballet: The seasons, op 67 (1899). Moscow SO/Alexander Anissimov. Naxos 8.553915 40
Bizet, G. Children’s games (1871). Michel Béroff, Jean-Philippe Collard, pf. EMI 5 74112 2 20
Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 1 in D, op 25, Classical (1917). London SO/Claudio Abbado. Decca 478 5365 14
German, E. Suite: Nell Gwynn (1900). CzechoSlovak RSO/Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.554713 18
Schubert, F. Impromptu in B flat, D935 no 3 (1827). Maria João Pires, pf. DG 457 550-2 13
Mozart, W. String quintet no 4 in G minor, K516 (1787). Karel Rehak, va; Quatuor Talich. La Dolce Volta LDV 109.1 34
Coleridge-Taylor, S. Little concert suite, op 77 (1911). Philharmonia O/George Weldon. LP HMV ESD 7161 13
Grieg, E. Piano concerto in A minor, op 16 (1868). Simon Tedeschi, pf; Queensland SO/ Richard Bonynge. ABC 481 011-7 31
Sibelius, J. The swan of Tuonela, op 22 no 2 (1893). Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam. Ondine ODE 1037-2 10
Delibes, L. The girls of Cadiz.
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Flower duet, from Lakmé (1883). Karine Deshayes, mezz.
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Bell song, from Lakmé.
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Vaughan Williams, R. The lark ascending (1914/20). Iona Brown, vn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 442 8341 16
Patricia Petibon, sop; Lyon Opera O/Yves Abel (3 above) Decca 475 090-2
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Friday 26 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
Haydn, J. Ave Regina in A, Hob.XXIIIb:3 (c175059). Marie-Claude Vallin, sop; Tölz Youth Choir; Bob van Asperen, org; L’Archibudelli/Bruno Weil. Sony SK 53 368 10
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus
12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Exploring chamber Prepared by Jennifer Foong Saint-Saëns, C. Caprice on Danish and Russian airs, op 79 (1887). Members of Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67431/2 11
Beethoven, L. Symphony no 8 in F, op 93 (1812). 24
Brahms, J. Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, op 105 no 2 (1886). Kathleen Ferrier, cont; Bruno Walter, pf. Decca 414 611-2 4
Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (2 above) Zig Zag ZZT 080402.6
Franck, C. La procession (1888). John McCormack, ten; Edwin Schnieder, pf. EMI CDH 763306 2
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Berwald, F. Piano Trio no 2 in F minor (1851). Marieke Blankestijn, vn; Christopher Marks, vc; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66834 22 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Nicolai, O. Overture to The merry wives of Windsor (1849). Tasmanian SO/Sebastian LangLessing. ABC 481 0616 8 Bartók, B. Concerto for orchestra (1943). Budapest FO/Iván Fischer. Philips 456 575-2 36 Schumann, R. Symphony no 2 in C, op 61 (1845-46). Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.571212 37 11:30 CHOIRS AND PLACES Prepared by Philip Lidbury Handel, G. Waft her, angels, through the skies, from Jephtha (1751). Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne; Lerida Delbridge, vn; Rochelle Bryson, vn; Justin Williams, va; Michelle Wood, vc; Jonathan Bradley, hpd; Michael Leighton Jones, cond. ABC 467 3769 5 Rossini, G. A prey to melancholy, from Count Ory (1828). Natalie Dessay, sop; Anne Gotkovsky, mezz; Maciej Kotlarski, ten; Les Éléments Choir; Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson. Virgin 5 45506 2 10
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14:00 CLASSICAL MOMENTS Prepared by Paul Hopwood Field, J. Sonata in C minor, op 1 no 3 (1801). Miceál O’Rourke, pf. Chandos CHAN 8787 16 Bach, J. Christian Piano concerto in G, op 7 no 6 (pub. 1770). Ingrid Haebler, fp; Vienna Capella Academica/Eduard Melkus. Philips 438 712-2 15 Mozart, W. Symphony no 31 in D, K297, Paris (1778). Concertgebouw O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 8.42817
20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Phil Vendy Cliffe, F. Violin concerto in D minor (1896). Philippe Graffin, vn; BBC Welsh NO/David Lloyd-Jones. Hyperion CDA67838 32
13:00 PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS The supremacy of Beethoven
Ponchielli, A. Capriccio. John Anderson, ob; Gordon Back, pf. ASV WHL 2100 11
19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron
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15:00 DEBUSSY: FATHER OF JAZZ Prepared by Stephen Wilson Debussy, C. Golliwog’s cakewalk, from Children’s corner (1906-8). Roger Woodward, pf. ABC 472 170-2 2 The little black boy; MInstrels, from Préludes, bk 1 (1909-10). Roy Howat, pf. Tall Poppies TP164 4 Général Lavine, excentric, from Préludes, bk 2 (1913). Duncan Gifford, pf. ABC 476 290-0 3
Hurlstone, W. Four characteristic pieces. John Bradbury, cl; James Cryer, pf. Naxos 8.570539 17 Smyth, E. Quintet in E, op 1 (1884). Joachim Griesheimer, vc; Mannheim String Quartet. cpo 999 352-2 26 Cowen, F. Symphony no 3 in C minor, Scandinavian (1880). Czech-Slovak State PO/ Adrian Leaper. Marco Polo 8.223273 37 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Rex Burgess Locke, M. Music for His Majesty’s sackbutts and cornetts. London Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble. EMI 7243 8 25536 2 11 Buxtehude, D. Sonata in G minor, op 2 no 3 (pub. 1696). Boston Museum Trio. Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901089 12 Biber, H. Sonata IV, The presentation, from Mystery sonatas (c1676). Susanne Lautenbacher, vn; Rudolf Ewerhart, org; Johannes Koch, va da gamba. Jagel 25407-59
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Finger, G. Sonata in C. Michael Laird, tpt; Judy Tarling, vn; Mark Caudle, bass viol; Peter Holman, org. 7 Hyperion CDA66817 Fux, J. Sonata in G a 4. Members of Concerto Castello/Bruce Dickery. 8 EMI 8.26535 2
Martinu, B. Jazz suite (1928). Zdenek Jílek, pf; members of Prague SO/Zbynek Vostrák,. Supraphon SU 3058-2 011 12
Westhoff, J. Sonata in A, La guerre (pub. 1682). Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 437 089-2 12
Shostakovich, D. Jazz suite no 1 (1934). Melbourne SO/Oleg Caetani. ABC 476 836-4
Schmelzer, J. Sonata in G, after La Caroletta; Sonata à 3. Concerto Castello/Bruce Dickey. EMI 8.26535 2 13
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Ravel, M. Piano concerto in G (1929-31). Louis Lortie, pf; London SO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Chandos CHAN 8773 23 16:00 FINE MUSIC HOLIDAY including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter
Biber, H. Sonata violono solo representative. Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 00289 477 5001 10 Stradella, A. Sinfonia no 22. Convivium. Hyperion CDA66985
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Charpentier, M-A. Sonata à 8. Ricercar Consort. Ricercar RIC 037011 18 December 2014
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Saturday 27 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell 9:00 CLASSICAL CHAMBER Cherubini, L. String quartet no 2 in C. Quartetto David. BIS CD-1003
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9:30 IN LONDON TOWN Prepared by Stephen Wilson Elgar, E. Overture: Cockaigne, op 40, In London Town (1901). Philharmonia O/Owain Arwel Hughes. ASV QS 6162 17 Weelkes, T. The cries of London. Theatre of Voices; Fretwork/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807214 8 Coates, E. London again suite (1936). CzechoSlovak RSO/Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.554710 17 Ysaÿe, E. String quartet, London (arr. Jacques Ysaÿe). Kryptos Quartet. Klara KTC 4034 14 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 2, London (1913/20-23). Philharmonia O/Owain Arwel Hughes. ASV QS 6162 52 11:30 ON PARADE Russians on parade Prepared by Chris Blower Shostakovich, D. Festive overture, op 96 (1954; transcr. Patterson). President’s Own United States Marine Band/Michael Colburn. Altissimo ALT63132 6 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Excerpts from Capriccio espagnol (arr. Kenyon). Sellers Engineering Band/Phillip McCann. Chandos CHAN 4511 5 Tchaikovsky, P. Marche Slave (arr. Phillips). Sellers Engineering Band/Phillip McCann. Chandos CHAN 4527 7 Khachaturian, A. Lezghinka (arr. Snell). Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Gary Cutt. Chandos CHAN 4552
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Rachmaninov, S. Variation 18, from Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (arr. Snell). Nigel Fielding, cornet; Grimethorpe Colliery Band/ Peter Parkes. Chandos CHAN 4552 3 Prokofiev, S. Midnight sleigh ride (arr. Farr). Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Peter Parkes. Chandos CHAN 4550 3 12:00 A LITTLE TASTE OF JAZZ with Rob Thomas 56
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13:00 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD with Maureen Meers Nostalgic music and artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s and occasionally beyond, in a trip down many memory lanes
18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Janie Fitch
14:00 JUST D’INDY Prepared by Angela Bell
Williams, L. The dominion of dreams. Gondwana Voices; Sydney Children’s Choir/Lyn Williams. ABC 476 695-6 5
d’Indy, V. Karadec, op 34 (1890). Iceland SO/ Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN 10514 11 String quartet no 3 in D flat, op 96 (1928-29). Quatuor Joachim. Calliope CAL 3891.2 32 Chorale and variations, op 55 (1903). Lawrence Power, va; BBC Welsh NO/Thierry Fischer. Hyperion CDA67690 12 Symphony in G on a French mountain song, op 25 (1886). Aldo Ciccolini, pf; Paris O/Serge Baudo. EMI 7 63952 2 27 15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Nicholas Chaplin Gabriel, P. Excerpts from original soundtrack: The last temptation of Christ (1988). Peter Gabriel, fl, bass, perc, synthesiser; David Rhodes, gui; Mustafa Abdel Aziz, drone. Geffen Records 9 24206-2 5 Mullen, S. Original soundtrack: Catholicism (2011). Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC/Peter Latona. Word on Fire 94922384140 50
Edwards, R. Violin concerto, Maninyas (1988). Adele Anthony, vn; Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer. Canary Classics CC09 26
Schultz, A. Once upon a time, op 70 (2006). Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills. ABC 476 4519 19 Grainger, P. The Sussex mummers’ Christmas carol (1905-11). Stephanie McCallum, pf. ABC 476 4689 2 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Novello, I. Excerpts from King’s rhapsody (1949). Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert, Denis Martin, Phyllis Date, voices. Naxos 8.120781 19 Ellis, V. Excerpts from Silk stockings (1947). Georges Guetary, Betty Paul, Anona Winn, Brian Reece, voices. RCA DRG 19118 13 Loewe, F. Excerpts from Camelot (1960). Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero, David Hemmings, voices. Warner Bros 3102-2 19 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Clarinet concordia Recorded by Peter Bell for Fine Music on 25 May 2014 at Government House Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 1 in F minor (1832). David Rowden, cl.
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16:30 ALPHABETICAL COMPOSERS The Gs Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend
Hoadley, B. Midsummer night’s music (2014). Tobias Breider, va. 8
Glinka, M. Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (1837-42). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart. ABC 462 013-2 5
Bärmann, C. Duo concertant, op 33. David Rowden, cl. 13
Debussy, C. Première rhapsodie (1911).
Grainger, P. Lincolnshire posy for military band (1939). City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle. EMI 5 56412 2 17
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Maria Raspopova, pf (3 above) Poulenc, F. Sonata (1922). Ben Headley, bn. 8 Mozart, W. Trio in E flat, K498, Kegelstatt. Tobias Breider, va; Maria Raspopova, pf. 20
Granados, E. Spanish dances, VIII in C (18921900). Alicia de Larrocha, pf. Decca 414 557-2 4
Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 2 in D minor, op 114 (1833). David Rowden cl. 8
Gounod, C. Ballet music from Faust (1859). London SO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 452 772-2 19
21:30 A WOLF INTERLUDE Prepared By Elaine Siversen
Gershwin, G. Rhapsody in blue (1924). Richard Shuster, pf; Lone Star Wind O/Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Naxos 8.570968 18 Grieg, E. Peer Gynt suite no 2, op 55. Tasmanian SO/Sebastian Lang-Lessing. ABC 476 4523
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Wolf, H. Italian serenade (1887). Melbourne String Quartet. Move MD3143 7 Wolf, H. Christnacht (1886-89). Shihomi InouHeller, sop; Maria Luise Wilke, cont; Klaus Thiem, bar; Berlin Philharmonic Choir; Berlin RSO/Uwe Gronostay. Schwann 313 013 H1 19 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones
Sunday 28 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett
Sibelius, J. The swan of Tuonela, op 22 no 2 (1895/97). Gerhard Stempnik, cora; Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan. 8 DG 479 0540
9:00 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Philip Lidbury
17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle
Locatelli, P. Pastorale, from Concerto grosso in F minor, op 1 no 8, Christmas. Sirius Ensemble. ABC 480 148-9 5
Carols: Star Carol; Infant Holy, infant lowly; Sir Christemas. Choirs of St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane; Alan Moffat, org; Robert Boughen, cond. 7 Lodestar CD01
Benda, G. Trio sonata in E. David Oistrakh, vn; Igor Oistrakh, vn; Vladimir Yampolsky, pf. DG 463 616-2 15
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Carols: O my dear heart; Gaudate; In the bleak mid-winter; This little babe. Sydney Cathedral Singers/Brett McKern. TCS CD03 11
Berwald, F. Excerpts from Piano quintet in A. Bengt-Äke Lundin, pf; Uppsala Chamber Soloists. Naxos 8.553970 13
Vaughan Williams, R. The lake in the mountains (1941). Ian Brown, pf. Hyperion CDA67313
Spohr, L. Double quartet, op 65 (1823). Melos Ensemble. EMI 5 65995 2 20
Head, M. By the river in spring. Kenneth Smith, fl; Paul Rhodes, pf. ASV DCA 768
10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Denis Patterson
Rubbra, E. Variations on The shining river, op 101. Williams Fairey Band/James Gourlay. Chandos CHAN 4547 11
Carols: Sussex carol; Christus factus est; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; Lully Lulla; O magnum mysterium); Mary’s lullaby; I wonder as I wander. Choir of St George’s Cathedral, Perth; Stewart Smith, org; Joseph Nolan, cond. Private recording 22
Coles, C. From the Scottish highlands (190507). BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA67293 13
Dupré, M. Variations sur un Noël. Joseph Nolan, org. Private recording 12
Giuliani, M. Grand overture, op 61 (1814). Slava Grigorian, gui. ABC 472 224-2 10
Boughton, R. String quartet in F, From the Welsh hills (1923). Rasumovsky Quartet. Hyperion CDA66936 27
18:00 VOCALISES Prepared by Emyr Evans
Pleyel, I. String quartet in G minor, op 2 no 3 (1784). Enso Quartet. Naxos 8.557496 20
Moeran, E.J. In the mountain country, symphonic impression (1921). Ulster O/Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN 8639 7
Haydn, J. Sonata no 32 in G minor, Hob.XVI:44 (c1770). Geoffrey Lancaster, fp. Tall Poppies TP201 15
Delius, F. The song of the high hills (1911). Freda Hart, sop; Leslie Jones, ten; Luton Choral Society; Royal PO/Thomas Beecham. Naxos 8.110982/83 25
Vanhal, J. Cello concerto in C (c1780-85). István Várdai, vc; Camerata Schweiz/Howard Griffiths. cpo 777 612-2 16
Cimarosa, D. Double concerto in G. Aurèle Nicolet, fl; Christiane Nicolet, fl; Stuttgart CO/ Karl Münchinger. Decca 460 302-2 18 Clementi, M. Symphony no 4 in D. Philharmonia O/Francesco d’Avalos. ASV DCS 247
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Copland, A. Vocalise (1928; arr. 1972). Fenwick Smith, fl; Randall Hodgkinson, pf. 4 Northeastern NR 227-CD Corigliano, J. Vocalise (1999). Hila Plitmann, sop; elec, Mark Baechle, elec; Albany SO/David Alan Miller. Naxos 8.559757 21
16:00 SWAN SONG Prepared by Stephen Wilson
Rachmaninov, S. Vocalise, op 34 no 14 (1915). Renée Fleming, sop; English CO/Jeffrey Tate. 6 Decca 458 858-2
Sheng, B. Black swan, after Brahms (2006). Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.559679 7
Vaughan Williams, R. Three vocalises (1958). Judith Howarth, sop; Emma Johnson, cl. 5 ASV DCA 891
Kats-Chernin, E. Wild swans suite (2012). Streeton Trio. www.streetontrio.com STRON002
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Ravel, M. Vocalise in habanera form (1907). Teresa Berganza, mezz; Dalton Baldwin, pf. 3 EMI 5 69299 2
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Villa-Lobos, H. Bachiana brasileira no 5 (193845). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Eight cellists of French NRO/Heitor Villa-Lobos. EMI CDH 7610152 11
14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL British Landscapes Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Tchaikovsky, P. Swan Lake, op 20 (1876; transcr. Langer). Julia Severus, pf; Alina Luschtsizkaja, pf. Naxos 8.570418
MacCunn, H. Overture: Land of the mountain and the flood (1887). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 10412X 10
Raitio, V. The swans, op 15 (1919). Lahti SO/ Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-575 8
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Sunday 28 December 19:00 BROWSING THE BAROQUE Prepared by Rex Burgess Biber, H. Sonata no 10 in G minor (1676). Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman. Helios CDH55041 5 Sonata no 2, The visitation, from The rosary sonatas (c1676). Andrew Manze, vn; Richard Egarr, hpd, org. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908250.79 7 Litaniae de Sancto Josepho (c1677). Cantus Cölln; Concerto Palatino. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901667 13 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Milhaud, D. Le boeuf sur le toit, op 58 (1919). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier Chandos CHAN 9023 16 Schumann, R. Piano concerto in A minor, op 54 (1841-45). Martha Argerich, pf; Swiss-Italian O/Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky. EMI 5 57773 2 29
Liszt, F. Hungarian rhapsody no 2 in D minor (1846-85; arr. Matthey). London SO/Antal Doráti. Mercury 432 015-2 10
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 By arrangement Prepared by Jessica Swann
Dvorák, A. Songs my mother taught me, op 55 no 4; Tune they strings oh gypsy, op 55 no 5 (1880). Bernarda Fink, mezz; Roger Vignoles, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908186.88 3
Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue in C, BWV545 (arr. Liszt). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA66438 9
Balakirev, M. Symphonic poem: Tamara (1867-82; transcr.). Aurora Piano Quartet. Naxos 8.557717D
Debussy, C. Prelude and fugue from Little suite (1889; arr. Busser). Queensland SO/ Wilfred Lehmann. LP EMI SMP 0041 13
14:00 CARNIVAL TIME Prepared by Brendan Walsh
Handel, G. Music for the royal fireworks, HWV351 (1749; arr. Loussier c2002). Jacques Loussier Trio. Telarc CD-83544 15
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Smetana, B. Prague carnival (1883). BBC PO/ Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10413 6 Dvorák, A. Overture: Carnival, op 92 (1891). Berlin RSO/Paul Strauss. DG 477 5349 10
Piazzolla, A. History of the tango (1986; arr. Edwards). Theodore Schoen, cl; Laura Ardan, cl; Ricardo Morales, cl; James Ognibene, bshn. Naxos 8.572264 19
Respighi, O. Carnival overture (1913). Slovak RSO/Adriano. 9 Naxos 8.557820
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker
Britten, B. Overture: Canadian carnival, op 19 (1939). English CO/Steuart Bedford. Naxos 8.557198 13
Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 4 in C, op 47 (1929). Ukraine NSO/Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.553055 38
Reicha, A. Grand solo for harmonica and orchestra. Bruno Hoffmann, glass hp; Pro Musica O/Paul Angerer. LP Fono FSM 53233 15
21:00 NEW HORIZONS Confluence of ancient and modern Prepared by Robert Small
Romberg, B. Flute concerto in B minor, op 17. John Wion, fl; O/Arthur Bloom. Hart HMP5W91514 25
Milhaud, D. Carnival in New Orleans, op 275 (1947). Stephen Coombs, pf; Artur Pizarro, pf. 9 Hyperion CDA67014
Gregson, E. Horn concerto. Richard Watkins, hn; BBC PO/Bramwell Tovey Chandos CHAN 10 8 22 17
Copland, A. Symphony no 3 (1946). New Zealand SO/James Judd. Naxos 8.559106 43
Liszt, F. Hungarian rhapsody no 6 in D, Carnival in Pest (1846-85). London SO/Antal Doráti. Mercury 432 015-2 12
11:30 PIANO PIECES Prepared by Paul Hopwood
Svendsen, J. Carnival in Paris, op 9. Trondheim SO/Ole Kristian Ruud. Virgin 5 45128 2 13
Mamlok, U. Confluences (2001). Spectrum Concerti Berlin. Naxos 8.559771 8 Schocker, G. Music for a lost planet (2009). Petyer Sheridan, fl; Katherine Day, pf. Move MD 3375 13 Van der Roost, J. From ancient times (2009). Philharmonic Winds Osakan/Jan Van der Roost. Naxos 8.573206 19 Gunning, C. Music from Agatha Christie’s TV Poirot series (1988-2004). Slovak RSO, Bratislava/Chris Gunning. Discovery DMV103 24
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Strauss, J. II Overture to Carnival in Rome (1873). Vienna PO/Willi Boskovsky. 6 Decca 436 785-2
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Svendsen, J. Norwegian artists’ carnival, op 14. Trondheim SO/Ole Kristian Ruud. 7 Virgin 5 45128 2
12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan
Arnold, M. Carnival of animals, op 72 (1960). Royal PO/Vernon Handley. 9 Conifer 75605 51240 2
13:00 19TH CENTURY NATIONALISM Prepared by Gael Golla Ives, C. Variations on America (c1891; orch. Schuman). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta. Decca 475 7470 7
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Chopin, F. Three mazurkas, op 59 (1845). Martha Argerich, pf. DG 477 7557
Berlioz, H. Overture: Roman carnival, op 9 (1844). Royal PO/Enrique Bátiz. 9 ASV QS 6124
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Granados, E. Andaluza, from Spanish dances, op 37 no 5 (1892-1900). Pro Arte Guitar Trio. ASV WHL 2061 4
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Tuesday 30 December Brahms, J. Piano concerto no 2 in B flat, op 83 (1881). Géza Anda, pf; Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 474 838-2 49 11:30 ENCORE Prepared by Chris Blower Brahms, J. Acht Lieder und Gesänge, op 57 nos 4, 3 and 8 (arr. Jacques Moderne). Paul Dean, cl; Stephen Emmerson, pf. Melba MR301138 8 Glinka, M. Variation in C on a theme by Bellini 1832. Victor Ryabchikov, pf. BIS CD-980 10
Gil Shaham. Photo - Luke Ratray
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Mozart, W. Adagio and fugue in C minor, K546 1788. Talich Quartet. Calliope CAL 3244.5
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
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9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Gil Shaham Prepared by Timothy de Solom
13:00 IMPRESSIONS OF BRITAIN Prepared by Gael Golla
Schubert, F. Sonata in D, D384 (1816; arr. Bergström). Göran Söllscher, gui.
Mendelssohn, F. Overture: The Hebrides, op 26, Fingal’s Cave (1830). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM 166433 2 10
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Dvorák, A. Romantic pieces, op 75 (1887). Orli Shaham, pf. 13 DG 479 2565 (2 above) Strauss, R. Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier (1911; arr. Prihoda). Akira Eguchi, pf. 7 Gershwin, G. Porgy and Bess transcriptions (1934; arr. Heifetz). 16 Akira Eguchi, pf (2 above) DG 447 640-2 Gil Shaham, vn (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Ron Walledge Glinka, M. Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (1842). Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner. RCA 0902661958 2 5 Mozart, W. Vesperae solennes de Dominica, in C, K321 (1779). Mitsuko Shirai, sop; Heidi Reiss, cont; Eberhard Büchner, ten; Hermann Christian Polster, bass; Walter Heinz Bernstein, org; Volker Bräutgam, org; Leipzig Radio Ch & SO/ Herbert Kegel. Philips 422 749-2 27
Beethoven, L. To the blackbird; Sion, the son of Evan, from 26 Welsh songs, WoO 155 (1817). Edith Mathis, sop; Julia Hamari, mezz; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Andreas Roehn, vn; Georg Donderer, vc; Karl Engel, pf. DG 480 0385 6 Grainger, P. Molly on the shore (1907). Boston Pops O/John Williams. Philips 420 946-2 5 Grainger, P. Irish tune from County Derry (1911). Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner O/ John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 446 657-2 4 Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:104, London (1795). Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 0655 27 14:00 THE CLASSICAL VOICE Prepared by Brian Drummond Haydn, J. Mass in D minor, Hob.XXII:11, Nelson mass (1796). Susan Gritton, sop; Pamela Helen Stephen, mezz; Mark Padmore, ten; Stephen Varcoe, bar; Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 0640 39
Piers Lane. Photo - Clive Barda
Mozart, W. Exsultate, jubilate, K165 (1773). Judith Raskin, sop; Cleveland O/George Szel. CBS MYK 45509 16 Haydn, J. Spring, from The seasons, Hob. XXI:3 (1801). Barbara Bonney, sop; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ten; Andreas Schmidt, bass; Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner. Archiv 431 818-2 29 Schubert, F. Abendbilder, D650 (1819). Daniela Sindram, mezz; Ulrich Eisenlohr, pf. Naxos 8.557833 6 Beethoven, L. Fantasia in C minor, op 80, Choral (1808). RIAS Ch; Yevgeny Kissin, pf; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 435617-2 19 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Field 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Stephen Wilson 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Robert Small Pierné, G. Quintet in E minor, op 41 (1917). Piers Lane, pf; Goldner String Quartet. Hyperion CDA68036 40 Ravel, M. Daphnis and Chloe (1912). Chicago Symphony Ch & O/Bernard Haitink. CSO-Resound CSOR 901 906 53 Poulenc, F. Figure humaine (1943). Monteverdi Choir; Friends of the Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 446 116-2 17 December 2014
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20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Derek Parker
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Respighi, O. Belfagor. Comic opera in prologue, two acts and epilogue. Libretto by Claudio Guastalla after a play by Ercole Luigi Morselli. First performed Milan, 1923.
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of early music Prepared by Philip Lidbury Heinichen, J. Double concerto in E minor. Martin Stadler, ob; Hariett Herrle, ob; Fiori Musicali; Bremen Baroque O/Thomas Albert. cpo 999 637-2 8 Scheidt, S. Battle suite. Peter Walmsley, tpt; Catherine Walmsley, tpt; Louise Balletti, hn; Justin Kearin, tb; Matthew Walmsley, tuba. Fine Music Tape Archive 9 Fasch, J. Quartet in F for oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo. Members of Epoca Barocca. cpo 777 204-2 7 Roman, J. New Year cantata (1726). Ilona Maros, sop; Béla Szilágyi, bar; Capella Savaria/ Pál Németh. Hungaroton HCD 12943 29 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown Rossini, G. Overture to Il Turco in Italia (1814). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 446 196-2 8 Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 3 in C, op 26 (1917-21). Denis Matsuev, pf; O of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev. Mariinsky MAR0549 27 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 1 in G minor, op 13 (1866). London PO/Mstislav Rostropovich. EMI 5 65709 2 45 11:30 STRINGS AND THINGS Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. Quartet in F, op 14 no 1 (1800). Tokyo String Quartet. RCA 09026 61284 2 13 Clementi, M. Piano trio, op 21 no 1 (pub. 1788). Trio Fauré. Dynamic CDS 93 13 60
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12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale
CANDIDA: Sylvia Sass, sop BALDO: Giorgio Lamberti, ten BELFAGOR: Lajos Miller, bar Hungarian Radio & TV Ch; Hungarian State O/ Lamberto Gardelli. Hungaroton HCD 1285-51 2:15
14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music? Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it.
Belfagor, the Devil, comes to earth to investigate the widely believed theory that all troubles on earth are caused by marriage. He disguises himself as a rich merchant and courts Candida, who is forced to marry him. But she is in love with Baldo, a handsome young sailor and when he returns to port, she elopes with him. Belfagor now disguises himself as a tramp and tries to make Baldo jealous, but the sailor beats him up and he flees. Candida asks the Madonna for a sign that she is right to commit herself to love and all the church bells of the town, silent since her forced wedding, ring out on the morning air.
15:00 LATE TREASURES Prepared by Brian Drummond
22:30 MAKING SCENES Prepared by Angela Bell
Brahms, J. Chorale preludes: Schmucke dich, op 122 no 5; Esi est ein Ros entsprungen, op 122 no 8 (1896). Peter Hurford, org. Argo 410 165-2 4
Sibelius, J. Autrefois, scene pastorale pour orchestre, op 96b (1919). Monica Einarson, sop; Charlotte Forsberg, mezz; Gothenburg SO/ Neeme Järvi. 6 BIS CD-384
13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI featuring Orava String Quartet with Chloe Chung
Poulenc, F. Sonata, A la mémoire de Serge Prokofiev (1962). François Leleux, ob; Emmanuel Strosser, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMN 911556 14 Rossini, G. Prelude, theme and variations, from Sins of old age (1857-68). Hermann Baumann, hn; Leonard Hokanson, pf. Philips 416 816-2 10 Bartók, B. Piano concerto no 3 (1945). András Schiff, pf; Budapest FO/Ivan Fischer. Apex 2564 67437-8 24 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm With Oscar Foong 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell
Turina, J. Sextet, for viola and piano quintet, op 7, Scène Andalouse (1912). Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67889 12 Elgar, E. Scenes from the Bavarian highlands (1895). Cambridge University Chamber Choir; Iain Farrington, pf; Christopher Robinson, cond. Naxos 8.570541 24 Thomas, J. Scenes of childhood (1863). Lipman Harp Duo. Naxos 8.570372 10 Glazunov, A. Scènes de ballet, op 52 (1894). USSR RSO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Melodiya MEL 46005-2
The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the December dates listed Adam, A. 1803-1856 21 Aho, K. b1949 14 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 10 Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 8,19 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 1,18 Alkan, C-V. 1813-1888 10 Ampt, R. b1924 13 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 29 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 29 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 10 Arutiunian, A. b 1920 6
Charpentier, M-A. 1635-1704 26 Chausson, E. 1855-1899 8,18 Cherubini, L. 1760-1842 4,27 Chilcott, R. b1955 14 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 4,5,20,29 Cimador, G. 1761-1808 7 Cimarosa, D. 1749-1801 28 Cirri, G. 1724-1806 7 Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 25 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 4,18,28,31 Cliffe, F. 1857-1931 26 Coates, E. 1886-1957 8,27 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 8,12 Cohan, G. 1878-1942 13 Bach, J. 1604-1673 10 Coleridge-Taylor, S. 1875-1912 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 4,26 11,25 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 2,3,5,6,7,8,12, Coles, C. 1888-1918 28 13,15,16,17,18,19,21,23,29 Conyngham, B. b1944 23 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 2,29 Copland, A. 1900-1990 29 Barber, S. 1910-1981 23 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 23 Bärmann, C. 1810-1885 27 Corigliano, J. b1938 23,28 Barsanti, F. 1690-1772 14 Cowen, F. 1852-1935 11,26 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 10,16,26,31 Cui, C. 1835-1918 22 Bax, A. 1883-1953 19 Beach, A. 1867-1944 12 d’Indy, V. 1851-1931 27 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 4,7,9,11,1 Dallapiccola, L. 1904-1975 23 2,14,19,20,21,22,24,26,30,31 Dauvergne, A. 1713-1797 9 Benda, G. 1722-1795 28 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 13,20,29 4,8,9,12,14,19,27,29 Bertali, A. 1605-1669 5 Delibes, L. 1836-1891 25 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 4,26,28 Delius, F. 1862-1934 3,19,28 Biber, C. 18th c 5 Devienne, F. 1759-1803 17 Biber, H. 1644-1704 26,28 Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 7,22 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 4,20,25 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 4,14,21 Blacher, B. 1903-1975 16 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 7,9 Blanc, A. 1828-1885 15 Dowland, J. c1563-1626 1 Blavet, M. 1700-1768 2 Dupré, M. 1886-1971 28 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 2 Dussek, J. 1760-1812 22 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 1,16,18 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 Boieldieu, A. 1775-1834 21 1,4,12,17,20,29,30 Boughton, R. 1878-1960 28 Dyson, G. 1883-1964 10 Boyce, W. 1711-1779 4 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 Edwards, R. b1943 13,27 1,4,5,9,12,19,30 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 27,31 Brian, H. 1876-1972 5 Ellis, V. 1903-1996 27 Briccialdi, G. 1818-1881 11 Bridge, F. 1879-1941 5 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 2,18 Britten, B. 1913-1976 2,3,5,8,29 Farrington, I. b1977 2 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 19 Fasch, J. 1688-1758 31 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 3,11,19 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 18 Burhans, C. b1980 14 Fibich, Z. 1850-1900 18 Bush, A. 1900-1995 2 Field, J. 1782-1837 11,17,18,21,26 Busoni, F. 1866-1924 3,7,17 Finger, G. 1660-1723 26 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 2,26 Finzi, G. 1901-1956 18,19,23 Foote, A. 1853-1937 6 Caccini, F. 1587-1640 7 Fossa, F. de 1775-1849 18 Cambini, G. 1746-1825 11,18 Franck, C. 1822-1890 3,15 Carmichael, J. b1930 12 Frederick II. 1712-1786 7 Carr-Boyd, A. b1938 8 Frescobaldi, G. 1583-1643 19 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Fry, W. 1813-1864 6 1895-1968 16,17 Fux, J. 1660-1741 26 Chadwick, G. 1854-1931 6,12 Chan, L. b1967 14 Gabriel, P. b1950 27 Charpentier, G. 1860-1956 21 Gabrieli, G. c1556-1612 8
Gade, N. 1817-1890 21,24 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 24 German, E. 1862-1936 13,25 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 14,27,30 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 12,24,28 Glass, P. b1937 13 Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 31 Glier, R. 1875-1976 22 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 22,27,30 Goldmark, K. 1830-1915 5 Gould, M. 1913-1996 13 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 27 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 27 Gregson, E. 20th c 28 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 1,18,20,23,24,25,27 Gunning, C. b1944 28
Leclair, J-M. 1697-1764 3 Ligeti, G. 1923-2006 16 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 16,20,23,29 Locatelli, P. 1695-1764 17 Locke, M. c1621-1677 26 Loewe, F. 1901-1988 27 Lumbye, H. 1810-1874 20 Luque, S. b1976 14 Lutoslawski, W. 1913-1994 16
Purcell, H. 1659-1695 22
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20 Australian composer of opera “The Golem” (6)
26 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll play by Lawler (3)
23 One who makes a new version of a piece of music (8)
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Iolanta / Bluebeard’s Castle Tchaikovsky / Bartók May 2, 3, 7
La Donna del Lago Rossini Jun 13, 14, 18
Cavalleria Rusticana / / Pagliacci Mascagni / Leoncavallo Jul 4, 5, 9
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