SEPTEMBER 2013
MAGAZINE
SYDNEY SYMPHONY What’s in store for 2014 Anne-Sophie Mutter and more..
TEDDY TAHU RHODES Making hay while the sun shines
RICHARD STRAUSS A long forgotten gem is revisited
GUITAR COHORTS
Richard Charlton and Raffaele Agostino
20th CENTURY COMPOSER The great Lord Berners
FINE MUSIC 102.5 YOUNG PERFORMERS The final countdown
CONTENTS Vol 40 No 9 3
COVER STORY
Barry Walmsley talks with the Sydney Symphony about the treats in store for the 2014 season.
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Profile - German Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
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Young Virtuosi
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Interview - Teddy Tahu Rhodes
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Guitar collaborators - Richard Charlton and Raffaele Agostino
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20th century composer - Lord Berners
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Interview - Polish Tenor Piotr Beczala
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Unearthing a Richard Strauss Gem
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What’s On
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CD Reviews
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Swinging on the Vine
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Directors, Committees, Staff
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Fine Music Friends
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Crossword and Trivia Quiz
WAGNER’S
RING ADVENTURE
Digital Channel – Fine Mus On Fine Mus between noon and 4pm weekdays you’ll find programs covering classical up to 3pm and Jazz in Concert until 4pm. For more on this month’s digital programs see page 20.
An evening of musical highlights from Wagner’s Ring Cycle without the horned helmets or words. Plus pianist Ingrid Fliter will bring aristocratic elegance to a favourite Chopin piano concerto. A Wagner 200th anniversary concert. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.2 WAGNER arr. Henk de Vlieger The Ring – An Orchestral Adventure Mark Wigglesworth conductor Ingrid Fliter piano
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FINE MUSIC STUDIO LAUNCH A veritable who’s who of the classical music scene gathered for the official launch on 1 August of the Fine Music studios by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of NSW. Guests included Artistic Director of Opera Australia Lyndon Terracini, CEO of Musica Viva Mary Jo Capps, CEO of the Sydney Eisteddfod Piroozi Desai-Keane, CEO of the Australian Music Centre John Davis, Dean of the Sydney Conservatorium of
Chairman David Brett with Her Excellency
Simon Tedeschi with young performers Kevin Fan and Som Howie
Music, Dr Karl Kramer and Director of Finance for the Sydney Symphony, John Horn. Among the gathering were celebrated musical identities composer George Palmer, pianist Gerard Willems, conductor Nicholas Milton and clarinetist David Rowden. Renowned pianist, and station patron, Simon Tedeschi performed for guests including Kawai
managing director Mr Yamamoto and general manager John Blanch on the station’s new Shigeru Kawai grand piano. In June the $2 million construction of the St Leonards premises and new studios was completed. Facilities now include two prime on-air studios, three production studios and a live performance studio.
Presenters Simon Moore, Janine Burrus and Sydney Omega Ensemble’s David Rowden
CEO of Sydney Eisteddfod Piroozi Desai-Keane with Kawai General Manager John Blanch
Founder Max Benyon with OA’s Lyndon Terracini
Presenters David Ogilvie, Simon Moore
Tim Long of Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Willoughby Council’s Melanie Smith
Guests in performance studio awaiting recital by Tedeschi
Donor Paul Espie with Fine Music General Manager, Liz Terracini
Mary Jo Capps CEO Musica Viva , Lloyd Capps with Tedeschi
Her Excellency inspects studio A
Young performers with founders – Charles Barton, Andrew Parker and Max Benyon
Caroline Ho of Baker McKenzie, Hilary Brownlow and presenter Maureen Meers Photography by Raymond Horsey and Judy Deacon Donor Judith McKernan with Caroline Ho
Gerard and Ava Willems
Tedeschi with flautist – Young Performer 2013 finalist, Antonia Berg
SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2014
Making great music and truly memorable experiences Discovery, Meet the Music, Tea & Symphony, Metro, Thursday Afternoon Symphony, Great Classics, and Mondays@7. The Master Series is the orchestra’s flagship series in which audiences will experience not only great master composers such as Beethoven (Symphony No 7, along with the last three piano concertos), Richard Strauss (Four Last Songs), Elgar (Enigma Variations), Mendelssohn (Elijah), Mahler (Seventh Symphony), Poulenc (Organ Concerto), Sibelius (Violin Concerto), Stravinsky (Symphony in 3 Movements), Prokofiev (Alexander Nevsky), but also the finest of soloists: soprano Christine Brewer, pianists Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough, and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann.
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2014 sees David Robertson takes over the reins as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. Whilst Sydney audiences have already taken to the charming, intelligent and incredibly gifted conductor, it will be the new year which bears Robertson’s own stamp. In the eleven different series of concerts (totalling close to a hundred concerts), there are world premieres of newly commissioned works, international pianists, world stars of the concert platform, film music, operatic concerts and tried and true works, given fresh airings. With planning for 2014 starting eighteen months earlier with Robertson, Chief Executive Rory Jeffes and Peter Czornyj (Director of Artistic Planning) and a vast team behind the scenes, the series has come together as a wondrous jigsaw, combining international flights, artist accommodation and publicity. Such a mammoth effort sees a thriving organisation come alive with high calibre music making for the 100-plus person orchestra. Robertson promises to “make great music
and create truly memorable experiences”, and readily admits that the orchestra can build on the golden age experienced under Vladimir Ashkenazy. Sitting down with Rory Jeffes in the Sydney Symphony’s executive suite, he acknowledges the greatness of the Ashkenazy era. “The SSO with Ashkenazy has been a real game changer. What is very exciting for me is that the period with Ashkenazy has seen the orchestra in a period of growth. There is a desire to develop further, to believe that we can be, and sit alongside, any orchestra in the world. Ashkenazy has brought that to the orchestra. There’s a huge belief that it’s a journey worth taking,” Jeffes said. Along with Czornyj, he outlined the forward thinking that goes into devising a full year’s series of concerts, which hopefully will excite audiences, both old and new.
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The release of a new year of concert programs can seem like unwrapping a giant Christmas present. Filled with expectation and the impending surprises of a long awaited gift, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will burst forth in 2014 with surprise on top of surprise.
Key to this forward momentum is Robertson, whom they agreed “was the universal choice of the musicians to succeed Ashkenazy”. The diverse 2014 offerings come under the names of Master Series, Mozart in the City, Kaleidoscope, International Pianists in Recital,
Friday evenings sees the Emirates Metro Series present Schubert’s Symphony No 9 (the Great C Major), Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 with soloist Lukas Vondracek, Beethoven Piano Concertos, Shostakovich and Dvoˇrák Cello Concertos, Brahms’ Symphonies Nos 3 and 4, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, and Mahler’s Symphony No 1. Kaleidoscope is an innovative new direction of which Sydney audiences have had a taste already with successful concerts featuring the music of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The four concert series in 2014 puts on centre stage the music of John Williams (E.T., Superman, Empire of the Son, Jaws, Star Wars, Schindler’s List), Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom), The Matrix, and Bernstein’s West Side Story (complete with movie projection). Richard Gill OAM, one of Australia’s most passionate and entertaining conductors/ educators will unpack a complete symphonic work (one each by Mozart, Brahms, Elgar, and Shostakovich) in each of the four Discovery concerts. Whether you are a seasoned concertgoer, or a complete novice, these concerts are a perfect way to come to grips with such music in an informative and entertaining style. Another fantastic way to embark on an orchestral journey is via the Meet the Music - four early Wednesday evening concerts in which mainstream pieces such as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Sibelius’ Third Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Concerto sit alongside newer works. Aimed at a wide audience, including secondary school September 2013
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Anne-Sophie Mutter took Sydney to her heart when she performed here last year, and thus she returns to head up a new set of four Special Events concerts. She will delight audiences in her performances of three Mozart Violin Concertos (Nos 2, 3 “Strassburger”, and 5 “Turkish”). Robertson takes on Richard Strauss’ gripping emotional psychodrama, Elektra (a story of revenge and murder) with a stellar cast of soloists (Christine Goerke, Lisa Gasteen, Cheryl Barker, Peter Coleman-Wright, Kim Begley) and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and Sydney Dance Company. The undisputed king of the guitar, Pepe Romero features in two August Special Events concerts, in which he will play the famous Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez and Vivaldi’s Concerto in D (originally for lute). And what might seem a surprise for some is the inclusion of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, but under the direction of violinist James Ehnes (who has been hailed as the modern-day Jascha
Other soloists who come into their own will be via the International Pianists in Recital - a four concert series at the City Recital Hall. Alexander Gavrylyuk, Lukas Vondracek, Stephen Hough and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet will perform a wide array of music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.
New music by no less “than seven composers…
Premieres always set hearts and minds on fire, as audiences and musicians experience music for the first time. This calendar will not disappoint as it unveils new music by no less than seven composers. In Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s piano recital, he will play a new work (The Best of JEB), written in 2009 for him by his friend, Bruno Mantovani. The International Harp Congress, which comes to Sydney mid-year, will see hundreds of harpists descend on the city. A bonus for audiences will be to hear the harp concerto by the Australian-American composer, Lee Bracegirdle, titled Legends of the Old Castle. Two Brett Dean pieces will also be premiered, one being a trumpet concerto, Dramatis Personae with the brilliant trumpeter, Hakan Hardenberger, as soloist. Other premieres include John Adams’ Absolute Jest (for string quartet and orchestra), Frenesia, from one of the most exciting composers in Europe, Detlev Glanert, and a Percussion Concerto by Finnish composer Kalevi Aho (with Colin Currie as soloist and Asmo Vanska conducting).
Christine Brewer. Photo Christian Steiner Jeffes speaks to what the orchestra stands for: great music, great artists and its valued audiences. In so doing, he reflects on the people at the heart of the performance, the orchestral players.
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In this new piece, Stanhope and Hawke set out to explore the fierce beauty of the Bunuba lands in the Kimberley, and tell the story of Jandamarra, the Aboriginal warrior. Stanhope visited the Kimberley to get a first hand experience, and looks forward to the performance in the Opera House with singers and dancers of the Yilimbirri Ensemble, Gondwana National Indigenous Children’s Choir, Gondwana Chorale and the Sydney Children’s Choir.
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students studying music, the series will feature Carl Vine’s Smith’s Alchemy for Strings, as well as the world premiere of an Australian work Jandamarra: Sing for Country (music by Paul Stanhope and words by Stephen Hawke).
“A lot of work has been done on developing ways for the musicians to have a greater selfdetermination in driving artistic standards. It then stops it being about the guy out the front, i.e. the conductor enforcing his will, and more about them (the players) facilitating outcomes. That, for me, has been the biggest thing I’ve seen with the orchestra in my eight years as Chief Executive,” said Jeffes. Can greater standards be achieved? Jeffes and Czornyj believe so, with their continued push for quality program in the upcoming year. “We would like to think of ourselves as Australia’s premier orchestra. But what does that really mean? If you look at the world, our art form was born, grew up, developed and based in Europe. But in terms of us looking at some way to connect with that, I can understand in terms of standards, but not in geography. Why do we need to feel we need to compete with those [European] orchestras?” Jeffes questions.
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In reflecting on what is in store for audiences in 2014, both Jeffes and Czornyj agree that the upcoming exciting orchestral program shows vision and common purpose to bring the best to Sydney, the state and the nation. – Barry Walmsley
artist profile Anne-Sophie Mutter
Photo by Harald Hoffman/DG 2013 Medal of the Lutoslawski Society (Warsaw 2012 Atlantic Council’s Distinguished Aristic Leadership Award 2011 Brahms prize, the Erich-Fromm prize and the Gustav-Adolf prize (for social involvement) 2010 Honorary doctorate - Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2009 European St. Ullrichs prize and Cristobal Gabarron award 2008 International Ernst von Siemens Music prize and the Leipzig Mendelssohn prize
One of the international guest artists performing with the Sydney Symphony in 2014 is Anne-Sophie Mutter – a welcome returnee who drew much acclaim after her 2012 appearances. Born in Rheinfelden in Baden, Mutter embarked on her international career as a soloist in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival and a year later made her Salzburg debut at the Whitsun Concerts under Herbert von Karajan. Ever since then she has been one of the greatest violin virtuosos of our time. Mutter has performed concerts in all the major music centers of Europe, the USA and Asia. In addition to performing major traditional works she has continually treated her audiences to new and innovative repertoires: chamber music and orchestral works presented on equal terms. She also uses her popularity for charity projects and supports the development of young, exceptionally talented musicians. Among her many awards, Mutter has received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Order of the Legion of Honour, the Bavarian Order of Honour, the Grand Austrian State Decoration of Honour. Her Deutsche Grammophon recordings have sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Young Performer of the Year Award Final Contestants Phoebe Gardner - violin Antonia Berg - flute
Guest Artists
Paul Cheung - piano Grace Clifford - violin
Jonathan Chan - pipe organist
Jonathon Ramsay - euphonium
Marko Sever - pipe organist
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On 7 September, Fine Music 102.5 stages the Final of the 2013 Young Performer Award – now celebrating its 30th year. Back in 1984 the inaugural Young Performer Award took place at the University of Sydney Great Hall. Harpsichordist Nicholas Parle won that first event while pipe organist Mark Quarmby and harpist Lyn Williams came equal second. For several years, the Young Virtuosi series of broadcasts had welcomed young pipe organists from the Organ Music Society of Sydney Competition. Sadly, in more recent years, this magnificent instrument has been missing from these awards. In 2012 all that changed, and once again the pipe organ
was included in the Young Performer Award. The venue for this event final, is, courtesy of the Office of The Premier of NSW, in the magnificent surrounds of the Verbrugghen Hall, at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The Hall houses the superb 1973, 3 manual, 37 speaking stops, Pogson Organ, refurbished in 2001 by the South Island Organ Company. As well as performances on the euphonium, flute, piano and violin, the audience will be entertained by guest artists Jonathan Chan and Marko Sever on this wonderful organ. Thanks to generous patrons of young developing talent, the Young Performer Award
offers a first prize of $5,000 sponsored by The Family Frank Foundation with a soloist performance for the winner with the North Sydney Symphony, conducted by maestro Steven Hillinger. The second prize of $2,000 is sponsored by Sydney Piano World which has also provided the Sauter Piano for the evening’s performances. Further support - $500 each has been provided by the Doctors’ Orchestra, The Sydney Conservatorium Association and Mr. Philip Maxwell. These funds contribute to running the finals and paying for the winner to represent NSW in the Fine Music National YPA in Brisbane in November.
2013 YOUNG PERFORMER FINALISTS
Phoebe Gardner – violin
Antonia Berg – flute
Paul Cheung – piano
Inaugural Fine Music Young Performer Nicholas Parle - 1984
Nicholas Parle was born in Sydney and studied harpsichord with David Kinsela while completing a BMus degree at the University of Sydney. He won the Fine Music (then 2MBS) Young Performer Award and the next year became the recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award for Young Australians. He moved to London to broaden his musical horizons.
Grace Clifford – violin
Jonathon Ramsay - euphonium
In 1989 Parle won the first prize in the International Harpsichord Competition in Brugge, Belgium, only the third time in the thirty-year history of the competition that a first prize had been awarded. He now appears as a soloist, continuo player and teacher throughout Europe, Japan and Australia. Professor of Harpsichord at the Hochschule für Musik and Theater in Leipzig since 2004, Parle also teaches at the School of Music and Drama in London.
Broadcasts
Amid a busy series of broadcasts this month Fine Music incorporates, for the first time this year, some great compositions sourced from the Sydney Eisteddfod and presented by Troy Fil. Andrew Bukenya continues presenting Young Organists’ programs, with selections from the Young Organists’ Day recording at Sydney Town Hall and more Eisteddfod Choral works. Jarred Mattes puts to air highlights from the Allison/Henderson Piano Scholarship finals and Camille Mercep is welcomed back to bring listeners selections from the Australian Singing Competition Marianne Mathy semi-finals concert.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
1pm Wednesday 4 September Young Composer Compilation Presenter - Troy Fil 1pm Wednesday 11 September John Lamble Foundation Choral Championship Presenter - Andrew Bukenya 1pm Wednesday 18 September Allison/Henderson Piano Scholarship Presenter - Jarred Mattes 1 pm Wednesday 25 September MOST Australian Singing Competition, Marianne Mathy semi final Presenter - Camille Mercep Audio Engineer - Greg Ghavalas.
6pm Saturday 7 September - YPA Finals, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 3pm Sunday 8 September - Sydney Eisteddfod 80th Anniversary Victoria Jennifer Warren Piano Accompaniment Final, Recital Hall West, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 7pm Wednesday 11 September – IFAC Australian Singing Competition semi-final, The Independent Theatre, 269 Miller St, North Sydney 12 noon Thursday 12 September – IFAC Australian Singing Competition finalists’ master class, The Independent Theatre 7pm Friday 13 September - Sydney Eisteddfod Opera & Arts Support Group Vocal Scholarship Final, Kambala School, Rose Bay 2.30pm Sunday 15 September - Sydney Eisteddfod Orchestral Spectacular, Sydney Town Hall 5pm Sunday 22 September - Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Operatic Aria, Sydney Town Hall 7pm Sunday 28 September - IFAC Australian Singing Competition Final, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Further information - www.sydneyeisteddfod.com.au / www.mostlyopera.org.au Young Virtuosi Co-ordinator: Judy Deacon, yv@finemusicfm.com
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TEDDY TAHU RHODES THE VOICE MEETS THE BODY
Here’s a trivia question for you: Which other famous Don, besides Bradman, had a scoring average of 99.9 percent? The answer, of course, is Don Giovanni and it just so happens that I recently talked on the telephone to Teddy Tahu Rhodes in Perth where he has been receiving rave reviews for his performance in Mozart’s opera of the same name. One of the disadvantages of interviewing anyone over the phone is that you can’t see their reaction after you ask a question. The question may be insightful, incisive, insolent, interesting or just plain innocuous but the pleasure of seeing how the question strikes home - or doesn’t - is missing unless you are facing the person. In the case of bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes (he of the pectorallis superbis - I just made those words up so don’t try to look for a meaning in any reference book - musical or otherwise) I was urged to ask a certain question about the pressing of the flesh (and we’re not talking here about shaking hands) with a certain South Pacific cast member, a moment of tenderness that has been reported far and wide in the popular press. As it turned out, I never did get around to asking the question - I mean you have to get your priorities right - mainly because one can only squeeze so many questions in 24 minutes of chatter. BUT it would have been interesting to have seen Rhodes’ reaction had I asked it. Enough of conjecture and what could have been and on to more mundane matters. The immediate image one gets of Rhodes is the picture of him in Mozart’s Don Giovanni costume wearing nothing above the waist but a bandana and a wig. He’s also garbed in teeny-weeny leather hot pants and kneelength boots. In some pictures, some spoilsport has had the nerve to actually hide the ripples of flesh with a bolero style jacket, and the face with a mask. It’s not cricket, is it? In actual fact, I’m surprised he hasn’t received an invitation to appear in “Cleo” magazine. Does it bother him having to flaunt his body in such a manner, I ask. Being labelled as a sexsymbol? “The older you get the less effect it has,” responds Rhodes philosophically. “I do it all in the cause of the opera. However you can’t hide the fact that you’re getting older. That particular photograph is two years old and I’m 47 now. That’s not all the opera’s about though although I’m just happy to be doing it.” He does
Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Don Giovanni. Photo - Jeff Busby admit to working very hard at keeping fit. “I’ll Rhodes was born in Christchurch, New Zealand be off to the gym after our chat. I do it for all in 1966, the son of a British mother and New sorts of reasons. It’s not only a personal thing Zealand father. The word “Tahu” is Maori for but I feel it’s important in terms of my work “to set on fire “ (apt under the circumstances) and I always try to look the best I can and this and was adopted by the family soon after they just happens to be part of it.” settled in New Zealand. Reportedly, the wife September 2013
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TEDDY TAHU RHODES His roles have been wide and varied - most of the major Mozartian roles, Lescaut in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Belcoe in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Billy in Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd, Stanley in Previn’s A Street-Car Named Desire and recently opposite Lisa McCune in the Bartlett Sher 2008 New York revival of Rodger and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. The latter has been performed throughout Australia and will return to the Sydney Opera House in September this year.
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of one of his parental uncles is a first cousin to Queen Elizabeth II. I wonder what Her Maj thinks of his Don Giovanni garb! Young Teddy was first exposed to singing when, in his final year at Christ’s College, Canterbury he was selected to join the New Zealand Youth Choir. Lessons in singing followed, and he won the Dame Sister Mary Leo competition plus a modest scholarship. However, by then he’d enrolled for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Canterbury and eventually qualified as an accountant. In 1991 he won the premier singing competition in New Zealand - The Mobil Song Quest - and aged 24, went off to further his studies at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he lasted a year. He declined a scholarship that would have seen him study for a further two years and returned home to continue working as an accountant.
I ask him whether he has noticed any change in the quality of his voice in recent years. “Of course,” he answers. “Apart from my voice ageing, I first started off as a baritone but I was never very comfortable so I’m now singing in the bass/baritone range. I don’t have to manufacture a voice anymore and I feel quite relaxed. Having said that, I could be on a I just couldn’t go off and give up downward slope and as I get older it’ll be a lot what I thought was safe. more difficult. As they say, I have to make hay Like all artists who have to make decisions while the sun shines.” about making a precarious living from a Personally, I find that Rhodes’ voice has perceived talent, Rhodes thought long and improved immeasurably in the last couple of hard about which direction he wanted his years. And that is for the simple reason (and career path to meander through. “Singing here I am relying solely on Rhodes’ diverse didn’t fit into the life I had at the time,” he albums of Brahms, British art songs and an album reminisces. “I had a commerce degree and I where he gained the moniker “The Voice”) that wasn’t willing to give up what I had back home he has learned how to use the microphone and, anyway, I felt like I was grabbing at thin properly. No longer does he blast us, as he did air if I thought I could make it as a singer. I just in his earlier years, with volumes of sound. The couldn’t go off and give up what I thought was transition came about, I feel, from his experience safe. I have great respect for people who do that; it’s not easy because there are so many in South Pacific where his voice was “amplified” factors involved. With music and singing you by a microphone and all he had to do was open have to rely on other people liking not only you his mouth and the sound poured out. They say that a bass/baritone’s singing voice should sound but also what you do.” like talking on pitch and nowadays that is more And so Rhodes started singing semiprofessionally with Canterbury Opera. While there he was spotted by Opera Australia, performing the role of Marcello in La Boh`eme. In 1998 the role of Dandini in Rossini’s La Cenerentola became vacant at Opera Australia and Rhodes was asked to audition for it. He was 31 by then. “I was offered the job and two weeks later I was in Australia. I learned the role in a fortnight and when I gave up my job in New Zealand, I said to myself ‘right, I’ll give myself five years and if I still have a job at the end of it I’ll carry on with my singing’”. The following year, 1999, Rhodes represented New Zealand at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
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Tahu Rhodes and Lisa McCune in South Pacific
or less what Rhodes’ voice is doing. Except for the odd New Zealand-sounding vowel that resonates through his speaking voice you’d swear he was sitting next to you when he’s singing. That’s always a sign of a singer at ease with the sound of his voice.
Talking about South Pacific begs the question of whether he has difficulties going from an operatic role to a ‘show-biz’ one and viceversa. “It’s very easy singing the show stuff but I find it difficult going from that to the operatic repertoire. It takes about two to three weeks of adjustment, although I do try to sing it in the same way. But then in South Pacific you’re doing eight shows a week - a matinee on Wednesday and another on Saturday - with only Monday off. It’s quite a heavy work-load, although it doesn’t feel so at the time. But I love it and I have the greatest of respect for the rest of the cast. They have the most amazing energy and skill. They all have so many talents within their frame-works…there’s dancer/actors, singing/ actors and both singing and dancing/actors.” How did he acquire the French accent of the character he plays, Emile de Becque? “While performing Don Giovanni in Bordeaux,” he explains. “I spent a few weeks with a French guy who took me through the dialogue.” No Italian affectations by trying to imitate the interpretations of either Rossano Brazzi or Giorgio Tozzi, I ask? He laughs. “Definitely not,” he responds. I can almost hear that fertile brain ticking and those acres of flesh rippling as he takes a deep breath. After a momentary pause, he adds: “if anything it’s more European than French.” - Randolph Magri-Overend Opera Australia’s South Pacific opens in Sydney on 7 September.
IMAGINING OTHER DIMENSIONS Fine Music presenter, Sue McCreadie, talks they can’t comprehend the relationships in The guitar orchestra might seem like a strange beast but it’s one that’s growing in popularity. to Richard Charlton and Raffaele Agostino the piece.” When we spoke, the Agostinos were heading about their latest collaboration. Other Dimensions makes allusions to that
Among the completed commissions is Other Dimensions by Sydney guitarist/composer Richard Charlton. Scored for guitar ensemble, double bass and percussion, the work was premiered on 4 June in the Recital Hall West by the Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble led by Raffaele Agostino. The idea came from a conversation between Charlton, Agostino and Julie Simonds (special projects co-ordinator at the Conservatorium) and the realisation that the Centenary Commissioning Project had pieces for a range of instruments but nothing for guitar. The only stipulation, says Charlton, was that it shouldn’t be a piece that went into mothballs after its premiere. “It was then up to Raff(aele) to come up with the spec.” The two first met at a guitar summer school back in 1980 and together with Janet Agostino they have performed as the Sydney Guitar Trio since 1996. “I know what he wants by now”, says Charlton. “Raff can be hard to please and he is very particular. But the benefit of that is that the fewer decisions you have to make as the composer the better. The hardest thing is just to write a piece”.
by having music that is basically tonal but with altered chords under the melody or a chromatic melody. The chord progressions are recognisable but some of the harmonies are “a little alien”, allowing the piece to have a foot in two camps.
Like most of Charlton’s music it juxtaposes percussive and syncopated elements with a distinctive lyricism. In the slower sections the scoring creates an otherworldly atmosphere with intricate interplay between the guitars’ harmonics and the crotales (little bells) and triangle.
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The Sydney Conservatorium turns one hundred in 2015 and in the lead up to its centenary the institution plans to commission 101 new works. International luminaries such as John Corigliano, Arvo Part and Michael Nyman have come on board along with a who’s who of Australian composers.
The composing process involved a month of “thinking and jotting down ideas” and a couple of weeks of writing. “I wrote a solo piece for Raff last year in which he plays two guitars. That took a long time to gestate. I don’t know why but some things take time, some come out really quickly”. Given Other Dimensions was written with a tertiary ensemble in mind, it’s a workout for the guitars. And as Charlton points out, it’s not written like many guitar orchestra pieces with the hard parts given to firsts and relatively easy parts given to the rest. “Everyone gets a go”. It is also “thicker” than most guitar ensemble writing with the players each having two or three lines rather than being confined to single line playing.
to the UK to play at guitar festivals. “They will invariably have guitar orchestras. It’s very big in England”. The Sydney guitar society’s orchestra has been going since the mid-nineties. As the society’s artistic director, he hopes the phenomenon will continue to develop. “Most guitarists start playing with a view to becoming a soloist and then somewhere along the way they decide to play ensemble music. But they should get the opportunity from the early stages.”
While community orchestras proliferate, at the other end of the spectrum there are professional groups such as the German Youth Guitar Orchestra, which has twice visited Australia in recent years, and leading composers from Leo Brouwer to Terry Riley are writing for ensembles at that level. As to the future of Other Dimensions, it’s been promptly taken up by the guitar ensemble at the Victorian College of the Arts directed by Ken Murray. Given the Conservatorium’s main stipulation was that the piece should not be mothballed after its premiere, this latest addition to the burgeoning guitar ensemble repertoire seems to have already fulfilled its brief. - Sue McCreadie To see the premiere performance video of Other Dimensions, visit www.finemusicfm.com Sue McCreadie presents the Classical Guitar Society program on the first Sunday of the month at 6pm.
The first decision was to use the Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble, which Agostino established back in 1997, rather than going down the solo work route. It was also a perfect opportunity to add some other instruments because of the wealth of instrumental talent to draw on at the Conservatorium. The double bass provided sustain and the percussion provided the additional colour. “Someone like Richard who knows the guitar well can write sensitively with percussion”, says Agostino. “The balance is good.”
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Charlton came up with the title Other Dimensions early in the process. “The idea was linked to our inability to imagine other dimensions beyond the three that we know about. There is a parallel in music. People often don’t understand avant-garde music because
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Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson the 14th Lord Berners
There’s a question for a musical quiz, the answer to which no-one ever gets right: “To whom did Stravinsky refer as ‘the best twentieth century English composer’?” The answer is: Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, the fourteenth Lord Berners. A few years ago, Berners was remembered - if at all - as one of the most notable of English eccentrics: the man who kept a flock of doves and set them loose, dyed in many colours; the man who kept a clavichord in his Rolls-Royce so that he could practice and compose while en route from his English home in Berkshire to his Italian home in Rome. But he was much more than merely bizarre; he was a good enough composer to be called by several critics “the English Satie”. Berners inherited his peerage through his grandmother (not, as he claimed, as the result of three uncles falling off a bridge at the same time after attending her funeral). His father was a mostly absent naval officer, his mother mainly interested in hunting. Neither sympathised with the boy’s passions for music and literature – when his father gave him some money “to buy a book” he was afraid to tell either of them that the “book” he bought was the vocal score of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. His relatives were equally unsympathetic - all huntin’ and fishin’ folk: he revenged himself by writing mildly scurrilous verses about them - for instance,
Uncle Fred and Aunty Mabel Fainted at the breakfast table. Isn’t that an awful warning Not to do it in the morning? After a short life as a (rather successful) diplomat, on acceding to his title he retired
Lord Berners to Berkshire and concentrated on the arts. He did attend the House of Lords - once. He refused to return on the grounds that a Bishop had stolen his umbrella. His opus numbers rose only to 30; if this suggests laziness we might remember that, in addition, he wrote six novels and two books of autobiography, and had two one-man exhibitions of his paintings (which were seriously compared to the work of Corot - perhaps unsurprisingly as he had the largest collection of Corots outside the Louvre). Moreover, if this suggests a dilettante attitude, far from it. He was a fine craftsman, all his music perfectly formed, totally without padding - he knew precisely what he wanted to do, and did it perfectly. The music of his which has survived was mostly written for the theatre, and particularly for the ballet. He and his close friend, the Australian
composer and conductor Constant Lambert, were the only two English-speaking composers commissioned by the great impresario Diaghilev to produce scores for the Ballets Russes. The most notable of Berners’ ballet scores are The Triumph of Neptune and A Wedding Bouquet, the former written in 1926 for a libretto by his friend Sacheverell Sitwell. It contains a storm scene scored for percussion alone, with the violinists playing flexatones (small flexible metal sheets suspended in wire frames ending in a handle) something unheard of at the time. A Wedding Bouquet was set to a text by the avant-garde American writer Gertrude Stein - as amended by Berners, who also designed thirty costumes and the painted curtain and back-drop! There are of course other works: Luna Park, one of the most successful, was produced for a Cochrane revue and choreographed by Massine. Two subsequent ballets, Cupid and Psyche (1938) and Les Sirènes (1946), were choreographed by Frederick Ashton and conducted by Lambert. His one-act opera La Carrosse du Saint Sacrement (The Carriage of the Blessed Sacrament) was staged in Paris in 1923. There were also the musical jokes which prompted the comparison with Satie. Berners’ Trois petites marches funèbres, for instance - funeral marches for a Statesman, an Aunt and a Canary - and his Dispute entre le Papillon et le Crapaud (“Dispute between the Butterfly and the Toad”). His Fantasie Espagnole is a marvellously funny parody - you might say exposé - of the excesses of some Spanish music, poking fun at every Spanish capriccio that ever was. These works can all no doubt be described as insubstantial - Berners himself was fully aware of what he called “the English tendency to judge art by size and weight”, and it’s sad that he is mostly still remembered for his jokes, good though they are. It is difficult not to enjoy the personality of a man who built the last substantial folly in England - a tower on his estate, at the base of which he erected a notice: “Members of the Public committing suicide from this tower do so at their own risk.” But he had a good life, writing his own epitaph, carved on his tombstone:
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Certainly his music never bored anyone. - Derek Parker
PIOTR BECZALA: TENOR WITH WIT I’m glad I don’t have to type the birthplace of tenor Piotr Beczala (pronounced Pi-o-tor Bek-sha-wa) more than once. He was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland 46 years ago. I contact him while he is about to sing in Verdi’s Requiem at the Paris Bastille Opera and I soon realise he is not only an accomplished tenor but also one with a sense of humour. When I ask him about his first experience as a singer he replies that he started singing at the age of 10 in an elementary school choir. “I was one of two boys, but my career was short. I did all I could so they could fire me. It was not cool to be a boy in a girls’ choir,” he confesses although he also admits it was the same choir where he met “my future love, Kasia.”
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But it was neither Beczala’s wit nor his romancing that recently brought him to the attention of the musical world. That was precipitated by remarks he made regarding directors he will never work with again. Without my mentioning any of the names he mentioned, it is obvious that Beczala does not appreciate the liberties that some opera directors utilise to ‘modernise’ their opera plots. He defends his outburst with: “My words are often misunderstood. I was talking about the stupid, senseless, provocative and the storychanging productions, not about modernity.” He continues with: “if a director pushes the singer to do things on stage to make them feel ashamed, I do protest loudly. [I am thinking of the] next generation of singers – [they should not be] toys in the hands of mad stage directors. To properly understand what I am talking about you should go to Germany.” Protests aside, Beczala has recently signed a long term contract to record for Deutsche Grammophon. It is ample reward for 21 years of singing professionally, a career that started with him singing Dancairo in the Linz production of ‘Carmen’. He recalls the days leading up to opening night as being “before-excited” and “after-tired” because on the day following his debut he had already started rehearsals for the next production.
Beczala as Rondolfo, Anna Netrebko as Mimi in La bohème at the Salzburg Festival 2012. Photo - DG/Silvia Lelli
in the world of operetta. He is one of my heroes [as is] Fritz Wunderlich, Jussi Bjorling, Georges Thill, Sergei Lemeshev, Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Tito Schipa….” In fact, Beczala’s admiration extends to such nonclassical singers as Elvis Presley, Freddy Mercury, Tom Jones, Christina Aguilera and Adele. “The human voice is a fantastic instrument and it is not important in which kind of music we use it [whether it be] pop, soul, jazz, opera or operetta.” He explains that one needs to use it Tauber was a giant in the with emotion, the right expression plus “some world of operetta. He is technique can be useful!” one of my heroes.. He loves singing the romantic French operas like Gounod’s ‘Faust’ and Massenet’s ‘Werther’ His latest album is a tribute to his favourite and ‘Manon’. However, the most important singer, Richard Tauber, in which Beczala sings thing for him is to immerse yourself into the such Tauber favourites as Girls were Made character you are singing. With the voice to Love and Kiss (wonder if any singer would he has at the moment he is confined mainly get away with such a title these days?) from to singing the lyric repertoire but he hopes ‘Paganini’ and You are my Heart’s Delight one day to be able to sing the dramatic and from ‘Land of Smiles’ both by Franz Lehar. In verismo roles in Giordano’s ‘Andrea Chenier’, fact Tauber, according to Beczala, “as a pianist, Puccini’s ‘Turandot’ and Verdi’s ‘Otello’. But he singer and composer was absolutely brilliant. won’t push his voice and prefers to allow it to As Caruso was in opera [so] Tauber was a giant develop slowly and naturally.
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He has sung in most of the principal opera houses of the world - Covent Garden (the Italian tenor in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’), San Francisco (Lensky in ‘Eugene Onegin’) and New York’s Metropolitan (the Duke in ‘Rigoletto’) - but he has yet to crack either the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires or the Sydney Opera House. The former “was one of the best in the world and the best singers sang there and the acoustics must be incredible.” As for Sydney, he has this to say - and I can just picture him saying it with more than a faint twinkle in his eyes - “I have never been to Australia but as a result of Pawel Edmund Strzelecki’s discovery, you have the Mount Kosciuzko National Park. I would love to go there to sing on Mount Kosciuzko the aria from Stanislaw Moniuszko (opera ‘Haika’ written in 1847) Szumia jodly na gor szczycie - it would be something special wouldn’t it?” I looked up the translation of the aria on Google. It came out as Roar Fir on the Top of the Mountains! Ah well, I am sure the right emotions will be there! - Randolph Magri-Overend September 2013
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A RICHARD STRAUSS RARITY
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It is less widely known that Richard Strauss also came to the party with two works, the oddlynamed (or adjunct) to his Domestic Symphony, and the equally outlandish Panathenaenzug, a very substantial piece, inspired, so the composer tells us, by the annual festival of
En route, Strauss introduces us to a few of his recent contemporaries: Rachmaninov is paid a visit with a typical sighing, Slavic passage, while a gorgeously lavish melody could have come straight from a Gershwin musical indeed, the great tune-smith must have been kicking himself for not thinking of it first. And surely the score of Wagner’s must have been fortuitously open right under Strauss’s nose when he brought the work to its climactic end.
Strauss music and sport with which the populace of the City State of Athens honoured their presiding goddess. This takes the form of a fanfare and a cadenza, followed by what the composer describes as a chaconne, with pianist and orchestra weaving elaborate effects above an unchanging bass line. At least, that is how it starts off. But never much noted for his sense of strict formal discipline, Strauss soon allows his imagination to take wing, the chaconne’s rigid bass pattern falters and the music gives way to a glorious free-for-all, with the fanfare re-emerging triumphant towards the end.
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Fine Music 102.5 presenter and classical piano music afficionado, Barrie Brockwell, unearths a Richard Strauss gem. The Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was a man of great courage - and deep pockets. Undeterred by the catastrophic loss of his right arm in the trenches of the Great War, he set about commissioning works from the leading composers of the day which would require the use of the left hand only. Hindemith provided a concerto, and Prokofiev, too, (his Fourth), although these did not find favour with the pianist, who never played them. Ravel wrote the undoubted masterpiece of the genre, his magnificent concerto in D. A concerto by Korngold was an immediate success, although rarely played these days, except by the indefatigable Marc-Andre Hamelin. Benjamin Britten supplied the pianist’s own favourite, the witty and inventive .
This in not to say that the work is in any way a pastiche; it is just that Strauss has absorbed some of the prevalent influences of the day and presents them to us in a form which could only be his own. The whole thing is an extraordinary, colourful and lavish confection. On a personal note I have to say that, in some sixty years of concert-going, I have never once known it to be performed. Adventurous listeners to Fine Music 102.5 can tune in to Morning Concert on Tuesday, 8 October and hear this great rarity for themselves. They are unlikely to find it anywhere else. - Barrie Brockwell
*Painting by kind permission of Louise Hearman, through Rosyln Oxley Gallery
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COLE PORTER – DID YOU EVAH? Comedian Alan Davies (he of QI fame) would have classified Cole Albert Porter as a partygoing mushroom or a fun guy (fungi for thems what didn’t get it!). However, that description had more relevance prior to Porter’s riding accident in October 1937. Certainly after the accident, except for the odd fit and spurt of musical genius, the fun and frivolity that punctuate his earlier successes dried up and Porter had to put up with the drudgery and pain of crippledom and immobility.
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But for those in-between years, when he thrilled all and sundry with a steady flow of sophisticated lyrics and hummable tunes, what ‘swonderful (with apologies to George Gerswin) years they were. Even with the constant pain of shattered legs - which eventually led to gangrene and amputation - he still managed to write and compose but the incessant pain forced him to complain to friends that it had left him as “only half a man”.
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The in-between years saw a number of memorable songs and shows. His first Broadway hit in 1928 “Paris” included such hits as Let’s Misbehave and Let’s Do It. Even with the onset of the 1929 Wall Street crash Porter’s revue entitled “Wake Up and Dream” saw his What is This Thing Called Love? become a popular hit. But his biggest hit came in 1934 with “Anything Goes” which featured his favourite singer, Ethel Merman - she whose fame soared when Pavarotti claimed she had the most undiscernible passagio (the vocal break from chest to head voice) in the business. “Anything Goes”, with words by P G Wodehouse, became an instant success with songs like I Get a Kick out of You, All Through the Night, You’re the Top, Blow Gabriel Blow as well as, of course, the title number. Hollywood wasn’t immune to his musical charms either. In 1936 “Born to Dance” with James Stewart (James Stewart in a musical?) featured such hits as You’d Be So Easy to Love and I’ve Got You Under My Skin while earlier in 1935 his Broadway show “Jubilee” starring Ethel Merman again (Porter used her at least five times because of her loud, brassy voice not to mention her passagio) produced such everlasting hits as Begin the Beguine and Just One of Those Things.
Cole Porter Not all his shows were hits but they still produced some memorable songs. Fred Astaire in the 1932 “Gay Divorcée” included Night and Day, the 1929 show “Fifty Million Frenchmen” spawned You Do Something to Me while the 1930s “The New Yorker” achieved notoriety with a street-walker singing Love For Sale. The lyrics were deemed too risqué for radio although it later became an instrumental hit.
on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Kiss me Kate” ran for 1,077 performances in New York and 400 in London. It emerged to be his most successful production, won the Tony Award for best musical and included such hits as Another Op’nin’ Another Show, Wunderbar, So in Love, We Open in Venice, Too Darn Hot, Always True to You in my Fashion and Brush up Your Shakespeare. In fact, it was the latter song that includes the immortal lyrics:
Born with a silver spoon in Peru, Indiana in 1891, Porter owed most of his initial affluence to his grandfather James Omar Porter, supposedly the richest man in Indiana (the result of coal and timber speculation) and although grandpa disapproved of his grandson’s dalliance in music, he did finance his enrolment at Yale University to study law. Porter wrote 300 songs while at Yale. Like Irving Berlin (who admitted to harbouring a mutual admiration fraternity with him) Porter wrote both the music and lyrics of his songs. When the United States entered World War I, Porter moved to Paris where some historians claim he joined the French Foreign Legion serving in North Africa, later transferring to the French Officer’s School in Fontainebleau.
After 25 years of pain (during which time the public hardly knew of his disability) Porter died in 1964 of kidney failure.
While in Paris, Porter maintained a luxury apartment holding “gay and bisexual” parties of immeasurable extravagance. In 1918 he met Linda Lee Thomas, an heiress in her own right, and they married the following year.
As Howard Markel, MD, PhD eulogised at the time, his story reminds “patients and doctors alike that regardless of the outcome, the human spirit remains the most formidable foe of illness.” - Randolph Magri-Overend
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Following the barren years after war’s end, Porter finally came up with a hit in 1948. Based
If she says your behaviour is heinous Kick her right in the Coriolanus…. In 1956 Porter produced another cinematic hit with “High Society” which starred Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly. The song list includes True Love, Samantha and Did you Evah? The latter contains more memorable words in: Have you heard about Mimsy Starr She got pinched in the Astor Bar!
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs presents De-Lovely - A Cole Porter Celebration Concert at the Sydney Opera House on 19 and 21 September – see What’s On, page 15. September 2013
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What’s On CHORAL THE SONG COMPANY DOWLAND’S LUTE WITH NIGEL NORTH Thursday 5 September 7.30pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $15-$59 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.songcompany.com.au
SYMPHONY SYDNEY SYMPHONY WAGNER’S RING ADVENTURE + FLITER PLAYS CHOPIN Wednesday 18 September 8pm Thursday 19 September 1.30pm Friday 20 September 8pm Saturday 21 September 8pm Sydney Opera House Tickets: $35-$125 Bookings: 8215 4600 www.sydneysymphony.com The Ring - from the depths of a river to giddying heights. Magic and fire. A special sword. Lust and power, courage and betrayal. One epic to rule them all… yes, it’s Wagner’s Ring cycle - and if you prefer Wagner without the singing, then this is the concert for you. In this event, twenty hours of some of the greatest music ever written has been woven into a one-hour symphonic adventure for orchestra. Wagner’s music for The Ring evokes a world of gods and warriors, of lust, power and violence. Chopin’s music belongs indoors in a world of refinement and elegance. And in his aristocratic Piano Concerto No.2 he blends rippling virtuosity, Polish dance rhythms and poignant lyricism - in this concert it’s the piano that sings. Featuring Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter and conducted by the internationallyrespected Mark Wigglesworth (above).
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One of the great delights of musical discovery in the last century has been the steady revival of John Dowland (1563-1626) by artists as diverse as Percy Grainger or, more recently, Emma Kirkby or Sting. As a way of celebrating Dowland’s 450th anniversary in 2013, the Song Company has invited the greatest English lutenist of our time, Nigel North (right) for an all-out tribute to the elusive English master of his time. Dowland spent the peak of his career as private lutenist to the Danish king, Christian IV, but yearned for London and a
posting at the English court. Dowland’s lute and pen produced some of the most heartbreaking music of all times. Program includes: Dowland (1563-1626) solo songs, ensembles and lute pieces, Ward (1571-1638) madrigals, Ravenscroft (1582/92-1635) songs, rounds and catches. Dowland’s Lute concerts also take place in Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra and Melbourne – see website for details.
CHAMBER AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE Saturday 7 September 8pm University of New South Wales, Sir John Clancy Auditorium Tickets: $17-$47 Bookings: 9385 4874 www.ae.unsw.edu.au Bach’s B minor Flute Sonata BWV1030 comes complete with an obbligato (i.e. fully written-out) keyboard part that suits the Australia Ensemble’s chosen era of performance and interpretation. Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (Transformations) is the master composer’s deeply felt lament at the end of World War II for the lost world and tradition for which he had produced so much of his greatest music. Debussy liked to contrast French ways of thinking in music with those of Austro-German composers and duly supplies in two short pieces a melodic charm which is unmistakably French while CHAMBER AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SCHOLL SINGS VIVALDI Friday 4 October 1:30pm Saturday 5 October 7pm Tuesday 8 October 8pm Wednesday 9 October 7pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $40-$105 Bookings: 1800 444 444 www.aco.com.au Andreas Scholl (left) is famous worldwide for his stylish performances of Baroque music and it is uplifting to hear him perform Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, as it is to begin the concert with Vivaldi’s
not attempting to represent French music in its most high-flying moments; and Poulenc’s Sextet for piano and winds cheerfully runs the risk of placing its sentiments nearer the surface in graceful, high-spirited and, at times, uproarious fashion. Guest artists include Yvette Goodchild (viola), Timo-Veikko Valve (cello), Andrew Meisel (double bass), Shefali Pryor (oboe), Robert Johnson (horn) and Andrew Barnes (bassoon). Photo – Australia Ensemble’s Dimity Hall sprightly Concerto Grosso RV117. Excitingly, in this concert, Scholl fulfils a long-held desire to match contemporary music with the Baroque. Estonian composer Arvo Pärt features heavily in this program which includes his prayer for peace, Da Pacem Domine, and his Wallfahrtslied (Pilgrim’s Song), a setting of Psalm 121 “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills”, composed in memory of his film director friend, Grigori Kromanov. Pärt’s vocal lines are as consoling and ideal for the intense beauty of Scholl’s voice as Vivaldi’s. You’ll also hear Schnittke’s startling String Quartet no. 3 and Bach’s masterful The Art of Fugue; Contrapunctus 1-4. Photo - Decca/James McMillan
ORCHESTRAL AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA FEARLESS BAROQUE Wednesday 4 September to Friday 13 September City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $30-$154 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.brandenburg.com.au CHORAL SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS A COLE PORTER CELEBRATION Thursday 19 September 8pm Saturday 21 September 2pm Sydney Opera House Tickets: $32-$90 Bookings: 9251 3115 www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au Who doesn’t love a Cole Porter tune? I Get a Kick Out of You, Night and Day - songs like this have stood the test of time to enter the popular repertoire as standards of the American songbook. They evoke a bygone world of luxury, of Upper East Side apartments, cruise liners and decadent cocktail parties. They continue to fascinate with their witty lyrics, poignant emotions and wonderful melodies. In this exciting concert, the Sydney Philharmonia Festival Chorus and Orchestra promises to take you on a journey full of nostalgia and delightful music as they explore Cole Porter’s timeless songs. The dynamic Brett Weymark conducts an unmissable program that begins with the tender Begin the Beguine and includes alltime favourites such as Blow, Gabriel, Blow and Anything Goes. Enjoy endless hits in this merry celebration of Cole Porter tunes that will warm your heart.
JAZZ JAZZ IN THE GLEN FOOD/WINE/MUSIC Friday 6 September 8pm Saturday 7 September 11am, 2pm, 5pm and 8pm Glen Street Theatre Cnr Glen Street, Blackbutts Road, Belrose Tickets: $15-$40 (Festival Pass $50-$95) Bookings: 9975 1455 www.glenstreet.com.au
It is highly unlikely you have ever experienced a soprano quite like Simone Kermes. Utterly fearless, with a spectacular coloratura soprano voice and flaming red hair, Kermes is a highly original baroque “rock chick”. This is her Australian debut. An international star, she regularly performs in New York, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; the Staatsoper in Stuttgart; Bonn Opera House; Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; and numerous prestigious festivals. In a stratospheric tightrope act, daringly and confidently performed, with consummate skill and artistry, Kermes combines her wonderfully eccentric stage presence with outstanding musicianship, performing glittering arias by Porpora, Pergolesi and Leo, many for the first time in Australia.
Kick off your weekend on Friday with The Great Gatsby Night, starring the 11-piece 1920s dance orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios. Saturday’s festivities commence with Live in the Glen, an exciting showcase of talented young musicians from the Northern Beaches performing on an outdoor stage. Soon after, A Tribute to the Swing Era boasts an appearance by the renowned Janet Seidel and internationally recognised act, The Young Northside Big Band (pictured). Then Paul Baker, Jim Elliot and Jack Ward take to the stage with All Aboard For Dixieland. Saturday evening offers Legends of Jazz presented by Fine Music’s John Buchanan, a journey through swing, bop and cool. The show features music of the great musicians: Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz and Fats Waller performed by talented artists from Benny’s Boys and Basie’s Boys.
JAZZ PASSIONFRUIT TRIO Friday 6 September 8.30pm SIMA@The Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre Theatre, Chippendale Tickets: $10-$20 Bookings: 9351 7940 www.seymourcentre.com In a special performance, the Passionfruit Trio is joined by gifted vocalist Edo Santoni (above) for an evening of acoustic jazz for guitar, piano, percussion and voice. Comprised of multi-award winning instrumentalists, this long-time collaborating trio brings infectious rhythms, compelling melodies and spontaneous improvisations across musical boundaries where jazz meets AfroBrazilian music. Santoni’s polished delivery and dynamic presence offers an intimate and expressive jazz/pop sensibility to soulful arrangements of Miles Davis as well as celebrated Brazilian compositions by Egberto Gismoni, Mermeto Paschoal, Nascimentro and Jobim. Do not miss this beautiful project. Guy Strazz (guitar) Edo Santoni (vocals) Matt McMahon (piano) Fabian Hevia (percussion). The Sydney Improvised Music Assocation (SIMA) presents the best of contemporary Australian jazz, collaborative projects and overseas artists every week at the Seymour’s newly refurbished Sound Lounge. Its September program includes the Ben Hauptmann Septet, Tim Clarkson Trio’s album launch, the Alister Spence Trio and the Tim Bruer Quartet.
2014 Auditions applications close 6 September 2013 To register interest or receive an auditions brochure, email casey@ syo.com.au www.syo.com.au September 2013
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CLAUDE MONET: THE MAGIC GARDEN Various artists Music by Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Satie and Saint-Saëns ABC Classics 351414
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BACHCAGE - FRANCESCO TRISTANO Deutsche Grammaphon 0289 476 417-3 5
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This beautiful compilation of essential French Impressionist music brings together some of the best-loved classics of the genre. It covers a range of quintessentially French composers from Fauré and Saint-Saëns to Debussy, Ravel and Satie. This ABC release also showcases some fine local talent featuring the sparkling virtuosity of pianist Anna Goldsworthy playing Ravel’s Jeux d’eau as well as Stephanie McCallum’s sensitive performance of Satie’s otherworldly Gymnopédie No. 1. Cellist Janis Laurs gives a musical interpretation of Saint-Saëns’ heartbreakingly beautiful The Swan and the legendary Roger Woodward displays his technical prowess in a brilliant performance of Debussy’s Gardens in the
Rain. The CD offers some truly high-quality performances by Australian orchestras including the Adelaide and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, culminating with a marvellous Sydney Symphony rendition of The Fairy Garden from Ravel’s Mother Goose conducted by Benjamin Northey. As suggested by its title, Claude Monet: The Magic Garden would make a great companion CD to the current Monet’s Garden exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. It would also make the perfect soundtrack to a relaxing Sunday afternoon, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in pure and exquisite French music. - Claire Hu
her pure, almost ethereal, sound for one that doesn’t sound anything like her real self. Admittedly, here she is not singing anything remotely classical (except for a popped-up version of “Brahms’ Lullaby” and “All Through the Night”) but, me-thinks she has been coaxed into sounding not only commercially viable but also vampish. Whereas her voice was once pleasant, it now whimpers along with the odd whisper here and there, whereas it was direct and listenable it is now poutish and breathy, and whereas it once had potential it now sounds like Eartha Kitt on the prowl. Need I go on? One can excuse one or two seductively- best that I can say about this CD of sleepy-by voiced songs but to then continue in that vein themed songs is that it has the desired effect. over 13 tracks asks too much of a listener. The - Randolph Magri-Overend Taking cues from the concisely useful write-up that comes with this CD, Bach and Cage win significance for no other reason than both being four-letter names, with acknowledgement to Bach as being “the first composer”, and Cage “the last”. It is an acknowledgement that our host, Francesco Tristano, proceeds to put to the test. He exploits the potential of electronics to do more or less whatever a musician may want by way of presenting something far removed from what we are used to hearing in the genre of piano recitals. The effects of such extreme precision as we hear in this recording would be unattainable outside a fully equipped modern studio. Every note is picked and struck as if it belongs in a tonal world all of its own, then reassembled in such a way that provokes us, in the words of the CD booklet,
“to listen and hear anew”. The results of this exhibition of music are the equivalent of Old Masters hung in a gallery. Effects range from the most delicate intimations of sound, down to the deepest thunderings that postproduction techniques can generate. From Bach through to Cage, Tristano in his newly-conferred role as “curator” forces us to alter our sense of what is conventional, and comfortable, what comes first, and what comes last. He juxtaposes the sudden startling modernity of Baroque compositions, given Loussier-esque treatment, with timely musical punctuations by the moderns here, Cage and the pianist himself. A most finely executed experiment that may not impress everyone, but the people it does impress will be glad to have found it. - Phil Vendy
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THE VERDI ALBUM Jonas Kaufmann, tenor Sony Classic
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✶✶✶✶ A splendid album delivered by one of Australia’s finest classical guitarists, Leonard Grigoryan’s long awaited Solo album is an excellent representation of the ever-rising standard of classical guitar in Australia. Included on this CD is a combination of the standard repertoire for the guitar along with a few new additions to the ever-growing canon of Australian guitar music, composed by none other than Grigoryan himself. Combining jazz-style harmonies, South American rhythms, classicalstyle phrasing and a highly developed technical facility, Grigoryan’s keen musical sensitivity and high levels of virtuosity, which has been demonstrated over the years through his
FANTASIAS ON OPERAS BY BELLINI, ROSSINI, DONIZETTI AND VERDI Roch Modrzejewski, guitar Brilliant Classics 94446
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The successful German tenor Jonas Kaufmann has recorded an album focused purely on Verdi’s operas 200 years after the composer’s birth. From Aida to Simon Boccanegra, the album covers a diverse range in Verdi’s tenor repertory as Kaufmann selects one or two numbers from each of the major Verdi operas. Kaufmann kicks off the program with Rigoletto and the popular ‘La donna è mobile,’ of course. He then moves through some favourites, such as ‘Di quella pira l’orrendo fuoco/The horrid flames of that pyre’ from Il trovatore, as well as some numbers from operas that are not of the standard repertory, such as Luisa Miller. In the Don Carlos duet, ‘Dio, che nell’alma infondere/God, who wished to instill in our souls,’ he collaborates with the ensemble and duo playing, shine very brightly throughout this album and, in particular, his compositions. While listening, the audience feels the sense that Grigoryan is truly at home with this style of music. His treatment of the South American rhythms and colourful harmonies throughout are played effortlessly with a strong sense of musical style which many musicians trained purely in the classical style of phrasing appear to miss, lending further credit to Grigoryan’s fine standard of musicianship. The most charming aspect of this album, apart from his compositions, would be his fresh and highly original interpretation of the standard guitar repertoire. Ranging from sweet and lyrical to dark and brooding to colourfully impressionistic in style, Grigoryan captures the meaning behind the music beautifully. This album is definitely worth listening to for any enthusiast of guitar music interested in highly Young, Polish, prodigious: this is Roch Modrzejewski. For his third CD, this stunning guitarist has chosen an interesting series of pieces that revolve around the Italian Opera exploring some of the many fantasias that, in the 19th century, increased and enriched the guitar repertoire. The CD begins in great style: the grandiose virtuosity of Coste’s music is faced with authority and boldness. The second piece is Legnani’s fantasia based on the Cavatina of Elvira, taken from Verdi’s Ernani: this is a meditative and intimate piece. Its placid mood contrasts with the following variation op. 101 by Giuliani, whose shining mastery of the guitar is underlined by Modrzejewski with a bit of irony. The wide fantasia written by the Polish composer
baritone Franco Vassallo and takes on a role that he is intimately familiar with (he was Don Carlos opposite Anja Harteros’ Elisabetta in a Bavarian State Opera production last January). Kaufmann’s voice is clear and smooth, fullthroated and warm in colour. And at 44 years of age, his voice is also probably at its strongest and its best. Kaufmann has performed various difficult Wagnerian roles to critical acclaim and is certainly a superstar of our time. Recorded in Verdi’s home city of Parma, this new recording is sure to be one of the collectibles from the composer’s Anniversary year. The Verdi Album is due for release in the middle of this month - Claire Hu
inspirational re-interpretations or to any enthusiast who desires to hear some fresh and musically interesting repertoire from the mind of one of Australia’s finest - Jeffrey Cheah
Jan Nepomul Bobrowicz, Giuliani’s pupil, uses Italian themes to explore a different cultural heritage that comes from Giuliani’s style, but leaves it to reach its own personal identity. The Fantasia op. 8 n. 11 by Mertz resorts once again to the piano-like virtuosity that we already noticed in Coste and that marks also the last piece on this recording: the Regondi’s variations on an aria from “I Capuleti e i Montecchi”, by Bellini. Modrzejewski has been playing this repertoire with a wise musicality; he demonstrates that knows very well both the original matrix of these pieces - the Italian melodrama - and the means to evoke those famous pages on the guitar. A recording not to be missed. - Ermanno Brignolo September 2013
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JAZZ CD REVIEWS Discourse with Kevin Jones
WHAT’S NEW Billy Butterfield Retrospective RTR3203
✶✶✶✶ EN ESPAÑOL Natalie Cole Verve 3732395
✶✶✶ Five years after a life-saving kidney transplant, donated by a Salvadorean, the 63-year-old Natalie Cole has not only paid tribute to the family and the legacy of the Latin American Songbook but also her father, Nat King Cole, the master of all ballad singers. There will never be another like him. The proof: through the wonders of technology he duets with his daughter on Acertate Mas (Come Closer To Me). It’s the ultimate in intimate smoothness. In 1958 he recorded the album Cole Espanol for Capitol Records. He couldn’t speak Spanish so he had to learn the words phonetically. Despite
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I hate to belabour the point but I am glad I got interested in jazz in the 1950s when the music of the major big bands of the Swing Era was still being played on commercial radio otherwise I wouldn’t have discovered Billy Butterfield whom I still consider the finest all-round white jazz trumpeter. Hearing the 21-year-old Butterfield play What’s New (originally titled I’m Free before Johnny Burke’s lyrics were added) was a revelation and a fitting beginning to this set which covers the trumpeter’s recordings from 1939 until 1959, ending with two tracks from an amiable collaboration with arranger Ray Conniff and his orchestra. To think 50 years ago we were criticising these records which sold millions of albums under the category of easy listening yet in the
present age of pop princesses and boy bands I am thankful that Butterfield made them. Missing are his recordings with the classic edition of the World’s Greatest Jazz Band (1968-73) of Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart but the legacy here is outstanding ranging from Artie Shaw’s classic recording of Stardust (1940), an all star session with pianist Mel Powell (1942), his own big band (1946-47) and two popular “hits” - Margaret Whiting’s million seller Moonlight In Vermont (1944) and Nevertheless by Frank Sinatra (1950); he solos superbly on both. His ability to deal with any musical situation is shown on Manny Albam’s boppish arrangement of I’m An Old Cowhand (1955) by “Gus Hoo” and his Dixie Stompers who included bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Don Lamond.
this, the album was so popular he even visited Mexico with his then eight-year-old daughter to wide acclaim. He went on to record two more albums in Spanish -A Mis Amigos (1959) and More Cole Espanol (1962). Although Natalie learnt the rudiments of Spanish at school she too had to learn the words phonetically although you wouldn’t know it. Nostalgia for an age of melody, maybe, but I had forgotten how lovely these romantic melodies were. Some, such as Frenesi (Artie Shaw), Amapola and Besame Mucho (Jimmy Dorsey) were big band hits during the 1940s. Besame Mucho, written by Cosuelo Velasquez Me in 1940, is the most recorded Mexican song of all time and she more than does it justice in a duet with Andrea Bocelli.
It’s just one of the highlights in this lush and captivating tribute to Latin America’s legendary composers and their most popular songs. Easy listening with a Latin flair!
Yet another Ella Fitzgerald compilation, not that I’m complaining, but why must it include a novelty like A-Tisket A-Tasket which pales into insignificance when compared with some of the gems from the Great American Songbook here. The music is mainly drawn from the series of songbooks she recorded for Norman Granz’s Verve label from 1956 to 1959 with arrangers Buddy Bregman (Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart), Paul Weston (Irving Berlin) and Nelson Riddle (George and Ira Gershwin). Before Granz began the songbook series, Riddle and Frank Sinatra had set the highest standard for the best in popular music with the albums Songs For Young Lovers, Swing Easy and In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning which defined Sinatra but it would be four years before
Granz would make use of Riddle’s rich gifts as an orchestrator. This is why the Gershwin set remains probably the most enduring of them all; the ballad treatment of the usually uptempo Oh, Lady Be Good is an example why. In contrast Bregman’s arrangements for the Porter set especially were functional but unimaginative failing to project Ella with her impeccable pitch and diction to the extent that Riddle did with Sinatra. The best tracks are when she is accompanied by just the rhythm section led by pianist Paul Smith; then the music comes alive as on Miss Otis Regrets and Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered. Admittedly they could and should have been better but they are still more than very good. Would I be without them? Never!
SWINGING ON THE VINE AN OBSESSION WITH THE BLUES
“Put the book away! We have guests!” hissed The Voice. It’s a command which must be obeyed or disobeyed according to the circumstances. But this time, with a deep sigh, I place aside Michael Connolly’s Black Ice, a superb novel featuring Detective Hieronymus Bosch of the Los Angeles Police Department, and gaze mournfully at our “guests”. “Guests” is a more than slight exaggeration. The insufferable Clifford has once again polluted my Hunter Valley homestead with yet another group from his so-called “A League”. All have one thing in common - they are as thick as poured cement. From the braying loud bark which passes for a laugh of the ultramonarchist Trenton, all-slicked back fair hair, to the long blonde tresses of the English twins Tamsyn and Tasmara, allegedly lead singers in the group Genghis and the Gorgons, a band in which Clifford has invested heavily and, hopefully, not too wisely. They are sipping champagne - at least it’s not my shiraz; one must be thankful for small mercies - chortling hysterically as they watch the latest popular “chick lit” television “drama” about a dysfunctional family. Pretentious and indulgent the plot dawdles worse than a toddler on a Sunday walk but why should I be surprised? It’s just another example of the incestuous culture of television program making. How lucky I was to be beguiled by the age of radio where I could always find well-played hard-swinging jazz, lacking completely in ostentation and deceit. When I could argue about who was the finest pianist to play with Benny Goodman - Jess Stacy, Teddy Wilson or Mel Powell. Stacy, who will always be associated with Goodman as a member of one of his two greatest bands despite his fine performances with Bud Freeman, George Wettling and Lee Wiley, was one of “the big three pianists” of the white Chicago school of jazz. The others were Joe Sullivan and Art Hodes whose family left Tsarist Russia six months after his birth on November 13, 1904 in Nikolayev in the Ukraine and somehow ended up in Chicago - a journey accomplished without papers! Maybe it was his Russian heritage that was responsible for the deep melancholy of Hodes’
designed for poorer kids but there was nothing wrong with the teaching”. Goodman was another who studied there. Around this time Hodes was hired by one of Al Capone’s gambling bosses, Dago Lawrence Magnano, to accompany singers at the Royal Garden Café. This was the 1920s and Chicago was notorious for its gangsters and bootleggers. Hodes recalled: “I confess to drinking quite a lot myself in those days. And there was never any problem getting the stuff. But I never had any problems with the gangsters. Mostly they liked jazz and consequently its musicians. Also they could be very generous. It was only towards their rivals or the law that they turned dangerous.
Art Hodes piano playing. Dazzling technique was not his forte. His love of black music enabled him to capture the essence of the blues which he converted into something uniquely his own. He relaxed into the blues like settling into a comfortable armchair. They influenced everything he played. Louis Armstrong, his genius mentor, personally made sure Hodes knew the meaning of the blues. Even on a lovely standard like George and Ira Gershwin’s Someone To Watch Over Me, you will hear the blues: in feeling, essence and in a beautiful simplicity. There was a poised, hushed quality about his solos which had its equivalent in the more sophisticated playing of Stacy, his good friend. If you listen to Stacy’s memorable solo during Sing, Sing, Sing, the climax of Goodman’s famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, you’ll understand what I mean. Stacy even recommended to Goodman that Hodes replace him in the band when the pianist left to form his own big band in 1944. However, Hodes realised he wasn’t right for the job; besides he had too much on his plate as I will explain in future columns. Hodes first became interested in jazz listening to broadcasts by the Coon-Sander Orchestra which led to him studying piano in his midteens at Hull House, a well-equipped local youth centre. Hodes described it as a “course
“I played for Capone and his buddies, although the gangster I remember most was Magnano. He had two brothers in the musicians’ union and played banjo tuned guitar-style and sang dirty songs. One night he left $100 for the band; the manager gave us $5. Magnano found out and the guy never worked again - appropriately he finished up as a toilet attendant!” Despite this environment Hodes remained a cultured and gentle person. Undeterred by time or age Hodes was still playing right up until his death on March 4, 1993. He was in his 89th year. His philosophy: “We have to play. You don’t play jazz because it’s a way to save up to buy a restaurant or a bowling alley. You have to play because you’ve got to play. It’s that important’’. My reverie is interrupted by a painful dig in the ribs. It’s The Voice. “What are you thinking,” she asks. I gaze blankly at the television screen then in desperation reply: “Callan (a landmark British television series from the 1960s about a British secret service assassin/agent) was never like this!” And so with the frost thickening on the ground and my ageing bones aching in the chill of the night, once more in exile I trudge slowly up the hill towards my Hunter Valley hideaway hoping that the company of my one true friend, (not so) Little J, and copious quantities of red wine will warm my heart once again, especially if it’s accompanied by Hodes playing with clarinettist Edmond Hall on those wonderful 1940s sessions for the legendary Blue Note label. I quicken my pace . . . - Patrick D Maguire September 2013
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Willoughby Symphony Last Night of the Proms 7pm, Saturday 28 September 2pm, Sunday 29 September The Concourse - Concert hall Join Willoughby symphony for a tribute to London’s immortal Proms concerts, featuring the classic elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, the Dambusters Overture and handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks. Conducted by Chief Conductor Dr Nicholas milton with guest soloist anna Da silva Chen, a 2012 aBC symphony australia Young Performer finalist.
“Another glorious concert by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir….Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton was assured and energetic and spearheaded a compelling and dramatic performance.” artsHub
tickets range from $10 to $45 and are available at 1300 795 012 or theconcourse.com.au
Only ten minutes from the Sydney CBD, The Concourse offers world class facilities, fine dining options, and easy access to parking and transport, all under one roof.
September Digital Schedule Time Monday 12:00 13:00 14:00
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Wednesday
Thursday
The Symphony
Chamber
At the Keyboard
With the Orchestra
From Current Catalogues Stephen Wilson
In Conversation with Michael Morton-Evans (repeats)
4, 11, 18, 25 Sept The Voices – the Roles with Angela Cockburn
Treasures of Recorded Music with Randolph Magri-Overend
18 September ACO
3 Sept - Jose Carbo (3 July 2013) 10 Sept - John Bell (10 July 2013)
18 September Countdown to The Ring. Episode 9
Friday From the 20th Century Aquarius Rising 6, 13, 20, 27 September Feature artist or Sydney Symphony with Peter Kurti (2nd Fri of month)
17 Sept - Cheryl Barker (17 July 2013)
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Jazz Off the Shelf – a whole album
24 Sept – Melvyn Morrow (24 July 2013) Jazz Standards - featuring important compositions
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Jazz Australia showcasing a wealth of local talent
Jazz Biography highlighting a musician and their work
Jazz in Concert - live recordings
September Program Highlights WHO IS STENHAMMAR ? The Stenhammar Quartets Every Sunday in September 4pm No, we don’t mean the Stenhammar Castle – the summer home of the King of Sweden. Nor do we mean the delicious sugared almond and currant ‘Stenhammar cookie,’ but we do mean the composer those cookies were named after – Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar.
composers would find it difficult to approach the intricately multi-layered instrument coming from a pianistic background, Stenhammar completely excels. D’OYLY CARTE Sunday Special: For D’Oyly Carte Enthusiasts Sunday 2 September 2pm
Born in Stockholm, and therefore as Swedish as they come, Stenhammar was another one of those “triple threat” classical musicians - equally accomplished as a composer, conductor and pianist. His compositional style is marked by an inherent progression from idyllic romanticism reminiscent of Bruckner and Wagner – to the rich, “I-just-know-this-work-was-written-by-aScandinavian” style reminiscent of Sibelius and Neilsen. The Scandinavian sound is such a unique sub-genre of classical music, there’s just something about it that is remarkably special, special in a “this isn’t true this must be a fairytale” kind of way and Stenhammar certainly encourages this feeling in much of his music. It was in Berlin where Stenhammar caught that idllyic German bug, and in his first symphony of 1902-3 he learnt some major lessons. Stenhammar initially described the work as “idyllic Bruckner” - but after hearing Sibelius’ 2nd Symphony, Stenhammer refused to refer to his first symphony as anything other than a trivial piece. You can catch this ‘trivial piece’ on Monday 16 September in Morning Concert from 10am. Such a profound effect did Sibelius’ dubbed “Symphony of Independence” have on Stenhammer that his whole outlook on music shifted. In his position as the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the first full time professional orchestra in Sweden, the Gothenburg Symphony, Stenhammar organised countless performances of music by his fellow contemporary Scandinavian composers. But it was Stenhammar’s own reputation which blossomed throughout his period with the Gothenburg. His performances as conductor were greatly admired, but it was when he was at the piano that he really set his audience’s hearts ablaze. In the realm of chamber music, in particular, Stenhammar really did shine as a pianist. His relationship with Sweden’s premier string quartet of the time, the Aulin Quartet, was a major advantage that Stenhammar had up his sleeve in this instance. Not only was he able to play piano trios and quartets with the Aulin, he was also able to use them as his testing ground for ideas and finally performances for each work in his series of six string quartets. Many musicologists agree that it’s due to Stenhammar’s relationship with the Aulin that his works for string quartet are as important as those of Brahms and Bartók. They show such a highly developed understanding of the nature of a string quartet – where some pianist
the theatre’s real owner. This caused massive conjecture particularly between Gilbert and Carte. “I left him with the remark that it was a mistake to kick down the ladder by which he had risen”, Gilbert famously wrote to Sullivan. Unfortunately Sullivan sided with Carte, but Gilbert did not give up on what he thought was a fundamental question of Carte’s moral integrity. Gilbert embarked on legal action, and the partnership was disbanded. The “carpet quarrel” was the beginning of the decline of Richard D’Oyly Carte’s Opera Company. With G&S no longer working together, the company turned mainly towards reviving previous G&S with some success – but successful new works were few and far between. Even when, years later, G&S agreed to collaborate once again for two more operas, their penultimate and most expensive creation of all their collaborations, Utopia Limited, only managed to produce a modest profit. Their final work The Grand Duke was their only financial failure.
Comic Opera at the Savoy
“Good times will come again D’Oyly my boy!”
The D’Oyly Carte theatre company and the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan go hand in hand. Why? Because the founder of the D’Oyly Carte theatre Co. actually put Mr Gilbert and Mr Sullivan together for their first production Trial By Jury. W.S. Gilbert was looking for a composer to set his libretto to music, and Richard D’Oyly Carte, having just conducted the premiere of Sullivan’s one-act comic opera Cox and Box suggested that he would be the man for the job. This was the beginning of an incredible run – after the huge success of Trial By Jury which outsold the “hit” of the day, Offenbach’s La Périchole – Richard D’Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan entered into a syndicate together. This syndicate was immensely successful. The D’Oyly Carte Theatre Co travelled around the country, throughout Europe and even venturing as far as North America. The product they were putting on show was top shelf – and this was the D’Oyly Carte at its absolute heights. From H.M.S Pinafore to Iothane, to The Mikado and finally The Gondoliers, the group’s successes were flying sky high. And even though the group had had their share of disagreements, something happened that no one saw coming - they had an argument over the cost of carpet. In 1881, Carte had the now infamous Savoy Theatre built on The Strand, and this was the major place for the staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s works. In 1890 it was discovered by G&S that the front lobby had been bought a new carpet, that new carpet was charged to the partnership, and not to Carte himself –
After D’Oyly Carte’s death in the early 20th century, his wife, who had always been a part of managing the company, officially took over until her death and the company was passed down through the family right through until its closure in 1982 due to rising costs of mounting light operas without government support. The company was revived for a period of 15 years from 1988-2003, and has recently undergone another revival this year courtesy of the Scottish Opera company. - Troy Fil NOT TO BE MISSED! Monday 2 September 1pm Singers of Australia, Sunday 29 September 7.30pm Night Concert - Sydney Opera House 40th Anniversary Concert – Sunday 15 September 2pm Sunday Special - Voyage to the Orient Thursday 12 September 8pm The Symphonies of Martinu - Evenings with the Orchestra, CONTINUING SERIES Wednesday 18 September - At the Opera: Legendary Met Performances Faust (4 January 1961) Wednesday 11 September - At the Opera: Legendary Met Performances Rigoletto (22 February 1964) ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMS Verdi 200 Wednesday 11 September - At the Opera: Legendary Met Performances - Rigoletto (22 February 1964) Wagner 200 Wednesday 4 September 8pm - At the Opera: Tristan and Isolde (continued) Acts II & III Wednesday 25 September 8pm - At the Opera: Die Meistersingers von Nürnberg Acts I & II (continues October 2nd) September 2013
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Sunday 1 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen
Trad. Cradle songs: Dormite, niñito; Thula Baba. ABC 273 698-1 5
9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Di Cox
Sullivan, A. Symphony in E, Irish (1866). Royal Liverpool PO/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.570351 35
Smetana, B. Dance of the comedians, from The bartered bride (1866). London SO/Charles Mackerras. Mercury 434 352-2 6
The rose of Persia. Southwark Voices; Hanover Band. BBC MM81 1:17
Strauss, R. Dance of the seven veils, from Salome, op 54 (1905). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 434 716-2 10 Berlioz, H. Dance of the will-o’-the-wisps, from The damnation of Faust, op 24 (1854-56). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 474 617-2 6 Ponchielli, A. Dance of the hours, from La Gioconda (1876). Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM 7 69041 2 10 Bliss, A. Five dances from Checkmate (1937). West Australian SO/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler. Chandos CHAN 6576 21 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Choral liturgy and the quartet Prepared by Philip Lidbury Mozart, W. Vesperae solennes de confessore in C, K339 (1780). Capella Brugensis; Collegium Instrumentale Brugensis/Patrick Peire. Naxos 8.554158 25 Haydn, J. String quartet in D minor, op 76 no 2, Fifths (c1799). Jerusalem Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 22 Beethoven, L. Sanctus; Benedictus, from Mass in D, op 123, Missa solemnis (1818). New Philharmonia Ch; London PO/Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI 1 66447 2 17 Mendelssohn, F. Quartet in E flat, op 12 (1829). Coull String Quartet. Hyperion CDS 44051/53 22 Schubert, F. Mass no 2 in G, D167 (1815). Barbara Bonney, sop; Jorg Pita, ten; Andreas Schmidt, bass; Vienna State Opera Ch; CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado. Decca 478 3640 21 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 with Gerry Myerson Traditional and contemporary music from around the globe 22
14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL For D’Oyly Carte enthusiasts Prepared by Francis Frank
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Mass no 19 in D minor, K626, Requiem (1791). Irmgard Seefried, sop; Jennie Tourel, alto; Léopold Simoneau, ten; William Warfield, bass; Westminster Choir; New York PO/Bruno Walter. Sony SMK 64 480 53 16:00 THE STENHAMMAR QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Stenhammar, W. Two sentimental romances, op 28 (c1900). Semmy Stahlhammer, vn; Love Derwinger, pf. nosag 4049 11 The wanderer; Butterfly orchid; A ship sails; Why hurry so to rest, from Songs and moods, op 26 (1903-04). Peter Mattei, bar; Bengt-Ake Lundin, pf. BIS 654 10
Dyens, R. Un jour tu verras; Il pleut dans ma chambre. 6 Warner 8573 83311-2 Karin Schaupp, gui (all above) 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Leoncavallo, R. No Pagliaccio non son, from Pagliacci (1892). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Westminster Symphonic Ch; Philadelphia O/ Riccardo Muti. 7 Philips 442 601-2 Rossini, G. Miei rampolli femminini, from La Cenerentola (1817). Fernando Corena, bass; O della RTSI/Leopolodo Casella. 5 Ermitage ERM 201-2 Berlioz, H. D’amour l’ardente flamme, from The damnation of Faust (1846). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; Royal Opera House O/Jeffrey Tate. 8 EMI 5.69802-2 Verdi, G. Gypsy chorus, from La traviata (1858). St Petersburg Theater Ch; St. Petersburg Festival SO/Kirill Gluzdov. 4 Prism Leisure PLD 1245
String quartet no 1 in C, op 2 (1894). Fresk Quartet. LP Caprice CAP 1201-03 33 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Chris Blower 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle Dauvergne, A. Concert de simphonies in B Hymns: Let all the world; Praise, my soul; O praise flat, op 3 no 1 (pub. 1751). Concerto Cologne. FNAC 592295 18 ye the Lord; All people that on earth do dwell. Choir of Westminster Abbey/Martin Neary. Sony SBK 61704 12 Bruckner, A. Os justi; Ave Maria; Tota pulchra es; Locus iste. Choir of Lincoln Cathedral; James Vivan, org; Colin Walsh, cond. Priory PRCD 454 17
Debussy, C. First rhapsodie (1911). Franklin Cohen, cl; Cleveland O/Pierre Boulez. DG 439 896-2
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21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Phil Vendy
Alain, J. Litanies. Marie-Claire Alain, org. Erato 8573-80214-2
Griswold, E. From small things flow (2006). Topology; Clocked Out. 7 www.clockedout.com
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18:00 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY PROGRAM Karin’s gift Prepared by Dan Sharkey Tarrega, F. Fantasia sobre motivos de La traviata (arr. Schaupp). Warner 8573833112
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Mendelssohn, F. Scheidend. Genevieve Lacey, rec. ABC 476 524-9 3
Dorman, A. Dance suite: piano sonata no 3 (2005). Eliran Avni, pf. Naxos 8.579001 15 Burge, J. Flanders Field reflections (2006). Shauna Rolston, vc; Sinfonia Toronto. Marquis 774718 1383 2 3 32
Schubert, F. Gretchen at the spinning wheel, D118 (1814). ABC 476 524-9 4
Borisova-Ollas, V. Symphony no 1, The triumph of Heaven (2001). Norrköping SO/ Mats Rondin. Phono Suecia PSCD 171 29
Bacarisse, S. Guitar concerto in A minor, op 72. Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey. ABC 476 262-7 22
22:30 ULTIMA THULE Ambient and atmospheric music: www. ultimathule.info for detailed playlist
Monday 2 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
13:00 SINGERS OF AUSTRALIA Prepared by Andrew Greene
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small
Mozart, W. Ecco il punto, O Vitellia, from La Clemenza di Tito (1791). Joan Carden, sop; Queensland PO/Roderick Brydon. Walsingham Classics WAL 8026-2 9
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Madilina Tresca Sibelius, J. The harp player, op 34 no 8 (1916; arr. Liubimov). Rainer Kuisma, vibraphone. BIS CD-149 4 Walton, W. Façade, suite no 3 (1921; arr. Palmer). London PO/Jan Latham-Koenig. Chandos CHAN 9148
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Clarke, H. Valse brillante (arr. Hunsberger). Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger. CBS MK 42137 8 Corelli, A. La folia, op 5 no 12 (arr. Kreisler). Thomas Jones, vn; Rachel Valler, pf. Move MD 3173 12 Prokofiev, S. Visions fugitives, op 22 nos 1 to 6, 8 to 16 (1915; arr. Barshai). Moscow CO/ Constantine Orbelian. Chandos CHAN 9615 18 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell Bruch, M. Suite on Russian themes, op 79b (1905). Hungarian State SO/Manfred Honeck. Naxos 8.555985 21 Viotti, G. Violin concerto no 17 in D minor (pub. 1788-89). Symphonia Perusina/Franco Mezzena, vn & dir. Dynamic CDS 243 27
Weber, C.M. The fatal vow, from Oberon (1826). Steve Davislim, ten; O Révolutionaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 475 6563 2 Adam, A. Variations on Ah, vous diraije Maman, from Le Toréador (1849). June Bronhhill, sop; Sydney SO/Leonard Dommett. EMI 389 1632 1 7 Verdi, G. Della mia bella ... Questa o quella ... È il sol dell’anima, from Rigoletto (1851). Elizabeth Harwood, sop; Donald Smith, ten; John Chorley, ten; Sadler’s Wells Opera O/ James Lockhart. EMI 7243 5 95005 2 3 7 Stravinsky, I. Liberi, vos liberabo ... Vale, Creo, cito, cito ... Respondit deus ... Non reperias vetus scelus, from Oedipus Rex (1927). Ronald Dowd, ten; Raimond Herincx, bass-bar; Ralph Richardson, narr; Sadler’s Wells Opera Ch; Royal PO/Colin Davis. EMI 7243 5 85011 2 4 10 Sullivan, A. Good morrow, good lover ... None shall part us from each other, from Iolanthe (1882). Elsie Morrison, sop; John Cameron, bar; Pro Arte O/Malcolm Sargent. EMI S.743468-2 4 Coward, N. Countess Mitzi, from Operette (1938); This is a changing world, from Pacific 1860 (1946). Joan Sutherland, sop; Ch and O/ Richard Bonynge. Decca 478 3243 9 14:00 CLASSICAL GERMANS Prepared by Philip Lidbury
Borodin, A. Symphony no 1 in E flat (1862-67). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572786 34
Bach, J. Christian Sinfonia in D for double orchestra, op 18 no 3 (c1781). Failoni O/ Hanspeter Gmür. Naxos 8. 553367 11
11:30 FOR THE PIANO Prepared by Paul Hopwood
Danzi, F. Quintet in E flat, op 67 no 3. Michael Thompson Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553570 16
Agnew, R. Sonata, op 21 (1929). Larry Sitsky, pf. Canberra School of Music CSM:19 11 Arensky, A. Suite no 2, op 23, Silhouettes (1892). Stephen Coombs, pf; Ian Munro, pf. Hyperion CDA66755 15 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
Gluck, C. Di questa cetra in seno, from I Parnaso confuso (1765). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Akademie für Alte Musik/Bernhard Forck. Decca 473 380-2 5 Weber, C.M. Piano concerto no 2 in E flat, op 32 (1812). Nikolai Demidenko, pf; Scottish CO/ Charles Mackerras. Hyperion CDA66729 22 Spohr, L. Fantasia in C minor, op 35 (1816). Naoko Yoshino, hp. Philips 446 064-2
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Alexa Still Kreutzer, J. Grand trio, op 16. Alexa Still, fl; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, gui. Koch 3-7404-2H1 19 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 8 in F, op 93 (1812). Vienna PO/Simon Rattle. EMI 5 57448 2 26 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling Mainstream to contemporary jazz, with an emphasis on Australian performers 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Clementi, M. Sonata in G minor, op 50 no 3 (pub. 1821). Lamar Crowson, pf. Decca 480 2071 20 Satie, E. Je te veux (pub. 1903). Stephanie McCallum, pf. ABC 476 628-9
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Beethoven, L. Trio in C minor, op 1 no 3 (179495). Stuttgart Piano Trio. Naxos 8.550947 29 Prokofiev, S. Sonata no 4 in C minor, op 29 (1917). Peter Paul Kainrath, pf. aura AUR 423-2 18 Bach, J.S. Chromatic fantasy and fugue in D minor, BWV903 (1720). Christiane Jaccottet, hpd. Point Classics 2650112 13 Chopin, F. Sonata no 3 in B minor, op 58 (1844). Wilhelm Kempff, pf. Decca-Ermitage 455 974-2 26 September 2013
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Tuesday 3 September 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Purcell, H. When I am laid in earth, from Dido and Aeneas (1690). Gillian Fisher, sop; King’s Consort/Robert King. IMP PCD 894 4
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Everyone says there is no justice on earth, from Mozart and Salieri (1898). Sergei Alekashkin, bass; Philharmonia O/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky. 8 Chandos CHAN 9629
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Raphael Wallfisch Prepared by Di Cox Vivaldi, A. Cello concerto in D, RV403. City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Kraemer. Naxos 8.550909 8 Walton, W. Passacaglia (1981). Chandos CHAN 8959
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Dvorák, A. Rondo in G minor, op 94 (1891). Linn Hendry, pf. Chandos CHAN 6552 7 Tchaikovsky, P. Andante cantabile, from String quartet no 1 in D, op 11 (1871/88). English CO/Geoffrey Simon. Chandos CHAN 6552 8
13:00 BAROQUE THEN SOME Prepared by Jan Brown
Dohnányi, E. Concert piece in D, op 12 (190304). London SO/Charles Mackerras. Chandos CHAN 8662 24
Rossi, M. Toccata no 5 (c1637). Sergio Vartolo, hpd. Naxos 8.557321 8
Raphael Wallfisch, vc (all above)
Corelli, A. Sonata in B flat, op 5 no 2 (1700). Lucy van Dael, vn; Bob van Asperen, org. Naxos 8.557165 11
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Bernstein, L. Glitter and be gay, from Candide (1988). Edita Gruberova, sop; Tokyo PO/ Friedrich Haider. Nightingale Classics NC 090560-2 7
Bach, J.S. Triple concerto in a minor, BWV1044 (1729-41). Alison Mitchell, fl; Angela Hewitt, pf; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir. Hyperion CDA67307 20
Copland, A. Suite from The tender land (1956). Tasmanian SO/Dobbs Franks. ABC 434 715-2
Monteverdi, C. Madrigal: Altri canti d’amor, from Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi (pub. 1638). Irmgard Jacobeit, sop; Dorothea FörsterDürlich, sop; Bert van t’Hoff, ten; Jacques Villisech, bass; Monteverdi Choir, Hamburg; Leonhardt Consort/Jürgen Jürgens. Teldec 4509-93268-2 10
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Glass, P. Dance 2, from Einstein on the beach (1975). Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman. Elektra 7559-79323-2 20 Ives, C. Symphony no 4 (1910-16). New Philharmonia O/Harold Farberman. Vanguard 08 9098 71
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11:30 DAME JANET SINGS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Brahms, J. Alto rhapsody, op 53 (1869). London Symphony Ch; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Virgin VC 7 91123-2
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Stanford, C. Villiers La belle dame sans merci. Gerald Moore, pf. EMI CDM 5 65009-2
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Schubert, F. Light and love, D352 (c1816). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf. DG 435 596-2 5 Janet Baker, mezz (all above). 24
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
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Handel, G. Music for the royal fireworks, HWV351 (1749; ed. Baines, Mackerras). Royal PO/Yehudi Menuhin. ASV RPO 8002 18 Debussy, C. Reflets dans l’eau, from Images, bk 1 (1903-4). Walter Gieseking, pf. 5 EMI 5 62798 2 Dreyfus, G. Water music and waltz, from Dimboola (1978). Melbourne SO/George Dreyfus. Move MD 3098
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Handel, G. Flute suite in G, HWV350 (1717). Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 434 720-2 10 Stravinsky, I. Lullaby; Finale, from The firebird (1919). Moscow Philharmonic Academic SO/ Dmitry Kitaienko. 7 Melodiya MA 3027 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 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 Derek Parker
Muffat, G. Concerto no 1 in D minor, Bona 22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA nova (pub. 1701). Musica Aeterna/Peter Zajicek. Prepared by Phil Vendy Naxos 8.555096 10 Carwithen, D. Piano concerto (1952). Howard Pachelbel, J. Suite in F sharp minor (arr. Shelley, pf; London SO/Richard Hickocks. Söllscher). Göran Söllscher, gui. Chandos CHAN 9524 29 DG 474 815-2 8 Holbrooke, J. Byron, op 39 (1904). Slovak Telemann, G. Suite in G minor, TWV55:g1, La Philharmonic Choir; Czecho-Slovak RSO, musette (1730). Akademie für Alte Musick. Bratislava/Adrian Leaper. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901654 12 Marco Polo 8.223446 16 14:30 THE ELEMENTS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Stravinsky, I. Adoration of the earth, from The rite of spring (1911-13). Melbourne S O/ Hiroyuki Iwaki. ABC 434 896-2 15
Alfano, F. Sonata in D (1923). Elmira Darvarova, vn; Scott Dun, pf. Naxos 8.572753 32 Britten, B. Symphony, op 68 (1963). Paul Watkins, vc; BBC PO/Edward Gardner. Chandos CHAN 10658
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Wednesday 4 September
Valey Gergiev 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 Baroque Prepared by Angela Bell Croft, W. Overture in D (1713). Michael Laird, tpt; members of Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman. Hyperion CDA66817 7
Waltraud Meier 11:30 TCHAIKOVSKY MINIATURES Prepared by Elaine Siversen Tchaikovsky, P. Dumka in C minor, op 59, Rustic Russian scene (1886). Michael Ponti, pf. LP Vox/Record Society S/6529-30-31 7 The nightingale, op 60 no 4 (1886); Don Juan’s serenade, op 38 no 1 (1878); None but the lonely heart, op 6 no 6 (1869). Dmitri Hvorostovsky, bar; Oleg Boshniakovich, pf. Philips 432 119-2 9 Mazurka in A flat minor, op 21 no 5; Scherzo in A flat, op 21 no 6 (1873). Michael Ponti, pf. LP Vox/Record Society S/6529-30-31 9
Bach, J.S. Harp concerto in C, BWV976 (1713/14; arr. Zabaleta). Nicanor Zabaleta, hp; English CO/Garcia Navarro. DG 469 544-2 10
12:00 THE SOUND OF JAZZ with Kevin Jones Jazz from the 1930s to the present day, with tracks from the DownBeat archives and recent releases
Rebel, J-F. Sonata no 8 in D minor (1713). Andrew Manze, vn; Jaap ter Linden, bass viol; Richard Egarr, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907541.45 11
13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Composition Series with Troy Fil
Handel, G. Utrecht Te Deum, HWV278 (1713). Emma Kirkby, sop; Judith Nelson, sop; Charles Brett, ct; Rogers Covey-Crump, ten; Paul Elliott, ten; David Thomas, bass; Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Academy of Ancient Music/Simon Preston. L’Oiseau-Lyre 414 413-2 25
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.
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen
15:00 FROM FRENCH COMPOSERS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison
Beethoven, L. Overture to Leonore no 3, op 72 (1805). Gewandhaus O/Franz Konwitschny. Berlin Classics 0300249BC 14
Gounod, C. Ballet music from Faust (1859). Detroit SO/Paul Paray. Mercury 432 014-2 21
Bach, C.P.E. Flute concerto in G, Wq169 (c1755). Patrick Gallois, fl; Karl-Phillip Emanuel Bach CO/Peter Schreier. DG 439 895-2 25
Fauré, G. Five melodies de Venise, op 58 (1891). Thomas Allen, bar; Roger Vignoles, pf. Virgin 5 45053-2 12
Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 4 in F minor, op 36 (1877). Rotterdam PO/Valery Gergiev. Radio Netherland Worldwide RPHO2008-1 42
Chabrier, E. Suite pastorale (1888). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 452 890-2 20
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman Wagner, R. Tristan and Isolde. Opera in three acts, Acts II and III. Libretto by composer. First performed Munich, 1865. TRISTAN: Siegfried Jerusalem, ten ISOLDE: Waltraud Meier, sop BRANGANE: Marjana Lipovsek, mezz KURWENAL: Falk Struckmann, bass-bar MELOT: Johan Botha, ten KING MARK: Matti Salminen, bass Berlin PO/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 4509-94568-2 2:34 In Cornwall, as Mark and his men are hunting,Tristan and Isolde meet secretly in the garden. Despite Brangane’s warnings, they are surprised by Melot who calls King Mark. Tristan is wounded by Mark’s soldiers. Delirious at his ancestral castle in Brittany accompanied by his friend Kurwenal, he waits for Isolde, but dies as she arrives. Isolde is transfigured as she joins Tristan in death. 23:00 FROM HUNTINGTON Recorded by FINE MUSIC Medtner, N. Sonata no 3 in C (1904-08).
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Tippett, M. Boyhood’s end (1943). Gerald English, ten. 11 Geoffrey Tozer, pf (2 above) Mendelssohn, F. Octet in E flat, op 20 (1825). Richard Tognetti, vn; Dimity Hall, vn; Lorna Cumming, vn; Alice Evans, vn; Irena Morozova, va; Amanda Murphy, va; Cameron Retchford, vc; Rosemary Quinn, vc. 29 September 2013
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Thursday 5 September 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 Michael Morton-Evans Franck, C. Les djinns (1884). Aldo Ciccolini, pf; Belgian NO/André Cluytens. EMI 5 65153 2 12 Cantabile (1878). David Drury, org. ABC 432 527-2
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Symphony in D minor, mvt 1 (1887-88). French National RO/Thomas Beecham. EMI 5 62948 2 19 Larghetto, from String quartet in D (1889). Bartholdy Quartet. signum X 01-00 10 Panis angelicus (1872; arr. Gamley). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir; National PO/Kurt Adler. Decca 475 9349 4
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Dvorák, A. Piano concerto in G minor, op 33 (1876). András Schiff, pf; Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi. Decca 455 957-2 38 Falla, M. de El Amor brujo (1915/16). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK 44721 26 11:30 SPANISH SONGS AND DANCES Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Falla, M. de Seven Spanish popular songs (1915). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Gonzalo Soriano, pf. EMI CMS 5 65061 2 12 Danza, from La vida breve. Michael Conn, gui; English CO/Leslie Williams. Decca 480 3913 4 Dances from The three-cornered hat (1919). Alicia de Larrocha, pf. Decca 433 929-2 10 26
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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 A FIELD GUIDE TO MUSIC Michael Field takes a close look at some of his favourite music. In to-day’s programme he will be discussing and playing four great overtures by Beethoven: Consecration of the House; Egmont; Fidelio and Leonore no 3. 14:00 PRELUDES Prepared by Angela Bell Pfitzner, H. Preludes to Acts I, II and III, from Palestrina (1915). Berlin Opera O/Christian Thielemann. DG 449 571-2 22
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Schumann, R. Overture, scherzo and finale, op 52 (1841). O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner. Archiv 457 591-2
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Respighi, O. Three preludes on Gregorian melodies (1919). Konstantin Scherbakov, pf. Naxos 8.553704 16 Wagner, R. Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59). Philharmonia O/ Otto Klemperer. EMI CDC 7 47254 2 16 15:00 IN PLAYFUL MOOD Prepared by Ron Walledge Poulenc, F. Babar the elephant (1945; orch. Françaix). Jay Laga’aia, narr; Tasmanian SO/ Kenneth Young. ABC 476 368-6 28 Shostakovich, D. Jazz suite no 1 (1934). Russian State SO/Dmitri Yablonsky. Naxos 8.555949 8 Debussy, C. Children’s corner (1908; orch. Caplet). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 444 386-2 17 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 Bohemian tapestry Prepared by Madilina Tresca Mahler, G. Suite from orchestral works of J.S. Bach (1909). Royal Concertgebouw O/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 475 514-2 19 Dvorák, A. Symphonic poem: The water goblin, op 107 (1896). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8798 21 Krumpholtz, J-B. Harp concerto in B flat. Klara Novakova, hp; Radio Bratislava SO/Oliver Dohnányi. Brilliant Classics 99512 24 Smetana, B. Festive symphony, op 6 (1854/81). Austrian RSO/Lothar Zagrosek. Marco Polo 8.223120 46 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Mozart, W. Quartet no 1 in G minor, K478 (1785). Paul Badura-Skoda, pf; Members of Festetics Quartet. Arcana A350 26 Schumann, R. Piano trio no 1 in D minor, op 63 (1847). Florestan Trio. Hyperion CDA67063 30 Dvorák, A. String quartet no 9 in D minor, op 34 (1877). Chilingirian Quartet. Chandos CHAN 8755 28 Beethoven, L. String trio in G, op 9 no 1 (179798). Leopold Trio. Hyperion CDA67254 28
Friday 6 September Granados, E. Quintet in G minor, op 49 (1898). Thomas Rajna, pf; Alberni Quartet. LP CRD 1035 15 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell Accessible in-the-hammock jazz to ease you into the weekend 13:00 THE FINAL COMPOSITIONS Mozart 1791 Prepared by Ron Walledge
Charles Mackerras 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Overture to The magic flute, K620 (1791).
20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Robert Small
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Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen, from The magic flute. Edith Mathis, sop; Gottfried Hornik, ten. 4
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Frank Morrison Bach, C.P.E. Flute quartet no 2 in D, Wq94 (1788). Les Adieux. DHM GD 77052 16 Bartók, B. String quartet no 3 (1927). New Budapest Quartet. Hyperion CDA66581/2 17 Alkan, C-V. Trio in G minor, op 30 (pub. 1841). Trio Alkan. Marco Polo 8.223383 21 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel
Der Hölle Rache, from The magic flute. Karin Ott, sop. 3 Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan (4 above) DG 431 291-2 Clarinet concerto in A, K622 (1791). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Salzburg Mozarteum O/Leopold Hager. Teldec 8.44056 27 Parto, parto, from La clemenza di Tito, K621 (1791). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Alan Vivian, cl; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Sony SK 66282 6 15:00 FROM FRENCH COMPOSERS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison
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Dohnányi, E. Piano concerto no 2 in B minor, op 42 (1946-47). Martin Roscoe, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Fedor Glushchenko. Hyperion CDA66684 30 Brahms, J. Symphony no 4 in E minor, op 98 (1884-85). Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD-80450 39 11:30 CHAMBER ENCORE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Brahms, J. Scherzo in C minor, from FAE sonata (1853). Beryl Kimber, vn; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. LP ABC RRCS 569
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Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja, from The magic flute. Gottfried Hornik, ten. 3
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus
Rajna, T. Video games (1994-95). NSO of South Africa/Richard Cock. Amaratha AR015
Mozart, W. Ave verum corpus, K618 (1791). Regensburg Cathedral Choir; Bavarian RSO/ Raphael Kubelik. DG 419 060-2 3
Saint-Saëns, C. Septet in E flat, op 65 (1881). Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67431/2 17 Debussy, C. In white and black (1915). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf; Vovka Ashkenazy, pf. Decca 478 1090 15 Lalo, E. Cello concerto in D minor (1877). János Starker, vc; London SO/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Mercury 432 010-2 23 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter
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Dohnányi, E. Ruralia Hungarica, op 32d (c1930). Maria Kliegel, vc; Jenö Jandó, pf. Naxos 8.554468 6
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
Tchaikovsky, P. Serenade for strings in C, op 48 (1880). London PO/Vladimir Jurowski. LPO 2009AUS 32 Paganini, N. Concerto no 4 in D minor (1830). Salvatore Accardo, vn; London PO/Charles Dutoit. DG 437 210-2 35 Schubert, F. Symphony no 6 in C, D589 (181718). Australian CO/Charles Mackerras. Omega OCD 1005 33 Tchaikovsky, P. Meditation, from Souvenir of a beloved place (1893). David OIstrakh, vn; Vladrmir Yampolski, pf. 8 Brilliant Classics 8407 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Robert Small Pepusch, J. Cantata: When love’s soft passion. Salut! Salut! Baroque SAL002 11 Mattheson, J. Suite in G minor. Attilio Cremonesi, hpd; Alessandro de Marchi, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMC 905235 10 Heinichen, J. Lamentations on the prophet Jeremiah (1724). Axel Kohler, ct; Jorg Durmüller, ten; Raimond Nolte, bass; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 449 092-2 35 Telemann, G. Suite in A minor (1715-20). Marion Verbruggen, rec; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Monica Huggett. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907093
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Obrecht, J. Motet: Factor orbis; Salve crux. New London Chamber Choir/James Wood. Amon Ra CD-SAR 56 18 September 2013
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Saturday 7 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON EDWARD MACDOWELL Prepared by Maureen Meers MacDowell, E. Suite no 2, op 48, Indian (189195). Ulster O/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.559075 30 Three songs, op 11: Two songs, op 12 (1883). Thomas Hampson, bar; Armen Guzelimian, pf. Teldec 9031-72168-2 11 Woodland sketches, op 51 (1896). Marco Polo 8.223631
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Sonata no 3, op 57, Norse (1900). Marco Polo 8.223632
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Four songs, from Eight songs, op 47 (1893). Steven Tharp, ten. Marco Polo 8.223866
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James Barbagallo, pf (3 above) Piano concerto no 2 in D minor, op 23 (188486). Marjorie Mitchell, pf; American Arts O/ William Strickland. Vanguard 08 9197 71 26 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Brahms, J. Tragic overture. Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band; Dowty Band; Leyland Vehicles Band; Wilburn Burgh Band/David Wilcocks. LP Chandos BBRD 1017 13 Walton, W. March: Crown imperial. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP Vol 21 7 Rameau, J-P. Tambourin. GUS (Footwear) Band Quartet. LP Columbia SACX 6312
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Anderson, L. Bugler’s holiday. United States Marine Band. AMP 21188 2 12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper A diverse range of jazz from days gone by up to the present, often featuring Australian musicians 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 28
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14:00 MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS Pole to Pole Prepared by Stephen Schafer
Hyde, M. Fantasy-romantic (1938-39). Miriam Hyde, pf; Strathfield SO/Solomon Bard. Fine Music Tape Archive 11
Friedhofer, H. Suite: The adventures of Marco Polo (1937). Moscow SO/William Stromberg. Marco Polo 8.223857 13
Fauré, G. Fantasy, op 79 (1898; orch. Aubert). Richard Davis, fl; BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9416 5
Bantock, G. Prelude; Camel caravan, from Omar Khyyám (1906). Royal Philharmonic Ch & O/Vernon Handley. Hyperion S 44281/6 15
18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with Gerry Myerson
Koechlin, C. Les heures pesanes, op 65 (191319). Michael Korstick, pf. Haenssler Classic 93.246 8
19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Derek Parker
Les heures pesanes, op 65. South West German RSO/Heinz Holliger. Haenssler Classic 93.125
Straus, O. Excerpts from Die Lustigen Nibelungen. Gabriel Henkel, sop; Christine Mann, sop; Daphne Evangelatos, mezz; Michael Nowak, ten; Martin Gartner, bar; Cologne Radio O & Ch/Siegfried Kohler. Capriccio C5088 18
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Ghamsary, A The rite of Khayyam. Alireza Ghorbani, voice; Dorsaf Hamdani, voice; Ali Ghamsary, tar, divan; Sohrab Pournazeri, kamanche, tanbur; Sofiane Negra, oud; Keyvan Chemirani, zarb, udu, bendir; Hussein Zahany, daf, darbouka, dayera. Accords Croisés AC142 16 Handel, G. The burning of Persepolis, from Alexander’s feast, HWV75 (1736). Donna Brown, sop; Nigel Robson, ten; Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 422 053-2 17 Rossini, G. Overture to Ciro in Babilonia (1812). Würtemburg PO/Antonio Fogliani. Naxos 8.660203-04 6 15:30 SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA IN CONCERT David Wilcocks conducts Prepared by Peter Bell Haydn, J. Nelson Mass. Missa in Angustiis (1798). Eileen Hannan, sop; Margreta Elkins, mezz; Richard Barnard, ten; Raymond Myers, bar; Sydney Philharmonia O. 39 Handel, G. Dixit Dominus (1707). Romola Tyrrel, sop; Judy Board, sop; Narelle Taping, mezz; John Stewart, ten; Robert Rowling, bass; Australian CO. 34 David Wilcocks, cond (2 above). Haydn, J. Mass in B flat, Theresa Mass (1799). Glenys Fowles, sop; Ann Young, mezz; Richard Barnard, ten; Bruce Martin, bass; Australian CO/Peter Seymour. 42 Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir (all above) SPC recordings 17:30 MUSICAL FANTASIES Prepared by Francis Frank Rossini, G. Fantasy in E flat (1824-30). Hans Rudolf Stalder, cl; Heinz Hofer, cl; Jürg von Vintschger, pf. Jecklin 578-2 9
Suppé, F. Excerpts from Boccacio. Ursula Schirrmacher, sop; Rudolf Schock, ten; Peter Manuel, ten; Efried Mario, ten; Ernst Krukowski, bar; Gunther Arndt Ch; Berlin SO/Frank Fox. Eurodisc 254375 18 Excerpts from Die schöne Galathée. Anna Moffo, sop; Rose Wagemann, mezz; René Kollo, ten; Ferry Gruber, ten; Munich RO/Kurt Eichorn. Eurodisc 254 375 18 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Sydney Mozart Society presents the Sonus Quartet Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC Mozart, W. Sonata in F, K280 (1775). Brenda Jones, pf. 16 Piano quartet in G minor, K478 (1785).
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Brahms, J. Piano quartet in C minor, op 60 (1875). 32 Sonus Quartet (2 above) 21:30 SHORTER SYMPHONIES Prepared by Rex Burgess Beethoven, L. Symphony no 8 in F, op 93 (1812). CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 2292-46452-2 27 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
Sunday 8 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Johan Rahman
6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small
14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL French Romantics: The Berlioz years Prepared by Rex Burgess
9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Oscar Foong Dvorák, A. Polonaise in A, op posth (1879). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; Linn Hendry, pf. Chandos CHAN 6552 8 Five bagatelles, op 47 (1878). Takács Quartet. Decca 476 2802 17 Prague waltzes (1879). Budapest FO/Ivan Fischer. Philips 464 647-2
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Excerpts from string sextet in A, op 48 (1878). Josef Kluson, va; Michal Kanka, vc; Panocha Quartet. Supraphon 11 1461-2 131 10 Overture: Carnival, op 92 (1893). Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9002 9 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Frank Morrison Rossini, G. Overture to The Italian girl in Algiers (1816). Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM 1 66417-2 8 Hertel, J. Trumpet concerto no 1 in E flat (c1780). Håkan Hardenberger, tpt; London PO/ Elgar Howarth. Philips 426 311-2 13 Bellini, V. Mira, o Norma, from Norma (1831). Joan Sutherland, sop; Marilyn Horne, mezz; London SO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 476 1223 6 Schobert, J. Trio in F, op 16 no 4 (1761-67). Chiara Banchini, vn; Philipp Bosbach, vc; Luciano Sgrizzi, fp. Harmonia Mundi HMC 1901294 15 Krommer, F. Clarinet concerto in E flat, op 36 (1803). Emma Johnson, cl; Royal PO/Günther Herbig. ASV DCA 763 22 Schubert, F. String quartet no 7 in D, D94 (1811). Kodály Quartet. Naxos 8.550592 22 Mozart, W. Symphony no 20 in D, K133 (1772). English CO/Jeffrey Tate. EMI 5 55480 2 21 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan The early days of jazz and ragtime as recorded during the first 30 years of the 20th century
Alkan, C-V. Concerto da camera no 2 in C sharp minor (1834). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA 66717 8 Gounod, C. Le soir; Venise (1842). Felicity Lott, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDA 68801/2 10 Franck, C. Four fragments from Psyche (188788). Melbourne SO/Willem van Otterloo. LP ABC RRCS 1289 20 Tulou, J-L. Fantasie brillant on Halevy’s La fée aux roses (c1850). Stephen Preston, fl; Lucy Carolan, fp. Amon Ra CD-SAR 19 11 David, Ferdinand. Couplets du Musoli, from La perle du Brésil (c1857). Sumi Jo, sop; William Bennet, fl; English CO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 440 679-2 8 Lalo, E. Piano trio no 2 in B minor (1862). Barbican Trio. ASV DCA 899
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Saint-Saëns, C. Le pas d’armes du roi Jean (1852). Didier Henri, bar; Île de France NO/ Jacques Mercier. Adès 204222 5 Le papillon et l’étoile (1860). John Osterdorf, bass; John van Buskirk, pf. Newport Classics NCD 60110 3 Saint-Saëns, C. Tarantelle in A minor, op 6 (1857). Clara Novakova, fl; Richard Vieille, cl; Paris Ensemble O/Jean-Jacques Kantorow. EMI 7 54913-2 6 Fauré, G. Cantique de Jean Racine, op 11 (1865; orch. Rutter). Cambridge Singers; John Scott, org; City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD 101 7 16:00 THE STENHAMMAR QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Stenhammar, W. Chitra, op 43 (1921). Uppsala Chamber Soloists. LCM C 115 19
Stephen Layton. Photo - Keith Saunders 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes Hymns: Guide me O thou great Jehovah; Come down O love divine; Lord, your almighty word; Lead, kindly light. Cantus Choro; Geoffrey Cox, org; Norman Kay, org; Peter Chapman, cond. Move MD 3142 12 Handel, G. Let God arise. Choir of the Chapel Royal; Musicians Extra-Ordinary/Andrew Gant. Naxos 8.557935 13 Grechaninov, A. The Creed, from Liturgy no 2, op 29; Our Father. James Bowman, ct; Holst Singers/Stephen Layton. Hyperion A 66928 10 Psalms: nos 10, 11, 12 and 22. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Christopher Brayne, org; Anthony Crossand, cond. Priory PR 337 10 Wesley, S.S. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace; Before the ending of the day; All my hope on God is founded. Choir of Truro Cathedral; Henry Doughty, org; David Briggs, cond. 9 Priory PR 322 18:00 SYDNEY SCHUBERT SOCIETY Prepared by Jan Brown Schubert, F. Fugue in E minor, D952 (1828). Elizabeth Anderson, Douglas Lawrence, org. 3 Move MD 3180 Ave Maria, D839 (1825; arr. Thilde). John Foster, tpt; David Drury, org. 4 ABC 476 411-0
A ship is sailing; A seaside song (1909). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; Bengt Forsberg, pf. DG 449 189-2 4
Deutsche Messe, D872 (1827). Vienna Boys Choir; Chorus Viennensis; Rudolf Scholtz, org; Vienna SO/Uwe Christian Harrer. Philips 468 312-2 28
Quartet no 2 in C minor, op 14 (1896). Copenhagen String Quartet. LP Caprice CAP 1201-03
Ballet music from Rosamunde, D797 (1823). Vienna SO/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Apex 0927 498132 16
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Monday 9 September
19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech
Strauss, R. Also sprach Zarathustra, op 30 (1895-96). Samuel Magad, vn; Chicago SO/ Pierre Boulez. DG 457 649-2 33
Delibes, L. Entracte, from Lakmé (1883). Canadian Opera Company O/Richard Bradshaw. CBC SMCD 5158 4 Wagner, R. Inbrunst im Herzen, from Tannhaüser (1845). Plácido Domingo, ten; Philharmonia O/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 429 374-2
Rodrigo, J. Piano concerto (1942). Daniel Ligorio Ferrandiz, pf; Castille and León SO/Max Bragado Darman. Naxos 8.557101 30
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Mozart, W. Crudeli fermate ... ah dal pianto, from La finta giardiniera, K196 (1775). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; London SO/Colin Davis. Philips 411 148-2 6 Verdi, G. Eccomi solo alfine, from Il corsaro (1848). Thomas Hampson, bar; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Richard Armstrong. EMI 5 57113 2 7 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Troy Fil Schultz, A. Endling, op 72 (2007). Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills. ABC 476 451-9 15 Beethoven, L. Piano concerto no 6 in D, op 61a (1806). Pietro Spada, pf; Philharmonia O/ Alexander Gibson. ASV DCA 911 46 Balakirev, M. Tamara, symphonic poem (1882). Philharmonia O/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Hyperion CDA66586 22 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Seachange Prepared by Troy Fil Pickard, J. Sea-Change (1988-89). Norrkoping SO/Martyn Brabbins. BIS 1873 17 Wilcher, P. Autumn rain (1976). Jeanell Carrigan, pf. Wirripang WIRR 049 3 McDowall, C. Shipping forecast, for mixed chorus, narrator & string orchestra (2011). Andrew Hobday, narr; Choir of Merton College, Oxford; Orchestra Nova/George Vass. Dutton Epoch LX 7292 14 Dixon, J. Mermaids, op 25 (2006). Bourbaki Ensemble/David Angell. Wirripang WIRR 033 16 Hyde, M. Grey foreshore (1961). John Martin, pf. Wirripang WIRR 052 4 Rautavaara, E. Cello concerto no 2, Towards the horizon (2008-09). Truls Mørk, vc; Helsinki PO/John Storgårds. Ondine ODE 1178-2 21 Ford, A. Sounds and sweet airs (2003). Alexis Kenny, fl; Richard Haynes, cl. ABC 481 018-8 5 22:30 ULTIMA THULE 30
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Max Bragado Darman 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 Francis Frank Gershwin, G. Overture to Strike up the band (1932; arr. Rose). Howard Shelley, pf; BBC PO/ Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9325 7 Bach, J.S. Sleepers awake (bef. 1732; arr. Loussier). Vincent Charbonner, db; Jacques Loussier, pf; André Arpino, drums. Telarc CD-83693 8 Haydn, J. With verdure clad the fields appear, from The creation, Hob.XXI:2 (1796-98; arr. Brown). Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 443 200-2 5
Bruch, M. Romance in F, op 85 (pub. 1911). Patricia Pollett, va; Queensland PO/Werner Andreas Albert. Tall Poppies TP084 9 Telemann, G. Concerto in E. Masahira Arita, fl; Hans Peter Westermann, ob; Andrew Manze, va d’amore; La Stravaganza of Cologne. Denon CO-78933 16 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 WESTWARD HO! Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Holst, G. Songs of the west, op 21 no 1 (1906-07; arr. Curnow). City of London Wind Ensemble/Geoffrey Brand. LDR LDRC 1001 11 Vaughan Williams, R. The half-moon westers low (1927). John Mark Ainsley, ten; Leo Phillips, vn. Hyperion CDA67168 2 Puccini, G. Ch’ella mi creda, from La fanciulla de west (1910). Jussi Björling, ten; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino O/Alberto Erede. Decca 421 316-2 2
Debussy, C. Rêverie (1890; arr. Lynch). Prudence Davis, fl; Jeffrey Crellin, ob; Peter Lynch, gui. Move MD 3090 5
Gurney, I. The western playland (1926). Stephen Varcoe, bar; Iain Burnside, pf; Delmé String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66385 25
Paisiello, G. Il mio ben quando verrà, from Arie Antiche (arr. Parisotti). Cecilia Bartoli, sop; György Fischer, pf. Decca 436 267-2 7
Sousa, J.P. Suite: The dwellers of the western world (1910). Royal Norwegian Navy Band/ Keith Brion. Naxos 8.559396 16
Bach, J.S. Violin concerto no 2 in E, BWV1042 (bef. 1730; transcr. Williams). John Williams, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Kenneth Sillito. CBS MK 39560 18
Bernstein, L. Symphonic dances, from West Side story (1960). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK 44773 21
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Keith Glendinning
14:30 THE OTHER VERDI The ballet music Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend
Glazunov, A. Slavonic festival in G, op 26a (1888). USSR RSO/Odisseiy Dimitriedi. Melodiya MA 15746 13
Verdi, G. Ballet music from Jerusalem (1847). BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9594 23
Monday 9 September
Tuesday 10 September 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Bartók, B. Dance suite (1923). Chicago SO/ Pierre Boulez. DG 445 825-2 17
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
14:00 EARLY BEETHOVEN Prepared by Philip Lidbury
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Pepe Romero
Beethoven, L. Eleven Viennese dances, WoO17 (1819). Tasmanian SO/Jacques Moscato. LP ABC/WRC VXL1 4065 18
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Chápi, R. Overture to La revoltosa (1897). Los Romeros. Philips 412 609-2 5
Charmian Gadd Ballet music from The Sicilian vespers (1855). Monte Carlo National Opera O/Antonio de Almeida. Philips 422 846-2 29 Ballet music from Aida (1871). Chandos CHAN 9788 Ballet music from Il trovatore (1853). Chandos CHAN 9594
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Boccherini, L. Quintet no 4 in D, Fandango (1798). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Philips 438 769-2 17
Bizet, G. Suite from Carmen (1873-74; arr. Romero). Los Romeros. Philips 412 609-2 21
Symphony no 2 in D, op 36 (1801-02). CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 2292-46452-2 34
10:00 MORNING CONCERT
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans
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Chopin, F. Krakowiak, op 14 (1828). Kun-Woo Paik, pf. Decca 475 169-2 14
19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling
Warsaw PO/Antoni Wit (2 above)
20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg
Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 3 in D, op 29, Polish (1875). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti. EMI CZS 7 67318 2 43
22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Judy Ekstein
11:30 FEATURING JOSÉ CARRERAS Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Cherubini, L. Sonata no 5 in D (1783). Laura Alvini, hpd. Nuova Era 6867 12
Donizetti, G. L’amor funesto; Il sospiro. José Carreras, ten; Martin Katz, pf. Sony SK 45863 9
Mozart, W. Quartet no 1 in G minor, K478 (1785). Charmian Gadd, vn; Theodore Kuchar, va; Tim Hugh, vc; Boris Berman, pf. ABC 465 841-2 27 MacDowell, E. New England idylls, op 62 (1902). James Barbagallo, pf. Marco Polo 8.223631 16 Czerny, C. Andante and polacca, op 339 (1848). Andrew Clark, hn; Geoffrey Govier, fp. Helios CDH55074 11 Piazzolla, A. Three preludes (1987). Peter Waters, pf. Divox CDX 29103
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Ravel, M. Trio in A minor (1914). Steven Copes, vn; Philippe Muller, vc; Stephen Prutsman, pf. ABC 465 841-2 26
Six Gellert songs, op 48 (1803). Lauris Elms, cont; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. LP ABC RRCS 1287 14
Barrios Mangoré, A. Waltz in G, op 8 no 4 (1923). Sonata no 1 in F minor, op 2 no 1 (1793-95). Philips 432 102-2 5 Arthur Schnabel, pf. EMI CHS 763765 2 18 Pepe Romero, gui (2 above)
Karlowicz, M. Serenade, op 2 (1897). Naxos 8 572274
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton
Trio in G, WoO37 (1786). Susan Milan, fl; Sergio Azzolini, bn; Ian Brown, pf. Chandos CHAN 9108 26
Sonata in G minor/major. Jean-Pierre Rampal, fl; Marielle Nordmann, hp. Sony SK 44552 5 Turina, J. Poema en forma de canciones, op 19 (1923). José Carreras, ten; Martin Katz, pf. Philips 411 478-2 11 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 FROM BERNSTEIN TO BARTOK Prepared by Frank Morrison
18:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2013 Produced by Peter Kurti What’s on in concerts during the next month 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Ogilvie 22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Bloch, E. Schelomo: Hebraic rhapsody (191516). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Chicago SO/Alan Gilber. CSO Resound CSOR 901 801 23 Glazunov, A. Two prelude-improvisations (1918). Stephen Coombs, pf. Hyperion CDA66844 10 Bruch, M. Eight pieces for clarinet, cello and piano, op 83 (1908). Trio Zemlinsky. Claves 50-9217 35
Bernstein, L. Suite from On the town (1944; arr. DiLorenzo). Center City Brass Quintet. Chandos CHAN 4554 15
Kodály, Z. Laudes organi (1966). Netherlands Chamber Choir; Edgar Krapp, org; Uwe Gronostay, cond. Globe GLO 5115 21
Janácek, L. Capriccio for piano left hand and seven wind instruments (1926). Boris Berman, pf; members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Thierry Fischer. Chandos CHAN 9399 22
Poulenc, F. Piano concerto (1949). FrançoisRené Duchable, pf; Rotterdam PO/James Conlon. Erato 2292-45232-2 20 September 2013
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Wednesday 11 September Yoshimatsu, T. Saxophone concerto, op 93, Albirio mode (2004-05). Nobuya Sugawa, sax; BBC PO/Yutaka Sado. Chandos CHAN 10466 23 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Andrew Dziedzic 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell
Douglas Bostock
Luciano Pavarotti
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 Baroque Prepared by Frank Morrison Lully, J-B. Ballet des plaisirs (1655). Aradia Baroque Ensemble/Kevin Mallon. Naxos 8.554003 13 Rameau, J-P. Aquilon et Orithie (c1704). Peter Harvey, bar; London Baroque. BIS CD-1495 14 Marais, M. Le tombeau de M. de Sainte-Colombe (pub. 1701). Wieland Kuijken, bass viol; Sigiswald Kuijken, bass viol; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd. Harmonia Mundi GD 77145 8 Chambonnières, J. de Pavane (c1665). Members of Il Seminario Musicale/Gérard Lesne. MBF 1108 4 Couperin, F. Folies françoises (pub. 1722). Mitzi Meyerson, hpd; Trio Sonnerie. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907081 13 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Jacob, G. A little symphony, op 49 (1957). Munich SO/Douglas Bostock. Classico CLASSCD 204 20 Ravel, M. Piano concerto in G, op 40 (1931). Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf; Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 452 448-2 22 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 5 in D, op 78 (1938-43/51). Adelaide SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 476 456-5 39 32
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September 2013
11:30 PAVAROTTI SINGS NEOPOLITAN Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend
Verdi, G. Rigoletto. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Francis Piave. First performed Venice, 1851.
De Curtis, E. Torna a surriento (1902). Florence Maggio Musicale O; Rome Opera TO/Zubin Mehta. Decca 430 433-2 3 DUKE OF MANTUA: Richard Tucker, ten RIGOLETTO: Robert Merrill, bar Denza, L. Funiculì, funiculà. Bologna Comunale GILDA: Roberta Peters, sop Ch & TO/Anton Guadagno. Metropolitan O & Ch/Fausto Cleva. Decca 475 9349 3 Sony 91005-2 2:01 Tosti, P. Chanson de l’adieu (1898). National PO/Antonio Tonini. Decca 417 796-2 4 Non t’amo più! (1884). Leone Magiera, pf. Decca 466 350-2
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Cardillo, S. Core ‘ngrato (1911; arr. Chiaramello). Bologna Comunale TO/Giancarlo Chiaramello. Decca 475 9349 5 di Capua, E. O sole mio (1898). Royal PO/ Maurizio Benini. Decca 443 260-2
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22:30 SELDOM HEARD COMPOSITIONS Prepared by Frank Morrison
Luciano Pavarotti, ten (all above) 12:00 THE SOUND OF JAZZ with Kevin Jones 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Organ and Choirs with Josh McNulty; recorded by Greg Ghavalas 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 PASTORAL SHADES Prepared by Robert Vale Copland, A. Appalachian Spring (1944). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta. Decca-Eloquence 458 174-2 24 York, A. Evocation. Karin Schaupp, gui. Warner 8573 833112
The Duke of Mantua, a lecherous philanderer, seduces wives and daughters while his hunchbacked jester Rigoletto mocks their husbands and fathers. But the tables turn on the jester when a furious father, whose daughter has been dishonoured by the Duke, curses him. The curse is realised when the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s beautiful daughter Gilda, the only true joy in his miserable life. Vowing revenge, Rigoletto hires an assassin, to kill the Duke. Tragically, however, his daughter is killed instead.
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Erskine, T. Symphony in B flat (1765). BBC SO/ Christopher Bell. Linn CKD 008 8 Caplet, A. Quintet for piano and winds (1898). Claire Désert, pf; Moraguès Quintet. Le Chant du Monde LDC2781116 27 Bazzini, A. Three lyric pieces, op 41 (1863). Chloe Hanslip, vn; Caspar Frantz, pf. Naxos 8.570800 16 Graun, C. Horn concerto in D. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown. 9 Decca 417 406-2 Klemperer, O. Symphony no 1 (1960). Concertgebouw O/Otto Klemperor. Memories HR 4248/9
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Thursday 12 September Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:31, Hornsignal (1765). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos. Naxos 8.554405 32 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock 19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA The symphonies of Martinu Prepared by Elaine Siversen Hagai Shaham. Photo - Arto Tulima 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Bauer, M. Duo, op 25 (1932). Jeremy Polmear, ob; Eli Eban, cl. Naxos 8.559253 8
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore
Janácek, L. Mládí (1924). Michael Harris, cl; Michael Thompson Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553851 17
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Troy Fil Weiner, L. Carnival, op 5 (1907). North Hungarian SO/László Kovács. Hungaroton HCD32424 Three Hungarian folk dances (1941). István Kassai, pf. Hungaroton HCD 31777
Martinu, B. Rhapsody (1928). Czech PO/Jirí Belohlávek. Supraphon 10 4140-2 12
11:30 EXCLUSIVELY WINDS Prepared by Elaine Siversen
12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 10
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13:00 ADIEUX Prepared by Stephen Wilson Liszt, F. Les adieux, reverie on Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA66861/2
Piano concerto no 2 (1934). Giorgio Koukl, pf; Bohuslav Martinu PO, Zin/Arthur Fagen. Naxos 8.572373 25 Three fragments from Juliette (1938). Magdalena Kozená, sop; Michele Lagrange, cont; Steve Davislim, ten; Frédéric Goncalves, bass-bar; Nicolas Testé, bass; Czech PO/ Charles Mackerras. Supraphon SU 3994-2 38 Symphony no 3 (1944). Ukraine NSO/Arthur Fagen. Naxos 8.553349 36
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22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Angela Bell
Sonata no 1 in D, op 9 (1911). Hagai Shaham, vn; Arnon Erez, pf. Hyperion CDA67735 24
Hummel, J. Grand piano concerto in C, op 110, Les adieux (1814). Hans Kann, pf; Hamburg SO/ Heribert Beissel. Vox 1157162 32
Divertimento no 1, op 20 (1923). Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas. Alba ABCD 330 10
Tchaikovsky, P. Air des adieux, from Joan of Arc (1881). Regina Reznik, mezz; Royal Opera House O/Edward Downes. LP Ace of Diamonds SDD 222 7
Dvorák, A. String quartet no 10 in E flat, op 51 (1879). Chilingirian Quartet. Chandos CHAN 8837 28
Beethoven, L. Sonata no 26 in E flat, op 81a, Les adieux (1809-10). Daniel Barenboim, pf. EMI 5 73522 2 18
Fauré, G. Sonata no 2, op 117 (1921). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nina Tichman, pf. Naxos 8.557889 17
Carulli, F. Les adieux, op 229. Alfonso Baschiera, gui. Nuova Era 7102
Reger, M. Trio in A minor, op 77b (1904). Gernot Süssmuth, vn; Stefan Fehlandt, va; Hans-Jakob Eschenburg, vc. Naxos 8.570785 24
Fairies’ dance, from Csongor és Tünde (arr.). István Kassai, pf. Hungaroton HCD 31921 3 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Offenbach, J. Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld (1858/74). City of Birmingham SO/ Louis Frémaux. EMI CDM 1 66418 2 10 Dvorák, A. Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Chicago SO/ Daniel Barenboim. EMI CZS 5 68132 2 42 Shostakovich, D. Symphony no 6 in B minor, op 54 (1939). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8411 30
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14:30 CLASSICAL HORNS Prepared by Angela Bell Rosetti, F. Horn concerto in D minor (c1782). Michael Thompson, hn; Philharmonia O/ Christopher Warren-Green. Nimbus NIM 5018 21 Beethoven, L. Quintet in E flat, op 16 (1796). Neil Black, ob; Thea King, cl; Graham Sheen, bn; Tony Halstead, hn; Murray Perahia, pf. Sony SX4K 63380 27
Czerny, C. Andante and polacca, op 339 (1848). Andrew Clark, hn; Geoffrey Govier, fp. Helios CDH55074 11
Haydn, J. Quartet in D for guitar, violin, viola and cello (bef. 1765; arr. from String quartet, op 2 no 2). Karin Schaupp, gui; members of Flinders Quartet. ABC 476 443-5 23 Chausson, E. Pièce, op 39 (1897). Gary Hoffman, vc; Pascal Devoyon, pf. Hyperion CDA67028 September 2013
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12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Brahms, J. Trio in C, op 87 (1880-82). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI 7 54725 2 28
13:00 CLASSICAL TO ROMANTIC Prepared by Phillip Lidbury
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus
Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 14 in E flat, K449 (1784). Ivan Moravec, pf; Czech CO/Josef Vlach. Supraphon SU 3809-2 22
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Sheila Catzel Mahler, G. Quartet movement in A minor (1876). Gidon Kremer, vn; Veronika Hagen, va; Clemens Hagen, vc; Oleg Maisenberg, pf. DG 477 8825 11 Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 2 in D minor, op 114 (1832; arr. Falletta). Debra Wendells Cross, fl; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, gui. Virginia Arts Festival 84501 74917 9 Glazunov, A. Valse, from Five novelettes, op 15 (1886). Borodin Quartet. apex 0927 49815 2 6 Weber, C.M. Quintet in B flat, op 34 (1815). Sabine Meyer, cl; members of Academy of St Martin in the Fields. EMI 5 57359 2 27 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell
Romberg, B. Quintet in G (pub. 1803). John Wion, fl; Eric Lewis, vn; Andrew Berdahl, va; Rosemary Glyde, va; Judith Glyde, vc. Hart HMP5W91514 22 Schubert, F. Hymn to the Holy Ghost, D948 (1827). Monteverdi Choir; O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 456 578-2 9 Granados, E. Fandango, from Spanish dances, op 5 (1892-1900). Pro Arte Guitar Trio. ASV WHL 2061 4 Paganini, N. Violin concerto no 4 in D minor (1829-30). Gidon Kremer, vn; Vienna PO/ Riccardo Muti. Philips 446 718-2 32 Borodin, A. Symphony no 3 in A minor (1882-87). Royal Stockholm PO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Chandos CHAN 9199
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Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Romeo and 15:00 SYMPHONY OF AUSTRALIA Juliet (1869/80). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti. Prepared by George Hilgevoord EMI CZS 7 67318 2 19 Lockey, G. Symphony of Australia (2007). Heather Lee, sop; Harry Adkins, treb; Renee Liszt, F. De profundis (1834-35). Steven Mayer, Martin, mezz; Gavin Lockley, bar; Jon English, pf; London SO/Tamás Vásáry. narr, voice; Cantillation; Fernando Arancibio, ASV DCA 778 34 pan pipes; Janet Webb, fl; Shefali Pryor, ob; Riley Lee, shakuhachi; Matthew Doyle, Schubert, F. Symphony no 4 in C minor, D417, didgeridoo; Tom Ferris, gui; Leon Gaer, electric Tragic (1816). Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy. bass; Kim Cunio, sitar; Saragan Sriranganathan, Sony SBK 60267 29 sitar; Rick MIller, timp; Brian Nixon, timp; Pete Skelton, drums; Sharolyn Kimmorley, pf; 11:30 KEYBOARD SCHERZOS Sydney Tribe; Sydney SO/Brett Weymark. Prepared by Chris Blower ABC 476 367-4 49 Chopin, F. Scherzo no 3 in C sharp minor (1839). Nikolai Demidenko, pf. Helios CDH55181
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Schubert, F. Scherzo in D flat, D593 no 2 (1817). Radu Lupu, pf. Decca 448 129-2 5 Kraus, J.M. Scherzo con variazione (1785). Jacques Després, pf. Naxos 8.555771 12
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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Emyr Evans
Bantock, G. Russian scenes (1899). CzechoSlovak State PO/Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.555473 14 Beethoven, L. Sonata no 5 in D, op 102 no 2 (1815). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Philips 464 677-2 18 Berlioz, H. Overture: King Lear, op 4 (1831). Elizabeth Green, ob; San Diego SO/Yoav Talmi. Naxos 8.550999 15 Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Schumann, op 9 (1854). Idil Biret, pf. Naxos 8.550350
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22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Phillip Lidbury Part 1: While at Leipzig Bach, J.S. Triple concerto in A minor, BWV1044 (after 1729). Alison Mitchell, fl; Angela Hewitt, pf; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir. Hyperion CDA67307 20 Prelude and fugue in B flat, BWV890 (1738-42). Rosalyn Tureck, pf. DG 463 305-2 (mono) 10 Partita in A minor, BWV1013 (after 1733; arr.). Lucy van Dael, va, baroque vn; Anner Bijlsma, piccolo vc; Frans Brüggen, rec; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd. LP RCA RL 30426 18 Cantata, BWV212: Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet, Peasant (1733). Julia Varady, sop; Aldo Baldin, ten; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bass; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 476 2758 30 Part 2: Elizabethan musicians Morley, T. The sacred end pavin (1599). Nancy Hadden, fl; Catherine Mackintosh, treble viol; James Tyler, tenor viol; Jane Ryan, bass viol; Robert Spencer, pandora, lute; Julian Bream, lute. 6 RCA RD 87801
19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron
Danyel, J. Stay, cruel, stay! Libby Crabtree, sop; David Miller, lute. 3 Hyperion A66714
20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Judy Ekstein
Byrd, W. Fantasia. Nicholas Parle, virginals. 7 MBS 26 CD
Bériot, C-A. de Violin concerto no 5 in D, op 55 Cobbold, W. New fashions. Theatre of Voices; (c1848). Philippe Quint, vn; Slovak RSO/Kirk Trevor. Fretwork/Paul Hillier. Naxos 8.570360 15 Harmonia Mundi HMU 807214 8
Saturday 14 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON ANTON REICHA Prepared by Francis Frank Reicha, A. Symphony in F (1808). Beethoven Academie/Jan Caeyers. Audivis-Valois V 4834 36 18 Variations and a fantasia in G, on Mozart’s Se vuol ballare, for flute, violin and cello, op 51 (c1806). Ensemble Schönbrunn. Globe GLO 5219 19 Requiem, Missa pro defunctis (after 1809). Venceslava Hrubá-Freiburger, sop; Anna Barová, cont; Vladimir Dolezal, ten; Ludek Vele, bass; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Jaroslav Tvrzsk, org; Dvorák CO/Lubomír Mátl. Supraphon SU 3859-2 55 11:30 ON PARADE Legends in brass Prepared by Robert Small Sherwin, M. A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square (arr. Catherall). Sellers Engineering Brass Band. Soho 051 5 Lovelock, W. Processional march. Concert Band of RAN/G.D.C. Coxon. LP EMI SCXO 8015 7 Curnow, J. Legend in brass. Sellers Engineering Band/Phillip McCann. Chandos CHAN 4531 13 12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper 13:00 HISTORIC RECORDINGS Wagner, R. Good Friday music, from Parsifal (1882); Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (1848). Berlin PO. 34 Funeral march, from Götterdämmerung (1876); Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1866-67). Bayreuth FO. 17
15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Pat Hopper Kaper, B. The way West. Serendipity Singers; Studio O/André Previn. Sual 932466 40 Bernstein, E. Excerpts from True grit. Glen Campbell, voice; Studio O/Elmer Bernstein. Capitol 87243 8 32163-2 12
20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Part 1: From our archives Prepared by Elaine Siversen Ravel, M. String quartet in F (1902-03). Members of Australia Ensemble. Fine Music Tape Archive
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20:30 Part 2: London Klezmer Quartet Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC
16:30 ARTS IN FOCUS with Musica Viva Produced by Debbie Scholem
Trad. Boybriker nign (arr. Evans, Isaacs, Cravitz); Ukrainian sherele; (arr. Evans, Isaacs, Cravitz, Ter-Berg); Bulbes (arr. Evans, Isaacs, Cravitz). 6
17:00 COLOURS OF THE KING Program of the Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame
Kroijter, E. Hora mare. Brandwein, N. Firn di mekhutonim aheym.
Lemare, E. Fantasie fugue, op 48; Scherzo fugue, op 102. Pro Organo 7018 10 Lullaby, op 81. Sonata no 1 in F, op 95.
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Andantino in D flat, Moonlight and roses. Pro Organo 7007 (3 above) 5 Frederick Hohman, org (all above) 18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Troy Fil
Trad. Tsum badekns (arr. Evans, Isaacs, Cravitz, 5 Ter-Berg). Cravitz, I. Honga.
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Trad. Ahavo rabo (arr. Evans, Isaacs, Cravitz). Musiker, S. Tants!
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Carstensen, S. Norge-Bulgaria. Tarras, D. Hora batuta. Statman, A. Flatbush waltz. Evans, S. Gaia ratchenitsa.
Ford, A. Elegy in a country graveyard (2007). Sydney Chamber Choir; Denis Pascal, pf; Marshall McGuire, hp, pf; Daryl Pratt, harmonium, vibraphone; tubular bell; Brass Ensemble. 25
Isaacs, C. Dobranotsch (for Louise).
The birthday of my life (2001). Jane Sheldon, sop; Genevieve Lacey, hp. ABC 481 018-8 (2 above) 3
Trad. Romanian sirbas (arr. Evans, Isaacs, Cravitz).
Hyde, M. Sonata in G minor (1941-44). John Martin, pf. Wirripang WIRR 052 25 Wilcher, P. The blue gardenia (2006). Jeanell Carrigan, pf. Wirripang WIRR 049 2 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Kern, J. Excerpts from Showboat (1927). Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Anne Warren, Marge, Gower Champion, voices; MGM Studio O. Turner Classic Movies 81227 19982 19
Wilhelm Furtwängler, cond (all above) TIM 221467-349-A
Rodgers, R. Out of my dreams; Ballet, from Oklahoma (1943). O/Jay Blackton. Angel 7243 5 27530-2 14
14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music
Loesser, F. Excerpts from Guys and dolls (1950). Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivane Baine, voices; O/Jay Blackton. Blue Moon BMCD 3507 18
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London Klezmer Quartet (all above) 21:30 THE FOLK-INSPIRED GUITAR Hoang, T. Fantasy on Black horse. Tuan Hoang, 6 gui. Rak, S. Variations on a theme by Jaromir Klempir. Karol Knazovicky, gui.
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Sunday 15 September Tan Dun. Concerto for orchestra (2012). Hong Kong PO/Tan Dun. Naxos 8.570608 35
0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Eleonore Fuchter
Chen, Q. Iris unveiled (2001). Wu Bixia, sop; Ke Luwa, sop; Ma Shuai, voice of the Beijing Opera; Wang Nan, erhu; Li Jia, pipa; Chang Jing, zheng; O National de France/Muhai Tang. Virgin classics 7243 5 4554926 41
9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE From four centuries Prepared by Elaine Siversen Praetorius, M. Dances from Terpsichore. Parley of Instruments/David Hill. Hyperion CDA66200
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Purcell, H. Suite of musicks and dances, from The Fairy Queen (1692; arr Balsom). Alison Balsom, tpt; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. EMI 4 40329 2 14 Mozart, W. Six German dances, K509 (1787). Vienna Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky. Philips 422 643-2 13 Grieg, E. Four Norwegian dances, op 35 (1881). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. DG 478 5182 17 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Chris Blower Vogler, G. Overture to the play Hamlet (177879). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 10504 11 Beethoven, L. Sonata in F, op 5 no 1 (1796). Daniel Müller-Schott, vc; Angela Hewitt, pf. Hyperion CDA67633 25 Mozart, W. Symphony no 24 in B flat, K182 (1773). Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 9031-74728-2 11 Schubert, F. Die Bürgschaft, D246 (1815). Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf. DG 477 5765 16 Weber, C.M. Concertino in E minor, op 45 (1806/15). Stephen Stirling, hn; City of London Sinfonia/Michael Collins. Chandos CHAN 10702 16 Arriaga, J. String quartet no 1 in D minor (182122). Chilingirian Quartet. CRD 33123 30 12:00 SPEAK EASY, SWING HARD with Richard Hughes 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Anna Tranter 14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Voyage to the Orient Prepared by Paolo Hooke Trad. Spring flowers in the moonlit night on the river. Fan Wei, pipa; Lang Lang, pf. DG 477 6229 7 Harrison, L. Pipa concerto (1997). Wu Man, pipa; Chicago SO/Miguel Harth-Bedoya. CSO-Resound SCOR 901 801 24 36
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16:00 THE STENHAMMAR QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower Stenhammar, W. Serenade in C, op 29. Uppsala Chamber Soloists. LCM C 115
Handel, G. Lascia ch’io pianga, from Rinaldo (1711). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Melbourne SO/ Vladimir Kamirski. ABC 476 462-0 4 Strauss, R. Der Richtige, from Arabella (1932). Cheryl Barker, sop; Peter Coleman-Wright, bar; Tasmanian SO/Martin André. ABC 465 699-2 4 Mozart, W. Letter duet, from The marriage of Figaro, K492 (1786). Mirella Freni, sop; Renata Scotto, sop; National PO/Leone Magiera. ABC 480 641-2 3
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Three a capella songs (1904). Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman. Chandos CHAN 9464 5 String quartet no 3 in F, op 18 (1900). Gotland Quartet. LP Caprice CAP 1201-03 30 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Keith Glendinning Hymns: Come down O love divine; God be in my head; O Jesus I have promised; Fight the good fight. Choir of Truro Cathedral; Simon Mosley, org; Andrew Nethsingha, cond. Priory PR 5019 11 Purcell, H. Te Deum (1694). Tessa Bonner, sop; Patrizia Kwella, sop; Kai Wessel, alto; Paul Agnew, ten; William Kendall, ten; Peter Kooy, bass; Collegium Vocale Choir & O/Phillipe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901462 13
19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess Mozart, W. Overture to Il Sogno di Scipione, K126 (1772). Mozarteum O/Leopold Hager. DG 469 666-2 6 Korngold, E. Suite from Elizabeth and Essex (1939). London SO/André Previn. DG 471 347-2 14 Szymanowski, K. Symphony no 4, op 60, Symphonie concertante (1932). Ewa Marczyk, vn; Marek Marczyk, va; Jan Krzysztof Broja, pf; Warsaw PO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.570722 29 Strauss, R. Also sprach Zarathustra, op 30 (189596). Samuel Magad, vn; Chicago SO/Pierre Boulez. DG 457 649-2 33 21:00 NEW HORIZONS An Irish colloquy Prepared by Oscar Foong
Bach, J.S. Bleed now, thou dear heart; Have mercy upon me O Lord; Give me my Jesus again, from St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (1727). Ibolya Verebits, sop; Judit Németh, cont; Peter Koves, bass; Hungarian Festival Choir; Hungarian State SO/Geza Oberfrank. Naxos 8.553198 15
Hellawell, P. Sound carvings from the water’s edge (1996). BT Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould. Metronome MET 1029 10
Brahms, J. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from A German requiem, op 45 (1865-68). Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO/ Carlo Maria Giulini. DG 445 546-2 11
O’Regan, T. Prologue; The fian; The spring; Recitative; Cas Corach, from An Irish colloquy (2010). Stewart French, gui; National Chamber Choir, Ireland/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807486 19
18:00 A FIELD OF TALL POPPIES with Julie Simonds A monthly program of recordings selected from the Tall Poppies label
Alcorn, M. Crossing the threshold (2001). Darragh Morgan, vn; elec. Centrediscs CMCCD 06
19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Jan Brown Verdi, G. Drinking song, from La traviata (1853). Joan Sutherland, sop; Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Elizabethan Sydney O/Richard Bonynge. ABC 480 641-2 3 Puccini, G. Love me, from Madama Butterfly (1904). Renata Tebaldi, sop; Carlo Bergonzi, ten; St Cecilia National Academy O/Tulio Serafin. ABC 480 641-2 8
Gribbin, D. Excerpt from What the whaleship saw (2004). Karol Szymanowski Quartet. Centrediscs CMCCD 06 8
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O’Regan, T. Guitar interlude; the Sid; Recitative; Niam; Bodhran interlude, from An Irish colloquy. Stewart French, gui; National Chamber Choir, Ireland/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807486 17 Bennett, E. Excerpt from Monster (2005). Paul Roe, bass cl; tape. Centrediscs CMCCD 06 6 Hellawell, P. Memorial cairns (1992). BT Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould. Metronome MET 1029 22:30 ULTIMA THULE
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Monday 16 September
Antoni Wit 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 Chris Blower Purcell, H. Suite (transcr. Stokowski). Peter Dixon, vc; BBC PO/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 9930 12 Joachim, J. Overture to Demetrius (arr. Brahms). Silke-Thora Matthies, pf; Christian Köhn, pf. Naxos 8.555849 16
Maxim Fedetov 11:30 PIANO AND STRINGS Prepared by Paul Hopwood
Meerovich, M. Serenade for chamber orchestra. Moscow CO/Rudolph Barshai. Brilliant Classics 9286 10
Beethoven, L. Piano trio no 9 in E flat, WoO38 (c1791). Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 438 948-2
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Byström, T. Sonata no 1, op 1 (pub. 1799). Yoshiko Arai, vn; Izumi Tateno, pf. Finlandia FACD 012
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12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan
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Debussy, C. Printemps (1887; orch. Büsser 1912). Lyon NO/Jun Märkl. Naxos 8.572583 15
Clementi, M. Sonata in B minor, op 40 no 2 (1802). Hyperion CDA67819 16
Purcell, H. Let the deadful engines (1698; arr. Britten). Alan Opie, bar; Roger Vignoles, pf. Hyperion CDA66498 9
Howard Shelley, pf (2 above)
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Wagner, S. Overture to Bruder Lustig (1904). RSO, Frankfurt/Dmitrij Kitajenko. Koch-Schwann 3-1421-2 10 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 2 in G minor, op 22 (1868). Idel Biret, pf; Philharmonia O/James Loughran. Naxos 8.550334 26 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 5 in E minor, op 64 (1888). Polish NRSO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.550716 47
Schubert, F. Hungarian divertimento in G minor, D818 (1821). Martha Agerich, pf; Alexander Mogilevsky, pf. DG 477 9884
20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Phil Vendy Rameau, J-P. Suite in A (1728). Alexandre Tharaud, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908379.81 29
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14:00 SERENADES... AND SERENADES Prepared by Denis Patterson Dohnanyi, E. Serenade in C, op 10 (1902). Hibernia String Trio. Dun Laoghaire County Council recording 20 Penderecki, K. Serenade (1997). Warsaw Philharmonic CO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.572212
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 THE SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling
13:00 CLASSICAL PIANO Prepared by Chris Blower Onslow, G. Six pieces (c1848). Hyperion CDA67947
Bruch, M. Serenade in A minor, op 75 (1900). Maxim Fedotov, vn; Russian PO/Dmitry Yablonsky. Naxos 8.557395 40
Picchi, G. Dances for harpsichord (c1620). Rafael Puyana, hpd. Mercury 462 959-2 23 Rubinstein, A. Sonata in D, op 89 (1870). Kenneth Broadway, Ralph Markham, pf. LP RCA RL 30422
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Mozart, W. Quartet no 2 in E flat, K493 (1786). Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet. Mediaphon MED 72.117 27
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Jordi Masó. Photo - Jordi Ribó
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Beethoven, L. Symphony no 8 in F, op 93 (1812). CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 2292-46452-2 27
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
11:30 KEYBOARD SCHERZOS Prepared by Chris Blower Moszkowski, M. Scherzo - valse, op 40. Seta Tanyel, pf. Collins 15192 6
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Slava Grigoryan Prepared by Madilina Tresca Tawadros, J. Moonbeam. Slava Grigoryan, synth; Leonard Grigoryan, gui; Joseph Tawadros, oud, vn; James Tawadros, bendir, cajon, req. ABC 476 431-6 5 Gnattali, R. Pixinguinha, from Retratos (1999). Leonard Grigoryan, gui. ABC 472 824-2 5 Piazzolla, A. Primvera porteño. Sony SK63011 Weiss, S. Concerto for guitar. Melbourne Mandolin O/Fred Witt. Move MD3159
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Westlake, N. Suite from Antarctica (1992). Melbourne SO/Nigel Westlake. ABC 476 574-4 24 Slava Grigoryan, gui (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Berlioz, H. Dance of the will-o’-the-wisps, from The damnation of Faust, op 24 (1854-56). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 474 617-2 6 Giuliani, M. Introduction, theme with variations and polonaise. Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 454 262-2 20 Bantock, G. Thalaba the destroyer (1899). Royal PO/Vernon Handley. Hyperion A67250 26 38
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Bossi, M. Scherzo in G minor, op 49 no 2. Rhys Boak, org. Move MD 3294 7 Chopin, F. Scherzo no 4 in E, op 54 (1842). Ivan Moravec, pf. Supraphon SU 4059-2 12 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Produced by Simon Moore Highlights and previews of the month’s concerts including interviews with the key players 14:00 BAROQUE DELIGHTS Prepared by Marilyn Schock Albinoni, T. Oboe concerto in D, op 9 no 2. Kirsten Barry, ob; Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 476 284-0 12 Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue in G, BWV541 (after 1712; transcr. d’Albert). Piers Lane, pf. Hyperion A67709 6 Vivaldi, A. Double flute concerto in C, RV533. City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Kraemer. Naxos 8.554053 7 14:30 FRENCH FLAIR Prepared by Marilyn Schock Chausson, E. Poème, op 25 (1896). Leila Josefowicz, vn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 454 440-2 17 Séverac, D. de Cerdaña (1908-11). Jordi Masó, pf. Naxos 8.555855 34
Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 5 in F, op 103, Egyptian (1896). Duncan Gifford, pf; Tasmanian SO/Sebastian Lang-Lessing. ABC 476 192-8 29 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Garrett 22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Oscar Foong Granados, E. Los requiebros; Coloquio en la reja, from Goyescas, bk 1 (1911). Luis Fernando Pérez, pf. Mirare MIR 138 21 Turina, J. Piano quartet in A minor, op 67 (1931). Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67889 16 Granados, E. El fandango de candil; Quejas, ó la maja y el ruiseñor, from Goyescas, bk 1. Luis Fernando Pérez, pf. Mirare MIR 138 14 Falla, M. de La vida breve, act 2 (1905). Ana Maria Sánchez, sop; María José Suárez, sop; Alicia Nafé, mezz; Vincente Ombuena Valls, ten; Enrique Baquerizo, ten; Manuel Cid, ten; Pedro Sanz, ten; Alfonso Echeverria, bass; Antonio Reyes, gui; Prince of Asturias Foundation Choir; Asturias SO/Maximiano Valdés. Naxos 8.660155 28 Granados, E. El amor y la muerte; Epilogo, from Goyescas, bk 2. Luis Fernando Pérez, pf. Mirare MIR 138 22 Albeniz, I. Córdoba, from Cantos de Espa Mischa Maisky, vc; Lily Maisky, pf. DG 477 8100 4
Wednesday 18 September 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 ASPECTS OF BAROQUE Prepared by Brian Drummond Telemann, G. Quartet in G. Barthold Kuijken, fl; Sigiswald Kuijken, vn; Wieland Kuijken, bass viol; Robert Kohnen, hpd. Accent ACC 58019D 15 Schütz, H. Alleluja! Lobet den Herren in seinem Heiligtum (pub. 1619). Stuttgart Chamber Choir & soloists; Musica Fiata of Cologne/Frieder Bernius. Sony S2K 48042
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Handel, G. Sweet bird, from L’allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato, HWV55 (1740). Beverly Hoch, sop; Hong Kong PO/Kenneth Schermerhorn. IMP P 827 10
19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell
Lully, J-B. Airs de trompettes, timbales et hautbois. Paul Kuentz CO/Paul Kuentz. Archiv 453 169-2 6
12:00 THE SOUND OF JAZZ with Kevin Jones
Gounod, C. Faust. Opera in five acts. Libretto by Jules Barbier. First performed Paris, 1859.
Arne, T. Frolic and free. Richard Morton, ten; Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman. Hyperion A66237 9
13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Sydney Eisteddfod: Alison/Henderson piano scholarship final with Jarred Mattes; recorded by Greg Ghavalas
FAUST: Barry Morell, ten MARGUERITE: Anna Moffo, sop MÉPHISTOPHÉLES: Cesare Siepi, bass VALENTIN: Vladimir Ruzdak, bar Metropolitan Opera House O & Ch/Fausto Cleva. Legendary Recorded Opera LRO 727 2:58
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Stölzel, G. Sonata for violin, horns, oboes, bassoon and harpsichord. Ricercar Consort. Ricercar RIC 049027 7
Rameau, J-P. Overture to Zaïs (1748). New Philharmonia O/Raymond Leppard. Philips 446 569-2 6 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Sibelius, J. Spring song, op 16 (1894). Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund. EMI 5 69773 2
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15:00 CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Philip Lidbury
Edwards, R. Oboe concerto, Bird spirit dreaming (2002). Diana Doherty, ob; Melbourne SO/Arvo Volmer. ABC 476 376-8
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Mahler, G. Symphony no 1 in D, Titan (1888/96). Concertgebouw O/Leonard Bernstein. DG 427 303-2
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11:30 SWEET BIRD Prepared by Elaine Siversen Casals, P. Song of the birds (1972). Ofra Harnoy, vc; Orford String Quartet. Pro Arte D 418
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.
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Wood, Haydn. A brown bird singing (1922); Bird of love divine. Rita Hunter, sop; Victor Morris, pf. Tall Poppies TP021 7 Anon. Six tunes for the instruction of singingbirds (pub. 1717). David Munrow, flageolet. Decca 440 079-2 4
Schumann, R. Overture to Genoveva, op 81 (1847). Vienna PO/Karl Münchinger. Decca 470 261-2 9 Schubert, F. Rondeau brillant sur des motifs originaux français, D823 (c1825; arr. Tausig). Dennis Hennig, pf. Etcetera KTC 1086 12 Cimarosa, D. Double concerto in G (1793). Aurèle Nicolet, fl; Christiane Nicolet, fl; Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger. Decca 460 302-2 18 Diabelli, A. Sonata in F, op 29. Eduardo Fernandez, gui. Decca 414 160-2 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter
20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances: 4 January 1961 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero
Faust is old, depressed and about to take poison. Mephistopheles offers him youth in return for his soul, tempting him with a vision of beautiful Marguerite. Faust drinks Mephistopheles’ potion and is transformed into a handsome young knight. Faust and Marguerite fall passionately in love. Valentin returns from the wars to find his sister betrayed and deserted by Faust. He fights a duel with Faust and is slain. Faust and Mephistopheles visit Marguerite in prison, facing death because she killed the child Faust fathered. She recognises Mephistopheles as the devil and implores God for mercy. Angels gently bear her heavenward, Faust falls in prayer and Mephistopheles finds his way barred by an archangel. 23:30 CARLOS PÉREZ IN RECITAL Recorded by Edda Filson for FINE MUSIC Anon. Romance.
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Tárrega, F. Capricho arabe.
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Thursday 19 September Mendelssohn, F. Symphony no 4 in A, op 90, Italian (1833). CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Apex 2564 67391-0 42 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Judy Ekstein Berwald, F. Festival of the Bayadères (1842). Royal PO/Ulf Björlin. EMI CDM 5 65073 2 12
Paavo Järvi. Photo - Ixi Chen 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 Francis Frank Albrechtsberger, J. Fugue for quartet in C (c1770). Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri. Archiv 410 599-2 6 Aria de passione Domine: O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid (ed. Hanlon). Monica Groop, mezz; Christian Lindberg, tb; Ann Wallström, vn; Marit Bergman, vn; Olof Larsson, vc; Björn Gäfvert, org. BIS 548 8
11:30 YOUTHFUL VOICES Prepared by Elaine Siversen Alfvén, H. In our meadow.
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Brahms, J. Drei geistliche Chöre, op 37 (1850). 5 Caplet, A. Mass for three voices (1919). Netherlands Youth Choir/Eric Ericson (all above) Radio Nederland VTN-20061
13:00 A FIELD GUIDE TO MUSIC Michael Field takes a close look at some of his favourite music. In today’s program he will be discussing and playing Bartók’s Concerto for orchestra.
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Busoni, F. Concert piece in D minor, op 31a (1890). Jean-François Antonioli, pf; Lausanne CO/Lawrence Foster. Claves 50-8806 20 Glazunov, A. Saxophone concerto in E flat, op 109 (1934). Eugene Rousseau, sax; Paul Kuentz CO/Paul Kuentz. DG 453 991-2 14 Stenhammar, W. Symphony no 1 in F (190203). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. DG 445 857-2 50 40
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Alfvén, H. Suite from The mountain king (1917-22). Royal Scottish NO/Niklas Willén. Naxos 8.553962 16 Stenhammar, W. Piano concerto no 1 in B flat minor, op 1 (1893). Love Derwinger, pf; Malmö SO/Paavo Järvi. BIS CD-550 46
12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers
Double concerto in E (1770). Fritz Mayr, jew’s hp; Dieter Kirsch, mandora; Munich CO/Hans Stadlmair. 14:00 TOWARDS ROMANTICISM Orfeo C 035 821 A 20 Prepared by Phillip Lidbury Prelude in G. Martin Rost, org. Weber, C.M. Overture to Turandot (1809). LBCD 71/74 2 Queensland PO/John Georgiadis. Double concerto in F (arr. Behrend). Marianne Klatt, fl; Michael Tröster, gui; German PluckedString CO/Siegfried Behrend. Thorofon CTH 2025 14
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Nielsen, C. Symphony no 1 in G minor, op 7 (1890-92). San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt. Decca 425 607-2
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Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D821, Arpeggione (1824; orch. Davidson). Patricia Pollett, va; Queensland PO/Werner Andreas Albert. Tall Poppies TP084 27 Aguado, D. Rondo brillant, op 2 no 2 (pub. 1825). Shin-ichi Fukuda, gui. Denon CO-78950 8 Crusell, B. Concertino in B flat (1829). László Hara, bn; Tapiola Sinfonietta/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-495 19 Rossini, G. O muto asil del pianto ... corriam, voilam! from William Tell (1829). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Vienna Opera Ch & O/Nicola Rescigno. ABC 480 551-2 8
22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Francis Frank Assmayer, I. Octet in E flat. Consortium Classicum. Schwann 310 002 H1 18 Martinu, B. Madrigal sonata (1942). William Bennett, fl; Oliver Butterworth, vn; Clifford Benson, pf. Hyperion CDD22039 10 Buxtehude, D. Sonata in B flat, BuxWV273. Musica Antiqua Cologne. Archiv 437 089-2 14 Besozzi, A. Sonata in B flat. Gordon Skinner, bn; David Miller, pf. 8 Fine Music Tape Archive Goossens, E. Concertino for string octet, op 47. Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 9472 13 Janácek, L. Mládí (1924). Michael Harris, cl; Michael Thompson Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553851 17 Locatelli, P. Sonata no 1 in G. Brisbane Baroque Trio. LP Grevillea GRV 1080
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Stravinsky, I. Octet (1922-23/52). London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK 45 965 14
Friday 20 September 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 Small forces Prepared by Jan Brown Bernstein, L. Suite from West Side story (c1961; arr. van Netelbosch). Belgian NO Clarinet Quartet. Naxos 8.557407 Gershwin, G. Porgy and Bess fantasy for piano trio (arr. Bunch). Eroica Trio. EMI 5 07351 2 9
13:00 CLASSICAL VIOLIN Prepared by Chris Blower
20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Heather Sykes
Beethoven, L. Sonata no 3 in E flat, op 12 no 3 (1797-98). Josef Suk, vn; Jan Panenka, pf. Supraphon SU 4077-2 20
Sibelius, J. Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, op 46 (1905). Iceland SO/Petri Sakari. Chandos CHAN 9158 29
Pleyel, I. Trio in A (1794). Trio 1790. cpo 777 544-2
Mercadante, S. Flute concerto in E minor (c1819; rev. Scimone). James Galway, fl; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone. RCA RD 60450 22
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Viotti, G. Sinfonia concertante no 2 in B flat (1786). Roberto Baraldi, vn; Alberto Martini, vn; Accademia dei Filarmonici/Aldo Sisillo. Naxos 8.553861 19 9
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Rhapsody in blue (1924; transcr. Dokshitser). Edward Tarr, tpt; Elisabeth Westenholz, pf. BIS CD-152 12 Bernstein, L. Suite from On the town (1944; arr. DiLorenzo). Center City Brass Quintet. Chandos CHAN 4554 15
14:00 A SPANISH FIESTA Prepared by Marilyn Shock Tórroba, F. Moreno Sonatina trianera. Angelita Romero, castanets; Los Romeros. Philips 412 609-2 8 Rodrigo, J. Four Andalusian pictures (1946-52). Artur Pizarro, pf. Collins 1434-2 14
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Di Cox
Sarasate, P. de Serenata andalusa, op 28 (pub. 1883). Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Graeme McNaught, pf. Dynamic S 94 4
Fuchs, R. Serenade no 1 in D, op 9 (1874). Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig. Naxos 8.572222 20
Rodrigo, J. Concierto Andaluz (1939). Los Romeros; San Antonio SO/Victor Alessandro. Mercury 434 369-2 25
Haydn, M. Flute concerto in D (1766). IstvánZsolt Nagy, fl; Austro-Hungarian Haydn O/ Àdám Fischer. Nimbus NI 5392 14
15:00 NOTTURNO Prepared by Sheila Catzel
Franck, C. Psyche (1887-88). Belgian Radio & TV Choir; Liège O/Paul Strauss. EMI 5 65162 2 47 11:30 HIGHLIGHTS OF A MASKED BALL Prepared by Giovanna Grech Verdi, G. Teco io sto ... M’ami, m’ami, from A masked ball (1859). José Carreras, ten. 10 Morrò, ma prima in grazia, from A masked ball. 5 Alzati! là tuo figlio ... Eri tu che macchiavi, from A masked ball. Ingvar Wixell, bar. 6 Montserrat Caballé, sop (3 above) Ma se m’è forza perderti, from A masked ball. José Carreras, ten. 3 Royal Opera House O/Colin Davis (all above) Philips 426 560-2 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell
Haydn, M. Notturno solenne in E flat (c1772). German Chamber Academy Neuss/Johannes Goritzki. cpo 999 512-2 11 Schubert, F. Notturno in E flat, D897 (c1827). Macquarie Trio. ABC 465 792-2 11
Moszkowski, M. Spanish dances, op 12 (1878). Olga Kharitonova, pf; Igor Machlak, pf. Move MD 3185 13 Godard, B. Oriental symphony, op 84 (1884). Royal Scottish NO/Martin Yates. RSNO CDLX 7274 28 Grieg, E. Norwegian dances, op 35 (1881). Bergen PO/Ole Kristian Ruud. BIS CD-1740/42 18 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Handel in Italy 1706-1709 Prepared by Elaine Siversen Handel, G. Sonata in B flat, HWV288 (170607). Hiro Kurosaki, vn; London Baroque/Charles Medlam. 9 EMI C 7 49799 2 Cantata: Tu fedel? Tu costante, HWV171 (1706/07). Miriam Allan, sop; Arcadia/ Jacqueline Ogeil. Tall Poppies TP173
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Suite from Rodrigo, HWV5 (1706). Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman. Hyperion A67053 16 Psalm 110: Dixit Dominis, HWV232 (1707). Westminster Abbey Choir & O/Simon Preston. DG 478 5183 32
Riotte, P. Notturno (c1815). Ernö Sebestyén, vn; Edward Witsenburg, hp. Schwann 310 001 H1 15
Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno, from La Resurrezione, HWV47 (1708). Lucy Crowe, sop; English Concert/Harry Bicket. 5 Harmonia Mundi HMU 907559
Mozart, W. Serenade no 8 in D, K286, Notturno (1776-77). Capella Istropolitana/ Martin Turnovsky. Naxos 8.550092 15
Qual’insolita luce ... Caddi, è ver, from La Resurrezione. Christopher Purves, bass; Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen. Hyperion A67842
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Lloyd Capps
Sento là che ristretto (c1709). Concerto Vocale. LP Harmonia Mundi HM 1004 13
19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron
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Voi, che udite il mio lamento, from Agrippina, HWV6 (1709). Bejun Mehta, ct; Freiburg Baroque O/René Jacobs. 6 Harmonia Mundi HMC 902077 September 2013
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Saturday 21 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney
Mozart, W. Ch’io mi scordi di te? from La clemenza di Tito, K621 (1791). Teresa Berganza, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. Decca 467 905-2 10
9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON PERCY GRAINGER Prepared by Brian Drummond Grainger, P. A Lincolnshire posy (1940). London Wind O/Denis Wick. ASV WHL 2067
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Youthful suite (1899/1940-45). Sydney SO/John Hopkins. ABC 476 595-7 26 Paraphrase on Flower waltz, from Tchaikovsky’s The nutcracker. Percy Grainger, reproducing pf. LP RCA VRL1 0342 7 Danish folk-music suite (1922-29). English Sinfonia/Neville Dilkes. EMI M 7 63520-2
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Scotch Strathspey and reel (1911). Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner O/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 446 657-2 7 Tone-stuffs for tone five-some. Melbourne Brass Ensemble. LP Move MS 3056 9 Gamelan anklung (1935-36). Wendy Clarke, fl, piccolo; Sylvia Hosking, db; Mark Knoop, harmonium; Woof, tuneful perc. Move MD 3222 4
Puccini, G. Tre sbirri, una carrozza, from Tosca (1900). Renato Bruson, bar; Andrea Velis, ten; Ambrosian Opera Ch; Philharmonia O/James Levine. EMI Z 762520 2 5 Tchaikovsky, P. In this moonlight night, op 73 no 3 (1893); At the ball, op 38 no 3 (1878). Nicolai Gedda, bar; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. Gala GL 332 5 Ravel, M. Shéhérezade (1903). Jessye Norman, sop; London SO/Colin Davis. Philips 412 493-2 19 14:00 NOT ONE WORK COMPOSERS Prepared by Stephen Wilson Lalo, E. Suite no 1 from Namouna (1882). Detroit SO/Paul Paray. Mercury 475 6268 20 Sinding, C. Violin concerto no 1 in A, op 45 (1898). Henning Kraggerud, vn; Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset. Naxos 8.557266 21 Dukas, P. Symphony in C (1895). Monte Carlo O/Lawrence Foster. Claves 50-9102 39
The warriors, music to an imaginary ballet (1917). Melbourne SO/John Hopkins. LP HMV OASD 430 000 19
15:30 SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA IN CONCERT Prepared by Peter Bell
11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher
Byrd, W. Mass in four parts.
Monkton, L. Overture to The arcadians. Silver Band/Albert Meek. LP Music for Pleasure MFP A-8077 5 Chavez, C. Marcha provinciana, from Chapultepec. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP Vol 21 3
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Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV 11: Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen 1724). Sydney Philharmonia O. 29 Palestrina, G. da Missa brevis.
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Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir/Peter Seymour (3 above) Vivaldi, A. Spring, from The four seasons (pub. 1725). John Harding, vn & dir. 10
18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with Kate Delaney 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN The song is you Prepared by Sue Jowell The music of Jerome Kern 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Part 1: Classics past and present Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC Mouret, J-J. Sinfonies de fanfares.
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Fantini, G. Prima sonata, detta del Collereto; Seconda sonata, detta del Gonzago; Balletto, detto il Lunati. 5 Paul Goodchild, tpt (2 above) Mendelssohn, F. Overture to St Paul.
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Bach, J.S. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, from Cantata, BWV147.
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Clarke, J. Suite of ayres for the theatre.
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Thomas Wilson, org (5 above) Holley, A. Summerbird.
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Hubeau, J. Sarabande, from Trumpet sonata. 4 Vangelis. Hymne.
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Fauré, G. Pavane.
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Paul Goodchild, tpt (6 above) Dupré, M. Fugue in G minor.
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Hovhaness, A. Prayer of St Gregory.
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Paul Goodchild, tpt (2 above) Thomas Wilson, org (6 above) 21:05 Part 2: Baroque organ and trumpets plus Stanley, J. Voluntaries, op 5 (1748): no 9 in G minor; no 1 in C. David Kinsela, org. 13 Scheidt, S. Battle suite. Peter Walmsley, tpt; Catherine Walmsley, tpt; Louise Balletti, hn; Justin Kearin, tb; Matthew Walmsley, tuba. 9 Fine Music Tape Archive (2 above)
Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Clarinet concerto. Lev Mikhailov, cl; USSR Ministry of Defence Symphonic Band/N Sergeyev. LP Columbia SCX 6312 7
Corrette, M. Margaret Dixon-McIver, sop; Katherine Capewell, mezz; Anson Austin, ten; Graham Tier, bass; Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir; Peter Seymour, cond. 20
Ball, E. The Kingdom triumphant. Australian Brass. AMP 21188 9
Australian CO (2 above) SPC recordings (all above)
21:30 ON DISTANT SHORES Prepared by Phil Vendy
12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper
17:30 17th CENTURY BOHEMIANS Prepared by Philip Lidbury
13:00 CLASSIC VOICES Prepared by Maureen Meers
Biber, H. Battalia (1673). European Community Baroque O/Monica Huggett. Channel CCS 4392 9
Still, W. A deserted plantation (1933). Mark Boozer, pf. Naxos 8.559210 12
Rossini, G. Amici, in ogni evento ... Pensa alla patria, from L’Italiana in Algeri (1813). Agnes Balsa, sop; Vienna SO/Ion Marin. Sony SK45 964 7 42
Puccini, G. Che gelida manina, from La bohème (1896). Jussi Bjoerling, ten; RCA Victor O/Renato Cellini. RCA Victor 09026 68429 2 12
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Zelenka, J. Capriccio no 3 in F (1729). Camerata Bern. Archiv 469 842-2 18
Carpenter, J. Sea drift (1933). Indianapolis SO/ Raymond Leppard. Decca 458 157-2 14 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones
Sunday 22 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett
14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL The Berlin Radio Symphony
9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Emyr Evans
Bottesini, G. Duo concertante (1851). Martin Ostertag, vc; Wolfgang Güttler, db; Matthias Bamert, cond. Schwann 311 042 H1 13
Respighi, O. Ancient airs and dances, suite no 1 (1917). Australian CO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Omega O 1007 17
Dvorák, A. Overture: Carnival, op 92 (1891). Paul Strauss, cond. DG 477 5349 10
Askill, M. Lemurian dances (1990). Michael Askill, perc; Synergy . Vox Australis VAST 001-2 11
Beethoven, L. Cantata: Calm sea and prosperous voyage, op 112 (1814-15). Susan Dunn, sop; Margarita Zimmermann, mezz; Bruno Beccaria, ten; Tom Krause, bar; RIAS Chamber Choir; members of Ernst Senff Chamber Choir; Riccardo Chailly, cond. Decca 417 563-2 8
Quilter, R. Three English dances, op 11 (1910). Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. EMI C 7 49933 2 7 Mozart, W. Six German dances, K509 (1787). Murray Perahia, pf. Sony SX4K 63380 10 Brahms, J. Hungarian dances nos 1, 17, 20 and 21 (1852-68). NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini. RCA GD60257 9 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Denis Patterson
Auber, D-F-E. Non temete, milord ... Or son sola, from Fra Diavolo (1830). Joan Sutherland, sop; Suisse Romande O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 475 6302 8 Field, J. Nocturne no 14 in C (1835). Benjamin Frith, pf. Naxos 8.550762 9 Bach, J. Christian Piano concerto in D, op 13 no 2 (pub. 1777). Ingrid Haebler, fp; Vienna Capella Academica/Eduard Melkus. Philips 456 064-2 19
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Stamitz, C. Viola concerto no 1 in D (pub. 1774). Victoria Chiang, va; Baltimore CO/ Markand Thakar. Naxos 8.572162 22 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME With John Buchanan 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Linda Marr
Bruckner, A. Symphony no 1 in C minor (189091). Riccardo Chailly, cond. Decca 491 091-2 54 Berlin RSO (all above) 16:00 THE STENHAMMAR QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower
Weber, C.M. Piano concerto no 2 in E flat, op 32 (1812). Peter Rösel, pf; Staatskapelle Dresden/Herbert Blomstedt. Brilliant Classics 99935 23
Spohr, L. Sonata in A flat, op 125 (1843). Howard Shelley, pf. Hyperion A 67947
Rodrigo, J. Concerto-serenade (1952). Nicanor Zabaleta, hp; Ernst Märzendorfer, cond. DG 463 648-2 23
Stenhammar, W. Midwinter, op 24 (1907). Gothenburg Concert Hall Choir; Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. BIS 438 12 Intermezzo in D; Three small piano pieces; Impromptu waltz. Lucia Negro, pf. BIS 554 11 String quartet no 4 in A minor, op 25 (1909). Gotland Quartet. LP Caprice CAP 1201-03 30 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymn: Crown him with many crowns Huddersfield Choral Society.
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Hymns: Let all the world; O for a thousand tongues to sing; How great thou art. Choir of York Minster. 9 BBC Songs of Praise 50999 0 85481 2 2 (2 above)
Gustav Holst Holst, G. Prelude; Vexilla Regis prodeunt, from The hymn of Jesus, op 37. Choir of St Paul’s 5 Cathedral/Christopher Dearnley. Hymn: Glory to thee, Father. London Symphony Ch; London PO/Charles Groves. 3 EMI 50999 4 4047122 (2 above) Various. All creatures of our God and King; O Sifuni Mungu; O clap your hands. Newcastle Cathedral Festival Ch; Choir of Newcastle Cathedral; Festival Youth Choir; Anthony Jennings, org; Festival Brass and Percussion/ Marcus Neale. Chartreuse CR 1493 14 18:00 WHAT’S ON AT THE CON with Julie Simonds A monthly program of music, news and interviews from the Sydney Conservatorium 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech Catalani, A. Prendi, fanciul, e serbala, from La Wally (1892). Renata Tebaldi, sop; Lydia Marimpietri, sop; Monte Carlo Opera O/Fausto Cleva. 4 Decca 470 280-2 Handel, G. Sibilar gli angui d’Aletto, from Rinaldo (1711). Samuel Ramey, bass; Philharmonia O/Donato Renzetti. Philips 420 184-2
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Rossini, G. Una volta c’era ... Una soave non soche, from La Cenerentola (1817). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; William Matteuzzi, ten; Bologna Communale Theatre Ch & O/Riccardo Chailly. 7 Decca 436 902-2
Monteverdi, C. O beatae viae. Charlotte Booth, Alice Julieu, Christopher Lambert, Jessical Malcolm, voices.
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Dvorák, A. Polonaise, from Rusalka, op 114 (1901). CSSR State PO/Robert Stankovsky. 5 Marco Polo 8.223272
Purcell, H. O God thou art my God.
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Batten, A. O sing joyfully.
Mozart, W. La vendetta, from The marriage of Figaro, K492 (1786). Conal Coad, bass; Choir of St Peter’s Church, Great Berkhamsted; Tasmanian SO/Dobbs Frank. Jonathan Lee, org; Adrian Davis, cond (3 above) ABC 438 196-2 3 Petrus PET 001 September 2013
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Monday 23 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Francis Frank Nathan, I. Overture to Don John of Austria (1846; arr. Mackerras). Sydney SO/Charles Mackerras. ABC 434 713-2 9
James Galway 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Handel, G. Water music, suite no 1 (1717). CO of Europe/James Galway. RCA 9026615582 31 Wagner, R. The feast of Pentecost (1843). Ambrosian Male Voice Ch; Symphonica of London/Wyn Morris. IMP PCD 1042 34 Haydn, J. Symphony no 20 in C, Hob.I:20 (c1759). Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon. Naxos 8.557657 18 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Electric havens Prepared by Troy Fil Campion, E. Losing touch (1994). Christopher Froh, vibraphone, elec. Albany TROY 1037 11 Fox, C. Quintet (1995). Christopher Redgate, ob; Kreutzer Quartet. Metier MSV 28513 15 Nilsson - Lindeborg - Johannson. Points in E (2001). Ove Johanson, sax; Susanna Llindeborg, pf; Per Anders Nilsson, elec. LJ Records 5228 4 Parkinson, S. Rainbow Valley, John Martin, Morgan, Eleanor (1995). Eve Egoyan, pf. Centrediscs ART-019 10 Gudmunsen - Holmgreen. Three Stages (2002). Ars Nova Copenhagen/Paul Hiller. Dacapo 6.220583 13 Nilsson - Lindeborg - Johannson. TapTap (2001). Ove Johansson, sax; Susanna Lideborg, pf; Per Anders Nilsson, elec. LJ Records 5228 5 Bushnell, M. Night’s swift dragons. Vancouver New Music Ensemble. CBC MV 1109 12 Scott, S. Resonant resources (1983). Colorado College New Music Ensemble. New Albion NA107 11 22:30 ULTIMA THULE 44
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Bizet, G. Fantasy on Carmen (1873-74; arr. Borne). Patrick Gallois, fl; Fabrice Pierre, hp; London FO/Ross Pople. DG 445 822-2 12 Mussorgsky, M. Joshua (1877; arr. RimskyKorsakov). Elena Zaremba, mezz; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 445 238-2 5 Cimarosa, D. Oboe concerto (pub.1941; arr. Benjamin). Geoffrey Payne, tpt; Melbourne SO/Michael Halász. ABC 982 697-6 11 Handel, G. Organ concerto in B flat, HWV294, mvt 1 (1736; arr. E. Grigoryan). Slava Grigoryan, gui; Leonard Grigoryan, gui; Tasmanian SO/ Benjamin Northey. ABC 476 333-5 6 Bach, J.S. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, BWV147 (1723; arr. Whittaker). Choir of Westminster Cathedral; Iain Simcock, org; James O’Donnell, cond. Hyperion A66669 6 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown Balakirev, M. Suite in D minor after Chopin (1910). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. LP Melodiya C10 234-5 001 22
Wilhelm Kempff 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 THE TRANSITION Classical to Romantic Prepared by Philip Lidbury Cirri, G. Cello concerto in C (pub. 1780). Markus Nyikos, vc; Berlin RSO/Hans Maile. Schwann 11624 18 Schumann, R. Three romances, op 28 (1839). Wilhelm Kempff, pf. DG 435 045-2 15 Mendelssohn, F. Jagdlied, op 59 no 6 (1844). Netherlands Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay. Globe GLO 5075 4 Mozart, W. Symphony no 31 in D, K297, Paris (1778). Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 421 085-2 17 Schubert, F. Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (1828). Hans Petter Bonden, cl; Lars Anders Tomter, va; Einar Henning Smebye, pf. Simax PSC 1018 10
Chopin, F. Piano concerto no 1 in E minor, op 11 (1830). Daniel Barenboim, pf; Staatskapelle Berlin/Andris Nelsons. DG 477 9520 41
Mozart, W. Nie werd’ ich deine Huld verkennen, from The abduction from the seraglio, K384 (1782). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Lillian Watson, sop; Peter Schreier, ten; Wilfrid Gamlich, ten; Matti Salminen, bass; Zurich Opera House Mozart O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. 5 Teldec 0630-13811-9
Haydn, J. Symphony in E, Hob.I:12 (1763). Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Decca 433 661-2 17
Gade, N. Symphony no 1 in C minor, op 5 (184042). Danish National RSO/Dmitri Kitaienko. Chandos CHAN 9422 36
11:30 MOZART ARRANGED Prepared by Elaine Siversen
15:00 SPANISH MASTERS Prepared by Robert Vale
Mozart, W. Duettino concertante in F (transcr. Busoni). Anthony Paratore, pf; Joseph Paratore, pf. LP Schwann VMS 1031 7
Albéniz, I. Danza (1887); Tango (1889). Ida Presti, gui; Alexandre Lagoya, gui. Belart 450146-2
Sonata in F, K533/494 (1788; arr. Grieg). Julie Adam, pf; Daniel Herscovitch, pf. ABC 454 224-2 19
Granados, E. Danzas españolas nos 5 to 7 (1890). Alicia de Larroche, pf. RCA Victor 09026 68184 2 12
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Monday 23 September
Tuesday 24 September Bliss, A. Sonata (1952). Trevor Barnard, pf. The divine art 2-5011 23
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
Britten, B. Mazurka elegiaca. Jonathan Plowright, pf; Aaron Shorr, pf. Hyperion A 67903
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Jascha Heifetz Prepared by Jennifer Foong
14:00 SERENADES... AND SERENADES Prepared by Denis Patterson
Beethoven, L. Sonata no 5 in F, op 24, Spring (1800-01). Emanuel Bay, pf. RCA GD 87705 18 Alfonso Moreno Tórroba, F. Moreno Sonatina in A (1920). Slava Grigoryan, gui. Sony SMK 68351 11 Rodrigo, J. Fantasia para un gentilhombre (1954). Alfonso Moreno, gui; State of Mexico SO/Enrique Batiz. Regis RRC 1360 21
Brahms, J. Hungarian dances, op 103 nos 11, 17 and 20 (1880). Brooks Smith, pf. 8 Dvorák, A. Quintet in A, op 81 (1887). Israel Baker, vn; Joseph de Pasquale, va; Gregor Piatigorsky, vc; Jacob Lateiner, pf. RCA GD87965 (2 above) 29 Jascha Heifetz, vn (all above)
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Röntgen, J. First serenade, op 14 (1876). Linos Ensemble. cpo 777 127-2 31 Wolf, H. Italian serenade (1892). Ana Bela Chaves, va; Paris O/Daniel Barenboim. Apex 0927-49582-2
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Karlowicz, M. Serenade, op 2 (1897). Warsaw PO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.572274 22
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field
Fuchs, R. Serenade no 1 in D, op 9 (1874). Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig. Naxos 8.572222 20
Bax, A. Tone poem: Tintagel (1917-19). Royal Scottish NO/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.557145 15
Suk, J. Serenade in E flat, op 6 (1892). Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa. Supraphon SU 3882-2 29
Bartók, B. Piano concerto no 3 (1945). András Schiff, pf; Budapest Festival O/Ivan Fischer. Apex 2564 67437-8 24
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans
Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 5 in D (193843/51). London Philharmonic/Bernard Haitink. EMI 7243 555487 2 6 43
19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps
Rachmaninov, S. Suite no 2, op 17 (1900-01). Martha Argerich, pf; Gabriela Montero, pf. EMI 3 58472 2 22
11:30 VOICE OF SPAIN Prepared by Chris Blower
20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Stephen Wilson
Costa, P. New moon; It was Maytime.
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Haydn, J. Trio no 18 in A, Hob.XV:18 (1794). Ensemble of the Classic Era. ABC 472 561-2 19
Albéniz, I. Barcarolle; Absence.
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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Frank Morrison
Janácek, L. Sonata in E flat minor (1905). Roland Pöntinen, pf. BIS 663-4
José Carreras, ten; Lorenzo Bavaj, pf; Ensemble Vienna (2 above) DG 474 591-2
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Bretón, T. La verena de la Paloma, preludio (1894). 4
Picchi, G. Dances for harpsichord (c1620). Rafael Puyana, hpd. Mercury 462 959-2 23
Chapí, R. El barquillero, romanza de socorro (1900); La chavala, cancion de la gitana (1898). 11
Debussy, C. Petite suite (1889). Katia Labèque, pf; Marielle Labèque, pf. Decca 478 3691 11 Mozart, W. Sonata no 12 in F, K332 (1783). Andreas Staier, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMG 508388.89 21
Teresa Berganza, mezz; English CO/Enrique Garcia Asensio (2 above) Ensayo ENY 3407 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes
22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA The final compositions: Vaughan Williams 1956-58 Prepared by Ron Walledge Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 8 in D minor (1956). London SO/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8828 30 Three vocalises (1958). Judith Howarth, sop; Emma Johnson, cl. 5 ASV DCA 891 Variations for orchestra (1957). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 442 834-1 12
13:00 THE BRITISH PIANO SONATA 1934-1952 Prepared by Derek Parker
The England of Elizabeth (1957). Chetham’s Chamber Choir; BBC PO/Rumon Gamba. Chandos 10529(3) 24
Tippett, M. Sonata no 1 (1934/42). Murray Perahia, pf. Sony SX4K 63380 20
Symphony no 9 in E minor (1956-57/58). London PO/Adrian Boult. EMI C 7 47214 2 September 2013
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Wednesday 25 September Britten, B. Piano concerto in D, op 13 (1938/45). Steven Osborne, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov. Hyperion A67625 32 Stravinsky, I. Concerto in E flat, Dumbarton Oaks (1937-38). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.571223 36 Circus polka (1942). Baiba Skride, vn; BBC NO Wales/Thierry Fischer. Orfeo C849 121 A 4 11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown Respighi, O. L’invito alla danza; Notturno. Nelly Miricioiu, sop; David Harper, pf. Etcetera KTC 1041 5
Véronique Gens 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Bellini, V. La ricordanza, from Quattro sonetti (1834). José Carreras, ten; Martin Katz, pf. Sony SK 45863 6
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti
Tosti, P. Goodbye (pub. 1880). Rita Hunter, sop; Victor Morris, pf. Tall Poppies TP021 4
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Oscar Foong Rameau, J-P. Overture to Les fêtes de Polymnie; Overture to Le temple de la gloire (1745). Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset. L’Oiseau-Lyre 455 293-2 7 La nuit couvre les cieux! from Les indes galantes (1735). Patricia Petibon, sop; Kevin Greenlaw, bar; La Cetra Vocal Ensemble; Basel Baroque O/Andrea Marcon. DG 479 0079 5 Concert no 4 in B flat (pub. 1741). Ryo Terakado, vn; Kaori Uemura, va da gamba; Christophe Rousset, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901418 10 La poule; Musette et tambourin. Robert Aldwinckle, hpd. IMP P 850
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Excerpts from Hippolyte et Aricie (1733). Véronique Gens, sop; Meredith Hall, sop; Bernada Fink, mezz; Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, ten; Russel Smythe, bar; Laurent Naouri, bassbar; Luc Coadou, bass; Jean Louis Georgel, bass; Loiseleur des Longechamps, Jérôme Varier; Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski. MBF 1108 21 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Alwyn, W. Overture to a masque (1940). Royal Liverpool PO/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.570704 10 46
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Strauss, R. Die Verschwiegenen, op 10 no 6; Die Zeitlose, op 10 no 7; Blauer Sommer, op 31 no 1; Ich wolt ein Strässlein binden, op 68 no 2. Felicity Lott, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Champs Hill CHR037 8 12:00 THE SOUND OF JAZZ with Kevin Jones 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Australian Singing Competition with Camille Mercer; recorded by Greg Ghavalas
Ben Heppner. Photo - Kristen Hoebermann 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman Wagner, R. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, acts 1 and 2. Opera in three acts. Libretto by composer. First performed Munich, 1868. SACHS: Bernd Weikl, bar WALTHER: Ben Heppner, ten EVA: Cheryl Studer, sop POGNER: Kurt Moll, bass DAVID: Deon van der Walt, ten BECKMESSER: Siegfried Lorenz, bar Bavarian State Ch & O/Wolfgang Sawallisch. EMI 555422 2:21
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.
Visiting Nuremberg, young nobleman Walther von Stolzing falls in love with Eva Pogner, but her father has promised her as prize in a Mastersinger competition. Walther’s song fails when the marker Beckmesser says it does not follow mastersong rules. But the cobbler poet Hans Sachs and his apprentice David assist Walther. Beckmesser wants to enter and win Eva, but his attempt at serenading her fails when Sachs noisily sings while mending shoes; a street riot ensues.
15:00 CLASSICAL CELLO Prepared by Chris Blower
22:30 PIANO PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown
Boccherini, L. Sonata in C. Josep Bassal, vc; Wolfgang Lehner, vc. Naxos 8.557795 14
Chopin, F. Andante spianato (1830-31); Grand polonaise in E flat, op 22 (1834). Shura Cherkassky, pf. Nimbus NI 7701 15
Bach, J. Christian Cello concerto in C minor. Yuli Turovsky, vc; I Musci de Montréal. LP Chandos ABRD 1181 14 Beethoven, L. Sonata no 1 in F, op 5 no 1 (1796). Zoe Knighton, vc; Amir Farid, pf. Move MD3356 26 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm With Stephen Wilson
Sonata in G minor, op 65 (1847). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Daniel Barenboim, pf. EMI CZS 5 68132 2 27 Variations in D (1829). Idil Biret, pf; Martin Sauer, pf. Naxos 8.554537
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Piano trio in G minor, op 8 (1829). Trio Orfeo. Calig CAL 50 880 28
Thursday 26 September 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
Schubert, F. String quartet no 6 in D, D74 (1813). Quatuor Sine Nomine. Erato 2292-45635-2 21
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Name the composer Be the first to identify the mystery composer and win a CD. All other correct answers go in a draw for a second CD: 9439 4777
19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Rossini, G. Overture to The lady of the lake (1819). Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner. 5 ABC 476 259-9
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Alfvén, H. Festival overture (1908). Royal Scottish NO/Niklas Willén. Naxos 8.553962
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Dvorák, A. Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). Lynn Harrell, vc; Philharmonia O/ Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 455 957-2 42 Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 3, Pastoral (1921). Margaret Price, sop; New Philharmonia O/Adrian Boult. EMI C 7 47214 2
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11:30 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MINIATURES Prepared by Elaine Siversen Vaughan Williams, R. Linden Lea; Silent noon; The water mill. David Parker, ten; Marie van Hove, pf. LP ABC/WRC R 02425 10 Six studies in English folk song (1926). Emma Johnson, cl; Malcolm Martineau, pf. ASV DCA 891 9 Motet: O vos omnes (1922). Elora Festival Singers; Thomas Fitches, org, Noel Edson, cond. Naxos 8.554826
20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Denis Patterson
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12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 DONS AND DONNAS Prepared by Randolph Magri Overend Reznicek, E. Overture to Donna Diana (1894). Vienna PO/Willi Boskovsky. Decca 436 785-2 6 Dreyfus, G. There is something of Don Quixote in all of us (1990). Jochen Schubert, gui. Move MD 3129 8
Massenet, J. Don Quichotte (1910). John Eliot Gardiner, cond. Erato 2292-45859-2 6 Verdi, G. Ballet music from Don Carlos (1867). Antonio de Almeida, cond. Philips 422 846-2 16
Schubert, F. Symphony no 3 in D (1815). Royal Concertgebouw O/Iván Fischer. Radio Nederland RCO12004 20
Monte Carlo National Opera O (2 above)
Bach, J.S. Orchestral suite no 3 in D, BWV1068 (c1731). Consort of London/Robert Haydon Clark. Brilliant Classics 94413 21
Ibert, J. Suite from Don Quichotte (1933). Slovak RSO/Adriano. Marco Polo 8.223287
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Mozart, W. Symphony no 20 in D, K133 (1772). Mozart Akademie Amsterdam/Jaap ter Linden. Brilliant Classics 94295 29
Puccini, G. Donna, non vidi mai, from Manon Lescaut (1893). Richard Margison, ten; Canadian Opera Company O/Richard Bradshaw. CBC SM 5158 3
Sibelius, J. Violin concerto in D minor, op 47 (1903/05). Christian Ferras, vn; Berlin PO/ Herbert von Karajan. DG 480 6655 33
Mozart, W. Madamina, il catalogo è questo; Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni, K527 (1787). Erich Kunz, bar. Testament SBT 1059 9
22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE
Strauss, R. Tone poem: Don Juan, op 20 (1888). Cleveland O/Lorin Maazel. CBS 35826
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14:30 CLASSICAL CHAMBER Prepared by Philip Lidbury Bach, C.P.E. Prussian sonata in E, Wq48 no 3 (1740-42). Richard Egarr, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901410 10 Haydn, J. String quartet no 4 in B flat, op 76 no 4, Sunrise (1799). The Lindsays. ASV DCA 1077 23 Beethoven, L. Sonata no 4 in C, op 102 no 1 (1815). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, pf. CBS M2K 42446 17 Paganini, N. Sonata no 5 in A (c1828). Luigi Alberto Bianchi, vn; Maurizio Preda, gui. Dynamic S 34 9
Beethoven, L. Sonata no 3 in A, op 69 (1808). Csaba Onczay, vc; Jenö Jandó, pf. Naxos 8.550478 26 Saint-Saëns, C. Sonata, op 166 (1921). Bart Schneemann, ob; Paolo Giacometti, pf. Brilliant Classics 93688 11 Fauré, G. Quartet no 1 in C minor, op 15 (1879/83). Los Angeles Piano Quartet. IMP MCD 66
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Schumann, R. Träumerei (1838). New York Harp Ensemble. 3 Brilliant Classics 6425 Schubert, F. Quartet movement in C minor, D703 (1820). Caspar da Salo Quartett. 9 Pilz 140231-2 Hummel, J. Quartet in E flat (1808). Fabrizio Meloni, cl; Andrea Pecolo, vn; Luca Ranieri, va; Mario Finotti, vc. Naxos 8.554280 30 September 2013
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Friday 27 September Khachaturian, A. Violin concerto (1940). Mischa Elman, vn; Vienna State Opera O/ Vladimir Golschmann. Vanguard OVC 8035 38
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 Small forces Prepared by Di Cox
Schumann, R. Symphony no 2 in C, op 61 (1845-47). Royal Concertgebouw O/Kurt Masur. Radio Nederland RCO12004 35
Boulanger, L. Dans l’immense tristesse (1916). Mitsuko Shirai, mezz; Hartmut Höll, pf. Bayer BR 100 041 8
22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Rex Burgess
Chopin, F. Étude in E, op 10 no 3, Tristesse (1832). Isador Goodman, pf. ABC 432 179-2 4 Fauré, G. Tristesse, op 6 no 2 (c1873). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Gonzalo Soriano, pf. EMI CMS 5 65061 2 2 Cui, C. Tristesse des choses, op 54 (1890). Sergej Larin, ten; Eleonora Bekova, pf. Chandos CHAN 9794
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Schubert, F. String trio in B flat, D471 (1816). Members of L’Archibudelli. Sony SK 53982 16
12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell
Poulenc, F. Sonata (1962). Thomas Friedli, cl; Ulrich Koella, pf. Claves 50-9322 13
13:00 SELECT YOUR CLASSICS with Stephen Schafer New and recent releases from Select AudioVisual Distribution
Ravel, M. Introduction and allegro (1906). Carol Wincenc, fl; David Campbell, cl; Vanessa McKeand, hp; Peter Carter, vn; David Roth, vn; Keith Lovell, va; Bruno Schrecker, vc; Edmon Colomer, dir. Virgin VC 7 90721-2 10 Beethoven, L. 12 variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from Mozart’s The magic flute, op 66 (1796). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, pf. CBS M2K 42446 11
15:00 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Stephen Schafer
Sibelius, J. Symphony no 6 in D minor, op 104 (1923). Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS 1697/1700 27 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker
Berlioz, H. Overture to Beatrice and Benedict (1860-62). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 452 480-2 8
19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron
Janácek, L. Danube, symphonic poem (192328). Jana Valásková, sop; Zdenek Husek, va; Slovak PO/Libor Pesek. Naxos 8.555245 17 fineMusic 102.5
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20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Phil Vendy Spohr, L. Octet in E, op 32 (1814). Nash Ensemble. crd 3354
Hildegard of Bingen. O Jerusalem. Gothic Voices/Christopher Page. 8 Hyperion CDA66039 O viridissima Virga. Genevieve Lacey, rec; Paul Høxbro, tabor. 4 ABC 476 155-9 Assandra, C. Duo seraphim; Canzon à 4 (1608). 8 Caccini, F. Lasciatemi qui solo (1618).
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Maria Cristina Kiehr, sop; Concerto Soave (2 above) Ambronay AMY025 Maria, dolce Maria (pub. 1618).
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Strozzi, B. L’Eraclito amoroso, op 2 (pub. 1651). 7 Erin Helyard, hpd. Jane Edwards, sop; Marshall McGuire, hp (2 above) Artworks AW033 Gagliarda terza. L’Amoroso/Guido Balestracci. 4 Symphonia SY 98161
Mendelssohn, F. Symphony no 4 in A, op 90, Italian (1833). Tafelmusik Baroque O/Bruno Weil. Tafelmusik Media TMK1019 29
10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess
Debussy, C. Jeux (1912). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 8903 18
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11:30 BONJOUR TRISTESSE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend
Donizetti, G. Que faire où cacher ma tristesse, from Dom Sebastian, roi de Portugal (1843). Margreta Elkins, mezz; Philharmonia O/ James Judd. LP Opera Rara OR 4 6
Mischa Elman
Nielsen, C. String quartet No 2 in F minor, op 5 (1890). Kontra Quartet. BIS 503/04 35
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Liszt, F. Reminiscences after Bellini’s Norma (1841). William Wolfram, pf. Naxos 8.572241 17
Pensaci ben mio core, op 7 (pub. 1659). Emanuella Galli, sop; Ensemble Galilei/Paul Beer. 7 Stradivarius STR 33487 Isabella Leonarda. Vanne lunge, o munde infide, op 11 no 2 (pub. 1684). Jane Edwards, sop; Erin Helyard, hpd; Marshall McGuire, hp. 6 Artworks AW033 Trio sonata no 7 (1693). Concerto Soave. Ambronay AMY025
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Volo Jesum. Jane Edwards, sop; Salut. Walsingham WAL8024-2
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Jacquet de la Guerre, E-C. Cantata no 4, Jonas (1708). Judith Nelson, sop; Bay Area Women’s PO/JoAnn Falletta. Newport Classic NCD 60102 19 Sonata in D minor (1707). Alice Piérot, vn; members of Les Voix Humaines. Alpha ABM 100
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Saturday 28 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music
6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney
19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Leigh, M. Excerpts from The man of La Mancha (1965). Richard Kiley, Joan Diener, Robert Rounsville, voices. Decca 012 159387-2
15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Nicholas Chaplin Shore, H. Original soundtrack: Philadelphia (1993). Maria Callas, sop; Lucia Popp, sop; Studio O/Howard Shore. Epik Records EK 57823 54
9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON LUIGI CHERUBINI Prepared by Francis Frank Cherubini, L. Overture to William Tell. St Cecilia Academy O/Myung-Whun Chung. DG 471 566-2
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16:30 THE ART OF DIANA DOHERTY Prepared by Stephen Wilson
String quartet no 5 in F (1835). Hausmusik London. cpo 999 464-2 26
Bach, J.S. Sonata in G minor, BWV1030b (173637). Linda Kent, hpd. ABC 476 367-3 18
Credo for 8 voices (1806). RCA Italiana Chamber Choir/Nino Antonellini. LP Italia 70051
Koehne, G. Inflight entertainment (1999). Sydney SO/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.555847 29
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Marche réligieuse (1819). Philharmonia O/ Riccardo Muti. EMI 5 72786 2
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Requiem in D minor. Czech Philharmony Male Choir/Igor Karkevitch. DG 457 744-2 40 11:30 ON PARADE The Welsh connection Prepared by Chris Blower Jenkins, Cyril. Coriolanus. Sellers Engineering Band/Norman Law. Chandos CHAN 4531 9 Parry, J. Myfanwy (arr. Graham). Phillip McCann, cornet; Simon Lindley, org; Boys of Leeds Parish Church; Sellers Engineering Band/ Roy Newsome. Chandos CHAN 4521 5 Richards, J. Shield of liberty march. Sellers Engineering Band/Phillip McCann. DG 477 576-5 2 Mathias, W. Suite for brass band: Vivat regina, op 75 (1977). John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome. Chandos CHAN 4510 9 12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper 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
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Cohan, G. Excerpts from George M (1968). Joel Grey, Betty Ann Grove, Jerry Dodge, voices. Columbia CK 3200 13 Styne, J. Excerpts from Gypsy (1959). Ethel Merman, Sandra Church, Jack Glugman, Lane Bradbury, voices. Columbia SK 60848 19 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Sydney University Graduate Choir Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for SUGC Reger, M. Unser lieben Frauen Traum, op 138 2 no 4 (1914).
Jolivet, A. Sérénade (1945). David Korevaar, pf. ABC 465 782-2 19
Brahms, J. Verstohlen geht der Mond auf, 3 WoO33 no 49 (1894).
Hummel, J. Introduction, theme and variations in F, op 102 (1824). Queensland SO/ Werner Andreas Albert. ABC 456 681-2 14
Reger, M. Es waren zwei Königskinder (late 3 1890s).
Diana Doherty, ob (all above)
Chamber Choir of Sydney University Graduate Choir/Christopher Bowen (4 above)
18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Janie Fitch Gross, E. Bagatelle, op 196 (1994). Brendan Collins, tb; Nigel Gaynor, pf. Jade JAD 1053
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Wesley-Smith, M. Pat-a-cake (1980). Simone de Haan, tb; tape realized by the composer. Canberra School of Music CSM:13 9 Plush, V. Bakery Hill rising (1980). Canberra Horn Consort/Hector McDonald. Canberra School of Music CSM:9 10 Mills, R. Sonata for brass quintet (1985). Melbourne Brass Ensemble. Australian Brass Work ABW 4001
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Marshall-Hall, G. Phantasy for horn and orchestra (1905). Ben Jacks, hn; Queensland O/ Barry Tuckwell. Melba MR 301117 10 Grainger, P. The brisk young sailor, from A Lincolnshire posy (1940; arr Higgins). Chicago SO Brass/Mark Ridenour. CSO-Resound CSOR 901 1101 2
Schütz, H. German Magnificat (pub. 1657).
Brahms, J. A German requiem, op 45 (1857-68). Amy Corkery, sop; Byron Watson, bar; Sydney University Graduate Choir & O/Christopher Bowen. 1:05 21:30 A LITTLE CONCERT Prepared by Stephen Wilson Handel, G. Overture and minuet, from Julius Caesar, HWV17 (1724). English CO/Richard Bonynge. 5 Decca 466 434-2 Alkan, C-V. Chamber concerto in C sharp minor, op 10 no 2 (1834). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. 8 Hyperion A66717 Mozart, W. Symphony no 15 in G, K124 (1772). English CO/Jeffrey Tate. EMI 5 55480 2 12 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones
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Sunday 29 September 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Eleonore Fuchter 9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Derek Parker Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). 12 Ponchielli, A. Dance of the hours, from La Giaconda (1876). 10
Schmitt, F. French rhapsody, op 53 (1903-04). Huseyin Sermet, pf; Kun Woo Paik, pf. Auvidis V 4679 5 Dvorák, A. Slavonic rhapsody in A flat, op 45 no 3 (1878). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9002 12
Vienna PO/Gustavo Dudamel (2 above) DG 476 4717
Granados, E. Aragonese rhapsody. Douglas Riva, pf. Naxos 8.554629 7
Brahms, J. Hungarian dance no 19 in B minor (1852-69; orch. Dvorak). London SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 241-44 2
Alfvén, H. Swedish rhapsody no 2, op 24 (1907). Stockholm PO/Neeme Järvi. BIS 395 10
Mussorgsky, M. Dance of the Persian slaves, from Khovanshchina (1872). Vienna PO/ Gustavo Dudamel. 7 Dvorák, A. Slavonic dance in E minor, op 72 no 2 (1886). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 241-44 5 Mozart, W. Six German dances, K571 (1789). Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner. ABC 476 509-8 12 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Prepared by Angela Bell
Svendsen, J. Norwegian rhapsody no 1, op 17 (1876). Bergen PO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10693 8 Liszt, F. Hungarian rhapsody no 2 in C sharp minor (1885). Michele Campanella, pf. Philips 438 371-2 10 Enescu, G. Rumanian rhapsody no 1 in A, op 11 (1901). SBS Youth O/Matthew Krel. YME 1 12 Schmitt, F. Viennese rhapsody, op 53 (190304). Huseyin Sermet, pf; Kun Woo Paik, pf. Auvidis V 4679 7
Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:6, Morning (1761). Prague CO/Bernhard Klee. DG 469 551-2 20
Saint-Saëns, C. Rhapsody from the Auvergne in C, op 73 (1884). Ian Munro, pf; Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn. ABC 465 424-2 10
Mozart, W. Serenade no 12 in C minor, K388 (1782-83). Wind Soloists of the CO of Europe. Teldec 2292-46472-2 27
16:00 THE STENHAMMAR QUARTETS Prepared by Chris Blower
Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D821, Arpeggione (1824). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Benjamin Britten, pf. Decca 443 575-2 28 Mozart, W. Symphony no 41 in C, K551, Jupiter (1788). London Mozart Players/Jane Glover. ASV DCA 761 34 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ with Jeannie McInnes More from the early years of pre-swing jazz, including the Trad Revival 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Josh Oshlack 14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL European tour with the rhapsody Prepared by Anne Irish Chabrier, E. Rhapsody: Spain (1883). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 426 289-2 6 50
Stanford, C. Villiers Irish rhapsody no 3, op 137 (1913). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; Ulster O/ Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN 7002 14
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Stenhammar, W. String quartet no 5 in C, op 29, Serenade (1910). Fresk Quartet. LP Caprice CAP 1201-03 19 Ithaka, op 21 (1904). Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, bar; Gävle SO/Hannu Koivula. Naxos 8.572186 10 String quartet no 6 in D minor, op 35 (1916). Copenhagen String Quartet. LP Caprice CAP 1201-03 24 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of heaven. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.
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Hymn: All people that on earth do dwell. McCarthy Singers. BBC 982 797-3
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Hymn: Immortal, invisible. Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. BBC 982 797-3 (3 above) 3
Darke, H. Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis, from Evening service in F (1824). Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond. Helios H 55402 10 Psalm 75: Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks. Choir of York Minster; Philip Moore, 3 org. Stewart, C. Anthem: If ye love me. Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin; M. Duley, org 3 & dir. Howells, H. Jubilate. Choir of Norwich Cathedral; Michael Nicholas, org. Priory FCM1 (3 above)
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Boyle, M. Thou, O God, art praised in Sion. 6 Gibbons, O. O clap your hands together. 6 Choir of Gloucester Cathedral; Choir of Hereford Cathedral; Choir of Worcester Cathedral; David Briggs, org; Roy Massey, cond (2 above) Griffin GC 4023 Bach, J.S. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, BWV147 (1723). Cathedral Singers; Andrej Kouznetsov, org; Brett McKern, cond. 6 TCS 02 Hymn: O praise ye the Lord. Choir of Worcester Cathedral; Paul Trepte, org; Donald Hunt, cond. 2 Griffin GC 4024 Widor, C-M. Toccata, from Symphony no 5. Simon Preston, org. 6 Decca 430 091-2 18:00 SYDNEY SOCIETY OF RECORDER PLAYERS Prepared by Robert Small Telemann, G. Concerto in E minor. Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. DG 469 664-2 13 Double concerto in F. Clas Pehrsson, rec; Michael McCraw, bn; Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble. BIS 617 15 Haydn, J. Concerto in F, Hob.VIIh:5 (178687). Daniel Rothert, rec; Philipp Spätling, rec; Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl. Naxos 8.570481 13 Fasch, J. Quartet in B flat. Members of Epoca Barocca. cpo 777 204-2 10
Sunday 29 September 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech Verdi, G. Ei dorme? from The corsair (1848). Montserrat Caballé sop; José Carreras ten; New Philharmonia O/Lamberto Gardelli. Philips 434 986-2 13 Gluck, C. Che farò senza Euridice, from Orpheus and Eurydice (1762). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Philharmonia O/Piero Gamba. Decca 417 796-2 4 Gounod, C. O ma lyre immortelle, from Sapho (1851). Grace Bumbry, sop; Stuttgart RSO/ Stefan Soltesz. Orfeo C 081 841 A 6 Puccini, G. Ma se vi talenta, from Manon Lascaut (1893). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; National PO/Oliviero de Fabritiis. Decca 400 083-2 2 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Sydney Opera House 40th anniversary concert Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Wagner, R. Prelude to The mastersingers of Nuremberg (1866-67). 10 Elizabeth’s greeting, from Tannhäuser (1845). Birgit Nilsson, sop. 4 Prelude to Tristan und Isolde (1857-59).
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Love-death, from Tristan und Isolde. Birgit Nilsson, sop. 7 Siegfried’s Rhine journey, from Twilight of the gods (1869-74). 13 Siegfried’s funeral march, from Twilight of the gods. 10 Brünnhilde’s immolation scene, from Twilight of the gods. Birgit Nilsson, sop. 19 Sydney SO/Charles Mackerras (all above) ABC 476 644-0 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Robert Small Jackson, G. Ave regina caelorum (2008). Latvian State Choir; Kaspars Zemitis, gui; Maris Sirmais, cond. Hyperion A67976 12 Gunning, C. Oboe concerto (2004). Verity Gunning, ob; Strings of Royal PO/Christopher Gunning. Chandos CHAN 10525 20 McCabe, J. Symphony no 4, Of time and the river (1993-94). BBC SO/Vernon Handley. Hyperion A67089 31 Nørgård, P. Fons laetitiae (1975). Bente Vist, sop; Tine Rehling, hp. Dacapo 8.226067 20 22:30 ULTIMA THULE
Monday 30 September 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 Gwynn Roberts Piazzolla, A. Histoire du tango (1986; arr. E. Grigoryan). Edward Grigoryan, vn; Slava Grigoryan, gui. Sony SK63011 19 Albéniz, I. Rapsodia española, op 70 (1911; arr. C. Halffter). Alicia de Larrocha, pf; London PO/ Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Decca 433 905-2 18 Villa-Lobos, H. Bachianas brasileiras no 5 (1938-45; transcr. Primrose). Roberto Diaz, va; Robert Koenig, pf. Naxos 8.557391 5 Turina, J. Symphonic rhapsody, op 66 (1931; arr. C. Halffter). Alicia de Larrocha, pf; Philharmonia O/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Decca 433 905-2 9 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish Mendelssohn, Fanny. Overture (c1830). Women’s PO/JoAnn Falletta. Koch 3 7169 2H1 11 Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2 (1783). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; London SO/John Barbirolli. EMI CZS 5 68132 2 30 Elgar, E. Serenade for strings in E minor, op 20 (1892). Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Exton EXCL-00030 12 Schubert, F. Symphony no 5 in B flat, D485 (1816). Columbia SO/Bruno Walter. Sony SBK 60267 28 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 Bach, J.S. Trio sonata in F, BWV529 (c 1730). Palladian Ensemble. Linn CKD 036 13 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON Prepared by Brian Drummond Debussy, C. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894). St Cecilia Academy O/Leonard Bernstein. DG 429 728-2 12 Walton, W. Siesta (1926). London PO/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 9148 6 Hutchens, F. Always afternoon. Asmira Woodward-Page, vn; Scott Davie, pf. Artworks AW034 5 Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:7, Midday (1761). The Hanover Band/Roy Goodman. Hyperion A66523 24
Delius, F. Pale amber sunlight, from Songs of sunset (1907). Ambrosian Singers; Royal PO/ Eric Fenby. 5 Unicorn-Kanchana UK 2073 14:00 IN A PLAYFUL MOOD Prepared by Ron Walledge Ireland, J. A comedy overture (1934). London Brass Virtuosi/David Honeyball. Helios H88013 12 Honegger, A. Pacific 231, from Three symphonic movements (1924). Bavarian RSO/Charles Dutoit. 6 Erato 2292-45242-2 Walton, W. Façade 2 (1920/77-79). Susana Walton, Richard baker, speakers; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 8869 11 Mozart, W. A musical joke, K522 (1787). English Concert/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907280 23 15:00 FAMOUS FIVES Prepared by Angela Bell Rachmaninov, S. Prélude, from Five fantasy pieces, op 3 (1892). Idil Biret, pf. 5 Naxos 8.550348 Ibert, J. Petite suite (1943). Hae-won Chang, pf. Naxos 8.554720 16 Dvorák, A. Five bagatelles, op 47 (1878). Takács Quartet. Decca 476 2802 17 Schumann, R. Five popular pieces, op 102 (1849). Steven Isserlis, vc; Dénes Varjon, pf. Hyperion A67661 15 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Raj Gopalakrishnan Tchaikovsky, P. Dumka (1886). Duncan Gifford, pf. 8 Soundscapes SS 921 Mozart, W. Sonata no 16 in C, K545 (1788). Martha Argerich, pf; Piotr Anderszewski, pf. EMI 3 58472 2 14 Shostakovich, D. Quintet in G minor, op 57 (1940). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf; Fitzwilliam String Quartet. Decca 411 940-2 32 Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue in B flat minor, BWV893 (c1740). Glen Wilson, hpd. 4 Teldec 2292-44934-2 Smalley, R. Variations on a theme of Chopin (1989). Daniel Herscovitch, pf. Tall Poppies TP036 10 Chopin, F. Twenty-four preludes, op 28 (183839). Maria João Pires, pf. DG 437 817-2 41 September 2013
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A Gothic Romance With music by Tchaikovsky Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty had its world premiere in the UK in November becoming the fastest-selling show at Sadler’s Wells ever!
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The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the September dates listed Adam, A. 1803-1856 2 Agnew, R. 1891-1944 2 Aguado, D. 1784-1849 19 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 23,24,30 Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 17 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 19 Alcorn, M. b1962 15 Alfano, F. 1875-1954 3 Alfvén, H. 1872-1960 19,26,29 Alkan, C-V. 1813-1888 6,8,28 Allegri, G. 1582-1652 1 Alwyn, W. 1905-1985 25 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 2 Arne, T. 1710-1778 18 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 15 Askill, M. b1952 22 Assandra, C. c1570-c1610 27 Assmayer, I. 1790-1862 19 Auber, D-F-E. 1782-1871 22
Sousa, J.P. 1854-1932 9 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 2,22,27 Stamitz, C. 1745-1801 22 Stanford, C. Villiers 1852-1924 3,29 Gade, N. 1817-1890 23 Stanley, J. 1712-1786 21 Caccini, F. 1587-1640 27 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 9,20 Stenhammar, W. 1871-1927 Campion, E. b1957 22 Ghamsary, A b1983 7 1,8,15,19,22,29 Caplet, A. 1878-1925 11,19 Gibbons, O. 1583-1625 29 Still, W. 1895-1978 21 Carpenter, J. 1876-1951 21 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 17 Stölzel, G. 1690-1749 18 Carulli, F. 1770-1841 12 Glass, P. b1937 3 Straus, O. 1870-1954 7 Carwithen, D. 1922-2003 3 Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 9,10,13,19 Strauss, R. 1864-1949 1,9,15,25,26 Lalo, E. 1823-1892 6,8,21 Chabrier, E. 1841-1894 4,29 Gluck, C. 1714-1787 2 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 2,3,19,25 Leigh, M. b1928 28 Chapí, R. 1851-1909 24 Gnattali, R. 1906-1988 17 Strozzi, B. 1619-1664 27 Lemare, E. 1865-1934 14 Chausson, E. 1855-1899 12,17 Godard, B. 1849-1895 20 Styne, J. 1905-1994 28 Leoncavallo, R. 1858-1919 1 Chen, Q. b1951 15 Goossens, E. 1893-1962 19 Suk, J. 1874-1935 24 Quilter, R. 1877-1953 22 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 12,13,27,29 Cherubini, L. 1760-1842 9,28 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 4,8,29 Sullivan, A. 1842-1900 1 Locatelli, P. 1695-1764 19 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 21 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 23 Suppé, F. 1819-1895 7 Lockey, G. b1978 13 2,10,13,17,23,25,30 Granados, E. 1867-1916 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 29 Rajna, T. b1928 6 Loesser, F. 1910-1969 14 Cimarosa, D. 1749-1801 18,23 6,17,23,29 Szymanowski, K. 1882-1937 15 Rak, S. b1945 14 Lovelock, W. 1899-1986 14 Cirri, G. 1724-1806 23 Graun, C. 1704-1759 11 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 Bacarisse, S. 1898-1963 1 Lully, J-B. 1632-1687 11,18 Clarke, H. 1867-1945 2 Grechaninov, A. 1864-1956 8 Tan Dun. b1957 15 11,16,18,25 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 4,6,26 Clarke, J. 1673-1707 21 Gribbin, D. b1957 15 Tárrega, F. 1852-1909 1 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 MacDowell, E. 1860-1908 7,9 Rautavaara, E. b1928 8 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 2,16 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 15,20 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 9,11,14,21,27 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 2,22,25 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 5,13,18 Cobbold, W. 1560-1639 13 Griswold, E. 20th c 1 3,4,6,10,12,13,16,21,30 Rebel, J-F. 1666-1747 4 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 2,3,4,9,13,15,1 Cohan, G. 1878-1942 28 Marais, M. 1656-1728 11 Gunning, C. b1944 29 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 7,21,23,26,28,29,30 Marshall-Hall, G. 1862-1915 28 Reger, M. 1873-1916 12 Copland, A. 1900-1990 3,11 Gurney, I. 1890-1937 9 3,6,9,18,29 Reicha, A. 1770-1836 14 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 8,23 Martinez-Parada, V. b1947 14 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 2,3 Tippett, M. 1905-1998 4,24 Reinecke, C. 1824-1910 16 Ball, E. 1903-1989 21 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 12,19 Corrette, M. 1709-1795 21 Handel, G. 1685-1759 Respighi, O. 1879-1936 5,22,25 Tórroba, F. Moreno 1891-1982 Bantock, G. 1868-1946 7,13,17 Costa, P. 1858-1933 24 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 26 3,4,7,8,18,20,22,23,28 20,23 Reznicek, E. 1860-1945 26 Barrios Mangoré, A. 1885Mathias, W. 1934-1992 28 Couperin, F. 1668-1733 11 Harrison, L. 1917-2003 15 Tulou, J-L. 1786-1865 8 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 18441944 10 Mattheson, J. 1681-1764 6 Coward, N. 1899-1973 2 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 Turina, J. 1882-1949 10,17,30 1908 3,21 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 6,10,24 McCabe, J. b1939 29 Croft, W. 1678-1727 4 1,7,12,22,23,26,29,30 Riotte, P. 1776-1856 20 Bauer, M. 1855-1955 12 McDowall, C. b1951 8 Crusell, B. 1775-1838 19 Haydn, M. 1737-1806 20 Vaughan Williams, R. 1872Rodgers, R. 1902-1979 14 Bax, A. 1883-1953 24 Medtner, N. 1880-1951 4 Curnow, J. b1943 14 Heinichen, J. 1683-1729 6 Rodrigo, J. 1901-1999 9,20,22,23 1958 11,24,26 Bazzini, A. 1818-1897 11 Meerovich, M. b1920 16 Czerny, C. 1791-1857 9,12 Hellawell, P. b1956 15 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 Romberg, B. 1767-1641 13 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 1,2,4 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 Hertel, J. 1727-1789 8 2,8,9,20,26,29 Röntgen, J. 1855-1932 24 ,5,7,8,10,12,13,15,16,17,20,22,24,2 Danzi, F. 1763-1826 2 1,4,13,19,21,27 Hildegard of Bingen. 1098Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 30 Rosetti, F. 1746-1792 12 5,26,27 Mendelssohn, Fanny. 1805Darke, H. 1888-1976 29 1179 27 Viotti, G. 1755-1824 2,20 Rossi, M. c1601-1656 3 Bellini, V. 1801-1835 8,25 1847 30 Dauvergne, A. 1713-1797 1 Hoang, T. b1956 14 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 3,17,21 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 Bennett, E. b1975 15 Mercadante, S. 1795-1870 20 David, Ferdinand. 1810-1873 8 Holbrooke, J. 1876-1958 3 Vogler, G. 1749-1814 15 1,7,8,19,21,22,30 Bériot, C-A. de 1802-1870 13 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 Mills, R. b1949 28 Holst, G. 1874-1934 9,22 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 1,13,17,27 1,3,5,6,16,23,27,30 Monteverdi, C. 1567-1643 3,22 Rubinstein, A. 1829-1894 16 Honegger, A. 1892-1955 30 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 Bernstein, E. b1922 14 Diabelli, A. 1781-1858 18 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 12,26,28 Morley, T. c1558-1602 13 5,8,14,22,29 Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 3,9,10,20 Dixon, J. b1945 8 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 Hutchens, F. 1892-1965 30 Wagner, S. 1869-1930 16 6,8,16,17,26,29 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 19 17,20 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 3,6,16 Hyde, M. 1913-2005 7,14 Walton, W. 1902-1983 2,3,7,30 Besozzi, A. 1702-1775 19 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 1,2,5,7,8,9,1 Satie, E. 1866-1925 2 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 10,27 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 Scheidt, S. 1587-1654 21 Biber, H. 1644-1704 21 3,15,16,20,21,22,23,26,28,29,30 Dorman, A. b1975 1 Ibert, J. 1890-1962 26,30 2,13,15,22 Schmitt, F. 1870-1958 29 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 10,23 Muffat, G. 1653-1704 3 Dreyfus, G. b1928 3,26 Ireland, J. 1879-1962 30 Weiner, L. 1885-1960 12 Bliss, A. 1891-1975 1,24 Dukas, P. 1865-1935 21 Isabella Leonarda. 1620-1704 27 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 23,29 Schobert, J. 1740-1767 8 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 1,3,6,8,13,1 Weiss, S. 1686-1750 17 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 10 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 Ives, C. 1874-1954 3 Wesley-Smith, M. b1945 28 5,16,18,19,20,23,26,27,29,30 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 10,25 3,5,8,12,22,24,26,29,30 Nathan, I. 1790-1864 23 Wesley, S.S. 1810-1876 8 Schultz, A. b1960 8 Borisova-Ollas, V. b1969 1 Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 19,27 Dyens, R. b1955 1 Jackson, G. b1962 29 Westlake, N. b1958 17 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 2,13,29 Nørgård, P. b1932 29 Jacob, G. 1895-1984 11 Widor, C-M. 1844-1937 29 5,18,23,27,30 Bossi, M. 1861-1925 17 Edwards, R. b1943 18 Jacquet de la Guerre, E-C. Wolf, H. 1860-1903 24 Schütz, H. 1585-1672 18 Bottesini, G. 1821-1889 22 O’Regan, T. b1972 15 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 30 c1666-1729 27 Wood, Haydn. 1882-1959 18 Scott, S. b1944 22 Boulanger, L. 1893-1918 27 Obrecht, J. c1450-1505 6 Enescu, G. 1881-1955 29 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 Séverac, D. de 1872-1921 17 Boyle, M. 1902-1976 29 Offenbach, J. 1819-1880 1,12 Erskine, T. 1732-1781 11 10,12,19,23,27 York, A. 20th c 11 Shore, H. b1946 28 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 Onslow, G. 1784-1853 16 Jenkins, Cyril. 1889-1978 28 Yoshimatsu, T. b1953 11 Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 3,6,7,13,15,19,22,24,28 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 5,17 Joachim, J. 1831-1907 16 5,12,30 Britten, B. 1913-1976 3,24,25 Pachelbel, J. 1653-1706 3 Fasch, J. 1688-1758 29 Jolivet, A. 1905-1974 28 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 2,9,10,16 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 4,8,12,21,26 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 6,13,26 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 18,20,26,27 Zelenka, J. 1679-1745 21 Sinding, C. 1856-1941 21 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 1,22 Paisiello, G. 1740-1816 9 Field, J. 1782-1837 22 Kaper, B. 1902-1983 14 Burge, J. b1961 1 Ford, A. b1957 8,14 Karlowicz, M. 1876-1909 10,24 Palestrina, G. da c1525-1594 21 Smalley, R. b1943 30 Smetana, B. 1824-1884 1,5 Bushnell, M. b1950 22 Parkinson, S. 20th c 22 Fox, C. b1955 22 Kern, J. 1885-1945 14 Busoni, F. 1866-1924 19 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 19 Byrd, W. 1543-1623 13,21 Byström, T. 1772-1839 16
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MUSICAL TRIVIA with Michael Morton-Evans How well do you know the world of classical music? Test your knowledge with these musical brain teasers from Fine Music 102.5 presenter, Michael Morton-Evans. 1. In 1875 Georges Bizet wrote the opera Carmen. Name two other composers who subsequently wrote variations on themes from that opera. 2. What were the full first names of these composers - J-B Lully; É-N. Méhul; H C Lumbye? 3. In Holst’s The Planets, which was the Bringer of Old Age? 4. What is a Lur? 5. English author John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress. Which English composer turned it into an opera? 6. One of Frederick Delius’s Two Pieces for Small Orchestra was Summer Night on the River. Which was the other? 7. Schubert’s initials were F.A. The F stood for Franz, what did the A stand for? 8. Who invented the first workable sound recording machine and what were the first words recorded on it?
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