OCTOBER 2017
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The age of enlightenment Rachel Podger and the orchestra
Ein feste burg The Reformation in music: 500 years
Nostalgia, frivolity and enchanting melody The delights of operetta
The master key journey The mid-way point
Louis armstrong Satchmo’s musical autobiography
Sibelius and Mahler
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CONTENTS VOL 44 No 10 2
The Age of Enlightenment
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Ein feste Burg: Reformation 500
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What’s On: Sydney and surrounds
from the chair It has been my privilege to be the Chair of this wonderful organisation over the past two years. My term on the Board of the Music Broadcasting Society of NSW ends with the Annual General Meeting on 28 October. As with previous Chairs, I shall continue as a volunteer of the station.
A Satirical Opera
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Nostalgia, Frivolity and Enchanting Melody
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Mozart Re-imagined
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The Master Key Journey
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Program Guide and Composer List
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Classical CD Reviews
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Vale: Patrick Thomas and Janet Seidel
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Jazz CD Reviews
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Louis Armstrong: A Musical Autobiography
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The Triumph of Love
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A Friend in Deed: Judy Miller
Fellow Directors will continue our focus on quality programing and presentation of Fine Music and will further develop activities, both to support emerging musicians and to provide pleasure for you, lovers of fine music. Our Station Manager, Rebecca Beare, and Marketing Manager, Mona Omar, will provide ongoing contact should you like to be in touch. In Sydney this is a month of high definition movies on a giant screen accompanied by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra performs the unforgettable score of John Williams for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and a selection of favourite Mozart works featured in Amadeus Live, Miloš Forman’s 1984 film which was recognised with 40 awards, eight of them being Academy Awards. At Fine Music, in Enjoy, Learn, Discuss, Angela Cockburn presents Gilbert and Sullivan and Offenbach: Irrepressible Irreverent Operetta on 15 October at 2.30pm.
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On air, Saturday afternoons, you can hear both Offenbach (7th) and G & S (21st) in operetta broadcasts this month and read about operetta on page 7 of this magazine. Other Saturday afternoons will feature the ballets of Glazunov (Raymonda on 14th) and Hérold (La fille 1974 - complete 2014 mal gardée as arranged by John Lanchbery, on 28th). See page 46.
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THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT RACHEL PODGER EXPLAINS TO NICKY GLUCH to is the impressionability (in a good way) of youth. Thus, as Musica Viva epitomises, and Podger herself believes, it is crucial to expose young people to classical music, to grow with it rather than approach it as an unknown thing in adulthood. It’s not only the youth of today who need inspiring. Mozart (although as a prodigy, his musical ‘adolescence’ came much earlier) was much affected by Haydn and Johann Christian Bach, their music woven into and developed in his.
An Age is often made by that which came before it. The liberal progress and revolution which characterised the Age of Enlightenment was made possible by the foundations laid in the rational Age of Reason. In a person’s life, the individuality which emerges in adolescence is a response to that which was sparked in childhood. In this way, adolescence becomes humanity’s own Age of Enlightenment and thus there is a fascination in investigating the insights of that period. Where these thoughts are brought into alignment is in the organisation Musica Viva. Not only does it bring chamber music to the many corners of Australia, but it also plays a crucial role in exposing school students to classical music. In November Musica Viva will host a tour of Britain’s Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE). In this program the orchestra will be led by Rachel Podger who, in her own way, helps enlighten youth. She and her partner, Tim Cronin, run a foundation which helps fund music tuition for children in need. It is, however, her personal story which perhaps best outlines the ‘enlightening’ idea. “I was at school in Germany,” she begins, “when I heard Musica Antique Köln and Reinhard Goebel play [Bach’s] Brandenburg Concertos Four and Five in a festival of Early Music in Kassel. I was playing baroque repertoire a fair bit (although on my modern regular violin) as a teenager at home and in various local ensembles at festivals etc. and 2
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sang in three local choirs, so I was performing a lot”. From this performing experience, Podger learnt to appreciate the rich and sonorous sound of gut strings, a differentiating characteristic between period and modern performance. It was this sound which grabbed her attention when she heard a recording of early Bach Cantatas, as she continues. “I was listening to the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner. The string sound … left me speechless and made me dream of wanting to try to do the same thing. It was that teenage ‘I wanna do that’ thing which then drove my whole life for a while! My violin teacher at the time in Kassel had other ideas though and wanted me to enter competitions and mostly play Wieniawski and Tchaikovsky violin repertoire. I loved that romantic and frilly, and at times sentimental music too, of course, and tried to live a ‘double life’ for a while.” Podger’s path would be made when she picked up an actual baroque violin and started to learn the technique required. She concludes her story saying, “As the playing work came in and I started to play baroque chamber music and discover the vast violin sonata repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, my modern violin stayed more and more in its case, watching.” Her path had been set in Kassel, even if she could never have realised it then. What Podger’s story points
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These three Enlightenment composers will share the November concert program and in some ways this creates confusion for it has been a long time since the OAE just played music from this period. The orchestra’s name is now taken to represent an orchestra which seeks to enlighten. 30 years ago the rule book was ‘thrown out’ when it was decided that, having a single conductor and specialised repertoire, was too limiting. The orchestra’s concerts are promoted with bright colours and quirky ideas, and for the past decade it has performed a series of ‘Night Shift’ concerts; music placed in informal setting designed to attract a younger crowd. The best part is that it has been successful.
The orchestra’s name is now taken to represent an orchestra which seeks to enlighten
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Mozart, then, makes a good poster boy for the OAE (and he is the eponymous ‘patron’ of Podger’s foundation as well). He, too, sought to redefine classical music. He was a maverick and a genius whose music tricks as much as it delights. In this, he is the eternal adolescent and so his music is best considered in light of that which came before. The concert program will open with a symphony by Haydn. Before Haydn and Mozart were acquainted, the older man was music director at the Esterházy Court. Early in his time there, Haydn began to experiment with the Sturm und Drang (storm and drive) style. Podger explains how in this music ‘minor keys combine with pounding repeated rhythmic figurations and dark, well defined moods juxtapose with lighter serene themes in slow movements and lilting minuets’. Her expression captures this style well for it is music which stirs the humours. Haydn’s 26th Symphony, Lamentatione, was written for the Easter Week of 1768. Thus the storm and stress are elevated to religious
heights. To contrast with the opening fury, Haydn incorporates a melody derived from an old plainsong chant of the Passion of Christ. Audiences of the day would have been familiar with the tune and thus Haydn had cleverly found a way to merge the sacred with the secular. The other symphony in the program is by Johann Christian Bach, J.S. Bach’s youngest son. He was known as the ‘London Bach’ due to his time spent in England and, as mentioned, for being a friend of Mozart (they met in London when Wolfgang was seven). His Symphony in G minor, op 6 no 6 is perhaps even stormier than Haydn’s. The oboes and horns combine to give the opening an almost devilish edge. An energy runs through the piece and the slow second movement works only to increase the tension. All this comes to a head in the third movement, which uses delicacy to emphasise the heaviness of the subsequent unison chords.
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Mozart ‘engages in high spirits, expresses wit, humour, beauty, tenderness and utter playfulness’
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In these two works, Podger will assume the role of leader. Her fruitful collaborations with the OAE have come from the fact that she shares its views on leadership. To her leadership is something which is different in each setting and thus has to be gauged. “A lot of listening needs to be done in order to see what needs leading in the first place [both] musically of course, but also [as regards] the general mentality of an ensemble. Of course, an ensemble is made up of individuals who all might have different sets of ideas about all sorts of things, and depending on the history of the group, part of ‘leading’ a group is to recognise these and aim to combine them, so that the outcome is, as Aristotle put it, ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’. I learn so much more than I expect when I direct an ensemble from the violin, and it’s always exhilarating!” When it comes to the Mozart pieces, Podger will combine her role of leader with that of soloist. The OAE have decided to perform two of Mozart’s Violin Concertos, the first and the last, the fifth. In contrast to the two symphonies, the concertos are in major keys. As Podger explains, in these works Mozart “… engages in high spirits, expresses wit, humour, beauty, tenderness and utter playfulness. Even when there is a glimpse of melancholy in a second subject or in a slow movement, he is quick to entertain and divert with his next ingenious idea!”
Rachel Podger. Image credit Keith Saunders Mozart wrote the concertos between the ages of 17 and 20. He was a prodigy, sure, but he was also well taught and thirsted after all the ideas around him. Would his style have been as powerful if it had not come after Sturm und Drang? Only history knows but what is clear is that youth is (cheeky and) creative and often strives for something which those slightly older may not. The interview is concluded by asking Podger what she looks to impart to her own students. She hesitates: there is a lot one might say, but settles on saying that “… apart from giving students the information they need and imparting the knowledge I have on repertoire, playing technique, style and general musicianship, it’s vital to ‘read’ individuals and encourage and ‘lift’ what is already within them. Sometimes it’s enough to give guidance as youngsters often just need help to discover what lays beneath the surface of things, and most importantly which questions to ask.” Everything then, must be built on something: teaching on the capabilities of the student; leading on the disposition of the orchestra. Childhood gives way to adolescence and Rationality, so let’s see how Podger concludes. “The best moments,” she says, “are when a self realisation moment happens in a lesson and they hear something beautiful they just played. You can see it in their eyes as they light up at the realisation of something!” Enlightenment through and through!
You’ll find the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing works by C.P.E. Bach, Handel, J.S. Bach and Haydn on 6, 8, 19 and 29 October.
EVENT Musica Viva presents: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Rachel Podger, violin and director J. Haydn: Symphony in D minor, Hob.1:26. Lamentatione W. Mozart: Violin concerto no 1 in B flat, K207 J.C. Bach: Symphony in G minor, op 6 no 6 W. Mozart: Violin concerto no 5 in A, K219, Turkish Venue City Recital Hall Dates Saturday 11 November 2pm Monday 13 November 7pm Information and Tickets Phone 8394 6666 or visit www.musicaviva.com.au October 2017
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EIN FESTE BURG MEG MATTHEWS CELEBRATES THE REFORMATION IN MUSIC
When I was at school, we were intrigued by our history textbook’s claim in reference to the Reformation, ‘Erasmus laid the egg and Luther hatched it’. The egg was hatched 500 years ago, and the trigger for the Reformation occurred on 31 October 1517 when the Augustinian monk Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church, All Saints Wittenberg. It was a list of questions and propositions for debate. Luther penned this document attacking the Catholic Church’s corrupt practice of selling ‘indulgences’ to absolve sin. His 95 theses, propounded two central beliefs: that the Bible was the central religious authority; and that humans may reach salvation only by faith and not by deeds. Martin Luther nailed them at a moment in history ripe for religious reformation. As a result, the Christian Church was ultimately and irrevocably divided, and the Protestantism which emerged was shaped, especially in German states, by Luther’s ideas. Fortunately for us, music played a significant part in his reforms. A Sunday Special programme Ein Feste Burg will focus on the musical outcomes of Luther’s priorities. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a fine theologian but he was also a keen musician
and music lover. Two of his favourite composers (both Catholics) were Josquin Desprez (c14401521) and Ludwig Senfl (1486-1542) whose music he so much enjoyed singing. For Luther, music making, and in particular singing, became central to worship. To quote Carl F. Schalk in his little book Luther on Music: “No one spoke as clearly and forthrightly as Luther about the union of word and music to the end that God might be praised”. He then quotes Luther as saying: “Thus it was not without reason that the fathers and prophets wanted nothing else to be associated as closely with the Word of God as music. Therefore we have so many hymns and Psalms where message and music join, to move the listener’s soul. So Luther advocated that the musical forms of his day, Gregorian chant and polyphony, should be taught and sung in the churches, together with congregational hymns. The long term result was a flourishing tradition of church music possessing richness, simplicity and depth … choral music, organ music and congregational music.” It is these traditions which we will explore in our Sunday Special program, Ein feste Burg, beginning with the hymn so much identified with Martin Luther. It is a congregational hymn for which he wrote both words and music, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott or, in English, A mighty fortress is our God. Down through the centuries, this Lutheran hymn has been clothed with many varied vestments in arrangements for choirs, congregations, organ and orchestra. For example, it is a significant theme in the finale of Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony subtitled The Reformation and is a Leitmotif in Meyerbeer’s opera Les Huguenots. An emphasis on hymnody and hymn books is something for which Luther is particularly valued. At a time when Catholics relied more
on professionally trained choirs to lead the music of the liturgy, Luther came to believe in the importance of congregations of lay people participating actively by singing the liturgy. As he said ‘we all pray and sing and give thanks together’. To this end he wrote or re-arranged existing melodies to create chorales (Lutheran hymn tunes) and encouraged other musicians to do likewise. Apart from Ein feste Burg, another chorale by Luther still popular today is Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, a multi versed Advent hymn which will be heard in more than one version in this Sunday Special. Luther also encouraged monks and nuns to leave their abbeys and one such nun became his wife, Katharina, with whom he had five children. He was also a great advocate of singing psalms and hymns in the home, singing in what he called ‘my small, stupid tenor voice’. Johann Walter (1496-1570) was a fellow Augustinian monk and composer who became a musical advisor to Luther. In his hymnal, entitled Glory and Praise of the Laudable Art of Music he developed a theology of music based on Luther’s ideas and it was Luther who wrote a poetic introduction to Walter’s collection of hymns. Three mainstream composers in the next two centuries, also renowned for their secular music, gave Lutheran music an injection of excellence: Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and music by these three will be included in our program. Many of Bach’s relatives, two of his sons and a number of his pupils continued to consolidate this library of musical excellence which was accumulating (and continues to grow) in the Lutheran church. On Sunday 29 October, two special programs will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the beginnings of the Reformation. Listen to Musica Sacra at 9.00am and, at 3.00pm in Sunday Special, to Ein feste Burg, a celebration of the Reformation in Music.
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What’s On POSTCARDS
Australia Ensemble @UNSW October 14, 8pm Sir John Clancy Auditorium Tickets: $30-$50 Bookings: Phone (02) 9385 4874 or email Australia.ensemble@unsw.edu.au Information: www.ae.unsw.edu.au Around the world in 80 minutes! The Ensemble will be sending postcards from Bali in Peter Sculthorpe’s wonderful work for wind quintet and percussion Tabuh tabuhan, as well as the streetscapes of Argentina in Miguel del Aguila’s rhythmically-charged Salon Buenos Aires via more tranquil journeys with subtle Jewish inflections in Ernst Bloch’s Paysages. The season ends on a festive note with Tchaikovsky’s glorious string sextet Souvenir de Florence.
BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR
Neal Peres Da Costa, fortepiano Australian Haydn Ensemble/Skye McIntosh 14 October, 2.30pm and 16 October, 7pm Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Tickets: $35 - $80 Bookings and information: australianhaydn.com.au or ph. (02) 9250 7777 Acclaimed historical keyboardist, Dr. Neal Peres Da Costa, joins AHE to complete their cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos in chamber format, with Beethoven’s masterpiece Piano concerto no 5, The Emperor. Peres Da Costa is a world-renowned historical performance specialist and one of Australia’s best cultural assets. He will perform on a replica Conrad Graf fortepiano, the maker of Beethoven’s own instrument, generously made available by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto was first proclaimed ‘an emperor of a concerto’ by one of Napoleon’s officers at its premiere in Vienna. This new chamber version by Vi King Lim will bring this piece to life in a new and exciting way. Over the past five years AHE audiences have regularly expressed their delight at hearing larger scale works in fresh chamber arrangements.The program also presents two other Australian premieres of historical chamber versions: Mozart’s Overture to The magic flute and the spectacular Prague Symphony arranged by Masi and Cimador around 1800.
A SATIRICAL OPERA
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“Opera was founded as an aristocratic form of art ... If the framework of opera is unable to withstand the impact of the age, then this framework must be destroyed.” Kurt Weill, in 1929, wrote this to show the political and artistic intent of his ‘play with music’, Die Dreigroschenoper. He and librettist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann, offered a socialist critique of the capitalist world. In the winter of 1927-28, Hauptmann, Brecht’s lover at the time, received a copy of John Gay’s play, The beggar’s opera, from friends in England and, fascinated by the female characters and its critique of the condition of the London poor, began translating into German. Brecht became interested and then sparked the interest of Kurt Weill with whom he was working on Mahagonny. Weill adapted the score which Johann Pepusch wrote for the original production of The beggar’s opera and inserted ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling. The score shows the influence of jazz and German dance-music of the time while the orchestration involves a small ensemble with a good deal of doubling-up on instruments. In some productions, the instrumentalists dance around the action on the stage. The title Die Dreigroschenoper was determined only a week before the opening in 1928 and the English version, The threepenny opera, was produced in 1956. The most obvious link between Gay’s and Brecht’s librettos is that both plays condemn the hypocrisy of the upper class and ridicule the excesses of Italian opera. They leave the audience with neither moral nor happy endings and individuals are forced to think about the issues for themselves. ES Following the broadcast of The beggar’s opera in September, we now present The threepenny opera on Wednesday 11 October at 8pm in At the Opera.
NOSTALGIA, FRIVOLITY AND ENCHANTING MELODY DEREK PARKER DISCUSSES OPERETTA class audiences crowded the theatre every night and soon similar audiences in Vienna and Berlin demanded comparable entertainments. The rage for operetta had begun with a bang!
Franz Lehár Anyone who wants to know how operetta first came to be the rage of Europe should read Emile Zola’s novel Nana. However, to start at the beginning, in 1848 Louis Hervé, a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, composed a burlesque on Don Quixote as a vehicle for himself and another actor, Desiré. The two must have rather resembled Laurel and Hardy; Hervé tall and gangling, Desiré short and plump. Although produced in the middle of the February Revolution, it was a great success and Hervé followed it up with works of his own. Then, in 1855, he produced Oyayaye, the first operetta by his friend and later, bitter rival, Jacques Offenbach. That was followed nine years later by a much greater success with La belle Hélène; and that is where Zola comes in. Offenbach managed to persuade the soprano Hortense Schneider to play the part of Helen, and although she undoubtedly had a fine voice, it was not that which captivated Parisian audiences and was soon the talk of Europe. She was, not to put too fine a point on it, one of the great grandes horizontales of the epoch, soon known because of the favours she liberally granted to the members of the nobility, as Le passage des princes. Apart from her scandalous life, there was much intrigue and rivalry and sexual shenanigans back-stage at the Théâtre des Variétés, all generously leaked to Zola by Ludovic Halévy, Offenbach’s librettist. Unsurprisingly mostly male upper-
Musically, operetta grew out of a demand for musical entertainment less intellectually rigorous than the tragédies lyriques which had begun to decline somewhat in popularity. Operettas were generally shorter than ‘serious’ operas, lighter and more amusing although musically their standard was often as high and the performers quite as talented as the stars of the operatic stage. The scandals and notoriety of the early productions soon gave way to mere nostalgia and frivolity which, with enchanting melody, became the chief components of the new genre whose works were soon presented in opera houses and with opera singers rather than in private theatres with courtesans in the leading roles. For some years Offenbach had no serious rival. Johan Strauss the Younger became his great successor, starting out with two moderate successes then producing in 1874, what is probably still the most performed of all operettas, Die Fledermaus. It was based on a farce by Louis Halévy and Henri Meilhac who had been Offenbach’s librettists. First performed in Vienna, within three years it was heard all over Europe and in America, wildly successful everywhere except in Paris, where it was a flop. Even with the cancan, it was not sexy enough for the members of the Jockey Club whose money still kept the Opéra going. Vienna swiftly became the centre of the operetta production line with Strauss followed by a long procession of successful composers including Millöcker, Fall, Benatzky, Kálmán and Stolz and, of course the greatest of them all, Franz Lehár. His fans included Herr Adolf Hitler, completely besotted with the work: his housekeeper once discovered him preening before a mirror asking, ‘What do you say? Am I not Danilo?’ Although specialising in excellent Englishlanguage productions of Viennese operettas, England attempted to produce its own
operettas in the shape of the Savoy operas. Gilbert and Sullivan were at once more intelligent and less ‘European’ than the Viennese composers. Their librettos were vastly more entertaining simply because of their ‘Englishness’ and this was true also of Edward German, Ivan Caryll and later Vivian Ellis. However, provincial squires and milkmaids were no rivals for Ruritanian princes and mysterious noblewomen. Noël Coward and Ivor Novello were nearer the mark but the weakness of their books disqualifies them from such revivals as are enjoyed by the lesser operettas of Strauss and Offenbach. Meanwhile, what of America? Probably the composer to come nearest to the Viennese style was John Philip Sousa. Victor Herbert (influenced both by the Viennese composers and by Sullivan), Sigmund Romberg and Rudolph Friml firmly established their own styles and, sooner than anyone might have expected, attempts at operetta on the Broadway stages gave way to revue and the separate ‘numbers’ of Kern, Rodgers, Berlin, Porter, Gershwin and the other writers of the Great American Songbook. Then came the ‘musical’, often (as with Show Boat) with rebarbative themes. As far as operetta was concerned, the boom days were over, and apart from occasional excursions such as Bernstein’s Candide and Sondheim’s A little night music, that is, sadly, that. It is difficult to believe that we have seen the last of Die Fledermaus or The merry widow, but how many music-lovers under, say, 35 still recognise the music of Kálmán or Kűnneke? Is operetta really dead? Discuss. Book a place to attend Angela Cockburn’s talk on the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan and Offenbach in Enjoy, Learn, Discuss on Sunday 15 at 2.30pm. Also listen every month to operetta on the first and third Saturdays at 3pm. This month hear Offenbach’s Ba-ta-clan and Shostakovich’s Cheryomushki (3rd) and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeoman of the Guard (17th). October 2017
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MOZART RE-IMAGINED IN A NEW ART WORK the artist Anri Sala, with the assistance of several music arrangers, and it has been recorded by the Munich Chamber Orcheshra. As the recording plays, the sounds of this modern interpretation of Mozart’s concerto will activate the snare drums to beat out a rhythm to accompany the music.
Music of Mozart, arranged to follow the description of the wind and played through hidden speakers, will be a feature of an art installation of both sculpture and sound called The Last Resort presented by Kaldor Public Art Projects. The sound will come from 38 snare drums suspended upside down from the ceiling of the Rotunda on Observatory Hill high above The Rocks. The hauntingly beautiful second movement of Mozart’s Clarinet concerto in A, K622 has been arranged by
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Anri Sala was born in 1974 in Tirana, Albania, studied art in Albania and France and lives
It has taken Sala three years to prepare The Last Resort and he is premiering the installation in Sydney for the 33rd Kaldor Public Art Project which is free to the public. Also free are the wonderful views to be seen from Observatory Hill. The wind and the sea which have inspired this re-imagining of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto are also evident from this vantage point. So what could be better than Mozart, a fascinating new art installation and our beautiful harbour and city? - ES
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Where does the wind figure in this? James Bell, a 19th Century sailor, in recording his experiences on a sea voyage from England to Australia, wrote vivid descriptions of the wind. It’s this description which has influenced the tempo of this reimagining. The transformation of the canonical music is described as ‘if like a message in a bottle it had been washed ashore in Sydney after a long voyage at sea’.
and works in Berlin. In his work, Sala explores themes of loss and language, as well as the relationship between sound, space and architecture. He does this through video, sculpture and art installation. The complex interplay between live and recorded musical compositions is something which he has been exploring in recent times. He has interpreted musical compositions in multi-channel video and sound installations which emphasise the perception of sound in relation to architectural spaces. His work has been seen in various countries of Europe, in Mexico, the United States and Japan.
“One of the most important artists in Europe” —The Guardian Experience a stunning reimagining of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in this immersive art installation overlooking Sydney Harbour. Enjoy free talks, events and discussions daily. Plan your visit: kaldorartprojects.org.au
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JAMES NIGHTINGALE AT THE MIDWAY POINT In direct opposition to these views, it seems to me, is the music of Beethoven, who wrote so many of his major works in the key of E flat major. The Eroica Symphony, the Emperor Concerto, the Piano sonata no 26, Les Adieux, Piano sonata no 18, the String Quartets numbers 10 and 12, and the Overture and ballet from Prometheus are all in the key of E flat major. These works, it seems to me are heroic but not cruel, bold but not sacred. The opinions of neither Schubart or Charpentier seem to stand up to the vigour and artistry of Beethoven’s works in E flat major.
The Master Key series in Sunday Special has passed its half-way point and the program showcasing E flat major on Sunday 1 October begins the second half of the series. One of the peculiar pleasures of preparing our series of programs has been the chance for Anne Irish and me to review, however summarily, various texts which comment upon the character of each key. Over the centuries musicians and philosophers have waxed lyrical on this subject, often with conflicting views. For instance, Christian Schubart wrote that E flat major was the key of love, devotion and intimate conversation with God. In contrast, Marc-Antoine Charpentier described E flat major as ‘cruel and hard’. Before dismissing these views as irreconcilable, it needs to be noted that in the nearly 100 years between Charpentier and Christian Schubart, much had changed in the way in which musical instruments were tuned, making keys remote to C major sound less awkward. Simultaneously, the development of the piano provided a new timbral world which perhaps took the edge off keys such as E flat major.
More pertinently though, when programming a two-hour radio program, how could we decide which of Beethoven’s works to include or, indeed, exclude? In the end, we felt the appropriate course was to use Beethoven’s Variations and fugue in E flat major, op 35 (1802). The Eroica Variations, as Beethoven’s Opus 35 became known, is the site of Beethoven’s first recycling of the Prometheus theme. Originating in his ballet, The creatures of Prometheus (1800-01), Beethoven would use this theme again in the finale of his Symphony no 3, the Eroica symphony (1803). Since Beethoven’s time, other composers, including György Ligeti, have appropriated the theme also (in his opera Le grand macabre). In the Eroica Variations we hear Beethoven playing with the musical ideas, exercising his creativity in ways which he would exploit again in his first ‘Great’ symphony. At the opening of the variations we hear first the bass line of the theme, sparsely stated but full of harmonic momentum, then harmonised in simple arpeggios and then chords. Just before the end of the introduction we finally hear the
Prometheus theme in full. It is a piece which says so much about Viennese musical life at the turn of the 19th century, utilising variations form, upon the pianoforte and being a virtuoso work with which Beethoven could astound his audience. After solving the problem of which of Beethoven’s works to include, the issue was of which Symphony to feature. There are so many wonderful symphonies in E flat. We settled upon Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony to finish the program, despite the claims of symphonies by Bruckner, Dvorák, Elgar, Hindemith, Mozart and Mahler. Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio and Brahms’ Third Piano Trio, Haydn’s String Quartet, the Joke, rounds out this program. I don’t think any of this music reflects Schubart or Charpentier’s opinions of E flat major. As well as selecting great music, however, my colleague, Anne Irish, and I decided that it was necessary to apply a unifying factor to bind the series together. So we have programmed a Prelude and Fugue by either J.S. Bach or Shostakovich in every edition. Luckily, the huge number of performances of these cycles by so many wonderful musicians has provided us with a wealth of different approaches to enjoy. Over the two-year course of the series, you will hear Preludes and Fugues from both of Bach’s series, The Well-tempered Clavier, Books 1 and 2 played by Richard Egarr at the harpsichord, Glenn Gould in his inimitable style at the piano, and with grace and simplicity by Angela Hewitt also at the piano. Interpreters of Shostakovich’s Preludes and fugues, op 87 include Roger Woodward, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alexander Melnikov, three giants of the modern piano. Please join us as the black notes dominate the keys distant from C major as the Master Key series continues in Sunday Special at 3pm on 1 October with the key of E flat major. While we don’t have time for the Eroica Symphony in that program, we can look forward to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in the November program, C minor.
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Sunday 1 OCTOBER Mozart, W. Trio in E flat, K498, Kegelstatt (1786). Paul Dean, cl; Brett Dean, va; Stephen Emmerson, pf. ABC 442 363-2 18 Chopin, F. Grande polonaise, op 22 (1834). Alfred Brendel, pf. Vanguard OVC 4023 9 Haydn, J. String quartet in E flat, op 33 no 2 (1782). Salomon Quartet. Hyperion CDA66681 19 Sibelius, J. Symphony no 5 in E flat, op 82 (1915). Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer. ABC 476 3946 32 Francis Poulenc
Olli Mustonen
0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
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
6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Robert Small Tallis, T. If ye love me; Hear the voice and prayer. Tallis Scholars. Gimell CDGIM 203 5 Vaughan Williams, R. Excerpts from Mass in G minor (1921). Corydon Singers/Matthew Best. Hyperion CDA 66076 18 Poulenc, F. Gloria (1959). Jessica Rivera, sop; Chicago Symphony Ch & O/Bernard Haitink. CSO-Resound CSOR 901 906 24 Bach, J.S. Motet: Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV229 (1730). Berlin Vocal Consort/Marcus Creed. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902079 9 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Richard Verco Hoffmeister, F. Partita no 3 in B flat. Consortium Classicum. cpo 999 107-2 14 Kraus, J.M. Trio in D (1787). Jaap Schröder, vn; Kari Ottesen, vc; Lucia Negro, fp. Musica Sveciae MSCD 415 20 Mozart, W. Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K505 (1786). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Pierre Nola, pf; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Sony SK 66282 10 Beethoven, L. Piano concerto no 2 in B flat, op 19 (1795). Martha Argerich, pf; Royal Concertgebouw O/Neeme Järvi. Radio Nederland RCO 08005 30 Danzi, F. Quintet in B flat, op 56 no 1 (pub. 1821). Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. BIS CD-552 16 Haydn, M. Symphony in D (1785). Helsingborg SO/Hans-Peter Frank. BIS CD-481 19 10
13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Anna Tranter Showcases diverse music from cultures around the world, both traditional and modern, featuring musicians from all corners of the globe, including Australia 14:00 PICCOLO! PICCOLO! Prepared by Derek Parker Vivaldi, A. Piccolo concerto in C, RV443. William Bennett, picc; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 448 110-2 11 Hough, S. Piccolo sonatina (2007). Michael Hasel, picc. BIS BIS-CD-1952 7 Stanhope, P. Piccolo and flute concerto. Andrew Macleod, picc; Melbourne SO/ Benjamin Northey, fl & dir. ABC 481 0862 21 Easton, M. Piccolo concerto. Frederick Shade, picc; Academy of Melbourne/Brett Kelly. Screen Themes ST5005 13 Straus, O. Piccolo! Piccolo! from A waltz dream (1908). June Bronhill, sop; Rita Williams Singers; O/Michael Collins. EMI 3891632 4 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Master key: E flat major Prepared by James Nightingale Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue in E flat, BWV852 (1722). Richard Egarr, hpd. DHM 907431 7 Beethoven, L. 15 Variations and a fugue in E flat on an original theme, op 35, Eroica (1802). Olli Mustonen, pf. Decca 436 834-2 22
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17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Stephen Matthews Telemann, G. Lutheran cantata: Wertes Zion, sei getros. Sächsisches Barockorchester; Bach Consort, Leipzig/Gotthold Schwarz. cpo 777 753-2 19 Harris, W. Service in D. Ely Cathedral Girls Choir; Alexander Berry, org; Sarah MacDonald, cond. Regent REGCD477 6 Mendelssohn, F. I waited for the Lord. Andrew Semple, treb; Jonathan Chinchen, treb; Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond. Decca 436 404-2 5 Bach, J.S. Excerpts from Apocryphal St Luke Passion, BWV246. Alsfelder Choir; Bremen Baroque O/Wolfgang Helbich. cpo 999 293-2 12 Mendelssohn, F. Lift thine eyes. Knox Gallery Choir; Peter Kneeshaw, org; Meg Matthews, cond. Knox 1 2 Hymns: Holy Spirit ever dwelling; Lead kindly light; Thy hand, O God, has guided. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough, org; Malcolm Archer, cond. Hyperion CDP 12101 9 18:00 BASSOON SELECTIONS Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Trio in G, WoO37 (1786). Karlheinz Zoeller, fl; Klaus Thunemann, bn; Aloys Kontarsky, pf. DG 439 852-2 21 Mozart, W. Bassoon concerto in B flat, K191 (1774). Milan Turkovic, bn; Salzburg Mozarteum O/Leopold Hager. Teldec 8.44056 18 Roussel, A. Duo for bassoon and double bass (1925). Members of Czech Nonet. Praga Da Camera PRD 350 018 3 Devienne, F. Sonata in C, op 24 no 1 (c1785). Klaus Thunemann, bn; Klaus Stoll, vle; Jörg Ewald Dähler, fp. Claves 50-9207 10
Sunday 1 OCTOBER
Monday 2 OCTOBER 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1917 Prepared by Di Cox Respighi, O. Ancient airs and dances, suite no 1 (1917). Australian CO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Omega OCD 1007 17
Arvo Pärt 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Stephen Matthews Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV56: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (1726). Peter Kooy, bass; La Chapelle Royale/Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMA 1951365 18 Spohr, L. Clarinet concerto no 1 in C minor. English CO/Gerard Schwarz. Brilliant Classics 94100/10 22 Dittersdorf, C. Sinfonia in A minor. Failoni O/ Uwe Grodd. Naxos 8.553975 22 Tuma, I. Sonata in E minor. Musica Florea/ Marek Stryncl. Supraphon SU 3806-2 3
Ravel, M. Le tombeau de Couperin (1917). Orpheus CO. DG 449 186-2 16 Bartók, B. Rumanian folk dances (1917). Roberto Michelucci, vn; I Musici. Philips 426 669-2 6 Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 1 in D, op 25, Classical (1917). Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian. Chandos CHAN 9615 15 Satie, E. Gymnopédies, nos 1 to 3 (1917). Roland Pöntinen, pf. BIS CD-317 8 Fauré, G. Sonata no 1 in D, op 109 (1917). Frédéric Lodéon, vc; Jean-Philippe Collard, pf. EMI CMS 7 62545-2 19 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Mozart, W. Symphony no 12 in G, K75b. Prague CO/Charles Mackerras. Telarc 80729 15
Liszt, F. Symphonic poem no 3: Les préludes (1848/53). Suisse Romande O/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9360 15
20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Calogero Panvino
Glière, R. Horn concerto in B flat, op 91 (1952). Richard Watkins, hn; BBC PO/ Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9379 24
Pärt, A. Da pacem Domine (2004). Hilliard Ensemble. ECM 476 3048 6 Saariaho, K. Changing light (2002). Pia Freund, sop; Antte Tikkanen, vn. 6 Terra memoria (2006). Meta4. 20 Ondine ODE 1242-2 (2 above) Orlovich, M. Communion of reparation (2010). Colleen Guilfoyle, mezz; Timothy Grantham, bar. 7 Leek, S. Agnus Dei (2004). 5 Brisbane Chamber Choir/Graeme Morton (2 above) Tall Poppies TP239 Pärt, A. Lamentate (2002). Alexei Lubimov, pf; SWR Stuttgart RSO/Andrey Boreyko. ECM 476 3048 37 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones
Sibelius, J. Symphony no 1 in E minor, op 39 (1899). Danish National RSO/Leif Segerstam. Chandos CHAN 9107 43 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan Featuring bands of the 1930s swing era and the dance bands of the 1920s taken from radio broadcasts, transcriptions and recording sessions 13:00 NOT A CROWD Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Weber, C.M. Trio in G minor, op 63 (1819). Geoffrey Collins, fl; David Pereira, vc; David Bollard, pf. Fine Music concert recording 19 Graupner, C. Trio sonata in C for bassoon, chalumeau and harpsichord (c1742). Members of Finnish Baroque O. Ondine ODE 1240-2 9
Antonio Salieri Boïeldieu, A. Ma Fanchette est charmante, from Angéla (1814). Joan Sutherland, sop; Marilyn Horne, mezz; Richard Conrad, ten; New SO of London/Richard Bonynge. Decca 448 594-2 4 Schubert, F. String trio in B flat, D471, Triosatz (1816). Sydney String Trio. Fine Music concert recording 7 Milhaud, D. Suite, from Anouilh’s Le voyageur sans bagages, op 157b (1936). Ludmila Peterková, cl; Gabriela Demeterová, vn; Markéta Cibulková, pf. Supraphon SU 3481-2 131 11 14:00 WITH ORCHESTRA Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Salieri, A. Ballet: Les Danaïdes (1784). Mannheim Mozart O/Thomas Fey. Hänssler 98.506 23 Respighi, O. Piano concerto in A minor (1902). Geoffrey Tozer, pf; BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9285 24 Puccini, G. Crisantemi (1890). London SO/ Antonio Pappano. EMI 5 57159 2 7 Berlioz, H. Les nuits d’été, op 7 (1840-41). Régine Crespin, sop; Suisse Romande O/ Ernest Ansermet. Decca 417 813-2 31 Saint-Saëns, C. Suite algérienne, op 60 (1880). Swiss-Italian O/Francis Travis. Chandos CHAN 9837 20 16:00 FINE MUSIC HOLIDAY including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson October 2017
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Tuesday 3 OCTOBER
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Alexander Skryabin
Nicolai Myaskovsky
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Skryabin, A. Symphony no 2 in C minor, op 29 (1901). Philadelphia O/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC 7 49859 2 48
Mozart, L. Horn concerto in D. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. EMI 5 69395 2 11
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Master pianists Prepared by Rebecca Zhong
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
Schubert, F. Klavierstück in C, D946 no 3 (1828). Maria João Pires, pf. DG 457 550-2 5
13:00 PATRICK THOMAS A tribute Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Hummel, J. Trumpet concerto in E (1803). Urban Agnas, tpt; London Mozart Players/ Howard Shelley. Chandos CHAN 9925 19
Britten, B. Mazurka elegiaca, op 23 no 2 (1941). Clifford Curzon, Benjamin Britten, pf. Decca 478 5364 8
Byrd, W. William Byrd suite (1923; arr. Jacob). Queensland SO/Patrick Thomas. LP ABC 5ABCL 8001 13
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Andrew Dziedzic
Schumann, R. Three romances, op 94 (1849). Douglas Boyd, ob; Maria João Pires, pf. Harmonia Mundi 479 5964 12
Hanson, H. Serenade. Patrick Thomas, fl; Larry Sitsky, pf. LP Brolga BZM 21 5
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
Boulanger, L. D’un matin de printemps (1918). Yehudi Menuhin, vn; Clifford Curzon, pf. EMI CDM 7 64281 2 5 Brahms, J. Trio no 2 in C, op 87 (1880-82). Augustin Dumay, vn; Jian Wang, vc; Maria João Pires, pf. Harmonia Mundi 479 5964 29 Liszt, F. Berceuse (1854). Clifford Curzon, pf. Decca 452 306-2 9 Mozart, W. Ch’io mi scordi di te?, K505 (1786). Christine Schäfer, sop; Maria João Pires, pf; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 457 582-2 10 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mozart, W. Overture to The magic flute, K620 (1791). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 431 291-2 7 Hummel, J. Piano concerto in A minor, op 85 (c1816). Martin Galling, pf; Stuttgart PO/ Alexander Paulmüller. Vanguard 08 9178 72 27 12
Hill, A. Glora in excelsis, from Symphony no 2, Joy of life (1941). Adelaide Singers; Adelaide Philharmonic Choir. ABC 442 377-2 6 Grieg, E. Concerto in A minor (1883; transcr. Karr; orch. Horovitz). Gary Karr, db. ABC 438 612-2 23 Adelaide SO (2 above) Respighi, O. Suite: The birds (1927). BBC PO. Carlton Classics 15656 91372 18 Sutherland, M. Haunted hills (1953). Melbourne SO. ABC 446 285-2 15 Mozart, W. Flute concerto no 1 in G, K313 (1778). Neville Amadio, fl; Sydney SO. ABC 476 595-7 25 Patrick Thomas, cond (5 above) 15:00 BRASS CONCERTOS Prepared by Gael Golla Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Trombone concerto (1877; orch. Lindberg). Christian Lindberg, tb; Tapiola Sinfonietta/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-568 10
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Vaughan Williams, R. Tuba concerto in F minor (1954). Patrick Harrild, tuba; London SO/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8740 13
20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Michael Field 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Paul Cooke Hummel, J. Piano trio no 1 in E flat, op 12. Australian Trio. ABC 476 123-1 21 Myaskovsky, N. Sonata no 1, op 12. Truls Mørk, vc; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf. Virgin 5 45119 2 20 Brahms, J. Quintet in F minor, op 34 (186164). Lucinda Collins, pf; Australian String Quartet. Fine Music concert recording 45 Reich, S. Different trains (1988). Kronos Quartet. Nonesuch 979 176-2 27 In Different trains Steve Reich combind the voices of Pullman porters with those of Holocaust survivors. PLEASE FIND PROGRAM SERIES AND HIGHLIGHTS ON PAGE 32
Wednesday 4 OCTOBER
Heinrich Biber
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Gaetano Donizetti
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12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale Jazz of many colours, some old, some new and all designed to inform and stimulate the senses
Galuppi, B. Alla tromba della Fama, from La Statira. Niklas Eklund, tpt; Wasa Baroque Ensemble. Naxos 8.555099 7
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus: Heinrich Biber Prepared by Rex Burgess Biber, H. Sonata à 10 in C, Pro tabula (pub. 1676). Flanders Recorder Quartet; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 453 442-2 8 Sonata representativa in A (1669). Romanesca. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907134.35 13 Partita no 7 in C minor, from Harmonia Artificiosa-Ariosa (pub. 1712). Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 479 1957 20 Battalia à 10 (pub. 1673). New London Consort/Philip Pickett. Decca 458 081-2 10
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 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans Each week we meet one of the world’s great musicians, singers, composers or conductors, along with up-and-comers and some of the men and women who influence the arts landscape. The program goes live to air so you never quite know what’s going to happen. 15:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC EXPLORED Russia: Part 1 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Ivan, The Terrible. Kuimi pokhvalienui mi. 2 Anon. Mediaeval Russian songs. 8
Requiem in F minor. Catherine Bott, sop; Tessa Bonner, sop; Christopher Robson, ct; John Mark Ainsley, ten; Michael George, bar; New London Consort/Philip Pickett, Decca 458 081-2 30
Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (2 above) Gimell CDGIM 002
10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Anne Irish
Tsar Feodor. It is truly meet to bless thee. 2
Dvorák, A. Czech suite, op 39 (1879). Scottish CO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 765 23 Grieg, E. Piano concerto in A minor, op 16 (1868). Leif Ove Andsnes, pf; Bergen PO/ Dmitri Kitaienko. Virgin 7 59613 2 30 Schubert, F. Symphony no 5 in B flat, D485 (1816). Vienna PO/Georg Solti. Decca 414 371-2 30
Trad. Liturgy: The great litany. Don Cossack Choir/Serge Jaroff. Brilliant Classics 8848 6 Turchaninov, P. Let all mortal flesh keep silence. 5 Trad. The steppes and my Motherland; The cossack’s dream and the cossack’s dark eyed girl. 13 Bortnyansky, D. Psalm 101: For the Lord hath built Zion. 2 Monks of St Peter and St Paul, St Petersburg (4 above) Trad. Vichnia and Kalinka. Wonderful World 54203 6
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman Donizetti, G. Anna Bolena. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Felice Romani. First performed Milan,1830. ANNA BOLENA: Joan Sutherland, sop HENRY VIII: Samuel Ramey, bass LORD PERCY: Jerry Hadley, ten JANE SEYMOUR: Susanne Mentzer, mezz SMEATON: Bernadette Manca di Nissa, cont Welsh National Opera Ch & O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 421 096-2 3:13 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com 23:30 BAROQUE PIANO Prepared by Brian Drummond Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E, Kk531; Sonata in A, Kk322; Sonata in G, Kk455. Vladimir Horowitz, pf. CBS MK 42410 10 Handel, G. Chaconne in G, HWV435 (pub. 1733). Murray Perahia, pf. Sony SK 62785 8 Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue no 20 in A minor, BWV865 (1722). Jenö Jandó, pf. Naxos 8.553796-7 6 J.S. Bach probably encountered the recently-invented fortepiano only once towards the end of his life while visiting his son Emanuel in Potsdam. October 2017
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Thursday 5 OCTOBER Glazunov, A. Piano concerto no 1 in F minor, op 92 (1910-11). Stephen Coombs, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA66877 31 MacDowell, E. Symphonic poems, op 22 (1884): Hamlet; Ophelia. Ulster O/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.559075 13
Georges Bizet 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
13:00 HOMAGE TO KURT WEILL Prepared by Derek Parker
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore
Weill, K. Symphonic nocturne: Lady in the dark (1940; arr. Robert Russell Bennett). Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557481 18
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Great string players Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans
Suite from Der Silbersee (1933). MIT SO/ David Epstein. LP Turnabout TV 34760 28
Saint-Saëns, C. Fantasy in A, op 124 (1907). Renaud Capuçon, vn; Marie-Pierre Langlamet, hp. EMI/Virgin 5 45602 2 13
September song, from Knickerbocker holiday. Kevin Colson, voice; London Sinfonietta O/ John McGlinn. EMI 5 72966 2 4
Beethoven, L. 14 Variations in E flat, op 44 (c1792). Pinchas Zukerman, vn; Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Daniel Barenboim, pf. EMI CMS 7 63124-2 15
Surabaya Johnny, from Happy end (1929). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; NDR SO/John Eliott Gardiner. DG 479 1044 6
Hummel, J. Piano trio in F, op 22 (1799). Simon Standage, vn; Pal Banda, vc; Susan Alexander-Max, fp. Naxos 8.557694 13
Violin concerto, op 12 (1924). Anton Miller, vn; Hartt School Wind Ensemble/Glen Adsit. Naxos 8.572889 27
Mozart, W. Duo no 1 in G, K423 (1783). Arthur Grumiaux, vn; Arrigo Pelliccia, va. Philips 422 513-2 15 Boccherini, L. Cello sonata in C minor, G18 (arr.) Francesco Lattuada, va; Federico Bracalente, vc continuo; Luigi Puxeddu, vc continuo. Brilliant Classics 94386 12
14:30 TRIO SELECTIONS Prepared by Frank Morrison Alkan, C-V. Trio in G minor, op 30 (1840). Dong-Suk Kang, vn; Yvan Chiffoleau, vc; Olivier Gardon, pf. Timpani IC 1013 21 Handel, G. Trio sonata no 5 in G, HWV384 (1720). Convivium. Hyperion CDA67083 7
Lhoyer, A. de Duo concertante in A, op 31 no 1. Josiane Rabemananjara, gui; Philippe Spinosi, gui. naïve OP 30396 12
Beethoven, L. Sonatina in C, WoO33 nos 4 and 5 (c1794; ed. Hess). Maxim Rysanov, va; Kristina Blaumane, vc; Jacob Katsnelson, pf. Onyx 4108 8
10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans
Sutherland, M. Little suite (1957). Diane Ridell, fl; Marla Swift, cl; George Dreyfus, bn. Move MD 3071 7
Schubert, F. Ballet music from Rosamunde, D797 (1823). Vienna SO/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Apex 0927 498132 16 Bizet, G. Suite no 1 from L’arlésienne. Mexico PO/Enrique Bátiz. Brilliant Classics 94404 19 14
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
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Debbie Scholem 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Australian Trio Prepared by Stephen Wilson Debussy, C. Piano trio no 1 in G (1880). ABC 476 123-1 23 Mozart, W. Oboe quartet in F, K370 (1781). Diana Doherty, ob. 15 Beethoven, L. A wand’ring gypsy, WoO152 no 24 (1814); The Vale of Clwyd, WoO155 no 19 (1817); The cottage maid, WoO155 no 3 (1817); Faithfu’ Johnie, op 108 no 20 (1818). Jane Edwards, sop. 10 Fine Music concert recordings (2 above) Arensky, A. Piano trio no 1 in D minor, op 32 (1894). ABC 476 123-1 32 Australian Trio (all above) 21:30 IN MEMORY 1953 Prepared by James Nightingale Bax, A. Sonata in E (1901). Robert Plane, cl; Benjamin Frith, pf. Naxos 8.557698 9 Quilter, R. Now sleeps the crimson petal, op 3 no 2 (c1900); The fair house of joy; To daisies; Over the mountains. Kathleen Ferrier, cont; Phyllis Spurr, pf. Decca 417 192-2 10 Prokofiev, S. Sonata no 3 in A minor, op 28 (1907-17). Martha Argerich, pf. DG 479 5978 6 22:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS Apollo Prepared by Rex Burgess Britten, B. Young Apollo, op 16 (1939). Peter Evans, pf; Scottish CO/José Serebrier. ASV DCA 737 8 Bliss, A. Hymn to Apollo (1928/65). London SO/Arthur Bliss. Lyrita SRCD.225 10 Pichl, V. Symphony concertante in D, op 6, Apollo. Oradea PO/Romeo Rîmbu. Olympia OCD 434 23
Khachaturian, A. Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1932). Eimer Trio. Dynamic CDS60 16
Handel, G. Cantata: Apollo and Daphne, HWV122 (c1708). Nancy Argenta, sop; Michael George, bass; Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0583 40
Schubert, F. String trio in B flat, D581 (1817). Grumiaux Trio. Philips 438 700-2 20
Stravinsky, I. Ballet: Apollon musagète (1947). Suisse Romande O/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9240 30
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Friday 6 OCTOBER 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN
13:30 BACH AND SONS Prepared by Gael Golla
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus
Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue in G sharp minor, BWV887 (1738-42). Angela Hewitt, pf. Hyperion CDA67741/4 7
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Bach, W.F. Duet no 5 in E flat (c1770). Wolfgang Schulz, fl; Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob. Sony SK 58 965 12
Chopin, F. Grand duo concertant in E on themes from Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable (1831). Maria Kliegel, vc; Bernd Glemser, pf. Naxos 8.553159 13
Canteloube, J. When I was a little girl; Shepherd lass if you love me; I have no sweetheart; The quail; Bailero; Cradle song; The abandoned girl. Sara McLiver, sop; Queensland O/Brett Kelly. ABC 476 5703 23 Bizet, G. Suites nos 1 and 2, from L’arlésienne (1872). City of Granada O/Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901675 34
Bach, J.C.F. Trio sonata in F for two violins and basso continuo. London Baroque. BIS BIS-1995 9
Saint-Saëns, C. Piano quartet in B flat, op 41 (1875). Members of Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA67431/2 30
Carulli, F. Introduction, theme and variations on the Italian aria Sul margine di un rio, op 142. Alfonso Baschiera, gui. Nuova Era 7102 9
Bach, C.P.E. Cello concerto in A, Wq172 (1753). Anner Bijlsma, vc; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt. Virgin VC 7 90800-2 19
Offenbach, J. Duet in C, op 52 no 3 (1847). Alain Meunier, vc; Philippe Muller, vc. Arion ARN 68234 10
Rachmaninov, S. Variations on a theme of Corelli, op 42 (1931; orch. Dumbraveanu). Alan Kogosowski, pf; Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9261 20
Bach, J. Christian Quintet in D for flute, oboe, violin, viola and continuo, op 11 no 6 (1774). Members of Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 8.41062 14
Brahms, J. Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel, op 24 (1861). Olga Kern, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908401.08 29 Prokofiev, S. Overture on Hebrew themes, op 34 (1934). Yevgeny Kissin, pf; Moscow Virtuosi. Philips 456 871-2 9
Bach, J.S. Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV26 (1713-15). Trebles of Vienna Boys Choir; Paul Esswood, ct; Kurt Equiluz, ten; Siegmund Nimsgern, bass; Ch Viennensis; Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 2564 69943-7 17
10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Di Cox
15:00 INTIMATE BRAHMS Prepared by Frank Morrison
Wagner, R. Overture to Act I of The mastersingers of Nuremberg (1866-67). Munich PO/Hans Knappertsbusch. DG 479 1148 11
Berlioz, H. Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, op 23 (1836-38). San Diego SO/Yoav Talmi. Naxos 8.550999 11
Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 9 in E flat, K271, Jeunehomme (1777). Norwegian CO/ Leif Ove Andsnes, pf & dir. EMI 5 57803 2 30 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 8 in G, op 88 (1889). London PO/Mstislav Rostropovich. EMI 5 65705 2 41 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS Paul Paviour on parade Paviour, P. Te Deum (2000). 8 The morning watch (2012). 5 Magnificat. 5
Milhaud, D. Suite provençale, op 152b (1936). Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9072 14 Brahms, J. Trio in C, op 87 (1880-82). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI 7 54725 2 28 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse Focus on the current Sydney jazz scene mixed with a range of international jazz stars and a weekly a cappella item
The glories of this noble sound (2001). 6
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Choir of Worcester Cathedral; Christopher Allsop, org; Stephen Shellard, cond (all above) Regent REGCD 410
Arriaga, J. Overture to Nonetto, op 1 (c1817). Le Concert des Nations; La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall. Astrée E 8532 8
22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prætorius and the German Renaissance Prepared by Susan Bell Mancinus, T. Cantio nova, Eobanus Hessus, after Psalm 128 (pub. c1590). Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier. BIS CD-389 6 Hassler, H. Canzon duodecimi toni; Domine Dominus noster (pub.1601). Choir of Westminster Cathedral; Timothy Roberts, org; Iain Simcock; org; Iris Schöllhorn, org; His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornets /James O’Donnell. Hyperion CDA66688 8 Lechner, L. Si bona suscepimus. Vocal Ensemble of La Chapelle Royale/Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901401 8 Senfl, L. Was wird es dich des wunders noch; Taundernaken. Nancy Hadden, fl; Janet See, fl; Rachel Beckett, fl; Lisa Beznosiuk, fl. Hyperion CDA66298 4 Agricola, A. Trois chansons. Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel. Sony 88697478442 16 Kapsberger, J. Toccata e ballo. Tragicomedia. EMI CDC 7 54312-2 9 Praetorius, H. Magnificat quarti toni (1622); Quam pulchra es, amica mea (1618); Quam pulchra es (1606); Indica mihi (1635). 25 Four dances from Terpsichore (pub. 1612). Saffire. ABC 476 5695 9 Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (pub. 1619). Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel. Sony SK 48 039 10 Selection of dances from Terpsichore. New London Consort/Philip Pickett. L’Oiseau-Lyre 414 633-2 11 October 2017
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Saturday 7 OCTOBER 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Ponchielli, A. Dance of the hours, from La gioconda. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP 2G 102 6 Porter, C. In the still of the night: Beguine. Hendon Band/Donald Morrison. Contour 2870135 3 Elgar, E. Brittanic salute. Band of HM Royal Marines/Nick Grace. ABC 278-0272 4 Henk de Graaf 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with James Nightingale 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 ORCHESTRAS AROUND THE WORLD Philharmonia Orchestra Prepared by Frank Morrison Grainger, P. The warriors (1913-16). John Eliot Gardiner, cond. DG 445 860-2 18 Granados, E. La maja y el ruiseñor, from Goyescas (1911). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Anatole Fistoulari, cond. EMI CDH 7 64028 2 10 Khachaturian, A. Suite from Masquerade (1941). Aram Khachaturian, cond. EMI CDC 5 55035 2 11 Franck, C. Symphony in D minor (1887-88). Francesco d’Avalos, cond. ASV DCA 708 37 Philharmonia O (all above) 10:30 SMALL FORCES Anon. La folía: The art of the recorder. David Munrow, rec; Christopher Hogwood, hpd. Award AW 29180 4 Crusell, B. Quartet no 2 in C minor, op 4 (1804). Henk de Graaf, cl; members of Schubert Consort. Columns Classics 99168 19 Tchaikovsky, P. None but the lonely heart, op 6 (1869; transcr. Primrose). Roberto Diaz, va; Robert Koenig, pf. Naxos 8.557391 3 Schumann, R. Fantasy pieces, op 73 (1849). Gershon Dembinsky, cl; Jonathan Zak, pf. PWK Classics 1142 12 Wind octet in E flat. Members of Virtuosi di Praga/Oldrich Vlcek. Cantus Classics CACD 8.00128 D 16 16
Sullivan, A. Overture to Haddon Hall. CWS (Manchester) Band/Alex Mortimer. Fontana 886-154 TY 8 Meacham, F. March: American patrol. Tokyo Kosei Wind O/Yoshinao Ohsawa. Denon 32 CG 1629 4 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 OPUS ONE Prepared by Angela Bell Puccini, G. Preludio sinfonico, op 1 (1882). London SO/Antonio Pappano. EMI 5 57159 2 9
Shostakovich, D. Cheryomushki. Operetta in six parts. Libretto by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky. First performed, Moscow, 1959. Pimlico Opera & O/Wasfi Kani. BBC Music BBCMM132 1:13 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com 17:30 STAGING MUSIC with Angela Cockburn Are we there yet? Wales & Ireland 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Folk Federation of NSW with Gerry Myerson 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Annabelle Drumm 20:00 INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS Malcolm Williamson Prepared by Paul Cooke Lutyens, E. En voyage (1944). Royal PO/ Simon Joly. Lyrita SRCD.214 15 Stravinsky, I. Octet (1923). Nash Ensemble/ Elgar Howarth. EMI 5 72698 2 15
Grieg, E. Four piano pieces, op 1 (1861). Einar Steen-Nøekleberg, pf. Naxos 8.550881 13
Williamson, M. Sonata no 1 (1956). Antony Gray, pf. ABC 472 902-2 11
Dvorák, A. String quintet in A minor, op 1 (1861). Ladislav Kyselak, va; Vlach Quartet. Naxos 8.553376 30
Dunstable, J. Veni sancte spiritus. Orlando Consort. Metronome MET 1009 6
Sor, F. Six divertimenti, op 1 (c1810). Norbert Kraft, gui. Naxos 8.554196 16
Messiaen, O. Communion, from Messe de la Pentecôte (1949-50). Mari Fukumoto, org. Naxos 8.573155 6
Ruchman, S. Quartet in F sharp minor, op 1. Alyce Cognetta Bertz, vn; Igor Kalnin, vn; Ah Young Sung, va; Arnold Choi, vc. www.sharonruchman.com 11
Williamson, M. English eccentrics choral suite (1964). Joyful Company of Singers/ Peter Broadbent. Naxos 8.557783 15
Sullivan, A. Suite from The tempest, op 1 (1861). BBC PO/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9859 28 15:00 OPERETTA IN THE AFTERNOON Prepared by Elaine Siversen Offenbach, J. Ba-ta-clan. Operetta in one act. Libretto by Ludovic Halévy. First performed Paris, 1855. FÉ-AN-NICH-TON: Hugette Boulangeot, sop KÉ-KI-KA-KO: Raymond Amade, ten FÉ-NI-HAN: Rémy Corazza, ten KO-KO-RI-KO: René Terrasson, bass Philippe Caillard Chorale; Jean-François Paillard O/Marcel Couraud. Erato DUE 20240 40 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com Concerto rondo (1851). Guido Schiefen,vc; Cologne WDR RO/Helmut Froschauer. cpo 777 069-2 20
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Britten, B. Phaedra, op 93 (1975). Janet Baker, sop; English CO/Steuart Bedford. Decca 478 5364 16 Williamson, M. Symphony no 7 for strings. Brunel Ensemble/Christopher Austin. Signum SIGCD053 22 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Paul Cooke Elgar, E. Polonia, op 76 (1915). Royal Scottish NO/Andrew Davis. Chandos CHSA 5083 14 Chopin, F. Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, op 35 (1839). Yuja Wang, pf. DG 477 8140 25 Paderewski, I. Symphony in B minor, op 24, Polonia (1903-08). BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk. Hyperion CDA67056 1:14
Sunday 8 OCTOBER 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Marcello, B. Psalm 47(48): Great is the Lord, from Estro poetico-armonico (pub. 1724). Cantus Cölln/Konrad Junghänel. Harmonia Mundi HMG 901696 12 Handel, G. Chandos anthem no 5: I will magnify thee O God (1717-18). Susan Gritton, sop; Jestyn Davies, ct; Thomas Hobbs, ten; Choir of Trinity College; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA67926 24 Rutter, J. Gloria (1974). Choirs of St Albans Cathedral; Ensemble DeChorum; Tim Winpenny, org; Andrew Lucas, cond. Naxos 8.572653 17 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Di Cox Schubert, F. Six German dances, D820 (1824; arr. Webern). American SO/Leon Botstein. Koch 3-7307-2 7 Hummel, J. Piano quintet in E flat, op 87 (c1802). Music Collection. Chandos CHAN 0800 25 Beethoven, L. Trio in G, op 9 no 1 (1797-98). Oleg Kagan, vn; Yuri Bashmet, va; Natalia Gutman, vc. Live Classics LCL 141 31 Gluck, C. O del mio dolce ardor, from Paride ed Elena (1770). Magdalena Kozená, mezz; Prague PO/Michel Swierczewski. DG 471 334-2 3 Haydn, J. Concertino in C, Hob.XIV:11 (1760). Reinhard Goebel, vn; Alda Stuurop, vn; Charles Medlam, vc; Ton Koopman, hpd. Philips 446 542-2 7
14:00 FIVE GIUSEPPES Prepared by Derek Parker Verdi, G. Ballet music from Il trovatore (1853). BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9594 24 Sammartini, G.B. Symphony in G minor. Symphonica Ensemble/Daniele Ferrari. Naxos 8.570253 7 Tartini, G. Trumpet concerto in D. Maurice André, tpt; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Erato 2292 45062-2 10 Persiani, G. Cari giorni a me sereni, from Ines de Castro (1835). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Maria Goldschmidt, fl; Una Prelle, hp; O La Scintilla/Adám Fischer. Decca 478 2558 4 Torelli, G. Sonata in D (1686). Musica Antiqua Latina/Giordano Antonelli. DHM G010003430298B 5 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL The Tarot: The fool’s journey Prepared by Angela Cockburn Rodgers, R. Falling in love with love, from The boys from Syracuse (1938). Portia Nelson, voice; Boys from Syracuse O/ Lehman Engel. Sony SK 53329 4 Rota, N. Love theme, from Romeo and Juliet (1968). Royal PO/Tolga Kashif. Sony 88697290382 3 Davis, C. Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, from Pride and prejudice suite (1995; arr. Davis). Melvyn Tan, pf; Philharmonia O/Carl Davis. Carl Davis CDC010 6 Rodgers, R. Hello young lovers, from The king and I (1951). Julie Andrews, sop; Hollywood Bowl O/John Mauceri. Decca 468 593-2 3 Rózsa, M. March of the charioteers, from Ben Hur (1959). Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band. RCA 74321 88393 2 3
Vanhal, J. Trio in E flat, op 20 no 5. Deborah de Graaff, cl; Dimity Hall, vn; David Miller, pf. Fine Music concert recording 9
Trad. Swing low, sweet chariot. Willard White, bass; Graeme McNaught, pf. Chandos CHAN 8960 2
Mozart, W. Symphony no 29 in A, K201 (1774). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Sony SK 53356 26
Vangelis. Theme from Chariots of fire (1981). London PO/David Parry. LPO Live 0063 3
12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan The early days of jazz and ragtime as recorded during the first 30 years of the 20th century 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide With Carole Garland
Sandström, J. A short ride on a motorbike (1989). Christian Lindberg, tb; Lahti SO/ Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-828 9 Pokrass, S. The red army is strongest. Red Army Choir/Vikto Eliseev. FGL 479 2311 3 Handel, G. Honour and arms, from Samson,
HWV57 (1743). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Munich CO/Hans Stadlmair. DG 449 551-2 6 Peros, N. I love you, O Lord, my strength (1998-99). Renaissance Players/Richard Cunningham. Phoenix PHX 0878-2 4 Schubert, F. The hermitage, D393 (1816). Lucia Popp, sop; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDJ33017 3 Schumann, R. The hermit, op 83 no 3 (1850). Matthias Goerne, bar; Eric Schneider, pf. Decca 475 6012 4 Barber, S. The desire for hermitage, op 29 no 10; The monk and his cat, op 29 no 8, from Hermit songs (1952-53). Cheryl Studer, sop; John Browning, pf. DG 435 867-2 6 Anon. Roulette; Petersberg champagne; Stephanie; Air de Louis XIII; Der Glurksritter. Musical box cylinders. Saydisc SDL 359 5 Trad. Blaydon races (arr. Langford). Thomas Ruedi, euphonium; Sellers Engineering Band/ Phillip McCann. Chandos CHAN 4511 3 Humberstone, J. Cycles and circles, versions 1, 2 and 3 (2012). Claire Edwardes, perc; Ensemble Offspring/Damien Ricketson. www.ensembleoffspring.com 6 France, S. What goes around comes around: Six vignettes (2006). Clarity Clarinet Quartet. Move MCD 340 9 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Everyone says there is no justice on earth, from Mozart and Salieri (1898). Sergei Alekashkin, bass; Philharmonia O/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Chandos CHAN 9629 8 Lawes, W. Justicia sacrum. René Jacobs, ct; Toyohiko Satoh, lute. RCA GD 71954 3 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymn: For the beauty of the earth. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough, org; Malcolm Archer, cond. Hyperion CDP12103 3 Rutter, J. For the beauty of the earth. Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia. Collegium COLCD 100 4 Anon. There is no rose (arr. Stevens). Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow. Conifer Classics 75605 51754-2 2 October 2017
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Monday 9 OCTOBER 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1884 Prepared by Paul Cooke
John Rutter
Ernő Dohnányi
Joubert, J. There is no rose. Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge/Mark Williams. Signum Classics SIGCD 269 2
18:00 THE HUNGARIANS Prepared by Frank Morrison
Britten, B. There is no rose, from A ceremony of carols, op 48 (1942). Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge; Marisa Robles, hp; George Guest, cond. Argo 483 1262 2 Brahms, J. Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen, from Chorale preludes, op 122 no 8 (1896). Richard Marlow, org. Conifer Classics 75605 51754-2 3 Praetorius, M. Es ist ein’ Ros’ entsprungen. Choir of St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide/ Leonie Hempton. 2 Hymn: All things bright and beautiful (pub. 1848). Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough, org; Malcolm Archer, cond. Hyperion CDP 12104 3 Rutter, J. All things bright and beautiful. Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia. Collegium COLCD 100 3 Two variations on Psalm 23. Choir of Winchester Cathedral; David Dunnett, org; David Hill, cond. Herald HAVPCD 185 5 The Lord is my shepherd, from Requiem (1985). Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia; Quentin Poole, cl; John Rutter, cond. Collegium COLCD 103 5 Goodall, H. Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd (1995). George Humphreys, treb; Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; Stephen Darlington, cond. ASV DCA 1028 3 Hymn: The King of love. Choir of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. 2 Hymn: How great thou art. Choir of York Minster. 4 Rutter, J. I believe in springtime; Te Deum: All creatures our God and King. Cambridge Singers; John Scott, org. City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD 112 15 18
Dohnányi, E. Ruralia hungarica, op 32b (1924). West Australian SO/Jorge Mester. ABC 438 197-2 24 Kodály, Z. Lovely is the forest; Wheelcart; A little sad song, from Hungarian folk music (1938-39). Lucia Popp, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. Orfeo C 363 941 B 7 Bartók, B. String quartet no 4 (1928). Takács Quartet. Decca 476 280-2 23 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Andari Anggamulia Copland, A. Suite from Billy the Kid (1938). New Zealand SO/James Judd. Naxos 8.559106 21 Bernstein, L. Serenade, after Plato’s symposium (1954). Gidon Kremer, vn; Israel PO/Leonard Bernstein. DG 469 115-2 29 Rachmaninov, S. Symphonic dances, op 45 (1940). London SO/Eugene Goossens. Price-Less D 22654 31 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by James Nightingale Grime, H. Near midnight (2013). Hallé O/ Mark Elder. NMC D199 12 Ghandar, A. Garden with birds (1998-99). Ian Munro, pf. Tall Poppies TP145 10 Moore, K. Fern. Claire Edwardes, perc; Ensemble Offspring/Damien Ricketson. www.ensembleoffspring.com 12 Adams, J. Scheherezade 2 (1947). Leila Josefowicz, vn; St Louis SO/David Robertson. Nonesuch 7559-79435-1 48 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones
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Franck, C. Les djinns, op 45 (1884). Duncan Gifford, pf; Tasmanian SO/Sebastian LangLessing. ABC 476 192-8 13 d’Indy, V. Lied, op 19 (1884). Nicolas Altstaedt, vc; José Gallardo, pf. Naxos 8.572105 8 Tchaikovsky, P. Battle of Poltava, from Mazeppa (1884). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.570154-55 6 Mahler, G. Songs of a wayfarer (1884; arr. Schoenberg 1920). Clare Gormley, sop; Jeffrey Black, bar; Sydney Soloists/John Harding. ABC 461 827-2 16 Puccini, G. Three minuets in A (1884). Naxos 8.573108 9 MacDowell, E. Two symphonic poems, op 22 (1884). Ulster O/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.559075 13 Busoni, F. Variations after Chopin’s prelude in C minor, op 84 (1884/1922). John Buttrick, pf. Jecklin JD 623-2 12 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Derek Parker Bernstein, L. Overture to Candide (1956; arr. Sobol). Alliage Quintett. Sony 88875190972 5 Khachaturian, A. Violin concerto in D minor (1940). David Oistrakh, vn; Philharmonia O/ Aram Khachaturian. EMI CDC 5 55035 2 36 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 5 in E minor, op 64 (1888). Concertgebouw O/Paul van Kempen. Decca 480 8536 44 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN CARDEN Prepared by Stephen Wilson Puccini, G. Si mi chiamo Mimi, from La bohème (1896). Queensland PO/Roderick Brydon. Walsingham WAL 8026-2CD 5 Mozart, W. O gods, preserve the glory of Rome, from La clemenza di Tito, K621 (1791). Akiko Nakajima, sop; Elizabeth Campbell, mezz; Suzanne Johnston, mezz; Bruce Martin, bass; Australian Opera Ch; Australian Opera and Ballet O/Christopher Hogwood. ABC 480 8016 6 Tchaikovsky, P. Tatyana’s letter scene, from
Monday 9 OCTOBER Eugene Onegin (1879). Queensland PO/ Roderick Brydon. Walsingham WAL 8026-2CD 13 Verdi, G. Willow aria: she wept singing in the lonely land, from Otello (1887). Sydney SO/ Eric Clapham. ABC 480 8207 12 Catalani, A. Ebben? ... Ne andrò lontan, from La Wally (1892). Queensland PO/Roderick Brydon. Walsingham WAL 8026-2CD 4 Mozart, W. Concert aria: Ch’io mi scordi di te? .... Non temer, amato bene, K505 (1790). John Winther, pf; O of Sydney/John Harding. ABC 446 276-2 11 Joan Carden, sop (all above)
Tuesday 10 OCTOBER 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 INSPIRED BY SPACE Prepared by Simone Vitiello
Stephen Kovacevich
14:00 QUARTETS Prepared by Stephen Wilson
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
Rachmaninov, S. Vocalise, op 34 no 14 (1915; arr. Drapkin). Rastrelli Cello Quartet. Genuin GEN 15364 4 Mechura, L. Quartet in E flat. Horns of Czech PO. Supraphon 11 0780-2 12 Poulenc, F. Suite française. Swedish Saxophone Quartet. Chamber Sound CSCD 96015 13 Brahms, J. Three quartets, op 31 (1864). RIAS Chamber Choir; Alain Planès, pf; Marcus Creed, cond. Harmonia Mundi HMG 501592/93 11 Boccherini, L. Introduction and fandango. 6 Trad. Tarantella. 4 Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (2 above) Chandos CHAN 10609 Stamitz, C. Wind quartet in E flat, op 8 no 2 (1773). Guy Henderson, ob; Gabor Reeves, cl; Gordon Skinner, bn; Anthony Buddle, hn. Fine Music concert recording 10 Glazunov, A. The forest, op 19 (1882-87; arr. Glazunov). Aurora Piano Quartet. Naxos 8.557717D 17 Vaughan Williams, R. Suite for pipes (1939). Swedish Recorder Quartet. Caprice CAP 21687 10 Wuorinen, C. Percussion quartet (1994). New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Naxos 8.559321 11 Verdi, G. Un di, se ben rammentomi ..., from Rigoletto (1851). Joan Sutherland, sop; Huguette Tourangeau, mezz; Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Sherrill Milnes, bar; London SO/ Richard Bonynge. ABC 480 5629 6
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson
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9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Master pianists Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Sonata no 9 in E, op 14 no 1 (1799). EMI 5 62700 2 13 Mozart, W. Andante with five variations in G, K501 (1786). Martha Argerich, pf. DG 476 114-7 7 Stravinsky, I. Piano concerto, op 119 (1926). BBC SO/Colin Davis. Philips 456 880-2 20 Stephen Kovacevich, pf (3 above) Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 14 in E flat, K449 (1784). English CO/Jeffrey Tate. Philips 473 313-2 22 Debussy, C. Étude no 11 pour les arpèges composés, from 12 Études pour piano (1915). Philips 456 982-2 5 Beethoven, L. Rondo in B flat, WoO6 (c1794). Yomiuri-Nippon SO/Hiroshi Wakasugi. EMI 1 66447 2 10 Mitsuko Uchida, pf (3 above) 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by James Nightingale Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from The golden cockerel (1909). Cleveland O/Lorin Maazel. Decca 478 2826 27 Hummel, J. Piano concerto in B minor, op 89 (1819). Stephen Hough, pf; English CO/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8507 36 Vine, C. Symphony no 2 (1988). Sydney SO/ Stuart Challender. ABC 476 717-9 19
Haydn, J. Overture to Il mondo della luna, Hob.XXVIII:7 (1777). Haydn Sinfonietta/ Manfred Huss. Schwann 3-1723-2 5 Holst, G. Jupiter, from The planets (1914-16). Australian Youth O/Charles Mackerras. ABC 476 695-5 8 Handel, G. Total eclipse! from Samson, HWV57 (1741). David Hobson, ten; Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker. ABC 472 151-2 3 Hindemith, P. Symphony, The harmony of the world (1951). Melbourne SO/Werner Andreas Albert. ABC 999 006-2 37 14:00 FIVE GREAT BARITONES Prepared by Derek Parker Verdi, G. Oh! mostruosa colpa! … Sì, pel ciel, from Otello (1887). Enrico Caruso, ten; Titta Ruffo, bar; Walter B. Rogers, cond. RCA GD 60495 5 Credo in un Dio crudel, from Otello (1887). Lawrence Tibbett, bar; Metropolitan Opera O/ Ettore Panizza. Naxos 8.558097100 5 Rossini, G. Largo al factotum, from The barber of Seville (1816). Tito Gobbi, bar; O/ Alberto Erede. EMI CDM 1 66417-2 5 Leoncavallo, R. Prologue to I Pagliacci (1892). Robert Merrill, bar; St Cecilia Academy O/Lamberto Gardelli. Decca 440 844-2 7 Schubert, F. Abschied, from Schwanengesang, D957 no 7 (1828). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf. DG 477 5765 4 14:30 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN CHAMBER MUSIC Prepared by Gael Golla Borodin, A. Quintet in C minor (1862). Ilona Prunyi, pf; New Budapest String Quartet. Marco Polo 8.223172 23 Glazunov, A. Elegy in D flat, in memory of Franz Liszt, op 17 (1887). Alexander Ivashkin, vc; Ingrid Wahlberg, pf. Manu MANU 1426 9 Balakirev, M. Symphonic poem: Tamara (1867-82; transcr.). Aurora Piano Quartet. Naxos 8.557717D 19 Tchaikovsky, P. Quartet no 1 in D, op 11 (1871). St Lawrence String Quartet. EMI 5 57144 2 31 October 2017
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Chaminade, C. Flute concertino, op 107 (1902). 5 John Amadio, fl (2 above) Bax, A. I heard the piper piping, from Five Irish songs (1921). Clive Amadio, fl; Edward Cochman, vn. 3 Holland, D. Ballad for clarinet and piano (1952). Clive Amadio, cl; Clive Amadio, fl 5 Benda, F. Flute concerto in E minor. Neville Amadio, fl; Karel Ancerl, cond. 22 Ibert, J. Concertino de camera, mvt 3 (1935). Clive Amadio, sax; Jean Martinon, cond. 5 Johann Gottlieb Graun
Anton Rubinstein 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE
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What’s on in concerts during the next month
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Paul Cooke
19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps
Lalo, E. Overture to Le roi d’Ys (1888). BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9758 12
20:00 RECENT RELEASES with James Nightingale 22:00 CHAMBER SOIREE Prepared by Francis Frank Graun, J. Trio sonata in A minor. Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. Auvidis E 8617 15 Albinoni, T. Sonata in G minor, op 2 no 6 (pub. 1705). I Solisti Italiani. Denon CO-78838 8 Briccialdi, G. Quintet in D, op 124. Avalon Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553410 16 Bononcini, G. Sonata in A minor (pub. 1748). Bruno Cocset, vc; Il Seminario Musicale. Virgin VC 5 45000 2 9 Alkan, C-V. Grand duo concertant, op 21 (c1840). Tedi Papavrami, vn; Huseyin Sermet, pf. Auvidis V 4680 22 Just, J. Sonata no 2 in F, op 13 (pub. 1781). Camerata Classica; Philip Swanton, fp & dir. Walsingham WAL 80422 12 Bonporti, F. Concertino in A, op 12 no 3 (aft. 1727). Luigi Mangiocavallo, vn; Claudio Ronco, vc; Marco Mencoboni, hpd. Nuova Era 6939 11 Avison, C. Concerto grosso in A after Scarlatti (pub. 1744). Berlin Ensemble. Schwann CD 316 015 F1
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Romance-serenade (1878). Juri Toschmakow, vn; Frankfurt State O/Nikos Athinaos. Signum SIG X66-00 8 Trio no 3 in A minor, op 26 (1880). Barbican Piano Trio. ASV DCA 899 27 De tous côtés j’aperçois dans la plaine, from Le roi d’Ys (1888). DG 479 0071 6 Quartet in E flat (1884). Daniel String Quartet. Discover International DIDC 920159 26 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Sheila Catzel Adams, J. Shaker loops (1978/83). Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559031 25 Copland, A. Appalachian spring (1943-44). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE 3154 24 Rubinstein, A. Piano concerto no 4 in D minor, op 70 (1864). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Michael Stern. Hyperion CDA67508 31 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS The Amadio legends Mozart, W. Allegro, from Flute concerto no 2 in D, K314 (1778). 5
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Sydney SO (2 above) Doppler, F. Hungarian pastoral fantasy, op 26. 4 Herbert, V. Encore. Clive Amadio, cl. 2 Neville Amadio, fl; Clive Amadio Quintet (2 above) ABC 476 3660 (all above) 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC EXPLORED Russia: Part 2 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Berezovsky, M. Do not reject me. Parsons Affayre/Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Andrei Laptev. Vox Foris MMPA003 9 Glinka, M. Septet in E flat, mvt 1 (1823). Alexander Koreshkov, ob; Alexander Petrov, bn; Igor Makarov, hn; Alexei Bruni, vn; Mikhail Moshkunov, vn; Erik Pozdeev, vc; Rustem Gabdulin, db. Olympia MKM 76 9 Overture to Ivan Susanin (1836). USSR SO/ Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya SUCD 10-00166 9 Balakirev, M. Polka in F sharp minor (1859). Nicholas Walker, pf. ASV DCA 940 3 Balakirev, M. Overture on Russian folk themes (1858). Tasmanian SO/Shalom Ronly-Riklis. ABC 838 903-2 8 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture to The maid of Pskov (1877/82). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572788 5 Mussorgsky, M. The song of the flea. Feodor Chaliapin, bass. Naxos 8.110748 3 Cui, C. Prelude no 17 in A flat (1903). Jeffrey Biegel, pf. Naxos 8.555557 4
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Thursday 12 OCTOBER 13:00 FASCINATING FAUNA Prepared by Gael Golla
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Ravel, M. Suite from Mother Goose (1908). Simon Tedeschi, pf; Kevin Hunt, pf. ABC 275 2052 12
19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman
Sibelius, J. The swan of Tuonela, op 22 no 2 (1895/97). Gerhard Stempnik, English hn; Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 479 0540 8
Weill, K. The threepenny opera. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Bertholt Brecht. First performed Berlin, 1928. MACHEATH: René Kollo, ten PEACHUM: Mario Adorf, actor FRAU PEACHUM: Helga Dernesch, sop POLLY: Ute Lemper, voice JENNY: Milva, voice BROWN: Wolfgang Reichmann, voice RIAS Chamber Choir; Berlin Sinfonietta/John Mauceri. Decca 430 075-2 DH 1:14 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com Bernstein, L. Trouble in Tahiti. Opera in seven scenes. Libretto by the composer. First performed Brandeis University, 1952. DINAH: Letitia Singleton, mezz SAM: Sébastien Lemoine, bar TRIO: Céline Victores-Benavente, sop, Philippe Do, ten, Vincent Ordonneau, bass Picardy O/Pascal Verrot. Caliope CAL 9391 46 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com Clarinet sonata (1941-42). Deborah de Graaff, cl; Natalia Sheludiakova, pf. Fine Music concert recording 11 22:30 PIANISTS OF NOTE Prepared by Emyr Evans Debussy, C. Suite bergamasque (1905). Roger Woodward, pf. ABC 454 512-2 18 Arensky, A. Suite no 4, op 62. Stephen Coombs, pf; Ian Munro, pf. Hyperion CDA66755 13 Mozart, W. Sonata no 3 in B flat, K281 (1775). Vladimir Horowitz, pf. DG 427 772-2 18 Beethoven, L. An die ferne Geliebte, op 98 (1816). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf. Orfeo C 140501 A 13 Westlake, N. Piano trio (2003). Niki Vasilakis, vn; Emma-Jane Murphy, vc; Kathryn Selby, pf. Fine Music concert recording 21 Would Promenade sentimentale in Suite bergamasque be as famous if it had not been renamed Clair de lune?
Gidon Kremer 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 Great string players Prepared by Andari Anggamulia Webern, A. Four pieces, op 7 (1910-14). Gidon Kremer, vn; Oleg Maisenberg, pf. Brilliant Classics 9242 4 Reger, M. Suite in G minor (orch. Poltoratsky). Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet. RCA RD 60 464 14 Schubert, F. Rondo in A, D438 (181617). Gidon Kremer, vn; London SO/Emil Tchakarov. DG 431 168-2 15 Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D821 (1824). Martha Argerich, pf. DG 479 5096 24 Britten, B. Double concerto in B minor (1932). Gidon Kremer, vn; Hallé O/Kent Nagano. Decca 478 5364 22 Yuri Bashmet, va (2 above) 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Humperdinck, E. Overture no 2 from Marriage against their will. Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Schwann 3-1197-2 12 Stamitz, C. Viola concerto in D, op 1 (pub. 1774). Tabea Zimmermann, va; European Union CO/Dmitri Demetriades. Helios CDH55035 21 Glazunov, A. Symphony no 2 in F sharp minor, op 16 (1886). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya SUCD 10-00023 48 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers
Rossini, G. Comic duet for two cats (1816). Elisabeth Söderström, sop; Kerstin Meyer, mezz; Jan Eyron, pf. BIS CD-17 4 Stravinsky, I. Excerpts from The firebird (1910). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart. ABC 481 0069 9 Gershwin, G. Promenade (c1937). Frank Braley, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMX2908541.42 3 Vaughan Williams, R. The lark ascending (1914/20). Tasmin Little, vn; BBC SO/Andrew Davis. Teldec 9031-73127-2 14 14:00 THE STUDENT Prepared by Mariko Yata Bach, J.S. Prelude in C, BWV846 (1722). Angela Hewitt, pf. Hyperion CDA67741/4 2 Mozart, W. Sonata no 15 in C, K545, For beginners (1788). Maria João Pires, pf. DG 427 768-2 12 Chopin, F. Mazurka in A minor, op 17 no 4 (1832-33). Kathryn Stott, pf. Chandos CHAN 10493 5 Dvorák, A. Sonatina in G, op 100 (1893). Anthony Marwood, vn; Susan Tomes, pf. Hyperion CDA66934 19 Kats-Chernin, E. From Anna Magdalena’s notebook (2006). Acacia Quartet. Vexations840 840-1202 14 Liszt, F. Grandes études de Paganini (1851). Marina Kolomiytseva, pf. ABC 461 654-2 25 Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 2 in G minor, op 16 (1923). Yuja Wang, pf; Simón Bolívar SO/Gustavo Dudamel. DG 479 1304 31 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley October 2017
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Thursday 12 OCTOBER 20:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Canberra Wind Soloists Recorded for Fine Music by Kerry Joyner Mozart, W. Divertimento in B flat, K270 (1777). 10 Vivaldi, A. Concerto in G minor for flute, oboe and bassoon, RV103. 9 Reicha, A. Quintet in E flat, op 88 no 2 (1817). 14 Beethoven, L. Variations in C on Là ci darem la mano, WoO28 (c1795). 8 Ravel, M. Le tombeau de Couperin (1914; arr. McIntyre). 18 Poulenc, F. Sextet for piano and winds (1932/39-40). Christine Logan, pf. 17 Canberra Wind Soloists (all above) 21:30 CELLO INTERLUDE Prepared by Frank Morrison Geminiani, F. Sonata in F, op 5 no 5 (pub. 1746). Hidemi Suzuki, vc; Rainer Zipperling, vc; Guy Penson, hpd. Ricercar RIC 095077 8 Rubinstein, A. Three pieces, op 11 no 2 (1854). Yuri Semenov, vc; Eleonora Teplukhina, pf. Melodiya SUCD 10-00505 16 22:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS The poets and the artist Prepared by Elaine Siversen Liszt, F. Symphonic poem no 2: Tasso, lamento e trionfo (1849). London SO/Leon Botstein. Telarc 80613 21 Mendelssohn, F. Ruy Blas, overture to Victor Hugo’s play, op 95 (1839). Edwin H. Lemare, org. OEHMS Classics OC 840 8 Auric, G. Suite from Ruy Blas (1947). Slovak RSO/Adriano. Marco Polo 8.225066 29 Ives, C. Overture: Robert Browning (190812). Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn. Naxos 8.559076 25 Hindemith, P. Symphony, Mathis der maler (1935). Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM 7 69242-2 27 “Francis Poulenc is one of the most lovable French composers” – Neville Garden 22
Friday 13 OCTOBER
0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Chris Blower Glinka, M. Variations on a theme by Mozart (1822). Victor Ryabchikov, pf. BIS CD-981 13 Reicha, A. 18 Variations and a fantasy in G on Mozart’s Se vuol ballare, op 51 (1804). Australia Ensemble. Fine Music concert recording 16 Czerny, C. Tenth rondino on a theme of Mozart (K304), op 98. Christian Lambour, pf. Schwann 310 120 11 Danzi, F. Fantasy on Là ci darem la mano, from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Andreas Ottensamerk, cl; Potsdam Kammerakademie. Decca 481 4711 10 Hummel, J. Fantasia in C on themes from Mozart’s The marriage of Figaro, op 124 (1833). Madoka Inui, pf. Naxos 8.557836 6 Hoffmeister, F. Flute quartet in A, after Mozart’s K331, Alla turca. Israel Flute Ensemble. CDI 18809 24
Christoph Eschenbach Suite no 2, from Daphnis et Chloé (1912). Sydney SO/Willem van Otterloo. ABC 438 195-2 16 Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913). Janet Baker, mezz; Melos Ensemble/Bernard Keeffe. Decca 476 7091 12 La valse (1921). Australian Youth O/Christoph Eschenbach. ABC 426 478-2 12 14:30 GRACEFUL AYRES Prepared by Angela Bell
10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Elaine Siversen
Dowland, J. All ye whom love or fortune hath betrayed, from First book of songs or ayres (pub. 1597). Andreas Scholl, ct; Andreas Martin, lute. Harmonia Mundi 901603 5
Hindemith, P. Symphonic metamorphosis on themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1904). Royal Concertgebouw O/Riccardo Chailly. Radio Nederland RCO11004 22
Matteis, N. Suite in A, from Ayres for the violin, bk IV, nos 1 to 11 (pub. 1685). Arcadian Academy/Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907067 17
Easton, M. Concerto on Australian themes. Len Vorster, pf; State O of Victoria/Brett Kelly. Naxos 8.554368 19
Campion, T. Sweet exclude me not, from Second book of ayres (pub.1612). Stephen Rickards, ct; Dorothy Linnell, lute. Naxos 8.553380 3
Reger, M. Variations and fugue on a theme of Johann Adam Hiller, op 100 (1907). Royal Concertgebouw O/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8794 41 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM A historical survey: Maurice Ravel Prepared by Rex Burgess Ravel, M. Jeu d’eaux (1901). Pascal Rogé, pf. Decca 440 836 2 6 Rhapsodie espagnole (1907). Melbourne SO/ Hiroyuki Iwaki. ABC 434 715-2 15 Gaspard de la nuit (1908). Benjamin Grosvenor, pf. Decca 478 3206 21
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15:00 THE SEA Prepared by Stephen Wilson Ireland, J. Sea fever (1913). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Martin Martineau, pf. DG 479 0494 2 Sibelius, J. The oceanides, op 73 (1914). Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1445 10 Delius, F. Sea drift (1903-04). John Brownlee, bar; London Select Choir; London PO/Thomas Beecham. Naxos 8.110906 24 Glazunov, A. Orchestral fantasy in E, op 28, The sea (1890). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 7049 16
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11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small Ticheli, F. Wild nights! (2007). 7 Bryant, S. Dusk (2004). 4 Etezady, R. The flight of night, from Anahita (2005). 4 Mackey, J. Wood; Finale, from Concerto for soprano saxophone and wind ensemble (2007). Vince Gnojek, sax. 9 Marc-Antoine Charpentier
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19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Chris Blower Schumann, R. Carnaval, op 9 (1834-45; arr. Glazunov and others). Suisse Romande O/ Ernest Ansermet. Decca 480 0038 27 Chopin, F. Études: in E minor, op 25 no 7 (1836; arr. Glazunov); in D minor, op 10 no 6 (1830; arr. Glazunov). Maria Kliegel, vc; Bernd Glemser, pf. Naxos 8.553159 9 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The nutcracker, op 71a (1892; arr. Tarkmann). Lisa Osmialowski, fl; Celia Craig, ob; Georgina Roberts, ob; David Rowden, cl; Ben Hoadley, bn; Simone Walters, bn; Michael Dixon, hn; Lisa-Wynne Allen, hn; Alex Henery, db. Fine Music concert recording 37 Brahms, J. Piano quartet no 1 in G minor, op 25 (1861; arr. Schoenberg). London SO/ Geoffrey Simon. Cala CACD 1006 40 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Andrew Dziedzic Charpentier, M-A. Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1670-90). Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet. Naxos 8.553174 1:01 Campra, A. Messe des morts (c1700). Judith Nelson, sop; Dinah Harris, sop; Jean-Claude Orliac, ten; Wynford Evans, ten; Stephen Roberts, bass; Monteverdi Choir; Nicholas McGegan, fl; Marilyn Sansom, vc; Marchael Lewin, archlute; Malcolm Hicks, org; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Erato 245 993-2 52 Charpentier, M-A. Stabat Mater pour les réligieuses. Ludwig van Gyseghem, ten; Capella Ricercar; Benoir Mernier, org. Ricercar RIC 052034 2
University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss (all above) Naxos 8.572129
6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett
12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings
9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney
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
9:05 ORCHESTRAS AROUND THE WORLD Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Prepared by Denis Patterson Tchaikovsky, P. Variations on a rococo theme, op 33 (1876). Truls Mørk, vc. Virgin VC 7 59325 2 19 Saint-Saëns, C. Violin concerto no 3 in B minor, op 61 (1880). Frank Peter Zimmermann, vn. EMI CDC 5 55184 2 28 Mariss Jansons, cond (2 above) Halvorsen, J. Symphony no 2 in D minor, Fate (1924-28). Karsten Andersen, cond. NKFCD 50014-2 32 Oslo PO (all above) 10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Richard Verco Popper, D. Hungarian rhapsody, op 68 (pub. 1894). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Gerhard Markson. Naxos 8.554657 8 Rossini, G. Sonata à quattro no 1 in G (1804). Herrmann Klemeyer, fl; Hans Schöneberger, cl; Olaf Klamand, hn; Josef Peters, bn. Calig CAL 50850 12 Paganini, N. Quartet no 12 in A minor (181820). Bruno Pignata, vn; Lorenzo Lugli, va; Paolo Mosca, vc; Pino Briasco, gui. Dynamic CDS 17/1-2 24 Telemann, G. Sonata in F (pub. 1715). Ruth Wilkinson, rec; Cynthia O’Brien, vn; John O’Donnell, hpd. Move MD 3126 7
14:00 WAR AND PEACE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Holst, G. Mars, from The planets, op 32 (1914-16; arr. Sauer). Summit Brass. Summit DCD 171 8 Duparc, H. Au pays où se fait la guerre (1869). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; Richard Amner, pf. CBS MK 76868 6 Foster, G. Rhapsody, War, peace love. Grant Foster, pf; Sydney S/Julian Lee. EMI CDMID 166264 20 Verdi, G. Pace, pace, mio Dio! from La forza del destino (1862). Birgit Nilsson, sop; Royal Opera House O/Argeo Quadri. Decca 467 912-2 6 Sweelinck, J. Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris. Gustav Leonhardt, org. Harmonia Mundi GD 77148 9 15:00 RAYMONDA Glazunov, A. Ballet: Raymonda, op 57 (1896-97). Moscow SO/Alexander Anissimov. Naxos 8.553503-04 2:19 17:30 THE VOICES, THE ROLES with Angela Cockburn Mezzos in the lead 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame October 2017
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Saturday 14 OCTOBER 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Styne, J. Excerpts from Gypsy (1959). Ethel Merman, Sandra Church, Lane Bradbury, Jack Klugman, voices; members of original Broadway cast. Columbia SK 60848 19 Henderson, R. Excerpts from Good news (1927). Kim Huber, Ann Morrison, Wayne Bryan, Hal Davis, voices. TER MUS C N54 13 Rodgers, R. Excerpts from Carousel (1945). Joanna Riding, Michael Hayden, Katrina Murphy, Clive Rowe, Meg Johnson, voices; members of Royal National Theatre production. First Night OCRCD 6042 19 20:00 INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS Alexander Borodin Prepared by Katy Rogers-Davies Balakirev, M. Islamey: oriental fantasy, op 19 no 6 (1869/1902). Leonid Kuzmin, pf. SOUNDscapes SSCD 922 8 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Symphony no 3 in C, op 32 (1886). Bergen PO/Dmitri Kitaienko. Chandos CHAN 9229 37 Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Sydney Philharmonia Motet & Symphonic Choirs; Sydney Philharmonia O/ Antony Walker. ABC 476 3521 14 Glazunov, A. String quintet in A, op 39 (189192). Nathaniel Rosen, vc; Fine Arts Quartet. Naxos 8.570256 32 Liszt, F. Symphonic poem no 7: Festklänge, S101 (1853). New Zealand SO/Michael Halász. Naxos 8.557846 19 Ravel, M. A la manière de Borodine (1913). Steven Osborne, pf. Hyperion CDA67731/2 1 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Franck, C. Rédemption, morceau symphonique (1871-72). Paris Conservatoire O/Albert Wolff. Decca 480 2382 12 Lalo, E. Piano concerto in F minor (1888). Juri Toschmakow, vn; David Gross, pf; Frankfurt State O/Nikos Athinäos. Signum SIG X66-00 24 Brahms, J. Trio in A minor, op 114 (1891). David Campbell, cl; Lionel Handy, vc; Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, pf. IMP PCD 959 23 Elgar, E. Symphony no 2 in E flat, op 63 (1911). BBC PO/Edward Downes. Naxos 8.550635 56 24
0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Rex Burgess Scarlatti, A. Pastoral cantata for the birth of Our Saviour. Susan Gritton, sop; Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0634 18 Bruckner, A. Requiem in D minor (1849). Joan Rodgers, sop; Catherine Denley, cont; Maldwyn Davies, ten; Michael George, bass; Corydon Singers; Thomas Trotter, org; English CO/Matthew Best. Hyperion CDA 66245 37 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Quantz, J. Flute concerto in G minor. Rachel Brown, fl; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66927 16 Grétry, A-E-M. String quartet in G, op 3 no 5 (1761-65). Haydn Quartet. Koch 310 158 H1 10 Bach, J. Christian Piano concerto in B flat, op 1 no 1 (1763). Ingrid Haebler, fp; Vienna Capella Academica/Eduard Melkus. Philips 438 712-2 14 Hummel, J. Potpourri, op 94 (1820). James Ehnes, va; London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley. Chandos CHAN 10255 19 Crusell, B. Bassoon concertino in B flat (1829). Karen Geoghegan, bn; BBC PO/ Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10613 17 Schubert, F. Symphony no 4 in C minor, D417, Tragic (1816). Royal Concertgebouw O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 4509-91184-2 31 12:00 SPEAK EASY, SWING HARD with Richard Hughes 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Linda Marr 14:00 CONCERTOS FOR THREE Prepared by Stephen Wilson Fasch, C. Triple concerto in E. John Anderson, ob; John Wallace, tpt; Peter Thomas, vn; Philharmonia O/Christopher Warren-Green. Nimbus NI 7016 15 Telemann, G. Triple concerto in F, from Musique de table II (pub. 1733). Monica Huggett, vn; Alison Bury, vn; Roy Goodman, vn; Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman. Erato ECD 75394 13
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Salieri, A. Triple concerto in D (c1770). Heinz Holliger, ob; Thomas Demenga, vc; Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri, vn & dir. Archiv 410 599-2 25 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Yevgeny Mravinsky Prepared by Paolo Hooke Wagner, R. Prelude and death of Isolde, from Tristan and Isolde (1859). Melodiya 74321 25199 2 17 Tchaikovsky, P. Excerpts from The nutcracker, op 71 (1892). Melodiya 74321 25194 2 33 Shostakovich, D. Symphony no 8 in C minor, op 65 (1943). BBC Legends BBCL 4002 2 1:00 Leningrad PO/Yevgeny Mravinsky (all above) 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge Hymn: All glory, laud and honour. Richard Farnes, org; Stephen Cleobury, cond. 4 Hymn: Hark! A thrilling voice is sounding. Simon Preston, org; David Willcocks, cond. 3 Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (2 above) Decca 452 252-2 Psalm 108: O God, my heart is ready. Jonathan Bielby, org. 3 Psalm 67: God be merciful unto us. John Scott, org. 2 Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/ George Guest (2 above) Decca 451 941-2 Stanford, C. Villiers Te Deum; Jubilate in C. Choir of Ely Cathedral; Jeremy Filsell, org; Paul Trepte, cond. Heritage HTGCD 219 11 Ouseley, F. Anthem: O Saviour of the world. 2 Harwood, B. Anthem: O how glorious is the kingdom. 7 Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor; Roger Judd, org; Timothy Byram-Wigfield, cond (2 above) Delphian DCD 34048 Stainer, J. Anthem: I saw the Lord. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne; June Nixon, org & dir. Sound for Every Sense SPC 0699 7 Hymns: Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord; Jesus lives! thy terrors now. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; John Scott, org; Barry Rose, cond. Guild GMCD 7108 6
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Monday 16 OCTOBER 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 MUSIC FOR A FEW Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Boccherini, L. Quintet no 2 in E. Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Decca 478 5669 15
Elena Kats-Chernin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska Franck, C. Prelude and fugue. Timothy Byram-Wigfield, org. Regent REGCD 200 7
Pierre Boulez 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
18:00 FRENCH CHAMBER
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter
Saint-Saëns, C. Sonata no 1 in D minor, op 75 (1885). Philip Graffin, vn; Pascal Devoyon, pf. Hyperion CDA67100 22
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1947 Prepared by Rex Burgess
Onslow, G. Grand sextet, op 77b (1849). Marc Marder, db; Jean Hubeau, pf; members of Nielsen Quintet. apex 0927 49536 2 33
Wolf-Ferrari, E. Concertino in A flat, op 34 (1947). Diego Dini Ciacci, cora; Padua and Veneto O/Zsolt Hamar. cpo 777 157-2 26
19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Rossini, G. Overture: Matilde di Shabran (1821). Plovdiv PO/Rouslan Reytchev. Music Digital B 520 11
Stravinsky, I. Symphonies of wind instruments (1921/47). New York PO/Pierre Boulez. Sony SMK 68332 10
Saint-Saëns, C. Violin concerto no 2 in C, op 58 (1858). Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Luxembourg RSO/Pierre Caro. Concerto Royale 206 239-360 27
Britten, B. Canticle 1: My beloved is mine, op 40 (1947). Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ten; Roger Vignoles, pf. Hyperion CDA66498 8
Dvorák, A. Symphony no 6 in D, op 60 (1880). Slovak PO/Stephen Gunzenhauser. Naxos 8.550268 44 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Nev Dorrington Kats-Chernin, E. Unsent love letters, meditations on Erik Satie (2016). TamaraAnna Cislowska, pf. ABC 481 4967 33 Rich, R. Lift a feather to the flood (2017). Robert Rich, pf; Markus Reuter, keys. Soundscape SP030 25 Eckerson, T. Fantasm; Trozo (2016). Tristan Eckerson, pf. 1631 Recordings MOC 111 9 Salzmann - Broke. Dita e Vares; Hinterland; The last; Let down; Murmuration (2017). Gareth Broke, pf. 1631 Recordings MOC 117 17 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones
Milhaud, D. String trio, op 274 (1947). Eric Albert, vn; Pierre Llinares, va; Georges Schwartz, vc. Cybelia CY 810 16 Arnold, M. Symphony for strings, op 13 (1947). BBC Concert O/Vernon Handley. Sony 88875181702 20 10:30 CONCERT HALL Liszt, F. Symphonic poem no 3: Les préludes (1848). Rotterdam PO/James Conlon. Erato 2292-45256-2 17 Brahms, J. Double concerto in A minor, op 102 (1887). Emmy Verhey, vn; János Starker, vc; Amsterdam PO/Arpad Joo. Sony AU 71010-LC 7709 35 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Symphonic suite: Antar, op 9 (1869). Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel. Vanguard VCD-72019 29
Molique, B. Introduction, andante and polonaise, op 43 (1851). Peter-Lukas Graf, fl; Zsuzsanna Sirokay, pf. Jecklin 577-2 13 Brahms, J. Sonata no 3 in D minor, op 108 (1886-88). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Gerhard Oppitz, pf. Chandos CHAN 8517 22 Mozart, W. Fugue with slow prelude in E flat, K404a no 5 (1782). Hermitage String Trio. Chandos CHAN 10635 8 Hummel, J. Quintet in E flat minor, op 87 (1802). Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet. Brilliant Classics 94377 23 14:30 WITH ORCHESTRA Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Wagner, R. A Faust overture (1840/43-44). Bamberg SO/Otto Gerdes. DG 477 5445 11 Wolf-Ferrari, E. Concertino in A flat, op 34 (1947). Diego Dini Ciacci, cora; Padua and Veneto O/Zsolt Hamar. cpo 777 157-2 26 Schubert, F. Symphony no 3 in D, D200 (1815). Chicago SO/Carlos Kleiber. Artists FED 013/14 20 Gounod, C. Ballet music; Waltz, from Faust (1859). Berlin RSO/Ferenc Fricsay. DG 474 045-2 22 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Field 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson Antar, the subject of Rimsky-Korsakov’s suite, is a character in an Arabian tale. He is granted three wishes: vengeance, power and love. When he tires of these, his life is forfeited. October 2017
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Tuesday 17 OCTOBER
Jean Martinon 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSION IN FINE MUSIC Master pianists Prepared by Chris Blower Schubert, F. Klavierstück in E flat, D946 no 2 (1828). Philips 434 101-2 15 Chopin, F. Krakowiak, concert rondo in F, op 14 (1828). London PO/Eliahu Inbal. DG 477 8445 14 Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Paganini, bk 1, op 35 (1862-63). Philips 432 302-2 14
Mikhail Glinka
12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes
Brahms, J. Quintet in B minor, op 115 (1891). Janet Hilton, cl; Lindsay String Quartet. Chandos CHAN 6522 42
13:00 OH, OH, ANTONIO Prepared by Derek Parker Salieri, A. Sinfonia in pantomime, from Armida (1771). Mannheim Mozart O/Thomas Fey. Hänssler 98.506 6 Lauro, A. Four Venezuelan waltzes (1984). Phil Moran, gui. Private PJM02 7 Cesti, A. Tu mancavi a tormentarmi (arr. Stokowski). Brussels PO; O of Flanders/ Richard Egarr. Glossa GCDSA 922209 7
Spohr, L. Clarinet concerto no 3 in F minor, WoO19 (1821). Karl Leister, cl; Stuttgart RSO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Orfeo C 088 201 A 28 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Andrew Dziedzic 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Stephen Wilson
Soler, A. Sonata in D. Alicia de Larrocha, pf. Decca 433 920-2 6
22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel
Reicha, A. Grand solo for harmonica and orchestra. Bruno Hoffmann, glass hp; Pro Musica O/Paul Angerer. LP Fono FSM 53233 15
Grechaninov, A. Sonata in E minor, op 113 (1927). Natalia Savinova, vc; Victor Yampolsky, pf. Hyperion CDA67295 19
Valente, A. Tenore de zefiro. l’Amoroso/ Guido Balestracci. Pan Classics PC 10233 6
Hubay, J. Fantasie brilliante on Bizet’s Carmen. Gil Shaham, vn; Akira Eguchi, pf. DG 447 640-2 9
Alicia de Larrocha, pf (2 above)
Vivaldi, A. Concerto in D, RV221 (c1723). La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler. Avie AV2344 7
10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend
14:00 BLOWING IN THE WIND Prepared by Stephen Wilson
Beach, A. Theme and variations in A minor for flute and string quartet, op 80 (1920). Ambache. Chandos CHAN 9752 21
Massenet, J. Ballet music from Le Cid (1885). City of Birmingham SO/Louis Frémaux. EMI 5 65150 2 20
Prokofiev, S. Overture on Hebrew themes, op 34 (1919/34). Angela Malsbury, cl; David Pettit, pf; Coull String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66573 9
Ravel, M. Ballet: Mother Goose (1910). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9203 27
Cavallini, E. Duo no 3 in B flat (1836). Nicola Bulfone, cl; Marco Giani, cl. Naxos 8.573133-34 16
Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Bernard Gavoty, org; French NRO/Jean Martinon. Brilliant Classics 94360 36
Schubert, F. Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (1828). Heather Harper, sop; Thea King, cl; Benjamin Britten, pf. BBC 8011-2 13
Claudio Arrau, pf (3 above) Falla, M. de Nights in the gardens of Spain (1909-15). London PO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Decca 466 128-2 25 Granados, E. Spanish dance I, III and V (1892-1900). Decca 414 557-2 11
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Glinka, M. Trio pathétique in D minor (1832). Moscow Rachmaninov Trio. Hyperion CDA67216 14 Respighi, O. Piano quintet in F minor (1957). Nuovo Quartetto Modigliani. Nuova Era SP 108 18 Taneyev, S. Quartet no 3 in D minor, op 7 (1886/96). Carpe Diem String Quartet. Naxos 8.570437 27 “What passion cannot music raise and quell!” – John Dryden
Wednesday 18 OCTOBER Rachmaninov, S. Prelude in C sharp minor, op 3 no 2 (1892). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. Decca 414417-2 5 Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op 43 (1934): Variations 18 to 24. JeanYves Thibaudet, pf; Cleveland O/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 478 5644 8 Stravinsky, I. Fireworks, op 4 (1911/47). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.571221 4
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Robert Mann
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13:00 SPRING HAS SPRUNG! Prepared by Marilyn Schock
3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil
Vivaldi, A. Concerto in E, op 8 no 1, RV269, Spring (pub. 1725). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir. BIS-2103 10
9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Jennifer Foong
Chaminade, C. Carnival waltz, op 73. Peter Jablonski, pf; Bengt Forsberg, pf. DG 471 331-2 6
Kozeluch, L. Clarinet concerto in E flat (c1790). Emma Johnson, cl; Royal PO/ Günther Herbig. ASV DCA 763 22
Piazzolla, A. Porteño spring, from Four Porteño seasons (1969). Macquarie Trio. ABC 980 6780 4
Trio sonata in E minor. Trio 1790. cpo 999 311-2 20 Cassation in E flat for two clarinets, two horns and flute. Consortium Classicum. Orfeo 442 981 9 Sonata no 22 in F, op 20 no 1 (1786). Kemp English, fp. Grand Piano GP647 12 Sinfonia in D (c1786). Czech Chamber PO, Pardubice/Marek Štilec. Naxos 8.573627 18 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Field Bernstein, L. Symphonic suite, from On the waterfront (1954). Israel PO/Leonard Bernstein. DG 415 253-2 22 Kabalevsky, D. Cello concerto no 2 in C, op 77 (1964). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; London PO/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8579 30 Rautavaara, E. Symphony no 3 (1961). Leipzig RSO/Max Pommer. Ondine ODE 740-2 32 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale
Séverac, D. de A corner of the cemetery in Spring, from In Languedoc (1903-4). Jordi Masó, pf. Naxos 8.555855 8 Beethoven, L. Sonata in F, op 24, Spring (1801). Robert Mann, vn; Stephen Hough, pf. Nimbus NI 2553/56 23 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 CLASSICAL MUSIC EXPLORED Russia: Part 3 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender. ABC 434 717-2 10 RubInstein, A. Melody in F (1852). Stephen Hough, pf. Virgin 7 59304 2 4 Tchaikovsky, P. Scherzo à la russe in B flat, op 1 no 1 (1867). Michael Ponti, pf. LP Vox/Record Society S/6529-30-31 5 Pas de deux: Aurora and Désirée, from The sleeping beauty, op 66 (1890). Tasmanian SO/Nicolette Fraillon. ABC 480 6403 5 Piano concerto no 1 in B flat minor, op 23, mvt 3 (1875/79/89). Shura Cherkassky, pf; Berlin PO/Leopold Ludwig. Philips 456 745-2 6
Infernal dance, from The firebird (1910). Sydney SO/Mathias Bamert. ABC 438 195-2 4 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Angela Cockburn Halévy, F. La juive. Opera in five acts. Libretto by Eugène Scribe. First performed Paris, 1835. ELEAZAR: José Carreras, ten RACHEL: Julia Varady, sop LEOPOLD: Dalmacio Gonzales, ten PRINCESS EUDOXIA: June Anderson, sop CARDINAL OF BROGNI: Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass Ambrosian Opera Ch; Philharmonia O/ Antonio de Almeida. Philips 420 190-2 3:03 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com Come dolce a me favelli, from Clari (1828). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Ada Pesch, vn; Orchestra La Scintilla/Adám Fischer. Decca 475 9077 5 23:30 BAROQUE PIANO Prepared by Brian Drummond Scarlatti, D. Sonata in A minor, Kk175. András Schiff, pf. Decca 421 422-2 4 Handel, G. Suite no 2 in F, HWV427 (pub. 1720). Murray Perahia, pf. Sony SK 62785 8 Bach, J.S. Italian concerto in F, BWV971. Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. Decca 478 6773 12 Fromental Halévy is known mainly for his opera, La Juive (The Jewess). Lesser known is that he was a pupil of Cherubini and won the Prix de Rome of the Paris Conservatoire. October 2017
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Thursday 19 OCTOBER 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 Great string players Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Bach, J.S. Double concerto in D minor, BWV1043 (1730-31). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Isaac Stern, vn; New York PO/Zubin Mehta. Sony SMK 66 471 16 Rameau, J-P. Concert no 5 in D minor/ major (pub. 1741). Ryo Terakado, vn; Kaori Uemura, va da gamba; Christophe Rousset, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901418 14 Bottesini, G. Grand duo concertante in A (1880). Ernö Sebestyen, va; Wolfgang Güttler, db; Berlin RSO/Matthias Bamert. Schwann 311 042 H1 15 Ireland, J. Trio no 2 (1917). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Karine Georgian, vc; Ian Brown, pf. Chandos CHAN 9377/8 13 Paganini, N. Quartet no 12 in A minor (181820). Bruno Pignata, vn; Lorenzo Lugli, va; Paolo Mosca, vc; Pino Briasco, gui. Dynamic CDS 17/1-2 24 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Paul Hopwood Albéniz, I. Suite: Iberia (1906-08; orch. Arbós). Philharmonia O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 8904 33 Shostakovich, D. Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings, op 35 (1933). Cristina Ortiz, pf; Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund. Brilliant Classics 9412 22 Spohr, L. Symphony no 6 in G, op 116, Historical (1840). Bavarian RSO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Orfeo C 094-841 A 26 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 WHEN CRITICS GOT IT WRONG Brahms Prepared by Robin Mitchell Brahms, J. Excerpts from A German Requiem, op 45 (1865-68). Lucia Popp, sop; Wolfgang Brendel, bar; Prague Philharmonic Ch; Czech PO/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 419 737-2 12 Violin concerto in D, op 77 (1878). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Chicago SO/Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI CMS 7 64922 2 43 28
14:00 A SPANISH FIESTA Prepared by Marilyn Schock Turina, J. Circulo fantasy for violin, cello and piano, op 91 (1936). Trío Arbós. Naxos 8.555870 11 Granados, E. Oriental, from 12 Spanish dances, op 37 no 2 (1892-1900; arr. Piatigorsky). 4 Cassadó, G. Requiebros (1934). 5 Albéniz, I. Tango, from España, op 165; Córdoba, from Cantos de España, op 232 (arr. Mischa Maisky). 7 Mischa Maisky, vc; Lily Maisky, pf (3 above) DG 477 8100 Granados, E. Goyescas (1911). Decca 478 2826 57 Falla, M. de Nights in the gardens of Spain (1909-15). Suisse Romande O/Sergiu Comissiona. Decca 417 771-2 24 Alicia de Larrocha, pf (2 above) 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Sue Jowell 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley 20:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Elizabeth Wallfisch Prepared by Jennifer Foong Pergolesi, G. Violin concerto in B flat. Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer. Hyperion CDA67230 12 Rossini, G. String sonata no 5 in E flat (1804). Marshall Marcus, vn; Richard Tunnicliffe, vc; Chi-chi Nwanoku, db. Hyperion CDA66595 14 Biber, H. Passacaglia in G minor (c1675). Hyperion CDA67238 9 Schmelzer, J. Suite no 2 in D. Rosanne Hunt, vc; Linda Kent, hpd. ABC 465 269-2 6 Purcell, H. Sonata no 9 in F, Golden, from Ten sonatas in four parts. Catherine Mackintosh, vn; Richard Boothby, bass viol; Robert Woolley, org. Chandos CHAN 8763 7 Bach, J.S. Violin concerto in G minor (173540; re-constr. from Harpsichord concerto in F minor, BWV1056). 10 Haydn, J. Sinfonia concertante in B flat, Hob.I:105 (1792). Anthony Robson, ob; David Watkin, vc; Felix Warnock, bn. Virgin 5 61301 2 21 O of the Age of Enlightenment (2 above) Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn (all above)
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21:30 MUSICAL ROUNDABOUT Hamburg Prepared by Francis Frank Reger, M. Er ist’s, op 111 no 3 (1909). Monteverdi Choir, Hamburg/Jürgen Jürgens. Novalis 150 032-2 3 Weber, C.M. Nein, länger trag’ ich nicht die Qualen … Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen, from Der Freischütz, op 77 (1817-21). Rudolf Schock, ten; North German RSO/Wilhem Schüchter. Acanta 43 553 7 Monteverdi, C. Questi vaghi concenti, from Fifth book of madrigals (pub. 1605). Irmgard Jacobeit, sop; Dorothea Förster-Dürlich, sop; Bert van t’Hoff, ten; Jacques Villisech, bass; Monteverdi Choir; Leonhardt Consort/Jürgen Jürgens. Teldec 4509-93268-2 7 Mozart, W. Wenn der Freunde Tränen fliessen, from The abduction from the seraglio, K384 (1782). Rudolf Schock, ten; North German RSO/Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. Acanta 43 553 4 Lassus, O. de Ave Regina caelorum (pub. 1584). Pro Cantione Antiqua; Hamburg Wind Group for Ancient Music/Bruno Turner. Archiv 439 958-2 3 22:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS Mostly American Prepared by Paul Cooke Antheil, G. Overture: McKonkey’s ferry, Washington at Trenton (1948). Ukraine NSO/ Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.559033 9 Ives, C. Washington’s birthday, from A symphony: New England holidays (1909). Fred Spector, jews hp; Chicago Symphony Ch & O/Michael Tilson Thomas. CBS MK 42381 10 Bennett, Robert. Abraham Lincoln: a likeness in symphonic form (1929). Moscow SO/William T. Stromberg. Naxos 8.559004 30 Ives, C. Lincoln, the great commoner (1919). Robert Gardner, bar; Eric Trudel, pf. Naxos 8.559271 4 Copland, A. Suite: Billy the Kid (1938). New Zealand SO/James Judd. Naxos 8.559106 21 Howells, H. Take him, earth, for cherishing (1963). Corydon Singers/Matthew Best. Hyperion CDA66076 9 Schifrin, L. Hommage à Ravel (1995). Eaken Piano Trio. Naxos 8.559062 26
Friday 20 OCTOBER 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Paul Cooke Tallis, T. Spem in alium (arr. Kronos). Kronos Quartet. Nonesuch 7559-79242-2 9 Schoenberg, A. Concerto in B flat (1933). Fred Sherry String Quartet; Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble/Robert Craft. Naxos 8.557520 21 Bach, J.S. Adagio, from Toccata, adagio and fugue in C, BWV564 (1708-17). Jacqueline du Pre, vc; Roy Jesson, org. EMI 3 30702 2 5 Hindemith, P. Symphonic metamorphoses on themes of Carl Maria von Weber (1943). BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9903 20 Liszt, F. Fantasy on motifs from Beethoven’s The ruins of Athens (1837/48-52/55). Victor Sangiorgio, pf; Queensland SO/En Shao. ABC 456 680-2 12 Czerny, C. Variations on the favourite march from Rossini’s La donna del lago. Isabel Beyer, pf; Harvey Dagul, pf. Four Hands Music FHMD 882 13 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Rex Burgess Dvorák, A. Symphonic poem: The golden spinning wheel, op 109 (1896). London SO/ István Kertész. Decca 417 596-2 26 Mahler, G. Five Rückert-Lieder (1902). Thomas Hampson, bar; Vienna PO/Leonard Bernstein. DG 477 8825 22 Martinu, B. Symphony no 4 (1945). Czech PO/Jirí Belohlávek. Chandos CHAN 9138 34 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 13:00 PATRICK THOMAS PRESENTS Paul Paviour on parade Paviour, P. The twenty fifth of the four (1994). Royal Australian Navy Band/Phillip Anderson. CGV 115 3 Hark, hark the lark (1984); Sweet rose, fair flower (1984). Lisa Harper-Brown, sop; David Wickham, pf. Stone Records 5060192780147 4
Abstractions on a theme of Peter Sculthorpe (2006). Hume Quartet. Private recording 4 The only pretty ring time (1984); It raineth every day (1984). Lisa Harper-Brown, sop; David Wickham, pf. Stone Records 5060192780147 4 Music for ceremonial (1988). Royal Australian Navy Band/Phillip Anderson. CGV 115 7 13:30 I MUSICI Prepared by Denis Patterson Rossini, G. String sonata no 5 in E flat (c1804). Newton 8802041 15 Marcello, A. Trumpet concerto in D minor. Håkan Hardenberger, tpt. Philips 442 131-2 10 Britten, B. A simple symphony, op 4 (193334). Philips 426 669-2 16 Carulli, F. Guitar concerto in A. Siegfried Behrend, gui. DG 439 984-2 9 Hindemith, P. Music of mourning (1936). Cino Ghedin, va. Philips 426 669-2 8 Locatelli, P. Violin concerto in G, op 3 no 9 (pub. 1733). Roberto Michelucci, vn. Philips 422 491-2 19 I Musici (all above) 15:00 INTIMATE BRAHMS Prepared by Frank Morrison Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in G minor, op 6 no 8, Christmas (pub. 1714). Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini. Opus 111 OPS 30-156 15 Brahms, J. Sextet no 2 in G, op 36 (186465). Norbert Brainin, vn; Siegmund Nissel, vn; Peter Schidlof, va; Cecil Aronowitz, va; Martin Lovett, vc; William Pleeth, vc. DG 419 875-2 39 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Christopher Waterhouse 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Frank Morrison Beethoven, L. Twelve contredanses, WoO14 (1800-01). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. EMI CDM 1 66426 2 11
Hummel, J. Piano concerto in C, op 34 (1809). London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Chandos CHAN 10216 35 Gounod, C. Ballet music from Faust (1859). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 462 125-2 17 Liszt, F. Piano concerto no 1 in E flat, op 25 (1849/53-56). André Watts, pf; Dallas SO/ Andrew Litton. Telarc 80429 18 Debussy, C. Sirènes, from Nocturnes (1900). Cleveland O/Pierre Boulez. DG 439 896-2 10 Tchaikovsky, P. Piano concerto no 3 in E flat, op 75 (1893). Peter Donohoe, pf; Bournemouth SO/Rudolf Barshai. EMI CDC 7 49939 2 16 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Sebastian’s eldest sons Prepared by Elaine Siversen Bach, J.S. Triple concerto in D minor, BWV1063 (c1730). Gerald Hambitzer, hpd; Andreas Spering, hpd; Christoph Anselm Noll, hpd; Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl. Naxos 8.553505 13 Bach, W.F. Duet no 1 in E minor, F54 (1733-46). Wolfgang Schulz, fl; Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob. Sony SK 58 965 11 Cantata: The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness (early 1750s). Barbara Schlick, sop; Claudia Schubert, cont; Wilfried Jochens, ten; Stephan Schreckenberger, bass; Rheinische Kantorei; Das Kleine Konzert/Hermann Max. Capriccio 5083 24 Bach, C.P.E. Trio sonata in B flat, Wq158 (c1754). London Baroque/Charles Medlam. Harmonia Mundi HMA1951511 14 Cello concerto in A, Wq172 (c1753). Alison McGillivray, vc; English Concert/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907403 20 Bach, W.F. Symphony in F, F67, Dissonance (1755-58). Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ Stephan Mai. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 15 Bach, C.P.E. Sonata in B flat, Wq70 no 2 (1755). Herbert Tachezi, org. Teldec 8.44064 9 J.S. Bach’s is supposed to have written his Triple Concerto for himself and his two eldest sons to perform. October 2017
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Saturday 21 OCTOBER 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell The finest Finales 20:00 INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS Harrison Birtwistle Prepared by Calogero Panvino Stravinsky, I. Ballet: Agon (1957). St Luke’s O/Robert Craft. Naxos 8.557502 21
Raphael Wallfisch 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson
French, P. Phil the fluter’s ball. Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band/Trevor Walmsley. Music for Pleasure MFP 5974 2
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Lehár, F. Gold and silver waltz. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP 96197 7
9:05 ORCHESTRAS AROUND THE WORLD London Philharmonic Orchestra Prepared by Andari Anggamulia
12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings
0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
Maconchy, E. Music for strings (1983). Barry Wordsworth, cond. Lyrita SRCD 288 18 Kabalevsky, D. Cello concerto no 2 in C, op 77 (1964). Raphael Wallfisch, vc. Chandos CHAN 8579 30 Walton, W. Symphony no 2 (1957-60). Chandos CHAN 8772 29 Bryden Thomson, cond (2 above) London PO (all above) 10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Paul Hopwood Berwald, F. Grand septet (1842). Gervase de Peyer, cl; Melos Ensemble. EMI 5 65995 2 23 Mozart, W. Sonata no 23 in D, K306 (1778). Fabio Biondi, vn; Olga Tverskaya, pf. Opus OPS 30-216 29 11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Strauss, J. II Waltz: On the beautiful blue Danube, op 314 (1867). Allentown Band/ Ronald Demkee. AMP 2G 102 10
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13:00 SATURDAY POT-POURRI Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend 15:00 OPERETTA IN THE AFTERNOON Prepared by Elaine Siversen Sullivan, A. The Yeomen of the Guard. Operetta in two acts. Libretto by W.S. Gilbert. First performed London, 1888. COLONEL FAIRFAX: Neill Archer, ten WILFRED SHADBOLT: Donald Maxwell, bass PHOEBE MERYLL: Pamela Helen Stephen, sop LEONARD MERYLL: Peter Hoare, ten SERGEANT MERYLL: Donald Adams, bass ELSIE MAYNARD: Alwny Mellor, sop JACK POINT: Richard Suart, bass Welsh National Opera Ch & O/Charles Mackerras. Telarc 2CD-80404 2:01 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com Overture to The Grand Duke (1896). Decca 480 1285 5 Suite no 1, from Victoria and Merrie England (1897). Decca 468 810-2 11 Royal PO/Royston Nash (2 above)
Carmichael, H. Stardust. Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain/Stanley Boddington. Contour 2870135 4
17:30 STAGING MUSIC with Angela Cockburn Are we there yet? Australia
Russell, H. A life on the ocean waves. Band of HM Royal Marines/Nick Grace. ABC 278-0272 1
18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Classical Guitar Society Prepared by Sue McCreadie
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Birtwistle, H. Tragoedia (1965). Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez. Decca 468 804-2 21 Varèse, E. Intégrales (1924-25). Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta. Decca 478 2826 11 Davies, P. Maxwell Eight songs for a mad king, op 39 (1969). Julius Eastman, bar; Fires of London/Peter Maxwell Davies. Unicorn DKP 9052 30 Birtwistle, H. Carmen arcadiae mechanicae perpetuum (1978). London Sinfonietta/Elgar Howarth. Etcetera KTC 1052 9 The moth requiem (2012). Philippa Davies, fl; Lucy Wakeford, hp; Helen Tunstall, hp; Hugh Webb, hp; BBC Singers; Nash Ensemble/ Nicholas Kok. Signum SIGCD368 19 Purcell, H. Suite no 6 in D, Z667 (pub. 1696). Kenneth Gilbert, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMA1951496 5 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Rex Burgess Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Haydn, op 56a, St Antoni chorale (1873). London PO/ Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557430 19 Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 1 in C, Hob. VIIb:1 (c1761-65). Anner Bijlsma, vc; Tafelmusik O/Jean Lamon. Harmonia Mundi RD 77757 23 Scarlatti, A. Silentio, auri volanti (c1697). Vivien Hamilton, sop; Chacona/Rosalind Halton. ABC 461 687-2 18 Boccherini, L. Quintet no 9 in C, La ritirata di Madrid (1798). Alexander Schneider, vn; Felix Galimir, vn; Michael Tree, va; David Soyer, vc; Alirio Diaz, gui. Vanguard OVC 8006 23 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 19 in F, K459 (1784). English CO/Murray Perahia, pf & dir. Sony SX4K 46 443 28 “Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sunday 22 OCTOBER 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett 9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Paul Cooke Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV179: Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei (1723). Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki. BIS CD-9024/26 15 Janácek, L. Glagolitic Mass (1926). Elisabeth Söderström, sop; Drahomira Drobková, cont; Frantisek Livora, ten; Richard Novák, bass; Prague Philharmonic Ch; Jan Hora, org; Czech PO/Charles Mackerras. Supraphon/Denon 33C37 7448 40 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Sheila Catzel Grétry, A-E-M. Overture to Le Magnifique (1773). English CO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 440 844-2 11 Weber, C.M. Concert piece in F minor, op 79 (1821). Alfred Brendel, pf; London SO/ Claudio Abbado. Philips 456 733-2 17 Benda, G. Sinfonia no 12 in A. Prague CO/ Christian Benda. Naxos 8.553409 11 Pugnani, G. Quintet no 2 in C for two violins, two flutes and two horns. Ensemble L’Astrée. Symphonia SY 93S21 14 Bach, J.C.F. Symphony in C (1770). Leipzig CO/Morten Schuldt-Jensen. Naxos 8.572217 17 Beethoven, L. Fantasia in C minor, op 80, Choral (1808). Gabriel Lechner, sop; Gretchen Eder, sop; Elisabeth Mach, cont; Jorge Pita, ten; Andreas Esders, ten; Gerhard Eder, bass; Maurizio Pollini, pf; Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 479 0913 18 Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I:94, Surprise (1791). Vienna PO/Carlos Kleiber. Artists FED 013/14 20 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Gerry Myerson 14:00 TIME AFTER TIME Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Grieg, E. Suite: From Holberg’s time, op 40 (1884; orch. 1885). Tasmanian SO/Sebastian Lang-Lessing. ABC 476 4523 19 Camilleri, C. Times of day (1959). Rhondda Gillespie, pf. LP Vista VPS 1003 13
White, M. Songs from another time (1985). New York Camerata. Centaur CRC 2152 21
Jackson, F. Prelude on East Acklam. Francis Jackson, org. Priory PRCD930 4
15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Vale Jiri Belohlávek Prepared by Sheila Catzel
18:00 THE FRENCH CONNECTION Prepared by Yola Center
Martinu, B. Concerto for double string orchestra, piano and timpani (1938). Jaroslav Saroun, pf; Vláclav Mazácek, timp. Chandos CHAN 8950 22
Saint-Saëns, C. Trio in F, op 18 (1863). Marcia Crayford, vn; Christopher van Kampen, vc; Ian Brown, pf. Virgin VC 7 90751-2 27
Dvorák, A. Slavonic dance no 8 in G minor, op 46 (1878). Alisa Weilerstein, vc. Decca 0289 478 5705 1 4
Ravel, M. Piano trio in A minor (1914). Macquarie Trio. Fine Music concert recording 27
Janácek, L. Sinfonietta (1926). Chandos CHAN 8897 23
19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess
Dvorák, A. Violin concerto in A minor, op 53 (1879). Frank Peter Zimmermann, vn. Decca 478 6757 30
Bourgault-Ducoudray, L-A. Rhapsodie cambodgienne (1882). Slovak RSO. Marco Polo 8.225234 17
Suk, J. Serenade in E flat for strings, op 6 (1892). Chandos CHAN 9640 30
Respighi, O. Cantata: La primavera (1922). Jana Valaskova, sop; Richard Haan, bar; Miroslav Dvorský, ten, Vladimir Kubovcik, bass; Slovak Philharmonic Ch & O. Naxos 8.570741 45
Czech PO/Jiri Belohlávek (all above) 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Jeremy Hall Jackson, F. Fanfare, op 18. Francis Jackson, org. Priory PRCD930 2 Hymns: O praise ye the Lord; O Thou who camest from above. Choir of Westminster Abbey; Martin Baker, org; Martin Neary, cond. Sony SONYTV49 5
Ibert, J. Suite élizabéthaine (1942). Slovak RSO. Naxos 8.555568 22 Adriano, cond (all above) 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Paul Cooke
Weelkes, T. Service for trebles. Choir of Winchester Cathedral; Timothy ByramWigfield, org; David Hill, cond. Hyperion CDH55259 10
Richter, M. Flowers for Yulia (2006). Robert Wyatt, narr; Louisa Fuller, vn; Natalia Bonner, vn; Rick Costa, vn; John Metcalfe, va; Ian Burdge, vc; Chris Worsey, vc; Max Richter, pf. Fat Cat 130701 7
Josquin Desprez. Ave Maria. Cantillation/ Brett Weymark. ABC 476 5055 5
Fuchs, K. Eventide (2003). Thomas Stacy, cora; London SO/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559224 21
Bairstow, E. Lord, thou hast been our refuge. Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge; Paul Provost, org; David Hill, cond. Hyperion CDA67497 8
Finsterer, M. Tract (1993). Julia Ryder, vc. ABC 456 682-2 6
Rachmaninov, S. Bogoroditse devo. 3 Mealor, P. Ubi caritas. 4 Voces8 (2 above) Decca 478 8053 Jackson, F. Benedicite in G. Choir of Ely Cathedral; Jeremy Filsell, org; Paul Trepte, cond. Gamut GAM 527 6 Hymn: For the fruits of his creation. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough, org; Malcolm Archer, cond. Hyperion CDP12101 2
Keller, A. Where is everybody? (2014). Genevieve Lacey, rec; James Crabb, accordion. ABC 481 1874 10 Cooman, C. Sonata, op 573 (2004). Rachel Gough, vn; Rupert Gough, org. Naxos 8.559329 21 Lentz, G. Ngangkar, from Mysterium (1994). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart. ABC 472 397-2 13 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones October 2017
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Monday 23 OCTOBER
Igor Stravinsky 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1935 Prepared by Derek Parker Gershwin, G. It ain’t necessarily so, from Porgy and Bess (1934). Bryn Terfel, bassbar; Swedish Radio Choir & SO/Paul Daniel. DG 477 8091 4 Summertime, from Porgy and Bess (1935). Renée Fleming, sop; New York Voices; Metropolitan Opera O/James Levine. Decca 478 8583 4 Stravinsky, I. Ballet: Jeu de cartes (193536). Philharmonia O/Robert Craft. Naxos 8.557506 23 Prokofiev, S. Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, op 64, Act II (1935-36). Bolshoi TO/Algis Juraïtis. Le Chant du Monde LDC 278989 19 Weill, K. Youkali (1935). Brigitte Fassbaender, mezz; Karl-Heinz Brandt, ten; Hans Sojer, ten; Hidenori Komatsu, bar; Ivan Urbas, bass; Cord Garben, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901420 5 Gershwin, G. A symphonic portrait of Porgy and Bess (1935/43; arr. Robert Bennett). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 425 111-2 24 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Derek Parker Pugnani, G. Overture no 3 in B flat. Ensemble L’Astrée. Symphonia SY 93S21 19 32
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14:30 IN CONCERT: TRIUMPH Prepared by Albert Gormley
Brahms, J. Symphony no 3 in F, op 90 (1883). Vienna SO/Wolfgang Sawallisch. Decca 478 5609 33 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 CLASSICAL TRIOS Prepared by Gael Golla Mozart, W. Trio in E flat, K498, Kegelstatt (1786). Antony Morf, cl; Claudio Veress, va; Ilse von Alpenheim, pf. BIS CD-513/514 20 Bach, J. Christian Trio in G (pub. c1800). Alain Marion, fl; Marzio Conti, fl; Daniele Roi, hpd. Fonè 89 F 04-28 9 Stamitz, C. Trio in G. Members of Quartetto Telemann. Syrinx SY 0001-2 131 11 Kreutzer, J. Grand trio, op 16. Alexa Still, fl; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, gui. Koch 3-7404-2H1 19 Beethoven, L. Trio in C, op 87 (1794). Marilyn Zupnik, ob; Kathryn Greenbank, ob; Elizabeth Starr, cora. ASV QS 6192 22
Tchaikovsky, P. Elegy for strings in G (1886). St Petersburg Camerata/Saulius Sondeckis. Sony SMK 58 976 7 Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 2 in C minor, op 18 (1901). Roger Woodward, pf; Sydney SO/Charles Dutoit. ABC 481 1322 33 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 4 in F minor, op 36 (1877). Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Decca 478 5867 43 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Stephen Wilson 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson
“Jazz is an open ended music designed for open minds.”
CONTINUING PROGRAM SERIES Classical Music Explored: Russia prepared by Michael Morton-Evans: 4, 11, 18, 25 at 3pm Intimate Brahms prepared by Frank Morrison: 6, 20 at 3pm Sunday Special, The Tarot prepared by Angela Cockburn: 8 at 3pm French Impressionism prepared by Rex Burgess: 13, 27 at 1pm Sunday Special, Master Key prepared by Anne Irish and James Nightingale: 1 at 3pm PROGRAMS NOT TO BE MISSED Sunday Special, Yevgeny Mravinsky (new series) prepared by Paolo Hooke: 15 at 3pm Main works in Musica Sacra on Sundays: Poulenc’s Gloria (1), Handel’s Chandos anthem no 5 (8), Bruckner’s Requiem (15), Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass (22), Bach’s Lutheran Mass (29)
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Tuesday 24 OCTOBER
Charles-Valentin Alkan 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Master pianists Prepared by Jennifer Foong Schumann, R. Introduction and concert allegro, op 134 (1853). Jan Lisiecki, pf; Santa Cecilia O/Antonio Pappano. DG 479 5327 13 Bach, J.S. Toccata in F sharp minor, BWV910 (1707-08). Glenn Gould, pf. Sony SM2K 52612 12 Alkan, C-V. Chamber concerto in A minor, op 10 no 1 (1832). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA66717 14 Rachmaninov, S. Suite no 2, op 17 (1900-1). Hélène Mercier, pf; Louis Lortie, pf. Chandos CHAN 10882 23 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 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Field Beethoven, L. Excerpts from The creatures of Prometheus, op 43 (1800-01). Boston SO/ Erich Leinsdorf. RCA VD 60130 22 Mackenzie, A. Violin concerto in C sharp minor, op 32 (1884-85). Malcolm Stewart, vn; Royal Scottish NO/Vernon Handley. Hyperion CDA66975 31 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 1 in E flat, op 2 (1853). French RTO/Jean Martinon. Brilliant Classics 94360 31
Harry Goss-Custard 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 STORM AND TEMPEST Prepared by Derek Parker Tchaikovsky, P. Overture: The storm, op 76 (1864). Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Decca 478 5867 12 Sibelius, J. Suite no 2, from The tempest, op 109 no 3 (1925). Gothenburg SONeeme Järvi. BIS CD-448 16 Lemmens, J. Grand fantasia in E minor, The storm. Harry Goss-Custard, org. OEHMS Classics OC 841 15 Fibich, Z. The tempest, op 46 (1880). Czech NSO/Marek Štilec. Naxos 8.573197 12 Berlioz, H. Royal hunt and storm, from The Trojans (1863-90). Detroit SO/Paul Paray. Mercury 478 5092 9 Fucik, J. Concert waltz: Winter storms. Czech PO/Vaclav Neumann. LP Orfeo S 147 861 B 12 Britten, B. Storm, from Four sea interludes (1945). New Zealand SO/Myer Fredman. Naxos 8.578269-70 5 14:30 CONTRASTING STRING QUARTETS Prepared by James Nightingale Haydn, J. String quartet in B flat, Hob.III:1 (bef. 1764). Kodály Quartet. Naxos 8.550398 17 Puccini, G. I crisantemi (1890). Raphael String Quartet. Etcetera KTC 1050 6 Sculthorpe, P. Quartet no 9 (1975). Goldner String Quartet. Tall Poppies TP089 13
Giovanni Battista Viotti Beethoven, L. Quartet no 15 in A minor, op 132 (1825) Tokyo String Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807481.83 44 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Garrett 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Richard Verco Viotti, G. Sonata no 3 in D, op 4 (pub. 1788). Felix Ayo, vn; Corrado de Bernat, pf. Dynamic DM8026 15 Ries, F. The dream, op 49 (1813). Susan Kagan, pf. Naxos 8.572204 19 Neukomm, S. Serenade in B flat for wind octet and double bass (1796). Consortium Classicum. Schwann 310 002 H1 13 Haydn, J. Keyboard trio in G, Hob.XV:41 Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 454 098-2 17 Romberg, A. Quintet in E flat, op 57. Thea King, cl; Britten String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66479 23 Hummel, J. Sonata in E flat, op 5 no 3 (1798). Jodi Levitz, va; Stefano Fiuzzi, pf. Dynamic CDS 128 22 Ferdinand Ries, a pupil and close friend of Beethoven, came from a distinguished German musical family with nine musicians spanning the years 1723 to 1913. All were prominent enough to be mentioned in muscial tomes. October 2017
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Wednesday 25 OCTOBER
Alexander Glazunov 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Troy Fil 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus: Alexander Glazunov Prepared by Frank Morrison Glazunov, A. Violin concerto in A minor, op 82 (1904-05). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Israel PO/ Zubin Mehta. EMI CDC 7 49814 2 20 Two pieces, op 22 (1889). Stephen Coombs, pf. Hyperion CDA66844 8 Elegy in D flat, in memory of Franz Liszt, op 17 (1887). Yuli Turovsky, vc; Peter Pettinger, pf. Chandos CHAN 8555 9 Miniature in C, op 42 (1883). Stephen Coombs, pf. Hyperion CDA66844 1 String quartet no 1 in D, op 1 (1881-82). Shostakovich Quartet. Olympia OCD 157 21 Piano concerto no 2 in B, op 100 (1917). Stephen Coombs, pf; BBC Scottish SO/ Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA66877 20 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by James Nightingale Takemitsu, T. Rain coming (1982). London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen. Virgin VC 7 91180-2 9 Walton, W. Cello concerto (1956). Li-Wei Qin, vc; London PO/Zhang Yi. ABC 481 1243 31 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 6 in F, op 68, Pastoral (1808). CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 2292-46452-2 44 34
Manuel Ponce 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 LA FOLIA Prepared by Mariko Yata Anon. La folía. Circa 1500. Virgin VC 7 91500-2 2 Ponce, M. Variations and fugue on La folia de España (1928-31). John Williams, gui. LP CBS SBR 235970 24 Liszt, F. Spanish rhapsody (1863). Emil Gilels, pf. Philips 456 796-2 13 Montsalvatge, X. Folia Daliniania (1996). PO of Grand Canary Island/Adrian Leaper. ASV DCA 1060 15 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans 15:00 CLASSSICAL MUSIC EXPLORED Russia: Part 4 Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Skryabin, A. Allegro de concert, op 18 (1896). Tamara Anna Cislowska, pf. ABC 476 6301 6
William Christie 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Trisha McDonald 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman Charpentier, M-A. Médée. Opera in a prologue and five acts. Libretto by Thomas Corneille. First performed Paris, 1693. MÉDÉE: Jill Feldman, sop CRÉUSE: Agnès Mellon, sop JASON: Gilles Ragon, ten ORONTE: Philippe Cantor, bar CRÉON: Jacques Bona, bass Les Arts Florissants/William Christie, hpd & dir. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901139/41 3:01 For synopsis, go to finemusicfm.com Rameau, J-P. Suite from Les Indes galantes. La Chapelle Royale O/Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMP390808 15 23:30 BAROQUE PIANO Prepared by Brian Drummond
Prokofiev, S. Five melodies, op 35b (c1920). Dimitry Sitkovetsky, vn; Pavel Gililov, pf. Virgin VC 7 91191-2 12
Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue no 1 in C, BWV846 (1722). Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Olympia OCD 536A 4
Dance of the knights, from Romeo and Juliet, ballet, op 64 (1938). Royal PO/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 478 4746 6
Handel, G. Air and variations, from Suite no 5 in E, The harmonious blacksmith (pub. 1720). Albert Landa, pf. LP Axis 7012 4
Shostakovich, D. Adagio, from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, op 29 (1934). Emerson String Quartet. DG 463 284-2 5 Excerpts from The Gadfly, op 97 (1955; arr. Borisovsky). Lawrence Power, va; Simon Crawford-Phillips, pf. Hyperion CDA67865 17 Schnittke, A. Prelude in memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich, op 73a. Kremerata Musica. DG 477 5442 5
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Galuppi, B. Sonata in C minor. Matteo Napoli, pf. Naxos 8.572490 8 Scarlatti, D. Sonata in D, Kk119. Jenö Jandó, pf. Naxos 8.555047 6 When Shostakovich wrote The gadfly, the propaganda machine had almost shut down and the music reflects this unaccustomed liberty.
Thursday 26 OCTOBER Pierné, G. Suite no 1 from Ramuntcho (1910). BBC PO/Juanjo Mena. Chandos CHAN 10633 19 Weber, C.M. Piano concerto no 2 in E flat, op 32 (1812). Nikolai Demidenko, pf; Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras. Hyperion CDA66729 22 Debussy, C. Ballet: The toybox (1913). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 8711 30
Pablo de Sarasate 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 Great string players Prepared by Frank Morrison Tchaikovsky, P. Pezzo capriccioso, op 62 (1887). Cleveland O/Lorin Maazel. Decca 480 6617 8 Mendelssohn, F. Song without words, from op 109 (arr. Harrell). Bruno Cannino, pf. Decca 430 198-2 4 Brahms, J. Piano trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI 7 54725 2 21 Lynn Harrell, vc (3 above) Bach, J.S. Double concerto in D minor, BWV1043 (1730-31). Isaac Stern, vn; New York PO/Zubin Mehta. Sony SMK 66 471 16 Sarasate, P. de Carmen fantasy, op 25 (c1883). Royal PO/Lawrence Foster. EMI CDB 7 62988 2 12 Beethoven, L. Piano trio no 7 in B flat, WoO39 (1812). Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. EMI CDC 7 47010-2 5 Mozart, W. Violin sonata no 20 in C, K303 (1778). Daniel Barenboim, pf. DG 410 896-2 10 Itzhak Perlman, vn (5 above) 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Kalinnikov, Vasily. Symphonic picture: The cedar and the palm (1897-98). Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8805 13
12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 CONCERTOS FOR TWO Prepared by Stephen Wilson Vivaldi, A. Double concerto in C, RV533. Duke Dobing, fl; Deborah Davis, fl; City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Kraemer. Naxos 8.554053 7 Albinoni, T. Double concerto in C. Maurice André, tpt; Lionel André, tpt; Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard. Erato 2292-45062-2 11 Mendelssohn, F. Double concerto in D minor (1823). Polina Leschenko, pf; Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti, vn & dir. BIS SACD-1984 35 14:00 YOUTH Prepared by Mariko Yata Debussy, C. Children’s corner (1906-08). Roger Woodward, pf. ABC 481 1742 17 Janácek, L. Mládí (1924). Michael Harris, cl; Michael Thompson Wind Quintet. Naxos 8.553851 17 Mahler, G. Kindertotenlieder (1901-04). Linda Finnie, mezz; Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9545 24 Schumann, R. Scenes from childhood, op 15 (1838). Wilhelm Kempff, pf. DG 435 045-2 18 Tchaikovsky, P. Album for children, op 39 (1878; arr. Dubinsky, Turovsky). I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky. Chandos CHAN 9098 34 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock 19:00 THE NEW JAZZ STANDARD with Frank Presley
20:00 SHOWCASING AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS Sydney Soloists Recorded for Fine Music by Kerry Joyner Mozart, W. Quintet in A, K581 (1789). Francesco Celata, cl. 33 Beethoven, L. Septet in E flat, op 20 (1800). 42 Sydney Soloists (2 above) 21:30 LOUIS SPOHR: THREE SHORT PIECES Prepared by Frank Morrison Spohr, L. Andante with variations, op 34 (1815). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Consortium Classicum. Orfeo C 213 901 A 8 Love separated, op 37 no 4 (1815-16). Marjorie Patterson, sop; Daniel Sarge, pf. Marco Polo 8.223869 3 Violin concerto no 13 in E, op 92 (1835). Ulf Hoelscher, vn; Berlin RSO/Christian Fröhlich. cpo 999 187-2 14 22:00 MUSICAL PORTRAITS The Basque country Prepared by Robert Small Anchieta, J. de Magnificat. Grupo de Música Alfonso X et Sabio/Luis Lonzano Virumbrales. Decca 436 116-2 6 Arriaga, J. Symphony in D (c1824). Algarve O/Alvaro Cassuto. Naxos 8.557207 23 Guridi, J. Ten Basque songs (1941). Basque NO/Miguel Gómez Martínez. Claves 50-9709 21 Sarasate, P. de Caprice Basque, op 24 (pub. 1881). Gil Shaham, vn; Akira Eguchi, pf. Canary CC07 7 Ravel, M. Trio in A minor (1914). Streeton Trio. www.streetontrio.com 28 Canteloube, J. J’ai une douce amie; Dans le tombeau; Allons, beau rossignol, from Songs of the Basque country (1947). Netania Davrath, sop; O/Gershon Kingsley. Vanguard OVC 8001/2 12 Guridi, J. Basque folk songs (1917). Victoria Aja, pf. Naxos 8.557633 8 Durey, L. Chansons basques, op 23 (1919). François Le Roux, bar; Graham Johnson, pf. Hyperion CDA67257 4 Today Simon Moore celebrates 500 broadcasts of Fine Music Breakfast! He’ll be playing his favourite musical works and artists! October 2017
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Friday 27 OCTOBER 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Something borrowed Prepared by Di Cox Otto, L. Trumpet concerto in E flat (arr. Brown). Maurice André, tpt; Württemberg CO/ Jörg Faerber. EMI CMS 7 69880-2 15 Mozart, W. Andante in F, from Piano concerto, K467 (1785; arr. Saint-Saëns). Takako Nishizaki, vn; Capella Istropolitana/ Johannes Wildner. Naxos 8.550414 8 Weber, C.M. Invitation to the dance (1819; arr. Berlioz). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.550081 9 Françaix, J. 15 Portraits d’enfants d’Auguste Renoir (1972; arr. Françaix). Martin Jones, pf; Adrian Farmer, pf. Nimbus NI 5880/2 14 Schubert, F. Fantasia in F minor, D940 (1828; arr. Motti). American SO/Leon Botstein. Koch 3-7307-2 18 Bruch, M. Kol Nidrei, op 47 (1881; arr. Gingold). David Garrett, vn; Alexander Markovich, pf. DG 479 0933 10 Bridge, F. Cherry ripe, from Two old English songs (1916; arr.). BBC Welsh NO/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 10246 3 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Frank Morrison Debussy, C. Jeux (1912). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 8903 18 Haydn, J. Violin concerto no 3 in A, Hob. VIIa:3 (c1771). Salvatore Accardo, vn; English CO/Edo de Waart. Philips 438 797-2 27 Kalinnikov, Vasily. Symphony no 1 in G minor. Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9546 38 12:00 A JAZZ HOUR with Barry O’Sullivan 36
13:00 FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM Post impressionists: Part 1 Prepared by Rex Burgess Emmanuel, M. Sonatine pastorale (1897). Peter Jacobs, pf. Continuum CCD 1048 10 Schmitt, F. Le palais hanté, op 49 (1900-04). Frédérique Cambreling, hp; Monte Carlo PO/ Georges Prêtre. EMI CDM 7 64887 2 12 Dukas, P. Orchestral interlude, from Ariane et Barbebleu, Act III (1906). New PO/Armin Jordan. Erato 2292-45663-2 5 Séverac, D. de En Languedoc (1903-04). Aldo Ciccolini, pf. EMI 5 72372 2 30 Roger-Ducasse, J. Symphonic fragment: In Marguerite’s garden (1901-05); Interlude (1907-09). Rhineland Palatinate PO/Leif Segerstam. Marco Polo 8.223641 12 Dukas, P. La plainte, au loin, du faune (1920). Margaret Fingerhut, pf. Chandos CHAN 8765 4 Ibert, J. Roma-Palermo, from Escales (1922). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 440 332-2 7 14:30 FOR THE LEFT HAND Prepared by Stephen Wilson Godowsky, L. Symphonic metamorphoses of the Schatz-Walzer themes from The gypsy baron (pub. 1941; ed. Saperton). Konstantin Scherbakov, pf. Naxos 8.225350 13 Hough, S. Sonata, Les adieux (2013). Steven Isserlis, vc; Stephen Hough, pf. Hyperion CDA68079 20 Alkan, C-V. Fantasy in A flat, op 76 (c1838). Marc-André Hamelin, pf. Hyperion CDA66765 9 Janácek, L. Capriccio (1926). Mikhaïl Rudy, pf; Soloists of Paris National Opera O/ Charles Mackerras. EMI 5 55585 2 20 Ravel, M. Piano concerto in D, op 102 (1931). Robert Casadesus, pf; Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy. Philips 456 739-2 17 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Bernstein, L. Excerpts from Candide (1956). Barara Cook, Max Adrian, Robert Rounseville, voices; members of original Broadway cast. Columbia SK 86859 20
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Gershwin, G. Excerpts from An American in Paris. Richard Fairchild, Leanne Cope, Veanne Cox, Max von Essen, voices; members of original Broadway cast. Master Works 88875 09114 2 13 Berlin, I. Excerpts from Annie get your gun (1946). Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, William O’Neal, voices; members of original Broadway cast. Decca 012 159 243-2 18 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Denis Patterson Beethoven, L. Sonata no 32 in C minor, op 111 (1822). Tamara-Anna Cislowska, pf. Fine Music concert recording 30 Glinka, M. Trio pathétique in D minor (1832). Deborah de Graaff, cl; Lorelei Dowling, bn; Peter Sagar, pf. Fine Music concert recording 15 Rubinstein, A. Sonata in D, op 89 (1870). Kenneth Broadway, Ralph Markham, pf. LP RCA RL 30433 35 Chausson, E. Poème de l’amour et de la mer, op 19 (1882-90). Françoise Pollet, sop; Monte Carlo PO/Armin Jordan. FNAC 592275 29 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Focus on Campra Prepared by Chris Blower Campra, A. Suite from L’Europe galante (1697). English CO/Raymond Leppard. Decca 433 733-2 21 Cantata: Les femmes (pub. 1708). Maarten Koningsberger, bar; Academy of the Begynhof, Amsterdam. Globe GLO 5055 13 Espoir et malheureux, from Idoménée (1712). Sandrine Piau, sop; Les Paladins/Jerome Correas. naïve OP 30532 5 Destouches, A. Ballet: Les éléments. Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. . L’Oiseau-Lyre 421 656-2 20 Campra, A. Messe des morts (c1700). Judith Nelson, sop; Dinah Harris, sop; Jean-Claude Orliac, ten; Wynford Evans, ten; Stephen Roberts, bass; Monteverdi Choir; Nicholas McGegan, fl; Marilyn Sansom, vc; Marchael Lewin, archlute; Malcolm Hicks, org; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Erato 245 993-2 52
Saturday 28 OCTOBER 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mozart, W. Overture to The magic flute, K620 (1791; arr. Kenyon). 7 Meyerbeer, G. Coronation march (arr. Jakeway). 4 Curnow, J. Fanfare and flourishes. 2 Rolls Royce Coventry Brass Band (3 above) Soho SOHOCD051 Williams, J. Theme from Superman. RCA 74321 88393 2 7 Paavo Järvi 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:05 ORCHESTRAS AROUND THE WORLD Tapiola Sinfonietta Prepared by Di Cox Weber, C.M. Overture to Turandot, Prinzessin von China (1809). Jean-Jacques Kantorow, cond. BIS SACD-1760 4 Beethoven, L. Piano concerto no 2 in B flat, op 19 (1793-95). Olli Mustonen, pf & dir. Ondine ODE 1099-5 28 Saint-Saëns, C. Morceau de concert in G, op 62 (1880). Jean-Jacques Kantorow, cond. BIS CD-860 9 Poulenc, F. Sinfonietta (1947). Paavo Järvi, cond. BIS CD-630 28 Mozart, W. Horn concerto no 1 in D, K412 (1791). Christian Lindberg, hornbone; JeanJacques Kantorow, cond. BIS CD-1008 8 Tapiola Sinfonietta (all above) 10:30 SMALL FORCES Prepared by Frank Morrison Kreutzer, R. Grand quintet in C (1790-99). Sarah Francis, ob; Allegri String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66143 15 Moszkowski, M. Suite, op 71 (c1910). Ilya Gringolts,vn; Alexandr Bulov, vn; Irina Ryumina, pf. BIS CD-1016 19 Romberg, A. Clarinet quintet in E flat, op 57 (1819). Members of Consortium Classicum/ Dieter Klöcker. Orfeo C314 941 A 20
Bizet, G. Duet, from The pearl fishers (arr. Fernie). Jonathan Beatty, tb; Mike Kilroy, euphonium; Peter Parkes, cond. Chandos CHAN 4542 6 Grimethorpe Colliery U.K. Coal Band (2 above) 12:00 URBAN JAZZ LOUNGE with Leita Hutchings 13:00 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD with Maureen Meers Nostalgic music and artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s and occasionally beyond, in a trip down many memory lanes 14:00 THE NIGHTINGALE Prepared by Stephen Wilson Alyabyev, A. The nightingale. Natalie Dessay, sop; Berlin SO/Michael Schönwandt. EMI 5 56565 2 5 Granados, E. The lover and the nightingale. Linda Kouvaras, pf. Move MCD 042 6 Tchaikovsky, P. The nightingale (1889). V. Korshunov, ten; USSR State Academic Russian Ch/Alexander Sveshnikov. LP Melodiya C 01697-8 5 Couperin, F. The nightingale in love. Greg Dikmans, fl. Move MD 3163 7 Sarasate, P. de Song of the nightingale, op 29 (1885). Adele Anthony, vn; Akira Eguchi, pf. Canary CC07 8 Stravinsky, I. The song of the nightingale (1917). Royal Concertgebouw O/Riccardo Chailly. Radio Nederland RCO 08005 20 15:00 LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE Hérold, F. Ballet: La fille mal gardée (1828; arr. Lanchbery). Royal Opera House O/John Lanchbery. Decca 442 9048 1:35 Taneyev, S. Concert suite, op 28 (1908-09). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Royal Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10491 47
17:30 THE VOICES, THE ROLES with Angela Cockburn Bachelor basses 18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Sydney Schubert Society Prepared by Ross Hayes 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers 20:00 INFLUENCES AND CONNECTIONS Margaret Sutherland Prepared by James Nightingale Sutherland, M. Haunted hills (1953). Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 446 285-2 15 Gifford, H. Menin Gate (2005). Michael Kieran Harvey, pf. Move MD 3329 9 Banks, D. String quartet (1975). Kreutzer Quartet. Move MD 3371 19 Sutherland, M. Six songs to the poems of Judith Wright (1967). Lisa Harper-Brown, sop; David Wickham, pf. Stone Records 5060192780390 17 Hughes, R. Essay (1953). Melbourne SO/ Willem van Otterloo. LP ABC RRCS 380 10 Ghandar, A. Garden with birds (1998-99). Ian Munro, pf. Tall Poppies TP145 10 Bax, A. November woods (1917). Ulster O/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8307 18 Sutherland, M. Sonata (1949). Nigel Westlake, cl; David Bollard, pf. Tall Poppies TP004 8 22:00 SATURDAY NIGHT AT HOME Prepared by Elaine Siversen Beethoven, L. Serenade in D, op 25 (1801). Grigory Madativ, fl; David Oistrakh, vn; Mikhail Terian, va. Brilliant Classics 8402 26 Vaughan Williams, R. Serenade to music (1938). Vancouver Bach Choir; Vancouver SO/Bruce Pullan. CBC SMCD 5121 13 Mozart, W. Serenade no 7 in D, K250, Haffner (1776). Liszt Ferenc CO/János Rolla. Hungaroton HCD 12944 58 Jolivet, A. Serenade (1945). Bergen Wind Quintet. BIS CD-291 17 “Music is the universal language of mankind.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow October 2017
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Sunday 29 OCTOBER Josquin Desprez. Chanson. Hilliard Ensemble. Warner Classics 0190295909109 2 Luther, M. Non moriar sed vivam. Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble/Arno Paduch. Christophorus CHE 0170-2 3 1 Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV80: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Munich Bach Choir & O/Karl Richter. Archiv 427 130-2 26
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with James Nightingale
12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Jeannie McInnes
9:00 MUSICA SACRA Prepared by Stephen Matthews
14:00 EARLY 20TH CENTURY WORKS Prepared by Frank Morrison
Luther, M. German Magnificat (arr. Michael Praetorius). Gli Scarlattisti; Capella Principale/Jochen Arnold. Carus 83.482 10
Bach, J.S. Lutheran Mass in G, BWV236. Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki. BIS BIS-2081 25
Diepenbrock, A. Overture to The birds (1917). Emmy Verhey, vn; The Hague Residency O/Hans Vonk. Chandos CHAN 8821 10
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Frauenkirche Chamber Choir, Dresden; Instrumenta Musica/Matthias Grünert. Rondeau ROP 6074 7
Foote, A. Sarabande and rigaudon, op 60 (1921). Fenwick Smith, fl; Marcus Thompson, va; Randall Hodgkinson, pf. Northeastern NR 227 8
Walter, J. In the midst of life behold. Melanie Hirsch, sop; Henning Kaiser, ten; Stadtsingechor zu Halle/Frank-Steffen Elster. Carus 83.339 4
Elgar, E. Romance, op 62 (1909). Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; London SO/Charles Mackerras. EMI CDM 7 64726 2 6
Luther, M. Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her. Gabrieli Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh. Archiv 439 250-2 11
Cantata, BWV126: Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort. Holland Boys Choir; Netherlands Bach Collegium/Pieter Leusink. Brilliant Classics 94365/33 17 Telemann, G. Cantata: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Erloserkirche Chamber Choir, Bad Homburg; Johann Rosemuller Ensemble/Amo Paduch. Christophorus CHR 77405 9 10:00 THE CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Andari Anggamulia Dittersdorf, C. Sinfonia in E flat. Lisbon Metropolitan O/Álvaro Cassuto. Naxos 8.570198 29 Mozart, W. Va, dal furor portata, K21 (1765). Christophe Prégardien, ten; La Petite Bande/ Sigiswald Kuijken. Virgin VC 7 90753-2 6 Giuliani, M. Six arias from verse by Metastasio, op 95 (pub. 1818). Members of Meister Consort. Jecklin JD 624-2 16 Bach, J. Christian Sextet in C for oboe, two horns, violin, cello and keyboard. English Concert. Archiv 423 385-2 17 Rossini, G. Introduction, theme and variations in B flat. Sharon Kam, cl; Middle Germany RO/Gregor Bühl. Berlin 0012862BC 13 Spohr, L. Symphony no 2 in D minor, op 49 (1820). North German RPO/Howard Griffiths. cpo 777 178-2 28 38
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Telemann, G. Luther Cantata: Herr, wir liegen für dir mit unserm Gebet. Sächsisches Barokorchester; Bach Consort, Leipzig/ Gotthold Schwarz. cpo 777 753-2 11
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Reznicek, E. A comic overture (1922). West German RSO/Michail Jurowski. cpo 777 047-2 9 Lyapunov, S. Piano concerto no 2 in E, op 38 (1909). Hamish Milne, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA67326 19 15:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL A celebration of the Reformation in music Prepared by Stephen and Meg Matthews Mahu, S. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Calmus Ensemble. Carus 83.478 5 Walter, J. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Concerto Melante. DHM 88985 34798-2 1 Isaac, H. Mass for six voices. Hilliard Ensemble; Kees Boeke Consort/Kees Boeke. Warner Classics 0190295909109 21 Walter, J. Three Luther songs. Hamburger Ratmusik/Simon Eckert. Carus 83.390 5 Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. Concerto Melante. DHM 88985 34798-2 1
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17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymns: O worship the King; Lead us heavenly Father lead us. Choir of Paisley Abbey/George McPhee. 5 Hymn: Jesu lover of my soul. Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/George Guest. 4 Brian Runnett, org (2 above) Decca 452 252-2 Homilius, G. Psalm 23: Der Herr ist mein Hirt; Unser Vater in dem Himmel. Rheinische Kantorei/Hermann Max. MDG 602 0145-2 12 Handel, G. How excellent thy name O Lord, from Saul (1738-39). Ruth Holton, sop; Derek Lee Ragin, ct; Philip Slane, ten; Simon Oberst, bass; Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 426 265-2 9 Mendelssohn, F. O head so bruised and wounded; Grant us peace. Michael Volle, bass; Stuttgart Chamber Choir & O/Frieder Bernius. Carus 83.204 19
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12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan 13:00 MUSIC FOR A FEW Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Strauss, R. Prelude, from Capriccio, op 85 (1940-1). Members of Berlin Opera O/ Christian Thielemann. DG 449 571-2 11 Respighi, O. Adagio con variazioni (1920). Luca Signorini, vc; Francesco Nicolosi, pf. Nuova Era 7191 11 Leos Janácek
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Homilius, G. Ach bleib mit deiner Gnade. Felix Marangoni, org. Brilliant Classics 94458 2
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18:00 SOCIETY SPOT Sydney Society of Recorder Players Prepared by Susan Bell 19:00 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Janácek, L. Sinfonietta (1926). Slovak RSO/ Ondrej Lenárd. Naxos 8.550411 22 Bach, C.P.E. Cello concerto in A, Wq172 (1753). Anner Bijlsma, vc; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt. Virgin VC 7 90800-2 19 Franck, C. Symphony in D minor (1887-88). French NO/Leonard Bernstein. DG 478 6971 42 20:30 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Robert Small Gregson, E. Dream song (2010). BBC PO/ Bramwell Tovey. Chandos CHAN 10822 21 Beath, B. Dreams and visions (1996). Queensland SO/Mark Summerbell. Vienna Modern Masters VMM 3039 21 Edwards, R. Mass of the dreaming (2009). Brisbane Chamber Choir/Graeme Morton. Tall Poppies TP239 17 Vine, C. Pipe dreams (2003). Sharon Bezaly, fl; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. BIS CD-1789 15 Howell, R. Dream sequence, desert walk (2009). Sunwrae Ensemble. New Music Network 20130715 11 22:00 AFTER HOURS JAZZ with Kevin Jones “In addition to its application to the dance, jazz came into a fairly general acceptance as one of the amenities of social life.” – Percy Scholes
6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC A year in retrospect: 1876 Prepared by Rebecca Zhong Franck, C. Symphonic poem: Les éolides (1875-6). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 452 890-2 11 Sarasate, P. de Concert fantasy on The force of destiny, op 1 (1876). Tianwa Yang, vn; Markus Hadulla, pf. Naxos 8.570192 9 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Wind quintet in B flat (1876). Les Vents Français. Warner Classics 0825646231850 28 Paine, J. Romanza and humoreske, op 30 (1876). Jules Eskin, vc; Virginia Eskin, pf. Northeastern NR 219 12 Svendsen, J. Norwegian rhapsody no 1, op 17 (1876). Bergen PO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10693 8 Liszt, F. Danse macabre, after Saint-Saëns, op 40 (1876). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDS44552 10 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Gerald Holder Wagner, R. Overture to Tannhäuser (1845). Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 4509-99595-2 15 Paganini, N. Violin concerto no 1 in D, op 6 (1815). Michael Rabin, vn; Philharmonia O/ Eugene Goossens. EMI 5 72854 2 29 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 13 (1874). Czech PO/Jirí Belohlávek. Decca 478 6757 40
Mozart, W. String quartet no 6 in B flat (177273). Quatuor Modigliani. Mirare MIR 168 13 Françaix, J. Divertimento (1959). André Cazalet, hn; Yves Henri, pf. Pierre Verany PV 793041 7 Handel, G. Trio sonata in G minor, HWV390 (c1718). Catherine MackIntosh, vn; Catherine Weiss, vn; Robert Woolley, hpd. Chandos CHAN 0620 10 Spohr, L. Octet in E flat for winds and strings, op 32 (1814). Nash Ensemble. crd 3354 27 14:30 WITH ORCHESTRA Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Handel, G. Concerto grosso no 6 in D, HWV317 (c1715-22). English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 479 1932 6 Bach, J. Christian Symphony in E flat for double orchestra, op 18 no 1 (1779). Academy of Ancient Music/Simon Standage. Chandos CHAN 0540 14 Krumpholtz, J-B. Harp concerto in B flat. Klara Novakova, hp; Bratislava RSO/Oliver Dohnányi. Brilliant Classics 99512 24 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 8 in G, op 88 (1889). London SO/Antal Dorati. Mercury 478 5092 34 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Ross Hayes 19:00 JAZZ NICE ‘N EASY 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling and Peter Nelson ‘Jazz’ or ‘jass’ (hot dance music) was well established by the mid-1920s. October 2017
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Richard Divall 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Master pianists Prepared by Richard Verco Chopin, F. Scherzo no 4 in E, op 54 (1842). Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Olympia OCD 338 12 Mendelssohn, F. Piano concerto no 2 in D minor, op 40 (1837). Stephen Hough, pf; City of Birmingham SO/Lawrence Foster. Hyperion CDA66969 21 Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue no 24 in B minor, BWV869 (1722). Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Olympia OCD 536B 15 Liszt, F. Rhapsody espagnol (c1863). Stephen Hough, pf. Virgin 5 61129 2 13 Beethoven, L. Sonata no 8 in C minor, op 13, Pathétique (c1797-98). Sviatoslav Richter, pf. Melodiya MEL 10 00732 17 10:30 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Brian Drummond Beethoven, L. Wellington’s victory, op 91 (1813). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.570154-55 15 Gershwin, G. An American in Paris (1928). Minneapolis SO/Antal Dorati. Mercury 478 5092 16 Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 1 in D flat, op 10 (1911-12). Martha Argerich, pf; Swiss Italian O/Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky. DG 477 9884 16 Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Roger Heagney, org; State O of Victoria/Richard Divall. 3MBS-FM recording 34 40
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12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes
Mozart, W. Trio no 1 in B flat, K254, Divertimento (1776). Robert Ingram, vn; Georg Pedersen, vc, Gerard Willems, pf. Tall Poppies TP070 20
13:00 PRETTY DOLLS AND HANDSOME PUPPETS Prepared by Mariko Yata Gounod, C. Funeral march of a marionette (1872-79). Melbourne SO/Andrea Molino. ABC 481 4236 4
Meyerbeer, G. Les patineurs, ballet music from Le prophète (1849). North German RPO/Michail Jurowski. cpo 999 336-2 18
Martinu, B. Puppets, bk I (1925). Giorgio Koukl, pf. Naxos 8.557918 11
Mendelssohn, F. Sonata in E, op 6 (1826). Benjamin Frith, pf. Naxos 8.550940 26
Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The nutcracker, op 71a (1892). Vienna PO/Herbert von Karajan. Decca 478 5630 22
16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans
Villa-Lobos, H. Suite, from Prole do bebe (1918). Artur Rubinstein, pf. RCA RD 85670 11 Stravinsky, I. Petrushka (1910/47). Royal Concertgebouw O/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 473 731-2 35 14:30 FROM MONTEVERDI TO MENDELSSOHN Prepared by Andrew Parker Monteverdi, C. Oratorio: The combat of Tancred and Clorinda (pub. 1624). Mária Zádori, sop; Guy de Mey, ten; Marin Klietmann, ten; Capella Savaria/Nicholas McGegan. Hungaroton HCD 12952 17
19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Robert Small 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Rex Burgess Beethoven, L. Quartet in E flat, op 127 (1824-25). Goldner String Quartet. ABC 476 3541 37 Hummel, J. Quartet in E flat (1808). Alan Hacker, cl; members of Music Party. L’Oiseau-Lyre 444 167-2 30 Bruckner, A. String quintet in F (1879). L’Archibudelli. Sony SK 66 251 44
A jealous French compatriot accused Camille Saint-Saëns of arranging the first performance of his Symphony no 3 in C minor in London ‘by nice calculation, being certain of finding abroad an exceptional goodwill, the echo of which would avourably influence French audiences’. It was true that 19th century French composers needed to travel beyond France to achieve recognition and there is no doubt that the successful London performance of the symphony paved the way for its enthusiastic reception in Paris. The composer had intended to dedicate the symphony to Franz Liszt but Liszt died before the work was completed and it became a dedication to his memory. It is known as the Organ Symphony as an organ is used throughout and is most impressive in the magnificent last movement. It has been described as his most notable symphonic work. - ES
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The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the OCTOBER dates listed Adams, J. b1947 8,11 Agricola, A. c1446-1506 6 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 19 Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 10,26 Alkan, C-V. 1813-1888 5,10,24,27 Alyabyev, A. 1787-1851 28 Anchieta, J. de 1462-1523 26 Antheil, G. 1900-1959 19 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 5,11 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 16 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 6,26 Auric, G. 1899-1983 12 Avison, C. 1709-1770 10 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 6,20,29 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 6,15,23,29,30 Bach, J.C.F. 1732-1795 6,22 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 1,4,6,18,19,20,22,24,26,29,31 Bach, W.F. 1710-1784 6,20 Bairstow, E. 1874-1946 22 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 10,11,14 Banks, D. 1923-1980 28 Barber, S. 1910-1981 8 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 2,8 Bax, A. 1883-1953 5,28 Beach, A. 1867-1944 17 Beath, B. b1932 29 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 1, 5,8,10,11,12,18,20,22,23,24,2 5,26,27,28,31 Benda, F. 1709-1786 11 Benda, G. 1722-1795 22 Bennett, Robert. 1894-1981 19 Berezovsky, M. 1745-1777 11 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 2,6,24 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 8,18 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 21 Biber, H. 1644-1704 4,19 Birtwistle, H. b1934 21 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 5,6,28 Bliss, A. 1891-1975 5 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 5,9,16,21 Bononcini, G. 1670-1747 10 Bonporti, F. 1672-1749 10 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 10,14,18 Bottesini, G. 1821-1889 19 Bourgault-Ducoudray, L-A. 1840-1910 22 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 3,6,9, 13,14,16,17,19,20,21,23,26 Briccialdi, G. 1818-1881 10 Britten, B. 1913-1976 3,5,7,12,16,20 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 27 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 15,31 Busoni, F. 1866-1924 9 Byrd, W. 1543-1623 3 Camilleri, C. b 1931 22 Campra, A. 1660-1744 13,27
Canteloube, J. 1879-1957 6,26 Carulli, F. 1770-1841 6,20 Cassadó, G. 1896-1966 19 Cavallini, E. 1807-1874 17 Cesti, A. 1623-1669 17 Chaminade, C. 1857-1944 11,18 Charpentier, M-A. 16351704 13 Chausson, E. 1855-1899 27 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 1,6,7,12,13,17,31 Cooman, C. b1982 22 Copland, A. 1900-1990 8,11,19 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 20 Couperin, F. 1668-1733 28 Crusell, B. 1775-1838 7,15 Czerny, C. 1791-1857 13,20 d’Indy, V. 1851-1931 9 Danzi, F. 1763-1826 1,13 Davies, P. Maxwell 19342016 21 Davis, C. b1936 8 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 5,11,20,26,27 Delius, F. 1862-1934 13 Destouches, A. 1672-1749 27 Devienne, F. 1759-1803 1 Diepenbrock, A. 1862-1921 29 Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 1,29 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 8 Dunstable, J. c1390-1453 7 Duparc, H. 1848-1933 14 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 4,6,7,12,15,20,22,30 Easton, M. 1954-2004 1,13 Eckerson, T. 21st c 15 Edwards, R. b1943 29 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 7,14,29 Emmanuel, M. 1862-1938 27 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 17,19 Fasch, C. 1736-1800 15 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 2 Fibich, Z. 1850-1900 24 Finsterer, M. b1962 22 Foote, A. 1853-1937 29 Foster, G. b1945 14 Françaix, J. 1912-1997 27,30 France, S. b1968 8 Franck, C. 1822-1890 7,9,14,15,29,30 Fuchs, K. b1956 22 Fucik, J. 1872-1916 24 Galuppi, B. 1706-1785 4,25 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 12 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 23,31 Ghandar, A. b1943 8,28 Gifford, H. b1935 28 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 29
Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 5,9,10,12,13,14,25 Glière, R. 1875-1976 2 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 11,13,17,27 Godowsky, L. 1870-1938 27 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 16,20 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 7 Granados, E. 1867-1916 7,17,19,28 Graun, J. 1702-1771 10 Graupner, C. 1683-1760 2 Grechaninov, A. 1864-1956 17 Gregson, E. 20th c 29 Grétry, A-E-M. 1741-1813 15,22 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 3,4, 7,22 Grime, H. b1981 8 Guridi, J. 1886-1961 26 Halvorsen, J. 1864-1935 14 Handel, G. 1685-1759 4,5,8,18,29,30 Hanson, H. 1896-1981 3 Harris, W. 1883-1973 1 Harwood, B. 1859-1949 15 Hassler, H. 1562-1612 6 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 1,8,19,21,22,24,27 Haydn, M. 1737-1806 1 Hérold, F. 1791-1833 28 Hill, A. 1870-1960 3 Hindemith, P. 1895-1963 10,12,13,20 Hoffmeister, F. 1754-1812 1,13 Holst, G. 1874-1934 10,14 Homilius, G. 1714-1785 29 Hough, S. b1961 1,27 Howell, R. b1979 29 Howells, H. 1892-1983 19 Hubay, J. 1858-1937 17 Hughes, R. 1912-2007 28 Humberstone, J. b1974 8 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 3,5,8,10,13,15,16,20,24,31 Humperdinck, E. 1854-1921 12 Ibert, J. 1890-1962 22,27 Ireland, J. 1879-1962 19 Isaac, H. c1450-1517 29 Ives, C. 1874-1954 12,19 Jackson, F. b1917 22 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 22,26,27,29 Jolivet, A. 1905-1974 28 Josquin Desprez. c14401521 22 Just, J. c1750-1791 10 Kabalevsky, D. 1904-1987 18,21 Kalinnikov, Vasily. 1816-1901 26,27 Kapsberger, J. c1580-1651 6 Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 12,15 Keller, A. b1973 22
Key Music duration is shown after the record and citation SO: Symphony Orchestra PO: Philharmonic Orchestra NO: National Orchestra RO: Radio Orchestra FO: Festival Orchestra CO: Chamber Orchestra TO: Theatre Orchestra
RSO: Radio Symphony Orchestra RTO: Radio & Television Orchestra Prom O: Promenade Orchestra Ch & O: Chorus & Orchestra NSO: National Symphony Orchestra alto: male alto
ban: bandoneon bar: baritone bshn: basset horn bass: bass bn: bassoon bass-bar: bass-baritone cl: clarinet clvd: clavichord cont: contralto cora: cor anglais ct: counter-tenor
Khachaturian, A. 1903-1978 5,7,9 Kodály, Z. 1882-1967 8 Kozeluch, L. 1747-1818 18 Kraus, J.M. 1756-1792 1 Kreutzer, J. 1778-1832 23 Kreutzer, R. 1766-1831 28 Krumpholtz, J-B. 1742-1790 30 Lalo, E. 1823-1892 11,14 Lauro, A. 1917-1986 17 Lechner, L. c1553-1606 6 Lehár, F. 1870-1948 21 Lemmens, J. 1823-1881 24 Lentz, G. 20th c 22 Leoncavallo, R. 1858-1919 10 Lhoyer, A. de 1768-1852 5 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 2,3,12,14,16,20,25,30,31 Locatelli, P. 1695-1764 20 Luther, M. 1483-1546 29 Lutyens, E. 1906-1983 7 Lyapunov, S. 1859-1924 29 MacDowell, E. 1860-1908 5,9 Mackenzie, A. 1847-1935 24 Mackey, J. b1973 14 Maconchy, E. 1907-1994 21 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 9,20,26 Mancinus, T. 1550-1611 6 Marcello, A. 1684-1750 20 Marcello, B. 1686-1739 8 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 20,22,31 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 17 Matteis, N. d c1707 13 Mechura, L. 1804-1870 9 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 12,26,29,31 Messiaen, O. 1908-1992 7 Meyerbeer, G. 1791-1864 31 Milhaud, D. 1892-1974 2,6,16 Molique, B. 1802-1869 16 Monteverdi, C. 1567-1643 19,31 Montsalvatge, X. 1912-2002 25 Moore, K. b1979 8 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 28 Mozart, L. 1719-1787 3 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 1,3,5, 6,8,9,10,11,12,16,21,23,26,27, 28,29,30,31 Myaskovsky, N. 1881-1950 3 Myslive ek, J. 1737-1781 7 Neukomm, S. 1778-1858 24 Offenbach, J. 1819-1880 6 Onslow, G. 1784-1853 15 Orlovich, M. b1970 1 Otto, L. fl c1750 27 Paderewski, I. 1860-1941 7 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 14,19,30 Paine, J. 1839-1906 30 Pärt, A. b1935 1
db: double bass dbn: double bassoon did: didjeridu elec: electronic eng horn: English horn fl: flute fp: fortepiano gui: guitar hn: French horn hp: harp hpd: harpsichord
Paviour, P. b1931 6 Pergolesi, G. 1710-1736 19 Pichl, V. 1741-1805 5 Pierné, G. 1863-1937 26 Ponce, M. 1882-1948 25 Ponchielli, A. 1834-1886 7 Popper, D. 1843-1913 14 Poulenc, F. 1899-1963 1,9,12,28 Praetorius, H. 1560-1629 6 Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 2,5,6,12,17,23,25,31 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 2,7,9,24 Pugnani, G. 1731-1798 22,23 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 19 Quantz, J. 1697-1773 15 Quilter, R. 1877-1953 5 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 6,8,23,24 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 19,25 Rautavaara, E. 1928-2016 18 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 2,12,13,17,22,26,27 Reger, M. 1873-1916 12,13 Reich, S. b1936 3 Reicha, A. 1770-1836 12,13,17 Respighi, O. 1879-1936 2,3,17,22,30 Reznicek, E. 1860-1945 29 Rich, R. b1963 15 Richter, M. b1966 22 Ries, F. 1784-1838 24 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 18441908 3,8,10,11,14,16,30 Roger-Ducasse, J. 18731954 27 Romberg, A. 1767-1821 24,28 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 14,15,19,20,29 Rubinstein, A. 1829-1894 11,12,27 Ruchman, S. b1949 7 Rutter, J. b1945 8 Saariaho, K. b1952 1 Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 2,5,6,14,15,17,22,24,28,31 Salieri, A. 1750-1825 2,15,17 Sammartini, G.B. 17001775 8 Sandström, J. b1954 8 Sarasate, P. de 1844-1908 26,28,30 Satie, E. 1866-1925 2 Scarlatti, A. 1659-1725 15,21 Scarlatti, D. 1685-1757 4,25 Schifrin, L. b1932 19 Schmelzer, J. c1620-1680 19 Schmitt, F. 1870-1958 27 Schoenberg, A. 18741951 20 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 2,3,4,5,8,12,15,16,17,27
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Schumann, R. 1810-1856 3,7,13,24,26 Sculthorpe, P. 1929-2014 24 Séverac, D. de 1872-1921 18,27 Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 15,19 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 1,2,12,13,24 Skryabin, A. 1872-1915 3,25 Soler, A. 1729-1783 17 Sor, F. 1778-1839 7 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 1,17,19,26,29,30 Stainer, J. 1840-1901 15 Stamitz, C. 1745-1801 9,12,23 Stanford, C. Villiers 18521924 15 Stanhope, P. b 1969 1 Strauss, J. II 1825-1899 21 Strauss, R. 1864-1949 30 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 5,7,10,12,16,21,23,28,31 Suk, J. 1874-1935 22 Sullivan, A. 1842-1900 7,21 Sutherland, M. 1897-1984 3,5,28 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 30 Sweelinck, J. 1562-1621 14 Takemitsu, T. 1930-1996 25 Tallis, T. c1505-1585 1,20 Taneyev, S. 1856-1915 17,28 Tartini, G. 1692-1770 8 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 9, 10,13,14,15,20,23,24,26,28,31 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 1,14,15,29 Ticheli, F. b1958 14 Torelli, G. 1658-1709 8 Turina, J. 1882-1949 19 Valente, A. fl 1570 17 Vanhal, J. 1739-1813 8 Varèse, E. 1883-1965 21 Vaughan Williams, R. 18721958 1,3,9,12,28 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 8,9,14 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 31 Vine, C. b1954 10,29 Viotti, G. 1755-1824 24 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 1,12,17,18,26 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 6,15,16,30 Walton, W. 1902-1983 21,25 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 2,19,22,26,27 Weelkes, T. 1576-1623 22 Weill, K. 1900-1950 5,23 Westlake, N. b1958 11 White, M. 1855-1937 22 Williams, J. b1932 28 Williamson, M. 1931-2003 7 Wolf-Ferrari, E. 18761948 16 Wuorinen, C. b1938 9
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GEORGE DREYFUS … LIVE! George Dreyfus, voice, bassoon Paul Grabowsky, keyboard Move MD 3300
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It is always such a pleasure to hear Emma Matthews sing. It is also a pleasure to see her on stage or in a face to face interview, particularly the latter because she never fails to hug me before and after. Like everyone else, I guess, it’s nice to be appreciated!! Her last CD was the 2004 recital of Mozart arias with the Tasmanian Symphony but I still prefer the album which she produced when she hopped off to Monte Carlo to record under the
CHOPIN: WORKS FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA Jan Lisiecki, piano NDR Elbphilharmonie O/Krzysztof Urbanski DG 479 6824
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George Dreyfus’ relationship with the bassoon is well known and this album, George Dreyfus … Live! seeks to encapsulate his playing along with some of his own contributions to Australian music over the past 50 years. The instrumental tracks on this disc contain some of the well-known and well-rounded melodies from the Dreyfus catalogue. The opening track, from the ABC series of the 1970’s, Rush, is his most iconic theme and the upward inverse inflective theme from Let the balloon go brings back memories of that movie and the trials and tribulations of a young boy with polio. The album is punctuated with a series of oblique vocal tracks of which the short description of guidance of Brad Cohen. Emma’s voice was then at its peak and although it has matured somewhat since, it is still a thing of beauty and a joy to hear. In this album she hasn’t concentrated on the coloratura side of her voice but rather on the drama at which composers like Verdi excel. True, there is still the odd high E or F (including a deliciously hanging one in Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia) but the two arias from La traviata and the orchestral prelude will have you begging for more. If Emma isn’t a National Treasure already then I suggest there was no justice in the ballot which was announced a few years back. There’s still Which garden scent comes to mind when you hear a melting, ‘fragrant’ melody by Chopin? Gardenias? Yes, something that is sweet but slightly herbaceous. Just such a melody opens the Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brilliante where the sound engineers have captured all the warmth of Jan Lisiecki’s playing. Lisiecki is Canadian-born (1995) to Polish parents. Deutsche Grammophon signed him in 2010. In 2013 he was awarded the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year and he made his Australian debut with the QSO in August. Chopin was so in love with the piano that his orchestral writing can seem a bit spare, so ‘works for piano and orchestra’ can almost be a misnomer. This is the composer who made the piano ‘sing’ (grace notes and trills abound), so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the two masters of bel canto, Bellini and Donizetti,
a cunning and playful fox in Sebastian the fox will very quickly become an ‘ear worm’. I found Peace the most aesthetically pleasing miniature of the disc along with Marion whose phrasing and connectivity are outstanding examples of his instrumental genius. At a mere 33 minutes, this disc is for connoisseurs of Australian music. This music of George Dreyfus blurs the lines from the novel and naive to the witty and sarcastic. - Frank Shostakovich
a gracious lady with a divine voice and this album is proof of it! - Randolph Magri-Overend were influences. You can almost imagine Joan Sutherland singing some of these melodies. The Rondo à la krakowiak is Chopin in his muscular Polish mode, folkloric elements abounding. Là ci darem la mano is a ‘cute’ Mozart tune, something which Chopin seems to acknowledge by his jaunty statement of the theme but his variations invest it with more meaning and drama than the original theme to produce music which is totally believable. If the Polonaise and Krakowiak are folkloric, then the Fantasy on Polish airs is downright nationalist, using actual popular Polish tunes of the time. Nocturne in C sharp minor op. posth. is a delightful encore to a most enjoyable recital from a young man whose limpid tone is ideal for Chopin. - Michael Muir
VALE PATRICK THOMAS DEREK PARKER PAYS TRIBUTE The death in August of the distinguished Brisbane-born conductor Patrick Thomas, at the age of 85, was a loss not only for the musical fraternity in general but for Fine Music in particular: he was for many years a volunteer in Chandos Street and always a friend. The connection is not surprising: the driving ambition of the station is not only to provide music for those who know and love it, but to bring in and cater for those for whom classical music is a new and exhilarating experience. That was also Thomas’ ambition and one which he more than fulfilled. He travelled the length and breadth of Australia conducting hundreds of performances, bringing the sound of a symphony orchestra to people who would otherwise never have had the opportunity to
hear it ‘live’. Through school performances he most probably planted in many children the seed of the love of classical music which they first heard because of his work. He was also a highly successful international conductor who had formed his intention early: as a 12-year-old he attended his first symphony concert, saw Eugene Ormandy on the podium and knew where he himself eventually wanted to stand. Within a year he was playing the flute with the newlyformed Queensland Symphony Orchestra under Eugene Goosens at Goosens first concert in Australia. He reached the podium 18 years later, conducting the ABC Adelaide Singers. From then on, his career was set and he worked extensively with four ABC orchestras and with the Australian Opera and Ballet. He became the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor between 1973 and 1977, introducing audiences to much contemporary music, including, it is said, the work of over 100 contemporary Australian composers.
He travelled widely abroad as guest conductor with the Hallé in England and the Philharmonic orchestras of Moscow and Munich, in the Czech Republic, South Africa, Bulgaria and elsewhere. He was offered from time to time important and lucrative overseas engagements which he declined: his love of Australia and of his family brought him home perhaps too often for the perfect health of his career. His interesting autobiography and another book of anecdotes about his musical life reflect a career full of enjoyment as well as of study and the sheer hard work of leading musicians in often hard conditions (on his tours of northern Australia). He was justly recognised in the award of the Orders both of Australia and the British Empire. A tribute program for Patrick Thomas will be broadcast on Tuesday 3 October at 1pm. Patrick Thomas recorded some programs shortly before his death and he may be heard presenting Paul Paviour on Parade on 6 and 20 October at 1pm and The Amadio Legends on 10 October at 1pm.
VALE JANET SEIDEL JEANNIE MCINNES AND KEVIN JONES PAY TRIBUTE Australia’s ‘little jazz bird’ has flown away, leaving the music scene much poorer. Janet Seidel’s first album was called Little jazz bird and it summed up the reason for her popularity. She had been performing for some time, but this was her introduction to a wider audience, and wider it became with each tour and recording. It not only remains one of her finest albums but it showed her versatility and wide ranging repertoire. To attend a Janet Seidel concert was a chance to be enriched by music and informed by introductions. To her, the melody and the lyrics came first and were never destroyed by vocal histrionics. Listen to any recording and it’s the song which shines through with Janet’s fine playing and singing expressing the intent of the song. She spent much time researching and exploring the meaning of each song so she could best share it with the audience. A song was not just a piece of music, but also a whole story. She always shared that and the reason each piece had been chosen for performance.
Over her career she recorded 18 albums. In mainly small groups, she was always accompanied by her brother David Seidel on bass and, over the last decade and a half, guitarist Chuck Morgan. Earlier recordings featured trumpeter and saxophonist Tom Baker, including well-crafted vocal duet harmonies. Kevin Hunt, Don Burrows, Billy Ross, John Morrison, Ben Jones, Joe Chindamo and Fabian Hevia have also shared line-ups with her. Each album was a chance to explore another musical area: the songbooks of performers Blossom Dearie, Doris Day and Peggy Lee, and composers Cole Porter and Henry Mancini; the sound of intimate places with the Art of lounge; and albums evoking particular places such as the Pacific with Moon of Manakoora and France in Comme ce comme ça. No other singer in Australia could have sung J’attendrai with such feeling in perfect French.
Taiwan, the UK, and just recently, China. It was the UK based Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD which described her as ‘the first lady of Australian jazz singing’, while Japanese critics ranked her in the Top 10 female jazz vocalists of her generation. In Australia, she won a Bell Award and ARIA nominations: high praise indeed and much deserved for a performer who gave everything to her music.
She performed to enthusiastic audiences around the world, including the USA, Japan,
Listen to musical tributes at 12 noon, 7pm and 10pm in some October jazz programs.
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Jazz CD Reviews THE RIGHT IDEA: A CENTENARY TRIBUTE 1939-49 Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra Retrospective RTS 4225
✶✶✶✶ When discussing big bands of the fabled Swing Era, the recordings of one of the most driving of the orchestras, that led by saxophonist Charlie Barnet, is often overlooked. Yet his recordings for the RCA Bluebird label from 193942 represent the most consistently excellent jazz music produced by any white swing band in this period, coinciding with the arrival of Cliff Leeman, one of the finest big band drummers. It was often said band out swung the drummer
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✶✶✶✶✶ ROCK POOL MIRROR Sandy Evans and Friends Tall Poppies TP244
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but Leeman changed that reinforcing Barnet’s aim: to swing, and hard! This was a happy band as the sidemen enjoyed the wild social life with their millionaire playboy leader who was not only a fine tenor saxophonist but a Johnny Hodges inspired soloist on both alto and soprano. Arranger Billy May, responsible for many of the band’s popular instrumentals, compared being with Glenn Miller after being enticed to leave Barnet, to ‘like working in a factory’. Barnet’s was the blackest sounding of all the white swing bands, not surprising considering his admiration for the music of Duke Ellington and, to a slightly lesser extent, Count Basie, paying homage to them with The Duke’s idea and The Count’s idea. Although he recorded many of the Duke’s instrumentals, retaining their
spirit without being pale imitations of the originals, Barnet’s band had more ‘head’ arrangements than any other white band. He also helped break down the racial barriers by hiring black musicians including the great trumpeter Clark Terry. However, Barnet always had the right idea. - Kevin Jones
It was Frank Sinatra, even more than Ella Fitzgerald, who fostered my love of the timeless melodies of The Great American Songbook as a teenager. I consider myself privileged to have grown up in an era when music was not a ‘product’ but instead when the emphasis was on quality as epitomised by the classic albums of Sinatra with arranger Nelson Riddle. The excellence of his legacy must never be allowed to wither and in this new album Lyn Stanley shows she has picked up the torch to be its standard bearer in the 21st Century for a new generation of jazz and music listeners. Superb in its sound and artistry, each track is a delight. It seems only appropriate that the album opens with All or nothing at all, first recorded by Sinatra with Harry James and His Orchestra in 1939. Bookended by quotes from
Gershwin’s Rhapsody In blue courtesy of the horn of Chuck Findley, who was the featured trumpet soloist with Buddy Rich’s Orchestra in the 1960’s, it’s nostalgic beginning blends beautifully with the change in tempo infused with Latin rhythms as Lyn takes over. I have written in the past how this singer, with her emotionally expressive phrasing, adds to the meaning of the lyrics and here there are many good examples from her nod to the Swing Era with Glenn Miller’s Moonlight serenade. This is evident even more so on Close your eyes and How insensitive with nice piano from Tamir Hendelman. Here is a supreme song stylist in prime form in my vocal album of the year and there’ still Volume Two to come. - Kevin Jones
fly beyond, demonstrating a dizzying range of technique and tone complemented by Satsuki Odamura’s blissfully evocative koto playing, Bobby Singh’s cheeky tabla with his supple hand percussion making the disc’s rhythms feel organic, Adrian Sherriff’s sometimes bold and brassy bass trombone and the hauntingly faultlessly earthy double bass playing of Steve Elphick. The group’s interplay in duets is as bright and smart as the leaders’ compositions. Some are simple frameworks for coasting and trading fun solos, though the more successful moments lie in the surprising juxtapositions of instruments. Stand out tracks include the evocative and redolent Lake Yarrunga colours featuring the mastery of Satsuki Odamura’s koto and the prowess of Evans’ soprano alongside Rock warrior and Lake Yarrunga morning mist featuring the deftly skillful tabla playing of
Bobby Singh and the inventiveness of Evans’ tenor and soprano saxophones respectively. This would have to be indeed one of the most intriguing contemporary musical releases in Australia so far this century. - Barry O’Sullivan
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: SATCHMO JEANNIE MCINNES LOOKS AT A MUSICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY with Armstrong revisiting many old hits with a spoken introduction to each one, looking at his 25-year-old self from the viewpoint of his then mid 50s. He prepared by spinning his own old records, thinking out loud about what he might do differently and what he thought ought to be done the same or similarly. The recordings were made over seven sessions in December 1956 and January 1957. He had no other dates during this time, and the sessions were held in a party-like atmosphere with food, beverages and friends in abundance. He was joined by various members of his All-Stars, with Armstrong recreating earlier works while swinging in the present, even playing high C’s not heard on the originals. As well, between each, he reminisces with piano backing from Billy Kyle.
His recordings of the 1920s changed the course of jazz: in King Oliver’s band, the first famous band highlighting the New Orleans sound and in his own Hot Five and Hot Seven where he dominated with crisp, aggressive and daring playing, original compositions, a unique vocal style, scat singing and his overall sense of swing.
During the 1920s and 30s, Armstrong recorded, performed and continued to evolve with his music, appeared in films and on radio and was much loved by fans and critics. In 1940 however, a young George Avakian created the first series of jazz reissue albums. Armstrong’s 1920s recordings were heard by later fans for the first time. What was meant as a chance to share the music became a difficulty as Armstrong was now being compared with his younger self. Critics wrote scathing reviews saying he ‘was no longer a vital force in hot jazz … has assumed a downright commercial attitude’. His reply was, “You can’t go back 30 years, man … Music’s better now than it used to be”. Several years later, when he dissolved his big band and started the small group, the All Stars, Time Magazine wrote, “Louis Armstrong has come back to jazz”. However, he wasn’t trying to recreate the 1920s, but performing as the natural all-rounder: trumpeter, vocalist, emcee, comedian and consummate entertainer that he was.
Able to take a popular song and make it his own, Armstrong had early hits with Heebie jeebies, St. Louis blues and Weatherbird, with swing era songs such as Swing that music and Stompin’ at the Savoy, and with popular songs far removed from his early roots such as Stardust, La vie en rose and All of me.
Some of the criticisms continued, with Armstrong feeling that people weren’t listening. In the 1950s he felt he was playing better than he had ever played in his life. It was in this atmosphere that his long-time producer Milt Gabler encouraged the production of a series of recordings, a musical autobiography,
Ask anyone about jazz, and invariably the name Louis Armstrong comes into the discussion. With good reason. Armstrong, one of the most recognisable figures of this art form, had his beginnings in New Orleans, where jazz developed from the roots of ragtime and blues in the mixing pot of Creole, African-American, West African and European musical traditions. He learned cornet in the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys in his early teens, moved to Chicago to join King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in his early 20s before moving to New York where he remained based through decades of performing and touring.
Throughout his career, Louis Armstrong broke many barriers. He was the first jazz musician to write an autobiography, his 1936 Swing that Music; the first African-American to have featured billing in a Hollywood movie, Pennies from Heaven starring Bing Crosby; the first African-American to host a national sponsored radio broadcast, when he took over Rudy Vallee’s Fleischmann’s Yeast Show for 12 weeks; the first jazz musician to appear on the cover of Time Magazine; the first to have written into his contract that he would not perform in any hotel in which he could not stay; at 63, he was the oldest to have a #1 on the US pop charts with Hello Dolly and, at 66, on the UK charts with What a wonderful world. Tony Bennett commented that ‘America’s greatest contribution to the world was Louis Armstrong’. Armstrong’s music sprang from the beginnings of jazz in New Orleans but also pointed towards the future, ushering in modern jazz with his sense of blues, virtuosic playing and an amazing intonation on his instrument. A remarkable musician and a remarkable personality, who rose from difficult beginnings to the world stage, leaving an indelible, positive mark on our culture. The entire recordings of Louis Armstrong Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography can be heard on Fine Music DAB+ over four programs of Jazz Biography, Fridays at 9pm on 6, 13, 20 and 27 October. October 2017
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THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE SATURDAY AT THE BALLET BY ELAINE SIVERSEN
Alexander Glazunov’s ballet, Raymonda, is a tale of a noble Hungarian lady, Raymonda, betrothed to a crusader, Jean de Brienne. A plot by the wicked Saracen, Abderakhman, to abduct her is foiled by a guardian spirit, the White Lady, and the crusader slays the Saracen in battle. This fanciful story was suggested in 1895 by the novelist-journalist, Lydia Pashkova, to the director of the Russian Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg. The rather weak story line extends over two acts while the third act focuses entirely on the betrothal and jubilant marriage celebrations for Raymonda and Jean de Brienne. This act comprises a series of divertissements and variations, one of which is the Pas classique hongroise (or Pas de dix), the most famous individual episode in the entire ballet. It is often performed as a single dance movement while Act III is occasionally produced as a stand-alone ballet. Raymonda was first produced in 1898 by the Imperial Ballet at the Mariinsky (now Kirov) Theatre. It was choreographed by the great Marius Petipa and the leading role was created as a benefit performance for the Italian ballerina Pierina Legnani who had joined the company in 1892. She was born in 1863 and was a prima ballerina in Italy and London before going to St. Petersburg. She achieved greater fame there, dancing in the 46
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Tsar’s Imperial Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre where she became a ballerina assoluta. She was an exceptional dancer who performed amazing feats such as 32 fouettés en tournant (turns on pointe) which is a bravura achievement emphasising the dancer’s strength and technique. She retired from the ballet company three years after the Raymonda production.
it is normally presented in one of two versions. The first, with music by Peter Ludwig Hertel for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was based on the 1885 choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. The other version, the most popular, is the one which we will be hearing: John Lanchbery’s arrangement of Ferdinand Hérold’s music for Frederick Ashton’s 1960 production for the Royal Ballet, London. Lanchbery’s charming arrangement beautifully describes much of the comedic action and it is refreshing and joyful music to hear.
A critic has said that, although the story ‘is hardly an inspired literary creation, Raymonda survives in the repertory chiefly as a result of Glazunov’s exquisite and imaginative score’. Unfortunately, productions of Raymonda are not often seen as ballet companies tend to prefer Glazunov’s other ballet from 1898, The seasons.
The appealing simplicity and naïvety of the action of La fille mal gardée has made this a popular ballet for audiences and, therefore, for production by many ballet companies all over the world. The music critic, Luke Jennings, has written that ‘no other work of art bestows quite the same rush of sheer happiness’.
The wayward daughter or The girl who needed watching are two of the translations of La fille mal gardée, a ballet which is one of the oldest in the modern repertoire. The inspiration for this comic ballet came from a 1789 painting by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (translated as The girl quarrelling with her mother). It was originally choreographed by Jean Dauberval in 1789 for the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux to a pastiche of music based on 55 popular French airs. Its original name translated as The ballet of straw or There is only one step from bad to good. The work has undergone many changes of title and has had no fewer than six scores, some of which were adaptations of older music. Today
It has a French provincial setting and is a simple tale of love prevailing: not against near-immutable forces, such as social mores or evil intent, but against the inconvenience of Widow Simone wanting her daughter, Lise, to marry for money. The prospective bridegroom is Alain, the son of a wealthy farmer but, although he is a very nice young man, he really is a halfwit. This is quite unacceptable to this vibrant young woman who loves a young farmer named Colas and is determined to marry him. One of the funniest parts of the ballet is during a picnic when Alain is carried away by the wind which catches his open umbrella. Eventually, love conquers all and the widow relents. After a joyful celebration for the union of Lise and Colas, everyone leaves and the house is left empty until Alain returns for his umbrella which he had accidentally left behind. So Alain is also happy with the love of his life, his umbrella. Raymonda will be heard on Saturday 14 October at 3pm and La fille mal gardée on Saturday 28 October at 3pm.
A FRIEND IN DEED SUE JOWELL TALKS TO JUDY MILLER
Judy Miller has been a Friend of Fine Music for as long as she can remember. The station’s varied musical content has always appealed to her love of both classics and jazz but above all, Fine Music has become her constant companion over many years whilst driving to work at IBM. Her job as project and program manager meant that she often travelled abroad but she was quick to tune
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Fine Music volunteer. Now, every Monday morning Judy climbs into her car, and as is her habit, she switches on the radio, which, obviously, is permanently set at 102.5.
Judy’s love of music has not just been confined to being a passive listener. On the contrary, she has played an active role in the music scene in a variety of ways. For many years she has sung in a number of choirs and as an adult, she learnt to play the flute. Interestingly, apart from her vocal performances, Judy now plays as part of a flute choir and has also become a teacher of the instrument. As if this wasn’t enough she has decided to learn the guitar as her number one retirement ‘new thing’. On top of all of this she enthusiastically attends concerts, recitals and the opera.
Arriving at 72-76 Chandos Street, she settles into her work in the record library. This, she says is her ‘quiet time’: a time when she can relax and enjoy her non-stressful duties, whilst also enjoying the music which is playing in the background. Added to this, she has discovered, this is also a time where she is able to meet and get a better appreciation of the diverse group of people with whom she works and whom she says self-effacingly, ‘have had amazing lives but who are all so modest’.
It could easily be assumed that there would not be much time left for anything else but this is not so. Two years ago, Judy decided that it might be a good idea to become a
Says Judy: “As a loyal Friend of the station I wanted to ‘give back’ for all the enjoyment I’ve had from all the many years of good listening”. Thank you Judy your sentiments are echoed by us all.
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