Fine Music Magazine December 2013

DECEMBER 2013

MAGAZINE

OPERA AUSTRALIA’S 2014

Heartbreak and drama, charm and intrigue

THE LICENTIOUS NOBLEMAN

KRUGER SCHOLARSHIP

WEIGHING IN AT 100 VOICES STRONG

CHRISTMAS MUSIC & STORIES

Teddy Tahu Rhodes is Don Giovanni

Inside the Sydney Philharmonia

Saxophonist - Nick Russoniello

Sharing the Love and Harmonies

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COVER STORY Opera Australia 2014 - Randolph Magri-Overend discusses the coming season’s program with artistic director, Lyndon Terracini.

Inside the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Flashback with Derek Parker Collaborators - Australia Ensemble & The Song Company Christmas Reflections & Festive Music Young Virtuosi - Kruger Scholarship Winner Aussies Abroad - Peter Morrison What’s On CD Reviews Swinging on the Vine Digital Programs Directors, Committees, Staff Fine Music Friends

Season’s

Crossword and Trivia Quiz

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Cover image: Teddy Tahu Rhodes. Photo - Opera Australia

EDITOR’S DESK If you haven’t got your Christmas presents sorted yet then perhaps the friends or family would appreciate tickets to one of the wonderful concerts on around Sydney in the New Year.

There’s a wealth of performance treasures in the offing. One of the Sydney Festival highlights is Dido and Aeneas which runs from early January - it’s a challenging production with underwater choreography and a very big fish tank!

On top of the water will be that wonderful spectacle that Handa/Opera Australia brings to Sydney Harbour for the third successive year. From 21 March the timeless classic, Madama Butterfly will be gracing the foreshore with celebrated sopranos Hiromi Omura and Hyeseoung Kwon as Cio-Cio-San. And if the ticket price - which starts at a reasonable $73 - is out of the budget range, there’s a DVD to enjoy over and over which our opera aficionado Derek Parker rates at 5 stars…it’s Opera Australia’s Moffatt Oxenbould production and you’ll find details in our review pages.

The big treat for New Year’s Eve is Opera Australia’s Gala and La bohème - with these Opera House concerts you can also ensure prime position for Sydney’s great explosion of fireworks.

Randolph Magri-Overend talks with OA’s artistic director Lyndon Terracini about the full 2014 line up which features our cover star, baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, in one the four new productions. Rhodes is in the title role as the licentious nobleman, Don Giovanni, and also in the lead with Lisa McCune for The King and I. We have some warm and fuzzy Christmas memories and seasonal music favourites this month from the likes of The Marais Project’s Jenny Eriksson, Kathy Selby, opera star Amelia Farrugia, Sydney Festival Director Lieven Bertels and conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Philharmonia, Brett Weymark – you’ll find them on page 8.

Wherever the festive season finds you, we hope you have much to be grateful for.

Salutations,

Lizzie

Fine Music 102.5 News At Fine Music 102.5’s Annual General Meeting, Peter Kurti was appointed chairman replacing retiring chair David Brett. Lloyd Capps also retired from the board, David Ogilvie replaces him as vice-chairman. New board members are Janine Burrus (secretary) and Stephen Wilson.

DECEMBER AT THE INDEPENDENT THEATRE 14 & 15 December 5pm ARTSONG NSW – The Christmas Cracker Concert December 2013

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FINE MUSINGS classical

Thibaudet plays Gershwin Jazz Inspirations pianist Jean-yves Thibaudet brings impeccable flair to his performances. you’ll want to hear him in George Gershwin’s jazz-inflected piano concerto.

James Gaffigan conductor

SHOSTAKOVICH Jazz suite no.1 GERSHWIN piano concerto in F PROKOFIEV symphony no.5 Thu 5 Dec 1.30pm Fri 6 Dec 8pm Sat 7 Dec 2pm Mon 9 Dec 7pm

Variations on an English Theme Haydn, Brahms & Britten celebrate three of classical music’s greats in this delightful concert with violinist Vilde Frang, the winner of the 2012 credit suisse young Artist Award.

James Gaffigan conductor “Frang is clearly a new star in the violin firmament”

HAYDN symphony no.92 (oxford) BRITTEN The young person’s Guide to the orchestra BRITTEN Violin concerto BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of haydn Wed 11 Dec 8pm Fri 13 Dec 8pm Sat 14 Dec 8pm

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2014: OPERA FOR EVERYONE SHOWCASING THE TIMELESS BEAUTY OF OPERA

When Lyndon Terracini met Kasper Holten they shared a common purpose and, as Artistic Director of Opera Australia and Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden respectively, their decisions have had immediate repercussions in the opera worlds of both Britain and Australia. As an example, the 2014 season will see the Covent Garden production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin performed at the Sydney Opera House starting from 28 February. Singing the role of Tatyana is our newest operatic heroine, Nicole Car. She recently shared first prize in the female voice category at the Neue Stimmen singing competition and also appeared as Micaela in the last OA “maritime” production of Carmen.

Congratulations Nicole! Joining her to sing the important role of Lensky is James Egglestone.

More on Kasper Holten. He is a Danish expatriate, aged 40, who will make his directorial debut in Australia with Onegin in

the first of many productions Opera Australia hope to share with Great Britain. These coproductions are opera’s equivalent of bringing the best of operas to our shores and beyond at an economic bottom-line. Opera Australia’s production of The Masked Ball by the Spanish team of La Fura dels Baus in 2013 set the ball rolling when the production originated here and was subsequently exported to contributing opera houses overseas. Sort of like a co-OPERA-tive!!

La Fura will also be busy next year. Continuing the successes of the past two Handa Operas on Sydney Harbour, La Fura’s principal director Alex Ollé, will be launching the new production of Madama Butterfly. Sharing the role of Cio-Cio-San will be celebrated sopranos Hiromi Omura and Hyeseoung Kwon with Georgy Vasiliev and Andeka Gorrotxategi alternating as Pinkerton. Taking us behind the scenes, Opera Australia describes the trials

“ A knight at the opera…

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Nicole Car as Mimi in La Bohème

and tribulations associated with these annual ventures: “There is a moment in March when several hundred people collectively hold their breath on the harbour front. It’s when two enormous cranes lift a 40-tonne stage from 10 barges onto 16 pylons buried deep in the harbour floor.” Trouble-shooter-extraordinaire Louisa Robertson adds that she’s encountered “nearly every obstacle imaginable when it comes to mounting an opera on Sydney’s most spectacular - and unpredictable - stage.” The opera premieres on 21 March and (weather permitting) apart from Mondays, will be performed every day up to 11 April. Thoroughly accustomed by now to motion sickness, Brian Castles-Onion will conduct another season.

A novel innovation (but one you will not witness unless you feel like heading north to Coolangatta) is the Opera on the Beach production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute which runs for three nights commencing on 9 May. This new production by Michael Gow promises a sand stage and comes complete with sand sculptures and life savers! There’s no mention in the media kit about bringing your own togs – so one presumes they’ll be supplied!

Joking aside, for those who don’t wish to stray beyond Bennelong Point there are also local performances of The Flute at the Opera House.

These commence on 10 January and include a plethora of spectacular singers - sharing roles are Taryn Fiebig and Jane Ede as Pamina, John Longmuir and Jonathan Abernethy as Tamino, Andrew Jones, Samuel Dundas and Luke Gabbedy as Papageno, Emma Pearson, Milica Ilic and Hannah Dahlenburg as Queen of the Night and finally (phew!) Morris Robinson and Richard Anderson as Sarastro.

There are also new productions this year of Verdi’s Rigoletto, Rossini’s The Turk in Italy and Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Don Giovannis’ director is the hot-shot Scottish ex-actor - Sir David McVicar. He is the knight at the opera, so to speak ­- knighted in 2012 for services (believe it or not) to opera. “He’s one of the major opera directors in the world,” says Terracini.

“We met in London and I felt that if we were to engage him, we would supply him with a significant project, and given his love of Mozart, I offered him the complete da Ponte cycle - Don Giovanni, Marriage of Figaro and Cosi fan Tutte.

He agreed on the spot. He’s very meticulous, he’s gone through the entire cast and he’s thrilled.

The plans are for him to direct Giovanni in 2014, Figaro in 2015 and Cosi in 2016.”

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2014: OPERA FOR EVERYONE SHOWCASING THE TIMELESS BEAUTY OF OPERA

So what does that leave us with? Well, don’t forget there’s the New-Year’s-Eve-at-theOpera-House celebrations which also includes the obligatory “stroll out onto the Opera House balcony to see the fireworks the whole world watches.” This year’s opera is the first

night of Puccini’s La Bohème with Nicole Car (can’t pass up a good thing!) as Mimi (followed

by Natalie Aroyan from 11 January) and Ji-Min Park as Rodolfo. Running concurrently is the Opera Gala in the Concert Hall with Emma Matthews, Milijana Nikolic, Andrew Jones and Paolo Bordogna in a “smorgasbord of operatic deliciousness [couldn’t have done better meself in word inventiveness] as we count down the hours to midnight”. Don’t bring your cars so, to be safe, start booking your public transport seats now.

1 February marks the night of the Mazda Opera in the Domain. To date, however, neither set program nor performers have been advertised.

There’s a reprise of Bizet’s Carmen (the production has been weather-proofed) commencing from 3 February with Nancy Fabiola-Herrera as Carmen, Dmytro Popov and Bradley Daley as Don José, Michael Honeyman and Shane Lowrencev as Escamillo and Sharon Prero and Daria Masiero as Micaela.

Verdi’s Otello re-introduces Kiwi heldentenor Simon O’Neill to Australian audiences. He last appeared in the Sydney production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and has just completed singing Siegmund in Daniel Barenboim’s Ring cycle at La Scala. He is joined by Tamar Iveri alternating with Nicole Car (nothing like making hay!) as Desdemona and Marco Vratogna singing Iago. Otello commences on 5 July.

Donizetti’s exuberant The Elixir of Love conducted alternately by Guillaume Tournaire and Tahu Matheson (from the famous family of artistic excellence) and directed by Simon Phillips, features Rachelle Durkin as Adina, Aldo Di Toro as Nemorino and Samuel Dundas as the hilarious Belcore. It premieres on 11 August.

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And guess who heads the cast of Don Giovanni? Teddy Tahu Rhodes, of course, but then this being a new production there are no guarantees that he will be showing-off his pectoral splendiforesness (sorry about the spelling - I had to invent my own as Roget’s Thesaurus wouldn’t co-operate… oh dear, there’s that word again!) this time round. On the other hand the powers-that-be, in their wisdom, may well continue with the décolletage both as a costume-saving measure and probably because it ensures more bums on seats! Taryn Fiebig as Zerlina, Elvira Fatykhova, as Donna Anna, Jud Arthur as the Commandatore and Shane Lowrencev as Leporello will all try not to be distracted by those pectorals! Don Giovanni opens on 25 July.

Emma Matthews appears in two new productions – as Gilda in Rigoletto starting on 26 June and directed by Roger Hodgman with José Carbó and Giorgio Caodura sharing the title role and Diego Torre and Gianluca Terranova sharing the role of the lecherous Duke of Mantua. Matthews also sings the role of Fiorilla in Rossini’s The Turk in Italy with Luciano Botelho, Conal Coad and Paolo Bordogna. The director is Simon Phillips and Andrea Molino returns as conductor after his 2013 Australian debut in Verdi’s Masked Ball.

And here’s a bit of trivia for you opera-buffa buffs – Rossini was reputed to have written the score in 28 days although Rossini himself claimed it only took him 18! The opera opens on 22 January.

And so to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I which opens on 10 September. Guess who the leads are? Following their success in South Pacific, it’s that tried and true team of Rhodes and McCune. And it’s not Lisa McCune playing the King! Once again Opera Australia has economised by picking Teddy Tahu and saving on the be-wigging (in this case be-balding) costs. Have any of you every met Teddy? I have, and he’s huge. I tell a lie, he’s a giant! He makes Jonah Lomu look like a midget. When TTR shakes your hand you’re left wondering whether you’ll ever type again. Be that as it may (and I’m sure quite a few damsels out there are wishing they were given the opportunity to never type again) of special interest is that Shu-Cheen Yu, who plays the dowager Lady Thiang was originally in the 1991 production as

Jonas Kaufmann Tuptim, the lass secretly in love with Lun Tha (sung here by Adrian Li Donni), the Burmese scholar. Shades of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier where the soprano singing the role of Sophie von Faninal eventually, usually, sings the role of the much older Marschallin.

We’ve saved the best till last! We’re talking now about that star of stage, opera, compact disc, DVD and tenorially-blessed tonsils who goes by the name of Jonas Kaufmann. Terracini has this to say - “I’ve been in contact with Jonas’ agent for two years and eventually we settled on dates. We bit the bullet and he’s tremendously excited. He’s bringing his family and is thrilled about performing these concerts in Australia. He’ll be singing all the major arias from the Italian and French repertoire which he does so wonderfully well. And who knows, there might be some Wagner in there too.”

Kaufmann is also appearing in Melbourne but for Sydneysiders the date is 10 August. Once again, you might like to think ahead and start booking your public transport seats in advance!

- Randolph Magri-Overend

for full program details visit www.opera-australia.org.au

2014 New Productions The Turk in Italy Eugene Onegin Rigoletto Don Giovanni

WHEN LIFE BECOMES A REHEARSAL

INSIDE THE SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHOIRS Some people run half-marathons or do Sudoku.

I sing in a choir. Throughout my life, I have sung with school choirs, university choirs, community choirs. I am just a chorister, a foot soldier; I would rather put a pencil in my eye than sing a solo.

Nonetheless, about six years ago, I reasoned that I might as well be killed for a sheep as a lamb, so I auditioned - successfully - for the Big One, Sydney Philharmonia’s Symphony Chorus.

Weighing in at about 100 voices, the Symphony Chorus (as part of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs) has sung for the Olympic Games, opened the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, performed for the Bicentennial Celebrations, sung barefoot on beaches at sunrise, serenaded royalty and, over the course of 90-odd years, performed with some of the world’s great conductors, composers and soloists.

It can’t be to improve personal relationships (unless you subscribe to the absence-makesthe-heart-grow-fonder principle). We rehearse for three hours every Tuesday night, and most people have gone through some kind of effort, often superhuman, to be there extracted themselves from courts, classrooms and conference calls, fed babies and children, maybe driven for a couple of hours, skipped meals and lectures. Three hours a week doesn’t sound like much - until you add in the extra hours of practice, the singing lessons, travelling time and then, in performance week, the nightly rehearsals that culminate in two or three concerts. Your partner, pet or family needs to be hugely indulgent of your passion for singing - or just not like you very much.

We’re definitely not in it for the money. What money? As every single chorister is a volunteer, singing with Sydney Philharmonia is seriously unremunerative in fiscal terms. The general public often assumes that we must be on a nice little earner, especially as we frequently perform with the wonderful Sydney Symphony Orchestra, whose members, as professional musicians, are indeed paid. Of course, money does change hands - we don’t perform for nothing. But we choristers are unpaid - the money (and there’s clearly never enough of it) goes into consolidated revenue, keeping the choir a hair’s breadth ahead of bankruptcy.

Indeed, it actually costs us to sing - we pay an annual fee, pay for our uniforms, pay to get

ourselves to and from performances, pay for our singing lessons, our expensive Opera House parking and our hasty Green Room dinners that definitely don’t contain all the food groups.

And yet, I bet that every one of us would say that we love it.

I have sung in choirs, occasionally, where the choristers all seemed to be suffering from a version of Battered Wife Syndrome. Bullied and hectored by their world-weary conductor, it’s hard to imagine them getting through their warm-up dry-eyed, let alone a complex choral masterpiece, but they return, week after week, for more of the same. This is most certainly not the style of our current conductor and Musical Director of Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Brett Weymark. The man is a veritable Eveready Bunny of energy, enthusiasm and musicality.

“There are some great bits in “there,” he says encouragingly,

“apart from the rhythm and the intonation.” (Oh dear!)

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But what really makes people - me included feel so compelled to sing with them?

“I’ll have what he’s having,” I think, as he bounces about, cajoling, coaxing, joking, drilling, praising even the most infinitesimal amount of improvement. “There are some great bits in there,” he says encouragingly, “apart from the rhythm and the intonation.” (Oh dear.) “Now do it again, but this time…” And you do it again. And again. And again. Until, eventually, finally, it meets with his approval. We might be amateurs, but the only acceptable standard is professional, perfect.

And here’s the nub of what makes singing with this choir so exciting, and so addictive to see raw and, sometimes fairly unpromising, material gradually turn into something that is greater than the sum of its parts.

When we add the orchestra, the effect is compounded. On performance nights, with adrenalin pumping, it’s like being carried by an irresistible force - no hesitating, no turning back - that can be both scary and exhilarating, as well as very moving.

It is an extraordinary feeling to be part of something that is so much bigger than you are. You can hear yourself singing and, all around you, others are doing the same - some singing your part, others in harmony. It is like being at the eye of the storm, surrounded by an awesome energy, of which you are also, paradoxically, a part.

And, of course, it’s an unforgettable experience when the whole Opera House erupts in tumultuous applause and you feel as though you have actually just run that half-marathon and, possibly, at the same time, also completed something even more complex than a Sudoku.

Like most drugs, the effect lasts for several hours. Then it’s Tuesday again, and you’re back for more. - Georgina Bitcon For information on the Sydney Philharmonia upcoming Messiah concert see What’s On - page 14 or visit www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au December 2013

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FLASHBACK

WITH DEREK PARKER

I guess my appetite was whetted by my mother, who was equally devoted to the musicals of the 1920s - by the time I was nine or ten I knew pretty well the scores of Rose Marie (Rudolph Friml), The Arcadians (Lionel Monckton), Chu Chin Chow (Frederick Norton) and No, No, Nanette (Vincent Youmans). Not only that, but I was actually in some of them, the Lostwithiel Amateur Operatic Society being a great deal happier with White Horse Inn than, say, Lohengrin.

is your pistol and “ There here . . . is my heart!

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Over the years I was especially happy to meet some of the stars who played in these melodious, silly, happy entertainments. Harry Welchman, for instance, who appeared in at least ten musical comedies, was in The Arcadians in 1909 and later triumphed as The Red Shadow in Sigmund Romberg’s The Desert Song (in which when the heroine, the delicious Edith Day, threatened him with death, he had the wonderful line: “There is your pistol and here . . . is my heart!”) He retired to Cornwall, a slightly melancholy figure (like most retired performers) but with a splendid fund of anecdotes.

I don’t think he ever came to Australia - unlike the much later Dora Bryan (still working away until very recently), who took one leap to stardom in 1956 Vivian Ellis’ last musical, The Water Gypsies, stopping the show with her number “You Never Know, with Men”. I remember her telling me how much she and her husband Bill enjoyed four days off in Sydney, sitting by the harbour waiting to fly home.

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appearance was, believe it or not, at the longdemolished Gaiety Theatre in 1894, as Bessie Brent in Ivan Caryll’s The Shop Girl. Ada Reeve was well over eighty when I met her (“Retired, dear” - but about to make another film) a large lady with, alas, few traces of the youthful beauty which wowed audiences in the West End at the turn of the century. She came to Australia first in 1898, when she was 24, already a star, opening at the Princess’s Theatre in Melbourne in company with several established Australian players including Frances Alda, who became a famous prima donna (and married the director of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York) and Carrie Moore, the Sonia in the first Australian production of The Merry Widow. Ada appeared in Ivan Caryll’s The Gay Parisienne and Walter Slaughter’s The French Maid (in which she wowed audiences with such songs as: “The sort of girl I am the gentlemen adore, although I am a Femme de Chambre”, and the mildly improper “You seem to say the proper way Of making love’s an art.” .

Australia in a blaze of “She leftpositive publicity...

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I’ve always had a very soft spot for musical comedy. I don’t mean “the musical” - shows such as Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera, which have plots and sometimes even music designed to send us out of the theatre more depressed than when we went in. I mean the musical comedies of the years between, say, 1884 (when My Sweetheart opened in London) and round about 1963 when Half a Sixpence closed. These were shows whose only purpose was to amuse and delight, with books written by adept comedy writers such as Guy Bolton and Frederick Lonsdale and lyrics by such masters as P G Wodehouse and Oscar Hammerstein

Then it was over to Sydney for pantomime The Babes in the Wood, or Bold Robin Hood and his Merry Men, with the Australian novelty dancer Albert Whelan, who went on appearing and recording until 1960. After the panto they revived the two musicals, and Ada made some solo performances singing some of her bestknown numbers – “Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow-wow”, “I’m a little too young to know”, “It’s all written down in my diary”; it was in Sydney that she introduced what became her most popular song, “Love me just a little, Sue.” She left Australia in a blaze of positive publicity and determined to return.

She wasn’t back until 1914, playing a Tivoli tour to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, where she gave a special concert for the first contingent of The Australian Imperial Force, embarking for Europe and the war. Years later she met a man who told her he was one of only two survivors who had been at that concert.

Her last visits were in 1931 and ’35. In ’31 she appeared in a straight play, A Spot on the Sun.

Ada Reeve Having finished the run in Sydney, the company was going by train to Melbourne. Marie was told, firmly, that her pet Pekinese, Ming, would have to spend sixteen hours in the goods van.

Distraught, she appealed to a friend, and took off in the Southern Sky, sitting next to the pilot with the dog on her lap. She told me that when they landed she said that with God’s help she would never fly again. “So far,” she said, “God has helped me.” It was during that visit that she made several films for Eftee Studios - two in a series of thirty-two films of variety acts from the local stage, and a twelve minute play, In the Future. Four years later she played in the controversial Children in Uniform with the 21-year-old Coral Browne, and settled down to “appearing” every week in a different play for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She loved the country - both her daughters had settled there; but she returned to England, and died at 92.

They don’t make ´em like that anymore. Nor, unfortunately, do they make musical comedies.

- Derek Parker

GIVING A VOICE TO CHAMBER MUSIC AUSTRALIA ENSEMBLE@UNSW & THE SONG COMPANY

But here’s the rub: because so many of the standard combinations of chamber music consist solely of instrumentalists, it’s easy to forget that there’s a world of worthwhile chamber music beyond strings, keyboards, woodwind, brass and percussion. Notably, musicians - and their listeners - tend to forget that chamber music all began with singers, and these musicians played just as vital a role in chamber music’s development as their instrumentalist counterparts.

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the primary role of musical instruments was to accompany singers, playing along to a sung melody line. As music for instrumental ensembles was developed over hundreds of years, the influence of the voice was never far away - from the conversation-like inflections adopted by Haydn and Mozart to the folksongderived approaches championed by Kodály and Bartók. Vital chamber works such as Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat, and Ravel’s Chansons madécasses all put the expressive capabilities of the human voice centre stage.

Although this collaboration marks the first time the two groups have joined forces, there is an abundance of similarities in each group’s approach to performance and repertoire which make for an ideal musical partnership. The Song Company, formed by Charles Colman in 1984, is just four years the Australia Ensemble’s junior, founded by Roger Covell and Murray Khouri in 1980. Each group consists of a small number of musicians - six and seven comprise The Song Company and the Australia Ensemble respectively - each of whom are one of the leaders in their chosen voice type or instrument.

A remarkable sense of stylistic diversity lies at the core of each group’s philosophy; The Song Company’s repertoire spans music from the 10th century to the present day, while the Australia Ensemble is similarly known for presenting chamber music representative of the genre’s entire history, from Bach Trio Sonatas to unique modern creations.

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..on a good night it’s a meeting of minds - a union of pure musical elation.

A singular quality of chamber groups, and one displayed by both the Australia Ensemble and The Song Company, is that each musician is responsible for their own individual line in addition to their ensemble responsibility. With

music lovers “of..reminding the thrill of instrumental

As part of its 2014 season - A Starry Sky of Masterpieces - Sydney’s premier chamber group, the Australia Ensemble@UNSW, is to collaborate for one concert with Roland Peelman’s professional vocal chamber group, The Song Company. Together, the groups will remind music lovers of the thrill of instrumentalvocal collaboration, a pleasure that regrettably tends to get lost in the maelstrom of standard chamber repertoire.

no duplicate parts to “hide behind”, the proper execution of chamber music is challenging, and ultimately makes for performances which are much greater than the sum of their parts. Chamber musicians are required to do much more than listen to one another - each musician must also trust, watch and respond to their colleagues, and on a good night it’s a meeting of minds unlike any other, a union of pure musical elation.

The pieces chosen for the collaboration between the Australia Ensemble and The Song Company exemplify each ensemble’s gifts for effervescent and vivid ensemble. Leos Janáˇcek’s Children’s Rhymes (ˇRikadla), presented as an authorised reduction by Erwin Stein for six voices with piano and viola, is described by Australia Ensemble artistic chair Roger Covell as “characteristically playful, fresh and individual”.

The work’s nineteen movements are guided by the zigzag contour of the Czech language (an approach typical of the composer), each movement highlighting an individual voice or combination of voices. With the Australia Ensemble’s Ian Munro (piano) and Irina Morozova (viola) providing the instrumental backdrop, ˇRikadla is sure to be a charming treat.

Australian composer Raffaele Marcellino’s Mrs Macquarie’s Cello, meanwhile, is a mirthful musical tale of the cello that belonged to the wife of Australia’s erstwhile colonial governor.

The Song Company, having premiered and recorded this work previously with cellist Emma-Jane Murphy, will bring their keen sense of theatricality to a performance of the work with Australia Ensemble cellist Julian Smiles.

The Australia Ensemble @UNSW welcomes The Song Company for what promises to be a joyous union of instrumental and vocal talent.

- Luke Iredale

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For many music lovers, the term chamber music evokes something utterly indescribable.

Maybe you picture a string quartet, their perspiring brows furrowed in concentration and their bows dancing in time to a frenetic musical dialogue. Perhaps you’re drawn to the broad colour palette of a wind quintet, or the percussive elegance of a piano trio. Whichever combination takes your fancy, the notion of a small group of dedicated instrumentalists playing as one living, breathing entity represents musical expression at its most engrossing.

A Starry Sky of Masterpieces Saturday 16 August 2014, 8pm Sir John Clancy Auditorium University of NSW For series brochures contact - 9385 4874.

Information - www.ae.unsw.edu.au The Australia Ensemble@UNSW

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IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK Some of the colourful characters who make up Sydney’s fine music scene tell us what music they love to hear at Christmas and share some of their special memories.

Amelia Farrugia

One of opera’s brightest stars…

remains one of my favourites and so I suppose the experience of discovery was so great that it left a wonderful and indelible impression on me. I suppose it doesn’t embody the spirit of Christmas in the traditional sense but if one thinks of sharing with friends and the qualities found in beauty and truth then perhaps it does.

I will be spending Christmas with family.

Jenny Eriksson

Director, The Marais Project

Christmas Day 2013 I will spend in the Southern Highlands with my husband’s parents and extended family having had an “early Christmas” with my family. He has four siblings and together with all our children the crowd is so large we now hire a house or two so we can fit everyone in. We normally go to church in the morning then come home and have a huge family meal together. It’s always a wonderful day and it reminds me how blessed I am to be a musician AND to live in Australia.

Building on The Marais Project’s “Swedish Roots” concert Jenny and her Swedish-born colleague Tommie Andersson are currently recording a CD of Swedish classical and folk music.

Lieven Bertels

Director of the Sydney Festival O Holy Night by Cesar Franck - I tend to sing this every year in Christmas Mass, it is my alltime favourite, the chorus is deeply moving and makes me cry! This year I will spend Christmas in Sydney, with family and dear friends.

Photo credit - Prudence Upton

Kathryn Selby

Artistic Director, Selby & Friends.

When I think of a particular piece of music connected with Christmas I always think of the Mozart Requiem. Unusual, I realise, but when I was a teenager and living and studying in New York one of my closest friends was David Stern, youngest son of Isaac Stern. David was a very knowledgeable musician and studied for a year with the great musicologist Schenker. During that time one of the works to be studied was the Requiem which neither of us knew. David introduced the work to me and then mounted a section of it for performance with students and friends which he conducted. This performance took place very close to Christmas. The work 8

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For many years now Christmas for me has meant going to the CD rack and getting out a CD of Swedish Christmas music titled “Jul Med Adolf Fredrick” (Christmas with Adolf Fredrick), a collection of Swedish Christmas music sung to the children of Adolf Fredrick School, Stockholm. Given I am graced with the surname “Eriksson” it is not surprising that I have a Swedish background. My grandfather Knut Axel Eriksson arrived in Australia in the 1920s as a sailor on one of the last of the tall ships that sailed the globe. He never returned to his northern hemisphere home. By chance or perhaps fate I was born on December 13, which is St Lucia or St Lucy’s Day in Sweden - and Lucy is my middle name! Being a Lutheran nation, the Swedes do not celebrate many Saints’ days but Lucia is an exception. St Lucy is typically depicted as a young girl in a white dress with a crown made of candles on her head.

My love for this recording goes back some years when I was in Stockholm on December 13. My cousin’s daughters attended the Adolf Fredrick school and I heard them sing in a St Lucia dawn concert. The Adolf Fredrick School is the equivalent of the Conservatorium High School in Sydney and the musical standard is very high.

As I sat there listening to the beautiful singing in a language I love, but do not speak, the tears just poured down my cheeks. So every year on St Lucia’s Day as it heats up in Australia and cools down in Sweden, I play this CD and the memories come flooding back.

I’m not a huge fan of the annual Christmas madness - the Anglo-Celtic tradition of overly decorated trees, Santa, sweet music and plum puddings just seems a commercial scam more than anything else.

My ideal Christmas is a Northern-European one, preferably with real snow. A quiet cottage in the Belgian Ardennes, the crispy sound of fresh snow under your feet... But with Sydney Festival just around the corner I’ll be spending the Christmas days at home in Sydney, getting ready for the fun festival season ahead.

As with all music selection questions: “in case of doubt, revert to Bach”... My favourite music for the holiday season includes Philippe Herreweghe’s 1989 recording of J.S. Bach’s Weinachtsoratorium BWV 248. I also like some of the renaissance nativity music and traditional folk music that has been recorded in recent years, but I’m quite allergic to the pretentious interpretative attempts by pop singer Sting.

A musical Christmas childhood memory is that of forming a family recorder quartet to play easy arrangements of late renaissance German nativity music. Although we can probably be happy no recording survives of those attempts.

A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS! Sarah Grace Williams

Artistic Director and Conductor The Metropolitan Orchestra

I absolutely adore Christmas time and Christmas carols! We have a family tradition where we all get around the piano a few nights before Christmas for a night of singing carols (accompanied by copious amounts of laughter). Singing in tune, or even in the correct key, seems somewhat optional however everyone certainly sings with gusto!

It is such a fun evening. Once it hits December, I become a bit excited about Christmas. I am generally flat out with performances, but that doesn’t stop me decorating the house and playing Xmas cd after Xmas cd!

I must admit I have a soft spot for crooners at Christmas time from the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Harry Connick Jr and Nat King Cole as well as some of the old-school jazz recordings with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Lionel Hampton. Some of my favourite CDs were picked up on bargain tables in record stores over the years!

I can’t pick one singular piece that is a favourite at Christmas but the ones that embody the spirit of Christmas that jump immediately to mind are: Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, White Christmas and Winter Wonderland and Silent Night. Oh and I can’t forget Jingle Bells!!!!

Most of those of course don’t really embody an Australian Christmas, referring to snow, but I love them all the same. I of course love the annual tradition of Handel’s Messiah and enjoy attending /conducting performances of this, but for me, as corny as it may be....I just love carols at Christmas!

Christmas is such a special time of family and loved ones. My schedule is fairly hectic

throughout the year and it is so nice to be able to stop at Christmas time and appreciate everything I have to be grateful for. This year will be particularly special. It has been another very successful year for me professionally but an incredible amount has happened in my personal life also, My partner of more than ten years Bevan Rigato (General Manager of TMO) and I bought a house last December, we got married in April and we are very excited to be welcoming our first child in January, a little girl! So this Christmas will be the last we share just the two of us but I am sure she will make her presence known - she loves to let me know what music she does and doesn’t like with some not-so-gentle kicking! Here’s hoping she like carols. she will be hearing a lot of them!

a carol!) “Man with the Bag” sung by Kay Starr.

It was featured once in a production of Tartuffe direct by Kosky in which David Whenham lipsynced while stuffing a very large turkey - it still makes me smile. We still have not decided where we will be this year for Christmas, could be Sydney, Casino or Cardiff, but regardless of location and temperature, music will still play a huge part in the feeling that a year has passed and another is about to begin.

David Rowden

Omega Ensemble Artistic Director & Clarinetist, Ensemble in Residence at City Recital Hall Angel Place 2014

Brett Weymark

Music Director and Conductor, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

I have such a wide and varied CD collection, but at Christmas time, I love listening to jazz – in particular recordings of Dave Brubeck, Errol Garner, and even UK artist Jamie Cullum.

Christmas and music seemed intrinsically linked for me, whether it is the annual pilgrimage to the Opera House to perform Handel’s Messiah or my own little ritual that I have sustained for many years of listening to Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on the 25th of December. It is so joyous and celebratory, it never fails to capture something of the religious significance of the day as well as the human. My favourite recording will always be

by Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir.

I cannot wait for the next opportunity to perform these cantatas again - I have only done them twice and that is not enough to really explore all the contrasts of colour, mood and expression that these six cantatas present.

Then there is the silly side of the season and come Christmas lunch, which is nearly always a combined occasion for family and friends, we will have a roast and my best loved festive CD, Christmas Cocktails, will come on with my all-time favorite Christmas song (definitely not

As a clarinetist, I also enjoy listening to my favourite recording of Mozart’s Gran Partita (Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble) especially the Adagio, as it was played live (by 13 friends) at our wedding, when my wife walked down the aisle!

Listening to Mozart’s Gran Partita will always bring back fond memories of our special day and jazz music tends to get me into the Christmas spirit, and in that relaxed summer mode.

Christmas for us will be with family in Sydney, usually spent having a BBQ around the pool! This Christmas will be even more special, being the first Christmas with our beautiful daughter Maya (above).

Fine Music 102.5’s festive programming includes Aspects of Baroque, Music for a Happy Christmas, Christmas Around the World and Hosanna - see page 47 for details.

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YOUNG VIRTUOSI

FINE MUSIC 102.5 STEFAN KRUGER SCHOLARSHIP A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium, Russoniello has already made some steps internationally - while studying for his postgraduate diploma in 2010 at the Conservatorio di Musica Di Milano “G.Verdi” in Italy, he performed with the Syrinx Quartet and with them went on to win the Conservatorio di Milano’s Ferrero chamber music competition.

Saxophonist, Nick Russoniello was recently announced as the winner of the inaugural Fine Music 102.5 Kruger Scholarship.

The 28-year-old is one of Australia’s most gifted emerging saxophonists and is creating a unique place for himself with exciting new repertoire for the saxophone.

David Brett, who recently stepped down as chairman of the station, was among the judges and presented the scholarship in front of a gathering of Fine Music’s benefactors. Brett gave the audience an insight into the reasons why Russoniello was chosen from among a host of exceptional applicants. “Nick is already an accomplished professional musician and one could ask why, with such pedigree, he might need this scholarship,” said Brett. “The fact is, Nick is taking ‘the road less traveled’ in that his chosen path is as a classical music saxophonist.

You only have to stop and think how little classical repertoire there is for saxophone to realise the challenge he has set himself and the judges were impressed by his commitment and passion for his instrument.

“But this is no Don Quixote romantically tilting at musical windmills. He has the maturity already to overcome obstacles in his way and the judges were struck by his hard headed pragmatism and clear vision of a career path.

For example, recognising the shortage of repertoire he has written some of his own music and has encouraged other composers to write and arrange for him.

In 2011 he was named the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year and has appeared as a soloist with the Queensland, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney symphony orchestras.

Nick Russoniello arranged and composed myself. I am very fortunate to have support from Sydney’s Acacia String Quartet for the recording and the album release will be promoted on a concert tour of Sydney, Perth, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne and Hobart.

“Releasing a solo debut album is a milestone for any emerging performer. It is an essential part of building an audience and documenting an emerging body of work. But, releasing high quality recordings, is expensive and practically unachievable for many emerging independent artist without assistance. I believe that this scholarship will help me become an established artist on the Australian musical landscape.

Solo Album to be recorded with Fine Music With the $10,000 windfall, and the support of Fine Music 102.5, Russoniello will record his debut solo album. “The Fine Music Kruger Scholarship will mean that I can record this album in the station’s new performance studio with some of the best facilities available,” said Russoniello.

“As a ‘classical’ saxophonist I have worked to create my own unique repertoire and performance opportunities. Making a debut solo recording and touring the repertoire will allow me to share this work with a wider audience. It will help me achieve my twin career goals – bringing new and exciting repertoire with a focus on Australian music to new and broader audiences and to generate repertoire for the saxophone and display the instrument’s versatility on the classical stage.”

“The album will feature music that has been composed for me along with music that I’ve

Russoniello is looking to new horizons not only in Australia but internationally.

“Nick has a well thought out and well planned program to take his career to the next level.”

His recent performance highlights include appearing at Sydney Festival’s Symphony in the Domain as a soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in front of an audience of 50,000 people, touring regional NSW as a soloist with the SSO, performing at the World Sax Congress in Scotland with Continuum Sax and renowned Dutch ensemble The Four Baritones, performing for the Prime Minister and heads of Australian Industry at Parliament House and completing a number of recordings for ABC Classic FM. Russoniello was also finalist for the prestigious 2012 Australian Arts Council’s Freedman Fellowship and has performed as a casual member of the SSO. His Bachelor of Music degree from the Sydney Conservatorium was attained with first class honours.

Currently Russoniello works with Continuum Sax , the Duo Histoire and The Sax Summit, performing regularly across Australia in a variety of settings. He recently premiered works by composers such as Martin Kay, Adrian Luca, Ben Hoadley, Kevin Fenner, Eric Griswold and Tim Dargaville. - Lizzie Herbert Russoniello can be seen live with Duo Histoire and the Sydney Camerata Quartet on 8 December 5pm at the Dome Bar, Crown Hotel, Surry Hills. See What’s On page 15 for details.

YOUNG VIRTUOSI BROADCASTS Sydney Eisteddfod Alf & Pearl Pollard Award 1pm Wednesday 4 December Presenter - William Franklin Engineer Greg Ghavalas, William Ryan Alumni Broadcasts Wednesdays 1pm Featuring - Ayse Goknur Shanal, soprano, James Sang Oh Yoo, cello, Georgia Lowe, harp.

Presenters - Andrea Lim, Katherine Ly, Troy Fil Engineers - Greg Ghavalas, Alan Le, Conan Tran

Young Virtuosi performers Kevin Fan, Justin and James Julian with Fine Music supporter Francis Frank at the Kruger presentation. Justin was the recent recipient of the Younger Performer encouragement award.

Coordinator: Judy Deacon yv@finemusicfm.com December 2013

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PETER MORRISON - CELLO FROM DENMARK All I can say for those of you who did a double-take when viewing the photograph of Peter Morrison on this page is that you are very perceptive. No, there is nothing wrong with your eye-sight; what you saw is a younger version of Frank Morrison. If you have never met Frank, let me explain - he is Peter’s father and a very talented and important member of Fine Music 102.5. Like most of us, he dabbles now and again in creating musical programs for the radio station which a lot of us enjoy both as listeners and presenters.

Morrison was born in Australia in 1966 of Eastern European parentage and his love of music “has always been a powerful resonance that sits deep within and has grown over a lifetime. I would say that my respect - love - for music has been on a steady growth throughout my life. I remain always curious about multiple interests and applications of personal talent and don’t believe that a person is only good at one thing, but music certainly has provided a pathway from which to judge and balance alternative means of expression.”

As a youngster he never practised a lot and coming from a musical family “particularly on my mother’s side, herself teaching piano every day at home from early morning until evening” he experimented with the piano, but then shifted to the cello. “It was perhaps this daily infusion of musical tones that allowed me strangely to go outside and toss tennis balls at the roof and dream of other conquests aside from music.” It wasn’t until he was 17 that music became a professional option.

At 24, his first appointment was with the Sydney Symphony and, after a period of six years he freelanced with other professional orchestras, including the ACO. He also formed his own musical group “Ensemble 24” which gave him “a direct involvement with the business side of music. This experience proved invaluable in

Peter Morrison gaining opportunities overseas and developing a non-stop flow of ideas both within the music industry and elsewhere.”

“ Just give-it-a-go

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Peter Morrison is an equally valuable and talented cellist plying his trade with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was recently a member of the Australian World Orchestra, that ephemeral body of musicians organised by Alexander Briger who regaled us in October at the Sydney Opera House.

He left Sydney in 2002, landing a job “within a week with the Danish Radio Symphony. I didn’t even know the job was available but found out four days prior and applied. It becomes a little harder the older one gets, but I suppose one has to just trust one’s talents when required, and that is pretty much what happened. The Australian ‘just give-it-a-go’ approach came in handy!”

How does he find life in Denmark? “Although there are many parallels with the Aussie way of life, particularly with regards to humour and the laid-back approach to life, many things are different of course and I have learned much about myself and how to deal with issues as a result of being here.” Danes are considered the happiest people in the world, he continues “the reasons for which are many - some accurate, some not. I wouldn’t say Denmark has the richest source of culture within Europe/ Scandinavia, but it is definitely developing and is open to new ideas towards attaining international success. Danish theatre and film for example is a big market; certainly many seem to love Danish TV dramas in Australia.

For almost 200 years, Denmark has lain hidden away, bankrupt from what was previously a globally-dominant and very powerful nation.

“I miss Australia,” he continues, “particularly its respect and love for the great outdoors. I realised about a year ago that what I missed most were the Australian sounds, both of nature and the music coming out of there.

So much so, that it kick-started me into composition in a way that previously remained unexplored.” Morrison has written chamber music of “various formations” which has been performed in Philadelphia, Copenhagen and Chicago. “It is fun,” he adds, “to witness how my Australian compositional sound world interacts with audiences who grow up with different sound perspectives.”

Morrison’s friendship with Alexander Briger harks back to their shared days at Sydney Grammar. “He has always possessed an immense drive and inner excitement for the great possibilities. He’s like a child in a sweet shop; he can taste and smell it all; he wants it - and now on top of that, he is sharing it!” As for Zubin Mehta, who conducted the AWO, he: “was truly astounded by the performance levels and understands how valuable the orchestra is and can be. Hopefully that translates to proud, vocal support across the broader community nationally and worldwide, because talent and expertise deserves an audible voice which ought not to be limited just to X-Factor.”

Oh, one more thing, Morrison has met Princess Mary - twice! - Randolph Magri-Overend

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CHORAL AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AND THE CHOIR OF LONDON BACH CHRISTMAS ORATORIO Monday 16 December 6.30pm Sydney Opera House

OPERA OPERA AUSTRALIA LA BOHÈME GALA ON NEW YEAR’S EVE Tuesday 31 December 7.45pm Sydney Opera House Joan Sutherland Theatre Tickets: $239-$474 Bookings: 9250 7777 www.opera.org.au

Tickets: $45-$125 Bookings: 1800 444 444 www.aco.com.au This Christmas, come and hear Bach’s joyful telling of the Christmas story. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is directed by Richard Tognetti and features the Choir of London.

The Christmas Oratorio comprises six cantatas, each depicting a scene from Christ’s birth. Tognetti directs from the lead violin with his trademark infectious vigour. Those who attended ACO’s recent Beethoven 9 concerts will attest to Tognetti’s captivating ability to marshal orchestral and choral forces. This performance of the Christmas Oratorio in the week before Christmas is an event not to be missed. ACO is joined by acclaimed singers from the Choir of London who are hand-picked from Britain’s leading choral baroque specialists, professional choirs and opera companies. (This program replaces the previously billed Christmas Oratorio with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir). Image - Richard Tognetti. Credit - Paul Henderson-Kelly.

CHORAL COMBINED CHURCH CHOIRS HANDEL’S MESSIAH Saturday 14 December 5pm Sunday 15 December 2.15pm Sydney Town Hall Tickets: $33-$38 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.handelsmessiah.org.au The Radio Community Chest presents Handel’s immortal oratorio Messiah this Christmas, now in its 73rd consecutive year!

These breathtaking performances feature the 400-voice Combined Churches Choir, the world-renowned Grand Organ of Sydney Town Hall and Orchestra. In 1941, the Radio Community Chest inaugurated its annual presentation with Combined Church Choirs.

Richard Thew conducted a much larger Combined Church Choir for 21 years until 1972.

CHORAL SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA SYMPHONY CHORUS, MASSED CHOIRS AND ORCHESTRA - MESSIAH Thursday 12 December 7pm Saturday 14 December 1pm Sunday 15 December 5pm Sydney Opera House Tickets: $32-$90 Bookings: 9250 7777 www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au The premiere of Messiah, in Dublin, was given in aid of several charities, including the Mercer’s Hospital 14

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The last night of 2013 is the first night of La bohème. If ever there was a night to dress up, this is it. With VIP access you’ll leave the crowds behind as you enter the Sydney Opera House, then settle back for an evening with Rodolfo, Mimì, Marcello and Musetta in Gale Edwards’ decadent and dazzling production. The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Opera Australia Chorus and Opera Australia Children’s Chorus is conducted by Andrea Licata. After La bohème, stroll out onto the Opera House balcony to see the fireworks the whole world watch. When you book your tickets for La bohème Gala, add a pre-performance three-course dinner matched with premium wines and beverages in the Northern Foyer of the Concert Hall from 5:30pm and/or the Midnight Party with canapés, drinks and live entertainment from 10:30pm in the Northern Foyer. Photo credit - Jeff Busby For more information see: www.opera.org

For 28 years the Choir was conducted by the much admired and loved late Professor Clive Pascoe AM whose deep love and professional knowledge of baroque music brought out new meanings and a feeling of freshness and excitement to the performance each year. Conductor is Tim Chung, organist Peter Kneeshaw and soloists: Jenny Liu, soprano, Anna Dowsley, contralto, Pascal Herington, tenor, Alexander Knight, bass.

Photo credit - Bruce Crowe

and the Charitable Infirmary on the Inns Quay. Back in Handel’s adopted city, performances benefiting London’s Foundling Hospital for children became an annual institution. This year’s Sydney Philharmonia performances will be presented in association with The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. In a return to tradition, proceeds from the concerts will be shared with the hospital, and volunteers will be at all performances to collect donations. You’ll not only be enjoying a thrilling performance at a joyous time of year, but be helping a very worthy cause at the same time. Soloists: Miriam Allan, soprano, Sally-Anne Russell, mezzo-soprano, Andrew Goodwin, tenor, Peter Coleman-Wright, baritone. Conducted by Brett Weymark.

OPERA OPERA AUSTRALIA THE OPERA GALA ON NEW YEAR’S EVE

CHORAL AUSTRALIAN BRANDENBURG ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR NOËL! NOËL!

Tuesday 31 December 8pm Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Tickets: $239-$369 Bookings: 9250 7777 www.opera.org.au Join the stars of Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House for a smorgasbord of operatic deliciousness as we count down the hours to midnight. It’s guaranteed to end with a bang! Soloists: Emma Matthews, Milijana Nikoli, Andrew Jones and Paolo Bordogna with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra conducted by Andrew Greene. Add a preperformance three-course dinner matched with premium wines and beverages in the Northern Foyer of the Concert Hall from 5:30pm and/or the Midnight Party with canapés, drinks and live entertainment from 10:30pm in the Northern Foyer, when you book your tickets for the Opera Gala on NYE. Image courtesy Opera Australia

Saturday 14 December 5pm and 7pm Wednesday 18 December 7pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place

SYDNEY YOUTH ORCHESTRA 2014 CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION SEASON www.syo.com.au Sydney Youth Orchestra returns for a bright new season in 2014, presenting works from throughout the great orchestral repertoire.

The vibrant Sydney Youth Orchestra, which for 40 years has nurtured generations of orchestral stars, performs with an energy and enthusiasm which will draw you in. Discover the music with them, or hear it with a fresh perspective and at the same time support Australia’s musical future! SYO will present a four-concert subscription series in venues across Sydney including the Sydney Opera House, The Concourse, Chatswood and the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, featuring works by great masters including Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Dvoˇrák, Sibelius and Debussy and fresh new Australian voices. Alongside the Sydney Youth Orchestra will be guest artists Avan Yu, Simon Tedeschi plus an electrifying collaboration with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. Come and join them for their very special 41st year. For further details and to book your subscription visit www.syo.com.au Photo credit - Robert Catto

CHAMBER THE DUO HISTOIRE AND THE SYDNEY CAMERATA QUARTET AUSENCIAS Saturday 8 December 5pm Dome Bar, Surry Hills.

Level 1 Crown Hotel, corner of Crown St and Cleveland St. Tickets: $25 Bookings: www.duohistoire.com Lounge in the glamorous Dome cocktail bar and take in a blend of tango, Spanish classics, bossa nova and Australian music as presented by a rare combination of some of Australia’s finest young artists. The Duo Histoire and The Sydney Camerata Quartet join forces to present Astor Piazzolla’s hauntingly beautiful Ausencias alongside a program of works by, Isaac Albeniz, Chick Correa, Elena Kats-Chernin and Francisco Tarrega. The Duo Histoire, featuring Murilo Tanouye (guitar) and Nick Russoniello (Sax, 2013 Fine Music 102.5 Kruger Scholarship winner) have built a reputation across Australia for delivering fresh performances in a variety of music styles. The Sydney Camerata is a young, exciting ensemble comprised of some of Australia’s leading instrumentalists. The Sydney Camerata String quartet was named 2012 Musica Viva Rising Stars. Photo - Nick Russoniello

Tickets: $30-$106 Bookings: 1800 444 444 www.brandenburg.com.au Celebrate the spirit and flavours of the festive season with one of the most beautiful events of the year. The angelic voices of the Brandenburg Choir combine with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra on period instruments to infuse ancient melodies with a sound that is simple, pure and completely joyous. The result will leave you uplifted. It is absolute bliss.

Artistic Director Paul Dyer surprises each year with this wonderful program. He takes us on a magical journey to round off the year with Gregorian chant, medieval carols, French and German hymns, English Christmas songs and many favourites such as Christmas Night; O Come All Ye Faithful; Once in Royal David’s City; and Stille Nacht. This is music that is rich and fun.

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CHAMBER SELBY & FRIENDS 2014 SEASON March - November 2014 5 Tour Season *20% Discount Season Subscriptions www.selbyandfriends.com.au With Australian pianist Kathryn Selby as the host, Selby & Friends kicks of the 5 Tour 2014 season with a stunning ensemble of artists and a gorgeous program of old favourites and new!

Two world premieres feature in 2014 - a new work sponsored by the S&F Audience Commission Award from Australian composer Paul Dean, and Clancy Newman’s own new work in Tour 1. Selby & Friends, in conjunction with ABC Classic FM, is recording Beethoven’s chamber music so you may notice a decided emphasis on the great master in the season with a special program devoted entirely to Beethoven in Tour 2. In this program, Selby & Friends explores his extraordinary growth through a lifetime of great works which cover Beethoven’s early, middle and late periods. For full details download the 2014 season brochure at selbyandfriends.com.au Sydney Morning Herald - July 2013: “ This is chamber music at its best.

Hear them if you can.” *20% discount on single ticket prices for subscription tickets – 5 concerts for the price of 4!

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CD Reviews

MADAMA BUTTERFLY Giacomo Puccini Hiromi Omura, James Egglestone Orchestra Victoria/ Giovanni Reggioli Opera Australia DVD

GERSHWIN: TAKE TWO Simon Tedeschi, piano James Morrison, trumpet Sarah McKenzie, vocals ABC Classics 481 0629 Oh, hello. It’s you again - and so soon after the last time! But since you’ve brought Mr Gershwin with you, you’re very welcome. Please come in.

Pianist Simon Tedeschi, continuing on from his successful launch of Gershwin and Me on the ABC label in March 2013 is back with another 21 tracks by the American master, quite a number of which will probably be unknown to many. Some, on the other hand, are re-runs of his earlier recording. One of Gershwin’s great

BIRTH OF THE SYMPHONY Handel to Haydn Academy of Ancient Music Richard Egarr, harpsichord and director ABC Classics 481 0615 16

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If this is not the best production of Madama Butterfly available on DVD, I would be glad to be shown a better. It is a recording of the admirable production by Moffatt Oxenbould - elderly, but intelligent and undated - in a 1997 Sydney performance with the Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura in the title role.

Excellent in the theatre, she is even more remarkable in close-up. This is rarely the case with singers; but Omura is such a superb actress that here it is a positive advantage to see her remarkable range of facial expression, matched of course by her authentic Japanese persona in style and movement. If not vocally the most beautiful Butterfly, the total effect of her performance is among the most impressive - and it will be a pleasure to have her back in Sydney for the harbour production strengths was melding classical techniques with the vernacular musical language, well demonstrated by his three Preludes, particularly the one entitled “Novelette in Fourths”. Composed in the mid-1920s these were meant to be the start of a large Bachlike cycle to be named The Melting Pot. They never got beyond three! James Morrison adds his welcome trumpet to Nice Work If You Can Get It and the Prelude Melody No 17 and singer Sarah McKenzie lends a light touch to Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off and Embraceable You. The album finishes with Rhapsody in Blue, another visitor from Gershwin and Me but this time altogether better played. The last recorded attempt came from a live concert in 2007 and wasn’t wholly satisfactory. If you’re

of the opera due to be performed in August next year. In this production she is matched by two equally splendid performances: James Egglestone’s Pinkerton, in the first act, is a seductive bounder to his back buttons, which does not prevent him and Omura giving a most beautiful account of what is surely Puccini’s most beautiful love duet. His anguish in the last act almost makes one feel sorry for him, which is as it should be. Sian Pendry’s Suzuki is a perfect companion, loving and solicitous; she and Omura are most touching in the flower duet in the second act. Giovanni Reggioli has no difficulty in convincing us that this really most unpleasant of stories enshrines some of Puccini’s most seductive music. A fine achievement all round, excellently and tactfully photographed for TV. - Derek Parker

a lover of Gershwin’s music, there’s nothing here to disappoint and much to be discovered.

- Michael Morton-Evans

This disc covers the 30 years from 1738. This is such an important era in classical music that it would be possible to issue, say, a 20-CD set and still leave more to cover.

at the time, met the well regarded London composer and performer Johann Christian Bach. Christian did much to influence the very young Mozart and his first symphony.

It begins with a sinfonia from Handel. Sinfonias had been written for the introduction of major works, such as Bach’s cantatas and Handel’s oratorios. The symphony as we know it today really began with the famous Mannheim orchestra which lifted musical standards to new highs.

Joseph Haydn began writing symphonies in 1759 and throughout his illustrious career kept writing them until no. 104 in 1795. He was on his secondly visit to London and was highly feted. He produced his last dozen symphonies for his London audiences.

Two of the proponents of the symphony were Johann Stamitz, leading member at Mannheim, and Franz Richter who was influenced by it.

When Wolfgang Mozart, his father Leopold, and his sister Nannerl toured Europe they arrived in London where Wolfgang, only eight

This is a good selection of early works and leaves one wishing there was more. Performed by the world-class Academy of Ancient Music, it is directed from the harpsichord by the highly regarded Richard Egarr, who studied with Gustav Leonhardt, and who inspired his work in the field of historical performance.

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ALL IMPERFECT THINGS: SOLO PIANO MUSIC OF MICHAEL NYMAN Sally Whitwell (Piano) ABC 481 0412

ORCHESTRA OF THE ANTIPODES: CONCERTOS, SUITES & OVERTURES ABC 481 0348 Whilst being the resident orchestra for the annual Pinchgut Opera production, the Orchestra of the Antipodes, has forged a significant reputation in the early music landscape. The ensemble’s recording output has captured much of the repertoire of the period, and continues to engage audiences in this country.

This latest offering includes selections of instrumental music from Purcell’s opera The Fairy Queen (written in 1692), Mozart’s Idomeneo (1780), Rameau’s Dardanus (1739), and Charpentier’s David et Jonathas (1688).

In Sally Whitwell’s opening statement for her third CD, she says “I am keeping Classical Music friendly”. She has indeed successfully executed this through her performances and recordings, making a name for herself by chiefly taking slightly unusual (or even less heard) repertoire and making it mainstream. In so doing, she has won an ARIA award.

In choosing British film composer Michael Nyman’s music (a style Whitwell describes as “Baroque-n-roll” or “Electronmantic”), Whitwell has assembled music from five movies (The Piano, The Draughtsman’s Contract, The Diary of Anne Frank, Enemy Zero which is really a cult computer game, and A Zed and Two Noughts).

As well, there are movements from Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos 2-5, and Sinfonias from his Cantatas, BWV 21, 29 and 182.

This orchestra is true to the period demands (famous for its use of authentic instruments), as well as different tunings as appropriate to the time. Under the direction of (primarily) Antony Walker, Erin Helyard, Anna McDonald, and Neal Peres Da Costa, the orchestra achieves a vitality and energy which burst forth on every track.

Its use of harpsichord, fortepiano, lutes, and various early style percussion instruments, along with an array of string, woodwind and brass (some from the time, and others reproduction) instruments, make this an incredibly interesting sound pallete.

What is ever-present on this recording is the

Dickson picked up her first saxophone when she was six and was soon winning competitions making her concerto debut at 16. She has contributed much to establishing the sax’s classical credentials, making the instrument sing with softness, power and lyrical range.

A soloist with the world’s finest orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia, Dickson has performed at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Royal Albert Hall and Sydney Opera House.

In Dusk & Dawn she draws on the shimmering strings and sensual saxophone arrangements to evoke the stylish cinema of the 1960s and early 70s. It’s very effective late-night classical listening to be enjoyed. - Emyr Evans

On this disc Amy Dickson introduces a different side to the instrument and takes the listener on an unexpected sojourn through beautiful, lush, romantic music.

Following the number one success in the classical charts, Sony Classical has released

musicians’ willingness to dig deep into the soul of the 17th and 18th centuries. Not a single track is without interest, as the energy does not wane for one moment. - BW A passionate champion of contemporary music, she has commissioned and premiered works by composers including, much in demand, Welsh composer Huw Watkins, and distinguished Australians Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards.

She also arranges repertoire for the saxophone, perhaps most notably the Philip Glass Violin Concerto which she recorded together with works

by Michael Nyman and John Tavener, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Certainly the tracks on this CD include a wide variety of works, some better known than others, by celebrated composers from Fauré, Bellini, Kern, Piazzolla, and Dickson copes well with the lyrical, expressive as well as the more stylistic and vigorous demands of the works.

Dusk & Dawn, featuring the bonus tracks Theme from Local Hero by Mark Knopfler and Adieu Poirot from the nation’s favourite detective series.

DUSK & DAWN Amy Dickson – Saxophonist Sony 88725479572

Nyman’s style throughout is characterised by chunky repetitive chords contrasting with more lyrical, reflective and somewhat melancholic passages. Oftentimes, the endings of pieces are delightfully left hanging, whilst the changing metres are commonplace. There are charming moments of sparkling filigree, offset by sudden depths of darkness, as well as sound that seems as though it has been chiseled out of stone.

In Whitwell’s playing, there is an enormous passion and personality. It is edgy and robust playing, but still very accessible. Hers is a style that is immediately engaging and yet at times very intimate. - Barry Walmsley

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JAZZ CD REVIEWS Discourse with Kevin Jones

CLOSE YOUR EYES Alexis Cole Venus VHCD1131

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“We’ve been waiting for the next great singer to come along and finally . . . Alexis Cole.” That such high praise should come from a Japanese jazz magazine such as Swing Journal is not surprising as from what I have read the American-born singer is more popular in Japan than the United States. I had a cursory glance through the 2013 Critics’ Poll in Down Beat magazine but failed to find any mention of her name. And I also must admit that I found her latest album by accident

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS Nicki Parrott Venus VHCD1120

It’s amazing how some tunes seem to stay with you over the years, surfacing from your subconscious intermittently to remind you of the sweet bitterness of young love. Such a number was sung at the end of a 1958 movie called Kings Go Forth starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood by a school choir of young war orphans. Except for a long lost strings session with the great Coleman Hawkins I’ve never been able to get my hands on a jazz-influenced version of Under Paris Skies until now. Not that I needed any excuse for getting bass player and vocalist Nicki Parrott’s latest album - recorded in New York in February this year. It has been an impressive musical journey by the former admired member of the Sydney jazz scene both as a bassist and vocalist since she moved to New

FAR AWAY PLACES Janet Seidel Antipodes Records AR101 If you have ever wondered why Janet Seidel is Australia’s most popular jazz vocalist this disc has all the answers. The formula is simple: warm and fresh singing where melody is always to the fore. Her albums are the epitome of good taste as is the latest with her trio, brother David on bass and Chuck Morgan guitar, augmented on occasions by Hamish Stuart’s drums and the percussion of Fabian Hevla. It’s an imaginative program, 15 unhackneyed numbers beginning with a Latinish La Paloma, written in 1863, and 18

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while surfing on the internet looking for the sounds of my kind of music - on the Japanese Venus label site to be exact. I was impressed on hearing excerpts from the disc on the site but even more so on receiving the disc and playing it. Some critics have compared her to Sarah Vaughan and Anita O’Day which I think is drawing a long bow although Cole is a vocalist of real class with exceptional musicianship and sublime taste in the songs she sings. There is not one dud here as she stamps her personality on 12 chestnuts from The Great American Songbook including Teach Me Tonight, a big hit for the Divine Sarah in the mid 1950s, Cole Porter’s My Heart Belongs To Daddy, and such Sinatra fare as Witchcraft and I’ve Got You

Under My Skin. She is complemented beautifully by the trio of pianist John Di Martino, a sensitive accompanist, who also solos with flair and melodic panache.

York, one chronicled on first, the Arbors, and then Venus labels. Except for Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s The Last Time I Saw Paris, the other 13 numbers had French composers thus we have four by Michael Le Grand including Chanson De Maxence, I Will Wait For You and What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your life and two by Charles Trenet including a nicely swinging La Mer (Beyond The Sea). As for Parrott, I would rather hear her in this form than many of today’s over-credentialed singers especially with pianist John Di Martino’s trio in excellent support - and Gil Goldstein’s accordion adding atmosphere especially on my favourite track - Under Paris Skies. What else?

ending with Lennon and McCartney’s Golden Slumbers from the 1969 album Abbey Road.

But it’s the title track which catches the ear; it’s beautifully crafted with bass and guitar setting the mood before the vocal draws on a feeling of nostalgic contemplation, complemented by Morgan utilising his mastery of both guitar and ukulele. Taste? There’s no better example than Sand In My Shoes where Frank Loesser’s lyrics capture memories of Havana and Cuba in the 1940s; trio and percussion, it’s a winning formula.

Clarinettist Paul Furniss adds his impressive talents to two tracks, the Argentinian staple El Ca) from 2003. Maybe it’s time for another Choclo (Kiss Of Fire) and the French waltz La album of French songs. But until then this one Javanise, the latter reviving memories of her will do nicely. One for music lovers. best selling La Brava set (Comme Ci, Comme

SWINGING ON THE VINE STAR DUST MEMORIES

purple dusk “ The of twilight time,

It wasn’t always like this: music was once music not an industry and LPs a vehicle of listening pleasure not a product. So many memories . . . sitting in cars with my surf club mates drinking cans of beer which when empty we threw unceremoniously among the foundations of a religious school while Artie Shaw played Moonglow on the radio as we listened to Eric Child’s Friday Night Show. Drummer Buddy Rich singing Accentuate the Positive softly in the background as we grappled with farm girls in cars outside a Tasmanian country dance hall.

I remember it well: the smell of baby powder, cheap scent and heaving bosoms.

Steals across the meadows of my heart, High up in the sky the little stars climb . . .

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I open my eyes to the liquid, soothing sounds of the voice of Nat King Cole. I am stretched out on the floor, a semi-inebriated wreck among the empty wine bottles in my Hunter Valley hideaway, yet hearing the ultimate vocal sophisticate with his impeccable pitch caressing the lyrics of Hoagy Carmichael’s evergreen Star Dust, it’s easy to imagine I am in Paradise. Bleary-eyed I gaze at the many bottles of shiraz still to be drunk as the ultimate vocal conversationalist adds his touch of greatness to an immortal melody.

Cole, with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra represents the “Holy Trinity” of the best in popular singing. They had one thing in common: all were involved with jazz at one time or another during their careers. Many seem to forget that Cole was a pianist of high note until his singing took centre stage over his keyboard artistry. Critic Leonard Feather has called him a near genius as a pianist.

Cole was the biggest record selling singer of his generation, even eclipsing Sinatra. His string of hits from the 1940s onwards included Mona Lisa, Smile, Nature Boy, Lush Life and Too Young. It has been said that when at home Sinatra would relax by drinking Scotch and listening to Cole on record.

But I am recovering not relaxing. Except for the drunken snores of (Getting So Big) Little J all is calm and quiet. My prize bulls Ariadne and Eros are gazing longingly into each other’s eyes - I must remember to get them some long overdue female company. They have plenty to celebrate. It was a great victory. Their charge caused the insufferable Clifford, that odious piece of intellectual flotsam, who had joined forces with The Mouth to invade my hideaway, to flee in panic.

As for The Mouth she forgot one thing.

Although always commenting on the enduring self-deception that the average Australian is a fit, bronzed surfer when in fact he is a flabby couch potato, she forgot that not only am I a

Nat King Cole. Photo - W Gottlieb Collection – The Library of Congress Neanderthal but one with class! The combined toxic breaths of (Getting So Big) Little J and myself were too much even for her. She turned tail and ran leaving a trail of shrivelled plants in her wake.

I sigh. As June Christy once sang, it’s so peaceful in the country and I am gripped by a nostalgic lassitude as my thoughts turn to the days of my misspent youth when I first became enraptured by the sounds of Jazz Americana; to an old 12inch long-playing album on the Brunswick label

by Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland, a 1957 tribute to the legendary Bix Beiderbecke. I recall some fine clarinet playing by Bill Stegmeyer who was also an accomplished arranger and [played with Glenn Miller (1938) and Bob Crosby (1939)]. Stegmeyer was influenced by Bob Haggart who wrote so many of the Crosby band’s arrangements and was a key member of the raucous (Yank) Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band.

Music which I long to hear again but probably long forgotten and gathering dust in the vaults of some record company.

However, the track that impressed me most on the McPartland LP was an impressionistic version of Beiderbecke’s In A Mist featuring pianist Marian McPartland who sadly passed away this year. It’s long overdue for reissue but those wanting to hear it again would be a minority in our lazy fame-obsessed culture.

But I survived such endearing qualities of the wily farm girls as music was always my mistress and one true love. As my early travels took me first to Brisbane and then Sydney before returning to the “Isle of Scenic Beauty” my jazz record collection grew from one suitcase to three. Many of the albums were the result of listening to the “adult music” of one of the great jazz broadcasters, the late Arch McKirdy. How could I describe the feeling of first discovering McKirdy’s program Relax With Me or for that matter jazz through Benny Goodman’s 1939 recording of Honeysuckle Rose arranged by Fletcher Henderson. It was like the first passionate embrace at a high school picnic, my first 300lb bench press or 400lb squat.

They stay in your memory. McKirdy’s program was an oasis of culture and good taste while the standard of popular music raced to the bottom. Marketing forces had discovered the cult of the teenager resulting in the plugging of over-hyped junk on air. Nowadays the low media calls them classics! I belch in disgust.

Like my ever growing jazz collection, McKirdy and the music he played would be a source of comfort for me in those early years away from home. Even more so during the winter of my discontent of my enforced 12 month exile in the deep south. Imagine walking 5km home after midnight at the completion of a shift at the local newspaper shivering with the cold but warmed by the music such as Ella Fitzgerald singing Gershwin or hearing The Blight Of The Fumble Bee by Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond. Yes, so many musical memories and McKirdy was a big part of them.

- Paddy Maguire December 2013

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DECEMBER FINE MUSIC DIGITAL SCHEUDLE Time Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

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The Symphony

Chamber

At the Keyboard

With the Orchestra

From the 20th Century

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From Current Catalogues Stephen Wilson

In Conversation with Michael Morton-Evans (repeats)

Treasures of Recorded Music with Randolph Magri-Overend

6, 13, 20, 27 December

9 December ACO

3 Dec - Angela Hewitt (2 October 2013)

Jazz Biography

Jazz in Concert

4, 11, 18, 25 December The Voices – the Roles with Angela Cockburn

Feature artist or Sydney Symphony with Peter Kurti (2nd Fri of month)

10 Dec - Phillip Scott (9 October 2013) 17 Dec - Philip Bailey (16 October 2013) 24 Dec - Andrew Goodwin (23 October 2013) 31 Dec – Don Spencer (30 October 2013) 15:00

Jazz Off the Shelf

Jazz Standards

*See www.finemusicfm.com for program details

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THE FINAL COMPOSITIONS Tchaikovsky - Tuesday 10 December 2pm Mendelssohn and Chopin - Monday 16 December 1pm Schubert - Friday 20 December 2pm Time and time again we turn to the late works of our favourite composers - those of Mozart are completely spellbinding, while Beethoven’s leave us positively breathless. What is it about the late works that make them so glorious? In this three part series Ron Walledge presents some of the most beautiful pieces of music from the last years of Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schubert. Each of these composers has their own unique story Mendelssohn, Chopin and Schubert all suffered horribly in their final years. The mental states of Schubert and Tchaikovsky have been widely documented and Mendelssohn and Chopin suffered from symptoms of diseases we rarely encounter in modern day life. Whilst Schubert heart-wrenchingly and sometimes terrifyingly conveys feelings of death and despair in his late works, Mendelssohn also gave an equally sombre take in the twilight of his life - he wrote in a letter to a stranger that death is a place “where it is to be hoped there is still music, but no more sorrow or partings”.

THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF AMERICAN MUSIC Artist of Choice - JoAnn Falletta Tuesday 31 December 9am

Award, winner of the Stokowski Competition, and the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter conducting awards, Falletta has received eleven ASCAP awards and served on the US National Council on the Arts - 2008-2012 as a George W Bush appointee. A champion of American music, she has presented nearly five hundred works by American composers including over a hundred world premieres.

Falletta has also won a Grammy award for her recording on the double Grammy Awardwinning disc of works by John Corigliano, and she has also worked on the Grammy nominated discs of works of Tyberg, Dohnányi, Fuchs, Schubert, Respighi, Gershwin, Hailstork and Holst. If ever there was a Grandaughter of American music – JoAnn Falletta is it!

- Troy Fil

A FINE MUSIC CHRISTMAS! Saturday 14 December 5pm Colours of the King Monday 16 December 10am Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony Morning Concert Monday 16 December 11.30am Christmas Voices Monday 23 December 10am Morning Concert

CHRISTMAS DAY

Wednesday 25 December 9am - Diversions in Fine Music: Aspects of Baroque 11.30am - Music for a Happy Christmas 1pm - Young Virtuosi 2pm - Christmas Round the World 6pm - Hosanna Thursday 26 December 11.30am Music for Christmas Saturday 29 December 5pm Hosanna CONTINUING SERIES Wednesdays 3pm The Symphonies of Haydn

JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony Orchestras in the United States and as principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland. Falletta has guest conducted over a hundred orchestras in North America, and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa and is the principal guest conductor of the Phoenix Symphony and Brevard Music Center of North Carolina. Recipient of the Seaver/ National Endowment for the Arts Conductors

Wednesday 11 December 8pm At the Opera - Legendary Met Performances: Aïda, 3 March 2012 Thursday 12 December 8pm Evenings with the Orchestra: The Symphonies of Martinu Wednesday 18 December 8pm At the Opera - Legendary Met Performances: Cavalleria Rusticana, 7 February 1970 ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMS 200 th Anniversary

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From 2013 to 2014 the Allegri Quartet will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Quartet’s formation through to their first public performance - a major milestone.

The Allegri looks back upon its key role on the British musical scene as Britain’s oldest chamber group.

Formed in 1953, the The Roman composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is perhaps bestknown for his setting of Psalm 51, the Miserere.

However, amongst Allegri’s other compositions, is a work of potentially much greater import: a little Sonata a quattro for solo strings - two violins, viola and cello. Rightly or wrongly, the absence of any prescribed keyboard bass has led to claims that this is the first-ever piece for string quartet in the form familiar today.

So when in 1953, four front-rank string-players decided to take the risk of abandoning orchestral life for the greater freedom but greater insecurity of playing quartets for a living, their choice of the name Allegri was a brilliant inspiration. Aside from the neat historical connection, the name also guaranteed a place near the top of agents’ lists!

The four founding musicians were some of the brightest talents to have emerged on to the London musical scene in the difficult days since the ending of the War. The prime movers were the violinist Eli Goren and the cellist William Pleeth, who recruited Patrick Ireland as viola player and James Barton as second violin. All four had had previous quartet experience, with varying degrees of commitment. Sixty years down the track and the Allegri String Quartet has changed its members more frequently than some people change their shirts. The liner notes in many of its recordings are devoted to a laundry list of the various short-lived members that have occupied the four chairs. This is a testament to the longevity of the Allegri, and an endorsement of its unequivocal spirit.

The Allegri has shone in its interpretations of 18th and 19th century quartet repertoire, yet it has also maintained a commitment to refreshing the repertoire. Over the years it has worked with composers such as Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett, Elizabeth Maconchy, John Woolrich, Anthony Payne, James MacMillan, Matthew Taylor and Alec Roth, collaborating with new commissions and recordings. The Allegri has been involved in more than 60 world premieres since the 1960s.

Sixtieth anniversary celebrations include complete Beethoven cycles in Switzerland and in the UK, two world premieres of quartets by Roth, for the Salisbury International Festival and Malvern Club and a host of celebration concerts throughout the UK.

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Monday 16 December 3pm

Wednesday 11 December 8pm At the Opera - Aïda December 2013

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Sunday 1 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen

Easton, M. Piccolo concerto. Frederick Shade, picc; Academy of Melbourne/Brett Kelly.

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9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Di Cox

16:00 MUSICA VIVA PRESENTS KARAK Recorded by Roger Doyle for FINE MUSIC

Falla, M. de Ballet: El amor brujo (1915). BBC SO/Leopold Stokowski.

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Joyce - Man. Shichi-karak.

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Granados, E. Galante; Oriental, from Spanish dances, op 5 (1892-1900). Pro Arte Guitar Trio.

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Ravel, M. Alborada del gracioso (1904-05; arr.

Safri Duo 1991).

4 Joyce - Man. Trackless paths.

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10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Man, K. Lullaby (2003).

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Beethoven, L. Sonata no 13 in E flat, op 27 no 1, Quasi una fantasia (1801). Stephen Kovacevich, pf.

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Karak Percussion (all above)

Haydn, J. String quartet in G, op 77 no 1, Lobkowitz (1799). Jerusalem Quartet.

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Joyce, K. DTKT.

Abe, K. Conversation in the forest (1997). 7

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Boccherini, L. Piano quintet in E minor, op 57 no 3 (1799). Les Adieux.

Harmonia Mundi GD77053 15 Devienne, F. Sonata in F, op 70 no 2 (1798-99).

Peter Bree, ob; Roderick Shaw, fp.

Etcetera KTC 1084 13 Beethoven, L. Trio for piano, clarinet and cello in B flat, op 11 (1798). Aulos Trio.

LP Grevillea GRV 1040 19 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

Hymns: Lo he comes with clouds descending; A great and mighty wonder. Choir of Christ Church St Lawrence/Neil McEwan.

CCSL CD05 8 Hymns: Vom Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her; Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. Choir of Roskilde Cathedral/Paul McCreesh.

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Telemann, G. Excerpts from Christmas oratorio: The shepherds at the crib in Bethlehem (1759). Mechthild Georg, cont; Andreas Post, ten; Klaus Martens, bass; Telemann CO & Choir/Ludger Remy. cpo 999 419 2

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Mathias, W. Excerpts from Salvator mundi, op 89 (1982). Gondwana Voices; Sydney Children’s Choir; Ben van Tienen, pf; Sally Whitwell, pf; Lyn Williams, cond.

ABC 476 6956 6 18:00 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY Touches à frettes Prepared by Sue McCreadie

14:00 MODERN AUSTRALIAN CONCERTOS Prepared by Phil Vendy

Rameau, J-P. Excerpts from Pièces de clavecin.

M. Eden, gui; C. Stell, gui.

Docker Records DR 228/277 12

Hurst, M. Horn concerto (1968). Roy White, hn; Melbourne SO/Stanford Robinson.

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Paul Galbraith, gui (2 above) Delos De 3250 Puccini, G. Non sono in vena, from La bohème (1896). Peter Dvorsky, ten; Veronika Kincses, sop; Radio Bratislava SO/Ondrej Lenard.

MCPS AACS 98092 9 Mozart, W. Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde, K344 (1779). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; London SO/Colin Davis.

Decca 480 4965 7 Verdi, G. Alzati là tuo figlio (1859). Nicolae Herlea, bar; Württemberg State Opera O/Josef Dunnwald.

Art of Classics INT 885.919 6

19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Chris Blower Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Overture: The merchant of Venice, op 76 (1933). West Australian SO/Andrew Penny.

Naxos 8.572501 15 Goedicke, A. Concert piece in D, op 11 (1900).

Stephen Coombs, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA66877 14 Dvorák, A. Symphony no 2 in B, op 4 (1865/87). Slovak PO; Czecho-Slovak RSO, Bratislava/Stephen Gunzenhauser.

Naxos 8.550267 54 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Phil Vendy

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide Traditional and contemporary music from around the globe

Williamson, M. Piano concerto no 3 in E flat (1962). Malcolm Williamson, pf; London PO/ Leonard Dommett.

Lyrita SRCD.280 32

Debussy, C. Petite suite: Children’s corner. 17

Gounod, C. The soldiers’ chorus, from Faust (1859). Budapest State Opera Ch & O/Josif Conta.

Vox FCA 1055 3

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews

Trad. Il est né le divin enfant; A goat in Rajastan; Gaudete. Gondwana Voices & Sydney Children’s Choir/Lyn Williams.

ABC 476 6956

Ravel, M. Pavane pour un infante défunte; A la manière de Borodine; Prélude.

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19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS

Massenet, J. Ballet music from Le Cid (1885).

City of Birmingham SO/Louis Frémaux.

EMI 5 65150 2 20

Hummel, J. Piano trio no 1 in E flat, op 12.

Australian Trio.

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Hanson, R. Violin concerto, op 21 (1948). Alwyn Elliott, vn; Queensland SO/Patrick Thomas.

LP ABC AC 1048 40

Couperin, F. Les barrricades mistêrieuses; Les moissoneurs. John Williams, gui.

Sony SK44518 6 Le bavolet flottant; Le carillon de Cythère.

Sergio Assad, gui; Odair Assad, gui.

Elektra Nonesuch 7559 792292-2 5

Koppel, A. Sinfonia concertante (2007). Yana Deschkova, vn; Anna Maria D. Dahl, va; Randi Østergaard, cl; Sheila Popkin, bn; Aalborg SO/ Matthias Aeschbacher.

Dacapo 8.226052 24 Nørgård, P. I Ching. Gert Mortensen, perc; Danish RO/Jorma Panula.

BIS CD-256 22 Martinsson, R. Exposé, concert fantasy (2005). Mats Lidström, vc.

Daphne 1029

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Ruders, P. Symphony no 4: An organ symphony (2010). Flemming Dreisig, org; Odense SO/Robert Minczuk.

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22:30 ULTIMA THULE Ambient and atmospheric music: www.ultimathule.info for detailed playlist

Monday 2 December 15:00 IDYLLS Prepared by Angela Bell

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter

Bridge, F. Three idylls (1906). Coull Quartet.

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9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Madilina Tresca

Butterworth, G. The banks of green willow, idyll (1913). London PO/Adrian Boult.

Belart 461 3542 5

Satie, E. Gnossiennes nos 1 to 3 (1890; arr.

Kondonassis). Yolanda Kondonassis, hp.

Telarc 80533 10

Stanford, C. Villiers The fairy lough, from An Irish idyll in six miniatures, op 77 no 2. Linda Finnie, mezz; Anthony Legge, pf.

Chandos CHAN 8749 4

Bridge, F. Allegro moderato, from A symphony for string orchestra (1940-41; arr.

Pople). BBC NO of Wales/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 10729(6) X 13 Nin, J. Four Spanish chants (arr. Cooke). Darryl Coote, pf; Max Cooke, pf.

Move MCD 460 8 Janacek, L. Kreutzer string sonata (1923; arr.

Tognetti). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

Sony SK 48252 20 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown Dvorák, A. Overture: My home, from Incidental music to Josef Kajetán Tyl, op 62 (1882). London SO/István Kertész.

Decca 417 597-2 10 Violin concerto in A minor, op 53 (1879). Frank Peter Zimmermann, vn; London PO/Franz Welser-Möst.

EMI 7 54872 2 31 Suk, J. Symphony no 1, op 14 (1897-99). BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek.

Chandos CHSA 5081 40 11:30 THE LARK Prepared by Stephen Wilson Bishop, H. Lo! here the gentle lark (1819).

Beverly Sills, sop; Paula Robison, fl; Charles Wadsworth, pf.

Decca 467 906-2 5 Glinka, M. The lark (1840; arr. Balakirev).

Vladimir Leyetchkiss, pf.

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Schubert, F. Hark, hark, the lark, D889 (1826).

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf.

EMI 1 66445 2 4 Messiaen, O. The wood lark, from Catalogue of birds (1956-58). Håkon Austbo, pf.

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Yolanda Kondonassis. Photo - Mark Battrell 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 THE BACH FAMILY Prepared by Philip Lidbury Bach, J. Christian Symphonie concertante in G, from Symphonies concertantes vol 4 (c1765). Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead. cpo 999 627-2 17 Bach, H. Sonatas: no 1 in C; no 2 in F. Parley of Instruments.

Hyperion CDA67079 6 Bach, J.C.F. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (c1780). Netherlands Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay.

Globe GLO 5080 12 Bach, J.S. Chromatic fantasia and fugue in D minor, BWV903 (bef. 1722/30). Roger Woodward, pf.

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Cantata, BWV149: Man singet mit Freuden vom Seig (1728). Hana Blažíková, sop; Robin Blaze, ct; Gerd Türk, ten; Peter Kooij, bass; Bach Collegium Japan/ Masaaki Suzuki.

BIS SACD 1941 19 Bach, W.F. Harpsichord concerto in D. London Baroque.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901558 15 Fugue in C minor. Julia Brown, org.

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Bach, J.S. Orchestral suite no 3 in D, BWV1068 (c1717-23). Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger.

Decca 458 169-2 18

Janácek, L. Idyll for string orchestra (1878).

Rotterdam PO/James Conlon.

Erato ECD 88095 28 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling Mainstream to contemporary jazz, with an emphasis on Australian performers 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Albéniz, I. Suite españole (1886). Rena Kyriakou, pf.

Membran 222102-444 Prokofiev, S. Sonata no 1 in F minor, op 1 (1909). Jonathon Shinár, pf.

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Dvorák, A. Piano quartet no 1 in D, op 23 (1875). Walter Trampler, va; Beaux Arts Trio.

Decca 470 662-2 27 Buxtehude, D. Prelude and fugue in D. Franz Lehrndorfer, org.

EMI Seraphim 5 69120 2 6 Brahms, J. Sonata no 2 in F sharp minor, op 2 (1852). Idil Biret, pf.

Naxos 8.550351 26 Scarlatti, D. Sonatas in B flat: Kk248; Kk249.

Ralph Kirkpatrick, hpd.

Archiv 477 5003 7 Bach, J.S. Concerto in F, BWV971, Italian (1735).

Stanislav Bunin, pf.

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Tuesday 3 December Mackenzie, A. Scottish concerto, op 55.

Steven Osborne, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA67023 28 Goldmark, K. Rustic wedding symphony, op 26 (1877). Irish National SO/Stephen Gunzenhauser.

Naxos 8.550745 42 11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown Duparc, H. La vie antérieure; Song for Jeanne (1884-86). Stéphane Degout, bar; Hélène Lucas, pf. naïve V 5209 9

Jean-Pierre Rampal 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Schumann, C. Geheimes Flüstern hier and dort, op 23 no 3 (1842-43). Susan Gritton, sop; Eugene Asti, pf.

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

Der Himmel hat eine Träne geweint, op 37 no 1; Die stille, op 38 no 4; Mondnacht, op 39 (1840).

Christa Ludwig, cont; Charles Spencer, pf.

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9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Jean-Pierre Rampal Prepared by Di Cox Vivaldi, A. Flute concerto in D, RV428, Il gardellino (pub. c1728). I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone.

CBS M2YK 45623 7 Telemann, G. Quartet in E minor (1730). Isaac Stern, vn; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Mathias Spaeter, lute.

Sony SK 44568 9 Saint-Saëns, C. Fantasy in A, op 124 (1907).

Marielle Nordmann, hp.

Sony SK 44552 13 Haydn, J. Trio in G, Hob.IV:2, London (1794).

Isaac Stern, vn; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc.

CBS 37786 4 Kuhlau, F. Trio in G, op 119 (1831). Claudi Arimany, fl; John Steele Ritter, pf.

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Jean-Pierre Rampal, fl (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mendelssohn, F. Overture: The Hebrides, op 26, Fingal’s Cave (1830). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender.

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Schubert, F. An die Musik, D547 (1819). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Malcolm Martineau, pf.

DG 449 190-2 3 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes An eclectic blending of agreeable rhythm and melody from the New Orleans jazz roots through to recent decades, including many Australian bands 13:00 AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Produced by Simon Moore Highlights and previews of the month’s concerts including interviews with the key players 14:00 SECOND THOUGHTS Prepared by Angela Bell Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture on Russian themes, op 28 (1866/80). Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin.

Naxos 8.553858 14 Nielsen, C. Little suite, op 1 (1888/89). Danish NRSO/Ulf Schirmer.

Decca 452 486-2 16 Balakirev, M. Islamey, oriental fantasy (1869/1902). John Chen, pf.

Kawai 2004 0911

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Jakub Hrusa Dvorák, A. Serenade in E, op 22 (1875/78).

Strings of Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa.

Supraphon SU 3932-2 29 Rachmaninov, S. Piano trio no 2 in D minor, op 9, Èlégïaque (1893/1907/17). Moscow Rachmaninov Trio.

Hyperion CDA67178 42 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps Smooth small group jazz from the 50s on, and with a visit from Miles Davis each week 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Derek Parker 22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Phil Vendy Langgaard, R. Summer holiday in Blekinge (1916; arr. Marthinsen). Berit Johansen Tange, pf.

Dacapo 6.220565 37 Grondahl, L. Trombone concerto (1924).

Christian Lindberg, tb; Bamberg SO/Leif Segerstam.

BIS CD-378

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Nielsen, C. Quartet no 4 in F, op 44 (1906).

Oslo String Quartet.

Naxos 8.553907 27 Holmboe, V. Symphony no 8, op 56, Sinfonia boreale (1951). Aarhus SO/Owain Arwel Hughes.

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Wednesday 4 December 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale Jazz of many colours, some old, some new and all designed to inform and stimulate the senses

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

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Sydney Eisteddfod Alf and Pearl Memorial Award Recorded by Greg Gavalas

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Angela Bell Matteis, N. Suite in E minor, from Ayres for the violin, book IV, nos 21-29 (pub. 1685).

Arcadian Academy/Nicholas McGegan.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907067 16 Hotteterre, J-M. Suite no 1 in G minor, from second bk of pieces, op 5 (pub. 1715). JeanFrançois Bouges, fl; Philippe Pierlot, bass viol; Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard, hpd.

Naxos 8.553708 15 Uccellini, M. Sonata IV detta La Transformata, from bk 3 (pub. 1642). Arcadian Academy.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907066 4 Monteverdi, C. Ballo: volgendo il ciel ... movete al mio bel suon, from Madrigals bk 8 (pub. 1638). Montserrat Figueras, sop; Elisabetta Tiso, sop; Gloria Banditelli, mezz; Paolo Costa, ct; Lambert Climent, ten; Francesc Garrigosa, ten; Daniel Carnovich, bass; Manfredo Kraemer, vn; Pablo Valetti, vn; Eunice Brandao, va da gamba; Sergi Casademunt, va da gamba; Andrew Lawrence-King, double hp; Michael Behringer, clvd, org; Rolf Lislevand, theorbo; Lorenz Duftschmid, vne; La Capella Reial de Catalunya; Jordi Savall, va da gamba & dir.

Alia Vox AVSA 9884 B 12 Johnson, R. Pavin, from Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s lute book. Paul O’Dette, lute.

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10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen Mendelssohn, F. Sinfonia no 9 in C (1823).

Orpheus CO. DG 437 528-2 24 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 1 in D, op 17 (1858). Philippe Entremont, pf; Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson.

CBS M2YK 45624 27 Shostakovich, D. Suite from Hamlet, op 116a (1963-64). Belgian RSO/José Serebrier.

RCA/Victor RD 87763 30 11:30 SHOSTAKOVICH FOR SMALLER FORCES Prepared by Elaine Siversen Shostakovich, D. Quartet no 1 in C, op 49 (1938). Emerson String Quartet.

DG 463 284-2 14 Prelude and fugue in D minor, op 87 no 24 (1950-51). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf.

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14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music?

Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it.

15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower Hummel, J. Trio in F, op 22 (1799). Simon Standage, vn; Pal Benda, vc; Susan AlexanderMax, fp.

Naxos 8.557694 13 Haydn, J. Symphony in B flat, Hob.I:16 (c1763).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 12 Holzbauer, I. Quintet in B flat. Members of Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 8.41062 14 Haydn, J. Symphony in F, Hob.I: 17 (c1762).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 13 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Elaine Siversen Handel, G. Alcina. Opera in three acts.

Libretto anon after Ariosto. First performed London, 1735.

ALCINA: Joan Sutherland, sop RUGGIERO: Fritz Wunderlich, ten BRADAMANTE: Norma Procter, cont MORGANA: Jeannette van Dijck, sop ORONTE: Nicola Monti, ten MELISSO: Thomas Hemsley, bar Cologne Radio Choir; Cappella Coloniensis/ Ferdinand Leitner.

DG 477 8017 2:32 Bradamante, disguised as her brother Ricciardo, and her tutor Melisso, have been shipwrecked and cast ashore while she is searching for her lover Ruggiero.

They meet Morgana, Alcina’s sister, who falls in love with the disguised Bradamante and promises to take them to Alcina who receives the travellers graciously. Ruggiero recognises Bradamante as

Ricciardo but denies any interest in Ricciardo’s sister because he is the faithful lover of Alcina. Others who have been shipwrecked have been changed into wild beasts by Alcina.

Oronte concocts a tale that Alcina now loves ‘Ricciardo’ and will no doubt soon add Ruggiero to her collection of discarded and transformed lovers. Alcina assures Ruggiero that her feelings are unchanged. Melisso, disguised as Ruggiero’s tutor Atlante, gives him a magic ring which brings him to his senses. Ruggiero regrets his faithlessness to Bradamante and wishes to send a message of defiance to Alcina, but Melisso advises him to pretend that he still loves her and make his escape on the pretext of going hunting. Oronte brings the news that Ruggiero is planning to flee and Alcina prepares to foil this plan. She begins to make spells to bind Ruggiero to her, but loses heart and casts her wand aside. Alcina upbraids Ruggiero for trying to leave her. He tells her that his betrothed Bradamante now has his love, and she threatens vengeance, though unable to obliterate her tender feelings for him. Melisso tells Bradamante and that the island is surrrounded by Alcina’s enchanted monsters and advises Ruggiero to take the Gorgonian shield and the winged horse to help him conquer them. Oronte announces to Alcina the complete defeat of her forces and she laments her cruel fate. Ruggiero smashes the urn which holds Alcina’s secret power. All her spells are broken and the rocks, trees and animals resume their human shapes. They rejoice at their liberty and all celebrate the triumph of love.

Bellini, V. Oh! mie fedeli ... Ah! la pena in lor piombò, from Beatrice di Tenda (1833). Joan Sutherland, sop; Ambrosian Opera Ch; London SO/Richard Bonynge.

Decca 421 883-2 10 Mozart, W. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön; Wir stark ist nicht dein Zauberton, from The magic flute (1791). Fritz Wunderlich, ten; Munich PO/ Fritz Rieger.

DG 477 9109 5 23:00 HARP AND DOMRA Recorded by Edda Filson for FINE MUSIC Kamandin. The flight of the nightingale. 4 Malborod. Kiev waltz.

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Gorodovskaya. The break of dawn.

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Cui, C. Badinage; Berceuse; Scherzino; Nocturne; Waltz.

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Albazyan. Russian song.

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Kulikov, P. Romanian song and czardas.

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Lalor, S. Ballad.

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Stephen Lalor, domra; Louise Johnson, hp (all above) 23:40 ROMEO AND JULIET Tchaikovsky, P. Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture (1880). Sydney SO/José Serebrier.

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Thursday 5 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Stanford, C. Villiers Concert variations upon an English theme: Down among the dead men, op 71 (1898). Margaret Fingerhut, pf; Ulster O/ Vernon Handley.

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

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Debbie Scholem

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Paganini, N. Fantasia on the G string, op 24.

Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Louis Persinger, pf.

Decca 458 191-2 5 Concerto no 2 in B minor, op 7, mvt 3 (1826).

Salvatore Accardo, vn; London PO/Charles Dutoit.

DG 437 210-2 9 Caprices, op 1: no 9 in E; no 13 in B flat; no 24 in A minor (1801-07).

Decca 478 2274 10 Variations on The carnival of Venice (1829).

Franco Mezzena, vn; Adriano Sebastiani, gui.

Dynamic CDS 03 13 Introduction and variations on Di tanti palpiti, from Rossini’s Tancredi (1819). Livia Sohn, vn; Benjamin Loeb, pf.

Naxos 8.570202 11 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Vieuxtemps, H. Fantasia appassionata, op 35 (c1860). Georges Octors, vn; Belgian Radio & Television CO/ Edgard Doneux.

LP EMI 4C 161-96986/989 20 Tchaikovsky, P. Piano concerto no 3 in E flat, op 75 (1892). Mikhail Pletnev, pf; Philharmonia O/Vladimir Fedoseyev.

Virgin VC 7 91202-2 15 Elgar, E. Pomp and circumstance march in C minor, op 39 no 3 (1904). Queensland SO/ Patrick Thomas.

ABC 446 282-2 6 Strauss, R. Symphony no 2 in F minor, op 12 (1884). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 10236 X 41 11:30 THREE SOPRANOS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Verdi, G. Willow song, from Otello (1887).

Cheryl Barker, sop; Queensland SO/Guillaume Tourniaire.

Melba MR301129 12 Ah! Dite alla giovine, from La traviata (1852-53).

Anna Netrebko, sop; Vienna PO/Carlo Rizzi.

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19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey Contemporary and modern sounds of now in jazz from all corners of the globe Margaret Fingerhut Puccini, G. Flower duet, from Madame Butterfly (1904). Mirella Freni, sop; Christa Ludwig, mezz; Vienna PO/Herbert von Karajan.

Decca 421 314-2 8 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers Covering the many aspects of jazz from Swing to Mainstream, with the Great American Songbook making regular appearances 13:00 A FIELD GUIDE TO MUSIC Prepared by Michael Field Michael Field takes a close look at some of his favourite music. In today’s program he will be discussing and playing Schumann’s Piano concerto in A minor.

14:00 SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC Prepared by Francis Frank Vaughan Williams, R. Full fathom five, from Three Shakespeare songs (1951). Phoenix Bach Choir/Charles Bruffy.

Chandos CHSA 5031 3 Humperdinck, E. Shakespeare suite no 1 (1905-07). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher.

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14:30 ENGLISH THEMES Bantock, G. Old English suite, after Gibbons, Dowland, Bull, Farnaby and Byrd (1909).

Czecho-Slovak State PO/Adrian Leaper.

Naxos 8.555473 15 Duarte, J. English suite, op 31. Antigoni Goni, gui.

Naxos 8.554554 9 Parry, H. English suite (1921). London SO/ Adrian Boult.

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Vaughan Williams, R. Six studies in English folksong (1926). Paul Watkins, vc; Ian Brown, pf.

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20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Madilina Tresca Ravel, M. Spanish rhapsody (1907). Colin Stark, cora; Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 9202 16 Villa-Lobos, H. Guitar concerto (1951). Slava Grigoryan, gui; Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey.

ABC 480 6461 19 Bach, J.S. Harpsichord concerto no 2 in E, BWV1053 (c1738-39). Aapo Häkkinen, hpd; Helsinki Baroque O. Aeolus AE-10057 20 Stravinsky, I. Violin concerto in D (1931). Baiba Skride, vn; BBC Welsh NO/Thierry Fischer.

Orfeo C849 121 A 22 Tchaikovsky, P. Piano concerto no 1 in B flat minor, op 23 (1875/79/89). Sergio Tiempo, pf; O della Svizzera Italiana/Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky.

Avanti 54147006 10382 34 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Schubert, F. String quartet no 2 in C, D32 (1812). Melos Quartet.

DG 419 879-2 17 Fauré, G. Sonata no 1 in A, op 15 (c1877).

Augustin Dumay, vn; Jean-Philippe Collard, pf.

EMI CMS 7 62545 2 23 Medtner, N. Quintet in C, op posth (1951).

Dmitri Alexeev, pf; New Budapest Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66744 25 Turina, J. Quartet in A minor, op 67 (1933).

Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet.

Claves 50-9403 15 Schumann, R. Trio no 2 in F, op 80 (1847).

Rostislav Dubinsky, vn; Yuli Turovsky, vc; Luba Edlina, pf.

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Friday 6 December 11:30 KEYBOARDS & COMPOSERS Prepared by Heather Sykes Rachmaninov, S. Mazurka in D flat; Melodie in E; Gavotte in D. Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf.

Decca 478 2939 12 Saint-Saëns, C. Rhapsodies nos 1 and 3, from Three rhapsodies on Breton songs, op 7 (1866).

Andrew-John Smith, org.

Hyperion CDA 67922 13 Myung-Whun Chung.

Photo - Riccardo Musacchiog 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Frank Morrison Suk, J. Piano trio in C minor, op 2 (1889/90-91).

Smetana Trio.

Supraphon SU 3810-2 15 Doppler, F. American duettino, op 37 (1841).

Jean-Pierre Rampal, fl; Claudi Arimany, fl; John Steele Ritter, pf.

Delos DE 3212 7 Piazzolla, A. Soledad (1974; transcr.

Liarmakopous). Achilles Liarmakopoulos, tb; Hectór Del Curto, ban; Pedro Giraudo, db; Octavio Brunetti, pf.

Naxos 8.572596 9 Mozart, W. String quintet no 6 in E flat, K614 (1791). Cecil Aronowitz, va; Amadeus Quartet.

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12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell Accessible in-the-hammock jazz to ease you into the weekend 13:00 SPELLBOUND Prepared by Yvonne Laki

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter

Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 2 in G minor, op 22 (1868). Philippe Entremont, pf; Toulouse Capitol O/Michel Plasson.

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

Liszt, F. Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata, from Years of pilgrimage, bk 2 (1837-49). Lise de la Salle, pf. naïve V 5267 17

20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Big works from big names Prepared by Robert Small

Schubert, F. Impromptus, D899: no 2 in E flat; no 3 in G flat (1827). Mary Warnecke, pf.

Tall Poppies TP062 13 14:00 SERENADES ... AND SERENADES Prepared by Denis Patterson Stravinsky, I. Serenade in A (1925). Victor Sangiorgio, pf.

Naxos 8.570377 12 Larsson, L-E. Little serenade, op 12 (1934).

Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist.

Naxos 8.553715 11

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison

Jolivet, A. Sérénade (1945). Diana Doherty, ob; David Korevaar, pf.

ABC 465 782-2 19

Brahms, J. Academic festival overture, op 80 (1880). London PO/Adrian Boult.

EMI CDM 1 66425 2 10

Rodrigo, J. Serenata española (1931). Artur Pizarro, pf.

Collins 1434-2 5

Bartók, B. Violin concerto no 2 (1937-38).

Gyorgy Pauk, vn; Polish NSO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.554321 40

Bird, A. Serenade, op 40 (1898; ed. Schuller).

Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble/Harlan D. Parker.

Naxos 8.570242 24

Nielsen, C. Symphony no 2 in B minor, op 16, The four temperaments (1901-02). Gothenburg SO/Myung-Whun Chung.

BIS CD-614/616 34

Zubin Mehta

Stenhammar, W. Serenade in F, op 31 (1913).

Gävle SO/Hannu Koivula.

Naxos 8.572186 38

Berlioz, H. Overture to Benvenuto Cellini, op 23 (1836-38). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit.

Decca 452 480-2 10 Brahms, J. Double concerto in A minor, op 102 (1887). Herman Krebbers, vn; Tibor de Machula, vc; Royal Concertgebouw O/Hans Vonk.

Radio Nederland RCO 06004 34 Liszt, F. Symphonic poem no 1: Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne (1848-49/50/54).

London PO/Bernard Haitink.

Philips 438 751-2 30 Bruckner, A. Mass no 2 in E minor (1866/82).

Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO/Zubin Mehta.

Decca 425 075-2 34 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE The imaginary malady Prepared by Robert Small Bach, J.S. Orchestral suite no 1 in C, BWV1066 (c1724). Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman.

Erato 0630-17868-2 20 Charpentier, M-A. Le malade imaginaire (1673). Les Arts Florissants/William Christie.

Harmonia Mundi HMG 501887.88 1:30 December 2013

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Saturday 7 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Symphony no 2 in C minor, Resurrection (188496). Arleen Augér, sop; City of Birmingham Ch & SO/Simon Rattle.

EMI CDS 7 47962 1:27

6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney

Janet Baker, mezz (all above) 17:30 FLUTES IN CAMERA Prepared by Angela Bell

9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON ERNEST ANSERMET Prepared by Maureen Meers Stravinsky, I. Capriccio (1929). Igor Stravinsky, pf; Straram Concerts O. LP Seraphim 60183 17 Falla, M. The three-cornered hat (1917). Teresa Berganza, mezz; Suisse Romande O. Decca 417 771-2 37

Simon Rattle.

Photo - Mat Hennek - EMI Classics

Franck, C. Les Éolides (1875-76). L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

DG 476 280-0 11

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

Stravinsky, I. The firebird, complete ballet (1910). New Philharmonia O. Decca 443 572-2 48

14:00 MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS Pole to Pole Prepared by Stephen Schafer

Ernest Ansermet, cond (all above)

Handel, G. Excerpts from Siroe, re di Persia, HWV24 (1728). Johanna Stojkovic, sop; Sunhae Im, sop; Ann Hallenberg, cont; Gunther Schmid, ct; Sebastian Noack, bass; Cappella Coloniensis/Andreas Speering.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901826.27 17

11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher

Richter, F. Sonata no 5 in F, from Sonatas da camera (1764). Pauliina Fred, fl; Heidi Peltoniemi, vc; Aapo Häkkinen, hpd.

Naxos 8.572030 21 18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with John Milce

Smetana, B. Overture: The bartered bride.

Cory Band.

Doyen DOY 290 6

Anon. Istampitta: La Manfredina (14th C). 3

Anderson, L. Sandpaper ballet. Harry Mortimer and his All-Star Brass.

LP Columbia SCX 3461

Hespèrion XXI; Jordi Savall (2 above) Alia Vox AV9848

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Sparke, P. Carol of the shepherds. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee.

AMP 22173 4 Rogers, N. March: The valiant years. G.U.S Footwear Band/Stanley Boddington.

LP Columbia TWO 364 3 Trad. A Christmas Fantasy: It came upon the midnight clear; In dulci jubilo; Unto us a child is born; Angels from the realms of glory; Ding dong merrily on high; The first noel.

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

Chandos 8679 7 12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper A diverse range of jazz from days gone by up to the present, often featuring Australian musicians

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Schmelzer, J. Sonata per chiesa e per camera in G (pub. 1662). Flanders Recorder Quartet; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel.

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Szymanowski, K. Symphony no 3, op 27, The song of the night (1914-16). Ryszard Karczykowski, ten; Kenneth Jewell Chorale; Detroit SO/Antal Dorati.

Decca 448 258-2 24 Dukas, P. La Péri (1911-12). New York PO/Pierre Boulez.

Sony SMK 68 333 19 Angeli, T. Taksim and Makam Rehavi Çember (17th C). Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall.

Alia Vox AVSA 9887 5 15:30 MUSIC FOR WORDS Prepared by Rex Burgess Mahler, G. Songs and airs, bk 3. Geoffrey Parsons, pf.

Hyperion CDA66100 14 The sentry’s night song; Wasted effort; Consolation in misfortune (1892-99). Geraint Evans, bar; London PO/Wyn Morris.

IMP PC 1035 10

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Derek Parker German, E. Excerpts from Tom Jones (1907).

Marianne Hellgren Staykov, sop; Heather Shipp, mezz; Richard Morrison, bar; Donald Maxwell, bar; Richard Suart, bar; Paul Carey Jones, bar; Simon Butteriss, bar; National Festival Ch & O/David Russell Hulme.

Naxos 8.660270 57 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Omega Soloists Recorded by Roger Doyle for FINE MUSIC Meurant, C. Eventide visions (2013). Lisa Osmialowski, fl; David Rowden, cl; Cyrus Meurant, pf.

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Franck, C. Sonata in A (1886). Huy-Nguyen Bui, vn; Maria Raspopova, pf.

28 Prokofiev, S. Sonata in D, op 94 (1942). Lisa Osmialowski, fl; Maria Raspopova, pf.

25 Brahms, J. Quintet in B minor, op 115 (1891).

David Rowden, cl; Huy-Nguyen Bui, vn; Airena Nakamura, vn; Ewan Foster, va; Teije Hylkema, vc.

36 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones Laid back late night music to give a wonderfully smooth end to the busy day; lie back, relax and enjoy

Sunday 8 December 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small

Debussy, C. Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894). Strasbourg PO/Alain Lombard.

Erato 2292-45082-2 10

9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE The jazz age Prepared by Oscar Foong Martinu, B. Le jazz (1928). Lubomir Panek Singers; Prague SO/Zbynek Vostrak.

18:00 SYDNEY SCHUBERT SOCIETY Prepared by Jan Brown

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL The French impressionists Prepared by Rex Burgess

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Suite bergamasque (1905). Noël Lee, pf.

Auvidis V 4440 4

La revue de cuisine (1927). Karel Dlouhy, cl; Jirí Formácek, bn; Václav Junek, tpt; Bruno Belcík, vn; Milos Sádlo, vc; Frantisek Rauch, pf.

13 Supraphon SU 3058-2 011 (2 above) Schulhoff, E. Five pieces (1923): Viennese waltz; Serenade; Czech folk music; Tango; Tarantella. Aviv Quartet.

Naxos 8.570965 14 Antheil, G. Ballet mécanique (1925/53).

Philadelphia Virtuosi CO/Daniel Spalding.

Naxos 8.559060 16 Stravinsky, I. Scherzo à la Russe, original jazz band version (1944). O of St Luke’s/Robert Craft.

Naxos 8.557505 4 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Frank Morrison Boccherini, L. Symphony no 24 in A, op 37 no 4 (1787). London FO/Ross Pople.

Hyperion CDA66904 20 Kuhlau, F. Three rondos on themes from Mozart’s The marriage of Figaro (1823).

Christian Lambour, pf.

Schwann 310 120 15 Cimarosa, D. Oboe concerto in C minor (arr.

Benjamin). John Anderson, ob; Philharmonia O/ Simon Wright.

Nimbus NI 7027 11 Paganini, N. Quartet no 2 (c1815). Paganini String Quartet.

Dynamic CDS 134 23 Weber, C.M. Introduction, theme and variations, op posth (1811). Etienne Siebens, db; Ensemble Walter Boeykens.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901481 12

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Ravel, M. Introduction and allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet (1908). Michel Moragues, fl; Pascal Moragues, cl; Isabelle Moretti, hp; Quatuor Parisii. naive V 5129 11 Shéhérazade (1898). Régine Crespin, sop; Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet.

Decca 460 973-2 16 Miroirs (1905). Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf.

Decca 433 515-2

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Debussy, C. La mer (1903-05). Lyon NO/Jun Märkl.

Naxos 8.570759 25 16:00 TRANSCRIPTIONS Prepared by Brian Drummond Bach, J.S. Chorale prelude, BWV654 (bef. 1732; arr. Schoenberg). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart.

ABC 454 515-2 8 Mozart, W. Duet, from The marriage of Figaro, K492 (1786). Wolfgang Schulz, fl; Hansjorg Schellenberger, ob.

DG 423 611-2 Tausig, C. Seigmunds Liebesgesang, transcription from Wagner’s The Valkyrie (1856). Dennis Hennig, pf.

Etcetera KTC 1076

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Schubert, F. Overture to The magic harp, D644 (1820). Vienna SO/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Apex 0927 498132 11 An Sylvia, D891 (1826). Jussi Björling, ten; Harry Ebert, pf.

Naxos 8.110789 4 Divertissment in E minor, a la francaise, D823 (1823). Christophe Eschenbach, Justus Frantz, pf.

EMI 5 69770 2 34 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech Giordano, U. Vicino a te s’acquieta, from Andrea Chénier (1895). Éva Márton, sop; José Carreras, ten; János Tóth, bass; Hungarian State O/Giuseppe Patané.

CBS M2K 42369 8 Mascagni, P. Voi la sapete, o mamma, from Cavalleria rusticana (1890). Maria Callas, sop; Ebe Ticozzi, mezz; La Scala O/Tullio Serafin.

EMI CDC 7 54702 2 6 Donizetti, G. Una furtiva lagrima, from L’elisir d’amore (1832). Thomas Edmonds, ten; Adelaide SO/James Christiansen.

LP ABC/RCA SP 177 4 Saint-Saëns, C. Air; Danse bacchanale, from Samson and Delilah (1877). Montreal SO/ Charles Dutoit.

Decca 421 527-2 7 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown

Tchaikovsky, P. Suite no 4, op 61, Mozartiana (1887). Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 9514 25

Beethoven, L. Overture to Leonore, no 2, op 72 (1804-05). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos.

Naxos 8.553431 15

Grieg, E. My darling is as white as snow, from Piano transcriptions of songs, op 41 (1884).

Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, pf.

Naxos 8.553399 2

Piano concerto no 4 in G, op 58 (1805-06).

Gerard Willems, pf; Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker.

ABC 980 046-5 34

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes

Schubert, F. Symphony no 6 in C, D589 (181718). Australian CO/Charles Mackerras.

Omega OCD 1005 33

Josquin Desprez. Ave Maria ... Virgo serena.

Hilliard Ensemble.

Virgin VER 5 61302 2 7

Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I:81 (c1784).

Esterházy O/David Blum.

Vanguard 08 9063 71 26

Bruch, M. Salute to Christmas, op 62 (1892). Gabriel Schreckenbach, cont; Berlin Philharmonic Choir; Berlin RSO/Uwe Gronostay.

Schwann 313 013 H1 18

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

Moravian Brethren. Lovefeast for Christmas.

Sharon Baker, sop; Cyndia Sieden, sop; Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman.

Telarc 80482 17

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

Trad. Carol, hymn and carol, from the Vigil Office for Christmas Eve. Schola Hungarica.

Harmonia Mundi QUI 903037 10

21:50 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Robert Small Pavlova, A. Symphony no 6 (2007). Mikhail Shestakov, vn; Tchaikovsky SO/Patrick Baton.

Naxos 8.579003 42 Kats-Chernin, E. Charmer’s apprentice (2002).

Stephen Robinson, ob; Elyane Laussade, pf.

Tall Poppies TP202 12 Daugherty, M. Motorcity triptych (2000).

Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.

Naxos 8.559372 28 22:30 ULTIMA THULE December 2013

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Monday 9 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Francis Frank Wagner, R. Brünnhildes Opfertat, from Götterdämmerung (1869-74; arr. Vlieger).

Netherlands RPO/Edo de Waart.

Fidelio 9201 Chopin, F. Introduction and polonaise brillante in C, op 3 (1829; transcr. Trio Chausson). Trio Chausson.

Mirare MIR 089 Bach, J.S. O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde gross, BWV622, (1713-15: transcr. Bowman) Flinders Quartet. www.flindersquartet.com

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13:00 COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE Handel 1714-1719 Prepared by Ron Walledge

Liszt, F. Symphonic poem: Orpheus (1853-54; transcr. Liszt 1855-56). Tami Kanazawa, pf; Yuval Admony, pf.

Naxos 8.570736 10

Handel, G. Chandos anthem no 5: I will magnify thee, HWV250 (1717-18). Lynne Dawson, sop; Ian Partridge, ten; The Sixteen Choir & O/Harry Christophers.

Chandos CHAN 0504 23

Handel, G. Organ concerto in F, HWV293 (173536; transcr. Williams). John Williams, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Kenneth Sillito.

CBS MK 39560 8

Suite no 8 in F minor, HWV433 (1720). Angela Hewitt, pf.

Hyperion CDA67736 13

Taverner, J. Dum transisset sabbatum.

Winchester Cathedral Choir; Viols of the Consort of Musicke; James Lancelot, org; Martin Neary. Cond.

ASV GAU 119

Ah! spietato, from Amadigi di Gaula, HWV11 (1715). Emma Kirkby, sop; Katherina Arfken, ob; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDS44271/3 6 8

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Suite in F sharp minor, HWV431 (1720). Laura Alvini, hpd.

Nuova Era 7033/34 9

Rossini, G. Overture to Cinderella (1817).

Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit.

Decca 460 590-2

14:00 SMART ALEX Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

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Sibelius, J. Violin concerto in D minor, op 47 (1903).

Leonidas Kavakos, vn; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä.

BIS CD-500 39 Spohr, L. Symphony no 5 in C minor, op 102 (1837). Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley.

Hyperion CDA67622 33 11:30 CHAMBER ENCORE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Rossini, G. Sonata à quattro no 2 in A (1804).

Herrmann Klemeyer, fl; Hans Schöneberger, cl; Olaf Klamand, hn; Josef Peters, bn.

Calig CAL 50850 12 Spohr, L. Potpourri on themes of Mozart, op 22 (1807). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.

Chandos CHAN 9424 13 30

Sibelius, J. Tone poem: Tapiola, op 112 (1926).

Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson.

Chandos CHAN 6508 16

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

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Bizet, G. Children’s games, op 22 (1871).

Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson.

EMI CDM 1 66424 2 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture: Russian Easter festival, op 36 (1888). Bolshoi SO/ Alexander Lazarev.

Erato 4509-94808-2

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Wagner, R. So ward es uns verhiessen, from Parsifal (1882). Alexander Kipnis, bass-bar; Fritz Wolff, ten; Bayreuth FO/Siegfried Wagner.

Nimbus NI 7885/6 11 Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Sydney SO/Stuart Challender.

ABC 434 717-2 10 Strauss, J. II Voices of Spring, op 410. Amelia Farrugia, sop; BBC SO/Alexander Briger.

Decca 987 5237 7

Glazunov, A. Symphony no 7 in F, op 77 (1902). USSR Ministry of Culture O/Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Olympia OCD 100 35 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Judy Ekstein Anglebert, J-H. Suite no 1 in G. Brigitte Tramier, hpd.

Pierre Verany PV795012

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Bach, J. C. Sonata in B flat, op 17 no 6 (1762).

Robert Woolley, fp.

Chandos CHAN 0543 18 Mozart, W. Keyboard trio no 1 in G, K496 (1786). Gerard Willems, pf; Robert Ingram, vn; Georg Pedersen, vc.

Tall Poppies TP070 27 Bach, C.P.E. Sonata I in E minor, Wq59 (1784).

Inger Grundin-Brandt, fp.

BIS CD-142 9 Reger, M. Fantasy and fugue on B-A-C-H, op 46 (1900). Lionel Rogg, org.

BIS CD-242 18 Haydn, J. Andante and variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6. Alicia de Larrocha, pf.

Philips 456 886-2 13

Tuesday 10 December

Yo-Yo Ma

Yevgeny Mravinsky

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Yo Yo Ma Prepared by Paul Hopwood Bach, J.S. Cello suite no 1 in G, BWV1007 (c1720).

CBS M2K 37867 16

13:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE CONCERT HOUR Prepared by Phil Vendy Jommelli, N. Te Deum vox luminis. Les Muffatis/Peter van Heyghen Thomas.

Causton, T. It is a thing both good and meet.

Morley, T. Nolo mortem peccatoris.

Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2 (1783). English CO/José Luis Garcia.

CBS M2K 44562 25

Sheppard, J. The Lord’s prayer

Piazzolla, A. Le grand tango. Kathryn Stott, pf.

Sony SK 63122 12

Ramsey, R. How are the mighty fallen.

Yo-Yo Ma, vc (all above)

Campion, T. Never weather-beaten saile.

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown

Amner, J. A stranger here.

Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Haydn, op 56a, St Anthoni chorale (1873). Vienna PO/ István Kertész.

Decca 448 197-2 19

Stile Antico (all above) Recorded by Southwest German Radio Stuttgart

Schumann, R. Piano concerto in A minor, op 54 (1841-45). Murray Perahia, pf; Berlin PO/ Claudio Abbado.

Sony SK 64577 30 Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 2 in C minor, op 17, Little Russian (1872-79). Philharmonia O/ Riccardo Muti.

EMI CZS 7 67318 2 32 11:30 SONATAS FOR TWO Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Byrd, W. Credo, from Mass for four voices.

14:00 THE FINAL COMPOSITIONS Tchaikovsky 1892-1893 Prepared by Ron Walledge Tchaikovsky, P. Eight pieces, from 18 pieces, op 72 (1893). Mikhail Pletnev, pf.

DG 477 5378 25 Suite from The nutcracker, op 71a (1891-92).

Berlin PO/Mstislav Rostropovich.

DG 429 097-2 23

Busoni, F. Sonata in C (1876). Cristiano Rossi, vn; Marco Vincenzi, pf.

Dynamic CDS 87 12

Piano concerto no 3 in E flat, op 75 (1893).

Peter Donohoe, pf; Bournemouth SO/Rudolf Barshai.

EMI CDC 7499392 16

Mozart, W. Sonata in B flat, K292 (1775). Eckart Hübner, bn; Reinhard Latzko, vc. cpo 999 297-2 13

Symphony no 6 in B minor, op 74, Pathétique (1893). Leningrad PO/Yevgeny Mravinsky.

DG 447 423-2 45

Gerard Schwarz.

Photo - VanHouten-Photography 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans 18:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2013 Produced by Peter Kurti

What’s on in concerts during the next month 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Ogilvie 22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Copland, A. Appalachian spring (1938). Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz,.

Delos DE 3154 24 Gershwin, G. Porgy and Bess fantasy for piano trio (arr. Bunch). Eroica Trio.

EMI 5 07351 2 9

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Turina, J. Poem in the form of songs, op 19 (1923). Della Jones, mezz; Malcolm Martineau, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9277 12 Stravinsky, I. Violin concerto (1931). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Suisse Romande O/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 9240 22 Barber, S. Capricorn concerto, op 21 (1944).

Jacob Berg, fl; Peter Bowman, ob; Susan Slaughter, tpt; Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin.

RCA 09026-68283-2 15 Respighi, O. The Pines of Rome (1924). Leslie Pearson, org; Philharmonia O/Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 8989 22 December 2013

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Wednesday 11 December 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances, 3 March 2012 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Frank Morrison Buxtehude, D. Cantata: Jesu, meine Freude, BuxWV60. Emma Kirkby, sop; Suzie LeBlanc, sop; Peter Harvey, bass; Purcell Quartet.

Chandos CHAN 0691 13

Marcello Giordan

Fux, J. Suite in A minor. Robert Kohnen, hpd.

Accent ACC 10022 14

Ave Maria, D839 (1825). Lauris Elms, cont; John Winther, pf.

ABC 476 4232 7

Weiss, S. Concerto à cinque in C. Richard Stone, lute; Tempesta di Mare.

Chandos CHAN 0707 10

Strauss, R. Morgen, op 27 no 4 (1894). Jussi Björling, ten; Frederick Schauwecker, pf.

Naxos 8.110789 4

Roman, J. Oboe concerto in B flat. Helén Jahren, ob; Musica Vitae/Wojciech Rajski.

BIS CD-460 17

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale Jazz of many colours, some old, some new and all designed to inform and stimulate the senses

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Nicolai, O. Overture to The merry wives of Windsor (1849). Staatskapelle Berlin/Bernhard Klee.

Berlin Classics 0300249BC 9 Wagner, R. Siegfried idyll (1870). Vienna PO/ Karl Böhm.

DG 478 5188 19 Taubert, W. Piano concerto no 1 in E, op 18 (1833). Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley, pf & dir.

Hyperion CDA67765 23 Lachner, F. Symphony no 1 in E flat, op 32 (pub. 1828). Singapore SO/Choo Hoey.

Marco Polo 8.220360 33 11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown Brahms, J. Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, op 105 no 2 (1886). Margaret Price, sop; James Lockhart, pf.

Orfeo C 058 831 A 4 Von ewige Liebe, op 43 no 1 (1864). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Daniel Barenboim, pf.

DG 439 441-2 5 Schubert, F. Erlkönig, D328 (1815/21). Teddy Tahu Rhodes, bass-bar; Kristian Chong, pf.

ABC 476 4363 4 32

Verdi, G. Aïda. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. First performed Cairo, 1871.

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13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Alumni Recorded by Greg Ghavalas 14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music?

Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it.

15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower 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 Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I:18 (c1758).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 14 Boccherini, L. Flute quintet in C, op 19 no 3 (pub. 1774). Auser Musici.

Hyperion CDA67646 14 Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:19 (c1758).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 11 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie

AÏDA: Latonia Moore, sop RADAMES: Marcello Giordani, ten AMNERIS: Stephanie Blythe, mezz AMONASRO: Lado Ataneli, bar Metropolitan Ch & O/Marco Amiliato.

MET recording

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Aïda, daughter of the Ethiopian king Amonasro, is a slave in the Pharaoh’s palace.

Both Aïda and Amneris, the Pharaoh’s daughter, are in love with Radamès, who is leading Egyptian troops against Ethiopia.

He returns triumphant from the war with Amonasro his prisoner and is given Amneris as bride. Radamès asks for the life of his prisoners. But Amonasro has persuaded Aïda to ask Radamès, who loves her, to escape, bringing the Egyptians’ military plans. Amneris overhears them and alerts the guards.

Amonasro and Aïda escape, but Radamès is sentenced to death. Aïda hides in his tomb, revealing herself as it is sealed.

23:00 SMALL PLEASURES Prepared by Brian Drummond Beethoven, L. Bagatelles, op 126 (1823-4).

Stephen Kovacevich, pf.

EMI 5 56148 2 17 Copland, A. Estrabillo, Paisaje Mexicano, Danza de Jalisco, from Three Latin-American sketches (1959). New Philharmonia O/Aaron Copland.

CBS MK 42429 11 Schumann, R. Albumblätter nos 1 to 5, from Bunte Blätter, op 99 (1836-49). Veronica Jochum, pf.

Pro Arte CDD 396 9 Ippolitov-Ivanov, M. In the mountain pass, from Caucasian sketches, op 10 (1894).

Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian.

ASV DCA 773 8 Schubert, F. Moment musical in C sharp minor, D780 no 4 (1823-28). Mitsuko Uchida, pf.

Philips 475 6282 7

Thursday 12 December 11:30 BAX ENCORE Prepared by Elaine Siversen Bax, A. Mater ora filium (1921). Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury.

EMI 5 65595 2 10 Harp quintet (1919). Nash Ensemble.

Hyperion CDA66807

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12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers 13:00 CAPRICCIO Prepared by Angela Bell Arnold Bax 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore

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Frescobaldi, G. Capriccio sopra La spagnoletta.

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Capriccio V sopra La bassa fiamenga.

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Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (2 above) L’Oiseau-Lyre 430 246-2 5

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Ron Walledge Arriaga, J. Overture to The happy slaves (c1820). Le Concert des Nations; La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall.

Astrée E 8532 8 Erminia. Rosamund Illing, sop; Melbourne SO/ Heribert Esser.

ABC 434 898-2 14 String quartet no 3 in E flat, mvts 3 and 4 (1824). Camerata Boccherini.

Naxos 8.557628

Bashuslav Martinu

Zelenka, J. Capriccio no 2 in G (1729).

Camerata Bern.

Archiv 469 842-2

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Symphony in D minor (1824). Scottish CO/ Charles Mackerras.

Hyperion CDA66800 23 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen Sibelius, J. Karelia suite, op 11 (1893). Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam.

Ondine ODE 878-2 17 Spohr, L. Concerto in A minor, op 131 (1845).

Ernö Sebestyen, vn; Heidrun Ganz, vn; Hatto Beyerle, va; Martin Ostertag, vc; Berlin RSO/ Gerd Albrecht.

Schwann 311 088 24 Bax, A. Symphony no 6 (1934). London PO/ Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8906/10 40

Bach, J.S. Capriccio in B flat, BWV992, On the departure of a beloved brother (1704-07; transcr. Busoni). Nikolai Demidenko, pf.

Hyperion CDA66566 14 Farina, C. Capriccio stravagante (pub. 1626).

Lars Frydén, vn; Bertil Orsin, vn; Tullo Galli, va; Bengt Ericson, vc; Göte Nylén, db; Anders Öhrwall, hpd.

BIS CD-134 16 Buxtehude, D. La capricciosa, BuxWV250.

Mitzi Meyerson, hpd.

ASV GAU 102 25 14:30 PIANO PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown Chopin, F. Sonata in B flat minor, op 35 (1839).

DG 477 9519 22 Sonata in G minor, op 65 (1847). Jacqueline du Pré, vc EMI CZS 5 68132 2 27 Piano concerto no 2 in F minor, op 21 (1830) Staatskapelle Berlin/Andris Nelsons.

DG 477 9520 32 Daniel Barenboim, pf (3 above) 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock 19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA The symphonies of Martinu Prepared by Elaine Siversen Martinu, B. Sinfonietta la jolla (1950). JeanFrançois Heisser, pf; French NO/James Conlon.

Erato 2292-45794-2 20 Rhapsody concerto (1952). Vladimir Bukac, va; Czech RSO/Vladimir Valek.

Calliope CAL 9364 19 The frescoes of Piero della Francesca (1955).

Prague RSO/Charles Mackerras.

Supraphon 10 3393-2031 17 Double concerto (1953). Bohuslav Matousek, vn; Karel Kosárek, pf; Czech PO/Christopher Hogwood.

Hyperion CDA67672 28 Symphony no 6, Symphonic fantasies (1951-53).

Royal Scottish NO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8916 26 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Angela Bell Mozart, W. Sonata no 27 in G major/minor, K379 (1781). Pinchas Zukerman, vn; Marc Neikrug, pf.

RCA RD 60447 19 Beethoven, L. Trio in G, op 1 no 2 (1794-95).

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

Sony SM2K 64510 38 Regondi, G. Rêverie, op 19. Ricardo Gallén, gui.

Naxos 8.555285 9 Molique, B. Quintet in D, op 35. John Wion, fl; Eric Lewis, vn; Andrew Berdahl, va; Rosemary Glyde, va; Judith Glyde, vc.

Hart HMP4W91514 24 Piazzolla, A. History of the tango (1914).

Friedemann Eichhorn, vn; Thomas MüllerPering, gui.

Hänssler 98.508 21 December 2013

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Friday 13 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Sheila Catzel Pleyel, I. String trio in D, op 10 no 2. Members of Consortium Classicum/Dieter Klöcker. cpo 999 743-2 11 Haydn, J. Keyboard trio in E, Hob XV:34 (1771).

Beaux Arts Trio.

Philips 454 098-2 12 Mahler, G. Piano quartet movement (c187778). Domus.

Virgin VC 7 90739-2 11 Moszkowski, M. Suite, op 71. Ilya Gringolts, vn; Alexander Bulov, vn; Irina Ryumina, pf.

BIS CD-1016 19 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Keith Glendinning Parry, H. Symphonic variations in E. Royal Scottish NO/Andrew Penny.

Naxos 8.553469 13 Busoni, F. Suite from Turandot, op 41 (1905/11).

Hong Kong PO/Samuel Wong.

Naxos 8.555373 41

19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron

13:00 THE PEOPLE’S MUSIC Prepared by Bradley Kunda

20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Chopin, F. Etude in C minor, op 10 no 12, Revolutionary (1830). Boris Berezovsky, pf.

Apex 8573 89083 2

Spohr, L. Violin concerto no 8 in A minor, op 47 (1816). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Brandenburg O/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDA66840 19

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Britten, B. The Salley Gardens; Oliver Cromwell; The foggy, foggy dew (c1943). Bryn Terfel, bar; Malcolm Martineau, pf.

DG 477 5336 5 Brahms, J. Hungarian dances nos 1 to 5, WoO1 (1852-69). Silke-Thora Matthies, pf; Christian Köhn, pf.

Naxos 8.553140 15 Wesley-Smith, M. Kolele mai (2000). Tim Kain, gui.

Tall Poppies TP169 8 Anon. Atmadja Duma Strachilu, revolutionary song (1988; arr. Kyurkdjiyski). Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir.

Elektra 9 79201-02 4 Tchaikovsky, P. 1812 Overture (1880). St Petersburg Chamber Choir; Leningrad Military O/Nikolai Ushapovsky.

Decca 475 8355 16 14:00 1685: A MEMORABLE YEAR

Brumby, C. Symphony no 1 (1981). Queensland SO/Robert Boughen.

Jade JADCD 1049 27

Bach, J.S. Goldberg variations, BWV988 nos 10 to 13 (1741). Chen Pi-hsien, pf.

Naxos 8.550078 7

11:30 THE VOICE OF JUSSI BJÖRLING Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E. Manuel Barueco, gui.

Rajon CDR 0241 3

Beethoven, L. Adelaïde, op 46 (1794-95). Harry Ebert, pf.

Naxos 8.110789 7

Handel, G. Suite in F. Johann Biber, hpd.

Classic Digital 140236-2

Puccini, G. Che gelida manina, from La bohème (1896). San Francisco Opera O/ Gaetano Merola.

Naxos 8.110142 Grieg, E. A dream, op 48 no 6 (1884-88).

Frederick Schauwecker, pf.

Naxos 8.110789

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14:30 CLARINET PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown Archduke Rudolph of Austria. Sonata in A, op 2 (1822). Ricardo Morales, cl; Susan Kagan, pf.

Koch 3-7339-2-H1 32

Herbert, V. Ah! Sweet mystery of life, from Naughty Marietta (1910). O/Nils Grevillius.

Naxos 8.110722 3

Beethoven, L. Trio in B flat, op 11, Gassenhauer trio (1798). Jörg Widmann, cl; Jan Vogler, vc; Ewa Kupiec, pf.

Berlin 0012862BC 20

Bizet, G. In the depths of the temple, from The pearl fishers (1863). Robert Merrill, bar; RCA Victor SO/Renato Cellini.

RCA GD 87799 5

Mozart, W. Clarinet concerto in A, K622 (1791).

Craig Hill, cl; Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer.

ABC 476 125-0 28

Strauss, R. Cäcilie, op 27 no 2 (1894). Harry Ebert, pf.

Naxos 8.110789 2

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Emyr Evans

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12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

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Schubert, F. Fantasy in C, D760, Wanderer (c1823). Alfred Brendel, pf.

Philips 420 644-2 21 Mendelssohn, F. Quartet in A minor, op 13 (1827). Coull String Quartet.

Hyperion CDS 44051/53 30 Dvorák, A. Five bagatelles, op 47 (1878).

Charles Castleman, vn; Julie Gigante, vn; Pamela Frame, vc; Barbara Harbach, harmonium.

Albany TROY 041

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Verdi, G. String quartet in E minor (1873).

Melos Quartet.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901671 22 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Devotees of early music performance Prepared by Philip Lidbury Bach, C.P.E. Cello concerto in A minor, Wq170 (1750). Anner Bijlsma, vc; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt.

Virgin VC 7 90800-2 26 Sweelinck, J. Toccata no 17 in A. Gustav Leonhardt, org.

Harmonia Mundi GD 77148

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Bach, J.S. Sonata in A, BWV1032 (c1736). Frans Brüggen, fl; Gustav Leonhardt, hpd.

LP RCA RL 30426 14 Christmas oratorio: excerpts from three cantatas, BWV248 (1734). Scottish CO/ Raymond Leppard; unnamed choir.

Erato 2292-45561-2

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Campra, A. Suite from L’Europe galante (1697).

English CO/Raymond Leppard, hpd & dir.

Decca 433 733-2 21 Purcell, H. Ode on the birthday of Queen Mary: Come ye sons of Art, away (1694). Deller Consort; Oriana Concert Choir & O/Alfred Deller, ct & dir.

Vanguard OVC 8027 26 Trad. O come, O come, Emmanuel (arr.

Coelho). Louise Prickett, sop; Australian Brandenburg Choir; Australian Brandenburg O/ Paul Dyer.

4 ABC 476 4687

Saturday 14 December Kabalevsky, D. Overture to Colas Breugnon, op 24a (1938).

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0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett

NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini (all above) dell’Arte DA9020

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

Schultz, A. Once upon a time, op 70 (2006).

Jennifer Pike, vn; Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills.

ABC 476 451-9 19

14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music

9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON MAX REGER Prepared by Francis Frank Reger, M. String quartet in A, op 54 no 2 (1900). Reger Quartet.

Pantheon D 14090 19 O death, how bitter is the remembrance, from Three five-part motets, op 110 (1909-12). Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman.

Chandos CHAN 9298 10 Suite no 1 in G, op 131 (1915). Luca Signorini, vc.

Nuova Era 7016 13 O Lord, rebuke me not, from Three five-part motets, op 110 (1909-12). Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman.

Chandos CHAN 9298 17 Suite in G minor (orch. Poltoratsky). Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet.

RCA RD 60 464 14 Eine Ballettsuite, op 130 (1913). Karl Suske, vn; Heinz Schunk, vn; Berlin Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner.

LP Ariola-Eurodisc 86 535 XEK 18 Requiem, op 144 (1915). Marga Höffgen, cont; North German Radio Choir & SO/Roland Bader.

Koch Schwann 313 004 15 11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small Shostakovich, D. Overture on Russian and Kirghiz folk songs, op 115 (1963; arr. Duker).

Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Stephen L. Gage.

Naxos 8.570946 10 Holst, G. First suite in E flat for military band, op 28 no 1 (1909). Royal Northern College of Music Wind O/Timothy Reynish.

Chandos CHAN 9697 11 Alwyn, W. The million pound note, waltz (1953; arr. Ellerby). Royal Northern College of Music Wind O/Mark Heron.

Naxos 8.572747 3 12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper 13:00 HISTORIC RECORDINGS Brahms, J. Variations and fugue on a theme

by Handel, op 24 (1861).

23 Roger-Ducasse, J. Saraband, symphonic poem. 11 Sibelius, J. Leminkäinen’s homecoming.

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Paganini, N. Moto perpetuo, op 11 (orch.

Toscanini).

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19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers

15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Pat Hopper Newman, A. Suite from How the west was won. City of Prague PO/Nic Raine.

Silver Screen 173 24 Moross, J. Soundtrack: The big country.

Studio O/Jerome Moross.

Hallmark A1074

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16:30 ARTS IN FOCUS with The Song Company Produced by Debbie Scholem

Fain, S. Excerpts from Calamity Jane (1960).

Debbie Shapiro, Jason Hopward, Susannah Fellows, Tim Flavin, voices.

TER Mus C N19 18 Bernstein, L. Excerpts from On the town (1944). Kim Criswell, Gregg Edelman, Tim Flavin, Ethan Freeman, Tinuke Olafimihan, voices.

TER Mus C N44 13 NSO/John Owen Edwards (2 above) Rodgers, R. Excerpts from Pal Joey (1940).

Sian Phillips, Denis Lawson, Susan Kyd, Danielle Carson, Jane Gurnett, voices; O/Trevor York.

TER Mus C N16 19

17:00 COLOURS OF THE KING Program of the Organ Music Association of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Graham Mason, L. Joy to the world (1839). Brisbane Chorale; Brisbane Festival Brass; Amy Johansen, org; Emily Cox, cond.

Move MD 3359 3 Karg-Elert, S. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, op 65 no 33 (1908-10). John Walker, org.

Pro Organo 7189 5 Bach, J.S. Beside thy manger.

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Anon. Coventry carol.

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Brisbane Chorale; Amy Johansen, org; Emily Cox, cond (2 above) Move MD 3359 Bach, J.S. Canonic variations: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, BWV769. John Walker, org.

Pro Organo 7189 14 James, W. Christmas night. Brisbane Chorale; Amy Johansen, org; Emily Cox, cond.

Move MD 3359 4 Dethier, G. Variations on Adeste fideles. 7 Barr, J. Lullaby: Silent night.

Carr-Boyd, A. Beneath the yellow moon (2004-05). Susan Blake, vc; John Martin, pf.

Jade JADCD 1106 17

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20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Musica Viva presents Karin Schaupp and Pavel Steidl Recorded by Greg Simmons for FINE MUSIC Mertz, J. At the beloved’s grave.

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Sor, F. L’encouragement, op 34 (1828).

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Paganini, N. Minuet known as Dida.

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Schubert, F. Menuetto; Allegro, from String quartet no 9 in G minor, D173 (1815; arr. Bream). 11 Granados, E. Orientale; Rondalla aragonesa, from Spanish dances, op 37 (1890).

10 Albéniz, I. Torre bermeja, from 12 Piezas caracteristicas, op 92 (c1888).

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Edwards, R. Djanaba (1997).

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Janácek, L. The barn owl has not flown away! from On an overgrown path (1901).

4 Houghton, P. Brolga (1994).

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Gnattali, R. Cinquinha Gonzaga, from Retratos (1956; arr. 1981).

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Karin Schaupp, gui; Pavel Steidl, gui (all above) 21:30 TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES Prepared by Chris Blower

John Walker, org (2 above) Pro Organo 7189

Wood, Haydn. The seafarer (1940). CzechoSlovak RSO/Ludovit Rajter.

Naxos 8.554711 9

James, W. Christmas Day: The north wind.

Brisbane Chorale; Brisbane Festival Brass; Amy Johansen, org; Emily Cox, cond.

Move MD 3359 2

Vaughan Williams, R. A vision of aeroplanes (Ezekiel), motet (1956). Marianne Cotterill, sop; Finzi Singers; Harry Bicket, org; Paul Spicer, cond.

Chandos CHAN 9019 10

18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Elaine Siversen Wesley-Smith, M. Snark-hunting (1984).

Members of Australia Ensemble.

Tall Poppies TP200

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Honegger, A. Pacific 231, from Three symphonic movements (1924). Bavarian RSO/ Charles Dutoit.

Erato 2292-45242-2 6 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones December 2013

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Sunday 15 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Variations on Rossini’s Non più mesta accanto al fuoco, from Cinderella (1817).

DG 423 717-2 12

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Paul Roper

Variations on Süssmayr’s La streghe, op 8 (1813).

DG 423 717-2 10

9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Elaine Siversen Alwyn, W. Suite of Scottish dances (1946).

Royal Liverpool PO/David Lloyd-Jones.

Naxos 8.570704 8 Field, J. Irish dance: Go to the devil (c1797).

Míceál O’Rourke, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9315 4

Brahms, J. Variations on a theme of Paganini, op 35, bk I (1862). Shura Cherkassky, pf.

Nimbus NI 7706 14

Stanford, C. Villiers Four Irish dances (190305; transcr. Grainger). Piers Lane, pf.

Hyperion CDA67279 15

Paganini, N. Variations on a theme from Rossini’s Moses, op 24 (1818-9). Salvatore Accardo, vn; CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi.

EMI 5 72854 2 10

Arnold, M. Four Welsh dances, op 138.

Queensland SO/Andrew Penny.

Naxos 8.553526

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Brahms, J. Variations on a theme of Paganini, op 35, bk 2 (1862). Shura Cherkassky, pf.

Nimbus NI 7706 12

Tomlinson, E. First suite of English folk dances (1951). Light Music Society O/Vivian Dunn.

EMI 7 64131 2 14

Paganini, N. Variations on Barucabà, op 14.

Scott St John, vn; Simon Wynberg, guI. Naxos 8.550690 11

10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Chris Blower

Rachmaninov, S. Rhapsody on a theme

by Paganini, op 43 (1934). Julius Katchen, pf; London PO/Adrian Boult.

Philips 456 859-2 22

Haydn, M. Divertimento in E flat (1790).

Divertimento Salzburg.

Claves 50-8703

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Kammel, A. Sonata in B flat, op 3 no 3 (c1770).

André Siwy, vn; Yaga Siwy, vn; Guido Everaert, vc; Robert Leuridan, pf.

LP Bibliothecae Regiae Belgicae BRB 10-11 14 Mozart, W. Miserere mei Deus in A minor, K85 (1770). Leipzig Radio Choir; Michael-Christfried Winkler, org; Herbert Kegel, cond.

Philips 422 749-2 10 Stamitz, C. Quartet in D, op 8. Paul Goodwin, ob; Terzetto.

Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 15 Albrechtsberger, J. Harp concerto in C. Jana Bouskova, hp; South West German CO, Pforzheim/Vladislav Czarnecki.

Brilliant Classics 99512 19 Kuhlau, F. Divertimento, op 68 no 6 (1825).

Robert Aitken, fl.

LP Simax PN 2004 8 Baguer, C. Symphony no 18 in B flat (c1790s).

London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9456 16 12:00 SPEAK EASY, SWING HARD with Richard Hughes

16:00 ONE IS ENOUGH Prepared by Anne Irish Dvorák, A. String quartet movement in F (1881). Chilingirian Quartet.

Chandos CHAN 8874 10 Mahler, G. Piano quartet movement (c187778). Domus.

Virgin VC 7 90739-2 11 Bach, J.S. Concerto movement in D, BWV1045.

Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDA66502 5 Gade, N. Trio movement in B flat (1839). Tre Musici.

Dacapo DCCD 9310 10 Schubert, F. Notturno in E flat, D897 (c1827).

Macquarie Trio.

ABC 465 792-2 11 Schumann, R. Concerto movement in D minor (1839; compl. 1986/88). Florian Uhlig, pf; German RPO of Saarbrücken Kaiserlautern/ Christoph Poppen.

SWR 93.264 7 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Keith Glendinning

14:00 PAGANINI - VARIATIONS BY AND ON Prepared by Denis Patterson

Hymns: Fight the good fight; Before the ending of the day. Choir of Truro Cathedral; Simon Morley, org; Andrew Nethsingha, cond.

Priory PRCD 5019 4

Paganini, N. Variations on The carnival of Venice, op 10 (1829). Salvatore Accardo, vn; CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi.

EMI 5 72854 2 12

Leighton, K. Te Deum laudamus (1964). Nigel Beavan, bass; Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Andrew Lucas, org; John Scott, cond.

Helios CDH55195 10

Variations on God save the King, op 9.

Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Louis Persinger, pf.

Decca 458 191-2

Rutter, J. Magnificat (1990). Patricia Forbes, sop; Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter.

Collegium COLCD 114 37

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Salvatore Accardo, vn; London PO/Charles Dutoit (2 above)

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18:00 A FIELD OF TALL POPPIES with Julie Simonds A monthly program of recordings selected from the Tall Poppies label 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Mozart, W. Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, from Così fan tutte, K588 (1790). Teddy Tahu Rhodes, bass-bar; Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner.

ABC 472 826-2 5 Donizetti, G. Sulla tomba che rinserra, from Lucia di Lammermoor (1835). Montserrat Caballé, sop; José Carreras, ten; New Philharmonia O/Jésus López-Cobos.

Philips 434 986-2 11 Puccini, G. Vissi d’arte, from Tosca (1900).

Maria Callas, sop; La Scala O/Tullio Serafin.

3 Rajon CDR1004A-C Donizetti, G. Una furtiva lagrima, from L’elisir d’amore (1832). Plácido Domingo, ten; Los Angeles PO/Carlo Maria Giulini.

DG 400 030-2 5 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess Handel, G. Overture and ballet music from Alcina, HWV34 (1735). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Decca 480 1388 21 Mussorgsky, M. Boris Godunov: Symphonic synthesis (1869-72; transcr. Stokowski). BBC PO/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9445 24 Beethoven, L. Piano concerto no 4 in G, op 58 (1805-06). Gerard Willems, pf; Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker.

ABC 980 046-5 34 21:00 NEW HORIZONS The future of piano Prepared by Oscar Foong Yu, J. Future of water. Choristers of St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington.

7 Move MD 3327 Cree-Brown, C. Icescape (2000).

9 New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (2 above) Move MD 3327 Kats-Chernin, E. Blue silence (2006). David Pereira, vc; Timothy Young, pf.

9 Tall Poppies TP222 Yates, S. Sea, air and cloud or two.

6 Peterson, John. Remembering Illawarra (2002). 10 Jeanell Carrigan, pf (2 above) Australian Music Centre VAST031.2 Kieran Harvey, M. Elektra (1992). Michael Kieran Harvey, pf.

9 Move MD 3329 Davidson, R. Above ground (2009).

21 5 Hoey, B. One day ... (2011).

Topology; Clocked Out (2 above) www.topologymusic.com 22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Monday 16 December 11:30 CHRISTMAS VOICES Prepared by Heather Sykes Haydn, J. Cantilena pro adventu: Ein’ Magd, ein’ Dienerin, Hob.XXIIId:1 (c1770-75). Teresa Berganza, sop; Scottish CO/Raymond Leppard.

Erato ECD 88011 10 Rodrigo, J. Five songs, from Christmas carols and songs (1952). Raquel Lojendio, sop; Madrid Comunidad Ch & O/José Ramón Encinar.

Naxos 8.557223 13

Emanuele Torquati 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Chris Blower Bach, J.S. Suite no 3 in C, BWV1009 (arr.

Schumann). Francesco Dillon, vc; Emanuele Torquati, pf.

Brilliant Classics 94328 22 Schumann, R. Kinderjahr, op 68 (c1847; arr.

Adorno). Royal PO/Dirk Joeres.

BIS 1055 14 Shostakovich, D. Five pieces from The gadfly, op 97 (1955; arr. Borisovsky). Lawrence Power, va; Simon Crawford-Phillips, pf.

Hyperion CDA67865 17 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Heather Sykes Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture and suite from Christmas Eve (1895). Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin.

Naxos 8.553789 26 Giuliani, M. Guitar concerto no 3 in F, op 70.

Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Philips 454 262-2 28 Fry, W. Santa Claus, Christmas symphony (1853). Royal Scottish NO/Tony Rowe.

Naxos 8.559057 26

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Mitzi Meyerson

13:00 THE FINAL COMPOSITIONS Mendelssohn and Chopin 1846-47 Prepared by Ron Walledge

Crusell, B. Quartet no 1 in E flat, op 2 (1803).

Thea King, cl.

Hyperion CDA66077 19

Mendelssohn, F. String quartet no 6 in F minor, op 80 (1847). Ysaÿe Quartet.

Decca 473 255-2 26

Reicha, A. Quintet in F, op 107 (1821-26). Sarah Francis, ob.

Hyperion CDA66143 23

Variations in E flat, op 82 (1847). Benjamin Frith, pf.

Naxos 8.553186 8

Allegri String Quartet (all above)

Mendelssohn, F. Three songs, op 71: no 1, Tröstung; no 3, An die Entfernte; no 4, Schifflied (1847). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Wolfgang Sawallisch, pf.

EMI CMS 7 64827-2 6 Chopin, F. Waltzes, op 64: no 1 in D flat, Minute; no 2 in C sharp minor (1847). Cristina Ortiz, pf.

IMP PCD 872 5 Barcarolle in F sharp, op 60 (1846). Dinu Lipatti, pf.

Philips 456 892-2 8 Sonata in G minor, op 65 (1847). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Daniel Barenboim, pf.

EMI CZS 5 68132 2 27 Two nocturnes, op 62: no 1 in B flat; no 2 in E (1846). Idil Biret, pf.

Naxos 8.554532 13 Polonaise-fantasy in A flat, op 61 (1846).

Maurizio Pollini, pf.

Philips 456 940-2

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15:00 ALLEGRI QUARTET MARKS 60!

Prepared by Sheila Catzel Boccherini, L. Quintet in G, op 45 no 1 (1797).

Sarah Francis, ob.

Decca 433 173-2 10

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Phil Vendy Erik Tarp, S. Three sonatinas, op 48 (1945).

Tonya Lemoh, pf.

Dacapo 8.226053 19 Nielsen, C. Book II: The flat keys, from Piano music for young and old, op 53 (1930). Mina Miller, pf.

Hyperion CDA66231 16 Nørgård, P. Unendlicher Empfang (1997). Rolf Hind, pf; Nicholas Hodges, pf.

Dacapo 8.226037 17 Buxtehude, D. La capricciosa, BuxWV250.

Mitzi Meyerson, hpd.

ASV GAU 102 25 Gade, N. Scandinavian folksongs (1842). Anker Blyme, pf.

Marco Polo DCCD 9115 16 Bach, J.S. Suite no 3 in G minor, BWV808, English (bef. 1725). Murray Perahia, pf.

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Tuesday 17 December 14:30 PIANO PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Schumann, op 9 (1854). Idil Biret, pf.

Naxos 8.550350

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

Schumann, R. Piano trio no 2 in F, op 80 (1847). Florestan Trio.

Hyperion CDA67063 26

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MIUSIC Artist of choice: Jane Rutter Prepared by Madilina Tresca Villa-Lobos, H. Cantilena, from Bachianas brasileiras no 5 (1938-45; arr. Rutter, Pikler).

Gregory Pikler, gui.

ABC 476 647-5 5 Chopin, F. Nocturne, op 9 no 1 (1830-31; arr.

Rutter). Gerard Willems, pf.

ABC 476 647-5 6 Mozart, W. Double concerto in C, K299 (1778).

Louise Johnson, hp; Sydney Bach O/Richard Bonynge.

ABC 476 647-5 29

Idil Biret Tchaikovsky, P. Wohin seid ihr entschwunden, from Eugene Onegin (1879). Munich RSO. Orfeo C 445 961 B 7

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

Fritz Wunderlich, ten (all above)

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Charles Barton

13:00 BAROQUE, WITH A DASH OF RENAISSANCE Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Jane Rutter, fl (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell

Avison, C. Concerto grosso no 12 in D, after Scarlatti (1744). Tafelmusik Baroque O/Jean Lamon.

CBC Enterprises SMCD5061 15

Schubert, F. Fantasia in F minor, D940 (1828; arr. Motti). American SO/Leon Botstein.

Koch 3-7307-2 18

Scarlatti, D. Sonatas in A: Kk208; Kk209.

Nicholas Parle, hpd.

Tall Poppies TP057

Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 20 in D minor, K466 (1785). Martha Argerich, pf; O di Padova e del Veneto/Alexandre Rabinovitch.

Apex 2364 67429-6 30

Bach, J.S. Oboe d’amore concerto in A, BWV1055 (1735-40). Paul Goodwin, ob; King’s Consort/Robert King.

Helios CDH55269 15

11:30 WUNDERLICH SINGS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Mozart, W. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön, from The magic flute, K620 (1791). Munich RSO. Orfeo C 445 961 B 4 Rossini, G. Strahit auf mich die Blitz des Goldes, from The barber of Seville (1816).

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

DG 477 9109 8 Schubert, F. An Sylvia, D891 (1826). Hubert Giesen, pf.

Orfeo C 432 961 B 3 38

Piano concerto in A minor, op 54 (1841-45).

Israela Margalit, pf; London PO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 6621 34

Borne, F. Fantasia brillante on themes from Bizet’s Carmen. Gerard Willems, pf.

ABC 476 647-5 11

Kallstenius, E. Symphony no 2 in F minor, op 20 (1935). Swedish RSO/B. Tommy Andersson.

Musica Sveciae PSCD 701 35

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22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Oscar Foong

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Palestrina, G. da Motet: Tu es Petrus (pub.

1567). Regensburg Cathedral Choir/Hans Schrems.

Archiv 439 961-2 7 Purcell, H. Suite (transcr. Stokowski). Peter Dixon, vc; BBC PO/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9930 12 Handel, G. Sonata in E minor, HWV379 (c1730).

Kate Clark, fl; Nicholas Parle, hpd.

Fine Music Tape Archive 10 Vivaldi, A. Violin concerto no 12 in G, RV298, from La stravaganza (pub. 1712). Monica Huggett, vn; Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 417 502-2 9

Fletcher, P. Tone poem: Labour and love (1913). Black Dyke Mills Band/Peter Parkes.

Chandos CHAN 4506 10 Grainger, P. The warriors (1913-16).

Philharmonia O/John Eliot Gardiner.

DG 445 860-2

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Finzi, G. Incidental music to Love’s labour’s lost (1946). Royal PO/Vernon Handley.

Lyrita SRCD.237 29 Britten, B. Overture: The building of the house, op 79 (1967). Ch of East Anglian Choirs; English CO/Benjamin Britten.

BBC BBCB 8007-2 6 Hanson, H. Song of democracy (1957). Turtle Creek Chorale; Dallas Wind Symphony/ Timothy Seelig.

Reference Recordings RR-49 14 Bartók, B. First term at the piano (1913). Jenõ Jandó, pf.

Naxos 8.572376 14 Jara, V. Manifesto (arr. Jones).

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Newman, R. Political science.

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Lennon, J. Imagine (1971).

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Merlyn Quaife, sop; Andrea Katz, pf (3 above) Tall Poppies TP185

Wednesday 18 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Handel, G. Passacaglia (arr. Halvorsen).

Alexandra Koll, vn; Heinrich Koll, va.

Naxos 8.557606

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

Albinoni, T. Sonata in G, op 2 no 6 (c1700).

Claudio Capponi, va; I Musici.

Philips 432 115-2 8

9:00 ASPECTS OF BAROQUE Music for a purpose Prepared by Brian Drummond Vivaldi, A. Mandolin concerto in C, RV425.

Rolf Lislevand, mand; Ensemble Kapsberger. naïve OP 30429 9 Geminiani, F. Concerto grosso in D, op 7 no 1 (pub. 1746). Malcolm Latchem, vn; Stephen Shingles, va; Denis Vigay, vc; Ian Watson, hpd; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown, vn & dir.

ASV DCA 724 9 Scarlatti, D. Sonata in D, Kk119. Jenö Jandó, pf.

Naxos 8.555047 6 Telemann, G. Trio in E flat, from Tafelmusik (1733). Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel.

DG 469 664-2 13 Handel, G. Venti turbini, from Rinaldo, HWV7a (1711). Graham Pushee, ct; Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer.

ABC 446 272-2 4 Bach, J.S. Keyboard concerto no 5 in F minor, BWV1056. Angela Hewitt, pf; Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti.

Hyperion CDA67308 10 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Rossini, G. Overture to The Italian girl in Algiers (1816). Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner.

ABC 476 259-9

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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

Burda, E. Central European suite.

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Gypsy suite in A minor.

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14:00 IN CONVERSATION with Michael Morton-Evans What exactly does it take to make music?

Leading musicians, composers and performers, both local and visiting from overseas, will be talking live on air telling us why they do it and how they do it.

Suite in E minor.

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15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower

Chopin, F. Nocturnes, op 9 (1832): no 1 in B flat minor; no 2 in E flat; no 3 in B. 16

Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:20 (c1761).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 18

Impromptus: in A flat, op 29 (1837); in F sharp, 9 op 36 (1839).

Reicha, A. Quintet in E flat, op 88 no 2 (181117). Academia Wind Quintet of Prague.

Hyperion CDD22006 16

Waltz in E flat, Sostenuto (1840).

Haydn, J. Symphony in A, Hob.I:21 (1764).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 20

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19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell

Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2 (1783). Daniel Müller-Schott, vc; Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti.

Orfeo C 080 031 A 25

20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances, 7 February, 1970 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero

Respighi, O. Trittico Botticelliano (1927).

Accademia Bizantina/Carlo Chiarappa.

Denon CO-78916

Mascagni, P. Cavalleria Rusticana. Opera in one act. Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti.

First performed Rome, 1890.

Bruch, M. Symphony no 1 in E flat, op 28 (pub.

1870). Gewandhaus O/Kurt Masur.

Philips 462 164-2 29 11:30 CELEBRATE THE VIOLA Prepared by Derek Parker Corelli, A. Viola da gamba sonata in D. Richard Campbell, vc; Purcell Quartet.

Hyperion CDH55240 8

21:30 EVŽEN BURDA AND HIS MUSIC Recorded by Edda Filson for FINE MUSIC

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Alumni recorded by Greg Ghavalas

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter

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him to marry her and save her from scandal, he knocks her down. As Lola and Turiddu go into Mass they laugh at her. Santuzza, upset, tells Alfio about the affair between Lola and Turiddu. Alfio challenges Turiddu to a duel.

Mama Lucia remains with Santuzza to hear the result. When the throng comes running back, crying that Turiddu has been killed by Alfio, Santuzza faints into her mother’s arms.

Evžen Burda, gui (all above) 22:00 A CHOPIN RECITAL BY ROGER WOODWARD RECORDED BY FINE MUSIC

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Mazurkas: in A flat, op 24 no 3 (1837); in A flat, 6 op 17 no 3 (1832-33).

Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, op 35 (1839). 25 Roger Woodward, pf (all above) 23:10 CHAMBER MUSIC OF BEETHOVEN AND DVORÁK RECORDED BY FINE MUSIC Beethoven, L. Quintet in E flat (1796). Graham Powning, ob; Douglas Eyre, bn; Anthony Buddle, hn; Amanda Parsons, hn; Deborah Hart, hn.

13 Dvorák, A. Piano trio in E minor, op 90, Dumky (1891). New England Trio.

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SANTUZZA: Grace Bumbry, mezz TURIDDU: Franco Corelli, ten LOLA: Nedda Casei, mezz ALFIO: Walter Cassel, bar MAMMA LUCIA: Carlotta Ordassy, sop Metropolitan Ch & O/Leonard Bernstein Melodram CDN 27095 1:17 Santuzza has been deserted by Turiddu, the local Don Juan. He is now courting Lola, who is married to Alfio. When Santuzza pleads with

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Thursday 19 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Francis Frank Pergolesi, G. Overture to L’Olimpiade (1735).

New Philharmonia O/Raymond Leppard.

Philips 446 569-2 7 Tre giorni son che Nina. Luciano Pavarotti, ten; Philharmonia O/Piero Gamba.

Decca 417 796-2 4 L’Olimpiade: sinfonia (1735). St Cecilia Academy O/Myung-Whun Chung.

DG 471 566-2 6 Violin concerto in B flat. Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer.

Hyperion CDA67230 12 Salve Regina in A minor (1736). Mária Zádori, sop; Capella Savaria/Pál Németh.

Harmonia Mundi QUI903011 9 Flute concerto in G. Giulio Giannelli Viscardi, fl; European Community CO/Eivind Aadland.

Helios CDH88025 13 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Stamitz, J. Sinfonia pastorale in D, op 4 no 2.

Northern CO/Nicholas Ward.

Naxos 8.554447 14 Mozart, W. Symphony no 40 in G minor, K550 (1788). Ulster O/Vernon Handley.

Chandos CHAN 8746 31 Duncan, T. Little suite (1959). Slovak RSO/ Andrew Penny.

Naxos 8.554709 12 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture and suite from Christmas Eve (1895). Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin.

Naxos 8.553789 26 11:30 THREE TENORS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Halévy, F. Rachel, quand du Seigneur, from La juive (1835). Plácido Domingo, ten; Los Angeles PO/Carlo Maria Giulini.

DG 400 030-2 6 Wagner, R. In fernem Land, from Lohengrin (1848). Jonas Kaufmann, ten; Mahler CO/ Claudio Abbado.

Decca 478 1463 6 40

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Mozart, W. Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön, Die, from The magic flute, K620 (1791). Fritz Wunderlich, ten; Munich RSO. Orfeo C 445 961 B 4

Tippett, M. Fantasia concertante on a theme of Corelli (1953). Saint Paul CO/Christopher Hogwood.

Decca 440 376-2 19

Verdi, G. Già nella notte densa, from Otello (1887). Katia Ricciarelli, sop; Plácido Domingo, ten; Saint Cecilia Academy O/Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

Sony 88697526902 10

Elgar, E. Variations on an original theme, op 36, Enigma (1899). Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Exton EXCL-00029 30

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

Walton, W. Spitfire prelude and fugue (1942).

Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

9 Chandos CHAN 8870

13:00 A FIELD GUIDE TO MUSIC Prepared by Michael Field Michael Field takes a close look at some of his favourite music. In today’s program he will be discussing and playing Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass.

14:00 BOHEMIAN COMPOSERS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Dreyschock, A. Piano concerto in D minor, op 137 (c1850). Piers Lane, pf; BBC Scottish SO/ Niklas Willén.

Hyperion CDA67086 24 Mahler, G. Piano quartet movement (c187778). Domus.

Virgin VC 7 90739-2 11 Dvorák, A. Sonatina in G, op 100 (1893). Gil Shaham, vn; Orli Shaham, pf.

DG 449 820-2 18 15:00 PURCELL TO MARTINU Prepared by Yvonne Laki Purcell, H. From rosie bow’rs, from Don Quixote (1695). Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 443 200-2 6 Beethoven, L. Sonata no 32 in C minor, op 111 (1821-22). Stephen Kovacevich, pf.

EMI 5 62700 2 26 Martinu, B. Rhapsody (1952). Josef Suk, va; Czech PO/Václav Neumann.

Supraphon 11 9374-2 031 CDB 21 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA From the British Isles Prepared by Judy Ekstein Vaughan Williams, R. On Wenlock Edge (1909). Gerald English, ten; West Australian SO/ David Measham.

Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2062 22

Holst, G. Jupiter, from The planets (1914-16).

Australian YO/Charles Mackerras.

ABC 476 695-5 8 Ireland, J. Suite: The Overlanders (1946-47; ed.

Mackerras). London PO/Adrian Boult.

Lyrita SRCD.240 20 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Francis Frank Beethoven, L. Danses allemandes WoO8 (1795). Ensemble Bella Musica of Vienna.

Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901017 18 Bach, J.S. Sonata in C minor, BWV1024.

Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Richard Tunnicliffe, vc; Paul Nicholson, hpd.

Hyperion CDD22025 14 Myslivecek, J. Wind octet no 1 in E flat.

Harmoniemusik of London.

Virgin 5 61368 2

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Boyce, W. Trio sonata no 15 in D (1747). Parley of Instruments Baroque O/Peter Holman.

Hyperion CDA67151/2 14 Holzbauer, I. Quintet in B flat for flute, violin, violetta, cello and harpsichord. Members of Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 8.41062 14 Turina, J. Sextet, Andalusian scene, op 7 (1912). Christine Busch, vn; Anna Deutschler, va; Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet.

Claves 50-9403 11 Bach, C.P.E. Trio sonata in B flat, Wq161 no 2 (1748). Ensemble of the Classic Era. ABC 456 365-2 20

Friday 20 December 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell 13:00 BAROQUE À LA FRANÇAIS Prepared by Jan Brown Rameau, J-P. Overture to Zaïs (1748). Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset.

Decca 476 2506

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Rebel, J-F. Le tombeau de Monsieur de Lully (1695). Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski.

Erato 2292-45974-2 16 Polina Leschenko 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Jan Brown Donizetti, G. String quartet no 10 in G minor (1821). Revolutionary Drawing Room. cpo 999 279-2 13 Rossini, G. Quartet no 3 in F (1804; arr. Berr).

Michael Thompson Wind Quartet.

Naxos 8.554098 13 Verdi, G. String quartet in E minor (1873).

Giovane Quartetto Italiano.

Claves 50-9114 22 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Di Cox Respighi, O. Ancient airs and dances, suite no 1 (1917). Australian CO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee. Omega OCD 1007 17 Beethoven, L. Triple concerto in C, op 56 (1803-04). David Oistrakh, vn; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Sviatoslav Richter, pf; Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan.

EMI 5 66902 2 36 Borodin, A. Symphony no 2 in B minor (186976). Vienna PO/Rafael Kubelik.

EMI CZS 5 68223 2 27 11:30 RONDO AND CHORALE Schubert, F. Rondo in A, D951, Grand rondeau (1828). Nelson Freire, pf; Martha Argerich, pf.

DG 477 8570 11 Busoni, F. Improvisations on a chorale by Bach, Wie whol ist mir, O Freund der Seele (1916). Pinuccia Giarmanà, pf; Alessandro Lucchetti, pf.

Nuova Era 7161 14

Quentin, J-B. Sonate à quatre parties in D (c1740). Musica Antiqua Köln/Reinhard Goebel.

Archiv 447 286-2 18 Lalande, M-R. de Premier caprice ou caprice de Villers-Cotterets (c1715). Jean-Francois CO/ Jean-Francois Paillard.

Erato 2 292-45220-2 15 14:00 THE FINAL COMPOSITIONS Schubert 1827-28 Prepared by Ron Walledge Schubert, F. Sonata no 19 in C minor, D958 (1828). Sviatoslav Richter, pf.

Notes PGP 11011 29 Schwanengesang, D957 (1828). Dietrich FischerDieskau, bar.

Philips 411 051-2 50 Impromptus, D899, 1-4 (1827).

Philips 456 727-2

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Alfred Brendel, pf (2 above) 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Lloyd Capps 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron 20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Heather Sykes Lumbye, H. Musical entertainment: A festive night at Tivoli (1861). Tivoli SO/Tamás Vetö.

Marco Polo 8.225223 11 Tchaikovsky, P. The nutcracker suite, op 71a (1892). Stephanie McCallum, pf.

ABC 476 4689 23 Mendelssohn, F. Double concerto in D minor (1823). Polina Leschenko, pf; Australian CO/ Richard Tognetti, vn & dir.

BIS SACD-1984 36

Marc Minkowski Albéniz, I. Suite española, op 47 (1886; orch.

Frühbeck de Burgos). Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz.

ASV DCA 888 42 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE At Thomasschule, Leipzig Prepared by Elaine Siversen Schein, J. Pavan (Suite XII); Pavan (Suite XVII).

Laurence Cummings, org; Oxford Camerata/ Jeremy Summerley.

Naxos 8.553044 6 Suite no 3, from Banchetto Musicale (pub.

1617). Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer.

DG 469 244-2 9 Fasch, J. Sanftes Brausen, süsses Sausen.

Klaus Mertens, bar; Ofer Frenkel, ob; Gil Rinot, chalumeau; Christian Beuse, bn; Shaler Ad-El, cond. cpo 999-674-2 15 Kuhnau, J. Sonata I, Il combattimento trà David e Goliath (pub. 1700). John Butt, org.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907133 14 Telemann, G. Cantata: In dulci jubilo (c1717).

Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage.

Chandos CHAN 0634 14 Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue in B minor, BWV544 (1725-28). Piet Kee, org.

Chandos CHAN 0506

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Bach, J.S. Cantata, BWV210: O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit (1736-41). Maria Zádori, sop; Capella Savaria/Pál Németh.

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Saturday 21 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Shostakovich, D. Festive march. USSR Defence Ministry Band/Nikolai Nazarov.

LP Melodiya CSD 3782

6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 IN SUMMER Prepared by Stephen Wilson Trad. Summer is i-cumen in (arr. Hazell). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Decca 442 834-1 4 The last rose of summer. Joan Hammond, sop; Ernest Lush, pf.

EMI 166284 2 4 Delius, F. Summer night on the river, from Two pieces for small orchestra (1911). Royal Scottish NO/David Lloyd-Jones.

Naxos 8.557143 6 Thomas, A. A summer night. Lauris Elms, cont; David Miller, pf.

MBS 29 CD 5 Hill, M. Come summer. Philippa Robinson, cl; Josephine Allan, pf.

Innaminka 720 4 9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON CARL VINE Prepared by Brian Drummond Vine, C. Piano concerto (1997). Michael Kieran Harvey, pf; Sydney SO/Edo de Waart.

ABC 456 698-2 23 Love song (1986). Simone de Haan, tb.

Tall Poppies TP013

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Trad. The twelve days of Christmas.

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

Chandos CHAN 8679 4

Bach, J.S. Christmas oratorio. Joan Carden, sop; Patrica Price, mezz; Thomas Edmonds, bass; Sydney Philharmonia Choir; Australian CO/Peter Seymour.

SPC recording 1:45

Warr, J. Novelty: Little Lisa. Fodens Motor Works Band/Rex Mortimer.

LP Polydor 2485 915 4

17:30 CELEBRATE THE RECORDER Prepared by Derek Parker

Pryor, A. The blue bells of Scotland.

Christopher Thomas, tb; Buy As You View Band/Robert Childs.

Doyen DOY 173

Handel, G. Sonata in C, HWV365. Frédéric de Roos, rec; Ricercar Consort.

Ricercar 031007 10 5

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper 13:00 CLASSIC VOICES Prepared by Maureen Meers Bizet, G. C’est toi, c’est moi! from Carmen (1875). Regina Resnik, sop; Mario del Monaco, ten; Ch of Grand Theatre of Geneva; Swiss Romande O/Thomas Schippers.

Belart 450 006-2 9 Berlioz, H. L’Absence, from Les nuits d’été, op 7 no 4 (1841). Leontyne Price, sop; Chicago SO/ Fritz Reiner.

BMG Classics 09026 68152 2 5 Beethoven, L. Gott! welch Dunkel hier! from Fidelio, op 72 (1814). Horst Hoffman, ten; SBS Youth O/Myer Fredman.

Walsingham WAL-8029-2 10

Fasch, J. Recorder concerto in F. Tempesta di Mare; Philadelphia Baroque O. 8 Chandos CHAN 0791 Vivaldi, A. Recorder concerto in C, RV87.

László Kecskeméti, rec; Chamber ensemble.

8 Naxos 8.557215 18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with John Penhallow 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell Christmas contrasts: A look at the variety of ways Christmas has featured - from classics to contemporary 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Sydney Mozart Society presents Selby and Friends Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC

Café concertino (1984). Australia Ensemble.

Tall Poppies TP002 11

Strauss, R. Four last songs (1948). Jessye Norman, sop; Gewandhaus O Leipzig/Kurt Masur.

Philips 411 052-2 25

Array (1996). Watt.

Tall Poppies TP074

14:00 FANTASIA RE-VISITED Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Beethoven, L. Sonata in G minor, op 5 no 2 (1796).

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Bach, J.S. Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV565 (bef. 1708). Albert Schweitzer, org.

LP HMV/WRC 3178 9

Dvorák, A. Trio in E minor, op 90 Dumky (1891). Natsuko Yoshimoto, vn.

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Quartet no 3 (1994). Goldner String Quartet.

ABC 476 5168 16 Sonata I. Sergei Tarasov, pf.

ABC 454 975-2 Love me sweet (1994). Jane Edwards, sop; Marshall McGuire, hp.

ABC 476 910-8

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Percussion concerto (1987). David Hewitt, perc.

Tall Poppies TP013 8

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15:30 SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA IN CONCERT Prepared by Peter Bell

Mozart, W. Sonata no 26 in B flat, K378 (1779).

Natsuko Yoshimoto, vn.

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Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The nutcracker, op 71a (1892). London SO/Richard Williams.

IMP PCD 884 22

Timo-Veikko Valve, vc (2 above)

Stravinsky, I. Adoration of the earth, from The rite of spring (1911-13). Melbourne SO/ Hiroyuki Iwaki.

ABC 434 896-2 15

21:30 EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS Prepared by David Rossell

Kathryn Selby, pf (3 above)

Debussy, C. Pour le piano. Ivo Janssen, pf.

Void 9902 13

Symphony no 5, Percussion. Synergy; Sydney SO/Edo de Waart.

ABC 454 516-2 25

Ponchielli, A. Dance of the hours, from La gioconda (1876). Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan.

EMI CDM 7 69041 2 10

11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher

Mussorgsky, M. Night on Bare Mountain (1867). Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy.

Sony SBK 46 329 12

Dvorák, A. Slavonic dance in D, op 46 no 6 (1878). Czech PO/Charles Mackerras.

5 Supraphon SU 3422-2

Glinka, M. Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla.

Cory Band.

Doyen DOY 239 5

Dukas, P. The sorcerer’s apprentice (1897).

Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit.

Decca 421 527-2 12

22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones

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Schubert, F. Ave Maria, D839 (1825). Barbara Bonney, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf.

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Sunday 22 December 14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Legends Prepared by Angela Bell

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Symphonic suite from Legend of the invisible city of Kitezh (1905).

Moscow SO/Igor Golovchin.

Naxos 8.553513 23

9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Emyr Evans Goossens, E. Three Greek dances, op 44 (1926/27). Melbourne SO/Andrew Davis.

Chandos CHSA 5119 Holst, G. Two dances (1932). Anthony Goldstone; Caroline Clemmow, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9382

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Dvorák, A. Ten legends, op 59 (1881). Duo Crommelynck.

Claves 50-9106 36

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Debussy, C. Khamma, dance legend (1916).

Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 8903 20

Hindemith, P. Suite of French dances (1958).

Philharmonia O/José Serebrier.

ASV DCA 945 9 Howells, H. Three dances (1915). Malcolm Stewart, vn; Royal Liverpool PO/Vernon Handley.

Hyperion CDA66610 14

Wieniawski, H. Légende. Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Joanna Gruenberg, pf.

Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2048 7 Glazunov, A. Karelian legend, op 99 (1912).

Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin.

Naxos 8.553839 22

Stanford, C. Villiers Irish dances, op 89 (1903; arr.

Grainger 1903). Percy Grainger, reproducing pf.

LP Larrikin LRF 034 10

16:00 20TH CENTURY MUSIC FROM HUNGARY Prepared by Frank Morrison

10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Denis Patterson

Seiber, M. Notturno (1944). Sören Hermansson, hn; Umeå Sinfonietta/Edvard Tjivzjel.

BIS CD-376 9

Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:30, Alleluja (c1765). Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 430 082-2 14

Kodály, Z. Dances of Galánta (1933). Chicago SO. Chandos CHAN 8877 17

Soler, A. Fandango in D minor. Jacques Ogg, hpd.

Globe GLO 5060 15 Weber, C.M. Seven variations in B flat on a theme from Silvana, op 33 (1811). Murray Khouri, cl; David Bollard, pf.

LP RCA VRL1 0162 10 Spohr, L. Potpourri, op 22 (1807). Attila Falvay, vn; New Haydn Quartet.

Naxos 8.555968 13 Bach, J. Christian Sonata in C minor, op 17 no 2 (c1779). Alberto Nosè, pf.

Naxos 8.570361 15

Weiner, L. Hungarian folk dance suite, op 18 (1931). Philharmonia O. Chandos CHAN 9029 28 Neeme Järvi, cond (2 above) 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle Advent carols: People, look East; When came in flesh; Adam lay ybounden; Jesus Christ, the apple tree; Long ago, prophets knew; Hark the glad sound; O come, O come, Emmanuel.

Choir of Worcester Cathedral; Raymond Johnston, org; Donald Hunt, cond.

Alpha CDCA 966 17

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Christmas carols: Silent night; Lo, how a rose e’er blooming; O holy night; Quelle est cette odeur agréable. BC Boys Choir, Vancouver/ Donald Forbes, Gerald van Wyck.

BCBC 00194 12

Schubert, F. The shepherd on the rock, D965 (1828). Elena Xanthoudakis, sop; Jason Xanthoudakis, cl; Clemens Leske, pf.

Move MCD 472 12

While shepherds watched; Dans les ombres de la nuit; O come, all ye faithful. Choir of Christchurch Cathedral, Montréal/Patrick Webb.

ATMA ALCD 2 1017 9

Stamitz, C. Clarinet concerto no 11 in E flat.

Kálmán Berkes, cl; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/ Béla Drahos.

Naxos 8.554339 17

The holly and the ivy; Ding-dong merrily on high; Hark, the herald angels sing. Choir of Westminster Abbey; Christopher Herrick, org; Simon Preston, cond.

DG 413 590-2 8

Cimarosa, D. Oboe concerto in C. Lajos Lencsés, ob; Arcata CO/Patrick Strub. hänssler classic 98.467

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME With John Buchanan 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

Bach, J.S. Wachet auf, BWV645. Raymond Johnston, org.

Alpha CDCA 966 5

18:00 WHAT’S ON AT THE CON with Julie Simonds A monthly program of music, news and interviews from the Sydney Conservatorium 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech Bellini, V. Deh! con te li prendi, from Norma (1831). Joan Sutherland, sop; Marilyn Horne, mezz; London SO/Richard Bonynge.

Decca 421 314-2 12 Massenet, J. Je suis seule … Ah! fuyez, douce image, from Manon (1884). Nicolai Gedda, ten; French NRO/Georges Prêtre.

EMI CDC 7 54016 2 4 Leoncavallo, R. Intermezzo, from I pagliacci (1892). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi.

DG 429 494-2 4 Rossini, G. Tanti affetti, from La donna del lago (1819). Montserrat Caballé, sop; Radio France Lyric O/Gian-Franco Masini.

Rodolphe RCP 32455 5 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Elgar, E. Variations on an original theme, op 36, Enigma (1899). London PO/Charles Mackerras.

EMI 3 30661 2 30 Bach, J. Christian Sinfonia concertante in C. Collegium Aureum/Franz-Josef Maier.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 05472 77456 2 20 Mendelssohn, F. String symphony no 9 in C (1823). Gewandhaus O, Leipzig/Kurt Masur. edel 0001372 31 21:00 NEW HORIZIONS Boyd, A. Goldfish through summer rain (1979); Cloudy Mountain (1981). Geoffrey Collins, fl; David Miller, pf.

Tall Poppies TP127 13 Edwards, R. Marimba dances (1982). Michael Askill, mar.

Tall Poppies TP051 10 Sculthorpe, P. Song of Tailitnama (1974/84).

Elizabeth Campbell, mezz; Anthony Fogg, pf.

MBS 19 CD 10 Williamson, M. Hymna Titu (1984). Antony Gray, pf.

ABC 472 902-2 10 Boyd, A. Bali moods I & II (1987-88). Geoffrey Collins, fl.

Tall Poppies TP127 11 Sculthorpe, P. Snow; Moon; Flowers; Night; Stars (1971); Nocturnal (1983). Robert Chamberlain, pf.

Move MD 3031 13 Spiers, C. Elegy (1989). Patricia Pollett, va; Colin Spiers, pf.

Jade JADCD 1044 10 22:30 ULTIMA THULE December 2013

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Monday 23 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Francis Frank Gershwin, G. Overture to Strike up the band (1932; arr. Rose). Howard Shelley, pf; BBC PO/ Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 9325 7 Alyabyev, A. The Russian nightingale (arr.

Richardson). Beverly Hoch, sop; Hong Kong PO/Kenneth Schermerhorn.

IMP PCD 827 6 Handel, G. Organ concerto in B flat, HWV294, mvt 1 (1736; arr. Eduard Grigoryan).

Slava Grigoryan, gui; Leonard Grigoryan, gui; Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey.

ABC 476 3335 6 Lehár, F. Overture to The merry widow (1905; arr. Gamley). Australian Pops O/Douglas Gamley.

WEA 9031-72815-2 8 Anon. Londonderry air (arr. Harty). Ulster O/ Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 6525 5 Ecce gratum et optatum ... Chorea flora, from Carmina Burana (arr. Evans). Renaissance Players/Winsome Evans.

Walsingham WAL 8003-2 8 Gottschalk, L. Grande tarantelle (1858-64; orch. Hershy Kay). Eugene List, pf; Vienna State Opera O/Igor Buketoff.

LP Turnabout TV-S 34449 8 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish Hess, N. A Christmas overture. Royal PO/John Rutter.

Collegium COLCD 133 7 Elgar, E. Cello concerto in E minor, op 85 (1918-19). Jaqueline du Pré, vc; London SO/John Barbirolli.

EMI CDC 7 47329 2 30 Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in G minor, op 6 no 8, Christmas (pub. 1714). Concerto Italiano/ Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Opus 111 OPS 30-156 15 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture and suite from Christmas Eve (1895). Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin.

Naxos 8.553789 26 44

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11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown Fauré, G. Après un rêve, op 7 no 1. Nina Walker, pf.

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Duparc, H. Chanson triste (1868/1902). Adrian Farmer, pf.

4 Shura Gehrman, bass (2 above) Nimbus NI 5396 Hahn, R. I remember (c1918). Susan Bickley, mezz; Graham Johnson, pf.

Hyperion CDA67141/2 4 Milhaud, D. A Cupidon; Deiu vous gard’, from Chansons de Ronsard, op 223 (1941). Rita Streich, sop; Erik Werba, pf.

DG 437 680-2 6

Jesús López-Cobos Dietrich, A. Violin concerto in D minor, op 30 (1874). Hans Maile, vn; Berlin RSO/Jésus LópezCobos.

Schwann 11622 31

Satie, E. Trois mélodies (1916). Frederica von Stade, mezz; Martin Katz, pf.

BMG Classics 09026 62711 2 4

Brahms, J. Trio in E flat, op 40 (1865). Barry Tuckwell, hn; Brenton Langbein, vn; Maureen Jones, pf. ex libris 6059 30

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton

13:00 ANDREW MANZE Violinist and director Prepared by Philip Lidbury

19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling

Pandolfi, G. Sonata, op 3 no 5, La clemente (pub. 1660). Andrew Manze, vn; Richard Egarr, hpd.

Harmonia Mundi 907241 8

20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Frank Morrison

Agrell, J. Flute concerto in D (c1750). Maria Bania, fl; Concerto Copenhagen.

Chandos CHAN 0535 15

Handel, G. Harpsichord suite in E, HWV430 (pub. 1720). John O’Donnell, hpd.

Move MD 3126 13

Mozart, W. Serenade no 6 in D, K239, Serenata notturna (1776). English Concert.

Harmonia Mundi HMX 2907280 14

Casella, A. Pagine di guerra, op 25 (1915).

Sandro Ivo Bartoli, pf; Marcello Guerrini, pf.

ASV DCA 1023 8

Andrew Manze, dir (2 above)

Soler, A. Concerto no 5 in A (c1775). Bernard Brauchli; org; Esteban Elizondo, org.

Titanic Ti-152 11

Bach, J.S. Violin concerto in E, BWV1042 (bef.

1730). Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze, vn & dir.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907155 16 14:00 BRAHMS AND HIS FRIENDS Prepared by Stephen Wilson Joachim, J. Overture: Hamlet, op 4 (1855).

Stuttgart RSO/Meir Minsky.

Naxos 8.554733 17 Schumann, C. Trio in G minor, op 17 (bef.

1846). Oliver Butterworth, vn; Michael Evans, vc; Frank Wibaut, pf.

Hyperion CDA66331 29

Chopin, F. Sonata in B minor, op 58 (1844).

Dinu Lipatti, pf.

Philips 456 892-2 25 Schaffrath, C. Duet in A minor (c1758). Attilio Cremonesi, hpd; Alessandro de Marchi, hpd.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 905235 13 Holland, D. Three piano miniatures (1986-94).

Ray Resnick, pf.

Jade JADCD 1046 9 Shostakovich, D. Trio no 2 in E minor, op 67 (1944). Vienna Piano Trio.

Nimbus NI 5572 28

Tuesday 24 December 14:30 CLASSICAL WINDS Prepared by Philip Lidbury

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Weber, C.M. Clarinet concerto no 1 in F minor, op 73 (1811). Charles Neidich, cl; Orpheus CO. DG 435 875-2 19

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

Attrib. Beethoven, L. Sonata in B flat (c179092). Alain Marion, fl; Pascal Rogé, pf.

Denon 33CO-2046 20

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Heinz Holliger Prepared by Jennifer Foong

Berwald, F. Concert piece (1827). Patrik Håkansson, bn; Gävle SO/Petri Sakari.

Naxos 8.555370

Albinoni, T. Concerto a cinque in G minor, op 9 no 8 (1722). I Musici.

Philips 420 189-2 11 Krommer, F. Concertino in C, op 65 (c1810).

Peter-Lukas Graf, fl; English CO. Claves 9-8203/3111-1 22 Heinz Holliger, ob (2 above) Honegger, A. Excerpt from Antigone (1923).

Heinz Holliger, cora; Ursula Holliger, hp; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Philips 434 105-2 3 Donizetti, G. Sonata in F. Gabriel Bürgin, pf.

Philips 426 288-2 7 Vivaldi, A. Double concerto in G, RV545. Klaus Thunemann, bn; I Musici.

Philips 411 480-2 10 Heinz Holliger, ob (2 above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Strauss, R. Till Eulenspiegel’s merry pranks, op 28 (1895). Cleveland O/Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Decca 425 112-2 14 Medtner, N. Piano concerto no 1 in C minor, op 33 (1918). Geoffrey Tozer, pf; London PO/ Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 9039 33 Sibelius, J. Symphony no 4 in A minor, op 63 (1911). Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer.

ABC 476 3944 35 11:30 ARCHIVAL FINE MUSIC: FLUTE OF TWO CENTURIES TAPE ARCHIVE Marais, M. Old French dances: L’agréable; La provençale; Le basque. James Kortum, fl; Rosemarie Barnes, hp.

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Pascal Roge. Photo - Nick Granito Boehm, T. Variations on Paisiello’s Nel cor più non mi sento, op 4. Christine Draeger, fl; June Tyzack, pf.

11 Fesch, W. de Trio sonata in D, op 7 (1733).

Nouvelles Réflexions.

Fine Music Tape Archive (all above)

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12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

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Hovhaness, A. Symphony no 20, op 223, Three journeys to a holy mountain (1969).

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind O/Keith Brion.

Naxos 8.559207 21

Liszt, F. Holy grail festival march, from Wagner’s Parsifal (1882). Leslie Howard, pf.

Hyperion CDA66571/2

Punto, G. Horn concerto no 10 in F. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

EMI 5 69395 2 16

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

Bortnyansky, D. Sacred concerto no 20 (c1792). Russian State Symphonic Cappella/ Valery Polyansky.

Chandos CHAN 9840 13

Tavener, J. Syvati, O holy one (1995).

Tim Hugh, vc; Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson.

Naxos 8.555256

Spohr, L. Six German songs, op 103 (1838).

Mary Saunders, sop; Peter Cokkinias, cl; Myron Romanul, pf.

Centaur CRC 2016 11

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

13:00 ALL IS SACRED Prepared by Angela Bell Biber, H. Sonata no 1 in B minor, from Fidicinium Sacro-Profanum (pub. 1683).

Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd.

Chandos CHAN 8448/9

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Franck, C. Redemption (1871-72). Paris O/ Daniel Barenboim.

DG 476 2800 14

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Stephen Wilson 22:00 BEYOND THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Frank Morrison Hill, A. Quartet no 10 in E (1935). Sydney String Quartet.

ABC 426 992-2 19 Rodrigo, J. Fantasia for a gentleman (1954).

John Williams, gui; English CO/Charles Groves.

CBS M 2 YK 45610 22 Menotti, G. Cantilena e scherzo (1977). Alfred Lutz, vn; Mischa Salevic, vn; Stephan Blaumer, va; Klaus Kühr, vc; Helga Storck, hp.

Etcetera KTC 1045 11 Hindemith, P. Horn concerto (1949). Dennis Brain, hn; Philharmonia O/Paul Hindemith.

EMI 7 47834 2 15 Bloch, E. Quintet no 2 (1957). Piers Lane, pf; Goldner String Quartet.

Hyperion CDA67638 19 Barber, S. Symphony no 1, op 9 (1935-36).

Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8958 22 December 2013

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Wednesday 25 December Various. I wish you a merry Christmas; Have yourself a very merry Christmas; Mary’s boy child; The Virgin Mary had a baby boy. Melanie Marshall, mezz; Cambridge Festival Singers; Farnham Youth Choir; Royal PO/John Rutter.

Collegium COLCD 133 16

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Oscar Foong Bach, J.S. Magificat anima mea, from Magnificat in E flat, BWV243a (1723).

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Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, from Cantata, BWV63 (1716).

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Collegium Vocale/Philippe Herreweghe (2 above) Harmonia Mundi HMX 2971782 Ryba, J. Gloria; Agnus Dei; Finale from Czech Christmas Mass (1796). Gabriela Eibenová, sop; Magdalena Kožená, mezz; Jaroslav B Archiv 477 8365 11 Bach, J.S. Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, from Christmas oratorio, BWV110 (1725). Collegium Vocale/Philippe Herreweghe.

Harmonia Mundi HMX 2981594 7 Locatelli, P. Pastorale, from Concerto grosso in F minor, op 1 no 8 Christmas. Sirius Ensemble. 5 Trad. In dulci jubilo (arr. Praetorius).

Cantillation/Antony Walker.

ABC 480 148-9 (2 above)

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Seasonal offerings Recorded by Greg Ghavalas 14:00 CHRISTMAS ROUND THE WORLD Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Bach, J.S. Lobet den Herrn, BWV230. Rodolfus Choir; David Goode, org.

BBC Music MM 261 7 Ippolitov-Ivanov, M. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Monks of the Fortress of St Peter & St Paul, St Petersburg.

Unknown Russian label 2 Respighi, O. The adoration of the Magi. BBC Singers; Choir of Kings’ College, Cambridge; BBC Concert O/Stephen Cleobury.

BBC Music MM 236 10

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Trad. The angels and the shepherds. Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney/David Russell. 2

Trad. Joy to the world! Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier.

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Berlioz, H. Shepherd’s choir, from The birth of Christ. Monteverdi Choir; Lyon Opera O/John Eliot Gardiner.

BBC Music MM 287 6

Daquin, L-C. Noël. Yves Roure, carillon.

Harmonia Mundi HMX2978223 (2 above)

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Handel, G. The trumpet shall sound; Hallelujah chorus from Messiah, HWV56 (1742).

Karina Gauvin, sop; Robin Blaze, ct; Rufus Müller, ten; Brett Polegato, bar; Tafelmusik Baroque O & Chamber Choir/Ivars Taurins.

Tafelmusik TMK1016CD2 13 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Beethoven, L. Symphony no 5 in C minor, op 67 (1807-08). Chicago SO/Carlos Kleiber.

Artists FED 013/14 30 Bruch, M. Violin concerto no 1 in G minor, op 26 (1868). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink.

EMI CMS 7 64922 2 24 Wagner, R. Siegfried idyll (1870). San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt.

Decca 436 129-2 20 Britten, B. Hymn to St Cecilia, op 27 (1942).

Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.

ABC 480 7301 10 11:30 MUSIC FOR A HAPPY CHRISTMAS Prepared by Heather Sykes Darke, H. Still, still; Riu, riu, chiu; In the bleak mid-winter. Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir/ Jeffrey Skidmore.

ASV DCA 912 9 46

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale Jazz of many colours, some old, some new and all designed to inform and stimulate the senses

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Gruber, F. Stille Nacht. Vienna Boys’ Choir.

BBC Music MM 128 3 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from The snow maiden. BBC PO/Vassily Sinaisky.

BBC Music MM 248 13 Allegri, G. Miserere. King’s College Choir, Cambridge/David Willcocks.

Decca 430 092-2

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15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower Haydn, J. Symphony in E flat, Hob.I: 22, Philosopher (1764). Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249

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Müller, I. Quartet no 1 in B flat. Friederike Roth, cl; Berolina Ensemble.

Naxos 8.572885 16 Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I: 23 (1764).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 20 16:00 FINE MUSIC HOLIDAY including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Stephen Wilson 18:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle Carols: Sussex carol; O little town of Bethlehem; Christus factus est; O holy night; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; Lulla Lulla; In the bleak

midwinter; Hark the herald angels; O magnum mysterium; Mary’s lullaby; I wonder as I wander; O come all ye faithful. Sara Macliver, sop; Choir of St George’s Cathedral, Perth/Joseph Nolan. 45 Dupré, M. Variations sur un Noël. Joseph Nolan, org.

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19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Derek Parker Lehár, F. Die Lustige Witwe. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Victor Leon and Leo Stein.

English narration by Tom Stoppard. First performed Vienna, 1905.

HANNA GLAWARI: Felicity Lott, sop COUNT DANILO: Thomas Hampson, bar BARON ZETA: Robert Poulton, bar CAMILLE DE ROSILLON: John Aler, ten NARRATOR: Dirk Bograde Glyndbourne Ch; London PO/Franz Welser-Most.

EMI Classics 5 55152 2 2:04 Eager that the vast fortune of Hanna Glawiri should not be lost to Pontevedra, Baron Miko is anxious to marry her to Count Danilo. The pair, however, have a history, Danilo objects to the scheme and in any case it is rumoured she is about to marry the French Comte de Rosillon (who is in fact having an affair with the Baron’s wife). All ends happily, after enormous complications.

Excerpts from Der Graf von Luxembourg.

Erika Koth, sop; Helga Hildebrand, sop; Rudof Schock, ten; Manfred Schmidt, ten; Gustav Neidlinger, bass; Berlin SO & Ch/Frank Fox. Kaiserlich Operette KO 836422 18 22:30 SELDOM HEARD COMPOSITIONS Prepared by Frank Morrison Oswald, J. Sonata on Scots tunes. Richard Gwilt, vn; Ingrid Siefert, vn; Charles Medlam, vc; John Toll, hpd.

Linn CKD 008 9 Starer, R. Songs of youth and age (c1952).

Mary Saunders, sop; Virginia Sindelar, picc; Peter Cokkinias, bass cl.

Centaur CRC 2016 14 Riotte, P. Notturno (c1815). Ernö Sebestyen, vn; Edward Witsenburg, hp.

Schwann CD 310 001 H1 15 Blankenburg, Q. Cantata: L’apologie des femmes (1715). Maarten Koningsberger, bar; Academy of the Begynhof, Amsterdam.

Globe GLO 5055 12 Webbe, S. jr Variations on Adeste fideles (c1820). Salomon Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66780 7 Lekeu, G. Larghetto (1892). Elizabeth Veyrier, vc; Ensemble Musique Oblique.

Harmonia Mundi 1901 455 9 Linek, J. Organ concerto in C (c1770). Alena Veselá, org; Bohuslav Martinu CO/Frantisek Jílek.

Supraphon 11 0633-2 12

Thursday 26 December 13:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE CONCERT HOUR Ottoman miracles By courtesy of Radio Deutsche Welle Prepared by Phil Vendy Falla, M. de Love, the magician (1914-15).

Ohana, M. Book of wonders.

Tüzün, F. Turkish capriccio.

Murat Coskum, frame drum; National Youth O of Germany/Howard Griffiths (3 above) Abou-Khalil, R. Once upon a dervish. Jarrod Cagwin, frame drum; National Youth O, Germany/Frank Strobel.

Bernard Haitink 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Name the composer Be the first to identify the mystery composer and win a CD. All other correct answers go in a draw for a second CD: 9439 4777 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Khachaturian, A. Masquerade (1941). St Petersburg State SO/André Anichanov.

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Lalo, E. Piano concerto in F minor (1889).

Marylene Dosse, pf; Stuttgart PO/Matthias Kuntzsch.

Mediaphon 25407-155 25

14:00 COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE Handel 1714-19 Prepared by Ron Walledge

Neeme Järvi 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Denis Patterson

Handel, G. Chandos anthem no 4: O sing unto the Lord a new song, HWV249 (1717-18). Lynne Dawson, sop; Ian Partridge, ten; The Sixteen Choir & O/Harry Christophers.

Chandos CHAN 0504 15 Avampo. Ferito son d’Amore. David Thomas, bass; Philharmonia Baroque O/Nicholas McGegan.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907016 4 I rage, I melt, I burn ... O ruddier than the cherry, from Acis and Galatea (1718). Owen Brannigan, bass; Philomusica of London/Adrian Boult.

Decca 448 902-2 5 Suite no 1 in F, HWV348 (1715-17/36). Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon.

Naxos 8.557764 29

Chopin, F. Variations on Là ci darem la mano in B flat, op 2 (1827). Claudio Arrau, pf; London PO/Eliahu Inbal.

DG 00289 477 8445 19 Svendsen, J. Symphony no 2 in B flat, op 15 (1874). Bergen PO/Neem Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 10711 32 Schubert, F. Mass no 3 in B flat, D324 (1815).

Immortal Bach Ensemble; Leipzig CO/Morter Schuldt-Jensen.

Naxos 8.572279 24 Szymanowski, K. Symphony no 2 in B flat, op 19 (1909-10/36). BBC SO/Edward Gardner.

Chandos CHSA 5115 33 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Beethoven, L. Sonata on D, op 12 no 1 (179798). Henryk Szeryng, vn; Eugenio Bagnoli, pf. aura AUR 203-2 22

Brahms, J. Symphony no 3 in F, op 90 (1883).

Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink.

Philips 454 532-2 39

15:00 STRINGS & THINGS Prepared by Stephen Wilson

11:30 MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS Prepared by Heather Sykes

Mozart, W. Divertimento in D, K136 (1772).

Australian Youth O string soloists.

Fine Music Tape Archive 12

Fauré, G. Quartet no 12 in G minor, op 45 (188586). Jacqueline Eymar, pf; Günter Kehr, vn; Erich Sichermann, va; Bernhard Brannholz, vc.

Concerto Royale 206255-360 32

Alwyn, W. Sinfonietta for strings (1970).

London SO/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9196

Sor, F. Fantaisie, op 54. Piet Pieters, gui; Micheline Dumortier, gui.

Brilliant Classics 92452

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

Archiv 437 834-2 14 Anderson, L. A Christmas festival (1950). BBC Concert O/Leonard Slatkin.

Naxos 8.559381 9 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

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Nielsen, C. Little suite in A minor for strings, op 1 (1888-89). Royal Swedish CO/Mats Liljefors.

Polar POLCD 404 14

Mozart, W. Divertimento in B flat, K439b no 4 (c1783). Alfred Prinz, cl; Peter Schmidl, cl; Dietmar Zemann, bn.

DG 431 471-2 16

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

Dvorák, A. From cypresses (1887). New Helsinki Quartet. apex 0927-49422

19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey

Debussy, C. Sonata (1915). Wilhelm Schwegler, fl; Fritz Ruf, va; Helga Storck, hp.

Concerto Royale 206223-360 17 December 2013

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Oslo String Quartet

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

11:30 ARCHIVAL FINE MUSIC: GERMAN BAROQUE

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared b y Di Cox Schubert, F. String trio in B flat, D471 (1816).

Members of L’Archibudelli.

Sony SK 53982 16 Mozart, W. Divertimento in D, K136 (1772; arr.

Kain). Guitar Trek.

ABC 432 698-2 12 Berwald, F. Septet in B flat (c1828). Members of Arion Wind Quintet; members of Schein String Quartet; Mikael Björk, db.

Naxos 8.553714 23 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell

Telemann, G. Sonata in D. Belinda Manwaring, vc; Kathryn Lambert, pf.

8 Bach, J.S. Jesu meine Freude, BWV227 (1723).

Sydney Chamber Choir; Winsome Evans, org; Hans-Dieter Michatz, cond.

18 Fine Music Tape Archive (2 above) 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell 13:00 SELECT YOUR CLASSICS with Stephen Schafer New and recent releases from Select AudioVisual Distribution 15:00 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Stephen Schafer Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Suite from The legend of the invisible city of Kitezh and the maiden Fevroniya (1903-05).

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Lehár, F. Overture, from Göttergatte (1904).

Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann.

DG 479 0050 7

Symphonic suite: Scheherazade, op 35 (1888). 46

Danzi, F. Bassoon concerto no 1 in F. Albrecht Holder, bn; New Brandenberg PO/Nicolás Pasquet.

Naxos 8.554273 18

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker

Dvorák, A. Slavonic rhapsody in D, op 45 no 1 (1878). Janácek PO/Dennis Burkh.

Centaur CRC 2121 12 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 6 in F, op 68, Pastoral (1808). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein.

CBS MK 42222 44 48

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St Petersbug PO/Yuri Temirkanov (2 above) Signum SIGCD 320

19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron 20:00 THE AGE OF EMOTION Prepared by Phil Vendy Kuhlau, F. Suite from Elverhøj, op 100 (1828).

Odense SO/Othmar Maga.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9132 33

Nielsen, C. Quartet no 2 in F minor, op 5 (1890/98). Oslo String Quartet.

Naxos 8.553908 34 Gade, N. Symphony no 1 in C minor, op 5 (1840). Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi.

BIS CD-339 32 Sibelius, J. Suite: Karelia, op 11 (1893). Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

RCA RD87765 14 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Rex Burgess Lully, J-B. Overture and suite from Amadis (1684). Collegium Aureum/Reinhard Peters.

LP Harmonia Mundi HM 20322 23 Marais, M. Suite no 1 in C, from Pièces en trio pour les flûtes, violin et les dessus de viole (1692). Nikolaus Harnoncourt, bass viol; Leopold Stastny, fl; Herbert Tachezi, hpd.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 90414 15 Delalande, M. Cantique quatrieme (pub.

1687). The Little Singers of St Francis, Versailles.

Jade JACD 004 12 Hotteterre, J-M. Suite no 1 in D, from First book of pieces for transverse flute, op 2 (pub.

1708). Philippe Alain-Dupré, fl; Philippe Pielo, bass viol; Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard, hpd; Vincent Dumestre, theorbo.

Naxos 8.553707 17 Rameau, J-P. Les amants trahis (c1716). Philippa Hyde, sop; Peter Harvey, bar; London Baroque.

BIS CD-1495 22 Leclair, J-M. Trio in A, op 14. Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage.

Chandos CHAN 0582

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Saturday 28 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Parry, J. Myfanwy (arr. Graham). Phillip McCann, cornet; Simon Lindley, org; Boys of Leeds Parish Church; Sellers Engineering Band/ Roy Newsome.

Chandos CHAN 4521 5

6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell

Edwards, R. Guitar concerto (1995). Karin Schaupp, gui; Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills.

ABC 480 6461 19

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper

Ampt, R. Australian Christmas suite (1988).

Amy Johansen, org; Newington College Chapel Choir/Elizabeth Swain.

Newington College NC 3 16

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

Trad. Maranoa lullaby (arr. Sculthorpe). Jane Sheldon, sop; Anna McDonald, vn; Michelle Kelly, vn; Nicole Forsyth, va; Peter Morrison, vc; David Stanhope, cond.

ABC 476 5102 3 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers

9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON E. J. MOERAN Prepared by Francis Frank

14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music

Moeran, E.J. In the mountain country, symphonic impression (1921).

15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Nicholas Chaplin

Porter, C. Excerpts from Kiss me Kate (1948).

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, voices; members of the new Broadway cast. drg DRG-12988 19

Herrmann, B. Original soundtrack from The Wrong Man (1956). Studio O/Bernard Herrmann.

Soundstage Records SCD 575 27

Excerpts from Silk stockings (1955). Hildegarde Neff, Don Ameche, voices; O/Herbert Greene. drg DRG-19118 13

Shore, H. Original soundtrack from Big (1997).

Studio O/Howard Shore.

Cinemaron CRCD 711 28

Merrill, B. Excerpts from Carnival. Anna Maria Alberghetti, James Mitchell, Pierre Olaf, Jerry Orbach, voices; members of original Broadway cast.

Polydor 837 195-2 18

9:00 EVOCATIONS Fauré, G. Pavane, op 50 (1887). Orpheus CO. DG 449 186-2 6 Clair de lune, op 46 no 2 (1887). Janet Baker, mezz; Gerald Moore, pf.

EMI CDM 5 65009-2 3 Masques et bergamasques, op 112 (1919).

Orpheus CO. DG 449 186-2

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Piano rhapsody in F sharp (1938-43). Margaret Fingerhut, pf.

18 Ulster O/Vernon Handley (2 above) Chandos CHAN 8639 String trio in G. members of Maggini String Quartet.

Naxos 8.554079 21 Lonely waters (c1924). Lydia Mordkovitch, vn; Ulster O/Vernon Handley.

Chandos CHAN 8807 9 Quartet in A minor (1921). Melbourne String Quartet.

Chandos CHAN 8465 22 Cello concerto (1945). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar. Chandos CHAN 8456 29 11:30 ON PARADE Arranged by Peter Graham Prepared by Chris Blower Trad. Shepherd’s song (arr. Graham).

ABC 476 227-0

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Bizet, G. Serenade, from The fair maid of Perth (arr. Graham).

Sounds Australian BD 01

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Phillip McCann, cornet; Sellers Engineering Band/Roy Newsome (2 above) Respighi, O. The pines of the Appian Way (arr. Graham). Sellers Engineering Brass Band.

ABC 481 0116 5 Satie, E. Gymnopédie no 1 (arr. Graham).

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Fauré, G. Berceuse, from Dolly suite (arr.

Graham).

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Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Peter Parkes (2 above) Chandos CHAN 4542

16:30 CLASSICAL WINDS Prepared by Philip Lidbury Weber, C.M. Clarinet concerto no 1 in F minor, op 73 (1811). Charles Neidich, cl; Orpheus CO. DG 435 875-2 19 Attrib. Beethoven, L. Sonata in B flat (c179092). Alain Marion, fl; Pascal Rogé, pf.

Denon 33CO-2046 20 Mozart, W. Divertimento no 14 in B flat, K270 (1777). Randall Wolfgang, ob; Blair Tindall, ob; William Purvis, hn; Stewart Rose, hn; Frank Morelli, bn; Steven Dibner, bn.

DG 431 689-2 13 Schubert, F. The shepherd on the rock, D965 (1828). Pauline Dwyer, sop; Susan Newsome, cl; Susanne Powell, pf.

Fine Music Tape Archive 11 Punto, G. Horn concerto no 10 in F. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

EMI 5 69395 2 16 18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Janie Fitch Edwards, R. Dawn canticle (2004). Calvin Bowman, org.

Melba PD 70001

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Wesley-Smith, M. Excerpts from Boojum!

(1988 ). Akiko Nakajima, sop; David Hamilton, ten; Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir; Michael Askill, perc; David Miller, keyboards; John Grundy, cond.

Vox Australis VAST010-2 7

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Scaramouche Recorded by Roger Doyle for FINE MUSIC Beethoven, L. Sextet in E flat, op 71 (1796; arr.).

17 Hoadley, B. Ostrakon (2013).

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Milhaud, D. Scaramouche: Suite for saxophone, op 165c (1937; arr.).

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Françaix, J. Wind quintet no 1 (1948).

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Janácek, L. Mládi (1924).

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Milhaud, D. Braziliera (1920-21).

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Lisa Osmialowski, fl; Matthew Bubb, ob; David Rowden, cl; Sue Newsome, bass cl; Michael Dixon, hn (all above) 21:30 SHORTER SYMPHONIES Prepared by Rex Burgess Andriessen, H. Fiat domine (1920). Roberta Alexander, sop; Netherlands RCO/David Porcelijn.

NM Classics 92023 3 Symphony no 4. Hague Residency O/Antal Dorati.

Olympia OCD 507 23 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones December 2013

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Sunday 29 December 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Jeannie McInnes

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Eleonore Fuchter

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide

9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE In the Dreamtime Prepared by Elaine Siversen

14:00 THE WINDS OF CHANGE From Classical to Romantic Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Antill, J. Dance to the evening star; A rain dance, from Corroboree (1950). Sydney SO/John Lanchbery.

EMI CDOASD 793060 10

Boccherini, L. Flute concerto in D (1767-68; rev.

Ancillotti). Symphonia Perusina; Mario Ancillotti, fl & dir.

Nuova Era 7026 19

Hill, M. Three aboriginal dances (1950). Larry Sitsky, pf.

Canberra School of Music CSM:40 7

Crusell, B. Quartet no 1 in E flat, op 2 (1803).

Thea King, cl; members of Allegri String Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66077 19

Charlton, R. Dances for the rainbow serpent (1990). Guitar Trek.

ABC 442 508-2 10

Handel, G. Air: The soft complaining flute, from Ode to St Cecilia’s Day, HWV76 (1739). Dorothee Mields, sop; Concerto Polacco/Wolfgang Helbich.

Naxos 8.554752 5

Stanford, C. Villiers Magnificat; Nunc dimittis in C. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond.

9 Hyperion SPCC 2000

Haydn, J. Oboe concerto in C, Hob.VIIg:C1 (c1800). Hans-Werner Wätzig, ob; Berlin RSO/ Heinz Rögner.

Berlin 0012852BC 23

Britten, B. This little babe, from A ceremony of carols, op 28 (1942).

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Schultz, A. Stick dance III (1992). Paul Dean, cl; Michele Walsh, vn; Stephen Emmerson, pf.

Tall Poppies TP171 8 Edwards, R. White cockatoo spirit dance (1998).

Marina Marsden, vn.

Wirripang Wirr 025 5 Nelson, M. Brolga dances. Jill Johnson, mand; Michelle Nelson, gui; Melbourne Mandolin O/ Slava Iourgaev.

Move MCD 410 11 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Di Cox Haydn, M. Divertimento in D (1786).

Consortium Classicum.

Schwann 310 002 H1

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Mozart, W. Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman, K265 (1781-82). Ian Holtham, pf.

Move MD 3246 12 Stamitz, J. Symphony in F, op 4 no 1. Northern CO/Nicholas Ward.

Naxos 8.554447 17 Weber, C.M. Clarinet concertino in E flat, op 26 (1811). Charles Neidich, cl; Orpheus CO. DG 435 875-2 9 Haydn, J. String quartet in C, Hob.III:77, Emperor (1797). Takács Quartet.

Decca 476 2802 Gluck, C. Che farò senza Eurydice? from Orpheus and Eurydice (1762). Frederica von Stade, sop; Utah SO/Joseph Silverstein.

Decca 436 284-2

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Hummel, J. Piano concerto in A minor, op 85 (c1816). Stephen Hough, pf; English CO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8507 30 50

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Schumann, R. Three romances, op 94 (1849).

Albrecht Mayer, ob; Markus Becker, pf.

Decca 478 3564 14 Mozart, W. Papagena! from The magic flute, K620 (1791). Ute Selbig, sop; Olaf Bär, bar; Staatskapelle Dresden/Hans Vonk.

EMI CDC 7 49565 2 8 Hertel, J. Bassoon concerto in A minor. Daniel Smith, bn; English CO/Philip Ledger.

ASV CDQS 6177 17 16:00 20TH CENTURY SELECTIONS Prepared by Frank Morrison Ginastera, A. Suite of Creole dances, op 15 (1946). Alberto Portugheis, pf.

ASV DCA 880 11 Satie, E. Parade (1917). New London O/Ronald Corp.

Hyperion CDA66365 15 Berg, A. Violin concerto, To the memory of an angel (1935). Thomas Zehetmair, vn; Philharmonia O/Heinz Holliger.

Teldec 2292-46449-2

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17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge Carols: O come, all ye faithful; Candlelight carol; O little town of Bethlehem; Hark! The herald angels sing. Choir of Canterbury Cathedral; Michael Harris, org; David Flood, cond.

York 109 17

Petter Sundkvist

Holst, G. In the bleak mid winter.

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Hymn: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

3 Cathedral Singers; Brett McKern, org & cond (3 above) TCS 03 Carols: Veni, veni, Emmanuel; God rest ye merry gentlemen. Ten Tenors/Steven Baker.

Tenology S1011/2212 7 Hymns: Brightest and best; Hail to the Lord’s anointed. Choir of Christ Church, St Laurence, Sydney; Peter Jewkes, org; Neil McEwan, cond.

CCSL 05 9 Dupré, M. Fugue in F sharp minor, op 57. Jeremy Filsell, org.

Heritage HTGCD 219 3 18:00 SYDNEY SOCIETY OF RECORDER PLAYERS Prepared by Robert Small Karkoff, I. Concerto for recorder and wind orchestra (2000). Dan Laurin, rec; Östgöta Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Petter Sundkvist.

BIS CD-1425 20 Boismortier, J. de Sonata in C minor, op 34 no 6 (pub. 1731). Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 421 130-2 8 Telemann, G. Double concerto in E minor.

Clas Pehrsson, rec; Penelope Evison, fl; Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble.

BIS CD-617 13 Handel, G. Sonata in A minor, HWV362.

Genevieve Lacey, rec; Daniel Yeadon, vc; Neal Peres Da Costa, hpd.

ABC 476 5105 11

Sunday 29 December

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech Mascagni, P. Intermezzo, from Cavalleria rusticana (1890). West Australian SO/David Measham.

ABC 442 369-2

13:00 SERENADES ...AND SERENADES Prepared by Denis Patterson

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 3

Tchaikovsky, P. You have written to me, from Eugene Onegin (1879). Dmitri Hvorostovsky, bar; Rotterdam PO/Valery Gergiev.

Philips 454 395-2 5 Bizet, G. La cloche a sonne, from Carmen (1875). Richard Amner, ten; Ambrosian Opera Ch; London SO/Claudio Abbado.

DG 419 636-2 5 Rossini, G. Riedi al soglio, from Zelmira (1822).

Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Teatro la Fenice Ch & O/ Ion Marin.

Decca 436 075-2 7 Puccini, G. Nessun dorma, from Turandot (1920-24; compl. Alfano 1926). Thomas Edmonds, ten; Adelaide SO/James Christiansen.

ABC 438 196-2 3 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Di Cox Rossini, G. Overture to Il signor Bruschino (1813). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Neville Marriner.

Philips 446 196-2

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Dvorák, A. String serenade in E, op 22 (1875/78). Strings of Prague Philharmonia/ Jakub Hrusa.

Supraphon SU 3932-2 29

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Marilyn Schock Albéniz, I. Sevilla; Granada from Suite española (1886; orch. Frühbeck de Burgos). New Philharmonia O/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

Decca 433 905-2 10 Boccherini, L. Introduction and fandango (arr.

Kain). Guitar Trek.

ABC 461 727-2 7 Bruch, M. Kol nidrei, op 47 (1881; arr.

Neumann). Felix Schmidt, vc; Annette Cole, pf.

IMP PCD 891 11 Piazzolla, A. Milonga del angel (arr. Crabb).

James Crabb, accordion; Benjamin Martin, pf; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

Chandos CHAN 10163 7 Sculthorpe, P. Little suite for strings (arr.

Nelson). Melbourne Mandolin O/Slava Iourgaev.

Move MCD 410

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Guitar concerto no 1 in D, op 99 (1939). John Williams, gui; English CO/ Charles Groves.

CBS M 2 YK 45610 21

Gershwin, G. Gershwin in Hollywood (arr.

Robert Russell Bennett). New Zealand SO/ James Judd.

Naxos 8.559107 10

Walton, W. The wise virgins, after J.S. Bach (1940). London PO/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8871 20

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown

Bruch, M. Symphony no 3 in E, op 51. London SO/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9738 35 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Four Australian women composers Prepared by Robert Small Carr-Boyd, A. The Razz suite (2008). Kate Lawson, fl; David Papp, ob; Manu Berkeljon, vn; Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich, vn; Yilin Zhu, va; Patrick Suthers, vc; Sydney SO Fellows 2008.

Wirripang WIRR 029 28 Beath, B. Dreams and visions (1996).

Queensland SO/Mark Summerbell.

Vienna Modern Masters VMM 3039

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France, S. String quartet no 1 (1993). Barbara Gilby, vn; Max Holtzner, vn; Catherine Owen, va; David Pereira, vc.

Tall Poppies TP177 13 Kats-Chernin, E. Piano concerto no 2 (2002).

Ian Munro, pf; Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner.

ABC 476 763-9 18 22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Balakirev, M. Suite in D minor after Chopin (1910). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

LP Melodiya C10 234-5 001 22 Chopin, F. Piano concerto no 1 in E minor, op 11 (1830). Daniel Barenboim, pf; Staatskapelle Berlin/Andris Nelsons.

DG 477 9520 41 Haydn, J. Symphony in E, Hob.I:12 (1763).

Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

Decca 433 661-2

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11:30 CHRISTINE FARON Recorded by George Hilgevoord for FINE MUSIC Haydn, J. Sonata in C, Hob.XVI:10 (bef. 1767). 10 Dussek, J. Sonata in G minor, op 10 (1790s). 17 Christine Faron, fp (2 above) 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Henze, H. Serenade (1949). Howard Penny, vc.

Tall Poppies TP103 9 Rózsa, M. Hungarian serenade, op 25 (1945). Gilad Karni, va; Budapest Concert O/Mariusz Smolij.

Naxos 8.570925 24 Mozart, W. Serenade no 9 in D, K320, Posthorn (1779). Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 452 604-2 45 15:00 PURCELL AND FRIEND Prepared by Angela Bell Purcell, H. Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary: Come, ye sons of Art, away (1694). Felicity Lott, sop; Charles Brett, ct; John Williams, ct; Thomas Allen, bass; Monteverdi Choir & O; Equale Brass Ensemble/John Eliot Gardiner.

Erato 245 123-2 26 Suite from Abdelazer (1695). Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 433 191-2

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Hall, H. Yes, my Aminta, ‘tis too true (1695-96).

Ruth Holton, sop; Simon Birchall, bass; Parley of Instruments Baroque O/Peter Holman.

Hyperion CDA66578 12 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Brett 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling 20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Paul Hopwood Mozart, W. Sonata no 13 in B flat, K333 (178384). Maria João Pires, pf.

DG 427 768-2 29 Brahms, J. Quartet no 1 in G minor, op 25 (1861). Isaac Stern, vn; Jaime Laredo, va; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, pf.

Sony SM3K 64520 40 Haydn, J. Keyboard sonata no 33 in C minor, Hob.XVI:20 (1771). Sviatoslav Richter, pf.

Stradivarius STR 33343 28 Couperin, F. Twenty-first suite, from the Fourth book of harpsichord pieces (pub. 1730).

Alan Cuckston, hpd.

Naxos 8.550461 15 December 2013

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Tuesday 31 December 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: JoAnn Falletta Prepared by Sheila Catzel Griffes, C. Poem (1918). Carol Wincenc, fl; Buffalo PO/JoAnn Falletta.

Naxos 8.559164 10 Rossi, C. de Sinfonia from Il sacrifizio di Abramo (1709; ed. Jackson). Bay Area Women’s PO/JoAnn Falletta, lute & dir.

Newport Classic NCD 60 102 7 Gershwin, G. Three preludes for piano (1925; transcr. Cohn, Falletta).

6 Piazzolla, A. Oblivion (1984; arr. Falletta) 4 Faure, G. Pavane, op 50 (1887; arr. Almeida). 5 Debra Wendells Cross, fl; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, gui (3 above) Virginia Arts Festival VA 901 Kreutzer, J. Grand trio, op 16. Alexa Still, fl; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, gui.

Koch 3-7404-2H1 19 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. The name-day overture, op 115 (1815). Yomiuri-Nippon SO/Hiroshi Wakasugi.

EMI 1 66447 2 8 Dittersdorf, C. Viola concerto in F, op 55. Petr Pribyl, va; South Bohemia Chamber PO/Ondrej Kukal.

Campion RRCD 1342 25 Glazunov, A. Symphony no 2 in F sharp minor, op 16 (1886). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Melodiya SUCD 10-00023 48 11:30 CHAMBER SONATAS Prepared by Paul Hopwood

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12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

13:00 AN ITALIAN FOCUS Prepared by Robert Vale

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Robert Small

Albinoni, T. Oboe concerto in D minor, op 9 no 2 (pub. 1722). Pierre Pierlot, ob; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone.

Erato 2292-45081-2 13

22:00 2013 NEW YEAR’S DAY CONCERT At the Vienna Musikverein Prepared by Robert Small

Cherubini, L. Overture to Médée (1797). San Remo SO/Piero Bellugi.

Naxos 8.557908 8 Vivaldi, A. Concerto in D minor for two violins, RV522 (pub. 1712; arr.). Genevieve Lacey, rec; Daniel Yeadon, vc. Neal Peres Da Costa, hpd.

ABC 476 5105 10 Clementi, M. 12 Monferrinas, op 49 (1821).

Richard Burnett, fp.

Amon Ra SAR 8 23 Donizetti, G. Sonata (1840). Marc Grauwels, fl; Catherine Michel, hp.

Marco Polo 8.220441 5 Paganini, N. Quartet no 1 in A minor, op 4 (1806-16). Anthea Gifford, gui; Mozart String Trio.

Denon CO 77069 22 14:30 A VARIETY OF WINDS Prepared by Philip Lidbury Weber, C.M. Clarinet concerto no 1 in F minor, op 73 (1811). Charles Neidich, cl; Orpheus CO. DG 435 875-2 19 Attrib. Beethoven, L. Sonata in B flat, op 22 (c1790-92). Alain Marion, fl; Pascal Rogé, pf.

Denon 33CO-2046 20

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Strauss, Josef. Theater-Quadrille, op 213. 5 Strauss, J. II From the mountains, waltz for orchestra, op 292.

13 Suppé, F. Overture to The Light Cavalry.

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Strauss, Josef. Sphären-Kläge, op 235.

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Die Spinnerin, polka française, op 192.

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Wagner, R. Vorspiel zum dritten Aufzug, from Lohengrin.

3 Hellmesberger, J. I Between the two of us, polka for salon orchestra.

4 Strauss, Josef. Hesperus-Bahnen, walzer, op 279.

9 Gallopin, polka schnell, op 237.

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Lanner, J. Steyrische Tanze, op 165.

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Strauss, J. II Melodies quadrille on themes by Verdi, op 112.

4 Verdi, G. Ballet music from Act III of Don Carlo.

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Strauss, J. II Wo die Zitronen blühn, op 364. 10

Roussel, A. Two poems of Ronsard, op 26.

Mary Saunders, sop; Virginia Sindelar, fl.

Centaur CRC 2016 9

Strauss, Josef. Piappermaulchen polka, op 245.

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Rossini, G. Sonata à quattro no 3 in C (c1804).

Members of Serenata of London.

ASV DCA 767 11 Dussek, J. Trio sonata in F, op 20 no 3 (1793).

Trio 1790. cpo 999 583-2 13

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Strauss, J. II Der Lustige Krieg.

Telemann, G. Sonata in F minor, TWV41:f1.

Matthew Wilkie, bn; Kees Boersma, db; Neal Peres da Costa, hpd.

Melba MR 301124 11

Rosetti, F. Horn concerto in D minor (c1782).

Michael Thompson, hn; Philharmonia O/ Christopher Warren-Green.

Nimbus NIM 5018 21

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Strauss, J. I Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, op 126.

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Strauss, J. II An der schönen, blauen Donau, op 314.

10 Strauss, J. I Radetzky march, op 228.

Vienna PO/Franz Welser-Möst (all above) Sony 88765440712

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The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the December dates listed Gade, N. 1817-1890 15,16,27 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 18 German, E. 1862-1936 7 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 10,23,30,31 Campra, A. 1660-1744 13 Ginastera, A. 1916-1983 29 Carr-Boyd, A. b1938 14,29 Giordano, U. 1867-1948 8 Casella, A. 1883-1959 23 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 16 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 9,22,31 1895-1968 1,29 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 2,21 Charlton, R. b1955 29 Gnattali, R. 1906-1988 14 Charpentier, M-A. 1635-1704 6 Goedicke, A. 1877-1957 1 Cherubini, L. 1760-1842 31 Goldmark, K. 1830-1915 3 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 Goossens, E. 1893-1962 22 9,12,16,17,18,23,26,30 Gottschalk, L. 1829-1869 23 Cimarosa, D. 1749-1801 8,22 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 17 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 31 Granados, E. 1867-1916 1,14 Copland, A. 1900-1990 10,11 Griffes, C. 1884-1920 31 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 18,23,26 Grondahl, L. 1886-1960 3 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 9,13,19 Couperin, F. 1668-1733 1,30 Bach, H. 1615-1692 2 Cree-Brown, C. b1953 15 Halévy, F. 19 Bach, J. C. 1788-1831 9 Crusell, B. 1775-1838 16,29 Hall, H. c1656-1707 30 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 Cui, C. 1835-1918 4 Handel, G. 1685-1759 2,11,22 7,9,13,15,17,18,21,23,25,26,29 Danzi, F. 1763-1826 27 Bach, J.C.F. 1732-1795 2 Hanson, H. 1896-1981 17 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 2,5,6,8,9,10,1 Darke, H. 1888-1976 25 Hanson, R. 1913-1976 1 2,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,23,25,27 Daugherty, M. b1954 8 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 1,4,8,9,10,11,13, Davidson, R. b1965 15 Bach, W.F. 1710-1784 2 16,18,22,25,29,30 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 Baguer, C. 1768-1808 15 Haydn, M. 1737-1806 15,29 1,8,21,22,26 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 3,30 Henze, H. b1926 30 Delalande, M. 1739-1812 27 Bantock, G. 1868-1946 5 Herrmann, B. 1911-1975 28 Delius, F. 1862-1934 21 Barber, S. 1910-1981 10,24 Hertel, J. 1727-1789 29 Dethier, G. 1875-1958 14 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 6,17 Hess, N. b1953 23 Devienne, F. 1759-1803 1 Bax, A. 1883-1953 12 Hill, A. 1870-1960 24 Dietrich, A. 1829-1908 23 Beath, B. b1932 29 Hill, M. 1889-1986 29 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 1,8,11,12, Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 31 Hindemith, P. 1895-1963 22,24 13,15,18,19,20,21,25,26,27,28,31 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 15,20,24 Hoadley, B. 20th c 28 Doppler, F. 1821-1883 6 Bellini, V. 1801-1835 4,22 Holland, D. 1913-2000 23 Dreyschock, A. 1818-1869 19 Berg, A. 1885-1935 29 Holmboe, V. 1909-1996 3 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 6,21,25 Duarte, J. 1919-2004 5 Holst, G. 1874-1934 14,19,22 Dukas, P. 1865-1935 7,21 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 14 Holzbauer, I. 1711-1783 4,19 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 24,27 Duncan, T. b1924 19 Honegger, A. 1892-1955 14 Duparc, H. 1848-1933 3 Biber, H. 1644-1704 24 Hotteterre, J-M. 1674-1763 4,27 Dussek, J. 1760-1812 30,31 Bird, A. 1856-1923 6 Houghton, P. b1954 14 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 1,2,3,13,15,18 Hovhaness, A. 1911-2000 24 Bishop, H. 1786-1855 2 ,19,21,22,26,27,30 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 9,21,29 Howells, H. 1892-1983 22 Blankenburg, Q. 1654-1739 25 Easton, M. 1954-2004 1 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 1,4,29 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 24 Humperdinck, E. 1854-1921 5 Edwards, R. b1943 22,28 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 Hurst, M. b1925 1 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 5,19,22,23 1,8,11,16,29,30 Erik Tarp, S. 1908-1994 16 Ippolitov-Ivanov, M. 1859Boehm, T. 1794-1881 24 1935 11 Boismortier, J. de 1689-1755 29 Fain, S. 1902-1989 14 Ireland, J. 1879-1962 19 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 1, 7 Borne, F. 1840-1920 17 Farina, C. c1600-c1640 12 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 9,20 Janacek, L. 1854-1928 2,28 Bortnyansky, D. 1751-1825 24 Fasch, J. 1688-1758 20,21 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 2,28 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 5,26,28,31 Jara, V. 1933-1973 17 Boyce, W. 1711-1779 19 Fesch, W. de 1687-1757 24 Boyd, A. b1946 22 Joachim, J. 1831-1907 23 Finzi, G. 1901-1956 17 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 Johnson, R. c1583-1633 4 Fletcher, P. 1879-1932 17 2,6,7,10,13,14,15,17,23,26,30 Jolivet, A. 1905-1974 6 Franìaix, J. 1912-1997 28 Bridge, F. 1879-1941 2 Josquin Desprez. c1440-1521 8 France, S. b1968 29 Britten, B. 1913-1976 13,17,25 Franck, C. 1822-1890 7,24 Kabalevsky, D. 1904-1987 14 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 Frescobaldi, G. 1583-1643 12 Kallstenius, E. 1881-1967 17 8,18,25,29,30 Fry, W. 1813-1864 16 Kammel, A. 1730-1787 15 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 6 Fux, J. 1660-1741 11 Karkoff, I. 20th c 29 Brumby, C. b1933 13 Abe, K. b1937 1 Agrell, J. 1701-1765 23 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 2,20,30 Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 18,24,31 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 15 Allegri, G. 1582-1652 25 Alwyn, W. 1905-1985 15,26 Alyabyev, A. 1787-1851 23 Ampt, R. b1924 28 Anderson, L. 1908-1975 26 Anglebert, J-H. 1635-1691 9 Antheil, G. 1900-1959 8 Antill, J. 1904-1986 29 Archduke Rudolph of Austria.

1788-1831 13 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 15 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 12 Avison, C. 1709-1770 17

Busoni, F. 1866-1924 10,13,20 Butterworth, G. 1885-1916 2 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 2,11,12,16

Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 8,15,29 Khachaturian, A. 1903-1978 26 Kieran Harvey, M. b1961 15 Kodály, Z. 1882-1967 22 Koppel, A. b1947 1 Kreutzer, J. 1778-1832 31 Krommer, F. 1759-1831 24 Kuhlau, F. 1786-1832 3,8,15,27 Kuhnau, J. 1660-1722 20 Lachner, F. 1803-1890 11 Lalande, M-R. de 1657-1726 20 Lalo, E. 1823-1892 26 Langgaard, R. 1893-1962 3 Lanner, J. 1801-1843 31 Larsson, L-E. 1908-1986 6 Leclair, J-M. 1697-1764 27 Lehár, F. 1870-1948 23,27 Leighton, K. b1929 15 Lekeu, G. 1870-1894 25 Lennon, J. 1940-1980 17 Linek, J. 1725-1791 25 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 6,9,24 Lully, J-B. 1632-1687 27 Lumbye, H. 1810-1874 20 Mackenzie, A. 1847-1935 3 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 7,13,15,19 Marais, M. 1656-1728 27 Martinsson, R. b1956 1 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 12,19 Mascagni, P. 1863-1945 8 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 1 Mathias, W. 1934-1992 1 Matteis, N. d c1707 4 Medtner, N. 1880-1951 5,24 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 3,4,13,16,20,22 Menotti, G. 1911-2007 24 Merrill, B. b1921 28 Mertz, J. 1806-1856 14 Messiaen, O. 1908-1992 2 Meurant, C. b1982 7 Milhaud, D. 1892-1974 23,28 Moeran, E.J. 1894-1950 28 Molique, B. 1802-1869 12 Monteverdi, C. 1567-1643 4 Moross, J. 1913-1983 14 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 13 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 1,6,8,9,10,1 2,13,15,17,18,19,21,23,26,27,28,29,30 Müller, I. 1786-1854 25 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 15,21 Myslivecek, J. 1737-1781 19 Nelson, M. 20th c 29 Newman, A. b1941 14 Nicolai, O. 1810-1849 11 Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 3,6,16,26,27 Nin, J. 1879-1949 2 Nørgård, P. 1,16 Oswald, J. 1711-1769 25 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 5,8,15,31

Palestrina, G. da c1525-1594 17 Pandolfi, G. fl 1660-1669 23 Parry, H. 1848-1918 5,13 Pavlova, A. b1952 8 Pergolesi, G. 1710-1736 19 Peterson, John. b1957 15 Piazzolla, A. 1922-1992 6,10,12,30 Pleyel, I. 1757-1831 13 Ponchielli, A. 1834-1886 21 Porter, C. 1891-1964 28 Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 2,7 Pryor, A. 1870-1942 21 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 1,5,13 Punto, G. 1746-1803 24,28 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 13,17,19,30 Pye, D. 20th c 1 Quentin, J-B. 1718-c1750 20 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 3,6,15 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 1,20,27 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 1,5,8 Rebel, J-F. 1666-1747 20 Reger, M. 1873-1916 9,14 Regondi, G. 1822-1872 12 Reicha, A. 1770-1836 16,18 Respighi, O. 1879-1936 10,18,20,25,28 Richter, F. 1709-1789 7 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 1844-1908 3,9,16,19,22,23,25,27 Riotte, P. 1776-1856 25 Rodgers, R. 1902-1979 14 Rodrigo, J. 1901-1999 6,16,24 Roger-Ducasse, J. 1873-1954 14 Roman, J. 1694-1758 11 Rosetti, F. 1746-1792 31 Rossi, C. de fl 1707-10 31 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 9,17,18,20,22,29,31 Roussel, A. 1869-1937 31 Rózsa, M. 1907-1995 30 Ruders, P. b1949 1 Rutter, J. b1945 15 Ryba, J. 1765-1815 25 Saint-Saéns, C. 1835-1921 3,4,6,8 Satie, E. 1866-1925 2,29 Scarlatti, D. 1685-1757 2,17,18 Schaffrath, C. 1709-1763 23 Schein, J. 1586-1630 20 Schmelzer, J. c1620-1680 7 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 5,6,8,11,13, 14,15,17,18,20,21,22,26,27,28 Schulhoff, E. 1894-1942 8 Schultz, A. b1960 14,29 Schumann, C. 1819-1896 23 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 5,10,11,15,16,17,29 Sculthorpe, P. b1929 22,30 Seiber, M. 1905-1960 22 Shore, H. b1946 28

Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 4,14,16,21,23 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 9,12,14,24,27 Smetana, B. 1824-1884 7 Soler, A. 1729-1783 22,23 Sor, F. 1778-1839 14,26 Spiers, C. b1957 22 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 9,12,13,22,24 Stamitz, C. 1745-1801 15,22 Stamitz, J. 1717-1757 19,29 Stanford, C. Villiers 1852-1924 5,15,22,29 Starer, R. b1924 25 Stenhammar, W. 1871-1927 6 Strauss, J. I 1804-1849 31 Strauss, J. II 1825-1899 9,31 Strauss, Josef. 1827-1870 31 Strauss, R. 1864-1949 5,21,24 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 5,6,7,10,21 Suk, J. 1874-1935 2,6 Suppé, F. 1819-1895 31 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 26 Sweelinck, J. 1562-1621 13 Szymanowski, K. 1882-1937 7,26 Taubert, W. 1811-1891 11 Tavener, J. b1944 24 Taverner, J. c1490-1545 9 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 4,5,8,10,13,17,20,21,29 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 1,3,18,20,27,29,31 Thomas, A. 1811-1896 21 Tippett, M. 1905-1998 19 Tomlinson, E. b1927 15 Turina, J. 1882-1949 5,10,19 Vaughan Williams, R. 18721958 5,14,19 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 1,5,13,19,20 Vieuxtemps, H. 1820-1881 5 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 5 Vine, C. b1954 21 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 3,17,18,21,24,31 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 9,11,19,25 Walton, W. 1902-1983 19,29 Webbe, S. jr c1770-1843 25 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 8,22,24,28,29,31 Weiner, L. 1885-1960 22 Weiss, S. 1686-1750 11 Wesley-Smith, M. b1945 13,14,28 Wieniawski, H. 1835-1880 22 Williamson, M. 1931-2003 1,22 Wood, Haydn. 1882-1959 14 Yates, S. b1957 15 Yu, J. b1957 15 Zelenka, J. 1679-1745 12

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

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dbn: double bassoon elec: electronic eng horn: English horn fl: flute fp: fortepiano gui: guitar hn: French horn hp: harp hpd: harpsichord mand: mandolin

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Mr Michael Ahrens, Mr Robert O Albert, Dr David Block, Mr Johann Bosch, Mr J D O Burns, Mrs L Alison Carr, Hon Mr Justice D Davies SC, The Berg Family Foundation, The Holden Family Foundation, Frank Family Foundation, Ms Carolyn Gibbs, Prof Jacqueline Goodnow AC, Miss J E Hamilton, Mrs Freda Hugenberger, Prof Clive Kessler, Ms A M Mackie, Dr Bill McKee, Mrs Judith McKernan, Mrs Greta Moran, Ms Nola Nettheim, Hon Mr Justice B S O’Keefe AM, Mrs Renee Pollack, Dr Peter E Power, Prof Jack Richards, Mrs Joyce Sproat, The Garrett Riggleman Trust, Mr R Walledge, Mr P M Weate, Dr Richard Wingate, Anonymous 4

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Mr Chris Abbott AM, Sydney Conservatorium Association Inc, Mr Anthony Bartley, Dr H Bashir, Prof Peter Bayliss, Mr John Benecke, Mr David Brett, Mr Maximo Buch, Ms Judith Byrnes-Enoch, Mr Lloyd & Mrs Mary Jo Capps, Mr Robert E S Clark, Mr Noel Craven, Mrs Dorothy Curtis, Prof C E Deer, NSW Doctors Orchestra, Mrs M Evers, Ms Frances Farmer, Mrs Flora Fisk, Mr Malcolm France, Mr Heinz Gager, Mrs Alison H Hale, Mr John Hastings, Miss Elizabeth Hawker, Mr Geoffrey Hogbin, Mr Allan Hough, Mrs Freda Hugenberger, Mrs Meila Hutchinson, Mrs Evelyn H Inglis, Mrs Ann Kirby, Mr David Levitan, Mr L Lister, Mr Ian K Lloyd, Mr Diccon Loxton, Mr Philip Maxwell, Dr D S Maynard, Mrs Patricia McAlary, Mr Ian & Mrs Pam McGaw, Mrs Patricia McLagan, Mr J S Milford, Dr Yugan & Dr Abby Mudaliar, Mr John Nowlan, Asst Prof Robert Osborn, Mr Denis Patterson, Mr Michael Peck, Miss Joan Perkins, Dr Brian Quinn, Fed Magistrate K Raphael, Mid Winter Recital Group, Mr Kenneth Reed, Ms Alice Roberts, Mr David Rothery, Dr Janice Russell, Mr Nigel Scott-Miller, Lady (Marie) Shehadie AC CVO, Mr Colin Spencer, Mrs Ruth A Staples, Mrs Mary Stening, Mr Peter & Mrs Margaret Titley, Dr J O Ward, Mrs Beatrice L Watts, Hon Mr Justice A G Whealy, Assoc Prof Gerard Willems AM, Anonymous 15

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Dr Anthony Adams, Mr Brian Adams, Mr Geoffrey Ainsworth, Evans Webb & Associates Pty Ltd, Mr John Bagnall, Mr Graham Barr, Mr M T Beck, Dr Kathrine Becker, Mr Russell Becker, Mr H J Benyon, Mr Max Benyon OAM, Mr Anthony R Berg, Mrs Joan & Mr Ross Berglund, Mr David E W Blackwell, Mr M & Mrs L Blomfield, Dr Nancy Brennan, Mr Geoffrey Briot, Ms Jill Brown, Mr Mark Bryant, Mr Stephen Buck, Prof Elizabeth Burcher, Mr Rex Burgess, Ms Janine Burrus, Mrs E A Burton, Mr G K Burton SC, Mr Philip Butt, Mr Ian Cameron, Mrs Judith Campbell, Mrs L Alison Carr, Ms Chris Casey, Ms Deanne Castronini, Miss Emily Chang, Mr Roger Chapman, Dr Stephen K Chen, Mr Roger Cherry, Mr Peter Chorley, Dr Peter Chubb, Mr Gordon Clarke, Mr K G Coles, Mr Bernard Coles QC, Mr Phillip Cornwell, Mr Robin Cumming, Miss Sheila Darling, Mrs Susan Davey, Hon Mr Justice David Davies SC, Mr Geoffrey De Groen, Mr Lawrence D Deer, Mr Timothy Denes, Mr D J & Mrs C Dignam, Mr Alan Donaldson, Mrs Jennifer Dowling, Mr Peter Downes, Mr Peter Dunn, Mr Emyr Evans, Ms Elizabeth Evatt, Mr John Fairfax, Mr Ian Fenwicke, Mr Hugo D Ferguson, Prof Michael Field AM, Mr David Fisher, Dr Geoffrey Ford, Mr Francis Frank, Dr Sid French, Mr Ross Gittins, Mrs Inez Glanger, Mrs Betty Goh, Prof J Goodnow AC, Mr Ray Grannall, Mr Michael J Guilfoyle, Mrs E W Hamilton, Mrs Emesini Hazelden, Mr Paul Hense, Ms Jill L N Hickson, Dr Peter Hook, Mr Roger Howard-Smith, Mr David E Hunt, Mr Robert Hunt, Mr David Hurwood, Mr John Hyde, Dr C P Ingle, Mrs Virginia Jacques, Ms Ruth Jeremy, Mr Ken Johnstone, Mr Christopher Joscelyne, Mr Michael Joseph, Dr Thomas E Karplus, Dr Keith Keen, Mr Paul L Kelly, Mrs Christine Kelly, Ms Patricia Kennedy, Prof Clive Kessler, Mr Roger Kingcott, Mr R J Lamble Ao, Mr Stewart Lamond, Ms Sophie Landa, Mrs Sarah Lawrence, Mr Gregory Layman, Ms Judy Lee, Ms Annette Lemercier, Ms Karen Loblay, Dr David C Ludowici, Mrs Ruth G MacLeod, Mr Joseph Malouf, Mrs Anita Masselos, Miss Lynne Matarese, Ms Elizabeth McDonald, Mr Phillip McGarn, Mr J T McCarthy, Mr Alain G Middleton, Mr Nick Minogue, Mrs Greta Moran, Ms Bernice Murphy, Mr Hal Myers, Mr Christopher John Nash, Ms Natasha Ng, Mr Mark Nichols, Mr Ken Nielsen, Ms Christina O’Faillbhe, Hon Mr Justice B S O’Keefe AM, Asst Prof Robert Osborn, Prof Earl R Owen AO, Ms Susan Pearson, Mr Michael Pope, Prof R G H Prince, Dr Neil A Radford, Mr Thomas Douglas Randall, Ms Elsina Rasink, Mrs Angela M Raymond, Mr Brian L Regan, Mr Alex & Mrs Pam Reisner, Mr Grahame Reynolds, Mr Bruce Richardson, Mr R E Rowlatt, Mrs Mitzi L Saunders, Mrs Clara Schock, Ms Marilyn Schock, Mr John Sharpe, Mrs Linda Shoostovian, Dr William Thomas Sidwell, Mr John Simpson, Mr Alan Slade, Dr J M Stern, Mr John Stevenson, Mr I R Stubbin, Miss Jozy Sutton, Mr Mark Swan, Ms Catharine Swart, Mr Edmund Sweeney, Baroness Taube-Zakrzewski, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Mr P A & Mrs H F Thomas MBE, Miss Margaret Thompson, Mr Iain M Thompson, Mr Christopher A Thorndike, Dr Robin Torrence, Mrs Margaret Tuckson, Mrs Helen J Tweeddale, Mr Ronald Walledge, Mrs June Walpole, Dr Duff Watkins, Mr Roy Watterson, Ms Ellen M Waugh, Ms C A Webster, Drs Lourdes & Spencer White, Mr Neville Wilkinson, Mrs Elizabeth Wilkinson, Mr Cameron Williams, Ms Jocelyn Woodhouse, Mrs Robin Yabsley, Mr Nicholas Yates, Anonymous 12

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Mr James Allsop, Mr Robert Baume, Mrs Barbara Brady, Sir Ron Brierley, Prof Colin Chesterman, Ms Elizabeth Collins, Prof Roger Covell, Mr Noel Craven, Dr Mark Cross, Mr Brett Ayron Davies, Mr Peter Deakin, Dr Nita Durham, Mr Richard Farago, Ms Frances Farmer, Mr John Gibson, Mrs Anna E Gillespie, Prof Jacqueline Huie, Mr Rod Hyland, Mr Andrew J Kennedy, Mrs Alison King, Mr Ian Lansdown, Mr Warren Lazer, Mr Goldwyn Lowe, Ms Carmel Maguire, Mr Peter McGrath, Mrs E M McKinnon, Dr Andrew Mitterdorfer, Tom Molomby, Mr Michael Morton-Evans OAM, Mr John Niland, Mr G Palmer, Dr Tri Pham, Mr Pino Re, Dr Janice Russell, Dr Gideon Schoombie, Mrs Petrina Slaytor, Mrs J R Strutt, Dr S Morris & Ms M Sullivan, Dr Phillip Taplin, Mrs Judy Timms, Mr D & Mrs C Wall, Mrs C & Mr L Welyczko, Ms Ann Whyte, Mr Richard Wilkins, Hon F L Wright QC, Ms Denise Yim, Anonymous 4

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Mr David W Allen, Mrs Patricia Azarias, Ms Fiona Barbouttis, Dr R & Mrs H Barnard, Mrs Norma Barne, Mr William J Barry, Ms Josephine M Bastian, Ms Sandra Batey, Mr & Mrs J & M Beardow, Mr John Boden, Mr Stephen Booth, Mrs Jan Bowen, Mr David Brett, Mrs Halina Brett, Rev Peter G Carman, Mr Ian Carroll OAM, Rev Jane S Chapman, Ms Joan Childs, Mr John Clayton, Ms Margaret Coventry, Prof & Mrs S J Dain, Mrs Rhonda Dalton, Ms Prudence Davenport, Mrs Amber De Nardi, Ms Julie Dean, Prof C E Deer, Mr Joseph Deschamps, Mrs Elizabeth Donati, Mr Elwyn Dyer, Mrs Margaret Epps, Mr Paul Evans, Ms Helen Eyles, Mr William G Fleming, Ms Helen Fleming, Mr Stephen Fortescue, Ms Eleonore Fuchter, Mr Paulo Gama, Mrs M A Grant, Mr David Green, Mr R N Greenwell, Dr A H Hardy, Ms Margaret Hext, Mr Peter Hillery, Dr G & Mrs A Holder, Mrs Diana R Hooper, Mr Paul Hopwood, Dr David Jeremy, Mr Mustafa Kandan, Ms Cynthia Kaye, Dr Elvira Kefford, Mr Gerhard Koller, Mr David Levitan, Ms Valerie Lhuede, Mr R T Lowson, Mrs Meryll Macarthur, Mrs Christina Marks, Dr Jim Masselos, Dr Bernard Maybloom, Mrs Patricia McAlary, Mr T M McDougall, Dr R McGuinness, Mr Kevin McVicker, Mr J S Milford, Ms Judith Miller, Mr Andrew Nelson, Mr John Nowlan, Mr Pieter Oomens, Mr Julius Opit, Mr G C Osborne, Dr Gordon H Packham, Mr Michael Paul, Mr Bert Percy, Ms Barbara Peretz, Ms Anne Pickles, Mrs Mavis Pirola, Mr Roger Porter, Mr James Poulos QC, Mr Kenneth Reed, Dr John G Richards, Mr A & Mrs E Roth, Mr Gabriel Roy, Mr Harvey Sanders, Dr M J Sargent, Mr D J Schluter, Ms Rosalind Searle, Dr Vivian Shanker, Dr Michael Shellshear, Mr R A Stark, Mr Douglas G Thompson, Ms Kathryn Tiffen, Mrs Janine M Tindall, Mrs Ilda Wade, Assoc Prof Gerard Willems AM, Mr J Gerald Wilson, Mrs Dorothy Wood, Mrs Helen Xiao, Prof Klaus A Ziegert, Mr Peter Zipkis, Anonymous 2 December 2013

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The Crossword 72-76 Chandos Street St Leonards NSW 2065 MUSICAL TRIVIA with Michael Morton-Evans How well do you know the world of classical music? Test your knowledge with these musical brain teasers from Fine Music 102.5 presenter, Michael Morton-Evans.

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Who wrote the opera The Snow Maiden?

For how many cellos was Villa-Lobos’s 1st Bachianas brasilieras written? Was it 4, 5 or 8?

What is the popular nickname of Giuseppe Tartini’s Violin Sonata in G minor?

Was the metronome invented in the 18th century, the 19th century or the 20th century?

By what English name is the suite for small orchestra Gli Uccelli generally known and who wrote it?

Which famous English poet wrote the libretto to Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress?

In what years was the NSW State Conservatorium of Music founded? Was it 1915, 1923 or 1931?

The longest opera ever written was called The Heretics. It ran for 8-hours and consisted of 2850 pages of musical score. Who wrote it?

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Down 2 Intense dislike of platform without parking (5) 3 Without old current era direction, big Australian city is just perfect (5) 4 Arranged postage for very nasty secret police (7) 5 Salad veg. plunder might be traced to fabulous Russian horseman (7) 6 Radiant English essayist (born 1775) followed medical specialty area too, it seems (7) 7 Out of character, I poach tail of a small, thin, sausage (9) 8 Crush together short phone number, add a couple of bearings, then survive comfortably. (9) 14 Again top up the staff, please; the helpers in the office are laughable. (9) 15 In a funny way I resented being asked to pound the meat (9) 18 Crazy, perhaps. Three-to-one at that place! (7) 19 World body glad; how could it possibly be distressed? (7) 20 Water like beginnings - a quick unit escapes offshore until sunk (7) 23 Weapon rates doubtfully with law breakers (5) 24 To God after six! Popular entertainment! (5)

Crossword Solution -NOVEMBER 2013

Across: 8 Gran, 9 Unmannerly, 10 Defray, 11 Glycerol, 12 Epic, 13 Ironmonger, 17 Apse, 18 Gamin, 19 Hack, 20 Friendship, 22 Mail, 23 Doorjamb, 27 Lapdog, 28 Misconduct, 29 Giro.

Down: 1 Order paper, 2 Entr’acte, 3 Jury-rigged, 4 Smog, 5 Inky, 6 Demean, 7 Also, 14 Oomph, 15 Manipulate, 16 Escritoire, 19 Home page, 21 Enrich, 24 Omit, 25 A-one, 26 Bout.

1. Rimsky-Korsakov, 2. 8, 3. The Devil’s Trill, 4. 19th century in 1815, 5. The Birds by Ottorino Respighi, 6. W.H.Auden, 7. 1915, 8. Gabriel von Wayditch, a HungarianAmerican composer who died in 1969.

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