Fine Music Magazine May 2014

May 2014

MAGAZINE

(RE)CREATING A MASTERPIECE

Sydney Symphony and Elijah -

IN THE TITLE ROLE

Cover artist - British bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams

DAME KIRI TE KANAWA AT 70 Gisborne girl who conquered the world

WOOING FANS TO OPERA

The chart-topping Sol3 Mio

THE WELL TEMPERED CLAVIER

J S Bach & Albert Landa

ELIJAH Celestial Voices

Mendelssohn’s great choral masterpiece under the direction of internationally acclaimed Paul McCreesh. A recreation of the 1846 première brought alive for the 21st century. Heavenly!

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CONTENTS VOL 41 No 5

2 COVER STORY Robert Clark previews the Sydney Symphony Orchestra‘s Elijah concert 4 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at 70 Registered Offices & Studios: 72-76 Chandos Street, St Leonards 2065 Tel: 02 9439 4777 Fax: 02 9439 4064 Email: admin@finemusicfm.com Web: finemusicfm.com Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: finemusicfm Frequency: 102.5 Transmitter: Governor Philip Tower, Circular Quay.

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Cover image: British bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams, Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Elijah - see page 2. Photo credit - Paul Foster-Williams

7 Sol3 Mio 9 The Forgotten Composers 10 Flashback with Derek Parker 11 J S Bach and the Well Tempered Clavier 13 What’s On 16 CD Reviews 18 Swinging On The Vine 55 Fine Music Friends 56 Crossword and Trivia Quiz

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(RE)CREATING A MASTERPIECE me via email, though, it was taken for granted that the event would be on the big side: “I can’t help feeling that Elijah was composed with the expectation of the sort of sumptuous performances that Mendelssohn had got used to in England - especially in Birmingham - where large choirs and orchestras were very much the norm.”

did not just create “Mendelssohn a spectacle for the sake of it.

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And yet it was typical of Mendelssohn’s nature that he did not just create a spectacle for the sake of it. To him, capturing the power and meaning of the biblical story of Elijah was paramount. A survey of the letters exchanged between the composer and his life-long friend the Reverend Julius Schubring, who was engaged to assist him in finalising the libretto, reveals the painstaking lengths to which the composer went to set the text as poignantly as possible. Here is a good example:

Paul McCreesh. Photo - Ben Wright

It’s a familiar argument, that ours is an “age of excess.” In fact, in the past couple of decades, some scholars have begun redefining our postmodern era as “neo-baroque”: a time where the seventeenth-century obsession with open forms, labyrinthine detail and lavish spectacle has resurfaced. In today’s culture this doesn’t seem too hard to find: on any visit to the cinema you’ll easily come across a 3D audio-visual extravaganza to lose yourself in; if you attend the Sydney Biennale you’ll be invited (often required) to “wander through” art instead of staring at it from behind a stripe on the floor; and Opera Australia’s audiences are certain to be dazzled by the scale and scope of its harbourside production of Madama Butterfly.

This isn’t to suggest that the “grand spectacle” is a phenomenon confined to our own period and the years between 1580 and 1750. Central to the notion of “neo-baroquism” is that the baroque is a style that has emerged over and over again since the Greeks staged their tragedies in the amphitheatre. And peppered throughout history 2

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there have been artists who have straddled the epic and the intimate; extraordinary individuals who have both revelled in grandeur and wrangled the elements to produce art of powerful clarity and immediacy. Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah is arguably one such work. The English conductor Paul McCreesh is another who, time and time again, has drilled beneath the surface of largescale productions to reveal their most essential components and amplify them with searing lucidity.

fitting spectacle for “ ..aour ‘excessive age’

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Paul McCreesh leads the Sydney Symphony, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, the Conservatorium High School Choir and Soloists for a restaging of Mendelssohn’s epic, Elijah.

We are lucky to have both artists featured at the Sydney Opera House in May; the former will be represented by his music, of course, and the latter will helm a large contingent of musicians from the Sydney Symphony, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the Sydney Conservatorium High School Choir for what promises to be a grand event indeed.

Mendelssohn’s Elijah is a fitting spectacle for our “excessive age,” however you wish to define it. Its 1846 premiere at the Birmingham Musical Festival, conducted by the composer himself, featured an orchestra of 125 musicians and a choir of 271 voices. As McCreesh described to

“With a subject like ‘Elijah’ it appears to me that the dramatic element should predominate, as it should in all Old Testament subjects, Moses, perhaps, excepted. The personages should act and speak as if they were living beings for Heaven’s sake let them not be a musical picture, but a real world, such as you find in every chapter of the Old Testament; and the contemplative and pathetic element, which you desire, ought to be entirely conveyed to our understanding by the words and the mood of the acting personages...”

Adding to this desire for “authenticity” was the young prodigy’s admiration for the likes of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart. His oratorio was never going to escape into the dubious realm of melodrama or wallow in pathos. It would remain indebted to the masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in its structure, harmonic language and choral techniques.

Indebted, but certainly not slavishly adhered to. Mendelssohn applied his own erudite - and distinctively nineteenth-century methodology to the oratorio form. For example, he achieved unity throughout the work via recurring motifs based on the interval of a tritone, and combined through-composed forms with more traditional fugues, canons and recitative. Furthermore, as McCreesh points out, Mendelssohn’s fondness for the style of his musical forefathers was always

balanced with an affinity for contemporary thought: “I think Elijah is one of the most quintessential nineteenth-century pieces in the repertoire,” he says. “Indeed, I think it owes much of its colour to religion and philosophy of the 1840s. Ironically, for a German composer, it chimes particularly well with English nineteenth-century religious thought - which no doubt explains its vast popularity in the English-speaking world at that time.” McCreesh is careful to point out that, of course, there is clear evidence of a “Bachian sound-world with fugues and pseudo-chorales, but its emotional flavour is very much of the nineteenth century.”

lead this performance with such an acclaimed orchestra and in such a world-famous hall” he says. “I’m also looking forward very much to the challenge of working with the combined choirs, including many young people and fine soloists.”

And so every performance of Elijah must take into consideration its complex temporal make-up. It was composed in the early-to-mid nineteenth century with instruments of that era, it contains both intrinsic and extrinsic references to pre-romantic styles, and we inevitably approach it with twenty-first century ears.

work ethic: ever “McCreesh’s inquisitive - never still.

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McCreesh could be considered the perfect choice to stage such a work. Since establishing The Gabrieli Consort and Players in 1982, he has gained a reputation for an almost fanatical attention to detail when it comes to contextualising musical performances.

This approach has yielded many fruits for McCreesh and the ensemble, with worldwide performances and numerous accolades for their recordings, including a Grammy nomination and a Gramophone Award for “Venetian Vespers,” the Consort’s first album with Deutsche Grammophon, and another Gramophone Award just last year for their album “New Venetian Coronation” - a secondtime-around recording for McCreesh based on new research into the coronation of Doge Marino Grimani in 1595. This recording is a good example of McCreesh’s work ethic: ever inquisitive and never still.

Deborah Humble

Andrew Foster-Williams. Photo - Paul Foster-Williams

The coronation of Doge Grimani was a lavish affair, and recreated on an equally extravagant scale in this recording (released under McCreesh’s own label Winged Lion).

The reinterpretation and restaging of grand works has in fact become somewhat of a specialisation for the British conductor, who garnered much attention for his productions of such epics as Britten’s War Requiem, Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts and Haydn’s Creation.

And then there’s his BBC Proms performance of Elijah, which was subject to typically rigorous research that encompassed a study of the original instruments used in the Birmingham premiere. This resulted in the reappearance of some erstwhile neglected instruments such as the serpent, ophicleide and the extra-special contrabass ophicleide.

McCreesh tells me the Sydney Symphony will have “at least one” ophicleide for the May performance, but his focus will be more on the style in which the musicians perform the work.

“I will certainly be working with the orchestra to ensure we recreate something of a period style, even with the luxury of modern instruments,” he says. As he told the Financial Times in September last year, “if you are going to do historical performance, you have to do some homework.….I need time and I’m shameless about that.” So the Sydney Symphony can expect some McCreesh-styled fanaticism when he arrives in May, but clearly he is confident they are up to the task. “I’m hugely excited to

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Tremendous talent, in large “numbers, takes to the stage…

Those fine soloists include the home-grown talents of soprano Nicole Car - who recently shared first prize in the international Neue Stimmen competition in Germany and will be fresh from her well-received portrayal of Tatyana in Opera Australia’s Eugene Onegin - and mezzosoprano Deborah Humble, who is now based in Hamburg and has gained notoriety for her Wagnerian roles over there and in Melbourne for Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle. Scottishborn tenor Thomas Walker will have recently finished performing Handel’s Solomon with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, of which, incidentally, McCreesh is the current principal conductor and artistic advisor. And finally, British bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams will perform the allimportant role of Elijah.

There is no doubt there will be tremendous talent, and in large numbers, taking the stage for the performances of Elijah this month. Due to the grand scale of the work’s conception, and perhaps due to our own modern-day thirst for all things “excessive,” it will be big, bold, and spectacular. But as McCreesh reminds us, the size of the work is only, ironically, a small part of the music’s appeal. “I think it is true that for some people Elijah is more admired than loved,” he says, “and I’d like to change that perception. As, in the right hands, and with careful attention to drama and pacing, it can be a great masterpiece.” - Robert Clark

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Elijah: Celestial Voices Sydney Opera House Wednesday 14, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 May 8pm Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Sydney Conservatorium High School Choirs www.sydneysymphony.com May 2014

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THE LITTLE GISBORNE GIRL WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD

In a 40 year career dominated by a “never miss an opportunity” watchword, her years belie today’s still glamorous, elegant, stunningly beautiful Kiri Te Kanawa. A household name throughout the music world, the little girl from a tiny corner of New Zealand conquered the world’s leading opera and concert stages, rising to become a Dame Commander of the British Empire and the recipient of honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities.

A concert she gave in Auckland attracted a record-breaking 140,000 fans and she sang the first song of the new millennium in Gisborne to a global audience of some one billion people in over 80 countries.

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“ I wanted to be Beverly Sills

enthusiasm “ ..aspiration, and discipline are no substitute for talent.

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Unless you are sufficiently worldly to have studied the language of New Zealand’s Maoris, you could be excused for not knowing that Kiri in some of its dialects is the word for the sound of a bell. Three score and ten years ago when Gisborne (New Zealand) residents, Tom and Nell Te Kanawa adopted the birth child of a native Maori man and a European woman and named her Kiri, little did they know that even at an early age her clear (as a bell) singing would conquer the world with what has authoritatively been described as “a stunning and lyrical voice for the ages”.

She wistfully muses that “at the age of 15, while other girls dreamed of being rock stars.

I wanted to be Beverly Sills. Alas I wasn’t even, I’m afraid, a particularly gifted amateur.

“Even so, it was a very good thing for me since I learned what kids today seem not to be taught: that aspiration and enthusiasm and even discipline are no substitute for talent.

“Over and over I saw others more gifted than I win the competitions, important roles in performances and the big solos.

“I can’t think of any better training for life than successive demanding and disappointing auditions with judges generally more tactful but no less ruthless than say, the infamous Simon Cowell”, she maintains.

Were this the story of a conventional diva’s early years, training with the world’s leading voice teachers and musicians of note, it would hardly be surprising. Te Kanawa began her remarkable rise in the most ordinary of venues, singing at a local school. Before that even, her earliest performances were on a little stage jerry-rigged in the Te Kanawa’s house, complete with a curtain.

“The curtain would draw back,” she recalled, “and I’d get up and sing.” Without a television in the home, music and singing quickly became the primary entertainment. But although her mother played piano, from early on, Kiri eschewed command performances. “I was rather sort of miffy about it even then. I’d only sing when I felt like it,” she remembers.

From there, she went on to perform at weddings and funerals. The money she earned helped pay for basic necessities like clothes as well as for singing lessons. Yet where the young Kiri had a breezy indifference to her own voice, her mother heard something magical: the raw beauty and talent of her melodious tones.

She told her daughter one morning that she had seen a wondrous vision of Kiri singing at London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

Soon, for Kiri’s mother, transforming that vision into a reality became her life’s dream. But the journey from that languid, peaceful New Zealand coastal town to top billing in London and New York and then super-stardom literally around the globe was a long and arduous one.

By 1956, wanting to do whatever they could for their daughter’s talent, the devoted Te Kanawas had packed up for Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, to enable Kiri to study

Not that the journey from that somewhat small self-effacing fishing town, best known to historians for having been Captain Cook’s first landfall in 1769, to top billing in the world’s capitals was anything but a long and arduous one. Descibing her early years with genuine emotion, Te Kanawa told Fine Music Magazine it would take “years and years” to detail how much her parents gave up for her, adding “the reason that I’m here today is because of their sacrifice.

“Without their recognition that I had something to offer and their unfailing support and sacrifices, none of the successes would ever have happened.

My two singing teachers – Dame Sister Mary Leo and Vera Roszca – trained my voice into its right place Then in my early twenties, Richard Bonynge and Dame Joan Sutherland indicated the music pathway they thought my singing could follow and they were right.

“Without those six people I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

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Dame Kiri as La Duchesse de Crackentorp 2014 © ROH / Catherine Ashmore

with a former opera singer turned nun, Sister Mary Leo. And so, by dint of determination and a blinkered ambition to the lower rungs of a music career, to competitions, music show choruses and ultimately her first opera in London and serious studies at the London Opera Centre.

Milestone after milestone flew by, the first of many being her finding former Vienna opera star Vera Rozsa, who became her singing coach. Under Rozsa’s systematic schooling, the eager young Kiwi import wrestled with the arts of interpretation and stage acting and the technical aspects of operatic singing.

By 1970, fulfilling her mother’s dream, the young wide-eyed Gisborne girl made her debut at Covent Garden, singing the role of Xenia in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. The performance that began her stratospheric rise a year later however was as the Countess in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.

From there, no one would question that, not only did she penetrate that (operatic) stratosphere but has reigned supreme within it for over 40 years.

While Opera has always been her main focus over those years, there surfaces an admission of a love affair with orchestra. The list of conductors with whom she has worked constitutes a veritable “Who’s Who” within the cosmos of maestros.

“I love orchestras”, she told Fine Music Magazine, “especially symphonic works”.

Mozart’s flute and French horn concertos are her first choices, were she ever asked to select her favourite desert island discs.

“For the desert island experience, I would have to take a collection of the best recordings of my favourite orchestra - the Vienna Philharmonic”, she admitted.

Australian audiences have “always been very supportive..

Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide, and last stop Sydney - on 20 May. Her take on Australian audiences is a broad brush overview, saying that while audiences are very similar wherever she has performed – enthusiastic, friendly and appreciative, she is aware that many of her most enthusiastic fans live here.

“I’m reliably informed that since 1965 I have given 53 concerts in various parts of the country. In addition to the state capitals, I’ve enjoyed taking my music to many regional places.

“Australian audiences have always been very supportive and I’m really looking forward to the five recitals in May.” This from the diva who made her mark singing the roles of royalty in elaborate costumes on the most prestigious and ornate opera stages of the world. While today in her London house they are mere memories (proud ones, at that) she still covets her tomboy years - fishing, hiking, boating, golf in her beloved New Zealand which she also still calls home. An invitation by former Formula One racing driver, Sir Jackie Stewart to shoot at one of his Pro Am Clay Pigeon contests has targeted yet another outdoor interest for her… in London.

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Among the myriad music greats, with whom she has delighted and bedazzled audiences throughout the world, she found a few standouts, such as Sir Georg Solti. “I came to admire his musicianship so much that I felt he could do no wrong”, she stated. Others include Pavarotti -“a giant of a man with a voice no man on earth could match” and Joan Sutherland - “a voice whose like we will not hear again”. Mid musing, she took a moment to reflect on her numerous concerts throughout Australia.

goes beyond “..the Foundation mere funding

Now retired from the operatic stage, she has gradually reduced her engagements but continues to perform in concert. Australia awaits her 70th birthday Gala Tour of

Having sung her last top C on the operatic stage and reduced her concert schedule, a current passion is the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation which she founded in 2004 to help support promising

young New Zealanders with musical talent. Its aim is to open doors for them, something she lacked early in her own career.

Said a reflective Dame Kiri: “I knew my own singing career wouldn’t last forever, and it dawned on me that if I just faded away, then all my experience from the previous decades would fade away with me.

“I decided it would make sense to be available to young singers coming on, to acquaint them with some of the realities they might not otherwise know. I wanted to encourage them, but I also wanted them to recognise some of the difficulties ahead, and to make sure of things like knowing how to preserve their voices.

“Over the past decade the Foundation has helped a number of very talented singers to attend international music schools such as the Cardiff International Academy of Voice, the Guildhall, London Opera Studio and the Manhattan School .”

It goes far, far beyond mere funding. During each year, Dame Kiri takes time out from her international concert schedule to mentor and coach small groups of young singers studying in the United Kingdom. This usually takes the form of a two-day workshop joined by some of her professional colleagues who share their knowledge and experience. She says feedback from the selected singers is inspiring.

Their futures, together with the myriad CDs bearing her name will undeniably comprise her ultimate bequest to the world.

- Henry Mendelson May 2014

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Behind every success story

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Fall in love with their songs Take the journey

THE DEBUT ALBUM F E AT U R I N G ’O SOLE MIO

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M Y WAY

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WE ARE SAMOA

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OUT 25 APRIL

TAKING OPERA TO THE MASSES Samoan-Kiwi tenor brothers Pene and Amitai Pati and their baritone cousin Moses Mackay, have been wowing audiences across the Tasman with their chart topping self-titled debut album Sol3 Mio, which launches in Australia this month.

To opera buffs a CD that includes The Pearl Fisher’s duet and Nessun Dorma alongside tracks like My Way and The Rose, may be a travesty, but for their power to draw new audiences, and passion to do so, you’ve got to give it to these three emerging artists.

And, their credentials are impeccable. Pene is an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera and an alumnus of their Merola program. He won the Bonynge-Sutherland Bel Canto award in 2012 and the Sydney Eisteddfod’s aria award in 2011. Amitai took the Lexus Song Quest title in 2012 and Moses the Dame Malvina emerging artist award the same year.

Their concerts, in contrast to their classical training, are unbridled entertainment – soaring vocals, a mix of genres and a dose of comedy.

And, with this fun-loving format, they have won over the masses – their recently concluded concert tour of New Zealand was extended to 16 dates after the first 13 sold out.

The Sol3 Mio story is unconventional to say the least with a cart-before-the horse twist.

It happened like this - in 2012 Pene, brother Amati and cousin Moses all had the opportunity to study at the Wales International Academy of Voice, with world renowned tenor Dennis O’Neill (Pene had already studied there for one year). Opportunity was there, but not the six figure sum it would take to pay for tuition and living expenses. So they began fundraising by performing in local halls and quickly drew a following. Exposure on national television saw them capture the hearts of even more fans and a contract with Universal Music followed with their debut CD recorded in the UK and published on the Decca label - the classics label of choice for the likes of Bryn Terfel and Katherine Jenkins.

The CD sky rocketed to the top of the charts in New Zealand after being released there last year, and remarkably, out sold popular New Zealand rocker, Lorde. And at time of writing, they remain at the top.

Now the trio is set to release the album in Australia and look to spread the word beyond the home shores. The recording comes with blessings from the likes of Dame Malvina Major - “A phenomenal sound” and Dennis O’Neill

Pene Pati – winning Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Aria Award 2011

- “The quality hit me like a sledgehammer.

Exceptional talent. “ Unlike many artists whose ultimate dream is recording fame - that is not the end game for these three.

Ahead of their Australian visit, I speak with Pene from New Zealand. “Hey man, yo, what’s up?” The conversation begins with a belly laugh - this tenor’s belly laugh is something special.

The first question has to be where are the careers heading, the cross-over dark side? The “popera” path?

“When we first started Sol3 Mio I said our primary objective is to be opera singers to be on the opera stage. And that is exactly what I’m doing when I’m not singing in Sol3 Mio, I’m singing in an opera house at the moment I’m covering for La Traviata and La Boheme over in San Francisco so the opera dream is still moving alongside the concert classical cross-over. “ His Adler Fellowship with the San Francisco Opera sees Pene as under-study for lead roles and performing the dress rehearsal which he says is “..a huge thing - to be on stage in one of the top houses in the States is an amazing feeling.

“My brother is singing in Italy this year and Moses has some plans for Germany but the main objective for the three of us is that opera is still our primary goal and in a funny ironic sense Sol3 Mio is our amazing fallback” (belly laugh).

The three vocalists also recorded most of the music on the Sol3 Mio album, and they chose the music to include. “They pretty much all played a part in our memories, ‘ O Sole Mio

is the first song we sang together as a group, The Rose is my mum’s favourite song, and so there was a kind of a story line for us. “ The selections of Nissan Dorma and the Pearl Fishers duet, were chosen to bring in some very core classical music and to try to bridge a gap so that more people become more familiar with opera music and start loving it.

“Our biggest fear was that we were going to be classed as being solely “popera” and that’s exactly why with the album we chose to keep some core classicals in there so that we can prove to people that we are indeed opera singers.”

Although they have the opera ambition in common, the three of them are quite different in personality - except when it comes to their shared love of a laugh. Pene describes them like this “My cousin Moses - he’s the kind of soave ladies’ man” with, he adds for the benefit of Ben Stiller/Zoolander fans, “the Blue Steel look”. Amitai is the silent guy, the dark horse as we call him. He talks a little bit in concerts but mostly just stands and smiles. I’m the happy go lucky one in the group but I can be serious.. but mostly jolly and I crack a lot jokes.”

Will fame and fortune spoil them? Seems not, if this little yarn is anything to go by - take it away Pene - “It was quite funny, they [the concert promoters] asked us what we wanted as a contract rider at the concerts. ‘Do you want different coloured M&Ms?’ ‘ Actually could we get a steamer?’ ‘Why?’ ‘So we can iron our clothes back stage.’

‘Oh we can get that done for you.’ ‘ I was like no we can do it ourselves!’ - Lizzie Herbert May 2014

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FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS

PALMER KENT the worst, “..fearing he commences to

dance the Charleston

Early in 1927 finds Palmer trudging inland at Epi, an island off Vanuatu, when he is surrounded by natives brandishing weapons. They begin to prod and disrobe him, and fearing the worst, he commences to dance the Charleston. The bemused natives attempt to emulate him but their efforts are clumsy so he starts coaching them the right moves. This eventually involves some 200 natives and continues into the afternoon. To show their gratitude the natives present him with gifts and provide an armed escort to the safety of the coast. Having contracted malaria from this excursion, he spends recovery time in Hobart.

Two years later Palmer travels to Spitzbergen in the Arctic Circle before boarding a freighter for Hammerfest in northern Norway. With an American journalist he walks some 640 kilometres through Finnish Lapland to the Baltic Sea, depending on the good graces and hospitality of the natives whom he finds consume astonishing amounts of coffee.

One of the ways Palmer funded his travels was to be engaged as performer and director of a ship’s band. Returning from Europe aboard the R.M.S. Tahiti one evening in August 1930, disaster struck in the Pacific Ocean as the ship became immobilised through a broken propeller shaft which damaged the hull and caused the ship to begin breaking apart. It drifted for 50 hours but held together long

enough for all passengers and crew to be rescued by two passing merchant ships.

By this stage in his life Palmer had visited more than 50 countries worldwide and composed some 75 compositions including a number of orchestral suites but the latter seem not to have been performed.

Having become a permanent staff member of the Australian Broadcasting Company his musical output tapered off and increasingly he began to give well received talks on his adventures and experiences abroad in clubs throughout NSW.

locked up for “..he was drunkenness.

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scurrying to exits. The aftershock brought down the whole building and all perished. He witnessed a tram plunge into an abyss and the earth close over it. Altogether some 140,000 persons lost their lives, many burnt to death from fires started by overturned ovens.

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One of the most astonishing features about Australian composers is that many are accomplished in disciplines other than music.

Another is their versatility.

Had Palmer Charles Kent A.T.C.L. (born in Brighton, Melbourne on 8 July 1900) needed a resume he could have included being an insurance clerk, sailor, plantation hand, canvasser, wharf labourer, author, farm hand, rouseabout in 11 shearing sheds, wool classer, concert promoter, tally clerk, manager of an ink producing business, music director of a radio station, dance band leader, and motion picture and vaudeville pianist.

Like the majority of Australian composers in the first half of the 20th century, Palmer’s output comprised mainly songs and piano pieces and the latter must have had some merit as some of them were performed by Frank Hutchens, Alexander Sverjensky and, in 1924, by touring pianist Mieczyslaw Munz.

Palmer and Thelma Landsdown, a mezzosoprano, were married at St James’ Church in Sydney on 3 October 1930 and they performed Palmer’s songs in Java during their honeymoon and in Sydney upon their return to Australia in the following year.

Before his nuptials, Palmer had been a very fortunate adventurer. In 1922 he was one of a party of 11 picnickers who boarded a five metre yacht in Sydney Harbour. It capsized off Bradley’s Head and Palmer was hauled unconscious from the water. Four of the party drowned.

On 1 September of the following year Palmer was in Yokohama when Japan’s worst earthquake struck. One of his arms was broken in five places when he became trapped under rubble. He was released when an aftershock shifted the debris. Whilst pinned he saw the facade of a building collapse and people inside

Of particular interest was his visit to Saba Island in the Caribbean Sea, a colony administered by The Netherlands. With a population of fewer than 2,000, the Dutch Government paid for a harbour master (even though there was no harbour), an army comprised of a single private (to ward off invasion) and a police officer who became the only one to be incarcerated in his own cell when after celebrating a little too indulgently he was locked up for drunkenness.

In the late 1940s Palmer became a member of the Peoples’ Union and he travelled the country giving speeches which advocated better co-operation between employer and employee, and warned of the perniciousness of Communism.

The only evidence of his engagement in music after this is his performing piano at a number of annual reunions.

- Stephen Pleskun Stephen Pleskun is the author of “A Chronological History of Australian Composers and their Compositions” volumes 1, 2 & 3.

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Flashback with Derek Parker THE BRAVE DECADES IN BROADCASTING

“The Third” was from the beginning difficult to get off the ground and onto the air. The BBC was still very Reithian in its principles - the great John Reith, the company’s only begetter, had been thoroughly against splitting audiences into “popular” and “élite”, and it was of “elitism” that the Third was accused from the very beginning. But a good many people - including Ellen Wilkinson, the enlightened Education Secretary in the post-war Clement Atlee government, supported the idea of a separate national radio network which would aim to be a real cultural and intellectual force, and would be very different from the Home Service, which consisted almost entirely of speech, and the Light Programme, devoted to comedy shows and light entertainment.

And on 29 September 1946 at six o’clock in the evening, the Third began broadcasting - just for five hours a day, from six in the evening.

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quartets, or a series of Mozart operas. It will, so far as circumstances permit, be international.

Concerts, operas, plays will be taken from abroad as landline conditions improve… Its whole content will be directed to an audience that is not of one class but that is perceptive and intelligent”.

..contributing to the “refinement of society.

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I can’t pretend that at fourteen I was absolutely engrossed by the work of Samuel Beckett, the paintings of Graham Sutherland or even the music of Alban Berg - but nevertheless some of the excitement of the birth of the BBC Third Programme rubbed off on me, and within a few years I was a constant listener.

If that sounded “élite” to the critics of the idea, what the Third actually did (as far as music was concerned) is more or less what Fine Music 102.5 does now - providing serious popular classical music in live concerts and on records, with contemporary music and jazz. The network’s intention was to promote “something fundamental to our civilization” to contribute to “the refinement of society”.

The Third played a fundamental part in the careers of many developing composers, including for instance, Britten and Tippett. It became a major patron of living composers, commissioning music ranging from symphonic works to incidental music for plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Joe Orton, Henry Reed - and of course the single most memorable play (perhaps even the single most memorable broadcast), Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.

Certainly, we turned to the Home Service to hear, on “Palm Court” the very latest music from a new American musical - but to the Third for a live broadcast of Wozzeck or something fresh from the pen of Boulez or Messiaen.

Of course, it was all too good to last. Parliament was not exactly full of admirers of Britten and devotees of Beckett, and the columnists of the News of the World and the Daily Express found their readers joyously susceptible to almost daily attacks on the vile expenditure of vast quantities of public money on “high art” - an irresistible temptation. When Goering heard the word “art” he said he reached for his gun; Parliament reached for the strings of the money-bag.

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Patricia Hughes, announcer for the BBC’s Third Programme. Photo - BBC Archives

There was also of course a great deal of speech - Martin Esslin scoured Europe and America for the best modern international drama and Douglas Cleverdon produced literary programmes which included, for instance, Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas reading from the whole range of English poetry. The Third promoted young writers - not only dramatists but poets: for many years it was the single largest source of copyright payments to poets, promoting the works of Philip Larkin and Dylan Thomas, David Jones and Laura Riding. Then here was what was pejoratively described by critics as “dons talking to dons” - the kind of programme no longer heard, it seems, anywhere on world-wide radio: conversations between international philosophers and thinkers such as Bertrand Russell and Isaiah Berlin, lectures by distinguished historians, composers, cosmologists - such as Fred Hoyle.

The rot began to set in in 1957 when the output of the Third was cut to only 24 hours a week.

The fear was that things would soon go from bad to worse. They did. A “Third Programme Defence Society” was formed, with T S Eliot, Albert Camus and Laurence Olivier among its leaders. Within the BBC itself rebels bravely made themselves known, the musicologist and critic Hans Keller in the van: outrageous, he said, to replace the culture-conscious Third with “a daytime music station”. But the barbarians were at the gate, and the walls were easily breached. On 22 March 1965 the Music Programme was launched, and the idea of making Britain “a third programme nation” ended after not quite two decades. But for those of us who remember, they were the brave decades in broadcasting.

- Derek Parker

MY LIFE WITH J S BACH

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What is it about the music of J S Bach that is so unique that more than 250 years after his death it is so very radiantly alive, so very relevant, so powerful and revelatory that almost all musicians and music-lovers regard him as the greatest musician that has ever lived? In attempting to answer this frequently asked question, I have to emphasise that I am not a music-scholar, nor am I a philosopher well-versed in the vocabulary of profound epistemological speculation. I am a mere musical executant - in the German term, a “musikant”.

However, despite these limitations, I will nevertheless venture some of my own speculation, probably none of which is original, regarding the mystery of Bach.

Above all, I believe that Bach attained a level of technical perfection and accomplishment that has not been achieved either before or

after his lifetime. Just as science seems to be getting closer and closer to penetrating the final mysteries of the very nature of life itself, so do I believe that Bach penetrated closer to the very core of the mystery of the nature of music . That element of science at the core of music was what eternally fascinated Bach.

His profound curiosity about the nature of music and the organisation of sound and its possibilities was what drove him for his whole creative life. This element in his nature is what led to him being compared in achievement to no less a “real” scientist than Isaac Newton.

Bach, he was certainly no stranger to suffering.

Orphaned at the age of 10, he lived through the death of his first wife and the deaths of 10 of his 20 children. In Bach’s time death was an integral part of life - “In the midst of life we are in death.” Religion was very much a source of explanation and consolation for these harsh realities and the wonderful quality of Bach’s music is that at all times its nature is one of great consolation, through its very sublimity.

There is never a hint of personal protest or complaint - just a universal offering of almost God-like consolation.

Another comparison has also been made between Bach and Shakespeare. In Shakespeare we are always affected by what appears to be an uncanny wisdom which permeates his profound insights into human nature, luminously translated into the greatest art through the music of great poetry. In Bach also, we are conscious and aware of a lofty insight into, and compassion for, the human condition - from the heights of the sacred to the depths of the profane. All illuminated by a radiant compassion and understanding and acceptance of what is and what is aspired to.

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I believe that there is a strong relationship between great art and suffering. In the case of Beethoven we are familiar with the great personal suffering that he endured - his constant poor health and above all else the loss of his hearing - perhaps the greatest misfortune that a musician can experience. This sense of struggle against a malevolent fate, the triumph of the individual over the odds, is one of the most powerful elements in Beethoven’s music.

There is never a hint of self- pity, just struggle and triumph, and the glory and serenity of final and total acceptance. But, in the final analysis, it is all the cry of a personality.

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Coinciding with broadcasts of J S Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues that make up the WellTempered Clavier, highly respected pianist Albert Landa, whose performances feature in the series, writes about his relationship with the master composer.

If one allows oneself to be exposed to the “news” through our main-stream media on a fairly consistent basis it can be quite insidiously easy to find oneself living in a rather bleak, dark and depressing relationship with the world.

It is not difficult to forget the maxim that “bad news sells” and, by so forgetting, reach the dismal conclusion that everything is hopeless, man is irredeemably evil, the world is hurtling towards Armageddon, and so on and so forth.

In this frame of mind it can easily be forgotten that there is much great good “out there”, that most people are good and well-intentioned.

There is a huge amount of altruism, compassion, talent and creativity in the world, so one can choose to be hopeful and optimistic about the world and life generally, or one can choose to resignedly accept the utterly false and myopic version of life that the main-stream media, in its cynical exploitation of man’s vulnerabilities and anxieties, for profit, perpetrates.

My life-long association with the music of J S Bach has, I believe, brought me many benefits, not the least being a great sense of gratitude, if only for the reason that this association has allowed me a glimpse into the possibility that the miraculous can be achieved, that that elusive goal of perfection is realisable, that the transcendental can be a real and quite normal element in one’s everyday life.

All this is not to suggest that Bach’s music is all piety and seriousness. Bach’s music contains everything that is contained in life - from the most every day, such as a Cantata dealing with a father’s frustration with his daughter’s coffee addiction, to “Ebarme dich” from the St Matthew Passion, which is, in my opinion, possibly the most sublime and moving piece of music ever written. And it is this that has inspired me to dedicate a large part of my musical life to studying and preparing the complete “Well-Tempered Clavier” for recording. I am many times blessed for this long and intimate association with the greatest master.

- Albert Landa On Air On Friday 2 May 1pm Fine Music 102.5 begins “Bach The Magnificent” series prepared by Patrick Thomas. It features Albert Landa’s ABC Classics’ recordings of Bk 1 Preludes and Fugues 1 to 8 from the Well-Tempered Clavier. The series continues on 16 May 1pm and over coming months.

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Artistic Director Carl Vine. Presented in Association with Musica Viva Australia

25th Music Festival NEW Prelude Weekend 22nd & 23rd November 2014

Eat, drink, breathe music.

of November, the weekend before the Main Festival.

‘Music, wine and conversation flow...

A world-class festival of chamber music.’

The festival opens on Saturday night with bubbles and canapes, before a breathtaking concert in the Barrel Hall, with more wine and canapes at interval, followed by a 3 course dinner in the winery grounds, under the stars of a country spring sky.

LIMELIGHT

Now in it’s 25th year, the Huntington Estate Music Festival is an annual feast of worldclass chamber music, gourmet food and award-winning wine in a 5 Star boutique winery in the picturesque country NSW town of Mudgee.

The Prelude Weekend is a 2-concert ‘Taste of Huntington’ held on the 22nd and 23rd

Sunday morning begins at 10.30am with a coffee in the sunshine before another beautiful hour and half of some of the world’s finest music and a 2 course long, lazy lunch with free-flowing wine and a chance to meet the musicians. Bliss.

Prelude artists include: JOYCE YANG, PIANO (US) ‘wondrous sense of colour’ WASHINGTON POST EMMA MATTHEWS, SOPRANO (Aus) ‘Intensely dramatic and vocally spectacular’ THE AUSTRALIAN, with renowned pianist BERNADETTE HARVEY THE GOLDNER STRING QUARTET (Aus) ‘The country’s indisputably pre-eminient chamber ensemble’ SMH AMARYILLIS STRING QUARTET (Switzerland) Winners Grand Prize 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW. Call 1800 995 931 during office hours to book.

See www.huntingtonestate.com.au for the full line-up, program and more information about the Prelude Weekend.

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What’s On

CHAMBER AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET Monday 19 May 7pm Saturday 31 May 2pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $37-$100 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.musicaviva.com.au In their first Australian appearance for four decades, the world’s leading “high priests of brass” bring their rich-toned and perfectly matched sound to this unforgettable, masterly concert, spanning the centuries from the grandeur of Renaissance Venice to the high-octane excitement of the 21st century. “A spectacular demonstration of ensemble virtuosity. The brilliance of their playing is matched by the extraordinary sonics: crystalline definition, airy spaciousness, superb presence and an overall clarity that is positively breathtaking” (The New York Times).

Program 1 Monday 19 May includes music

by Luca Marenzio, Luigi Mazzi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antonio Cangiasi, Giovanni Gastoldi, William Lovelock, David Sampson, Ludwig Maurer, Claudio Monteverdi and Joan Tower. Program 2 on Saturday 31 May includes music by Thomas Morley, Osvaldo Lacerda, Jay Greenberg, David Snow, Josquin des Prés and William Lovelock.

CHAMBER AUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TIMELINE - LIFE FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EARS Tuesday 20 May 8pm, Wednesday 21 May 7pm, Friday 23 May 1.30pm, Saturday 24 May 7pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Sunday 25 May 2pm - Sydney Opera House Thursday 29 May 7pm - Joan Sutherland Theatre Tickets: $41-$109 Bookings: 1800 444 444 www.aco.com.au A kaleidoscopic surge through forty-two thousand years, Timeline traces the evolution of music, from the ancient Australian Aboriginal musical heritage of c.40,000 BC all the way through to the most recent Western music of today. Timeline brings together a cappella vocalists, multi ARIA Award-winning electronic music duo The Presets and engrossing visual

effects, Richard Tognetti directs this fascinating voyage that passes through the sparingly austere music of the 14th century to the voluptuous outpourings of the late Renaissance, accelerating into the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods before exploding into our modern age. The Sydney concerts of Timeline are presented in Partnership with Vivid LIVE, part of the Vivid Sydney festival of light, music and ideas. Richard Tognetti, Director and Violin. Image the creative team – Ignatius Jones, Kim Moyes, Richard Tognetti, Julian Hamilton – photo Jack Saltmiras.

CHORAL SONGS OF SPLENDOUR A VENETIAN CORONATION Wednesday 21 May 7.30pm St Mary’s Cathedral, College Street Tickets: $10-$50 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.sjks.org.au The joint forces of the Choirs of St James’, King Street and St Mary’s Cathedral, together with Australian Baroque Brass, continue their exploration of Venetian music with a performance of Paul McCreesh’s sumptuous reconstruction of the coronation of a new Doge in April 1595 in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice.

St Mary’s Cathedral provides the perfect setting and acoustic for this spectacular concert. Music by Giovanni Gabrieli, his uncle Andrea Gabrieli and their contemporaries, evokes the ceremony, pageantry and drama

CHORAL SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA CHORUSOZ Sunday 8 June 5pm Sydney Opera House www.sydneyphilharmonia.com.au Ever dreamed of singing at the Sydney Opera House? Well you can! You’re invited to join Sydney Philharmonia’s special pop-up choir, ChorusOz, and sing for your family, friends and another 2000 fans in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. No audition is required and you don’t even need to be able to read

of a great state occasion. Trumpets, cornetts, sackbuts, strings, organ and voices combine in a series of fanfares, toccatas, sonatas and rich polyphony for this lavish celebration, all directed by award-winning conductor Paul McCreesh. This is a unique opportunity to hear and witness this stunning program, performed here in Australia for the first time.

music. You will be sent a recording of your part to listen to in the car and practice in the shower. Then you’ll join 700 amateur singers from all over Australia for two intensive and inspiring days of rehearsals in Sydney on 7 and 8 June. This year’s program includes two beautiful choral masterpieces, Rutter’s joyous Gloria and Durufle’s moving Requiem. Don’t worry, you’ll also be taught to pronounce Latin! Please join. It will be enormous fun. You’ll be telling the stories for decades. Conductor is Brett Weymark.

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CHORAL SYDNEY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CHOIR, SOLOISTS AND ORCHESTRA THE SALZBURG CONNECTION Sunday 4 May 3pm Great Hall, University of Sydney Tickets: $25-$45 Bookings: 9351 7940 www.singon.wordpress.com OPERATIC LIVE AT LUNCH HOME! SWEET HOME! AUSSIE OPERA DIVAS Wednesday 21 May 12pm The Concourse, Chatswood Tickets: $25-$28 Bookings: 1300 795 012 or 9411 8144 www.theconcourse.com.au Exquisite soprano Amelia Farrugia pays tribute to Joan Sutherland, June Bronhill and Nellie Melba with Italian and French operatic and operetta favourites by Lehar, Delibes, Offenbach, Verdi, Gounod, Puccini and Massenet. Farrugia is joined by Chris Cartner, piano and guest flute obligato, Artistic Director Jane Rutter. The Live at Lunch concert series is a highlight event of the Sydney lunchtime concert calendar.

CHAMBER AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET SPEECHLESS Friday 30 May 7pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $30-$75 Bookings: 1300 797 118 www.cityrecitalhall.com In the days of Mozart and Haydn, chamberscale reductions of symphonies and masses gave musicians who couldn’t assemble an entire orchestra and choir together, the opportunity to play and perform larger masterpieces in their own homes. After Mozart’s death, Peter Lichtenthal distilled his idol’s Requiem into a wordless, pristine string quartet masterwork, transforming it from profoundly religious into a beautiful, abstract work of art. Berg’s Lyric Suite is a similar song without words; there are quotes from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde

The opening concert of the Sydney University Graduate Choir 2014 season, The Salzburg Connection, is dedicated to two of Salzburg’s greatest composers: W A Mozart, and Michael Haydn, brother of Joseph Haydn. Haydn’s Missa Pro Defunctis for Count Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach, which strongly influenced Mozart’s own Requiem, will be the centrepiece of this concert, with Mozart’s Missa Brevis in F (Little Credo Mass) and other of his best works written for the Salzburg archbishops completing this all-Salzburg concert. The SUGC Music director Christopher Bowen OAM will direct the choir, orchestra and soloists, including soprano Ayse Goknur Shanal, alto Agnes Sarkis, tenor Richard Butler, and bass Christopher Richardson.

The SUGC is dedicated to high quality performances of great choral music by the established masters and by contemporary composers.

The six concert series features a host of international artists including the Idea of North, Taryn Fiebig and Simon Tedeschi. You can also join Artistic Director, Jane Rutter and her guest artists for lunch at the Concourse’s Terrazza Italian restaurant. Included when you purchase the concert/lunch package is your choice of pasta or pizza and a soft drink for $15. Seats are limited.

and Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, and the last movement is a secret wordless setting of a poem by Baudelaire. At the heart of any Schubert work is song, and this program opens with his frantically scurrying and carefree singing Quartettsatz; an unfinished work that somehow feels as if nothing more could be said. A pre-concert talk commences at 6.10pm.

MUSIC THEATRE ADMISSION: ONE SHILLING May 13-16 Glen St Theatre Saturday 17 May 8pm Sunday 18 May 4pm City Recital Hall, Angel Place Tickets: $49-$99 Bookings: 8256 2222 www.admissiononeshilling.com Award Winning actress Patricia Routledge – best known as Hyacinth in Keeping up Appearances stars alongside internationally acclaimed pianist Piers Lane to tell the inspiring story of one of Britain’s best loved pianists, Dame Myra Hess.

Interspersed with short piano pieces by Schubert, Schuman, Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, Admission: One Shilling is a humorous, passionate and highly entertaining account of one of the most remarkable musical achievements of the 20th century. It will transport audiences back to the morale-boosting recitals at London’s National Gallery which Dame Myra Hess produced during World War II. Direct from the UK and for the first time in Australia, Admission: One Shilling will delight audiences with its unique power to uplift the human spirit.

ORCHESTRAL NSW DOCTORS ORCHESTRA STAGE AND SCREEN Sunday 25 May 2.30pm The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood Tickets: $25-$45 Bookings: 1300 795 012 www.nswdo.net.au NSW Doctors Orchestra conducted by Dr David Banney presents its annual Musicus Medicus concert on a theme of “Stage and Screen”, featuring a wide variety of music ranging from John William’s “Star Wars” Suite to Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” Suite, and including compositions from Mozart, Mahler, Mancini and more. Pianist Evgeny Ukhanov plays Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto and soprano Ayse Goknur Shanal performs songs from West Side Story and My Fair Lady. Proceeds from the concert will be donated to Sydney Eisteddfod and the Day of Difference Foundation, which works to reduce the incidence and impact of children’s critical injuries in Australia.

The NSW Doctors Orchestra is a classical orchestra of doctors and medical students from all areas of the state who come together at least annually to play in aid of charities in both the arts and medicine.

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CD Reviews

LOTUS DREAMS FAVOURITE SONGS AND BALLADS Shu-Cheen Yu, soprano Katherine Day, piano Move MCD 501

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✶✶✶✶ The voice is strong, folksy and haunting, as Katie Noonan expresses her awareness of an historical event that we might otherwise never have been inclined to care much about. She tells us of hitherto unknown women living real enough lives, for all the squalor and misery that came their way through transportation, and here we have the composer and other musicians expressing the penetrating reality and insight of her deeply thoughtful songs. The mood overall, as you would expect, is sombre and pensive, but still has its moments of frivolity, and places

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all the way through. An edge of maturity in this singer’s voice means that every note sounds full and clear, even up at the highest register. The only technical enhancement comes in the form of an occasional touch of double tracking, the piano always remaining respectfully muted. The cover picture is as close as it comes to anything explicitly oriental. You would hardly expect Shu-Cheen Yu to select anything that she was not comfortable with, so there are no signs of her being daring, which is why I kept half a star off the full set of five that is otherwise thoroughly deserved. No question that this is beautifully done, and quite irresistible.

- Phil Vendy

the banjo in an unusually leading but entirely appropriate role. When the listening is done, the lingering echo of her songs remains. But wait: the words are all here too, folded neatly inside the restrained and attractive cover. They confirm that, as we might expect, Ms Noonan describes “a woman’s story in a man’s time,” disclosing “a gentle face in a brute world.” Yet her songs sound rather a different tune. We hear how “virtue, hard work and liberty is all you need”, to find a way out of “the dark, dank hole” where starvation and disease claimed so many on the way. It is slightly confusing, in the end, to learn that all Katie Noonan’s women had to do when faced with the certainty of real lives “bound to slavery” was “stand strong”.

- PV

I have to admit that my smile was a little forced when the editor pressed this disc upon me. “Cross-over” discs have given me some of the most unpleasant aural experiences of my life (dear Dame Joan’s encounter with the Noël Coward Songbook is a case in point). But I have to admit that after twenty minutes or so I was tapping my feet and chuckling happily at “Yellow Bird”, and coming round to the charm, good humour and undoubtedly exciting voices of the three Samoans (two brother tenors and a cousin baritone) who, it seems, have caused a sensation with this disc, and certainly roused New Zealand to standing ovations during their sell-out March tour. It’s easy listening: nothing much more taxing than O sole mio, Maria, My

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The trouble with this one is that once I had started playing it, I could not find anywhere to stop without running it right through and starting again. The reason being that all 18 songs sound too good to want to cut any of them off.

They represent Shu-Cheen Yu’s own pick out of the world of songs and ballads, ranging in length from Franz Schubert’s Die Vögel (The Bird) up to Mozart’s Ridente La Calma (Smiling Calmness Is My Essence). Chinese folk songs are represented

by The Gentle Flowing Brook, and to cut a long story shorter than it deserves, there is also Mendelssohn’s On Wings of Song, Richard Strauss’s Dedication, Scarlatti’s The Violets, and Danny Boy. Not a dud track anywhere, and a simply exquisite treatment that has to be heard

Way (ugh) with a couple of popular gestures to the classics - Nessun dorma and Au fond du temple saint, in curious but surprisingly successful arrangements. Look, these guys have unforced voices like burnished bronze, and it’s not surprising that they’re a popular success. Personally, I can’t wait to hear each of them in a taxing operatic role or two, and it’ll be surprising if that doesn’t happen to Pene, Amitai and Moses. And after all, as a way of getting your names around and making some money to pay for additional coaching, as well as giving a lot of stress-free pleasure to a lot of people, this disc can’t be faulted.

- Derek Parker

CD Reviews

CASTOR & POLLUX Pinchgut Opera Pinchgut Live PG003

✶✶✶✶ Rameau’s Castor et Pollux is one of the great triumphs of French operatic history, which staggered even the orchestra at its first performance in 1737 by its novel rhythms, heretical modulations and orchestral elaborations. Pinchgut Opera’s staged J.S. BACH - ST JOHN PASSION ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC; Richard Egarr, Conductor ABC Classics 481 0850

✶✶✶✶✶ Bach’s St John Passion could be described as revolutionary in concept when first heard in 1724 in Leipzig. The custom in Leipzig on telling the story of Christ’s trial and execution had been the words of the scripture recited as in plainchant. Bach used instrumentation with the singers more akin to operatic music. As is usual with something innovative there were conflicting views on this radical departure.

There have been four versions with the last in 1749. Bach, like many composers, couldn’t resist reworking his original composition,

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production last December was properly greeted with great enthusiasm, and the discs which have swiftly followed present a “live” recording which listeners will find almost as engrossing and exciting – it is perhaps an ideal recording with which to impress anyone in doubt about the excitement and seduction of Rameau’s music. The cast is irreproachable: Anna Fraser and Celeste Lazarenko are two remarkable singers who match each other in quality while providing fascinating contrasts of tone. Jeffrey Thompson’s Castor is exciting and compelling from his first entrance, Hadleigh Adams’ Pollux warm and embracing, and indeed there are, once the cast has settled into the work, no weak performances.

The chorus is drawn from members of Cantillation, and manage vividly to characterise the various characters they

represent. Indeed, vocal characterisation is one of the strong points of the entire performance. The Orchestra of the Antipodes is in its finest form, and the opera is conducted by Antony Walker, whose grasp and understanding of the score – and indeed of Rameau – is marked in every page by a very obvious love and understanding of the music.

The brilliance of the playing in the most exciting episodes of the score is peerless; but it is difficult not to hope, especially when listening to the wonderfully sensuous passages, that one day someone will be brave enough once more to record such scores as these with good modern rather than “authentic” instruments, giving us the sound that Rameau would have loved to hear, rather than that which he was forced to tolerate.

- Derek Parker

often to suit whichever occasion it was to be heard. But whatever the religious views of the commentators at the time, it had undoubted benefits in drawing many people into the churches to hear the music, with instruments as the viola d’amore and viola da gamba in addition to the chorus and orchestra. The vivid arias communicated the pathos and pain of Christ’s execution. This production by the Academy of Ancient Music, with Richard Egarr as conductor, is a superb performance. Egarr, a keyboard player, has conducted many famous orchestras around the world. In 2006 he was appointed to succeed Christopher Hogwood, the original founder of the modern AAM in 1973. It performs mainly music of the Baroque and Classical eras. The original Academy of Ancient Music was founded in London,

England in 1726 for the purpose of studying and performing “old” music. A comprehensive booklet is enclosed, further notes are available online. - Stephen Lidbury

Under the direction of Neil McEwan, the Singers of St Laurence perform on this Mysteries of Gregorian Chant CD showing an impressive pure sound with overall great appeal. Gregorian chanting as such often sounds very restricting and there are times when one would like to hear more harmony and different colour and some varied accompaniment but there again the austerity of the sound is the central tradition of unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church generally sung in unison and by the male adult voice. What’s been included on the CD is a large number of offerings by anonymous contributors interspersed with the ethereal five part motet, Christa qui lux es et dies, by Robert White. John Taverner’s

motet, Dum transisset Sabbatum, is based on Gregorian chant incorporating the chant in the baritone part. William Byrd’s Laetentur coeli is a Latin motet for the period of Advent.

The works of Hildegard of Bingen with her O tu suavissima virga and her O eterne Deus are nonconformist in terms of the chant writing of the time. Always a problem to find the most appropriate acoustic to re-create the sound of the particular age, the Choir, for recording purposes, made use of The Chapel of St Scholastica’s Convent in Glebe, a very worthy location. Overall the CD produces a very attractive addition to music collections.

Sit back and relax to the music.

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SWINGING ON THE VINE BENNY SENT ME

It’s a nostalgic moment here in my Hunter Valley hideaway. I sip a glass of chilled red as I gaze at the screen of my new-fangled computer. I may be IT illiterate but am I not a Neanderthal with class? It’s moments like this I always savour as music floods my memory bank - the sounds that lay dormant in my subconscious as a schoolboy only to blossom in my early teenage years.

The year is 1943. Benny Goodman still reigns as the King of Swing again winning Down Beat magazine’s popularity poll for best swing band of the year although many critics thought Charlie Barnet’s orchestra America’s best.

Goodman is also voted best soloist by readers of the magazine. He still remains the most popular jazz musician of them all amongst the non-jazz audience.

That year The March Of Time film series surveys music in World War Two America catching Goodman’s band live in either October or November in The Terrace Room in the New Yorker Hotel. Fifty-eight seconds of musical magic: A crowded danced floor watching and listening as the band swings through the final bars of Fletcher Henderson’s arrangement of Henderson Stomp. Priceless footage! The March Of Time film is called Upbeat In Music (it would be better known later as Music In America). Other jazz musicians featured are Art Tatum, a group led by Eddie Condon, and The Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

Although it never recorded commercially, this is one of the memorable Goodman bands despite being together only a few months. It is infused with the spirit of the times: the tide of war is beginning to turn in the Allies’ favour; money is plentiful and employment full. And the musicians - they have a joi de vivre, as if justifying their exemption from military service, playing as if there is no tomorrow.

Alto saxophonist Hymie Schertzer leads a superior reed section which includes a very young Zoot Sims and tenor saxophonist Al Klink, given much more solo space by Goodman than he did with Glenn Miller who always favoured Tex Beneke no matter what the arrangers wrote. Trumpeter Lee Castle has never played better than he did as a member of this firm and swinging brass section which also includes Bill Harris who will become the jazz trombonist of the 1940s.

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one of Goodman’s best bassists in Sid Weiss, and drummer Gene Krupa, obviously delighted to be back in this working environment after being released from a Los Angeles gaol after 90 days incarceration. And what drumming! This is Krupa determined to re-establish his reputation and renew his self-esteem.

such a moment. The setting: New York’s Radio City Music Hall. The event: a yearly charity performance put on by Frank Sinatra with different guests. The artists in 1984: Sinatra, Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Placido Domingo - and comedian Red Buttons! When not performing, the artists stand on stage watching.

(Krupa had been convicted in California the year before on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was arrested after police raided a ballroom where his band was playing and found marijuana. Not only that, the “band boy” was found to be under 21 and later discovered to be a draft dodger, a minor and an alien. Krupa was tried, convicted and imprisoned. He appealed and after a term of confinement released.)

Peplowski recalls: “There is a platform below the stage at Radio City so when we came on we rose up on to the stage playing. Benny was really on fire. We were stunned - and we were in awe of him. In Stealin’ Apples there is a part where the clarinet solo comes in. We used to open it up and repeat the saxophone riff behind him but we were so stunned with what he was playing that without looking at each other we just stopped, our jaws almost hitting the floor saying: Holy shit! Listen to this guy play. Drummer Louis Bellson said later he had never heard Benny play like that since the 1940s. But that was Benny - he had the ability to turn the heat on and lift the whole band.

Phenomenal. He is lifting 13 guys. It was like being in a car and suddenly going into another gear because of his playing.”

And Goodman? According to those who were there he has never played better. Instead of 16 or 32 bar solos, he takes chorus after chorus on such Fletcher Henderson charts as Stealin’ Apples and After You’ve Gone! Unfortunately, the sound quality of most of the Armed Force Radio Service transcriptions of this band is very poor. But at least there are these 58 seconds of film. And for those lucky enough to have heard it, an incredible performance of Stealin’ Apples from the Hotel Astor in New York early in July when an inspired Goodman took several sparkling choruses which left me, for one, breathless. Any chance to hear Goodman in this form should be treasured.

Ken Peplowski, who was the tenor saxophone soloist with Goodman’s final band, tells of

Goodman was 75 and he was playing before his peers. He had nothing to prove just emphasise his greatness. A magical moment indeed; I would have even signed the pledge to have been there but I still have those 58 seconds from The Hotel New Yorker. I replenish my glass before offering the fruit of the red grape labelled Cleanskins to Big J. He snorts in disgust, turns his back and waddles through the door…

- Patrick D Maguire

JAZZ CD REVIEWS Discourse with Kevin Jones

MY FOOLISH HEART Eddie Higgins Quartet Venus VHCD-78007

✶✶✶✶✶ I have never heard Scott Hamilton sound better.

This superbly recorded Japanese disc showcases Hamilton’s Ben Webster-inspired tenor to perfection on such ballads as My Foolish Heart and These Foolish Things. The leader of the date, pianist Eddie Higgins doesn’t seem to mind taking a back seat to Hamilton, showing with his easy delicacy on the lush Embraceable You why drummer Ben Riley bracketed him on the same level of excellence as Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan and other masters of the modern jazz piano. Higgins, who led the resident trio at the

Fly Me To The Moon Jay Leonhart Trio Venus VHCD-78122

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Chicago club The London House for 12 years playing opposite some of the biggest names in jazz in the 1950s and 1960s, was known for his versatility, capable of playing in all jazz mediums from backing singers, to Dixieland and modern jazz. Yet Higgins, who died in 1979 of complications from lymphatic and lung cancer at the age of 77, surprisingly was better known in Japan than the United States. In Japan where American jazz pianists are revered, Higgins had a special standing, recording several outstanding albums for this label. Here with two-thirds of Phil Woods long-time rhythm section, bassist Steve Gilmore and drummer Bill Goodwin, Higgins shows not only his sensitive and tasteful side but his penchant for swing on the snappy Russian Lullaby. And Hamilton is

Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times esteemed jazz critic, has called Jay Leonhart the “Fred Astaire of jazz”. He was referring to his light vocal style not his ability as one of the most accomplished of bassists playing in the style of his musical idol, the master Ray Brown. So it’s not surprising that Leonhart pays tribute to Brown, who was also his mentor and teacher, on this 2003 New York date with pianist Benny Green and guitarist Joe Cohn. With their casual but close knit interplay they recall the great Oscar Peterson trio with Brown and Herb Ellis as they confidently refresh 11 timeless standards. The brilliant Green, who played with Brown’s trio many times in the past, gives his musicianship and creativity full reign, his

CRAZY AND MIXED UP Sarah Vaughan Pablo PACD-2312-137-2

✶✶✶✶ This 1982 set was Sarah Vaughan’s final small group recording and her last for Norman Granz’s Pablo label. She was in complete control in more ways than one - choosing the songs and the musicians (guitarist Joe Pass, pianist Roland Hanna, bassist Andy Simpkin and drummer Harold Jones), designing the cover and even dreaming up the title. It completed a long ambition; as she says in the liner notes “to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company”.

At this stage of her career, The Divine One had been recording for 48 years yet her voice was

an added bonus. I, for one, will be looking for more of Higgins’ recordings for Venus Records.

This one is a perfect backdrop for a romantic evening or just chilling out.

awesome solo on There Is No Greater Love is just one example. Cohn continues to impress me each time I hear him with his harmonic and melodic virtuosity; listen to his counterpoint with Green on the opening of Just In Time. And one must not forget the leader, a tower of strength whether it’s the foot-tapping tempo of On The Street Where You Live or showing his superb musicianship with his arcos solo on Alone Together. The Cole Porter chestnut Dream Dancing sums up this album: it epitomises the best in the tradition of the great piano small groups. The high level of excellence on releases on this Japanese label continues to amaze and excite me. And the sound is impeccable. Thoroughly recommended.

still powerful, resulting in one of her most exciting and moving albums. Hanna is a tower of strength throughout, he blends swing and imagination on his solo on That’s All, one of the highlights of this superb disc. Her wild tour de force of scat on the up tempo Autumn Leaves might not be to everyone’s taste but she shows her ballad artistry and sensitivity on the lovely ballad Love Dance, another track enhanced by Hanna’s serenity at the keyboard. The Rodgers and Hart gem I Didn’t Know What Time It Was has seldom sounded better; listen to Pass on this track. If you want to know why Ella Fitzgerald considered Sarah Vaughan the greatest ever with her multi-octave range, the proof is here. singing talent and Mel Torme claimed she had Albums of this class should never be out of the single best vocal instrument of any singer fashion.

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Young Virtuosi Meet the young performers whose music goes to air in the Young Virtuoso Award Semi Finals broadcasts this month.

ROBBIN REZA – PIANO Robbin Reza, 19, is in his second year at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying a Bachelor of Performance, having been being awarded with the Bessie Cook Piano Scholarship. In 2011 he won the NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition (Senior Section), performing Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto. Robbin has performed most of Vine’s works, and for several reasons RACHEL SIU - CELLO A Year 11 MLC student, and principal cellist in her school orchestras, Rachel has distinctions in her AMusA and LMusA diplomas. In 2012, with “The Dumky Trio”, she won the prestigious Sydney Eisteddfod Musica Viva Chamber award.

Other wins include the 2009 National Youth Concerto Competition, 2011 Ku-ring-gai NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition (juniors), and 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod

Viola and Cello Concerto 25u section. On a tour of the US last year, Rachel attended clinics with the New York and Philadelphia youth orchestra and the Washington Army Orchestra. Her favourite music right now is Brahms’ Double Concerto for violin and violincello performed by Oistrakh and Rostropovich: “I am absolutely in love with this piece! I listen to it whenever I can!” As for her favourite non-classical artist? “Eminem. I know. And I’m sorry!”

JOSEPHINE CHUNG - VIOLIN At just 15, Josephine Chung has already been playing violin for 12 years! A Sydney Distance Education High School student, she is in the Sydney Conservatorium Rising Stars program under Robin Wilson. She has studied with Yasuki Nakamura and Professor Peter Zhang. Career highlights include - 2008 Harold Brissenden Memorial Scholarship of the Suzuki NSW branch; 2010 soloist with the Guangxi Symphony BRIAN KIM – FLUTE A full music scholarship student at Trinity Grammar School, Brian Kim 14 began playing flute at ten, because of its captivating sound and because he feels it comes “straight from the player’s heart”. Last year he gained distinctions in his AMusA and LMusA. He is a winner of the prestigious Alf and Pearl Pollard Award, the Australian Flute Festival’s Young Artist and a finalist at the Ku-ring-gai Concerto Competition. As much

names Vine as one of his favourite composers - “Whenever I play his works I think I have been able to progress musically and technically… it seems to fit into my fingers well.” Other highlights include performing at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the Art Gallery of NSW and playing as a soloist in the Australian premiere of Elliot Carter’s Conversations at the Sydney Conservatorium. Last year Robbin was a finalist in the ABC Symphony Australia’s Young Performers Awards.

Orchestra in China; 2013 performing with the Queensland Youth Orchestra won the National Youth Concerto Competition. This year she competed as a junior in Menuhin International Violin Competition in Texas. Josephine values the performance and repertoire preparation experience gained in competitions but says that, “I am always conscious of the fact that a prize can never make me a better musician, and that I need to enter [competitions] in order to gain experience.”

as he loves instrumental solos, Brian also enjoys being part of chamber-ensemble music: “By playing in trios or quintets, wind bands and orchestras, I really learn lots regarding how music is composed for different groups…” Taught by Dr Beth Hwang, who he says introduced him to the world of music, Brian has attended master classes with Susan Milan, Jim Walker, Aldo Baerten, Jane Rutter, Geoffrey Collins and Michael Scott.

- Alison Zhou

YOUNG VIRTUOSO AWARD - 2014 SEMI FINALIST BROADCASTS Presenter – Troy Fil, Engineer Greg Ghavalas Wednesdays 1pm 7 May Robbin Reza, piano 21 May Josephine Chung, violin Young Virtuoso Award Sponsors - Sydney Piano World and Sauter Pianos 14 May Rachel Siu, cello 28 May Brian Kim, flute Coordinator – Judy Deacon yv@finemusicfm.com

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The Symphony Australians Perform

Chamber In Conversation with Michael Morton-Evans (repeats) 6 May - Jayson Gillham (19 Mar 2014) 13 May – Jane Rutter (26 Mar 2014) 20 May – Marty Rhone (2 Apr 2014) 27 May – David McAllister (9 Apr 2014)

At the Keyboard

With the Orchestra Treasures of Recorded Music with Randolph Magri-Overend

Friends & Strangers 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May

Jazz Standards – featuring important compositions

Jazz Australia - showcasing a wealth of local talent

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Jazz Off the Shelf a whole album

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7, 14, 21, 28 May Staging Music with Angela Cockburn

Feature Artist or Sydney Symphony with Andrew Bukenya (2nd Fri of month)

Jazz Biography highlighting a musician and their work

Jazz in Concert – live recordings

May Program Highlights TRIBUTE TO CLAUDIO ABBADO Thursday 1 May 1-2.30pm The great Italian conductor, Claudio Abbado, born into a musical family in Milan, died at the age of 80 in January this year. Abbado has been associated with many of the world’s most revered musical bodies, most notably with La Scala Opera House in Milan, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra which he established in 2003. He was installed in The Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012 in recognition of his distinguished discography and many award winning recordings. This afternoon’s program celebrates Abbado with performances conducted by him including Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Berlioz’s Te Deum

Claudio Abbado

KIRI TE KANAWA AT SEVENTY Tuesday 13 May 2-4pm New Zealand soprano, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa turned 70 in March and is touring Australia this month on her 70th anniversary tour – see article page 4. This program is dedicated to Dame Kiri and the music that recalls her, with six of her own performances including arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Madama Butterfly and Die Fledermaus and also her famous performance of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate.

SUNDAY SPECIAL: MRS H H A BEACH (AMY BEACH) - COMPOSER Sunday 18 May 2-4pm Amy Marcy Cheney, born in New Hampshire in 1867 into a distinguished New England family, became the first celebrated American woman composer. She was a child prodigy who began composing waltzes at five and gave her first public piano recital of works

by Handel, Beethoven and Chopin, as well as her own pieces, at seven. Largely self-taught, her professional debut was in Boston in 1883, followed shortly afterwards by a solo recital with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Most of her early works were published and performed by leading artists and ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After her marriage at 18 to surgeon Henry Harris Aubrey

Composers were fascinated by this god and the music in this evening’s program includes works by Britten, Tanayev and Riisager, and concludes with Stravinsky’s ballet, Apollon musagète (Apollo, the Leader of the Muses), which commences with the birth of Apollo and ends in gravely beautiful music as Apollo leads the muses towards Parnassus.

Amy Marcy Cheney

Beach, 24 years her senior, Beach limited her public appearances and devoted herself to composition. She toured Europe as a pianist playing her own compositions for three years after her husband’s death in 1910 and continued to compose and perform a wide range of works for the next thirty years. The late Romantic style of Beach’s earlier compositions, showing the influence of Brahms and Wagner, became more chromatic and dissonant in her later works. Major works in this program include her Quintet in F sharp, op.67 and the Symphony in E minor, op.32, performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and conducted

by Neeme Jarvi.

HOMAGE TO APOLLO Saturday 24 May 5-6pm The important Greek god, Apollo, the epitome of power and beauty, was also worshipped by the Romans. He was the god of many things, including variously the sun and light, art, music, poetry, prophecy, healing and medicine sometimes in its less desirable aspects such as the plague. Hermes created the lyre for Apollo and hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.

NAPOLEON Monday 26 May 2.30-4 pm Napoleon Bonaparte was the most prominent and admired French military and political leader of post revolutionary France and, from 1804 to 1814, Emperor I of France. He was a lifelong lover of music, especially Italian opera and has said that “Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”

While Napoleon himself was inspired by music, he in turn was the source of inspiration to musicians. Most notably, Beethoven originally intended to dedicate his third symphony to Napoleon but his admiration turned to disgust when Napoleon declared himself Emperor. This program comprises five varied works inspired by Napoleon, including a hymn, a march, film music and finally Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, with narrator, quartet and piano.

- Cynthia Kaye/Frank Morrison NOT TO BE MISSED Saturday 3 May 9.30 - 11.30am Spotlight on Puccini’s Heroines Tuesday 13 May 9 - 10am Artist of Choice – Arthur Grumiaux Friday 16 May 2 - 4pm French Flair Saturday 17 May 9.30 - 11.30am Ballets Through the Years Cello Rarities CONTINUING SERIES Every Wednesday 3pm The Symphonies of Haydn Wednesdays 8pm - At the Opera: Legendary Met Performances 14 May Francesca da Rimini Friday 2 and 16 May Bach The Magnificent – Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMS

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Thursday 1 May Schroeter, G. Piano concerto, op 180 no 3, The hands of destiny. Kiev PO/Robert Ian Winstin. erm 6827 21 Massenet, J. Ballet music from Le Cid (1885).

City of Birmingham SO/Louis Frémaux.

EMI 5 65150 2 20 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Symphony no 2, op 9, Antar (1868/97). Philharmonia O/Yondani Butt.

ASV DCA 1024 31

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0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Glinka, M. Theme and variations (c1824). Olga Tverskaya, fp.

Opus111 OPS 30-178 10 Overture to A life for the Tsar (1836). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet.

Decca 480 0038 9 Mazurka; Waltz, from Ivan Susanin (1836). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Melodiya SUCD 10-00166 10 Valse mélodique (1839). Victor Ryabchikov, pf.

BIS CD-981 2

Cimarosa, D. Overture to Li due baroni di Roccazzura (1783). Haydn Philharmonia/Ezio Rojatti.

Nuova Era 6726 11 22

Haydn, J. Sonata no 48 in C, Hob.XVI:35 (1780).

Carmen Piazzini, pf.

Arte Nova 74321 30473 2 13

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Arias with solo trumpet. Judith Nelson, sop; Dennis Ferry, tpt; Gordon Murray, hpd.

Harmonia Mundi HMA 1905137 7

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

Four toccatas. Daniele Calcagno, org.

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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

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12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers Covering the many aspects of jazz from Swing to Mainstream, with the Great American Songbook making regular appearances 13:00 A TRIBUTE TO CLAUDIO ABBADO 26 June 1933 - 20 January 2014 Prepared by Chris Blower Mussorgsky, M. A night on Bald Mountain (1867; arr. Rimsky-Korsakov). Berlin PO. DG 445 238-2 13 Henze, H. Hunt of the Menads (1953). Gustav Mahler Youth O. DG 447 115-2 3

Ravel, M. Alborada del gracioso (1905). Martin Gatt, bn; London SO. DG 427 314-2 7

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans

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Stepán, J. Capriccio no 2 in F. Robert Hill, pf.

MDG 620 0870-2 10

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E, Kk206. Murray Perahia, pf.

Sony SK 62785

To Molly (1840). Lina Mkrtchyan, mezz; Yevgeny Talisman, pf. opus OPS 30-227

Spanish overture no 1: Jota aragonesa (1845).

London SO/Charles Mackerras.

Mercury 434 352-2 9

Ravel, M. Trio in A minor (1914). Beaux Arts Trio.

Philips 468 306-2 26

Rutini, G. Sonata in D minor, op 3 no 4. Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, hpd.

Aura AUR 428-2 9

Wizard’s march, from Ruslan and Ludmila (arr.

Liszt). Vladimir Leyetchkiss, pf.

Centaur CRC 2088 5

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Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D784 (1823).

Jenö Jandó, pf.

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11:30 BROWSING THE BAROQUE Prepared by Rex Burgess

Verdi, G. Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside; Quest assisa ch’io vesto; Il dolor che in quel volto favella, from Aïda (1871). Katia Ricciarelli, sop; Elena Obraztsova, mezz; Plácido Domingo, ten; Leo Nucci, bar; Ruggero Raimondi, bass; Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass; La Scala Ch & TO. DG 415 286-2 11

Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila (1842). Russian NO/Mikhail Pletnev.

Newton Classics 8802037 5

14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS

Berlioz, H. Te Deum, op 22 (1849). Francisco Araiza, ten; London Symphony Ch; London Philharmonic Choir; Wooburn Singers; St Alban’s School Choir; Haberdashers’ Aske’s School Choir; Southend Boys’ Choir; Desborough School Choir; Choir of Forest School, Winnersh; Choirboys of High Wycombe Parish Church; Martin Haselbock, org; European Community Youth O. DG 410 696-2 47 Claudio Abbado, cond (all above)

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Madilina Tresca Bottesini, G. Duet (1865). Thomas Martin, db; Emma Johnson, cl; English CO. Naxos 8.570397 8 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 9 in E flat, K271, Jeunehomme (1777). Cleveland O/Mitsuko Uchida, pf & dir.

Decca 478 3539 33 Grainger, P. The bride’s tragedy (pub. 1914).

Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner O/ John Eliot Gardiner.

Decca 479 1044 9 Tchaikovsky, P. Manfred symphony, op 58 (1885). Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink.

Decca 478 5867 58 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel Bridge, F. Sonata in D minor (1913-17). Bernard Gregor-Smith, vc; Yolande Wrigley, pf.

ASV DCA 796 23 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Quintet, op 143.

Andrés Segovia, gui; strings of Quintetto Chigiano.

DG 474 9612 23 Spohr, L. Sextet in C, op 140 (1848). Sándor Papp, va; Tamás Varga, vc; New Haydn Quartet.

Naxos 8.555968 24 Rachmaninov, S. Piano trio élégïaque no 2 in D minor, op 9 (1893/1907/17). Moscow Rachmaninov Trio.

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Mariss Jansons. Photo - Marco Borggreve

Riccardo Chailly

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Duo in E flat, WoO32 (1796-97). Jürgen Kussmaul, va; Anner Bijlsma, vc.

Sony SK 48076

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Exploring Chamber Prepared by Frank Morrison Khachaturian, A. Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (1932). Eimer Trio.

Dynamic CDS60 16 Saint-Saëns, C. Sonata, op 167 (1921). Gervase de Peyer, cl; Gwenneth Pryor, pf.

Chandos CHAN 8526 15 Mendelssohn, F. Quartet in E flat, op 12 (1829).

Coull String Quartet.

Hyperion CDS 44051/53 22 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish Riisager, K. Overture: Erasmus Montanus, op 1 (1920). Danish National RSO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Chandos CHAN 9432 13 Field, J. Piano concerto no 3 in E flat (pub.

1816). John O’Conor, pf; Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras.

Telarc CD-80370 32 Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 3 in A minor, op 44 (1935-36/38). St Petersburg PO/Mariss Jansons.

EMI 5 62809 2 38 11:30 CHAMBER VIGNETTES Prepared by Rex Burgess Beethoven, L. Variations on Mozart’s Se vuol ballare, from The marriage of Figaro, WoO40 (1792-93). Yehudi Menuhin, vn; Wilhelm Kempff, pf.

DG 459 433-2 13

20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Robert Small 14

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

Goldmark, K. Overture: In Italy, op 49 (pub.1904).

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Rustic wedding symphony, op 26 (1877).

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13:00 BACH THE MAGNIFICENT Prepared by Patrick Thomas

Irish National SO/Stephen Gunzenhauser (2 above) Naxos 8.550745

Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue, from The welltempered clavier, bk 1, nos 1 to 8. Albert Landa, pf.

ABC 476 4556 40

Berwald, F. Violin concerto in C sharp minor, op 2 (1820). Arve Tellefsen, vn; Royal PO/Ulf Björlin.

EMI CDM 5 65073 2 21

14:00 MASTERS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Rex Burgess

d’Indy, V. Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, op 29. Amici Ensemble.

Naxos 8.557347 36

Balakirev, M. Piano concerto no 2 in E flat, op posth (1862/1906; compl. Lyapunov). Malcolm Binns, pf; English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones.

Hyperion CDA66640 32 Chausson, E. Poem of love and the sea, op 19 (1882-90). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Lamoureux Concert O/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat.

EMI CMS 5 65061 2 28 Bruckner, A. Symphony no 1 in C minor (189091). Berlin RSO/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 491 091-2 54 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh 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

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Robert Small Telemann, G. Overture in D, from Musique de table II (pub. 1733). Paul Goodwin, ob; Crispian Steele-Perkins, tpt; Roy Goodman, vn; Miles Golding, vn; Jane Compton, va; Jane Coe, vc; Peter Buckoke, db; Robert King, hpd & dir.

Hyperion CDA66278 39 Monteverdi, C. Gloria a 7 voci, from Selva morale (1640). Les Arts Florissants/William Christie.

Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901316/18 13 Rameau, J-P. Suite from Les Indes galantes (1735-61). O of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen.

Philips 438 946-2 44 Scarlatti, A. Fair lady called Grace (1690s).

James Sanderson, ct; Hans-Dieter Michatz, rec; Chacona/Rosalind Halton.

ABC 476 617-0 12 May 2014

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Saturday 3 May 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON PUCCINI’S HEROINES Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend Puccini, G. Mario! Mario! Mario! ... Son’ qui! from Tosca (1900). Montserrat Caballé, sop; José Carreras, ten; Piero de Palma, ten; William Elvin, bass; Royal Opera House O/Colin Davis.

Philips 434 986-2 14 Bimbi dagli occhi pieni di malia, from Madama Butterfly (1904). Miriam Gauci, sop; Yordy Ramiro, ten, Slovak RSO/Alexander Rahbari.

Naxos 8.578066/67 11

Chopin, F. Tarantella in A flat, op 43 (1841).

Nikolai Demidenko, pf.

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Berlioz, H. Overture to Benvenuto Cellini. Brighouse and Rastrick Band; CWS (Manchester) Band; Fairey Band; Foden Motor Works Band; GUS (Footwear) Band/Eric Ball.

LP Astor GGS 1234 10

Trad. Tarantella. Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.

Chandos CHAN 10609

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Trad. Rhapsody on Scottish marches (arr.

Fernie). Sellers Engineering Band/Phillip McCann.

Chandos CHAN 4527 4 Legrand, M. What are you doing the rest of your life?; Windmills of your mind; Summer knows.

James Shepherd Versatile Brass/James Shepherd.

LP Decca SB 321 6 Anderson, L. A trumpeter’s lullaby. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee.

AMP 20194 5

O saro la più bella, from Manon Lescaut (1893).

Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; José Carreras, ten; Bologna Comunale TO/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 440 844-2 9

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

Si, mi chiamano Mimi, from La bohème (1896).

Renata Tebaldi, sop; Carlo Bergonzi, ten; Renato Cesari, bar; Ettore Bastianini, bar; Cesare Siepi, bass; St Cecilia Academy O/Tullio Serafin.

Decca 470 280-2 10

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

Vissi d’arte ..., from Tosca. Maria Callas, sop; Renato Ercolani, ten; Tito Gobbi, bar; Conservatoire Concert Society O/Georges Prêtre.

EMI CDM 63087 2 13 Una partita a poker! from The girl of the golden west (1910). Renata Tebaldi, sop; Cornell MacNeil, bar; St Cecilia Academy O/Franco Capuano.

Decca 470 280-2 6

14:00 LISTENERS’ CHOICE with Christina MacGuinness Phone 9439 4777 or go to finemusicfm.com and follow the links to choose your music 15:30 MUSIC FOR WORDS For young and old Prepared by Brian Drummond

Flower duet, from Madame Butterfly. Mirella Freni, sop; Christa Ludwig, mezz; Vienna PO/ Herbert von Karajan.

Decca 421 314-2 8

Bach, J.S. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV225 (1727). Australian Chamber Choir/ Douglas Lawrence.

Move MD 3363 14

Catalani, A. Ebben? Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally (1891). Renée Fleming, sop; London PO/Charles Mackerras.

Decca 467 049-2 5

Duruflé, M. Requiem, op 9 (1947). Janet Baker, mezz; Stephen Roberts, bar; Choir of King’s College, Cambridge; John Butt, org; Phillip Ledger, cond.

EMI 3 79994 2 37

Puccini, G. One fine day, from Madama Butterfly. Joan Hammond, sop; Philharmonia O/Glauco Curiel.

Testament SBT 1153 5 Quando m’en vo’solletta, from La bohème.

Virginia Zeani, sop; St Cecilia Academy O/ Giuseppe Patane.

Decca 460 805-2 10 Ch’il bel sogno di Doretta, from La Rondine (1917). Inessa Galante, sop; Latvian NSO/ Alexander Vilumanis.

Campion RRCD 1335 4 Fra le tue braccia. amore! from Manon Lescaut.

Maria Callas, sop; Giuseppe di Stefano, ten; La Scala TO/Tullio Serafin.

Sarabandas 54040 7 24

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

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Dreyfus, G. The song of the maypole (1968).

Australian Rosny Childrens Choir; Tasmanian SO/George Dreyfus.

Move MD 3116 14 Byrd, W. The great service. Tallis Scholars/ Peter Phillips.

Gimell CDGIM 343/4 45 17:30 TARANTELLA Prepared by Frank Morrison Gaubert, P. Tarantella. Fenwick Smith, fl; John Ferrillo, ob; Sally Pinkas, pf.

Naxos 8.557305 4 Martucci, G. Tarantella, op 44 no 6 (1880).

Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia.

Naxos 8.570930 6

Paganini, N. Tarantella in A minor, op 33 (181926). Franco Mezzena, vn; Genoa CO/Antonio Plotino.

Dynamic CDS 27 5 18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with Gerry Myerson 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Derek Parker Varney, L. Excerpts from Les mousquetaires au couvent. René Doria, sop; Lyne Cumia, sop; Rosine Bredy, sop; Michel Hamel, ten; Lucien Huberty, bar; Jacques Loreau, bar; Grand SO & Ch/Je Philips 442 240-2 19 Stolz, R. Excerpts from Venus in Seide. Margit Schramm, sop; Liselotte Schmidt, sop; Rudolf Schock, ten; Ferry Gruber, ten; Günther Arndt Ch; Berlin SO/Robert Stolz.

Eurodisk 258 366 18 Künneke, E. Excerpts from Der Vetter aus Dingsda. Erika Köth, sop; Helga Hildebrand, sop; Anneliese Preuss, mezz; Rudolf Schock, ten; Manfred Schmidt, ten; Walter Hauck, bar; Wilhelm Streinz, bass; FFB O/Weinder Schmidt-Boelke.

LaserLight 16 048 14 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL The Goldner String Quartet with Ronan O’Hara Recorded by Kerry Joyner for FINE MUSIC Schubert, F. Impromptus, D935 (1827): no 2 in A flat, no 3 in B flat.

22 Brahms, J. Quintet in F minor, op 34 (1864).

Goldner String Quartet.

42 Ronan O’Hora, pf (2 above) 21:10 FANTASIE Schubert, F. Fantasie in F minor, D940 (1828).

Elizabeth Powell, Ffrangon Davies, pf.

FINE MUSIC Tape Archive 18 21:30 ORCHESTRAL MINIATURES Prepared by Rex Burgess Balakirev, M. Symphonic poem: In Bohemia (1906). BBC PO/Vassily Sinaisky.

Chandos CHAN 9667 12 Kodály, Z. Dances of Marosszék (1930). Brno State PO/José Serebrier BIS CD-875 14 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 4 May 14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Masters of the Romantic era Prepared by Rex Burgess

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen 9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Maureen Meers Leisner, D. Tango solitaire; Waltz for the old folks; Ballad for the lonely; Samba! from Dances in the mad house (1987). Virginia Taylor, fl; Timothy Kain, gui.

ABC 456 691-2 12 Thomson, V. Acadian songs and dances, from Louisiana story (1948). New London O/Ronald Corp.

Hyperion CDA66576 15 Benjamin, A. North American square dance (1951). Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner.

CBC Enterprises 2-5088 12 Bernstein, L. Three dance episodes, from On the town (1944). Bournemouth Symphony Ch & O/Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.559177 11 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Pleyel, I. Quartets. Christoff Ogg, cl; Regula Schneider, bshn; Markus Niederhauser, bshn; Andreas Ramseier, bshn.

Claves 50-9212 17 Clementi, M. Sonata in E flat, op 3 no 2 (pub.

1779). Genevieve Chinn, Allen Brings, pf.

Centaur CRC 2046 15 Hertel, J. Concerto in C. Werner Thärichen, drums; Berlin RSO/Vernon Handley.

LP Schwann VMS 2066 E 19 Bortnyansky, D. It is good to give thanks.

Parsons Affayre/Warren Trevelyan-Jones.

Vox Foris MMPA003

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Reichardt, J. Rondeau. Thomas Bloch, glass harmonica; Marc Marder, db; Quatuor Rosamonde.

Naxos 8.555295 7 Czerny, C. Andante e polacca (1848). Hermann Baumann, hn; Leonard Hokanson, pf.

Philips 416 816-2 11 Hofmann, L. Cello concerto in D. Northern Sinfonia/Tim Hugh, vc & dir.

Naxos 8.553853 23 12:00 SPEAK EASY, SWING HARD with Richard Hughes The Golden Era of jazz, as seen through the knowledge and experience of one of Australia’s leading exponents 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Josh Oshlack Showcases diverse music from cultures around the world, both traditional and modern, featuring musicians from all corners of the globe, including Australia

Wagner, R. Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin (1848). Vienna PO/Zubin Mehta.

Decca 475 7470

York, A. Blues for J.D. GSP Recordings GSP1025

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William Kanengiser, gui (all above) 19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS 9

Strauss, R. Four last songs (1948). Cheryl Studer, sop; Staatskapelle Dresden/Giuseppe Sinopoli.

DG 439 865-2 21 Mahler, G. Symphony no 9 in D (1909). Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado.

Radio Nederland transcription 1:24 16:00 MUSICA DA CAMERA Prepared by Jan Brown Beethoven, L. Trio in E flat, op 70 no 2 (1808).

Pinchas Zukerman, vn; Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Daniel Barenboim, pf.

EMI CMS 7 63124-2 31 Mozart, W. Quintet no 1 in B flat, K174 (1773).

Wilhelm Hübner, vn; Barylli Quartet.

Westminster Chamber Music Collection 22 17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews Hymns: Hail the day that sees Him rise; Come O spirit from on high; O brother man; Let all the world in every corner sing. Cantus Choro; Norman Kaye, org; Melbourne Brass Ensemble/ Peter Chapman.

Move MD 3062 9

Dvorák, A. O silver moon, from Rusalka (1900).

Jana Valášková, sop; Slovak RSO/Johannes Wildner.

Naxos 8.555037-38 6 Adam, A. Ah! vous dirai-je, maman, from Le toréador (1849). Sumi Jo, sop; John Aler, ten; Michel Tremport, bar; Welsh National Opera O/Richard Bonynge.

7 Decca 473 821-2 Mozart, W. Madamina, il catalogo è questo, from Don Giovanni, K527 (1787). Andrea Martin, bass; Vienna Mozart O/Konrad Leitner.

6 Naxos 8.555037-38 Gluck, C. Vieni a’ regni del riposo, from Orfeo ed Euridice (1762). Hungarian State Opera Chamber Ch & O/Ervin Lukács.

6 LaserLight 14113 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Jennifer Foong Arne, T. Overture no 1 in E minor (pub. 1751).

Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

8 L’Oiseau-Lyre 436 859-2 Dittersdorf, C. Oboe concerto in G (c1770).

Heinz Holliger, ob; Camerata Bern/Thomas Füri.

Archiv 410 599-2 15 Cherubini, L. Symphony in D (1815). London SO/Charles Mackerras.

Carlton Classics 15656 91372 30

Anon. Excerpts from The play of Daniel.

Choristers of Southwell Minster; Dufay Collective/William Lyons.

Harmonia Mundi HMV 907 479

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Buxtehude, D. Laudate pueri, Dominum, BuxWV69. Greta de Reyghere, sop; Agnès Mellon, sop; Ricercar Consort.

Ricercar RIC 046023

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Brahms, J. Ave Maria, op 12 (1858). Chamber Choir of Stuttgart; Detlef Bratsche, org; Frieder Bernius, cond.

Carus 83.201 4 Tchaikovsky, P. Lord have mercy, from Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, op 41 (1878). National Choir of the Ukraine ’Dumka’/Yevhen Savch.

Regis RR C 1072 3

Franck, C. Piano concerto no 2 in B minor, op 11 (c1835). Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, pf; Belgian Radio & TV New SO/Edgar Doneux.

Schwann 311 111G1 28 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Phil Vendy Maderna, B. Violin concerto (1969). Theo Olof, vn; Royal Concertgebouw O/Diego Masson.

Radio Nederland RCO 06004 28 Gould, T. The crossing (2007). Michael Kieran Harvey, pf.

Move MD 3329 19

18:00 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY Maestro’s visit Prepared by Dan Sharkey

Löthman, A. Diptyk (1993). Dan Larsson, cl; Magnus Grönlund, gui.

6 Caprice CAP 21787

Gottschalk, L. Three Caribbean souvenirs.

GSP Recordings GSP1018 18

Rautavaara, E. Symphony no 8, The journey (1999). New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen.

Naxos 8.570069 30

Mozart, W. Sonata in A, K331 (1783).

GSP Recordings GSP1004

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Domeniconi, C. Suite: Koyunbaba, op 19 (1985).

GSP Recordings GSP1006 11

22:30 ULTIMA THULE Ambient and atmospheric music: www. ultimathule.info for detailed playlist May 2014

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Monday 5 May 14:00 SONGS OF FAREWELL Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

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

Mussorgsky, M. Boris’s farewell and death scene, from Boris Godunov (1874). Feodor Chaliapin, bass; Royal Opera House O. Naxos 8.110748 12

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

Finzi, G. Farewell to arms (1926-45). James Gilchrist, ten; Bournemouth SO/David Hill.

Naxos 8.570417 9

Rossini, G. Overture to Cinderella (arr. Parkes).

Chandos CHAN 4505 8 Holst, G. Excerpts from The perfect fool (arr.

Parkes).

Chandos 4507 11 John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Peter Parkes (2 above) Ruchman, S. Arrival of Spring. Kim Collins, fl; Alyce Cognetta Bertz, vn; Rebecca Babic, vc. www.sharonruchman.com 6 Gershwin, G. Gershwin in Hollywood (arr.

Robert Bennett). New Zealand SO/James Judd.

Naxos 8.559107 10 Khachaturian, A. Trio (1932; arr. Power of Three). Power of Three.

ABC/Three Bracelets 94504 47232 17 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Brian Drummond Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Fantasia on Serbian themes, op 6 (1867/86/87). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Melodiya MA 23325 009 7

Vladimir Horowitz. Photo - Library of Congress

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

15:00 IT’S ROMANTIC Prepared by Paul Hopwood

13:00 THE MATURE HOROWITZ Prepared by Denis Patterson

Dvorák, A. Overture: Carnival, op 92 (1891).

Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi.

9 Chandos CHAN 8575

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E, Kk380.

Rachmaninov, S. Prelude in G, op 32 no 5 (1910).

Brahms, J. Trio no 3 in C minor, op 101 (1886).

Itzhak Perlman, vn; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf.

EMI 7 54725 2 21

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Paderewski, I. Sonata in A minor, op 13 (1884).

Wanda Wilkomirska, vn; Paul Dan, pf.

Ambitus amb 97 830 24

Skryabin, A. Étude in D sharp minor, op 8 no 12 (1894).

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

Liszt, F. Soirées de Vienne: Valse-caprice no 6 (1852).

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19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling Mainstream to contemporary jazz, with an emphasis on Australian performers

Sonetto no 104 del Petrarca (1837-49).

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Chopin, F. Mazurka in C sharp minor, op 30 no 4 (1836-37).

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20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg

Mazurka in F minor, op 7 no 3 (1831).

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22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Phil Vendy

Brahms, J. Piano concerto no 1 in D minor, op 15 (1854-58). Maurizio Pollini, pf; Vienna PO/ Karl Böhm.

DG 4790913 46

Moszkowski, M. Etincelles. morceau caractéristique, op 36 no 6.

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Rachmaninov, S. Polka de W.R. (1911).

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Falla, M. de Nights in the gardens of Spain (190716). Clifford Curzon, pf; New SO/Enrique Jorda.

Decca 473 116-2 25

Schumann, R. Symphony no 4 in D minor, op 120 (1841/50). Hanover Band/Roy Goodman.

RCA 09026 61931 2 23

Beethoven, L. Adagio cantabile, from Sonata no 8 in C minor, op 13, Pathétique (1797-98).

Sony 88697419402 5

11:30 PIANO AND STRINGS Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Beethoven, L. Adagio sostenuto, from Sonata no 14 in C sharp minor, op 27 no 2, Moonlight (1801).

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Stravinsky, I. Fireworks, op 4 (1911/47). Dallas SO/Eduardo Mata.

Pro Arte CDD 443 4

Beethoven, L. Piano trio no 9 in E flat, WoO38 (c1791). Beaux Arts Trio.

Philips 438 948-2 Byström, T. Sonata no 1, op 1 (pub. 1799).

Yoshiko Arai, vn; Izumi Tateno, pf.

Finlandia FACD 012 26

Mahler, G. The farewell, from The song of the earth (1908-09). Elizabeth Campbell, mezz; Sydney SO/Stuart Challender.

ABC 476 595-7 31

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Wagner, R. Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59; transcr. Liszt).

7 Vladimir Horowitz, pf (all above) DG 474 370-2

Coates, E. Suite: The three men (1935). London PO/Barry Wordsworth.

Lyrita SRCD.213 25 Berg, A. Sonata in B minor, op 1 (1907). Nikolai Demidenko, pf.

Hyperion CDA66781/2 12 Bartók, B. Violin concerto no 1 (1907-08). Vilmos Szabadi, vn; Hungarian State O/Andras Ligeti.

Hungaroton HCD 31543 20 Fuchs, R. Quintet in E flat, op 102 (1914). Paul Meyer, cl; Carmina Quartet.

Denon CO-78801 30

Tuesday 6 May

Hermann Baumann

Leif Segerstam

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Sibelius, J. Symphony no 1 in E minor, op 39 (1899). Danish National RSO/Leif Segerstam.

Chandos CHAN 9107 43

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: Hermann Baumann Prepared by Di Cox Mozart, L. Sinfonia da caccia. Radovan Vlatkovic, hn; Timothy Brown, hn; Nicholas Hill, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Iona Brown.

Philips 416 815-2 11 Czerny, C. Andante e polacca (1848). Leonard Hokanson, pf.

Philips 416 816-2 11 Fasch, J. Concerto in D, Die Jagd. Radovan Vlatkovic, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown.

Philips 416 815-2 13 Beethoven, L. Horn sonata in F, op 17 (1800).

Leonard Hokanson, pf.

Philips 416 816-2 15 Hermann Baumann, hn (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Smetana, B. Overture to The bartered bride (1866). Israel PO/István Kertész.

Decca 476 2453 6 Khachaturian, A. Piano concerto in D flat (1936). Constantine Orbelian, pf; Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8542 33

Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (2 above)

11:30 ORGAN SPLENDOUR Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Quintet in G (1875). Andreas Kirpal, pf; Diogenes Quartett. cpo 777 547-2

Franck, C. Prelude, fugue and variation in B minor, op 18 (1860-62). Francis Grier, org.

ASV QS 6175 10

Excerpts from The sleeping beauty (1902).

Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher.

Virgin VC 7 91494-2 20

Chorale no 3 in A minor (1890). Fernando Germani, org.

EMI 5 69328 2

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

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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

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

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Derek Parker

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

22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling

14:00 ‘ONE WORK’ COMPOSERS Prepared by Stephen Wilson Humperdinck, E. When at night I go to sleep, dream sequence, from Hansel and Gretel (1893). Anthony Way, treb; Barbara Bonney, sop; English Sinfonia/Neil Page.

Decca 476 2649 9 String quartet in C (1919-20). Diogenes Quartett. cpo 777 547-2

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Shakespeare suite no 1 (1905-07).

Schwann 3-1197-2

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Concert overture, from The royal children (1910).

Virgin VC 7 91494-2

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Wednesday 7 May 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti

Anon. The British grenadiers (arr. Barlow). John Potter, ten; Broadside Band/Jeremy Barlow.

Saydisc CD SDL 400 3 Purcell, H. The noise of foreign wars. Jeni Bern, sop; Susan Bissat, sop; Christopher Robson, ct; William Purefoy, ct; Ian Honeyman, ten; Thomas Guthrie, bass; Ch & O of the Golden Age/Robert Glenton.

Naxos 8.553444 7 Biber, H. Battalia à 10 (pub. 1673). New London Consort/Philip Pickett.

Decca 458 081-2 10 Monteverdi, C. Introduction and dance, from Madrigals of love and war (1638). Joachim Calaminus, ten; Cologne Chamber Choir; Juliane Heuser, vn; Martin Sonneveld, vn; Gerhart Darmstadt, vc; Jürgen Fichtner, va; Christoph Lehmann, hpd; Peter Neumann, cond.

MD+G L 3081 11

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Handel, G. Vo’ far guerra, from Rinaldo, HWV7 (1711). Emma Kirkby, sop; Alastair Ross, hpd; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDS44271/3 5 Racks, gibbets, sword and fire, from Theodora, HWV68 (1750). Christopher Purves, bass; Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen.

Hyperion CDA67842 4 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell Grieg, E. Lyric suite, op 54 (1889-91).

Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi.

DG 478 5182

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Boccherini, L. Cello concerto no 9 in B flat.

Jacqueline du Pré, vc; English CO/Daniel Barenboim.

EMI CMS 7 63283 2 23 28

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11:30 JUST FOR TWO

Gluck, C. Il trionfo de Clelia. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Pietro Metastasio. First performed Bologna, 1763.

Pleyel, I. Duo in F, op 24 no 5. Lola Bobesco, vn; Jerrold Rubenstein, vn.

LP Pavane 10

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Angela Bell

Schmelzer, J. Sonata, The victory of the Christians over the Turks (pub.1683; arr.

Schmelzer). Romanesca.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907143

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

Chandos CHAN 10236 X 41

Mozart, W. Violin sonata no 22 in A, K305 (1778). Duo Amade.

Chandos CHAN 0764 16 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale Jazz of many colours, some old, some new and all designed to inform and stimulate the senses 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI with Troy Fil; recorded by Greg Ghavalas Pianist Robbin Reza plays works by J.S. Bach, Rautavarra, Liszt, Debussy and Agnew.

Proudly sponsored by Piano World and Sauter Pianos 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. Replays on www.finemusicfm. com 15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:56 (1774).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 26 Paisiello, G. Andante for the Empress’s birthday. Sören Hermansson, hn; Erica Goodman, hp.

BIS CD-648

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Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:57 (1774).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 24 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

CLELIA: Hélène Le Corre, sop ORAZIO: Mary-Ellen Nesi, mezz TARQUINIO: Irini Karaianni, mezz PORSENNA: Vasiilis Kavayas, ten LARISSA: Burçu Uyar, sop MANNIO: Florin Cezar Ouatu, ct Armonia Atenea/Giuseppe Sigismondi de Risio.

MDG 609 1733-2

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Tarquinio has been refused the throne of Rome and, although betrothed to Larissa, makes amorous advances towards Clelia, a Roman woman being held captive by the Etruscan king Porsenna. Clelia rejects Tarquinio and tells her betrothed, Roman ambassador Orazio. He reminds her that their over-riding duty is to liberate Rome from the Etruscans. Porsenna suggests to Orazio that Rome surrender and accept Tarquinio as its king. Orazio declines. Tarquinio tells him privately that he will renounce his claim to the throne if Orazio surrenders Clelia to him. As the Etruscans prepare an assault on Rome, Larissa tells her father Porsenna of her dislike for Tarquinio. Orazio halts the Etruscan attack by destroying the only bridge across the Tiber. Tarquinio accuses the Romans of breaking the truce and writes in a letter of his plan to abduct Clelia. Mannio reveals the plan to Clelia, who escapes with the letter and crosses the river on horseback. Tarquinio tries to persuade Porsenna to launch another attack but Clelia returns, exposing Tarquinio’s treachery by producing the letter. Impressed

by Clilia’s bravery, Porsenna praises Roman virtue and guarantees peace and freedom to its citizens.

23:30 ORCHESTRAL MINIATURES Prepared by Rex Burgess Bach, C.P.E. Sinfonia no 2 in B flat, Wq182 (1773). English Concert/Trevor Pinnock.

Archiv 415 300-2 12 Hummel, J. Introduction, theme and variations in F, op 102 (1824). Diana Doherty, ob; Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert.

ABC 456 681-2 14

Thursday 8 May 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Marilyn Schock

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

13:00 MEYERBEER INTERLUDE Prepared by Francis Frank

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

Meyerbeer, G. Coronation march, from Le prophète (1849). Hanover RPO/Michail Jurowski. cpo 999 168-2

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Chris Blower

19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey

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Glanville-Hicks, P. Three gymnopédies (1934).

Sydney SO/Myer Fredman.

ABC 442 374-2 9

Clarinet fantasy (1839). Consortium Classicum/ Dieter Klöcker, cl & dir.

Orfeo C314 941 A 9

Sonata for harp (1952). Marshall McGuire, hp.

Tall Poppies TP071 10

Ombe légère, from Le pardon de Plöemel.

Natalie Dessay, sop; Monte-Carlo PO/Patrick Fournillier.

Virgin 363332 2 9 8

Mimic heaven, five songs by Housman (1944).

Gerald English, ten; Roland Peelman, pf.

Tall Poppies TP112 7 Sonata (1952). Susanne Powell, pf; CSM Percussion Ensemble/Michael Askill.

Canberra School of Music CSM 24

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Overture: My sleep is fragile like an eggshell is; Phaon has become much thinner; The nymph in the fountain, from Sappho (1963). Deboirah Polaski, sop; Wolfgang Koch, bass-bar; Gulbenkian Ch & O/Jennifer Condon.

Toccata TOCC 154-55 14 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Ron Walledge Holst, G. The perfect fool, ballet music, op 39 (1918-22). London PO/Adrian Boult.

Belart 461 3542 11 Weber, C.M. Bassoon concerto in F, op 75 (1811/22). Valery Popov, bn; Russian State SO/ Valery Polyansky.

Chandos CHAN 9656 17 Rachmaninov, S. Symphonic dances, op 45 (1940). Vladimir Ovcharek, vn; St Petersburg PO/Mariss Jansons.

EMI 5 62809 2 35 Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Haydn, op 56a, St Anthoni chorale (1873). Vienna PO/ István Kertész.

Decca 448 197-2 19

Torch dance no 3 in C minor, from Dances for Prussian royal weddings (1856). Hanover RPO/ Michail Jurowski. cpo 999 168-2 13 Popolo dell’Egitto, from Il crociato in Egitto.

Alfredo Kraus, ten; Welsh National Opera Ch & O/Carlo Rizzi.

Philips 442 785-2 9 O beau pays de la Touraine! from Les Huguenots (1836). Beverly Sills, sop; Royal PO/ Charles Mackerras.

Decca 467 906-2 8 14:00 ORCHESTRAL MINIATURES Prepared by Rex Burgess Tippett, M. Fantasia on a theme of Handel (1939-41). Margaret Kitchin, pf; London SO/ Michael Tippett.

LP RCA SER 5620 12 Arnold, M. Oboe concerto, op 39 (1953).

Malcolm Messiter, ob; London FO/Ross Pople.

Hyperion CDA66332 14 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Steps to mastery Debussy, C. Études, bk 2 (1915). Roy Howat, pf.

Tall Poppies TP094 26

11:30 ROMANTIC KEYS Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Bach, J.S. Partita no 2 in C minor, BWV826 (1731). Nicholas Parle, hpd.

ABC 476 6405 25

Tchaikovsky, P. Theme and variations in F, op 19 no 6 (1873). Andrei Gavrilov, pf.

Philips 456 787-2 11

Chopin, F. Études, op 10 (1829-32). Maurizio Pollini, pf.

DG 00289 477 8445 27

Liszt, F. Spanish rhapsody (1863). Yevgeny Kissin, pf.

Philips 456 871-2 14

Godowsky, L. Study no 12a in G flat, from Studies on Chopin’s études, op 10 (1900-14).

Marc-André Hamelin, pf.

Hyperion CDA67411/2 2

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA The concertos of Paganini Prepared by Elaine Siversen Strauss, J. I Seufzer-Galopp, op 9 (1828; arr.

Schönherr). Vienna PO/Claudio Abbado.

DG 431 628-2 2 Kettenbrücke waltz no 1, op 4 (1828).

Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Sony 88697914112

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Einzugs-Galopp, op 35 (1830). Vienna PO/Zubin Mehta.

2 DG 477 6225 Schubert, F. Symphony no 10 in D, D936a (1828; arr Newbold). Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras.

Hyperion CDA67000 30 Paganini, N. Variations on The carnival of Venice, op 10 (1829). Salvatore Accardo, vn; CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi.

EMI 5 72854 2 12 Pixis, J. Piano concerto in C, op 100 (1829).

Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley, pf & dir.

Hyperion CDA67915 26 Paganini, N. Violin concerto no 4 in D minor (1829-30). Gidon Kremer, vn; Vienna O/ Riccardo Muti.

Philips 446 718-2 32 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. Trio in B flat, op 11 (1797).

Michael Collins, cl; Christopher van Kampen, vc; Ian Brown, pf.

Virgin VC 7 91137-2 21 Debussy, C. Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1908).

Ursula Holliger, hp; Die Kammermusiker Zürich.

Claves 50-280 17 Boccherini, L. Quintet no 9 in C, The retreat of Madrid (1798). Alexander Schneider, vn; Felix Galimir, vn; Michael Tree, va; David Soyer, vc; Alirio Diaz, gui.

Vanguard OVC 8006 23 Hummel, J. Septet no 1 in D minor, op 74 (c1816). Capricorn.

Hyperion CDA66396 38 Cambini, G. String quartet, op 40 no 3.

Giovane Quartetto Italiano.

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Friday 9 May 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

13:00 DONIZETTI AND THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Stephen Wilson

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Donizetti, G. Sinfonia to Don Pasquale (1843).

St Cecilia Academy O/Myung-Whun Chung.

DG 471 566-2 7

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

Concertino in G (1816). Camerata Budapest/ Lászlo Kovács.

Marco Polo 8.223701 11

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Exploring Chamber Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Arensky, A. Piano concerto in F minor, op 2 (1882). Konstantin Scherbakov, pf; Russian PO/ Dmitry Yablonsky.

Naxos 8.570526 26 Chausson, E. Poem of love and the sea, op 19 (1893). Steve Davislim, ten; Queensland SO/ Guillaume Tourniaire.

Melba MR 301123 28

Turina, J. Circulo, op 91 (1936). Beaux Arts Trio.

Philips 446 684-2 11

Sinfonia in A (c1820). Failoni CO/Géza Oberfrank.

Marco Polo 8.223577

Albéniz, I. Triana, from Iberia, (1906-08; arr.

Kain). Guitar Trek.

ABC 476 3338 5

Concertino in D minor (reconstr. Wojciechowski).

Camerata Budapest/Lászlo Kovács.

Marco Polo 8.223701 11

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Philip Lidbury Part 1: The birth of the symphony

Enescu, G. Pièce de concert (1906). Roger Chase, va; Michiko Otaki, pf.

Naxos 8.572293

14:00 20TH CENTURY MUSIC FROM BRITAIN Prepared by Frank Morrison

Stamitz, J. Symphony in B flat (c1745). New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong.

9 Naxos 8.553194

Britten, B. Te Deum in C (1934). Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson.

Naxos 8.554791

Bach, J.S. Sinfonia from Cantata, BWV209. Rachel Brown, fl; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman.

6 Hyperion CDA66501

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Moscheles, I. German dance. Eduard Melkus Ensemble.

Archiv 439 964-2 8 Bruch, M. Excerpts from Eight pieces for clarinet, cello and piano, op 83 (pub. 1910).

Ensemble Liaison.

Tall Poppies TP217 19 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown Tchaikovsky, P. Overture: 1812, op 49 (1882).

Dallas SO/Andrew Litton.

Delos DE 3196 16 Rachmaninov, S. Piano concerto no 4 in G minor, op 40 (1926/27/41). Axel Lubimov, pf; Toronto SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste. apex 43073 2 27 Taneyev, S. Symphony no 2 in B flat (1875-78).

Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky.

Chandos CHAN 9998 36 11:30 CHOIRS AND PLACES Rossini, G. L’ora fatal s’appressa ... Giusto ciel! in tal periglio, from L’assedio di Corinto.

Aleksandra Kurzak, sop; Warsaw Chamber Choir; Sinfonia Varsovia/Pier Giorgio Morandi.

Decca 478 3553 6 Mozart, W. Kyrie in D minor, K341 (1780-81).

Vienna Boys’ Choir; Chorus Viennensis; Vienna Volksoper CO/Peter Marschik.

ABC 480 6690 8 Schubert, F. Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D714 (1820). Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.

Philips 454 428-2 11 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell 30

David, Ferdinand. Violin concerto no 5 in D minor, op 35 (c1860). Hagai Shaham, vn; BBC SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA67804 24

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Holst, G. Oriental suite, Beni Mora (1909-10).

Royal Scottish NO/David Lloyd-Jones.

Naxos 8.553696 17 Vaughan Williams, R. String quartet no 1 in G minor (1908/21). Maggini Quartet.

Naxos 8.555300 30 15:00 A CLASSICAL FLAVOUR Prepared by Paul Hopwood Beethoven, L. Sonata no 2 in G minor, op 5 no 2 (1796). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, pf.

CBS M2K 42446 26 Mozart, W. Clarinet concerto in A, K622 (1791).

Dieter Klöcker, cl; Salzburg Mozarteum O/ Leopold Hager.

Teldec 8.44056 27 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Derek Parker

Vivaldi, A. Bassoon concerto in C, RV475.

Sergio Azzolini, bn; L’Aura Soave Cremona. naïve OP 30539 13 Richter, F. Sinfonia IX in A, no 69 (1744).

Helsinki Baroque O/Aapo Häkkinen.

Naxos 8.570597

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Heinichen, J. Oboe concerto in G minor.

Martin Stadler, ob; Fiori Musicali; Bremen Baroque O/Thomas Albert. cpo 999 637-2

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Boismortier, J. de Deuxième sérénade ou simphonie françoise. Le Concert Spirituel/ Hervé Niquet.

Naxos 8.554456 13 Locatelli, P. Violin concerto in C minor, op 4 no 11 (pub. 1735). Raglan Baroque Players/ Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn & dir.

Hyperion CDA67041/2 10

19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron

Boyce, W. Symphony in C, op 2 no 3 (1749).

Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

5 Decca 473 081-2

20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Part 2: He served four monarchs

Rossini, G. String sonata no 1 in G (1804).

Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Marshall Marcus, vn; Richard Tunnicliffe, vc; Chi-chi Nwanoku, db.

Hyperion CDA66595 11 Henselt, A. Concert variations on Quand je quittai la Normandie, from Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable, op 11 (1840). Marc-André Hamelin, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA66717 18

Tallis, T. Kyrie: Deus Creator. Chapelle du Roi/ Alistair Dixon.

3 Signum SIGCD003 Agnus Dei. Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha.

Chandos CHSA 5085

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Ave, Dei patris filia. Tallis Scholars.

Gimell GIM 203

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Saturday 10 May 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON A ‘ONE WORK COMPOSER’ Prepared by Stephen Wilson Sinding, C. Rustle of spring, from six pieces, op 32 no 6 (1896). David Stanhope, pf.

ABC 476 4621 2 Romance in D, op 100 (1910). Henning Kraggerud, vn; Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset.

Naxos 8.557266 10 Trio no 2 in A minor, op 64 (1902). András Kiss, vn; Tamás Koó, vc; Ilona Prunyi, pf.

Marco Polo 8.223283 27 Piano concerto in D flat, op 6 (1889/90). Eva Knardahl, pf; Oslo PO/Øivin Fjeldstad.

NKFCD 50016-2 31

Hurst, M. Three traditional French songs.

LP ABC AC 1014

5

Palestrina, G. da Missa brevis (pub. 1570).

ABC 476 4565 23 Adelaide Singers/Patrick Thomas (all above)

Orekhov,S. Troika variations. Artyom Dervoed, gui.

Naxos 8.570447 8 Prokofiev, S. On the Dnieper, ballet, op 51 (1931). Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky.

Chandos CHAN 10044 41 Bartók, B. Six Romanian folk dances (1915).

Zoltán Kocsis, pf.

Philips 475 6720 4 Kodály, Z. Dances of Marosszék (1923-27; orch.

1929). BBC Philharmonic O/Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 9811 13 9

Seven caprices, op 44 (1898). Helge Antoni, pf.

Etcetera KTC 1047 18

15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Pat Hopper

Violin concerto no 3 in A minor, op 119 (1916).

Andrej Bielow, vn; NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover/Frank Beermann. cpo 777 114-2 21

Mercer, J. Excerpts from Seven brides for seven brothers. Jane Powell; Howard Keel, voices; Studio Ch & O. MGM/EMI CDD 7933052 24

11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small

Bernstein, E. Excerpts from The Great Escape.

O/Elmer Bernstein.

Varese Sarabande 582.2 32

Verdi, G. Triumphal march, from Aida (1871; arr.

Creatore). Michael Colburn, cond.

Naxos 8.570243 5 Ives, C. Decoration day (1912). Timothy Foley, cond.

Naxos 8.570559 8 Grainger, P. Over the hills and far away (1919).

Michael Colburn, cond.

Naxos 8.570243 7

17:00 COLOURS OF THE KING Program of the Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame van der Struik, G. Welzheim processional.

Gregory van der Struik, tb.

3 Mozart, W. Overture in C, K399.

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Ives, C. Variations on Jerusalem the golden.

Timothy Foley, cond.

Naxos 8.570559 4

Mendelssohn, F. Prelude in E minor, op 35 (arr. de Lasala). Gregory van der Struik, tb. 3

The President’s Own United States Marine Band (all above)

Schumann, R. Canonic study in G minor, op 56 no 2 (arr. Breuer). Gregory van der Struik, tb. 4

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper

Cabanilles, J. Passacalles III.

13:00 HISTORIC RECORDINGS The Adelaide Singers Prepared by Elaine Siversen

van der Struik, G. Mölleresque. Gregory van der Struik, tb.

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Bach, J.S. Trio sonata no 3, BWV527, mvt 2. 4

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Bach, J.S. Trio sonata no 2, BWV526, mvt 2. 3

Williamson, M. Harvest thanksgiving. Cathy Weber, sop; James Thiele, org.

LP ABC RRCS 400 7

Beethoven, L. Adagio for musical clock.

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Penberthy, J. Cantata on Hiroshima panels (1967). Jane Carter, mezz; Malcolm Potter, ten; Robert Dawe, bar; South Australian SO. LP ABC/Festival L 42011 16

Handel, G. Where’er you walk; Cast your doubts and fears aside, from Semele. Gregory van der Struik, tb.

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Lemaigre, E. Méditation, from 12 pieces for organ (1909).

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Pastór de Lasala, org (all above)

18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Frank Morrison Sculthorpe, P. Quartet no 8 (1968). Goldner String Quartet.

Tall Poppies TP089 15

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

Three Bulgarian songs. Les Voix Bulgares.

Disques Cellier Cellier 008

17:30 ARTS IN FOCUS with the Omega Ensemble Produced by Debbie Scholem

Glanville-Hicks, P. Three gymnopédies (1934).

Sydney SO/Myer Fredman.

ABC 442 374-2 9 Hyde, M. Piano concerto no 1 in E flat minor (1933). Miriam Hyde, pf; West Australian SO/ Geoffrey Simon.

ABC 446 285-2 30 19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Novello, I. Excerpts from The dancing years (1939). Mary Ellis, Roma Beaumont, Olive Gilbert, Dunstan Hart, voices; Ivor Novello, pf; Drury Lane TO/Charles Prentice.

Naxos 8.120781 18 Romberg, S. Excerpts from The new moon (1928). Eric Mattson, Lillian Cornell, Lawrence Brooks, Genevieve Rowe, voices; Ch & O/ Sigmund Romberg.

Naxos 8.110886 14 Novello, I. Excerpts from King’s rhapsody (1949).

Vanessa Lee, Olive Gilbert, Denis Marti, Phyllis Date, Larry Mandon, Ivor Novello, voices.

Naxos 8.120781 18 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Guests of the ACO Fasch, J. Concerto in D for trumpet, two oboes, strings and continuo (c1710). Paul Plunkett, tpt; Christopher Hogwood, cond. 6 Bach, J.S. Overture no 1 in C, BWV1066 (c1724).

Nicholas Kraemer, dir.

20 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 18 in B flat, K456 (1784). Stephen Kovacevich, pf & dir. 29 Britten, B. Serenade, op 31 (1943). Thomas Edmonds, ten; Hector McDonald, hn.

24 Australian CO (all above) 21:30 BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Prepared by Francis Frank Corrette, M. Concerto comique no 25: Les sauvages et la Furstemberg (c1759).

Channel Classics CCS 7595 8 Bach, G.C. Birthday cantata. Catherine Bott, sop. 6 Vivaldi, A. Sonata no 9 in E flat. Pieter Wispelwey, vc.

Channel Classics CCS 9096 (2 above)

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Sunday 11 May 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small 9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Lalo, E. Ballet: Namouna (1882). Monte Carlo PO/David Robertson.

Auvidis V 4677 56 10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Sheila Catzel Bach, J. Christian Sinfonia in D, op 18 no 3 (c1781). Failoni O/Hanspeter Gmür.

Naxos 8. 553367 11 Stamitz, C. Trio in G. Members of Quartetto Telemann.

Syrinx SY 0001-2 131 11 Cambini, G. Piano concerto in E, op 15 no 3 (c1780).

Franco Redondi, pf; Milan CO/Paolo Vaglieri.

Nuova Era 7059 14 Kozeluch, L. Symphony in F. Prague CO/Libor Hlavácek.

LP Supraphon 1102078 20 Clementi, M. Sonata in B minor, op 40 no 2 (1802). Howard Shelley, pf.

Hyperion CDA67819 16 Riotte, P. Notturno (c1815). Ernö Sebestyen, vn; Edward Witsenburg, hp.

Schwann 310 001 H1 15 Hummel, J. Potpourri, op 94 (1820). James Ehnes, va; London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley.

Chandos CHAN 10255 19 12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with John Buchanan The early days of jazz and ragtime as recorded during the first 30 years of the 20th century 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Clarissa Mulas 14:00 BACH’S B MINOR MASS Recorded by FINE MUSIC Bach, J.S. Mass in B minor, BWV232 (c1747-49).

Christina Högman, sop; Elizabeth Campbell, mezz; Thomas Edmonds, ten; Grant Dickson, bass; Stockholm Bach Choir; Nils-Erik Sparf, vn; Tullo Galli, vn; Lars Brolin, va; Kari Otteson, vc; Björn Gäfvert, org; Australian CO/Anders Öhrwall. 1:47

19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Gibbons, O. Anthems: Almighty and everlasting God; This is the record of John; O clap your hands. Choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge; Matthew O’Sullivan, org; David Rowland, cond.

CC College Cambridge CCC-06 12

Massenet, J. Lamento d’Ariane, from Ariane (1906). National PO/Richard Bonynge.

6 Decca 452 772-2

Gretchaninov, A. Creed; Our Father, from Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, op 29. James Bowman, ten; Holst Singers/Stephen Layton.

Hyperion CDA 66928 10 Psalms: no 95: O come let us sing unto the Lord; no 53: The foolish body hath said; no 54: Save me O God; no 55: Hear my prayer O God. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Christopher Brayne, org; Anthony Crossland, org & dir.

Priory PRCD 337 13 Stanford, C. Villiers The Lord is my shepherd. Choir of New College, Oxford/ Edward Higginbottom.

CRD 3507

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Various. All people of our God and King; Let all mortal flesh; Praise, my soul the King of Heaven. Cantus Choro; Norman Kaye, org; Peter Chapman, cond.

Move MD 3032 11 18:00 SYDNEY SCHUBERT SOCIETY Prepared by Ross Hayes Schubert, F. Overture in D, D590, In the Italian style (1817). Menuhin FO/Yehudi Menuhin.

EMI 1 66445 2 8

Puccini, G. Ansia eterna, crudel, from Manon Lescaut (1893). Maria Callas, sop; Giuseppe di Stefano, ten; Franco Ricciardi, ten; Giulio Fioravanti, bar; La Scala TO/Tullio Serafin.

Sarabandas 54040 7 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison Massenet, J. Orchestral suite no 3: Scènes dramatiques (1873). Monte Carlo Opera O/John Eliot Gardiner.

Erato 2292-45858-2 19 Hindemith, P. Konzertmusik, viola concerto, op 48 (1929-30). Brett Dean, va; Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert. cpo 999 492-2 21

La pastorella, D528 (1817). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf.

Decca 455 981-2 2

21:00 NEW HORIZONS From the Southern hemipshere Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Pensa, che questo instante, D76 (1813). Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf.

DG 477 5765 2

Casares, O. Siete Canciones y Danza (c1980).

Quintetto Italiano.

Schwann 3-1280-2 19

Se dall’Etra - Nel boschetto, D738. Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; András Schiff, pf.

Decca 478 3156-67

Cimirro, A. Variations in study form on Dies irae, op 4. Artur Cimirro, pf.

Earthworks Australia AU-7E0-II-00001 10

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Four canzonen, D688 (1820). Lucia Popp, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf.

BBC Music BBCL 4025-2 12

Boccherini, L. Guitar quintet no 9 in C, The retreat of Madrid (1798). Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.

Philips 438 769-2 27

L’incanto degli occhi, D902 no 1 (1827). Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, bar; Gerald Moore, pf.

DG 477 5765 3

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Bellini, V. Ah! Forever I have lost you, from The puritans. Teddy Tahu Rhodes, bar; Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker.

ABC 476 227-2 4

Lacrimoso son io, D131 (c1815). Die Singphoniker. cpo 999 399-2 3

Overture in C, D591, In the Italian style (1817).

Northern Sinfonia/Heinrich Schiff.

Chandos CHAN 9136 7

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Verdi, G. Gualtier Maldè! ... Caro nome, from Rigoletto (1851). Angela Gheorghiu, sop; Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 466 952-2 6

Beethoven, L. Symphony no 7 in A, op 92 (181112). Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox.

ASV QS 6066 43

16:00 A CLASSICAL FLAVOUR Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Mozart, W. Quartet no 2 in E flat, K493 (1786).

Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet.

Mediaphon MED 72.117 27 32

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes

Il traditor deluso; Il modo di prender moglie, D902 nos 2 and 3 (1827). Bruce Martin, bassbar; Michael Brimer, pf.

ABC 476 3439 7

Hamilton, D. Double percussion concerto (1979). Richard Horne, perc; Bruce McKinnon, perc; Auckland Philharmonia O/John Hopkins.

RCD 1004 12 Kats-Chernin, E. Ornamental air (2007).

Swedish CO/Michael Collins, basset cl & dir.

Chandos CHAN 10756 22 Klatzow, P. Mass for choir, horn, marimba and strings (1988). St Georges Singers; Rob Grishkoff, hn; Di Maris, mar; Barry Smith, cond.

Claremont CD GSE 1524 18 22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Monday 12 May Anon. Six tunes from The bird fancyer’s delight. David Munro, rec.

Award AWCD 29180

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

Beethoven, L. Quintet in E flat, op 16 (1796).

Han de Vries, ob; George Pieterson, cl; Brian Pollard, bn; Vicente Zarzo, hn; Radu Lupu, pf.

Decca 466 438-2 27

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Francis Frank

15:00 RHAPSODIES Prepared by Frank Morrison

Bach, J.S. Fugue ricercata a 6 voci, from The musical offering, BWV1079 (1747; arr. Webern).

Cleveland O/Christoph von Dohnányi.

Decca 436 153-2 7

Lyapunov, S. Rhapsody on Ukrainian themes, op 28 (1907). Hamish Milne, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA67326 17

Elyakum Shapirra

Mainerio, G. Renaissance RIP (1578; arr.

Pickett). Ensemble/Philip Pickett, rec & dir.

Linn CKD 031

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Bach, J.S. Harp concerto in F, BWV978 (1713-14; arr. Zabaleta). Nicanor Zabaleta, hp; English CO/Garcia Navarro.

DG 469 544-2 8 Schubert, F. Rondeau brillant sur des motifs originaux français, D823 (c1825; arr. Tausig).

Dennis Hennig, pf.

Etcetera KTC 1086 12 Rossini, G. Quartet no 6 in F (1804; arr. Berr).

Michael Thompson Wind Quartet.

Naxos 8.554098 11 Beethoven, L. Romance no 2 in F, op 50 (1798; transcr. 1803; arr. Müller-Schott). Daniel MüllerSchott, vc; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

Orfeo C 080 031 A 8 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Wagner, R. Overture to Tannhäuser (1845).

Munich PO/Hans Knappertsbusch.

DG 479 1148 16 Dubois, T. Piano concerto no 2 in F minor (1897). Cédric Tiberghien, pf; BBC Scottish SO/ Andrew Manze.

Hyperion CDA67931 28 Klughardt, A. Symphony no 5 in C minor, op 71. Anhaltische Philharmoni Dessau/Antony Hermus. cpo 777 693-2 39 11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown Ravel, M. Ballad of the queen who died of love. Mady Mesplé, sop; Dalton Baldwin, pf.

EMI 5 69299 2 5

Dvorak, A. Sing fervent songs; When thy sweet glance; Nature lies peaceful; You are asking why? (1865). Marcus Ullmann, ten; Martin Bruns, bar; Andreas Frese, pf.

Hänssler 98.641 10

Brahms, J. Alto rhapsody, op 53 (1869).

Jessye Norman, sop; Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia; Philadelphia O/Riccardo Muti.

Philips 426 253-2 12

Debussy, C. Three songs of Bilitis (1897). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Gonzalo Soriano, pf.

EMI CMS 5 65061 2 9

Popper, D. Hungarian rhapsody, op 68 (pub.

1894). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Gerhard Markson.

8 Naxos 8.554657

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Ravel, M. Spanish rhapsody (1907). Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf; Vovka Ashkenazy, pf.

Decca 478 1090 15

13:00 VALE, ELYAKUM SHAPIRRA 1926-2014 Prepared by Sheila Catzel

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton

Martinu, B. Oboe concerto (1955). Jirí Tancibudek, ob.

ABC 461 703-2

19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling

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Weber, C.M. Polonaise brilliante in E, op 72, L’hilarité (1819; orch. Liszt). David Stanhope, pf.

LP ABC 5ABCL 8001 10 Tchaikovsky, P. Dance of the little swans, from Swan lake (1877).

ABC 438 195-2

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Adelaide SO (3 above) Bernstein, L. Symphony no 1, Jeremiah (1942).

Jard van Nes, mezz; Het Gelders O. Ottavo OTR C58920 25

20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Frank Morrison Barber, S. Ballet suite from Souvenirs, op 28 (1952). London SO/José Serebrier.

ASV DCA 737 19 Edwards, R. Maninyas, violin concerto (1988).

Dene Olding, vn; Sydney SO/Stuart Challender.

ABC 438 610-2 25

Elyakum Shapirra, cond (all above)

Schulhoff, E. String quartet no 1 (1924). Aviv Quartet.

Naxos 8.570965 17

14:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED Prepared by Gael Golla

Veress, S. Four Transylvanian dances (1943-49).

Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

Sony SK 62005 13

Palestrina, G. da Stabat mater (c1589).

Cantillation/Antony Walker.

ABC 472 881-2

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Messiaen, O. The black-eared wheatear, from Catalogue of birds (1956-58). Håkon Austbo, pf.

Naxos 8.553532 15

Ravel, M. Sonatine (1903-05). Martha Argerich, pf.

DG 419 062-2 11

Villa-Lobos, H. Guitar concerto (1951). Julian Bream, gui; London SO/André Previn.

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Tuesday 13 May Mozart, W. Ach, ich fühl’s, from The magic flute, K620 (1791). London SO/Colin Davis.

Philips 411 148-2 5

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Kiri Te Kanawa, sop (3 above)

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

Mussorgsky, M. Introduction and polonaise, from Boris Godunov (1874). USSR Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Melodiya MA 19303 7

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of choice: Arthur Grumiaux Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Bach, J.S. Presto, from Sonata no 1 in G minor, BWV1001 (1720).

Philips 438 736-2 3 Mozart, W. Six variations in G minor on Hélas, j’ai perdu mon aimant, K360 (1781). Walter Klein, pf.

Philips 446 237-2 7 Arthur Grumiaux, vn (2 above) Mozart, W. Prelude and fugue in F, K404a3 (1782). Grumiaux Trio.

Philips 422 513-2 6 Beethoven, L. Romance no 1 in G, op 40 (1803). New Philharmonia O/Edo de Waart.

Philips 420 348-2 7 Tartini, G. Sonata in G minor, Devil’s Trill (arr.

Kreisler). Riccardo Castagnone, pf.

Philips 468 307-2 14 Bach, J.S. Oboe concerto in D minor, BWV1060 (1735). Heinz Holliger, ob; New Philharmonia O/Edo de Waart.

Philips 420 700-2

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Arthur Grumiaux, vn (3 above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Barrie Brockwell Goldmark, K. Overture: Prometheus bound, op 38 (1889). Philharmonia O/Yondani Butt.

ASV DCA 934 17 Mozart, W. Parto, ma tu ben mio, from La clemenza di Tito, K621 (1791). Jennifer Larmore, mezz; Lausanne CO/Jésus López-Cobos.

Teldec 4509-96800-2 6 Spohr, L. Clarinet concerto no 2 in E flat, op 57 (1810). Jon Manasse, cl; Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz.

Harmonia Mundi HMU 907516 26 Korngold, E. Symphonic serenade in B flat, op 39 (1947-48). BBC PO/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9508 31 34

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Mozart, W. Exsultate, jubilate, K165 (1773).

London SO/Colin Davis.

Philips 422 749-2 15 Schubert, F. Nacht und Träume, D827 (c1822); Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118 (1814). Richard Amner, pf.

8 CBS MK 76868

Kiri Te Kanawa

11:30 CHAMBER VIGNETTES Chausson, E. Andante and allegro (1881).

Thomas Friedli, cl; Ulrich Koella, pf.

Claves 50-9322

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Caplet, A. Rêverie et petite valse (1905).

Robert Aitken, fl; Robin McCabe, pf.

BIS CD-184

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Poulenc, F. Elégie (1957). Hervé Joulain, hn; Alexandre Tharaud, pf.

Naxos 8.553614 10 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 ELEGANCE AND STYLE Prepared by Jacob Gutmann Korngold, E. Suite from Much ado about nothing (1920). Westphalian SO/Siegfried Landau.

LP Candide QCE 31091 17 Vieuxtemps, H. Violin concerto no 5 in A minor, op 37 (1861). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Paris O/ Daniel Barenboim.

EMI CDC 7 47165 2 21

Strauss, J. II Overture; Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir!; So muss allein ich bleiben, from Die Fledermaus (1874). Edita Gruberova, sop; Richard Leech, ten; Wolfgang Brendel, bar; Vienna PO/André Previn.

Philips 432 157-2 16 Canteloube, J. Baïlèro; Lou boussu; Brezairola; Malurous qu’o uno fenno, from Songs of the Auvergne, vol. 1 (1922-30). English CO/Jeffrey Tate.

Decca 410 004-2 14 Bernstein, L. Excerpts from West Side story (1957). Jose Carreras, ten; Unidentified Ch & O/ Leonard Bernstein.

DG 415 253-2 18 Mozart, W. E Susanna non vien! ... Dove sono i bei momenti; Che soave zeffiretto ... Ricevete, oh padroncina, queste rose e questi fior, from The marriage of Figaro, K492 (1786). Lucia Popp, sop; Frederica von Stade, mezz; Thomas Allen, bar; Samuel Ramey, bass; London Opera Ch; London PO/Georg Solti.

Decca 478 3703 15

Chausson, E. Chanson perpétuelle, op 37 (1898). Janet Baker, mezz; Melos Ensemble/ Bernard Keefe.

Decca 476 7091 7

Kiri Te Kanawa, sop (6 above)

Saint-Saëns, C. Introduction and rondo capriccioso in A minor (1863). Yan Pascal Tortelier, vn; Ulster O. Chandos CHAN 8792

18:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2014 Produced by Andrew Bukenya 9

14:00 KIRI TE KANAWA AT SEVENTY Prepared by Chris Blower Puccini, G. One fine day, from Madame Butterfly (1904).

News, interviews, plus what’s on in concerts during the next month 4

Gounod, C. Jewel song, from Faust (1859). 4 New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation Little SO/Juan Matteucci (2 above) Decca 430 325-2

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

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Charles Barton 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling

Wednesday 14 May

Howard Shelley

Rachel Siu

Renata Scotto

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

11:30 STRINGS AND THINGS Prepared by Paul Hopwood

19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell

Beethoven, L. Quartet in F, op 14 no 1 (1800).

Tokyo String Quartet.

RCA 09026 61284 2 13

20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances April 1984 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero

Clementi, M. Piano trio, op 21 no 1 (pub. 1788).

Trio Fauré.

Dynamic CDS 93 13

Zandonai, R. Francesca de Rimini. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Tito Ricordi. First performed Turin, 1914.

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Frank Morrison Boyce, W. Trio sonata no 15 in D (1747). Parley of Instruments Baroque O/Peter Holman.

Hyperion CDA67151/2 14 Purcell, H. Blow up the trumpet in Sion (1678).

Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly.

Naxos 8.553129 6 Lawes, W. Division in G minor for two bass viols and organ (c1640). Fretwork.

Virgin VC 7 91187-2 11 Jenkins, J. Fantasia suite in F (c1666). Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman.

Hyperion CDA66604 9 Stanley, J. Concerto in B minor for strings, op 2 no 2 (pub. 1742). Collegium Musicum 90; Simon Standage, vn & dir.

Chandos CHAN 0638 12 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Di Cox Kuhlau, F. Overture to The three brothers from Damascus (1830). Odense SO/Eduard Serov.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP(CD)9132 9 Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 9 in E flat, K271, Jeunehomme (1777). London Mozart Players/ Howard Shelley, pf & dir.

Chandos CHAN 9068 32 Tchaikovsky, P. Suite no 1 in D minor, op 43 (1879). USSR Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Olympia OCD 109 41

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI with Troy Fil; recorded by Greg Ghavalas Cellist Rachel Siu plays works by Kodály, Dvorák, Haydn, Stanhope and Beethoven.

Proudly sponsored by Sydney Piano World and Sauter Pianos 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.

Replays on www.finemusicfm.com 15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower Haydn, J. Symphony in F, Hob.I:58 (1774).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 18 Hummel, J. Grande serenade no 1, op 63 (c1814). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Jörn Maatz, bn; Ernö Sebestyén, vn; Sonja Prunnbauer, gui; Ighsvan Turnagoel, gui; Werner Genuit, pf.

LP Schwann VMS 1051 17 Haydn, J. Symphony in A, Hob.I:59 (c1768).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 19 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter

FRANCESCA: Renata Scotto, sop GIOVANNI: Cornell Macneil, bar PAOLO: Placido Domingo, ten MALATESTINO: William Lewis, ten Metropolitan Ch & O/James Levine.

Met DVD

2:11

Francesca is promised in marriage to the lame Giovanni di Malatesta but as she would refuse him, she is introduced to his handsome younger brother, Paolo. Both fall in love, but do not reveal this. Later, when married to Giovanni, she reproaches Paolo for this deception, but he protests his innocence and reveals his love. Paolo is elected as leader of Florence but still longing for Francesca returns.

Malatestino, the youngest brother, also in love with Francesca, betrays them to Giovanni. He surprises them in an embrace and slays them both.

22:30 MUSICAL ECCENTRICS Prepared by Stephen Wilson Lord Berners. Luna Park, fantastic ballet in one act (1930). RTE Sinfonietta/Kenneth Alwyn.

Marco Polo 8.223716 16 Satie, E. Gnossiennes (1889-97; arr. Groningen Guitar Duo). Groningen Guitar Duo. Ottavo OTR C49135 19 Koechlin, C. The seven stars symphony, op 132 (1933). Monte Carlo PO/Alexandre Myrat.

LP HMV ASD 1731 44 May 2014

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Thursday 15 May Bach, J.S. Ebarme dich, from St Matthew Passion, BWV244 (1727). Sally-Anne Russell, cont; O of the Antipodes/Antony Walker.

ABC 476 118-3

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

Mozart, W. Alleluia, from Exsultate jubilate, K165 (1773). Barbara Bonney, sop; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock.

Decca 468 818-2 3

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Frank Morrison

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

Wieniawski, H. Piano concerto in G minor, op 20 (1858). Hamish Milne, pf; BBC Scottish SO/ Michal Dworzynski.

Hyperion CDA67791 29 Legende in G minor, op 17 (1859). David Oistrakh, vn; Vladimir Yampolsky, pf.

Brilliant Classics 8402

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Violin concerto no 2 in D minor, op 22 (1862).

Jascha Heifetz, vn; London PO/John Barbirolli.

Naxos 8.110938 18 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Ciurlionis, M. Symphonic poem: In the forest, (1900). Slovak PO/Juozas Domarkas.

Marco Polo 8.223323 15 Brumby, C. Piano concerto no 1 (1984). Wendy Pomeroy, pf; West Australian SO/Patrick Thomas.

Jade JADCD 1049 32 Svendsen, J. Carnival in Paris, op 9. Trondheim SO/Ole Kristian Ruud.

Virgin 5 45128 2 13 Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I:94, Surprise (1791). Hanover Band/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDA66532 23 11:30 VOICES FROM HEAVEN Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans Mozart, W. Laudate Dominum, from Vesperae solennes de confessore, K339 (1780). Danielle de Niese, sop; Apollo Voices; O of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Mackerras.

Decca 478 1511 5 Rossini, G. Qui tollis peccata mundi, from Petite messe solennelle (1863). Daniella Dessi, sop; Gloria Scalchi, mezz; Bologna Comunale TO/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 480 2594 7 Gounod, C. Ave Maria (1853). Bryn Terfel, bassbar; London SO/Barry Wordsworth.

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13:00 WITHOUT WORDS Prepared by Angela Bell Bax, A. May night in the Ukraine, from Two Russian tone poems (1912). Ashley Wass, pf.

Naxos 8.557769 10 Balakirev, M. Symphonic poem: Tamara (1882). Philharmonia O/Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Hyperion CDA66586 22 Catoire, G. Sonata no 2 in D, Poème, op 20 (1906). David Oistrakh, vn; Alexander Goldenweizer, pf.

Brilliant Classics 8402 Skryabin, A. Poem in F sharp, op 32 no 1 (1903). Tamara Anna Cislowska, pf.

ABC 476 630-1

20

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Suk, J. Praga, symphonic poem, op 26 (1904).

Northwest German PO/Alun Francis. cpo 999 576-2 24 14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Francis Frank Copland, A. Duo (1971). Fenwick Smith, fl; Randall Hodgkinson, pf.

Northeastern NR 227-CD 14 Handel, G. Harpsichord concerto in A, op 6 no 11 (1739). English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, hpd & dir.

Archiv 410 899-2 17 Scheidemann, H. Erbarme dich mein, O Herre Gott. Peter van dijk, org.

Naxos 8.554202 6 Copland, A. Duo (1971). Jeanne Baxtresser, fl; Israela Margalit, pf.

EMI 5 55405 2 14 Salzedo, C. Sonata. Alice Giles, hp; Arnan Wiesel, pf.

Schwann 3-1765-2 Berkeley, L. Duo, op 81 no 1 (1971). David Berlin, vc; Len Vorster, pf.

Naxos 8.557324

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Boccherini, L. Quartet no 2 in G minor (1778; arr.). Paule van Parys, hpd; Jan van Mol, hpd.

LP Pavane ADW 7062 7

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 Romantic music of France Prepared by Judy Ekstein Offenbach, J. Overture and ballet from Le voyage dans la lune (1865-75). Philharmonia O/ Antonio de Almeida.

Philips 422057-2 19 Saint-Saëns, C. Concert piece in F minor, op 94 (1887). Peter Damm, hn; Staatskkapelle Dresden/Siegfried Kurz.

Berlin Classics 0012 8852BC 9 Berlioz, H. La mort de Cléopâtre (1829).

Rosamund Illing, sop; Melbourne SO/Heribert Esser.

ABC 434 898-2 23 Herz, H. Piano concerto in D minor, op 87 no 3 (1835). Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley, pf & dir.

Hyperion CDA67537 30 David, Ferdinand. Violin concerto no 4 in E, op 23 (c1850). Hagai Shaham, vn; BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA67804 26 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Mendelssohn, F. Sonata no 2 in D, op 58 (1843). Emil Klein, vc; Christian Beldi, pf.

Arte Nova 74321 27788 2

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Schaffrath, C. Sonata in D minor. Klaus Gerbeth, ob; Matthias Wilke, hpd.

Capriccio 10142

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Borodin, A. String quartet no 2 in D (1885).

Royal Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble.

Tring TRP 017 28 Boccherini, L. Sonata no 3 for piano, violin and cello. Galimathias Musicum.

Brilliant Cassics 93363 11 Reicha, A. Wind quintet in D, op 91 no 3 (c1817-19). Virtuosi di Praga.

Cantus Classics 8.00134

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Chopin, F. Grand duo concertant in E on themes from Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable (1831). Emil Klein, vc; Arnulf von Arnim, pf.

Arte Nova 74321 34017 2 12

Friday 16 May 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Janine Burrus 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Exploring Chamber Prepared by Jan Brown Sibelius, J. String quartet in E flat (1885).

Tempera Quartet.

BIS CD-1376

13:00 BACH THE MAGNIFICENT Prepared by Patrick Thomas

20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Heather Sykes

Bach, J.S. Preludes and fugues nos 9 to 18, from The well-tempered clavier, bk 1. Albert Landa, pf.

ABC 476 4556 36

Sullivan, A. Suite from The tempest, op 1 (1861). BBC PO/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9859 28

Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords, BWV1065 (c1730). Amsterdam Baroque O/Ton Koopman.

Erato 4509-91929-2 9

Sarasate, P. de Song of the nightingale, op 29; Navarra, op 33 (1889). Gil Shaham, vn; Adele Anthony, vn; Akira Eguchi, pf; Castille & León SO/Alejandro Posada.

Canary CC07 15

14:00 FRENCH FLAIR Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Dvorák, A. Symphony no 1 in C minor, The bells of Zlonice (1865). Berlin PO/Rafael Kubelik.

DG 469 550-2 48

Dvorák, A. String quartet no 12 in F, op 96, American (1893). The Lindsays.

ASV DCS 446 27

Chausson, E. Viviane, op 5 (1882/87). BBC PO/ Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN 9650 12

Mercadante, S. Flute concerto in E minor (c1819; rev. Scimone). James Galway, fl; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone.

RCA RD 60450 22

Sibelius, J. Theme and variations in C sharp minor (1888). Tempera Quartet.

BIS CD-1376 6

Fauré, G. Three romances without words, op 17 (1863). Kathryn Stott, pf.

Hyperion CDA66911/4 5

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Heather Sykes

Debussy, C. Ibéria, from Images (1905-12).

Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos.

Telarc 80574

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Bengtsson, G. I Vadstena kloster: Three tone pictures (1949). Gävle SO/Mats Liljefors.

Sterling CDS-1008-2 22 Grieg, E. Concerto in A minor (1883; transcr.

Karr; orch. Horovitz). Gary Karr, db; Adelaide SO/Patrick Thomas.

ABC 438 612-2 23 Bantock, G. A Hebridean symphony (1915).

Royal PO/Vernon Handley.

Hyperion CDA66450 35 11:30 SIMPLE SONGS Prepared by Heather Sykes Dvorák, A. Song to the moon, from Rusalka, op 114; Songs my mother taught me, op 55 (1901). Yvonne Kenny, sop; Melbourne SO/ Vladimir Kamirski.

ABC 442 509-2 9 Falla, M. de Seven popular Spanish songs (1914-15). José Carreras, ten; Martin Katz, pf.

Philips 411 478-2 13 Copland, A. Simple gifts; I bought me a cat; from Old American songs (1950). Thomas Hampson, bar; Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff.

Teldec 9031-77310-2 4 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

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Gaubert, P. Greek divertissement; Tarantella (1909). Fenwick Smith, fl; Jacques Zoon, fl; Ann Hobson Pilot, hp.

Naxos 8.557305 8

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE The Saxon Court in Dresden Prepared by Elaine Siversen Schütz, H. Tue wohl deinem Knechte, dass ich lebe, SWV483; Zeige mir, Herr, den Weg deiner Rechte, SWV484; from Schwanengesang (pub. 1671). Collegium Vocale Gent; Concerto Palatino/Philippe Herreweghe.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901895.96 11

Saint-Saëns, C. Havanaise, op 83 (1887).

Maxim Vengerov, vn; Israel PO/Zubin Mehta.

Teldec 9031-73266-2 9

Nauwach, J. Jetztund kömpt die Nacht herbey; Ach Liebste, lass uns eilen (1627).

Andreas Scholl, ct; Alix Verzier, vc; Karl Ernst Schröder, lute; Markus Märkl, hpd.

Harmonia Mundi HMG 501505 7

Debussy, C. Pagodes; Soirées dans Grenade; Jardin sur la pluie, from Estampes. Zoltán Kocsis, pf.

Philips 456 874-2 13

Quantz, J. Double concerto in G. Jed Wentz, fl; Marion Moonen, fl; Musica ad Rhenum/ Florian Deuter.

Vanguard 99040 15

Delibes, L. Ballet music from Lakmé (1883).

Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard.

Naxos 8.550081 6

Heinichen, J. Alma mater redemptoris (1726).

Axel Köhler, ct; Musica Antiqua Cologne/ Reinhard Goebel.

Archiv 447 092-2 8

Koechlin, C. Dream during siesta; Through the streets; Evening song; Hills at sunset, from Les heures Persanes, op 65 (1913-19). Kathryn Stott, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9974 17 Ravel, M. Spanish rhapsody (1907). Buffalo PO/JoAnn Falletta.

Beau Fleuve 15 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Lloyd Capps 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron

Zelenka, J. Sinfonia in A minor a 8 concertanti (1723). Camerata Bern.

Archiv 469 842-2 24 Psalm 110: Dixit Dominus (c1725). Schola Cantorum of Melbourne; John O’Donnell, org; Baroque Players.

Move MCD 156 16 Bach, W.F. Fugue in F, F33 (bef. 1733); Fugue in C minor, F32 (1734). Julia Brown, org.

Naxos 8.570571 12 Duet no 1 in E minor, F54 (1733-46). Wolfgang Schulz, fl; Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob.

Sony SK 58 965 11 May 2014

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Saturday 17 May 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Stephen Wilson

13:00 ASIAN MUSIC Prepared by Paolo Hooke A monthly exploration of music from across Asia

9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney 9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON BALLETS THROUGH THE YEARS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

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

Lully, J-B. Ballet des plaisirs (1655). Aradia Baroque Ensemble/Kevin Mallon.

Naxos 8.554003

15:30 SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA IN CONCERT Prepared by Peter Bell

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Beethoven, L. Music for a knightly ballet, WoO1 (1790-91). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/ Béla Drahos.

Naxos 8.553431 13

Whitacre, E. Light of gold (2000).

Verdi, G. Triumphal march, ballet music and chorus, from Aïda (1871). RTE Philharmonic Choir; Irish NSO/Rico Saccani.

Naxos 8.553963 12

VOX (2 above)

Tchaikovsky, P. Suite from The nutracker (1892; arr. Pletnev). Alexei Volodin, pf.

ABC 476 160-1 18

Higher, faster, stronger. VOX; Synergy Percussion.

Ravel, M. La valse (1921). New York PO/Pierre Boulez.

Sony SMK 45960 13 Stravinsky, I. The rite of spring (1913). Israel PO/Leonard Bernstein.

DG 410 508-2 37

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Tieke, C. March: Old comrades. Allentown Band/Ronald Demke.

AMP WWFM1 4 Svendsen, J. The Norwegian artists’ carnival.

Black Dyke Mills Band/Peter Parkes.

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20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Recorded treasures: Masters of the Romantic era Schumann, R. Konzertstück in F for four horns and large orchestra, op 86 (1849).

Canberra School of Music SO/Michael Mulcahy.

4

Trad. Elijah rock; I want Jesus to walk with me; The Battle of Jericho (arr. Hogan).

6

Whitacre, E. The seal lullaby; The city and the sea.

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Five Hebrew love songs. Acacia Quartet.

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Chopin, F. Ballade in G minor, op 23 (1831-35).

Ffrangon Davies, pf.

9 Brahms, J. Sextet in B flat, op 18 (1858-60).

Soloists of Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players.

36 Liszt, F. Totentanz, S126 (1849/53/59).

Geoffrey Tozer, pf; Canberra Youth O/Richard McIntyre.

17 FINE MUSIC Tape Archive (all above) 21:30 ANYONE FOR POLKA? Prepared by Frank Morrison

Christopher Cartner, pf (2 above) 10

The Chelsea carol. Christopher Cartner, org. 7 Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Ch (4 above)

Strauss, J. II Annen polka, op 117 (1852).

London PO/Theodor Guschlbauer.

EMI CDM 1 66422 2

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Shostakovich, D. Polka, from The golden age, op 22 (1930; arr. Liubimov). Rainer Kuisma, mar.

BIS CD-149 2

Whitacre, E. A boy and a girl (2002).

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Cloudburst (1991). Synergy Percussion.

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Stravinsky, I. Circus polka (1942) Los Angeles PO/Zubin Mehta.

Decca 475 7470 4

Sleep. Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Ch. 5

Lehár, F. Forget-me-not polka. Robert McDuffie, vn; Cincinnati Pops O/Erich Kunzel.

Telarc CD-80402 5

Christopher Cartner, pf (2 above)

Bach, J.S. Ave Maria, BWV846 (arr. Gounod).

Besses o’ th’ Barn Band/Roy Newsome.

Chandos CHAN 4529 4 Alman, P. The whistling bobby. Wingates Temperance Band/Dennis Smith.

LP Astor GGS 1354

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell The world of Disney 80 years on and going strong

Bach, J.S. Come, sweet death (arr. London). 4

11:30 ON PARADE Music that’s band Prepared by Owen Fisher Rossini, G. Overture to A Turk in Italy.

Hammond Sauce Works Band/Geoffrey Whitham.

LP Astor CSD 3675

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

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper

VOX (4 above) Eric Whitacre, cond (all above) 17:30 ORCHESTRAL MINIATURES Prepared by Rex Burgess Stenhammar, W. Symphonic overture: Excelsior!, op 13 (1896). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi.

DG 445 857-2 13 Alfvén, H. Midsummer vigil (1903). Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu.

Naxos 8.553115 13

Lumbye, H. Señora Ysabel Cuba’s polka (1861).

Tivoli SO/Tamás Vetö.

Marco Polo 8.225223 3 Lanner, J. Polka: Hans Jörgel, op 194.

Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Sony 88697914112 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones

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Sunday 18 May 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

Les rêves de Columbine, op 65 (1907). Virginia Eskin, pf.

Northeastern NR 223-CD 16

6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett

Sleep, little darling, op 29 no 3 (1894).

Katherine Kelton, mezz; Catherine Bringerud, pf.

Naxos 8.559191 4

9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Elaine Siversen Widmann, E. Dances and galliards, from Musikalischer Tugendspiegel (pub. 1613).

Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer.

DG 469 244-2 Byrd, W. English dances (arr. James).

Stockholm Philharmonic Brass Ensemble BIS CD-223 Farina, C. Suite of dances (pub. 1626). La Fontegara Amsterdam.

Globe GLO 5065

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Quintet in F sharp, op 67 (1907). Martin Roscoe, pf; Endellion Quartet.

ASV DCA 932 27

6

Symphony in E minor, op 32, Gaelic (1896).

Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8958 41

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16:00 GOLDEN DAZE Prepared by Angela Bell

Schubert, F. Six German dances, D820 (1824).

Mitsuko Uchida, pf.

Philips 475 6282 8

Holst, G. Ballet music from The golden goose, op 45 no 1 (1926). English CO/Imogen Holst.

Lyrita SRCD 223 15

Beethoven, L. Mödlinger dances, WoO17 (1819). Vienna Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky.

Decca 436 782-2

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Hymn to the sun, from The golden cockerel (1909; arr. Rubinstein).

Artur Rubinstein, pf.

Larrikin DDC 935 8

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10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Philip Lidbury Hummel, J. Introduction, theme and variations in F, op 102 (1824). Diana Doherty, ob; Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert.

ABC 456 681-2 14 Field, J. Piano concerto no 7 in C (c1833). John O’Conor, pf; New Irish CO/János Fürst.

Vanguard 08 9178 72 30 Mozart, W. Mass no 17 in C, K337, Missa brevis (1780). Barbara Bonney, sop; Elisabeth von Magnus, cont; Uwe Heilmann, ten; Gilles Cachemaille, bass; Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 4509-90494-2 22 Schubert, F. String quartet no 14 in D minor, Death and the maiden (1824). Borodin Quartet.

Apex 2564 67429-8 44 12:00 SPEAK EASY, SWING HARD with Richard Hughes 13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Gerry Myerson 14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Mrs Henry Harris Aubrey Beach - Composer Prepared by Stephen Wilson Beach, A. Theme and variations for flute and string quartet in A minor, op 80 (1920).

Ambache.

Chandos CHAN 9752 21

Schoenberg, A. Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm, from Vier Lieder, op 2 (1899). Elisabeth Speiser, sop; Irwin Gage, pf.

Jecklin JD 561-2 3

Mozart, W. Non più andrai, from The marriage of Figaro, K492 (1786). Teddy Tahu Rhodes, bass-bar; Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner.

4 ABC 472 826-2 Leoncavallo, R. Nedda! Silvio! A quest’ora che imprudenza, from Pagliacci (1892). Maria Callas, sop; Rolando Panerai, bar; La Scala TO/ Tullio Serafin.

9 EMI 5 67701 2 Puccini, G. Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolino, from Madame Butterfly (1904). Maria Callas, sop; Nicolai Gedda, ten; La Scala TO/ Herbert von Karajan.

7 EMI 5 67701 2 Donizetti, G. Una furtiva lagrima, from L’elisir d’amore (1832). Luciano Pavarotti, ten; English CO/Richard Bonynge.

5 Decca 417 638-2 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Rex Burgess Bach, J.S. Brandenburg concerto no 1 in F, BWV1046 (1720). O of the Antipodes/Antony Walker.

ABC 476 1923 19 Strauss, R. Study for 23 solo strings, op 16 (1886). Strings of Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 10218 X 26

Dvorák, A. Symphonic poem: The golden spinning wheel, op 109 (1896). Scottish NO/ Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8798 27

Beethoven, L. Symphony no 7 in A, op 92 (1811-12). West-Eastern Divan O/Daniel Barenboim.

Decca 478 3511

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Keith Glendinning

21:00 NEW HORIZONS From Spain Prepared by Chris Blower

Hymns: The day Thou gavest Lord is ended; The church’s one foundation; Angel voices ever singing; Jerusalem the golden. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough, org; Malcolm Archer, cond.

Hyperion CDP 12102 13 Goodall, H. Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis (1996).

Choir of Christ Church, Oxford; David Goode, org; String Quartet/Stephen Darlington.

ASV DCA 1028 12 Vaughan Williams, R. Mass in G minor (1920).

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/David Willcocks.

EMI 5 65595 2 25 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 Prepared by Jan Brown

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Halffter, C. Prelude for Madrid `92 (1991).

Madrid SO/Pedro Halffter-Caro.

Marco Polo 8.225032 10 Casablancas, B. Three bagatelles (2003).

Miquel Villalba, pf.

Naxos 8.570757

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Guerra, J. Three moments with Don Quixote (2004-05). Madrid Comunidad Ch & O/José Ramón Encinar.

Naxos 8.570260 18 Palomo, L. An Andalusian spring. María Bayo, sop; Seville RSO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

Naxos 8.557135 14 Balada, L. Cello concerto no 2, New Orleans (2001). Michael Sanderling, vc; Barcelona SO; Catalonia NO/Colman Pearce.

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Monday 19 May

Thomas Beecham

Guarneri Quartet

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

11:30 CHORAL SCHUMANN Prepared by Elaine Siversen

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Di Cox Handel, G. The gods go a’begging (arr.

Beecham 1928). Royal PO/Thomas Beecham.

EMI CDM 7 63374 2 19 Mendelssohn, F. Songs without words: op 19 no 1 (1834); op 109 (1845) (arr. Harrell). Lynn Harrell, vc; Bruno Canino, pf.

Decca 430 198-2 7

Schumann, R. Romances and ballads, bk II, op 75 nos 1-5 (1849). Studio Vocale Karlsruhe Choir/Werner Pfaff.

Brilliant Classics 94383 14 Jagdlieder, op 137 (1849). Camerata Vocale Gummersbach; Waldhorngruppe Freischütz, Essen/Gus Anton.

Koch Schwann 3-1080-2 11 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

Ibert, J. Trio (1937-42). Kees Hülsmann, vn; Marien van Staalen, vc; Ernestine Stoop, hp.

Olympia OCD 469 16 Fauré, G. Nocturne in E flat minor, op 33 no 1 (1875). Kathryn Stott, pf.

Hyperion CDA66911/4 7 Boïeldieu, A. Harp concerto in C (1800). Jutta Zoff, hp; Staatskapelle Dresden/Siegfried Kurz.

Berlin 0012902BC 22

13:00 A CLASSICAL FLAVOUR Prepared by Paul Hopwood

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

Holst, G. St Paul’s suite, op 29 no 2 (1912-13; arr.

Walsh). Guitar Trek.

ABC 432 698-2 13

Chopin, F. Piano trio in G minor, op 8 (1829).

Trio Orfeo.

Calig CAL 50 880 28

19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling

Barret, R. Fantasy on Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (arr. Price). Bert Lucarelli, ob; Manhattan String Quartet.

Price-Less D 21062 10

Beethoven, L. String quartet no 16 in F, op 135 (1826). Guarneri Quartet.

Philips 420 926-2 25

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen Grieg, E. Old Norwegian melody with variations, op 51 (1890/1900-03). Bergen PO/ Ole Kristian Ruud.

BIS CD-1740/42 24 Pärt, A. Tabula rasa, concerto (1977). Gidon Kremer, vn; Tatjana Gridenko, vn; Reinut Tepp, pf; Kremerata Baltica/Eri Klas.

Nonesuch 7559-79582-2 29 Schumann, R. Symphony no 3 in E flat, op 97, Rhenish (1850). Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard.

BIS SACD-1619 29 40

Ravel, M. La valse (1921). New York PO/Pierre Boulez.

Sony SMK 45960 13

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14:00 FRENCH FLAIR Prepared by Marilyn Schock Chabrier, E. España; Habanera (1883). Monte Carlo PO/Hervé Niquet.

Naxos 8.554248 11 Saint-Saëns, C. Romance; Prayer; My heart opens at your voice, from Samson and Delilah (1874). Gautier Capuçon, vc; Frank Braley, pf.

EMI/Virgin 5 45602 2 11 Bizet, G. Scènes bohémiennes, from La jolie fille de Perth (1866). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit.

Decca 452 102-2 13 Debussy, C. Images, bk II (1907). Walter Gieseking, pf.

EMI 5 65855 2

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20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg 22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepred by Di Cox Eller, H. Five pieces for string orchestra (1953).

Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 8525 15 Nielsen, C. Wind quintet, op 43 (1922). Oslo Wind Ensemble.

Naxos 8.553050 27 Rautavaara, E. Canticum Mariae Virginis.

Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards K Ondine ODE 1223-2

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Merikanto, A. Piano concerto no 2 (1935-37).

Matti Raekallio, pf; Tampere PO/Tuomas Ollila.

Ondine ODE 915-2 23 Bantock, G. A Hebridean symphony (1915).

Royal PO/Vernon Handley.

Hyperion CDA66450 35

Tuesday 20 May

Kathryn Stott

Kurt Masur

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Delius, F. Paris: The song of a great city (1899).

Royal Liverpool PO/Charles Mackerras.

EMI 5 73113 2 22

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Giuliani, M. Guitar concerto no 1 in A, op 30 (1808). Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Philips 454 262-2 23

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Julie Simonds 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Artist of Choice: José Serebrier Prepared by Francis Frank Wolf-Ferrari, E. Overture to Doctor Cupid (1913). Royal PO. ASV DCA 861 8 Serebrier, J. Variations on a theme from childhood (1967). Laurent de Chennadec, bn; Toulouse National CO. Naxos 8.559183 8 Poema elegíaco (1958). Michael Guttman, vn; Royal PO. ASV DCA 785 9 Fantasia (1960). London PO. Naxos 8.559303

Shostakovich, D. Symphony no 5 in D minor, op 47 (1937). USSR Ministry of Culture SO/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Melodiya MA 3020 46 11:30 MUSIC FOR ONE Sor, F. Est-ce bien ça? Six pièces, op 48 (c1832).

Jeffrey McFadden, gui.

Naxos 8.553985 14 Martinu, B. Puppets: vol 2 (1918). Giorgio Koukl, pf.

Naxos 8.557918 13

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 KEYBOARDS Prepared by Phil Vendy Clementi, M. Sonata in F, op 13 no 5 (1785).

Susan Alexander-Max, fp.

Naxos 8.570475 20 Chabrier, E. Pièces pittoresques (1880).

Kathryn Stott, pf.

Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9158

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Poulenc, F. Sonata (1952-53). Roland Pöntinen, pf; Love Derwinger, pf.

BIS CD-593 22 14:30 THE SYMPHONIES OF MAX BRUCH Prepared by Stephen Wilson Sullivan, A. Overture di ballo (1870).

Philharmonia O/Charles Mackerras.

Decca 468 810-2

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Bruch, M. Symphony no 2 in F minor, op 36 (pub. 1870). Gewandhaus O/Kurt Masur.

Philips 462 164-2 34

12

Tchaikovsky, P. Waltz and grand finale, from The nutcracker (1892). Adelaide SO. Concerto OQ 0008 5

Litolff, H. Symphonic concerto no 5 in C minor, op 123 (1870). Peter Donohoe, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Andrew Litton.

Hyperion CDA67210 35

Serebrier, J. George and Muriel (1986). Renaud Gross, db; Xinum Choir; Toulouse National CO. Naxos 8.559183 6 José Serebrier, cond (all above)

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

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Ron Walledge

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

Mendelssohn, F. Overture: The Hebrides, op 26, Fingal’s Cave (1830). Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi.

Decca 460 239-2 10

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Garrett

José Serebrier. Photo - Clive Barda

22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling May 2014

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Wednesday 21 May Berlioz, H. Les nuits d’été, op 7 (1840-41). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; Paris O/Daniel Barenboim.

DG 410 966-2 29 Atterberg, K. Symphony no 3 in D, op 10, West coast pictures (1914-16). Hanover RPO/Ari Rasilainen. cpo 999 151-2 37 11:30 CHAMBER VIGNETTES Prepared by Rex Burgess Doppler, F. Andante and rondo, op 25. Paul Fried, fl; Alan Weiss, fl; Bryan Pezzone, pf.

Gold Tone GTR-006 8

Ari Rasilainen

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Jernnifer Foong Quantz, J. Horn concerto no 9 in E flat. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown.

Decca 417 406-2 9 Forqueray, J-B-A. Suite no 1 (pub. 1747).

Christophe Coin, bass viol; Trevor Jones, bass viol; Christopher Hogwood, hpd.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 436 185-2 14 Carissimi, G. Surgamus, eamus, properemus.

Consortium Carissimi.

Naxos 8.555076 5 Froberger, J. Toccata VI. Frances Fitch, hpd.

EMI CDM 7 63419-2 3 Steffani, A. Schiere invitte non tardate, from Alarico il Baltha (1687). Cecilia Bartoli, sop; I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis.

Decca 478 4732 2 Bertali, A. Sonata X11 a quattro. Le Concert Brisé/William Dongois, cornet & dir.

Accent ACC 24260 5 Telemann, G. Trio in C minor, TWV42, from Essercizii Musici. Salut! Baroque.

Salut! Baroque SAL007 11 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Purcell, H. Overture and suite from King Arthur (1691). Collegium Aureum/Reinhard Peters.

LP Harmonia Mundi HM 20322 16 42

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Bruckner, A. Intermezzo in D minor (1879).

Enrique Santiago, va; Melos Quartet.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901421 10 Albéniz, I. Preludio, from Songs of Spain, op 232 (1896). Pro Arte Guitar Trio.

ASV WHL 2061 7 12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale 13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI with Troy Fil; recorded by Greg Ghavalas Violinist Josephine Chung plays works by J.S. Bach, Mirrie Hill, Saint-Saëns, Szymanowski and Sarasate.

Proudly sponsored by Sydney Piano World and Sauter Pianos 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.

Replays on www.finemusicfm.com 15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower Boccherini, L. Quintet no 4 in D, Fandango (1798). Karin Schaupp, gui; Flinders Quartet.

ABC 476 4435 20 Dragonetti, D. Adagio e allegro non tanto.

Michele Veronese, db; Luca Ferrini, pf.

Newton 8802133 7 Haydn, J. Symphony in A, Hob.I:60 (1774).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 28 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with David Ogilvie

Beverly Sills

19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell 20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances, 19 April 1975 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero Rossini, G. L’Assedio di Corinto. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexander Soumet. First performed Paris, 1826.

CLEOMENE: Harry Theyard, ten PAMIRA: Beverly Sills, sop NEOCLE: Shirley Verrett, mezz MAOMETTO: Justino Diaz, bass Metropolitan O/Thomas Schippers.

Met broadcast

2:18

Corinth is besieged by the Turkish sultan Maometto II. A young officer Neocle urges the governor Cleomene not to yield. Cleomene wishes his daughter Pamira to marry Neocle but she reveals she is secretly betrothed. When the Turkish troops enter the city she realises that her lover is the sultan. Despite his pleadings and later threats to punish her father, she now rejects him and he determines to destroy Corinth. Pamira begs Cleomene for forgiveness and marries Neocle at her mother’s tomb. Cleomene asks the Greeks to resist, and a priest prophesies that in future centuries Greece will become free. The Turks attack, Corinth burns and Pamira suicides in front of Maometto.

23:00 CLASSICAL ERA Prepared by Sheila Catzel Cannabich, C. Flute quintet in E minor, op 7 no 3 (1768-69). Camerata Cologne. cpo 999 544-2 15 Dussek, J. Piano concerto in B flat, op 22 (1793). Andreas Staier, fp; Concerto Cologne.

Capriccio 5072 24 Gossec, F-J. Symphony in F, op 12 no 6 (pub.

1761). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9661 15

Thursday 22 May

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Rameau, J-P. Three pieces: L’Enharmonique; L’Egyptienne; La Dauphine. Sophie Yates, hpd.

Chandos CHAN 0545 12

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

Hummel, J. Trio no 1 in E flat, op 12 (c1803).

Borodin Trio.

Chandos CHAN 9529 21

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

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

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech Méhul, É-N. Overture to La chasse du jeune Henri (1791). New Philharmonia O/Raymond Leppard.

Philips 446 569-2 11 Giuliani, M. Introduction, theme with variations and polonaise. Pepe Romero, gui; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Philips 454 262-2 20 Martinu, B. Concerto (1938). Jan Bouse, timp; Josef Ruzicka, pf; Prague RSO/Charles Mackerras.

Supraphon 10 3393-2031 21 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 1 in C, op 21 (1800). Sydney SO/Willem van Otterloo.

LP RCA VRL4 0190 26

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Jian Wang. Photo - Xu Bin

Manfredini, F. Concerto grosso in G minor, op 3 no 10 (1719-28). Les Amis de Philippe/ Ludger Rémy. cpo 999 638-2 9 Biber, H. Representative violin sonata (1669).

Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Rosanne Hunt, vc; Linda Kent, hpd.

ABC 465 269-2 11 Hebden, J. Concerto no 1 in A for strings (c1745). Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd.

Chandos CHAN 8339

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14:00 IN THE TIME OF HAYDN: F-J GOSSEC Prepared by Stephen Wilson

11:30 SONATAS FOR TWO Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Gossec, F-J. Suite from Sabinus. Les Agrémens/Guy van Waas.

MBF 1108

Debussy, C. Sonata in G minor (1917). Isabell van Keulen, vn; Ronald Brautigam, pf.

Schwann 3-1527-2 13

Symphony in D, op 5 no 3 (pub.1761). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9661 13

Poulenc, F. Sonata (1957). Philippa Davies, fl; Ian Brown, pf.

Hyperion CDA67255/6 12

14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Frank Morrison

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

Pinto, G. Fantasia and sonata in C minor, op posth (c1807). Riko Fukuda, fp.

Olympia OCD 494 17

13:00 BAROQUE ACROSS EUROPE Prepared by Frank Morrison Wassenaer, U. Concerto no 3 in A for strings (c1786). Combattimento Consort Amsterdam/ Jan Willem de Vriend.

NM Classics 92030 11 Buxtehude, D. Cantata: Jesu, meine Freude, BuxWV60 (c1700). Emma Kirkby, sop; Suzie LeBlanc, sop; Peter Harvey, bass; Purcell Quartet.

Chandos CHAN 0691 13

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Elgar, E. Overture: In the South, op 50, Alassio (1904).

Exton EXCL-00029 21 Cello concerto in E minor, op 85 (1918-19). Jian Wang, vc.

ABC 476 4297 27 Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy (2 above) Reznicek, E. Symphony in D (pub. 1918).

Philharmonia Hungarica/Gordon Wright.

Schwann 11091

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Elgar, E. Starlight express, op 78 (1916). Alison Hagley, sop; Bryn Terfel, bass bar; Welsh National Opera O/Charles Mackerras.

Argo 433 214-2 30 22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Stephen Wilson Albrechtsberger, J. Concertino in D. Michael Scott, picc; Sydney Mandolins/Adrian Hooper.

Jade JAD 1124 14 Haydn, M. String quintet in C (1773).

L’Archibudelli.

Sony SK 53987

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Khachaturian, A. Suite in three movements.

Joan Yarbrough, pf; Robert Cowan, pf.

Pantheon D 20910 11

Mozart, W. Quartet no 2 in E flat, K493 (1786). Christian Zacharias, pf; Frank Peter Zimmermann, vn; Tabea Zimmermann, va; Tilmann Wick, vc.

EMI CDC 7 49879 2 36

Brahms, J. Variations on a theme by Paganini, bk 2, op 35 (1862-63). Idil Biret, pf.

Naxos 8.550350 11

Dittersdorf, C. Divertimento in D. Ondrej Kukal, vn; Petr Pribyl, va; David Rejchrt, vc.

Campion RRCD 1342 10

Holst, G. Two dances (1932). Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9382

Haydn, J. String quartet in D, Hob.III:49, Frog (1787). Salomon Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66822 30

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Friday 23 May 11:30 TOCCATA Prepared by Chris Blower Merulo, C. Toccata terza. Latitude 37.

ABC 476 4525

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Frescobaldi, G. Toccata IX (1637). Mats Klingfors, bn; Niklas Eklund, tpt; Marc Ullrich, tpt; Tormod Dalen, vc; Knut Johannessen, org.

Naxos 8.553593 6 Walton, W. Toccata (1922-23). Kenneth Sillito, vn; Hamish Milne, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9292 14 12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

Bernard Haitink

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

13:00 MUSICDIRECT with Stephen Schafer New and recent releases from www.

MusicDirect.net.au

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

15:00 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Stephen Schafer

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Exploring Chamber Prepared by Jennifer Foong Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 1 in F minor, op 113 (1833). Alan Hacker, cl; Lesley Schatzberger, bshn; Richard Burnett, pf.

Amon Ra SAR 38

Schumann, R. Concert piece in F, op 86 (1849).

Johannes Dengler, hn; Franz Draxinger, hn; Rainer Schmitz, hn; Maximilian Hochwimmer, hn; Bavarian State O/Kent Nagano.

Farao S 108061 18 8

Schubert, F. String quartet no 4 in C D46 (1813). Quatuor Modigliani.

Mirare MIR 168 20 Lenormand, R. Trio in G minor, op 30 (1893).

Trio Chausson.

Mirare MIR 163 25 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Brian Drummond Bernstein, L. Overture to Candide (1955-56).

Tokyo PO/Friedrich Haider.

Nightingale Classics NC 090560-2 5 Bax, A. The happy forest (1914-21). Ulster O/ Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN 8307 10 Beethoven, L. Symphony no 8 in F, op 93 (1812). O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner.

Archiv 439 900-2 24 Strauss, R. Tone poem: Don Quixote, op 35 (1896-97). Klaas Boon, va; Tibor de Machula, vc; Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink.

DG 480 0478 41 44

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Liszt, F. Six Polish songs after Chopin, op 74 (1847-60). Giovanni Bellucci, pf.

Accord 480 4109 16 Wagner, R. Siegfried idyll (1870). Bavarian State O/Kent Nagano.

Farao S 108061 19 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with James Hunter 19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron 20:00 the romantic century Prepared by Phil Vendy Vianna da Motta, J. Fantasia dramática (1893). Artur Pizarro, pf; Gulbenkian O/Martyn Brabbins.

Hyperion CDA67163 29 Arriaga, J. String quartet no 3 in E flat (1824).

Quatuor Modigliani.

Mirare MIR 168 22

Christopher Hogwood

Krommer, F. Double concerto in E flat, op 35 (1802). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Waldemar Wandel, cl; Stuttgart RSO/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild.

Schwann 3-1077-2 21 Brod, H. Quintet in E flat, op 2 no 1. Albert Schweitzer Quintet. cpo 999 498-2 23 Arensky, A. Suite no 2, op 23, Silhouettes (1892). Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky.

Naxos 8.553768 17 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Rex Burgess Dieupart, C. Suite no 1 in A (1701). Masahiro Arita, fl; Kiyomi Suga, fl; Masako Hirao, bass viol; Yasunori Imamura, theorbo; Chiyoko Arita, hpd.

Denon CO-75957/8 16 Purcell, H. O let me weep! from The fairy queen (1692). Marianne Cotterill, sop; Ensemble Pian et Forte/Antonio Frigé.

Nuova Era 7065 7 Locke, M. Suite from The tempest (1674).

Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

L’Oiseau-Lyre 433 191-2 39 Blow, J. Venus and Adonis (1681). Nancy Argenta, sop; Lynne Dawson, sop; Stephen Varcoe, bass; Nicholas Parle, hpd; London Baroque/Charles Medlam.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901276 49

Saturday 24 May Schultz, A. 12 variations (1997). Bernard Lanskey, Stephen Emmerson, pf.

Tall Poppies TP171

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Peter Bell 9:00 WHAT’S ON IN MUSIC Our weekly guide to musical events in and around Sydney

13:00 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD with Maureen Meers Nostalgic music and artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s and occasionally beyond, in a trip down many memory lanes

9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON PIETRO LOCATELLI Prepared by Francis Frank

14:00 LEADING TO ELGAR Prepared by Brian Drummond

Locatelli, P. Introduttione in F, op 4 no 2 (pub.

1735). Raglan Baroque Players/Elizabeth Wallfisch.

Hyperion CDA67041/2 6

Delibes, L. Marche et cortège de Bacchus, from Sylvia (1876). Philharmonia O/Robert Irving.

EMI 1 66446 2 6

Trio sonata in E minor. Darja Grossheide, fl; Gabriele Nussberger, baroque vn; Robert Nikolayczik, vc; Willi Kronenberg, hpd.

Naxos 8.557573 9 Sonata primo in F, op 1 no 1 (pub. 1721).

Concentus Hungaricus.

Hungaroton HCD 31531

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Concerto grosso in F minor, op 1 no 8 (pub.

1721). Capella Istropolitana/Jaroslav Krecek.

Naxos 8.553446 13 Sonata. André Navarra, vc; Erika Kilcher, pf.

Calliope CAL 5673 17

Stanhope, P. Sea chronicles: five songs (1998).

Alana Scott, sop; Collusion.

Move MD3310 19 Schultz, A. Endling, op 72 (2007). Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills.

ABC 476 4519 15

Wagner, R. Prelude to Act I, from Lohengrin (1845). Vienna PO/Karl Böhm.

DG 478 5188 10 Schumann, R. Introduction and allegro appassionato in G, op 92 (1849). Murray Perahia, pf; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado.

Sony SK 64577

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19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Maureen Meers Wilson, M. Excerpts from The music man (1957).

Timothy Noble, Kathleen Brett, voices; Doc Severinsen, tpt; Cincinnati Pops O/Erich Kunzl.

Telarc 80276 18 Various. Excerpts from With a song in my heart (1952). Jane Froman; Ch & O/George Greeley. drg 19054 13

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Elgar, E. Symphony no 1 in A flat, op 55 (1907).

London SO/Charles Mackerras.

Argo 430 835-2 50 15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Nicholas Chaplin

Adler - Ross. Excerpts from The pajama game.

Doris Day, John Raitt, Eddie Foy Jnr, Carol Chaney, voices.

Collectables COL-CD-6699 17 20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Australian Trio Recorded by George Hilgevoord for FINE MUSIC

Hancock, H. Original soundtrack from Round midnight (1986). Dexter Gordon, sax; John McLaughlin, gui; Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphone; Herbie Hancock, pf.

CBS Records CDCBS 70300 51

Mozart, W. Piano trio in G, K496 (1786).

Grusin, D. Main theme from Heaven can wait (1978). Tom Scott, sax; London SO. GRP Records GRD-9547 4

Mozart, W. Sonata in B flat, K570 (1789).

Donald Hazelwood, vn; Michael Brimer, pf. 18

Sonata no 1 in G for flute and basso continuo.

Brisbane Baroque Trio.

LP Grevillea GRV 1080 9

16:30 ARTS IN FOCUS with Musica Viva Produced by Janine Burrus

Violin concerto in F, op 4 no 12 (pub. 1735). Raglan Baroque Players; Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn & dir.

Hyperion CDA67041/2 11

Beethoven, L. Sonata no 12 in A flat, op 26 (1800-01). Igor Hmelnitsky, pf.

FINE MUSIC Tape Archive 21

17:00 HOMAGE TO APOLLO Prepared by Derek Parker

21:30 AT THE CIRCUS Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Britten, B. Young Apollo, op 16 (1939). Gidon Kremer, vn; Yuri Bashmet, va; Nikolai Lugansky, pf; Hallé O/Kent Nagano.

Apex 2564 67391 7 7

Stravinsky, I. Circus polka (1942). Royal PO/ Enrique Bátiz.

ASV QS 6124 4

Violin concerto in D, op 4 no 7 (pub. 1735). Raglan Baroque Players; Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn & dir.

Hyperion CDA67041/2 11 Le labyrinthe harmonique, from l’Art du violon.

Auvergne O/Jean-Jacques Kantorow, vn & dir.

FNAC 592317 18

11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Paul Hopwood Rimmer, W. The royal trophy.

4

Strauss, J. I Radetsky march (arr. Langford). 3 Norman Law, cond (2 above) Tchaikovsky, P. Marche Slave (arr. Phillips).

Phillip McCann, cond.

7 Sellers Engineering Band (3 above) Chandos CHAN 4527

Taneyev, S. Apollo’s temple in Delphi, from The Oresteia (1895). Moscow Radio & TV SO/ Vladimir Fedoseyev.

LP Melodiya 33C 10-08045-46 4 Riisager, K. To Apollo, god of light (1972).

Danish National SO/Owain Arwel Hughes.

Dacapo 6.220527

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Bernstein, E. March, from The great escape. 2

Stravinsky, I. Apollon musagète (1928). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Decca 443 577-2 30

Barry, J. Medley of themes from James Bond movies.

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18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Janie Fitch

Williams, J. Main theme, from Star wars.

Stanhope, P. The arch window (1997). Marshall McGuire, hp.

Artworks AW036 6

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Grimethorpe Colliery U.K. Coal Band (3 above) RCA 74321 88393 2

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Beethoven, L. Five folk songs (1815-16). Jane Edwards, sop.

12 Australian Trio (2 above)

More Beethoven

Kálmán, E. What happens in the world, from The circus princess (1926). Marilyn Hill Smith, sop; Chandos Concert O/Stuart Barry.

5 Chandos CHAN 8978 Bloch, E. Four circus pieces (1922). Istvan Kassai, pf.

Marco Polo 8.223288

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Mørch, C. Circus. Sylvia Young Theater School Children’s Choir; Prague PO/Mario Klemens.

4 Unicef UNI201001 Ives, C. The circus band (transcr. Elkus).

President’s Own United States Marine Band/ Timothy Foley.

3 Naxos 8.570559 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones May 2014

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Sunday 25 May 0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Eleonore Fuchter

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide with Linda Marr

9:00 MUSIC OF THE DANCE Prepared by Angela Bell Grainger, P. Molly on the shore (1907). Joel Smirnoff, vn; Stephen Drury, pf.

Northeastern NR 228 4

Schubert, F. Quintet in A, D667, Trout (1819).

Michael Brimer, pf.

43 Octet in F, D803 (1824).

Bartók, B. Six Romanian folk dances, (1915).

David Oistrakh, vn; Inna Kollegorskaya, pf.

Brilliant Classics 8402

16:00 CELLO RARITIES Prepared by Frank Morrison

11

Wada, K. Folkloric dance suite (1987). Malmö SO/Jun’ichi Hirokami.

BIS CD-490 18

Bellini, V. Son vergin vezzosa, from I puritani (1835). Jennifer McGregor, sop; West Australian SO/Peter Bandy.

4 CBS 462 793-2

14:00 THE SYDNEY SOLOISTS PLAY SCHUBERT Recorded by Kerry Joyner for FINE MUSIC

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

EMI 7 64131 2 14

Prokofiev, S. Folk dance, from Romeo and Juliet, op 75 (1937). Boris Berman, pf.

Chandos CHAN 8851 5

1:00

Sydney Soloists (2 above)

Porpora, N. Cello concerto in G. Giovanni Sollima, vc; European Community CO/Eivind Aadland.

Helios CDH88025 17 Clarke, R. Two pieces (1930). Patricia McCarty, va; Martha Babcock, vc.

Northeastern NR 212 6

10:00 THE DEFINING YEARS Music from the Classical era Prepared by Denis Patterson

Larsson, L-E. Cello concertino, op 45 no 10 (1954-57). Frans Helmerson, vc; Musica Vitae/ Frans Helmerson.

BIS CD-474 12

Arriaga, J. Symphony in D minor (1824).

Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras.

Hyperion CDA66800

Graziani, C. Sonata in D, op 3 no 5. Antonio Meneses, vc; Gustavo Tavares, vc; Rosana Lanzelotte, hpd.

Sanctus SCS 002/3 17

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Geminiani, F. Concerto grosso in C minor, op 7 no 5 (pub. 1746). Malcolm Latchem, vn; Stephen Shingles, va; Denis Vigay, vc; Ian Watson, hpd; Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

ASV DCA 724 7 Arne, T. Cymon and Iphigenia (1753). Richard Morton, ten; Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman.

Hyperion CDA66237 12 Beethoven, L. Sonata in C sharp minor, op 27 no 2, Moonlight (1801). Tessa Birnie, pf.

ABC 476 647-9 17 Gluck, C. Aria: Se mai senti spirati sul volto, from La clemenza di Tito (1752). Sophie Bevan, sop; Classical Opera Company/Ian Page.

Wigmore Hall WHLive0037 10 Bellini, V. Casta diva. Ah! bello a me ritorno, from Norma (1831). Maria Callas, sop; Turin Italian RSO/Arturo Basile.

Naxos 8.110302 9 Mozart, W. Symphony no 40 in G minor, K550 (1788). Tasmanian SO/Sebastian Lang-Lessing.

ABC 476 4561 28

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Offenbach, J. Au Mont Ida, from La belle Hélène (1864). Jussi Björling, ten; Swedish O/ Nils Grevillius.

3 EMI CDM 1 66418 2

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME With John Buchanan

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17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle Excerpts from Matins for Ascension Day. Choir of Lincoln Cathedral; Andrew Post, org; Colin Walsh, org & dir.

Priory PRCD 5028 36 Wesley, S.S. Blessed be the God and Father. 8 Mendelssohn, F. Exalted, Lord, above all praise, op 79 no 3, from Six anthems (1845). 2 Choir of Truro Cathedral; John Hosking, org; Andrew Nethsinga, cond (2 above) Priory PRCD 732 Messiaen, O. Transports de joie, from L’Ascension. Colin Walsh, org.

Priory PRCD 5028

Verdi, G. Madamigella Valéry? from La traviata (1853). Cheryl Barker, sop; Peter ColemanWright, bar; Tasmanian SO/Martin André.

3 ABC 465 699-2 Berlioz, H. Nuit d’ivresse, from The Trojans (185658). Angela Gheorghiu, sop; Roberto Alagna, ten; Royal Opera House O/Richard Armstrong.

8 EMI 5 56117 2 19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Wagner, R. Overture to Rienzi (1840). Berlin PO/KlausTennstedt.

EMI CDM 1 66416 2 14 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 4 in C minor, op 44 (1875). Francois-René Duchable, pf; PO of Strasbourg/Alain Lombard.

Erato 4509-95358-2 24 Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 1 in D minor, op 13 (1895). Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin.

Vox Prima MWCD 7115 44 21:00 NEW HORIZONS Motor city vs forest landscapes Prepared by Robert Small Sandström, J. A short ride on a motorbike (1989). Christian Lindberg, tb; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä.

9 BIS CD-828 Daugherty, M. Motorcity triptych (2000).

Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi.

Naxos 8.559372 28 Bandt, R. Invading the landscape (c1983). Ros Bandt, brass bells, cymbals, gong.

5 Move MD 3075 Osborne, D. Late harvest (2007). Raga Dolls Salon O/David Osborne.

9 ABC 476 690-7

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18:00 WHAT’S ON AT THE CON with Julie Simonds A monthly program of music, news and interviews from the Sydney Conservatorium

Sculthorpe, P. Landscape II (1979). Leigh Middenway, vn; Dimity Hall, va; Catherine Hewgill, vc; Anthony Fogg, amplified pf.

MBS 16 CD

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19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech

De Teliga - Kelly. Layers of the forest, from The evergreen realm (arr. Sirocco). Sirocco, with Chai Chang Ning.

Jarra Hill Records CDJHR2015 11

Rossini, G. Overture to Il Signor Bruschino (1813). National PO/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 400 049-2 5

22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Monday 26 May Honegger, A. Excerpts from music for the film Napoleon (1927). USSR Ministry of Culture SO/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

LP Melodiya C10-20459 -009 7

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

Françaix, J. Suite: Napoleon (1954). Martin Jones, Adrian Farmer, pf.

Nimbus NI 5880/2 27

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC By arrangement Prepared by Francis Frank

Schoenberg, A. Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, op 41 (1942). David Wilson-Johnson, narr; Fred Sherry Quartet; Jeremy Denk, pf; Robert Craft, cond.

Naxos 8.557528 15

Bach, J.S. Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV565 (bef. 1708; transcr. Stokowski). Sydney SO/Robert Pikler.

Chandos CHAN 6532 10 Tartini, G. Concerto grosso no 5 in E minor (1734; arr. Meneghini). Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini.

Harmonia Mundi HMC901548 10 Beethoven, L. Romance no 2 in F, op 50 (1798; transcr. 1803; arr. Müller-Schott). Daniel MüllerSchott, vc; Australian CO/Richard Tognetti.

Orfeo C 080 031 A 8 Rossini, G. Quartet no 1 in F (1804; arr. Berr).

Michael Thompson Wind Quartet.

Naxos 8.554098 11 Vivaldi, A. Concerto grosso no 11 in D minor, RV565 (pub. 1711; transcr. Stokowski). Richard Davis, fl; Christopher Blake, ob; BBC PO/ Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9930 13 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker Janácek, L. Taras bulba, rhapsody (1915-18).

Vienna PO/Charles Mackerras.

Decca 478 3156-67 23 Godard, B. Piano concerto no 2, op 148 (1893).

Victor Sangiogio, pf; Royal Scottish NO/Martin Yates.

Dutton Epoch CDLX 7291 28 Svendsen, J. Symphony no 2 in B flat, op 15 (1874). Bergen PO/Neem Järvi.

Chandos CHAN 10711 32 11:30 RACHMANINOV MINIATURES Prepared by Elaine Siversen Rachmaninov, S. Songs, op 38 (1916-17): In the garden of my night; To her; Daisies; The pied piper. Elena Brilova, sop; Alexander Melnikov, pf.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1978 10

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Etudes-tableaux, op 39 (1916-17): no 1 in C minor; no 2 in A minor; no 3 in F sharp; no 4 in B minor. Howard Shelley, pf.

Hyperion CDS 44045 15 12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Tom Forrester-Paton 19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling

13:00 ROMANTIC GEMS Prepared by Gael Golla

20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg

Franck, C. Sonata in A (1886). Anne-Sophie Mutter, vn; Lambert Orkis, pf.

DG 445 826-2 30 Albéniz, I. Bajo la palmera, from Cantos de España, op 232 no 3 (pub. 1896); Evocation, from Iberia. Julian Bream, gui; John Williams, gui.

RCA RD 80456 11 Rachmaninov, S. Vocalise, op 34 no 14 (1912).

Diana Doherty, ob; Sinfonia Australis/Mark Summerbell.

ABC 980 046-3 6 Brahms, J. Quartet in C minor, op 60 (1874).

Isaac Stern, vn; Jaime Laredo, va; Yo-yo Ma, vc; Emmanuel Ax, pf.

Sony S2K 45846 35 14:30 NAPOLEON Prepared by Denis Patterson Rossini, G. Hymne à Napoléon III et à son vaillant peuple (1867). Ildar Abrazakov, bar; Milan Symphony Ch & O/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 470 298-2

Tchaikovsky, P. Overture: 1812. Oslo PO/ Mariss Jansons.

EMI 5 74113-2

22:00 INTO THE 20TH CENTURY Prepared by Judy Ekstein Bruch, M. Double concerto in E minor, op 88 (c1912). Paul Meyer, cl; Gérard Caussé, va; Lyon Opera O/Kent Nagano.

Erato 2292-45483-2 20 Françaix, J. Divertimento (1953). Peter Damm, hn; Peter Rösel, pf.

Berlin Classics 0012882BC 7 Vierne, L. Ballad of the despairing man, op 61 (1931). Steve Davislim, ten; Queensland SO/ Guillaume Tourniaire.

Melba MR 301123 17 Martinu, B. Trio for flute, cello and piano (1944). Members of Feinstein Ensemble.

Naxos 8.553459 19 Strauss, R. Horn concerto no 2 in E flat (1942).

David Pyatt, hn; Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury.

EMI 5 65581 2 20

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Vierne, L. Triumphal march for the centenary of Napoléon 1 (1921). Maurice André, tpt; Pierre Cochereau, org; Ensemble d’instruments à vent et fanfare/Armand Birbaum.

Decca 478 4664 12

Dohnányi, E. Piano quintet no 2 in E flat minor, op 26 (1914). Schubert Ensemble of London.

Hyperion CDA66786 25 May 2014

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Tuesday 27 May

Vladimir Ashkenazy. Photo - Keith Saunders

Michael Hofstetter

Stephanie McCallum

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown

14:00 MASTERS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA Prepared by Rex Burgess

Ireland, J. Sea fever (1913). Bryn Terfel, bassbar; Malcolm Martineau, pf.

DG 445 946-2 2

Alkan, C-V. Concerto, from 12 studies in minor keys, op 39 nos 8 to 10 (1857). Stephanie McCallum, pf.

MBS 24 CD 48

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: Thea King Prepared by Madilina Tresca Villa-Lobos, H. Choros no 2 (1924). William Bennett, fl.

Hyperion CDA66295 3 Maconchy, E. Concertino no 1 (1945). English CO/Barry Wordsworth.

Hyperion CDA66634 14 Howells, H. Sonata (1949). Clifford Benson, pf.

Hyperion CDA66044 21 Stanford, C. Villiers Fantasy no 2 in F (c1922).

Britten String Quartet.

Hyperion CDA66479 14 Thea King, cl (all above) 10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field Mendelssohn, F. Overture: Calm sea and prosperous voyage, op 27 (1828). Bamberg SO/ Claus Peter Flor.

RCA Victor RD 87905 12 Prokofiev, S. Cello concertino in G minor, op 132 (1953). Steven Isserlis, vc; London PO/ Andrew Litton.

Virgin VC 7 90811-2 20 Strauss, R. An alpine symphony, op 64 (191115). Cleveland O/Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Decca 425 112-2 50 48

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Schubert, F. Die Sterne, D684 (c1820). Elly Ameling, sop; Dalton Baldwin, pf.

Philips 410 037-2

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Mendelssohn, F. Wartend-Romanze, op 9 no 3. Sophie Daneman, sop; Eugene Asti, pf.

Hyperion CDA67137 2 Beethoven, L. An die ferne Geliebte, op 98.

Peter Anders, ten; Hubert Giesen, pf.

Teldec 242 454-2 14 12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes 13:00 TURN OF A CENTURY Prepared by Frank Morrison Mozart, W. Oboe quartet, in F, K370 (1781).

Lothar Koch, ob; members of Amadeus Quartet.

DG 437 139-2 15 Field, J. Rondo in A flat (1812). Míceál O’Rourke, pf; London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9534 7 Bortnyansky, D. Romance of Paul and Virginie (1793). Sergej Larin, ten; Eleonora Bekova, pf.

Chandos CHAN 9906 7 Eybler, J. Symphony no 1 in C (c1780s). Geneva CO/Michael Hofstetter. cpo 777 104-2 24

Mussorgsky, M. Songs and dances of death (1877). Galina Vishnevskaya, sop; London PO/ Mstislav Rostropovich.

EMI 5 62829 2 21 Brahms, J. Symphony no 2 in D, op 73 (1877).

Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado.

DG 427 643-2 46 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Michael Morton-Evans 19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps 20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Stephen Wilson 22:00 THE AUSTRALIAN JAZZ SCENE with Susan Gai Dowling

Wednesday 28 May Cavalli, F. APOLLO/TITHONUS: Mario Zeffiri, ten DAPHNE: Marianna Pizzolato, mezz AURORA/VENUS: Marisa Martins, mezz CEPHALUS/PAN: Agustin Prunell-Friend, ten FILENA: Assumpta Mateu, sop CUPID: Soledad Cardoso, sop JOVE: Ugo Guargliardo, bass Tania Seoane Rodriguez, bn; Iván Sánchez, tb; David Ethève, vc; José Rodrigues, db; Reyes Gómez Benito, hp; Anna Bigliardi, hpd; Galicia Symphony Youth O/Alberto Zedda.

Naxos 8.660187/88 2:25

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN 6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Peter Kurti 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Boismortier, J. de Cinquième gentillesse, op 45. Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet.

Naxos 8.554295 7 Hotteterre, J-M. Suite. Hans-Martin Linde, fl; Hannelore Müller, hpd.

Mediaphon 160 333-2 8 Marais, M. Sonata à la Marésienne (pub. 1723).

London Baroque/Charles Medlam.

Harmonia Mundi HMA 1901105 12 Charpentier, M-A. Beatus vir (c1695; transcr.

Blanchard). Evelyne Brunner, sop; Helena Vieira, sop; Alain Zaepfel, ct; Alejandro Ramirez, ten; Philippe Huttenlocher, bass; Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon Symphony Ch & O/ Michel Corboz.

Erato 2292-45083-2 18 Rameau, J-P. Konzert no 1. Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard.

Erato 2292-45565-2

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13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI with Troy Fil; recorded by Greg Ghavalas Flautist Brian Kim plays works by Jolivet, Poulenc, Telemann, Edwards and Boehm.

Proudly sponsored by Sydney Piano World and Sauter Pianos 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. Replays on www.finemusicfm.com 15:00 THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN Prepared by Chris Blower

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell Mozart, W. Symphony no 33 in B flat, K319 (1779). Concertgebouw O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 8.42817

Ernst Märzendorfer

12:00 JAZZ SKETCHES with Robert Vale

Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:61 (1776).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 23 26

Bach, C.P.E. Flute concerto in D minor, Wq22. Aurèle Nicolet, fl; Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger.

Decca 460 302-2 26 Suk, J. Pohádka, op 16 (1899-1900). Buffalo PO/ JoAnn Falletta.

Naxos 8.572323 31 11:30 FOR THE PIANO Prepared by Angela Bell

Byström, T. Sonata no 1, op 1 (pub.1799).

Yoshiko Arai, vn; Izumi Tateno, pf.

Finlandia FACD 012

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Haydn, J. Symphony in D, Hob.I:62 (c1777-80).

Vienna CO/Ernst Märzendorfer.

LP Musical Heritage Society OR H-201-249 17 16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Camille Mercep 19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell

Debussy, C. Pour le piano (1894-1901). Walter Gieseking, pf.

EMI 5 65855 2 12

20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman

Granados, E. Poetic waltzes (1887). Douglas Riva, pf.

Naxos 8.554629 15

Cavalli, F. The loves of Apollo and Daphne.

Opera in prologue and three acts. Libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. First performed Venice, 1640.

The prologue and first scenes look at dreams and ageing. Venus asks Jove to punish Apollo for revealing her affair with Mars. Meanwhile Daphne rejoices in her freedom from love, though Filena warns her that beauty fades.

Aurora (Dawn) teases her two lovers, Tithonus and Cephalus. To avenge Venus, Cupid shoots Apollo with his arrow. He falls in love with Daphne who flees until her father turns her into a laurel tree. Apollo is bereft, until she assures him his sun can shine on her.

Cavalli, F. Prison scene duets from L’Ormindo (1644). Fiona Campbell, mezz; David Walker, ct; Ironwood/Neal Peres da Costa.

Vexations 840 840-1101 14 23:00 CLOUD COVER Prepared by Angela Bell Benjamin, A. The storm clouds cantata, from The man who knew too much (1934). Abigail Sara, mezz; Caerdydd Choir; Rob Court, org; Gwawr Owen, cond.

Chandos CHAN10713 8 Samuels, D. Night rain. Dave Samuels, vibraphone; Synergy.

Tall Poppies TP030

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Taneyev, S. A rock saw from behind a cloud, from 12 choruses, op 27 no 9 (1909). Moscow State Chamber Choir/Vladimir Minin.

DG 474 377-2 6 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. The heavy clouds disperse, op 42 no 3 (1897). Galina Vishnevskaya, sop; Mstislav Rostropovich, pf.

EMI 5 65716 2 4 Sullivan, A. Suite from The tempest, op 1 (1861). BBC PO/Richard Hickox.

Chandos CHAN 9859 28

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Thursday 29 May 13:00 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Prepared by Philip Lidbury

0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE 3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

Uttini, F. Ballet music, from Thétis and Pelée (1773). National Museum CO/Claude Génetay.

Musica Sveciae MSCD 407 5

6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Simon Moore 9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Chris Blower

Haydn, J. Violin concerto no 1 in C, Hob. VIIa:4 (1769). O of the Age of Enlightenment; Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn & dir.

Virgin 5 61301 2 20

Ysaÿe, E. Andante in B minor (1893). Vlad Bogdanas, va; Kryptos Quartet.

Klara KTC 4034

Scottish songs (1801). Scottish Early Music Consort.

Chandos CHAN 8636

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Sonata in G, op 27 no 5 (1924). Vilmos Szabadi, vn.

Hungaroton HCD 31476 8

String quartet in E flat, op 33 no 2, Joke (1781).

Kodály Quartet.

Naxos 8.550788 17

Chopin, F. Ballade no 1 in G minor, op 23 (arr.

Ysaÿe). Philippe Graffin, vn; Pascal Devoyon, pf.

Helios CDH55353 10

Mozart, W. Adagio in B minor, K540 (1788).

Alfred Brendel, pf.

Philips 454 244-2 11

Ysaÿe, E. Violin concerto after two poems, op 18. Maurice Raskin, vn; Belgian Radio & Television CO/ Edgard Doneux.

LP EMI 4C161-9589/900 21

Wranitzky, P. Symphony in D, op 36 (1799).

London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN 9916 22

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Ron Walledge Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet (1869/80). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti.

EMI CZS 7 67318 2 19 Wolf-Ferrari, E. Cello concerto in C, op 31 (1945). Gustav Rivinius, vc; Frankfurt RSO/Alun Francis. cpo 999 278-2 22 Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 5 in B flat, op 100 (1944). Philharmonia O/Paul Kletzki.

EMI 5 74115 2 40 11:30 ARGENTINIAN SOUNDS Prepared by Elaine Siversen Piazzolla, A. Café 1930; Nightclub 1960, from History of the tango (1980s). Friedemann Eichhorn, vn; Thomas Müller-Pering, gui.

Hänssler 98.508 14 Ginastera, A. Suite of Creole dances, op 15 (1946). Alberto Portugheis, pf.

ASV DCA 880 11 12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

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14:30 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Francis Frank Clementi, M. Piano trio, op 22 no 3 (pub.

1788). Trio Fauré.

Dynamic CDS 93

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Loeillet de Gant, J.B. Sonata in D minor.

André Isselée, fl; Christiane Parée, hpd.

LP Alpha 139 C

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16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Stephen Wilson 19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey 20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Sydney’s conductors: Charles Dutoit Prepared by Denis Patterson Rossini, G. Overture to Cinderella (1817).

Montreal SO. Decca 460 590-2

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Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 1 in D flat, op 10 (1912). Martha Argerich, pf.

EMI 5 56654 2 16 Montreal SO (2 above) Poulenc, F. Litanies à la Vierge noir (1936; orch.

1947). Françoise Pollet, sop; Choir of Radio France; French NO. Decca 478 3640 9 Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 5 in F, op 103, Egyptian (1896). Pascal Rogé, pf; Royal PO. Decca 478 3156-67 29 Qigang Chen. Reflection of a vanished time (1995-96). Yo-Yo Ma, vc; NO of France.

MFA 5 45549 2 25 Dutilleux, H. L’arbre des songes, violin concerto (1985). Isabelle van Keulen, vn; Royal Concertgebouw O. Radio Nederland RCO11004 23

Corrette, M. Organ concerto in A, op 26 no 2 (pub. 1756). Jean-Patrice Brosse, org; Concerto Rococo.

Pierre Verany PV793113 9

Charles Dutoit, cond (all above)

Berwald, F. Duo in B flat (1857). Mats Rondin, vc; Åke Lundin, pf.

Naxos 8.554286 17

Gounod, C. Little symphony in B flat (1885).

Athena Ensemble.

Chandos CHAN 6543 20

Handel, G. Concerto grosso in D minor, op 6 no 10 (1739). English Concert.

Archiv 410 899-2 15

Fossa, F. de Trio no 3 in F, op 18 (1808).

Martin Beaver, vn; Bryan Epperson, vc; Simon Wynberg, gui.

Naxos 8.550760 27

Prelude and fugue. Elizabeth Anderson, Douglas Lawrence, org.

Move MD 3180

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Arne, T. Concerto no 4 in B flat (pub. 1793).

Parley of Instruments Baroque O. Helios CDH55251 11

22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Fauré, G. String quartet in E minor, op 121 (1924). Parrenin Quartet.

EMI CMS 7 62548 2 25 Elgar, E. Quintet in A minor, op 84 (1918-19).

David Owen Norris, pf; Mistry Quartet.

Argo 433312-2 35

Friday 30 May 0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 2 in D minor, op 114 (1832; arr.Falletta). Debra Wendells Cross, fl; Robert Alemany, cl; JoAnn Falletta, gui.

Virginia Arts Festival 84501 74917 9

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

12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Exploring Chamber Barsanti, F. Sonata in C minor. Eckart Haupt, rec; Christine Schornsheim, hpd.

Capriccio 10 234 8 Boccherini, L. Quartet in D, op 5 no 1. Tinka Muradori, fl; Members of Pro Arte String Quartet.

Masters of Millenium MM 2076 15 Sammartini, G. Sonata in G. Michel Henry, baroque ob; Roberto Gini, vc; Diana Petech, hpd.

Arts 447 141-2 10 Vivaldi, A. Sonata in C minor, RV53. Heinz Holliger, ob; Mardal Ceroa, vc; Edith PichtAxenfeld, hpd.

Philips 446 906-2 12 Boismortier, J. de Sonata, op 40 no 2.

Christian Beuse, bn; Kristian Nyquist, hpd.

Preciosa Aulos PRE 66020 AUL

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10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel Wagner, R. Prelude to Act I and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59).

DG 474 377-2 17 Prokofiev, S. Piano concerto no 3 in C, op 26 (1917-21). Yevgeny Kissin, pf.

Philips 456 871-2 28

Mozart, W. Quintet in E flat, K452 (1784).

Robert Hill, cl; Derek Wickens, ob; Martin Gatt, bn; Barry Tuckwell, hn; John Ogdon, pf.

Decca 421 393-2 23 Britten, B. Canticle III: Still falls the rain, op 55 (1954). Peter Pears, ten; Dennis Brain, hn; Benjamin Britten, pf.

BBC BBCB 8014-2 11

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Koehne, G. Rain forest (1982). Australian Youth O/Christoph Eschenbach.

ABC 426 478-2 15

String quartet in A minor. Tonhalle Quartet.

LP Schwann VMS 1016 14 Symphony no 2 in E flat (1856). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner.

Philips 462 125-2 31 Six melodies (1840). Barry Tuckwell, hn; Daniel Blumenthal, pf.

Etcetera KTC 1135 26 22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Edith Yam

Bach, W.F. Symphony in F, F67, Dissonance (1755-58). Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ Stephan Mai. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 15

Balbastre, C-B. Où s’en vont ces gais bergers (1770). René Saorgin, org.

4 Harmonia Mundi HMX 2978199

Bach, C.P.E. Sonata in B flat, Wq48 no 2 (1742).

Danny Driver, pf.

Hyperion CDA67786 13

Mendelssohn, F. Symphony no 3 in A minor, op 56, Scottish (1842) London SO. Decca 458 176-2 37

Wagenseil, G. Cello concerto in C. Györgyi Körösi, vc; Salieri CO/Tamás Pál.

Arkadia CDAK 130.1 24

Claudio Abbado, cond (3 above)

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in E minor, Kk402. András Schiff, pf.

Decca 421 422-2 11

Prokofiev, S. Overture on Hebrew themes, op 34 (1919/34). James Campbell, cl; Eleonora Turovsky, vn; Rivka Golani, va; Borodin Trio.

Chandos CHAN 8924 10

Petite symphony in B flat (1885). Munich Wind Academy/Alexander Brezina.

Orfeo C 051 831 A 21

14:00 THE FIRST CLASSICISTS Prepared by Angela Bell

Berlin PO (2 above)

Wagner, R. Liebestod, from Tristan and Isolde (1857-59). Vladimir Horowitz, pf.

Sony 88697419402 7

Gounod, C. Ballet music from Faust (1859).

Royal Opera House O/Georg Solti.

Decca 480 0952 16

Charpentier, M-A. Pastorale on the nativity of Jesus Christ (c1670). Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie.

Harmonia Mundi HMX 2971082 42

Mozart, L. Trio sonata no 4 in G (c1740).

London Baroque.

Harmonia Mundi HMC 901395

11:30 CHAMBER ENCORE Prepared by Sheila Catzel

19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron 20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Stephen Wilson

13:00 WIND AND RAIN Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Ravel, M. The great winds from beyond the sea (1895). Laurent Naouri, bar; David Abramovitz, pf.

Naxos 8.554176-77

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm With Oscar Foong

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Lully, J-B. Air pour les bergers; Dialogue de Climene et Cloris avec Tircis et Philene; Plainte de Cloris, from George Dindin (1668).

Isabelle Poulenard, sop; Agnès Mellon, sop; Gilles Ragon, ct; Michel Verschaeve, ten; Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski.

Erato 245 286-2 13 Bach, J.S. Pastorale, BWV590 (c1710). René Saorgin, org.

Harmonia Mundi HMX 2978199 14 Bach, C.P.E. Pastorale. Fiati con Tasto. cpo 999 508-2

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Tartini, G. Pastorale in A. Locatelli Trio.

Hyperion CDA66430

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Bach, C.P.E. Flute quartet no 3 in G, Wq95 (1788). Les Adieux.

DHM GD 77052 18

Pasquini, B. Pastorale in G. Liuwe Tamminga, org.

5 Accent ACC 10129

Stamitz, J. Symphony in E flat, op 11 no 3 (pub.

1758). New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong.

Naxos 8.553194 17

Scarlatti, A. Cantata pastorale (1716). Miriam Allan, sop; James Sanderson, ct; vns from Chacona.

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Saturday 31 May

Ives, C. Country band (1903). Clark Rundell, cond.

Chandos CHAN 10367 4

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

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Willoughby Symphony Orchestra: Love stories Recorded by Jason McBride for FINE MUSIC 15 June 2013, The Concourse, Chatswood.

Holst, G. First suite for military band in E flat, op 28 no 1 (1909). Timothy Reynish, cond.

Chandos CHAN 9697 11

Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture, Romeo and Juliet (1869/79/80).

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9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON A ‘ONE WORK COMPOSER’ Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Kagel, M. Marches 1 to 4, from Ten marches to miss the victory (1978-79) Clark Rundell, cond.

Chandos CHAN 10367 7

Godard, B. Angels guard thee, from Jocelyn, op 109 (1888). Kenneth McKellar, ten; O/Peter Knight.

Decca 448 902-2 5

Vaughan Williams, R. Flourish for wind band (c1957). Timothy Reynish, cond.

Chandos CHAN 9697 2

Rachmaninov, S. The bells, choral symphony, op 35 (1913). Elli Bortolotti, sop; Marcus Bartolotti, ten; David Hidden, bass; Willoughby Symphony Choir.

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Royal Northern College of Music Wind O (all above)

Willoughby SO/Nicholas Milton (all above) 10

12:00 FINE MUSIC LIVE Live to air studio recitals featuring the Camerata Quartet, Acacia Quartet and other guest artists

21:30 COME, LET’S TANGO! Prepared by Frank Morrison

0:00 CLASSIC-ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Oscar Foong

Suite in three parts, op 116. Sharon Bezaly, fl; Love Derwinger, pf.

BIS SACD-1639 11 Ouverture des Guelfes (1882). Royal Scottish NO/Martin Yates.

Dutton Epoch LX 7291 8 Études melodiques, op 149, bk 4 (1893). Jean Martin, pf.

Naxos 8.223802 21 Concerto romantique in A minor, op 35 (1876).

Chloë Hanslip, vn; Slovak State PO/Kirk Trevor.

Naxos 8.570554 23 Introduction and allegro, op 49 (1880). Victor Sangiorgio, pf.

13 Oriental symphony, op 84 (1884).

Royal Scottish NO/Martin Yates (2 above) RSNO LX 7274

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11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN The music of Frederick Loewe Prepared by Chris Blower Loewe, F. Excerpts from My fair lady (1956). Julie Andrews, sop; Rex Harrison; Robert Coote; John Michael King; Stanley Holloway, voices; original Broadway cast; Ch & O/Franz Allers.

Masterworks Broadway 88697 49917 2 19 Excerpts from Brigadoon (1947). Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, voices; MGM Studio O/Johnny Green.

Hallmark 705422 18 Excerpts from Camelot (1960). Julie Andrews, sop; Richard Burton, Robert Goulet, voices; original Broadway cast; O/Franz Allers.

Sony SK 60542 16

Bruch, M. Scottish fantasy, op 46 (1879-80).

Natsuko Yoshimoto, vn.

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Weill, K. Sailors’ tango, from Happy end (1929). Carole Farley, sop; Roger Vignoles, pf.

ASV DCA 790 5 Tárrega, F. Tango. Narciso Yepes, gui.

DG 469 649-2

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Stravinsky, I. Tango (1940). London SO/Antal Dorati.

Mercury 470 643-2 4 Piazzolla, A. Le grand tango. Alban Gerhard, vc; Rina Dokshinsky, pf.

EMI 5 73164 2 12 22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones

Jewels of the Bel Canto Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano), Catherine Carby (mezzo-soprano), Northern Sinfonia, Richard Bonynge (conductor) SIGNUM SIGCD374

On this stunning new release, young Australian soprano Elena Xanthoudakis gives exhilarating performances of some true jewels of bel canto opera by Bellini (I Capuleti e i Montecchi, La Sonnambula), Verdi (Il Corsaro), Rossini (Matilde di Shabran, Le Comte Ory, La Cambiale di Matrimonio) and Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore, Don Pasquale, La Fille du Régiment), including much-loved favourites and rarities.

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The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the May dates listed Adam, A. 1803-1856 4 Albéniz, I. 1860-1909 9,21,26 Albrechtsberger, J. 1736-1809 22 Alfvén, H. 1872-1960 17 Alkan, C-V. 1813-1888 27 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 9,23 Arne, T. 1710-1778 4,25,29 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 8 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 23,25 Atterberg, K. 1887-1974 21 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 7,28,30 Bach, G.C. 1642-1697 10 Bach, J. Christian 1735-1782 11 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 2,3,8,9,10,11,1 2,13,15,16,18,26,30 Bach, W.F. 1710-1784 16,30 Balada, L. b1933 18 Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 2,3,15 Bantock, G. 1868-1946 16,19 Barber, S. 1910-1981 12 Barret, R. b1959 19 Barry, J. b1933 24 Barsanti, F. 1690-1772 30 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 5,25 Bax, A. 1883-1953 15,23 Beach, A. 1867-1944 18 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 2,4,5 ,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,19,22,23,2 4,25,26,27 Bellini, V. 1801-1835 25 Bengtsson, G. 1886-1956 16 Benjamin, A. 1893-1960 4,28 Berg, A. 1885-1935 5 Berkeley, L. 1905-1989 15 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 1,3,15,21,25 Bernstein, E. b1922 10 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 4,12,13 Bertali, A. 1605-1669 21 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 2,29 Biber, H. 1644-1704 7,22 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 19 Bloch, E. 1880-1959 24 Blow, J. 1649-1708 23 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 7,8,11,15,21,30 Boïeldieu, A. 1775-1834 19 Boismortier, J. de 1689-1755 9,28,30 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 15 Bortnyansky, D. 1751-1825 4,27 Bottesini, G. 1821-1889 1 Boyce, W. 1711-1779 9,14 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 3,5,8,12,17,22,26,27 Bridge, F. 1879-1941 1 Britten, B. 1913-1976 9,10,24,30 Brod, H. 1801-1838 23 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 9,20,26,31 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 2,21 Brumby, C. b1933 15 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 4,22 Byrd, W. 1543-1623 3,18 Byström, T. 1772-1839 5,28

Cabanilles, J. 1644-1712 10 Cambini, G. 1746-1825 8,11 Cannabich, C. 1731-1798 21 Canteloube, J. 1879-1957 13 Caplet, A. 1878-1925 13 Carissimi, G. 1605-1674 21 Casablancas, B. b1956 18 Casares, O. 20th c 11 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. 1895-1968 1 Catalani, A. 1854-1893 3 Catoire, G. 1861-1926 15 Cavalli, F. 1602-1676 28 Chabrier, E. 1841-1894 19,20 Charpentier, M-A. 1635-1704 28,30 Chausson, E. 1855-1899 2,9,13,16 Cherubini, L. 1760-1842 4 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 8,15,17,19,29 Cimarosa, D. 1749-1801 1 Cimirro, A. b1982 11 Ciurlionis, M. 1875-1911 15 Clarke, R. 1886-1979 25 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 4,11,14,20,29 Coates, E. 1886-1957 5 Copland, A. 1900-1990 15 Corrette, M. 1709-1795 10,29 Czerny, C. 1791-1857 4,6

Fossa, F. de 1775-1849 29 Françaix, J. 1912-1997 26 Franck, C. 1822-1890 4,6,26 Frescobaldi, G. 1583-1643 23 Fuchs, R. 1847-1927 5

d’Indy, V. 1851-1931 2 Daugherty, M. b1954 25 David, Ferdinand. 9,15 1810-1873 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 8,12,16,19,22,28 Delibes, L. 1836-1891 16,24 Delius, F. 1862-1934 20 Dieupart, C. c1667-c1740 23 Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 4,22 Dohnányi, E. 1877-1960 26 Domeniconi, C. b1947 4 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 9 Doppler, F. 1821-1883 21 Dragonetti, D. 1763-1846 21 Dreyfus, G. b1928 3 Dubois, T. 1837-1924 12 Duruflé, M. 1902-1986 3 Dussek, J. 1760-1812 21 Dutilleux, H. b1916 29 Dvorak, A. 1841-1904 4,5,12,16,18 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 4,5,12,16,18

Halffter, C. b1930 18 Hamilton, D. b1955 11 Hancock, H. b1940 24 Handel, G. 1685-1759 7,10,15,19,29 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 1,7,14,15,21,22,28,29 Haydn, M. 1737-1806 22 Hebden, J. 1712-1765 22 Heinichen, J. 1683-1729 9,16 Henselt, A. 1814-1889 9 Hertel, J. 1727-1789 4 Herz, H. 1803-1888 15 Hindemith, P. 1895-1963 11 Hofmann, L. 1738-1793 4 Holst, G. 1874-1934 5,8,9,18,19,22,31 Honegger, A. 1892-1955 26 Hotteterre, J-M. 1674-1763 28 Howells, H. 1892-1983 27 Hummel, J. 1778-1837 7,8,11,14,18,22 Humperdinck, E. 1854-1921 6 Hurst, M. b1925 10 Hyde, M. 1913-2005 10

Edwards, R. b1943 12 Elgar, E. 1857-1934 22,24,29 Eller, H. 1887-1970 19 Enescu, G. 1881-1955 9 Eybler, J. 1765-1846 27 Falla, M. de 1876-1946 5,16 Farina, C. c1600-c1640 18 Fasch, J. 1688-1758 6,10 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 16,19,29 Field, J. 1782-1837 2,18,27 Finzi, G. 1901-1956 5 Forqueray, J-B-A. 1699-1782 21

Gaubert, P. 1879-1941 16 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 25 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 5 Gibbons, O. 1583-1625 11 Ginastera, A. 1916-1983 29 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 20,22 Glanville-Hicks, P. 1912-1990 8,10 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 1 Gluck, C. 1714-1787 4,25 Godard, B. 1849-1895 26 Goldmark, K. 1830-1915 2,13 Goodall, H. b1958 18 Gossec, F-J. 1734-1829 21,22 Gottschalk, L. 1829-1869 4 Gould, T. b1940 4 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 29,30 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 1,10 Granados, E. 1867-1916 28 Graziani, C. d 1787 25 Gretchaninov, A. 11 1864-1956 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 7,16,19 Guerra, J. b1952 18

Ibert, J. 1890-1962 19 Ives, C. 1874-1954 10 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 26 Jenkins, J. 1592-1678 14 Kagel, M. b1931 31 Kálmán, E. 1882-1953 24 Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 11

Khachaturian, A. 1903-1978 2,5,6,22 Klatzow, P. b1945 11 Klughardt, A. 1847-1902 12 Kodály, Z. 1882-1967 3,10 Koechlin, C. 1867-1950 14,16 Koehne, G. b1956 30 Korngold, E. 1897-1957 13 Kozeluch, L. 1747-1818 11 Krommer, F. 1759-1831 23 Kuhlau, F. 1786-1832 14 Künneke, E. 1885-1953 3 Lalo, E. 1823-1892 11 Larsson, L-E. 1908-1986 25 Lawes, W. 1602-1645 14 Legrand, M. b1932 3 Lehár, F. 1870-1948 17 Leisner, D. b1953 4 Lenormand, R. 1846-1932 23 Leoncavallo, R. 1858-1919 18 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 5,8,17,23 Litolff, H. 1818-1891 20 Locatelli, P. 1695-1764 9,24 Locke, M. c1621-1677 23 Loeillet de Gant, J.B. 1688c1720 29 Loewe, F. 1901-1988 31 Lord Berners. 1883-1950 14 Löthman, A. 20th c 4 Lully, J-B. 1632-1687 17,30 Lyapunov, S. 1859-1924 12 Maconchy, E. 1907-1994 27 Maderna, B. 1920-1973 4 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 4,5 Manfredini, F. 1684-1762 22 Marais, M. 1656-1728 28 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 12,20,22,26 Martucci, G. 1856-1909 3 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 1,11 Méhul, É-N. 1763-1817 22 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 2,15,19,20,23,27,30 Mercadante, S. 1795-1870 16 Mercer, J. 1909-1976 10 Merikanto, A. 1893-1958 19 Messiaen, O. 1908-1992 12 Monteverdi, C. 1567-1643 2,7 Moscheles, I. 1794-1870 9 Mozart, L. 1719-1787 6,30 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 1,4,7,9,10,11, 13,14,18,22,24,25,27,28,29,30 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 1,5,13,27 Nauwach, J. c1595-c1630 16 Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 19 Novello, I. 1893-1951 10 Offenbach, J. 1819-1880 15 Orekhov,S. 1935-1998 10 Osborne, D. 20th c 25

Paderewski, I. 1860-1941 5 Paganini, N. 1782-1840 8 Palestrina, G. da c1525-1594 10,12 Palomo, L. b1938 18 Pärt, A. b1935 19 Pasquini, B. 1637-1710 30 Penberthy, J. 1917-1999 10 Piazzolla, A. 1922-1992 29,31 Pinto, G. 1785-1806 22 Pixis, J. 1788-1874 8 Pleyel, I. 1757-1831 4,7 Popper, D. 1843-1913 12 Porpora, N. 1686-1768 25 Poulenc, F. 1899-1963 13,20,22,29 Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 10,27,29,30 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 3,11,18 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 7,14,21,23

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Qigang Chen. b1951 29 Quantz, J. 1697-1773 16,21 Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 1,2,8,9,25,26,31 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 2,22,28 Rautavaara, E. b1928 4,19 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 1,12,16,17,19 Reicha, A. 1770-1836 15 Reichardt, J. 1752-1814 4 Reznicek, E. 1860-1945 22 Richter, F. 1709-1789 9 Riisager, K. 1897-1974 2,24 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 1844-1908 1,5,18 Riotte, P. 1776-1856 11 Romberg, S. 1887-1951 10 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 5,9,12,15,17,26,29 Ruchman, S. b1949 5 Rutini, G. 1723-1797 1 Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 2,13,15,16,19,25,29 Salzedo, C. 1885-1961 15 Sammartini, G. 1693-1750 30 Samuels, D. 20th c 28 Sandström, J. b1954 25 Sarasate, P. de 1844-1908 16 Satie, E. 1866-1925 14 Scarlatti, A. 1659-1725 2,30 Scarlatti, D. 1685-1757 1,30 Schaffrath, C. 1709-1763 15 Scheidemann, H. c1595-1663 15 Schmelzer, J. c1620-1680 7 Schoenberg, A. 1874-1951 26 Schroeter, G. b1960 1 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 1,3,8,9,11,12,13,18,23,25 Schulhoff, E. 1894-1942 12 Schultz, A. b1960 24 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 5,17,19,23,24 Schütz, H. 1585-1672 16

Taneyev, S. 1856-1915 9,28 Tartini, G. 1692-1770 13,26,30 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 1,8,9,14,17,24,26,29,31 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 2,21 Thomson, V. 1896-1989 4 Tippett, M. 1905-1998 8 Tomlinson, E. b1927 25 Turina, J. 1882-1949 9 Uttini, F. 1723-1795 29 Varney, L. 1844-1908 3 Vaughan Williams, R. 18721958 9,18 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 1,10,11,17 Veress, S. 1907-1992 12 Vianna da Motta, J. 18681948 23 Vierne, L. 1870-1937 26 Vieuxtemps, H. 1820-1881 13 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 12 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 9,10,26,30 Wada, K. b1962 25 Wagenseil, G. 1715-1777 30 Wagner, R. 1813-1883 4,5,12,23,24,25,30 Walton, W. 1902-1983 23 Wassenaer, U. 1692-1766 22 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 8,12 Wesley, S.S. 1810-1876 25 Whitacre, E. b1970 17 Widmann, E. 1572-1634 18 Wieniawski, H. 1835-1880 15 Williamson, M. 1931-2003 10 Wilson, M. 20th c 24 Wolf-Ferrari, E. 1876-1948 20,29 Wranitzky, P. 1756-1808 29 Ysaÿe, E. 1858-1931 29 Zelenka, J. 1679-1745 16

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bass: bass bn: bassoon bass-bar: bass-baritone cl: clarinet clvd: clavichord cont: contralto cora: cor anglais ct: counter-tenor db: double bass

dbn: double bassoon elec: electronic eng horn: English horn fl: flute fp: fortepiano gui: guitar hn: French horn hp: harp hpd: harpsichord mand: mandolin

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8 First and foremost, bring up the trophy, or become a laughing stock (4)

1 In a mess! hurry bully quickly through the tumult and commotion! (5,5)

9 Minister’s happiness makes quite a display (10)

2 Celebrity conflicts of epic science fiction fame (4,4)

10 Strangely, old coin indicates I’m missing film noir (6)

3 Sub-mariner forgoes planet and winds up in South Asian sultanate (6)

11 Lank, uncooked, and stripped of meat (8)

4 Maintain awkward rave (4)

12 Offering Asian sash, music note and 2240lbs. package (8)

5 False start, let down, then came out! (8)

14 Putrid thoroughfare adjoining Hyde Park without argument we hear (6)

6 Majority follows old first note of the scale to reach high point (6)

16 Appendages be given military bearing (4) 28

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17 Twin hits cleared the fence with David initially flamboyant (5)

13 Salvation after elevator king retires points to watery matters (5)

18 Denise Erhardt - accredited spaewife (4)

15 To our surprise, given try he came up with it all; lock, stock and barrel (10)

19 On being deprived of a short negative, typhoon morphs into victim-crusher (6)

Address: _____________________________________________ 21 Unbelievably, males pry into primitive eel-like suckers (8) Tel:______________ Email_______________________________ 23 Good luck charm is charlatanism without clean-up lady (8) To go in the draw to win Decca Records’ Il Sol3 Mio’s self-titled debut album, email your crossword answers to competitions@finemusicfm.com by 24 May or by post to: The Crossword 72-76 Chandos Street St Leonards NSW 2065

7 Piping echo sent! (4)

26 Small boat stained and unattractive around hot water. (6)

17 Toxin and mouse heart together malevolent (8) 18 Gallantries, after Cassius Clay leaves, reveal how to smother another (8) 20 Hard rowing crew allows consideration of stature (6) 22 Style and Royal Navy are up to date (6)

27 Stoned woollen could be candidate at next Olympics (4,6)

24 Surrounded by early hours and instinctual drive (4)

28 Damaged noil hardly suitable for kitchen floor (4)

25 Small tide may re-arrange as part of our neck (4)

MUSICAL TRIVIA with Michael Morton-Evans How well do you know the world of classical music? Test your knowledge with these musical brain teasers from Fine Music 102.5 presenter, Michael Morton-Evans.

1. Who wrote the chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia?

2. By which other nickname is Chopin’s Minute Waltz (D flat, Opus 64, No 1) known?

3. What nationality was the inventor of the saxophone?

4. Which 16th century composer is often called “The Father of English Church music?”

5. Which old Scottish tune is the basis for the popular song Waltzing Matilda?

6. Which well-known symphonic sketch did Claude Debussy write when holidaying in the English seaside town of Eastbourne?

7. To which group of instruments does the marimba belong?

Crossword Solution -APRIL 2014

Across: 8 Chum, 9 Puff pastry, 10 Furore, 11 Override, 12 Bash, 13 Viviparous, 17 Tide, 18 Lilac, 19 Lags, 20 Smoke alarm, 22 Near, 23 Reawaken, 27 Rabbit, 28 Family tree, 29 Abut.

Down: 1 Rheumatism, 2 Smoothie, 3 Upper Volta, 4 Afro, 5 Apse, 6 Usurer, 7 Trod, 14 Villa, 15 Pockmarked, 16 Ungracious, 19 Longboat, 21 Kuwait, 24 Elan, 25 Kayo, 26 Norm.

8. The Telephone, The Consul and The Old Maid and The Thief are operas by which Italian composer?

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