fine music magazine - june 2013

June 2013

MAGAZINE

THE GLOBE TROTTING CELLIST

Daniel Müller-Schott

THE SPELLBINDING VIOLINIST

Arabella Steinbacher

COME BACK 1963 The sounds of London in the Sixties

HUNGRY FOR HUNGARY A feast for the eyes and ears

GREAT BRITTEN The world’s greatest twentieth

century opera composer

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Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott is in high demand throughout the musical world and Fine Music Magazine’s Henry Mendelson was privileged to speak with the young German ahead of his visit to Australia and his keenly anticipated guest artist spot on the ACO

2’s first national subscription tour.

ACO2 is a pet project of Australian Chamber

Orchestra’s Richard Tognetti – it draws together some of the country’s best young string players and ACO musicians. You’ll find details of the upcoming Sydney leg of the tour in our What’s On pages.Another German heading this way in June - this time for a star turn with the Sydney Symphony - is violin virtuoso Arabella Steinbacher who’ll be performing in Spellbound: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. She talked with writer Mark Della-Libera who was himself somewhat spellbound by the remarkable violinist with a big heart. In her mouthwatering travel-cum-music story, vivacious Australian conductor Carolyn Watson re-visits Budapest - a city that has had a significant influence on her life’s musical journey.Closer to home, there’s been some great news on Chandos Street. After three years of working from temporary premises, Fine Music 102.5 aired its first broadcast from new state of the art studio complex on 1 May, with all studios now set to be operational by open day - 2 June (see details below). For presenter Andrew Dziedzic the changeover meant a mid-broadcast dash across the street from old premises to new while Gerald Finzi obliged with his 41 minute Cello Concerto to keep listeners entertained during the move. With the skilful planning from a volunteer technical team headed up by Max Benyon, and hands-on from Roger Doyle and Rob Tregea, the switchover over was achieved with zero seconds of downtime. It was the tail end of a monumental feat of organisation and engineering. Over $700,000 has been invested in new broadcast equipment and installation and the new premises boasts two prime on-air studios, three production studios and a live performance and music recording studio. Keeping a radio station technically sound takes major investment and for that Fine Music can thank its listeners for their gifts and bequests – small and large, they all count. The new set up ensures that Fine Music can broadcast to a high audio standard for many years to come on normal FM and the newer digital service. So, stay tuned!

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CONTENTSVol 40 No 6

4 COVER STORYHenry Mendelson interviews world renowned German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott ahead of his collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra

3 Come Back 1963

6 Violin Virtuoso - Arabella Steinbacher

8 Hungry for Hungary

10 Young Virtuosi

11 New Music Scholarship

12 What’s On

14 CD Reviews

17 Swinging on the Vine

19 Great Britten

54 Directors, Committees, Staff

55 Fine Music Friends

56 Crossword and Trivia Quiz

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FINE MUSINGS Over recent times we have been sad to report on the deaths of the following prominent musicians: conductor Sir Colin Davis aged 85, baritone George Beverly Shea 104, soprano Cecilia Smiga 38, guitarist and composer Stephen Dodgson 89, cellist Janos Starker 88 and ballerina Maria Tallchief 88.

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Come Back 1963 ..an uninterrupted

cocoon of pleasure..

““Fifty years ago this year I spent the evening of St Cecilia’s Day at the Royal Festival Hall helping to celebrate Benjamin Britten’s fiftieth birthday. As a present (for the audience as well as the composer) a concert performance was given of his Coronation opera Gloriana, which hadn’t been heard since the disaster of its first performance. It was a splendid evening of wonderful dramatic music – the opera quite properly returned to the stage in triumph a few years later. We all applauded, sang ‘Happy birthday, Ben’, and then went home. In the days before Twitter, the audience had been in an uninterrupted cocoon of pleasure, and it wasn’t until I changed trains at Tottenham Court Road after the performance that I saw, on the station platform, the newspaper placards: KENNEDY ASSASSINATED. It rather took the shine off the evening.

I’ve taken recently, in what is beginning to seem like my dotage, to boring everyone with “Ah, you should have been in London in the ‘60s.” We seemed to be out almost every evening: Solti conducting Frankfurt Opera at Sadler’s Wells, Christoff, Gobbi, Hotter, Nilsson – and Nureyev and Fonteyn – at the Royal Opera House, and the second visit of the Bolshoi ballet . . . Schofield’s Lear at the Aldwych, and across the river, Olivier, Gielgud, Redgrave, Edith Evans and the young Maggie Smith at the Old Vic. Then the Festival Hall, where among others we heard a fine recital by José Iturbi, star of many Hollywood films - Anchors Aweigh and Three Daring Daughters - but a fine pianist for all that. Now forgotten.

..Brouwenstÿn a fine dramatic soprano: now not even chronicled on Google…

““

But 1963 sticks in my mind as a particularly good year – and memory suggests that apart from the performances of the “great” visiting singers, the home teams put up some extremely good work, and not only at Sadler’s Wells in the dear old building, immeasurably more friendly and comfortable than the appalling one which replaced it in the ‘90s. In February of ’63 there was an Aida at the Royal Opera House, for instance, with Amy Shuard in the title role, Charles Craig as Radames and Peter Glossop as Amonasro – three artists whose names, now, one never hears, though Glossop was a magnificent Verdi singer, renowned in London and New York. And it’s not only “local” artistes who are more or less forgotten. Who, now, recalls Gré Brouwenstÿn, whose Leonore I heard at Glyndebourne in May singing opposite Richard Lewis? She was back, later in the year, in Don Carlos with Glossop and Nicolai Ghiaurov. Brouwenstÿn was a fine dramatic soprano with an excellent acting technique: now not even chronicled on Google.

Why d’you want to queue for that rubbish?

““The second London visit of the Bolshoi ballet meant a couple of nights sleeping rough on the pavement outside the Garden’s booking office, people stepping over one as they left performances – and porters from the market, then still surrounding the house, giving one some grief. “Why d’you want to queue for that rubbish?” we were asked. “Well, you’d queue for a football final,” we replied. There was a pause. “Ah – but then you get a result.” There was no answer to that. Later, at performances, we gypsies failed to recognise each other in best bibs and tuckers rather than old clothing wrinkled by two nights in a make-shift tent and smelling of kippers cooked over a primus stove on the pavement at six in the morning.

It’s only music..,

“

“We queued, too, for Callas (when she cancelled her last three London Toscas the money returned was enough to buy a small car) and of course for Nureyev and Fonteyn, totally unforgettable in Giselle, Corsaire, Sylphides. It was at Giselle one evening that I was moved to ask an elderly lady, during the interval, if she would perhaps talk just a little less during the second act. She looked astounded. “It’s only music,” she replied.

Two memorable new works during the year, out at the Wells, were Richard Rodney Bennett’s The Mines of Sulphur – a great success in Europe and America, and revived in New York in 2004 - and Malcolm Williamson’s brilliant version of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana – wonderfully entertaining with its Cuban habaneras and mock Viennese waltzes. I believe it has been revived in Australia, but certainly not in my time here. (Even better are English Eccentrics and The Violins of St Jacques. Come on, Opera Australia!)

Thinking back, the real glory of the year came at its beginning, with the first London performance of Britten’s War Requiem with the soloists for whom it was written, Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Pears and Tom Krause. The Albert Hall has many faults, but the Requiem sounds marvellous there, with the tremendous march to Armageddon in the Libera Me thundering out, the sound of the boys’ choir from Highgate School filtering down from the highest gallery. The silence at the end of that first performance seemed to last for minutes, until thunderous applause embraced the performers, including the composer. Is this the single most affecting work of the second half of the twentieth century? If Fine Music doesn’t give us the War Requiem during this centenary year (what about 11 November?) I shall want to know the reason why. If not - oh, dear - come back, 1963. - Derek Parker

Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn


Daniel Müller-Schott. Photo - Maiwolf.

ACO2 + Daniel Müller-Schott.ACO

2, the brainchild of Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Richard Tognetti, and directed

by Helena Rathbone, brings together Australia’s finest young string players and ACO musicians. This month, led by Tognetti, ACO

2 embarks upon its first national subscription

tour accompanied by internationally acclaimed cellist Daniel Müller-Schott. Writer Henry Mendelson catches up with the magnetic German on his New Zealand tour.


When youthful German cellist, Daniel Müller-Schott (his parents’ respective names) takes centre stage with ACO

2 and the Australian Chamber

Orchestra musicians for their June national tour, audiences will for the first time hear the sublimely sonorous sound of the rare instrument he plays which was made by legendary 17th century luthier, Matteo Goffriller - similar to one played for over 60 years by Pablo Casals.

In addition to performing the great classical cello concertos, Müller-Schott has a special interest in discovering unknown works and extending the cello repertoire, exemplified by his own adaptations and close cooperation with composers. Among these, Sir André Previn and Peter Ruzicka have dedicated cello concertos to him, both of which works he premiered under the composers’ batons in Leipzig and Bonn last season. Moreover, Olli Mustonen’s Sonata for Cello and Piano was premiered by the performer and the composer in Hamburg last year.

An indication of the extent to which Müller-Schott is in demand throughout the musical world can be gleaned from just some highlight appearances in the 2011-12 season. These included, among others, his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Vassily Sinaisky, the German tour with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the Vancouver Symphony under Douglas Boyd and trio recitals in London with Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn, as well as an extended tour of Spain with Lambert Orkis.

I try whenever possible to explore new music..

““Other meaningful breakthroughs included appearances in Asia - making his debut in Taiwan with the National Symphony Orchestra under Shao-Chia Lu - and concerts with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under Michel Plasson and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claus Peter Flor.

Recalling his recent New Zealand tour, Müller-Schott is full of praise for the interest displayed by the Kiwi audiences. “Their intensively attentive and appreciative response to the concerts was perhaps influenced by the fact that not so many overseas artists make the long journey to their cities”, he observed.

While the majority of his performances and recordings - upwards of a dozen CDs since 2000 - cover predictable classical repertoire, he is quick to point out his acute interest in and involvement with contemporary composers. A CD in the pipeline later this year will feature

chamber works by Britten, Montemezzi and Prokofiev, while next year’s recording schedule involves orchestral co-operation with the Hamburg Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic under Michael Sanderling and works by Dvorak, among others.

“I try whenever possible to explore new music,” he insists, citing a new cello sonata recently written for him by American composer, Sebastian Currier, in addition to the Previn and Ruzicka works.

An introspective insight into Müller-Schott’s approach to his manifold commitments – his current Australian tour follows an engagement-packed 2012 with appearances on four continents – is his hesitation to compartmentalise his orchestral work from extensive chamber music involvements.

“Of course I enjoy my concert work which actually helps the chamber music experience”, he explained. “It forces the performer to listen more intensely… to gain a greater understanding of the complexity of the music.

“Although most of my concerts are solo concerts, I tend to accept chamber-music opportunities because of the insight and inspiration I get from them. And while I meet other musicians when I play with orchestras, it’s not on the same level as when I play chamber music,” he added.

The cellist’s relationship with the ACO goes back to his only other Australian visit in 2001 and a UK Haydn/Beethoven recording. The 2013 program is a Tognetti/Müller-Schott amalgam which covers Baroque (Vivaldi double concerto and Concerto in G major) followed

by a string arrangement of “A Jewish Life,” a work by Bloch, who Müller-Schott avows as his favourite composer.

“Bloch wrote for the cello in a very personal way”, he stated, citing in particular the composer’s “Shelomo” (Solomon) which is an expression of emotion influenced by the composer’s Jewish heritage. At the conclusion of a performance in Berlin last year Müller-Schott recalled, there was complete silence, reflecting audiences’ reactions there to recent history.

“This is definitely the most moving piece of music in the entire cello repertoire. It should be played more often, especially in Germany”, he said.

When not making music Daniel is to be found on the football field, in art galleries and on hiking trails. He still has fond Blue Mountains memories from his earlier downunder visit and the amazing beachscapes which confronted him on that first Australian tour. In addition, he has developed a keen interest in awakening young people’s enthusiasm for music. His support for the “Rhapsody in School” project, a worldwide initiative to counter the eroding concert hall generations of younger audiences, also demonstrates his wholehearted commitment to music as do his US and European master classes.

Here then is a musician of manifold dimensions to whom Australian audiences can look forward; a man whose soul senses the immediacy of the moment and constantly strives to assert the serenity of his instrument. - Henry Mendelson

Daniel Müller-Schott. Photo - Uwe Arens.

Australian audiences to hear cello chosen by casals


I only spoke to Arabella Steinbacher for twenty minutes, but I think I might have fallen a tiny bit in love with her. Earnest and intelligent, she is as spirited as she is reflective, seems to lack even the capacity for artifice and, frankly, is a charming conversationalist. The picture that has lingered with me since is of a young woman for whom working hard to improve at doing what she loves is genuinely a privilege, and whose intense passion for her craft is subdued by a warmth and easy optimism.

She is also a prodigiously talented violinist. A video on her website shows her playing the third movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto in A-minor - at age four. Admitted to the Munich Academy of Music at nine, she became Ana Chumachenko’s youngest student, and studied later with the immortal Ivry Gitlis. When she was twenty, she was awarded both the sponsorship prize of the Free State of Bavaria and a scholarship by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

..the classical world’s Hollywood moment..

““Three years later she burst onto the professional stage in what might be the classical world’s most Hollywood moment in recent years. When the scheduled soloist for a performance with Radio France’s Philharmonic Orchestra fell ill at the eleventh hour, Steinbacher stepped up to take on the Beethoven Violin Concerto - and earned rapt accolades from the press and public alike. One review of that performance called

her “a superior and fully mature performing artist, whose beauty of tone is overwhelming.” Indeed, her extraordinary timbral versatility is singled out for praise so often it has practically become a requirement for critics to sit up and notice.

She herself avoids reviews. “I’m told they are positive,” she laughs when I ask her about the response to her latest album, Bruch, Korngold and Chausson performed with Lawrence Foster and Lisbon’s Orquestra Gulbenkian, “but I haven’t read them.” This might be for the best, considering how ill at ease the library of superlatives she tends to elicit would sit alongside her unaffected temperament.

It’s the twelfth album Steinbacher has recorded in nine years - she does like to keep busy. By the time she plays in Sydney and Melbourne in June, she will have performed nearly forty concerts this year, in twenty-one cities, in nine countries from Korea to her native Germany. I did the math: it’s a concert every four point one days, with a lot of travel in between.

..it helps to have good friends..

“““The travel is still really tiring,” she admits, “but I’m a lot more comfortable being up on stage now. And it helps to have good friends around the place. It helps me feel less alone when I’m living in a hotel, away from home.” The community and camaraderie she finds with other musicians around the world is something

that will come up over and over again while we talk, and she’s eager to point out how much she’s looking forward to hitting our antipodean shores again.

“I love Australia,” she says. “I’ve played there a few times before and I’ve been there on holiday many times, too. It feels so free. Inner freedom, too - in Europe it’s easy to feel very tight in these big cities, but Australia is so big.”

This month she’ll be performing Mozart, Beethoven and Franck at Melbourne’s Recital Centre, as well as playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony and Charles Dutoit, currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director for London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

“I’m really looking forward to working with him again,” she tells me. “He’s a great conductor and a great friend. When you play with somebody who you know well, you can work together differently and experience the music in a different way.”

..music for me it is not about the intellect, it is about the emotions…

““She may be technically virtuosic, but it quickly becomes clear that for Steinbacher, music is a means of emotive communication, a natural human expression, and not something to be engaged solely with the cerebellum and the hands.

“Technical craft is at the base of everything, of course, but music for me is not about the intellect, it’s about the emotions. That’s where the music comes from,” she says. “You can play the same piece at two different concerts; no two performances are the same.” No two audiences, either. “Yeah, when you play in Germany people think the music needs to be a certain way, people have expectations about how the music should sound, so you feel a little bit more, you know, tight. But in other places and especially in the US, you can be a lot more free, you can play from the heart more.”

America has become something of a fixture in Steinbacher’s touring, and the deep affinity she feels for the people and the musical culture she’s experienced there - especially in Washington

Arabella Steinbacher. Photo - Sammy Hart

SPELLBINDING VIRTUOSO:ARABELLA STEINBACHER

..I might have fallen a tiny bit in love..

““


DC and San Francisco, cities she mentions a few times - is obvious. This year she’ll spend a considerable amount of time in each, and it’s easy to get the sense that, removed from the constraints of European traditionalism, she feels more at home musically in the United States than she does anywhere else.

Japan and Germany – an important part of her story..

““She’s very much a citizen of the world, though. Her mother and father are Japanese and German, respectively, both professional musicians, and Japan is as important a part of her story and identity as the Germany in which she has spent most of life. In the wake of the tsunami and subsequent nuclear meltdowns in 2011, she flew to Japan to meet with, and perform for, displaced citizens bunking in emergency shelters. “I cannot give them back their homes, but maybe I can give them some music to bring them out of the moment for a little while,” she says.

“First I visited some older people and that was really sad, actually, because these people don’t know when or if they will get back to their old lives. But then I went to a school and it

was a completely different energy. These kids were eleven or twelve, and they were running around and singing with me. Just a whole different experience.”

And one that has clearly left a deep impression on her. She has never lived permanently in Japan but she did spend much of her early summers with grandparents there, and the connection she feels to that country bears the seed of her own childhood. Talking and playing with those traumatised, buoyant kids has touched her in

a powerfully intimate village of memory, and when she talks about it I think I can hear her smiling even as her voice threatens to break.

For all of her accomplishments, professional and otherwise, Steinbacher is still just thirty-one years old and looking forward to many, many more years of honing her artistic expression on the world’s stage. She’s excited about coming back to Australia, excited about the recording projects she has lined up in the next two years, excited about performing again in San Francisco and Washington and Bilbao and Sao Paolo and Lisbon. “One day”, she says, “I’d like to teach, but that’s for later.”

For now, I’m certain, there are still just too many good memories to be made, waiting to meet her on the horizon. - Mark Della-Libera

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Arabella Steinbacher. Photo - Sammy Hart

Arabella Steinbecher performs with the Sydney Symphony in Spellbound: Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto ” at the Sydney Opera House from 13 to 15 June. www.sydneysymphony.com


HUNGRY FOR HUNGARY

Australian conductor Carolyn Watson shares her appetite for “the Hungarian experience” - its tourist delights and the country’s lofty rank in the world’s classical music culture.

Having spent two years in Hungary in the late 1990s I fondly think of Budapest as something of a second home. Invited to return as one of the twelve semi-finalists of the 2012 Emmerich Kálmán International Operetta-Musical Conducting Competition then, was more than an opportunity to compete and conduct. It was a chance to relive those student days, catch up with old friends, dust off the languages skills and see how the city has continued to evolve.

Much has changed since the 1990s“ “

But first I had to reconcile an evening concert performance in Sydney on 19 September with arrival in Budapest by 20 September. My travel agent insisted it was impossible. I agreed it presented somewhat of a challenge. If I could convince concert presenters to move pre-concert speeches to post-concert, dash from podium to waiting vehicle and rely on a freak electrical fault to ensure all green lights en route to the airport, I might just make it.

Much to the bemusement of a family waiting on the bench outside Departures, I changed out of my concert outfit as I pulled into the kerb. [Mental note to self – investigate the telephone booth option next time as gear sticks give nasty bruises and inadvertently sounding the horn can attract unwanted attention.] Employing reverse psychology, I reasoned that arriving at the airport this late would actually be to my advantage. Assuming my fellow passengers were all conscientious enough to be there three hours in advance, I would be granted queue-free check-in and waltz straight through security.

And so it worked! A mere day or so later I found myself on familiar territory in the Hungarian capital after what had been quite the James Bond 24 hours. Without the fast cars or casinos. Although I did play solitaire on the plane and it was a pretty swanky airport minibus.

Much has changed since that first impression of the city during the 1990s when Hungary was in the throes of emerging from behind the Iron Curtain and the spectre of communism.

Enticed by the idea of studying in a country about which I had only the vaguest notion, I accepted a Hungarian Government Scholarship and spent two years at the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét.

Kecskemét, a city on the edge of the nation’s great puszta may be considered an unusual choice for an international music conservatory however the decision is explained by a small plaque on the town’s railway station. In what was perhaps an unlikely beginning to an illustrious career as a composer and music educator, Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) was actually born in Kecskemét’s station where his father, an employee of the Hungarian State Railways, just happened to be posted. A frequent visitor to the railway station, I travelled to Budapest, an hour or so away, for weekly violin lessons at the Liszt Academy. Budapest boasted other allures however, and my violin lessons were usually followed by a visit to one of the city’s famed thermal baths.

The baths are an integral component of

the Budapest experience..

“ “While Budapest has undergone many changes in recent years, this was one particular aspect I was relieved to see remained firmly entrenched. The baths are an integral component of the

Budapest experience, part of everyday life for locals and at the top of tourists’ to-do lists. Situated on natural geothermal springs, the hot waters of the city have long been popular with those in the know. Those cleanest of ancient conquerors, the Romans, built large thermal baths in the settlement then known as Aquincum while the Turks in the sixteenth century imported their own version of the bathhouse to the city.

My favourite baths and probably the city’s most iconic are the Széchenyi baths, located in Budapest’s expansive City Park, or Városliget. Like much of Budapest’s city centre, the Városliget and Széchenyi are World Heritage Listed - a decision I wonder the UNESCO panel might have reached as they floated in the temperate waters beneath the pink haze of twilight.

Connecting the Városliget with the city centre is a magnificent Parisian-style boulevard, Andrássy út, around which a number of the city’s cultural institutions are housed. Most recognisable among these is the façade of the Hungarian State Opera House. Opened in 1884, the Opera House was built using funds jointly provided by Emperor Franz Joseph and the city itself during a period in which Budapest thrived under a happy power sharing arrangement with Vienna known as the Dual Monarchy.

Budapest’s Széchenyi Baths. Photo - Vacclav / Shutterstock.com.


..the history of conducting reads a little like a

Hungarian Who’s Who..“ “

Since its inauguration the Opera House has been a platform for leading musicians of the day and counts among its previous music directors Gustav Mahler (1887-1891) and Otto Klemperer (1947-1950). While Mahler and Klemperer were imports, local talent was plentiful and the history of conducting reads a little like a Hungarian Who’s Who: Antál Dorati, Ferenc Fricsay, Arthur Nikisch, Eugene Ormandy, Hans Richter, Fritz Reiner, Anton Seidl and Georg Solti.

The Hungarian School of Conducting owes much to its founding father, possibly the nation’s greatest musical export, Liszt Ferenc (1811-1886). Better known to the world by his Germanised name Franz Liszt, the pianist and conductor was also the founder of the National Academy of Music which today bears his name. In spite of a life lived mainly abroad, and purportedly unable to speak his mother tongue, Liszt remained true to his Magyar origins using his compositions, most notably the Hungarian Rhapsodies, to showcase the music of his homeland, returning to Budapest to teach and give master classes late in his life.

Hungary’s other great musical son, Béla Bartók (1881-1945) is today best remembered for his compositions though like Liszt, Bartók was probably most recognised during his lifetime as a pianist. Bartók’s most enduring legacy however, is arguably the collection and categorisation of over six thousand folk melodies from throughout modern day Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine (the then Austro-Hungarian empire) and including places as far afield as Turkey and Algeria. As well as providing inspiration for their compositions, Bartók and fellow composer and friend Zoltán Kodály, who often joined him on these trips, effectively pioneered the study of ethnomusicology.

A composer of a very different sort of music, Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953), was a contemporary of Bartók and Kodály at the Liszt Academy. Drawn initially to cabaret, Kálmán soon carved out a career as a composer of operettas and is largely credited with popularising the genre in Hungary. Scheduled to coincide with Kálmán’s 130th anniversary, the 2012 Emmerich Kálmán International Operetta-Musical Conducting Competition was the second occasion on which the competition has been held.

The Budapest Operetta Theatre, the venue for the competition, is just off Andrássy on a side street between the Opera House and Liszt Ferenc tér. Home of the Liszt Academy, Liszt

Ferenc tér, or Liszt Square, has become one of the city’s most popular destinations for a night out, with restaurants and bars flanking both sides of the large pedestrian precinct. Nestled amongst the newcomers, I was delighted to see my favourite pizzeria from my student days remained, even if the prices had not.

Budapest Operetta Theatre - one of Europe’s

most successful..

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Like the Hungarian State Opera, the Operetta Theatre boasts an opulent late nineteenth century interior in which it was a joy to perform. In a parallel Andrew Lloyd-Weber would enjoy, the auditorium is lit by a hundred year old chandelier although fortunately it remains securely attached to the ceiling. The Budapest Operetta Theatre is one of Europe’s most successful, operating seven days a week to capacity audiences who enjoy a varied program of operettas, musicals, concerts and competition events such as this one.

We, the twelve conductors were divided into four groups, each having to conduct three rounds comprising solo, duet and ensemble repertoire. In what felt as nerve wracking as a television talent show, the jury offered feedback following each of the competition rounds before selecting the one competitor from each group to progress to the final round. In order to accommodate a scheduling arrangement with Duna Television, the national broadcaster, the finals of the competition were scheduled for a month or so after the semi-finals.

Stress of the competition aside and nervously awaiting the adjudicators’ announcement, my mind was consumed by one principle preoccupation.

Selection as a finalist means a return to Budapest. And a return to Budapest means a return to Széchenyi. - Carolyn Watson

More to come..Carolyn Watson returns to Hungary for concert engagements next year when she plans to visit the Széchenyi baths. Again!

In the finals of the 2012 Kálmán Conducting Competition she placed third, also winning the Special Prize of the Kodály Philharmonic and the Herend Porcelain Manufacturer’s Special Prize.

The Budapest Operetta Theatre during the finals of the 2012 Kálmán Conducting Competition.

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GREAT BRITTEN:“..the greatest 20th century opera composer”

In the brouhaha about the bicentenaries of two great nineteenth century opera composers, everyone seems so far to be underplaying the centenary of the greatest twentieth century opera composer, born fortuitously on St Cecilia’s Day in 1913.

From the very beginning of his career, Benjamin Britten wrote music which was a great deal too accessible for its own good - and a very great deal too ‘clever’. From the beginning British critics, in particular, stuck in the groove of believing that music more approachable and melodious than that provided by the twelve-tone boys and their followers was barely worth serious consideration, sneered at his work for its ‘cleverness’ and ‘facility.’

Britten took his own first step towards

opera in 1933..

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It was his mother who first encouraged his love of music, both at the piano (he was to become a truly great pianist) and in composition - some of his earliest melodies turn up in the popular Simple Symphony. Privately tutored by Frank Bridge, publicly at the Royal College of Music (where, already, he could have taught his professors much) he thought of studying with Alban Berg, but the R.C.M. Director pronounced the composer of Wozzeck ‘not a good influence’. It may have been fortunate advice.

Britten took his own first step towards opera in 1933, with A Boy was Born, a set of choral variations. But during the following decade he consolidated his reputation with such works as his Variations on the Theme of Frank Bridge and piano and violin concerti, all of which you might call Britten for people who don’t like Britten (far too accessible for the critics).

A characteristic voice strengthened, especially in works written under the influence of his friend W. H. Auden, the greatest poet of his generation, though their actual collaborations were relatively few, and not altogether successful (Paul Bunyan, a ‘musical’ aimed at Broadway, never really worked). Another collaboration which began in the thirties however was the most significant of Britten’s life - that with the tenor Peter Pears, who became his lover (he died in Pears’ arms) and partner both in life and in music.

A lifelong pacifist, he was appalled by the outbreak of war - it is not difficult to hear a prophesy of disaster in the racked finale to his

Sinfonia da Requiem - returning to England from America to face some fierce criticism for his unpopular views (shared, incidentally, by his friend and colleague the composer Michael Tippett; in a famous encounter, when Britten and Pears gave a recital at Wormwood Scrubs, the prison where Tippett was serving a sentence as a conscientious objector, the latter was allowed to turn over the music for his friend at the piano).

..the chorus and orchestra simply could not

understand the music..

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Britten had returned with the idea for his first opera, Peter Grimes. It had a difficult birth - the chorus and orchestra at Sadler’s Wells theatre at one point went on strike: they simply could not understand the music. The public, however, did - the opera was a triumph. The sixteen operas which followed were almost all popular successes, however tetchy the critics were about them. Even his setting of Henry James’ short story The Turn of the Screw, which both in subject and score cannot be described as easy, was cheered on its first night and almost immediately became part of the international operatic repertoire.

The War Requiem provided the greatest popular success of his life. Commissioned for the dedication of Coventry Cathedral, rebuilt after its demolition by Nazi bombers, it has become a truly iconic work, denouncing the barbarism of war on the one hand and (this is

often misunderstood or ignored) the futility of the Church’s reaction to war on the other.

Britten’s music is often extremely lovable. The works he wrote for children are specially so - Let’s Make an Opera, Noye’s Fludde, The Golden Vanity, and of course the theme and variations which make up The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, the end of which – like the end of the sadly neglected Spring Symphony - lifts the heart so joyfully. The operas, too, often offer sheer joy - the delicious music of A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings tears to the driest of eyes, while Albert Herring (shortly to be revived at Sydney Opera House) is full of humour from beginning to end (and incidentally anyone who thinks Britten can’t write love music should lend an ear to Sid and Nancy, serenading each other in that opera).

..one of the most moving farewells any composer has

made to the world..

“ “Britten’s range, with not only opera but song cycles, chamber and choral music, the War Requiem, the huge ballet Prince of the Pagodas, is much greater than that of either Verdi or Wagner. To his last opera, the extraordinary Death in Venice, he added a coda: his third string quartet, which he heard played once, in private, before his death. Its simplicity and tranquility make it one of the most moving farewells any composer has made to the world. - Derek Parker

Image: Benjamin Britten (r) with Peter Pears at Crag House Aldeburgh, c 1954. Photo - www.britten100.org


SOPHIE SPENCER - TRUMPET

Fourteen year old Sophie Spencer is in Year 9 at Abbotsleigh School where she is on a full scholarship. She has been learning trumpet for

seven years and is preparing for her AMusA trumpet exam.

Sophie is the 2012 Australian National Junior (Under 19) Trumpet Solo Champion and has won the Band Association of NSW (BANSW) Juvenile State Trumpet Solo Championships as well as the ‘Champion of Champions’ event for 2010-2012.

Sophie was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Ku-ring-gai Concerto Competition, and is a semi-finalist in the 2013 Fine Music 102.5 Young Virtuosi competition.

She plays trumpet in Castle Hill RSL Youth Wind Orchestra and Big Band and in school ensembles. Sophie has a position in Sydney Youth Orchestra Philharmonic for 2013 and is

relishing the orchestral experience.

She plays soprano cornet with Warringah Brass Band, and won the 2012 Australian National Junior Soprano Cornet Championships. She is the 2011 and 2012 BANSW Junior and Juvenile State Champion. She won the 2012 BANSW Juvenile ‘Champion of Champions’ event on soprano cornet.

A versatile musical talent Sophie learns piano through the Suzuki method and plays violin and viola. She has performed as a soloist in the Sydney Opera House on a number of occasions. Sophie loves singing and is in her tenth year with the Australian Girls’ Choir. Apart from music, Sophie enjoys playing netball, softball, basketball and cricket.

Young Virtuosi YOUNG PERFORMER 2013 SEMI FINALISTS

PAUL CHEUNG - PIANOPaul Cheung, age 22, was born in Sydney. He has been learning piano with Tamara Anna Cislowka for the last few years. Paul has twice been broadcast on Fine Music 102.5 as part of the Even Younger series at age 9 and 10. In 2009 he received a recording session with FM 102.5 by winning the UMT Roger Woodward Scholarship and the NSW representative for Yamaha Recitals Australia Showcase in Adelaide. In 2011 Paul was awarded LMusA with distinction and was the runner up in the YPA State finals.

In 2012 he won the Sydney Eisteddfod Recital Award section, and was selected to be one

of five performers in the AMEB graduation ceremony.

Paul has been the winner of the open championships of numerous eisteddfods and has gained prizes in many sections over the last few years. Outside of solo performances, Paul also enjoys accompanying instrumentalists and singers. This year he will compete in the Sydney Eisteddfod inaugural Piano Accompaniment Award with an instrumentalist and a singer.

Two years ago, Paul began his PhD in mathematics after being awarded a Bachelor of Science in advanced mathematics, with first class honours and the university medal.

He is taking a break this year to study for his graduate diploma in accompaniment at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

YOUNG VIRTUOSI BROADCASTS Young Performer Award1pm Wednesday 26 May - Paul Cheung, piano 1pm Wednesday 12 June - Sophie Spencer, trumpet

Even Younger and Young Organist Series1pm Wednesday 5 June Edward Zhang (violin) Jessica Abrahams (piano) Vanessa Li (double bass) Madeleine Aarons (french horn) Dimi Tong (piano) Amy Huang (violin) David Tagg, Joshua Ryan and Lauren Giddy (pipe organ).

1pm Wednesday 19 June Callum Knox (piano), Julia Tran (piano), Mitzi Gardner (violin), Vanessa Li (piano) Justin Julian (viola), Edward Huang (piano), Sophie Spencer (trumpet), Tim Williams (pipe organ).Presenters Andrew Bukenya, Troy Fil. Audio engineer Greg Ghavalas, piano tuning: Ron Overs, Overs Piano’s. Recordings for the Young Virtuosi series took place at St Catherine’s School Waverley. Pipe Organ recorded at the Sydney Conservatorium of MusicYPA is sponsored by The Family Frank Foundation, Sydney Piano World and the Sauter pianos, the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra, The Sydney Conservatorium Association and The Doctors’ Orchestra. Young Virtuosi Co-ordinator: Judy Deacon [email protected]

Dimi Tong, Amy Huang, Vanessa Li, Edward Zhang, Jessica Abrahams, Madeleine Aarons

Even Younger performers -Vanessa Li, Justin Julian, Mitzi Gardner, Edward Huang, Julia Tran, Sophie Spencer


As a student of Sydney Conservatorium, I am continually immersed in an environment filled with passionate and eager musicians. Whether they be the composition students experimenting new instrumental sound possibilities in the ensemble rooms, the classical instrumentalists intensely practising scales, the jazz musicians jamming in the Con café or musicology students blasting Beethoven symphonies into their headphones in the library; we are all unified by our passion to learn and experience the mesmerising world of music.

The atmosphere inside Sydney Conservatorium is both inspiring and humbling. You almost feel the energetic buzz of determination from the students who fill the air. This determination that drives our musical endeavours stems from our thoughts, our desires, our dreams, our goals. I am known to subconsciously drift off into my own musical fantasies; performing with the Berlin Philharmonic and bowing with my string quartet to a cheering crowd at the Sydney Opera House, flowers at my feet.

..But How??“

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Such daydreams inevitably drift back to a less fantastical reality. The familiar probing question at the back of my consciousness begins to pulsate in my mind. How?

It is a daunting question. This tedious little how is the overwhelming barrier that buries my exuberant dreams within the darkness of my mind. Many incredible musicians I know have a drive and a goal. Some more organised than myself even have a plan. But just how can these dreams, these plans, become reality when you don’t have the financial means or support to make them happen?

Philanthropy to the fore.. the Stefan Kruger

Scholarship

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This is where the Fine Music 102.5 Stefan Kruger Scholarship can help out. The late Stefan Kruger was filled with a similar passion for music, and left Fine Music station a generous bequest in 2009. Fine Music is drawing on this bequest to benefit young, outstanding individuals to further their careers and their dreams in their chosen field of performance, composition or broadcasting of classical music or jazz.

..valuable exposure for the winner..“ “

The annual scholarship is worth over $15,000 and is open to all Australian citizens who live in Sydney and are aged between 18 and 30. The cash component of $10,000 is paid directly, or reimbursed for travelling, living expenses, fees and other costs associated with the individual’s project. The winning applicant will also gain valuable exposure through Fine Music 102.5’s recording and broadcasting of their music.

Fine Music’s Chairman, David Brett, acknowledges the importance of scholarships to the future of Sydney’s most remarkable music individuals. “It is crucial as a community that we recognise Sydney’s talented young musicians and give them the encouragement they need to pursue their passions and dreams.

“What a pleasure it is to give this support through the extraordinary generosity of Stefan Kruger.”

The Fine Music 102.5 Kruger Scholarship is recognised by many of Sydney’s musicians as a huge step towards achieving their musical goals and paths.

Living the Dream“

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Jonathan Baker, in the final year of his Bachelor of Music studying classical trumpet would use the scholarship to pursue his dream to study at the Royal Academy in London and learn from Rod Franks, principal of the London Symphony Orchestra. For the jazz singer and guitarist, Oliver Thorpe, the allowance would similarly give him the financial means to travel

overseas, where he would record his own jazz-based compositions by some of New York’s top session musicians. “I would also love to learn off the best jazz guitarists…. people like Aaron Parks, Eric Harland and Matt Penman.”

Twenty-three-year-old composer Owen Salome has many musical goals including recording his own compositions with his Argentine tango quintet Tángalo. “With $10,000 I would be able to record a portfolio of my work with which to represent myself on an international level, and I would purchase the recording equipment I would need to be able to do this recording myself. Having this infrastructure (quality documentation of professional performances) will mean that I can represent myself as a professional to prospective collaborators and funding bodies. This will facilitate a continued income, providing the financial freedom required for long term artistic investigation.”

This amazing possibility for youthful musical aspirations to be realised is not one to be missed. Applications for the Stefan Kruger Scholarship open from 24 May and close on 25 August. - Bree Baxter

FINE MUSIC 102.5 STEFAN KRUGER SCHOLARSHIP For more information on the application and judging process, or to download an application form, visit www.finemusicfm.com or phone 02 9439 4901

NEW $15,000 SCHOLARSHIP:Legacy Helps Musicians Live the Dream

Anna Da Silva Chen - winner of Fine Music’s Young Performer award in 2011 – performing with the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra


What’s On

CHAMBERAUSTRALIAN CHAMBER ORCHESTRATOGNETTI PRESENTS ACO2

Sunday 16 June 2pmSydney Opera HouseFriday 21 June 1.30pmSaturday 22 June 7pmTuesday 25 June 8pmWednesday 26 June 7pmCity Recital Hall, Angel Place

Tickets: $45-105Bookings: 1800 444 444www.aco.com.auACO

2 embarks on its first national subscription

tour, led by Richard Tognetti and combining

Australia’s finest emerging string players with Australian Chamber Orchestra musicians. Featuring several of the greatest works for string orchestra, this program showcases ACO

2’s virtuosity and vivacity, in high-

octane Baroque and neoclassical music. The orchestra also celebrates the return to Australia of “magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott” (left) (New York Times), performing two Vivaldi Cello Concertos and Bloch’s intensely melancholic From Jewish Life. He will spar with principal ACO cellist Timo-Veikko Valve in Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos. The program also includes Rautavara The Fiddlers, Stravinski, Concerto in D, Handel, Concerto Grosso No. 11 in A, Bloch, Concerto in D and Bartok Divertimento.

CHAMBERMAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRAMonday 10 June 7pm (program 1)Tuesday 11 June 7pm (program 2)Sydney Opera HouseTickets: *$35-$165 Bookings: 9250 7777www.sydneyoperahouse.comThe finest musicians from over 20 European countries, stellar conductors and a globetrotting schedule, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (founded by Claudio Abbado 15 years ago) is one of the most acclaimed ensembles in the world. Program 1 includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with soloist Christian Tetzlaff whose ventriloquist’s skill for letting a composer speak through his playing will make this performance of Beethoven’s concerto unforgettable and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 Rhenish. Program 2 includes Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1, Op. 107 with soloist Alisa Weilerstein (above), whose intense and dramatic reading of this work has a devastating power and Dvorák’s Symphony No.9 From the New World. Conductor of both concerts is Daniel Harding. (*Book for both concerts and save 10 percent.)

ORCHESTRATHE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRACLAIRE EDWARDES PLAYS ROJASSaturday 22 June 8pmIndependent Theatre, North SydneySunday 23 June 3 pmBalmain Town HallTickets: $20-$40Bookings: 8007 7131www.metorchestra.com.auThe opening of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik is one of the most instantly recognisable themes of all time, enchanting audiences since 1787. After this divine concert opener, TMO welcomes Claire Edwardes to the stage. Recognised throughout the world as one of the most striking and important percussionists of her generation she performs the world premiere of Daniel Rojas’ Chamber Concerto for Marimba and

Orchestra. Typical of Rojas’ Latin-infected rhythmic music, this fresh and opulent concerto promises to have you dancing and swooning at the edge of your seat. Finishing this program is Haydn’s masterwork, his Symphony no 104, the London. Its spirited finale provides the perfect end to this vibrant concert.

ORCHESTRAKU-RING-GAI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAFINALS CONCERT, CONCERTO COMPETITION 2013Saturday 29 June 7.30pmGillian Moore Performing Arts Centre, PLC, PymbleTickets: $30-$75 (family)Bookings: 1300 306 776www.kpo.org.auSix talented young musicians compete to win this prestigious competition when they perform their concertos with the KPO. Regarded as a stepping stone to national and international success, the competition has been held annually since 1984 and provides an invaluable performance opportunity for young musicians to showcase their talents as concerti soloists accompanied by orchestra. The finalists are - Sophie Spencer (Arutunian Trumpet Concerto), Oscar Han (Waxman Carmen Fantasie), Wayne

Kwon (Shostakovich Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major Op 107), Michael Choi (Copland Clarinet Concerto), Lisa Sung (Walton Concerto for Viola and Orchestra) and Anna Da Silva Chen (Sarasate Carmen Fantasy Op 25). The list of previous winners reflects the names of many well-known personalities in the music world, such as Amy Dickson, Natalie Chee and Simon Tedeschi.


SYMPHONYSYDNEY SYMPHONYORGAN SYMPHONYWednesday 5 June 8pmFriday 7 June 8pmSaturday 8 Jun 8pmSydney Opera HouseTickets: $35-$145Bookings: 8215 4600www.sydneysymphony.com

Hear the Sydney Symphony shine under the baton of Charles Dutoit (above) with two great symphonies. In his Third Symphony, Saint-Saëns takes a single, impetuous musical idea and builds it into something powerful and richly coloured. For the final transformation, he pulls out the stops - literally - and the organ enters with the big tune (Babe!). This is your chance to hear the Grand Organ of the Sydney Opera House in action with guest organist David Drury. This is also a chance to hear the virtuosity of the Sydney Symphony musicians highlighting the brilliance of soloists in a super-concerto by Swiss composer Frank Martin. Martin’s virtuoso wit and sophisticated harmonies are introduced by one of Mozart’s most buoyant symphonies - music that sings and dances and isn’t afraid to show off!

JAZZ - BLUESCASSANDRA WILSONSaturday 15 June 9pmSydney Opera House, Concert HallTickets: $49-$84Bookings: 8215 4600www.sydneyoperahouse.comOne of America’s most iconic female figures of soulful jazz and blues, two-time Grammy Award winner Cassandra Wilson, makes her Sydney Opera House debut as part of Music at the House. Her incredible sextet, features some of the best jazz musicians from the USA. Universally respected as a vocalist, songwriter, musician and producer, who plays by her own rules, the charismatic jazz and blues diva is blessed with a distinctive and flexible contralto that crosses smoothly from her dark, loamy jazz, soul and blues voice to her troubadour side, which reaches deep into the American country and folk music of her Mississippi origins. Deftly re-inventing the jazz repertoire to evolve her own inimitable sound palette, Wilson incorporates the spirit of jazz, vintage blues, acoustic folk, country, gospel and spirituals into her work.

JAZZARTURO SANDOVALFriday 21 June 8pmState Theatre, SydneyTickets: $92.50Bookings: 1300 723 038 www.ticketmaster.com.au Six-time Grammy Award winning jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, a protégé of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, is touring Australia this month. The Cuban-born Sandoval has evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist and composer. Sandoval’s versatility can be heard on recordings with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Woody Shaw, Michel Legrand, Bill Conti and Stan Getz to John Williams and the Boston Pops, and in the Super Bowl with Tony Bennett and Patti LaBelle plus Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, Rod Stewart and Alicia Keys amongst many others. Sandoval’s virtuoso technical ability or his specialty in high notes gives us the opportunity to enjoy the diversity of his music, through his compositions from jazz, Latin jazz or classical.

MUSIC EDUCATIONMUSIC THEORY CLASSES FOR ADULTSFrom 25 July Tickets: from $140Bookings: 9797 7710www.susandeas.com.auAlways wanted to understand more about how music works? Understand the big-picture of music theory? Fill in the gaps in your musical knowledge? These intensive courses will take you through the grades of AMEB Musicianship, an internationally-recognised music theory syllabus. Added course material will show you how the theory applies to both classical and popular music. Learn the secrets of music, and how to use them. You may take the exams through AMEB after each grade if you wish. The classes provide an excellent background to the understanding of music for adults who are learning to sing or play a musical instrument, and lay foundations for future courses in higher grades. An excellent opportunity to cement new skills or refresh old ones.

JAZZ TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA Sunday 23 June 2pm North Sydney Leagues Club Tickets: $35 Bookings: 0438 654 267 www.jbclassicjazz.com.auJohn Buchanan presents the Raleigh-Kool Radio Show featuring the music of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Fourteen leading jazz musicians come together to relive the wonderful years of the Swing Era. You’ll hear Ben Jones singing Frank Sinatra and Jack Leonard and Helen Fenton singing the songs of Edythe Wright and Connie Haines.


GREAT WAGNER SINGERS Deutsche Grammophon DG 479 1241✶✶✶

This six-disc set features many names one would expect to find in such a project: Melchior, Hotter, Rysanek, Nilsson, Flagstad – all certainly recognised as ‘great Wagner

singers’. But most avid Wagnerians will possess recordings by such artistes, and even some performances (Fischer-Dieskau’s sublime Abendsterm, for instance; there can’t be many Wagnerians who don’t possess that iconic recording). So one would think that much of the pleasure would come from the relatively forgotten singers such as Josef Greindl, Karen Branzell and Max Lorenz, whose voices ring, command and seduce. Indeed, it does - but it is also a delight to hear early recordings by the familiar names: Hotter recorded in Walküre in 1942, in Berlin, for instance (what can it have been like to sing Wagner at that moment in Germany?) The discs illustrate all the major Wagner roles,

sometimes at reasonable length; often one ends up wanting more - a complete recording of Theodor Scheidl in Meistersinger would be well worth hearing. It’s also wonderful to hear Melchior in the Wesendonck-Lieder. Is he still the best Wagnerian tenor ever? Even the restrictions of early recording fail to dim that reputation. One warning: DG fail to provide libretti - something surely essential if these discs are to sell to anyone who does not thoroughly know every Wagnerian opera - and even he or she may be occasionally at a loss. Sometimes one really does wonder whether record companies actually want to sell their products. - Derek Parker

RECOMPOSED BY MAX RICHTER Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, Andre de Ridder (Conductor), Daniel Hope (Solo Violin) DG 481 0044

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It may seem an absolute sacrilege to think that Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons needs to be re-composed or re-invented in some way, thus it was with some trepidation with which I listened. However, the playing of the score (its original, along with the modern incarnation) was superbly rendered by musicians of immense skill and intellect. This new version however, is also not pretending to be anything other than a new twist on Vivaldi, through the eyes and

ears of its German-born British “composer”, Max Richter. “It’s part of our musical landscape. I wanted to make the piece, because I loved Vivaldi. So it’s my way of having a conversation with Vivaldi”, is how Richter defends his work. This conversation serves to illuminate the old with the new, making it a real rediscovery for any listener. Whilst conserving the essence of Vivaldi, there are other moments which are as though they have been put through a time machine throwing Vivaldi’s well-loved work into the 21st century. The notion of patterns in music, evident in Vivaldi, harken not only to a minimalist, but ambient approach.

Just when one is re-adjusting to the familiar, Richter can subtly propel the listener into another aural domain. It is not as

jarring as one might expect though, and certainly has merit in terms of an accessible, contemporary performance of an old master. - Barry Walmsley

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC PARIS AND THE BELLE EPOQUE Various Artists ABC Classics PLU345710✶✶✶

On this CD, various Australian artists perform music related to France, ranging from the obvious to the obscure to the truly surprising. It is a pleasing selection of musical excerpts that illustrates the globalisation that was occurring in France around the 19th and early 20th century during the ‘Romantic’ era but more specifically during the post-Romantic era because that is when French music really stepped out Germany’s shadow.

The obvious pieces include Offenbach’s Can-Can (Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld), Saint-Saëns’ Swan (from Carnival of the Animals), Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite (Empress of the Pagodas excerpt) and Satie’s Gymnopédie no. 1. The ‘obscure’ extracts include Debussy’s and Ravel’s String

Quartet (not because they are obscure but the quartets are rarely heard), Faure’s Pelléas et Mélisande (Sicilienne excerpt), Satie’s Gnossienne no. 1, Saint-Saëns’ 5th Piano Concerto ‘Egyptian’, last movement, d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Song, 3rd movement, and Massenet’s Thaïs extract.

The truly delightful pieces include Faure’s Barcarolle, Hahn’s song: À Chloris, Satie’s song: I Want You to be Mine, Pierné’s Entrance of the Little Fauns from Cydalise and the Satyr and Stravinsky’s Firebird excerpt.

It is pleasing to see Fauré and Pierné on this CD given they are somewhat lesser known than other featured composers. The d’Indy piece too was delightful and reminded me how neglected he was. - Richard Wong

CD Reviews


ANDRÉ RIEU: MOTHER AND CHILD André Rieu - violin ABC Classic 3734356

Just in time for Mother’s Day, an André Rieu album finds its way onto my desk. You will have noticed I have not given this review any rating stars. This is not an omission on my part but just an attempt to stop the remarks I get whenever I favour one side or the other on this most controversial of musical personalities. Enough to say that Rieu himself labels the 21 tracks on this CD as “expressions of meditation and tranquility”. And he is not wrong; they are all very soothing and peaceful examples - from Toselli’s Nightingale Serenade (accompanied by avian sound effects - how tranquil that is) to Richard Rodgers’ Edelweiss from ‘The Sound of Music’ (here given the Hollywood treatment with timpani thumping everywhere) and

Brahms’ Lullaby - Guten abend, Gut nacht (a most appropriate appendum to end the album with, don’t you think?). Listening and feeling relaxed, I wondered how Rieu could afford to pay for all the arranging of the music he plays, until I realise he’s arranged every piece himself. Meanwhile having taken another peep at the picture of Rieu on the cover of this CD, I am bemused about how he manages to keep the bow of his violin away from his hair when playing. Anyway, when I first started listening to this CD our family Labrador, Brandy, was sitting on the settee with me. He went to bed an hour earlier than usual that night. Always there are critics! - Randolph Magri-Overend

NARRATIVES AND DETOURS Jeanell Carrigan, piano Australian Music Centre VAST031.2

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A real expert may be able to identify a particular pianist merely from listening to their recordings, with everyone a virtuoso today by age six or so. Carrigan helps her cause by putting together an interesting set before committing herself to playing any of it. Top marks for supporting the playing when it comes, with a well presented set of CD notes, legible, comprehensive and not too technical . She emphasises more than once that these are all male composers, though never elucidates on what difference that makes to her. Instead, or

in addition, it would be interesting to observe what goes on when deciding which order to arrange things in a compilation like this, with ten distinct items to choose from. The title and opening track starts straight off in bright, clear, ringing tones which characterise this particular well-fettled Steinway. As the longest individual piece, it has a distinctly modernistic feel, but the compilation is inclusive enough to give us a run through about every angle there is on presenting piano music as it is understood today, with a Sydneyesque rationale at its hub. The mood changes as swiftly as the tracks change, without ever losing the precision that so many of these works demand, from literal concepts like Collins’ brief Insect Dance to musical abstracts like Wilcher’s Scherzo-

Ballade. This fine pianist plays her fingers to the bone to give them all the best performance they could ever hope for. - Phil Vendy

HYMNE A L’AMOUR Siobhan Stagg, soprano Amir Farid, piano Move MD3360

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When I first heard the opening track of this album I thought - here is a remarkable voice. I wasn’t quite sure whether I was listening to an alto or a mezzo at first, and even after listening to the rest of the tracks, I am torn betwixt calling it a mezzo voice and probably what the cognoscenti have already decided that she is - a lyric soprano. I feel Ms Stagg has been thrust into the limelight too soon. After all, she is only 26 and at that tender age, one would feel that a singer is still very much in his/her formative

years and to push them to record a CD is slightly ambitious. Ms Stagg may be a good singer but she is not ready as an artist yet. She has no connection with the development of a song, she hasn’t been coached sufficiently well on what emotion each song is meant to convey and, at the moment she is just going through the motions of hitting the right notes without being guided as to the potential impact of each musical piece. In fact, she appears not to have been taught that music is a journey that has to be interpreted individually and that to move an audience spiritually is the greatest achievement a musician can aspire to. She has tremendous potential but at the moment she is no better, or worse, than a lot of other aspiring singers. - RMO

CD Reviews


Jazz CD REVIEWS

EXCEPT SOMETIMES Molly Ringwald Concord Records 7234068

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I’d never heard of Molly Ringwald the singer. In fact I hadn’t even heard of Molly Ringwald the actress until I looked her up and there she was, having appeared in such films as The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles and The Pick-up Artist, none of which I’ve seen. She’s also an author but I can’t seem to find out what she’s written. Yes, I’m a real dummy! Be that as it may, I do find this album of oldies (Stephen Sondheim, Hoagy Carmichael and even Ray Noble) quite pleasantly and surprisingly satisfy-ing. But that’s only because I am an oldie my-self although I do think a youngster like Molly (she’s all of 45 years old) singing stuff like I Get Along Without You Very Well and The Very Thought Of You could easily have the youth

of this world appreciating some of the more sophisticated music on this album. And Ring-wald’s musicality isn’t half bad either. Oh true, there’s no great explosions of sound and the pitch of the songs is not terribly challenging but Ringwald does it all with an air of confidence and expertise. At times she sounds like a reju-venated Nancy Wilson and the last track Don’t You (Forget About Me) has a touch of the Carol Kings about it but on most things she attempts she sounds like an original Molly Ringwald. One thing she doesn’t do and I thank her for it - she doesn’t hold her long notes to the excruciat-ing point where you’re left wondering when she’ll get on to it…if you know what I mean! - Fulton Myers

JAZZ CD REVIEWSLISTEN HEREJackie RyanOpenArt OA 07442

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Like Mel Torme before her, the versatile San Francisco-based singer Jackie Ryan has been called a musicians’ singer. As was the case with Torme, it’s a badge she has worn with pride. But she’s more than that! She belongs to the upper echelons of today’s contemporary jazz vocalists, a status she has reconfirmed with each new release since her stunning 2006 album You And The Night And The Music. (Pardon my bias. I have been a fan ever since hearing and buying it.) With her crystal tone and sultry phrasing, she has that rare ability to make a song her own whether it’s a ballad or swinger. In other words she sings from the heart, weaving the words into the fabric of the melody. The album’s success owes a lot

to arranger John Clayton who not only builds a superb band around her - it includes his piano playing son Gerald and tenor saxophonist Ricky Woodward - but accompanies her with care and respect on bass. With superb backing by the Claytons, her subtle but full-throated A Time For Love loses nothing in comparison with Shirley Horn and her version of I Loves You Porgy rivals that of Nina Simone. As is the case on all her albums she sings one song in Spanish, this time she warmly embraces La Puerto, a tribute to her late opera-loving and singing Mexican mother. There’s an embarrassment of riches here: high quality musicianship and superb singing. My advice - just follow the album title. - Kevin Jones

FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS (Bud Freeman/ Chicago And All That Jazz/ Chicago, Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi/The Bud Freeman Group)Bud FreemanAvid Jazz EMSC 1072

✶✶✶✶✶Where do I start? First congratulations to this English label for continuing to reissue classic material which these days appears to hold little or no interest for the major labels for which it was first recorded. This is the music of my youth when a Bud Freeman recording, usually as part of an Eddie Condon group, was a “must” buy for a young jazz enthusiast. Until the arrival of Lester Young with Count Basie in 1937, Freeman’s style was the only alternative

to that of Coleman Hawkins. You either played like Bud or Hawkins. One of the founders of the Chicago school of jazz, he was a robust soloist; his full smooth tone had a rough edge and large vibrato - and could he swing! The only album here I had heard previously was Chicago And All That Jazz inspired by a 1961 NBC television show. But the standout is the Chicago/Austin High School set. Freeman put together three excellent bands for these 1957 sessions which paid tribute to the McKenzie and Condon Chicagoans of 1927 (China Boy, Sugar, Liza and Nobody’s Sweetheart) and Freeman’s Famous Chicagoans from 1940 (Prince of Wails, Jack Hits The Road, 47th And State and At The Jazz Band Ball). Obviously inspired, Freeman and the great trombonist Jack Teagarden are at the top of their game,

trumpeter Billy Butterfield has seldom played better, and the contrasting clarinet stylings of the seamless Peanuts Hucko and the more eccentric output of Pee Wee Russell are a joy. The last word sums it all up. - KJ


SWINGING ON THE VINEBlast From The Brass

Little J (Not so Little J these days) stirs and wags his tail as my Hunter Valley hideaway is filled with the delicious aroma of spaghetti with garlic butter, bacon and prawns. My mouth watering I empty the contents of a bottle of red, making sure that my good friend Rocco’s glass has been filled first. The “siege” has been lifted! With floodwaters beginning to recede Rocco had splashed his way through waist deep water holding a hamper full of delicacies above his head including hams, pasta, sour dough, olives, tomatoes and seafood.

For six days (and nights) I had lived on the bounty of the red grape - and not a peep from the homestead. Maybe it’s because I had told The Voice I was auditioning for a part in the TV series Back To The Cave. “You’ve never left the cave,” she had replied tartly while my insufferable brother-in-law Clifford sniggered in the background. But I was content - music, wine, the company of my pig and not tormented by the joys of “civilisation” such as the “entertainment” of prescription TV.

The music is really swinging in the background. Rocco tapping his foot as Benny Goodman’s clarinet is replaced by a strong trumpet solo erupting from the brass. “Who’s that?” he yells. “Billy Butterfield,” I reply. (It’s a recording of Fletcher Henderson’s arrangement of What A Little Moonlight Can Do which also has a vocal by Goodman’s one time paramour Helen Ward. It was the perfect take. At the end of it on February 19, 1953 the band applauded.)

Butterfield, not only had an enviable big band pedigree - Goodman, Artie Shaw and Bob

everybody liked Bing and nobody rated him. He often seemed to be under a dark cloud - understandable in a way because (saxophonist) Gil Rodin was really the band’s boss.

“Shaw was a strange one. I could never understand him. He really was a lucky guy getting where he did because the way he used to treat the public was something. I mean downright rude and very contemptuous. Still, they loved it, and he got away with it. He had this big band (1940) with 29 or 30 strings and we were playing at The Palace, a fine old hotel in San Francisco owned and run in the old tradition. We had two band uniforms, neither of which were tuxedos. The owner, a dear old lady, wanted the band to wear tuxedos. Artie argued they were businessman not waiters. He lost the argument - the band wore tuxedos! His way to get even with her was not to show up until 12.30 a.m. after disappearing with Paulette Goddard (the female lead in the movie Second Chorus which featured his band). Trombonist Jack Jenney would front the band and Johnny Guarnieri would play the clarinet solos on piano. There were a couple of good clarinet players in the band but nobody wanted to do it.”

As Rocco places a steaming pile of pasta on the table he wants to know how I know so much. I think of the many yellowing pages on my swing idols in my den and feel depressed as I wonder what will happen to them when I’m gone. But Woody Herman’s Second Herd is storming through Dance Ballerina, Dance in the background, the food is delicious, the wine perfect and I am free from the populist punditry of today’s society. Let it rain! – Patrick D Maguire

Crosby - but his trumpet complemented such popular records as the 1943 hit of Moonlight In Vermont by a 19-year-old Margaret Whiting and Frank Sinatra’s sensitive 1950 treatment of the ballad Nevertheless with arranger Axel Stordahl’s Orchestra. At the end of World War Two Butterfield led his own orchestra for a couple of years until the big band business collapsed.

The Goodman brass team of 1940-41 was “one hell of a section” according to Butterfield. As lead trumpeter, he was a key member along with Cootie Williams, Jimmy Maxwell, Irving Goodman and trombonists Lou McGarity and Cutty Cuttshall. It wasn’t as big as some of the other sections around but it was powerful. As a member of Shaw’s band, Butterfield was featured but with Goodman it was a different story. He was mainly on lead as Williams did most of the solo work with the orchestra and sextet. Butterfield summed it up: “I would get eight bars (solos) here and four bars there but it was mostly slogging away.”

He had more opportunity for actual jazz playing during his three years (1937-40) with Bob Crosby, especially when trumpeter Yank Lawson was poached by Tommy Dorsey enabling Butterfield to take over trumpet with the Bob Cats, the small band drawn from the orchestra. It’s interesting to read Butterfield’s insights into the bands of the swing era. He describes the Crosby unit, with which he first gained fame, as a “fun band - like a family band. We had a ball.

“All the guys in the Crosby were given the opportunity to play their features a lot. There was more room to stretch out than in any other big band! And talking of features, Bob Haggart came up with two specials - I’m Free which was meant for (clarinettist) Irving Fazola and another one to feature myself which subsequently became My Inspiration. It was originally two different tunes but Haggart tied them together. We eventually changed these over and I ended up with I’m Free (with lyrics added later it became What’s New). My Inspiration was originally called Big Mouth which is what the New Orleans’ guys used to call gin. Since Fazola drank his share of gin that’s what they called the tune.

‘‘There are loads of stories about Benny and Artie and the Dorseys and all their funny ways. Lots of them are true but they were all businessmen and successful ones at that. Bob Crosby had his gloomy side, always believing

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June Digital Schedule Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

12:00 The Symphony Journey to Baroque At the Keyboard With the Orchestra From the 20th Century

14:00 What’s New with Stephen Wilson

10 June ACO

In Conversation with Michael Morton-Evans (repeats)

4 June - Piers Lane (27 March 2013)

11 June - Dr Ralph Schureck (3 April 2013)

18 June - Gale Edwards (10 April 2013)

25 June - Nicolette Fraillon (17 April 2013)

5, 12, 19, 26 JuneThe Voices – the Roles with Angela Cockburn

22 MayCountdown to The Ring. Episode 6

Treasures of Recorded Music with Randolph Magri-Overend

7, 14, 21, 28 JuneFeature artistor Sydney Symphony with Peter Kurti (2nd Fri of month)

15:00 Jazz Jazz Jazz Jazz Jazz

*See www.finemusicfm.com for program details


June Program HighlightsA TALENTED LOT THESE AUSSIESIn Tune with Nicholas Milton - Monday 10 June 1pmSpotlight on Australian Performers: Ian Munro - Saturday 15 June 9.30am

This month Fine Music programmers have united in a garland of tributes to Australians past and present in celebration of our position as Sydney’s local Fine Music broadcaster, and no one knows the importance of community quite like the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Dr Nicholas Milton. Engaged with the WSO since 2001, Dr Milton manages to combine a busy European conducting schedule with managing the orchestra. Growing up in Chatswood and studying in Sydney, Milton has had a lifelong connection with the area, and is exceedingly proud to have built the WSO into an orchestra which stands at the forefront of the arts in Sydney, and whose interaction with its community is first rate.

Ian Munro, composer, writer - and of course world renowned pianist - is another Australian who, despite travelling the world, never forgets the place he calls home. Performing and recording countless new works by Australian composers, Ian Munro continues to bring Australian music to the world. Born in Melbourne, Munro studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (1981–83). His early piano training was in Melbourne with Rodney Hurst, Marta Rostas (a pupil of Béla Bartók), Deirdre Vadas and Roy Shepherd (a pupil of Alfred Cortot) and he had further study in Vienna, London and Italy with Franz Zettl, Noretta Conci, Guido Agosti and Michele Campanella. His early dedication to maintaining a solo

repertoire of rare and unusual pieces was the catalyst which led to his lifelong dedication to Australian music.

A Dangerous Game - Boris Lyatoshynsky Morning Concert - Monday 10 June 10am

The most divisive issue of the last century in classical music would have to be the relationship between Dmitri Shostakovich and the Soviet Union. To this day, decades after the events of the mid 20th century, musicologists and music fans alike will still argue over Shostakovich’s true intentions. Was his Ninth Symphony of 1945 really a Stalinist ‘hymn of victory’ - or was it an ironic mockery of the Soviet Union’s victory instead? It seems we will never know.

It’s important to not get carried away with the man and the myth. Although Shostakovich’s story is fascinating - it’s only one of the many extremely tense situations composers faced throughout the majority of the 20th Century. Boris Mikolayovich Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968) was another composer who felt the weight of the world on his shoulders throughout his tumultuous life. The Ukrainian-born composer maintained a lifelong relationship with the Kiev Conservatory, studying there with Reinhold Gliere, teacher, fellow composer, and finally, colleague, when he took up a post as teacher and later professor. Lyatoshynsky also taught concurrently at the Moscow conservatory from 1935-1944 with a break just before the outbreak of war. It was here that Lyatoshynsky was subjected to the Soviet ideal of what art should be. But Lyatoshynsky had his own personal journey to embark on in regard to his artistic style. He started his career writing in a quasi-romantic idiom, but soon found himself treading the same path as Shostakovich, writing

more and more daring works until he couldn’t escape the attention of the Soviet critics. He was accused of formalism and the creation of degenerative art (along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich). Notwithstanding the very real threat which went along with being on the wrong side of the Soviets, (people were known to just ‘disappear’) this is a criticism Lyatoshynsky must not have taken lightly, because very soon his style shifted. Gradually there appeared more and more evidence of simplification of his harmonies. He started following the broad outlines of Ukrainian national music, with increased reference to the folk-songs and music of the Ukraine, relying on the research in this field of Mykola Lysenko (an earlier Ukrainian composer, musician, and ethnomusicologist).

This was the style Lyatoshynsky was to stick with for the remainder of his career, which earned him his place in history as the ‘Father of Ukrainian Music’. Sadly though, most of his music was never performed in his lifetime, and much remains unperformed even today. - Troy Fil

Nicholas Milton

Ian Munro

NOT TO BE MISSED!Open Day Classics - Sunday 2 June 10.30amThe Art of Gerard Willems - Friday 7 June 1pmSpotlight on Alumni of the Paris Conservatoire - Saturday 8 June 9.30pmArmenian Masters - Friday 21 June 1pm

CONTINUING SERIESSunday Night Concert: Beethoven Concerti Sunday 9 June 7.30pmAt the Opera: Legendary Met Performances - 6 February 1965 La forza del destino Wednesday 12 June 8pmSunday Special: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2000-2010 By courtesy of Radio Netherlands Worldwide Sunday 16 June 2pmNew Horizons: Modern Britain – Ice Mountain Sunday 16 June 9pmBeyond Romanticism: Bax and Arnold, British Symphonists Tuesday 18 June 10pmAt the Opera: Legendary Met Performances 24 April 2010 Tosca Wednesday 19 June 8pm

ANNIVERSARY PROGRAMSWagner 200: Wagner and Friends Sunday 9 & 23 June 9amAt the Opera: Siegfried Wednesday 26 June 8pmVerdi 200At the Opera: Legendary Met Performances – 6 February, 1965 La forza del destino Wednesday 12 June 8pm


Saturday 1 June

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 LOUIS SPOHR Prepared by Barrie Brockwell

Spohr, L. Overture to Jessonda, op 63 (1822). Berlin RSO/Christian Fröhlich. cpo 999 093-2 8

Potpourri in F, op 80 (1811). Michael Collins, cl; Swedish CO/Robin O’Neill. Hyperion CDA67509 10

Potpourri on themes of Mozart, op 22 (1807). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 9424 13

Sonata in C minor (c1805). Sophie Langdon, vn; Hugh Webb, hp. Naxos 8.555364 16

Double quartet, op 65 (1823). Melos Ensemble. EMI 5 65995 2 20

Symphony no 9 in B minor, op 143, The seasons (1850). Bavarian RSO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Orfeo C 094-841 A 31

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

Mendelssohn, F. Overture for band, op 24. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. WWFM 1 9

Hartmann, J. Facilita. Barrie Perrins, euphonium; Hendon Band/Donald Morrison. LP Contour 2870135 6

Dinicu, G. Hora staccato. Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Eric Banks. EMI CDC 7-47785-2 2

Sousa, J.P. National fencibles. Men o’ Brass; Fairey Aviation Band; Fodens Motor Body Works Band; City of Coventry Band/Harry Mortimer. LP Columbia TWO 385 3

Handel, G. Thanks be to thee, O Lord. Phillip McCann, cornet; Sellers Engineering Band/Roy Newsome. Chandos CHAN 4521 4

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper A diverse range of jazz from days gone by up to the present with wonderful Australians featured

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

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

Roussel, A. Padmâvatî, war dance (1918). O du Capitole de Toulouse/Michel Plasson. EMI 3 81867 2 4

Delibes, L. Ah, où va la jeune Indoue, from Lakmé (1883). Joan Sutherland, sop; Royal Opera House O/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli. Decca 475 7981 8

Holst, G. The cloud messenger, op 30 (1913). Della Jones, mezz; London Symphony Ch & O/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 2416 43

Shankar, R. Gorakh (c1949). Instrumental ensemble. East Meets West EMWM 1005 14

Messiaen, O. Turangalîla symphony, finale (1946-48). Paul Crossley, pf; Tristan Murail, ondes martenot; PO/Esa-Pekka Salonen. CBS Records CB 792 7

15:30 MUSIC FOR WORDS Prepared by Rex Burgess

Lassus, O. de Moorish songs (c1551). Munich Vocal Soloists/Hans Ludwig Hirsch. Teldec 8.44013 ZS 19

Pergolesi, G. La serva padrona (1733; ed. Bettarini). Julianne Baird, sop; John Ostendorf, bass-bar; Philomel Baroque CO/Rudolph Palmer. Omega OCD 1016 54

Ropartz, J. Four poems with prelude and postlude (1899). Jose van Dam, bar; Jean-Philippe Collard, pf. EMI CDC 7 49288 2 15

Britten, B. Noye’s fludde, op 59 (1957). Soloists; Coull String Quartet; Members of Endymion Ensemble; Choirs & O of Chester and Salisbury Schools/Benjamin Britten. Virgin 5 61122 2 47

18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with Gerry Myerson

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Derek Parker

Lehar, F. Excerpts from Frederike. Helen Donath, sop; Gabriele Fuchs, sop; Adolf Dallapozza, ten; Bavarian Radio Ch & O/Heinz Wallberg. 19

Excerpts from Schon ist die Welt. Renata Holm, sop; Rudolf Schock, ten; Gunter-Arndt Choir; Furstenfeldbruck O/Frank Fox. 11 Kaiserliche KO863442 (2 above)

Strauss, J. II Excerpts from Wiener Blut, op 354 (1873). Anneliese Rothenburger, sop; Christine Görner, sop; Erich Kuchar, ten; Nicolai Gedda, ten; Graunke SO/Willy Mattes. Laserlite 15 048 19

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Part 1: Musica Viva presents Goldner String Quartet and Piers Lane Recorded by Roger Doyle for FINE MUSIC

Elgar, E. Quartet in E minor, op 83 (c1918). 29

Bridge, F. Quintet (1905/12). Piers Lane, pf. 28

Goldner String Quartet (2 above)

21:00 Part 2: Composers’ Workshop Recorded by Greg Ghavalas for FINE MUSIC

Murphy, N. Transference. 7

Polias, P. Hanging Rock. 8

Sollis, M. Homage to Carl Stalling. 11

21:30 SON ET LUMIÈRE Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Rossini, G. Overture; Thunderstorm, from La Cenerentola (1817). European CO Per Musica/Julian Reynolds. Globe GLO 6014 10

Schnelzer, A. Thunderdance (2002). Rhythm Art Duo. Phono Suecia PSCD 177 11

Strauss, J. II Thunder and lightning polka, op 324 (1868). Queensland SO/Vladimir Ponkin. ABC 432 250-2 3

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


Saturday 1 June Sunday 2 June


6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Terry McMullen

9:00 CELESTIAL NOTES Prepared by Rex Burgess

Messiaen, O. Apparition de l’église éternelle (1932). Kalevi Kiviniemi, org. Finlandia 0630-18399-2 8

Handel, G. The passion according to St. John. Patricia McMahon, sop; Kirsten Grund, sop; Kathrin Graf, sop; Sheila Lang, mezz; Neil Mackie, ten; Clifford Hughes, ten; Stephen Roberts, bass; John Currie Singers; Israel SO/David Josefowitz. Atlas SAL CD011 1:13

10:30 OPEN DAY CLASSICS Prepared by Chris Blower

Palmer, G. Ruritanian dances (1999). Cove CO/Stephen Williams. ABC 476 261-2 10

Austin, R. Ramble on a tune by Percy Grainger. Ray Lemond, pf. MBS 34 CD 7

Mozart, W. Adagio in E, K261 (1776). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti, vn & dir. BIS SACD-1755 7

Schumann, R. Adagio and allegro, op 70 (1849). David Nuttall, ob; Larry Sitsky, pf. Tall Poppies TP041 9

Grieg, E. Piano concerto in A minor, op 16, mvt 3 (1868). Simon Tedeschi, pf; Queensland SO/Richard Bonynge. ABC 481 0117 11

Ravel, M. Empress of the pagodas; The fairy garden, from Mother goose (1908-11). Louise Johnson, hp; Gerard Willems, pf. MBS 40 CD 6

Vivaldi, A. Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, arr. from RV522, L’estro armonica op 3 no 8 (pub. 1711). Genevieve Lacey, rec; Neal Peres Da Costa, hpd; Daniel Yeadon, vc. ABC 476 5105 10

Gershwin, G. Rhapsody in blue (1924). Isador Goodman, pf; Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 464 055-2 16

12:00 OPEN DAY JAZZ

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled WideWith Linda Marr

Traditional and contemporary music from around the globe

14:00 OPEN DAY VISITORS’ REQUESTS

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Meg Matthews

Hymns: O worship the King; Praise to the Lord the Almighty; Lord Jesus think on me. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond. Helios CDH 88036 10

Hymn: All for Jesus. Choir of Hereford Cathedral; Roy Massey, org & dir. Griffin GCCD 4060 2

Psalm: no 104, Praise the Lord O my soul. Choir of Hereford Cathedral; Geraint Bowen, org; Roy Massey, cond. Priory PRCD 290 8

Elgar, E. Give unto the Lord, op 74 (1912); Jerusalem (orch. Elgar). Choir of Winchester Cathedral; Waynflete Singers; Bournemouth SO/David Hill. Argo 430 836-2 12

Gibbons, O. O clap your hands; Hosanna to the Son of David (1622). Cambridge Singers/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD 107 7

Hymn: Now thank we all our God. Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley, org; John Scott, cond. Helios CDH 88036 4

Karg-Elert, S. Chorale prelude on Nun danket alle Gott, op 65. Stephen Cleobury, org. Regis RRC 1012 4

18:00 CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY Australians abroad Prepared by Sue McCreadie

Sculthorpe, P. From Kakadu. John Williams, gui. Sony SK 53 361 11

Barrios, A. La Catedral; una limosna por el amor de Dios. 10

Domeniconi, C. Koyunbaba. 15

Craig Ogden, gui (2 above) Chandos 9743

Giuliani, M. Rossiniana. Simon Powis, gui. www.simonpowis.com 16

19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Verdi, G. Sempre libera, from La traviata (1853). Maria Callas, sop; Alfredo Kraus, ten; San Carlos Lisbon TO/Franco Ghione. EMI 56662827 10

Donizetti, G. E se fia che ad altro oggetto, from Don Pasquale (1843). Jerry Hadley, ten; English CO/Richard Bonynge. RCA 09026680302 8

Puccini, G. In questa regia, from Turandot. Maria Callas, sop; Alfredo Kraus, ten; Philharmonia 0/Tullio Serafin. EMI 56662827 6

Flotow, F. Ach so frommach so traut, from Martha. Jerry Hadley, ten; English CO/Richard Bonynge. RCA 09026680302 3

19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT

Dvorák, A. Suite in A, op 98b, American (1894-5). West Australian SO/Vernon Handley. ABC 456 359-2 21

Rubinstein, A. Piano concerto no 4 in D minor, op 70 (1864). Larisa Shilovskaya, pf; Moscow SO/Alexander Anisimov. Amadis 7150 35

Haydn, J. Symphony in G, Hob.I:92, Oxford (1789). Siberian Festival O/Sergei Belyakov. Prism Leisure PLD 1213 26

21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Phil Vendy

Penderecki, K. Concerto grosso no 1 (2000). Ivan Monighetti, vc; Arto Noras, vc; Rafal Kwiatowski, vc; Warsaw National PO/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.570509 35

Wilcher, P. 1791 (2007). Rachel Tolmie, ob; Bourbaki Ensemble/David Angell. Wirripang WIRR 012 6

Pavlova, A. Symphony no 6 (2007). Mikhail Shestakov, vn; Tchaikovsky SO/Patrick Baton. Naxos 8.579003 42

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

José Serebrier


Monday 3 June


6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by opera Prepared by Chris Blower

Ernst, H. Fantaisie brillante, after Rossini’s Otello, op 11 (1839). Ilya Grubert, vn; Russian PO/Dmitry Yablonsky. Naxos 8.557565 15

Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. Figaro variations, from Rossini’s The barber of Seville (transcr. Piatigorsky). Maria Kliegel, vc; Nina Tichman, pf. Naxos 8.557613 7

Giuliani, M. Cavatine variée: Di tanti palpiti after Rossini’s Tancredi, op 79. Rosa-Maria Meister, sop; Jorge Fresno, gui; Pierre Sublet, fp. Jecklin JD 624-2 6

Müller, I. Trio, after a theme from Rossini’s Armida (c1828). Dieter Klöcker, cl; Martin Ostertag,vc; Edward Witsenburg, hp. Schwann 310 001 H1 11

Paganini, N. Variations on Rossini’s Non più mesta accanto al fuoco, from Cinderella (1817). Salvatore Accardo, vn; London PO/Charles Dutoit. DG 423 717-2 12

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison

Berlioz, H. Overture: Roman carnival, op 9 (1844). Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDM 1 66434-2 9

Dvorák, A. Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). János Starker, vc; London SO/Antal Doráti. Mercury 432 001-2 38

Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 44 (1928). NSO of Ukraine/Theodore Kuchar. Naxos 8.553054 35

11:30 KEYBOARD SCHERZOS Prepared by Chris Blower

Rubinstein, A. Scherzo in F, from Album de Peterhof, op 75 (1866). Joseph Banowetz, pf. Marco Polo 8.223176 7

Balakirev, M. Scherzo no 2 in B flat minor (1900). Nicholas Walker, pf. ASV DCA 940 7

Chopin, F. Scherzo no 1 in B minor, op 20 (1831-2). Mikhail Pletnev, pf. DG 471 157-2 10

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan Featuring bands of the 1930s swing era and the dance bands of the 1920s taken from radio broadcasts, transcriptions and recording sessions

13:00 HORN OF PLENTY Prepared by Jan Brown

Rossini, G. Prelude, theme and variations, from Sins of old age (1857-68). 10

Beethoven, L. Sonata in F, op 17 (1800). Hermann Baumann, hn; Leonard Hokanson, pf (2 above) Philips 416 816-2 15

Spohr, L. Quintet in C minor, op 52 (1820). John Wion, fl; Arthur Bloom, cl; Howard Howard, hn; Donald MacCourt, bsn; Mary Louise Boehm, pf. Turnabout TV-S 34506 28

Strauss, R. Horn concerto in E flat, op 11 no 2 (1942). Barry Tuckwell, hn; London SO/István Kertész. Decca 425 754-2 20

Saint-Saëns, C. Romance in F, op 36 (1874). Radovan Vlatkovic, hn; Orchestral Ensemble of Paris/Jean-Jacques Kantorow. EMI 5 55587 2 4

Saint-Saëns, C. Romance in F, op 36 (1874). Radovan Vlatkovic, hn; Orchestral Ensemble of Paris/Jean-Jacques Kantorow. EMI 5 55587 2 4

14:30 TIME AFTER TIME Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Bartók, B. From olden times (1935). Hungarian People’s Army Male Ch/Zoltán Vásárhelyi. Hungaroton HCD 31047 16

Poulenc, F. Four motets for a time of penitence (1938-39). Ormond College Choir/Douglas Lawrence. Move MD 3130 12

Mozart, W. Ecco il punto o Vitellia … Non più di fiori, from La clemenza di Tito, K621 (1791). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Vienna O/György Fischer. Decca 430 513-2 9

Rossini, G. Specimen of my time, from Album de chateau (1850). Frederic Chiu, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907102 10

Broadstock, B. Timeless (2002). Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner. ABC 476 8041 11

Grieg, E. Holberg suite, op 40 (1884). Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi. DG 437 520-2 19

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

19:00 SPIRIT OF JAZZ with Susan Gai Dowling

20:00 STORMY MONDAY with Austin Harrison and Garth Sundberg

22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS

Bizet, G. Excerpts from Jeux d’enfants, op 22 (1871). Korin Lechner, Sergio Daniel Tiempo, pf. Sony AU 71959 12

Kabalevsky, D. Sonata no 3, op 46 (1946). Gabriele Gorog, pf. Dynamic CDS72 16

Brahms, J. Clarinet trio in A minor, op 114 (1891). Musicfest Trio. IMP PCD 959 23

Franck, C. Prelude, choral and fugue (1884). Dinorah Varsi, pf. Mediaphon MED 72.158 20

Bach, J.S. Concerto in D, BWV9972 (1713-14). Hans Ludwig Hirsch, hpd. Divox CDX 29206-7 9

Liszt, F. Excerpts from Years of pilgrimage: Italy (1837-49). Stephanie McCallum, pf. ABC 476 124-2 30

Stephanie McCallum


0:00 CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE

3:00 CLASSICAL TILL DAWN

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

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Pianist of choice: Alfred Brendel Prepared by Howard Pritchard

Haydn, J. Sonata no 56 in D, Hob.XVI:42 (bef. 1784). Philips 456 727-2 13

Mozart, W. Sonata no 11 in A, K331 (1781-83). Philips 454 244-2 19

Beethoven, L. Sonata no 26 in E flat, op 81a, Les Adieux (1809-10). Brilliant Classics 94272 15

Schubert, F. Allegretto in C minor, D915 (1827). Philips 442 543-2 4

Alfred Brendel, pf (all above)

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Vaughan Williams, R. Suite: The wasps (1909). Royal Liverpool PO/James Judd. Naxos 8.572304 26

Elgar, E. Cello concerto in E minor, op 85 (1919). Steven Isserlis, vc; London SO/Richard Hickox. Virgin 5 61125 2 29

Vorisek, J. Symphony in D, op 24 (1823). Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras. Hyperion CDA66800 27

11:30 CHAMBER ENCORE Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Vorisek, J. Le désir, op 3. Artur Pizarro, pf. Collins 14772 10

Vaughan Williams, R. Romance; Andantino (c1914). Matthew Jones, va; Michael Hampton, pf. Naxos 8.572579 5

Elgar, E. Harmony music no 2 (1878). Athena Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 241-33 10

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes An eclectic blending of agreeable rhythm and melody from the New Orleans jazz roots through to recent decades including many Australian bands

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

14:00 NIGHT AND DAY Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Debussy, C. Perfumes of the night, from Images (1905-12). Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink. Philips 438 742-2 9

Grieg, E. Night scene, from Peer Gynt (1875). Toril Carlsen, sop; Oslo Philharmonic Ch; London SO/Per Dreier. Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2056 7

Falla, M. de Nights in the gardens of Spain (1907-16). Alicia de Larrocha, pf; London PO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Decca 410 289-2 25

Beethoven, L. Name-day celebration, op 115 (1814). Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos. Naxos 8.553431 7

Puccini, G. One fine day, from Madame Butterfly (1904). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation Little SO/Juan Matteucci. Decca 430 325-2 4

Coates, E. Suite: Summer days (1919). New Queen’s Hall Light O/Eric Coates. Naxos 8.110173 10

Prokofiev, S. Summer day, op 65 (1941). Scottish CO/José Serebrier. Resonance RSN 3069 15

Hahn, R. Day (1899). London Schubert Chorale/Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA67141/2 4

Shostakovich, D. Suite from Five days and five nights, op 111 (1960). Belgian RSO/José Serebrier. RCA/Victor RD 87763 19

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Brendan Walsh

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps Smooth small group jazz from the 50s on and with a visit from Miles Davis each week

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Derek Parker

22:00 BEYOND ROMANTICISM Prepared by Phil Vendy

Diepenbrock, A. Marsyas concert suite (1910). Emmy Verhey, vn; Hague Residency O/Hans Vonk. Chandos CHAN 8821 34

Varèse, E. Amériques (1918-21). Chicago SO/Pierre Boulez. DG 471 137-2 25

Halffter, R. Violin concerto, op 11 (1940). Henryk Szeryng, vn; Royal PO/Enrique Bátiz. ASV DCA 871 20

Nielsen, C. Symphony no 6, Sinfonia semplica (1924-25). San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt. Decca 425 607-2 34

Tuesday 4 June

Manuel de FallaAlfred Brendel


Wednesday 5 June



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 Chris Blower

Purcell, H. Ode for the wedding of Prince George of Denmark and Princess Anne: From hardy climes and dangerous toils of war (1683). Gillian Fisher, sop; Tessa Bonner, sop; James Bowman, ct; Jonathan Kenney, ct; Rogers Covey-Crump, ten; Charles Daniels, ten; Michael George, bass; Charles Pott, bass; King’s Consort/Robert King. Hyperion CDA66456 17

Roman, J. Excerpts from Drottningholm music for a royal wedding (1744). Uppsala CO/Anthony Halstead. Naxos 8.553733 20

Bach, J.S. Excerpts from Cantata, BWV210: O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit, Wedding Cantata (1736-41). Christine Schäfer, sop; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. DG 459 621-2 16

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Heather Sykes

Prokofiev, S. Waltz suite, op 110 (1946). Mikhail Chernykhovsky, vn; USSR Radio & TV Large SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Consonance 81-5005 28

Beethoven, L. Triple concerto in C, op 56 (1804). Beaux Arts Trio; Gewandhaus O/Kurt Masur. Philips 438 005-2 34

Boccherini, L. Symphony no 23 in D minor, op 37 no 3 (1787). London FO/Ross Pople. Hyperion CDA66904 19

11:30 BEETHOVEN AND BOCCHERINI VOICED Prepared by Heather Sykes

Beethoven, L. Ah! wicked, lying, cruel traitor, op 65 (1795-96). Rosamund Illing, sop; Melbourne SO/Heribert Esser. ABC 434 898-2 13

Boccherini, L. Aria accademica: Deh respirar lasciatemi (c1786). Adelina Scarabelli, sop; Soloists of the Opera da Camera of Rome/Federico Amendola. Nuova Era 6849 13

12:00 THE SOUND OF JAZZ with Kevin Jones Jazz from the 1930s to the present day, with tracks from the DownBeat archives and recent releases

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Emerging young artists with Troy Fil; recorded by Greg Ghavalis Featuring violinists Edward Zhang and Amy Huang, pianists Jessica Abrahams and Dimi Tong, double-bassist Vanessa Li, french horn player Madeleine Aarons and organist David Tagg Supported by St Catherine’s School and Overs 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.

15:00 FANNY AND FELIX Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Mendelssohn, Fanny. String quartet in E flat (1834). Erato Quartet Basel. cpo 999 679-2 20

Mendelssohn, F. Concert piece no 1 in F minor, op 113 (1832). Peter Schmidl, cl; Pierre Pichler, bshn; Madoka Inui, pf. Naxos 8.557232 9

Quartet no 6 in F minor, op 80 (1847). Coull String Quartet. Hyperion CDS 44051/53 26

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

19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell The stars of American jazz from bebop on, mainly small group low temperature jazz

20:00 AT THE OPERA Mosè in Egitto Prepared by Andrew Bukenya

Rossini, G. Mosè in Egitto. Opera in three Acts. Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. First performed Naples, 1818.

MOSÈ: Ruggero Raimondi, bass OSIRIDE: Ernesto Palacio, ten ELCIA: June Anderson, sop AMALTEA: Zehava Gal, mezz PHARAOH: Siegmund Nimsgern, bass MAMBRE: Keith Lewis, ten Ambrosian Opera Ch; Philharmonia O/Claudio Scimone. Decca 478 0149 2:26

Egypt is plunged into darkness by God as punishment for keeping the Israelites in bondage. Pharaoh asks Mosè to intercede before God. Mosè does, God lifts His punishment and the Israelites are free to go. Osiride, Pharaoh’s son, loves the Israelite maiden Encia and, fearing that they will be parted forever, opposes his father’s edict. Appealing to priest Mambre for help they persuade the king to revoke his decree over the objections of the Pharaoh’s wife, Amaltea. Mosè is angered and brings down a storm of hailstones and fire. Pharaoh is again afraid and orders the Israelites to leave, but, seeing Osiride’s unhappiness, breaks his promise to let the Israelites go. Osiride tries to kill Mosè and is struck dead by lightning. Elcia laments her lovers death. By the shore of the Red Sea, Mosè begs God to save his people. Moses strikes the waters with his staff and they split apart, allowing the Israelites to cross safely. When the Egyptian army pursues them, the waters close in on them.

23:00 VICTOR MARTINEZ-PARADA IN RECITAL Recorded by Edda Filson for FINE MUSIC

Martinez-Parada, V. Fantasy on a song by Violeta Parra; Fantasy on El condor pasa. 20

Ayala, H. Gallop no 1, Jungle and river. 5

Martinez-Parada, V. Fantasy on a song by Stevie Wonder; Variations on a milonga. 19

Victor Martinez-Parada, gui (all above)

Chopin, F. Polonaise in C sharp minor, op 26 no 1 (1834-35). Rachel Valler, pf. 8

Ruggero Raimondi


Thursday 6 June



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

Villa-Lobos, H. Amazonas (c1917). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Roberto Duarte. Marco Polo 8.223357 13

A viola (1916). Marc Heller, ten; Alfred Heller, pf. Etcetera KTC 1139 2

Sextuor mystique (1917). Jacques Castagner, fl; Robert Casier, ob; Jean-Marie Londeix, sax; Ra-mon de Herrera, gui; Lily Laskine, hp; Henriette Puig-Roget, celesta. EMI 5 72360 2 8

Rudepoêma (1921-26). Roberto Szidon, pf. DG 477 5439 19

Bachianas brasileiras no 5 (1938-45). Victoria de los Angeles, sop; Eight cellists of French NRO/Heitor Villa-Lobos. EMI CDH 7610152 11

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans

Busoni, F. Comedy overture, op 38 (1897/1904). London SO/Charles Mackerras. Carlton Classics 15656 91372 7

Crusell, B. Clarinet concerto in B flat, op 11 (1812). Karl Leister, cl; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-345 24

Saint-Saëns, C. Carnival of the animals (1886). Nash Ensemble. Virgin 5 61782 2 20

Gram, P. Symphony no 3 in E minor, op 35 (1954). Danish PO/Matthias Aeschenbacher. Dacapo 8.224718 31

11:30 PASSACAGLIA

Godowsky, L. Passacaglia (1927). Rian de Waal, pf. Hyperion CDA66496 17

Krása, H. Passacaglia and fugue (1944). Marleen Asberg, vn; Ronald Krämer, va; Daniël Esser, vc. RN Music MCCN120 9

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 DEUTSCHE WELLE CONCERT HOUR By courtesy of Radio Deutsche Welle

Porpora, N. Alto giove, from Polifemo.

Giacomelli, G. Passagier che incerto, from Adriano in Siria.

Vinci, L. Cervo al bosco, from Medo.

Hasse, J. Excerpt from Sinfonia, from Cleofide.

Ann Hallenberg, mezz; Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (4 above)

d’Astorga, E. Col flebile lamento nuovo dardo che m’impiaga. Rafaelle Milanesi, sop; members of Lo Specchio di Narciso/Salvatore Carchiolo. Deutsche Welle transcription

14:00 DANISH ODYSSEY Prepared by Francis Frank

Nielsen, C. Overture: Helios, op 17 (1903). Danish NSO/Thomas Dausgaard. Da capo 6.220518 12

Langgaard, R. Symphony no 6, Heavens asunder (1919-20). Danish National RSO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 9064 20

Buxtehude, D. Jubilate Domino. Andreas Scholl, ct; Concerto di Viole/Basel Consort. Harmonia Mundi HMG 501651 9

Riisager, K. Six dances, from H.C. Andersen ballet, Twelve by the Mail, op 37 (1939). Helsingborg SO/Thomas Dausgaard. Marco Polo 8.224082 11

15:00 SELDOM HEARD BRAZILIAN COMPOSERS Prepared by Frank Morrison

Velasquez, G. Valsa romântica. Clara Sverner, pf. Marco Polo 8.223556 8

Gomez, J. Para tí. Joshua Bell, vn; Tiempo Libre. Sony 88697527162 4

Gnattali, R. Pixinguinha, from Retratos (1999). Slava Grigoryan, gui; Leonard Grigoryan, gui. ABC 472 824-2 5

Cimirro, A. Paraphrase on Czardas, op 7 no 5. 4

Schütz, H. Psalm 121 (transcr. Cimirro). 3

Artur Cimirro, pf (2 above) Earthworks Australia AU-7E0-II-00001

Mignone, F. Congada (1921). Württemberg PO/Gabriel Castagna. Chandos CHAN 10675 5

Guarnieri, C. Piano concerto no 1 (1931). Max Barros, pf; Warsaw PO/Thomas Conlin. Naxos 8.557666 20

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

19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey Contemporary and modern sounds of now in jazz from all corners of the globe

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Dvorák, the last 10 years Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Dvorák, A. Overture to Kate and the Devil, op 112 (1899). CSSR State PO/Robert Stankovsky. Marco Polo 8.223272 9

Symphonic poem: The golden spinning wheel, op 109 (1896). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8798 27

Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1894-5). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; Swedish RSO/Sergiu Celibidache. Teldec 8573-85340-2 45

Symphonic poem: The hero’s song, op 111 (1897). Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8597 21

Overture to Armida, op 115 (1904). CSSR State PO/Robert Stankovsky. Marco Polo 8.223272 6

22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Barber, S. Quartet, op 11 (1936). Emerson String Quartet. DG 435 864-2 17

Schumann, R. Quintet in E flat, op 44 (1842). Augustin Dumay, vn; Renaud Capuçon, vn; Gérard Caussée, va; Jian Wang, vc; Maria João Pires, pf. DG 463 179-2 30

Chopin, F. Sonata in G minor, op 65 (1847). Natalie Clein, vc; Charles Owen, pf. EMI 3 66938 25

Finzi, G. Interlude, op 21 (1936). Leon Goossens, ob; Fitzwilliam String Quartet. Chandos CHAN 7132 12

Mendelssohn, Fanny. Trio in D, op 11 (1846). Oliver Butterworth, vn; Michael Evans, vc; Frank Wibaut, pf. Hyperion CDA66331 27




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

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Brian Drummond

Martinu, B. Quartet in C (1924). Avangard Fedotov, cl; Alexander Raev, hn; Feodor Luzanov, vc; Dmitri Lukianov, perc. LP Melodiya C10 20481 009 14

Glanville-Hicks, P. Sonata (1952). Susanne Powell, pf; CSM Percussion Ensemble/Michael Askill. Canberra School of Music CSM:24 11

Koppel, A. Toccata for vibraphone and marimba. Safri Duo. Chandos CHAN 9330 10

Bartók, B. Allegro non troppo, from Sonata for two pianos and percussion (1937). Peter Sadelo, perc; Edgar Guggeis, perc; Martha Argerich, pf; Nelson Freire, pf. DG 477 9523 6

Tórroba, F. Moreno Sonatina trianera for four guitars and castanets. Angelita Romero, castanets; Los Romeros. Philips 412 609-2 8

Anon. La rotta (c1390). Kalenda Maya. Simax PSC 1017 2

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Dvorák, A. Overture: Othello, op 93 (1891). Czech PO/Libor Pesek. Virgin VC7 91144-2 15

Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 1 in C, Hob.VIIb:1 (c1761-65). Jacqueline du Pré, vc; English CO/Daniel Barenboim. EMI CMS 7 63283 2 26

Walton, W. Sonata for strings (1972). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. Sony SK 48252 26

Kraus, J.M. Symphony in C (1781). Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist. Naxos 8.553734 13

11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown

Mendelssohn, F. Da lieg’ ich unter den Bäumen, op 84 no 1 (1850); Scheidend, op 9 no 6 (1830). Sophie Danemann, sop; Nathan Berg, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA66906 7

Respighi, O. L’ultima ebbrezza. Nelly Miricioiu, sop; David Harper, pf. Etcetera KTC 1041 3

Schumann, C. Die stille Lotosblume, op 13 no 6 (1842-3). Stephen Loges, bar; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 3

Schubert, F. Auf dem Strom, D943 (1828). Mark Padmore, ten; Richard Watkins, hn; Paul Lewis, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907520 10

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

13:00 THE ART OF GERARD WILLEMS Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Beethoven, L. Sonata no 14 in C sharp minor, op 27 no 2, Moonlight (1801). ABC 465 077-2 16

Mozart, W. Trio no 4 in E, K542 (1788). Robert Ingram, vn; Georg Pedersen, vc. Tall Poppies TP070 20

Borne, F. Fantasia brillante on themes from Bizet’s Carmen. Jane Rutter, fl. ABC 476 6475 11

Beethoven, L. Piano concerto no 4 in G, op 58 (1805-06). Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker. ABC 980 046-2 34

Gerard Willems, pf (all above)

14:30 SALUTE TO THE PATRONS Prepared by Brian Drummond

Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in F, op 6 no 12 (1712). Philharmonia Baroque O/Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907015 9

Haydn, J. Baryton trio in C, Hob.XI:101. John Hsu, baryton; David Miller, va; Fortunato Arico, vc. ASV GAU 104 9

Mozart, W. Divertimento no 8 in F, K213 (1775). Wind Soloists of the CO of Europe. Teldec 2292-46472-2 10

Liszt, F. Paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto (1859). Daniel Barenboim, pf. Erato ECD 75477 7

Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 4 in F minor, op 36 (1877). London SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. IMP PCD 867 44

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

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

20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Robert Small

Mendelssohn, F. String octet, in E flat, op 20 (1825). London Concertante. Zum CD0722 32

Bruch, M. Violin concerto no 3 in D minor, op 58 (1891). Maxim Fedotov, vn; Russian PO/Dmitry Yablonsky. Naxos 8.557793 37

Liszt, F. A symphony on Dante’s Divine comedy (1866). Gillian Keith, sop; Ladies of City of Birmingham Symphony Ch; BBC PO/Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos CHAN 10524 42

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE Prepared by Robert Small

Richter, F. Sinfonia VII in C, no 4 (1744). Helsinki Baroque O/Aapo Häkkinen. Naxos 8.570597 15

Bach, J.S. Sonata no 2 in D, BWV1028 (1739-50). Daniel Yeadon, bass viol; Neal Peres da Costa, hpd. ABC 476 3394 16

Falvetti, M. Il diluvio universale (1680-82). Soloists of Choeur de Chambre de Namur; Cappella Mediterranea/Leonardo Garcia Alarcón. Ambronay AMY026 1:05

Buxtehude, D. Passacaglia, BuxWV161; Praeludium, BuxWV163. Da Pacem/Pierre-Adrien Charpy. K617 K617227 12

Jacqueline du Pré

Friday 7 June



6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett


9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI OF THE PARIS CONSERVATOIRE Prepared by Frank Morrison

Dupré, M. Ballade, op 30 (1932). Mats Jansson, pf; Hans Fagius, org. BIS CD-551 9

Enescu, G. Rumanian rhapsody in D, op 11 no 2 (1901). BBC PO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Chandos CHAN 9537 14

Honegger, A. Intrada (1947). Thierry Caens, tpt; Pascal Devoyon, pf. Timpani 1C1010 5

Ibert, J. Bacchanale, from Sinfonia concertante (1956). Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit. Decca 440 332-2 8

Messiaen, O. Prélude no 8: Un reflet dans le vent (1928-29). Angela Hewitt, pf. Hyperion CDA67054 5

Milhaud, D. Le boeuf sur le toit, op 58 (1919). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9023 16

Duruflé, M. Four motets, op 10 (1960). St Jacob’s Chamber Choir/Gary Graden. BIS CD-602 8

Beethoven, L. Sonata no 30 in E, op 109 (1820). Alfred Cortot, pf. Larrikin DDC 936 13

Poulenc, F. Le carafon; La reine du coeur, from La courte paille (1960). Régine Crespin, sop; John Wustman, pf. Decca 460 973-2 3

Dvorák, A. Rondo in G minor, op 94 (1891). Paul Tortelier, vc; Royal PO/Charles Groves. RPO 8012 8

Haydn, J. Trio in G, Hob.XV:25, Gypsy (1795). Jacques Thibaud, vn; Pablo Casals, vc; Alfred Cortot, pf. Naxos 8.110188 13

11:30 ON PARADE with Black Dyke Prepared by Robert Small

Ball, E. Rhapsody on negro spirituals no 2. Chandos CHAN 6539 9

Mathias, W. Suite for brass band: Vivat regina, op 75 (1977). Chandos CHAN 4510 9

Sullivan, A. A Sullivan fantasy (arr. Langford). Chandos CHAN 4533 7

John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome (3 above)

12:00 JAZZ THEN AND NOW with Michael Cooper

13:00 HISTORIC RECORDINGS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Smetana, B. Excerpts from The bartered bride (1863). Royal Philharmonic O/Rudolph Kempe. HMV 5723362 19

Strauss, R. Four last songs (1948). Gungola Janowitz, sop; Berlin PO/Hebrert von Karajan. Decca 467910-2 22

Various. Foggy foggy dew; O waly, waly; Eriskay love lilt. Richard Lewis, ten; CO/Charles Mackerras. Dutton LP 4003 12

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 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Pat Hopper

Steiner, M. Soundtrack: Bird of paradise (1932). Studio O/Max Steiner. LP RCA-Medallion 9676-ML 309 23

Suite from The charge of the Light Brigade. Brandenburg PO, Potsdam/Richard Kaufman. Marco Polo 8.223608 29

16:30 ARTS IN FOCUS with Music at St James Produced by Debbie Scholem

17:00 COLOURS OF THE KING Program of the Organ Music Society of Sydney Prepared by Andrew Grahame

Whitlock, P. March: Dignity and impudence (1933). 5

Wesley, S.S. Larghetto in F sharp minor. 5

Handel, G. Organ concero in B flat, op 4 no 2. 9

Howells, H. Rhapsody in C sharp minor (1918). 7

Mozart, W. Fantasia in F minor, K594. 8

Vaughan Williams, R. Greensleeves (arr. Roper). 3

Rawsthorne, N. Hornpipe humoresque. 3

Vierne, L. Berceuse, from 24 pieces in free style. 4

Gigoult, E. Toccata in B minor (1892). 3

Andrew Millington, org (all above) Priory PRDVD 7

18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Childhood in music Prepared by Troy Fil

Grainger, P. Children’s march: Over the hills and far away (1916). Sydney SO/John Hopkins. LP HMV SOXLP 7656 7

Harrison, H. A is for Alice (2010). Antonietta Loffredo, pf. 6

Lee, Ji Yun. Colour variation I (2010). Ji Yun Lee, pf. 8 Wirripang WIR 042 (2 above)

Sutherland, M. World and the child. Helen Noonan, sop; Peter Locke, pf. Newmarket NEW1042.2 9

Sculthorpe, P. My country childhood (1999). Strings of Adelaide SO/James Judd. ABC 476 5692 16

Marita, S. Swinging (2010). 3

Smith, P. Kawall suite (2010). 5

Antonietta Loredo, pf (2 above) Wirripang Wir 042

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

Lehar, F. Excerpts from A night in Venice (1924). 11

Excerpts from Paganini (1925). 11

Kálmán, E. Excerpts from Countess Maritza (1924). 10

Ingrid Kertesi, sop; Zsuzsa Csonka, sop; János Berkes, ten; Hungarian Operetta O/Laszlo Kovacs (3 above) Naxos 8.550942/43

Sullivan, A. Excerpts from The mikado (1885). Jean Hindmarsh, sop; Thomas Round, ten; Donald Adams, bass; Beryl Dixon, Peter Pratt, voices; New SO of London/Isadore Godfrey. Decca 461 328-2 18

Saturday 8 June


Saturday 8 June

20:00 KU-RING-GAI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Recorded by Kerry Joyner for FINE MUSIC

Mendelssohn, F. Violin concerto in E minor, op 64 (1844). Grace Clifford, vn. 28

Mozart, W. Symphony no 40 in G minor, K550 (1788). 26

Carlos Alvarado, cond (2 above)

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Russian Easter overture, op 36 (1888). George Ellis, cond. 16

Verdi, G. Overture to The force of destiny (1862). Rowan Harvey-Martin, cond. 8

Ku-ring-gai PO (all above)

21:30 CARAMBA A journey around South America Recorded by Edda Filson for FINE MUSIC

Paraguayan: Pájaro Chogui. Julio Proano, voice, quena, requinto; Fiona Howe, voice, gui. 3

Andean: El condor pasa. Julio Proano,quena, charango; Fiona Howe, gui. 4

Bolivian: Lambada. Julio Proano, voice, gui; Fiona Howe, voice, zamponas, charango. 4

Ecuadorean: Mujercita linda. Julio Proano, voice, gui; Fiona Howe, voice, charango. 3

Chilean: Carnivalito. Julio Proano, voice, quena, gui; Fiona Howe, voice, charango. 2

Argentinian: Voy a pintar las paredes. Julio Proano, voice, sequinto; Fiona Howe, voice, gui. 2

Ecuadorean: Papel del plata. Julio Proano, voice, gui; Fiona Howe, voice, zamponas, charango. 3

Chilean: Ojos negros. Fiona Howe, voice; Julio Proano, gui. 3

22:00 AFTER HOURS with Kevin Jones


6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Robert Small

9:00 WAGNER AND FRIENDS Prepared by Barbara Brady

1813

2013

200 th AnniversaryWAGNER

Wagner, R. Labung blet ich, from Die Walküre (1854-56). 3

Winterstürme; Du bist der Lenz, from Die Walküre. 9

Deborah Riedel, sop; Stuart Skelton, ten; Adelaide SO/Asher Fisch (2 above) Melba MR301091-94

Leb’ wohl, from Die Walküre. John Wegner, bass-bar; State O of Victoria/Richard Divall. ABC 461 884-2 9

Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet (1869/80). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDM 1 66420 2 19

Wagner, R. Heil dir, Sonne! from Siegfried (1856-71). Lisa Gasteen, sop; Gary Rideout, ten; South Australian State Opera Ch; Adelaide SO/Asher Fisch. Melba MR 301095-98 12

Brahms, J. Alto rhapsody, op 53 (1869). Janet Baker, mezz; John Aldis Choir; London PO/Adrian Boult. EMI 5 62791 2 12

Wagner, R. Ewig war ich, from Siegfried. Lisa Gasteen, sop; Gary Rideout, ten; South Australian State Opera Ch; Adelaide SO/Asher Fisch. Melba MR 301095-98 13

10:30 CHAMBER MASTERWORKS

Haydn, J. Piano trio in A, Hob.XV:18 (1794). Ensemble of the Classic Era. ABC 476 3513 19

Vivaldi, A. Trio sonata in B minor, op 1, no 11, RV79. Danubius Ensemble. Naxos 8.550377 12

Krommer, F. Partita in B flat, op 45, no 2. MIchael Thompson Wind Ensemble. Naxos 8.553868 19

Spohr, L. String quintet no 5 in G minor, op 106 (1847). Sandor Papp, va; Haydn Quartet, Budapest. Naxos 8.555967 32

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 John Rahman

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL A seasons miscellany Prepared by Rex Burgess

Svoboda, T. Overture of the season, op 89 (1978). Oregon SO/James DePreist. Albany TROY604 9

Anon. Two poems of Hadewijch: Ah, whatever the season; When the new year has started. Suze van Grootel, sop. Globe GLO 6016 11

Piazzolla, A. Four porteño seasons (1969). Macquarie Trio. ABC 980 678-0 23

Chin, G. Formosa seasons. Cho-Liang Lin, vn; Kansas City SO/Michael Stern. Naxos 8.570221 21

Zagwijn, H. Of the seasons (1901). Alice Giles, hp; Arnan Wiesel, pf. Schwann 3-1765-2 14

Charpentier, M-A. The four seasons. Noémi Rime, sop; Parliament of Music/Martin Gester. Opus 111 10-114 28

Spohr, L. Symphony no 9 in B minor, op 143, The seasons (1850). Slovak State PO/Alfred Walter. Marco Polo 8.223454 27

Dreyfus, G. The seasons. Margaret Crawford, fl; Madeleine Dietrich, va; Glen Davies, perc. LP ABC PRX 5599 11

Corrette, M. Laudate Dominum (after Vivaldi) (1734). Colette Alliot-Lugaz, sop; Danielle Borst, sop; Régis Oudot, ten; Philippe Huttenlocher, bass; Lyon Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble/Guy Cornut. Erato 0630-11228-2 21

Sunday 9 June

Grace Clifford Bridget Douglas


17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Heather Sykes

Stanford, C. Villiers Te Deum laudamus in B flat; Magnificat in B flat. Choir of Winchester Cathedral; Waynflete Singers; Bournemouth SO/David Hill. Argo 430 836 2 9

Bortnyansky, D. Sacred concerto no 10 (1790-95). Russian State Symphonic Capella/Valery Polyansky. Chandos CHAN 9783 13

Mendelssohn, F. Let me, O Lord, find help (1840). Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne/Michel Corboz. FNAC Music 59 22 95 9

Parry, H. Hear my words, ye people (1894). Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge; Timothy Ravalde, org; Andrew Nethsingha, cond. Chandos CHSA 5085 14

Hymns: At the end of the day; Pie Jesu. Aled Jones, treb. Virgin 7878232 5

18:00 SYDNEY SCHUBERT SOCIETY Prepared by Jan Brown

Schubert, F. The trout, D550 (c1817). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Malcolm Martineau, pf. DG 449 190-2 2

The trout, D550 (transcr. Liszt). Marina Kolomiiseva, pf. ABC 476 160-3 3

Piano quintet in A, D667, The trout (1819). Samuel Rhodes, va; Georg Hörtnagel, db; Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 475 439-2 39

Die Forelle, D550 (c1817-20; orch. Britten). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 471 586-2 2

19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Verdi, G. Overture to Alzira (1845). BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9510 7

Ponchielli, A. Suicidio! from La Gioconda (1876). Renata Tebaldi, sop; St Cecilia Academy O/Lamberto Gardelli. Decca 470 280-2 4

Montemezzi, I. Nessuno, mi signore! Sono stanco, from L’amore dei tre re (1913). Adrian Martin, ten; Samuel Ramey, bass; Philharmonia O/Donato Renzetti. Philips 420 184-2 5

Rossini, G. Misero me! La sposa, from Elizabeth, Queen of England (1815). Montserrat Caballé, sop; Valerie Masterson, sop; José Carreras ten; London SO/Gianfranco Masini. Philips 434 986-2 7

19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Troy Fil

Arriaga, J. Overture to Nonetto, op 1 (c1817). La Capella Reial de Catalunya; Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Astrée E 8532 8

Beethoven, L. Violin concerto in D, op 61 (1806). Richard Tognetti, vn; Australian CO/Anthony Halstead. ABC 465 425-2 42

Bracanin, P. Symphony no 3 (1995/97). Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert. ABC 465 433-2 34

21:00 NEW HORIZONS Into New Zealand Prepared by Troy Fil

Hamilton, D. Karanga (2005). New Zealand Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell. Atoll ACD407 9

Campbell, S. Quaquaversal (1994). Michael Kieran Harvey, pf. Astra CD1 7

Cree-Brown, C. Icescape (2000). New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young. Move MD 3327 9

Harris, R. Echo. Grant Cooper, tpt; Ross Harris, elec. Atoll ACD299 9

Steidl, S. Distant thunder. New Zealand SO/James Sedares. Albany TROY436 17

Blake, C. Little dancings (1991). Bridget Douglas, fl; Rachel Thomson, pf. Trust Records MMT 2963-64 19

Steidl, S. October paint. New Zealand SO/James Sedares. Albany TROY 436 12

22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Sunday 9 June

Beaux Arts Trio. Photo - Marco Borggreve James Sedares

Richard Tognetti


Monday 10 June


6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by opera Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Mussorgsky, M. Dance of the Persian girls, from Khovanshchina (1872). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya SUCD 10-00178 7

Sorabji, K. Pastiche on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Hindu merchant’s song from Sadko. Marc-André Hamelin, pf. Hyperion CDA67050 4

Glinka, M. Dances, from Ivan Susanin (1832). USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya SUCD 10-00166 16

Tchaikovsky, P. Paraphrase on themes from Eugene Onegin (1879; arr. Pabst). Shura Cherkassky, pf. Decca 433-654 2 13

Ballet: Onegin, Act III (1879; arr. Stolze). Sydney SO/John Lanchbery. LP HMV OASD 7600 12

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Keith Glendinning

Finzi, G. Eclogue, op 10 (c1928/48). Peter Donohoe, pf; Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths. Naxos 8.555766 11

Grieg, E. Cello concerto, op 36 (1883; after Cello sonata). Raphael Wallfisch, vc; London PO/Vernon Handley. ASV DCA 1176 30

Lyatoshynsky, B. Symphony no 1 in A, op 2 (1919). Ukrainian State SO/Theodore Kuchar. Marco Polo 8.223542 37

11:30 LULLABIES Prepared by Francis Frank

Brahms, J. Holy lullaby, op 91 no 2 (pub. 1884). Kathleen Ferrier, cont; Max Gilbert, va; Phyllis Spurr, pf. Decca 421 299-2 5

Grainger, P. Lullaby, from Tribute to Foster. Piers Lane, pf. Hyperion CDA67279 6

Grieg, E. Solveig’s lullaby, from Peer Gynt (1875). Barbara Hendricks, sop; Oslo PO/Esa-Pekka Salonen. CBS Masterworks MK 44528D 6

Byrd, W. Lullaby my sweet little baby (pub. 1588). Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips. Gimell 454 910-2 6

12:00 SWING SESSIONS with John Buchanan

13:00 IN TUNE WITH NICHOLAS MILTON Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Saint-Saëns, C. Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix, from Samson and Delilah (1877). Sally-Anne Russell, mezz; Adelaide SO/Nicholas Milton. ABC 476 5963 6

Schubert, F. Piano trio movement in B flat, D28 (1812). Macquarie Trio. ABC 465 792-2 10

Piazzolla, A. Libertango (1973). Macquarie Trio. ABC 980 678-0 4

Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 27 in B flat, K595 (1791). Konstantin Shamray, pf; Sydney SO/Nicholas Milton. ABC 476 6960 32

14:00 LONDON: HOPE AND GLORY Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Ireland, J. A London overture (1936). West Australian SO/David Measham. ABC 434 713-2 13

Elgar, E. Overture: Cockaigne, op 40, In London town (1901). Sydney SO/Bernard Heinze. ABC 446 282-2 15

Coates, E. London suite (1932). BBC PO/Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN 9869 15

Mozart, W. Divertimento in F, from London sketchbook (1766). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 464 940-2 9

Vaughan Williams, R. Symphony no 2, London (1913/20-23). Philharmonia O/Owain Arwel Hughes. ASV QS 6162 52

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



22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Liszt, F. Venice and Naples, from supplement to Années de pèlerinage, vol 2 (1859). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA67107 19

Rachmaninov, S. Sonata no 2 in B flat minor, op 36 (1913). Howard Shelley, pf. Hyperion CDS 44043 26

Schumann, R. Piano trio no 3 in G minor, op 110 (1851). Borodin Trio. Chandos CHAN 8832/3 31

Prokofiev, S. Sonata no 7 in B flat, op 83 (1942). Peter Donohoe, pf. EMI 7 54281 2 18

Skryabin, A. Sonata no 2 in G sharp minor, op 19 (1892-97). Gordon Fergus-Thompson, pf. ASV DCA 882 14

Theodore Kuchar Owain Arwell Hughes





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Pianist of choice: Angela Hewitt Prepared by Barrie Brockwell

Bach, J.S. Overture, from Partita in D, BWV828 (1731). Hyperion CDA67191/2 7

Haydn, J. Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 (1793). Hyperion CDA67736 17

Bach, J.S. Prelude and fugue no 9 in E, BWV854 (1722). Hyperion CDA67301 3

Beethoven, L. Variations in E flat on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen, from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, WoO46 (1815). Daniel Müller-Schott, vc. Hyperion CDA67755 10

Bach, J.S. Excerpts from French suite no 6 in E, BWV817 (c1722). Hyperion CDA67222 8

Chabrier, E. Bourée fantasque (1891). Hyperion CDA67515 7

Angela Hewitt, pf (all above)

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Barrie Brockwell

Beethoven, L. Overture to Fidelio, op 72 (1814). Leipzig Gewandhaus O/Franz Konwitschny. Berlin Classics 0300249BC 6

Weber, C.M. Concert piece in F minor, op 79 (c1821). Nikolai Demidenko, pf; Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras. Hyperion CDA66729 16

Mozart, W. Misero! O sogno … Aura, che intorno spiri, K431 (1783). Gösta Winbergh, ten; Vienna CO/György Fischer. Decca 432 300-2 10

Brahms, J. Serenade no 1 in D, op 11 (1858). Ulster O/Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN 8612 47

11:30 ANDANTE PLUS Prepared by Chris Blower

Doppler, F. Andante and rondo, op 25. Jean-Pierre Rampal, fl; Claudi Arimany, fl; John Steele Ritter, pf. Delos DE 3212 8

Elgar, E. Evesham andante (1879). Athena Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 241-33 5

Czerny, C. Andante and polacca (1848). Jean-Jacques Justafré, hn; François-René Duchable, pf. Pierre Verany PV793091 12

12:00 JAZZ RHYTHM with Jeannie McInnes

13:00 COME DANCE WITH ME Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Moszkowski, M. Spanish dances, bk I, op 12 (1876). London SO/Ataulfo Argenta. Decca 443 580-2 14

Granados, E. Oriental; Fandango; Villanesca, from Spanish dances, op 5 (1892-1900). Pro Arte Guitar Trio. ASV WHL2061 13

Mussorgsky, M. Dance of the Persian slaves, from Kovanshchina (1886). Minnesota O/Eiji Oue. Reference RR-71CD 7

Chopin, F. Bolero in A, op 19 (1833). Nikolai Demidenko, pf. Hyperion CDA66597 8

Saint-Saëns, C. Havanaise in E, op 83 (1887). Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow, vn & dir. BIS CD-860 8

Strauss, R. Dance of the seven veils, from Salome, op 54 (1905). Staatskapelle Dresden/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 480 0478 10

Rachmaninov, S. Symphonic dance no 2, op 45 (1940). Nelson Freire, pf; Martha Argerich, pf. DG 477 8570 8

Turina, J. Danzas fantásticas, op 22 (1920). Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos. Telarc 80574 15

Piazzolla, A. Milonga del angel. Juan José Mosalini, ban; Osvaldo Calo, pf; I Fiamminghi/Rudolph Werthen. Telarc 80526 6

Lehár, F. Finale, pas de deux; Can-Can, from The merry widow, ballet. Adelaide Singers; Adelaide SO/John Lanchbery. EMI 754163 2 13

15:00 OPERA IN CONCERT Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Boïeldieu, A. Overture to Le calife de Bagdad (1800). New Philharmonia O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 440 844-2 8

Verdi, G. Mercè, diletti amici ... O tu che l’alma adora, from Ernani (1844). Roberto Alagna, ten; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. EMI 5 56567 2 7

Rossini, G. Selva opaca, from William Tell (1829). Leona Mitchell, sop; National PO/Kurt Herbert Adler. Decca 466 903-2 9

Dvorák, A. Polonaise, from Rusalka, op 114 (1901). CSSR State PO/Robert Stankovsky. Marco Polo 8.223272 5

Handel, G. Sibilar gli angui d’Aletto, from Rinaldo (1711). Samuel Ramey, bass; Philharmonia O/Donato Renzetti. Philips 420 184-2 4

Verdi, G. Madamigella Valery? from La traviata (1853). Pilar Lorengar, sop; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Berlin German Opera O/Lorin Maazel. Decca 440 844-2 19

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

18:00 SYDNEY SYMPHONY 2013 Produced by Peter Kurti

What’s on in concerts during the next month

19:00 THE JAZZ BEAT with Lloyd Capps

20:00 RECENT RELEASES with David Ogilvie

22:00 BEYOND ROMANTICISM Prepared by Frank Morrison

Mahler, G. Symphony no 1 in D, Titan (1888/96). Concertgebouw O/Leonard Bernstein. DG 427 303-2 56

Prokofiev, S. Quartet no 1 in B minor, op 50 (1930). Coull String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66573 25

Ginastera, A. Pampeana no 2 (1950). Trish O’Brien, vc; Renate Turrini, pf. MBS CD41 9

Strauss, R. Four last songs (1948). Cheryl Studer, sop; Staatskapelle Dresden/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 439 865-2 21

Tuesday 11 June





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Rameau, J-P. La poule, from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (1728). Nicholas Parle, hpd. Tall Poppies TP057 6

Les fêtes de Polymnie, ballet héroïque (1745). Symphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne. Astrée E8650 10

Sacchini, A. Que l’éclat de la victoire se répandre sur vos jours, from Renaud (1783). Sandrine Piau, sop; Les Paladins/Jerome Correas. naïve OP 30532 5

Rameau, J-P. La Forqueray, from Cinquième concert. Ryo Terakado, vn; Kaori Uemura, bass viol; Christophe Rousset, hpd. Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908601.30 4

Rebel, J-F. Ballet: Les élémens (1737). Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 421 656-2 25

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker

Wagner, R. Overture to The flying Dutchman (1841). Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572767 12

Pixis, J. Piano concerto in C, op 100 (1829). Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Hyperion CDA67915 26

d’Indy, V. Symphony no 2 in B flat, op 57 (1903). Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson. EMI 7 63952 2 45

11:30 MINI MAHLER Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Mahler, G. Five Rückertlieder (1902). Jard van Nes, mezz; Gelderland O/Yoav Talmi. Ottavo OTR C98402 20

Urlicht, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1892). Maureen Forrester, cont; Vienna FO/Felix Prohaska. Vanguard 08 4045 71 5

12:00 THE SOUND OF JAZZ with Kevin Jones

13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI with Andrew Bukenya; recorded by Greg Ghavalis Trumpeter Sophie Spencer plays works by Bozza, Neruda, Gershwin, Hubeau, Goedicke, Haydn and Hindson. Supported by St Catherine’s School and Overs Pianos


15:00 A LINGERING ROMANTIC Prepared by Angela Bell

Bowen, Y. Sonata no 1 in C minor, op 18 (1905). Lawrence Power, va; Simon Crawford-Phillips, pf. Hyperion CDA67651-52 26

Serious dance, op 51 no 2 (1928). Stephen Hough, pf. Hyperion CDA 67267 3

Romance in D flat (1900; arr. 1904). Lawrence Power, va; Simon Crawford-Phillips, pf. Hyperion CDA67651-52 6

Sonata, op 120 (1946). Amanda Hollins, fl; Richard Mapp, pf. atoll ACD 902 17

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

19:00 JAZZ STARS AND STRIPES with Peter Mitchell

20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances: 6 February 1965 Prepared by Michael Tesoriero

Verdi, G. La forza del destino. Opera in four acts. Libretto by Francesco Piave. First performed St Petersburg, 1865.

ALVARO: Franco Corelli, ten CARLO DI VARGAS: Ettore Bastianini, bar LEONORA: Gabriella Tucci, sop Metroplitan Opera Ch & O/Nello Santi. Great Opera Performances GOP 283 2:38

Leonora, daughter of a nobleman, is in love with the commoner Alvaro but her father refuses to consent to their marriage. Alvaro accidentally kills the father who curses Leonora with his dying breath. The lovers flee but become separated. Leonora enters a monastery to spend the rest of her days in penance in a cave. Alvaro joins the army and becomes friends with Leonora’s brother Carlo. When Alvaro is injured he leaves his case to Carlo who finds Leonora’s picture. He challenges Alvaro to a duel; when Alvaro injures Carlo, he enters a monastery near Leonora’s cave. When Carlo pursues, Alvaro fatally wounds him and seeks help in the cave. Leonora rushes to her brother who stabs her. Alvaro, the sole survivor, jumps over a cliff.

23:00 DANISH ODYSSEY Prepared by Francis Frank

Gade, N. Overture: Hamlet, op 37 (1861). Danish National RSO/Dmitri Kitaienko. Chandos CHAN 9422 10

Scheibe, J. Sinfonia in B flat à 4. Concerto Copenhagen/Andrew Manze. Chandos CHAN 0550 8

Glass, L. Sonata in F, op 5 (1889). Henrik Brendstrup, vc; Christina Bjorkoe, pf. cpo 999 548-2 18

Buxtehude, D. Wennich, Herr Jesu, habe dich, BuxWV107. Henri Ledroit, ct; Ricercar Consort. Ricercar RIC 034008 5

Lumbye, H. Hesperus waltz (1853). Odense SO/Peter Guth. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9089 9

Wednesday 12 June

Franco Corelli





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Troy Fil

Lovelock, W. Overture for a cheerful occasion (1979). Queensland Youth O/John Curro. Grevillea GRV100 6

Sonatina. Philippa Robinson, cl; Josephine Allan, pf. Innaminka 720 8

Suite for brass instruments (1962). American Brass Quintet. Crystal Records CrystalCD214 11

I saw a light. Bruce Addison, ten; Quodlibet Singers; Queensland PO/Ralph Morton. Tall Poppies TP046 2

Concerto for saxophone and string orchestra (1974). Peter Clinch, sax; Astra CO/George Logie-Smith. Diversions 24120 19

Hyde Park shuffle. Adelaide SO/Guy Noble. ABC 476 272-2 4

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Chabrier, E. Suite pastorale (1888). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 452 890-2 20

Bériot, C-A. de Violin concerto no 3 in E minor, op 44 (1842). Philippe Quint, vn; Slovak RSO/Kirk Trevor. Naxos 8.570360 25

Mozart, W. Symphony no 38 in D, K504, Prague (1786). English Sinfonia/Charles Groves. IMP PCD 892 36

11:30 MOZART IN CONCERT AND CHURCH Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Mozart, W. Concert aria: Ch’io mi scordi di te? .... Non temer, amato bene, K505 (1790). Joan Carden, sop; John Winther, pf; O of Sydney/John Harding. ABC 446 276-2 11

Regina coeli laetare in B flat, K127 (1772). Mária Zádori, sop; Ensemble Vocal Savaria; Bach Singers; Capella Savaria/Pál Németh. Harmonia Mundi QUI 903015 15

12:00 JAZZ, PURE AND SIMPLE with Maureen Meers

13:00 CHERUBINI’S SACRED MUSIC Prepared by Francis Frank

Cherubini, L. Funeral march (1820). Swiss-Italian RO/Diego Fisolis. Amadeo 8.554749 7

Antifon on a Cantus Firmus in the 8th mode for six voices (1778). RCA Italiana Chamber Choir/Nino Antonellini. Italia 70051 2

Mass for the coronation of Louis XIII (1816-19). London Philharmonic Ch & O/Riccardo Chailly. EMI 5.72786-2 44

14:00 COURT MUSICIAN Prepared by Anne Irish

Kuhlau, F. Overture to William Shakespeare (1826). Odense SO/Eduard Serov. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9132 10

Trio in G, op 119 (1831). Jean-Pierre Rampal, fl; Claudi Arimany, fl; John Steele Ritter, pf. Delos DE 3212 16

Sonatinas: in F, op 55 no 4; in D, op 55 no 5; in G, op 88 no 2. Jenõ Jando, pf. Naxos 8.570710 18

Piano concerto in C, op 7 (c1811). Amalie Malling, pf; Danish National RSO/Michael Schönwandt. Chandos CHAN 9669 33

Suite from Elverhøj, op 100 (1828). Odense SO/Othmar Maga. Unicorn-Kanchana DKP 9132 33

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

19:00 JAZZ VIBES with Matt Bailey

20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA The symphonies of Mendelssohn Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Mendelssohn, F. Piano concerto no 2 in D minor, op 40 (1837). Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf; Gewandhaus O/Herbert Blomstedt. Decca 468 600-2 21

Overture and war march of the priests, from Athalie, op 74 (1845). Vienna PO/Christoph von Dohnányi. Decca 460 239-2 14

First Walpurgis Night, op 60 (1832/42). Brigitte Balleys, cont; Frieder Lang, ten; Gilles Cachemaille, bass; Gulbenkian O & Ch/Michel Corboz. Erato 2292-45462-2 36

Symphony no 3 in A minor, op 56 (1842). Gewandhaus O/Kurt Masur. apex 0927 49817 2 38

22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Angela Bell

Ernst, H. Elegy, op 10 (1840). Ilya Gringolts, vn; Ashley Wass, pf. Hyperion CDA67619 8

Mozart, W. String quintet no 3 in C, K515 (1787). Louise Williams, va; The Lindsays. ASV DCA 992 35

Lekeu, G. Mon âme est triste jusqu’à la mort (1887). Ensemble Musique Oblique. Harmonia Mundi 1901 455 14

Quantz, J. Trio sonata in D. Mary Oleskiewicz, fl; Jean-François Beaudin, fl; Stephanie Vial, vc; David Schulenberg, hpd. Naxos 8.555064 13

Beethoven, L. Quartet in B flat, op 130 (1826). New Budapest String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66407 41

Thursday 13 June

Ernest Ansermet Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Photo Decca-Kasskara


Friday 14 June




9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Bärmann, H. Quintet no 3 in E flat, op 23. Dieter Klöcker, cl; Berlin Philharmonia Quartet. Orfeo C 213 901 A 20

Barber, S. Adagio for strings, op 11 (1936). Kronos Quartet. Nonesuch 979 181-2 7

Hüe, G. Fantasy. Paul Fried, fl; Robert Thies, pf. Golden Tone GTCD 005 8

Poulenc, F. Sextet (1932-39). Philippe Bernold, fl; Olivier Doise, ob; Ronald Van Spaendonck, cl; Laurent Lefèvre, bn; Hervé Joulain, hn; Alexandre Tharaud, pf. Naxos 8.553611 17

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown

Sibelius, J. The Tempest: Suite no 1, op 109 no 2 (1925). Iceland SO/Petri Sakari. Naxos 8.554266 23

Schumann, C. Piano concerto in A minor, op 7 (1835-36). Francesco Nicolosi, pf; Alma Mahler Sinfonietta/Stefania Rinaldi. Naxos 8.557552 24

Saint-Saëns, C. Symphony no 3 in C minor, op 78, Organ (1886). Marcel Dupré, org; Detroit SO/Paul Paray. Mercury 475 6268 34

11:30 ART SONG Prepared by Jan Brown

Loewe, C. Erlkönig (1815). Bruce Martin, bass-bar; Ron Charles, pf. ABC 476 3439 4

Schumann, C. Am Strande; Oh weh, des Scheidens. Susan Gritton, sop; Eugene Asti, pf. Hyperion CDA67249 5

Viardot, P. Havanaise. Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, pf. Decca 455 981-2 5

Schubert, F. Erlkönig, D328 (1815). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; Malcolm Martineau, pf. DG 449 190-2 4

Debussy, C. De fleurs, from Proses lyriques (1893). Janet Howd, sop; Christopher Ross, pf. Duo DUOCD 89005 6

12:00 NOONTIME JAZZ with Peter Mitchell

13:00 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Fasch, J. Overture in G minor. Members of English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 449 210-2 23

Beethoven, L. Sextet in E flat, op 71 (1796). Mozzafiato/Charles Neidich, cl & dir. Sony SK 53367 18

Mozart, W. Misero me! ... Misero pargoletto, K77 (1766). Edith Mathis, sop; Salzburg Mozarteum O/Leopold Hager. Philips 464 880-2 14

Mozart, W. Piano concerto no 19 in F, K459 (1784). Martha Argerich, pf; Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto/Alexandre Rabinovitch. Apex 2364 67429-6 27

14:30 THE ART OF ARTHUR GRUMIAUX Prepared by Stephen Wilson

Franck, C. Sonata in A (1886). György Sebok, pf. Philips 468 307-2 27

Mozart, W. Violin concerto no 2 in D, K211 (1775). London SO/Colin Davis. Philips 438 323-2 19

Tartini, G. Sonata in G minor, Devil’s Trill (arr. Kreisler). Riccardo Castagnone, pf. Philips 468 307-2 14

Arthur Grumiaux, vn (3 above)

Schubert, F. String trio in B flat, D581 (1817). Grumiaux Trio. Philips 438 700-2 20


19:00 FRIDAY JAZZ SESSION with Sally Cameron

20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Chris Blower

Sullivan, A. Incidental music to Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (1877). Emmanuel Lawler, ten; RTE Concert Orchestra/Andrew Penny. Marco Polo 8.223461 19

Liszt, F. Wedding march; Elves’ dance, from Mendelssohn’s A midsummer night’s dream (1849-50). David Stanhope, pf. Tall Poppies TP184 9

Rossini, G. Assisa a piè d’un salice, from Otello (1816). Cecilia Bartoli, mezz; Vienna Volksoper O/Giuseppe Patanè. Decca 425 430-2 9

Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Romeo and Juliet (1869/80). Philharmonia O/Riccardo Muti. EMI CZS 7 67318 2 19

Saint-Saëns, C. Fantasy after Weber’s Oberon (1850). Philippe Graffin, vn; Pascal Devoyon, pf. Hyperion CDA67285 16

Thomas, A. Mais quelle est cette belle ... A vos jeux, mes amis, from Hamlet (1869). Beverly Sills, sop; Ambrosian Opera Ch; Royal PO/Charles Mackerras. Decca 467 906-2 15

MacKenzie, A. Concert overture: Twelfth night, op 40 (1888). BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA66764 19

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE The Graun brothers Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Graun, C. Horn concerto in D. Barry Tuckwell, hn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown. Decca 417 406-2 9

Sinfonia and excerpts from Montezuma, Act 1 (1755). Joan Sutherland, sop; Rae Woodland, sop; Elizabeth Harwood, sop; Lauris Elms, mezz; Monica Sinclair, cont; Joseph Ward, bar; Ambrosian Singers; London PO/Richard Bonynge. LP Decca SET 351 31

Graun, J. Trio in G for two bass viols and bass. Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. Auvidis E 8617 11

Graun, C. Excerpts from Montezuma, Act II (1755). Joan Sutherland, sop; Rae Woodland, sop; Elizabeth Harwood, sop; Lauris Elms, mezz; Monica Sinclair, cont; Joseph Ward, bar; Ambrosian Singers; London PO/Richard Bonynge. LP Decca SET 351 14

Trio for horn, oboe and bassoon. Ricercar Consort. Ricercar RIC 049027 7

Excerpts from Montezuma, Act III (1755). Joan Sutherland, sop; Rae Woodland, sop; Elizabeth Harwood, sop; Lauris Elms, mezz; Monica Sinclair, cont; Joseph Ward, bar; Ambrosian Singers; London PO/Richard Bonynge. LP Decca SET 351 15

Graun, J. Double concerto in C minor. Rainer Kussmaul, vn; Wilfred Engel, va; Capella Clementina/Helmut Müller-Brühl. LP Philips 9502 067 21





9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON AUSTRALIAN PERFORMERS Ian Munro Prepared by Oscar Foong

Litolff, H. Scherzo, from Symphonic concerto no 4 in D minor, op 102 (1852). Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn. ABC 465 424-2 7

Parker, K. Brushing up the leaves; Four musical sketches: One summer day; A patchwork of shadows: Red admiral; Down Longford way (1928). Tall Poppies TP174 13

Brahms, J. Trio in E flat, op 40 (1865). Hector McDonald, hn; John Harding, vn. Tall Poppies TP114 30

Mendelssohn, F. Double concerto no 1 in E (1823). Stephen Coombs, pf; BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk. Hyperion CDA66567 30

Kats-Chernin, E. Four rags for IM (1996); Zee rag; Alexander rag (1998). Tall Poppies TP186 17

Saint-Saëns, C. Rhapsody from the Auvergne in C, op 73 (1884). Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn. ABC 465 424-2 10

Ian Munro, pf (all above)

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

Gomez, A. Overture to Il guarany (1870). Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP 90151 7

Foster, S. Jeanie with the light brown hair. Hugh Morton, euphonium; Kilmarnock Concert Brass/Andrew Keachie. LP Chandos BBRD 1022 5

Ball, E. March: Star Lake. Salvation Army Band. Doyen DOY 221 3

Strauss, J. II Wine, women and song. GUS (Footwear) Band/Stanley Boddington. LP Columbia TWO 364 6

Holloway, J. Wood up quickstep. Allentown Band/Ronald Demkee. AMP Volume 4 3


13:00 CLASSIC VOICES

Donizetti, G. O mio favorita Fernando, from La favorite (1843). Lauris Elms, mezz; West Australian SO/Geoffrey Arnold. ABC 465 650-2 7

Beethoven, L. Three Scottish songs, op 108 (1818). Edith Mathis, sop; Alexander Young, ten; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, bar; Andreas Röhn, vn; Georg Donderer, vc; Karl Engel, pf. DG 480 0385 9

Bach, J.S. Excerpts from Cantata, BWV126 (1725). Sytse Buwalda, alto; Knut Schock, ten; Bas Ramselear, bass; Netherlands Bach Collegium/Pieter Jan Leusink. Brilliant Classics 99380/3 13

Chopin, F. Songs: The sad river; Merrymaking (pub. 1857). Elisabeth Söderström, sop; Vladimir Ashkenazy, pf. Decca 476 7469 5

Massenet, J. Excerpts from Werther, Act 1 (1892). Tatiana Troyanos, mezz; Alfredo Kraus, ten; Jules Bastin, bass; London PO/Michel Plasson. EMI CDM 7 63936 2 17

14:00 MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS Influence of folk traditions: Russia Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. Overture on Russian themes, op 28 (1868/80). USSR Academic SO. Melodiya MCD 211 12

Balakirev, M. Symphonic poem: Russia (1864-69). Philharmonia O. Hyperion CDA66691-2 15

Yevgeny Svetlanov, cond (2 above)

Arensky, A. Fantasia on Russian folksongs, op 48 (1899). Konstantin Scherbakov, pf; Russian PO/Dmitry Yablonsky. Naxos 8.570526 9

Borodin, A. Polovtsian dances, from Prince Igor (1887). Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & O. Virgin VC 7 91174-2 14

Mussorgsky, M. Pictures from an exhibition (1874; orch. Ravel). New Philharmonia O. Vanguard OVC 4065 30

Charles Mackerras, cond (2 above)

15:30 SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA IN CONCERT Prepared by Peter Bell

Verdi, G. Requiem (1874). Beverley Bergen, sop; Raymond McDonald, ten; Donald Shanks, bass.

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

Lauris Elms, mezz; Sydney Philharmonia Choir & O/Peter Seymour (2 above) SPC recording

17:30 SHORTER SYMPHONIES Prepared by Rex Burgess

Sibelius, J. Symphony no 3 in C, op 52 (1907). Royal Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 6557 26

18:00 FOCUS ON FOLK Folk Federation of NSW with Carole Garland

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN Prepared by Sue Jowell And the winners ARE...Oscar partnerships. A look at the writers of the words and music who collaborated to win the Oscar.

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Friends and admirers Recorded by Tim Sadler for FINE MUSIC

Gade, N. Trio movement in B flat (1839). Sophie Rowell, vn. 11

Chopin, F. Sonata in G minor, op 65 (1847). 27

Stravinsky, I. Suite italienne (1932 arr; Dushkin). 18

Mendelssohn, F. Trio in D minor, op 49 (1839). 30

Schumann, C. Trio in G minor, op 17, mvt 3 (1846). 6

Sophie Rowell, vn (3 above)

Julian Smiles, vc; Kathryn Selby, pf (all above)

21:40 THE GADFLY TRANSFORMED

Shostakovich, D. Five pieces from The gadfly, op 97 (1955; arr. Borisovsky). Lawrence Power, va; Simon Crawford-Phillips, pf. Hyperion CDA67865 17


Saturday 15 June



6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Paul Roper

9:00 CELESTIAL NOTES Prepared by Heather Sykes

Schütz, H. St John’s passion (1666). Adam Riis, ten; Jakob Bloch Jespersen, bass-bar; Ars Nova Copenhagen/Paul Hillier. Dacapo 8.204035 38

Gorecki, H. Totus Tuus (1987). Holst Singers/Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA66928 11

Sheppard, J. Missa cantate. The Sixteen/Harry Christophers. Hyperion CDS44401/10 31

10:30 CHAMBER MASTERWORKS Prepared by Di Cox

Rossini, G. String sonata no 6 in D (1804). Elizabeth Wallfisch, vn; Marshall Marcus, vn; Richard Tunnicliffe, vc; Chi-chi Nwanoku, db. Hyperion CDA66595 16

Berwald, F. Grand septet (1842). Gervase de Peyer, cl; Melos Ensemble. EMI 5 65995 2 23

Brahms, J. Quintet in F minor, op 34 (1861-64). Piers Lane, pf; New Budapest String Quartet. Hyperion CDA66652 43

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 Anna Tranter

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 2000-2010 By courtesy of Radio Netherlands worldwide Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Haydn, J. Symphony in C, Hob.I:97 (1792). Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cond. 26

Debussy, C. La mer (1903-05). Bernard Haitink, cond. 25

Verbey, T. Lied (2007). Jörgen van Rijen, tb; Marcus Stenz, cond. 19

Messiaen, O. Les offrandes oubliées (1930). George Benjamin, cond. 12

van Keulen, G. Five tragic songs (2007). Detlef Roth, bar; Lothar Zagrosek, cond. 17

Janácek, L. Taras Bulba, rhapsody (1915-18). Mark Elder, cond. 23

Prokofiev, S. Autumn, op 8 (1910/34). David Robertson, cond. 9

Sibelius, J. Symphony no 5 in E flat, op 82 (1915-19). Paavo Berglund, cond. 33

Royal Concertgebouw O (all above) Radio Netherlands RCO 12004

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Keith Glendinning

Hymns: Praise my soul; Through all the changing scenes; Praise to the holiest; Dear Lord and Father of mankind. Choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh; Peter Backhouse, org; Dennis Townhill, cond. Priory PRCD 376 13

Noble, T. Evening service in A. Choir of Ely Cathedral/Paul Trepte. Guild GMCD 7

Stainer, J. I saw the Lord (1858). Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom. CRD 3513 8

Wesley, S.S. Cast me not away from Thy presence (1848). Choir of Clare College, Cambridge; James McVinnie, org; Christopher Robinson, cond. Naxos 8.570316 4

Vaughan Williams, R. Lord, thou hast been my refuge (1921). Elora Festival Singers; Thomas Fitches, org; Noel Edison, cond. Naxos 8.554826 9

Bach, J.S. Rest in peace thy sacred limbs; O Lord send thy dear angels, from St John Passion, BWV245 (c1730). Choir of New College, Oxford; Collegium Novum/Edward Higginbottom. Naxos 8.557296-97 9

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

Verdi, G. Return victorious, from Aida (1871). Leontyne Price, sop; Rome Opera Theatre Ch & O/George Solti. ABC 480 5996 8

Gounod, C. Il se fait tard … O nuit d’amour, from Faust (1859). Angela Gheorghiu, sop; Roberto Alagna, ten; Royal Opera House O/Richard Armstrong. EMI 5 56117 2 9

Rossini, G. Se per te lieta ritorno, from L’equivoco stravagante (1811). Ann Hallenberg, mezz; Stavanger SO Chamber Choir; Stavanger SO/Fabio Biondi. naïve V 5309 7

19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Angela Bell

Wirén, D. Serenade in G (1937). Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt. Naxos 8.553106 15

Dvorák, A. Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; London PO/Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI 5 65701 2 43

Grieg, E. Old Norwegian melody with variations, op 51 (1890/1900-03). Bergen PO/Ole Kristian Ruud. BIS CD-1740/42 24

21:00 NEW HORIZONS Modern Britain: Ice mountain Prepared by Oscar Foong

Corp, R. Winter, from The ice mountain (2010). New London Children’s Choir; members of the New London O/Ronald Corp. Naxos 8.572777 18

Byrne, M. In a winter landscape (2009). Peter Sheridan, fl; elec. Move MD 3349 5

Corp, R. Spring, from The ice mountain. New London Children’s Choir; members of the New London O/Ronald Corp. Naxos 8.572777 10

Gordon, J. Winter afternoon (1980). 3

Vaughan, T. Summer song (1989). 4

Joan Chia, carillon (2 above)

Corp, R. Summer, from The ice mountain. New London Children’s Choir; members of the New London O/Ronald Corp. Naxos 8.572777 12

Schultz, A. Winter ground (2000). Claire Edwardes, vibraphone. Tall Poppies TP193 12

Corp, R. Autumn, from The ice mountain. New London Children’s Choir; members of the New London O/Ronald Corp. Naxos 8.572777 15

22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Sunday 16 June



6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with James Hunter

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by opera Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Verdi, G. Overture to Stiffelio (1850). BBC PO/Edward Downes. Chandos CHAN 9594 10

Liszt, F. From Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin (1854). Leslie Howard, pf. Hyperion CDA66861/2 20

Gluck, C. Ah, quelle cruauté, from Armide (1777). Renata Scotto, sop; Budapest SO/Charles Rosekrans. Hungaroton HCD 31116 8

Puccini, G. Final scene from Act Il of Tosca. Mirella Freni, sop; Anthony Lacuria, ten; Samuel Romey, bass; Philharmonia O/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 431 775-2 15

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish

Grieg, E. Overture: In autumn, op 11 (1866/87). Gothenburg SO/Okko Kamu. BIS CD-200 11

Alfvén, H. Suite from The mountain king (1917-22). Royal Scottish NO/Niklas Willén. Naxos 8.553962 16

Kuhlau, F. Piano concerto in C, op 7 (c1811). Amalie Malling, pf; Danish National RSO/Michael Schønwandt. Chandos CHAN 9669 33

Sibelius, J. Symphony no 7 in C, op 105 (1926). Royal Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 6557 21

11:30 ROMANTIC DELIGHTS Prepared by Marilyn Shock

Bizet, G. In the depths of the temple, from The pearl fishers (1863; arr. Loeb). Livia Sohn, vn; Geoff Nuttall, va; Benjamin Loeb, pf. Naxos 8.570202 5

Gade, N. Watercolour sketches, vol. 1, op 19 (1849). Anker Blyme, pf. Marco Polo DCCD 9115 8

Wieniawski, H. Capriccio valse, op 7 (1852). Ruggiero Ricci, vn; Joanna Gruenberg, pf. Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2048 5

Rachmaninov, S. Oriental dance, op 2 no 2 (1892). Alexander Ivashkin, vc; Ingrid Wahlberg, pf. Manu MANU 1426 6


13:00 A LATE ROMANTIC FRENCHMAN Prepared by Rex Burgess

Magnard, A. Ouverture, op 10 (1895). Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson. EMI 5 72364 2 12

Promenades, op 7 (1893). Stephanie McCallum, pf. Tall Poppies TP081 29

Symphony no 3 in B flat minor, op 11 (1896). Toulouse Capitole O/Michel Plasson. EMI 5 72364 2 40

14:30 IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR: 1940 Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Alwyn, W. Overture to a masque (1940). London SO/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9093 9

Copland, A. Our town, from film music for Our town (1940). London SO/Aaron Copland. CBS MK 42429 11

Grainger, P. A Lincolnshire posy (1940). London Wind O/Denis Wick. ASV WHL 2067 16

Strauss, R. Capriccio: Introduction for string sextet in F (1940). Peter Holman, va; Vladimir Fortin, vc; Prazák Quartet. Praga Digitals PRD/DSD 250 275 11

Rachmaninov, S. Symphonic dances, op 45 (1940). Berlin PO/Lorin Maazel. DG 410 894-2 34

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



22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Phil Vendy

Milhaud, D. Saudades do Brasil, suite of dances, op 67 (1920-21). Alexandre Tharaud, pf. Naxos 8.553443 20

Clementi, M. Sonata in E flat, op 8 no 3 (1782). Howard Shelley, pf. Hyperion CDA67632 9

Jacquet de la Guerre, E-C. Suite no 1 in D minor, from Pieces for harpsichord (1687). Elizabeth Farr, hpd. Naxos 8.557654 24

Dukas, P. Variations, interlude and finale on a theme of Rameau (1902). Chantal Stigliani, pf. Naxos 8.557053 19

Kabalevsky, D. Sonata no 1 in F, op 6 (1927). Murray McLachlan, pf. Olympia OCD 267 18

Cramer, J. Quintet in B flat, op 79 (1832). Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet. Brilliant Classics 94377 20




9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Pianist of choice: Jenö Jandó Prepared by Di Cox

Mozart, W. Twelve variations on Ah vous dirai-je, maman, K265 (1781-82). Naxos 8.550258 12

Schubert, F. Sonata in A minor, D537 (1817). Naxos 8.553235 19

Beethoven, L. Sonata no 5 in F, op 24, Spring (1801). Takako Nishizaki, vn. Naxos 8.550283 23

Jenö Jandó, pf (all above)

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Suk, J. Scherzo fantastique, op 25 (1903). Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa. Supraphon SU 3882-2 15

Bruch, M. Serenade in A minor, op 75 (1900). Maxim Fedotov, vn; Russian PO/Dmitry Yablonsky. Naxos 8.557395 40

Mendelssohn, F. String symphony no 9 in C minor, Swiss (1823). German Chamber Academy of Neuss/Johannes Goritzki. Claves 50-9002 27

11:30 ENCORE IN CHAMBER Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Bruch, M. Piece in C sharp minor, op 83 no 3 (pub. 1910). Janet Hilton, cl; Nobuko Imai, va; Roger Vignoles, pf. Chandos CHAN 8776 6

Suk, J. Meditation, op 35a (1914). Suk Quartet. CRD 3472 6

Mendelssohn, F. Sonata in F (1820). Jean-Jacques Kantorow, vn; Jacques Rouvier, pf. Denon CO 78964 13


13:00 TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM LOVELOCK Prepared by George Hilgevoord

Lovelock, W. Trumpet concerto (1968). Geoffrey Payne, tpt; Melbourne SO/John Hopkins. ABC 4763531 17

Monday 17 June Tuesday 18 June


Bach, J.S. Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV565 (bef. 1708; arr. Lovelock). ABC 476 4565 9

Lovelock, W. Sinfonia concertante. Robert Boughen, org. ABC 442 365-2 20

Sydney SO/Patrick Thomas (2 above)

Bach, J.S. In dulci jubilo, BWV608 (1713-15; arr. Lovelock). Queensland SO/Patrick Thomas. ABC 476 4565 1

14:00 SOFTLY SIX Prepared by Angela Bell

Arensky, A. Six pieces, op 53 (1901). Adam Neiman, pf. Naxos 8.572233 16

Rheinberger, J. Six pieces, from Suite no 1, op 150. Line Most, vn; Marie Ziener, org. Naxos 8.557383 38

15:00 A TRIBUTE TO ANTONIN DVORÁK Prepared by Yvonne Laki

Dvorák, A. Love songs, op 83 (1888). Jose Cura, ten; Jiri Pilka, pf. Cuibar 55178-2003 16

Dvorák, A. String quartet no 1 in A, op 2 (1862). Vlach Quartet Prague. Naxos 8.557357 37

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


20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Charles Barton

22:00 BEYOND ROMANTICISM Bax and Arnold: British symphonists Prepared by Troy Fil

Williams, G. The dancers (1951). Eiddwen Harrhy, sop; Carol Thomas, hp; Richard Hickox Singers; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9617 20

Bax, A. Symphony no 3 (1929). BBC PO/Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN 10122-26 42

Trimble, J. Phantasy trio (1940). Dublin Piano Trio. Marco Polo 8.225059 11

Arnold, M. Symphony no 4, op 71 (1960). London SO/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN 9290 41




9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Frank Morrison

Buxtehude, D. Prelude in F sharp minor, BuxW146 (c1680). Wolfgang Rübsam, org. Naxos 8.555991 9

Seixas, C. Sonata no 57 in A. Robert Woolley, hpd. Amon Ra CD-SAR 43 9

Fux, J. Sonata in G a 4. Claude Wassmer, bn; Bruce Dickey, cornett; Charles Toet, tb; Dana Maiben, vn; Frances Fitch, org. EMI CDM 7 63419 2 8

Weiss, S. Concerto for guitar (c1730). Slava Grigoryan, gui; Melbourne Mandolin O/Fred Witt. Move MD3159 8

Roman, J. Oboe d’amore concerto in D (c1750). Alf Nilsson, ob d’amore; Anders Öhrwal, hpd; Stockholm Sinfonietta/Jan-Olav Wedin. BIS CD-165 16

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Di Cox

Beethoven, L. Leonore overture no 3, op 72a (1806). London SO/Antal Doráti. Mercury 462 958-2 14

Khachaturian, A. Flute concerto (1940; arr. Gallois). Patrick Gallois, fl; Philharmonia O/Ion Marin. DG 435767-2 37

Mussorgsky, M. Pictures from an exhibition (1874; orch. Ravel). New Philharmonia O/Charles Mackerras. Vanguard OVC 4065 30

11:30 ANDANTE Prepared by Chris Blower

Saint-Saëns, C. Andante. Christopher Larkin, hn; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, org. Hyperion CDA66275 8

Fauré, G. Andante in B flat, op 75 (1897). Dong-Suk Kang, vn; Pascal Devoyon, pf. Naxos 8.550906 4

Ysaÿe, E. Andante in B minor for two violins, two violas and cello (1893). Vlad Bogdanas, va; Kryptos Quartet. Klara KTC 4034 14


13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI Emerging young artists with Troy Fil; recorded by Greg Ghavalis Featuring pianists Callum Knox, Julia Tran, Vanessa Li and Edward Huang, violinist Mitzi Gardner, viola player Justin Julian, trumpeter Sophie Spencer and organist Tim Williams Supported by St Catherine’s School and Overs Pianos


15:00 NUMBERS Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Copland, A. Suite from The tender land (1956). Tasmanian SO/Dobbs Franks. ABC 434 715-2 19

Brahms, J. Eleven gypsy songs, op 103 (1888). Alain Planès, pf; RIAS Chamber Choir/Marcus Creed. Harmonia Mundi HMG 501592/93 17

Schubert, F. 12 German dances, D790 (1823). Mitsuko Uchida, pf. Philips 475 6282 15

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


20:00 AT THE OPERA Legendary Met performances: 24 April 2010 Prepared by MichaelTesoriero

Puccini, G. Tosca. Opera in three acts. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luiga Illica. First performed Rome, 1900.

TOSCA: Patricia Racette, sop CAVARODOSSI: Jonas Kaufmann, ten SCARPIA: Bryn Terfel, bass-bar ANGELOTTI: David Pittsinger, bass-bar Metroplitan Opera Ch & O/Fabio Luisi Toll Brothers - Met broadcast 2:01

Tosca is the jealous lover of Mario Cavaradossi, an artist. Angelotti, an escaped revolutionary, hides in a church where Mario is painting. A sympathiser, Mario helps him escape. Scarpia, chief of police, seeking Angelotti, arrests Mario. Desiring Tosca, Scarpia promises her lover’s liberty in return for her favours. Tosca agrees and Scarpia orders a fake execution. When Scarpia claims her, she stabs him. At dawn the pretended execution takes place. Tosca is devastated when she finds her lover is dead. She climbs the parapet of the prison and leaps over to her death.

22:30 HEROLD QUARTET Recorded by Kerry Joyner for FINE MUSIC

Mozart, W. String quartet in B flat, K458, The hunt (1785). 24

Dvorák, A. String quartet in F, op 96, American (1893). 23

Beethoven, L. String quartet in E minor, op 59 no 2, Rasumovsky (1806). 33

Herold Quartet (all above)

Tuesday 18 June Wednesday 19 June





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Composer focus Prepared by Keith Glendinning

Grainger, P. Colonial song (1914). Leslie Howard, pf. ABC 464 192-2 6

Spoon River (1919-29). Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery. Chandos CHAN 6542 5

Shallow Brown (1923-25). John Shirley-Quirk, bar; English CO/Benjamin Britten. London 425 159-2 6

Danish folk-music suite (1922-29). English Sinfonia/Neville Dilkes. EMI CDM 7 63520-2 18

A Lincolnshire posy (1940). London Wind O/Denis Wick. ASV WHL 2067 16

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Morton-Evans

Tchaikovsky, P. Fantasy overture: Hamlet, op 67a (1888). SO of Russia/Veronika Dudarova. Olympia OCD 512 21

Arnold, M. Clarinet concerto no 2, op 115 (1974). Thea King, cl; English CO/Barry Wordsworth. Hyperion CDA66634 15

Svendsen, J. Norwegian rhapsody no 2, op 19 (c1872). Bergen SO/Karsten Andersen. NKFCD 50009-2 10

Spohr, L. Symphony no 4 in F, op 86 (1832). Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley. Hyperion CDA67622 36

11:30 LITTLE KNOWN WEILL

Weill, K. In our childhood’s bright endeavour; Don’t be afraid, from Happy end (1928). Carole Farley, sop; Roger Vignoles, pf. ASV DCA 790 3

Sonata (1920). Jerry Grossman, vc; Diane Walsh, pf. Nonesuch D 79016 23


13:00 OCCASIONAL MUSIC Prepared by Brian Drummond

Britten, B. Fanfare for St Edmondsbury (1959). Bo Nilsson, tpt; Jan-Olov Hjelm, tpt; Rolf Tilly, tpt. BIS CD-31 4

Meyerbeer, G. Festival march for centenary of Schiller’s birth (1859). Hanover RPO/Michail Jurowski. cpo 999 168-2 9

Beethoven, L. Wellington’s victory, op 91 (1813). Czecho-Slovak RSO/Ondrej Lenard. Naxos 8.570154-55 15

Glazunov, A. Wedding march, op 21 (1889). Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin. Naxos 8.553839 6

Walton, W. Orb and sceptre (1953). Philharmonia O/David Willcocks. Chandos CHAN 8998 7

Brahms, J. Academic festival overture, op 80 (1880). Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. DG 477 5424 10

14:00 LOCAL VOCAL

Donizetti, G. Amid sounds of battle, from The daughter of the Regiment (1840). Glenda Raymond, sop; David Allen, bar; Westminster Singers; Australian SO/Hector Crawford. ABC 472 689-2 7

Vivaldi, A. Clarae stellae, scintillate, RV625. Andreas Scholl, ct; Australian Brandenburg O/Paul Dyer. ABC 466 964-2 12

Barber, S. Agnus Dei (1967; arr. Barber from Adagio for strings, op 11). Ormond College Choir; Len Vorster, pf; Douglas Lawrence, cond. Naxos 8.559053 6

14:30 MADE IN THE USA Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Gershwin, G. Catfish row, symphonic suite, from Porgy and Bess (1935). Cincinnati Pops O/Erich Kunzel. Telarc 80086 26

Glass, P. Company (1983). Kronos Quartet. Nonesuch 979 111-2 8

Gottschalk, L. Grand tarantelle, op 67 (1868; arr. Kay). Reid Nibley, pf; Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel. Vanguard OVC 4051 7

MacDowell, E. Symphonic poems, op 22 (1884): Hamlet; Ophelia. Ulster O/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.559075 13

Bernstein, L. Symphonic dances, from West Side story (1960). New York PO/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK 44773 21

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Stephen Wilson


20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Creative links: Latin influences Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Debussy, C. Iberia, from Images (1905-12). Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos. Telarc 80574 19

Copland, A. El salón México (1934-36). Detroit SO/Antal Doráti. Decca 414 273-2 10

Chávez, C. Sinfonia no 2, India (1935-36). 12

Piazzolla, A. Tangazo (1988). 14

New World SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (2 above) Decca 467 603-2

Turina, J. Sinfonia Sevillana, op 23 (1920). Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos. Telarc 80574 22

Villa-Lobos, H. Guitar concerto (1956). Eduardo Fernández, gui; English CO/Enrique Garcia Asensio. Decca 455 364-2 17

Ginastera, A. Dances from the ballet Estancia, op 8a (1943). New World SO/Michael Tilson Thomas. Decca 467 603-2 13

22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE Prepared by Phil Vendy

Dvorák, A. Cypresses (1887). Lindsay String Quartet. ASV DCA 749 32

Geminiani, F. Sonata no 6 in E minor. László Karper, gui; Ede Banda, vc; János Sebestyén, hpd. Hungaroton SLPX 1201 5

Shostakovich, D. Sonata, op 134 (1968). Daniel Hope, vn; Simon Mulligan, pf. Nimbus NI 5631 36

Enescu, G. Octet in C, op 7 (1900). Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 9131 39

Thursday 20 June





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces Prepared by Jan Brown

Beethoven, L. Duo no 1 in C, WoO27 (c1810-15). Susan Milan, fl; Sergio Azzolini, bn. Chandos CHAN 9108 11

Schubert, F. Piano trio movement in B flat, D28 (1812). Macquarie Trio. ABC 465 792-2 10

Mozart, W. Quartet no 3 in G, K156 (1772). Australian String Quartet. ABC 434 721-2 12

Boccherini, L. Quintet in F, op 39 no 2 (1787). Ensemble 415. Harmonia Mundi HMA 1951334 18

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Anne Irish

Humperdinck, E. Overture to Hansel and Gretel (1893). Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Virgin VC 7 91494-2 8

Tchaikovsky, P. Piano concerto no 2 in G, op 44 (1880). Peter Donohoe, pf; Nigel Kennedy, vn; Steven Isserlis, vc; Bournemouth SO/Rudolf Barshai. EMI CDC 7499392 47

Hill, A. Symphony no 3 in B minor, Australia (1951). Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann. Marco Polo 8.223537 27

11:30 EXTEMPORANEOUS SIBELIUS Prepared by Maureen Meers

Sibelius, J. Impromptu, op 19 (1902/10). Dominante Choir; Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä. BIS CD-1906/08 7

Six impromptus, op 5 (1893). Havard Gimse, pf. Naxos 8.553899 19


13:00 ARMENIAN MASTERS Prepared by Ross Hayes

Sarian, G. Sunrise, from Symphonic canvas (c1955). Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian. ASV DCA 1037 3

Kasparov, A. Toccata (1983). Oksana Lutsyshyn, pf. VMM 2025 4

Khachaturian, A. Clarinet trio (1932). Ludmila Peterková, cl; Gabriela Demeterová, vn; Markéta Cibulková, pf. Supraphon SU 3481-2 131 15

Babadzhanian, A. Fantasy (1955). Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian. ASV DCA 1037 11

Arutiunian, A. Trumpet concerto (1950). Philippe Schartz, tpt; BBC NO of Wales/Jac van Steen. Chandos CHAN 10562 16

Khachaturian, A. Piano concerto in D flat (1936). Constantine Orbelian, pf; Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 8542 33

Vardapet, K. Surb, surb. Hilliard Ensemble; Jan Garbarek, sax. ECM 476 3855 7

Tjeknavorian, L. Danses fantastiques (1958). Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian. ASV DCA 884 18

15:00 ANNIVERSARY Prepared by Jennifer Foong

Méhul, É-N. Overture to Horatius Coclès (1794). O de Bretagne/Stefan Sanderling. ASV DCA 1140 8

Vainement Pharaon dans sa reconnaissance, from Joseph (1807). Roberto Alagna, ten; Royal Opera House O/Bertrand de Billy. EMI 5 57012 2 6

Overture to La chasse du jeune Henri (1791). New Philharmonia O/Raymond Leppard. Philips 446 569-2 11

Symphony no 1 in G minor (1808-09). Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski. Erato 2292-45026-2 26

16:00 FINE MUSIC DRIVE including Arts Calendar at 5.00pm with Lloyd Capps


20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Heather Sykes

Mendelssohn, F. Double concerto in D minor (1823). Kristian Bezuidenhout, fp; Freiburg Baroque O/Gottfried von der Goltz, vn & dir. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902082 37

Bayer, J. Ballet suite from The fairy doll (1888). Slovak RSO/Andrew Mogrelia. Naxos 8.557098 38

Brahms, J. Alto rhapsody, op 53 (1869). Janet Baker, mezz; John Aldis Choir; London PO/Adrian Boult. EMI 5 62791 2 12

Gade, N. Symphony no 6 in G minor, op 32 (1857). Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-356 24

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE For chamber and theatre Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Charpentier, M-A. Sonata à 8. Ricercar Consort. Ricercar RIC 037011 18

Excerpts from Médée (1693). Stéphanie d’Oustrac, mezz; Le Concert Spirituel/Alice Piérot. MBF 1108 21

Vivaldi, A. Concerto in C. Maurice André, tpt; Marcel Lagorce, tpt; Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard. Erato 2292-45062-2 13

Excerpts from Orlando furioso, RV728 (1727). Marilyn Horne, mezz; Lucia Valenti-Terrani, mezz; Sesto Bruscantini, bar; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone. Erato 0630-13819-9 24

Arne, T. Trio sonata no 1 in A (1757). Collegium Musicum 90. Chandos CHAN 0666 16

Arne, T. Rise, Glory, rise, from Rosamond (1733). 7

By the rushy-fringed bank; Brightest lady; Thrice upon a finger‘s tip, from Comus (1738). 6

Where the bee sucks, there lurk I, from The tempest (1746). 2

Emma Kirkby, sop; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (3 above) L’Oiseaux-Lyre 436132-2

Friday 21 June

Nigel Kennedy. Photo - Sony - Paul Mitchell





9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON THE OISTRAKHS Prepared by Chris Blower

Vivaldi, A. Concerto grosso no 8 in A minor, RV522. Igor Oistrakh, vn; Royal PO; David Oistrakh, vn & dir. DG 463 616-2 12

Tchaikovsky, P. Trio in A minor, op 50, In memory of a great artist (1881-82). Oistrakh Trio. Brilliant Classics 9272 19

Hindemith, P. Violin concerto (1939). David Oistrakh, vn; London SO/Paul Hindemith. Decca 470 258-2 30

Mozart, W. Sinfonia concertante no 2 in E flat, K364 (1779). David Oistrakh, va; Moscow PO/ Kyrill Kondrashin. Decca 470 258-2 33

Svetlanov, Y. Poem for violin and orchestra in memory of David Oistrakh (1975) USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov. Melodiya C 10-10313-14 17

Igor Oistrakh, vn (2 above)

11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Westendorf, T. I’ll take you home again, Kathleen (1876; arr. Fernie). 5

Saint-Saëns, C. Softly awakes my heart, from Samson and Delilah (arr. Langford). 6

Phillip McCann, cornet; Sellers Engineering Band/ Roy Newsome (2 above) Chandos CHAN 4521

Grainger, P. Colonial song (1912). 7

Elfman, D. Batman theme (1989). 3

Hawthorn Band/Ken MacDonald (2 above) Walsingham WAL 9000-2

Sousa, J.P. Fairest of the fair: march (1908). Royal Artillery Band/Keith Brion. Naxos 8.559059 4


13:00 IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD with Maureen Meers Nostalgic music and artists from the 30s, 40s and 50s and occasionally beyond, in a trip down many memory lanes

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

15:30 AT THE MOVIES Prepared by Nicholas Chaplin

Portman, R. Original soundtrack: Chocolat (2001). Studio O/Rachel Portman. Sony Classical SK 89472 42

Jones, Q. Original soundtrack: Cactus flower (1969). Sarah Vaughan, voice; Studio O/Quincy Jones. Bell Records 120 12

16:30 AT THE BALLET Prepared by Raj Gopalkrishnan

Strauss, J. II Graduation ball (1840; arr. Dorati). Vienna PO/Willi Boskovsky. Decca 436 781-2 34

Poulenc, F. Suite: Les biches (1923). Ulster O/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN 9023 20

Schumann, R. Carnaval, op 9 (1834-45; arr). Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 480 0038 27

18:00 AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS’ HOUR Prepared by Janie Fitch

Dreyfus, G. Tender mercies (1982). Richard Runnels, hn; Brachi Tilles, pf. Move MD 3172 4

Grainger, P. Love verses from the Song of Solomon (1899-1901). Monteverdi Choir; English Country Gardiner O/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 446 657-2 7

Williamson, M. How can I explain to you, from The violins of Saint-Jacques (1966). Cheryl Barker, sop; London PO/David Parry. Chandos CHAN 3161 4

Barbeler, D. Confession 2 (2006). Genevieve Lacey, rec; Emily Sun; vn. Music Films MFCD001 7

Franklin, J. Heart (1995). Jim Franklin, voice, shakuhachi, elec. Canberra SM CSM:26 11

Dean, B. Intimate decisions (1996). Brett Dean, va. SSO 200702 10

Vine, C. Love me sweet (arr. O’Leary). Gondwana Voices; Catherine Davis, pf; Studio O/Mark O’Leary. Gondwana Voices CDGV001 4

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

Ornadel, C. Excerpts from Pickwick (1963). Harry Secombe, Ruth Madoc, Glyn Houston, Alexandra Bastedo, David Cardy, voices; O/Fraser Skeoch. Ter Orbis MUS C N13 18

Loewe, F. Excerpts from My fair lady (1956). Bryn Terfel, bass-bar; English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel. DG 457 628-2 12

Sondheim, S. Excerpts from A little night music (1973). Hermione Gingold, Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, voices; members of the original Broadway cast. Columbia SK 65284 18

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Classic Omega Recorded by Roger Doyle for FINE MUSIC

Spohr, L. Octet in E, op 32 (1814). 26

Beethoven, L. Sextet in E flat, op 81b (c1795). 36

Tchaikovsky, P. Sextet in D minor, op 70, Souvenir of Florence (1891). 36

Sydney Omega Ensemble (all above)

21:45 TCHAIKOVSKY ENCORE

Tchaikovsky, P. Capriccio italien, op 45 (1880; arr. Langer). Aurora Piano Quartet. Naxos 8.557717D 13


Saturday 22 June

David Oistrakh



6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with David Garrett

9:00 WAGNER AND FRIENDS Prepared by Barbara Brady

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2013


Wagner, R. Kinderkatechismus (1873). Vienna Boys’ Choir; members of the Vienna PO/Zubin Mehter. Decca 442 8283 2

Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre (1854-56; arr. for 1979 film Apocacalypse now). Slovak RSO/Uwe Mund. Naxos 8.570154-55 5

Fort denn eile ... O hehrstes Wunder, from Die Walküre. Lisa Gasteen, sop; Deborah Riedel, sop; Adelaide SO/Asher Fisch. Melba MR301091-94 2

Siegfried idyll (1870). Members of Vienna PO/Georg Solti. Decca 475 8502 18

Siegmund! Sieh auf mich! from Die Walküre. Lisa Gasteen, sop; Stuart Skelton, ten. Melba MR301091-94 12

Prelude to Act III of Götterdämmerung (1869-74). 2

Brünnhilde, heilige Braut: Siegfried’s death and funeral music, from Götterdämmerung. Timothy Mussard, ten. 10

Adelaide SO/Asher Fisch (2 above) Melba MR 301099-102

Verdi, G. La fatale pietra ... Morir si pura e bella ... Immenso immenso ... O terra addio, from Aida (1871). Angela Gheorghiu, sop; Sara Mingardo, mezz; Roberto Alagna, ten; London Voices; Berlin PO/Claudio Abbado. EMI 5 56656 2 11

Wagner, R. Mein Erbe nun nahm’ich, from Götterdämmerung. Lisa Gasteen, sop; Adelaide SO/Asher Fisch. Melba MR 301099-102 11

10:30 CHAMBER MASTERWORKS Prepared by Judy Ekstein

Dvorák, A. Quintet in A, op 81 (1887). Artur Rubinstein, pf; Guarneri Quartet. RCA RD 86263 38

Suk, J. Ballade in D minor, op 3 no 1 (1890); Serenade in A, op 3 no 2 (1896). Steven Isserlis, vc; Stephen Hough, pf. Hyperion CDA67529 10

Fauré, G. Quartet no 1 in C minor, op 15 (1876-79/83). Augustin Dumay, vn; Bruno Pasquier, va; Frédéric Lodéon, vc; Jean-Phillipe Collard, pf. EMI CMS 7 62548-2 32

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME With John Buchanan

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide With Josh Oshlack

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL Carlos Kleiber Prepared by Stephen Schafer

Weber, C.M. Overture; Wolf’s glen scene, from Der Freischütz (1821). Peter Schreier, ten; Theo Adam, bass-bar; Gerhard Paul, voice; Leipzig Radio Choir; Staatskapelle Dresden. 26

Schubert, F. Symphony no 3 in D, D200 (1815). Vienna PO. 21

Strauss, J. II Overture to Die Fledermaus (1874). Bavarian State O. 8

Brahms, J. Symphony no 4 in E minor, op 98 (1884-85). Vienna PO. 40

Verdi, G. E strano ... sempre libera, from La traviata (1853). Ileana Cotrubas, sop; Placido Domingo, ten; Bavarian State O. 8

Wagner, R. Introduction and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde (1857-59). Margaret Price, sop; Staatskapelle Dresden. 18

Beethoven, L. Symphony no 7 in A, op 92 (1811-12). Vienna PO. 39

Carlos Kleiber, cond (all above) DG 477 8826

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Warwick Bartle

Hymns: O praise ye the Lord; Sun of my soul; Hail gladdening light; O strength and stay. Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough, org; Malcolm Archer, cond. Hyperion CDP12102 11

Martin, F. Mass for double choir. Choir of St George’s Cathedral, Perth/Joseph Nolan. Private recording 23

Berkeley, L. Magnificat; Nunc dimittis, op 99 (1980). Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge; Jonathan Vaughn, org; Christopher Robinson, cond. Naxos 8.557277 10

Hymns: The day thou gavest, Lord; Glory to thee, my God, this night. Choir of Paisley Abbey, Scotland; Alexander Anderson, org; George McPhee, cond. Decca 4757498 6

18:00 WHAT’S ON AT THE CON with Julie Simonds A monthly program of music, news and interviews from the Sydney Conservatorium

19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS

Verdi, G. Alzati; là tuo figlio ... Eri tu, from Un ballo in maschera (1859). Juan Pons, bar; Barcelona SO/Garcia Navarro. RCA 09026-61204-2 6

Gluck, C. Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II scene 2 (1762). Ann-Christine Biel, mezz; Drottingholm Theatre Ch & O/Arnold Ostman. Naxos 8.660064 11

Mozart, W. Già la mensa è preparata, from Don Giovanni, K527 (1787). Christina Högman, sop; Werner Van Mechelen, bass-bar; Huub Claessens, bass; Collegium Compostellanum; La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken. Brilliant Classics 99732/3 8

19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Delibes, L. Suite from Sylvia (1876). New Philharmonia O/Charles Mackerras. EMI CDZ 7 62515 2 16

Mozart, W. Horn concerto no 2 in E flat, K417 (1783). Barry Tuckwell; hn; London SO/Peter Maag. Decca 417 767-2 14

Elgar, E. Symphony no 2 in E flat, op 63 (1911). Scottish NO/Alexander Gibson. Chandos CHAN 6523 52

21:00 NEW HORIZONS Into New Zealand Prepared by Troy Fil

Blake, C. Auckland (1999). Auckland PO/James Sedares. Atoll ACD 100 3

Hickman, M. Cube (1999). Strike. Trust Records MMT2030 23

Loedge, M. Hinterland (1998). New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young. Trust Records MMT 2037 11

Cresswell, L. Cassandra’s songs. Madeleine Pierard, mezz; New Zealand SO/James Judd. Naxos 8.570824 13

De Castro-Robinson, E. Small blue (1998). Dan Poynton, pf. Atoll A9809 4

Farr, G. Volume pig (1992). Strike. Trust Records MMT2030 11

Ritchie, J. Canary wine (1974). Tower New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Gryllis. Trust Records MMT2016 7

Psathas, J. Luminous (1999). Auckland PO/Edward Tchlvzvhel. Atoll ACD100 7

22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Sunday 23 June



6:00 FINE MUSIC BREAKFAST including Arts Calendar at 7.30am with Robert Small

9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Inspired by opera Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Puccini, G. Signore, ascolta! from Turandot (1920-24; compl. Alfano 1926). Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation Little SO/Juan Matteucci. Decca 430 325-2 2

In questa reggia, from Turandot. Katia Ricciarelli, sop; Plácido Domingo, ten; Vienna State Opera Ch; Vienna PO/Herbert von Karajan. DG 410 645-2 8

Nessun dorma, from Turandot. Hawthorn Band/Ken MacDonald. Walsingham WAL 9000-2 3

Busoni, F. Suite from Turandot, op 41 (1905/11). Hong Kong PO/Samuel Wong. Naxos 8.555373 41

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Raj Gopalkrishnan

Poulenc, F. Suite from Les biches (1924). Baden-Baden & Freiburg SWR SO/Marcello Viotti. Hänssler 93.197 19

Chopin, F. Piano concerto no 2 in F minor, op 21 (1829). Yevgeny Kissin, pf; Moscow PO/Dmitri Kitaienko. RCA 09026 68378 2 29

Rachmaninov, S. Symphonic dances, op 45 (1940). Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy. Sony SBK 48 279 34

11:30 CHORAL SCHUMANN Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Schumann, R. Nachtlied, op 108 (1849). Monteverdi Choir; O Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner. Archiv 457 660-2 9

Schnitter Tod, op 75 no 1; Vom verwundeten Knaben, op 75 no 5 (1849). Düsseldorf City Musikverein Choir/Hartmut Schmidt. EMI 7 69448 2 5

Jagdlieder, op 137 (1849). Camerata Vocale Gummersbach; Waldhorngruppe Freischütz, Essen/Gus Anton. Koch Schwann 3-1080-2 11


13:00 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Prepared by Philip Lidbury

Haydn, J. Divertimento in D, Hob.X:1 (1775). Haydn Sinfonietta. Schwann 3-1250-2 16

Bach, C.P.E. Six new sonatinas, Wq63 (1753). Christopher Hogwood, clvd. Decca 444 162-2 11

Dittersdorf, C. Sinfonia concertante. Jakub Waldmann, db; Petr Pribyol, va; South Bohemia Chamber PO/Ondrej Kukal. Campion RRCD 1342 20

Mozart, W. Eine kleine Freimaurer-Kantate: Laut verkünde uns’re Freude, K623 (1791). Heo Young-Hoon, ten; Lars Ruhl, ten; Jürgen Appel, bar; male voices of Kassel State Opera Ch; Kassel Spohr CO/Roberto Paternostro. Naxos 8.570897 13

Boccherini, L. Cello concerto no 3 in G (1771). Felix Schmidt, vc; English CO/Edward Heath. IMP PCD 917 20

14:30 PIANO PLUS Prepared by Jan Brown

Rachmaninov, S. Piano trio élégïaque no 2 in D minor, op 9 (1893/1907/17). Moscow Rachmaninov Trio. 42

Danse orientale, op 2 no 2 (1892). Natalia Savinova, vc; Viktor Yampolsky, pf. 6

Danse hongroise, op 6 no 2 (1893). Mikhail Tsinman, vn; Viktor Yampolsky, pf. 5

Hyperion CDA67178 (3 above)

Nunc dimittis, op 37 no 5 (1915). Leslie Howard, pf. Melba MR301127 4

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op 43 (1934). Yuja Wang, pf; Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado. DG 477 9308 23

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



22:00 KEYBOARD CONTRASTS Prepared by Frank Morrison

Mozart, W. Sonata no 6 in D, K284, Dürnitz (1775). Temenuschka Vesselinova, fp. Accent ACC 8849/50 28

Messiaen, O. The birdsong in Messiaen’s organ music: Israeli birds (1984). Hans-Ola Ericson, org. BIS CD-491/92 7

Debussy, C. Nocturnes (1897-99; arr. Ravel). Yukie Nagai, pf; Dag Achatz, pf. BIS CD-526 26

Grechaninov, A. Piano trio no 2 in G, op 128 (1930). Bekova Sisters. Chandos CHAN 9461 19

Schumann, R. Sonata no 3 in F minor, op 14 (1835-36). András Schiff, pf. ECM 1806/07 27

Monday 24 June

Yevgeny Kissin Yuja WangJohn Eliot Gardiner





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Pianist of choice: Dinu Lipatti Prepared by Jennifer Foong

Ravel, M. Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs (1905). Philips 456 892-2 6

Brahms, J. Waltzes, op 39: nos 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 15 (1865; arr.). Nadia Boulanger, pf. Philips 456 892-2 8

Chopin, F. Barcarolle in F sharp, op 60 (1846). Philips 456 892-2 8

Enescu, G. Sonata in D, op 24 no 3 (1933-35). LP WRC LP/731 20

Schubert, F. Impromptu in G flat, D899 no 3 (1827). EMI CDH 5 65166 2 5

Bach, J.S. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, BWV147 (1723; arr. Hess). Philips 456 892-2 3

Dinu Lipatti, pf (all above)

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Michael Field

Mozart, W. Overture to The abduction from the seraglio, K384 (1782). Zurich Opera House Mozart O/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 0630-13811-9 4

Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 2 in G minor, op 22 (1868). Philippe Entremont, pf; Toulouse Capitol O/Michel Plasson. CBS M2YK 45624 23

Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 2 in E minor, op 27 (1906-07). Sydney SO/Edo de Waart. ABC 462 012-2 56

11:30 SCHUBERT IN CHAMBER

Schubert, F. 15 original dances, D365 (1821). William Bennett, fl; Simon Wynberg, gui. ASV DCA 692 10

Rondeau brillant in B minor, D895 (1826). Adele Anthony, vn; Jonathan Feldman, pf. Naxos 8.554148 15


13:00 IN HIS ELEMENT Prepared by Ross Hayes

Vivaldi, A. Gelido in ogni vena, from Farnace, RV711 (1727). Magdalena Kozená, mezz; Venice Baroque O/Andrea Marcon. Archiv 477 8096 9

Tu m’offendi, from La verità in Cimento, RV739 (1720). Philippe Jaroussky, ct; Ensemble Matheus/Jean-Christophe Spinosi. naïve OP 30452 6

Se in campo armato, from Catone in Utica (1737). Emma Kirkby, sop; Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA66745 6

Sol da te, mio dolce amore, from Orlando furioso, RV728 (1727). Magdalena Kozená, mezz; Venice Baroque O/Andrea Marcon. Archiv 477 8096 10

Lungi dal vago volto, RV680 (c1718). Alessandra Ruffini, sop; Ensemble Concerto/Roberto Gini. Nuova Era 6859 15

Nel profondo cieco mondo, from Orlando furioso. Marilyn Horne, mezz; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone. Erato 0630-13819-9 4

14:00 FORGOTTEN PIANIST-COMPOSERS Prepared by Sheila Catzel

Moscheles, I. Piano concerto no 3 in G minor, op 58 (c1822). Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley, pf & dir. Hyperion CDA67276 30

Thalberg, S. Don Pasquale fantasy, after Donizetti, op 67. Earl Wild, pf. Vanguard OVC 4033 13

Lyapunov, S. Transcendental studies (1900-05). Stephen Hough, pf. ASV AMM 157R 14

Raff, J. Piano concerto in C minor, op 185

(1873). Jean-François Antonioli, pf; Lausanne CO/Lawrence Foster. Claves 50-8806 35

Tausig, C. Paraphrase no 1 on Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Dennis Hennig, pf. Etcetera KTC 1076 18

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


20:00 RECENT RELEASES with Robert Small

22:00 BEYOND ROMANTICISM Adieu Satie Prepared by Oscar Foong

Stravinsky, I. Suite from The firebird (1945). Cleveland O/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 473 731-2 27

Satie, E. Valse-Ballet; D’Holothurie; Gambades; D’Edriophthalma; Le Piccadilly; De Podophthalma. Alexandre Tharaud, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902017.18 10

Parade (1917). New London O/Ronald Corp. Hyperion CDA666365 15

Pièces froides (1897). Alexandre Tharaud, pf. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902017.18 5

Relache (1924). New London O/Ronald Corp. Hyperion CDA666365 22

Schwertsik, K. Adieu Satie, op 86. Per Arne Glorvigen, ban/Alban Berg Quartett. EMI 5 57778 2 17

Satie, E. Three gymnopédies (1896). New London O/Ronald Corp. Hyperion CDA666365 9

Tuesday 25 June

Dinu Lipatti Riccardo Chailly





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Aspects of Baroque Prepared by Paul Hopwood

Vivaldi, A. Bassoon concerto in F, RV486 (1810). Tamás Benkócs, bn; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos. Naxos 8.555938 8

Frescobaldi, G. Cento partite sopra passacagli, op 8 (1637). Richard Egarr, hpd. Globe GLO 5056 11

Bononcini, G. Trio sonata in D minor, op 3 no 12 (pub. 1748). Johannes Leertouwer, vn; Therese Kipfer, vn; Il Seminario Musicale. Virgin VC 5 45000 2 11

Albinoni, T. Adagio in G minor, op 12 (1910). Håkan Hardenberger, tpt; Simon Preston, org. Philips 434 074-2 8

Corelli, A. Concerto grosso in F, op 8 no 6, Fatto per la notte di natale (pub. 1714). Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood, org & dir. L’Oiseau-Lyre 410 179-2 13

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Derek Parker

Britten, B. Symphonic suite: Gloriana (1953). Bournemouth SO/Uri Segal. HMV ASD 4073 25

Dittersdorf, C. Viola concerto in F. Petr Pribyl, va; South Bohemia Chamber PO/Ondrej Kukal. Campion RRCD 1342 25

Spohr, L. Symphony no 5 in C minor, op 102 (1837). Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley. Hyperion CDA67622 33

11:30 KEYBOARD SCHERZOS Prepared by Chris Blower

Rubinstein, A. Scherzo in F, from Album de Peterhof, op 75 (1866). Joseph Banowetz, pf. Marco Polo 8.223176 7

Balakirev, M. Scherzo no 2 in B flat minor (1900). Nicholas Walker, pf. ASV DCA 940 7

Chopin, F. Scherzo no 1 in B minor, op 20 (1831-32). Mikhail Pletnev, pf. DG 471 157-2 10


13:00 YOUNG VIRTUOSI with Andrew Bukenya; recorded by Greg Ghavalis Pianist Paul Cheung plays works by J.S.Bach, Scriabin. Agnew, Schubert and Barber. Supported by St Catherine’s School and Overs Pianos


15:00 FROM CUBA Prepared by Angela Bell

Lecuona, E. Polchinella; Noche azur; La habanera. Thomas Tirino, pf. BIS CD-754 8

Nin, J. Chants d’Espagne (1923). David Pereira, vc; David Bollard, pf. Tall Poppies TP078 10

Buxtehude, D. O Gottes Stadt, BuxWV87. Raphaële Kenndy, sop; Da Pacem. Couvent K617227 9

Orbón, J. Concerto grosso (1961). Asturias SO/Maximiano Valdés. Naxos 8.557368 28



20:00 AT THE OPERA Prepared by Colleen Chesterman

1813

2013


Wagner, R. Siegfried. Music drama in three acts, Acts I and II. Libretto by composer. First performed Bayreuth, 1876.

MIME: Paul Kuen, ten SIEGFRIED: Wolfgang Windgassen, ten WOTAN/WANDERER: Hans Hotter, bass-bar ALBERICH: Gustav Neidlinger, bass-bar FAFNER/DRAGON: Josef Grenndl, bass Bayreuth Festival O/Joseph Keilberth. Testament 1412 2:31

The Nibelung Mime has brought up young Siegfried in a forest. Siegfried learns that his mother had died giving birth to him, leaving the fragments of his father’s sword, Nothung. Siegfried demands that Mime reforge the sword but Mime fails. Wotan appears as a wanderer and challenges Mime to a test by questions. When Mime fails to answer correctly, his head is forfeit. Siegfried forges Nothung himself and Mime leads him to kill the giant Fafner, now a dragon, guarding the gold hoard. Mime plans to take the Ring and poison Siegfried. Alberich waits near the cave hoping to regain the ring. The wanderer warns him that Mime is bringing Siegfried to kill the dragon. Siegfried blows his horn, which wakens Fafner; Siegfried kills him. After sucking blood from his hand, he can understand a woodbird, who tells him to take the ring and Tarnhelm from the hoard and warns him of Mime’s plan. Siegfried kills Mime. The woodbird tells him to seek a bride on a rock surrounded by fire.

Wagner, R. Siegfried idyll (1870). Royal Scottish NO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHSA 5060 15

23:00 INTIMATE MOZART Prepared by Angela Bell

Mozart, W. Allegro in B flat, K372 (1783). John Khouri, pedal fp. Entr’acte ESCD 6501 4

Duo no 1 in G, K423 (1783). Gidon Kremer, vn; Kim Kashkashian, va. DG 415 483-2 17

Trio no 2 in D minor, K442 (1783). Gerard Willems, pf; Robert Ingram, vn; Georg Pedersen, vc. Tall Poppies TP070 20

Quartet no 2 in G, K285a (1777). Judith Hall, fl; Paul Barrit, vn; Gustav Clarkson, va; Josephine Horder, vc. Collins D 26003 12

Wednesday 26 June

Uri Segal





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Name the composer Be the first to identify the mystery composer and win a CD. All other correct answers go in a draw for a second CD: 9439 4777

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Strauss, R. Oboe concerto in D (1945/48). Alf Nilsson, ob; Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-470 24

Mahler, G. Symphony no 1 in D, Titan (1885-88). Royal Concertgebouw O/Leonard Bernstein. Radio Nederland RCO 08005 57

11:30 MAHLER ENCORE Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Mahler, G. Piano quartet movement (c1877-78). Domus. Virgin VC 7 90739-2 11

Excerpts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1892-93). Lucia Popp, sop; Geoffrey Parsons, pf. Orfeo C 363 941 B 14


13:00 THE MATURE HOROWITZ Prepared by Denis Patterson

Schumann, R. Kreisleriana, op 16 (1838). 31

Scarlatti, D. Sonata in B minor, Kk87 (1742). 4

Sonata in E, Kk135. 3

Liszt, F. Impromptu (1872); Valse oubliée, no 1 in F sharp (1881-83). 6

Skryabin, A. Étude in D sharp minor, op 8 no 12 (1894). 2

Schubert, F. Military march in D flat, D733 no 1 (1818). 6

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

14:00 ROMANTIC DELIGHTS Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Debussy, C. Iberia, from Images (1905-12). Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos. Telarc 80574 19

Saint-Saëns, C. Piano concerto no 5 in F, op 103 (1896). Philippe Entremont, pf; Toulouse Capitol O/Michel Plasson. CBS M2YK 45624 29

Khachaturian, A. Adagio, from Spartacus (1954/68). Queensland SO/Patrick Thomas. Phonart PT 1001/3 6

Rachmaninov, S. Symphony no 2 in E minor, op 27 (1908). Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi. Telarc CD-80670 56

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


20:00 EVENINGS WITH THE ORCHESTRA Prepared by Denis Patterson

Schubert, F. Wanderer fantasy (1822; transcr. Liszt 1851). Leslie Howard, pf; Budapest SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Hyperion CDS44597 22

Haydn, J. Symphony in E minor, Hob. I:44, Trauersinfonie (bef. 1772). Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey. Hänssler 98.238 26

Tchaikovsky, P. Serenade in C for strings, op 48 (1880). Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Decca 478 3156-67 30

Mendelssohn, F. Violin concerto in E minor, op 64 (1844). Niki Vasilakis, vn; Tasmanian SO/Sebastian Lang-Lessing. ABC 476 9237 30

22:00 CHAMBER SOIRÉE

Cambini, G. Trio no 11 in C. Trio Tourte. Tactus TC 740302 13

Schubert, F. Sonatina no 2 in A minor, D385 (1816). Aladár Mozi, vn; Dana Moziova, pf. Point Classics 2672182 21

Duvernoy, F. Trio no 1. Jenoe Kevehazi, hn; Ildiko Hegyi, vn; Jenö Jandó, pf. Naxos 8.550441 9

Beethoven, L. Octet in E flat, op 103 (1792). Bläservereinigung RSO, Leipzig. edel 0041-2 21

Bach, C.P.E. Sonata in C, Wq 87. Bela Drahos, fl; Zsuzsa Pertis, hpd. Naxos 8.550513 12

Brahms, J. Quartet in C minor, op 51 no 1 (1873). New World String Quartet. IMP MCD 53 34

Thursday 27 June

Niki VasilakisLeonard Bernstein Paavo Järvi





9:00 DIVERSIONS IN FINE MUSIC Small forces

Telemann, G. Sonata in D. Valery Proshutinsky, fl; Yury Martynov, hpd. Siemens TQM 1102 13

Loeillet, J.B. Sonata in G (arr. Thilde). Kamil Rosko, tpt; Vladimir Ruso, org. Donau DCD 8104 9

Beethoven, L. Clarinet quintet in C minor, op 104 (1819; arr. Rechtman). Israeli Wind Virtuosi. Koch 3-7401-2H1 32

10:00 MORNING CONCERT Prepared by Frank Morrison

Brahms, J. Academic festival overture, op 80 (1881). Cleveland O/Christoph von Dohnányi. Teldec 2292-44944-2 9

Dvorák, A. Cello concerto in B minor, op 104 (1895). János Starker, vc; London SO/Antal Dorati. Mercury 432 001-2 38

Prokofiev, S. Symphony no 7, op 131 (1950-52). Los Angeles PO/André Previn. Philips 4263062 33

11:30 EXCLUSIVELY WINDS Prepared by Elaine Siversen

Villa-Lobos, H. Chôros no 2 (1924). William Bennett, fl; Thea King, cl. Hyperion CDA66295 3

Nielsen, C. Quintet in E, op 43 (1922). Canberra Wind Soloists. ABC 456 357-2 23


13:00 SELECT YOUR CLASSICS with Stephen Schafer New and recent releases from Select Audio-Visual Distribution

15:00 CONCERT HALL Prepared by Stephen Schafer

Tchaikovsky, P. Symphony no 3 in D, op 29 Polish (1875). London SO/Valery Gergiev. LSO Live LSO 0710 48

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


20:00 THE ROMANTIC CENTURY Prepared by Denis Patterson

Spohr, L. Overture: Das befreite Deutschland (1814). Swiss Italian O/Howard Shelley. Hyperion CDA67622 8

Liszt, F. Weihnachtsbaum (1872-74). Stephanie McCallum, pf. ABC 476 4689 37

Gade, N. Three pieces, op 22 (pub. 1851). Ralph Gustafsson, org. BIS CD-496 13

Meyerbeer, G. O prêtres de Baal, from The prophet (1849). Marilyn Horne, mezz; Royal Opera House O/Henry Lewis. Decca 476 1223 10

Brahms, J. Violin concerto in D, op 77 (1878). Itzhak Perlman, vn; Royal Concertgebouw O/Willem van Otterloo. Radio Nederland RCO 06004 41

22:00 BAROQUE AND BEFORE A feather on the breath of God Prepared by Oscar Foong

Schmelzer, J. Sonate can arie zu der kaiserlichen serenada; Sonata a 7 flauti; Sonata 1 a 8 (1662). New London Consort/Philip Pickett. Decca 458 081-2 17

Hasse, J. Chori angelici laetantes. Bernarda Fink, mezz; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 453 435-2 17

Anon. Conford d’amours. 4

Landini, F. Per sequir la sperança. 4

Anon. O regina seculi/Reparatrix Maria. 2

Gothic Voices/Christopher Page (3 above) Hyperion CDS44253

Vivaldi, A. Nacque al bosco e nacque al prato, from Il Giustino, (1724); Se mai senti spirarti sul volto, from Catone in Utica (1737); Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia, from Ottone in villa (1713). Roberta Invernizzi, sop; La Risonanza/Fabio Bonizzoni. Glossa GCD 922901 18

Hildegard of Bingen. O ignis spiritus. Andrew Parrot, ten; Kevin Breen, ten; Howard Milner, ten. 5

O Ecclesia. Gothic Voices; Doreen Muskett, symphonia. 6

Christopher Page, dir (2 above) Hyperion CDS44251

Bach, J.S. Prepare youself, oh my spirit, BWV115 (1724). Barbara Schlick, sop; Andreas Scholl, ct; Christophe Prégardien, ten; Gotthold Schwarz, bass; Concerto Vocale of Leipzig; Ensemble Baroque of Limoges/Christophe Coin. Astrée E 8893 23

Telemann, G. Sinfonia spirituosa in D, TWV44:1. Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 471492-2 8


6:00 SATURDAY MORNING MUSIC with Oscar Foong


9:30 SPOTLIGHT ON THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF EUROPE Prepared by Marilyn Schock

Beethoven, L. Romance no 2 in F, op 50 (1798). Gidon Kremer, vn; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cond. Teldec 9031-74881-2 8

Schubert, F. Tränenregen, from Die schöne Müllerin, D795 no 10 (orch. Webern); An die Musik, D547 (orch. Reger). Thomas Quasthoff, bass-bar; Claudio Abbado, cond. DG 471 586-2 7

Haydn, J. Cello concerto no 2 in D, Hob.VIIIb:2 (1783). Mischa Maisky, vc & dir. DG 419 786-2 22

CO of Europe (3 above)

Mozart, W. Divertimento no 4 in B flat, K186 (1773). Wind Soloists of the CO of Europe. Teldec 2292-46472-2 9

Bach, J.S. Oboe concerto in A, BWV1055 (1735-40). Douglas Boyd, ob & dir. DG 429 225-2 14

Schubert, F. Im Abendrot, D799 (orch. Reger). Anne Sofie von Otter, mezz; Claudio Abbado, cond. DG 471 586-2 4

Chopin, F. Piano concerto no 1 in E minor, op 11 (1830). Maria João Pires, pf; Emmanuel Krivine, cond. DG 457 585-2 42

CO of Europe (3 above)

11:30 ON PARADE Prepared by Robert Small

Whitacre, E. October. 7

Saint-Saëns, C. Introduction and rondo-capriccioso for flute, clarinet and wind orchestra, op 28 (1863; arr. Lee Brooks). Kathryn Thomas Umble, fl; Robert Fitzer, cl. 10

Shostakovich, D. Overture on Russian and Kirghiz folk songs, op 115 (1963; arr. Duker). 10

Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Stephen Gage (3 above) Naxos 8.570946

Friday 28 June Saturday 29 June



13:00 AN INTIMATE RUSSIAN Prepared by Angela Bell

Glinka, M. Nocturne in F minor, La séparation (1839). Victor Ryabchikov, pf. BIS CD-979 4

Nocturne in E flat (1828). Susan Drake, hp. Hyperion CDA66340 5

Sonata (1828). Igor Boguslavsky, va; Anna Litvinenko, pf. Le Chant du Monde LDC 288 068 17

Trio pathétique in D minor (1832). Colin Lawson, cl; Alberto Grazzi, bn; Olga Tverskaya, fp. Opus 111 OPS 30-230 16

Variations on a theme by Bellini in C (1832). Victor Ryabchikov, pf. BIS CD-980 10

14:00 MUSICAL EXPLORATIONS Bernstein: conducting a business Prepared by Randolph Magri-Overend

Berlioz, H. Overture: Roman carnival (1844). Sony SMK 47525 8

Holst, G. Mars; Jupiter, from The planets (1914). Sony SMK 63087 15

Berlioz, H. Songe d’une nuit de Sabbat, from Symphonie fantastique, op 14 (1830). Sony SMK 47525 10

Mahler, G. Adagietto, from Symphony no 5 (1901). 11

Symphony no 2, mvt 1 (1888). 24 Sony SMK 63159 (2 above)

New York PO (5 above)

Bernstein, L. Excerpts from Symphonic dances from West Side story (1957). Los Angeles PO. DG 410 025-2 11

Leonard Bernstein, cond (all above)

15:30 MUSIC FOR WORDS Prepared by Chris Blower

Brahms, J. Alto rhapsody, op 53 (1869). Helen Watts, cont; Choirs of Suisse Romande Radio and Pro Arte de Lausanne; Suisse Romande O/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 461 245-2 13

Haydn, J. The seasons, oratorio, Hob.XXI:3 (1801). Miah Persson, sop; Jeremy Ovenden, ten; Andrew Foster-Williams, bass; London Symphony Ch & O/Colin Davis. LSO Live LSO 0708 2:09

18:00 DEUTSCHE WELLE CONCERT HOUR Cage night By courtesy of Radio Deutsche Welle Prepared by Phil Vendy

Cage, J. Three dances.

Martinu, B. Fantasie for two pianos (1929).

Prokofiev, S. Romeo and Juliet.

Ravel, M. La valse.

Duo d’Accord (4 above)

Mozart, W. Sonata in D for two pianos.

Shapira, R. He is the one.

Odeh-Tamimi, S. Amal.

Stravinsky, I. Petrushka (1911).

Duo Amal (4 above) Radio Deutsche Welle transcription

19:00 THE MAGIC OF STAGE AND SCREEN G & S and the law Prepared by Chris Blower

Sullivan, A. When I was a lad, from HMS Pinafore (1878). Dennis Olsen, bar; Corinthian Singers and Festival Chorale; Adelaide SO/James Christiansen. 3

Said I to myself, said I, from Iolanthe (1882). John Reed, bar; New SO of London. 2

When a felon’s not engaged in his employment; With cat-like tread, from The pirates of Penzance (1879). Owen Brannigan, bass; George Cook, bass; D’Oyly Carte Opera Ch; Royal PO. 5

Isador Godfrey, cond (2 above)

Behold the Lord High Executioner ... Taken from the County jail; As some day it might happen, from The Mikado (1885). Dennis Olsen, bar; Corinthian Singers and Festival Chorale; Adelaide SO/James Christiansen. 5

A more humane Mikado, from The Mikado. John Wegner, bass; State O of Victoria/Richard Duvall. 4 ABC 480 4510 (5 above)

Excerpts from Trial by jury (1866). Rebecca Evans, sop; Barry Banks, ten; Peter Savidge, bar; Gareth Rhys-Davies, bar; Richard Suart, bass; Donald Adams, bass; Welsh National Opera Ch & O/Charles Mackerras. Telarc 2CD-80404 31

20:00 LIVE AND LOCAL Part 1: Conservatorium High School pianists and symphony orchestra Recorded by Jayson McBride for FINE MUSIC

Mussorgsky, M. Pictures at an exhibition (1877/72/74). David Erho, pf; Florence Le, pf; Robbin Reza, pf; Jiacong Xu, pf; Alexander Yau, pf; Shirley Zhu, pf; Julia Gu, pf; Pavle Cajic, pf. 34

Pictures at an exhibition (orch. Ravel 1922). Conservatorium High School O/Carolyn Watson. 33

Part 2: Another student orchestra

Schumann, R. Concert piece for four horns and full orchestra, op 86 (1849). Canberra School of Music SO/Michael Mulcahy. Fine Music Tape Archive 17

21:30 ORCHESTRAL MINIATURES

Vogler, G. Overture to the Singspiel Erwin und Elmire (1781). London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN 10504 5

Tchaikovsky, P. Melody, op 42 no 3 (1878). London SO/Richard Bonynge. Decca 452 772-2 4

Mozart, W. Rondo in C, K373 (1781). Australian CO/Richard Tognetti. BIS SACD-1755 5

Wolf-Ferrari, E. Intermezzo, from Jewels of the Madonna (1911). BBC PO/Gianandrea Noseda. Chandos 10634 4

Delibes, L. Intermezzo; Valse lente, from Sylvia (1876). New Philharmonia O/Charles Mackerras. EMI CDZ 7 62515 2 4


Saturday 29 June

Carolyn Watson



6:00 SUNDAY MORNING MUSIC with Eleonore Fuchter

9:00 CELESTIAL NOTES Prepared by Di Cox

Zelenka, J. Missa Dei filii (1740-41). Nancy Argenta, sop; Michael Chance, ct; Christoph Prégardien, ten; Gordon Jones, bass; Stuttgart Chamber Choir; Tafelmusik Baroque O/Frieder Bernius. Harmonia Mundi RD 77922 42

Bach, J.S. Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV662 (c1708-17). Christopher Herrick, org. Hyperion CDA67071/2 7

Schelle, J. Christus, der ist mein Leben. King’s Consort/Robert King. Hyperion CDA67260 9

Bruckner, A. Te Deum in C (1884). Frances Yeend, sop; Martha Lipton, mezz; David Lloyd, ten; Mack Harrel, bar; Westminster Choir; New York PO/Bruno Walter. Sony SMK 64 480 20

10:30 CHAMBER MASTERWORKS Prepared by Chris Blower

Weber, C.M. Quintet in B flat, op 34 (1813-15). Alan Hacker, cl; members of Music Party. L’Oiseau-Lyre 444 167-2 29

Schubert, F. Piano trio in E flat, D929 (1827). Vienna Schubert Trio. Nimbus NI 6137 54

12:00 CLASSIC JAZZ AND RAGTIME with Jeannie McInnes

13:00 WORLD MUSIC: Whirled Wide With Hilla Irani

14:00 SUNDAY SPECIAL A musical journey from Denmark to Finland Prepared by Frank Morrison

Nielsen, C. Symphony no 1 in G minor, op 7 (1890-92). Royal Scottish O/Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN 8880 32

Gade, N. String octet in F, op 17 (pub. 1848). L’Archibudelli; Smithsonian Chamber Players. Sony SK 48307 29

Grieg, E. Piano concerto in A minor, op 16 (1868). Stephen Hough, pf; Bergen PO/Andrew Litton. Hyperion CDA 67824 30

Halvorsen, J. Three Norwegian dances (1910/30). Marianne Thorsen, vn; Bergen PO/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN 10614 11

Stenhammar, W. Four Swedish songs, op 8 (1893-97). Peter Mattei, bar; Bengt-Ake Lundin, pf. BIS CD-654 9

Berwald, F. Concert piece in F, op 2 (1820). Klaus Thunemann, bn; Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner. Philips 446 096-2 11

Palmgren, S. Spring dreams, from Pictures from Finland, op 24 (1910). Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam. Ondine ODE 1112-2 7

Madetoja, L. Heijaa, heijaa!, op 60 no1. Taru Valjakka, sop; Ralf Gothóni, pf. BIS CD-88 3

Sibelius, J. Violin concerto in D minor, op 47 (1903). Anne-Sophie Mutter, vn; Staatskapelle Dresden/André Previn. DG 447 895-2 32

17:00 HOSANNA Prepared by Richard Munge

Rutter, J. All things bright and beautfiul. 3

Schubert, F. The Lord is my shepherd. 6

Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral; Michael Harris, org; David Flood, cond (2 above) York 120

Psalm 38, O Lord, rebuke me not. Choir of Ely Cathedral; Paul Trepte, org. 4

Psalm 93, The Lord is King. Choir of Guildford Cathedral; Andrew Millington, org.

Bach, J.S. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring. Choir of Truro Cathedral; Andrew Nethsingha, org. 3 Priory FCM 1 (3 above)

Britten, B. Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei, from Missa brevis. James O’Donnell, org. 6

Stanford, C. Villiers Magnificat, op 164. 12

Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (2 above) Hyperion WCC 100

Hymn: Come down, O love divine. Thomason Williamson, org. 4

Fauré, G. In paradisum. John Wells, org; David Willcocks, cond. 4

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (2 above) EMI 5099 9 68957 2 6

Hymn: Praise to the holiest. Choirs of St Paul’s, Washington; Washington Symphonic Brass; Bruce Neswick, org; Jeffrey Smith, cond. Pro Organo CD 7090 6

Bach, J.S. Prelude in G minor. David Briggs, org. Priory FCM 1 3

18:00 SYDNEY SOCIETY OF RECORDER PLAYERS Three suites for recorders Prepared by Robert Small

Telemann, G. Suite in A minor, TWV55:a2 (1733). Erik Bosgraaf, rec; Netherlands Radio Chamber PO/Thierry Fischer. Radio Nederland MCCP124 29

Vaughan Williams, R. Suite for pipes (1939). Swedish Recorder Quartet. Caprice CAP 21687 10

Dieupart, C. Suite no 5 in F (1701). Ruth Wilkinson, fl de voix; Linda Kent, hpd. Move MD 3161 14

19:00 OPERA HIGHLIGHTS Prepared by Giovanna Grech

Meyerbeer, G. Ô beau pays de la Touraine; Sombre chimère; À ce mot seul s’anime, from The Huguenots (1836). Joan Sutherland, sop; Kiri Te Kanawa, sop; Hugette Tourangeau, mezz; New Philharmonia O/Richard Bonynge. Decca 475 6302 13

Rimsky-Korsakov, N. The waves break with a roar, from The Tsar’s bride (1899). Sergei Alekashkin, bass; Philharmonia O/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Chandos CHAN 9629 4

Handel, G. Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù, from Xerxes (1738). Carolyn Watkinson, mezz; Amsterdam Bach Soloists/Jan Willem de Vriend. Etcetera KTC 1064 3

Mozart, W. Come scoglio, from Così fan tutte, K588 (1790). Isobel Buchanan, sop; John Pringle, bar; Queensland SO/Richard Bonynge. ABC 432 249-2 4

19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Prepared by Jan Brown

Suk, J. Piano trio in C minor, op 2 (1889/90-91). Smetana Trio. Supraphon SU 3810-2 15

Summer impressions, op 22b (1902). Niel Immelman, pf. Meridian CDE 84317 13

Ten songs for female voices and piano four hands, op 15 (1899). Marian Lapsansky, Daniel Buranovsky, pf; Prague Chamber Choir/Josef Pancík. Chandos CHAN 9257 18

Piano quintet in G minor, op 8. Nash Ensemble. Helios CDH55416 34

21:00 NEW HORIZONS Prepared by Robert Small

Penderecki, K. Sextet for clarinet, horn, string trio and piano (2000). Ensemble Kheops. Fugo Libera FUG585 30

Mills, R. Symphony of nocturnes (2008). Melbourne SO/Richard Mills. ABC 476 4217 29

Wuorinen, C. String quartet no 1 (1971). Brentano String Quartet. Naxos 8.559694 23

22:30 ULTIMA THULE

Sunday 30 June


Albinoni, T. 1671-1751 26 Alfvén, H. 1872-1960 17 Alwyn, W. 1905-1985 17 Arensky, A. 1861-1906 15,18 Arne, T. 1710-1778 21 Arnold, M. 1921-2006 18,20 Arriaga, J. 1806-1826 9 Arutiunian, A. b 1920 21 Austin, R. 1943-2011 2 Babadzhanian, A. 1921-1983 21 Bach, C.P.E. 1714-1788 24,27 Bach, J.S. 1685-1750 3,5,7,11,15,16,18,28,29,30

Balakirev, M. 1837-1910 3,15,26 Ball, E. 1903-1989 8 Barbeler, D. b1972 22 Barber, S. 1910-1981 6,14,20 Bärmann, H. 1784-1847 14 Barrios, A. b1917 2 Bartók, B. 1881-1945 3,7 Bax, A. 1883-1953 18 Bayer, J. 1852-1913 21 Beethoven, L. 1770-1827 3,4,5,7,8,9,11,13,14,15,18,19,20,21,22,23,27,28,29 Bériot, C-A. de 1802-1870 13 Berkeley, L. 1905-1989 23 Berlioz, H. 1803-1869 3,29 Bernstein, L. 1918-1990 20,29 Berwald, F. 1796-1868 16,30 Bizet, G. 1838-1875 3,17 Blake, C. 20th c 9 Boccherini, L. 1743-1805 5,21,24 Boïeldieu, A. 1775-1834 11 Bononcini, G. 1670-1747 26 Borne, F. 1840-1920 7 Borodin, A. 1833-1887 15 Bortnyansky, D. 1751-1825 9 Bowen, Y. 1884-1961 12 Bracanin, P. b1942 9 Brahms, J. 1833-1897 3,9,10,11,15,16,19,20,21,23,25,27,28,29 Bridge, F. 1879-1941 1 Britten, B. 1913-1976 1,26,30 Broadstock, B. b1952 3 Bruch, M. 1838-1920 7,18 Bruckner, A. 1824-1896 30 Busoni, F. 1866-1924 6,24 Buxtehude, D. 1637-1707 6,7,19,26 Byrd, W. 1543-1623 10 Byrne, M. 20th c 16

Cambini, G. 1746-1825 27 Campbell, S. 20th c 9 Castelnuovo-Tedesco, M. 1895-1968 3 Chabrier, E. 1841-1894 11,13 Charpentier, M-A. 1635-1704 9,21

Lehár, F. 1870-1948 1,8,11 Lekeu, G. 1870-1894 13 Liszt, F. 1811-1886 3,7,10,14,17,27,28 Litolff, H. 1818-1891 15 Loedge, M. b1954 23 Loeillet, J.B. 1680-1730 28 Loewe, F. 1901-1988 22 Lovelock, W. 1899-1986 13,18 Lumbye, H. 1810-1874 12 Lyapunov, S. 1859-1924 25 Lyatoshynsky, B. 1895-1968 10

MacDowell, E. 1860-1908 20 MacKenzie, A. 1847-1935 14 Magnard, A. 1865-1914 17 Mahler, G. 1860-1911 11,12,27,29 Martin, F. 1890-1974 23 Martinez-Parada, V. b1947 5 Martinu, B. 1890-1959 7 Massenet, J. 1842-1912 15 Mathias, W. 1934-1992 8 Méhul, É-N. 1763-1817 21 Mendelssohn, F. 1809-1847 1,5,7,8,9,13,15,18,21,27 Mendelssohn, Fanny. 1805-1847 5,6 Messiaen, O. 1908-1992 1,2,8,16,24 Meyerbeer, G. 1791-1864 20,28,30 Milhaud, D. 1892-1974 8,17 Mills, R. b1949 30 Moscheles, I. 1794-1870 25 Moszkowski, M. 1854-1925 11 Mozart, W. 1756-1791 2,3,4,7,8,10,11,13,14,18,19,21,22,23,24,29 Müller, I. 1786-1854 3 Murphy, N. 20th c 1 Mussorgsky, M. 1839-1881 10,11,15,19,29

Nielsen, C. 1865-1931 4,6,28,30 Nin, J. 1879-1949 26 Noble, T. 1867-1953 16

Orbón, J. 1925-1991 26 Ornadel, C. b1924 22

Paganini, N. 1782-1840 3 Palmer, G. b1947 2 Palmgren, S. 1878-1951 30 Parker, K. 1888-c1960s 15 Parry, H. 1848-1918 9 Pavlova, A. b1952 2 Penderecki, K. b1933 2,30 Pergolesi, G. 1710-1736 1 Piazzolla, A. 1922-1992 9,11,20 Pixis, J. 1788-1874 12 Polias, P. b1981 1 Portman, R. 20th c 22

Chávez, C. 1899-1978 20 Cherubini, L. 1760-1842 13 Chin, G. b1957 9 Chopin, F. 1810-1849 3,5,6,11,15,24,25,26,29 Clementi, M. 1752-1832 17 Coates, E. 1886-1957 4,10 Copland, A. 1900-1990 17,19,20 Corelli, A. 1653-1713 7,26 Corp, R. b1951 16 Corrette, M. 1709-1795 9 Cramer, J. 1771-1858 17 Cree-Brown, C. b1953 9 Cresswell, L. 20th c 23 Crusell, B. 1775-1838 6 Czerny, C. 1791-1857 11

d’Indy, V. 1851-1931 12 Dean, B. b1961 22 Debussy, C. 1862-1918 4,14,16,20,24,27 Delibes, L. 1836-1891 1,23 Diepenbrock, A. 1862-1921 4 Dieupart, C. c1667-c1740 30 Dittersdorf, C. 1739-1799 24,26 Domeniconi, C. b1947 2 Donizetti, G. 1797-1848 2,15,20 Doppler, F. 1821-1883 11 Dreyfus, G. b1928 9 Dukas, P. 1865-1935 17 Dupré, M. 1886-1971 8 Duruflé, M. 1902-1986 8 Duvernoy, F. 1765-1838 27 Dvorák, A. 1841-1904 2,3,6,7,8,16,18,19,20,23,28

Elgar, E. 1857-1934 1,2,4,10,11,23 Enescu, G. 1881-1955 8,20,25 Ernst, H. 1814-1865 3,13

Falla, M. de 1876-1946 4 Falvetti, M. 1642-1692 7 Farr, G. b1968 23 Fasch, J. 1688-1758 14 Fauré, G. 1845-1924 23 Finzi, G. 1901-1956 6,10 Franck, C. 1822-1890 3,14 Franklin, J. 20th c 22 Frescobaldi, G. 1583-1643 26 Fux, J. 1660-1741 19

Gade, N. 1817-1890 12,15,17,21,28,30 Geminiani, F. 1687-1762 20 Gershwin, G. 1898-1937 2,20 Gibbons, O. 1583-1625 2 Ginastera, A. 1916-1983 11,20 Giuliani, M. 1781-1829 2,3 Glanville-Hicks, P. 1912-1990 7 Glass, L. 1864-1936 12 Glass, P. b1937 20

Poulenc, F. 1899-1963 3,14,22,24 Prokofiev, S. 1891-1953 3,4,5,10,11,16,28 Psathas, J. b1966 23 Puccini, G. 1858-1924 2,17 Purcell, H. 1659-1695 5

Quantz, J. 1697-1773 13

Rachmaninov, S. 1873-1943 10,11,17,24,25,27 Raff, J. 1822-1882 25 Rameau, J-P. 1683-1764 12 Ravel, M. 1875-1937 2,25 Rebel, J-F. 1666-1747 12 Rheinberger, J. 1839-1901 18 Richter, F. 1709-1789 7 Riisager, K. 1897-1974 6 Rimsky-Korsakov, N. 1844-1908 8,15 Ritchie, J. b1921 23 Roman, J. 1694-1758 5,19 Ropartz, J. 1864-1955 1 Rossini, G. 1792-1868 1,3,9,11,14,16 Rubinstein, A. 1829-1894 2,3,26

Saint-Saëns, C. 1835-1921 6,10,11,14,15,19,22,25,27,29 Satie, E. 1866-1925 25 Scheibe, J. 1708-1776 12 Schelle, J. 1648-1701 30 Schmelzer, J. c1620-1680 28 Schnelzer, A. b1972 1 Schubert, F. 1797-1828 7,10,14,18,19,21,23,25,27,29,30 Schultz, A. b1960 16 Schumann, C. 1819-1896 14,15 Schumann, R. 1810-1856 2,6,10,22,24,27,29 Schütz, H. 1585-1672 16 Schwertsik, K. b1935 25 Sculthorpe, P. b1929 2,8 Seixas, C. 1704-1742 19 Shankar, R. b 1920 1 Sheppard, J. c1515-c1560 16 Shostakovich, D. 1906-1975 4,15,20,29 Sibelius, J. 1865-1957 14,15,16,17,21,30 Skryabin, A. 1872-1915 10 Smetana, B. 1824-1884 8 Sollis, M. b1986 1 Sondheim, S. b1930 22 Spohr, L. 1784-1859 1,3,9,20,22,26,28 Stainer, J. 1840-1901 16 Stanford, C. Villiers 1852-1924 9,30 Steidl, S. b1956 9 Steiner, M. 1888-1971 8 Stenhammar, W. 1871-1927 30

Glazunov, A. 1865-1936 20 Glinka, M. 1804-1857 10 Gluck, C. 1714-1787 17,23 Gnattali, R. 1906-1988 6 Godowsky, L. 1870-1938 6 Gomez, A. b1960 15 Gorecki, H. b1933 16 Gottschalk, L. 1829-1869 20 Gounod, C. 1818-1893 16 Grainger, P. 1882-1961 8,10,17,20,22 Gram, P. 1881-1956 6 Granados, E. 1867-1916 11 Graun, C. 1704-1759 14 Graun, J. 1702-1771 14 Grechaninov, A. 1864-1956 24 Grieg, E. 1843-1907 2,3,4,10,16,17,30 Guarnieri, C. 1907-1993 6

Halffter, R. 1900-1987 4 Halvorsen, J. 1864-1935 30 Hamilton, D. b1955 9 Handel, G. 1685-1759 2,8 Harris, R. 1898-1979 9 Harrison, H. 20th c 8 Hartmann, J. 20th c 1 Hasse, J. 1699-1783 28 Haydn, J. 1732-1809 2,4,7,8,9,11,16,24,27,29 Hickman, M. 20th c 23 Hill, A. 1870-1960 21 Hindemith, P. 1895-1963 22 Holst, G. 1874-1934 1 Howells, H. 1892-1983 8 Hüe, G. 1858-1948 14 Humperdinck, E. 1854-1921 21

Ibert, J. 1890-1962 8 Ireland, J. 1879-1962 10

Jacquet de la Guerre, E-C. c1666-1729 17 Janácek, L. 1854-1928 16 Jones, Q. b1931 22

Kabalevsky, D. 1904-1987 3,17 Kálmán, E. 1882-1953 8 Kats-Chernin, E. b1957 15 Khachaturian, A. 1903-1978 19,21,27 Koppel, A. b1947 7 Krása, H. 1899-1944 6 Kraus, J.M. 1756-1792 7 Krommer, F. 1759-1831 9 Kuhlau, F. 1786-1832 13,17

Langgaard, R. 1893-1962 6 Lassus, O. de c1530-1594 1 Lecuona, E. 1896-1963 26 Lee, Ji Yun. b1980 8

Strauss, J. II 1825-1899 1,15,22,23 Strauss, R. 1864-1949 3,8,11,17,27 Stravinsky, I. 1882-1971 15,25 Suk, J. 1874-1935 18,23,30 Sullivan, A. 1842-1900 8,14 Sutherland, M. 1897-1984 8 Svendsen, J. 1840-1911 20 Svetlanov, Y. 1928-2002 22 Svoboda, T. b1939 9

Tartini, G. 1692-1770 14 Tausig, C. 1841-1871 25 Tchaikovsky, P. 1840-1893 7,9,10,14,20,21,22,27,28 Telemann, G. 1681-1767 28,30 Thalberg, S. 1812-1871 25 Thomas, A. 1811-1896 14 Tjeknavorian, L. b1937 21 Tórroba, F. Moreno 1891-1982 7 Trimble, J. 1915-2000 18 Turina, J. 1882-1949 11,20

van Keulen, G. b1943 16 Vardapet, K. 1869-1935 21 Varèse, E. 1883-1965 4 Vaughan Williams, R. 1872-1958 4,10,16,30 Velasquez, G. 1884-1914 6 Verbey, T. b1958 16 Verdi, G. 1813-1901 2,8,9,11,16,17,23 Villa-Lobos, H. 1887-1959 20 Vivaldi, A. 1678-1741 2,9,20,21,22,25,26,28 Vogler, G. 1749-1814 29 Vorisek, J. 1791-1825 4

Wagner, R. 1813-1883 9,12,23,26 Walton, W. 1902-1983 7,20 Weber, C.M. 1786-1826 11,23,30 Weiss, S. 1686-1750 19 Wesley, S.S. 1810-1876 8 Westendorf, T. c1848-1923 22 Whitacre, E. b1973 29 Whitlock, P. 1903-1946 8 Wilcher, P. b1958 2 Williams, G. 1906-1977 18 Wirén, D. 1905-1986 16 Wuorinen, C. b1938 30

Ysaÿe, E. 1858-1931 19

Zagwijn, H. 1878-1954 9 Zelenka, J. 1679-1745 30

The following composers have works of at least five minutes on the June dates listed

KeyMusic duration is shown after the record and citationSO: Symphony OrchestraPO: Philharmonic OrchestraNO: National OrchestraRO: Radio OrchestraFO: Festival OrchestraCO: Chamber OrchestraTO: Theatre OrchestraRSO: Radio Symphony OrchestraRTO: Radio & Television

OrchestraProm O: Promenade OrchestraCh & O: Chorus & OrchestraNSO: National Symphony Orchestraalto: male altoban: bandoneonbar: baritone

bshn: basset hornbass: bassbn: bassoonbass-bar: bass-baritonecl: clarinetclvd: clavichordcont: contraltocora: cor anglaisct: counter-tenordb: double bass

dbn: double bassoonelec: electroniceng horn: English hornfl: flutefp: fortepianogui: guitarhn: French hornhp: harphpd: harpsichordmand: mandolin

mar: marimbamezz: mezzo-sopranonarr: narratorob: oboeorg: organperc: percussionpf: pianorec: recordersax: saxophonesop: soprano

tb: tromboneten: tenortimp: timpanitpt: trumpettreb: treble voiceva: violavc: cellovle: violonevn: violin


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Over 22 years the Book & CD Fair has grown in popularity and is a key fundraiser for Fine Music 102.5 thanks to generous donations of books and cds received each month.


FINE MUSIC FRIENDSBENEFACTORS Mr Michael Ahrens, Mr Robert O Albert, Dr David Block, Mr Johann Bosch, Mr J D O Burns, Hon Mr Justice D Davies SC, The Berg Family Foundation, The Holden Family Foundation, Frank Family Foundation, Ms Carolyn Gibbs, Prof Jacqueline Goodnow AC, Miss J E Hamilton, Mrs Freda Hugenberger, Ms AM Mackie, Dr Bill McKee, Mrs Judith McKernan, Mrs Greta Moran, Ms Nola Nettheim, Hon Mr Justice B S O’Keefe AM, Mrs Renee Pollack, Dr Peter E Power, Prof Jack Richards, Mrs Joyce Sproat, The Garrett Riggleman Trust, Mr R Walledge, Mr P M Weate, Dr Richard Wingate, Anonymous 2

PATRONS Mr Chris Abbott, Mr Anthony Bartley, Dr H Bashir, Prof Peter Bayliss, Mr John Benecke, Mr David Brett, Mr Maximo Buch, Ms Judith Byrnes-Enoch, Mr Lloyd Capps, Mr Robert E S Clark, Mr Noel Craven, Mrs Dorothy Curtis, Prof C E Deer, Ms Frances Farmer, Mrs Flora Fisk, Mr Heinz Gager, Mrs Alison H Hale, Mr John Hastings, Miss Elizabeth Hawker, Mr Geoffrey Hogbin, Mr Allan Hough, Mrs Freda Hugenberger, Mrs Evelyn H Inglis, Mr David Levitan, Mr F Lister, Mr Ian K Lloyd, Mr Diccon Loxton, Mr Philip Maxwell, Dr D S Maynard, Mr Ian & Mrs Pam McGaw, Mrs Patricia McLagan, Mr J S Milford, Dr Yugan & Dr Abby Mudalier, Mr John Nowlan, Mr Michael Peck, Dr Brian Quinn, Fed Magistrate K Raphael, Mid Winter Recital Group, Mr Kenneth Reed, Mr David Rothery, Dr Janice Russell, Mr Nigel Scott-Miller, Lady (Marie) Shehadie, Mr W & Mrs E Sheldon, Mrs Ruth A Staples, Mrs Mary Stening, Mr Peter Titley, Dr J O Ward, Mrs Beatrice L Watts, Hon Mr Justice A G Whealy, Ass Prof Gerard Willems AM, Anonymous 11

PLATINUM Dr Anthony Adams, Mr Brian Adams, Mr Geoffrey Ainsworth, Evans Webb & Associates Pty Ltd, Mr John Bagnall, Mr Graham Barr, Mr M T Beck, Dr Kathrine Becker, Mr Russell Becker, Mr Max Benyon OAM, Mr Anthony R Berg, Mrs Joan & Mr Ross Berglund, Mr David E W Blackwell, Mr M & Mrs L Blomfield, Dr Nancy Brennan, Mr Geoffrey Briot, Ms Jill Brown, Mr Mark Bryant, Mr Stephen Buck, Prof Elizabeth Burcher, Mr Rex Burgess, Ms Janine Burrus, Mrs E A Burton, Mr G K Burton SC, Mr Philip Butt, Mr Ian Cameron, Mrs Judith Campbell, Mrs L Alison Carr, Ms Chris Casey, Ms Deanne Castronini, Miss Emily Chang, Mr Roger Chapman, Dr Stephen K Chen, Mr Roger Cherry, Mr Peter Chorley, Dr Peter Chubb, Mr Gordon Clarke, Mr K G Coles, Mr Bernard Coles QC, Mr Phillip Cornwell, Mr Robin Cumming, Miss Sheila Darling, Mrs Susan Davey, Hon Mr Justice David Davies SC, Mr Geoffrey De Groen, Mr Lawrence D Deer, Mr Timothy Denes, Mr D J & Mrs C Dignam, Mr Alan Donaldson, Mrs Jennifer Dowling, Mr Peter Downes, Mr Peter Dunn, Mr Emyr Evans, Ms Elizabeth Evatt, Mr John Fairfax, Mr Ian Fenwicke, Mr Hugo D Ferguson, Prof Michael Field, Mr David Fisher, Dr Geoffrey Ford, Mr Francis Frank, Dr Sid French, Mr Ross Gittins, Mrs Inez Glanger, Mrs Betty Goh, Prof J Goodnow AC, Mr Gavin Gostelow, Mr Ray Grannall, Mr Michael J Guilfoyle, Mrs E W Hamilton, Mrs Emesini Hazelden, Mr Paul Hense, Ms Jill L N Hickson, Dr Peter Hook, Mr Roger Howard-Smith, Mr David E Hunt, Mr Robert Hunt, Mr David Hurwood, Mr John Hyde, Dr C P Ingle, Mrs Virginia Jacques, Ms Ruth Jeremy, Mr Ken Johnstone, Mr Christopher Joscelyne, Mr Michael Joseph, Dr Thomas E Karplus, Dr Keith Keen, Mr Paul L Kelly, Mrs Christine Kelly, Ms Patricia Kennedy, Prof Clive Kessler, Mr Roger Kingcott, Mr R J Lamble AO, Mr Stewart Lamond, Ms Sophie Landa, Mrs Sarah Lawrence, Mr Gregory Layman, Ms Judy Lee, Ms Annette Lemercier, Ms Karen Loblay, Dr David C Ludowici, Mrs Ruth G MacLeod, Mr Joseph Malouf, Mrs Anita Masselos, Miss Lynne Matarese, Mr J T McCarthy, Ms Elizabeth McDonald, Miss H M McElhone, Mr Phillip McGarn, Mr Alain G Middleton, Mr Nick Minogue, Mrs Greta Moran, Ms Bernice Murphy, Mr Hal Myers, Mr Christopher John Nash, Ms Natasha Ng, Mr Mark Nichols, Mr Ken Nielsen, Ms Christina O’Faillbhe, Hon Mr Justice B S O’Keefe AM, Asst Prof Robert Osborn, Prof Earl R Owen AO, Ms Susan Pearson, Mr Michael Pope, Prof R G H Prince, Dr Neil A Radford, Mr Thomas Douglas Randall, Ms Elsina Rasink, Mrs Angela M Raymond, Mr Brian L Regan, Mr Alex & Mrs Pam Reisner, Mr Grahame Reynolds, Mr Bruce Richardson, Mr R E Rowlatt, Mrs Mitzi L Saunders, Mrs Clara Schock, Ms Marilyn Schock, Mr John Sharpe, Mrs Linda Shoostovian, Dr William Thomas Sidwell, Mr John Simpson, Mr Alan Slade, Dr J M Stern, Mr John Stevenson, Mr I R Stubbin, Miss Jozy Sutton, Mr Mark Swan, Ms Catharine Swart, Mr Edmund Sweeney, Baroness Taube-Zakrzewski, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Mrs H F Thomas, Mr P A Thomas M. B. E., Miss Margaret Thompson, Mr Iain M Thompson, Mr Christopher A Thorndike, Dr Robin Torrence, Mrs Margaret Tuckson, Mrs Helen J Tweeddale, Mr Ronald Walledge, Mrs June Walpole, Dr Duff Watkins, Mr Roy Watterson, Ms Ellen M Waugh, Ms C A Webster, Drs Lourdes & Spencer White, Mr Neville Wilkinson, Mrs Elizabeth Wilkinson, Mr Cameron Williams, Ms Jocelyn Woodhouse, Mrs Robin Yabsley, Mr Nicholas Yates, Anonymous 12

GOLDMr James Allsop, Mr Robert Baume, Dr Frances Booth, Mrs Barbara Brady, Sir Ron Brierley, Prof Colin Chesterman, Ms Elizabeth Collins, Prof Roger Covell, Mr Noel Craven, Dr Mark Cross, Mr Peter Deakin, Ms Pauline Duncan, Mrs Rosemary Dunstan, Dr Nita Durham, Mr Richard Farago, Ms Frances Farmer, Mr John Gibson, Mrs Anna E Gillespie, Prof Jacqueline Huie, Mr Rod Hyland, Mrs Alison King, Mr Peter Kolbe, Mr Nicholas Korner, Mr Ian Lansdown, Mr Warren Lazer, Prof Norelle Lickiss, Mr Goldwyn Lowe, Ms Carmel Maguire, Mr Peter McGrath, Mrs E M McKinnon, Dr Andrew Mitterdorfer, Tom Molomby, Mr Michael Morton-Evans OAM, Mr John Niland, Mr G Palmer, Mr Trevor Parkin, Mr Tim Perry, Dr Tri Pham, Mr Pino Re, Dr Janice Russell, Mr Kenneth Shirriff, Mrs Petrina Slaytor, Mrs J R Strutt, Dr S Morris & Ms M Sullivan, Dr Phillip Taplin, Mrs Judy Timms, Mr Gary Vassallo, Mrs Xenia Voigt, Mr D & Mrs C Wall, Mrs C & Mr L Welyczko, Ms Ann Whyte, Mr Richard Wilkins, Hon F L Wright QC, Ms Denise Yim, Anonymous 4

SILVERMr & Mrs Charles Abrams, Mr Robert O Albert, Ms Meredith Ash, Mrs Patricia Azarias, Ms Fiona Barbouttis, Dr R & Mrs H Barnard, Mrs Norma Barne, Mr William J Barry, Ms Josephine M Bastian, Mr Jim Bates, Ms Sandra Batey, Mr Richard Bawden, Mr & Mrs J & M Beardow, Mr J & Mrs M Beattie, Dr David Bell, Mr John Boden, Mr Stephen Booth, Mrs Jan Bowen, Mr David Brett, Mrs Halina Brett, Rev Peter G Carman, Ms Joan Childs, Mr John Clayton, Prof Bruce Conolly, Mrs Jennifer Cook, Ms Margaret Coventry, Mrs Susana Cubas, Prof & Mrs S J Dain, Mrs Rhonda Dalton, Mr Brett Ayron Davies, Ms Julie Dean, Prof C E Deer, Mr Joseph Deschaamps, Mrs Elizabeth Donati, Dr Marie Dreux, Mrs Margaret Duguid, Hon J R Dunford QC, Mr Elwyn Dyer, Mr Paul Evans, Mr William G Fleming, Ms Helen Fleming, Mr Stephen Fortescue, Ms Eleonore Fuchter, Mr Roger Giles, Mrs M A Grant, Mr David Green, Mr R N Greenwell, Miss J E Hamilton, Dr A H Hardy, Ms Margaret Hext, Mr Peter Hillery, Mr Paolo Hooke, Mrs Diana R Hooper, Mr Paul Hopwood, Dr David Jeremy, Mr Andrew Kaldor, Mr Mustafa Kandan, Dr Elvira Kefford, Miss Linda Kepitis, Mr Gerhard Koller, Ms M Laurie, Mr David Levitan, Ms Valerie Lhuede, Dr Carolyn Lowry OAM, Mrs Meryll Macarthur, Mr D M C Madden, Mrs Christina Marks, Dr Jim Masselos, Mrs Patricia McAlary, Mr T M McDougall, Dr R McGuinness, Mr John & Mrs Judith McKernan, Mr Kevin McVicker, Ms Maureen Meers, Ms Judith Miller, Mr Andrew Nelson, Mr John Nowlan, Ms Maryanne Ofner, Mr Pieter Oomens, Mr Julius Opit, Mr G C Osborne, Mr Bradley Oyston, Dr Gordon H Packham, Mr Michael Paul, Mr Bert Percy, Ms Barbara Peretz, Ms Anne Pickles, Mrs Mavis Pirola, Mr Roger Porter, Mr James Poulos QC, Dr John G Richards, Mrs Gail Robison, Mr A & Mrs E Roth, Mr Gabriel Roy, Mrs Robin J Ruys, Mr Harvey Sanders, Mr D J Schluter, Dr Gideon Schoombie, Mr Eric Scott, Ms Rosalind Searle, Dr Vivian Shanker, Mr William Sharpe, Dr Michael Shellshear, Mr R A Stark, Prof Peter Stopher, Ms Lora Stopic, Mrs Caroline Storch, Mr Douglas G Thompson, Ms Kathryn Tiffen, Mrs Janine M Tindall, Mr Peter Van Raalte, Mrs Ilda Wade, Mr Alex Walter, Ass Prof Gerard Willems AM, Mr J Gerald Wilson, Mr Geoffrey L Winter, Mrs Dorothy Wood, Mrs Helen Xiao, Prof Klaus A Ziegert, Mr Peter Zipkis, Anonymous 5


MUSICAL TRIVIA with Michael Morton-EvansHow 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. After a journey down which river did Schumann write his Symphony No 3 in Eb?

2. At the end of which work did the composer append the note: “The noise of the carnival night dies away. The tower clock strikes six.” And after the six strokes, the work fades out on a long, dying chord?

3. Which Peruvian singer had a voice range of four octaves plus five notes?

4. Which Italian composer was known as “The Lion of Busseto?”

5. How many valves does a Post-Horn have?

6. By which name is the song “The Battle Song of the Army of the Rhine” better known?

7. Claude Debussy used ragtime rhythms in two of his compositions. One was Golliwog’s Cake-Walk in 1908, what was the other?

8. And since we’ve strayed partly into the jazz world, here’s one for jazz lovers. What was ‘King’ Oliver’s real first name?

To go in the draw to win Va’, pensiero Great Opera Choruses CD, email your answers to competitions@finemusicfm, or post to the below address by 20 June.

The Quiz Master72-76 Chandos Street St Leonards NSW 2065

MAY TRIVIA ANSWERS: 1. Sparafucile, 2. Coventry Catherdal, 3. Sergei Rachmaninov, 4. They were glaziers, 5. Franz Liszt, 6. Dmitri Shostakovich, 7. Antonio Vivaldi, 8. The Harmonious Blacksmith

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crossword ACROSS

1 Introduce inverse alternative to a great composer (6)

4 Burn quality whisky, discard tea and take up rye (6)

9 Measure secretly lower jaw part (4)

10 First moniker discarded when married (6,4)

11 Contemplate holy Buddhist tree pavilion (6)

12 In a manner of speaking, her forte is for that (8)

13 Happy, the elders are snug and warm (9)

15 A toss of light grey (4)

16 Re-arrange retail establishment for Fosters and their ilk (4)

17 Give Milligan a pointy metal bar (9)

21 Perform restrainedly subject to capital territory (8)

22 Consequence of Ireland division unhappily Ulster (6)

24 Go down, Poe, I find you inapt to describe this flier (4,6)

25 Indian prince with back door half open (4)

26 Retire egg free ginger nut (4,2)

27 Look! Lengthy edges! Decent! (6)

DOWN

1 Bath has three directions, lower down (7)

2 Express impatience in Glasgow about earthy metallic oxide (5)

3 Backing newspaper man follows Red sideboard (7)

5 Smart key note followed by jemmy (6)

6 Athletes’ footwear above - always second! (7-2)

7 Non-pungent hydrodynamic results in collection of sacred songs of praise (7)

8 Combined smallest part with idle chatter to give this type of talk (13)

14 Amazingly, she can repel raid and understand without hearing anything (3,6)

16 Give away sounds like press release perhaps? (7)

18 Foxtrot round old city? Face imprisonment! (7)

19 Spoilsport terminator of happiness (7)

20 State mine one off North American deer (6)

23 Make music rostrum with no alternative (5)

CROSSWORD SOLUTION-May 2013

Across: 1 Hassle, 5 Blissful, 9 Southern, 10 Critic, 11 Anno Domini, 12 Knew, 13 Straggle, 16 Egoist, 17 Hectic, 19 Scribble, 21 Meek, 22 Ninety-nine, 25 Angora, 26 Thievery, 27 Workroom, 28 Arrays.

Down: 2 Acorn, 3 Set-to, 4 Erelong, 5 Bonfire, 6 Incline, 7 Stink bomb, 8 Universal, 14 Thereunto, 15 Antiknock, 18 Centavo, 19 Sanctum, 20 Retsina, 23 Never, 24 Nervy.

To go in the draw to win Celtic Thunder Mythology DVD, email your answers to competitions@finemusicfm, or post to the below address by 20 June.

The Crossword72-76 Chandos Street St Leonards NSW 2065

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