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Hymns on Sunday, 9 March 2025

9 Mar 2025

Hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent, and a favourite setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord’s my Shepherd) by Scottish healer, mystic and poet James Leith Macbeth Bain – known to his peers as ‘Brother James’. Audio

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Monday 10 March

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Rachmaninov, Sergei arr Hazell: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

Hamilton, David: Oriori - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (Atoll ACD700)

Sibelius, Jean: Scènes historiques, Suite No 1 Op 25 (3) - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Keyboard Concerto No 3 in D BWV1054 (1) - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), ASMF (Sony SK 89690)

Telemann, Georg Philipp: Trio Sonata in E minor - Orch of the Golden Age (Naxos 8.553731)

Bellinati, Paulo: Jongo - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus arr Slavinsky: Violin Sonata No 26 in Bb K378 (2) - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Leonid Ogrintchouk (pno) (BIS SACD 2007)

1:00 approx

Vivaldi, Antonio: Four Seasons, Spring - Pinchas Zukerman (vln/dir), St Paul CO (Sony MLK 64062)

Verdi, Giuseppe: Capriccio - Rino Vernizzi (bsn), Giuseppe Verdi Theatre Orch, Busetto/Fausto Pedretti (Arts 47574)

Ravel, Maurice: Violin Sonata in G - James Ehnes (violin), Wendy Chen (piano) (CBC RECORDS MVCD 1138)

Young, Kenneth: The Enchanted Dance Hall - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

Debussy, Claude: L'isle joyeuse - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA24)

2:00 approx

Tavener, John: Svyati - Tim Hugh (cello), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson (Naxos 8.555256)

Anonymous: Masque Dances - Alison Melville (recorder), Margaret Gay (cello), Peter Lehman (theorbo), Valerie Weeks (hpschd) (EBS EBS 6016)

Coates, Eric: Dam Busters March - National Band of New Zealand, New Zealand SO/James Judd (RNZ NZSO 2022-05-18)

Monn, Georg Matthias: Cello Concerto in G minor - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1816)

Einaudi, Ludovico: Le Onde (The Waves) - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Decca 476 4490)

Lilburn, Douglas: Concert Overture in D - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (KIWI CD SLD 99)

3:00 approx

Liszt, Franz: Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este - Lazar Berman (pno) (DG 439 409)

Grieg, Edvard: Holberg Suite (4) - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - Zephyr Wills (vla) (Private 2021)

Handel, George Frideric: Trio Sonata in G minor Op 2/2 - London Baroque (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1379)

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Oboe Concerto in Bb Wq164 (3) - Machiko Takahashi (fl), Concertgebouw CO/Roland Kieft (Brilliant Classics 93988)

4:00 approx

Ries, Ferdinand: Swedish National Airs with Variations Op 52 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557844)

Goodman, Benny: Rachel's Dream - Sabine Meyer (cl), Wolfgang Meyer (cl), Bamberg Symphony big band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)

Dvořák, Antonín: String Sextet in A Op 48 (1) - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Florian Donderer (vln), Isabelle van Keulen (vla), Rachel Roberts (vla), Gustav Rivinius (cello), Quirine Viersen (cello) (AVI 8553207)

Klatzow, Peter: A Sense of Place for Cello and Marimba - Heleen du Plessis (cello), Magda De Vries (marimba) (ODE CDMANU 5158)

Weber, Carl Maria von: Invitation to the Dance - Anatol Ugorski (pno) (DG 447 105)

Traditional: A Set of 3 Irish Airs: Sr. Ulick Burk (reel), The Soup of Good Drink (jig), The High Road to Dublin (jig) - The Curious Bards (Harmonia Mundi HMN916105)

5:00 approx

Copland, Aaron: Violin Sonata - Gil Shaham (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 453 470)

Debussy, Claude arr Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Petite Suite - Amsterdam Guitar Trio (Newton 880 2093)

Fauré, Gabriel: Fantasia in Ab Op 84/2 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)

Isaac, Heinrich: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen - La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA 9922)

Brahms, Johannes: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RATD131)

Elgar, Edward arr Milone: In Moonlight, from In the South, Alassio - Natalie Clein (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 01409)

Suesse, Dana arr Huxley: Jazz Nocturne - Peter Mintun (pno), Hot Springs Music Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559647)

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Legend Op 14 - Lorraine McAslan (vln), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (LYRITA SRCD 317)

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