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Celebrating two decades of Nota Bene

23 Apr 2024

Ahead of its 20th anniversary concert, Nota Bene's founding music director Christine Argyle and current music director Maaike Christie-Beekman join Bryan Crump to discuss the Wellington chamber choir's secrets to success. Audio

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Friday 26 April

3:00 PM. Three to Seven

with Bryan Crump

Borodin, Alexander: String Quartet No 2 in D (2) - Takács Quartet (Decca 452 239)

Talbot, Joby: The Flower Garden Part 2, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Royal Phil/Christopher Austin (Signum SIGCD 327)

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Hamburg Symphony No 2 in B flat, Allegro molto - Arte dei Suonatori/Marcin Swiatkiewicz (BIS )

Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight (1) - Murray Perahia (piano) (DG 4798353)

Purcell, Henry: Sonata in 3 parts No 5 in A minor, Z 794 - Ensemble Masques/Olivier Fortin (hpschd/dir) (Analekta AN 29905)

Kodály, Zoltán: Háry János Suite - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)

Shaw, Caroline: Plan & Elevation (4) The Orangery - Attacca Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79260)

Dohnányi, Ernst von: Sextet in C Op 37 (4) - Endymion Ensemble (ASV CD DCA 943)

4.00

Debussy, Claude: Suite bergamasque (1) - Inon Barnatan (pno) (Avie AV 2256)

Pruden, Larry: Night Song - New Zealand CO (RNZ UA01)

d'Ambruys, Honoré: Le doux silence de nos bois - Lea Desandre (soprano), Thomas Dunford (theorbo) ( 5419775146)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 (1) - Jacek Muzyk (horn), Polish Radio Amadeus CO/Agnieszka Duczmal (Naxos 8.570419)

Lloyd Webber, Andrew: Music of the night, from Phantom of the Opera - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Philips 446 050)

Kats-Chernin, Elena: Calliope Dreaming - Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Capriccio 7020)

5.00

Handel, George Frideric: Concerto Grosso in C, Alexander's Feast (3) - Simon Standage (vln), Micaela Comberti (vln), Anthony Pleeth (cello), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (hpschd/dir) (Archiv 415 291)

Ellington, Edward Kennedy "Duke" arr Hyman: Jubilee stomp - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 811)

Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 (1) - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 446 100)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sonata No 3 In D Minor BWV527 (2) - James Crabb (accordion), Genevieve Lacey (recorder) (ABC Classics ABC4811874)

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Demande et Reponse, from Petite suite de concert Op 77 - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223516)

David, Félicien arr Vieuxtemps: La Nuit - Timothy Ridout (viola), Ke Ma (piano) (Champs Hill CHRCD130)

Beach, Amy: Scherzo, from Piano Concerto in C# Minor Op 45 - Danny Driver (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Rebecca Miller (Hyperion CDA 68130)

Wolf, Hugo: Italian Serenade - Brodsky Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10761)

Delius, Frederick: Florida Suite - IV. At Night - Ulster Orchestra/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 8413)

6.00

Grainger, Percy: Random Round - Penelope Thwaites, Wayne Marshall, John Lavender, Rhondda Gillespie, Antony Grey, Barry Peter Ould (pnos) (Chandos CHAN 9702)

Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 8 in G, Le Soir - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 296 1767)

Ešenvalds, Ēriks: Only in Sleep - Rachel Ambrose Evans (sop), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA68083)

Munktell, Helena: Suite for large orchestra (4) - Gävle Symphony Orchestra/Tobias Ringborg (Sterling CDS1066)

Sheng, Bright: Black Swan (after Brahms) - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559679)

Marshall, Mike: Harvest Time - Mike Marshall (mandolin), Chris Thile (mandolin) (Sugarhill 913967)

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