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Hymns on Sunday, 6 July 2025

6 Jul 2025

Award-winning English composer Howard Goodall is responsible for the music to many well-known TV series, including Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley and Blackadder. In this week's programme, you can hear his setting of Charles Wesley’s hymn Love Divine, All Loves ExcellingAudio

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Thursday 10 July

10:00 AM. Days

with Nick Tipping

Lalo, Édouard: Scherzo in D minor - Royal Phil/Yondani Butt (ASV CD DCA 709)

Gubaidulina, Sofia: Sounds of the Forest - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7658)

Paganini, Niccolò arr Liszt: Theme & Variations, from Caprice Op 1/24 - Niu Niu (pno) (EMI 7 25332)

Ravel, Maurice: La Valse - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 427 314)

Nielsen, Carl: Symphony No 4 Op 29, The Inextinguishable - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (CBS MK 42093)

11.00

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine: Te Deum H146 - Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Choir & Orch/Michel Corboz (Erato 0630-12736)

Schumann, Robert: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Decca 440 496)

Brahms, Johannes arr Geringas: Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op 105/1 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (pno) (RNZ UB56)

12.00

Handel, George Frideric: Harp Concerto in Bb HWV294 (1) - Ursula Holliger (harp), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 413 465)

Saint-Saëns, Camille: Septet in Eb Op 65 (1) - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

Dohnányi, Ernst von: Wedding Waltz, from The Veil of Pierrette - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 1107)

Delius, Frederick: La Calinda, from Koanga - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records SMCD 5134)

McGlashan, Don: Greatest adventure, from Dean Spanley - New Zealand SO (Warner Music 531802)

Lilburn, Douglas: Bagatelle No 4, From the Port Hills - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (MANU CD MANU 1511)

Geminiani, Francesco: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia - Purcell Quartet with Purcell Band (Hyperion CDA 66264)

Porter, Cole: In the still of the night - Peter Maunder (tbn), Helen Webby (harp) (Atoll ACD 115)

Morricone, Ennio arr Gilles Ouellet: Main Theme, from Casualties of War - Angèle Dubeau (violin), La Pietà (Analekta AN28733)

1.00

Liszt, Franz: Après une lecture de Dante, from Years of Pilgrimage Book II, It - Tony Yan Tong Chen (pno) (RNZ )

Mendelssohn, Felix: The Hebrides - Auckland Phil/Shiyeon Sung (RNZ )

Gershwin, George: An American in Paris - New Zealand SO/Asher Fisch (RNZ NZSO 2023-03-31)

Françaix, Jean: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano - Robert Orr (ob), Todd Gibson-Cornish (bssn), Laurence Matheson (pno) (RNZ MMF 2023)

Britten, Benjamin: Notturno - Jian Liu (piano) (RNZ )

Liadov, Anatol: The Enchanted Lake Op 62 - Auckland Phil/Shiyeon Sung (RNZ )

Elgar, Edward: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - NZSO National Youth Orchestra/Giancarlo Guerrero/Giancarlo Guerrero (RNZ )

Satie, Eric: Gymnopédie No 1 - Somi Kim (piano) (RNZ )

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