The Joy of Classical Music Andrew Johnstone

We kick off Episode 60 with Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča Mira performing Mira O Norma Si, Fino All'ore Estreme from Vincenzo Bellini’s 1835 opera Norma.
Also:
English Composer Ralph Vaughn Williams
Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera
English Composer Henry Purcell
American Composer Samuel Barber
French Composer Arthur Honegger
American Composer Moondog
Spanish Composer Joaquin Rodrigo

This week it’s all about the voice. We feature choral works, arias and art songs starting with Marie Sophie Pollak and the Ensemble Concerto Munich performing G F Handel’s Eternal Source of Divine Light.
Also:
Wings by Japanese Composer Toru Takemitsu
Four Short Songs by Canadian composer, conductor, writer, pianist and teacher John Beckwith
Finnish Composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s The Singer
American composer John Cage’s Four 2
Italian composer Francesco Cavalli’s aria O Luci Belle
Indian American composer Reena Esmail’s This is the Love Between Us
The aria This Is Prophetic from American Composer John Adams’s opera Nixon in China
Kyrie and Gloria from Polish British Composer Roxanna Panufnik’s Westminster Mass
Sicilian American Paul Creston’s Nocturne for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra.

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This week we open with Egyptian soprano Fatma Said singing
Kan Agmal Yom from her album A Tribute to Mohamed Abdelwahabth, a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer
Also:
American film score composer Jerome Moross
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo
English Composer Arnold Bax
American Jazz Age composer John Alden Carpenters
Chinese/American Composer Tan Dun

This is the third and final of our three episodes exploring the work of New Zealand composers and performers and we open with Dame Kiri Te Kanata performing PoKarekare Ana from her 1999 album Maori Songs.
Also:
Pianist Margaret Neilson playing Rangatiki born composer Douglas Lilburn
Dunedin based Composer Anthony Ritchie
Waikato based Composer Michael F Williams
New Zealand’s first professional composer Alfred Hill
Hamilton born composer Dame Gillian Whitehead
Kiwi Pianist Michael Houston playing Chinese composer and educator Gao Ping’s (formerly of the University of Waikato) Dance Fury, an homage to Astor Piazzolla, the master of Tango.
Wellington based Greek/New Zealander John Psathas

This is the second part of our three-part exploration of the music of Aotearoa/ New Zealand and today we open with one time Ngaruawahia resident and basso profundo Inia Te Wiata singing Te Range Pai’s Hine E Hine from his 1961 album Home Little Māori Home.
Also:
Auckland Composer Eve De Castro Robinson
Wellington Composer Jenny McLeod
Auckland Composer Edwin Carr
Te Awamutu born Composer Tim Finn with Wellington Composer Tom McCloud
Amberley born Composer Ross Harris