Navigation for Station navigation

Navigation for Music Through the Night

Whether you're working a shift or listening from your pillow, the uninterrupted sounds of Music Through the Night keep you company through the wee hours from midnight to 6am.

28 April 2024

Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Allemande, from Suite in A - Alexandre Tharaud (piano) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8379.81)

Brahms, Johannes: String Quartet No 3 in Bb Op 67 (4) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.573454)

Handel, George Frideric: Water Music Suite No 1 in F (3) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 416 447)

Schubert, Franz: Impromptu in F minor D935/1 - John O'Conor (pno) (TELARC CD 80337)

Merlin, José Luis: Suite del Recuerdo - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP 02 CD)

Albinoni, Tomaso: Concerto in G for 2 oboes Op 9/6 - Frank de Bruine (ob), Alfredo Bernardini (ob), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 458 129)

Liszt, Franz: Pastorale - David James (pno) (RNZ UB48)

1:00 approx

Herschel, William: Sonata No 2 in C - The Dionysus Ensemble (Dionysus Ensemble 2022)

Grieg, Edvard: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Oslo Phil Chorus & Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen (SONY MLK 64064)

Hamilton, David: Polka, from Imagined Dances II - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)

Chopin, Frédéric: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Lixin Zhang (piano) (Rattle RATD084)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale Prelude, Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr; - Gillian Weir (org) (PRIORY PRCD 753)

2:00 approx

Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Buchberger Quartet (Brilliant Classics 93545)

Mendelssohn, Felix: Three Fantasies or Caprices Op 16 - Lydia Artymiw (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8326)

Respighi, Ottorino: Three Botticelli Pictures - Lausanne CO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80309)

Mozart, Leopold: Sinfonia in G major - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (NAXOS 8553347)

Bocanegra, Juan Pérez: Heaven-sent Joy - La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9834)

3:00 approx

Ravel, Maurice: Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA34)

Robinovitch, Sid: Klezmer in Grenada - Sefarad (MARQUIS 81389)

Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 (3) - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (TRUST MMT 2051)

Puccini, Giacomo: O soave fanciulla, from La Bohème - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Roberto Alagna (ten), London SO/Richard Armstrong (Classic CD ISSUE 73)

4:00 approx

Albéniz, Isaac: Espagne (Souvenirs) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67476/7)

Rachmaninov, Sergei: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Singapore SO/Lan Shui (BIS SACD 1712)

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphony in D Wq183/1 - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67924)

Verdi, Giuseppe: Libiamo ne' lieti calici, from La Traviata - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Alfredo Kraus (ten), Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Zubin Mehta (Decca 475 459)

Handel, George Frideric: Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Philips 456 886)

Debussy, Claude arr Lenski: Bilitis - Catherine Bowie (fl), Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ UB38)

5:00 approx

Purcell, Henry arr Balsom: King Arthur, excerpts - Alison Balsom (trumpet), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (EMI 440329)

Traditional arr Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond - Chanticleer (Warner Classics 2564683247)

Boyce, William: Symphony No 6 in F - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557278)

Sibelius, Jean: Belshazzar's Feast, Suite - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 359)

Elgar, Edward: Salut d'Amour Op 12 - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

Matteis, Nicola: Prelude & aria, from Ayres for the Guitar - Karl-Ernst Schröder (gtr), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Andrea Marchiol (org) (Alpha 46)

Fauré, Gabriel orch Gaubert: Romance in Bb Op 28 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO (Decca 458 143)

Gershwin, George: Summertime, from Porgy and Bess - Renée Fleming (sop), New York Voices, Metropolitan Opera Orch (Decca 460567)

29 April 2024

Chopin, Frédéric: Ballade No 2 in F Op 38 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (Sony 19075822932)

Rachmaninov, Sergei: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 (3) - New Zealand SO National Youth Orchestra/Pietari Inkinen (RNZ 2011)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 (2) - Jack Brymer (cl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 422 269)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Serenade for Strings Op 48 (1) - Bavarian Radio CO (Arts 47633)

Prokofiev, Sergei: Violin Sonata No 2 in D Op 94a (1) - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Atoll ACD 513)

Beethoven, Ludwig van: Twelve Contradanses WoO14 - Orch of St Luke's/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 44516)

Schein, Johann Hermann arr Slokar-Posaunenquartett: Padouana in D minor - BonaNZa Trombone Quartet (RATA RT 011)

1:00 approx

Debussy, Claude: Pour le Piano - John Chen (piano) (ABC 4766834)

Strauss, Richard: Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb - David Pyatt (horn), Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (EMI CD EMX 2238)

Biber, Heinrich I.F. von: Battalia in D - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 429 230)

Thompson, Randall: The pasture, from Frostiana - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2011-12, Grant Bartley (pno)/Andrew Withington (NZSSC NZSSC 2012)

Schumann, Robert: Fantasy in C Op 131 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), New York Phil/Kurt Masur (DG 457 075)

2:00 approx

Piazzolla, Astor: Milonga del ángel; Muerte del ángel; Resurrección del ángel; Tango del ángel - Gryphon Trio (Analekta AN 2 9857)

Handel, George Frideric arr Russell: Recorder Sonata in A minor HWV362 - David Russell (gtr) (TELARC CD 80559)

Sibelius, Jean: Kuolema - Hungarian State SO/Jussi Jalas (Decca 448 267)

Dvorák, Antonín: String Quartet No 10 in Eb Op 51 (4) Finale: Allegro Assai - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

Ritchie, John: Three Caricatures - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ UB37)

Hahn, Reynaldo: Je me souviens - Susan Graham (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Sony SK 60168)

3:00 approx

McLeod, Jenny: Rock Sonata No 1 (2) - Stephen de Pledge (piano) (Atoll ACD223)

Kodály, Zoltán: Cello Sonata in B minor Op 8 - Santiago Cañón Valencia (cello) (Atoll ACD 884)

Beethoven, Ludwig van arr Druzecky: Septet in Eb Op 20 (2) - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble (EMI CDC 5 56817)

Brahms, Johannes: Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 (2) - Turnovsky Trio (TRUST MMT 2007)

Strauss, Richard: Morgen! Op 27/4 - Soile Isokoski (sop), Berlin Radio SO/Marek Janowski (ONDINE ODE 982)

4:00 approx

Grieg, Edvard arr Bertrand & Amoyel: Vanished days Op 57/1; Remembrances Op 71/7 - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1986)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Four Contredances K101 - Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1100)

Foss, Lukas: Three American Pieces - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (EMI CDC 5 55360)

Field, John: Piano Sonata in C minor Op 1/3 - John O'Conor (pno) (TELARC CD 80290)

Merk, Joseph: Fantasy on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

Gounod, Charles: Ah! Je veux vivre, from Romeo & Juliet - Aida Garifullina (sop), ORF Radio SO, Vienna/Cornelius Meister (Decca 478 8305)

5:00 approx

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Flute Sonata in E BWV1035 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno: Prelude & Intermezzo, from Four Ruffians - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

Pärt, Arvo: Spiegel im Spiegel - Anne Akiko Meyers (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7762)

Edwards, Ross: Guitar Concerto - Karin Schaup (guitar), Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics ABC 476 227)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita (3) - members of Orch of St Luke's/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80359)

Handel, George Frideric: Eternal Source of Light Divine, from the Birthday Ode for Queen - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), David Blackadder (trumpet), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Christophers (Heliodor 4765970)

Debussy, Claude: Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

Whitacre, Eric arr Parkin: The Seal Lullaby - The Kanneh-Masons (Decca 4851156)