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RNZ Concert: Summer Season Highlights

20 Dec 2024

RNZ Concert sounds good this summer. Here are some of our holiday highlights for you to enjoy on the radio or online in coming days.

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Monday 23 December

6:00 AM. Summer Mornings

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich arr Pletnev: Trepak, from The Nutcracker, Suite - Simon Trpceski (pno) (EMI 5 75202)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter (4) - Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1958)

Bartsch, Nat: Kindling - The Grigoryan Brothers (guitars) (ABC Classics )

Berlioz, Hector: Le Corsaire, Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Sonata No 13 in Bb K333 (1) - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 468 048)

Morel, Jorge: Danza Brasilera - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

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)

7.00

Traditional arr Kathie Stewart: Innesheer / Ships in Full Sail + I Saw Three Ships / New Christm - Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (Avie AV2396)

Trad: While shepherds watched their flocks by night - The Taverner Consort/Andrew Parrott (Erato )

Vivaldi, Antonio: Flute Concerto in A minor RV440 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (dir) (EMI 3 47212)

Debussy, Claude: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - François Chaplin (pno) (PIERRE VERANY PV 702 101)

Dukas, Paul orch Vitali Bujanowski: Villanelle - Hermann Baumann (horn), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 416 380)

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

Schubert, Franz arr Boehm: Gute Nacht D911/1 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

8.00

Handel, George Frideric: Concerto in F HWV 335b - English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 949)

Gruber, Franz Xaver: Silent Night (Po Marie) - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)

Ravel, Maurice: Menuet antique - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 665)

Rive, Thomas: Colne - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

Martinu, Bohuslav: The sledge, from Christmas - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.557914)

Anonymous arr Wilcocks: Ding, Dong Merrily On High - Elora Festival Singers, Michael Bloss (org) (Naxos 8.554179)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph: The Running Set - Royal Liverpool Phil/James Judd (Naxos 8.572304)

Telemann, Georg Philipp rcnstr Aske & Feld: Flute Concerto in G TWV51/G2 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (EMI 5 57397)

Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Trio No 5 in D Op 70/1, Ghost (3) - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 412 891)

9.00

Traditional arr Pearsall: In dulci jubilo (Arr. Robert L. de Pearsall, Ed. Reginald Jacque - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Philip Ledger (King's College KGS0033)

Saint-Saëns, Camille: Rhapsodie d'Auvergne - Stephen Hough (pno), City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

Dvořák, Antonín: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 (1) - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (CBS MK 42206)

Macky, Willow: Te Harinui - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)

Holmés, Augusta: Ludus pro Patria: La Nuit et l'Amour - Orchestre National de Lyon/Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (Bru Zane BZ2007)

Rutter, John: What Sweeter Music - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)

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