Wednesday 2 May 2007 Rāapa 2 Haratua 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ROSSINI: Overtures, William Tell; Il Signor Bruschino; Bianca e Falliero; Barber of Seville; Armida; Seriramide; Línganno Felice; Matilde di Shabran; Demetrio e Polibio; La Gazza Ladra - La Scala Phil/ Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 218)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  CARULLI: Guitar Concerto in E minor Op 140, Petit Concerto de Société; MOZART arr Romero: Adagio in E K261; MOLINO: Guitar Concerto in E minor; MOZART arr Romero: Rondo in C K373; CARULLI: Guitar Concerto in A Op 8a - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF/Iona Brown (Philips 426 263)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music; Five Mystical Songs; Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Flos Campi - 16 soloists, Thomas Allen (bar), Nobuko Imai (vla), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66420)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  MACDOWELL: Concert Etude; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Aprés un rêve; GOTTSCHALK: Manchega; BEACH: Scottish Legend; Tyrolean Valse-Fantasia; Fireflies; GOTTSCHALK: The Union; BEACH: A Hermit Thrush at Eve; MACDOWELL: Hexentanz; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Nell; DOWLAND arr Grainger: Now, O noe, I needs must part; CARRENO: Corbeille de fleurs; GOTTSCHALK: Home sweet home; Souvenir de Porto Rico; GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry; GERSHWIN arr Grainger: The man I love; GERSHWIN trans Wodehouse: Clap yo' hands - Alan Feinberg (pno) (Argo 436 121)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  BYRD: Early Works for Voices, Viols & Virginals - I Fagiolini/dir Robert Hollingworth, Fretwork, Sophie Yates (virginals) (Chandos CHAN 0578)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with David Morriss

  6:00 AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Ambrose Op 4/2 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  KROMMER: Concertino Italien - Dieter Klöcker, Waldemar Wandel (cls), Stuttgart Radio SO/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (Koch 3-1077)

  MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth from Nature Trilogy - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1137)

  PAGANINI: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  GRAINGER ed Ould: Green Bushes - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9839)

  7:00 SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Overture - RCA Victor SO/Leopold Stokowski (RCA 09026 61503)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

  BEETHOVEN: Elegaic Song Op 118 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc SACD 60658)

  RAVEL arr Maganini/Lawrence: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia, after Corelli's Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12 - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Catherine Mackintosh (dir) (BBC Music BBC MM 201)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Largo ma non troppo, from Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh (vlns), Royal Phil/Eugene Goossens (ABC Classics 465 680)

  WALTON: The Battle of Agincourt, from Henry V - London Festival Orch/Stanley Black (Decca 421 268)

  ANON: Greensleeves - Ronn McFarlane (lute) (Dorian DOR 90008)

  WAGNER: Festival March, from Tannhäuser - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony MLK 64061)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981)

  Capricorn Concerto Op 21 - Jacob Berg (fl), Peter Bowman (ob), Susan Slaughter (tpt), Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 74321 987042)

  Piano Sonata in Eb Op 26 - Thomas Hecht (pno) (Atoll ACD 205)

  Medea's Meditation & Dance of Vengeance, from the ballet - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559133)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 - La Gaia Scienza (Winter & Winter 910 113)

  HAYDN: Mass in C, Mass in Time of War HobXXII/9 - Joanne Lunn (sop), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Topi Lehtipuu (ten), Brindley Sherratt (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 470 819)

  POULENC: Concerto in D minor for two pianos - Frank Braley, Eric Le Sage (pno duo), Liège Phil/Stéphane Denève (RCA 82876 603082)

  FARNON: Symphony No 2 in B, Ottawa - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7173)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ELGAR: Harmony Music No 5 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6553)

  Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), London SO/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47329)

  (Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D; Scherzo-Tarentelle in G minor Op 16 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Joanna Gruenberg (pno) (rec 1980) (RegisC 1249)

  GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 82 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Philharmonia Hungarica/Reinhard Peters (rec 1975) (RegisC 1249)

  SCHUBERT: Violin Sonata in A D574 - Isaac Stern (vln), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (rec 1988) (Sony Classical S2K 44504)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HANDEL: Esther, Overture - James Tibbles (organ of Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland) (Atoll ACD 406)

  FARQUHAR: Concertino for piano & strings - Thomas Hecht (pno), NZSO Chamber Orch (RNZ)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 90)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BORODIN arr Rimsky-Korsakov/Glazunov: Prince Igor, Overture - London SO/Georg Solti (Decca 444 389)

  BRIDGE arr Cornford: Scherzetto - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  CHAMINADE: Automne - Moura Lympany (pno) (EMI CDZ 7 62523)

  BACH: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor BWV1014 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Egida Giordani Sartori (hpschd) (Philips 475 7825)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Chandos CHAN 9615)

  PEEL: In summertime on Bredon - Thomas Allen (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDM 5 67428)

  J HARRISON: Bredon Hill, Rhapsody for violin & orch - Matthew Trusler (vln), BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Dutton CDLX 7174)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bredon Hill, from On Wenlock Edge - Robert Tear (ten), CBSO/Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 7 47220)

  BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - Royal Liverpool Phil/Grant Llewellyn (Argo 436 401)

  FAURÉ: Pavane - Gareth Morris (fl), New Philharmonia/David Willcocks (EMI CMS 5 66650)

  VERDI: Ah, fors'è lui, from La Traviata - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Florence May Festival Orch/Zubin Mehta (Philips 442 440)

  GOUNOD: Waltz, from Faust - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Richard Farrell - New Zealand pianist

  The recorded legacy of Richard Farrell, who died in a car crash in 1958 at the age of 31, shows a pianist of outstanding technique and insight. Peter Mechen presents four programmes reviewing the surviving recordings and talking to those who remember Farrell's playing

  (1) Life and times (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Crossing Borders

  Six programmes from the European Broadcasting Union's Euroradio series. The borders in question are geographical borders - great arts and great music need exchanges, national cultural heritage is not possible without influences from other countries and regions. We need each other to develop

  (4) England

  BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda

  ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture; RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 2; DALLAPICCOLA: Piccola Musica Notturna; BERIO: Rendering, incorporating sketches of Schubert's 10th Symphony (BBC)

• 9:10 PM. Opera without Words

  PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Portrait of Madame Butterfly - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  MOZART arr Wendt: The Marriage of Figaro, excerpts - Mozart Ensemble of the Vienna Volksoper (Nimbus 5805)

• 10:10 PM. Day's End

  LISZT: Three Petrarch Sonnets S270, I find no peace; Blessed be the day; I beheld on earth angelic grace - Thomas Quasthoff (bar), Justus Zeyen (pno) (DG 463 183)

  HANDEL: Trio Sonata in B minor Op 2/1 - Wilbert Hazelzet (fl), Sonnerie (Avie AV 0033)

  GRIEG: The Last Spring Op 34/2 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Francis Orval (horn), Arthur Grumiaux (vln), György Sebok (pno) (PentaTone PTC 5186 155)

  BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in E G275 - Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67287)

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