Wednesday 9 May 2007 Rāapa 9 Haratua 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  TELEMANN: Concerto in A for two violins in scordatura & continuo; Concerto in D for four violins; Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba, string & continuo; Concerto in G minor for recorder, violins & continuo; Concerto in C for four violins; Concerto in E minor for recorder, transverse flute, strings & continuo - Musica Antiqua, Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (DG 439 444)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No 1; Allegro Agitata from Piano Concerto in F; An American in Paris; Prelude No 3; Medley from Porgy & Bess; Fascinating Rhythm; Lullaby; Promenade; Cuban Overture - Sarah Vaughn (sop), André Previn (pno), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 64060)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 - Monika Frimmer (sop), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 941/2)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27, Moonlight; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathetique; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 34509)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen; Summer Afternoon; Impressions of a Princess; Salute the Soldier; Two Light Syncopated Pieces, Moon Magic; Rose of Samarkand; For Your Delight; The Unknown Singers; I Sing to You; Coquette; Over to You; Idyll; Under the Stars; By the Tamarisk; Mirage; Last Love; The Greenland - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV CD WHL 2107)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with David Morriss

  6:00 BECK: Sinfonia in G minor Op 1/1 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  TRAD arr Gould: Oh can ye sew cushions? - Helen Callus (vla), Robert McDonald (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1130)

  HANSON: Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth - Carol Rosenberger (pno), New York Chamber Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3092)

  HANDEL: The King shall rejoice - Choir of Westminster Abbey, English Concert/Simon Preston (Archiv 410 030)

  BAX: Rogue's Comedy Overture - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 10122)

  7:00 GRAINGER: Shepherd's Hey - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  LISZT: Waltz, from Gounod's Faust - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66371)

  ROPARTZ: Rapsodie - Henri Demarquette (cello), Britanny Orch/Kirill Karabits (Timpany 1C 1095)

  STRAVINSKY: Lullaby & Finale from Firebird Suite - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SIBELIUS: Valse Triste, from Kuolema - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI CDZ 7 67253)

  PELÉCIS: Concertino bianco for piano & chamber orchestra - Alexei Lubimov (pno), German Chamber Phil, Bremen/Heinrich Schiff (Erato 0630 12709)

  GINASTERA: Malambo, from Estancia - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Olga Kern (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7336)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 26 in D minor, Lamentation - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer (Brilliant Classics 93105)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707)

  Membra Jesu nostri, Cantata cycle - Yoshie Hida, Midori Suzuki, Aki Yanagisawa, Yuko Anazawa (sops), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Makoto Sakurada (ten), Yoshitaka Ogasawara (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 871)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  BIZET: L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - New Philharmonia/Charles Munch (Decca 421 632)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - Rosamunde Trio (Alto ALC 1005)

  WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - New Philharmonia/Leopold Stokowski (BBC Legends BBCL 4205)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BUXTEHUDE: Chorale Prelude, Komm heiliger Geist BuxWV199; Chorale Prelude, Von Gott will ich nicht lassen BuxWV221 - Julia Brown (organ of Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon, USA) (Naxos 8.555775)

  CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - James Ehnes (vln), Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Analekta FL 2 3151)

  MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Andrew Marriner (cl), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (PentaTone PTC 5186 048)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 - London SO/Antal Dorati (rec 1959) (Mercury 434 312)

  RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Leon Fleisher (pno), Baltimore SO/Sergiu Comissiona (rec 1982) (Philips 456 775)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Gaudeamus Overture - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Corellia CRA 1005)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E minor Op 59/2, Razumovsky - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 402)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SULLIVAN: HMS Pinafore, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

  DEBUSSY: Rêverie - James Galway (fl/dir), Marisa Robles (harp), CO of Europe (RCA RD 87173)

  SCHUBERT trans Rachmaninov: Wohin?; MENDELSSOHN trans Rachmaninov: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; BIZET trans Rachmaninov: Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 470 291)

  HALVORSEN: Passacaglia & Sarabande on a theme by Handel - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Pinchas Zukerman (vla) (RCA 09026 68768)

  KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance; Dance of the Rose Maidens; Lullaby; Lezghinka, from Gayaneh - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 2023)

  ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - Alison Stamp (sop), Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell 454 990)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in F Op 36 - Torleif Thedéen (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 956)

  GRAINGER: Mock Morris - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9653)

  RAMEAU: The Hen - Varda Nishry (pno) (Decca 425 505)

  KETÈLBEY: Wedgwood Blue - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)

  GRANADOS: La maja de Goya - Eduardo Fernández (gtr) (Decca 414 161)

  PURCELL: Sound the trumpet, from Come ye sons of art away - Edita Gruberova (sop), Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

  NIELSEN: At the bier of a young artist - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 5960)

  PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  HERBERT: Art is calling for me, from The Enchantress - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Stephen Barlow (Decca 443 600)

  J STRAUSS II: Artists' Life Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

• 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

  (2) Elegant Romantic (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

  (5) Spain

  Leonel Morales (pno), Spanish Radio & Television SO/Adrian Leaper

  VADILLO: Alnur; RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; CHOPIN: Nocturne in C# minor Op posth; SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105; STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20 (Spanish Radio)

• 9:30 PM. Baroque Cantatas

  HANDEL: Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV171 - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), Symphony of Harmony & Invention (Coro COR 16045)

  VIVALDI: Qual per ignoto calle RV677 - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Ensemble Artaserse (Virgin 5 45721)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4171)

  BOCCHERINI: String Quartet in G minor G194 - Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45607)

  ABEL: Flute Concerto in D Op 6/3 - Karl Kaiser (fl), La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider (CPO 999 208)

  RODRIGO: Homage to the Precocious Girl - Castile & León SO/Max Bragado Darman (Naxos 8.557101)

  11:00 ELGAR: Harmony Music No 2 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6554)

  SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor - Mannheim String Quartet (CPO 999 352)

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