Thursday 24 May 2007 Rāpare 24 Haratua 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Concerto for Balalaika & Orchestra; Music for Strings - Swedish Radio Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 351)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C, Op 15; No 2 in Bb, Op 19 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  DVORÁK: Mass in D Op 86; Te Deum Op 103 - Marina Meshcheriakova (sop), Sergei Miasnikov (bass), Russian State Symphonic Cappella; Russian State SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9505)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn; A la maniére…Borodin; A la maniére…Chabrier; Prélude; Miroirs; Sonatine - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8647)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40; Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op 47; Serenade for Strings Op 20; Enigma Variations Op 36 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with David Morriss

  6:00 ELGAR: Characteristic Pieces Op 10 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  FRANCHOMME: Fantasy on a Melody by Schubert - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

  DELIUS: In a Summer Garden - Hallé Orch/Vernon Handley (EMI CD CFP 4568)

  ROSSINI: Saltarello à l'italienne; Prélude moresque, from Sins of Old Age, Book 5, Album pour les enfants adolescents - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10387)

  JC BACH: Gli Uccellatori, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

  7:00 BIZET: Patrie, Overture - Melbourne SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 456 669)

  GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

  COLLINS: Vanity Fair - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7162)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Young Prince & the Young Princess, from Scheherazade - Richard Roberts (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 410 253)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 4 in C minor - Concerto Cologne (Teldec 4509 98435)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GRIEG arr Reger: Ich liebe dich Op 5/3 - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

  MONCKTON arr Wood: The Arcadians, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2133)

  FAURÉ: Ballade for piano & orchestra - Louis Lortie (pno), London SO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (Chandos CHAN 8773)

  BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (EMI 7 94431)

  LISZT: Réminiscences de Norma S394 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)

  J STRAUSS II arr Kulling: Faust Quadrille - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  EDWIN CARR (1926-2003)

  The End of the Golden Weather - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

  Waiheke Island - Amoris Consort (Amoris AR 1002)

  Auckland 71: Ode - Heath Lees (narrator), Orpheus Choir of Wellington Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

  Nightmusic, Scherzo for orchestra - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  CIAJA: Harpsichord Sonata in A minor Op 4/6 - Martin Derungs (hpschd) (Accord 476 8332)

  ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7038)

  LISZT: Totentanz - Oleg Marshev (pno), Aalborg SO/Matthias Aeschbacher (Danacord DACOCD 651)

  BRUCKNER: Symphony No 6 in A - New Zealand SO/Georg Tintner (Naxos 8.553453)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 1501)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: String Sextet in D minor, Souvenir de Florence - Borodin Quartet, Yuri Bashmet (vla), Natalia Gutman (cello) (EMI CDS 7 49775)

  SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - National Youth Orch of Great Britain/Roger Norrington (BBC Music BBC MM 259)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in A minor RV356; The Four Seasons - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia Orch/Edo de Waart; Les Solistes Romands/Arpad Gérecz (rec 1970) (Philips 475 7825)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MEWS: Prelude & Fugue - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

  RAMEAU arr Ettlinger: Suite - Mark Walton (cl), Simon Ballard (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 003)

  POULENC: Litanies à la Vierge Noire - Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org), (TreeHouse T 0017)

  MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 7, Scènes alsaciennes - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI: A Masked Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Philips 411 469)

  CIMAROSA: Oboe Concerto in C minor - Anthony Camden (ob), City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.553991)

  CHARLTON: Figure Eight - Totally Plucked, the Wellington Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Rachmaninov: Flight of the Bumblebee; RACHMANINOV: Elegy Op 3/1; Barcarolle Op 10/3 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Boston SO/Erich Leinsdorf (RCA VD 87881)

  PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi; Doretta's Dream, from La Rondine - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/John Pritchard (CBS MLK 45809)

  RUBINSTEIN: Triumphant Overture Op 43 - Wuppertal SO/George Hanson (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 335 1240)

  GOTTSCHALK arr Hazell: Grand fantasia triumfal sur l'hymne national bréslien, Variations on the Brazilian National Anthem - Cristina Ortiz (pno), Royal Phil/Moshe Atzmon (Decca 414 348)

  MOZART: Ha! wie will ich triumphieren, from Il Seraglio - Manfred Jungwirth (bass), Vienna Haydn Orch/István Kertész (Decca 452 624)

  RIBBLE: Bennett's Triumphal - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 432 019)

  HAMILTON: Sing we Triumphant - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1991-1992/Roger Stevenson, Roy Tankersley (org) (Private Recording)

  ELGAR: Triumphal March, from Caractacus - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

  FASCH: Concerto in D for trumpet & two oboes - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

  LIADOV: Polonaise Op 55 - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 657)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Record Shelf, John Psathas

  Two programmes from Jim Svejda's series in which he reviews a wide variety of classical recordings and highlights renowned classical artists. In these programmes, recorded last year, he turns his attention to New Zealand's John Psathas

  (1) (KUSC)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Nelson Goerner (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Christian Knapp

  WEBER: Oberon, Overture; BLAKE: Anthem on the Kaipara (première performance & broadcast); MOZART: Symphony No 25 in G minor K183

  (Interval)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUBERT trans Wispelwey: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS 9696)

  L MOZART: Sinfonia pastorale in G - Edward Allen (horn), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553347)

  HAYDN: L'isola disabitata, Overture - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Phil/Adam Fischer (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1441)

  11:00 MARTINU: Cello Sonata No 2 - James Tennant (cello), Katherine Austin (pno) (RNZ)

  STRAUSS: String Quartet in A Op 2 - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1142)

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