Monday 18 June 2007 Rāhina 18 Pipiri 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - NZSO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  1:00 (approx) - Disc 2

  VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoêma; Cirandas Nos 1 to 16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  NIELSEN: Hymnus Amoris; The Sleep; Springtime in Funen; Three Motets Op 55 - Inga Nielsen (sop), Poul Elming (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir; Children's Chorus of St Anne High School; Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Leif Segerstam, Stefan Parkman (Chandos CHAN 8853)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaiques (Astree Auvidis E 8784)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, No 2 of 3 Impressions for Orch; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, No 3 of 3 Impressions for Orch; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Peter Sledmere

  6:00 ARNE: Thomas & Sally, Overture - Capella Savaria/Mary Térey-Smith (Dorian DOR 93251)

  RAMEAU trans Anon: Concert No 5, from Six Concerts en sextuor - Christophe Rousset (hpschd/dir), Les Talens Lyriques (L'Oiseau-Lyre 467 699)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen, from Mozart's The Magic Flute - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.555785)

  SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux, No 5 in F minor; No 6 in Ab - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 456 712)

  HURLSTONE: Variations on a Hungarian Air - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 208)

  7:00 MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 216)

  DEBUSSY: L'isle joyeuse - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC 472 170)

  MOZART: Misericordias Domini K222 - Gewandhaus Chamber Choir, Leipzig CO/Morten Schuldt-Jensen (Naxos 8.557728)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in F RV286 - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (Opus 111 OPS 30-86)

  MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: The Great Gate of Kiev, from Pictures at an Exhibition - Cleveland Orch/George Szell (Sony MLK 66708)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Jussi Björling (ten), Robert Merrill (bar), RCA Victor SO/Renato Cellini (rec 1950-1) (RCA GD 87799)

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

  LAKATOS: Pour Valia; KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh - Roby Lakatos (vln) & his ensemble (DG 457 879)

  LISZT: Paraphrase on Wedding March & Dance of the Elves, from Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ivan Davis (pno) (Decca 421 629)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

  BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 71467)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923-2006)

  Night; Morning - London Sinfonietta Voices/Terry Edwards (Sony SK 62305)

  Atmosphères - Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 477 6443)

  Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet - Claude Debussy Wind Quintet (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1624)

  Piano Concerto - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno), Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez (DG 477 6443)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in C minor G283 - La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 93346)

  CHAUSSON: Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19 - Janet Baker (mezzo), London SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (BBC Legends BBCL 4077)

  GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Rachel Masters (harp), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9094)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Act Two - Children's Choir & Orch of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya 74321 40067)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 4 in Eb K282 - Leon Fleisher (pno) (Vanguard ATM CD 1796)

  ARAÑÉS: To the good life - Montserrat Figueras (sop), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9834)

  WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Sharolyn Kimmorley (pno) (ABC Classics 476 7175)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Concertgebouw Orch/George Szell (rec 1966) (Decca 475 6780)

  Piano Sonata No 12 in Ab Op 26 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (rec 1961) (Melodiya 74321 25172)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  WELLS: Piano Trio - Tasman Trio (RNZ)

  GAVIN: The Hypocrites - Gitbox Rebellion (Rattle RAT D001)

  HAMILTON: Caliban's Song - Stanford Chamber Chorale/Stephen M Sano (Pictoria PR 11192)

  PROKOFIEV arr Blok: Concertino in G minor Op 132 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Russian State SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9890)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SCHREKER: Symphonic Overture, Ekkehard Op 12 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9797)

  BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Jaakko Kuusisto (vln), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Tero Latvala (dir) (Ondine ODE 980)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2 - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4057)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Parisii Quartet (Capriccio 10 454)

  HOLST: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from The Planets - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555776)

  HANDEL: Sweet bird, from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Kathleen Battle (sop), Paul Davies (fl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 49179)

  BERWALD: Memories of the Norwegian Mountains - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 10303)

  FAURÉ/MESSAGER: Souvenirs de Bayreuth - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Second movement, Adagio cantabile e con moto, from Souvenir de Florence - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 440 366)

  GOTTSCHALK: Souvenir de Porto Rico, marche des Gibaros - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66459)

  SAINT-SAËNS: O cruel souvenir, from Henry VIII - Françoise Pollet (sop), Montpellier Phil/Cyril Diederich (Erato 2292 45025)

  OFFENBACH: Souvenirs d'Aix-les-Bains - Montpellier National Orch/Jean-Christophe Keck (Accord 476 8999)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  Robert Johnson looks at the life and music of GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923-2006) (RNZ)

  Continuum for harpsichord - Eva Nordwall (hpschd) (BIS CD 53)

  String Quartet No 1, Métamorphoses nocturnes - Artemis Quartet (Virgin 0946 336934)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Murray Khouri

  Dvorák's Cello Concerto (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Gautier Capuçon (cello), New Zealand SO/Arvo Volmer

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture; DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104; NIELSEN: Symphony No 4 Op 29, The Inextinguishable (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, Fri 8 June, by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WAGNER: Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene, from Götterdämmerung - Gwyneth Jones (sop), West German Radio SO/Roberto Paternostro (Chandos CHAN 10286 X)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Bernard d'Ascoli (pno) (Athene 23201)

  SALOMON: Romance in D for violin & strings - Simon Standage (vln), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 427 316)

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56a - Columbia SO/Bruno Walter (CBS MK 42022)

  11:00 LASSUS: Prophetiae Sibyllarum - Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1658)

  BACH: Violin Partita No 3 in E BWV1006 - Marianne Muller (vla da gamba) (Zig Zag ZZT 040 402)

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