Thursday 28 June 2007 Rāpare 28 Pipiri 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ELGAR: The Spanish Lady; Sketches from Symphony No 3 - Keith Swallow (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Anne Manson, BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (BBC Music MM38 Volume IV No 2)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BESSER arr Bravura: Turn; Stretto and Round; Mitzvah Round; Shimmering Stillness; M ADAMS: Floating; BESSER arr Bravura: Five New York Tone Rows 2003; Solemnity; Resolution; Gamjam IV - Bravura (Rattle RAT D013)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Sea Drift; Songs of Farewell; Songs of Sunset - Sally Burgess (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bar), Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, members of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9214)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LISZT: Harmonies "Poetiques et Religieuses" Ave Maria; Ave Maris Stella; Invocation; Hymne du Martin; Hymne de la nuit; Harmonies Poetique et Religieuses - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66421)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  RESPIGHI: The Ballad of the Gnomes; Adagio with variations for cello & orchestra; Three Botticelli Pictures; Suite in G for strings & organ - Alexander Baillie (cello), Leslie Pearson (org), Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Cala CACD 1007)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Peter Sledmere

  6:00 SIBELIUS: In Memoriam Op 59 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1485)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Les Solistes Romands/Arpad Gérecz (Philips 475 7825)

  PACHELBEL: Canon in D - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3321)

  BLOCKX: Flemish fair, from Milenka - BRTN Phil, Brussels/Alexander Rahbari (Discover DICD 920 100)

  7:00 HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - Orpheus CO (DG 435 390)

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

  BUTTERWORTH: Two English Idylls - English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI CDC 7 47945)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Russian Dance, from Swan Lake - Ulana Bashava (vln), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  AUBER: The Bronze Horse, Overture - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 309)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SATIE arr/orch Kennedy: Gymnopédie No 2 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), David Heath (fls), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

  HANSON: Merry Mount, Suite - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80649)

  ANDERSEN: Humorous variations on a Swedish tune Op 26 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (pic), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  ROSSINI: Un sauté; Hachis romantique, from Sins of Old Age, Book 5, Album pour les enfants adolescents - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10387)

  GROSSI: Sonata in D for trumpet & strings Op 3/10 - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (org/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67359)

  WALTON: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, from the film The First of the Few - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDM 7 63369)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

  Two Songs for contralto, viola & piano Op 91 - Doris Soffel (mezzo), Diemut Poppen (vla), Charles Spencer (pno) (Ars Musici AM 1190)

  Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 - South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.135)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in C HobXV/27 - Trio Opus 8 (Profil PH 06016)

  GRETCHANINOV: All-Night Vigil Op 59, Vespers - Holst Singers/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67080)

  LISZT: Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Melodies S123 - Cyprien Katsaris (pno), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Piano 21 P21 002-A)

  CHERUBINI: Symphony in D - Sanremo SO/Piero Bellugi (Naxos 8.557908)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV971 - Elena Kuschnerova (pno) (Orfeo C 547 011 A)

  BORODIN: String Quartet No 2 in D - Borodin Quartet (Onyx 4002)

  ANON: Magnificat anima mea BWV Anh 1 - Jens Rademacher (countertenor), Adam Rüs (tenor), Lase Ryberg (bass), Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, Dufay Collective/Ebbe Munk (Dacapo 8.224160)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Igor Oistrakh (vln), Natalia Zertsalova (pno) (rec 1989) (Collins 10452)

  Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (rec 1986) (Chandos CHAN 8446)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  GLINKA: Russlan & Ludmilla, Overture - NZSO National Youth Orch 2005/Edwin Outwater (RNZ)

  FARQUHAR: Suite for Guitar - John Mills (gtr) (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  TRAD arr Rutter: Black Sheep - Jayne Tankersley (vocalist), New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1991-1992/Roger Stevenson (NZSSC)

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - Michael Houstoun (pno) (HMV ASD 9009)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture - NHK SO/Jun Märkl (Altus ALT 006-7)

  SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy - Howard Zhang (vln), Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555093)

  BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle No 25 in A minor, Für Elise - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 456 031)

  BERLIOZ arr Barton/Sinozich: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath, from Symphonie fantastique - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

  RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Saarbrücken Radio SO/Michael Stern (Col Legno WWE 8CD 20041)

  G CHARPENTIER: Depuis le jour, from Louise - Alessandra Marc (sop), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Delos DE 3108)

  WIDOR arr Beckett/Widor: Suite Op 34 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  MICHELIS: Schottische Op 59 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (pic), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  BRITTEN: The Highland Balou, from A Charm of Lullabies - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 477 6153)

  GADE: In the Highlands Op 7 - Danish National Radio SO/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 9862)

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Bonny laddie, Highland laddie - Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  DEBUSSY: Scottish March - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

  SCOTT: The Toy Trumpet - Mark Calder (tpt), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67067)

  BELLINI: Polonaise, Son vergin vezzosa, from I Puritani - Joan Sutherland (sop), Orch of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

  DELIBES: Waltz & Mazurka, from Coppélia - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Record Shelf, John Eliot Gardiner

  Jim Svejda's series in which he reviews a wide variety of classical recordings and highlights renowned classical artists. In this programme he turns his attention to the English conductor John Eliot Gardiner (KUSC)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Richard Harwood (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Marko Letonja

  WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude; RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead Op 29

  (Interval)

  STRAUSS: Don Quixote (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 58039)

  DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67529)

  ALBINONI: Concerto in F for two oboes Op 9/3 - Stefan Schilli, Giovanni Deangeli (obs), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

  SPOHR: Faust, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 093)

  11:00 FRANCK: Grande Pièce Symphonique in F# minor Op 17 - Gillian Weir (organ of Århus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb (1823) - Coull String Quartet (Hyperion CDS 44051/3)

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