Wednesday 4 July 2007 Rāapa 4 Hōngoingoi 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  LISZT: From the Cradle to the Grave S107; Orpheus S98; The Ideals S106; Hamlet S104 - NZSO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  CLÉRAMBAULT: Suite du Premier Ton; Suite du Deuxième Ton; BRUHNS: Praeludiums No 1 in G; No 2 in E minor; No 3 in E minor; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Gilliam Weir (organ of Clare College, Cambridge) (Argo 460 185)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  SCHUBERT: Goethe-lieder: Erlkönig; Schäfers Klagelied; Meeres Stille; Heidenröslein; Jägers Abendlied; Gesänge der Harfner; An Schwager Kronos; An Mignon; Ganymed; Prometheus; Versunken; Geheimes; Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Musensohn; Auf dem See; Geistes-Gruss; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse; Willkommen und Abschied; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh - Thierry Félix (bar), Paul Badura-Skoda (fpno) (Arcana A37)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  DOHNÁNYI: Violin Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 43; Concertino for harp and chamber orchestra Op 45: Piano Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 42 - James Ehnes (vln), Clifford Lantaff (harp), Howard Shelley (pno), BBC Philharmonic/Matthias Bamert (Chandos 10245)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  HAYDN: String Quartets, in D Op 20/4; in F# minor Op 50/4; in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 731)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 CHERUBINI: Il Giulio Sabino, Overture - Bacau Phil/Silvano Frontalini (Nuova Era 6819)

  PROKOFIEV: Ballade in C minor Op 15 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamas Vesmas (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1517)

  CHOPIN arr Huberman: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Joanna Madroszkiewicz (vln), Paul Gulda (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1296)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in D, Concerto gratioso - Sarah Francis (ob/dir), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1118)

  QUILTER: Three English Dances - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

  7:00 OFFENBACH: Intermezzo & Barcarolle, from Tales of Hoffmann - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  MOZART: Ave verum Corpus K618 - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 75 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno), Berlin Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (EMI CDC 7 49632)

  LILBURN: Concert Overture in D - NZSO Chamber Orch (RNZ)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Decca 467 620)

  MAYERL: Pastoral Sketches - Slovak Radio SO/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 in A minor S244, Rákóczy March - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Brilliant Classics 92790)

  RUBBRA: A Tribute Op 56, for Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 70th birthday - Philharmonia/Norman Del Mar (Lyrita SRCD 202)

  RODRIGO: Second movement, Adagio, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Alexandre Lagoya (gtr), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (ABC Classics 446 631)

  SUK: Fantastic scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 8897)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  EMMANUEL CHABRIER (1841-1894)

  Suite de valses - Pierre Barbizet (pno) (Erato 4509 95309)

  Vrai Dieu, from L'Étoile - Colette Alliot-Lugaz (sop), Lyon Opera Chorus & Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (EMI CDM 5 65679)

  Danse Slave, from Le Roi malgré lui - French National Orch/Armin Jordan (Erato ECD 88018)

  Il est un vieux chant de Bohême, Gypsy Song, from Le Roi malgré lui - Natalie Dessay (sop), Monte Carlo Phil/Patrick Fournillier (EMI 5 56159)

  Fête Polonaise, from Le Roi malgré lui - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 447 751)

  La Sulamite - Susan Mentzer (mezzo), Women's Chorus of the Toulouse Midi Pyrenees, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI CDC 7 54004)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - Leningrad Phil/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (BBC Legends BBCL 4163)

  REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (EMI 3 73708)

  FOULDS: Dynamic Triptych - Peter Donohoe (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Warner 2564 62999)

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - London SO/Colin Davis (RCA 09026 68770)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  DOHNÁNYI: Piano Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 42 - Howard Shelley (pno), BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10245)

  MOZART: Il mio tesoro, from Don Giovanni - Jussi Björling (ten), Frederick Schauwecker (pno) (rec 1955) (RCA 82876 53379)

  SIBELIUS: Piano Sonata in F Op 12 - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1522)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (rec 1960) (Decca 417 744)

  ZANDONAI: No, Smaragdi, no! ... Inghirlandata di violette, from Francesca da Rimini - Renata Tebaldi (sop), Franco Corelli (ten), Les Choeurs Leman, Swiss Romande Orch/Anton Guadagno (Decca 475 522)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BESSER: Predawn Meditation - New Zealand SO/Derrick Inouye (RNZ)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 21 in E minor K304 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  SCHUBERT: Quartet for guitar, flute, viola & cello D96 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Ronald Thomas (cello) (Koch International 3-7404)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI CDZ 7 62514)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre - Luben Yordanoff (vln), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (DG 415 847)

  BACH: Courante; Sarabande; Polonaise; Gigue, from French Suite No 6 in E BWV817 - Joo Hae Kim (pno) (RNZ)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55529)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Israel Phil/Walter Weller (Decca 411 953)

  PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Salvatore Licitra (ten), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony SK 89923)

  SCHUMAN: American Festival Overture - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 61282)

  COPLAND: At the river, from Old American Songs, Set 2 - Bryn Terfel (bbar), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 474 438)

  IVES orch Schuman: Variations on America - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 61282)

  LAMB: American Beauty Rag - Joshua Rifkin (pno) (Decca 425 225)

  J STRAUSS II arr Cohen: Farewell to America, Waltz - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

  BERNSTEIN: America, from West Side Story - Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo), Louise Edeiken (sop), Los Angeles Phil Chorus & Orch/Leonard Bernstein (DG 427 806)

  BRITTEN: An American Overture - New Zealand SO/Myer Fredman (Naxos 8.553107)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The MTT Files

  Eight programmes in which Michael Tilson Thomas explores classical music and the unexpected ways it influences our lives

  (1) You Call That Music?!

  What's music, and what's noise? In this programme, Michael Tilson Thomas demonstrates that noise is in the mind of the listener. His guest is contemporary composer Steven Mackey (American Public Media)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Music in Composers' Homes

  Four programmes from the hometowns of important composers or at least the places where their activities left indelible traces

  (1) RAVEL

  David Grimal (vln), François Salque (cello), Georges Pludermacher (pno)

  Violin Sonata in G; Sonata for violin & cello; Gaspard de la nuit; Piano Trio in A minor (recorded at St John the Baptist's Church, Saint-Jean-de-Luz by Radio France)

• 9:30 PM. Recent Mozart Releases

  The Magic Flute, Overture - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (BBC Music BBC MM 274)

  Kyrie in D minor K341 - Dresden State Opera Chorus, Dresden Symphony Chorus, Dresden Singakademie, Dresden Philharmonic Children's Chorus, Dresden State Opera Children's Chorus, Dresden State Opera Orch/Colin Davis (Profil PH 06039)

  Fantasy in C minor K475 - Evgeni Koroliov (pno) (Profil PH 06015)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 88 - Israel Piano Trio (CRD 2413)

  MENOTTI: Fantasia for cello & orchestra - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Spoleto Festival Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9900)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Bamberg SO/José Serebrier (BIS CD 1073)

  11:00 FALCKENHAGEN: Lute Sonata in C minor - Joachim Held (lute) (Hänssler CD 98.234)

  GOMBERT: Missa Media vita in morte sumus - Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1884)

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