Saturday 28 July 2007 Rāhoroi 28 Hōngoingoi 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  DITTERSDORF: Sinfonias, in A minor, The Delirium of the Composers; in D, The Battle of the Human Passions; in A, Sinfonia in the Taste of Five Nations - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Variations on an original theme Op 21/1; Rhapsodies, in B minor Op 79/1; in G minor Op 79/2; DVORÁK: Theme & Variations in Ab Op 36; Four Pieces Op 52 - David Buechner (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4179)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  AMODEI: Su l'ore che l'aurora; Tra l'erbette il pie sciogliea; ZAMBONI: Sonata in C minor; AMODEI: Va', ché l'hai fatto a me; Già col manto dell'ombre; STORACE: Passagagli sopra Alamire; AMODEI: Colà dove il Sebeto; Lieve al piè, grave al passo - Emma Kirkby (sop), Jakob Lindberg (theorbo/archlute), Lar Ulrik Mortensen (hpschd) (BIS CD 1415)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  ROMBERG: Clarinet Quintet in Eb Op 57; FUCHS: Clarinet Quintet in Eb Op 102; STANFORD: Two Fantasies for clarinet & string quartet, No 1 in G minor, No 2 in F - Thea King (cl), Britten String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66479)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  HOLST: St. Paul's Suite; WALTON: Two pieces for strings from Henry V; BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4; BERKELEY: Serenade for strings Op 12; TIPPETT: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corellli - ASMF/Kenneth Sillito (Collins 12342)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HOPE: Momentum Suite - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

  DONIZETTI trans Stees: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'amore - Barrick Stees (bsn), Sylvia Norris (harp) (Claves CD 50-9815)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in A Op 9/6 - Buchberger Quartet (Brilliant Classics 92886)

  PÄRT: For Alina - Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591)

  VERDI: Macbeth, ballet music - London SO/Antonio de Almeida (Philips 422 846)

  7:00 DOHNÁNYI: American Rhapsody Op 47 - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9647)

  RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  MOLTER: Oboe Concerto in Eb MWV VI/21 - Saskia Fikentscher (ob), Nova Stravaganza/Siegbert Rampe (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 341 1279)

  SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Vienna Piano Trio (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 342 1167)

  WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 342)

  8:00 EYBLER: Overture - Geneva CO/Michael Hofstetter (CPO 777 104)

  VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso in B minor RV580 - Viktoria Mullova, Stefano Barneschi, Marco Bianchi, Riccardo Masahide Minasi (vlns), Marco Testori (cello), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Onyx 4001)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 41 - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (RCA RD 85171)

  FALLA arr Kochanski: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Jesús Angel León (vln), Miguel Angel Muñoz (pno) (Verso VRS 2018)

  WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  BALL: Rhapsody No 2 on Negro Spirituals - Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome (Chandos CHAN 6539)

  SULLIVAN: A wand'ring minstrel I, from The Mikado - Thomas Edmonds (ten), Men's Voices of Corinthian Singers & Festival Chorus, Adelaide SO/James Christiansen (RCA BPCD 5028)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Freddy Kempf (pno) (BIS SACD 1460)

  HOFFMEISTER: Flute Quartet in A, after Mozart's Alla Turca Sonata K331 - Flute Ensemble (CDI 18809)

  Valse Triste

  The third in the series of programmes by Marshall Walker in which he tells of his special relationship with the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius - the previous ones being A Letter to Sibelius and The Fog and the Island. In this one he relates stories of his maternal grandfather and his uncle, both of whose lives were touched by Sibelius's famous Valse Triste. This programme was a finalist in the 2007 New Zealand Radio Awards. A new, fourth programme in this series plays on Thursday 9th August at 7.00pm in Appointment (RNZ)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (5) Lengthier tracks including recent releases from Trio Beyond and Dave Douglas (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Romica Puceanu & The Gore Brothers ()

  Sounds From A Bygone Age, Vol 2

  In 1864 many homeless Gypsies settled in southern where they created communities on the outskirts of the towns and in the country. These communities were referred to as 'Mahalas' and it's here that the songs of the suburbs originated

  Sound from a Bygone Age is a selection of urban music from the Bucharest suburbs (Mahalas) which were recorded between 1964 and 1973. Romica Puceanu is a well known Romanian Gypsy singer who started singing in Lautari bands in Bucharest with her cousin's ensemble the Gore Brothers (CD-ART 1006)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  University of Auckland Strings/Wolfram Christ

  BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4; ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20; SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings (University of Auckland School of Music)

• 4:05 PM. Saturday at the Movies

  MILHAUD: Le Boeuf sur le toit - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Telarc 0630 17222)

  KORNGOLD restored Morgan: Deception; Cello Concerto in C, Deception Op 37 - Alexander Zagorinsky (cello), Moscow SO/William Stromberg (Naxos 8.570110-11)

  WALTON arr Sargent: Henry V Suite - London Phil Choir & Orch/Carl Davis (EMI CDC 7 47944)

  ARLEN/HARBURG: Over the rainbow - Keith Jarrett (pno) (ECM 1640)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ed Hogger: The Loves of Joanna Godden - women of the Manchester Chamber Choir, BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10368)

• 5:30 PM. Romantic Oboe

  C SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 22 - Joris van den Hauwe (ob), Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno) (Et'Cetera KTC 5252)

  HUMMEL: Introduction, Theme & Variations in F Op 102 - Pierre W Feit (ob), Bamberg SO/Martin Turnovsky (Koch Schwann 3-1385)

• 6:00 PM. Made in

  NZ musicians and composers

  L MOZART: Symphony in G - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553347)

  BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 76 - Tamas Vesmas (pno) (Kiwi TRL 042)

  FROM SCRATCH: 6,7,8, from Gung Ho 1, 2, 3D - From Scratch/Philip Dadson (Flying Nun FN 085)

  RÓZSA: Legend & Epilogue, from El Cid - National Youth Choir, SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7601)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39 - Robert Holl (bbar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLive0015)

• 7:30 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Heath Lees

  Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Leila Josefowicz (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  A RITCHIE: Whalesong (première broadcast); SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77

  (Interval)

  STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TRAD: Improvisations on Four English Folksongs - Rachael Beesley (vln), Anthea Cottee (cello), Paul Dyer (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 428)

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Naïve OP 30412)

  ABEL: Symphony in G Op 7/1 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

  11:00 HAYDN: Trio in F for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/17 - Classical Chrome (Concordance CCD 04)

  MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Nicholas Carpenter (cl), Brindisi Quartet (EMI CDZ 5 69702)

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