Schedule for Saturday 15 September 2007

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550; Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 426 315)
1:15 (approx) - Disc 2
SCHUBERT: Fantasia in C D934; STRAVINSKY: Duo Concertante; PROKOFIEV: Sonata for violin solo Op 15; RAVEL: Sonate Posthume; SATIE: Choses vues a droite et a guache, sans lunettes; MILHAUD: Le Printemps - Gidon Kremer (vln), Elena Bashkirov (pno) (Philips 426 387)
2:30 (approx) - Disc 3
Sacred songs by Mozart, Bach, Haydn, Eybler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, FaurÉ, Handel, & Verdi - soloists from the Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna Boys Choir, Chorus Viennensis, Vienna Folkopera Chamber Orch (Philips 438 871)
3:35 (approx) - Disc 4
ROSSINI: Ballet music from The Siege of Corinth, Moses, William Tell & Othello - Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (Philips 422 843)
4:50 (approx) - Disc 5
HANDEL: Oboe Concertos, No 1 in Bb; No 2 in Bb; No 3 in G minor; Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3; Sonata a 5 in Bb; Concerto Grosso in C, Alexander's Feast; Overture in D; Hornpipe in D - Heinz Hooliger, Neil Black, James Brown (obs), Kenneth Sillito, John Tunnell (vlns), Richard Adenay (fl), Kenneth Heath (cello), Leslie Pearson (org & hpschd), John Constable (hpschd), James Tyler (chitarrone), English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard (Philips 426 082)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Viva CO)
MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 4 in A - Kari Kriikku (cl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/John Storgårds (Ondine ODE 1056)
SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)
VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 - Tânia Lisboa (cello), Miriam Braga (pno) (Meridian CDE 84357)
TOMLINSON: English Folk-Dances Suite No 1 - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223513)
7:00 MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 7 49889)
RESPIGHI: Chaconne in G minor after Vitali's Chaconne - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)
GRIEG: Homage March, from Sigurd Jorsalfar - Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow (pno duet) (Divine Art 25042)
GLAZUNOV: Orientale, from Five Novelettes Op 15 - St Petersburg String Quartet (Delos DE 3262)
RAVEL: Boléro - Pays de la Loire National Orch/Isaac Karabtchevsky (Calliope CAL 9899)
8:00 BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 193)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)
CHOPIN: Introduction & Rondo in C minor/Eb Op 16 - Polina Leschenko (pno) (EMI 5 62666)
HUBAY: Csárdas Scene, No 11, The willow's withered branch - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 - members of Berlin Radio SO/Steven Sloane (Capriccio 71 096)
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

YIN/CHU/SHENG/LIU: Yellow River Piano Concerto, based on the Great Song of the Yellow River by Xian Xinghai arr by Yin Chengzong, Chu Wanghua, Liu Zhang & Sheng Lihong of the Central Philharmonic Society - Lang Lang (pno), China Phil/Long Yu (DG 477 6229)
MAHLER: Symphony No 6 in A minor, Tragic - Saarbrücken Radio SO/Günther Herbig (Berlin Classics 9461 BC)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4185)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs
1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series
Host Ed Bradley offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats
(2) Singers of New York, Dave Frishberg & Carol Sloane
Dave Frishberg, original and inventive lyricist of songs like Peel me a Grape and I'm Hip, performs his tunes solo including I Can't Take You Nowhere and Old Oklahoma Toad. The impeccably tasteful vocalist Carol Sloane is accompanied by the Norman Simmons Trio on Lucky to be me; The Glory of Love and Whisper Sweet in the intimate Kaplan Penthouse (Murray Street Productions)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
Road of the Gypsies, Part 1
A two-part programme of gypsy music covering the spectrum, from the Middle East through Romania, Hungary, France and down to Spain (Network 24.756)
3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Julia McCarthy (vln), John Chen (pno)
MOZART: Violin Sonata No 19 in Eb K302; PÄRT: Fratres; BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 2 in A Op 100; DUTILLEUX: Piano Sonata (1947); RAVEL: Violin Sonata in G (recorded in the Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University, Wellington by RNZ)
4:40 PM. An English Renaissance

BENJAMIN: Overture to an Italian Comedy - Royal Phil/Myer Fredman (Lyrita SRCD 314)
RAWSTHORNE: Piano Concerto No 1 - Malcolm Binns (pno), London SO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 255)
BRITTEN: Phantasy Quartet Op 2 - George Caird (ob), instrumental ensemble (Oboe Classics CC 2009)
JACOB: Symphony No 1 - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 315)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)
LILBURN: Piano Sonatina No 1 - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)
GERSHWIN: O lawd, I'm on my way, from Porgy & Bess - Inia Te Wiata (bass), London Studio Chorus & Orch (Columbia 475 545)
LAURO: El Niño; Venezuelan Waltz No 2 - Cheryl Grice-Watterson (gtr) (Private recording)
SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - Peter Lockwood (pno), Dmitry Ferschtman (cello), Concentus Bestiales/Julian Reynolds (pno/dir) (Globe GLO 5152)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

RICHARD STRAUSS edition
Heimkehr Op 15/5; O wärst du mein Op 26/2; Traum durch die Dämmerung Op 29/1; Ich trage meine Minne Op 32/1; Befreit Op 39/4; Gefunden Op 56/1; Wanderers Gemütsruhe - Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo), Hartmut Höll (pno) (Capriccio 10 497)
Four Songs Op 27, Ruhe, meine Seele; Cäcilie; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen! - Ben Heppner (ten), Craig Rutenberg (pno) (RCA 09026 63104)
Three Hymns Op 71, Hymne an die Liebe; Rückkehr in die Heimat; Die Liebe - Felicity Lott (sop), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9159)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Adam New Zealand Festival of Chamber Music 2005
Viktor Silverstone, Stephen Bemelman (tpts), Nicola Averill (horn), Douglas Cross (tbn), Jonathan Baker (tuba), New Zealand Chamber Brass
SCHEIDT arr Jones: Galliard battaglia, Battle Suite; DEBUSSY arr Sabourin: La fille aux cheveux de lin, from Preludes, Book 1; BACH arr Romm: Fugue in G minor BWV578, Little; BACH arr Sauer: Fugue in G BWV577, Jig Fugue; BACH arr Herforth: My Spirit be Joyful; EWALD: Brass Quintet No 2 Op 6; BIZET arr Holcombe: Carmen Fantasy; Habanera; Carmen, Prelude to Act 1; BERNSTEIN arr Gale: West Side Story, Suite (recorded in Nelson Cathedral by RNZ)
9:20 PM. Johannes Brahms

Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book 2 - Olga Kern (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7392)
Liebeslieder Waltzes - Marlis Petersen (sop), Stella Doufexis (contralto), Werner Güra (ten), Konrad Jarnot (bbar), Christoph Berner, Camillo Radicke (pno duet) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1945)
10:00 PM. Day's End

TANSMAN: Cavatina - Dimitri Illarionov (gtr) (Naxos 8.557293)
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Martha Argerich (pno), Swiss-Italian Orch/Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (EMI 5 57773)
GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor after Corelli's Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La Folia - Purcell Quartet, Purcell Band (Hyperion CDA 66264)
11:00 DANZI: Quartet in C for bassoon & strings Op 40/1 - Robert Thompson (bsn), members of the Coull String Quartet (CRD 3503)
MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 8 in D - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.275)