Saturday 17 November 2007 Rāhoroi 17 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphonies, No 31 in D K297; No 36 in C K425; No 38 in D K.504 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 647)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40; PROKOFIEV: Adagio Op 97; Cello Sonata in C Op 119 - Sonia Weider-Atherton (cello), Laurent Cabasso (pno) (Auvidis Valois V 4666)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BLOW: God spake sometime in visions; Let thy hand be strengthened; LAWES: Zadok the priest; PURCELL: My heart is inditing; I was glad; CHILD: O Lord, grant the King a long life; BLOW: Behold, O God our defender; TURNER: The King shall rejoice - Westminster Abbey Choir & Orch/Simon Preston (Archiv 419 6130)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves; CANTELOUBE: Bailero from Chants d'Auvergne; BEETHOVEN: By the brook, from Symphony No 6, Pastoral; SCHUBERT: Theme and Variations, from Trout Quintet; CHABRIER: Idylle, from Suite pastorale; MACDOWELL: To a wild rose, from Woodland sketches; GRIEG: Cowkeeper's tune (Norwegian Melody No 2); MASSENET: Sous les tilleuls, from Scenes alsaciennes; DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; MACDOWELL: To a water-lily, from Woodland sketches; SCHUBERT: Hirtenmelodien & Hirtenchor, from Rosamunde; J STRAUSS II: Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, from Tales from the Vienna Woods - Various artists (London 443 333)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  CORELLI: Sonata in E minor Op 5/8; GEMINIANI: Sonata in D Op 1/10; VERACINI: Sonata Sesta in E minor Op 1; LOCATELLI: Sonata in C Op 2/1; ALBINONI: Sonata in A minor; VIVALDI: Sonata in G minor RV58; PLATTI: Sonata in G Op 3/6 - Barthold Kuijken (transverse fl), Wieland Kuijken (cello), Robert Konen (hpschd) (Accent ACC 9177 D)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5141)

  CHOPIN: Waltzes, in Ab Op 69/1, L'Adieu; in Eb Op 18, Grande valse brillante; in E minor Op posth - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 15998)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Jerome Op 4/4 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  HUMMEL reconst Oubradous: Viola Fantasy Op 94 - Gérard Caussé (vla/dir), Les Solistes de Montpellier-Moscow (EMI CDC 7 54817)

  BOYCE: Overture No 3 in Bb - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (Chandos CHAN 6531)

  7:00 HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 5 62621)

  MONTI: Csárdás - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

  JC BACH: Symphony in Eb Op 18/1 - Failoni Orch/Hanspeter Gmür (Naxos 8.553367)

  ALBRIGHT: Three Original Rags, On the Lamb; The Queen of Sheba; Onion Skin - Nicola Melville (pno) (Equilibrium EQ 57)

  ZIEHRER: Recipes for love, Waltz Op 434 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223814)

  8:00 LEHÁR: The Merry Widow, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing, Suite Op 11 - London SO/André Previn (DG 453 436)

  TARTINI arr Kreisler: Variations on a theme by Corelli - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDB 7 62988)

  SAINT-SAËNS arr Luigini: Grand Fantasy, from Samson & Delilah - London Phil/Geoffrey Simon (Cala CACD 1016)

• 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

  COATES: Saxo-Rhapsody - Jack Brymer (alto sax), Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDB 7 62557)

  ANON: Suite in C - Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Channel Classics CCS 5894)

  BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Maxim Fedotov (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557395)

  J WILLIAMS: Sayuri's Theme; The Journey to the Hanamachi, from the film Memoirs of a Geisha - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), orchestra/John Williams (Sony Classical 674 708)

  RUTTER: Requiem - Caroline Ashton, Donna Deam (sops), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 504)

  BLOCH: Schelomo - Emanuel Feuermann (cello), National Orchestral Association/Leon Barzin (rec 1941) (Philips 420 776)

  (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

  (11) Shades of Blue: The Jazz/Country Connection

  America's country traditions reunite with jazz in the fingers of Ricky Skaggs on guitar and mandolin with fiddler Mark O'Connor and the flying slide of trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. Hear this one time only collaboration up close, from Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Shahan-Shah

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  The Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was considered the greatest exponent of Qawwali (Utterance), a vibrant musical tradition which is used to convey a mystic and religious message (Real World RWCD3)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Michael Hill International Violin Competition

  2007 Semi-finals, Day 1

  Three of the top six semi-finalists perform with members of the New Zealand Trio: Ashley Brown (cello) and Sarah Watkins (pno):

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - Stefan Hempel (vln)

  RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - Bella Hristova (vln)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - Gao Can (vln)

  (During the interval Kerry Stevens reviews some of the performers' earlier performances in Queenstown during this competition) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 4:55 PM. Handley Conducts

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

  BANTOCK: Sapphic Poem - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66899)

  JOUBERT: Symphony No 1 Op 20 - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Lyrita SRCD 322)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  F COUPERIN: Le Rossignol en amour, from Ordre No 14 in D major-minor - Gillian Weir (hpschd) (Tartar TRL 046)

  TCHAIKOVSKY orch Taneyev: Do you not hear the nightingale?, from Romeo & Juliet - Suzanne Murphy (sop), Keith Lewis (ten), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8476)

  DAQUIN: Le Coucou - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

  RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite - New Zealand SO/JoAnn Falletta (Koch International 3-7368)

  J RITCHIE: Snow Goose - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  STRAVINSKY: Lullaby & Finale, from Firebird Suite - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  French baritone, Gérard Souzay

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 24 - with Dalton Baldwin (pno) (rec 1956) (Testament SBT 1314)

  RAVEL: Two Hebrew melodies - with Paris Conservatoire Orch/André Vandernoot (EMI CDM 7 63112)

  GOUNOD: Chanson de printemps; Venise; O ma belle rebelle; Viens! les gazons sont verts! - Jacqueline Bonneau (pno) (Decca 440 419)

  SCHUBERT: Der Jüngling an der Quelle D300; Der Wanderer an der Mond D870; Der Schiffer D536; Ganymed D544; Nacht und Träume D827 - with Jacqueline Bonneau (pno) (rec 1953) (Testament SBT 1313)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Made in New Zealand

  Nathan Haines (saxophone), Ron Samsom (drums), Lyrica Choir, New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich

  HARRIS: Cento; HILL: The Moon's Golden Horn; DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: These arms to hold you (première performance); FARQUHAR: Waltz & Finale, from Ring Round the Moon; CRESSWELL: Ylur; PSATHAS: Saxophone Concerto No 1, Omnifenix (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Solo Cello

  BACH: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 - David Kenedy (cello) (Signum SIGCD 091)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  LISZT: Paganini Etude No 6 in A minor, Theme & Variations - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67370)

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 - Hugh McLean (org), CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records SMCD 5163)

  MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.211)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 - Anne Gastinel (cello), François-Frédéric Guy (pno) (Naïve V 4817)

  BEETHOVEN arr anon: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Locrian Ensemble (Guild GMCD 7274)

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