Saturday 1 December 2007 Rāhoroi 1 Hakihea 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  BERWALD: Tragic Overture, Estrella de Soria; Reminiscences from the Norwegian Mountains; Racing; Symphony No 2 in D, Sinfonie capricieuse; Symphony No 4 in Eb - Royal Phil/Ulf Björlin (EMI CDM 5 65866)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  CLEMENTI: Preludio, alla Haydn from Op 19; Sonata in F minor Op 13/6; Capriccio in Bb Op 17; Sonata in G minor Op 34/2; Preludio, alla Mozart from Op19; Sonata in F Op 33/2; Fantasia on "Au Clair de la Lune" Op 48 - Andreas Staier (fpno) (Teldec 3984 26731)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  RUTTER: The Reluctant Dragon - Richard Baker (narr), Jeremy Jackman (Boy), Bill Ives (Dragon), Anthony Holt (Saint George), Simon Carrington (Master of Ceremonies), King's Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox; RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narr), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter; RUTTER: The Wind in the Willows - Richard Baker (narr), Anthony Holt (Rat), Alastair Hume (Mole), Colin Mason (Badger), Bill Ives (Toad), Simon Carrington (Magistrate), Jeremy Jackman (Gaoler's daughter), King's Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Collegium COLCD 115)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  CORELLI: Sonatas, in F Op 3/1; in D Op3/2; in C Op 4/1; in G minor Op 4/2; in Bb Op 3/3; in B minor Op 3/4; in A Op 4/3; in D Op 4/4; in D minor Op 3/5; in G Op 3/6; in A minor Op 4/5; in E Op 4/6 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0526)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  NEILSEN: Prelude to the second act of Saul & David; Rapsodisk Ouverture; The Mother; Little suite for strings Op 1; Pan & Syriux Op 49; En Sagadrøm; Overture, Prelude & Dance of the Cockrells from Maskarade - Odense SO/Tamás Vetö (Big Ben 571 011)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/5 - Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7228/29)

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

  GIBBONS: A Ground; The Italian Ground; ANON: Chi Passa, from Dublin Virginal Book c1570 - Robert Petre (hpschd) (Meridian CDE 84316)

  SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op 87 - Pekka Kuusisto (vln/dir), Tapiola Sinfonietta (Ondine ODE 1074)

  TOMLINSON: An English Overture - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223413)

  7:00 BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 10416)

  GROKHOVSKY: Russian Caprice - Valery Grokhovsky (pno), Moscow Radio SO/Vyacheslav Grokhovsky (Campion CAMEO 2016)

  PIERNÉ: March of the Little Lead Soldiers - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66998)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 1 in C Op 49 - St Petersburg String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67158)

  BRIDGE: Two poems - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

  8:00 PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

  CHOPIN arr Sarasate: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2 - Joanna Madroszkiewicz (vln), Paul Gulda (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1296)

  GÓRECKI: Second movement, Lento e largo-Tranquillissimo, from Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Dawn Upshaw (sop), London Sinfonietta/David Zinman (Nonesuch 7559 79282)

  BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565 - Hans Fagius (organ of Fredrikskyrkan, Karlskrona, Sweden) (BIS CD 1544)

  BIZET arr Guiraud: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Igor Markevitch (Philips 420 863)

• 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

  VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in G RV413 - Ofra Harnoy (cello), Toronto CO/Richard Stamp (RCA 09026 68228)

  BARBER: Ten hermit songs Op 29 - Leontyne Price (sop), Samuel Barber (pno) (rec 1953) (RCA 09026 61983)

  ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

  SCHUBERT: Auf dem Strom D943 - Ian Bostridge (ten), Timothy Brown (horn), Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 57266)

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  CORNELIUS: Christmas Songs, Christmas tree; The shepherds; The three Kings; Simeon; Christ the friend of children; The Christ child - Peter Schreier (ten), Norman Shetler (pno) (Eurodisc 69013-2-RG)

  ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 - William Squire (cello), Hallé Orch/Hamilton Harty (rec 1928) (Novello NVLCO 901)

  (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

  (13) European Soundscapes

  Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra adapt both the folk and popular songs of Europe and Russia, works by Duke Ellington, John Lewis, Gil Evans/Miles Davis and Igor Stravinsky's rarely heard Ebony Concerto, originally written for the Woody Herman Orchestra. Italian saxophone sensations Stefano Di Battista and 14-year-old Francisco Cafiso join the proceedings for La Paloma and Bluesette (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Kantuketan, in Quest of Singing

  Songs and Music of the Basque Country

  Two programmes looking at the crucial place of singing and music in everyday Basque life. More than any other artistic discipline, the art of singing conveys the rich sonorities of the Basque language. It is a combination of several generations and styles, a mixture of "wild songs" without words, sophisticated choral singing, improvisations, pastorals and newer song forms (1) (Harmonia Mundi C 560202/03)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2007

  Final Round Concert with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Christian Knapp

  The top three violinists from the semi-final round: Stefan Hempel, Bella Hristova & Yuuki Wong. All three chose to play the BRAHMS Violin Concerto in D Op 77 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 6:10 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  BESSER: Dance of the Zestniks - Zestniks (Besser Music)

  A RITCHIE: Symphony No 1, Boum - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  A SCHUMANN edition

  Schön Blümelein Op 43/3; Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär Op 43/1; Wiegenlied Op 78/4; Mailied Op 79/9; So wahr die Sonne Op 37/12; Ich denke Dein Op 78/3; In der Nacht Op 74/4 - Edith Mathis (sop), Hidenori Komatsu (bar), Cord Garben (pno) (CPO 999 262)

  Ballade des Harfners; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass; Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Die Löwenbraut - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33102)

  Die Kartenlegerin Op 31/2; Blondels Lied Op 53/1; Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op 135 - Juliane Banse (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33103)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Michael Kirgan (tpt), Freddy Kempf (pno), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  CRESSWELL: Alas! How Swift (première performance); PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 16; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  STRAVINSKY: Suite italienne - Michal Kanka (cello), Jaromír Klepác (pno) (Praga PRD 350 015)

  M HAYDN: Flute Concerto in D - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Haydn Ensemble, Berlin/Hansjörg Schellenberger (dir) (EMI CDC 5 56577)

  MOZART: Symphony No 25 in G minor K183 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 717)

  11:00 MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No 2 in C minor Op 66 - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67485)

  BRUCH: Octet in Bb Op posth - Kodály Quartet, members of the Auer Quartet, Zsolt Fejérvári (dbass) (Naxos 8.557270)

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