Tuesday 22 January 2008 Rātū 22 Kohi-tātea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphonies, No 9 in C; No 11 in F; No 12 in G minor - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5143)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, in F minor Op 2/1; in A Op 2/2; in C Op 2/3 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011-3)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  VARIOUS:Vêpres à la Vierge en Chine - Shi Kelong (cantor), Cyrille Gerstenhaber (sop), Christophe Laporte (countertenor), Benoît Porcherot, Howard Shelton (tens), Ronan Nédélec (bar), XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières (Chinese and Western instruments), Choir of the North, Beijing/Jean-Christophe Frisch (K617 K617 155)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  ELGAR: String Quartet in E minor Op 83; BRIDGE: Three Idylls; WALTON: String Quartet in A minor - Coull Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66718)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  BACH: Brandenburg Concertos, No 5 in D BWV1050; No 6 in Bb BWV1051; Concertos, in A for oboe d'amore BWV1055; in D minor for violin & oboe BWV1060 - Munich Bach Orch/Karl Richter (Archiv 427 143)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CHABRIER orch Ravel: Menuet pompeux, from Pièces pittoresques - Royal Flemish Phil/Daniele Callegari (Talent DOM 2929 95)

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in F minor HobXV/f1 - Trio 1790 (CPO 777 243)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc CD 80688)

  MIYAGI: Haro No Umi - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

  J SMITH: The Enchanter, Overture & Dead March - Capella Savaria/Mary Térey-Smith (Dorian DOR 93251)

  7:00 BRAHMS arr Wright: Academic Festival Overture Op 80 - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)

  TOMLINSON: Rhapsody & Rondo for horn & orchestra - Richard Watkins (horn), Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223513)

  HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5117)

  GRAINGER: Mock Morris - Kenneth Sillito (vln), Hamish Milne (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9746)

  ROSAS: Sobre las olas, Waltz - Vienna Volksoper Orch/Franz Bauer-Theussl (Philips 412 883)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Plácido Domingo (ten), Rome Theatre Opera Orch, Florence May Festival Orch/Zubin Mehta (Decca 440 072)

  SMETANA: Vysehrad, from Má Vlast - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (Virgin VC 5 45301)

  RACHMANINOV: 18th Variation, from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Bernd Glemser (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Antoni Wit (Warner Classics 8573 80438)

  DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 468 497)

  ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 5 - London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDM 7 64015)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 10 in E minor Op 93 - West German Radio SO/Semyon Bychkov (Avie AV 2137)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Martha Argerich (pno), Chamber Orch of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509 90696)

  MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade No 13 in G K525 - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9846)

  HAYDN: Mass No 11 in D minor, Nelson Mass - Letizia Scherrer (sop), Roxana Constantinescu (contralto), Maximilian Schmidt (ten), Michael Nagy (bass), Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Bach-Collegium/Helmut Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.279)

  BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10 - Kiev CO/Roman Kofman (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1275)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HANDEL: Ode for St Cecilia's Day - Heather Harper (sop), Peter Pears (ten), Keith Harvey (cello), Richard Adeney (fl), Philip Jones (tpt), Julian Bream (lute), Philip Ledger (org/hpschd), Chorus of East Anglian Choirs, English CO/Benjamin Britten (BBC Music BBCB 8009)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Colonge Radio SO/Erich Kleiber (rec 1955) (Medici Arts MM 002)

  BACH: Chorale Partita, Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig BWV768 - Karl Richter (organ of Freiberg Cathedral) (rec 1980) (DG 477 5337)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Gareth Farr (gamelan gongs), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  KREISLER: La Gitana - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu MANU CD 5006)

  SCHUBERT: Ständchen D920 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), National Youth Choir of New Zealand 1982/Peter Godfrey, Roger Vignoles (pno) (Kiwi CD TRL 025)

  RAVEL: Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes - National SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68801)

  GOTTSCHALK ed Rosenberg: Grande Tarantelle Op 67 - Michael Gurt (pno), Hot Springs Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559320)

  ARNOLD: Clarinet Sonatina Op 29 - Gervase de Peyer (cl), Gwenneth Pryor (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8549)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 416 441)

  GRAINGER: Blithe Bells, Free ramble on JS Bach's Sheep may safely graze - Adelaide SO/John Hopkins (ABC 465 680)

  CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Alessandra Marc (sop), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Delos DE 3108)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Russell: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80576)

  FAURÉ: Pavane - Lausanne CO/Armin Jordan (Warner Classics 8573 80438)

  VERDI: Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore - Royal Opera House Chorus & Orch, Covent Garden/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDM 7 69054)

  GRIFFES: Bacchanale - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559164)

  F COUPERIN arr Wallace: Les Bacchanales, from Suite - Equale Brass (Nimbus NIM 5004)

  ACHALINOTOPOULOS arr Psathas: Bacchic, from Zeibekiko, The Greek Concert - Manos Achalinotopoulos (reeds), Vangelis Karipis (perc), Netherlands Wind Ensemble (NBE Live NBECD 014)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 552)

  MOZART: Vivat Bacchus, from Il Seraglio - Gerhard Unger (ten), Vienna Phil/Josef Krips (EMI CDM 5 65679)

  IBERT: Bacchanale - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 440 332)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:00 The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music

  Winner of a Peabody Award and the Prix Italia

  Eight programmes

  (3) Going Electric

  Using resonators, horn attachments, new strings and new materials, people had always been trying to make the quiet and humble guitar louder. Electricity finally did the trick. From early jazz to the age of the rock star, each new innovation expanded the electric guitar's world of sound and cemented its status as one of the iconic symbols of the 20th century

  Featuring the voices of Les Paul, Fruteland Jackson, Martin Tielli and Debashis Bhattacharya (CBC)

  8:00 Lucien Johnson & The Galactic Treasures at the 9th Wellington International Jazz Festival (recorded at Cabaret, Wellington, by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 23

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