Monday 4 February 2008 Rāhina 4 Hui-tanguru 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No 2 in C minor Op29 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 218)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  WIDOR: Toccata from Symphony No 5 in F minor; HARWOOD: Sonata No 1 in C# minor; PARRY: Chorale Prelude; STATHAM: Rhapsody on a Ground; WALFORD DAVIES: Solemn Melody; ELGAR arr Gower: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations; MENDELSSOHN: First movemnet, from Organ Sonata in A Op 65/3; MENDELSSOHN arr Best: War March of the Priests, from Athalia; SUMSION: Ceremonial March - Robert Costin (organ of the Wellington Town Hall) (Kiwi Pacific CD TRL 076)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  BIBER: Missa Salisburensis; Sonata tam aris quam aulis servientes: Sonata No 12 & Sonata No 5; Sancti Polycarpi; Plaudite tympana - Gabarieli Consort & Players, Musica Antiqua Cologne/Paul McCreesh (Archiv 471 632)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  HAYDN: Piano Trios, No 40 in F# minor Op 73/3; No 37 in D Op 71/3; No 36 in Eb Op 71/2 - Jérome Hantaï (fpno), Philippe Couvert (vln), Alix Verzier (cello) (Naïve E 8811)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  STOKOWSKI TRANSCRIPTIONS:

  BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor; Prelude in Eb minor; Geistliches Lied, Mein Jesu; Chorale Prelude, Wir glauben all' an einen Gott (Giant Fugue); Chorale from Easter Cantata; Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor; BYRD: Pavan, The Earl of Salisbury & Galliard; CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary; SCHUBERT: Moment Musical No 3 in F minor; CHOPIN: Mazurka in A minor Op 17/4; TCHAIKOVSKY: Chant sans paroles; DUPARC: Extase; RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Howard Snell (tpt), David Gray (horn), Czech Phil; London SO/Leopold Stokowski (London 448 946)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PERGOLESI: Flamino, Sinfonia - St Cecilia CO/Alessio Vlad (Europa Musica 350 262)

  REGONDI: Introduction & Caprice Op 23 - Anabel Montesinos (gtr) (Naxos 8.557294)

  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)

  RACHMANINOV arr Wild: The little island Op 14/2; Vocalise Op 34/14 - Earl Wild (pno) (Ivory Classics 64405 74001)

  CURTIS: Little Dance Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion Cameo 2035)

  7:00 ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve E 8853)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Rouben Aharonian (vln), Irina Kandinskaja (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 39110)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Philadelphia Orch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)

  MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Domus (Virgin VC 7 90739)

  ARAMBARRI: Spanish Fantasy - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557275)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: ELGAR arr Cameron: Lux aeterna - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 0039)

  BAX: The Happy Forest - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557599)

  BRAHMS arr Kennedy/Lenehan/Messiter: Hungarian Dance No 5 in F# minor - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), Greg Knowles (cimbalon/hand perc), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

  S WESLEY: Variations in Bb on God save the King - Jennifer Bate (organ of St James' Church, Bermondsey, London) (Somm SOMMCD 036)

  SCHUBERT trans for cello: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen D343; Die Forelle D550; Der Doppelgänger D957/13 - Anne Gastinel (cello), Claire Désert (pno) (Naïve V 5021)

  WALDTEUFEL: In the Clouds, Waltz Op 208 - Czecho-Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223438)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  ALFVÉN: A Country Tale, Concert Suite from film score - Norrköping SO/Niklas Willén (Naxos 8.557828)

  BACH: Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 - Andrew Manze (vln/dir), Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7155)

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 52, Hymn of Praise - Annegeer Stumphius, Young-Hee Kim (sops), Matthias Bleidorn (ten), Dutch Radio Philharmonic Chorus & Orch/Edo de Waart (Brilliant Classics 99926)

  RAVEL: Rapsodie Espagnole - Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pno duo) (DG 427 259)

  SHCHEDRIN: Carmen Suite - Strings & Percussion of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Moscow/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya 74321 36908)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 2 Op 16, The Four Temperaments - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 477 5514)

  CHOPIN: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Emanuel Ax (pno), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Mackerras (Sony SK 63371)

  HANDEL: E vivo ancora...Scherza infida, from Ariodante - David Daniels (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Virgin VC 5 45326)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A - Daniil Shafran (cello), Anton Ginzburg (pno) (rec 1982) (Brilliant Classics 93096)

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2 - Daniil Shafran (cello), USSR State SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (rec 1961) (Brilliant Classics 93096)

• 4:00 PM. Made in

  NZ musicians and composers

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

  T EVANS: Geräuschvoll - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

  A RITCHIE: As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  GERSHWIN arr Bennett: Porgy & Bess, A Symphonic Picture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7123)

  SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Jean-François Monnard (Naxos 8.553039)

  PUCCINI: Humming Chorus, from Madame Butterfly - Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 421 247)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 37 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67371/2)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Virgin VC 7 91487)

  TELEMANN: Motet, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott TWV8/7 - Vocalensemble Rastatt, Les Favorites/Holger Speck (Carus 83.166)

  TRAD arr Ashmore: Greensleeves - Richard Stolzman (cl), Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter (dir) (RCA RD 60437)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ed Hogger: The People's Land film music - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10007)

  PROKOFIEV: Flourish mighty land Op 114 - Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 10056)

  KETÈLBEY: In the Mystic Land of - New Symphony Orch of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)

  LEHÁR: Dance while you may, from The Land of Smiles - Marilyn Hill Smith (sop), Chandos Concert Orch/Stuart Barry (Chandos CHAN 8759)

  CADMAN trans Yost: From the land of the sky-blue water Op 45/1 - Peter Zazofsky (vln), Paul Posnak (pno) (Naxos 8.559067)

  SIBELIUS: Our Native Land Op 92 - Ellerhein Girls' Choir, Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 5 45561)

• 7:00 PM. Best of Composer of the Week 2007

  Eight programmes

  (5) Emma Sayers looks at the life and music of GYÖRGY KURTÁG (b1926) (RNZ)

  String Quartet Op 1 - Arditti String Quartet (Disques Montaigne 789 007)

  György Kroó in memoriam - Pascal Gallois (bsn) (Stradivarius STR 33625)

  Stele Op 33 - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 447 761)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  NZTrio: Justine Cormack (vln), Ashley Brown (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3; WHITEHEAD: Piano Trio; TAKEMITSU: Between Tides; SMETANA: Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. Serenata Notturna

  MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239 - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (Testament SBT 1094)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 2 - Rosa Torres-Pardo (pno) (Naxos 8.554313)

  NERUDA: Cello Concerto No 3 in A Op 60 - Beate Altenburg (cello), Dessau Anhalt Phil/Golo Berg (CPO 777 192)

  BECK: Symphony in Bb Op 4/2 - La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider (CPO 777 033)

  11:00 TALLIS: Missa Salve intemerata - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557770)

  MARAIS: Suite No 7 in G, from Book III of Pieces for Viol - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Ton Koopman (hpschd), Hopkinson Smith (theorbo) (Auvidis Astrée E 8761)

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