Monday 25 February 2008 Rāhina 25 Hui-tanguru 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  STRAUSS: Metamorphosen; Three Hymns, Hymne an die Liebe; Ruckkehr in die Heimat; Die Liebe; Death & Transfiguration - Felicity Lott (sop), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8734)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LECLAIR: Sonata in D minor Op 4/1; Sonata in Bb Op 4/2; Sonata in D minor Op 4/3; Sonata in F Op 4/4; Sonata in G minor Op 4/5; Sonata in A Op 4/6 - Purcell Quartet

  (Chandos CHAN 0536)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  OSCAR WILDE: The Happy Prince; The Rose & the Nightingale; The Selfish Giant; VAUGHAN WILLAIMS, GRANADOS: Orchestral Works - John Guilgud (narrator), English String Orch/Youra Guller (Nimbus NI 1797)

  3:20 (approx) - Disc 4

  WELLS: A New Zealand Suite; GRIFFITHS: Meditation on Maria zu leben; Trisagion, Nicaea; LILBURN: Prelude & Fugue in G minor; MEWS: Gigue de Pan; WEBSTER arr Wells: Waikato March; VIERNE: Naïades, Op 55/4; GRAINGER arr Wells: Blythe Bells; HOLLINS: Spring Song; Grand Choeur in C - John Wells (org) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  ARNOLD; The Roots of Heaven; ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances; SARGENT: An Impression of a Windy Day; PARKER: The Glass Slipper; LANGLEY: The Coloured Counties; JACOB: The Barber of Seville Goes to the Devil, Overture; JOHNSTONE: Tarn Hows, Cumbrian Rhapsody; LANGFORD: Two Worlds, Overture; BENNETT: Little Suite; LYON: Joie de Vivre, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2113)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MYSLIVECEK: Symphony in C - Concerto Cologne/Werner Ehrhardt (dir) (Archiv 477 6418)

  LHOYER: Duo Concertant in A Op 31/1 - Philippe Spinosi, Josiane Rabemananjara (gtrs) (Opus 111 OP 30396)

  RACHMANINOV: Hungarian Dance Op 6/2 - Akiko Suwanai (vln), Philip Moll (pno) (Philips 454 480)

  VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in G minor RV439, La Notte - Laura Pontecorvo (fl), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30301)

  SATIE: The Adventures of Mercury - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66365)

  7:00 ALFVÉN: Dance of the Herdmaiden, from The Mountain King - Malmö SO/James DePreist (BIS CD 570)

  MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 5 in D - Henk de Graaf (cl), Rotterdam Amadeus Ensemble/Marien van Staalen (Brilliant Classics 93337)

  BIZET trans Rachmaninov: Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Olga Kern (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7336)

  REED: Fantaisie Brillante - Robert Gibbs (vln), Mary Mei-Loc Wu (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7135)

  HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from The Planets Suite - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PÄRT: Fratres - Moray Welsh, Alastair Blayden, Michael Stirling (cellos) (Sony SK 61753)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Volochayev Days Op 48a, Concert suite from film score - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10183)

  J STRAUSS I: Radetzky March - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5009)

  BIBER: Battalia in D - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 429 230)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Russian Dance, from Swan Lake - Ulana Bashava (vln), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

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

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40 - London SO/Charles Mackerras (Argo 430 835)

  PARRY: Piano Concerto in F# - Piers Lane (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66820)

  CARISSIMI: Oratorio of the most blessed Virgin - Sabrina Guidotti, Barbara Nizzi (sops), Tiziana Somigli (contralto), Roberto Casi, Umberto Nizzi, Francesco Sclaveran (tens), Umberto Baldini, Franco Viciani (basses), Complesso Pro Musica Firenze/Gabriele Micheli (dir) (Brilliant Classics 93354)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - John Georgiadis (vln), London SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (BBC Legends BBCL 4121)

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56b - Polina Leschenko, Martha Argerich (pno duo) (EMI 3 58472)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 48 in C, Maria Theresia - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SCHUBERT: Rondo in A D438 - Yan Pascal Tortelier (vln/dir), Ulster Orch (Chandos CHAN 8792)

  BYRD: Have mercy upon me, O God - Stefan Roberts (treble), Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Fretwork/Bill Ives (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907440)

  YAREB: Sonata for a Good Man; Faces of Love, from the film, The Lives of Others - Jaromír Klepác (pno), City of Prague Phil/Adam Klemens (Varese Sarabande 302 066)

  ANON arr Shoujounian: Joyous Light; arr Yyegmalian/orch Shoujounian: The Lord's Prayer - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler Singers & Chamber Orch/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American - Takács Quartet (Decca 430 077)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  KODÁLY: Dances of Marosszék - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 034)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 7 54273)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

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

  MEWS: Gigue de Pan - Michael Stewart (organ of Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (Michael Stewart)

  BODY: Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT D009)

  RIES: Piano Concerto in Ab Op 151, Gruss an den Rhein - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557638)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  AUBER: The Bronze Horse, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - Geoffrey Lancaster (hpschd/dir), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players (ABC Classics 472 424)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Parisii Quartet (Capriccio 10 454)

  MOZART: Fantasy in D minor K397 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 422 117)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 406)

  VERDI: Questa o quella; Ella mi fu rapita!; La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto - Carlo Bergonzi (ten), New Philharmonia/Nello Santi (Philips 475 6169)

  RACHMANINOV: Scherzo in D minor - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60670)

  WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarentelle in G minor Op 16 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

  LITOLFF: Second movement, Scherzo, from Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor Op 102 - Shura Cherkassky (pno), London Phil/Adrian Boult (Philips 456 745)

  GIGOUT: Scherzo, from Ten Pieces - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

  STRAVINSKY: Scherzo à la Russe - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 470 643)

  GOUNOD: Soldiers' chorus, from Faust - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 266)

  LISZT: CM von Weber's Polonaise brillante - Misha Dichter (pno), Philharmonia/Neville Marriner (Philips 411 123)

  WAGNER: Dance of the Apprentices & Entry of the Masters, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDC 7 47255)

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

  Eight programmes

  (8) Michael Houstoun and Tim Dodd discuss the music of FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-1849) (RNZ)

  Nocturnes Op 48 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Laurence Reese (timpani), Sa Chen (pno), New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart

  PSATHAS: Planet Damnation (première performance & broadcast); MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488; RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TARTINI arr Kreisler: Violin Sonata in G minor, The Devil's Trill - Ida Haendel (vln), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Testament SBT 1258)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Concerto in G for two guitars - Lorenzo Micheli, Massimo Felici (gtrs), Abruzzo Regional SO/Michael Summers (Brilliant Classics 7615)

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Orpheus CO (DG 423 060)

  11:00 BACH: Keyboard Sonata in D minor BWV964 - Anthony Jennings (hpschd) (Trust MMT 2024)

  TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in E minor, from Tafelmusik - Stradivaria/Daniel Cuiller (dir) (Mirare MIR 011)

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