Monday 3 March 2008 Rāhina 3 Poutū-te-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  DELIUS: Brigg Fair; A Song Before Sunrise; The Walk to Paradise Garden; A Song of Summer; In a Summer Garden; Summer Night on a River - Philharmonia/Owain Arwel Hughes (ASV CD CDA 627)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  MOZART: Fantasia in C minor K475; HAYDN: Sonata in G HobXVI/40; DUSSEK: Sonata in B flat Op 9/1; MOZART: Sonata in C K330; Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op 13, Pathétique - Kemp English (ftpno) (Manu CD MANU 5001)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  RAMINSH: Songs of the Lights; Song; The Great Sea; Come, My Light; Ave Maria; Ave verum corpus; Magnificat - Sandra Graham (mezzo), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orch/Jon Washburn (CBC SMCD 5116)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  JOLIVET: Five Incantations; Incantation; Chant de Linos for flute & piano; Sonata for flute & piano; Ascèses - Manuela Weisler (fl), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 549)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Love theme, from Romeo & Juliet; Waltz, from Serenade for Strings; None but the lonely heart; Piano Concerto No 1, Andantino semplice; Souvenir de Florence, Adagio; Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker; String Quartet No 1, Andante cantabile; Chant sans paroles; Dance of the Mirlitons, from The Nutcracker; Elegie for strings; Valse sentimentale; Preghiera, from Suite No 4, Mozartiana; Dance of the Queen of the Swans, from Swan Lake; Panorama, from Sleeping Beauty; Symphony No 6, Pathetique, Allegro con grazia - Various artists (London 440 366)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Ambrose Op 4/2 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 59 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 44544)

  GIULIANI: Introduction & Variations on a favourite waltz for guitar & string quartet Op 103 - Edoardo Catemario (gtr), members of Vienna Academy (Arts Music 47688)

  MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 4 in A - Henk de Graaf (cl), Rotterdam Amadeus Ensemble/Marien van Staalen (Brilliant Classics 93337)

  BERWALD: Play of the elves - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

  7:00 BLISS: Welcome the Queen - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9896)

  GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno) (Avie AV 2131)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Catherine Mackintosh (vln), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 475 7693)

  STRAUSS trans Godowsky: Ständchen Op 17/2 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Philips 456 781)

  ENESCU: Rumanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - Detroit SO/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 087)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: EDWARDS: Cadenza - Chorale, from Maninyas - Dene Olding (vln), Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC 472 610)

  LANE: A Maritime Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225185)

  J STRAUSS II arr Schoenberg: Roses from the South, Waltz - Leonore Aumaier (pno), Alfred Mitterhofer (harmonium), members of the Vienna String Quintet (CPO 999 588)

  GURIDI: An adventure of Don Quixote - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557110)

  SCHUMANN: Blumenstück Op 19 - András Schiff (pno) (Teldec 4509 99176)

  ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner (RCA 60387 2 RG)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Month

  LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

  Leonore Overture No 1 - Bavarian Radio SO/Colin Davis (CBS MDK 44790)

  String Quartet in C# minor Op 131 - Juilliard String Quartet (Testament SBT 1373)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: Symphony No 39 in Eb K543 - Berlin Phil/Karl Böhm (DG 427 241)

  GADE: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 56 - Anton Kontra (vln), Malmö SO/Paavo Järvi (BIS BIS CD 672)

  JANÁCEK: Mládí - Prague Wind Quintet, Zbynek Cícha (bass cl) (Praga PRD 350 031)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird - Columbia SO/Igor Stravinsky (CBS MK 42432)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223522)

  GÓRECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Susan Gritton (sop), Royal Phil/Yuri Simonov (RegisC 1284)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10 - English CO/Benjamin Britten (rec 1967) (Decca 417 509)

  Diversions for piano left hand Op 21 - Leon Fleisher (pno), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (rec 1990) (Sony SK 47188)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  YSAŸE: Elegaic Poem in D minor Op 12 - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Trust TRI 3003)

  PURCELL: O let me weep!, from The Fairy Queen - Rosalind Salas (sop), Restoration (Meridian CDE 84316)

  RACHMANINOV: Elégie in Eb minor Op 3/1, from Five Fantasy Pieces Op 3 - Elen Rapoport (pno) (Private recording ER 0001)

  HOWELLS: Elegy for viola, string quartet & string orch - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)

  LILBURN: Elegy - Paul Whelan (bar), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2023)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

  TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Scottish Chamber Orch/Jahja Ling (Telarc CD 80227)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D935/2 - Wilhelm Kempff (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4114)

  LISZT trans Milstein: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - Rachel Barton Pine (vln) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

  GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore; Irish tune from County Derry (Danny Boy); Shepherd's Hey - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick (ASV White Line CD WHL 2067)

  HANDEL: Son qual stanco, from Arianna in Creta - Emma Kirkby (sop), Angela East (cello), Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 67128)

  BARBER: Adagio for Strings - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Solveig's Song, from Peer Gynt Op 23; Ingrid's Lament Op 55/1 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  RACHMANINOV: At the gates of the holy cloister - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Howard Shelley (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9374)

  SIBELIUS: At the Castle Gate, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 5 45493)

  TRAD arr Fliarkovsky: Kalitka (The Garden Gate) - mezzo soloist with Glinka Choir, Leningrad/Vladislav Tchemushenko (Teldec 9031 73241)

  YAMADA: The Dark Gate - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555350)

  HARRIS: I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year - Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle/Timothy Byram-Wigfield (Naxos 8.570148)

  MUSSORGSKY arr Stokowski: The Great Gate of Kiev, from Pictures at an Exhibition - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Eric Kunzel (Telarc CD 80338)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Month

  William Dart looks at the life & music of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) (RNZ)

  Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Olli Mustonen (pno/dir), Tapiola Sinfonietta (Ondine ODE 1099)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Brentano String Quartet

  MONTEVERDI arr Steinberg: Four Madrigals; HAYDN: String Quartet in G Op 64/4; FRANK: Quijotadas (world première)

  (Interval interview: Composer Gabriela Frank talks with Upbeat's Eva Radich)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 127 (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:05 PM. Day's End

  TURINA: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.557150)

  BACH arr Standage: Concerto in D for three violins BWV1064 - Micaela Comberti, Miles Golding (vlns), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir/vln) (Chandos CHAN 0594)

  DVORÁK arr Burghauser: Waltzes Op 54 - Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 3867)

  11:00 RAFF: Violin Sonata No 3 in D Op 128 - Ariadne Daskalakis (vln), Roglit Ishay (pno) (Tudor 7122)

  FARRENC: Piano Quintet No 2 in E - Linos Ensemble (CPO 999 194)

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