Thursday 20 March 2008 Rāpare 20 Poutū-te-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  GOODWIN: Theme from 633 Squadron; Drake 400 Suite; Puppet Serenade; New Zealand Suite; Arabian Celebration; Venus Waltz; Prisoners of War March; Minuet in Blue; Theme from The Trap; Girl with a Dream; Theme from Lancelot & Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78; Violin Sonata No 2 in A Op 100; Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Vladimir Ashenazy (pno) (EMI CDC 747 403)

  2:10 (approx) - Disc 3

  PARRY: The Soul's Ransom; The Lotus Eaters - Della Jones (sop), David Wilson-Johnson (bar), London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 8990)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  DEBUSSY: Iberia; Nocturnes; RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole - French National Radio Orch, London SO/Leopold Stokowski (EMI CDC 7 47423)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  CHOPIN: Prelude No 25 in C# minor; Prelude in Ab; Impromptus, in Ab; in F#; in Gb; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor; Barcarolle in F#; Nocturnes, in C# minor; in F minor; in Eb; Waltzes, in Eb; in Ab; in E; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise - Peter Frankl (pno) (ASV CD DCA 781)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 COLES: Scherzo in A minor - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67293)

  SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op 89 - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 474 814)

  J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  TRIEBENSEE: Trio in F - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor anglais) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

  BECK: Sinfonia in C Op 1/6 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  7:00 CHERUBINI: Ali Baba, Overture - CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-9513)

  WEBER: Clarinet Concertino in Eb Op 26 - Martin Fröst (cl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1523)

  HOFFSTETTER attr Haydn arr Rieu: Serenade, from String Quartet in F Op 3/5 - André Rieu & his Orch (Universal 589 306)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 21 in E minor K304 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Philharmonia/Robert Irving (EMI 5 66120)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: WOLF arr Gottwald: Das verlassene Mägdlein - Accentus Chamber Choir/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 4947)

  DVORÁK: Nocturne in B for strings Op 40 - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7123)

  TURINA: Mujeres de Sevilla Op 89 - David Buechner (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4186)

  MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in F minor Op 113 - Thea King (cl), Georgina Dobrée (basset horn), London SO/Alun Francis (Hyperion CDA 66022)

  PONCE trans Ramos: Mexican Scherzo - John Williams (gtr) (Sony MLK 66704)

  SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - National Youth Orch of Great Britain/Roger Norrington (BBC Music BBC MM 259)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Month

  LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

  Tarpeja, excerpts - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (Simax PSC 1282)

  Christ on the Mount of Olives - Luba Orgonasova (sop), Plácido Domingo (ten), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Berlin Radio Choir, German SO, Berlin/Kent Nagano (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1802)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 7 in C Op 60, Leningrad - West German Radio SO/Rudolf Barshai (RegisC 1074)

  PÄRT: For Alina - Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591)

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 2 in A - Emanuel Ax (pno), Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony SK 53289)

  BRUCH: Swedish Dances Op 63 - Gewandhaus Orch, Leipzig/Kurt Masur (Philips 420 932)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor BWV1056 - Maria João Pires (pno), Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation CO/Michel Corboz (Erato 4509 96949)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 53258)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Jaap Schröder (vln), Christopher Hogwood (fpno) (rec 1978) (Explore EXP 0015)

  Three Piano Pieces D946 - Maria João Pires (pno) (rec 1997) (DG 477 6607)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  DEBUSSY: Syrinx; La Plus que lente - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Anthony Ferner)

  FARQUHAR: Magpies & other Birds - Jones & Co (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 27 in G K379 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  ELGAR: Nursery Suite - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  LILBURN: Festival Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier - Ilkka Talvi (vln), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

  MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Kremerata Musica (DG 447 112)

  BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No 6 in D - Roby Lakatos (vln), Ernest Bangó (cymbalon), Kálmán Cséki (pno), Oszkár Németh (dbass), László Bóni (vln) (DG 457 879)

  BINGE: Venetian Carnival - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

  WAGNER: Die Frist ist um, from The Flying Dutchman - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), New Zealand SO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

  STRAVINSKY: Russian Dance, from Petrushka - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

  ALBINONI: Violin Concerto in F Op 9/10 - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), European Chamber Soloists/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

  BARRY: The Day the Earth Fell Silent - English CO/John Barry (London 460 009)

  BURGON: At the round earth's imagined corners - Catherine Hart (sop), Alan Thomas (tpt), David Bednall (org) (Hyperion CDA 67567)

  SCULTHORPE: Earth Cry - William Barton (didgeridoo), Queensland Orch/Michael Christie (ABC 476 192)

  PURCELL: When I am laid in earth, from Dido & Aeneas - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), English CO/John Barbirolli (EMI CDZ 7 67253)

  SUPPÉ: Under the Earth, Overture - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223863)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Ravel's Spanish Hour

  Heath Lees introduces the clockmaker Torquemada, his wife and her lovers … (RNZ)

• 7:30 PM. Passing Time

  PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1327)

  CHOPIN: Waltz in Db Op 64/1, Minute - Maria João Pires (pno) (Erato 4509 94692)

  KODÁLY: Viennese Musical Clock, from Háry János - Hungarian State Orch/Mátyás Antal (Classic CD ISSUE 80)

  GLASS: Morning passages, from the film The Hours - Michael Riesman (pno), Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), soundtrack orch/Nick Ingman (Nonesuch 79693)

  PROKOFIEV: Waltz & Clock Scene, from Cinderella - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Choristers of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Tudor Consort, GateSeven Contemporary Music Ensemble/Alastair Carey

  CHILCOTT: Canticles of Light; BACH: Chorale, Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden; DUNLOP: From Fear Awaits Release; PALESTRINA: Credo, from Missa O Rex Gloriae; MORGAN: Crucifixus; BACH arr Body: Chorale, O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross; ANON arr Body: Pange Lingua Gloriosi; BARNETT-MCINTOSH: Sanctus; MACMILLAN: Seven Last Words from the Cross (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:40 PM. Paris

  MOZART: Symphony No 31 in D K297 - English CO/Daniel Barenboim (EMI 3 50917)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in Eb HobXV/30 - Robert Levin (fpno), Vera Beths (vln), Anner Bylsma (cello) (Sony SK 53120)

  RODRIGO: Concierto pastoral - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling (BIS SACD 1559)

  MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - English CO/Alfredo Bonavera (Hyperion CDA 66290)

  11:00 WEISS: Lute Sonata No 15 in Bb - Robert Barto (lute) (Naxos 8.557806)

  PALESTRINA: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67610)

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