Friday 21 March 2008 Rāmere 21 Poutū-te-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor, Unfinished; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica - BBC Phil/Stephen Kovacevich, Gunther Herbig (BBC Music MM 136)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor; String Quintet in E Op 1 - Joachim Griesheimer (cello), Mannheim String Quartet (CPO 999 352)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  MUSSORGSKY: Songs & Dances of Death; The Nursery; The Puppet-Show; The Seminarist; Darling Savishna; The He-Goat, A Wordly Story; Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51229)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  G GABRIELLI: Canzona noni toni; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3; MANFREDINI: Concerto in G minor Op 3/10; ALBINONI: Concerto in A minor Op 5/5; TORELLI: Concerto musicale in D minor Op 6/10; LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 1/9; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 436 224)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  GINASTERA: Piezas Infantiles; Milonga, from Dos Canciones Op 3; Tres Piezas Op 6; Malambo Op 7; Suite de Criollas Op 15; Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos Op 19; Piano Sonata No 2 Op 53; Toccata; Piano Sonata No 3 Op 55 - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 880)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CANNABICH: Symphony No 52 in E - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

  MOZART: Rondo in C K373 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas (BIS SACD 1539)

  GRIEG: At your feet; Cradle song, from Lyric Pieces Op 68 - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

  L LIEBERMANN: Sonata for flute & harp Op 56 - Alexa Still (fl), Victoria Drake (harp) (Koch 3-7549)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6/4 - ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Brilliant Classics 99986)

  7:00 HARTY: A Comedy Overture - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

  PAGANINI: Introduction & Variations on Dal tuo stellato, from Moses in Egypt by Rossini - Salvatore Accardo (vln), CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi (EMI 7 67567)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: March past of the kitchen utensils, from The Wasps - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 246)

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet before parting; Masks, from Ten Pieces from Romeo & Juliet Op 75 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 468 497)

  MCLEOD: Cambridge Suite - National Youth Orchestra/Juan Matteucci (Kiwi SLC 72)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH arr Koopman: Erbarme dich, from St Matthew Passion - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Sony SK 60680)

  WAGNER: Good Friday Music, from Parsifal - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 452 625)

  DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - Chilingirian Quartet (Chandos CHAN 8874)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in F# minor Op 44 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 421 032)

  HOFMANN: Symphony in Bb Bradley Bb1 - Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553866)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Month

  LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

  Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 - Anna Tomowa-Sintow (sop), Patricia Payne (mezzo), Robert Tear (ten), Robert Lloyd (bass), London SO & Chorus/Colin Davis (Philips 438 362)

• 10:35 AM. The Works

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105 - Adelaide SO/Arvo Volmer (ABC 476 6167)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 1 in D K412 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1946)

  BRAHMS: Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor Op 5 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Gold CV-S 006G)

  SUK: Fantastic scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 8897)

• Noon Live! At the Concertgebouw

  Arcadi Volodos (pno), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Mikhail Pletnev

  HOROWITZ: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen; RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 6 in C minor Op 58 (recorded in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam by Radio Netherlands)

  GRIEG: Third movement, Allegro moderato molto e marcato, from Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno), Rotterdam Phil/Hans Vonk

  RACHMANINOV: Second movement, Andante con moto, from Symphonic Dances Op 45 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Mariss Jansons (Radio Netherlands)

• 2:10 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ARNOLD: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Suite - London Phil/Vernon Handley (LPO 0013)

  BIBER: The Crucifixion, from The Five Sorrowful Mysteries - Timothy West (reader), Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln), David Roblou (hpschd/org), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo/archlute), Richard Tunnicliffe (viola da gamba/violone) (Avie AV 0038)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50 - Geoffrey Lancaster (fpno) (ABC Classics 465 702)

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

• 3:00 PM. The Passion According to St John

  PÄRT: Passio

  Jesus............................. Richard Alexander

  Pilate............................. Steven Harrold

  Lisette Wesseling (sop), Richard Alexander (bass), Merran Cooke (ob), Colin Hemmingsen (bsn), Helene Pohl (vln), Rolf Gjelsten (cello), Douglas Mews (org), Hilliard Ensemble, Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (recorded at the 2006 New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:45 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  J RITCHIE: Suite No 2 for String Orchestra, Aquarius - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

• 5:00 PM. Early Evening Concert

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Ukraine National SO/Theodore Kuchar (Naxos 8.555923)

  SCHUMANN: Introduction & Allegro appassionato Op 92 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), English CO/Benjamin Britten (BBC Legends BBCL 4196)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - National SO of Ukraine/Theodor Kuchar (Naxos 8.555924)

• 6:00 PM. Lamentations

  D'OLLONE: Lamento - Barcelona SO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-2301)

  FERRABOSCO THE ELDER: Lamentations of Jeremiah - Tudor Consort/Alastair Carey (Tudor Consort)

  BRIDGE: Lament - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.557921)

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

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Pressing On with David Morriss (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Wellington International Jazz Festival 2007

  Seven programmes

  (5) Immaculate Trio

  John Bell (tuba/vibes), Phil Broadhurst (pno), Chris O'Connor (drums)

  As a commission for the Jazz Festival John Bell composed music designed to promote free improvisation between the performers

  BELL: Pram Bite Booby Llama; Nobody's Gone Somewhere; Pan Omega Spaceways; Mind Games; Pasture 348 (recorded in Happy, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. Mackerras Conducts

  MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Linn CKD 308)

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

• 10:05 PM. St John Passion

  BACH's earliest Passion setting, first performed April 1724

  Evangelist...................... Gerd Türk

  Christ............................ Stephan MacLeod

  Pilate............................. Bas Ramselaar

  Caroline Stam (sop), Peter de Groot (countertenor), Charles Daniels (ten), Netherlands Bach Society/Jos van Veldhoven (Channel Classics CCS SA 22005)

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