Saturday 22 March 2008 Rāhoroi 22 Poutū-te-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  FARQUHAR: String Quartet; Magpies and Other Birds; Suite for Guitar; In Despite of Death; Echoes and Reflections - John Mills (gtr), David Griffiths (bar), Terence Dennis (pno), New Zealand String Quartet, New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  DVORÁK: Piano Trio in F minor Op 65; Piano Trio in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Emanuel Ax (pno), Young Uck Kim (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (CBS MK 44527)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  PALIASHVILI: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Arshavskaya (Olympia OCD 483)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  LECLAIR: Overture No 1 in G; Sonata No 1 in B minor; Overture No 2 in D; Sonata No 2 in A; Overture No 3 in D; Sonata No 3 in G minor - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0542)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  CHOPIN arr Godowsky: Etudes, No 7; No 8; No 19; No 31 for the left hand; No 45; SCHUBERT arr Godowsky: Good Night; Litany; Music for Rosamunde; STRAUSS arr Godowsky: Serenade; ALBÉNIZ arr Godowsky: Tango; LOEILLES arr Godowsky: Gigue from Renaissance; GODOWSKY: Passacaglia; Prelude & Fugue on BACH for left hand; Etude Macabre; Puppet Shadow Plays; The Gardens of Buitenzorg from Suite Java - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Musica Viva MVCD 1026)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CHERUBINI: Il Giulio Sabino, Overture - Bacau Phil/Silvano Frontalini (Nuova Era 6819)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - John Anderson (ob), Philharmonia/Simon Wright (Nimbus NI 1757)

  DEBUSSY: Intermezzo - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Robert Kulek (pno) (EMI 5 75201)

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

  HERSCHEL: Symphony No 14 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

  7:00 DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 72/8 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

  BELLINI arr Smedvig: Second movement, Allegro, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Scottish CO/Jahja Ling (Telarc CD 80550)

  FARRENC: Air russe varié Op 17 - Konstanze Eickhorst (pno) (CPO 999 879)

  MATTEIS: Sett of Ayres - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 126)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Academic SO of St Petersburg Philharmony 'Shostakovich'/Alexander Dmitriev (Sony MLK 64055)

  8:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 6511)

  HAMILTON: Pioneer Spirit - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

  A MARCELLO: Concerto No 1 in D, from La Cetra - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0563)

  MOZART: Variations in C on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman K265 - Ingrid Haebler (pno) (Philips 422 726)

  BRIDGE: Lament; Sir Roger de Coverley - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 242)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 155)

  ZELENKA: Missa Dei filii - Nancy Argenta (sop), Michael Chance (countertenor), Christoph Prégardien (ten), Gordon Jones (bass), Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik/Frieder Bernius (DHM RD 77922)

  PLEYEL: Sinfonia Concertante in D - Evgeny Bushkov (vln/dir), Viktor Kozodov (cello), Moscow Concertino (Profil PH 07067)

  ROSSINI: The Cats' Duet, Duetto buffo di due gatti - Victoria de los Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sops), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49238)

  MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/6, Venetian Gondola Song - Luba Edlina (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8948/9)

  BACH: Cantata No 80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott - Felicity Palmer (sop), Helen Watts (contralto), Robert Tear (ten), Michael Rippon (bass), Amor Artis Chorale, English CO/Johannes Somary (Vanguard Records VCD 72000)

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in F HWV295, The Cuckoo & the Nightingale - Simon Preston (org), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 413 468)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

  Host Wynton Marsalis offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (12) Cyrus Chestnut and Benny Green

  Solo piano by two modern masters: Cyrus Chestnut and Benny Green offer a veritable history of jazz styles - rags, strides and stomps - without missing beat. Benny Green's classicism reminds us of the keyboard mastery of Wynton Kelly and Oscar Peterson. Cyrus Chestnut churns in a soulful performance steeped in gospel (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Novo fado: a new approach to Portugal's urban folk music

  In their CD Fado Ladino, Portugese group RosaNegra mix the traditional Portugese style with musical influences from south Europe and the Mediterranean, and North African rhythms (ARC Music EUCD 2046)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Two programmes from the 2006 New Zealand Young Composer Awards, in which Rebecca Blundell talks with the composers about their works

  (1) ANDREW BALDWIN: A Prelude for Spring Op 5; PIETA HEXTALL: Bridge of Remembrance; JUNE DAMS: Kaleidoscope of Truth; CORWIN NEWALL: Race Against Fire; TONY LIN: Gumboot Waltz - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by NZSO)

• 4:05 PM. Pastoral Idylls

  MONCKTON arr Wood: The Arcadians, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2133)

  TAFFANEL: Andante pastorale & Scherzettino - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

  RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé - French Radio Chorus & Phil/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 477 5706)

  ROSSINI: Prélude semipastorale, from Album de Château - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 24106)

  P SCHARWENKA: Arcadian Suite - Gävle SO/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1071)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: A Birthday Offering - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  SCHUMANN: Canon in B minor Op 56/5 - Max Kenworthy (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Max Kenworthy)

  GRAINGER: Brigg Fair - Ross Hinton (ten), Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1516)

  PONCE: Sonata romantica - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  PRUDEN: Birthday Disguises - NZSO Chamber Orch (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  SCHUBERT: Winterreise D911 - Hans Jörg Mammel (ten), Arthur Schoonderwoerd (fpno) (Alpha 101)

• 8:10 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Peter Watts

  Beethoven's Piano Trio No 7, Archduke (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Music Alive

  Kungsbacka Trio: Malin Broman (vln), Jesper Svedberg (cello), Simon Crawford-Phillips (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 7 in Bb Op 97, Archduke; FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi; BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:15 PM. Day's End

  STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - Cecil Aronowitz (vla), William Pleeth (cello), Amadeus Quartet (BBC Legends BBCL 4061)

  FRANCHOMME: Variations on Russian & Scottish Themes - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

  SIBELIUS: Tapiola - Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 8395/96)

  11:00 FUX: Sonata a Santo Sepolcro K376 - Armonico Tributo Austria/Lorenz Duftschmid (dir) (CPO 999 850)

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

  HAYDN: String Quartet in D minor Op 76/2, Fifths - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI CDC 5 56166)

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