Monday 31 March 2008 Rāhina 31 Poutū-te-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan; WAGNER: Prelude to Act 1, Lohengrin; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Franz-Paul Decker (Bell BELL-CD 1991)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  ROSSINI: Waltz in Eb; Thème; Allegretto; Scherzo in A minor; Un Rien; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, Morceau réservés; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 9 - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; A Song of Islands, Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  FUCHS: Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor; Fantasiestücke Op 78; Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb - Nancy Green (cello), Caroline Palmer (pno) (Biddulph LAW 005)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  ELGAR: In the South Op 50; Froissart Op 19; Variations on an original theme, Enigma Op 36 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Conifer CDCF 187)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 L MOZART: Symphony in Bb - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553347)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantasy in Ab Op 61 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 412 610)

  BERLIOZ: Dance of the Sylphes, from The Damnation of Faust - London SO/Leopold Stokowski (Decca 425 014)

  DIABELLI: Guitar Sonata in C Op 29/3 - Anthony Glise (gtr) (Dorian DIS 80113)

  SCHUBERT arr Webern: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 333)

  7:00 HEUBERGER: The Opera Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

  WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarentelle in G minor Op 16 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Joanna Gruenberg (pno) (RegisC 1249)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3321)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522, from L'Estro Armonico Op 3 - Federico Guglielmo, Enrico Casazza (vlns), L'Arte dell'Arco/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 0689(2))

  HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 1, Pacific 231 - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TCHAIKOVSKY: Second movement, Andantino semplice, from Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), London SO/Lorin Maazel (Decca 466 462)

  GRÉTRY ed Beecham: Zémire et Azor, Suite - Britanny Orch/Stefan Sanderling (ASV CD DCA 1095)

  DEBUSSY: Première Rhapsody - James Campbell (cl), John York (pno) (Cala CACD 1017)

  FRANCK: Les Eolides - Royal Phil/Raymond Leppard (Tring International TRP 070)

  SCHUMANN: Träumerei, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - Maria João Pires (pno) (Erato 4509 94692)

  J STRAUSS II: Ballet Music, from Die Fledermaus - Bratislava City Chorus, Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  DAVID FARQUHAR (5 April 1928-2007)

  Evocation - New Zealand SO/David Farquhar (Kiwi SLD 48)

  In Despite of Death - David Griffiths (bar), Terence Dennis (pno) (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2060)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BACH: Cantata No 201, The contest between Phoebus & Pan, Hasten, ye whirling winds - Maria Cristina Kiehr (sop), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), James Taylor, Kurt Azesberger (tens), Roman Trekel (bar), Peter Lika (bass), RIAS Chamber Choir, Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1544/45)

  WEINBERG: Violin Sonata No 3 - Kolja Blacher (vln), Jascha Memtsov (pno) (Hänssler CD 93.190)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (EMI CDC 5 56654)

  STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op 28 - Berlin Phil/Karl Böhm (DG 427 218)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80250)

  SANDSTRÖM: Trombone Concerto, Motorbike Concerto - Christian Lindberg (tbn), Swedish Radio SO/Leif Segerstam (BIS CD 538)

  KÁLMÁN: Heller Jubel …Weisst du es noch?, from The Gypsy Princess - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Michael Roider (ten), Slovak Radio SO/Richard Bonynge (Naxos 8.660105/6)

  HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 4 in E minor HWV429, from Set I - Keith Jarrett (pno) (ECM 1530)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphony Op 58 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (rec 1986) (Chandos CHAN 8535)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BUXTEHUDE: Chorale Prelude, Komm heiliger Geist BuxWV200 - James Tibbles (organ of the Maclaurin Chapel, Auckland University) (RNZ)

  J RITCHIE: Missa in sanctissimi Pauli apostoli honorem - Jubilate Singers/John Pattinson (Jubilate JUB 001)

  PSATHAS: Piano Quintet - Stephen Gosling (pno), New Zealand String Quartet (Trust MMT 2047)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Golden Age Suite - New Zealand SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture - Lausanne CO/Yehudi Menuhin (Virgin 3 63284)

  ALBINONI: Second movement, Adagio, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16 - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Anthony Ferner)

  DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66 - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 443 765)

  BISHOP: Lo! Here The Gentle Lark, from Comedy of Errors - Kathleen Battle (sop), Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Margo Garrett (pno) (Sony SK 53106)

  SATIE arr Kennedy/Lenehan/Messiter: Gymnopédie No 1 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), John Anderson (ob), Julie Price (bsn), English CO (EMI 5 57330)

  LISZT: Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 3 - Lazar Berman (pno) (DG 439 409)

  RACHMANINOV: 18th Variation, from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Bella Davidovich (pno), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Neeme Järvi (Decca 473 862)

  C PARKER arr Lane: The Sword and the Rose - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10279)

  WAGNER: Notung, Notung, trusty sword!, from Siegfried - Ben Heppner, Burkhard Ulrich (tens), Dresden State Opera Orch/Peter Schneider (DG 477 6003)

  KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  MAYERL: The Sword Excalibur, from The Legends of King Arthur - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9141)

  WARLOCK: Mattachins (Sword Dance), from Capriol Suite - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8375)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Nation shall not lift up a sword, from Dona nobis pacem - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

  LAMOND: Sword Dance, from Love in the Scottish Highlands - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67387)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  To mark the 80th anniversary of DAVID FARQUHAR'S birth (5 April 1928-2007) Roger Smith looks at the New Zealand composer's life and music (RNZ)

  Three Improvisations - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 78)

  Three of a Kind - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  Suite for Guitar - John Mills (gtr) (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Auckland International Piano Festival 2007

  Four programmes

  (3) Stephen McIntyre (pno)

  RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse; BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations Op 120; SCHUBERT: Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli D718 (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 9:10 PM. 20th Century Danes

  NIELSEN: Flute Concerto - Andrew Nicholson (fl), Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7502)

  GRAM: Symphony No 2 Op 25 - Andrea Pellegrini (mezzo), Danish Phil/Matthias Aeschbacher (Dacapo 8.224718)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DUSSEK: Sonata in Eb Op 34/1 - Christine Sohn (vln), Michael Stirling (cello), Gillian Tingay (harp) (Deux-Elles DXL 1090)

  GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 - Solomon (pno), Philharmonia/Herbert Menges (EMI CD EMX 2002)

  ABEL: Overture in C Op 1/2 - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Passacaille 903)

  11:00 HAYDN: Piano Trio in Eb HobXV/29 - Robert Levin (fpno), Vera Beths (vln), Anner Bylsma (cello) (Sony SK 53120)

  GOLDMARK: Violin Sonata in D Op 25 - Peter Csaba (vln), Peter Frankl (pno) (Praga PRD 250 223)

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