Friday 18 April 2008 Rāmere 18 Paenga-whāwhā 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  GRAINGER: The Warriors; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 445 860)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LISZT arr Gonoud: Hymne à Sainte Cécile; Les Sabéennes; LISZT: Rêve d'amour No 2, Seleger Tod; Vallée d'Obermann; Rêve d'amour No 1, Hohe Liebe; arr Gounod: Les Adieux LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor; Six Consolations; Rêve d'amour No 3, O Lieb - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis - Charlotte Margiono (sop), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), William Kendall (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 429 779)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  KOECHLIN: Sonata for Horn Op 70; Morceau de Lecture pour cor; Fifteen Pieces Op 180; Sonneries - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Daniel Blumenthal (pno) (ASV CD DCA 716)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  VIVALDI: Concertos, in F for violin & organ RV542; in Bb for violin & oboe RV548; in C for two trumpets RV537; in G for 2 violins & 2 cellos RV575; in C for oboe RV447; in D minor for 2 violins & cello RV565 - I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 8651)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RUTTER: Suite for strings - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

  NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Niklas Eklund (tpt), Swedish CO/Roy Goodman (Naxos 8.554806)

  MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  HANDEL arr Southgate: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - Mark Walton (cls) (Kiwi CD TRL 071)

  TOMLINSON: Rhythmic Overture, Highway to the Sun - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7170)

  7:00 ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Sarah Chang (vln), Orpheus CO (EMI 3 94431)

  LISZT: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (RNZ)

  GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

  J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle/Michael Tomascheck (Koch International 324 073)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PÄRT: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

  FAURÉ orch Aubert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Richard Davis (fl), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9416)

  GINZBURG: Fantasy on a theme from The Barber of Seville - Denis Matsuev (pno) (RCA 82876 61273)

  CARR: Seven Elizabethan Lyrics - Schola Polyphonica, SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

  BACH arr Mowat: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Decca 417 524)

  BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 10416)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

  Symphonic Music

  Tuba Concerto in F minor - James Gourlay (tuba), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.557754)

  Symphony No 9 in E minor - London SO/André Previn (RCA RD 89883)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words Op 53 - Daniel Barenboim (pno) (DG 423 931)

  SIBELIUS: Cantata for the University Graduation - Helena Juntunen (sop), Juha Hostikka (bar), Dominante Choir, Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1365)

  MOZART: Concerto in Eb for two pianos K365 - Alexei Lubimov, Ronald Brautigam (fpnos), Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (dir) (BIS SACD 1618)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 6 in D Op 60 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1566)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hodie - Janice Watson (sop), Peter Hoare (ten), Stephen Gadd (bar), St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir, Guildford Choral Society Royal Phil/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.570439)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HAYDN: Symphony No 95 in C minor - English CO/Jeffrey Tate (rec 1991) (EMI 3 55679)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti (rec 1987) (EMI 3 55668)

• 4:00 PM. Made in

  NZ musicians and composers

  BUCHANAN: Century fanfare, Peace - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 100)

  HANDEL: Glory to God in the highest; How beautiful are the feet, from Messiah - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 421 059)

  GOLLAND arr Frey: Peace - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

  GAUBERT: Divertissement Grec - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  PSATHAS: Mal Occhio; ACHALINOTOPOULOS arr Psathas: Bacchic, from Zeibekiko, The Greek Concert - Manos Achalinotopoulos (reeds), Vangelis Karipis (perc), Netherlands Wind Ensemble (NBE Live NBECD 014)

  View from Olympus - Pedro Carneiro (perc), Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - Vienna Phil/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr Atovmian: Romance, from The Gadfly - Daniel Hope (vln), BBC SO/Maxim Shostakovich (Warner 2564 62546)

  CHOPIN: Scherzo No 2 in Bb minor Op 31 - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4185)

  SCHUMANN arr Auer: Vogel als Prophet, from Forest Scenes Op 82 - Joshua Bell (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Decca 417 891)

  WALDTEUFEL: The Skaters Waltz - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66998)

  PUCCINI: Donna non vidi mai, from Manon Lescaut - Ben Heppner (ten), Munich Radio Orch/Roberto Abbado (RCA 09026 62504)

  WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  WOLF: Italian Serenade - Nomos Quartet (Radio NM Extra 98010)

  HERBERT arr Utting: Italian street song, from Naughty Marietta - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Kiwi CD SLC 221)

  RACHMANINOV: Italian Polka - Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy (pno duet), Alastair Mackie (tpt) (Decca 470 291)

  RESPIGHI: Italiana, from Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 3 - I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

  PAGANINI arr Karr: Variations on a theme by Rossini, from Moses in - Gary Karr (dbass), Berlin Radio SO/Uros Lajovic (Schwann CD 11063)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (Sony SK 53979)

• 6:30 PM. Appointment

  Pressing On with Robert Johnson (RNZ)

• 7:30 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Opera in Concert

  Curtain Raiser

  Kerry Stevens looks at tonight's performance of Strauss's setting of the Oscar Wilde play (RNZ)

  8:00 STRAUSS: Salome, an opera in one act

  Salome.......................... Margaret Medlyn

  Herod........................... Richard Greager

  Jokanaan....................... Martin Snell

  Herodias....................... Helen Medlyn

  Narraboth..................... Patrick Power

  Page............................. Sarah Castle

  With Grant Dickson, Richard Green, Jamie Allen, Derek Hill, Terry Barry, Benjamin Fifita Makisi, Malcolm Ede, Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HUMMEL: Trio in A for flute, cello & piano - Lise Daoust (fl), Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Carmen Picard (pno) (Naxos 8.553473)

  RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Orch/Seiji Ozawa (EMI 5 85837)

  RABAUD: Symphonic Poem after Lenau's Faust, Procession Nocturne Op 6 - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam (Marco Polo 8.223503)

  11:00 VILLA-LOBOS: Twelve Etudes - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.553987)

  GYROWETZ: String Quartet in Ab Op 44/3 - Salomon String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67109)

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