Thursday 24 April 2008 Rāpare 24 Paenga-whāwhā 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Partita for double string orchestra; Fantasia on Greensleeves; In the Fen Country; The Lark Ascending - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  POULENC: Humoresque; Three Novelettes; Villageoises; 15 Improvisations; Intermezzo No 2 in Db; Intermezzo No 1 in C; Suite Francaise d'apres Claude Gervaise; Presto in Bb; Melancolie; Theme & Variations - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8847)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  GESUALDO: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday 1611, First nocturn, Second nocturn, Third nocturn - Taverner Choir & Consort/Andrew Parrott (Sony SK 62977)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  HAYDN: Sun Quartets Op 20, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in C; No 3 in G minor - Salomon String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66621)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  ROSENBERG: Marionetter, Overture; BIZET: Carmen Suite No 1; LARSSON: Dagens stunder; GLINKA: Russlan & Ludmilla, Overture; SATIE orch Debussy: Two Gymnopédies; SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture; SVENDSEN: Romance for violin & orchestra; ALFVÉN: Bergakungen, Vallflickans dans - Malmo SO/James DePriest (BIS CD 570)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ELGAR: Characteristic Pieces Op 10 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in A minor RV356 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), members of Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57859)

  MENDELSSOHN: Prelude & Fugue in E minor Op 35/1 - Murray Perahia (pno) (CBS MK 37838)

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

  WALDTEUFEL: The Songbird of the Temple, Waltz - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223687)

  7:00 BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 3 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (Simax PSC 1184)

  ANON arr Rieu: Greensleeves - André Rieu (vln/dir) & his Orch (Universal 589 306)

  HUMMEL: Rondo brillant in Eb Op 120, La Galante - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

  CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - members of Purcell Quartet, Robert Woolley (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 67035)

  FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1271)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LEHMANN: Ah, moon of my delight, from In a Persian Garden - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66709)

  RACHMANINOV: Scherzo in D minor - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 8532)

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

  SMETANA: Furiant, from The Bartered Bride - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

  HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 2 in F HWV427, from Set I - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1, Midsummer Vigil Op 19 - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

  Chamber Music

  String Quintet in C D956 - Prazák Quartet, Marc Coppey (cello) (Praga PRD 350 042)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  LILBURN: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 90)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 - Fazil Say (pno), Zurich CO/Howard Griffiths (Naïve V 4992)

  JONGEN: Messe en l'honneur du Saint-Sacrement - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, London City Brass/David Hill, Paul Provost (org) (Hyperion CDA 67603)

  KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 2023)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G - Mary Enid Haines (sop), Nina Scott Stoddart (mezzo), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd, James Tibbles (org) (Naxos 8.555080)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Janine Jansen (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 8328)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Jean Hubeau (pno), Raymond Gallois-Monbrun (vln), Colette Lequien (vla), André Navarra (cello) (rec 1969) (Warner 2564 69986)

  DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Nikita Magaloff (pno) (rec 1988) (Accord 476 167)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  K YOUNG: Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

  LEFÉBURE-WÉLY arr Drayton: Boléro in G minor Op 166 - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

  DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  BLISS: Bliss (A One Step); The Rout Trot - Stephen de Pledge (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1128)

  RAVEL arr Wood: Boléro - Bruce McKinnon (perc), Saxcess (Saxcess)

  PIAZZOLLA: Histoire du Tango - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Dresden Phil/Herbert Kegel (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Justine Cormack (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  BALAKIREV: Islamey - Gary Graffman (pno) (Sony S2K 94737)

  PAGANINI arr Kreisler: La campanella - David Galoustov (vln), Julien Gernay (pno) (Lyrinx LYR 2207)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in D minor - Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan (IMG Artists 5 62869)

  PUCCINI: In questa reggia, from Turandot - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Roberto Alagna (ten), Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Anton Coppola (EMI 5 57955)

  DUARTE: Variations on a Catalan folksong - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  GRAINGER: The lost lady found, from A Lincolnshire Posy - Penelope Thwaites, John Lavender (pno duet) (Pearl SHE CD 9611)

  MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - André Rieu (vln/dir) & his orchestra (Universal 589 306)

  KORNGOLD: Captain Blood - London SO/André Previn (DG 471 347)

  BRYARS: Jesus' Blood never failed me yet - unnamed old man, Tom Waits (vocalists), orchestral accompaniment (Philips 473 296)

  BACH: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden, from St Matthew Passion BWV244 - Capella Istropolitana/Richard Edlinger (Naxos 8.551129)

  TRAD arr Mews: Blood red roses, from Two New Zealand Folksongs of the Sea - Richard Brown (vocalist), New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1999-2000/Jean Cumming (nzssc@xtra.co.nz)

  J STRAUSS II: Vienna Blood Waltz - Queensland SO/Vladimir Ponkin (ABC Classics 432 250)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Joel Cohen

  Director of the Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen talks with David Morriss about his life in music as a composer, lutenist, musicologist and conductor (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Mark Kaplan (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Christian Knapp

  HAMILTON: Elysian Fields; BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No 2 Sz112; BACH: Gavotte, from Partita No 3 in E for violin; SIBELIUS: Lemminkäinen's homeward journey, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CPE BACH Quartet in A minor Wq93 - Extempore (Atoll ACD 204)

  RESPIGHI: Pastorale in A, after a Tartini Violin Sonata - Ingolf Turban (vln), English CO/Marcello Viotti (Claves CD 50-9017)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 5 in C minor Op 10/1 - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (DG 474 810)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 6 in Eb - Concerto Cologne (Teldec 4509 98435)

  11:00 PROKOFIEV: Flute Sonata in D Op 94 - Marina Piccinini (fl), Andreas Haefliger (pno) (Avie AV 2087)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 14 in F# Op 142 - Juilliard String Quartet (Sony 82876 79018)

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