Wednesday 30 April 2008 Rāapa 30 Paenga-whāwhā 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphonies, No 31 in D K297; No 36 in C K425; No 38 in D K504 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 647)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40; PROKOFIEV: Adagio Op 97; Cello Sonata in C Op 119 - Sonia Weider-Atherton (cello), Laurent Cabasso (pno) (Auvidis Valois V 4666)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BLOW: God spake sometime in visions; Let thy hand be strengthened; LAWES: Zadok the priest; PURCELL: My heart is inditing; I was glad; CHILD: O Lord, grant the King a long life; BLOW: Behold, O God our defender; TURNER: The King shall rejoice - Westminster Abbey Choir & Orch/Simon Preston (Archiv 419 6130)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves; CANTELOUBE: Chants d'Auvergne, Bailero; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6, Pastoral, Andante molto mosso; SCHUBERT: Trout Quintet, Andantino; CHABRIER: Idylle from Suite pastorale; MACDOWELL: To a wild rose; GRIEG: Cowkeeper's tune; MASSENET: Scenes alsaciennes, Sous les tilleuls; DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; MACDOWELL: To a water-lily; SCHUBERT: Rosamunda, Hirtenmelodien & Hirtenchor; J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Various artists (London 443 333)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  CORELLI: Sonata in E minor Op 5/8; GEMINIANI: Sonata in D Op 1/10; VERACINI: Sonata Sesta in E minor Op 1; LOCATELLI: Sonata in C Op 2/1; ALBINONI: Sonata in A minor; VIVALDI: Sonata in G minor RV58; PLATTI: Sonata in G Op 3/6 - Barthold Kuijken (transverse fl), Wieland Kuijken (cello), Robert Konen (hpschd) (Accent ACC 9177 D)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music - Vienna Phil/Karl Münchinger (Decca 444 546)

  VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor, La Follia RV63 - London Baroque/Charles Medlam (dir) (BIS CD 1025/26)

  BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 477 6352)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Meditation, from Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Igor Oistrakh (vln), Natalia Zertsalova (pno) (Collins 10452)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Brilliant Classics 99986)

  7:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Fantasia on Serbian Themes Op 6 - USSR Academic SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Olympia OCD 211)

  PURCELL: Trumpet Tune - Miroslav Kejmar (tpt), Jirina Pokorná (organ of St Clement's Church, Prague) (Vars VA 0006)

  SIBELIUS: Intermezzo & Ballade, from Karelia Suite - Folke Gräsbeck (pno) (BIS CD 1272)

  TALLIS: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell CDGIM 007)

  ROSSINI: String Sonata No 4 in Bb - Ensemble Explorations/Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1776)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ orch Rabaud: Berceuse, from Dolly Suite - Paris Orch/Serge Baudo (EMI 5 67523)

  GLAZUNOV: Orientale, from Five Novelettes Op 15 - St Petersburg String Quartet (Delos DE 3262)

  ELGAR: Concert Allegro - María Garzón (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1065)

  WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Vera Schlosser, Berit Lindholm, Brigitte Fassbaender, Helen Watts, Helga Dernesch, Vera Little, Marilyn Tyler, Claudia Hellmann (vocalists), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Parisii Quartet (Capriccio 10 454)

  C SCOTT: Neapolitan Rhapsody - SABC National SO/Peter Marchbank (Marco Polo 8.223485)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ETHEL SMYTH (1858-1944)

  Prelude and Fugue in C - Liana Serbescu (pno) (CPO 999 327)

  String Quartet in E minor - Mannheim String Quartet (CPO 999 352)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  IBERT: Divertissement - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 517)

  PURCELL: Come ye sons of art away, Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694 - Mary Thomas (sop), Mark Deller (countertenor), Maurice Bevan (bar), Deller Consort, Oriana Concert Orch/Alfred Deller (countertenor/dir) (Vanguard Classics OVC 8115)

  TANSMAN: Triptych for string quartet - Quatuor Elysée (Naxos 8.570235)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Alfredo Perl (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 30459)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 58 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), London SO/Martyn Brabbins (Warner 0927 45664)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  RACHMANINOV: Mélodie in E Op 3/3 - Elen Rapoport (pno) (Private recording ER 0001)

  KIT & THE WIDOW: Wimbledon Idyll, Comedy monologue - Catherine Bott (sop), David Owen Norris (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67457)

  BIBER: The Agony in the Garden, from The Five Sorrowful Mysteries - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln), David Roblou (org), Paula Chateauneuf (archlute), Timothy West (reader) (Avie AV 0038)

  TRAD arr Favara: A la Barcillunisa; Cantu a Timuni - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), London SO/Alberto Erede (rec 1947) (EMI CDM 7 63105)

  WIDOR: Symphony No 6 Op 42/2 - Wayne Marshall (organ of Bridgewater Hall, Manchester) (Virgin VC 5 45320)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33 - János Starker (cello), London SO/Antal Dorati (rec 1964) (Mercury 432 010)

  Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Simon Preston (organ of Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin), Berlin Phil/James Levine (rec 1986) (DG 419 617)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture Op 80 - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (RNZ)

  LILBURN: Sonatina for clarinet & piano - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  BACH: Cantata No 140, Wachet auf - Rosemarie Landry (sop), Ben Heppner (ten), Mark Pedrotti (bass), Tudor Singers of Montreal, CBC Vancouver Orch/Wayne Riddell (CBC Records SMCD 5163)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (RCA 09026 63314)

  MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239, Serenata Notturna - Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist (Naxos 8.557023)

  HUBAY: Csárdás Scene No 12, My little turtle dove Op 83 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)

  ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 2 - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  HAMILTON: Caliban's Song - Stanford Chamber Chorale/Stephen M Sano (Pictoria PR 11192)

  JC BACH: Sinfonia No 1 in Eb - London Wind Soloists/Jack Brymer (dir) (Testament SBT 1345)

  MADETOJA: Väinämöisen sows the Wilderness Op 46 - Tuomas Katajala (ten), Oulu Sinfonia/Arvo Volmer (Alba ABCD 211)

  PSATHAS: Jettatura - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

  LISZT: Prometheus, Symphonic Poem No 5 - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10417)

  J CHARPENTIER: Pour Syrinx - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  M-A CHARPENTIER: Nymphes, ne songez plus, from Venus & Adonis - Judith van Wanroij (sop), Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Virgin 3 38154)

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Light Programme

  Six programmes in which Murray Khouri shares his passion for the wealth of British Light Music

  (5) Britain's light music heritage forms a treasure-house of music that may plumb no intellectual or emotional depths but which lifts the spirit through imaginative effects, delightful melodies and consummate craftsmanship (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Wellington Town Hall

  Alexa Still (fl), Roger Chase (vla), Yolanda Kondonassis (harp)

  IBERT: Two Interludes, from Le burlador; DEBUSSY: Syrinx; BENNETT: Sonata after Syrinx; BAX: Elegiac Trio

  (Interval)

  TAKEMITSU: And Then I Knew 'twas Wind; NIELSEN: Faith and Hope are playing, from The Mother; SALZEDO: Chanson dans la nuit; FISHER: Matairangi-2; MIYAGI: Hari No Umi; DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Rhapsodic Overture - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 6403)

  G IVES: Ride on - Arcadian Singers of Oxford University/Matthew O'Donovan, James Davy (org) (Lammas LAMM 137D)

  BOCCHERINI: String Quartet in G minor G194 - Petersen Quartet (Capriccio 67 208)

  11:00 LAMBERT: Pomona - English CO/Norman Del Mar (Lyrita SRCD 215)

  BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 - Henryk Szeryng (vln), Pierre Fournier (cello), Artur Rubinstein (pno) (RCA RD 86260)

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