Saturday 3 May 2008 Rāhoroi 3 Haratua 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 45 in F# minor, Farewell; No 46 in B; No 47 in G - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66522)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  PAISIELLO: Piano Concertos, No 2 in F; No 4 in G minor; No 3 in A; No 6 in Bb - Mariaclara Monetti (pno), English CO/Stephanie Gonley (ASV CD DCA 872)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  HANDEL: Canatas, Haec est Regina virginum; Ah! Che troppo ineguali; Donna, che in ciel di tanta luce splendi; Il pianto di Maria, Giunta l'ora fatal - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 439 866)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  MARTINU: Sonata for flute, violin & piano; Promenades for flute, violin & harpsichord; Sonata for flute & piano; Five Madrigal Stanzas for violin & piano; Scherzo for flute & piano; Madrigal-sonata for flute, violin & piano - Fleur de Lys (Analekta FL 2 3031)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  LLOBET: El Noi de la Mare; BARRIOS: La Catedral; MORENO TORROBA: Romance de los Piños; Torija; CALATAYUD: Patrulla; Pequeña Tarantela; ALBÉNIZ: Asturias; GRANADOS: Dedicatoria; LAURO: El Niño; Vals Venezolano No 2; El Marabino; VILLA-LOBOS: Choros No 1; BARRIOS: Julia Florida; TÁRREGA: Marieta; Maria; BARRIOS: Un Sueño en la Floresta; ALBÉNIZ: Sevilla - Cheryl Grice-Watterson (gtr) (Private Recording)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MOZART: Der Schauspieldirektor, Overture - Lausanne CO/Yehudi Menuhin (Virgin 3 63284)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Calliope CAL 9351.2)

  LANE: Diversions on a Theme of Paganini - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225185)

  CALDARA: Trio Sonata No 11 in D - Ensemble La Fidelíssima (Arion ARN 68601)

  BERWALD: Racing - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

  7:00 ARNOLD: Sinfonietta No 1 Op 48 - London SO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 257)

  DOPPLER: Fantaisie pastorale hongroise Op 26 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 1239)

  J STRAUSS II: Tritsch-Tratsch, Polka; Leichtes Blut - Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 662)

  VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 - Anner Bylsma (cello), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir) (Sony SK 62719)

  SIBELIUS: Our Native Land Op 92 - Ellerhein Girls' Choir, Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 5 45561)

  8:00 C STAMITZ: Symphony in F Op 24/3 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9358)

  LISZT after Schubert: Valse-Caprice No 6, from Soirées de Vienne - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)

  STRAUSS: Allerseelen - Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Japan Phil/Shigeo Genda (BIS CD 949)

  ARENSKY: Fantasia on Themes by IT Ryabinin Op 48 - Tatiana Polyanskaya (pno), Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 10086)

  ATTERBERG: Suite No 7 Op 29, Incidental music to Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra - Camerata Nordica/Ulf Wallin (dir) (CPO 777 156)

• 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

  A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Brynjar Hoff (ob), English CO/Ian Watson (Simax PSC 1049)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs - Thomas Allen (bar), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Warner 2564 61956)

  STERNDALE BENNETT ed Byers: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 9 - Malcolm Binns (pno), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 204)

  Maria Callas

  Jon Tolansky looks at the life and career of the legendary soprano (VIP)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (5) Recent releases (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Chinese music for plucked instruments

  The Central Music Academy Orchestra of Plucked Instruments plays a selection of traditional and contemporary pieces from all over China, including a transcription of the famous pipa solo Ambush on all sides (Channel of China CCS SA 80607)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Auckland International Piano Festival 2006

  Seven programmes

  (3) Michael Houstoun (pno)

  BACH trans Rachmaninov: Preludio; Gavotte; Gigue, from Violin Partita No 3 in E BWV1006; HAYDN: Andante with Variations in F minor HobXVII/6; SHOSTAKOVICH: Three Fantastic Dances Op 5; Preludes and Fugues, in Db Op 87/15; in D minor Op 87/24; CERVANTES: Adios a Cuba; PING: Dance Fury; CHOPIN: Three Mazurkas Op 56; Three Mazurkas Op 59; BACH trans Busoni: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor (recorded at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 4:45 PM. Russian Romantics

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Hamlet, Fantasy Overture - Philharmonia/Lovro von Matacic (Testament SBT 1331)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Henri Sigfridsson (pno), Stuttgart Radio SO/Stefan Solyom (Hänssler CD 98.259)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Fairy-tale Op 29 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10424)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BECK: Sinfonia in G Op 1/5 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 1 in Eb Op 12 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)

  LILBURN: Three Sea Changes - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

  KRAUS: Azire, Ballet Music VB18 - New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570334)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  WOLF: Goethe Lieder

  Die Spröde; Die Bekehrte; Mignon I; Mignon II; Mignon III; Philine; Mignon (Kennst du das Land?); Ganymed; Kophtisches Lied I & II; Ganymed; Anakreons Grab; Der Rattenfänger; Frech und froh I; Erschaffen und Beleben; Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit sei?; Trunken müssen wir alle sein! - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDM 7 63653)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Heath Lees

  Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Music Alive

  Leila Josefowicz (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  A RITCHIE: Whalesong; SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77; STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:10 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Album Leaves Op 124 - Dénes Várjon (pno) (Naxos 8.550849)

  GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 420 081)

  11:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock - Orch of St Luke's/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80311)

  BAINTON: String Quartet in A - Locrian Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7163)

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