Saturday 10 May 2008 Rāhoroi 10 Haratua 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  1:00 (approx) - Disc 2

  VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoema; Cirandas Nos 1-16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  NIELSEN: Hymnus Amoris; The Sleep; Springtime in Funen; Three Motets Op 55 - Inga Nielsen (sop), Poul Elming (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Children's Chorus of St Anne School, Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Leif Segerstam, Stefan Parkman (Chandos CHAN 8853)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis E 8784)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, Impressions for Orch, No 2; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, Three Impressions for Orch, No 3; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing, Suite Op 11 - London SO/André Previn (DG 453 436)

  TELEMANN: Flute Concerto in D TWV51/D2 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Berlin Baroque Soloists (EMI 5 57397)

  MOMPOU: Pájaro tiste; La barca; Secreto; Gitano, from Impresiones intimas - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67565)

  GERMAN: Three Dances from Henry VIII - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Rhapsody of the Auvergne - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  7:00 GERNSHEIM: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 78 - Alban Gerhardt (cello), Berlin Radio SO/Hannu Lintu (Hyperion CDA 67583)

  BACH: French Suite No 1 in D minor BWV812 - Joanna MacGregor (pno) (SoundCircus SC 901)

  GLAZUNOV: Rêverie Orientale Op 14/2 - Lesley Schatzberger (cl), Fitzwilliam String Quartet (Linn CKD 278)

  HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 3 in G minor - Frank de Bruine (ob), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67053)

  BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 425 696)

  8:00 BAX: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8494)

  GOTTSCHALK: Grand Scherzo RO114 - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66697)

  L MOZART: Toy Symphony in G - Toulouse CO/Georges Armand (vln/dir) (EMI CDZ 7 62516)

  BARTÓK: Two Rumanian Dances Sz43 - Tamas Vesmas (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1519)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances, in E minor Op 72/2; in Ab Op 46/3 - Cleveland Orch/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47618)

• 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

  SIBELIUS: Pohjola's Daughter - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1225)

  ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (Gimell CDGIM 041)

  BACH arr Hess: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, from Cantata No 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Myra Hess (pno) (Philips 462 699)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 2 in C minor, Resurrection - Heather Harper (sop), Helen Watts (contralto), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 475 8501)

  (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

  (6) Alone on stage: solo performances (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Merengue Típico: dance music from the Dominican Republic

  Merengue is widely recognised as the national music and dance of the Dominican Republic, with the traditional style merengue típico coming from the mountainous Cibao region. Accordionist La India Canela heads a five-piece merengue band playing both original songs and traditional repertoire (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40547)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Auckland International Piano Festival 2006

  Seven programmes

  (4) Natasha Vlassenko, Oleg Stepanov (pno duet)

  MOZART: Andante & Five Variations in G K501; HUMMEL: Grande Sonata in Ab Op 92; RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole; DEBUSSY: Petite Suite; GAVRILIN: Sketches (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 4:40 PM. Järvi & Sons

  STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8758)

  STRAVINSKY: Suite No 2 - Norrlands Opera SO/Kristjan Järvi (CCn'C 02962)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 100 - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60683)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Gaudeamus Overture - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Corellia CRA 1005)

  HERBERT: Punchinello; DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme - Mark Walton (cl/sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

  A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Atoll ACD 202)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  SCHUMANN: Song Book for the Young Op 79 - Sibylla Rubens (sop), Stefanie Iranyi (mezzo), Thomas E Bauer (bar), Uta Hielscher (pno) (Naxos 8.557076)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Composer Focus Concert

  Margaret Medlyn (sop), New Zealand SO/Yannick Nézet-Séguin

  WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude; Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1; Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde; The Flying Dutchman, Overture; Tannhäuser, Overture; Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene, from Götterdämmerung (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. Recent Release

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - London Handel Players (Somm SOMMCD 068)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FIELD: Piano Concerto No 5 in C, L'Incendie par l'Orage - Benjamin Frith (pno), Northern Sinfonia/David Haslam (Naxos 8.554221)

  RÓZSA: Palace Music, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 2, Iveria Op 42 - Ukraine National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.553405)

  11:00 KUHLAU: Flute Trio in E minor Op 86/1 - European Flute Trio (Naxos 8.570220)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 8 in G Op 30/3 - Corey Cerovsek (vln), Paavali Jumppanen (pno) (Claves CD 50-2610/12)

  LHOYER: Duo Concertant in D minor Op 34/2 - Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli (gtrs) (Naxos 8.570146)

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