Tuesday 13 May 2008 Rātū 13 Haratua 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  VILLA-LOBOS: Discovery of Brazil Suites Nos 1-4 - Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Slovak Radio SO/Roberto Duarte (Marco Polo 8.223551)

  1:20 (approx) - Disc 2

  PSATHAS: Island Songs; KELLY: Sono; NORRIS: Dirty pixels; GRENFELL: A Feather of Blue; AXTENS: For Violin, Violoncello and Piano; FARR: Ahi - New Zealand Trio (Trust MMT 2066)

  2:35 (approx) - Disc 3

  MOZART: Mass in C, Coronation K317; HAYDN: Mass in time of War HobXXII/9 - Sylvia McNair (sop), Delores Ziegler (contralto), Hans Peter Blochwitz (ten), Andreas Schmidt (bar), RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Phil/James Levine (DG 435 853)

  3:50 (approx) - Disc 4

  ALKAN: Études Nos 8-12 - Jack Gibbons (pno) (ASV CD DCS 227)

  5:00 (approx) - Disc 5

  LARSSON: Pastoral Suite Op 19; ROMAN: Concerto in D for oboe d'amore, string orchestra & harpsichord; ATTERBERG: Suite No 3 for violin, viola & string orchestra; ROSENBERG: A Small Piece for cello & strings; LARSSON: The Winter's Tale; ALFVÉN: The Mountain King, Dance of the cow-girl; Blomdahl; Adagio - Alf Nilsson (ob d'amore), Anders Öhrwall (hpschd), Nils-Erik Sparf (vln), Jouko Mansnerus (vla), Elemér Lavotha (cello), Stockholm Sinfonietta/Jan-Olav Wedin (BIS CD 165)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VOLKMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 33 - Alban Gerhardt (cello), Berlin Radio SO/Hannu Lintu (Hyperion CDA 67583)

  BORODIN: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 9/11 - Stefan Schilli (ob), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

  SCHUBERT: Overture in D, In the Italian Style D590 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Radio Netherlands P&O 5481)

  7:00 HOLST: Lyric Movement for viola - Stephen Tees (vla), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9270)

  HAMILTON: Didn't it rain? - 1999 New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2029)

  BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV971 - Masaaki Suzuki (hpschd) (BIS CD 1469)

  Josef STRAUSS: Delirium Waltz Op 212 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

  HANDEL: Coronation Anthem No 1, Zadok the Priest HWV258 - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English CO/David Willcocks (Decca 444 543)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle No 25 in A minor, Für Elise - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 466 462)

  ENESCU: Rumanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - BBC Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9633)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Xavier Philips (cello), Bavarian CO/Emmanuel Plasson (EMI 5 73503)

  GRIEG: Homage March, from Sigurd Jorsalfar - National Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 421 634)

  CHARLTON: Figure Eight - Totally Plucked, the Wellington Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  SCHUMANN: Genoveva, Overture - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 8352)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

  Rudepoêma - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67176)

  Symphony No 3, War - Stuttgart Radio SO/Carl St.Clair (CPO 999 712)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: String Quartet No 19 in C K465, Dissonance - Esterhazy Quartet (Decca 475 7108)

  DURUFLÉ: Messe Cum jubilo - Thomas Hampson (bar), baritones of the Orfeon Donostiarra, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson, Marie-Claire Alain (org) (EMI CDC 5 56878)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - members of Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

  ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb Op 63 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7507)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  RUTTER: Open thou mine eyes - Libby Crabtree (sop), Polyphony, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66947)

  SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Placido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

  BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Philharmonia Chorus & Orch/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDM 7 69650)

  DELIUS: Piano Concerto in C minor - Piers Lane (pno), Ulster Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67296)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  LISZT: Vallée d'Obermann; Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este, from Years of Pilgrimage 1 & 3 - Lazar Berman (pno) (rec 1977) (DG 439 409)

  SMETANA: Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 - Beaux Arts Trio (rec 1990) (Philips 432 125)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MOZART: Prelude & Fugue in C K394/383a - John Khouri (fpno) (Entr'acte ESCD 6501)

  HOGAN: Chasing the White Whale - Toru Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  BERLIOZ: Harold in Italy - Csaba Erdélyi (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Concordance CCD 03)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  DVORÁK: Second movement, Waltz, from Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  DEBUSSY: Première Rhapsody - Gervase de Peyer (cl), Gwenneth Pryor (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8526)

  HANDEL: Suite No 5 in E HWV430, Harmonious Blacksmith - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

  ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - London SO/Adrian Boult (EMI CDZ 7 62503)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Jan Krenz (Philips 475 7825)

  SCHUBERT arr Breiner: Military March in D - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.553596)

  COPLAND: An Outdoor Overture - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3140)

  TAYLOR: Looking Glass Insects - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

  MUSSORGSKY: Song of the Flea - Inia Te Wiata (bass), BBC Concert Orch/Sidney Torch (Atoll ACD 507)

  HUBAY: Csárdás Scene No 6, The yellow beetle Op 34 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr Yablonsky: Nocturne, from The Gadfly - Dmitry Yablonsky (cello/dir), Russian Phil (Naxos 8.557722)

  MAYERL: Insect Oddities - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9141)

  Josef STRAUSS: The Dragonfly - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)

  LENNON/MCCARTNEY: Nudging Dance & Michelle Pas de Deux, from The Fool on the Hill - Sydney SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 472 509)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5047)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  New Zealand Music Month

  8:00 The Irrelevants, Richard Nunns (taonga puoro)

  WILLIAMS: Blade; LODGE: Hau; GERARD: First movement, from Duo in Three; MANSURIAN: Lachrymae; TURRIN: Fragments; LODGE: Aequora tuta silent; Toru; LARSEN: Bid Call (recorded in the Gallagher Concert Chamber, Hamilton by RNZ)

  9:30 John Elmsly is Associate-Professor in composition at the University of Auckland. He is a past-President of the Composers Association of New Zealand and served on the Asian Composers League executive committee from 1997 to 2002. In this, the second of two programmes, John Elmsly's in conversation with William Dart (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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