Tuesday 20 May 2008 Rātū 20 Haratua 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ELGAR: The Spanish Lady; Sketches from Symphony No 3 - Keith Swallow (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Anne Manson, BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (BBC Music MM38 Volume IV No 2)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BESSER arr Bravura: Turn; Stretto and Round; Mitzvah Round; Shimmering Stillness; ADAMS: Floating; BESSER arr Bravura: Five New York Tone Rows 2003; Solemnity; Resolution; Gamjam IV - Bravura (Rattle RAT D013)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Sea Drift; Songs of Farewell; Songs of Sunset - Sally Burgess (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bar), Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9214)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LISZT: Harmonies "Poetiques et Religieuses" Ave Maria; Ave Maris Stella; Invocation; Hymne du Martin; Hymne de la nuit; Harmonies Poetique et Religieuses - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66421)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  RESPIGHI: The Ballad of the Gnomes; Adagio with variations for cello & orchestra; Three Botticelli Pictures; Suite in G for strings & organ - Alexander Baillie (cello), Leslie Pearson (org), Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Cala CACD 1007)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GB SAMMARTINI: Symphony in A JC60 - Accademia d'Arcadia/Alessandra Rossi Lürig (Brilliant Classics 93610)

  GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Claude Monteux (fl), London SO/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

  MOZART: Variations in G minor K360 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67574)

  SULLIVAN: Masquerade Finale from The Merchant of Venice - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223461)

  7:00 NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

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

  CHOPIN: Scherzo No 2 in Bb minor Op 31 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 44544)

  TRAD arr Casals: Song of the Birds - Han-Na Chang (cello), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 82390)

  ZIEHRER: Melodies of Austria, Waltz Op 373 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223814)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LILBURN: Fourth movement, Andante, from Diversions for Strings - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Emanuel Brabec (cello), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)

  PURCELL: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players/Geoffrey Lancaster (ABC 456 667)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)

  CIARDI: Fantaisie brillante Op 64, La folle - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (pic), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio Espagnol - London SO/Igor Markevitch (Philips 426 070)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

  Das Klagende Lied - Marina Shaguch (sop), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), Thomas Moser (ten), Sergei Leiferkus (bar), San Francisco SO & Chorus/Michael Tilson Thomas (RCA 09026 68599)

• 10:15 AM. The Works

  SUGATA: Symphonic Overture Op 6 - Kanagawa Phil/Kazuhiko Komatsu (Naxos 8.570319)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme - Han-Na Chang (cello), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI CDC 5 56126)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 7, Settimino - members of Sao Paulo SO (BIS CD 1440)

  RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus, London SO/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7525)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BACH: Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 - Dinu Lipatti (pno) (rec 1950) (EMI CDC 7 47517)

  PAGANINI: Sonata Varsavia - Salvatore Accardo (vln), CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi (EMI 7 67567)

  RUTTER: Look at the world - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 129)

  DELIUS: Violin Sonata No 3 - Tasmin Little (vln), Piers Lane (pno) (Conifer 75605 51315)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  STRAVINSKY: Ballet, Pulcinella - Yvonne Kenny (sop), John Aler (ten), John Tomlinson (bass), London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen (rec 1990) (Sony SK 45965)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 7 in Bb Op 83 - Daniel Pollack (pno) (rec 1958) (Cambria 1133)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 3 - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  MOUQUET: Flute Sonata, La Flûte de Pan Op 15 - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  BRIDGE: Suite for strings - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 71467)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), NZSO Chamber Orch (Atoll ACD 702)

  ALBÉNIZ: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.554400)

  SCHUBERT: Allegretto in C minor D915 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 425 638)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9593)

  WAGNER: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (RegisC 1215)

  PARADIS arr Smedvig: Sicilienne in Eb - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Michael Murray (org) (Telarc CD 80550)

  BARBER: School for Scandal, Overture Op 5 - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8958)

  SIBELIUS: School song - Jubilate Choir/Astrid Riska (BIS CD 825)

  HARLE: The School of Mysteries - Nicole Tibbels, Sarah Leonard, Catherine Bott (sops), Silencium Ensemble, Choristers of Worcester Cathedral, ASMF/John Harle (Argo 458 356)

  KABALEVSKY: Rhapsody on the theme of the song School Years - Anatoly Sheludiakov (pno), Russian Cinematographic SO/Walter Mnatsakanov (RegisC 1287)

  SULLIVAN: Three little maids from school are we, from The Mikado - Valerie Masterson (sop), Peggy Ann Jones, Pauline Wales (mezzos), Royal Phil/Royston Nash (Decca 430 095)

  ADDINSELL: Tom Brown's Schooldays, Overture - BBC Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn (Marco Polo 8.223732)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  New Zealand Music Month

  8:00 The Karlheinz Company, in their 30th year

  BOWATER: Banshee; CAGE: Music for Marcel Duchamp; ADKINS: Silk to Steel; HARRIS: to the memory of IS Totzka; ELMSLY: Nocturne for bass clarinet, gentle percussion & soundscape (recorded in the Auckland University Music Theatre, Auckland by RNZ)

  9:15 Douglas Lilburn Prize 2006 Finalists

  New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich

  UTTING: Lahar; BESSER: Reflections in Thirds; SHEPHERD: Cryosphere; WATSON: Circuit: Spiral; MERIDAN: This Present Brightness (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 21

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