Thursday 29 May 2008 Rāpare 29 Haratua 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by J.L. Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Åke Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; J RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Five Studies for piano, Presto Study No 3; Presto Study No 4; Chaconne Study No 5; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Five Studies for Piano, Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2 - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BECK: Sinfonia in A Op 1/3 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  CHOPIN arr Huberman: Nocturne in G Op 37/2 - Joanna Madroszkiewicz (vln), Paul Gulda (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1296)

  MOZART: Variations in D on a minuet by Duport K573 - Martino Tirimo (pno) (RegisC 1261)

  ALBINONI: Second movement, Adagio, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

  THOMSON: The Plow That Broke the Plains, Suite - Los Angeles CO/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 47715)

  7:00 IRELAND: Comedy Overture - London Collegiate Brass/James Stobart (CRD 3434)

  SAINT-SAËNS: First movement, Part 2: Poco adagio, from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Martin Setchell (org), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  BALAKIREV: Islamey - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (Philips 456 787)

  PONCE trans Ramos: Mexican Scherzo - John Williams (gtr) (Sony MLK 66704)

  TOYE: The Haunted Ballroom - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL: Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa, from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Decca 455 981)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Virgin VC 7 91487)

  RACHMANINOV: Etudes, No 1 in F minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in Eb minor; No 6 in C# minor, from Etudes-tableaux Op 33 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 62837)

  CHOPIN trans Mercz: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

  MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - André Rieu (vln/dir) & his Orch (Universal 589 306)

  J RITCHIE: Papanui Road, Overture - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2040)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  New Zealand Chamber Music

  BODY: Arum Manis - Kronos Quartet (SOUNZfine Vol 3)

  MATTHEWS: Placing the Feather - James Tennant (cello), Katherine Austin (pno) (RNZ)

  BUCHANAN: Flute Song for the Birds - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  PSATHAS: Piano Quintet - Stephen Gosling (pno), New Zealand String Quartet (Trust MMT 2047)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Ana Quintans (sop), Peter Harvey (bar), Lausanne Vocal Ensemble, Sinfonia Varsovia/Michel Corboz, Marcelo Giannini (org) (Mirare MIR 028)

  BRAHMS: Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor Op 5 - David James (pno) (CFM)

  ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), London SO/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47329)

  ARNOLD: English Dances Suite No 2 - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ROTA: The Legend of the Glass Mountain, from the film The Glass Mountain - Philip Fowke (pno), RTE Concert Orch/Proinnsías O Duinn (Naxos 8.554323)

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 - Christian Zacharias (pno), Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1249)

  SAINT-SAËNS arr Glennie: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso - Evelyn Glennie (marimba), National Phil/Barry Wordsworth (RCA 60242-2-RC)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2 in D Op 36 - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1956/57) (EMI CDM 7 69811)

  SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und -leben Op 42 - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Bruno Walter (pno) (rec 1949) (Decca 433 476)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 7 in D minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  PHILIPS: O Maria Mater - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.555056)

  GRIFFES: Poem - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7063)

  FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi - NZTrio (Trust MMT 2066)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 893)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), Daniel Stabrawa (vln), members of the Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57647)

  SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Vienna Piano Trio (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 342 1167)

  RAVEL arr Samazeuilh: Menuet antique - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 219)

  GLUCK: Divinités du Styx, from Alceste - Dolora Zajick (mezzo), Royal Phil/Charles Rosekrans (Telarc CD 80557)

  KUHLAU: Elf Hill, Overture - Odense SO/Othmar Maga (Da Capo 8.224100)

  LIAPUNOV: Dance of the Elves, from 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante Op 11 - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223491)

  SIBELIUS: The Elf-king Op 57/8 - Katarina Karnéus (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67318)

  CALACE: Dance of the Elves - Alison Stephens (mandolin), Steven Devine (pno) (Naxos 8.570434)

  GADE: Morning song, from Elf-shot Op 30 - Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Dmitri Kitajenko (Chandos CHAN 9075)

  BONNET: Elfes, from 12 pièces nouvelles - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

  BAZZINI: La Ronde des Lutins - Gil Shaham (vln), Jonathan Feldman (pno) (DG 463 483)

  LOEWE: Elves' hill Op 118/2 - Thomas Quasthoff (bar), Norman Shetler (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49897)

  J HELLMESBERGER II: Dance of the Elves - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Turn your face to mine

  Poetry and Music have always had a special relationship. For NZ Music Week, Julie Sperring presents selected examples from New Zealand poets and composers (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The Hills of Wellington

  Two programmes

  (2) Timua Brennan (sop), Rebecca Woodmore (contralto), William Parry (ten), Bruce Carson (bass), Douglas Mews (org), Dominion Quartet, Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Brass Band, NZ School of Music CO, Wellington CO/Michael Fulcher

  HILL: Kyrie, from Mass in Eb; String Quartet No 2, A Maori Legend; Waiata Poi; HILL: Commemorative Ode (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. A Concerto for the Margrave

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Avie AV 2119)

• 9:30 PM. New Zealand Orchestral Scores

  KER: The Third Dream; WATSON: Aufsatz - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GRANADOS: Romantic Scenes - Richard Mapp (pno) (Meridian CDE 84403)

  GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 82 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Philharmonia Hungarica/Reinhard Peters (RegisC 1249)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (ABC Classics 426 380)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Bridge 9201)

  VANHAL: Flute Quartet in G Op 7/3 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Janaki String Trio (Naxos 8.570234)

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