Tuesday 24 June 2008 Rātū 24 Pipiri 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  Night Music 3

  Works from Fauré, Tchaikovsky, Marcello, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Haydn, Corelli, Mozart, Albinoni - Various Artists (Naxos 8.551123)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  DAVID: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor; Piano Trio No 2 in D minor - Ilona Prunyi (pno), Eszter Perényi (vln), Tibor Párkányi (cello) (Marco Polo 8.223492)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  Stairway to Heaven

  Choral Works by Bach, Fauré, Messiaen, Poulenc, Stanford, Allegri, Mozart, Burgon, Schubert, Lassus, Victoria, Purcell, Barber - Choir of Trinity College/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605-51521)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein; No 27 in E minor Op 90; No 14 in C# minor Op 27/2, Moonlight; No 13 in Eb Op 27/1 - Michael Houstoun (Trust MMT 2001/3)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  GRAINGER: Rustic Dance; Eastern Intermezzo; Colonial Song; Gay but Wistful; The Gum-sucker's March; LILBURN: Diversions for strings; DREYFUS: Serenade for small orchestra; BENJAMIN: North American Square Dance; COULTHARD: Excursion Ballet Suite - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC 2 5088)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Leonid Kogan (vln), USSR State SO/Pavel Kogan (Brilliant Classics 93030)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 18 in D K576 - Leon McCawley (pno) (Avie AV 2105)

  BRIDGE: There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

  BERLIOZ: Trio for two flutes & harp, from The Childhood of Christ - Richard Taylor, Francis Nolan (fls), Renata Scheffel-Stein (harp) (Philips 416 949)

  JC BACH: Symphony in D Op 18/3 - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 752)

  7:00 COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-93 CD)

  GROVLEZ: Le Pastour; Les Marionettes; Petites litanies de Jesus, from L'Almanach aux Images - Peter Katin (pno) (Simax PSC 1067)

  ROSAS: Over the waves, Waltz - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

  TALLIS: Spem in alium - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell 454 895)

  M HAYDN: Symphony No 7 in E - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Largo ma non troppo, from Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - David Oistrakh, Igor Oistrakh (vlns), Royal Phil/Eugene Goossens (ABC Classics 465 680)

  DVORÁK: In Nature's Realm, Overture - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7123)

  NADERMAN: Harp Sonatina No 4 in G minor - Masumi Nagasawa (harp) (Et'Cetera KTC 1341)

  WIDOR arr Beckett/Widor: Suite Op 34, Scherzo & Romance - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  SALIERI: Parade Marsch in C - Ensemble Italiano di Fiati (Brilliant Classics)

  BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - NZSO National Youth Orch 2004/Alasdair Neale (National Youth Orch)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908)

  Sadko Op 5 - USSR Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Olympia OCD 211)

  Boyarïnya Vera Sheloga Op 54 - Elena Okolysheva (mezzo), Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553858)

  Variations for oboe & military band - Alf Nilsson (ob), Stockholm Concert Band/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9444)

  The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Suite - Rotterdam Phil/David Zinman (Philips 411 435)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 445 946)

  GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F - Michel Camilo (pno), Barcelona SO/Ernest Martinez Izquierdo (Telarc CD 83611)

  NIELSEN: Wind Quintet in E Op 43 - Reykjavik Wind Quintet (Chandos CHAN 9849)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 60 in C, Il distratto - Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (Et'Cetera KTC 5251)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 7 in D minor - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5142)

  MONTI arr Glennie: Czardas - Evelyn Glennie (percussion), National Phil/Barry Wordsworth (RCA 60242-2-RC)

  MOMPOU orch Ros-Marbá: Damunt de tú nómes les flors, from El Combat del Somni - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Antonio Ros-Marbá (EMI CMS 5 65061)

  KROMMER: Oboe Quintet in C - Sarah Francis (ob), Jonathan Barritt (vla), Tagore String Trio (RegisC 1201)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129 - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), French National Orch/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1976) (EMI CDC 7 49307)

  DVORÁK: Moravian Duets Op 32 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried (sops), Gerald Moore (pno) (rec 1955) (EMI CDH 7 69793)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Two Preludes (1951) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

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

  MOZART: Second movement, Adagio, from Oboe Quartet in F K370 - Viva CO (Viva CO)

  FINZI: Rollicum-rorum; To Lizbie Browne, from Earth and Air and Rain Op 15 - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (EMI 5 75203)

  TANEYEV: Symphony No 4 in C minor Op 12 - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SULLIVAN: Mikado, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

  BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 426 064)

  GERMAN: The Willow Song - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7156)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6/4 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (dir) (Telarc CD 80253)

  DEBUSSY: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, How good it is to look at her; When I heard the drum; Winter, you are nothing but a knave - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 438 149)

  ROSSINI arr Berr: String Sonata No 1 in G - Michael Thompson Wind Quartet (Naxos 8.554098)

  RACHMANINOV arr H Wood: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)

  BOCCHERINI: Flute Quintet in D G428 - Carlo Ipata (fl), Auser Musici (Hyperion CDA 67646)

  TUZUN: Anatolian Candle Dance - Moscow Radio & TV SO/Hikmet Simsek (Turkish Ministry 9713662 (SD 06))

  GLENNIE: Light in Darkness - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

  COLLINS: The lady with the lamp, Prelude & Variations - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7162)

  MAYERL: Minuet by Candlelight - Slovak Radio SO/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

  COPLAND: El Salón México - New Philharmonia/Aaron Copland (CBS MK 42429)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:20 Stroma: Icons of our Time

  Simon Docking (pno), Stroma/Hamish McKeich

  BOULEZ: Derive; BODY: Rainforest, Movements 1, 2, 4 & 5 (première performance & broadcast); FERNEYHOUGH: Lemma-Icon-Epigram; SCIARRINO: introduzione all'oscuro; KNUSSEN: Coursing (recorded at St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

  9:30 Frank Zappa, The Radio Is Broken

  Five programmes in which James Gardner traces a personal path through the vast output and thirty-five year career of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa

  (4) We Hate Your Dots

  Although best known as a rock musician, Zappa wrote orchestral music from his mid-teens onward after discovering Varèse and Stravinsky. James Gardner presents a selection of Zappa's orchestral and other instrumental writing as well as glancing sidelong at his "musicals" Thing-Fish and Hunchentoot (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 25

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