Saturday 5 July 2008 Rāhoroi 5 Hōngoingoi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphonies, No 9 in C; No 11 in F; No 12 in G minor - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5143)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Sonatas, in F minor Op 2/1; in A Op 2/2; in C Op 2/3 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011-3)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  Vêpres à la Vierge en Chine

  Choral Vespers service from China - Shi Kelong (chant), Cyrille Gerstenhaber (sop), Christophe Laporte (countertenor), Benoît Porcherot, Howard Shelton (tens), Ronan Nédélec (bar), Choir of the North, Beijing, XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières/Jean-Christophe Frisch (K617 155)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  ELGAR: String Quartet in E minor Op 83; BRIDGE: Three Idylls; WALTON: String Quartet in A minor - Coull Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66718)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D BWV1050; Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051; Concerto in A for oboe d'amore BWV1055; Concerto in D minor for violin & oboe BWV1060 - Munich Bach Orch/Karl Richter (Archiv 427 143)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MOLTER: Overture in C minor MWV III/9 - Nova Stravaganza/Siegbert Rampe (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 341 1279)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 37 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 464 694)

  ABEL: Flute Concerto in C Op 6/1 - Edward Beckett (fl/dir), ASMF (ASV CD DCA 1178)

  SAINZ DE LA MAZA: Zapateado - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 02 CD)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI 5 65056)

  7:00 WAGENAAR: The Elves' Hill - Netherlands Radio SO/Eri Klas (Et'Cetera KTC 1326)

  WEBER: Clarinet Concertino in Eb Op 26 - Andrew Marriner (cl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 432 146)

  CRAMER: Etude in Eb Op 103/6, Hommage à Mozart - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67598)

  BACH: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor BWV542 - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

  OFFENBACH: Ballet of the Snowflakes, from Voyage to the Moon - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 6403)

  8:00 PURCELL: The Indian Queen, incidental music - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47664)

  DVORÁK: A Czech's song, Where is my home, where is my land? - Prague Singers/Stanislav Mistr (Brilliant Classics 92883)

  FALLA: Neighbour's Dance & Miller's Dance, from The Three-cornered Hat - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  FARR: Sepuluh Jari - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2020)

  STANFORD: Irish Rhapsody No 3 Op 137 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7002/3)

• 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

  STRAUSS trans Godowsky: Ständchen Op 17/2 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Philips 456 781)

  ROSETTI: Bassoon Concerto in F (Murray C75) - Eckart Hübner (bsn/dir), Neuss German Chamber Academy (CPO 999 936)

  BRAHMS: Ballade in G minor Op 118/3 - Earl Wild (pno) (Ivory Classics 64405 72008)

  ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius - John Mitchinson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bbar), CBSO Chorus & Orch/Simon Rattle (EMI CDS 7 49549)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

  Host Wynton Marsalis offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (4) Stand-Up for Jazz

  Punch lines meet brass lines: comedian Bill Cosby joins Nancy Wilson, Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for a night of stories, humour and music. Song stylist Nancy Wilson delicately renders Someone to watch over me; All of me and A foggy day. Cosby remembers his childhood and Ray Charles. Plus Mary Lou Williams' Froggy Bottom (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Umalali - the Garifuna Women's Project

  The Garifuna people are a Central American ethnic group living mainly along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. Until recently, the only readily available recorded music from these communities was that performed by men. Umalali features the voices of The Garifuna Women's Project and is the product of ten years' field research by Belizean musician Ivan Duran. The women sing about their lives: the joy of a newborn child, looking for a job, the heartbreak of losing a loved one (Stonetree Records CMB-CD-6)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Hot Young Strings

  Sarah Drake, Christabel Lin, Ben Morrison, Sophie Bird (vlns), Sarah Dobbs (cello), New Zealand School of Music String Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir)

  VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso in B minor RV580; GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34; MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 9 in C (recorded in the Adam Concert Room, Wellington by RNZ)

• 3:55 PM. Haydn & Mozart Sonatas

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 49 in C# minor HobXVI/36 - John Lill (pno) (Signum SIGCD 097)

  MOZART compltd Stadler: Violin Sonata No 30 in C K403 - Rachel Podger (vln), Gary Cooper (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 25608)

• 4:35 PM. Foster Conducts

  BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Monte Carlo Phil/Lawrence Foster (Warner Classics 8573 80438)

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb S124 - Lise de la Salle (pno), Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Orch/Lawrence Foster (Naïve V 5053)

  ENESCU: Symphony No 3 in C Op 21 - Les Eléments Chamber Choir, Lyon National Orch/Lawrence Foster (EMI 5 86604)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  TAYLOR: Flute music - Agus Supriawan (suling), Nicola West, Kate Marshall (fls), Nancy Haliburton (vln), Dylan Lardelli (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 2002)

  SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana Op 16 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Calliope CAL 9207)

  MCLEOD: Cambridge Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Songs for Mignon from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister

  SCHUBERT: Do you know the land where the lemon trees bloom?; Bid me not speak; Only he who knows yearning; So let me appear - Nancy Argenta (sop), Melvyn Tan (fpno) (EMI CDC 7 54175)

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

  SCHUMANN: Kennst du das Land; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Heiss nicht reden; So Lass mich scheinen - Mitsuko Shirai (mezzo), Hartmut Höll (pno) (Capriccio 10 099)

  SCHUMANN: Romance in F# Op 28/2 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 438 305)

  WOLF: Bid me not speak; Only he knows yearning; So let me appear; Do you know the land where the lemon trees bloom? - Arleen Augér (sop), Irwin Gage (pno) (CBS MK 42447)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Live! at the Concertgebouw 2007-2008

  Frank Peter Zimmermann (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Stefan Asbury, Brett Dean

  BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem Op 20; DEAN: The Lost Art of Letter Writing for violin & orchestra; ADÈS: ... but all shall be well; IVES: Three Places in New England; BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture (Radio Netherlands)

  RAAFF: First movement, from Piano Concerto; IVES: Piano Sonata No 2, Concord, Mass: 1840-60, excerpt - Ralph van Raat (pno), Netherlands Radio CO/Peter Eötvös (Etcetera KTC 1309)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BALAKIREV: Tamara - Philharmonia/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Hyperion CDA 66586)

  RACHMANINOV: Six Songs Op 38 - Elena Brilova (sop), Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1978)

  GLINKA: A Life for the Tsar, Dances - Moscow Radio SO/Vladimir Fedoseyev (RegisC 1242)

  11:00 MUSGRAVE: Excursions - Thea Musgrave, Malcolm Williamson (pno duet) (Lyrita SRCD 253)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 7 in Bb Op 97, Archduke - Henryk Szeryng (vln), Pierre Fournier (cello), Wilhelm Kempff (pno) (DG 429 712)

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