Wednesday 16 July 2008 Rāapa 16 Hōngoingoi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Flos Campi; Suite for viola & orchestra; Hymn-tune Prelude No 1, Eventide; Hymn-tune Prelude No 2, Dominus Regit Me; The Poisoned Kiss, Overture; The Running Set - Frederick Riddle (vla), Bournemouth Choir & Sinfonietta/Norman del Mar, George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 6545)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  CPE BACH: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Wq137; Sonata in G minor for keyboard & viola da gamba; ABEL: Adagio for viola da gamba solo; CPE BACH: Viola da gamba Sonata in C Wq136; ABEL: Postlude - Friederike Heumann (vla da gamba), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Dirk Börner (fpno) (Alpha 080)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BIZET: Votre toast…..Toréador en garde, from Carmen; BELLINI: Ah! Per sempre io perdei, from I Puritani; GOUNOD: Avant de quitter ces lieux, from Faust; TCHAIKOVSKY: I love you beyond all measure, from The Queen of Spades; PUCCINI: Questo amor, from Edgar; WAGNER: O du mein holder Abenstern, from Tannhäuser; BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers; BACH: Mache dich, mein Herze rein; Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder, from St Matthew Passion; HANDEL: Why do the nations?, from Messiah; TRAD arr Grainger: Shallow Brown; TRAD arr O'Boyle: O Waly, Waly; Princess TE RANGI PAI arr O'Boyle: Hine e hine; TOMOANA arr O'Boyle: Pokarekare ana - David Hobson (ten), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australus, Orch of the Antipodes/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

  3:20 (approx) - Disc 4

  TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 22; String Sextet in D minor Op 70, Souvenir de Florence - Rami Solomonow (vla), John Sharp (cello), Vermeer Quartet (Cedille CDR 9000 0017)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  SCOTT: Aubade for Large Orchestra Op 77; Neapolitan Rhapsody; Three Dances Op 22; Suite Fantastique; Two Passacaglias on Irish Themes - National SO of the SABC/Peter Marchbank (Marco Polo 8.223485)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 J RITCHIE: Suite No 2 for String Orchestra, Aquarius - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 22 in F Op 54 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2002)

  ELGAR: Spanish Serenade Op 23 - BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd Jones (Dutton CDLX 7148)

  L MOZART: Sinfonia pastorale in G - Edward Allen (horn), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553347)

  CURTIS: Fiesta - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2015)

  7:00 MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 216)

  VERDI arr Genin/Guiot: Fantasy on La Traviata - Patrick Gallois (fl), Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  TRAD trans Glazunov: Song of the Volga Boatmen Op 97 - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66866)

  KREISLER: Liebesfreud - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

  MOERAN: Rhapsody No 2 in E - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 248)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SIBELIUS: Valse Triste, from Kuolema - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI CDZ 7 67253)

  BERLIOZ arr Barton/Sinozich: Fifth movement, Dream of a Witches' Sabbath, from Symphonie fantastique - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

  DEBUSSY: Arabesques Nos 1-2 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10467)

  SAINT-SAËNS: French military march, from Algerian Suite - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler (RCA VD 87881)

  ADDINSELL: Warsaw Concerto - Isador Goodman (pno), Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas (DG 423 772)

  WAGNER: Die Feen, Overture - Malaga Phil/Alexander Rahbari (Naxos 8.557055)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY (1871-1942)

  reconstr Beaumont: Prelude; Gyges's monologue, from Der König Kandaules, Act 3 - Franz Grundheber (bar), Hamburg State Phil/Gerd Albrecht (Capriccio 10 448)

  The Little Mermaid - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 8.226048)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 10 in Eb D87 - Vogler Quartet (Profil PH 05051)

  COPLAND: The Tender Land, Suite - Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos 8.559297)

  KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto in Db - Boris Berezovsky (pno), Ural Phil/Dmitri Liss (Warner 2564 63074)

  RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 598)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  NORRIS: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

  FIALA: Oboe Concerto in Bb - Ingo Goritzki (ob), Polish Chamber Phil/Wojciech Rajski (Claves CD 50-9018)

  SCHÜTZ: Auf dem Gebirge - Kevin Smith, Paul Esswood (countertenors), London Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble/Edgar Fleet (RegisC 1168)

  HUMMEL: L'Enchantment d'Oberon - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 10374)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2 - Philharmonia/Guido Cantelli (rec 1955/56) (Testament SBT 1017)

  BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Emil Gilels (pno), members of Amadeus Quartet (rec 1971) (DG 447 407)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

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

  BESSER/PROSSER: Travelling Music - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

  HAMMOND/HAZELWOOD arr Knight: I'm a train - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  PRUDEN: Lambton Quay - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

  PSATHAS: Waiting for the Aeroplane - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D006)

  COWARD: Wandering the King's Highway - Oscar Natzka (bass), orchestral accompaniment/Walter Goehr (rec 1940) (Atoll ACD 400)

  YORK: Pacific Coast Highway - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)

  HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 1, Pacific 231 - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture - Lausanne CO/Yehudi Menuhin (Virgin 3 63284)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro, after Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

  ELGAR: Chanson de Matin Op 15/2 - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

  SCHUBERT: Second movement, Andante con moto, from Piano Trio No 2 in Eb D929 - Borodin Trio (Chandos CHAN 8324)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (Virgin VC 5 45301)

  HANDEL: Sweet bird, from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Kathleen Battle (sop), Paul Davies (fl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 49179)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in F Op 36 - Torleif Thedéen (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 956)

  SCHUMANN: Toccata in C Op 7 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (DG 435 751)

  LISZT: My songs are poisoned - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Poisoned Kiss, Overture - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8432)

  BRITTEN: A Poison Tree - Ian Bostridge (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66823)

  BAX: The Poisoned Fountain - Ashley Wass, Martin Roscoe (pno duo) (Naxos 8.570413)

  MASSENET: J'ai versé le poison dans cette coupe d'or, from Cléopatra - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Sarah Chang (vln), Orpheus CO (EMI 3 94431)

  BERNSTEIN: Times Square, 1944, from On the Town, Dance Episodes - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68786)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Six programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (3) Bach and Handel

  The masters receive tributes from a slew of admirers including Elgar, Rachmaninov, Grainger and Webern (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Echoes of String and Bamboo

  Five programmes featuring something of Chinese musical culture as a run-up to the Olympic Games

  (2) Li Yi Shen (vocalist), BBC SO/Muhai Tang

  BRIGHT SHENG: Shanghai Overture; QIGANG CHEN: L'éloignement; MUSHENG CHEN: A Dream in the Peony Garden; TAN DUN: Death & Fire (recorded in Maida Vale, London by BBC)

• 9:20 PM. Recent French Releases

  DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10467)

  FAURÉ: Salve Regina Op 67/1; Ave Maria Op 67/2 - Hervé Lamy (ten), Jean-François Hatton (org) (Calliope CAL 9402)

  SATIE: Parade - BBC SO/David Porcelijn (BBC Music BBC MM 293)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 20/2 - Buchberger Quartet (Brilliant Classics 93545)

  BLOCH: Schelomo - Nina Kotova (cello), Russian Philharmonia/Constantine Orbelian (Delos DE 3305)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7393)

  11:00 MONTE: Missa Ultimi miei sospiri - Cinquecento (Hyperion CDA 67658)

  BACH arr H Smith: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor BWV1002 - Hopkinson Smith (lute) (Auvidis Astrée E 8678)

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