Wednesday 23 July 2008 Rāapa 23 Hōngoingoi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  BLOMDAHL: Symphonies, No 1; No 2; No 3, Facets - Swedish Radio SO/Leif Segerstam (BIS CD 611)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  REGONDI: Remembrance; A Set of Three Waltzes; Hexaméron du concertiniste; Souvenir d'amitié - Helmut Jacobs (accordion) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 9030 1420)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  FAYRFAX: Albanus Domini Laudans, from Alloquio dulcis vultu; Missa Albanus; O Maria Deo Gratia; Ave Lumen Gratie; Eterne Laudis Lilum - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (ASV DC GAU 160)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  Reverie

  Adaptations and improvisations on piano works by Debussy, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin & Liszt - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Downstage DSR 1009)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  MOZART: Concertone in C for two flutes K190; CIMAROSA: Concerto in G for two flutes; VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two flutes & strings RV533; A STAMITZ: Concerto in G for two flutes - Shigenori Kudo, Jean-Pierre Rampal (fls), Mozarteum Orch (Sony SK 45930)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in D TWV55/D22, Ouverture jointes d'une Suite tragi-comique - Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire (Brilliant Classics 93416)

  ELGAR: In Smyrna - David Owen Norris (pno) (Elgar Editions EECD 002)

  ADDINSELL: Fire over England Suite, film music - BBC Concert Orchestra/Kenneth Alwyn (Marco Polo 8.223732)

  PERGOLESI: Sinfonia for cello - Peter Howard (cello), Joshua Koestenbaum (continuo cello), Christopher Hogwood (hpschd) (Decca 425 614)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Introduction; Waltz; Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin - La Scala Theatre Orch, Milan/Lovro von Matacic (Testament SBT 1330)

  7:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - Royal Phil/Charles Mackerras (Tring International TRP 032)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Roskilly: Tanguango - Totally Plucked, the Wellington Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  SIBELIUS: Rakastava Op 14 - Jaakko Kuusisto (vln), Ilkka Pälli (cello), Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1265)

  LASSUS: Italian madrigals & villanelles - Die Singphoniker (CPO 999 855)

  BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor; No 6 in D - New Zealand SO/Franz Paul Decker (RNZ)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DARZINS: Valse mélancolique - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

  DEBUSSY trans Hartmann: The girl with the flaxen hair from Preludes, Book 1 - Philippe Graffin (vln), Claire Désert (pno) (Avie AV 2059)

  ROPARTZ: Oedipus at Colonus, Prelude to Act 2 - Britanny Orch/Kirill Karabits (Timpany 1C 1095)

  REGER: Scherzo in D minor, from 12 Pieces Op 65 - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

  JOLIVET: Concerto for bassoon, harp, piano & strings - Maurice Allard (bsn), Orchestre des Cento Soli/Rudolf Albert (Accord 476 7783)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 30 in C, Alleluja - Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 9031 76460)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695)

  If music be the food of love; Retir'd from any mortal's sight, from King Richard II, Part 4 - Meredith Hall, Helen Groves (sops), Musicians of The Globe/Philip Pickett (Philips 446 218)

  Sonata No 9 in F - Mary Springfels (viola da gamba), Arcadian Academy/Nicholas McGegan (hpschd/dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMT 790 7167)

  Crown the Altar, from Celebrate this Festival; Lord, What is Man; Sleep, Adam, Sleep - Drew Minter (countertenor), Mary Springfels (viol), Mitzi Meyerson (org), Paul O'Dette (archlute) (Harmonia Mundi HMT 790 7035)

  Suite in C - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47664)

  My heart is inditing - Chanticleer, Capriccio Stravagante/Joseph Jennings (Teldec 2564 60290)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  PANUFNIK: Heroic Overture - Tampere Phil/John Storgårds (Ondine ODE 1101)

  MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Andrew Marriner (cl), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (PentaTone PTC 5186 048)

  DOHNÁNYI: Violin Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 43 - Michael Ludwig (vln), Royal Scottish National Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.570833)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37, No 11, Zambra; No 4, Villanesca; No 6, Rondalla aragonesa - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 1 Op 10 - Ukraine National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.553405)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BLODEK: Moonrise, from In the Well - Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (Supraphon 10 1429)

  SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Placido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

  PEEL: In summertime on Bredon - Thomas Allen (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDM 5 67428)

  HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 2 in C Op 114, Septet Militaire - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66396)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  LIADOV: Kikimora Op 63; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Dubinushka; STRAVINSKY: Scherzo à la Russe; Pulcinella Suite - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (rec 1954/57/64/56) (Decca 475 8140)

  BRAHMS: Five Songs Op 104, Nachtwache 1 & 2; Letztes Glück; Verlorne Jugend; Im Herbst - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (rec 1990) (Philips 475 7558)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  BLAKE: Black on White, excerpts - John Luxton (pno) (Ribbonwood RCD 110)

  BODY: Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT D009)

  BLISS: Four Songs - Helen Meyerhoff (sop), Thomas Kemp (vln), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1128)

  J STAMITZ: Trio in E Op 5/3 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553194)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  PAGANINI: Introduction & Variations on Dal tuo stellato, from Moses in Egypt by Rossini - Salvatore Accardo (vln), CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi (EMI 7 67567)

  TRAD arr Puanaki: Ka Waiata - 1996 NZ National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/2 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (dir) (Telarc CD 80253)

  RAVEL arr Back: Piece in the form of a habanera; Pavane for a dead princess - Emma Johnson (cl), Gordon Back (pno) (ASV CD DCA 621)

  LECUONA: Andalucia - Eastman-Rochester Pops Orch/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 434 349)

  SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Osian Ellis (harp) (EMI 5 66650)

  BACH arr N Rawsthorne: Cantata No 29, Wir danken dir, Gott, Sinfonia - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5009)

  HARTY: A Comedy Overture - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr Solin: Theatre Music, from The Human Comedy - Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9907)

  PATTERSON: Comedy for Five Winds - Vega Wind Quintet (LDR LDRC 1002)

  BISHOP: Lo! Here The Gentle Lark, from Comedy of Errors - Kathleen Battle (sop), Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Margo Garrett (pno) (Sony SK 53106)

  KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10052)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Old Wine in New Bottles

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

  (4) Arrangement

  Vaughan Williams recreates a folk song classic, Rossini's opera becomes ballet thanks to Britten and Britten himself is given period treatment by Julian Bream (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

  (3) Hu Chen-Yu (suona), Ma Xiang-Hua (erhu), Sophie Marin-Degor, Hye-Youn Lee (sops), French National Radio Orch/Jonathan Schiffman, Kristjan Järvi

  MARATKA: Chant g'haï for suona & orchestra; CONNESSON: Yu Yuan for erhu & orchestra; ZAVARO: Danse de Shanghaï for erhu & orchestra; AGOBET: Exo for two sopranos & orchestra; ADAMS: Harmonielehre (recorded at the Halle aux Grains, Toulouse by Radio France)

• 9:25 PM. Recent Haydn Chamber Releases

  HAYDN: Baryton Trio No 97 in D - Netherlands Baryton Trio (Et'Cetera KTC 1313)

  String Quartet in Bb Op 1/1, Hunt - Buchberger Quartet (Brilliant Classics 93650)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FAURÉ: La Naissance de Vénus Op 29 - Sara Macliver (sop), Jenny Duck-Chong (mezzo), Paul McMahon (ten), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC Classics 472 045)

  GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 - Royal Phil/Mark Ermler (Tring International TRP 002)

  SAINT-GEORGES: Symphonie Concertante in G for two violins G024 - Christophe Guiot, Bertrand Cervera (vlns), Les Archets de Paris (Calliope CAL 9373)

  11:00 RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45 - Peter Donohoe, Martin Roscoe (pno duo) (Naxos 8.557062)

  FINZI: Seven Partsongs Op 17, I praise the tender flower; I have loved flowers that fade; My spirit sang all day; Clear and gentle stream; Nightingales; Haste on, my joys!; Wherefore tonight so full of care - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 8936)

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