Thursday 24 July 2008 Rāpare 24 Hōngoingoi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scene Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk-song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro; Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39; Twelve Poems Op 35 - Ian Partridge (ten), Thomas Hemsley (bar), Jennifer Partridge, Paul Hamburger (pnos) (BBC MM 122)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  ELGAR: Serenade for strings in E minor Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVOŘÁK: Serenade for strings in E Op 22; VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling All Workers; March, The Dam Busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - Los Angeles Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 421 397)

  CLEMENTI: Keyboard Sonata in Ab WoO13 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67632)

  ARAUXO: Canto de La Inmaculada Concepción; ANON: Pavana, El bisson; CABEZON: Diferencias sobre la Gallarda Milanesa - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Oiseau-Lyre 444 537)

  DEBUSSY orch Busser: Evening in Granada, from Estampes - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

  LOCATELLI: Violin Sonata in C Op 8/4 - Locatelli Trio (Hyperion CDD 22057)

  7:00 PROKOFIEV: Folk Dance, from Romeo & Juliet - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8368)

  WAGNER: Parsifal, Prelude to Act 1 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7517)

  IBERT: Three Short Pieces for wind quintet - Berlin Phil/Wind Quintet (BIS CD 536)

  SIBELIUS: Serenade No 2 in G minor Op 69b - Ida Haendel (vln), Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund (EMI 5 74200)

  ROSSINI: Une pensée à Florence, from Album de Chaumière - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 22705)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: POULENC: Les chemins de l'amour - Jessye Norman (sop), Dalton Baldwin (pno) (Philips 420 213)

  JC BACH: Symphony in Eb for double orchestra Op 18/1 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Etude No 1 in E minor; Prelude No 1 - René Bartoli (gtr) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 19 0928)

  STRAUSS arr Reger/Koch: Festive entry of the Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem - Christian Schmitt (organ of the Collegiate Church of St Arnual, Saarbrücken), Saarbrücken Radio SO/Johannes Wildner (Audite 92.506)

  ACHRON arr Auer: Hebrew Melody - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

  REYNOLDS: Three Pieces for Theatre, Overture to Much Ado about Nothing; Entr'acte from The Critic; Mascarade from The Merchant of Venice - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PURCELL: Dido & Aeneas, an opera in one act

  Dido............................. Catherine Bott

  Belinda.......................... Emma Kirkby

  Aeneas.......................... John Mark Ainsley

  Sorceress...................... David Thomas

  First Witch.................... Elisabeth Priday

  Second Witch............... Sara Stowe

  Second Woman............ Julianne Baird

  First Sailor.................... Daniel Lochmann

  Spirit............................. Michael Chance

  Academy of Ancient Music Chorus & Orch/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 436 992)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  GIBBS: Fancy Dress - Royal Phil/Simon Joly (Lyrita SRCD 214)

  SCHUMANN: Carnival Jest from Vienna Op 26 - Stefan Vladar (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1890)

  STRAVINSKY: Divertimento, from La baiser de la Fée - Russian National Orch/Vladimir Jurowski (Pentatone PTC 5186 061)

  STANFORD: Songs of the Sea Op 91 - Gerald Finley (bar), BBC Welsh National Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5043)

  CHAUSSON: Symphony in Bb Op 20 - Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 078)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  KHACHATURIAN: Dance Suite - Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

  PÄRT: For Alina - Stephanie McCallum (pno) (ABC Classics 456 668)

  ONSLOW: String Quintet in C minor Op 80/33 - members of the String Sextet of the French National Orch (Erato ECD 88252)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 - Maria João Pires (pno), Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Frans Brüggen (rec 1995) (DG 477 6607)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Royal Phil/Rudolf Kempe (rec 1972) (Decca 421 452)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

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

  R CLARKE: The tiger; Tears; God made a tree; Come, oh come, my life's delight; Greeting; The donkey - Patricia Wright (sop), Kathron Sturrock (pno) (Guild GMCD 7208)

  FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  FALLA: The Three-cornered Hat, Suite No 2 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  D'INDY Sarabande & Menuet - Vovka Ashkenazy (pno), Reykjavik Wind Quintet (Chandos CHAN 10420)

  BRAHMS: How lovely are thy dwellings, from A German Requiem - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - BBC SO/Adrian Boult (BBC Legends BBCL 4170)

  ALBRIGHT: Sweet Sixteenths - Nicola Melville (pno) (Equilibrium EQ 57)

  ALBINONI: Concerto in C for two oboes Op 7/2 - Anthony Camden, Alison Alty (obs), London Virtuosi/John Georgiadis (dir) (Naxos 8.553002)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Second movement, Adagio cantabile e con moto, from Souvenir de Florence - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 440 366)

  SOMBRUN: Souvenir de Bretagne - Folkwang Horn Ensemble/Hermann Baumann (Philips 426 301)

  VIEUXTEMPS arr Bailey: Souvenir d'Amérique - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Delos DE 3326)

  J STRAUSS I: Souvenir de Carneval 1847, Quadrille - Slovak State Phil/Mika Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

  RAFF: Souvenirs de Don Giovanni Op 45 - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.231)

  GLINKA: Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid, Spanish Overture No 2 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Inspector Morse

  Real ale and opera are the main consolations for Inspector Morse in ITV's multi-layered series. Morse fan Adrienne Simpson looks at the integrated use of music in the long running whodunnit (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Wellington Town Hall

  Takács Quartet

  PSATHAS: A Cool Wind; JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters

  (Interval)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 15 in G D887 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in D minor TWV51/d2 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (DG 477 5923)

  BIZET: L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Igor Markevitch (Philips 420 863)

  11:00 BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, The Night-Watch in Madrid - Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45607)

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in E HobXV/28 - Robert Levin (fpno), Vera Beth (vln), Anner Bylsma (cello) (Sony SK 53120)

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