Schedule for Wednesday 13 August 2008

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
KABALEVSKY: Romeo & Juliet Suite; Comedians Suite; Colas Breugnon Suite - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 967)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
TELEMANN: Oboe Sonatas, in Bb; in G minor, from Tafelmusik; HANDEL: Oboe Sonata in C minor Op 1/8; TELEMANN: Oboe Sonata in A minor; HANDEL: Oboe Sonatas, in Bb, Fitzwilliam; in G minor Op 1/6; TELEMANN: Oboe Sonatas, in E minor; in G minor; HANDEL: Oboe Sonata in F Op 1/5 - Marilyn Zupnik (ob), Mark Shuman (cello), Raymond Leppard (hpschd) (ASV CD DCA 663)
2:20 (approx) - Disc 3
Songs by Italian opera composers: including BELLINI; Verdi; Donizetti; Rossini; Puccini; Mascagni - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno)
(Atoll A 9803)
3:30 (approx) - Disc 4
PATITUCCI: Tell Tale; JOBIM: Chovendo Na Roseira; HART: I Will Rise Again; DJAVAN: Lei; HOLST: In the Bleak Midwinter; PATITUCCI: Three Faces; SOUZA: Now the River; PATITUCCI: Soulmate; PATITUCCI: Rhapsodic Journey; RODGERS: It Never Entered My Mind; PATITUCCI: Love Eternal; COLTRANE: Wise One - various artists (Concord Records CCD 2149)
4:30 (approx) - Disc 5
CATALINI: Impressioni, 10 Pieces; Se tu sapessi; Scherzo-tarantella; Aspirazione; Ricordi di Lugano; A Sera; Eleganza; Notturno; Contemplazione; Loreley - Pietro Spada (pno) (ASV CD DCA 921)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 PEZ: Overture in D minor R24 - Les Muffatti/Peter van Heyghen (Ramée RAM 0705)
ELGAR: Minuet Op 21 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)
TRAD: The Bonnie Earl O'Moray - Royal Scottish National Orch Chorus, BBC Scottish SO/John Currie (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)
DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Trust TRI 3003)
LE DUC: Symphony No 2 in D - Frankfurt La Stagione/Michael Schneider (CPO 777 219)
7:00 SMETANA: Prague Carnival - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Clasics 93634)
GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia, after Corelli's Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12 - Purcell Quartet, Purcell Band (Hyperion CDA 66264)
PRINCESS TE RANGI PAI arr Duarte: Hine e Hine - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Op 8 - Petr Macecek (vln), Petr Prause (cello), Yakov Kasman (pno) (Calliope CAL 9370)
GRAINGER: Green Bushes, Passacaglia on an English folksong - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)
8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Deh, vieni alla finestra, from Don Giovanni - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 445 866)
SCHUBERT: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Arpeggione Sonata in A minor - Mark Walton (cl), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)
LUMBYE: Lily Polka: Dedicated to the Ladies - Odense SO/Peter Guth (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9089)
BIBER: Battalia in D - Armonico Tributo Austria/Lorenz Duftschmid (CPO 999 919)
BRITTEN: Choral Dances, from Gloriana - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9511)
BRAGA SANTOS: Symphonic Variations on a popular song from the Alentejo - National SO of Ireland/Alvaro Cassuto (Marco Polo 8.225233)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (1098-1179)
O frondens virga; O Euchari - Tapestry (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 344 1193)
arr Ivanoff: O Euchari - VOX/Vladimir Ivanoff (Catalyst 09026 68331)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Laus Trinitati - Gundula Anders (sop) (DHM 05472-77346)
O virtus sapientiae - Almut Teichert-Hailperin (sop) (Christophorus CHE 0041)
O quam mirabilis - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg (Catalyst 09026-68329)
ZECHLIN: Three Songs after Texts by Hildegard of Bingen, Laus Trinitati; O virtus sapientiae; O quam mirabilis - Mechthild Seitz (mezzo), Werner Tast (fl) (Arte Nova 74321 67504)
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Columba Aspexit - Tapestry (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 344 1193)
10:00 AM. The Works

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Suite - Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 448 704)
STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - Enigma Ensemble (Balance BAL 9442-1)
J STAMITZ: Sinfonia a Quattro in D - New Dutch Academy CO/Simon Murphy (PentaTone PTC 5186 028)
HARTY: Piano Concerto in B minor - Peter Donohoe (pno), Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)
Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

PUCCINI: Love duet, from Madame Butterfly - Leontyne Price (sop), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo), Plácido Domingo (ten), New Philharmonia/Nello Santi (RCA RD 85999)
CHOPIN: Third movement, Largo, from Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65 - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (Philips 434 917)
SIERRA: Folias - Manuel Barrueco (gtr), Galicia SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Koch KIC CD 7597)
SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix - Risë Stevens (mezzo), NBC SO/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1954) (Cala CACD 0540)
EINAUDI: La nascita delle cose segrete; Quel che resta; Inizio - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Ricordi 74321 97462)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (rec 1961) (EMI CDC 7 47184)
BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Philharmonia Chorus & Orch/Otto Klemperer (rec 1962) (EMI CDM 7 69650)
4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
PRUDEN: Akaroa - New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi SLD 66)
MIGOT: Three Pieces for cello & piano - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.105)
MOZART: Martern aller Arten, from The Abduction from the Seraglio - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Philips 434 725)
LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: March in Eb - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)
BACH: Concerto in D for three violins BWV1064 - Micaela Comberti, Miles Golding (vlns), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir/vln) (Chandos CHAN 0594)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture - Vienna Phil/George Solti (Decca 475 8502)
CANNABICH: Symphony No 50 in D minor - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)
BUSONI: Ballet Scene, from Trois Morceaux - Wolf Harden (pno) (Naxos 8.570249)
TIPPETT: Five Negro Spirituals, from A Child of our Time - Oxford Schola Cantorum/Jeremy Summerly (Hyperion CDA 67575)
VIVALDI: Arsilda, Queen of Pontus, Overture - Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli (CPO 999 740)
BLISS: Welcome the Queen - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9896)
HANDEL arr Southgate: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - Mark Walton (cls) (Kiwi CD TRL 071)
BERLIOZ: Queen Mab Scherzo, from Romeo & Juliet - London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 438 307)
SCHUMANN: Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op 135 - Juliane Banse (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33103)
PURCELL: The Indian Queen, incidental music - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47664)
FARR: Queen of Demons - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)
7:00 PM. Appointment

The End of the World
Simon Romanos grapples with the concepts of Scriabin's final, unfinished, cataclysmic opus synthesizing all the arts. Mysterium was planned to take place over a period of seven days in the foothills of the Himalayas, after which the world would dissolve in bliss and humans would be replaced by "nobler beings" (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2008
Ten programmes from the current season
(1) Andrew Kennedy (ten), Nigel Kennedy (vln), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Concert Orch/Paul Daniel
BAX: The Garden of Fand; FINZI: Intimations of Immortality Op 29; ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61 (recorded 19 July 2008 in the Royal Albert Hall, London by BBC)
10:00 PM. Day's End

KARG-ELERT: Triptych Op 141 - Stefan Engels (organ of St George's Church, Riedlingen, Germany) (Priory PRCD 816)
DEBUSSY arr E Grigoryan: Suite bergamasque - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs) (ABC Classics 476 6088)
11:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Septet in Eb Op 65 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)
BURGMÜLLER: String Quartet No 4 in A minor Op 14 - Mannheim String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 336 0993)