Saturday 30 August 2008 Rāhoroi 30 Here-turi-kōkā 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  DVORÁK: Concert Overtures, In Nature's Realm; Carnival; Othello; Symphonic Variations Op 78; Scherzo Capriccioso - Royal Phil/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 794)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  MEDTNER: Piano Concertos, No 2 in C minor Op 50; No 3 in E minor Op 60, Ballade - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), London Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9038)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  BACH: Violin Partita in D minor BWV1004, with chorales, Auf meinen lieben Gott; Den Tod…; Allemanda; Christ lag in Todesbanden; Corrente; Den Tod niemand zwingen kuunt; Sarabanda; Wo sol lich fliehen hin; Giga; Den Tod…; Ciaccona; Christ lag in Todesbanden; Dein Will gescheh'; Befiehl Du Deine Wege; Jesu meine Freude; Auf meinen lieben Gott; Jesu Deine Passion; In meines Herzens Grunde; Nun lob', mein Seel', den Herren; Den Tod…; Ciaccona for solo violin and four voices after Helga Thoene's analysis; Den Tod… - Hilliard Ensemble, Christoph Poppen (baroque vln) (ECM 1765)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  LISZT: Divertissement on the cavatina "I tuoi frequenti palpiti" from Pacini's Niobe; THALBERG: Fantasy on themes from Rossini's Moses; WEBER: Concert Piece in F minor Op 79; THALBERG: Fantasia on God Save the Queen; LISZT: Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude, from Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses - Steven Mayer (pno) (ASV CD DCA 783)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  Fantasias, Arias and Toccatas by MUDARRA, MILAN, MACQUE, DELL'APRA, FRESCOBALDI and MONTEVERDI - Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque harps) (Hyperion CDA 66518)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth from Nature Trilogy - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1137)

  SALOMON: Romance in D for violin & strings - Simon Standage (vln), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 427 316)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in A Op 45/4 - Sarah Francis (ob), Allegri String Quartet (Decca 433 173)

  IRELAND: Legend - Eric Parkin (pno), London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 241)

  SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1265)

  7:00 TOVEY: The Bride of Dionysus, Prelude - Malmö Opera Orch/George Vass (Toccata Classics TOCC 0033)

  SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy - Howard Zhang (vln), Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555093)

  SMETANA: Polka, To our Girls - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Clasics 93634)

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book 2 - Olga Kern (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7392)

  M HAYDN: Symphony in Bb P52 - Oradea Phil/Ervin Acél (Olympia OCD 404)

  8:00 KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

  TORELLI: Christmas Concerto in G minor Op 8/6 - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Catherine Weiss (vln), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0716)

  CHOPIN: Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (RCA 82876 72554)

  DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme - Mark Walton (sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

  J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223235)

• 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

  WAGNER: Festival March, from Tannhäuser - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony MLK 64061)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Zurmühle: Concerto for trombone & military band - Christian Lindberg (tbn), Kosei Wind Orch/Chikara Imamura (BIS CD 848)

  J THOMAS: Love's fascination; The dawn of day; Men of Harlech, from Scenes of Childhood - Lipman Harp Duo (Naxos 8.570372)

  DE CURTIS: Sona chitarra! - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), New Symphony Orch of London/Iller Pattacini (Decca 417 794)

  TRAD Irish: The dark slender boy; The young black cow - Ensemble Galilei (Dorian DIS 80139)

  FIBICH: The Tempest Op 46 - Czech Phil/Gerd Albrecht (Orfeo C 350 951 A)

  The Concerto According to Manny

  Seated at the piano, Emanuel Ax talks with Eric Friesen about Brahms' Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 (CBC)

  www.cbc.ca/pianoconcertos

  (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

  (12) Paquito D'Rivera's Third Stream

  Musical polyglot Paquito D'Rivera offers Stravinsky, Brahms and Bernstein in a jazz dialect. Vibrant instrumentation including clarinet, strings, percussion and two pianos, accents his penchant for blurring European and African-American idioms, especially on his own hybrid work, Fiddle Dreams (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Philippines: Women artists of Lake Sebu

  The Tboli are one of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, an island at the southernmost part of the Philippines. These field recordings, made over an eight-year period, form a musical portrait of the disappearing world of the Tboli (Buda Music 3017557)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Sixth Adam International Cello Competition

  Finals Gala Concert

  Konstantin Manaev, Blaise Dejardin, Hee-Young Lim, Soo Bae, Nicolas Altstaedt (cellos), Christchurch Symphony/Arvo Volmer

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107; SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129; TOAN: Games; ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85; SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 (recorded in Christchurch Town Hall by RNZ)

• 5:05 PM. 100 Years On

  Works first heard in 1908

  DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 247)

  QUILTER: Seven Elizabethan Lyrics - Barbara Bonney (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Onyx 4003)

  STRAVINSKY: Fireworks Op 4 - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 470 643)

  CHAMINADE: Concert Piece for piano & orchestra Op 40 - Rosario Marciano (pno), Luxembourg Radio Orch/Louis de Froment (Vox Box CDX 5110)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture Op 80 - New Zealand SO/Franz Paul Decker (RNZ)

  BEETHOVEN arr Matiegka: Serenade in D Op 8, excerpt - Viva CO (Viva CO)

  J STAMITZ: Symphony in Bb - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553194)

  PSATHAS: Fragment - Stephen Gosling (pno) (Trust MMT 2047)

  PROKOFIEV arr Blok: Concertino in G minor Op 132 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Russian State SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9890)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Night Songs by SCHUBERT

  The moonlit evening D141; Lament to the Moon D436; The unhappy one D713; The gondolier D808 - Margaret Price (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33015)

  Night D983c; Melancholy D825; Moonshine D875; Night-brightness D892 - Karl Dent (ten), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

  The winter evening D938; In the open D880; At the window D878; Longing D879 - Margaret Price (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33015)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Live! at the Concertgebouw 2007-2008

  Murray Perahia (pno), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink

  MOZART: Symphony No 32 in G K318; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58; BRUCKNER: Symphony No 4 in Eb, Romantic (Radio Netherlands)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DANZI: Wind Quintet in G minor - Taffanel Wind Quintet (Denon DC 8004)

  PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 7, La campanella - Shmuel Ashkenasi (vln), Vienna SO/Heribert Esser (DG 429 524)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Toward the Unknown Region - City of Glasgow Chorus, Scottish Opera Orch/Graham Taylor (Divine Art 25035)

  11:00 LISZT: Réminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor, Andante finale; Funeral March & Cavatina - William Wolfram (pno) (Naxos 8.570137)

  LYAPUNOV: Sextet Op 63 - Dante Quartet, Leon Bosch (dbass), John Thwaites (pno) (Dutton CDSA 6880)

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