Wednesday 3 September 2008 Rāapa 3 Mahuru 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  GOODWIN: Theme from 633 Squadron; Drake 400 Suite; Puppet Serenade; New Zealand Suite; Arabian Celebration; Venus Waltz; Prisoners of War March; Minuet in Blue; Theme from The Trap; Girl with a Dream; Theme from Lancelot & Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonatas, No 1 in G Op 78; No 2 in A Op 100; No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Vladimir Ashenazy (pno) (EMI CDC 747 403)

  2:10 (approx) - Disc 3

  PARRY: The Soul's Ransom; The Lotus Eaters - Della Jones (sop), David Wilson-Johnson (bar), London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 8990)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  DEBUSSY: Iberia; Nocturnes; RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole - French National Radio Orch, London SO/Leopold Stokowski (EMI CDC 7 47423)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  CHOPIN: Prelude No 25 in C# minor; Prelude in Ab; Impromptus, in Ab; in F#; in Gb; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor; Barcarolle in F#; Nocturnes, in C# minor; in F minor; in Eb; Waltzes, in Eb; in Ab; in E; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise - Peter Frankl (pno) (ASV CD DCA 781)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CRUSELL: Introduction & Variations on a Swedish Air Op 12 - Thea King (cl), London SO/Alun Francis (Hyperion CDA 66022)

  PÄRT: Fratres - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  ROSSINI: March & memories from my last journey, from Sins of Old Age - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in G for two mandolins RV532 - Peter Katona, Zoltán Katona (gtrs), Carducci String Quartet, Jeroen van Keulen (dbass) (Channel CCS SA 23707)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-80 CD)

  7:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1754)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 10 - BBC Singers, New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (RCA 09026 68538)

  GLAZUNOV: Spanish Serenade Op 20 - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Analekta AN 2 9897)

  PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)

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

  8:00 Beauty Spot: POULENC: Ave Maria, from Les Dialogues des Carmelites - Dinah Wright (sop), Louisa Pilkington (mezzo), Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org) (TreeHouse T 0017)

  GINASTERA: Malambo, from Estancia - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - François-René Duchâble (pno) (Virgin 3 63278)

  HAYDN: Divertimento No 1 in D for oboe & string quartet - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Auer Quartet (Hänssler CD 98.277)

  IVES: Variations on America - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

  BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (RCA 09026 68790)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  OLIVIER MESSIAEN (1908-1992) Keyboard music

  Force et Agilité des corps glorieux, from Les Corps glorieux - Olivier Messiaen (organ of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris) (EMI CZS 7 67400)

  Visions de l'Amen - Steven Osborne, Martin Roscoe (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 67366)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  DVORÁK: Hussite Overture Op 67 - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 417 597)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence, String Sextet in D minor - Borodin Quartet, Yuri Bashmet (vla), Natalia Gutman (cello) (EMI CDS 7 49775)

  WERNER: Pastorella in D - Franz Haselböck (org), Vienna Capella Academia/Eduard Melkus (Hänssler CD 94.052)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Neil Black (ob), English CO/Daniel Barenboim (DG 419 748)

  HANDEL: Te Deum in D, Dettingen - Christopher Lowrey (countertenor), Robin Firth (ten), Neal Davies (bass), Academy of Ancient Music/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67678)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HAYDN: Symphony No 64 in A, Tempora mutantur - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 443 777)

  MOZART arr Romero: Rondo in C K373 - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF/Iona Brown (Philips 426 263)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 4 in Eb Op 7 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67518)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  Grumiaux plays PAGANINI

  arr Kreisler: I Palpiti Op 13, based on Di tanti palpiti from Rossini's Tancredi; Le Streghe Op 8; Violin Concerto No 4 in D minor - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Riccardo Castagnone (pno), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Franco Gallini (rec 1958/54) (Philips 473 104)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  SCHOLES: Memory - New Zealand SO/Peter Scholes (SOUNZfine Vol 3)

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 399)

  DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: A Chaos of Delight III - Madeleine Pierard (sop), women of Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  McVICKER: Six variationen über una tema di Vincent Youmans - Gillian Weir (organ of Symphony Hall, Birmingham) (Priory PRCD 867)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)

  SCHUBERT: Rondo in A D951 - Maria João Pires, Ricardo Castro (pno duet) (DG 00289 477 5233)

  GRIEG: Cowkeeper's Tune & Country Dance - National Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 411 933)

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (dir) (Telarc CD 80368)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Toker/Dobal: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Gustavo Toker (bandoneón), Pablo Dobal (pno) (Vanguard Classics 99155)

  BOYCE: Symphony No 1 in Bb - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557278)

  MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in F minor Op 113 for clarinet & basset horn - Thea King (cl), Georgina Dobrée (basset horn), London SO/Alun Francis (Hyperion CDA 66022)

  CHERUBINI: Sonata for two organs - Luigi Celeghin, Bianka Pezic (organs of the Basilica of the Madonna della Misericordia, Sant' Elpidio a Mare, Ascoli Piceno, Italy) (Naxos 8.557131)

  STANFORD: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Op 123 - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell, John Wells (org) (Atoll ACD 105)

  SCHUMANN: Intermezzo from Carnival Jest from Vienna - Tatiana Nikolayeva (pno) (Relief CR 911027)

  ANON/STELZMULLER/GRUBER: Dances of Old Vienna - Willi Boskovsky, Wilhelm Hübner (vlns), Karl Scheit (gtr) (Vanguard 08 8017 71)

  J STRAUSS II arr Grünfeld: Soirée de Vienne, concert paraphrase on waltz themes from Die Fledermaus & other works - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  J STRAUSS II: Vienna Bon-Bons - Vienna Opera Orch/Peter Falk (Bridge 100 029)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Jean-Yves Thibaudet

  The French pianist was in the country earlier this year, for the NZ International Arts Festival. He talks with Christine Argyle (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2008

  Ten programmes from the current season

  (4) Julia Fischer (vln), Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg

  WAGENAAR: Cyrano de Bergerac, Overture; DVORÁK: Symphony No 6 in D Op 60; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London, 5th August, by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  LASSUS: Missa pro defunctis - Laudantes Consort/Guy Janssens (Cypres CYP 1648)

  SPOHR: Clarinet Concerto No 4 in E minor WoO20 - Michael Collins (cl), Swedish CO/Robin O'Neill (Hyperion CDA 67561)

  11:00 JOACHIM trans Brahms: Hamlet, Overture Op 4 - Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn (pno duet) (Naxos 8.555848)

  ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7038)

  HUMPERDINCK arr Lemare: Angel-scene, from Hansel & Gretel - Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh) (Priory PRCD 700)

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