Saturday 13 September 2008 Rāhoroi 13 Mahuru 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  TELEMANN: Concerto in A for two violins; Concerto in D for four violins; Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba & strings; Concerto in G minor for recorder & strings; Concerto in C for four violins; Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute & strings - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (DG 439 444)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No 1; Piano Concerto in F (3); An American in Paris; Prelude No 3; Medley, from Porgy & Bess; Fascinating Rhythm; Lullaby; Promenade; Cuban Overture - Sarah Vaughn (sop), André Previn (pno), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 64060)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 - Monika Frimmer (sop), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 941/2)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27, Moonlight; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathetique; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 34509)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen; Summer Afternoon; Impressions of a Princess; Salute the Soldier; Two Light Syncopated Pieces, Moon Magic; Rose of Samarkand; For Your Delight; The Unknown Singers; I Sing to You; Coquette; Over to You; Idyll; Under the Stars; By the Tamarisk; Mirage; Last Love; The Greenland - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV CD WHL 2107)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GRIEG: Melodies Op 53 - Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due (Naxos 8.557890)

  JC BACH: Keyboard Sonata in A Op 17/5 - Alberto Nosè (pno) (Naxos 8.570361)

  ALWYN: Autumn Legend - Rachael Pankhurst (cor anglais), Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

  J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  SINDING: Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Pittsburg SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47167)

  7:00 BACH: Oboe Concerto in G minor BWV1056a - Burkhard Glaetzner (ob/dir), Mitteldeutscher Bach Konvent (Berlin Classics 1609 BC)

  ROSETTI: String Quartet in Bb Op 6/3 - Arioso Quartet (CPO 999 338)

  NIELSEN: Saga Dream - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)

  ANDRÉS: Alkermes - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

  BENNETT: Suite Française - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2131)

  8:00 BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 3 - BBC SO/Rudolf Kempe (BBC Legends BBCL 4056)

  ALPAERTS: Summer Idyll - Flemish Radio Orch/Michel Tabachnik (Et'Cetera KTC 4025)

  WAGNER: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Juha Uusitalo (bbar), Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam (Ondine ODE 1121)

  GLAZUNOV: Grand Concert Waltz Op 41 - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66833)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 3/4 - Northern Sinfonia of England/George Malcolm (dir) (Resonance CD RSN 3065)

• 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

  LAMOND: Sword Dance, from Love in the Scottish Highlands - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67387)

  KORNGOLD: Ich soll ihn niemals, from Die Kathrin - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

  VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in D minor RV454 - Paolo Grazzi (ob), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (Teldec 4509 96158)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 2 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

  J THOMAS: The Minstrel's Adieu to his Native Land - Sebastien Lipman (harp) (Naxos 8.570372)

  VERDI: Pace, pace, mio Dio, from The Force of Destiny - Alessandra Marc (sop), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Delos DE 3108)

  HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 1 in D minor Op 74 - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66396)

  ROSSINI: Selva opaca, from William Tell - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), London SO/Evelino Pidò (EMI 5 57163)

  FIBICH: Spring Op 13 - Prague Radio SO/Frantisek Vajnar (Supraphon C37 7909)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (1) Recent releases and reissues including George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band and Three Cohens (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat: Songs from a Persian Garden

  Songs from a Persian Garden is a private recording of a charity concert held in the garden of the Italian Embassy residence in Tehran, in May 2007. Sisters Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat were joined by musicians from Iran and Norway in a performance of contemporary arrangements of traditional Persian texts. The concert was an important milestone in recent Iranian history, breaking the ban on public performances by women (Kirkelig Kulturverskted FXCD 320)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2007 Chamber Music New Zealand Schools' Chamber Music Final

  Two programmes

  (1) EYCHENNE: Cantilène et Danse - Young Trio: Josiah Young (alto sax), Jonathan Tanner (vln), Anita Huang (pno)

  VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in A minor RV86 - Pronto: Eun-Cho Yeom (rec), Jahun Lee (cello), Salina Fisher (hpschd)

  MESSIAEN: Movements 6 & 7, from Quartet for the End of Time - Eschaton: Ryan Cha (cl), Esther Kim (vln), Zenith Chae (cello), Zoë Butters (pno)

  MENDELSSOHN: First movement, Allegro moderato, ma con fuoco, from Octet in Eb Op 20 - Felix Octet: Jung Wook Lee, Emma Yoon, Sean Daly, Salina Fisher (vlns), Lindsay McLay, Bryony Gibson-Cornish (vla), Jahun Lee, Yuuki Bouterey-Ishido (cellos) (recorded in the James Hay Theatre, Christchurch by RNZ)

• 4:00 PM. Rattle Conducts

  GRAINGER: A Lincolnshire Posy - CBSO/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 56412)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno), London SO/Simon Rattle (Philips 456 787)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 9 in D - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 01228)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  K YOUNG: Brass Quintet No 1 - NZ Brass Quintet (Kiwi SLD 72)

  RÓZSA: Battle of Valencia, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

  BEETHOVEN arr Matiegka: Serenade in D Op 8 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Robert Alemany (cl) (Koch International 3-7404)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  MONTEVERDI: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda - Catherine Pierard (sop), Mark Padmore (ten), John Potter (ten), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66475)

  Alle danze; Ohimè il bel viso; Zefiro torna - Konrad Junghänel (lute/dir), Cantus Cologne (DHM 05472 77282)

  Sinfonia in five parts; Altri canti di Marte; Sinfonia in six parts; Hor che'l ciel e la terra - La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall (dir) (Auvidis Astrée E 8546)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2008 New Zealand International Arts Festival

  Fourteen programmes

  (6) Schumann & Friends

  An evening of words and music, devised by Steven Isserlis, exploring Robert and Clara Schumann's relationship with Brahms and Robert's last years in a mental asylum

  The performance is preceded by an interview in which Steven Isserlis talks to Kate Mead

  Raymond Hawthorne (narrator), Sara Macliver (sop), Wilma Smith (vln), Caroline Henbest (vla), Steven Isserlis (cello), Michael Houstoun (pno)

  BRAHMS: Scherzo in Eb minor Op 4; SCHUMANN: Die Flüchtlinge Op 122/2; BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in C minor; SCHUMANN: Third movement, Intermezzo, from Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth; Frühlings Ankunft Op 79/19; Variations in Eb Op posth; Gebet Op 135/5; C SCHUMANN: Romance in A minor; SCHUMANN: Chorale Prelude; BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 60 (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:20 PM. Day's End

  FAURÉ: Pelléas & Mélisande, Concert Suite - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 8952)

  NERUDA: Cello Concerto No 5 in G Op 66 - Beate Altenburg (cello), Dessau Anhalt Phil/Golo Berg (CPO 777 192)

  11:00 VALENTINI: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 7/11 for four violins - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2106)

  MOZART arr André: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Lars Anders Tomter, Catherine Bullock (vlas), Henning Kraggerud, Jan Björanger (vlns), Christian Poltéra (cello) (Simax PSC 1290)

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