Thursday 18 September 2008 Rāpare 18 Mahuru 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30; Death & Transfiguration; Don Juan Op20 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 438 300)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  ANON: Lamento di Tristano; Trotto; Salterello; ATTAINGNANT: Basse danses, La Brosse; La Gatta; La Magdalena; DALZA: Calata ala Ronde; NEUSIDLER: Der Judentanz; Welscher Tanz Wascha mesa; SUSATO: Ronde; GERVAISE: Branle de Bourgogne; Branle de Champagne; Palese; Passamezzo dÍtalye - Konrad Ragossnig (lute), Ulsamer Collegium (Archiv 415 294)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  GRIFFITHS: Lie Deep, My Love; FISHER: Pounamu; McCALLUM: The moon's glow once lit; HAMILTON: Veni, Sancte Spiritus; WHITEHEAD: Taiohi Taiao; HAMILTON: Lux Aeterna; A RITCHIE: Widow's songs; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III; CHILDS: O Magnum Mysterium - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  JANÁCEK: Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata; Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters; Sur un Sentier Broussailleux - Talich Quartet, Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 9699)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  ROSSINI: Péchés de Vieillesse - Jeffrey Swan (pno) (Akademia CDAK 103)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BECK: Sinfonia in G Op 1/5 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  MASSENET arr Mouton: Mélodie-Elégie - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso in B minor RV580 - Shlomo Mintz, Gil Shaham, Maxim Vengerov, Menahem Breuer (vlns), Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (RCA 09026 68768)

  BASSI: Concert Fantasia, Variations on Caro nome from Verdi's Rigoletto - Mark Walton (cl), Simon Ballard (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 003)

  HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 2 in D - Orch of St Luke's/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80279)

  7:00 CHERUBINI: Eliza, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 54438)

  HUMMEL: Potpourri in G for piano & guitar Op 53 - Thomas Duis (pno), Sonja Prunnbauer (gtr) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1344)

  PURCELL trans Stokowski: When I am laid in earth, from Dido & Aeneas - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557883)

  TRAD: Santa Lucia - Mario Lanza (ten), RCA Victor Orch/Constantine Callinicos (RCA GD 60049)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Chandos CHAN 9615)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GRAINGER: My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone - Moray Welsh (cello), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)

  TRAD: My Lord, what a morning - 2001-2002 NZ Secondary Students' Choir/Elise Bradley (NZSSC)

  MARTELLI: Romance; Greensleeves; Aubade - Neil Thomson and his orch (Dutton CDLX 7151)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  LEHÁR: Wild Roses, Waltz - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

  LISZT arr Bangó: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Roby Lakatos (vln/dir), László Bóni (vln), Oszkár Németh (dbass), Ernest Bangó (gtr/cymbalon), Kálmán Cséki (pno) (DG 459 642)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FERDINAND RIES (1784-1838)

  Swedish National Airs with Variations Op 52 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557844)

  Horn Sonata in F Op 34 - Thomas Müller (natural horn), Edoardo Torbianelli (fpno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 5250)

  String Quartet in C WoO37 - Schuppanzigh Quartet (CPO 777 014)

• 10:10 AM. The Works

  STRAUSS: Don Quixote - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Herbert Downes (vla), New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 5 55528)

  ARNOLD arr Steptoe: Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong - Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen (Meridian CDE 84561)

  HAYDN: Mass No 13 in Bb, Creation Mass - Donna Brown (sop), Roxana Constantinescu (contralto), Lothar Odinius (ten), Markus Eiche (bass), Oregon Bach Festival Chorus & Orch/Helmut Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.279)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BERNSTEIN: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances - Utah Symphony/Keith Lockhart (Reference Recordings-105)

  SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Sergey Khachatryan (vln), Sinfonia Varsovia/Emmanuel Krivine (Naïve V 4959)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles Op 33; Bagatelles Op 119; Bagatelles Op 126 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 456 031)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 4, Scènes pittoresques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

  BACH ed Dart: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - Alan Loveday, Iona Brown (vlns), David Munrow, John Turner (recorders), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 089)

  CARR: Symphony No 3 - Auckland Philharmonia/John Hopkins (Manu CD MANU 1415)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  KALLIWODA: Introduction & Variations in Bb Op 128 - Dieter Klöcker (cl), Hamburg SO/Johannes Moesus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 329 1387)

  PAGANINI arr Silva: Variations on a theme by Rossini - Pierre Fournier (cello), Lamar Crowson (pno) (DG 477 5939)

  HERBERT: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)

  MEWS: Gigue de Pan - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

  BRAHMS orch Parlow: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D - Stuttgart Radio SO/Georges Prêtre (Forlane 16770)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Mazurka, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  KNECHTL: Horn Concerto in D - Barry Tuckwell (horn), ASMF/Iona Brown (Decca 417 406)

  OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne, Overture - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI 5 65054)

  REINECKE: Romance in A minor Op 155 - Ingolf Turban (vln), Bern SO/Johannes Moesus (CPO 777 105)

  C SCHUMANN: Romance in B minor - Hélène Boschi (pno) (Calliope CAL 4211)

  BORODIN orch Glazunov: Romance - Tord Wallström (bar), Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Brilliant Classics 93348)

  GROVLEZ: Romance & Scherzo - Susan Milan (fl), Ian Brown (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8609)

  STRAUSS: Romance in F Op 13 - Thomas Grossenbacher (cello), Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 74321 98496)

  HOPE: Four French Dances - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Billy Budd

  Alan Platt looks at the themes and history of Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera which opens in Sydney next week (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2008 New Zealand International Arts Festival

  Fourteen programmes

  (9) Green Fire Islands

  A unique collaboration between top musicians from Ireland and Aotearoa celebrating traditional Celtic and Maori music. Together they explore shared themes of mythology, love, conflict, lament and reconciliation in a performance weaving together verse, song, kapa haka and dance

  Before the performance Bronwen Christianos and Glenn Colquhoun talk to Christine Argyle

  Glenn Colquhoun (narrator/poet), Whirimako Black (vocals), Richard Nunns, Horomona Horo (taonga puoro), Riki Gooch (percussion), Mitsy Strickland, Moko Ratana, Tema Fenton-Coyne (kapa haka)

  Iarla Ó'Lionáird (vocals), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki/bodrahn), Nollaig Casey (fiddle/vocals), Laoise Kelly (harp), Sean McKeon (uilleann pipes), Steve Cooney (gtr), Graham Henderson (keyboard) (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CIMAROSA: Il Convito, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - Nash Ensemble (Virgin 3 91337)

  RUTTER: Gloria - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, CBSO/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 5 57952)

  11:00 RAMEAU: Pièces de clavecin en concerts No 2 - Blandine Rannou (hpschd), Valérie Balssa (fl), Catherine Girard (vln), Emmanuel Balssa (viola da gamba) (Zig Zag ZZT 204 0301)

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 10 in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

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