Wednesday 5 November 2008 Rāapa 5 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  REGER: Mozart Variations Op 132; Hiller Variations Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LECUONA: Rapsodia Negra for piano & orchestra; Suite Española; Ante El Escorial; Zambra Gitana; Aragonesa; Granada; Zambra; San Fransisco El Grande; Aragón; Preludio en la Noche; La Habanera; Mazurka en Glissande; Canto del Guajiro; Three Miniatures; Canto Sibony; Noche Azul - Thomas Tirino (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Michael Bartos (BIS CD 754)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Music Love & Wine; Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie; I'll Praise the Saint with Early Song; Sally in our Alley; Sunset; Faithfu' Johnnie; Behold, my Love; His boat Comes on the Sunny Tide; Enchantress, Farewell; The Pulse of an Irishman; To the Aeolian Harp; O Charlie is my Darling; Duncan Gray; To the Blackbird; 'Tis Sunshine at Last; Cease your Funning; Oh Sweet were the Hours; Save me from the Grave & Wise; Farewell Bliss & Farewell Nancy; Love without Hope; Farewell thou Noisy Town; He Promis'd me at Parting; The Monks of Bangor's March; Robin Adair; O Swiftly Glides the Bonny Boat; Sad & Luckless was the Season; Come Draw we Round a Cheerful Ring; The Sweetest Lad was Jamie; Come Fill, Fill, my Good Fellow - Elaine Woods (sop), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Josef Protschka (ten), Richard Salter (bar), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet Op 81; String Quartet No 12 Op 96, American - Hiroko Nakamura (pno), Tokyo String Quartet (CBS MK 44920)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Suite No 4, Spartacus; Suite from the Drama, Masquerade; Music from the Ballet, Circus; Dance Suite - St Petersburg State SO/André Anichanov, Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RICHTER: Symphony No 2 in F - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.557818)

  MERTZ: Fantasy on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni Op 28 - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 446 090)

  BACH: Concerto in C minor for two keyboards BWV1062 - Güher Pekinel, Süher Pekinel (pno duo), Zurich CO/Howard Griffiths (Warner 2564 61950)

  MENDELSSOHN: Variations concertantes Op 17 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Delos DE 3326)

  ADDISON: Strange Invaders, film music - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

  7:00 SOUSA: The Washington Post - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Sony SBK 63052)

  GRIEG: Homesickness, from Lyric Pieces Book 6 Op 57 - Emil Gilels (pno) (DG 459 135)

  TELEMANN: Concerto in E minor for recorder & flute TWV52/e1 - Michael Schneider (recorder/dir), Karl Kaiser (fl), La Stagione Frankfurt (CPO 777 032)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko - Russian State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (RCA 09026 62684)

  SIBELIUS arr Fricker: Finlandia - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DEBUSSY: La plus que lente - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 247)

  WEBER: Oberon, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Gustav Kuhn (Capriccio 71 045)

  TARTINI: Violin Sonata in G minor Op 1/10, Didone abbandonata - Palladians (Linn CKD 292)

  LEWIS: Festival of London March - ASMF/Paul Lewis (ASV CD WHL 2138)

  HANDEL: Coronation Anthem No 1, Zadok the Priest HWV258 - Wells Cathedral Choir, Sarum CO/Malcolm Archer (Cantoris CRCD 6070)

  SPOHR: Variations in Bb on a theme from Alruna - Michael Collins (cl), Swedish CO/Robin O'Neill (Hyperion CDA 67509)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  Expressionism in Music

  SCHOENBERG: The Book of the Hanging Gardens Op 15 - Jennifer Lane (mezzo), Christopher Oldfather (pno) (Naxos 8.557520)

  BERG: Fragment of a Piano Sonata on Wozzeck - Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 1417)

  Lulu Suite - Margaret Price (sop), London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 238)

• 10:15 AM. The Works

  DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 1 in Bb Op 21 - Smetana Trio (Supraphon SU 3927)

  VIOTTI: Violin Concerto No 23 in G - Mauro Ranieri (vln), Accademia dei Filarmonici/Aldo Sisillo (Naxos 8.553861)

  MARTINU: Symphony No 6, Fantaisies Symphoniques - Prague Radio SO/Vladimír Válek (Supraphon SU 3940)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Toward the Unknown Region - Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDS 44322)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo & Juliet - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)

  FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of New College, Oxford, Capricorn/Edward Higginbottom (Erato 0630 14634)

  BRITTEN: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 15 - Mark Lubotsky (vln), English CO/Benjamin Britten (London 417 308)

  FONTEI: Pianto d'Erinna - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Ton Koopman (hpschd), Jordi Savall (bass viol) (Alia Vox AV 9815)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  Five programmes with the Smetana Quartet playing late BEETHOVEN

  (3) String Quartet in Bb Op 130 - Smetana Quartet (rec 1965) (Supraphon SU 3870) (Programme 4 tomorrow at 3.00pm)

  Horn Sonata in F Op 17 - Hermann Baumann (horn), Leonard Hokanson (pno) (rec 1986) (Philips 416 816)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  PRUDEN: Night Song - Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 66)

  CARR: Two Mansfield Poems - Jennifer Paull (ob d'amore), Read Gainsford (pno) (Amoris AR 1003)

  A RITCHIE: As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  DELLO JOIO: Variations, Chaconne & Finale - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7243)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  HYDE: Happy Occasion Overture - West Australian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics 442 374)

  MOZART: Il mio tesoro, from Don Giovanni - Keith Lewis (ten), London Phil/Bernard Haitink (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

  DONIZETTI orch Renz: Andante in F minor - Christoph Hartmann (ob), Berlin Ensemble (EMI 5 14232)

  BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No 3 in F - Budapest SO/István Bogár (Naxos 8.550110)

  BULL: Canon in subdiapente, two parts in one with a running bass ad placitum - Anthony Jennings (hpschd) (Trust MMT 2025)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Russian Dance, from Swan Lake - Ulana Bashava (vln), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 1/3 - Petersen Quartet (Capriccio 10 786/87)

  J STRAUSS II: At the Double, Polka Op 348 - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 2020 601)

  DRAGONETTI: Double Bass Concerto in A - Massimo Giorgi (dbass), I Solisti Aquilani/Vittorio Antonellini (Koch Schwann 3-1424)

  JF WAGNER: Under the Double Eagle - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 66710)

  BORTNYANSKY: Concerto for double chorus, Te Deum - Glinka State Choir of St Petersburg/Vladislav Chernoushenko (Teldec 4509 93856)

  ADDISON: I was Monty's Double, March from the film - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

  JC BACH: Symphony in Eb for double orchestra Op 18/1 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)

  CHOPIN: Waltz in Ab Op 42 - Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1927)

  ROSAS: Over the waves, Waltz - Vienna Volksoper Orch/Franz Bauer-Theussl (Philips 412 883)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Weird and Wacky

  Four programmes

  William Dart has spent a lifetime rummaging around in Thrift Shop LP bins and CD store $5 bins. He mines his basement collection to bring us four programmes of bizarre arrangements - some magical, some monstrous - of works that we know and love from the classical masters. Each programme is complemented by half an hour of the composers' works

  (1) Purcell, Handel, et al (RNZ)

  HANDEL arr Mozart: Du roter als die Kirsche, from Acis and Galatea - Peter Lika (bass), Das Neue Orchester/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-74)

  HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Richard Tauber (tenor), orchestral accompaniment (Classic Options CO 3536)

  VIVALDI: Dell'aura all sussarrar, from Dorilla in Tempe; Dopo un'orrida procella, from Griselda - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Decca 466 569)

  PURCELL: Sir Walter enjoying his damsel; Come, come let us drink - Baltimore Consort (Dorian 90155)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Rachmaninov Festival

  Four programmes

  (3) Lukas Vondracek (pno), Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy

  RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead Op 29; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 (recorded in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall by ABC)

• 9:35 PM. Recent Baroque Releases

  HANDEL: Figlio d'alte speranze HWV113 - Emma Kirkby (sop), London Baroque (BIS SACD 1695)

  HASSE: Oboe Concerto in G - Christoph Hartmann (ob), Berlin Ensemble (EMI 5 14232)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TANEYEV: String Quartet No 3 in D minor Op 7 - Carpe Diem String Quartet (Naxos 8.570437)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno), Russian National Orch/Mstislav Rostropovich (DG 471 576)

  11:00 BIZET: Trumpet & Drum; The Top; The Ball, from Children's Games Op 22; BRAHMS: Waltz in A Op 39/15 - Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pno duet) (DG 459 135)

  BRUCKNER: String Quintet in F - L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 66251)

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