Wednesday 19 November 2008 Rāapa 19 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 8 in D; String Symphony No 11 in F - Nieuw Sinfonietta, Amsterdam/Lev Markiz (BIS CD 748)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  DUSSEK: Piano Concerto in G minor Op 49; Piano Concerto in Bb Op 22; Tableau, Marie Antoinette Op 23 - Andreas Staier (fpno), Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 444)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  Laudate Dominum

  Work for Chorus and Orchestra by Handel, Dvorák, Haydn, Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Honegger, Mozart, Glick - Judith Young (sop), Carolynne Godin, Olena Jatsyshyn (mezzos), Mark DuBois, Robert Missen (tens), Glyn Evans, Nelson Lohnes (bars), Anton Kuerti (pno), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  TAFFANEL: Andante Pastorale & Scherzettino; WIDOR: Suite for flute & piano Op 34; BOZZA: Three Impressions for flute & piano; CAPLET: Reverie & Petite Valse for flute & piano; JOLIVET: Chant de Linos; DEBUSSY: Syrinx; FERROUD: Three Pieces; JOLIVET: Five Incantations for flute solo - Robert Aitken (fl), Robin McCabe (pno) (BIS CD 184)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  J STRAUSS II orch Fischer: March Op 456, Zivio!; J STRAUSS II: Waltz Op 36, Architecten-Ball-Tänze; Jäger-Polka française Op 229; Waltz Op 234, Accelerationen; J STRAUSS II orch Kulling: Quadrille Op 10, Der Liebesbrunnen; J STRAUSS II: Polka française Op 302, Die Zeitlose; Waltz Op 334, Königslieder; Polka schnell Op 348, Im Sturmschritt!; J STRAUSS II orch Babinski: Quadrille Op 59, Der Blitz; Waltz Op 471, Heut' ist heut'; J STRAUSS II: Polka mazurka Op 420, Die Wahrsagerin - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223235)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 10 in B minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Edward Tarr (Naxos 8.554375)

  LISZT: Waltz, from Gounod's Faust - Polina Leschenko (pno) (Avanti 10272)

  HANDEL: Minuetto, from Recorder Sonata in E minor HWV375 - Parnassus Avenue (BIS SACD 1595)

  COHN: Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger Op 34 - Slovak Radio SO/Vakhtang Jordania (Naxos 8.559376)

  7:00 WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Nimbus NI 7062/3)

  VERDI arr Genin/Pierre: Fantasy on A Masked Ball - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (harp), Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  GERMAN: Country dance, from Dances from Nell Gwyn - Southern Festival Orch/Robin White (Chandos CHAN 9110)

  G BÖHM: Capriccio in D - Anthony Jennings (hpschd) (Trust MMT 2025)

  BARTÓK: Hungarian Sketches Sz97 - Philharmonia/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8895)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LILBURN: Canzona No 2 - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi SLD 99)

  RAVEL: Boléro - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80703)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; RACHMANINOV: Melodie Op 3/3 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

  H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts - David Bremner (euphonium), Ashley Brown (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  COATES: Dam Busters March - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 246)

  WAGNER: Rienzi, Overture - New Philharmonia/Leopold Stokowski (BBC Legends BBCL 4088)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)

  Prelude & Fugue on the name BACH - Elisabeth Roloff (organ of the Church of the Ascension, Jerusalem) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 320 1474)

  Enfant, si j'étais roi; S'il est un charmant gazon; Comment, disaient-ils; O quand je dors - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

  Piano Concerto No 2 in A - Jorge Bolet (pno), Rochester SO/David Zinman (Alto ALC 1011)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird - Columbia SO/Igor Stravinsky (CBS MK 42432)

  GRIEG: Cello Sonata in A minor Op 36 - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1986)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Ronald Brautigam (pno), Norrköping SO/Andrew Parrott (BIS SACD 1692)

  ALWYN: Festival March - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570144)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  DELIUS: Sleigh Ride - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)

  MASSENET: The Last Sleep of the Virgin, from La Vierge - Matthew Lee (cello), BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Naxos 8.570331)

  RAMIREZ: Misa criolla - José Carreras (ten), Ariel Ramirez (pno/hpschd), Domingo Cura, Jorge Padin (percussion), Arsenio Zambrano (charango), Lalo Gutierrez (guitar), Raul Barboza (accordian), Laredo Coral Salvé, Bilbao Choral Society, Grupo Huancara/José Luis Ocejo (Philips 446 976)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 88 in G, Letter V - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Phil/Adam Fischer (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1441)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes Op 32, No 1 in C; No 2 in Bb minor; No 6 in F minor; No 7 in F; No 9 in A; No 10 in B minor; No 12 in G# minor - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (rec 1971) (Olympia OCD 337)

  SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (pno) (rec 1975) (EMI 5 62740)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HOLCOMBE: International Dixieland Jamboree - Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL)

  A RITCHIE/G GRIFFITHS: From the Southern Marches, The Old Identity - Iain Fraser (bar), Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private recording)

  REIS: Alma Apaixonada - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions CM 2)

  HAYDN: Trio in G for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/15 - Classical Chrome (Concordance CCD 04)

  ELGAR: Polonia - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 447 757)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two violins & cello RV578, from L'Estro Armonico - Federico Guglielmo, Carlo Lazari (vlns), Pietro Bosna (cello), L'Arte dell'Arco/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 0689)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Upbeat Classics URCD 140)

  STRAVINSKY: Russian Dance, from Petrushka - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 220)

  DELIBES: Bell Song, Où va la jeune Indoue? from Lakmé - Natalie Dessay (sop), Toulouse Capitol Orch/Michel Plasson (Virgin Classic 3 63332)

  GOUNOD: Concertino for flute & chamber orchestra - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1359)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Piatti: Song without Words Op 62/6, Spring Song - Mischa Maisky (cello), Sergio Tiempo (pno) (DG 471 565)

  WOUD: The Call, the brass presented - brass players of the Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Ivan Meylemans (RCO Live RCO 07002)

  FINCH: A Solo by Mr Finch called the Cuckoo - Genevieve Lacey (rec), Linda Kent (org/hpschd) (ABC Classics 472 226)

  TRAD arr Poelinitz: City called heaven - Maugapaia Ropeti-Lupeli (vocalist), Claire Caldwell (pno), Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

  SOMMER: Morning Call - Markus Christen (alphorn) (Musica Helvetica MHCD 96.2)

  HERBERT: Art is calling for me, from The Enchantress - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 1)

  GERSHWIN arr Gibbons: Let's call the whole thing off, from the film Shall We Dance? - Jack Gibbons (pno) (ASV CD WHL 2082)

  HARRIS: O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling - Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle/Timothy Byram-Wigfield, Roger Judd (org) (Naxos 8.570148)

  COATES: London Calling - Sydney SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 472 509)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Weird & Wacky

  Four programmes hosted by William Dart

  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

  (3) Mozart (RNZ)

  MOZART arr Gelinek: Air des mystères d'Isis, from The Magic Flute - Cyprien Katsaris (pno) (Sony SK 52551)

  Un moto di gioia K579 - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), St Cecilia National Academy, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (Decca 473 380)

  An Chloe K524 - John McCormack (ten), Gerald Moore (pno) (HMV EX 29 0056 3)

  Die Alte K517 - Elly Ameling (sop), Dalton Baldwin (pno) (Philips 422 524)

  Rondo in C minor K617 for harmonica, flute, oboe & cello - Thomas Bloch (glass harmonica), Philippe Bernold (fl), Maurice Bourgue (ob), Jean Sulem (vla), Xavier Gagnepain (cello) (Philips 422 524)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Live! at the Concertgebouw 2007

  Christine Schäfer (sop), Anna Larsson (contralto), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink

  MAHLER: Symphony No 4 in G; Der Abschied, from Das Lied von der Erde; POULENC: Les Biches (recorded in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam by Radio Netherlands)

  MAHLER: Third movement, Andante moderato, from Symphony No 6 in A minor, Tragic (Radio Netherlands)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 58039)

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D minor G445 - Eros Roselli (gtr), La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 92892)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Geoffrey Browne (cor anglais), Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (RegisC 1216)

  BAX: Into the Twilight - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557144)

  11:00 RAFF: String Sextet in G minor Op 178 - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1181)

  A ROMBERG: Clarinet Quintet in Eb Op 57 - Thea King (cl), Britten String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66479)

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