Thursday 4 December 2008 Rāpare 4 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  PISTON: Symphony No 2; Sinfonietta; Symphony No 6 - Seattle SO, New York Chamber Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3074)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  WEBER: Grand Duo Concertant Op 48; BURGMÜLLER: Duo for clarinet & piano; GIAMPIERI: The Carnival of Venice; SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73; WEBER: Variations Concertantes Op 33; LOVREGLIO: Fantasia da Concerto on themes from Verdi's La Traviata - Emma Johnson (cl), Gordon Black (pno) (ASV CD DCA 732)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  Melodies Francaises

  FAURÉ: Shylock Op 57; Deux mélodies Op 83; Cinq mélodies de Venise Op 58; Poème d'un jour Op 2/1; La bonne chanson Op 61; Mirages Op 113; DUPARC: Sérénade; Chanson triste; La manoir de Rosamonde; Soupir; Extase; L'invitation au voyage; RAVEL: Cinq mélodies populaires greques - Wolfgang Holzmair (bar), Gérard Wyss (pno) (Philips 446 686)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77; MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 - Xue-Wei (vln), London Phil/Ivor Bolton (ASV CD DCA 748)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  VIVALDI: Piccolo Concerto, in C RV443; in A minor RV445; in C RV414; BACH: Flute Sonata in A minor BWV1013; CPE BACH: Sonata in A minor for solo flute; BACH: Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 - Gunilla von Bahr (fl), Stockholm Chamber Ensemble, Swedish National Museum CO/Claude Genetay (BIS CD 21)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 J SMITH: The Tempest, Overture & Hornpipe - Capella Savaria/Mary Térey-Smith (Dorian DOR 93251)

  FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 1 in F - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

  FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op 18 - Muza Rubackyte (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93702)

  ANON: Greensleeves to a ground - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9820)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

  7:00 CORNELIUS arr Atkins: The Three Kings - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation (ABC Classics 472 044)

  PIAZZOLLA: Melodia in A minor - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80526)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E RV265, from L'Estro Armonico - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (Virgin VMD 5 45315)

  HARTY: Fantasy Scenes from An Eastern Romance - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

  PARTICHELA arr Wild: Mexican Hat Dance - Earl Wild (pno) (Ivory Classics 64405 73005)

  HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Gregorian chant, Alma redemptoris mater - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1869)

  LILBURN: A Birthday Offering - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  BACH: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Midori Seiler (vln), Xenia Löffler (ob), Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1876)

  GRAINGER: Spoon River - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1767)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV transc Mercz: Song of India, from Sadko - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

  J STRAUSS II: Thunder & Lightning Polka; J STRAUSS II/Joseph STRAUSS: Pizzicato Polka; J STRAUSS II: Memories of Covent Garden, Waltz on English popular melodies - Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green (Black Box BBM 1059)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ARCANGELO CORELLI (1653-1713)

  Concerto Grosso in C minor Op 6/3 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

  arr Walsh: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - Ensemble Fitzwilliam (Zig Zag ZZT 050 903)

  RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli Op 42 - Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1978)

  CORELLI: Trio Sonata in A Op 4/3 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0526)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: Symphony No 36 in C K425, Linz - Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1891)

  HAYDN: Oboe Concerto in C HobVIIg/C1 - Hansjörg Schellenberger (ob), Cologne Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 05045)

  SCHUMANN: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth - Carolin Widmann (vln), Dénes Várjon (pno) (ECM 2047 (476 6744)

  ARENSKY: Suite No 3 in C, Variations Op 33 - Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.553768)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SCHULHOFF: Menschheit, A Symphony for Contralto & Orch Op 28 - Randi Stene (mezzo), Trondheim SO/Muhai Tang (Simax PSC 1249)

  BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 3 36403)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Septet in Eb Op 65 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  CHOPIN: Fantasy in F minor Op 49 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (rec 1987) (DG 423 090)

  Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Gina Bachauer (pno), London SO/Antal Dorati (rec 1963) (Mercury 434 374)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  SOLER: Sonata in A minor - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

  HONEGGER: Symphony No 3, Liturgique - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - London Phil/Franz Welser-Möst (EMI CDC 5 56465)

  GERSHWIN: Variations on I Got Rhythm - Howard Shelley (pno), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9325)

  PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Vladimir Spivakov (vln), Sergei Bezrodny (pno) (ECM 1591)

  GOTTSCHALK: Pasquinade - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66697)

  DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Brilliant Classics 92779)

  WAGNER: Elizabeth's Greeting, Dich teure Halle, from Tannhäuser - Gwyneth Jones (sop), West German Radio SO/Roberto Paternostro (Chandos CHAN 10286 X)

  J STRAUSS II: Greeting from Austria - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223242)

  JOUBERT: Welcome Yule! - Bristol Bach Choir/Glyn Jenkins (Saydisc CD SDL 375)

  RICHARDS: Welcome to winter - Ensemble Galilei (Dorian DIS 80139)

  HANDEL: Welcome as the dawn of day, from Solomon - Carolyn Sampson (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Nicholas Kraemer (BIS SACD 1436)

  GRAHL: Greetings from Sweden to Norway, Waltz - Slovak State Phil/Mika Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

  DOWLAND: Welcome black night, from A Pilgrimes Solace - Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier (EMI CDC 7 49805)

  HALVORSEN: Norway's Greeting to Theodore Roosevelt Op 31 - Arve Moen Bergset (hardanger fiddle), Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (Simax PSC 1207)

  HOLST: A welcome song - Holst Singers/Stephen Layton, David Theodore (ob), Robert Truman (cello) (Hyperion CDA 66705)

  BLISS: Welcome the Queen - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9896)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Podcast Companion

  To complement December's free download in our Podcast Classics, www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/podcastclassics William Dart looks at two of the most popular works for piano trio, John PSATHAS's Island Songs and Gareth FARR's Ahi, and the approach taken to them by four different ensembles, the NZTrio, the Ogen Trio, the Eggner Trio and the Kungsbacka Trio. Followed by complete recordings of the two works (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Splendour of the Baroque

  Three programmes

  (2) The Muse of Versailles: The French Baroque

  Luigi de Filippi (vln), Laura Vaughan (vla da gamba), Miriam Allan, Jane Edwards (sops), Luca Manghi (narrator), Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman

  M-A CHARPENTIER: Prelude, from Te Deum H146; LECLAIR: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 7/5; MARAIS: Sarabande, from Alcione; RAMEAU: Suite & Air, Cesse, cruel amour, from Dardanus; REBEL: Le Cahos et Chaconne, from Les Elemens; COUPERIN: Troisième leçon des tenèbres; MARAIS: Operation for the Removal of a Stone; LULLY: March for the Turkish Ceremony, from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; Les Démons, from Alceste; RAMEAU: Naïs, Overture (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Farr's Marimba Music

  Tangaroa; Three Etudes, From Duggan; For Jeremy Fitzsimons; For Suzanne Warner - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Boris Andrianov (cello), Rem Urasin (pno) (Quartz QTZ 2053)

  J RITCHIE: Concertino in A for clarinet & strings - Marina Sturm (cl), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Trust MMT 2040)

  RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

  11:00 SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 7 in D D94 - Prazák Quartet (Praga PRD 350 042)

  SPOHR: Septet in A minor Op 147 - Ensemble 360 (ASV GLD 4026)

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