Monday 8 December 2008 Rāhina 8 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MIASKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in D Op 18; Symphony No 9 in E minor Op 28 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Marco Polo 8.223499)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  M HAYDN: String Quintet in Bb; String Quintet in C; String Quintet in G - L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 53987)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  PURCELL: Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary; Welcome, welcome, glorious morn; Ode for the centenary of Trinity College, Dublin; Great parent, hail to thee; Welcome song for King Charles II; The summer's absence unconcerned we bear - Gillian Fisher, Evelyn Tubb (sops), James Bowman, Nigel Short (countertenors), Roger Covey-Crump, John Mark Ainsley (tens), Michael George, Charles Pott (basses), Kings Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 66476)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  MOSONYI: Twelve Genres for piano; Studies for piano - István Kassai (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223557)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  PUCCINI: Capriccio Sinfonico; First Minuet for strings; Prelude from Edgar; Second Minuet for strings; Edgar, Prelude to Act III; Third Minuet for strings; Preludio Sinfonico; I crisantemi for strings; Manon Lescaut, Intermezzo from Act III; E l'uccellino - Royal Phil/Jacek Kaspszyk (Collins 11652)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 1 in C - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Brilliant Classics 99926)

  QUANTZ: Flute Sonata in C QV1:9 - Mary Oleskiewicz (fl), Stephanie Vial (cello), David Schulenberg (hpschd) (Naxos 8.555064)

  GRAINGER: Rustic Dance, from Youthful Suite - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC 2-5088)

  CHOPIN: Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 423 090)

  VANHAL: Sinfonia in C, Comista (Bryan C11) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

  7:00 TRAD arr Skeaping: Oh, Christmas now is drawing near at hand; We've been awhile a-wandering; The Waits - Maddy Prior (vocalist), Sneak's Noyse (Portrait PCL 1007)

  ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in F K244 - Patrice Legrand, Robert Aribaud (vlns), Philippe Pennanguer (cello), Patrick Delabre (org) (Syrius SYR 141404)

  RACHMANINOV: Mélodie in E Op 3/3 - Irish National SO/Alexander Anissimov (Naxos 8.550808)

  HRUSOVSKY: Rytmus; HAMILTON: Didn't it rain? - 1999 New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2029)

  SIBELIUS: The Oceanides - Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 8395/96)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SARASATE orch Hohn: Romanza Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 22 - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

  FOSS arr Wincenc: Three American pieces, Early song; Dedication; Composer's holiday - Laura Barron (fl), Jeffrey Sykes (pno) (Mandala MR 0064)

  HANDEL: And he shall purify, from Messiah - Les Arts Florissants Chorus & Orch/William Christie (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1498/99)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Polonaise in F minor Op 77 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5152)

  FASCH: Concerto in C minor for bassoon & two oboes - Alberto Grazzi (bsn), Paul Goodwin, Lorraine Wood (obs), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 449 210)

  HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Warner Classics 3984-25544)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

  Ballet Music

  Swan Lake, Act 1 - London SO/André Previn (EMI Classics 7 64837) (Act 2 tonight 7.00pm, Act 3 tomorrow and Act 4 Wednesday at 9.00am)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor - Guarneri String Quartet (Philips 446 092)

  RIISAGER: Archaeopteryx - Danish National SO/Owain Arwel Hughes (Dacapo 6.220527)

  BEETHOVEN: Mass in C Op 86 - Gundula Janowitz (sop), Julia Hamari (contralto), Horst Laubenthal (ten), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Elmar Schloter (org), Munich Bach Choir & Orch/Karl Richter (DG 477 5832)

  HURLSTONE: Piano Concerto in D - Eric Parkin (pno), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 2286)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  VERDI: Grand March, from Aida - Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (Sony MLK 66707)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No 2 in Eb D929 - Amsterdam Storioni Trio (PentaTone PTC 5186 050)

  TRAD arr Rutter: I wonder as I wander; RUTTER: Candlelight Carol; TRAD arr Rutter: O Tannenbaum - Gerald Finley (bar), Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 106)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MOZART: Symphony No 29 in A K201 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (rec 1991) (Archiv 431 679)

  Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (rec 1987) (Philips 420 951)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 23 in B BWV892, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - John Wells (organ of St Luke's Church, Rotorua) (Ribbonwood RCD 1008)

  PUCCINI: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Bohème - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/John Pritchard (Sony SMK 48094)

  NORRIS: Honk! - Saxcess (Waiteata WTA 007)

  R THOMPSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7074)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Küchl Quartet, Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 265)

  ALBINONI: Concerto in C for two oboes Op 7/2 - Stefan Schilli, Giovanni Deangeli (obs), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Fabio Zanon (gtr) (BIS CD 1450)

  HANDEL: T'amerò dunque; Con l'ali di costanza, from Ariodante - Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Basel CO/Laurence Cummings (Sony 82876 889522)

  SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - Diedre Irons (pno) (Trust MMT 2041)

  ZIEHRER: Crazy Girl, Overture - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.225332)

  BAX: The market girl - Christopher Keyte (bar), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1046)

  DEBUSSY arr/orch Kennedy: The girl with the flaxen hair, from Preludes, Book 1 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

  GOODWIN: Girl with a Dream - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  MONIUSZKO arr Melcer: The spinning girl - Felicja Blumenthal (pno) (Brana BR 0014)

  SUGATA: Dancing Girl in the Orient, from Sketches of the Desert, Suite in Oriental Style Op 10 - Kanagawa Phil/Kazuhiko Komatsu (Naxos 8.570319)

  BALFE: When other lips, from The Bohemian Girl - Patrick Power (ten), Ireland National SO/Richard Bonynge (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

  RODRIGO: Homage to the Precocious Girl - Castile & León SO/Max Bragado Darman (Naxos 8.557101)

  STANLEY: Voluntary in D minor/D major Op 6/5 - James Tibbles (organ of Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland) (Atoll ACD 406)

  WALDTEUFEL: La Barcarolle, Waltz - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223684)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  Gary Harris looks at the ballet music of PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) (RNZ)

  Swan Lake, Act 2 - London SO/André Previn (EMI Classics 7 64837) (Act 3 tomorrow and Act 4 Wednesday at 9.00am)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Paul Lewis

  Borodin's String Quartet No 2 in D (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Jerusalem Quartet

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird; KOPYTMAN: Cantus II; BORODIN: String Quartet No 2 in D (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. Trumpet Symphony

  RICHTER arr Schroeder: Symphony No 53 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10386)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  LOUIS FERDINAND, PRINCE OF PRUSSIA: Piano Trio in Ab Op 2 - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1347)

  GERSHWIN: Catfish Row, from Porgy & Bess - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9325)

  11:00 F BENDA: Flute Concerto in G - Neil McLaren (fl), Cambridge Baroque Camerata/Jonathan Hellyer Jones (Saydisc CD SAR 52)

  PROKOFIEV: Ten Pieces from Romeo & Juliet Op 75 - Ayako Uehara (pno) (EMI 5 17852)

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