Wednesday 10 December 2008 Rāapa 10 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture; DELIUS: Summer evening; BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad; The banks of Green Willow; FINZI: Suite from Love's Labours - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  NIELSEN: String Quartet in G minor Op 13; String Quartet in F Op 44; String Quintet in G - Philipp Naegele (vla), Kontra Quartet (BIS CD 504)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  BUSNOIS: Missa L'home armé; Anima mea liquefacta est; Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus; Busnois: Gaude celestis domina; PULLOIS: Flos de spina - Binchois Consort/Andrew Kirkman (Hyperion CDA 67319)

  3:45 (approx) - Disc 4

  STRAVINSKY arr Crabb/Draugsvoll: Petrushka, 1947 version; Tango; MUSSORGSKY arr Crabb/Draugsvoll: Pictures at an exhibition - James Crabb, Geir Draugsvoll (accordions) (EMI CDZ 5 69705)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  Enchanting melodies from Victorian and Edwardian times

  Piano works - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP CD 0589)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CIMAROSA: Il Falegname, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

  W LLOYD WEBBER On Frensham Pond - John Bradbury (cl), James Cryer (pno) (Naxos 8.570539)

  HAYDN: Divertimento in A HobX/10 - Arco van Zon (ob), Mark Paine (horn), Sinfonia Classica/Gernot Süssmuth (Landor LAN 282)

  TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 84 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.557150)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 6/1 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (dir) (Telarc CD 80253)

  7:00 RENDER: All who would see God's greatness - Wellington Cathedral Choir/Philip Walsh, Andrew MacMillan (org) (NZ Hymnbook Trust)

  PROKOFIEV: Montagues & Capulets, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Conifer 75605 51343)

  WAGNER trans Liszt: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Michel Dalberto (pno) (RCA 82876 603092)

  DEBUSSY: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

  GRAHAM: Brillante - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor S359 - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 041 102)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Prelude to the film 49th Parallel - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49770)

  SIERRA: Folias - Manuel Barrueco (gtr), Galicia SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Koch KIC CD 7597)

  GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Artist's Life - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67626)

  DAVIES: March Past of the Royal Air Force - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2149)

  VERDI: Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore - Auckland Opera Chorus, Auckland Phil/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 234)

  BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 71467)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

  Ballet Music

  Swan Lake, Act 4 - London SO/André Previn (EMI Classics 7 64837)

  Les caprices d'Oxana, ballet music; Ecossaise, from Eugene Onegin; Maid of Orléans, ballet music - Royal Opera House Orch, Covent Garden/Colin Davis (Philips 422 845)

  Cossack Dance, from Mazeppa - Munich Radio Orch/Roman Kofman (Orfeo C 540 011 A)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BACH: Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV1008 - Steven Isserlis (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67541/2)

  FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), BBC SO/Jac van Steen (BBC Music BBC MM 298)

  ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61 - Philippe Graffin (vln), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (Avie AV 2091)

  BERNSTEIN: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances - Florida Phil/James Judd (Naxos 8.559099)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDS 44301/5)

  DOWLAND: The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth, King of Denmark, his Galliard; The Right Honourable The Lady Rich, her Galliard, from Varietie of Lute Lessons, London 1610 - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (Brilliant Classics 93698)

  MOZART: Third movement, Presto, from Violin Concerto No 1 in Bb K207 - Giuliano Carmignola (vln), Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado (Archiv 477 7371)

  PARISH ALVARS: Fantasy on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1966) (CBS MK 42194)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Waiheke Island - Amoris Consort (Amoris AR 1002)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Dumka Op 59 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

  VANHAL: Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Enid Haines (sop), Nina Scott Stoddart (mezzo), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd, James Tibbles (org), (Naxos 8.555080)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  LEHÁR: The Merry Widow, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

  RACHMANINOV: Third movement, Allegro scherzando, from Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Warsaw National Phil/Stanislav Wislocki (DG 423 772)

  GLUCK trans Mercz: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

  CHOPIN: Etudes, in C Op 10/1; in E Op 10/3, Tristesse; in Gb Op 10/5, Black Keys - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 61885)

  COPLAND: El Salón México - London Phil/John Pritchard (EMI CDB 7 62037)

  PUCCINI: Signore ascolta, from Turandot - Inessa Galante (sop), Latvian Opera Orch/Alexander Vilumanis (CampionCD 1338)

  CRUFT: Traditional Hornpipe Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Sanctuary CD RSB 205)

  MOURANT: The pied piper - George Macdonald (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Steuart Bedford (Sanctuary CD RSN 3046)

  MONCKTON: The Pipes of Pan, from The Arcadians - Marilyn Hill Smith (sop), Southern Festival Orch/Robin White (Flyback FBCD 2005)

  DOWLAND: Piper's Pavan - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (Brilliant Classics 93698)

  RAWSTHORNE: Hornpipe Humoresque - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

  ANON: The Lancashire Pipes - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba) (Alia Vox AV 9803)

  RUTTER: Shepherd's Pipe Carol - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 500)

  MILFORD: Two pipe tunes - John Turner (rec), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)

  WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Gift of Music

  Three programmes

  For the season of giving Murray Khouri looks at suitable recordings for introducing children to classical music

  (2) Hansel & Gretel (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Read Gainsford (pno)

  Marking the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth today

  MESSIAEN: Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (recorded in the Hunter Council Chamber, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:10 PM. Day's End

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

  TIPPETT: Five Negro Spirituals, from A Child of our Time - Oxford Schola Cantorum/Jeremy Summerly (Hyperion CDA 67575)

  SIBELIUS: Two Serious Melodies Op 77 - Marko Ylönen (cello), Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1485)

  BIZET arr Hand/Rueffer: Jeux d'enfants - Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (BBC Legends BBCL 4039)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  GADE: Octet in F Op 17 - L'Archibudelli & Smithsonian Chamber Players (Sony SK 48307)

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