Monday 15 December 2008 Rāhina 15 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  DYSON: Concerto Leggiero for piano and orchestra; Concerto da Camera; Concerto da Chiesa - Eric Parkin (pno), Andrew Watkinson, Edward Roberts (vlns), Stephen Tees (vla), Stephen Orton (cello), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9076)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  The Only True Opera Gala

  Arrangements for cello ensemble of opera works by Rossini, Mozart, Françaix, Weber, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Strauss, Gershwin, J Strauss II - Philharmonic Cellists (Koch 3 6546)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  Four Centuries of Christmas Music

  Works by BACH; HAYDN; PRAETORIUS; REGER; NICOLAI; BRITTEN and STRAVINSKY - Claron McFadden (sop), Olaf Bär (bar), SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart, Mainz Dom Choir; SWR Radio Orch, Kaiserslautern/Paul Goodwin (Hänssler CD 93.114)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  REGER: Suites, No 1 in G; No 2 in D minor; No 3 in A minor; Sonata in Bb for viola & piano Op 107 - Keith Harvey (cello), Ivo van der Werff (vla), Simon Marlow (pno) (ASV CD DCA 976)

  4. 05 (approx) - Disc 5

  MAYERL: Filigree; Three Miniatures in syncopation; Siberian lament; In my garden; Summertime; Three Japanese Pictures, Two pieces; Beguine Impromptu; The Big Top; The Legends of King Arthur, Two pieces; Honky-Tonk; In my garden, Autumntime; Romanesque; Insect oddities; Leprechaun's Leap - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9141)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 JG GRAUN: Sinfonia Grosso in D - Vienna Academy/Martin Haselböck (CPO 999 887)

  KOCHUROV: On the Lake - Galina Heifetz (vln), Arnold Kaplan (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4196)

  COLLINS: Eire - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7162)

  REICHA: Wind Quintet No 2 in Eb - Taffanel Wind Quintet (Denon DC 8004)

  SVENDSEN: Last year I was tending the goats - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  7:00 TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: This is the truth sent from above - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Portrait PCL 1002)

  TSINTSADZE arr Batiashvili: Miniatures - Lisa Batiashvili (vln/dir), Georgian CO (Sony 88697 33400)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 72/8 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

  CLEMENTI: Keyboard Sonata in Eb Op 1/1 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67632)

  FRANCHOMME: Fantasy on a Melody by Schubert - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

  J STRAUSS II: Romance, from Faust; Tsar Alexander Homage March Op 290 - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Second movement, Adagio, from Clarinet Concerto in A K622 - Philip Green (cl), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Etude de arpèges; Modéré, from 12 Etudes - Craig Ogden (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9743)

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

  ALWYN: Rhapsody for piano quartet - Andrew Ball (pno), Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Roger Chase (vla), Lucy Wilding (cello) (Naxos 8.570340)

  DONIZETTI: Oboe Concertino in F - Günther Passin (ob), RIAS Sinfonietta/Jirí Stárek (Koch Schwann 311 121)

  ROSSINI: William Tell, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  JOHN RUTTER (b1945)

  Fancies - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 516)

  Five Childhood Lyrics, Monday's child; The Owl & the Pussy-Cat; Windy nights; Matthew, Mark, Luke & John; Sing a song of sixpence - Kristine Jaunalksne (sop), Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt (Bayer BR 100 334)

  Partita - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2131)

  Nativity carol - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 106)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in G minor (Grave g1) - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553974)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Shlomo Mintz (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Avie AV 2057)

  THOMSON: Cello Concerto - Yehuda Hanani (cello), RTE National SO/William Eddins (Naxos 8.559344)

  SIBELIUS: Pelléas & Mélisande Op 46 - Czech Phil/Serge Baudo (Supraphon SU 3899)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BERLIOZ: Harold in Italy - Tabea Zimmermann (vla), London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0040)

  TRAD arr Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; TRAD arr Charles Wood: A virgin most pure; HADLEY: I sing of a maiden - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 106)

  BEETHOVEN: Second movement, Largo, from Oboe Concerto in F - Bart Schneemann (ob), Netherlands Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Channel Classics CCS SA 21404)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  FALLA: Pièzas españolas; Fantasía bética - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (rec 1992) (RCA 09026 61389)

  El Amor Brujo - Gloria Lane (mezzo), BBC SO/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1964) (BBC Legends BBCL 4005)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Gaudeamus Overture - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Corellia CRA 1005)

  RIVE: And is there care in heaven?; WELLS: Blow me eyes - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  SCHEIDT arr Thomas: Fantasia super Io, San Ferito - Christchurch Youth Recorder Ensemble/Neville Forsythe (CYRE)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 28 in A Op 101 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2004)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in Db S244 - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Brilliant Classics 92790)

  STRAVINSKY: Suite No 2 - Norrlands Opera SO/Kristjan Järvi (CCn'C 02962)

  DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - James Galway (fl/dir), Marisa Robles (harp), CO of Europe (RCA RD 87173)

  TELEMANN: Concerto in A minor for recorder, oboe & violin - Musica Alta Ripa (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 309 1384)

  SCHUBERT: The Twenty-Third Psalm - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner, Malcolm Bilson (fpno) (ABC 456 360)

  GLIÈRE orch Derzhanovsky: Ballad - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

  JC BACH: Birthday Cantata, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

  HASTED: Celebration Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 02 CD)

  LANE: Celebration Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)

  STRACHEY: In Party Mood - Verity Butler (cl), Gavin Sutherland (pno) (Campion CAMEO 2022)

  HEIDRICH: Happy Birthday Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

  HOLST arr McNeff: Capriccio - Philharmonia a Vent Wind Orch/John Boyd (Klavier K 11150)

  MARQUEZ: Dance No 2 - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  International broadcaster and choral conductor Brian Kay talks with the English composer JOHN RUTTER (b1945) (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Douglas Mews (organ of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington)

  CLERAMBAULT: Suite on the second tone; ALAIN: Variations sur un thème de Clement Jannequin; MESSIAEN: Le Vierge et l'Enfant; Les Bergers; Les Anges; Desseins éternals; Dieu parmi nous, from La Nativité du Seigneur (recorded in St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:00 PM. Barenboim conducts Mozart

  Requiem in D minor K626 - Sheila Armstrong (sop), Janet Baker (mezzo), Nicolai Gedda (ten), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), John Alldis Choir, English CO/Daniel Barenboim (EMI 2 12718)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  COPLAND: Appalachian Spring - Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 477 6352)

  FINZI: Clarinet Concerto Op 31 - Robert Plane (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)

  11:00 KOSSLER: String Quintet in D minor - members of Frankfurt String Sextet (CPO 777 269)

  REINECKE: Trio in A minor Op 188 - Luc Bergé (horn), Marcel Ponseele (ob), Jan Michiels (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 541)

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