Saturday 20 December 2008 Rāhoroi 20 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  A SCARLATTI: Agar et Ismaele esiliati, Sinfonia; Concerto No 3; San Filippo Neri, Introduttione; Concerto No 6; Il primo omicidio, Sinfonia; Concerto No 5; L'Assunzione della Beata Vergine, Sinfonia; Concerto No 4; Il trionfo della Vergine assunta in Cielo, Sinfonia; Concerto No 1; Il giardino di rose, Sinfonia; Concerto No 2 - Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (dir & hpschd) (Decca 470 650)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  GENISHTA: Nocturne; TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso Op 62; Solo from Sleeping Beauty; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Serenade; GLAZUNOV: Elegy in memorial of Franz Liszt Op 17; Spanish Serenade Op 20/2; RACHMANINOV: Prelude Op 2/1; Oriental Dance Op 2/2; ROSLAVETS: Dance of the white girls; MOSLOV: Legende Op 5; PROKOFIEV: Adagio from Cinderella Op 97; SHOSTAKOVICH: Moderato - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ingrid Wahlberg (pno) (Manu CD 1426)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  RUTTER: Wexford carol; Jesus childe; There is a flower; Donkey carol; Wild wood carol; Angels' carol; Nativity carol; Mary's lullaby; Star carol; Candlelight carol; Shepherd's pipe carol; Christmas lullaby; Dormi, Jesu; Love came down at Christmas; Sans day carol; I wonder as I wander; What sweeter music; Joy to the world; I saw three ships; Deck the hall; The very best time of the year; We wish you a merry Christmas; Silent night - Stephen Varcoe (bar), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 510)

  3:45 (approx) - Disc 4

  MOZART: Piano Sonatas, in C KV330; in A KV331; in F KV332 - Maria João Pires (pno) (DG 431 760)

  5:05 (approx) - Disc 5

  CHABRIER: Fête Polonaise from Le Roi malgré lui; GLINKA: Kamarinskaya; SIBELIUS: Andante festivo; GLINKA: Valse fantaisie; BOLZONI: Minuetto; DVOŘÁK: Humoresque Op 101/7; DARZINS: Valse melancolique; ELLINGTON: Solitude; SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance from The Gadfly; MUSSORGSKY: Gopak; DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune; SCHUMANN: Abendlied Op 107/6; MEDINS: Aria; GERSHWIN: Promenade, Walking the Dog; SOUSA: The Stars and Stripes Forever - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CIMAROSA: L'infedeltà fedele, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

  WAGNER trans Moszkowski: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Earl Wild (pno) (Philips 456 991)

  HANSON: Nymphs & Satyr, Concert Suite from the Ballet - Rochester CO/David Fetler (Albany TROY 129)

  HANDEL trans Gibley: Recorder Sonata in D minor HWV367a - Tatty Theo (baroque cello), Carolyn Gibley (hpschd) (Avie AV 2118)

  CHAGRIN: Renaissance Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.557752)

  7:00 SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two violins & cello RV578 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), Daniel Stabrawa (vln), Olaf Maninger (cello), members of Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57859)

  GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Johann Strauss II's Wine, Women & Song - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67626)

  TRIEBENSEE: Trio in F - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor anglais) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

  FAURÉ: Allegro symphonique - Le Mans SO/José-André Gendille (Skarbo DSK 3921)

  8:00 WALLACE: Prelude to The Eumenides - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66987)

  SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - András Schiff (pno), Alois Posch (dbass), members of the Hagen Quartet (Decca 466 945)

  FASCH: Concerto in D FWV L/D15 - Tempesta di Mare (Chandos 0751)

  HOLST: I vow to thee, my country, from The Planets - Morriston Orpheus Choir & Orch/Alwyn Humphreys (Discurio CD MML 11)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Ballet Suite No 1 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8730)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/12 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

  GRUBER: Silent Night - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (EMI CDM 7 63574)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 - Dennis Brain (horn), Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan (rec 1953) (EMI CDH 7 61013)

  BACH: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor BWV1002 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln) (RegisC 2077)

  HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Carlo Bergonzi (ten), Austrian Radio SO/Paul Angerer (Orfeo C030 821)

  DIMMLER: Clarinet Concerto in Bb - Karl Schlechta (cl), Kurpfälz CO/Jirí Malát (Arte Nova 74321 37298)

  BUXTEHUDE: In dulci jubilo - Netherlands Bach Society, Cappella Figuralis/Jos van Veldhoven (Channel Classics CCS 15198)

  DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Rotterdam CO/Conrad van Alphen (Telarc CD 80623)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

  Host Wynton Marsalis offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (5) Bebop Lives!

  High velocity swing played by James Moody (ten sax), Charles McPherson (alto sax) and Roy Hargrove (tpt). They lift off on Dizzy Gillespie's bebop classics Groovin' High, Anthropology and Woody 'N You. Scat singer Roberta Gambarini defines virtuosity on Sunny Side of the Street. The rhythm section includes Renee Rosnes (pno), Todd Coolman (dbass) and Adam Nussbaum (drums) (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  An EBU Folk Music Christmas

  A programme of carols, songs and instrumental music for the festive season from around the world (EBU)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Emma Sayers (pno)

  BACH: English Suite No 6 in D minor BWV811; HAYDN: Piano Sonatas, No 47 in B minor HobXVI/32; No 49 in C# minor HobXVI/36; BARTÓK: Fourteen Bagatelles Sz38 (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:35 PM. Recent Russian Releases

  MUSSORGSKY arr various: Pictures at an Exhibition with orchestrations compiled by Leonard Slatkin - Nashville Chorus & SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.570716)

  TANEYEV: Concert Suite Op 28 - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10491)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HANDEL: Il pastor fido, Overture - James Tibbles (organ of Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland) (Atoll ACD 406)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 2 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  WOLF: Seventeen songs from the Italian Songbook - Per Vollestad (bar), Sigmund Hjelset (pno) (Simax PSC 1051)

  HAHN: Venezia, Songs in the Venetian dialect, Asleep on the water; The little boat; The warning; The blonde girl in the gondola; What a shame!; Spring - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Felicity Lott (sop), Richard Jackson (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66112)

  TOSTI: Sogno; Segreto - Carlo Bergonzi (ten), Rome CO/Edoardo Mueller (Orfeo C 073 831 A)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

  The traditional service heard every year since 1918 at King's College Cambridge with readings from the staff, clergy and choir members - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (dir), Benjamin Bayl (org) (EMI 5 73693)

• 9:25 PM. Gulda plays Beethoven

  Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Friedrich Gulda (pno), Vienna Phil/Horst Stein (Brilliant Clasics 93653)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  M-A CHARPENTIER: Le Mariage Forcé - New Chamber Opera, Band of Instruments/Gary Cooper (ASV CD GAU 167)

  DEVIENNE: Sonata No 4 in G for solo flute - Sharon Bezaly (fl) (BIS SACD 1459)

  PROKOFIEV: Lieutenant Kijé Suite - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60683)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 11 in D minor; No 12 in D minor; No 13 in D; No 14 in D minor; No 15 in Bb; No 16 in F minor; No 17 in F# minor; No 18 in D; No 19 in B minor; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor - Louis Demetrius Alvanis (pno) (Meridian CDE 84435)

  GRAGNANI: Quartet in A for violin, clarinet & two guitars - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1415)

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