Thursday 25 December 2008 Rāpare 25 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  WADE/OAKLEY arr Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful - Bach Choir/David Willcocks, members of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, James Blades, David Corkhill (perc), John Scott (org); TRAD arr Cullen: Angels from the realms of glory - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Carl Davis; GRUBER arr Cashmore: Silent night - Bach Choir/David Willcocks; SCHUBERT arr Hazell: Ave Maria - Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Joseph Silverstein; TRAD: Ding dong! merrily on high; The first Nowell - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest, Stephen Cleobury (org); ADAM arr Gamley: O holy night - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Kurt Herbert Adler; KIRKPATRICK arr Cleobury: Away in a manger; TRAD arr Willcocks: God rest you merry, gentlemen - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury; HANDEL arr Gamley: Joy to the world; REGER arr Gamley: The Virgin's slumber song - Joan Sutherland (sop), New Philharmonia/Richard Bonynge; GAUNTLETT: Once in royal David's city; TRAD arr Davies: The holly & the ivy - soloists, Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury; WILLIS arr Meyer: It came upon the Midnight clear - Leontyne Price (sop), members of the Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan; TRAD arr Pearsall: In dulci jubilo - Bach Choir/David Willcocks; SCHUBERT arr Gamley: Mille cherubini in coro - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Kurt Herbert Adler; BERLIOZ: Shepherd's Farewell, from The Childhood of Christ - St Anthony Singers, Goldsborough Orch/Colin Davis; TRAD arr Willcocks: While shepherds watched - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest, Stephen Cleobury (organ); BRAHMS arr Gamley: Lullaby - Renata Tebaldi (sop), New Philharmonia/Anton Guadagno; TRAD arr Ledger: On Christmas Night, Sussex Carol - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury David Briggs (org); BACH/GOUNOD arr Hazell: Ave Maria - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Utah SO/Julius Rudel; MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing - Bach Choir, members of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, James Blades, David Corkhill (perc), John Scott (org)/David Willcocks (Decca 443 401)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TRAD arr Warrell: We wish you a merry Christmas - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)

  GRAINGER: Faeroe Island Dance - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  CARBONELLI: Violin Sonata No 7 in A minor - Hélène Schmitt (vln), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Karl-Ernst Schröder (baroque gtr), Andrea Marchiol (org) (Alpha 046)

  WEBERN: Slow movement - Schoenberg Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10083)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in D minor for two violins & cello RV565, from L'Estro Armonico Op 3 - Roberto Michelucci (vln/dir), Anna Maria Cotogni (vln), Enzo Altobelli (cello), I Musici (Philips 446 169)

  OFFENBACH arr Bonynge: Le Papillon, Suite - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

  7:00 TRAD arr Watts: Unto us a boy is born - Maddy Prior (vocalist), Carnival Band (Portrait PCL 1007)

  LILBURN: Allegro for Strings - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  BEETHOVEN: Andante in F WoO57, Andante favori - Leon McCawley (pno) (Black Box BBM 3003)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy Op 57 - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

  MAYERL: Pastoral Sketches - Slovak Radio SO/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

  DELIUS: Sleigh Ride - Aarhus SO/Bo Holten (Danacord DACOCD 592)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL trans Stokowski: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557883)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Geoffrey Browne (cor anglais), Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (RegisC 1216)

  SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)

  SOLOVIEV-SEDOY: Midnight in Moscow - Osipov State Russian Folk Orch/Vitaly Gnutov (Mercury 432 000)

  BRANDMANN: Variations on a popular theme Op 12/5 - Wolfgang Meyer (cl), Jascha Nemtsov (pno) (Hanssler CD 93.094)

  WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 348)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  SCULTHORPE: The birthday of thy King; CHILCOTT: The shepherd's carol - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Daniel Hyde (org) (EMI 5 58070)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Overton: Six Christmas Pieces - James Galway (fl), Munich Radio Orch/John Georgiadis (RCA RD 60736)

  TRAD: Good Christian men rejoice; The First Nowell - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/John Harper, Magnus Williamson (org) (RegisC 1190)

  PRAETORIUS: Resonet in laudibus - Bremen Baroque Consort/Manfred Cordes (CPO 777 327)

  FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

  TRAD arr Iveson: Jingle bells; Deck the hall; GAUNTLETT arr Mann & Willcocks: Once in royal David's city - Bach Choir, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Philip Jones, David Willcocks, John Scott (org), James Blades, David Corkill (perc) (Decca 448 980)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Rotterdam Phil/Valery Gergiev (RNM RPHO 2005-1)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Stephen Hough (pno), BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Virgin 5 22098)

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1430)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - Paris Conservatoire Orch/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

• Noon Disc 5

  BILLINGS: Methinks I see an heav'nly host; FOSTER: While shepherds watched their flocks; CEREROLS: Serafin, que con dulce harmonia; VIDALES: Los que fueren de buen gusto; PRAETORIUS: Magnificat super, Angelus ad pastores; M-A CHARPENTIER: In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum; PASCHA: Gloria; TRAD arr Greatorex: Adeste, fideles; BILLINGS: A virgin unspotted - Tavener Consort, Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI 7 54529)

• 12:55 PM. From the Toyshop

  ROSSINI orch/arr Respighi: La Boutique fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

  SCOTT: The Toy Trumpet - Mark Calder (tpt), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67067)

  FAURÉ: Dolly Suite - Ian Brown, Susan Tomes (pno duet) (CRD 3505)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ADAM arr Totzauer: O Holy Night - Leontyne Price (sop), Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 421 103)

  BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 5719)

  VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

  HAYDN: London Trio No 3 in G HobIV/3 - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Isaac Stern (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) (CBS 37786)

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio, Part 1, Cantata for the First Day of Christmas - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Olaf Bär (bar), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 423 232) (Cantata No 2 tomorrow 2.00pm)

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• 3:00 PM. Prokofiev Goes Panto

  What I wished to express above all in the music of Cinderella was the poetic love of Cinderella and the Prince, the birth and flowering of that love, the obstacles in its path and finally the dream fulfilled (Sergei Prokofiev)

  PROKOFIEV: Cinderella, a ballet in three acts - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 445 830)

• 5:10 PM. From the Back Catalogue

  CHOPIN: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22; Rondo in C Op 73 - Samson François, Pierre Barbizet (pno/pno duo) (EMI 2 12695)

  WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Dresden State Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (EMI 5 67988)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G - 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)

  HILL: String Quartet No 11 in D minor - Australian String Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223746)

• 7:00 PM. The Chart Toppers

  A selection of the CDs sold this year that have risen to No 1 on the Concert Classical Chart

  J SCOTT: Nova! Nova! - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 207)

  GERSHWIN: I got plenty o' nuttin', from Porgy & Bess - Inia Te Wiata (bass), London Studio Orch (Atoll ACD 507)

  NOCK: After Bach - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

  GLASS: I Enjoyed the Laughter - Tim Fain (vln), Philip Glass Ensemble (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0043)

  ELGAR arr Milone: Salut d'amour Op 12 - Natalie Clein (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 01409)

  WAGNER: Album Leaf for Frau Betty Schott - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

  EDWARDS: Third movement, Allegro assai, from Piano Trio - NZTrio (Rattle RAT D017)

  BIZET: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle, from Carmen - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), French National Radio Orch/Thomas Beecham (EMI 2 16109)

  PUCCINI: O Mimì, tu piu non torni, from La Bohème - Rolando Villazón (ten), Boaz Daniel (bar), Bavarian Radio SO/Bertrand de Billy (DG 477 6600)

  GULDA: Exercise No 5, from Play Piano Play - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67656)

  EINAUDI: Una mattina - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Decca 475 629)

  ANON: Kyrie eleison, from Requiem - Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz (Universal 176 6016)

  HUGHES: The Spanish lady - Anna Leese (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 2 07639)

  DVORÁK: Songs my mother taught me - Magdalena Kozena (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 477 6665)

  HAYDN: Third movement, Menuetto, from String Quartet in D Op 64/5, Lark - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1823)

  STRAUSS: Frühling, from Four Last Songs - Renée Fleming (sop), Munich Phil/Christian Thielemann (Decca 478 0647)

  HANDEL: Why do the nations? from Messiah - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Orchestra of the Antipodes/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Celebrate Christmas with the APO

  Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), Matthew Landreth (bar), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Kenneth Young

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; FINZI: In Terra Pax; ADAM: Cantique de Noël; PFITZNER: Das Christelflein, Overture; RODRIGO: Retablo de Navidad; MENDELSSOHN arr Harris: Hark! the herald angels sing; GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night (recorded in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Recent 18th-Century Releases

  TARTINI: Violin Sonata in A Op 1/13, Pastorale - Palladians (Linn CKD 292)

  FASCH: Ouverture Grosso in D FWV K/D8 - Tempesta di Mare (Chandos 0751)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: No 1 in F; No 2 in D, from Novelettes Op 21 - Harold Bauer (pno roll) (Nimbus NI 8817)

  PLEYEL: Sinfonia Concertante in D - Evgeny Bushkov (vln/dir), Viktor Kozodov (cello), Moscow Concertino (Profil PH 07067)

  MAHLER arr Stadlmair: First movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 10 in F# minor - Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer (ECM 2024)

  11:00 MOZART: Piano Trio No 1 in G K496 - Maria João Pires (pno), Augustin Dumay (vln), Jian Wang (cello) (DG 449 208)

  String Quintet No 1 in Bb K174 - Talich Quartet, Karel Rehak (vla) (Calliope CAL 5232)

Next day - Fri 26

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