Wednesday 31 December 2008 Rāapa 31 Hakihea 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  YOUNG: Symphony; Virgen de la Esperanza; Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  DEBUSSY: Pour la Piano; Images; Berceuse héroïque; Elégie; Six épigraphes antiques - Boris Berman (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9294)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  SWINGLE/MOORE: A visit from Saint Nicholas; TRAD arr McNeff: Carol of the bells; KIRKPATRICK arr McNeff: Away in a manger; PIERPOINT arr McNeff: Jingle bells; TRAD arr McNeff: The first nowell; TCHAIKOVSKY arr McNeff: Dance of the sugar-plum fairy; HOPKINS arr McNeff: We three kings; TRAD arr McNeff: Angels from the realms of glory; Coventry carol; TRAD arr Cable: D'où viens-tu, bergère; The twelve days of Christmas; TRAD arr Gillis: O come, Emmanuel; I wonder as I wander; What child is this?; TRAD arr Cable: La cloche de noël; TRAD arr McNeff: We wish you a merry Christmas; TRAD arr Cable: Noël nouvelet; MENDELSSOHN arr McNeff: Hark! The herald angels sing; GRUBER arr McNeff: Silent night; TRAD arr McNeff: Good King Wenceslas; HANDEL arr Mills: Hallelujah chorus; PRAETORIUS arr Cable: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming; TRAD arr arr McNeff: Oh come, all ye faithful - Canadian Brass, Elmer Iseler Singers (Philips 426 835)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  ARENSKY: Piano Concerto in F minor; Fantasia on Russian Folksongs; BORTKIEWICZ: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66624)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  MARAIS: Suite in D; Suite in G; Suite in D for Robert Visée; Suite in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany - NZSO Chamber Orch (RNZ)

  KNECHTL: Horn Concerto in D - Barry Tuckwell (horn), ASMF/Iona Brown (Decca 417 406)

  DEBUSSY: Estampes - Roberta Rust (pno) (Centaur CRC 2867)

  ELGAR: Harmony Music No 4, The Farmyard - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6554)

  COATES: Concert waltz, Footlights - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2070)

  7:00 TRAD arr Hillier: A New Year's gift - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 7079)

  HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Brilliant Classics 99986)

  DE ROSAS: Mediterraneo - Marino de Rosas (gtr) (Inner Arts)

  J RITCHIE: Snow Goose - Alexa Still (fl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7345)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 58039)

  WALTON: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, from the film The First of the Few - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Chandos CHAN 8870)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TCHAIKOVSKY: Barcarolle, from The Seasons - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

  WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 3 - South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.031)

  PASCULLI: Grand Concerto on themes from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers - Philippe Magnan (ob), I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9662)

  JOPLIN arr Perlman: The Rag-Time Dance; Solace; Elite Syncopations - Itzhak Perlman (vln), André Previn (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47170)

  SCHUMANN arr Liszt: Widmung - Yundi Li (pno) (DG 471 585)

  PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  BOYCE: Ode for the New Year - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)

  BUXTEHUDE: Cantata, Das neugebor'ne Kindelein BuxWV13 - Emma Kirkby (sop), Michael Chance (countertenor), Charles Daniels (ten), Peter Harvey (bass), Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0723)

  CURTIS: Ring in the New - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2035)

  NIETZSCHE: Eine Sylvesternacht - Nicholas Eanet (vln), John Bell Young (pno) (Newport Classic NPD 85535)

  TOMLINSON: Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Op 40 - Zoltán Kocsis (pno), San Francisco SO/Edo de Waart (Philips 456 874)

  BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67633)

  BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Telarc CD 80076)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Félix Fernández, a casualty of the art wars

  Behind the scenes of the triumphant première of Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat by the Ballet Russes in London in 1919, is the sad story of a rejected Spanish dancer. Elric Hooper explores the life and mysteries of Félix Fernández (RNZ)

• 1:10 PM. Manuel de Falla

  The Three-Cornered Hat - Florence Quivar (mezzo), Men of the May Festival Chorus, Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80149)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SATIE: Gnossiennes - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 470 290)

  K JENKINS: Benedictus, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - Guy Johnston (cello), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

  DOWLAND: A Fantasie, from Varietie of Lute Lessons, London 1610; The Right Honourable The Lord Viscount Lisle, his Galliard from A Musicall Banquet, London 1610; Galliard to Lachrimae, from A Pilgrimes Solace, London 1612 - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (Brilliant Classics 93698)

  FRANCK: Les Djinns - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno/dir), Berlin Radio SO (Decca 425 432)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BACH: Orchestral Suites, No 1 in C BWV1066; No 4 in D BWV1069 - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (rec 1985) (Archiv 415 671)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Gareth Farr (gamelan gongs), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 2 in G Op 1/2 - Canterbury Trio (RNZ)

  KAIHAU/SCOTT arr Maskell: Po Atarau, Now is the Hour - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  GLINKA: Russlan & Ludmilla, Overture - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

  MONTI arr Glennie: Czárdás - Evelyn Glennie (perc), National Phil/Barry Wordsworth (RCA 60242-2-RC)

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book 2 - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.550350)

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Michael Murray (organ of Symphony Hall, Boston) (Telarc CD 80277)

  DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

  PROKOFIEV: Ode to the End of the War - members of BBC SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (BBC Legends BBCL 4233)

  FARR: Te Parenga, based on incidental music for Bruce Mason's End of the Golden Weather - Patrick Barry (cl), NZSO Chamber Orch/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2036)

  SCHUBERT: Song's End D473 - Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 33003)

  TRAD: The End of the Gods - Elizabeth Gaver (fiddle), members of Sequentia (DHM 05472 77381)

  WEILL: Surabaya-Johnny, from Happy End - Teresa Stratas (sop), Y Chamber Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Sony SK 63046)

  MORLEY: The Sacred End Pavin - Musicians of Swanne Alley/Paul O'Dette (dir) (Virgin Classics VC 7 91214)

  BOND: When you come to the end of a perfect day - Valerie Masterson (sop), John Constable (pno) (Novello NVLCD 107)

  THE DOORS arr/orch Coleman: The End, from The Doors Concerto - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Tran Quang Hai (dan trahn), Rodney Clarke, Robert Anderson, Adam Greene, Alex Ashworth (vocalists), Prague SO/Peter Scholes (Decca 467 350)

  J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223235)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Weird & Wacky

  Hosted by William Dart

  William Dart has spent a lifetime rummaging around in Thrift Shop LP bins and CD store $5 bins. He mines his basement collection to bring us another programme of bizarre arrangements - some magical, some monstrous - of works that we know and love from the classical masters. Each programme is complemented by half an hour of the composer's works

  SCHUBERT (RNZ)

  arr Schoenberg: Ständchen D920 - Markus Schäfer (ten), Les Soloistes de l'Opéra National de Lyon (Erato 0630 13541)

  Violin Sonatina in D D384 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Riccardo Castagnone (pno) (Philips 438 516)

  Am Feierabend, from Die schöne Müllerin - Peter Schreier (ten), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (EMI CDM 7 69105)

  arr Berlioz: Erlkönig D328 - Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo), CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 586)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Netherlands Wind Ensemble

  The Netherlands Wind Ensemble, known for their unusual programmes and theatrical flair, present Nacht, (or Night), a concert including new works on the theme of night alongside familiar jazz and classical pieces, all presented in a light-hearted and festive atmosphere (Nederlands Blazers Ensemble NBECD020)

• 9:30 PM. Looking Forward

  ARNELL: Overture, The New Age Op 2 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7161)

  FINZI: New Year Music - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 454 438)

  SUK: Towards a New Life, Festival March Op 20 - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0624)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 33/2, Joke - Emerson String Quartet (DG 471 327)

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 2 in A S125 - Nelson Freire (pno), Dresden Phil/Michel Plasson (Berlin Classics 018 5942 BC)

  GRIEG: Lyric Suite - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1291)

  11:00 MOZART: String Quartet No 18 in A K464 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 1042)

  WAXMAN: Auld Lang Syne Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Ula Ulijona (vla), Marta Sudraba (cello), Louis Lortie (pno) (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

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