Saturday 3 January 2009 Rāhoroi 3 Kohi-tātea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto in C HobVIIb/1; Symphony No 104 in D; Cello Concerto in D HobVIIb/2 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS 7395)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  LEASK: Aatidahlge; BACH arr Koonce: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb BWV998; MERTZ: Hungarian Fantasy; KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29; DOMENICONI: Variations on an Anotolian Folksong; PIAZZOLLA arr Roskilly: Tanuango; arr Benitez: Milonga del ángel; Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, excerpts - Owen Moriaty (gtr), Totally Plucked Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5004)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  TRAD: Silent Night; Carol of the bells; G GABRIELI: O magnum mysterium; TRAD: Joseph dearest, Joseph mine; BILLINGS: The shepherd's carol; TRAD: Still, still, still; O Tannenbaum; The first Nowell; FRIEDELL: Saw you never in the twilight; TRAD: The holly & the ivy; BRITTEN: Hymn to the Virgin; TRAD: O little town of Bethlehem; Patapan; Away in a manger; HASSLER: Angelus ad pastores ait; AVERRE: Did Mary know?; TRAD: Deck the hall; Coventry carol; MARENZIO: Hodie Christus natus est; TRAD Baloo, Lammy; I saw three ships; Of the father's love begotten; MANZ: E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come; TRAD: As with gladness men of old; I wonder as I wander; A la nanita nan; Ding Dong! Merrily on high - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg (DG 429 732)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  DUSSEK: Keyboard Sonatas, in Bb Op 35/1; in G Op 35/2; in C minor Op 35/3; in D Op 31/2 - Andreas Staier (fpno) (DHM 05472 77286)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  J STRAUSS II/TIOMKIN: Main title & Vienna Blood, from The Great Waltz; BENNETT: Waltz, from Murder on the Orient Express; STRAUSS: Mit mir, from Der Rosenkavalier; HERRMANN: The memory waltz, from The Snows of Kilimanjaro; LOEWE: Main title, Fountain scene & Chez Maxim Waltz, from Gigi; PROKOFIEV: Waltz, from Cinderella; SONDHEIM: The Night Waltzes, from A Little Night Music; BERNSTEIN: Paris Waltz, from Candide; RÓZSA: Waltz, from Madame Bovary; WAXMAN: Cafe Waltzes, from Hotel Berlin; STEINER: Waltz, from Jezebel; KORNGOLD: Flirtation, from The Prince & the Pauper; RAVEL: La Valse; J STRAUSS II/TIOMKIN: Blue Danube & finale sequence, from The Great Waltz - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 438 685)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SCHARWENKA: Andante religioso Op 46a - Gävle SO/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1060)

  TORELLI: Trumpet Concerto in D - Alison Balsom (tpt), German Chamber Phil, Bremen (EMI 2 16213)

  A HUGHES: Fantasia in A minor - Camerata Wales/Owain Arwel Hughes (BIS CD 1589)

  BACH: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor BWV1014 - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Ottavio Dantone (hpschd) (Onyx 4020)

  REYNOLDS: Alice through the Looking-Glass, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

  7:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - London Phil/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)

  LAURO: Venezuelan Waltz No 4 - Julie Bevan (gtr) (Audio Projects AP 2006)

  DELIUS: Marche Caprice - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

  HUMMEL: Rondo brillant in F Op 127, Le retour à Londres - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557845)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso - strings of New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

  8:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Academic SO of St Petersburg Philharmony 'Shostakovich'/Alexander Dmitriev (Sony MLK 64055)

  DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (CBS MK 42206)

  SMITH arr Mathes: The Star-Spangled Banner - Nashville SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.570716)

  CHOPIN: Waltzes Op 64 - Ingrid Fliter (pno) (EMI 5 14899)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - National SO of Ukraine/Theodor Kuchar (Naxos 8.555924)

• 9:00 AM. Millennium of Music

  The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach

  Four programmes

  (1) Missa Ultimi miei sospiri

  The new recording by the Cinquecento ensemble of the Missa Ultimi miei sospiri and motets of Mechelen-born PHILIPPE DE MONTE (WFMT)

• 10:05 AM. Your Choice

  GOETZ: Piano Quintet in C minor Op 16 - Pro Arte Piano Quartet, Paul Marrion (dbass) (ASV CD DCA 1157)

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Martha Argerich (pno) (EMI 5 18333)

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Columba Aspexit - Tapestry (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 344 1193)

  CIMAROSA: Concerto in G for two flutes - Aurèle & Christiane Nicolet (fls), Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger (Decca 421 630)

  TRAD arr Hill: Waiata Poi - Peter Dawson (bar) orchestral accompaniment (rec 1937) (Pearl GEMM CD 9336)

  FINZI: Eclogue Op 10 - Peter Donohoe (pno), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.555766)

  TRAD: There is a Balm in Gilead - New Zealand National Youth Choir (Private CD 715)

  FIALA: Concerto No 1 in Eb for two horns - Zdenek & Bedrich Tylsar (horns), Prague CO/Libor Hlavácek (Supraphon SU 3902)

  (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

  (7) The Music of Stanley Turrentine

  Robert Stewart and Eric Alexander step into the blues shoes of the late tenorman Stanley Turrentine. Our foot-stomping celebration features selections from Turrentine's book and from Jerome Kern, Marvin Gaye and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Gene Ludwig (org), Dave Stryker (gtr) and Grady Tate (drums) provide a perfect fit (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  The Rough Guide to the music of Rumanian Gypsies

  A programme of gypsy music from some of the world's top Roma musicians, including cimbalon virtuoso Toni Iordachi, the Taraf de Haïdouks ensemble and vocalist Gabi Lunca (Music Rough Guides RGNET 1210CD)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 78th season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Sixteen programmes

  (1) Bard Festival String Quartet

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 122; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A minor Op 132; String Quartet in E minor Op 59/2, Razumovsky (WFMT)

• 4:55 PM. A Ballet for Diaghilev

  RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé - EuropaChorAkademie, South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.197)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  K YOUNG: Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  BARTÓK: Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, from Mikrokosmos Book 6 - Tamas Vesmas (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1443)

  HOLST: Morris Dance Tunes - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7058)

  ROSLAVETS: Dance of the White Girls - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tatyana Lazareva (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9881)

  BOVET: Totentanz, from Three Préludes Hambourgeois - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  SCHUBERT: Die schöne Müllerin D795 - Christian Gerhaher (bar), Gerold Huber (pno) (Arte Nova 82876 53172)

• 8:10 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Heath Lees

  Elgar's Enigma Variations (RNZ)

• 8:40 PM. Music Alive

  Nicolaj Znaider (vln/dir), New Zealand SO

  MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture; Violin Concerto No 1 in Bb K207; ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BRAHMS: String Quintet No 1 in F Op 88 - Juilliard String Quartet, Walter Trampler (vla) (Sony SK 68476)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Concerto in G HobXVIII/9 - Sebastian Knauer (pno), Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.570485)

  ABEL: Symphony in Eb Op 10/3 - La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider (CPO 999 207)

  11:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice on Danish & Russian Airs for flute, oboe, clarinet & piano Op 79 - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 0395)

  STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - Enigma Ensemble (Balance BAL 9442-1)

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