Schedule for Saturday 10 January 2009

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2; GLAZUNOV: Chant du Menstrel for cello and orchestra; KHACHATURIAN: Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8579)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonatas Op 5 Nos 1-6 - Ilio Barontini (hpschd), Marco Fornaciari (vln) (Florentia Musicae FLO 69001)
2:20 (approx) - Disc 3
BRAHMS: Lieder - Elly Ameling (sop), Rudolf Jansen (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66444)
3:25 (approx) - Disc 4
IRELAND: A sea idyll; On a birthday morning; Soliloquy; Two pieces, April; Bergomask; Spring will not wait; Two pieces, February's child; Aubade; Ballade of London nights; Month's mind; Three pastels, A Grecian lad; The boy bishop; Puck's birthday; Columbine; Sarnia - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9250)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
MADETOJA: Comedy Overture; Symphony No 3 in A; Okon Fuoko Suite No 1; Ostrobothnians Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9036)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 RAMEAU: Zaïs, Overture - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)
BEETHOVEN: Duo in Eb for viola & cello WoO32 - Zvi Livschitz (vla), Mikayel Hakhnazaryan (cello) (Brilliant Classics 92857)
PUCCINI orch Fiorda: Inno a Roma - Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly, Roberto de Thierry (org) (Decca 475 320)
MEDTNER: Sonata reminiscenza, from Forgotten Melodies Op 38 - Elen Rapoport (pno) (Private recording ER 0001)
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 6/7 - ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Brilliant Classics 99986)
7:00 GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)
BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 - Bob van Asperen (hpschd/dir), Melante Amsterdam (Virgin 5 22001)
DYENS: Tango en Skai; Waltz en Skai - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)
BIBER: Balletti in C for six instruments - Otto Sauter, Franz Wagnermeyer (tpts), Capella Istropolitana/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 93714)
ARNOLD: Beckus the Dandipratt - London SO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 318)
8:00 KODÁLY: Viennese Musical Clock, from Háry János - Hungarian State Orch/Mátyás Antal (Classic CD ISSUE 80)
BAX: Quintet for harp & strings - Skaila Kanga (harp), members of the Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 66807)
FUX: Pastorale K396 - Armonico Tributo Austria/Lorenz Duftschmid (dir) (CPO 999 850)
MOZART: Divertimento in F for wind K213 - Berlin Phil Wind Players (Orfeo C 152 861)
KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10052)
9:00 AM. Millennium of Music

The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach
Four programmes
(2) Polyphonic Vespers for St Michael's and St Martin's
Recorded in the Lady Chapel of the great Archabbey of Pannonhalma, these remarkable mass and Vespers settings performed by the Schola Hungarica are taken from 15th- and 16th-century manuscripts from what was in the late 1500s the largest Hungarian city not under Ottoman rule, Bratislava (WFMT)
10:05 AM. Your Choice

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Quintet in C minor - Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10465)
LILBURN: Elegy: In Memoriam Noel Newson - Patricia Lawrey, Anthea Moller (mezzos), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi Pacific SLD 67)
WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 432 081)
OFFENBACH: Barcarolle, from The Tales of Hoffmann - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Jeannine Collard (mezzo), René Duclos Chorus, Paris Conservatoire Orch/André Cluytens (EMI 5 66650)
RODRIGO: Danza de la Amapola - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Naxos 8.557923)
TRAD arr Whittaker: Blow the wind southerly - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) (rec 1949) (Decca 475 078)
FUCHS: Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb minor Op 83 - Johannes Moser (cello), Paul Rivinius (pno) (Hänssler CD 93.206)
GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 446 657)
PELÉCIS: Concertino bianco for piano & chamber orchestra - Alexei Lubimov (pno), German Chamber Phil, Bremen/Heinrich Schiff (Erato 0630 12709)
RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Quentin Poole (ob), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 100)
(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
(8) Crescent City Gospel
Get sanctified New Orleans style as Wycliffe Gordon leads us Down by the riverside on Just a closer walk with thee and in The Battle hymn of the republic. We feature Eric Reed (pno), Reginald Veal (dbass), Alvin Atkinson (drums) and Damien Sneed (org) (Murray Street Productions)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
Sephardic songs - Yasmin Levy
Yasmin Levy is an Israeli singer who has made it her mission to preserve Ladino, the language of the Sephardic Jews. In her third album Mano Suave, she blends flamenco, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean traditions with the Judeo-Spanish in a collection of traditional Sephardic songs and original compositions (Adama Music 450003)
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
(2) Arianna String Quartet, Samuel Rhodes (vla)
WEBERN: Slow movement; SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 1 in C Op 49; MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 3 in D Op 44/1; BRAHMS: String Quintet No 2 in G Op 111 (WFMT)
4:30 PM. Ballets for Diaghilev

SCHMITT: La tragédie de Salomé - South West German Radio SO/Sylvain Cambreling (Hänssler CD 93.223)
BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic & Motet Choirs & Orch/Antony Walker (ABC 465 684)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - Philharmonia/Lovro von Matacic (Testament SBT 1329)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
KUHLAU: Flute Sonata in C Op 83/2 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.555346)
BACH: Concerto in D for three violins BWV1064 - Micaela Comberti, Miles Golding (vlns), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir/vln) (Chandos CHAN 0594)
CARR: Sinfonietta - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1077)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

HAYDN: Scottish & Welsh Folksongs, Afton Water; A wanderer comes; I am standing on the heath; My sheep are grazing; At dusk; My sweet darling; Red rose, white rose - Fritz Wunderlich (ten), Walter Weller (vln), Ludwig Beinl (cello), Heinrich Schmidt (pno) (Philips 420 852)
BRAHMS: Mädchenlied Op 85/3; Das Mädchen spricht Op 107/3; Die Trauernde Op 7/5; Sehnsucht Op 14/8; TRAD arr Brahms: Wie Komm' ich denn zur Tür herein?; In stille Nacht; Es steht ein Lind'; BRAHMS: Regenlied - Lucia Popp (sop), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Acanta 43510)
MAHLER: Parting & farewell; Taking turns in summer; Never to meet again!; It was my delight to walk; How to make naughty children behave; On the battlements of Strasbourg, from The Youth's Magic Horn - Thomas Hampson (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Teldec 244 923)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lyrica Choir, New Zealand SO/Arvo Volmer
DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: These arms to hold you; WALTON: Cello Concerto; DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor - David Wilde (pno) (Delphian DCD 34030)
PIAZZOLLA: Concerto for bandoneón, strings & percussion - Juan José Mosalini (bandoneón), Württemberg Phil/Gabriel Castagna (Chandos CHAN 10419)
11:00 ROSSINI arr Diabelli: The Thieving Magpie, excerpts - Johannes Tappert, Thomas Müller-Pering (gtrs) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1389)
BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in D minor G295 - Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45421)