Tuesday 20 January 2009 Rātū 20 Kohi-tātea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ALWYN: Symphony No 5, Hydriotaphia; Sinfonietta for Strings; Piano Concerto No 2 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9196)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BACH: Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034; Flute Sonata in C BWV1033; Flute Sonata in E BWV1035; Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030; Flute Sonata in A BWV1032; Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031 - John Solum (baroque fl), Igor Kipnis (hpschd), Barbara Bogatin (cello) (Arabesque Z 6589)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  CHESNOKOV: Requiem No 2 Op 39; Orthodox Chants - Olga Slovesnova (contralto), Mikhail Falkov (ten), Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Ashavskaya (Olympia OCD 482)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Nine Short Pieces for Piano; Three Sea Changes; Seven Short Pieces; Short Piece; Prelude; Sonata; Untitled Piece; Untitled Piece; Sonatina No 1; A Musical Offering - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  GLIÈRE: Gyul'sara, Overture; Concert Waltz Op 90; Shakh-Senem, Overture; GLIÈRE orch Derzhanovsky: Ballad Op 4; GLIÈRE: Overture on Slavonic Themes; Heroic March for the Buryiat-Mongolian ASSR Op 71; Holiday at Ferghana, Overture - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ABEL: Sinfonia in Eb Op 4/3 - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Passacaille 903)

  BROUWER: Ten New Simple Studies - Graham Anthony Devine (gtr) (Naxos 8.570251)

  SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Viva CO)

  HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 1 in A of Set I - Keith Jarrett (pno) (ECM 1530)

  WAGENAAR: Larghetto for oboe & orchestra - Ingrid Nissen (ob), Netherlands Radio SO/Eri Klas (Etcetera KTC 1326)

  7:00 ARAMBARRI: Spanish Fantasy - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557275)

  VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Auckland Opera Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 234)

  POPPER: Serenade Op 54/2 - Mark Kosower (cello), Jee-Won Oh (pno) (Naxos 8.570570)

  LISZT: Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Rienzi - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

  BRITTEN: The Tocher (Rossini Suite) - Choir of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Martyn Brabbins (NMC D 112)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

  TURINA arr Heifetz: The Bullfighter's Prayer Op 34 - Felix Ayo (vln), Bruno Canino (pno) (Dynamic CDS 391)

  POULENC: French Suite after Claude Gervaise - Lille National Orch/Jean-Claude Casadesus (Naxos 8.554241)

  J RITCHIE: Partita for brass quintet - New Zealand Brass Quintet (Kiwi SLD 72)

  MACDOWELL: Romance - Aisling Drury Byrne (cello), National SO of Ireland/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.559049)

  ROSSINI: The Turk in Italy, Overture - Royal Phil/Evelino Pidò (Tring International TRP 066)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  HUMMEL: Concerto in G for piano & violin Op 17 - Polina Osetinskaya (pno), Alexander Trostiansky (vln), Russian Phil/Gregory Rose (Naxos 8.557595)

  NIELSEN: Wind Quintet in E Op 43 - Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1332)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 1, A Sea Symphony - Susan Gritton (sop), Gerald Finley (bar), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5047)

  DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir - Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich (pno duo) (Philips 446 557)

  JANÁCEK: Taras Bulba - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras (Supraphon SU 3739-2 032)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Michael Houstoun

  The first of two programmes in which the New Zealand pianist talks to Tim Dodd about his approach to playing Chopin's music (RNZ)

  CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

• 1:40 PM. Leopold & his Boy

  L MOZART: Symphony in A, Eisen A1 - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570499)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in F K224 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 - Capella Augustina/Andreas Spering (CPO 777 300)

  MENDELSSOHN: O rest in the Lord, from Elijah - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Boyd Neel Orch/Boyd Neel (rec 1946) (Decca 475 078)

  BACH: Air on the G String, from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Placido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 32 in G minor HobXVI/44 - John Lill (pno) (Signum SIGCD 097)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BARTÓK: Concerto for orchestra - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (rec 1981) (Decca 400 052)

  RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Leon Fleisher (pno), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (rec 1990) (Sony SK 47188)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  J RITCHIE: Threnody - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

  JL BACH: Das ist meine Freude, Psalm - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1516)

  BERLIOZ: Harold in - Csaba Erdélyi (vla), SO/Marc Taddei (Concordance CCD 03)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  WEBER: Jubilee Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Gustav Kuhn (Capriccio 71 045)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Matthias Metzger (vln), Gerrit Zitterbart (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.462)

  GOODWIN: Lancelot & Guinevere, main theme from the film - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10262)

  SALIERI: Serenata in C - Ensemble Italiano di Fiati (Brilliant Classics 93360)

  WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 3 & Bridal Procession - Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (RNZ)

  BOGDANOVIC: A Fairytale with Variations - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr J Harnoy: Lensky's aria, from Eugene Onegin - Ofra Harnoy (cello), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (RCA RD 60758)

  ARNE: Ariel's song, Where the bee sucks, from The Tempest - Emma Kirkby (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 460 583)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Hardenberger/Pöntinen: Song without Words Op 67/4, Spinning Song, or Bee's Wedding - Håkan Hardenberger (cornet), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (Philips 422 344)

  Josef STRAUSS: The Dragonfly - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr McFerrin: Flight of the bumblebee, from Tsar Saltan - Bobby McFerrin (vocal), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 48177)

  KRIWACZEK: Bee Sting, Dance in Rohan's Kitchen - Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen (Meridian CDE 84561)

  MAYERL: Praying Mantis, from Insect Oddities - Susan Tomes (pno) (Virgin VC 7 90745)

  COWEN: The Butterfly's Ball, Concert Overture - Czechoslovak State Phil, Kosice/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223273)

  NADERMAN: Harp Sonatina No 7 in C - Masumi Nagasawa (harp) (Etcetera KTC 1341)

  GOTTSCHALK ed Rosenberg: Grande Tarentelle Op 67 - Michael Gurt (pno), Hot Springs Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559320)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Robbie Ellis hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 Stroma: Icons of our Time

  Simon Docking (pno), Stroma/Hamish McKeich

  BOULEZ: Derive; BODY: Movements 1, 2, 4 & 5, from Rainforest (première performance & broadcast); FERNEYHOUGH: Lemma-Icon-Epigram; SCIARRINO: introduzione all'oscuro; KNUSSEN: Coursing (recorded at St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

  9:30 Indian Classical Music

  Six programmes

  (3) Masters of the Sarod

  Allan Thomas introduces the sarod, a melodious plucked lute which is almost as prominent as the sitar in Indian Music (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

  WOMAD 2008

  Over three days in March 2008, the Womad Festival brought musical and cultural flavours from around the world to Taranaki

  Twenty-two programmes

  (6) Midge Marsden

  A Taranaki native, Midge Marsden's career spans four decades. He has played thousands of concerts to countless people and has performed with a list of artists that reads like a definitive Who's Who of New Zealand Rock. In 2006 Midge received the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music. At WOMAD Taranaki the Midge Marsden Band performed with Wellington musician Darren Watson (RNZ) (Programme 7 Fri 8.05pm)

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