Saturday 24 January 2009 Rāhoroi 24 Kohi-tātea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 3, 5; CHABRIER: Espana-Rhapsodie; BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor; GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry; RAVEL: Boléro - Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC 426289)

  1:00 (approx) - Disc 2

  Neo Medieval

  Medieval Improvisations on works by MACHAUT, CICONIA, SENLECHES, de la HALLE, LESCUREL and ANON - Hesperus: Tina Chancey (vielles, rebec, kamerj, lyra, recorders), Grant Herreid (lutes, saz, psaltery, recorders), Scott Reiss (recorders, hammered dulcimer, dombek, nakara) (Dorian DIS 80155)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  BUXTEHUDE: Membra Jesu Nostri - The Sixteen, Symphony of Harmony and Invention/Harry Christophers (Linn CKD 141)

  3:15 (approx) - Disc 4

  SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke Op 12; Papillons Op 2; Carnaval Op 9 - George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (pno) (Somm SOMM CD 024)

  4:30 (approx) - Disc 5

  WIENER: Concerto for accordion and orchestra; Sonata for violoncello and piano; Concerto for orchestra and one principal piano - Gilbert Roussel (accordion), Jean Weiner, Jacqueline Robin (pnos), Pierre Pénassou (cello), orchestral accompaniment/André Girard (Arion ARN 68186)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CPE BACH: Symphony in E minor Wq178 - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 1711)

  MOURANT: The pied piper - George Macdonald (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Steuart Bedford (Sanctuary CD RSN 3046)

  BOCCHERINI: Fourth movement, Fandango, from Guitar Quintet in D G448 - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (perc), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Prelude & Fugue in E Op 99/1 - Andrew-John Smith (organ of La Madeleine, Paris) (Hyperion CDA 67713)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 4 in C minor - Concerto Cologne (Teldec 4509 98435)

  7:00 J GADE: Wedding at Himmelpind, Rustic Suite - Odense SO/Matthias Aeschbacher (Dacapo 6.220509)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Phantasy Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67313)

  SULLIVAN: Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero, from The Gondoliers - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New London SO/Isidore Godfrey (Decca 430 095)

  CHOPIN: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (EMI 5 00906)

  BERLIOZ: Second movement, A Ball, from Symphonie fantastique - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Pinchas Steinberg (Naxos 8.555319-20)

  8:00 KLEMPERER: Merry Waltz, from Das Ziel - New Philharmonia/Leopold Stokowski (BBC Legends BBCL 4205)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 2 - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3321)

  VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - Daniel Hope, Lorenzo Borrani (vlns), members of Chamber Orch of Europe (DG 477 7463)

  J STRAUSS II: Champagne Polka; Wine, Women & Song, Waltz - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

• 9:00 AM. Millennium of Music

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

  Four programmes

  (4) Thomas Packe: An English Lady Mass

  This unique work by Packe, the organist of Exeter Cathedral, is preserved in the Ritson Manuscript. The all-woman Swedish vocal ensemble Schola Gothia intersperses chant and this early English polyphonic mass (WFMT)

• 10:05 AM. Your Choice

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F BWV1046 - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS CD 1151/52)

  ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16014)

  RODRIGO: Three Evocations - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Naxos 8.557923)

  BRAHMS: A German Requiem Op 45 - Susan Gritton (sop), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bar), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Evgenia Rubinova, José Gallardo (pno duo) (EMI 3 66948)

  (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

  (10) Darin Atwater Gospel

  Pianist and composer Darin Atwater draws on deep roots in gospel, jazz and classical traditions for his 15-piece gospel choir. With special guest singer Kim Burrell, they shake the roof of the Allen Room in this heavenly concert including Atwater's own compositions plus Wade in the water, What a wonderful world and Amazing grace (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  The Rough Guide to Arabic Café

  A compilation that takes us to the coffee houses of the Middle East, with a selection of music that would be played in a variety of café environments (Music Rough Guides RGNET 1195CD)

• 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

  (4) Alpin Hong (pno), Janaki String Trio

  BEETHOVEN: String Trio in G Op 9/1; DOHNÁNYI: Serenade in C Op 10; BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 (WFMT)

• 4:30 PM. A Dutch Maestro

  DIEPENBROCK: Elektra, Symphonic Suite - Residentie Orch, The Hague/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)

  MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K297b - Sabine Meyer (cl), Diethelm Jonas (ob), Bruno Schneider (horn), Sergio Azzolini (bsn), Dresden State Orch/Hans Vonk (EMI CDC 7 54138)

  SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1 in Bb Op 38, Spring - Cologne Radio SO/Hans Vonk (EMI 2 15310)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BLISS: Bliss (A One Step) - Stephen De Pledge (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1128)

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  GAVIN: Continental Divide - Nigel Gavin, Kim Halliday, Jonathan Pease (gtrs), Wes Prince (pno), Kelvin Roy (tbn), Nihat Orerel (perc) (Rattle RAT D003)

  PSATHAS: View from Olympus - Pedro Carneiro (perc), Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  GRIEG: First meeting; Solveig's song, from Peer Gynt Op 23; Solveig's cradle song; From Monte Pincio, from Romances Op 39; A swan; Spring; Henrik Wergeland; Mountain thrall - Barbara Bonney (sop), Håkan Hagegård (bar), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 437 519)

  SIBELIUS: In the evening Op 17/6; The first kiss Op 37/1; Was it a dream? Op 37/4; Spring flies fast Op 13/4 - Birgit Nilsson (sop), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Bluebell ABCD 009)

  STENHAMMAR: The wanderer; A ship is sailing; Maiden blonde & maiden brunette; A seaside song; In the maple's shade; Jutta comes to the Volkungs - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 449 189)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Baiba Skride (vln), New Zealand SO/Dmitry Sitkovetsky

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten; BRITTEN: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 15; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DEBUSSY: Six Epigraphes antiques - Waka Hasegawa, Joseph Tong (pno duet) (Quartz QTZ 2048)

  MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in G - Henk de Graaf (cl), Rotterdam Amadeus Ensemble/Marien van Staalen (Brilliant Classics 93337)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 90 in C - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

  11:00 WEISS: Suite in G minor - Konrad Junghänel (lute) (Accent ACC 67910 D)

  PRAETORIUS: Dances from Terpsichore - Ricercare Ensemble for Ancient Music, Zurich (EMI 5 69555)

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