Monday 2 March 2009 Rāhina 2 Poutū-te-rangi 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: Overtures, The Hebrides; A Midsummer Night's Dream; SUPPÉ: Overtures, The Light Cavalry; Poet & Peasant; BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture; GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 430 741)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  MARTINU: Sinfonietta Giocosa; Toccata e Due Canzoni; Sinfonietta La Jolla - Julian Jacobson (pno), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Tamas Vasary (Chandos CHAN 8859)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  HOLST: The Cloud Messenger Op 30; The Hymn of Jesus - Della Jones (mezzo), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8901)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring; MASSENET: Méditation, from Thaïs; SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; DEBUSSY: La Fille aux cheveux de lin; BACH: Fourth movement, Allegro assai, fromViolin Sonata No3 in C BWV1005; KREISLER: Praeludium and Allegro; BACH: Es ist genug, so nimm, Herr, from Cantata No 60, O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort; TRAD: Danny Boy; Scarborough Fair; KENNEDY: Melody in the Wind; MONTI: Csárdás; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Nigel Kennedy (vln), English CO, London Voices, City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle, John Lenehan (pno), Jonathon Gandelsman (vln), Robert Brophy (vla), Reinhard Armleder (cello), Kroke (EMI 5 57330)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  LLOYD: Piano Concerto No 4; The Lily-Leaf & the Grasshopper; The Transformation of that Naked Ape - Kathryn Stott (pno), London SO/George Lloyd (Albany AR 004)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ARNE: Overture No 2 in A, from Eight Overtures in eight parts - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0722)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Élégiaque - Moscow Rachmaninov Trio (Hyperion CDA 67178)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G minor RV332 - Enrico Onofri (vln/dir), Academia Montis Regalis (Naïve OP 30417)

  LAURO: Venezuelan Waltzes - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  CANNABICH: Symphony No 52 in E - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

  7:00 WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner (EMI 5 62866)

  BOWEN: Waltz in C Op 108 - Michael Dussek, John Reid (pno duo) (Dutton CDLX 7218)

  TOMLINSON: Concert Jig, from Silverthorn Suite - Jack Coles & his Orch (EMI 5 66676)

  MOZART: Flute Quartet No 2 in G K285a - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Christoph Poppen (vln), Hariolf Schlichtig (vla), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) (EMI CDC 5 56829)

  WALTON: The Battle of Agincourt, from Henry V - London Festival Orch/Stanley Black (Decca 421 268)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GIBBS: Dusk, from Fancy Dress Suite - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

  PIERNÉ: Voyage au Pays du Tendre - Vanessa McKeand (harp), Carol Wincenc (fl), members of Allegri String Quartet (Virgin VC 7 90721)

  HOLST: Suite No 2 for Military Band Op 28/2 - Dallas Wind Symphony/Howard Dunn (Reference Recordings-39 CD)

  WEBER: Was gleicht wohl auf Erden, from Der Freischütz - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus & Orch/Bernard Haitink (EMI CDC 7 49849)

  ALWYN: Ballade for viola & piano - Roger Chase (vla), Andrew Ball (pno) (Naxos 8.570340)

  J STRAUSS II: Tritsch-Tratsch, Polka; Leichtes Blut - Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 662)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)

  Hebrides Overture - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 216)

  Six Songs to be Sung in the Open Air Op 48 - RIAS Chamber Choir/Hans-Christoph Rademann (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1992)

  Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor - Domus (Virgin VC 7 91183)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: Symphony No 97 in C - English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI 3 55679)

  HUBAY: Violin Concerto No 3 in G minor Op 99 - Ragin Wenk-Wolff (vln), Slovak Radio SO/Dennis Burkh (Centaur CRC 2790)

  SIBELIUS: The Maiden in the Tower - Solveig Kringelborn (sop), Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo), Lars-Erik Jonsson (ten), Garry Magee (bar), Ellerheim Girls' Choir; Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 5 22055)

  STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite - New York Phil/Lorin Maazel (DG 477 6435)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. German Wind Concertos

  TELEMANN: Concerto in D minor for two oboes & bassoon TWV53/d1 - Luise Baumgartl, Martin Stadler (obs), Marita Schaar (bsn), La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider (CPO 777 267)

  LACHNER: Flute Concerto in D minor - Bruno Meier (fl), Prague CO (Naxos 8.570593)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Nel grave tormento, from Mitridate, re di Ponto - Sandrine Piau (sop), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (Naïve E 8877)

  HERSCHEL: Symphony No 8 in C minor - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

  HAYDN: Mass No 12 in Bb, Theresienmesse - Simona Saturová (sop), Roxana Constantinescu (contralto), Corby Welch (ten), Yorck Felix Speer (bass), Oregon Bach Festival Chorus & Orch/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.509)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein; Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Wilhelm Backhaus (pno), Cologne Radio SO/Georg Solti (rec 1959/56) (Medici Arts MM 006)

• 4:10 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  PONCE: Sonata romantica - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  STANFORD: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Op 123 - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell, John Wells (org) (Atoll ACD 105)

  CARR: Promenade - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1077)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SULLIVAN: Mikado, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

  STANLEY: Voluntary in F Op 7/6 - John Wells (organ of Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland) (RNZ)

  ELGAR: Funeral March, from Grania & Diarmid - London Phil/Adrian Boult (BBC Legends BBCL 4170)

  J WILLIAMS: Theme from Angela's Ashes - studio orchestra/John Williams (Decca 466 761)

  LECLAIR: Flute Sonata in G Op 9/7 - Fenwick Smith (fl), Laura Blustein (cello), John Gibbons (hpschd) (Naxos 8.557440-41)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Procession of the Sardar, from Caucasian Sketches Op 10 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CDQS 6119)

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Procession into the Hall of Song - Chorus of the Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Swedish Orch/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.557714)

  J STRAUSS II: Procession for Pleasure - Vienna-Berlin Ensemble (Sony SK 42175)

  FRANCK: La Procession - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Bath Festival Orch/Yehudi Menuhin (Testament SBT 1088)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Bridal Procession, from The Golden Cockerel - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  LISZT: Artist's Festive Procession S520 for the Schiller centenary - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66811/2)

  POKORNY: Concerto in Eb for two horns - Zdenek Tylsar, Bedrich Tylsar (horns), Prague Radio SO/Vladimír Válek (Supraphon SU 3902)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  In the first two weeks of Composer of the Week for 2009, we celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the birth of FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)

  (1) William Dart looks at the composer's life and music (RNZ)

  Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (DG 477 8001)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Patricia Wright (sop), Michael Houstoun (pno)

  SCHUBERT: Der Musensohn D764; SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und -leben Op 42; STRAUSS: Das ist ein schlechtes Wetter Op 69/5; Traum durch die Dämmerung Op 29/1; Meinem Kinde Op 37/3; Cäcilie Op 27/2; MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 91/1; Op 30/6, Venetian Gondola Song; Op 62/6, Spring Song; Op 102/3; LISZT after Chopin: Meine Freuden Op 74/12; SCHUMANN trans Liszt: Widmung; FAURÉ: Clair de lune Op 46/2; Après un rêve Op 7/1; Mandoline Op 58/1; PUCCINI: E l'uccellino; Sole e amore; Canto d'anime; KABALEVSKY: There was an old woman; The little pigs; LOEWE: Before I gaze at you again (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. The Art of Ogden

  GLAZUNOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 92 - John Ogdon (pno), Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund (EMI 3 92747)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes - Giora Feidman (cl), Yefim Bronfman (pno), Juilliard String Quartet (Sony SK 58966)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - London Phil/Wolfgang Sawallisch (Brilliant Classics 92878)

  TAVENER: Dhyana, A Song for Nicola - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London Phil/Andrew Litton (DG 476 6198)

  11:00 FRÉMART: Mass, Jubilate Deo - Peter Bennett (org/dir), Ensemble Dumont (Linn CKD 154)

  HURLSTONE: Violin Sonata in D minor - Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Andrew Ball (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 031)

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