Saturday 7 March 2009 Rāhoroi 7 Poutū-te-rangi 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  RESPIGHI: The Birds; Ancient Airs & Dances Suites 1 & 3; Three Botticelli Pictures - Orpheus Chamber Orch (DG 437 533)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  SWEELINCK: Toccata; Psalm 140; Hexachord Fantasia; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein; Echo Fantasia; Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr; Fantasia 'met bindingen'; Mein junges Leben hat ein End; Toccata; Erbarm dich mein o Herre Gott; Toccata; Psalm 116; Fantasia - Robert Woolley (organ of the Pieterskerk, Leiden) (Chandos CHAN 0701)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  BRAHMS: A German Requiem - Felicity Lott (sop), David Wilson-Johnson (bar), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8942)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Trios, in F Op 18/1; in E minor Op 92/2 - Joachim Trio (Naxos 8.550935)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  Live from Budapest

  Gypsy arrangements of traditional & popular tunes - Roby Lakatos (vln) & Lakatos Ensemble (DG 459 642)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VIVALDI: Arsilda, Queen of Pontus, Overture - Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli (CPO 999 740)

  FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 3 in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

  SCHUBERT trans Rachmaninov: Wohin?; MENDELSSOHN trans Rachmaninov: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; BIZET trans Rachmaninov: Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 470 291)

  SPOHR: Potpourri in Bb on themes of Mozart - Kenneth Sillito (vln), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9424)

  SIBELIUS: The Dryad - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1225)

  7:00 SULLIVAN: Overture di Ballo - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (Classic CD ISSUE 83)

  RODRIGO: Two Spanish dances - Lucero Tena (castanets), Castile & León SO/Max Bragado Darman (Naxos 8.555962)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Minueto, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Thomas Labé (pno) (Dorian DOR 90251)

  IRELAND: Tritons, Symphonic prelude - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 240)

  8:00 JOACHIM: Henry IV, Overture - London Phil/Leon Botstein (IMP MCD 27)

  KARAINDROU: Eternity Theme, from the film Eternity and a Day - Vangelis Christopoulos (ob), Nikos Guinos (cl), Spyros Kazianis (bsn), Iraklis Vavatsikas (accordion), Vangelis Skouras (horn), Aris Dimitriadis (mandolin) string orch (ECM 1692)

  KABALEVSKY: Galop, from The Comedians Op 26 - Tasmanian SO/Shalom Ronly-Riklis (ABC Classics 464 194)

  MOZART: Variations in C on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman - Tini Mathot (fpno) (Challenge CC 72189)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Spanish Dances Book 1 Op 12 - London SO/Ataúlfo Argenta (Decca 475 7747)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello/dir), Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS 7395)

  EINAUDI: Una mattina; Resta con me - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Decca 475 629)

  BACH: Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor BWV1003 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln) (RegisC 2077)

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

  CIMAROSA: Keyboard Sonatas, in D minor; C minor; C minor - Jean-Patrice Brosse (hpschd) (Pierre Verany PV 789 054)

  PUNTO: Horn Concerto No 5 in F - Barry Tuckwell (horn), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 69395)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (3) Recent releases & reissues from the ECM label (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  A programme of instrumental music from China featuring the suona, an oboe-like woodwind instrument, and the qin zither, a favourite subject of poets and painters for over 1000 years (Middle Kingdom 8.828009; Ocora C 560175)

• 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

  (10) Pamela Mia Paul (pno), Zemlinsky String Quartet

  HAYDN: String Quartet in G minor Op 74/3, Rider; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 127; DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 (WFMT)

• 4:40 PM. Nott Conducting

  JANÁCEK arr Jílek: The Cunning Little Vixen, Suite - Bamberg Symphony/Jonathan Nott (Tudor 7135)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan - Bamberg SO/Jonathan Nott (Tudor 7147)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Piano Sonata in A minor (1939) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  SCHUBERT: Quartet for guitar, flute, viola & cello D96 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Ronald Thomas (cello) (Koch International 3-7404)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  SCHUMANN: Twelve Poems of Justinus Kerner Op 35 - Olaf Bär (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 7 54027)

  MUDARRA: Two Villancicos, If they call me; If he came and took me; MUDARRA: Two sonnets in Italian, Life rushes on; Oh jealousy of lovers; Two Romances, King David was sad; Israel, behold your mountains - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Hopkinson Smith (vilhuela) (Auvidis Astrée E 8533)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), Simon Trpceski (pno), New Zealand SO/Yoel Levi

  YOUNG: Remembering for violin & orchestra (première performance); RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 12 in D minor Op 112, The Year 1917 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Bach or Not?

  Works of doubtful authenticity

  BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565; Fantasia & Fugue in A minor BWV561 - Gerhard Weinberger (organ of the Dresden Court Church) (CPO 777 186)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BRAHMS: String Quintet No 2 in G Op 111 - Alban Berg Quartet, Hariolf Schlichtig (vla) (EMI 5 56759)

  RESPIGHI: Chaconne in G minor, after Vitali's Chaconne - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

  SVENDSEN: Sigurd Slembe, Symphonic Prelude to Bjornson's play - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  11:00 J THOMAS: Grand Duet - Lipman Harp Duo (Naxos 8.570372)

  ONSLOW: Quintet in G for piano & strings Op 76 - Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet (Brilliant Classics 93203)

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