Tuesday 10 March 2009 Rātū 10 Poutū-te-rangi 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture: Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins & Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), LSO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 (approx) - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH & GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  Locomotiv-Musik: music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 10 in D - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.557771)

  SINDING: Romance in D Op 100 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557266)

  PURCELL arr Ley: Two Trumpet Tunes & Air - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral) (EMI CDB 7 62813)

  ROSSINI: Prélude semipastorale, from Album de Château - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 24106)

  SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music - Vienna Phil/Karl Münchinger (Decca 444 546)

  7:00 JOACHIM: Overture, In Memoriam Heinrich von Kleist Op 13 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Meir Minsky (Marco Polo 8.220190)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Proulx: Malagueña, from España - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Analekta AN 2 9897)

  KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  FRESCOBALDI: Aria di balletto - John Wells (organ of Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland) (RNZ)

  WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: September, from Four last Songs - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Berlin Radio SO/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47276)

  SONDHEIM: The Night Waltzes, from A Little Night Music - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 438 685)

  D'INDY: Fantasy on French Popular Themes - Philippe Cousu (ob), Württemberg Phil/Jean-Marc Burfin (Marco Polo 8.223659)

  ELGAR orch Payne: So many true Princesses who have gone - BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd Jones (Dutton CDLX 7148)

  LISZT: La campanella - François-René Duchâble (pno) (Virgin 3 63278)

  OFFENBACH: Ballet of the Snowflakes, from Voyage to the Moon - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 6403)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)

  The Wedding of Camacho, Act 2 - Nico van der Meel (ten), Waldemar Wild (bar), Urban Malberg, Ulrik Cold (basses), Aachen Youth Chorus, Modus Novus Chorus, Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Channel Classics CCS 5593)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead Op 29 - St Petersburg Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 00885)

  DOHNÁNYI: Variations on a Nursery Song Op 25 - Julius Katchen (pno), London Phil/Adrian Boult (Philips 456 859)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Bb Op 130 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 449 505)

  H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs - BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Warner 2564 61956)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. French Harp

  SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in A minor Op 95 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp - Joshua Smith (fl), Cynthia Phelps (vla), Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80694)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  LILBURN: Concert Overture in D - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 - Clifford Curzon (pno), English CO/Benjamin Britten (Decca 475 8202)

  BACH: Prelude & Fugues, No 6 in D minor BWV875; No 20 in A minor BWV889; No 9 in E BWV878, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 7978)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  DONIZETTI: Com'è bello, from Lucrezia Borgia - Maria Callas (sop), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Nicola Rescigno (rec 1965) (EMI CDC 7 47283)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (rec 1957) (Sony SBK 53509)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  A RITCHIE: From the Southern Marches, Prelude - City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private recording)

  CARR: Poems - Ellen Pan (pno), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  MARSHALL arr McNeff: L'Homme Armé Variations - Philharmonia à Vent Wind Orch/John Boyd (Klavier K 11150)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI: Aida, Prelude - Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 856)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 2292 45921)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Marie Hallynck (cello), Cédric Tiberghien (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1779)

  HANDEL ed Theo: Oxford Water Music Suite in F - Brook Street Band (Avie AV 0028)

  RAVEL: Fourth movement, Feria, from Rapsodie espagnole - New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (NZSO)

  LEONCAVALLO: Si può? from I Pagliacci - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Munich Radio Orchestra/Ulf Schirmer (Sony 828768 84822)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  TRAD: Farewell ye green fields; Greenfields - members of Boston Camerata/Joel Cohen (Erato 0630 12711)

  GRAINGER: Green Bushes, Passacaglia on an English folksong - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)

  FAURÉ: Green - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66937)

  HENRY VIII: Green grow'th the holly - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 7079)

  TRAD Scottish arr Haydn: Green grow the rashes - Janet Baker (mezzo), Yehudi Menuhin (vln), George Malcolm (hpschd) (Testament SBT 1241)

  BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 391)

  COATES: The green hills o' Somerset - Ian Wallace (bass), BBC Concert Orch/Adrian Boult (BBC Radio Classics BBCRD 9106)

  CASSADO: Dance of the Green Devil - Maria Kliegel (cello), Raymund Havenith (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223403)

  ALWYN: Green Hills - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570359)

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Behold, my love, how green the groves Op 108/9 - Elaine Woods (sop), Richard Salter (bar), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  A WOOD: Barwick Green, A Maypole Dance, from My Native Heath - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66968)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 Rieko Suzuki (vln), Yuji Takahashi (pno)

  WATSON: Inter; BROWNLEE: Water Sketch with Tui; LARDELLI: For Violin; CAREY: A Little Suite; BODY: Aeolian Harp; TAKAHASHI: Mulle Taryeong; Le double de Paganini (recorded in Soundings Theatre, Te Papa, Wellington by RNZ)

  9:30 Wordless Music

  Four programme

  (4) Jad Abumrad pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new experience (WFMT)

  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

  (20) Green Fire Islands

  Inspired by a tour to New Zealand by Dónal Lunny, one of the greatest revivalists of traditional Irish music, this unique fusion celebrates time-honoured Celtic and Maori music. Lunny has assembled the leading lights of the contemporary and traditional musical circles from both Ireland and Aotearoa (RNZ)

Next day - Wed 11

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