Tuesday 31 March 2009 Rātū 31 Poutū-te-rangi 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op 12; MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64, Allegro molto vivace; SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo capriccioso Op 28; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77, Allegro giocoso; RAVEL: Tzigane; MASSENET: Thaïs, Méditation; DVORÁK: Romance Op 11; BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy Op 46, Allegro guerriero; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen Op 20; LALO: Symphonie espangnole Op 21, Rondo - Various artists (RCA 0902 6063752)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  D'INDY: String Quartet No 2 in E Op 45; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 35 - Kodály Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223140)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  SCHUBERT: Five Goethe songs; BRAHMS: Five Lieder; BARBER: Three Songs Op 45; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Ernst Buscagne (bar), Tom McGrath (pno) (Genuin GMP 020202)

  3:45 (approx) - Disc 4

  TARTINI: Concerto in G for flute, strings & continuo; POKORNY: Flute Concerto in D Op 27; MERCANDANTE: Flute Concerto in E minor; VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in C minor RV441 - Severino Gazzelloni (fl), I Musici (Philips 420 875)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  PIAZZOLLA: Concerto for bandoneón; Trés movimientos tanguísticos porteños; Tangos - Pablo Mainetti (bandoneón), Luis Vidal (pno), Teatre Lliure CO/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1595)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HOWELLS: Elegy for viola, string quartet & string orch - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)

  G RITTER: Bassoon Quartet in C Op 1/1 - Paolo Carlini (bsn), I Virtuosi Italiani (Naxos 8.570500)

  SMYTH: Two interlinked French melodies, from Entente Cordiale - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2147)

  FALLA: Canción; Cortejo de los gnomos; Vals-Capricho - Daniel Ligorio (pno) (Naxos 8.555066)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/6 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

  7:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Odelette in D Op 162 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1359)

  STRAVINSKY: Tango, Waltz & Ragtime, from The Soldier's Tale - Gidon Kremer (vln), Eduard Brunner (cl), Aloys Kontarsky (pno) (ECM 1304/5)

  REYNOLDS: The Toy Cart, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

  ALAIN: Litanies - Peter Averi (organ at Temple Square, Salt Lake City) (Kiwi CD SLC 251)

  TOMLINSON: English Folk-Dances Suite No 1 - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223513)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: ELGAR arr Cameron: Lux aeterna - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 0039)

  DRIGO arr Lanchbery: Pas de deux, from Le Corsaire - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

  LALO orch Pierné: Guitarre Op 28 - Philippe Graffin (vln), Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67294)

  LILBURN: Three Sea Changes - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)

  STANFORD: Irish Rhapsody No 3 Op 137 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7002/3)

  WEBER: Oberon, Overture - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Nimbus NI 7062/3)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963)

  Aubade - Jean-Bernard Pommier (pno), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Virgin 5 22045)

  Les chemins de l'amour - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Forlane UCD 16760)

  Le Bestiaire - Didier Henry (bar), Ensemble Carl Stamitz (REM Editions 311 105)

  Concerto in D minor for two pianos - Francis Poulenc, Jacques Février (pnos), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Pierre Dervaux (rec 1957) (EMI 5 62647)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: Mass No 11 in D minor, Nelson Mass - Letizia Scherrer (sop), Roxana Constantinescu (contralto), Maximilian Schmidt (ten), Michael Nagy (bass), Stuttgart Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart Bach-Collegium/Helmut Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.279)

  JOSÉ: Guitar Sonata - Nirse González (gtr) (Naxos 8.570446)

  BRAHMS: Double Concerto in A minor Op 102 - Christian Ferras (vln), Paul Tortelier (cello), Philharmonia/Paul Kletzki (Testament SBT 1337)

  TUBIN: Sinfonietta on Estonian motifs - Estonian National SO/Arvo Volmer (Alba ABCD 195:1-2)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Piano Duo

  REGER arr Breuer: Introduction & Passacaglia in F minor Op 63 - Friedrich Thomas, Hansjacob Staemmler (pno duo) (Phoenix Edition 134)

  ARNOLD: Concerto for two pianos (three hands) Op 104 - Phillip Dyson, Kevin Sargent (pnos), Ulster Orch/Esa Heikkilä (Naxos 8.570531)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HUMMEL reconst Oubradous: Viola Fantasy Op 94 - Gérard Caussé (vla/dir), Les Solistes de Montpellier-Moscow (EMI CDC 7 54817)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: The Snow Maiden Op 12, excerpts - Irina Mishura-Lekhtman (mezzo), Vladimir Grishko (ten), Michigan University Musical Society Choral Union & Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9324)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Pierre Monteux (rec 1953) (RNM MCCL 97018)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 - Leningrad Phil/Evgeny Mravinsky (rec 1955) (Praga PR 250 021)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  PSATHAS: Seikilos - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

  BESSER: 13 bar Tango - Bravura, Don McGlashan (perc) (Atoll ACD 302)

  HOGAN: Chasing the White Whale - Toru Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  SCHUBERT: Ave Maria D839 - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  A RITCHIE: Spring; What I would take out of the world; Two-word poem, from Then I Understood - 2001-2002 NZ Secondary Students' Choir/Elise Bradley, Sheryl Clarke (pno) (NZSSC)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Partita for double string orchestra - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  KODÁLY: Dances of Marosszék - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)

  GRIEG arr Bertrand/Amoyel: March of the Trolls Op 54/3; At your feet Op 68/3, from Lyric Pieces - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1986)

  VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Carlo Franci (Decca 417 721)

  FINZI arr Ashmore: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Robert Plane (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)

  TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Teldec 3984 25736)

  ECCLES: Symphony for Mercury, from The Judgement of Paris - Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman & Peter Holman (dirs) (Hyperion CDA 66108)

  WILDER arr Rosenthal: Suite No 1 for tuba & orchestra, Effie the Elephant - Peter Whish-Wilson (tuba), Adelaide SO/David Stanhope (ABC 476 5251)

  G GABRIELI: Canzon duodecimi tone - Philadelphia Orch Brass; Chicago Symphony Brass (Sony MLK 66708)

  DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo & Juliet - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

  PARADIES: Toccata - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

  MEYERBEER: O paradis, from L'Africaine - Ben Heppner (ten), London Voices, London SO/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 471 372)

  PARADIS arr Smedvig: Sicilienne in Eb - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Michael Murray (org) (Telarc CD 80550)

  BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 050 502)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 Stroma

  Putahitanga/Convergence

  WHITEHEAD: Hine Te Kakara; BISLEY: In Memoriam; BROWNLEE: Te Hau o Tawhirimatea; CRESSWELL: Con Fuoco (recorded in St Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

  10:00 Six programmes in which Nigel Horrocks looks at the life and music of jazz composer CHARLES MINGUS (1922-1979)

  (3) In the late 1950s - Mingus's more experimental period (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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