Thursday 2 April 2009 Rāpare 2 Paenga-whāwhā 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  KORNGOLD: Between Two Worlds: Judgement Day; Symphonic Serenade Op 39; Theme & Variations Op 42 - Alexander Fry (pno), German SO, Berlin/John Mauceri (Decca 444 170)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24; Four Ballades Op 10; Variations on a theme by Schumann Op 9 - Jorge Federico Osorio (pno) (ASV CD DCA 616)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BRIDGE: Adoration; Go not, happy day; Love went a-riding; LILBURN: Elegy; IRELAND: Great things; Sea fever; When lights go rolling round the sky; CW ORR: Song cycle from A Shropshire Lad; FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Paul Whelan (bar), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2023)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  SPOHR: String Quartet No 3, Quatuor brillant in D minor Op 11; String Quartet No 4 in Eb Op 15/1; String Quartet No 6 in G minor Op 27 - New Budapest Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223254)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  PURCELL: Instrumental music, from Doclesian; King Arthur; The Fairy Queen; The Indian Queen - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (Sony SK 66169)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CPE BACH: Symphony in G Wq183/4 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Erato 2292 45361)

  FRANÇAIX: Le Gay Paris - Prague Wind Quintet (Praga PRD 250 126)

  D SCARLATTI arr Allen: Keyboard Sonata in Bb Kk545 - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CM 7 69070)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Bolero - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (Naxos 8.570399)

  FIBICH: Spring Op 13 - Prague Radio SO/Frantisek Vajnar (Supraphon C37 7909)

  7:00 MILFORD: Elegiac Meditation Op 83 - Clare Finnimore (vla), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67444)

  ROSSINI: Marche et Réminiscences pour mon dernier voyage, from Book 9, Péchés de Vieillesse - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)

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

  TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D96 - Giuliano Carmignola (vln), Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (Archiv 474 5172)

  BRANCO: Scherzo fantastique - RTE National SO/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.570765)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Plácido Domingo (ten), Rome Theatre Opera Orch, Florence May Festival Orch/Zubin Mehta (Decca 440 072)

  DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - Maximiliano Martín (cl), Inocencio Negrín (pno) (Linn CKD 280)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Three Spring Miniatures - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9595)

  MENDELSSOHN: Serenade & Allegro Giocoso in B minor Op 43 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Hyperion CDA 66969)

  HAMILTON: Pioneer Spirit - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

  WOOD: Roses of Picardy - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223605)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963)

  Three Novelettes - Charles Owen (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 035)

  La Voix humaine - Carole Farley (sop), Adelaide SO/José Serebrier (Chandos CHAN 8331)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 50/1 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV GLD 4007)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - John O'Conor (pno), London SO/Andreas Delfs (Telarc 2CD 80704)

  SIBELIUS: Our Native Land - Jubilate Choir, Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1265)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - Baltimore SO/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.570714)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Carnival Scenes

  SMETANA: Prague Carnival - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Clasics 93634)

  GRIEG: Carnival scene Op 19/3 - Elena Filonova (pno) (Calliope CAL 9405)

  LISZT orch Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ELGAR: Froissart Overture Op 19 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Guitar Concerto - Sharon Isbin (gtr), New York Phil/José Serebrier (Warner Classics 2564 60296)

  BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 118 - Markus Groh (pno) (Avie AV 2136)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MOZART: Requiem in D minor K626 - Elly Ameling (sop), Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Ugo Benelli (ten), Tugomir Franc (bass), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/István Kertész (rec 1966) (Decca 417 681)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  COLLET: Concerto Flamenco for piano & orchestra - Ricardo Requejo (pno), Royal SO, Seville/Gary Brain (Claves CD 50-9801)

  BARBER: Canzone for flute & piano - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

  REIS: Three Brazilian Pieces - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Waiata 9501)

  BESSER: Finale - stepping over - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

  PROKOFIEV: Andante in G minor - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tatyana Lazareva (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10045)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MEYERBEER: Coronation March, from The Prophet - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  PAGANINI: Le Streghe Op 8 - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

  ABEL: Symphony in E Op 10/1 - La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider (CPO 999 207)

  TRAD arr Marshall: Sau la'u teine Samoa; Pusi nofo - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Db Op 37 - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

  NOVÁK: Devil's Polka Op 55/21 - Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (Supraphon 10 1429)

  GOUVY: Petite Suite Gauloise Op 90 - Les Solistes de Prades (K617 K617 160)

  PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turandot; - José Cura (ten), Philharmonia/Plácido Domingo (Erato 0630 18838)

  FOSS Three American pieces - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (EMI CDC 5 55360)

  VINE: Red Blues - Michael Kieran Harvey (pno) (Tall Poppies TP 190)

  BAX orch Parlett: Red Autumn - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 10446)

  WALLEN: First movement, Homage to Rodrigo, from Red - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (BGS CD 107)

  WEIDE: My love is like a red, red rose - Håkan Hardenberger (cornet), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (Philips 422 344)

  COPLAND: Morning on the Ranch, from The Red Pony - St Louis SO/André Previn (Sony MLK 64059)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Dame Janet Baker

  Four programmes

  (1) Season tickets

  Alan Platt traces the arc of Dame Janet Baker's career, with his heart on his sleeve as a devoted Baker-holic. We'll hear some of the British mezzo's classic recordings, and some less well known ones too, framed with insights gleaned from many an evening seated in the stalls (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Cedric Tiberghien (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Stefan Lano

  MARGETIC: Ouroboros (première performance & broadcast); RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G

  (Interval)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1970.71)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Tasmin Little (vln), BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73127)

  11:00 WIDOR: Piano Quintet in D minor - Ilona Prunyi (pno), New Budapest Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223193)

  VANHAL: Flute Quartet in G Op 7/3 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Janaki String Trio (Naxos 8.570234)

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