Saturday 4 April 2009 Rāhoroi 4 Paenga-whāwhā 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  BLISS: A Colour Symphony; Adam Zero - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.553460)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in G Op 1/2; FAURÉ: Piano Trio in D minor Op 120; BRAHMS: Piano Trio in C minor Op 101- Gould Piano Trio (BBC Music BBC MM 48)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  HANDEL: Opera arias from Ariodante, Giustino, Giulio Cesare, Flavio, Radamisto, Agrippina, Theodora & Attone - Dorothea Röschmann, Sally Bradshaw (sops), Lorraine Hunt (mezzo), Jennifer Larmore (contralto), Michael Chance, Jeffrey Gall, Derek Lee Ragin, Ralf Popken, Drew Minter (countertenors), Various ensembles & conductors (BBC BBC HM 2)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  SCHUBERT: String Quartets, in Eb Op 125/1; in A minor Op 29/13 - Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidus Astree 8580)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  BEETHOVEN: Overture, Leonore No 3; PREVOST: Fantasmes; DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; DVORÁK: Scherzo Capriccioso; TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Raffi Armenian (Bell 1990)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 WAGNER: Rule Britannia, Overture - Hong Kong Phil/Varujan Kojian (Marco Polo 8.220114)

  CHOPIN arr Glazunov: Nocturne No 16 in Eb Op 55/2; Etude in C# minor Op 25/7; Etude in Eb minor Op 10/6 - Truls Mørk (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (Virgin 3 85784)

  COATES: Man from the Sea, from The Three Men Suite - London SO/Charles Mackerras (EMI CDB 7 62557)

  GRAINGER: The Merry King - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  M HAYDN: Symphony No 25 in G - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

  7:00 GRIEG arr Delius: Norwegian Bridal Procession - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 364)

  ELGAR: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Sarah Chang (vln), Sandra Rivers (pno) (EMI 7 54352)

  RAFF: Concert Piece in G, Ode to Spring - Jean-François Antonioli (pno), Lausanne CO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-8806)

  ROMAN: Flute Sonata No 10 in E minor - Parnassus Avenue (BIS SACD 1595)

  BIZET: L'Arlésienne - Lyon Opera Chorus, Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5130)

  8:00 BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (RCA 09026 68790)

  CORBETT: Suite in D - Mark Bennett, Michael Laird (tpts), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55258)

  MÖLLER: The Jockey Dance, from From Siberia to Moscow - Aalborg SO/Peter Ernst Lassen (Danachord DACOCD 631-639)

  GÓRECKI: Totus tuus - Robert Shaw Festival Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80531)

  J STRAUSS II: Vienna Bon-Bons - Vienna Opera Orch/Peter Falk (Bridge 100 029)

• 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

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs - David Griffiths (bar), Anthony Jennings (org), Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1299)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor K310 - Dinu Lipatti (pno) (rec 1947) (Philips 456 892)

  JOSQUIN DESPREZ: La Spagna, in five parts - members of Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9814)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Andrew Litton (Hyperion CDA 67425)

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 52, Hymn of Praise - Anne Schwanewilms, Petra-Maria Schnitzer (sops), Peter Seiffert (ten), Leipzig Opera Chorus, Leipzig Gewandhaus Chorus & Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 6939)

  (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

  (7) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Arctic Paradise

  Contemporary folk music from Finland

  A programme featuring some of the major names in Finland's contemporary folk music scene, including accordionist Maria Kalaniemi, the four-woman vocal group Suden Aika, and Martti Pokela, master of the kantele (Finnish Music Information Centre ARCTICCD 2008)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Cho-Liang Lin (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  PSATHAS: Olympiad XXVIII; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63

  (Interval)

  MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. An Afternoon Romance

  STRAUSS: Romance in F Op 13 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Pavel Gililov (pno) (DG 477 7465)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Crabb: Romance del Diablo - James Crabb (accordion), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 10163)

  HARTY: Fantasy Scenes from An Eastern Romance - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FISHER: Pounamu - Uwe Grodd (fl), Kristen Darragh (mezzo), Auckland University Singers/Karen Grylls (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  TCHEREPNIN: Songs & Dances Op 84 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9770)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 90)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Wigmore Hall Live

  Three programmes

  (3) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London on 4 October 1999

  BRAHMS: Eight Songs Op 57, From forest-wreathed heights; If only you sometimes smile; I dreamed; Ah, turn away that gaze; In my nights of yearning; Though gentle light sometimes beams; That necklace, pearl on pearl; Motionless mild air; SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und -leben Op 42; DEBUSSY: Fantoches, from Fêtes galantes; HANDEL: Angels, ever bright and fair, from Theodora (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0024)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Fanfare and Finale

  Festive Favourites for a Fond Farewell

  John Wells presents the final recital on the Auckland Town Hall's 37-year-old organ before it's replaced with a powerful new instrument

  WELLS: Fanfare, from Just Another Millennium; BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565; FRANCK: Chorale No 3 in A minor; SOUSA: Liberty Bell; WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 8:40 PM. Recent Beethoven Releases

  Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 - Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Avie AV 2169)

  arr Rechtman: String Quintet in Eb Op 4 - Chantily Quintet (Profil PH 09002)

  Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen, from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte WoO46 - António Meneses (cello), Menahem Pressler (pno) (Avie AV 2103)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WEBER: Symphony No 1 in C Op 19 - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 5 55348)

  GRAGNANI: Duet in D for two guitars - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1415)

  TURINA: Danzas fantásticas Op 22 - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80574)

  11:00 WEINER: String Quartet No 3 in G Op 26 - Párkányi Quartet (Praga PRD 250 228)

  DOHNÁNYI: Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor Op 1 - Nicholas Angelich (pno), Dora Schwarzberg, Lucia Hall (vlns), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (vla), Jorge Bosso (cello) (EMI 5 18333)

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