Wednesday 8 April 2009 Rāapa 8 Paenga-whāwhā 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  1:00 (approx) - Disc 2

  VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoema; Cirandas Nos 1-16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  NIELSEN: Hymnus Amoris; The Sleep; Springtime in Funen; Three Motets Op 55 - Inga Nielsen (sop), Poul Elming (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir; Children's Chorus of St Anne School; Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Leif Segerstam, Stefan Parkman (Chandos CHAN 8853)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaiques (Astree Auvidis E 8784)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, Impressions for Orch, No 2; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, Three Impressions for Orch, No 3; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 LOCKE: Suite No 6 in G, from Consort of Fower Parts - Phantasm (GMN GMNC 0109)

  SOR: Fantasy on a favourite Scottish Air, Variations on Ye banks & braes - Göran Söllscher (gtr) (DG 419 247)

  CIMAROSA arr Benjamin: Oboe Concerto - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

  H BLAKE: Penillion Op 571 - Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Howard Blake (pno) (Naxos 8.572083)

  GOSSEC: Symphony in D B86 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9661)

  7:00 GRIEG: Melodies Op 53 - Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due (Naxos 8.557890)

  LUFT: Fantasy on Russian Folk Themes - Ivan Paisov (ob), Natalia Shcherbakova (pno) (Naxos 8.570596)

  HAWES: Rain - English CO/Patrick Hawes (Black Box BBM 1081)

  CHOPIN: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Mieczyslaw Horszowski (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4122)

  REYNOLDS: Three Pieces for Theatre, Overture to Much Ado about Nothing; Entr'acte from The Critic; Mascarade from The Merchant of Venice - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 143)

  PIERNÉ: Impromptu-Caprice Op 9 - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 1 in D K412 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1946)

  SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 Op 17 - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - DiamantEnsemblet (Dacapo 8.226064)

  MAREK: Capriccio - Philharmonia/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6440)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  Music from MONASTERIES and ABBEYS

  KETÈLBEY: In a Monastery Garden - male voice chorus, New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  TRAD arr Pokela/Sariola/Kontio: Bells of Konevitsa Monastery; KONITA: What do the Church Bells tell - Martti Pokela, Eeva-Leena, Matti Kontio, Ritva Koistinen (kantele) (Finlandia 0630 12722)

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN interpreted by Richard Souther: Kyrie; Illumination; In the Sanctuary - Sister Germaine Fritz (sop), Davy Spillane, Richard Souther (keyboards), Nóirín Ní Riain, Katie McMahon (vocalists), Laura Bontrager (cello) (Sony SK 62853)

  GARBAREK: Strophe and Counter-Strophe - Hilliard Ensemble, Jan Garbarek (sax) (ECM 1701)

  I MOODY: The Troparion of Kassiani; A Lion's Sleep - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1869)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  P SCHARWENKA: Arcadian Suite - Gävle SO/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1071)

  ALBÉNIZ: Iberia, Book 1 - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 923)

  SPOHR: Concertante No 2 in B minor Op 88 - Ulf Hoelscher, Gunhild Hoelscher (vlns), Berlin Radio SO/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 798)

  GLAZUNOV: The Seasons Op 67 - Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart (Telarc CD 80347)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Mendelssohn Releases

  String Symphony No 1 in C - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.536)

  Three Etudes Op 104; Caprice in E Op 33/2 - Bertrand Chamayou (pno) (Naïve V 5131)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BERLIOZ: Second movement, A Ball, from Symphonie fantastique - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Pinchas Steinberg (Naxos 8.555319-20)

  EGGE: Piano Concerto No 2 Op 21, Symphonic Variations & Fugue on a Norwegian Folktune - Håvard Gimse (pno), Trondheim Soloists/Öyvind Gimse (Naxos 8.557834)

  FINZI: Earth & Air & Rain, excerpts - Brett Polegato (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (CBC MVCD 1134)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9 - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (rec 1988) (Decca 433 652)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 4 in A minor Op 23 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (rec 1974) (Decca 436 893)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  VANHAL: Sinfonia in D (Bryan D17) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

  ACHALINOTOPOULOS arr Psathas: Bacchic, from Zeibekiko, The Greek Concert - Manos Achalinotopoulos (reeds), Vangelis Karipis (perc), Netherlands Wind Ensemble (NBE Live NBECD 014)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555862)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  WAGNER: Festival March, from Tannhäuser - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony MLK 64061)

  VIVALDI: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Eduardo Fernández (gtr), English CO/George Malcolm (Decca 417 617)

  SARASATE: Malagueña Op 21/1 - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (CBC MVCD 1168)

  STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - members of Bamberg SO/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-6520)

  DELIUS arr Fenby: La Calinda, from Koanga - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

  GROVLEZ: Les Marionettes; La Sarabande; Chanson du Chasseur, from L'Almanach aux Images - Peter Katin (pno) (Simax PSC 1067)

  ELGAR: Spanish Serenade Op 23 - BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd Jones (Dutton CDLX 7148)

  SALIERI: Wind Quintet in Bb - Ensemble Italiano di Fiati (Brilliant Classics 93360)

  J STRAUSS II: Town and Country Polka Op 322 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Mulberry Cottage; Frensham Pond, from Country Impressions - Jonathan Snowden (fl), Antony Pay (cl), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67008)

  COATES: The man about town - Sydney SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 472 509)

  O'CONNOR: Old Country Fairytale - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  BERNSTEIN: On the Town, Three Dance Episodes - Israel Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 427 806)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Monet and Music

  Elric Hooper and Des Wilson look at the cultural environment surrounding Monet and the Impressionists (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Saimir Pigru (ten), Vienna Singakademie & Singverein, Vienna Radio SO/Bertrand de Billy

  BERLIOZ: Grande Messe des Morts Op 5 (recorded in the Musikverein, Vienna by Austrian Radio)

• 9:25 PM. Music for Holy Week

  GUILMANT: Méditation sur le Stabat mater - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHSA 5048)

  MARTIN: Polyptyque, Six images de la passion du Christ - Muriel Cantoreggi (vln), German Radio Phil/Christoph Poppen (ECM 2015)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Formosa Quartet (EMI 3 66557)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 935)

  11:00 BOWEN: Songs without Words Op 94 - Joop Celis (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10506)

  GRETCHANINOV: Passion Week, excerpts - Caroline Markham (mezzo), Paul Davidson (ten), Bryan Taylor (bar), Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5044)

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