Tuesday 21 April 2009 Rātū 21 Paenga-whāwhā 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  REGER: Mozart Variations Op 132; Hiller Variations Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LECUONA: Rapsodia Negra for piano & orchestra; Suite Española; Ante El Escorial; Zambra Gitana; Aragonesa; Granada; Zambra; San Fransisco El Grande; Aragón; Preludio en la Noche; La Habanera; Mazurka en Glissande; Canto del Guajiro; Three Miniatures; Canto Sibony; Noche Azul - Thomas Tirino (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Michael Bartos (BIS CD 754)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Music, love & wine; Bonny laddie, Highland laddie; I'll praise the saint with early song; Sally in our Alley; Sunset; Faithfu' Johnnie; Behold, my love; His boat comes on the sunny tide; Enchantress, Farewell; The Pulse of an Irishman; To the aeolian harp; O Charlie is my darling; Duncan Gray; To the blackbird; 'Tis sunshine at last; Cease your funning; Oh sweet were the hours; Save me from the grave & wise; Farewell bliss & farewell Nancy; Love without hope; Farewell thou noisy town; He promis'd me at parting; The monks of Bangor's March; Robin Adair; O swiftly glides the bonny boat; Sad & Luckless was the Season; Come draw we round a cheerful ring; The sweetest lad was Jamie; Come fill, fill, my good fellow - Elaine Woods (sop), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Josef Protschka (ten), Richard Salter (bar), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet Op 81; String Quartet No 12 Op 96, American - Hiroko Nakamura (pno), Tokyo String Quartet (CBS MK 44920)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Suite No 4, Spartacus; Suite from the Drama, Masquerade; Music from the Ballet, Circus; Dance Suite - St Petersburg State Symphony Orch/André Anichanov, Moscow Symphony Orch/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 DELIUS: Sleigh Ride - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)

  SINDING: Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Pittsburg SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47167)

  ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  MATTEIS: Sett of Ayres - Ensemble Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 126)

  DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 064)

  7:00 NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

  WILLIAMS: Schindler's List theme - Tasmin Little (vln), New World Phil/Iain Sutherland (EMI 5 65808)

  LECUONA arr Grandjany: Malagueña, from Andalucia, Suite Española - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  CHOPIN: Mazurka in B minor Op 33/4 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (DG 477 7558)

  LANE: Diversions on a Theme of Paganini - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225185)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH arr Cohen: Chorale Prelude, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV731 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (London 440 082)

  ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Royal Phil/Evelino Pidò (Tring International TRP 066)

  NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Alison Balsom (tpt), German Chamber Phil, Bremen (EMI 2 16213)

  PIERNÉ: March of the Little Lead Soldiers - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66998)

  BOSSI: Scherzo in G minor Op 49/2 - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

  WALDTEUFEL: La Barcarolle, Waltz - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223684)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)

  Overture; Combatti da forte; Sinfonia; Lascia ch'io pianga; Bel piacere, from Rinaldo - Emma Matthews (sop), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Artworks AW 029)

  Instrumental Suite, from Radamisto; Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Academy of Early Music, Berlin (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1685)

  Chandos Anthem No 6, As pants the hart - Eleanor Meynell, Elizabeth Poole (sops), Daniel Auchincloss (ten), BBC Singers, Orch of The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (BBC Music BBC MM 301)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture & Venusberg Music - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

  SCHUBERT orch Davidson: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor - Patricia Pollett (vla), Queensland Phil/Werner Andreas Albert (Tall Poppies TP 084)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - Itzhak Perlman (narrator), Katia & Marielle Labèque (pno duo), Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (EMI CDC 7 47067)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Pittsburgh SO/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 308)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Baroque Music on Dutch Organs

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in A Op 7/2 - Daniel Chorzempa (organ of the Oud Katholicke Kerk, Haarlem, The Netherlands), Concerto Amsterdam/Jaap Schröder (PentaTone PTC 5186 104)

  BACH: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor BWV582 - Bernard Foccroulle (organ of St Martin's Church, Groningen, The Netherlands) (Ricercar RIC 276)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 22 in Eb K482 - Daniel Barenboim (pno/dir), English CO (EMI CZS 7 62825)

  BALFE: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, from The Bohemian Girl - Joan Sutherland (sop), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 850)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 8 in Eb WoO38 - Eisenstadt Haydn Trio (Phoenix Edition 122)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 100 - Paris Conservatoire Orch/Jean Martinon (rec 1957) (Testament SBT 1296)

  Four Pieces Op 4 - Boris Berman (pno) (rec 1991) (Chandos CHAN 9017)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Gaudeamus Overture - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Corellia CRA 1005)

  ARNOLD: Flute Concerto No 1 Op 45 - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7063)

  KREISLER: La Gitana - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu MANU CD 5006)

  FARR: Concerto for percussion & orchestra - Strike, Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (Vector Wgtn Orch VWO 001)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI ed Spada: Aida, Sinfonia - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Justine Cormack (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Couch: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  GLINKA trans Balakirev: The Lark - Michael Lewin (pno) (Centaur CRC 2134)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Virgin VC 7 91487)

  LEONCAVALLO: Si può? from I Pagliacci - Robert Merrill (bar), London New SO/Edward Downes (Decca 475 396)

  GRANADOS: Coloquio en la Reja, from Goyescas - Ana-Maria Vera (pno) (Signum SIGCD 146)

  GLASS: The Light Came Through the Window - Dominique Plaisant (sop), Philip Glass Ensemble (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0043)

  MARTINU: Window on the Garden - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.557914)

  DOWLAND: Go from my Window, from The Euing Lute Book - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (Brilliant Classics 93698)

  Go from my Window - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Andreas Martin (lute) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1603)

  CATALANI: Beneath your windows, from Impressions - Pietro Spada (pno) (ASV CD DCA 921)

  RACHMANINOV: Before my window - Inessa Galante (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (CampionCD 1348)

  RESPIGHI: St Michael the Archangel, from Church Windows - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8317)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:00 International Rostrum of Composers 2008, with the ABC's Julian Day

  Four programmes from UNESCO's long-standing international forum for contemporary music, held last year in Dublin

  (3) BARBELER: Exquisite Blood, excerpt - Seraphim Trio (ABC Classic FM)

  ROHLOFF: Vibrancy - Njuton (Icelandic National Broadcasting Service)

  BJARNASON: "all sounds to silence come" - Isafold Chamber Orch (Icelandic National Broadcasting Service)

  NESS: Low Jive - Oslo Phil Orch/Peter Szilvay (NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)

  MOE: Lenger - Ole-Henrik Moe (vln), Arditti Quartet (NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)

  BARBELER: Exquisite Blood, excerpt - Seraphim Trio (ABC Classic FM)

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

  (6) Interpretations of Mingus's music by other musicians (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 22

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