Wednesday 22 April 2009 Rāapa 22 Paenga-whāwhā 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 3, Sinfonia Espansiva; Symphony No 5 - Catherine Bott (sop), Stephen Roberts (bar), Royal Scottish Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9067)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9; Symphonic Etudes Op 13; Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Alfred Cortot (pno), Jacques Thibaud (vln), Pablo Casals (cello) (Biddulph LHW 004)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  FAURÉ: Requiem; DURUFLÉ: Four Motets, Ubi caritas; Tota pulchra es; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo; Messe Cum jubilo - Camilla Otaki (sop), Mark Griffiths (bar), Briony Shaw (vln), Richard Pearce (org), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, London Musici/Richard Marlow (Conifer CDCF 176)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  REINCKEN: Sonata in A minor; BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in Bb; ROSENMÜLLER: Sonata in E minor; WESTHOFF: Sonata in A; PACHELBEL: Suite in G; Canon & Gigue in D - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 437 089)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 7 in D minor; Symphony No 8 in D; Symphony No 9 in C minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: L'isola disabitata, Overture - Netherlands CO/Gordan Nikolic (dir) (PentaTone PTC 5186 300)

  BEETHOVEN arr Matiegka: Serenade in D Op 8, excerpt - Viva CO (Viva CO)

  MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - Prague Chamber Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3030-2 231)

  DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Trust TRI 3003)

  MARAIS: Alcione, Suite No 1 - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Astree Auvidis E 8525)

  7:00 SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

  ROSSINI: Saltarello à l'italienne; Prélude Moresque, from Sins of Old Age, Book 5, Album pour les enfants adolescents - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10387)

  MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in D minor Op 114 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Wolfgang Meyer (basset horn), ASMF/Kenneth Sillito (EMI 5 57359)

  TRAD arr Wilby: The Farmer's Boy, from Three North Country Folksongs - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1993-1994/Roger Stevenson (NZSSC)

  KRAUS: Symphony in F VB130 - Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist (Naxos 8.554472)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LEHÁR: Vilja's Song, from The Merry Widow - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

  LISZT: Csárdás macabre S224; En rêve S207 - John Ogdon (pno) (EMI 3 92747)

  C PARKER reconstr, arr & orch Lane: The Blue Lagoon - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10279)

  GIULIANI: Variations on Folia di Spagna Op 45 - Dale Kavanagh (gtr) (Hänssler CD 98.400)

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Avie AV 2119)

  FOULDS: April, England Op 48/1 - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 212)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)

  Acis & Galatea, Oratorio in two parts

  Galatea......................... Kym Amps

  Acis.............................. Robin Doveton

  Damon.......................... Angus Davidson

  Polyphemus................... David van Asch

  Scholars of London Chorus & Orch/David van Asch (dir) (Dorian DOR 93227)

• 10:20 AM. The Works

  KHACHATURIAN: Dance Suite - Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

  RIES: Piano Concerto in C# minor Op 55 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557844)

  SPOHR: Symphony No 1 in Eb Op 20 - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67616)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. At Sea

  DE ROSAS: Mediterraneo - Marino de Rosas (gtr) (Inner Arts)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in Eb RV253, Storm at sea - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45547)

  BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes - BBC SO/Rudolf Kempe (BBC Legends BBCL 4188)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

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

  MOERAN: Rhapsody No 3 in F# - Margaret Fingerhut (pno), Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7106)

  MOZART: Laudate Dominum, from Solemn Vespers K339 - Carolyn Sampson (sop), Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 67560)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Bb minor Op 9/1 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 466 357)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Quartetto Italiano (rec 1965) (Philips 420 894)

  KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Jascha Heifetz (vln), Los Angeles Phil/Alfred Wallenstein (rec 1953) (RCA GD 87963)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op 18 - Gillian Weir (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

  MENDELSSOHN: Six Anthems Op 79 - Dorian Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 109)

  PSATHAS: Piano Quintet - Stephen Gosling (pno), New Zealand String Quartet (Trust MMT 2047)

  VERDI: Più tranquilla l'alma sento, from The Force of Destiny - Patricia Hughes (sop), David Griffiths (bar), Noel Mangin (bass), Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 234)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  CLARKE arr Trevor: Trumpet Voluntary - Michael Stewart (organ of Christchurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (Michael Stewart)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Xavier Philips (cello), Bavarian CO/Emmanuel Plasson (EMI 5 73503)

  WAGNER: Siegfried's Funeral Music, from Götterdämmerung - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

  TRAD arr Young: The Last Rose of Summer - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  MUSSORGSKY: Kromï Forest Scene, from Boris Godunov - Bolshoi Chorus, Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Erato 4509 91723)

  KROMMER: Oboe Quartet No 1 in C - Sarah Francis (ob), Tagore String Trio (RegisC 1201)

  HEDGES: Fiddler's Green - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2134)

  GERSHWIN arr Cable: The Brothers Gershwin - Simon Preston (organ of Royal Albert Hall, London) (Signum SIDCD 084)

  H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts - David Bremner (euphonium), Ashley Brown (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  LAMBERT: Merchant Seamen - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (ASV CD WHL 2122)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Two Songs of the Venetian Merchant, from Sadko - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Kirov Orch, St Petersburg/Valéry Gergiev (Philips 454 395)

  ROSSE: The Doge's March, from The Merchant of Venice - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  SULLIVAN: Masquerade Finale from The Merchant of Venice - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223461)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Leonard Bernstein: The Gift of Music

  A two-part feature narrated by Lauren Bacall tells the story of Leonard Bernstein - the conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and humanitarian (2) (DG 073 4325)

  BERNSTEIN: Divertimento - Israel Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 415 966)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  HONEGGER: Oratorio, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

  Jeanne d'Arc............................... Romane Bohringer

  Brother Dominique...................... Tchéky Karyo

  Herald/L'âne/Duc de Bedford...... Manuel Durand

  The Virgin................................... Susan Gritton

  St Margaret................................. Isabelle Cals

  St Catherine................................ Maria Radner

  Porcus/Herald/Clerk/Mother

  of Wine Casks............................. Donald Litaker

  Voice/Herald............................... Jean-Vincent Blot

  Child's Voice.............................. Carlo Maria Zanetti

  St Cecilia Chorus & Orch/Antonio Pappano (recorded in Parco della Musica, Rome by Italian Radio)

• 9:20 PM. Recent Release

  BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Vadim Repin (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (DG 477 7470)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Cello Suite No 5 in C minor BWV1011 - Tatjana Vassiljeva (cello) (Mirare MIR 086)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 3 in C Op 52 - Boston SO/Colin Davis (Philips 446 160)

  11:00 STRAUSS: Sonatina No 1 in F for winds, From an Invalid's Workshop - London Winds/Michael Collins (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66731)

  SCHUBERT trans for cello: Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774; Täuschung D911; Der Müller und der Bach D795/19 - Anne Gastinel (cello), Claire Désert (pno) (Naïve V 5021)

  SATIE: Gnossiennes Nos 1-3 - John Hackett (fl), Steve Hackett (gtr) (Camino CAMCD 20)

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