Thursday 21 May 2009 Rāpare 21 Haratua 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Suite from the Gadfly Op 97; Suite from Five Days Five Nights Op 111 - Ukraine National SO/Theodore Kuchar (Naxos 8.553299)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  SATIE: Gnossiennes, Nos 1-3; Embryons desséchés; Avant-dernières pensées; Pièces froides; Pièces froides; Sonatine bureaucratique; Gymnopédies, Nos 1-3; Véritanles préludes flasques; Gnossiennes, Nos 4 - 6; Les trios calses distinguées du précieux dégoùte; Sarabande No 3 - Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 317)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  FAYRFAX: Kyrie, Obis factor; Missa O Quam Glorifica; Hymnus, O Quam Glorifica; Ave Dei patris filia; Sumwhat musyng; That was my Joy; To complayne me, alas - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (ASV CD GAU 142)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  WF BACH: Sonatas, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in G; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in F; No 5 in Eb; No 6 in F minor - Penelope Evison & Pierre Séchet (transverse flutes) (Stil 1908 SAN 80)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  AUBERT: Offrande; Six Symphonic Tableaux, Cinema; Symphonic Tableaux, Dryade; Five Children's Pieces, Feuille d'Images; Tombeau de Chateaubriand - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam (Marco Polo 8.223531)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ROSETTI: Symphony in C A9/KI21 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9567)

  SZYMANOWSKI: Variations in Bb minor Op 3 - Rafal Blechacz (pno) (Accord ACD 136)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends - Laurence Thorstenberg (cor anglais), Boston SO/Colin Davis (Philips 446 160)

  CHOPIN: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Heinz Holliger (oboe), Ursula Holliger (harp) (Philips 426 288)

  ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

  7:00 STRACHEY: In Party Mood - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67148)

  WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)

  M ALBÉNIZ: Keyboard Sonata in D - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 417 639)

  SARASATE: Hommage to Rossini on themes from Barber of Seville, Moses in Egypt & Otello - Tianwa Yang (vln), Markus Hadulla (pno) (Naxos 8.570192)

  BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 3 - North German Radio SO/Günter Wand (RCA RD 60755)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MASCAGNI: Ave Maria - Kathleen Battle (sop), Krista Feeney (vln), Nancy Allen (harp), Anthony Newman (organ) (Sony SK 62035)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 552)

  GRAINGER: Country Gardens - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1767)

  PURCELL: Symphony to Act 4, from The Fairy Queen - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection, English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 18 in G K301 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Natalie Zhu (pno) (DG 477 5572)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Chandos CHAN 8460)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI (1583-1643)

  Recercare; Toccata per organo con pedali; Canzona dopo la toccata; Capriccio fatto sopra il cucchù - Jean-Marc Aymes (hpschd) (L'Empreinte Digitale ED 13087)

  Canzona No 28, detta la Lanberta; Canzona No 27, detta la Lanciona - Icarus Ensemble (Claves CD 50-9817)

  Canzona No 10, detta la Capriola - Bruce Dickey (cornett), Tragicomedia (Accent ACC 9173 D)

  Recercar Primo; Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga - Gustav Leonhardt (hpschd) (Alpha 026)

  arr Verdehr: Trio Canzon seconda; Canzon quinta - Verdehr Trio (Crystal CD 741)

  Cento Partite sopra Passacagli - Sophie Yates (hpschd) (Chandos CHAN 0601)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Bernard Gavoty (organ of the church of Saint-Louis des Invalides, Paris), French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon (EMI 5 85186)

  STRAVINSKY: Suite italienne - Michal Kanka (cello), Jaromír Klepác (pno) (Praga PRD 350 015)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17 - Valerie Tryon (pno) (Appian APR 5599)

  KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh, Suite - Royal Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (EMI CDC 7 47348)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Looking at Lincoln

  MCKAY: To a Liberator, A Lincoln Tribute - Nashville Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559373-74)

  COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait - Henry Fonda (narrator), London SO/Aaron Copland (CBS MK 42431)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  PSATHAS: Three Psalms - Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

  SCHEIDT arr Thomas: Fantasia super Io, San Ferito - Christchurch Youth Recorder Ensemble/Neville Forsythe (CYRE)

  SCHUBERT: Fantasy in F minor D940 - Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu (pno duet) (CBS MK 39511)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  ELGAR: Four Partsongs Op 53, There is sweet music; Deep in my soul; O wild west wind; Owls, an Epitaph - Worcester Cathedral Choir/Donald Hunt (rec 1987) (Hyperion CDA 66271/2)

  The Music Makers Op 69 - Jean Rigby (mezzo), BBC Symphony Choir & Orch/Andrew Davis (rec 1993) (Teldec 4509 92374)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  NOCK: Sho's Cradle Song; Raff-Riff - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

  NEWMAN: Wuthering Heights - 1996 New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

  KREISLER: Marche miniature viennoise - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 8 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 447 757)

  HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Jürgen Schuster (tpt), Cologne CO/Helmet Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.570482)

  TARTINI arr Kreisler: Variations on a theme by Corelli - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDB 7 62988)

  WAGNER arr Liszt: Pilgrims' Chorus, from Tannhäuser - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67101/2)

  WALTON: Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, written for the film The First of the Few - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDM 7 63369)

  HANDEL: The trumpet shall sound, from Messiah - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 453 480)

  J STRAUSS II arr Cohen: Sounds from Boston, Waltz - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

  MERTZ: Tarantella, from Bardic Sounds Book 6 - Richard Savino (gtr) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7115)

  ELMSLY: Century fanfare, Resound! - Auckland Philharmonia/Vladimir Verbitsky (Atoll ACD 100)

  MEWS: A sound came from heaven - 1993 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu MANU 1471)

  GUBAIDULINA: Sounds of the Forest - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)

  ARNOLD: The Sound Barrier, Rhapsody for Orchestra from the film music Op 38 - Royal Phil/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV CD WHL 2058)

  PURCELL: Sound the Trumpet, from Come ye sons of art away, Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694 - Daniel Taylor, James Bowman (countertenors), Theatre of Early Music (Analekta AN 2 9948)

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs Pt 1 - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Centenary of the Ballets Russes

  Jon Tolansky presents a two-part tribute to Diaghilev's famous ballet company to mark the anniversary of their triumph in Paris on 19 May 1909 (2) (VIP)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The Splendour of Beethoven

  Three programmes

  (1) Bernd Glemser (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Wolfram Christ

  BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84; Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37

  (Interval interview: Conductor Wolfram Christ talks with Radio New Zealand Concert's Matthew Crawford)

  Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DITTERSDORF: String Quartet No 5 in Eb - Franz Schubert Quartet (CPO 999 038)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Hundredth Psalm - Corydon Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66569)

  RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Royal Phil/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47468)

  11:00 HUBAY: Violin Sonata in D Op 22, Romantic - Peter Csaba (vln), Peter Frankl (pno) (Praga PRD 250 223)

  SPOHR: Nonet in F for wind & strings - Consortium Classicum (Orfeo C 155 871 A)

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