Saturday 30 May 2009 Rāhoroi 30 Haratua 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  DYSON: Concerto Leggiero for piano and orchestra; Concerto da Camera; Concerto da Chiesa - Eric Parkin (pno), Andrew Watkinson, Edward Roberts (vlns), Stephen Tees (vla), Stephen Orton (cello), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9076)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  The Only True Opera Gala

  Arrangements for cello ensemble of opera works by, Rossini, Mozart, Françaix, Weber, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, R Strauss, Gershwin, J Strauss II - Philharmonic Cellists (Koch 3 6546)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  PHILIPS: Sacred music for 5 voices - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.555056)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  REGER: Suites, No 1 in G; No 2 in D minor; No 3 in A minor; Sonata in Bb for voila & piano Op 107 - Keith Harvey (cello), Ivo van der Werff (vla), Simon Marlow (pno) (ASV CD DCA 976)

  4. 05 (approx) - Disc 5

  MAYERL: Filigree; Three Miniatures in Syncopation; Siberian Lament; In My Garden; Summertime; Three Japanese Pictures, Two Pieces; Beguine Impromptu; The Big Top; The Legends of King Arthur; Two Pieces; Honky-Tonk; In my Garden; Autumntime; Romanesque; Insect Oddities; Leprechaun's Leap - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9141)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HEED: In Storm and Sunshine - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 432 019)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Sarah Francis (ob/dir), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1118)

  RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 33, No 1 in F minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in Eb minor; No 6 in C# minor - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 62837)

  REBEL: Violin Sonata No 5 in D - Amandine Beyer (vln), Assemblée des Honnestes Curieux (Zig Zag ZZT 051 102)

  PARRY: Lady Radnor's Suite - London SO/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 220)

  7:00 BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Cologne Radio SO/Gary Bertini (Capriccio 71 094)

  SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)

  RAMEAU: The Hen - Varda Nishry (pno) (Decca 425 505)

  VIOTTI: Serenade for flute & piano Op 23/6 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)

  BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (EMI CD CFP 4086)

  8:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 1 in C - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.536)

  BACH arr Giegling: Concerto in D minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Heinz Holliger (ob), Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Edo de Waart (Philips 420 700)

  LEHRER arr Marshall: I hold your hand in mine; GLOVER-KIND arr Carter: I do like to be beside the seaside; BARBER: To be sung on the water - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

  OFFENBACH arr Haensch: La Belle Hélène, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 425 083)

• 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

  ISAAC: Fortuna desperata: Nasci, pati, mori; ANON: Dit le Bourguygnon; MORALES: Circumdederunt me gemitus mortis - La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9814)

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

  GURDJIEFF trans Hartmann arr Lechner/Tsabropoulos: Woman's prayer; Chant from a Holy Book, Var 1 - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888)

  BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 4 in C Op 102/1 - Paul Tortelier (cello), Eric Heidsieck (pno) (EMI 5 73807)

  BROSCHI: Qual guerriero in campo armato, from Idaspe - Vivica Genaux (mezzo), Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/René Jacobs (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1778)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 5 in D - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (BBC Music BBC MM 294)

  ENGLISH: Death of a Wombat, a story written by Ivan Smith - Alastair Duncan (narrator), Sydney SO/Nicolai Malko (rec 1958) (RCA L 16233)

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• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

  Host Wycliffe Gordon offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (5) Monty Alexander, Lords of the West Indies

  The Jamaican-born pianist Monty Alexander pays tribute to his West Indian heritage with an evening of calypsos, mentos and sun-kissed improvisations in the Allen Room. Get caught up in the lilting rhythms of Lord Invader, Sir Lancelot and other West Indian royalty (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Acoustic World - China

  A selection of Chinese classical music featuring four leading exponents of different traditions: Wu Man (pipa), Lin Youren (qin zither), Li Jinwen ('sheng-guan' music for wind and percussion) and Xuan Ke (Dongjing religious music) (Coro COR16061)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Amalia Hall (vln), Callum Hall (cello), John-Paul Muir (pno)

  RAVEL: Sonata for violin & cello; BABADJANIAN: Violin Sonata in Bb minor; WIENIAWSKI: Variations on an Original Theme Op 15 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:10 PM. Germanic Romanticism

  WEBER: Jubilee Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Gustav Kuhn (Capriccio 71 045)

  MOSCHELES: Piano Concerto No 6 in Bb Op 90, Fantastique - Liu Xiao Ming (pno), Brandenburg State Orch/Nikos Athinäos (Christophorus CHE 0135)

  SCHUMANN arr Isserlis: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth - Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67661)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Signum SIGCD 133)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FRANCK: Pastorale Op 19 - Gillian Weir (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

  CARR: Sinfonietta - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1077)

  ROPARTZ: Cello Sonata No 1 - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.105)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  An English Anthology

  STANFORD: La belle dame sans merci; GURNEY: Sleep; I will go with my father a-ploughing; DUNHILL: The cloths of heaven; DELIUS: Twilight fancies - Ian Bostridge (ten), Julius Drake (pno) (EMI 5 56830)

  WARLOCK: Sweet content; Mourn no moe; There is a lady sweet & kind; Captain Stratton's fancy; Mr Belloc's fancy; Late Summer - Benjamin Luxon (bar), David Willison (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8643)

  WALTON: Old Sir Faulk; Daphne; Through guilded trellises - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Richard Amner (pno) (CBS MK 39208)

  QUILTER: Come away death; Now sleeps the crimson petal; GRAINGER: Bold William Taylor; Brigg Fair; ANON: The little turtle dove - Ian Bostridge (ten), Julius Drake (pno) (EMI 5 56830)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Heath Lees

  Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (RNZ)

• 8:30 PM. Music Alive

  Leila Josefowicz (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  A RITCHIE: Whalesong; SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77; STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:05 PM. Day's End

  STRAUSS: Capriccio, Moonlight music & closing scene - Nina Stemme (sop), Jeremy White (bass), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 78797)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio Espagnol - Luis Michael (vln), Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Cincinnati SO/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80640)

  11:00 MOZART: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds K452 - Consortium Classicum (CPO 777 010)

  KREISLER: String Quartet in A minor - Nigel Kennedy, Rosemary Furniss (vlns), Bill Hawkes (vla), Caroline Dale (cello) (EMI CDC 5 56626)

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