Wednesday 5 August 2009 Rāapa 5 Here-turi-kōkā 2009

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PERGOLESI: Lo frate 'nnammorato, Sinfonia - Santa Cecilia Orchestra da Camera/Alessio Vlad (Europa Musica 350 262)

  POPPER: Mazurka in G minor Op 11/3 - Mark Kosower (cello), Jee-Won Oh (pno) (Naxos 8.570570)

  PEZ: Concert Pastoral in D R16 - Les Muffatti/Peter van Heyghen (Ramée RAM 0705)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Fabio Zanon (gtr) (BIS CD 1450)

  TSINTSADZE arr Batiashvili: Miniatures - Lisa Batiashvili (vln/dir), Georgian SO (Sony 88697 33400)

  HOWELLS: Music for a Prince, Corydon's Dance; Scherzo in Arden - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 245)

  7:00 MOZART: Divertimento in F K138, Salzburg Symphony No 3 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 2)

  TRAD: Hinemoa - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  LECLAIR: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 2/1 - Fenwick Smith (fl), Laura Blustein (cello), John Gibbons (hpschd) (Naxos 8.557440-41)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Paul Tortelier (cello), Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 97722)

  WAGENAAR: The Elves' Hill - Netherlands Radio SO/Eri Klas (Etcetera KTC 1326)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Piece in Eb minor D946/1 - Jan Vermeulen (fpno) (Etcetera KTC 1333)

  LANNER: Court Ball Dances Op 161 - Orch of the Vienna Volksoper/Franz Bauer-Theussl (Philips 412 883)

  ROSSINI: Introduction, Theme & Variations in Eb - Charles Neidich (cl), Orpheus SO (DG 435 875)

  ALWYN: Novelette - Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.570560)

  SMETANA: Polka, from The Bartered Bride - Israel Phil/István Kertész (Decca 425 087)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Romeo & Juliet settings

  KABALEVSKY: Romeo & Juliet Suite - Armenian PO/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 967)

  DELIUS: A Village Romeo & Juliet, Scene 3

  The Dark Fiddler........... Thomas Hampson

  Vrenchen (Vreli)............ Helen Field

  Sali............................... Arthur Davies

  Marti............................. Stafford Dean

  ORF SO/Charles Mackerras (Argo 430 275)

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet; Romeo bids Juliet farewell; Interlude & At Friar Laurence's Cell; Juliet Alone, from Romeo & Juliet, Act 3 - Boston Ballet Orch/Jonathan McPhee (Boston Ballet BBO 68-40)

• 10:10 AM. The Works

  L MOZART: Symphony in D, Eisen D25 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10496)

  RACHMANINOV: Vespers Op 37 - St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (PentaTone PTC 5186 027)

  TANEYEV: Symphony No 3 in D minor - Novosibirsk Academic SO/Thomas Sanderling (Naxos 8.570336)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. The Muse of Dance

  HANDEL: Terpsichore - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Erato 2292 45378)

  PRAETORIUS arr Williams: Dances from Terpsichore, excerpts - Craig Ogden (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9674)

  REBEL: La Terpsicore - Arion/Daniel Cuiller (Early Music EMCCD 7765)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  STEVENSON: The harp that once, thro' Tara's halls, from Irish Melodies - Invocation/Timothy Roberts (Hyperion CDA 66774)

  EWAZEN: Concerto for flute & chamber orchestra - Marya Martin (fl), Czech Phil/Paul Polivnick (Albany TROY 477)

  BACH: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen, from Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug - Rodney Macann (bass), Alastair Ross (org) (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

  HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 2 in C Op 114, Septet Militaire - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66396)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 94 in G, Surprise; No 97 in C - English SO/Jeffrey Tate (rec 1991) (EMI 3 55679)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FARR: Queen of Demons - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in F# minor Op 23 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar CD TRL 069)

  WAGNER: Selig, wie die Sonne/Finale of Act III, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Nicola Ferner-Waite (sop), Marion Olsen (mezzo), Christopher Doig, Richard Greager (tens), Donald McIntyre (bbar), Conal Coad (bass), Chelsea Opera Group Chorus & Orch/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLC 217)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Op 115 - Cologne Radio SO/Hans Vonk (EMI 2 15310)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: A spin through Moscow, from Moscow-Cheryomushki Op 105 - Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 452 597)

  VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in D minor RV454 - Paolo Grazzi (ob), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (Teldec 4509 96158)

  CATALANI: Loreley, Danza delle Ondine - Pietro Spada (pno) (ASV CD DCA 921)

  BLODEK: Moonrise, from In the Well - Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (Supraphon 10 1429)

  HAMILTON: The Moon is Silently Singing - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls, Greg Hill, Peter Sharman (horns) (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  GUANG orch Suzuki: Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon - Hong Kong Phil/Kenneth Jean (Marco Polo 8.223911)

  DVORÁK: Song to the Moon, from Rusalka - Pilar Lorengar (sop), Orch of the Academy of St Cecilia, Rome/Giuseppe Patané (Decca 444 614)

  MARTINU: The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon - Karel Kosárek (pno) (Supraphon SU 3937)

  VINTER: Hunter's Moon - David Pyatt (horn), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 316)

  LEHMANN: Ah, moon of my delight, from In a Persian Garden - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66709)

  ROSLAVETS: In the hours of the New Moon - BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67484)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Stars are Comforting

  The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)

  Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made her a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice wrote home to her family and played her violin. Twenty programmes, edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien

  (1) Cambridge Music School and off to university in Christchurch: 1958-9 (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Anu Komsi (sop), Finnish Radio SO/Sakari Oramo

  ZIMMERMANN: Photoptosis; SAARIAHO: Four Leino Songs, I look at you; O heart; Peace; Evening prayer; SIBELIUS: Luonnotar; Lemminkäinen Legends (recorded in Finlandia Hall, Helsinki by Finnish Radio)

• 9:30 PM. Two Piano Debut Recordings

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas, in F# minor Op 59/3; in C# minor Op 63/3; in C minor Op 56/3 - Igor Lovchinsky (pno) (Ivory Classics 64405 77006)

  LISZT: Liebesträume, No 1 in Ab; No 2 in Eb; No 3 in Ab - Sophie Cashell (pno) (Universal 476 6459)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MARAIS arr Heinrich: Les folies d'Espagne - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 221)

  FINZI: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 40 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Lyrita SRCD 236)

  11:00 HILL: String Quartet No 10 in E - Sydney String Quartet (ABC Classics 426 992)

  CZERNY: Piano Sonata No 8 in Eb Op 144 - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5832/3)

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