Schedule for Wednesday 12 August 2009

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan; WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Franz-Paul Decker (Bell BELL-CD 1991)
1:15 (approx) - Disc 2
ROSSINI: Waltz in Eb; Thème; Allegretto; Scherzo in A minor; Un Rien; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, Morceau réservés; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 9 - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)
2:25 (approx) - Disc 3
LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; A Song of Islands, Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)
3:35 (approx) - Disc 4
FUCHS: Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor; Fantasiestücke Op 78; Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb - Nancy Green (cello), Caroline Palmer (pno) (Biddulph LAW 005)
4:50 (approx) - Disc 5
ELGAR: In the South Op 50; Froissart Op 19; Variations on an original theme, Enigma Op 36 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Conifer CDCF 187)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 CPE BACH: Sinfonia in Eb Wq deest - moderntimes 1800/Ilia Korol (dir) (Challenge Classics CC 72193)
GERMAN: Suite for flute & piano - Kenneth Smith (fl), Paul Rhodes (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25069)
HOLST ed Matthews: A Song of the Night Op 19/1 - Lorraine McAslan (vln), London Phil/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)
RAMEAU trans anon: The Hen, from Pièces de clavecin - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)
STANFORD: Fantasy No 1 in G minor - Robert Plane (cl), Lucy Gould, Mia Cooper (vlns), David Adams (vla), Alice Neary (cello) (Naxos 8.570416)
7:00 Gramophone Artist of the Year 2009
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RAVEL: Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno) (Warner 2564 62160)
COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 1, The boatmen's song; The dodger; Long time ago; Simple gifts; I bought me a cat - St Charles Singers, Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos 8.559297)
ALBÉNIZ: Orientale, from Spanish Songs Op 232 - Stockholm Guitar Trio (Opus 3 CD 19701)
VIVALDI arr Pujol: Trio Sonata in C RV82 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)
WALDTEUFEL: Etincelles, Waltz Op 229 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223688)
8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of New College, Oxford, Capricorn/Edward Higginbottom (Erato 0630 14634)
GLAZUNOV: Mélodie Op 20/1 - Han-Na Chang (cello), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 82390)
SALIERI: Serenata in F - Ensemble Italiano di Fiati (Brilliant Classics 93360)
SVENDSEN: Carnival in Paris - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)
D SCARLATTI arr Allen: Keyboard Sonata in A Kk209 - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)
BLUMENFELD: Allegro de concert in A Op 7 - Evgeny Soifertis (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Alexander Titov (Hyperion CDA 67511)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

ANTONIO SOLER (1729-1783)
Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C minor - Gilbert Rowland (hpschd) (Naxos 8.570292)
Quintet No 4 in A minor for two violins, viola, cello & harpsichord - Concerto Rococo: Nicolas Mazzoleni, Roberto Crisafulli (vlns), Nadine Davin (vla), Elena Andreyev (cello), Jean-Patrice Brosse (hpschd) (Pierre Verany PV 792111)
Concerto No 1 in C for two keyboards - Kenneth Gilbert, Trevor Pinnock (hpschds) (Archiv 453 171)
10:00 AM. The Works

G CHARPENTIER: Italian Impressions - Nice Phil/Marco Guidarini (Talent DOM 2929 106)
BUSONI: Six Piano Pieces Op 33b, Melancholy; Gaiety; Little scherzo; Fantasy in olden style; Finnish Ballad; Recessional Music; All depart - Wolf Harden (pno) (Naxos 8.570891)
THUILLE: Sextet for wind quintet & piano Op 6 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1295)
POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani - Gillian Weir (organ of Royal Festival Hall, London), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Virgin 5 22045)
Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
1:30 PM. For the Nuptials

GRIEG orch Halvorsen: The Bridal Procession passes by, from Pictures from life in the country - Royal Scottish National Orch/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557854)
HOLLINS: Benediction Nuptiale - Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ of Caird Hall, Dundee) (Delphian DCD 34044)
HALVORSEN: Wedding March for violin & orchestra - Soon-Mi Chung (vln), Bergen Phil/Karsten Andersen (NCB 435 963)
J GADE: Wedding at Himmelpind, Rustic Suite - Odense SO/Matthias Aeschbacher (Dacapo 6.220509)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

SULLIVAN: The Gondoliers, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)
SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto in F# minor Op 20 - Oleg Marshev (pno), South Jutland SO/Vladimir Ziva (Danacord DACOCD 660)
STEVENSON: 'Tis believed that this harp - Invocation/Timothy Roberts (Hyperion CDA 66774)
FRIEDMAN: Menuetto in D after Mozart's Divertimento in D for string quartet & two horns K334 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67598)
HOWELLS: The House of Mind - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer, Harry Bicket (org) (Chandos CHAN 241-34)
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3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 2, A London Symphony - London Phil/Bernard Haitink (rec 1986) (EMI CDC 7 49394)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
DURUFLÉ: Prelude & Fugue on the name Alain - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)
A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Atoll ACD 202)
MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 2, Hungarian Scenes - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

VERDI: Grand March, from Aida - Chorus of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 417 763)
MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - James Kreger (cello), Gerald Robbins (pno) (Koch Discover DICD 920 586)
BOUGHTON: Three Folk Dances - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67185)
5:30 Gramophone Artist of the Year 2009
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DEBUSSY: Etude No 11, For composite arpeggios - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno) (Warner Classics 8573 83940)
HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3700)
ANDERSON: Scottish Suite, Bonnie Dundee; Turn ye to me; The Bluebells of Scotland; The Campbells are coming - BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559381)
SOR: Le Premier Pas vers moi Op 53 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (Brilliant Classics 93898)
HANDEL: Keyboard Suite in D minor HWV447 - Julian Perkins (hpschd) (Avie AV 2152)
BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade - Sydney SO/Patrick Thomas (ABC Classics 472 509)
PETERSON-BERGER arr Karlsson: Berceuse - Ola Karlsson (cello), Östersund Serenade Ensemble/Lennart Hedwall (Proprius PRCD 9127)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Don Juan's Serenade - Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Pavlina Dokovska (pno) (RCA 09026 62501)
VEJVANOVSKY: Serenada - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Symphonia SY 96151)
ROSSINI: Serenata in Eb - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 27708)
SUPPÉ: Pique Dame, Overture - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)
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
(2) National Youth Orchestra and General Relativity Theory: 1959-1960 (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Eva Urbanova (sop), Marta Benackova (mezzo), Valentin Prolat (ten), Peter Mikulas (bass), David Malet (org), Spanish Broadcasting Chorus & Orch/Adrian Leaper
ALBÉNIZ orch Marín/Arbós: Almería; El Albaicín, from Iberia; RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales; JANÁCEK: Glagolitic Mass (recorded in the Teatro Monumental, Madrid by Spanish Radio)
9:20 PM. Transfigured Beethoven

TAUSIG: Cavatina, from Beethoven's String Quartet Op 130 - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)
F SCHMIDT arr Wührer: Concertante Variations on a theme of Beethoven - Ragna Schirmer (pno), Hamburg SO/Andrey Boreyko (Berlin Classics 1772 BC)
10:00 PM. Day's End

M HAYDN: Missa Sancti Joannis Nepomuceni - Cantemus Chamber Choir, German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Werner Ehrhardt (Capriccio 71 084)
TANSMAN: Cavatina - Dimitri Illarionov (gtr) (Naxos 8.557293)
BACH: Triple Concerto in A minor BWV1044 - Ashley Solomon (fl/dir), Rodolfo Richter (vln), James Johnstone (hpschd), Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS SA 27208)
11:00 MARTINU: Bergerettes - Kinsky Trio (Praga PRD 250 256)
KOSSLER: String Quintet in D minor - members of Frankfurt String Sextet (CPO 777 269)