Schedule for Saturday 5 September 2009

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Partita for double string orchestra; Fantasia on Greensleeves; In the Fen Country; The Lark Ascending - Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
POULENC: Humoresque; Three Novelettes; Villageoises; 15 Improvisations; Intermezzo No 2 in Db; Intermezzo No 1 in C; Suite Française d'après Claude Gervaise; Presto in Bb; Mélancolie; Theme & Variations - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8847)
2:20 (approx) - Disc 3
GESUALDO: Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday 1611, First nocturne, Second nocturne, Third nocturne - Taverner Choir & Consort/Andrew Parrott (Sony SK 62977)
3:30 (approx) - Disc 4
HAYDN: Sun Quartets Op 20, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in C; No 3 in G minor - Salomon String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66621)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
ROSENBERG: Marionetter, Overture; BIZET: Carmen Suite No 1; LARSSON: Dagens stunder; GLINKA: Russlan & Ludmilla, Overture; SATIE orch Debussy: Two Gymnopédies; SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture; SVENDSEN: Romance for violin & orchestra; ALFVÉN: Bergakungen, Vallflickans dans - Malmö SO/James DePriest (BIS CD 570)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 MAGNARD: Suite in the Ancient Style Op 2 - Luxembourg Phil/Mark Stringer (Timpani 1C 1067)
A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Andrea Mion (ob), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Naïve OP 30301)
CHOPIN: Impromptu No 1 in Ab Op 29 - Earl Wild (pno) (Ivory Classics 64405 73005)
MILHAUD: La Cheminée du roi René Op 205 - French National Orch Wind Quintet (Erato ECD 88254)
KETÈLBEY: In the Mystic Land of Egypt - New Symphony Orch of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)
7:00 HOLST: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from The Planets - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555776)
VISÉE: Suite in G - Joachim Held (lute) (Hänssler CD 98.523)
WAGNER: Siegfried's Funeral Music, from Götterdämmerung - Sydney SO/Charles Mackerras (ABC 476 6440)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA 74321 84112)
DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66 - Royal Phil/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 794)
8:00 PROKOFIEV: Russian Overture - London Phil/Walter Weller (Brilliant Classics 9006)
BACH: Easter Oratorio BWV249, Adagio - Keisuke Wakao (ob), Malcolm Lowe, Victor Romanul (vlns), Cathy Basrak (vla), Sato Knudsen (cello), Edwin Barker (dbass) (PentaTone PTC 5186 018)
SAINT-SAËNS: Africa, Fantasy Op 89 - Gwendolyn Mok (pno), London Phil/Geoffrey Simon (Cala CACD 1015)
BARTÓK arr Székely: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Florent Boffard (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1702)
SIBELIUS: Cassazione Op 6 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1445)
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

M MONK: Astronaut Anthem, Antiphon for the Creator - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg (Catalyst 09026-68329)
STERNDALE BENNETT ed Byers: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 1 - Malcolm Binns (pno), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 204)
MENDELSSOHN: Six Songs to be Sung in the Open Air Op 59, Amid greenery; An early Spring; Farewell to the forest; The nightingale; The valley of rest; Hunting song - RIAS Chamber Choir/Hans-Christoph Rademann (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1992)
RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)
G GABRIELI: Cantate Domino in eight parts, from a reconstruction of The Feast of San Rocco, Venice 1608 - La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata Cologne/Roland Wilson (Sony S2K 66254)
Monet and Music
Elric Hooper and Des Wilson look at the cultural environment surrounding Monet and the Impressionists (RNZ)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs
1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

Eight programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene
(4) This week hosted by Tim Dodd (RNZ)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
Kronos Quartet: Floodplain
Kronos Quartet is a string quartet renowned for its musical explorations. Kronos' latest album, Floodplain, features music inspired by the idea that areas prone to devastating flooding will experience creative rebirth after a catastrophe. The quartet plays original arrangements of traditional music from the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, as well as specially commissioned pieces (Nonesuch 7559-79828)
3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Kerikeri National Piano Competition 2008
Six programmes
(5) Performances from the final
MOZART: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K457; DEBUSSY: Les collines d'Anacapri; Des pas sur la neige, from Preludes, Book 1; BACH trans Busoni: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Joong-Han Jung (pno)
SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 16 in A minor D845; LIN: Impression; RAVEL: Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C# minor S244 - Tony Lin (pno) (recorded in The Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ)
4:40 PM. Norrington Conducts

HANDEL: Cara speme; L'angue offeso, from Giulio Cesare in Egitto - David Daniels (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Virgin VC 5 45326)
WEBER: Concert Piece in F minor Op 79 - Melvyn Tan (fpno), London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 5 55348)
ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.000)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
HUMMEL: Variations on a theme by Gluck Op 57, from Gluck's opera Armide - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)
PLEYEL: Symphony in F minor Ben138 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)
STILL: Folk Suite No 1 - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno), New Zealand String Quartet (Koch International 3-7192)
HAMILTON: Century fanfare, Zarya - Auckland Philharmonia/Anthony Halstead (Atoll ACD 100)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

TRAD Scottish folksong arr Haydn: Peggy, I must love thee; The bonny grey-ey'd morn; The minstrel; Deil tak' the wars; Gramachree; Up and war them a' Willy; I canna come ilka day to woo; Langolee - Lorna Anderson (sop), Jamie MacDougall (ten), Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Brilliant Classics 92542)
SCHUMANN: Six songs for male voices Op 33 - New Detmold Liedertafel/Thorsten Roth (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 622 1316)
TRAD arr Julian Yu: Jasmine; HUANG ZI arr Julian Yu: The lotus song; REN GUANG arr Julian Yu: The fisherman's ballad; TRAD arr Julian Yu: Under the silvery moonlight; TRAD arr Julian Yu: The swallow; ZHAO YUAN-REN arr Julian Yu: How can I not think of him? - Shu-Cheen Yu (sop), Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC Classics 461 679)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Julia McCarthy (vln), John Chen (pno)
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 8 in G Op 30/3; BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108; YSAŸE: Sonata in D minor for solo violin Op 72/3, Ballade; TOAN: Tutukaka (première performance); GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor Op 45 (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)
9:25 PM. Svetlanov conducts Arensky

The dream on the Volga, Overture; Intermezzo in G minor Op 13; Symphony No 2 in A Op 22 - USSR SO/Evgeni Svetlanov (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00149)
10:00 PM. Day's End

PONCE trans Ramos: Mexican Scherzo - John Williams (gtr) (Sony MLK 66704)
J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus Quadrille - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)
RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Craig Ogden (gtr), BBC Phil/Sachio Fujioka (Chandos CHAN 9604)
TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in Bb, from Tafelmusik - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 427 619)
11:00 BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)
SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor - Mannheim String Quartet (CPO 999 352)