Schedule for Saturday 31 October 2009

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
DITTERSDORF: Sinfonias, in A minor, The Delirium of the Composers; in D, The Battle of the Human Passions; in A, Sinfonia in the Taste of Five Nations - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
BRAHMS: Variations on an original theme Op 21/1; Rhapsodies, in B minor Op 79/1; in G minor Op 79/2; DVORÁK: Theme & Variations in Ab Op 36; Four Pieces Op 52 - David Buechner (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4179)
2:15 (approx) - Disc 3
AMODEI: Su l'ore che l'aurora; Tra l'erbette il pie sciogliea; ZAMBONI: Sonata in C minor; AMODEI: Va', ché l'hai fatto a me; Già col manto dell'ombre; STORACE: Passagagli sopra Alamire; AMODEI: Colà dove il Sebeto; Lieve al piè, grave al passo - Emma Kirkby (sop), Jakob Lindberg (theorbo/archlute), Lar Ulrik Mortensen (hpschd) (BIS CD 1415)
3:35 (approx) - Disc 4
ROMBERG: Clarinet Quintet in Eb Op 57; FUCHS: Clarinet Quintet in Eb Op 102; STANFORD: Two Fantasies for clarinet & string quartet, No 1 in G minor, No 2 in F - Thea King (cl), Britten String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66479)
4:55 (approx) - Disc 5
HOLST: St Paul's Suite; WALTON: Two pieces for strings from Henry V; BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4; BERKELEY: Serenade for strings Op 12; TIPPETT: Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli - ASMF/Kenneth Sillito (Collins 12342)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 CIMAROSA: L'infedeltà fedele, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)
VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in F RV457 - Alfredo Bernardini (ob/dir), Zefiro (Naïve OP 30478)
SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op 89, Alla gavotta in G minor; Andantino in G minor; Commodo in Eb; Allegro in G minor - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 474 814)
GIBBONS: Ah Dear Heart; DOWLAND: Frog Galliard - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)
FOOTE: Francesca da Rimini Op 24 - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwartz (Naxos 8.559365)
7:00 MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)
CHOPIN trans Liszt: My joys, from Polish Songs - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 411 055)
FINZI arr Ashmore: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Robert Plane (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)
CARBONELLI: Violin Sonata No 7 in A minor - Hélène Schmitt (vln), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Karl-Ernst Schröder (baroque_gtr), Andrea Marchiol (org) (Alpha 046)
COATES: Joyous Youth - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9869)
8:00 KABALEVSKY: Rhapsody on the theme of the song School Years - Hsin-Ni Liu (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557794)
GIGOUT: Grand choeur dialogué - Winfried Bönig (organ of Cologne Cathedral) (Motette CD 12191)
PROKOFIEV: Folk Dance, from Romeo & Juliet - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8368)
PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango - Tim Hugh (cello), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Naim CD 118)
HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Wolfgang Bauer (tpt), Württemberg CO/Ruben Gazarian (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1395)
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

DEBUSSY arr Matthews: Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest; Fuilles mortes; Feux d'artifice, from Preludes - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 58045)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Alexander Kerr (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 168)
HANDEL: Dove sei, amato bene?, from Rodelinda - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Academy of Early Music, Berlin (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1685)
A RITCHIE: Tui - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 52, Hymn of Praise - Véronique Gens (sop), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Robert Tear (ten), BBC Welsh National Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (BBC Music BBC MM 306)
BELLINI: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Anthony Camden (ob), City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.553991)
SCHUBERT: Sei mir gegrüsst! - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMI 2006)
KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Royal Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (EMI CDC 7 47348)
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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
(2) Families: Marsalis, Jones, Heath & Cohen (RNZ)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
Taarab music from Zanzibar - Culture Musical Club
A popular music genre imported from the Middle East to the East African coast in the early years of the 1900s, taarab's a unique blend of Arabian, Indian and African styles. Over the years its appeal has spread beyond local communities to become one of Africa's most popular forms of music, and one which is heard at world music festivals all around the world.
Today's performers are the Culture Musical Club, the largest taarab orchestra on the island of Zanzibar (World Village 468080)
3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Brent Stewart (xylophone), Wellington Youth Orch/Gregory Squire
KOEHNE: Elevator Music; MARGETIC: Xylophone Concerto (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)
3:40 PM. Recent Brahms Releases and Reissues

Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - György Pauk (vln), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93989)
Nänie Op 82 - Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 704)
Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Vienna Phil/Valery Gergiev (RCA 88697 10336)
Fantasies Op 116; Capriccio in D minor; Intermezzo in A minor; Capriccio in G minor; Intermezzi in E; E minor; E; Capriccio in D minor - Håkon Austbö (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93990)
Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 704)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
KRAUS: Azire, Ballet Music VB18 - New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570334)
BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare, from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)
PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonatina for flute & guitar Op 205 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)
MEYERBEER arr Lambert: The Skaters, excerpts - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

French Song
ANON: As I was taking the horses to water; Louison; Death & burial of the invincible Malbrouk; Loving wishes - Le Poème Harmonique/Vincent Dumestre (dir) (Alpha 513)
FAURÉ: Fisherman's song Op 4/1; Cradles Op 23/1; At the water's edge Op 8/1; Autumn Op 18/3; Nell Op 18/1; Moonlight Op 46/2 - Michel Piquemal (bar), Christine Lajarrige (pno) (Empreinte Digitale ED 13187)
CRAS: La flûte de Pan; Douceur du soir - Catherine Estourelle (sop), Lionel Peintre (bar), Simon Stanciu (pan pipes), Jean-Marc Phillips (vln), Pierre Lenert (vla), Henri Demarquette (cello), Alain Jacquon (pno) (Timpani 1C 1085)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
Solveig Kringelborn (sop), New Zealand SO/Leif Segerstam
SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite; SEGERSTAM: Symphony No 191
(Interval)
WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude; STRAUSS: Four Last Songs (RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

J STRAUSS II arr Schoenberg: Roses from the South, Waltz - Leonore Aumaier (pno), Alfred Mitterhofer (harmonium), members of the Vienna String Quintet (CPO 999 588)
BOCCHERINI: Symphony in D minor G506, La casa del diavolo - Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30399)
11:00 HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 64/6 - Amsterdam String Quartet (Channel Classics CCS SA 28209)
BRUCH: Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola & piano Op 83 - Steven Kanoff (cl), Paul Coletti (vla), Staffan Scheja (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1180)