Thursday 3 December 2009 Rāpare 3 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scene Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro; Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39; Twelve Poems Op 35 - Ian Partridge (ten), Thomas Hemsley (bar), Jennifer Partridge, Paul Hamburger (pnos) (BBC MM 122)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  ELGAR: Serenade in E minor for strings Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling all Workers; March, The Dam Busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ABEL: Sinfonia in Eb Op 4/3 - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Passacaille 903)

  BUSONI: Improvisation on the Bach Chorale Wie wohl ist mir, o Freund der Seele - Allan Schiller, John Humphreys (pno duo) (Naxos 8.557443)

  ATTERBERG: Intermezzo - Camerata Nordica/Ulf Wallin (dir) (CPO 777 156)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

  7:00 BRAHMS: O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf Op 74/2 - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67559)

  HOLST: Walt Whitman Overture Op 7 - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 210)

  LANNER: First thoughts - Vienna Ensemble (Koch 3-6525)

  J FONTANA: Ballade Op 17 - Hubert Rutkowski (pno) (Acte Préalable APO 160)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in D minor - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DRING: Second movement, Andante semplice, from Trio for flute, oboe & piano - Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7181)

  COHN: Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger Op 34 - Slovak Radio SO/Vakhtang Jordania (Naxos 8.559376)

  RUTTER: Five traditional songs, The girl I left behind me; O waly, waly; The British Grenadiers; Golden slumbers; Dashing away with the smoothing iron - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt (Bayer BR 100 334)

  MYERS arr Field: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

  SINDING: Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

  Concerto in Eb, Dumbarton Oaks - Bremen German Chamber PO/Paavo Järvi (PentaTone PTC 5186 046)

  Suite italienne - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Julian Milford (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9756)

  Mass - Netherlands Chamber Choir, Schönberg Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw (Philips 454 477)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music - Swiss Romande Orch/Armin Jordan (Erato 4509 91734)

  WITT: Flute Concerto in G - Susanne Barner (fl), Hamburg SO/Johannes Moesus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 329 1299)

  CZERNY: Piano Sonata No 5 in E Op 76 - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5832/3)

  GLIÈRE: The Red Poppy Suite - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Chandos CHAN 9160)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Joking Around

  HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 33/2, Joke - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMX 296 2022.23)

  NIELSEN: Humoresque Bagatelles, Hello! Hello!; The spinning top; A little slow waltz; The jumping jack; Puppet march; The musical clock - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67591/2)

  J STRAUSS II: Joke Polka Op 72 - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67169)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

  WOLF: Epiphanias - Geraldine McGreevy (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67130)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Vadim Repin (vln), Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 473 343)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, incidental music D797, excerpts - Concertgebouw Orch/George Szell (rec 1957) (Decca 475 6780)

  Piano Sonata No 14 in A minor D784 - Wilhelm Kempff (rec 1968) (pno) (DG 423 496)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  DELIUS arr Fenby: Sonata for string orchestra - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

  HARRIS: Bremner Aria - David Bremner (tbn), National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 12 in Ab Op 26 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2002)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  RICHTER: Symphony No 10 in E minor - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.570597)

  FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16 - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in G minor Op 46/8 - Heinrich Schiff (cello), André Previn (pno) (Philips 434 914)

  TRIEBENSEE: Trio in F - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor anglais) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

  KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  HAGEN: Menuetto con variazioni di Locatelli - Karl-Ernst Schröder (lute) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1505)

  BOSSI: Scherzo in G minor Op 49/2 - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral) (EMI CDB 7 62813)

  L MOZART: Toy Symphony in G - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570499)

  MARTINU: Puppets, Book 3 - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.557918)

  HERBERT: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)

  SCOTT: The Toy Trumpet - Mark Calder (tpt), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67067)

  MULDOWNEY: The Toy Soldier's Fantasy, from The Brontës - Northern Ballet Theatre Orch/John Pryce-Jones (Naxos 8.553495)

  MICHELIS: Trastullo Op 83 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (piccolo), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  GOODWIN: Puppet Serenade - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  GROVLEZ: Les Marionettes, from L'Almanach aux Images - Peter Katin (pno) (Simax PSC 1067)

  REYNOLDS: The Toy Cart, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Staging of Opera

  Five programmes presented by John Drummond

  (4) Wagner (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Cédric Tiberghien (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Stefan Lano

  MARGETIC: Ouroboros (première performance); RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:40 PM. Bachetti plays Bach

  French Suite No 6 in E BWV817 - Andrea Bacchetti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 629/1-2)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RUBBRA: Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (Chandos CHAN 8378)

  BRAHMS: Liebeslieder Waltzes Op 52 - Marlis Petersen (sop), Stella Doufexis (contralto), Werner Güra (ten), Konrad Jarnot (bbar), Christoph Berner, Camillo Radicke (pno duet) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1945)

  ROSETTI: Horn Concerto in Eb K3/37 - Klaus Wallendorf (horn), Kurpfälzisches CO/Johannes Moesus (CPO 777 288)

  11:00 QUANTZ: Flute Sonata in A QV1/145 - Verena Fischer (fl), Klaus-Dieter Brandt (cello), Léon Berben (hpschd) (Naxos 8.557805)

  REGER: Piano Quartet in A minor Op 133 - Aperto Piano Quartet (Naxos 8.570786)

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