Wednesday 9 December 2009 Rāapa 9 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphonies, No 5 in Bb, No 8 in B minor (completed Newbould); Entr'acte Music No 1; Ballet Music No 2, from Rosamunde - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Mackerras (Virgin 7 59273)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BACH: Concerto in A minor for keyboard, flute & violin BWV1044, Triple Concerto; Keyboard Concerto in D BWV1054; Concerto in F for keyboard and 2 recorders BWV1057; Keyboard Concerto in G minor BWV1058 - Gabriel Tacchino, Bruno Rigutto, Jean-Philippe Collard, Michael Beroff (pnos), Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Philippe Bernold, Emmanuelle Reville (fls), Paris Orch Ensemble/Jean-Pierre Wallez (EMI CDC 5 55059)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BRUCKNER: Te Deum; Mass in D minor - Joan Rodgers (sop), Catherine Wyn-Davies (contralto), Keith Lewis (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66650)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  FANTINI: Trumpet Sonatas, No 1, del Colloreto; No 3, del Niccolini; No 8, del Nero; TARTINI: Concerto in D; FRANÇAIX: Sonatine; ARBAN: Fantasy & Variations on Acteon; ENESCU: Legend; HÖHNE: Slavonic Fantasy; GOEDICKE: Concert Etude; EBEN: Chagall Windows - John Wallace (tpt/cornet), Meyrick Alexander (bsn), Simon Wright (pno/hpschd/org) (EMI CDC 5 55086)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus, Overture; TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from The Sleeping Beauty; Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker; GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1; BRAHMS: Tragic Overture; STRAUSS: Dance of the Seven Veils, from Salome; Don Juan - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 417 788)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SCHUBERT: Overture in E minor D648 - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570329)

  FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 3 in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

  RODRIGO: Zarabanda lejana - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (BGS CD 107)

  MUSSORGSKY: Kromï Forest Scene, from Boris Godunov - Bolshoi Chorus, Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Erato 4509 91723)

  CANNABICH: Symphony No 49 in F - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

  7:00 BYRD: Vigilate - Stile Antico (BBC Music BBC MM 292)

  HAYDN: Acide & Galatea, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

  GRIEG arr Bertrand/Amoyel: Little bird Op 43/4; Phantom Op 62/5; Secret Op 57/4, from Lyric Pieces - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1986)

  MARTINU: Idyll, from The Bouquet - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 110624)

  O'CONNOR arr Meyer: Butterfly's Day Out - Mark O'Connor (mdln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from Planets Suite Op 32 - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MOERAN: Lonely Waters, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Ann Murray (mezzo), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI CDC 7 47945)

  ELGAR arr Harris: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - Gillian Weir (organ of the Royal Albert Hall, London) (Priory PRCD 859)

  DEBUSSY: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

  SARASATE: Playera Op 23/1 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonatina Canonica - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 3 Op 21 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  DAVE BRUBECK (b Dec 6 1920)

  Norm Meehan looks at the life and music of the American jazz pianist as he enters his 90th year

  (4) Brubeck as jazz composer (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MAHLER: Suite from orchestral works by Bach - Martin-Ulrich Senn (fl), Peter Schwarz (hpschd), Peter Siegele (org), Berlin Radio SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Schwann CD 11637)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271, Jeunehomme - Christoph Eschenbach (pno/dir), London Phil (EMI 3 81793)

  CAMPRA: Les Femmes - Peter Harvey (bar), London Baroque (BIS CD 1495)

  MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 3 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. English Women Composers

  TATE: London Fields - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2138)

  DRING: Festival Scherzo for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

  McDOWALL: Now may we singen - Canterbury Chamber Choir/George Vass (Dutton CDLX 7230)

  R CLARKE: Passacaglia on an old English tune - Philip Dukes (vla), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos 8.557934)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  KODÁLY: Cello Sonata Op 8 - Tim Hugh (cello) (Naim CD 118)

  HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in Ab Op 113 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 9558)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Hans Knappertsbusch (rec 1963) (Hänssler CD 93.177)

  Theme & Variations in D minor Op 18, arr of Andante from String Sextet No 1 in Bb Op 18 - Radu Lupu (pno) (rec 1981) (Decca 417 122)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

  HILL: String Quartet No 2 in G minor, A Maori Legend in Four Scenes - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

  BURCH: Concertino - Edward Allen (horn), New Zealand SO/Michael Vinten (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  PROKOFIEV: Montagues & Capulets, from Romeo & Juliet - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

  TELEMANN: Flute Concerto in D TWV51/D2 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Berlin Baroque Soloists (EMI 5 57397)

  VERDI: Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore - Auckland Opera Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 234)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy & Bravura Variations on Italian motifs - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

  HANDEL: For unto us a child is born, from Messiah - Les Arts Florissants Chorus & Orch/William Christie (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1498/99)

  GLAZUNOV: Lyric Poem - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9961)

  BANTOCK: Sapphic Poem - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66899)

  TURINA: Poem in the form of songs, Never forget; Song; Two fears; Crazed for love - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0608)

  A RITCHIE: Yet another Poem of Spring - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

  GRIFFES: Poem - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7063)

  KABALEVSKY: Poem of Struggle Op 12 - Gnesin Academy Chorus, Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557794)

• 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

  (19) 11 year-old daughter Terry comes to live with Beatrice, concerts, hospital, teaching, trip to Texas, visits from her sister and father, trips to Maryland, Washington; 1979-1980 (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Noël Noël

  Jane Sheldon (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer

  GAUNTLETT: Once in royal David's city; FERNANDEZ: Alma redemptoris mater; BIBER: Partita No 3 in A, from Harmonia Artificioso, Arioso; PURCELL: Now that the sun hath veil'd his light, An Evening Hymn; BIEBL: Ave Maria; MERULA: Su la cetra amorosa; BIBER: The Annunciation, from The Five Joyful Mysteries; LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium; PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen; TRAD: Quelle est cette odeur agréable?; ARBEAU: Christmas night; IMPROVISATION: Folia/Ciaconna; WADE: O come, all ye faithful; GRUBER arr Andersson: Silent night (recorded in the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney by ABC)

• 9:20 PM. German Wind

  GIESEKING: Sonatine for flute & piano - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Charles Abramovic (pno) (Avie AV 2076)

  DANZI: Wind Quintet in A Op 68/1 - Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1581/82)

  SPOHR: Variations in Bb on a theme from Alruna - Michael Collins (cl), Swedish CO/Robin O'Neill (Hyperion CDA 67509)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Canons on the Royal Theme, from A Musical Offering - Amsterdam Baroque Orch (Challenge CC 72309)

  TANSMAN: Sonatine for bassoon & piano - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

  DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (leader) (Channel Classics CCS SA 24409)

  11:00 TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 84 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 22 - Brodsky Quartet (Brodsky BRD 3500)

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