Tuesday 15 December 2009 Rātū 15 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  HANSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 33; The Lament for Beowulf Op 25; Symphony No 5 Op 43, Sinfonia Sacra - Seattle Chorale & SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3709)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  GARDNER: Petite Suite Op 245; McCABE: Domestic Life; LAWSON: Song of the Lesser Twayblade; LEIGHTON: Concerto Op 88; LANE: Suite Champêtre; MELLERS: Aubade; MILFORD: Two Pipe Tunes; KAY: Mr Pitfield's Pavane; DODGSON: Concerto Chacony - John Turner (rec), Keith Elcombe (hpschd), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  FOLLOW THAT STAR: Nine Christmas Songs arr Gritton; TRAD: Five Christmas Carols; TAVENER: Three Carols; TRAD: Five Christmas Carols; BLACKWELL: Three Arrangements - Timothy Bennett (bar), Oxford Pro Musica Singers/Michael Smedley (Proud Sound PROU CD 134)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BACH: Keyboard Concertos, No 1 in D minor BWV1052; No 5 in F minor BWV1056; Concerto for two harpsichords & strings BWV1060; Concerto in C for three harpsichords & strings BWV1064; Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords & strings BWV1065 - Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, Philip Ledger, Blandine Verlet (hpschds), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 497)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op 12; Op 38; Op 43; Op 47 - Gerard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SULLIVAN: HMS Pinafore, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

  MORRIS arr Feldman/Morris: A Transylvanian Lullaby, from Young Frankenstein - Gil Shaham (vln), Jonathan Feldman (pno) (DG 463 483)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 10 in D - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.557771)

  SCHUMANN: From Foreign Lands and People; Important Event, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - Martin Werner (pno) (Guild GMCD 7310)

  VIVALDI: Guitar Concerto in A, an arrangement of Trio Sonata in C RV82 - Eduardo Fernández (gtr), English CO/George Malcolm (Decca 417 617)

  SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - National Youth Orch of Great Britain/Roger Norrington (BBC Music BBC MM 259)

  7:00 RUTTER: Shepherd's Pipe Carol - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 500)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Solveig's Song, from Peer Gynt Op 23; Ingrid's Lament Op 55/1 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in A minor Op 95 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El amor brujo - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  SEVERAC: Pipperment-get, Valse brillante de concert - Aldo Ciccolini (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47899)

  SCHNITTKE: Clowns and Children - Berlin Radio SO/Frank Strobel (Capriccio 71 061)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GOLDMARK: Magische Töne, from Die Königin von Saba - Mark Dubois (ten), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony/Raffi Armenian (CBC 2-5077)

  SNELL: Elégie - Skaila Kanga (harp), Karen Jones (fl), Caroline Dearnley (cello) (Divine Art DDV 24130)

  DVORÁK: The Noon Witch Op 108 - BBC Scottish SO/Alexander Titov (BBC Music BBC MM 259)

  VILLA LOBOS: Etude No 7 - Rafael Aguirre Miñarro (gtr) (Naxos 8.572064)

  BACH: Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1060 - Andrew Manze (vln/dir), Rachel Podger (vln), Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7155)

  ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68901)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)

  Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gabriela Montero (pno) (Virgin 3 85786)

  Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), London SO/André Previn (Decca 444 839)

• 10:20 AM. The Works

  HOFMANN: Symphony in C (Badley C8) - Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.533866)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Trio in A minor Op 50 - Vadim Repin (vln), Mischa Maisky (cello), Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 8099)

  DEBUSSY: La Mer - Estonian-Finnish SO/Anu Tali (Finlandia 8573 89876)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Hungarian Miscellany

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Guillaume Coppola (pno) (Calliope CAL 9412)

  WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Jaakko Luoma (bsn), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)

  FARKAS: Old Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century - Thurston Clarinet Quartet (ASV White Line CD WHL 2076)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BOWEN: Oboe Sonata Op 85 - Melinda Maxwell (ob), Michael Dussek (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7129)

  RYBA: Czech Christmas Mass, Hail Master - Dagmar Vankátová (sop), Pavla Ksicová (contralto), Vladimír Dolezal (ten), Václav Sibera (bass), Josef Ksica (org), Choir & Orch of the Czech Madrigalists/Frantisek Xaver Thuri (Naxos 8.554428)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Op 56 - David Oistrakh (vln), Sviatoslav Knushevitzky (cello), Lev Oborin (pno), Philharmonia/Malcolm Sargent (rec 1958) (EMI 3 81487)

  MOZART: Variations in C on Lison dormait K264 - Daniel Barenboim (pno) (rec 1991) (EMI CDS 7 54362)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MENOTTI: Sebastian, Suite - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7005)

  HILL: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, The Allies - Australian String Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223746)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on Heil, unserm König Heil - Josef Still (organ of Trier Cathedral) (Naxos 8.570454)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G minor RV332 - Enrico Onofri (vln/dir), Academia Montis Regalis (Naïve OP 30417)

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557889)

  FARR: Tangaroa - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the snowflakes, from The Nutcracker - members of the Finchley Children's Music Group, National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 458 595)

  ARENSKY: To the Memory of Suvorov - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570526)

  WIENIAWSKI: Memory of Moscow Op 6 - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.550744)

  SCHOLES: Memory - New Zealand SO/Peter Scholes (SOUNZfine Vol 3)

  GIORGINAKIS: Therismos, from Greek Memories - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - BBC Phil/Paavo Järvi (BBC Music BBC MM 210)

  ELGAR: A little bird in the air, from Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf Op 30 - London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Vernon Handley (EMI CDS 7 47659)

  POULENC: Clarinet Sonata in Bb - Maximiliano Martín (cl), Inocencio Negrín (pno) (Linn CKD 280)

  LEHÁR: Sirens of the Ball, Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:00 175 East with special guest, pianist Mark Knoop

  TOOVEY: Adam; ABLINGER: Marcel Duchamp; Gertrude Stein, from Voices & Piano; HARRISON: Rise; FOX: Chromascope; CRANE: Riis; FINNISSY: Kreuzfidel Polka Op 301 by Johann Strauss; Piano Concerto No 3 (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 16

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