Thursday 17 December 2009 Rāpare 17 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ALWYN: Symphony No 5, Hydriotaphia; Sinfonietta for Strings; Piano Concerto No 2 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9196)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BACH: Flute Sonatas, in E minor BWV1034; in C BWV1033; in E BWV1035, in B minor BWV1030, in A BWV1032; in Eb BWV1031 - John Solum (baroque fl), Igor Kipnis (hpschd), Barbara Bogatin (cello) (Arabesque Z 6589)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  TRAD: Silent Night; Carol of the Bells; G GABRIELI: O magnum mysterium; TRAD: Joseph dearest, Joseph mine; BILLINGS: The shepherd's carol; TRAD: Still, still, still; O Tannenbaum; The first Nowell; FRIEDELL: Saw you never in the twilight; TRAD: The holly & the ivy; BRITTEN: Hymn to the Virgin; TRAD: O little town of Bethlehem; Patapan; Away in a manger; HASSLER: Angelus ad pastores ait; AVERRE: Did Mary know?; TRAD: Deck the hall; Coventry Carol; MARENZIO: Hodie Christus natus est; TRAD Baloo, Lammy; I saw three ships; Of the father's love begotten; MANZ: E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come; TRAD: As with gladness men of old; I wonder as I wander; A la nanita nan; Ding Dong! Merrily on high - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg (DG 429 732)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Nine Short Pieces for Piano; Three Sea Changes; Seven Short Pieces; Short Piece; Prelude; Sonata; 2 Untitled Pieces; Sonatina No 1; A Musical Offering - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  GLIÈRE: Gyul'sara, Overture; Concert Waltz Op 90; Shakh-Senem, Overture; GLIÈRE orch Derzhanovsky: Ballad Op 4; GLIÈRE: Overture on Slavonic Themes; Heroic March for the Buryiat-Mongolian ASSR Op 71; Holiday at Ferghana, Overture - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in C RV188 - Salvatore Accardo (vln), I Musici (PentaTone PTC 5186 130)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 6 - Sato Moughalian (fl), Alexandre Silvério (bsn) (BIS CD 1410)

  PÄRT: For Alina - Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591 (289 449 958)

  WALDTEUFEL: The Skaters, Waltz - National Phil/Douglas Gamley (Decca 460 400)

  7:00 RENDER: All who would see God's greatness - Wellington Cathedral Choir/Philip Walsh, Andrew MacMillan (org) (NZ Hymnbook Trust)

  COATES: For your delight - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV CD WHL 2107)

  DANZI ed Klug: Variations on a theme by Mozart - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557613)

  J GADE: Jealousy - Odense SO/Matthias Aeschbacher (Dacapo 6.220509)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 75 - Gary Graffman (pno), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony S2K 94737)

  MASSENET: Danse flamande, from Le Carillon - Swiss Romande Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 472)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: HAHN: Si mes vers avaient des ailes! - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67141/2)

  MCLEOD: Cambridge Suite - National Youth Orchestra/Juan Matteucci (Kiwi SLC 72)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - James Ehnes (vln), Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Analekta FL 2 3151)

  SULLIVAN: Masquerade Finale from The Merchant of Venice - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223461)

  VERDI: Gloria all'Egitto, from Aida - Chicago SO & Chorus/Georg Solti (Decca 430 226)

  SVENDSEN: Sigurd Slembe, Symphonic Prelude to Bjørnson's play - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943)

  Etude-Tableau in A minor Op 39/6; Humoresque; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Rachmaninov: Flight of the bumblebee, from Tsar Saltan - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

  Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10234 X)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SCHULHOFF: Flute Sonata - Fenwick Smith (fl), Sally Pinkas (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10515)

  MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter - Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1958)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 - Misha Dichter (pno), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (PentaTone PTC 5186 125)

  STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op 28 - Berlin Phil/Karl Böhm (DG 427 218)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Beethoven Releases

  Piano Sonata No 24 in F# Op 78 - Andreas Haefliger (pno) (Avie AV 2173)

  Der Kuss Op 128; Adelaide Op 46 - Daniel Behle (ten), Oliver Schnyder (pno) (Phoenix Edition 154)

  Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte Op 66 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Telarc CD 80740)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 220)

  TALLIS: Spem in alium - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell 454 895)

  TRAD Scottish arr Chowhan: The Lea Rig - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Catrin Finch (harp), Steáfán Hannigan (whistle), Pete Lockett (percussion) (EMI 3 59488)

  BELLINI: Lieto del dolce incarco, from I Capuleti e i Montecchi - Elina Garanca (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (ten), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass), Bologna Teatro Communale Chorus & Orch/Roberto Abbado (DG 477 7460)

  TORMIS: Ocean, Suite from the music for a play by Stein - Estonian-Finnish SO/Anu Tali (Finlandia 8573 89876)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SCHUMANN: Concert Piece in F for four horns Op 86 - Peter Damm, Klaus Pietzonka, Dieter Pansa, Johannes Friemel (horns), Dresden State Orch/Siegfried Kurz (rec 1983) (Ars Vivendi 210 0219)

  Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120 - New Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (rec 1976) (EMI 3 71497)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  SIBELIUS: Piano Sonata in F Op 12 - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1522)

  UTTING: Spirals - New Zealand SO/David Atherton (RNZ)

  PRUDEN: String Trio - Donald Armstrong (vln), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Farquhar Wilkinson (cello) (Kiwi CD SLD 83)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ELGAR: Froissart Overture Op 19 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

  LISZT: La Danza, from Soirées musicales - Guillaume Coppola (pno) (Calliope CAL 9412)

  PONCE trans Ramos: Mexican Scherzo - John Williams (gtr) (Sony MLK 66704)

  SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music - Vienna Phil/Karl Münchinger (Decca 444 546)

  HANDEL: Piangerò, la sorte mia, from Giulio Cesare - Maureen Forrester (contralto), Vienna State Opera Orch/Robert Zeller (CBC PSCD 2002)

  DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 446)

  ADAM: If I were King, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  CORNELIUS arr Atkins: The Three Kings - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes, Iain Tetley (ten) (Atoll ACD 207)

  KORNGOLD: The Fairy King's Ball, from Fairy-Tale Pictures Op 3 - Ilona Prunyi (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223384)

  TRAD arr Jacques: Good King Wenceslas - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)

  GRAINGER: The Merry King - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  MACLEAN: Christ the King - Sydney Chamber Choir/Nicholas Routley (Tall Poppies TP 073)

  ERNST: Grand Caprice on Schubert's The Erl King Op 26 - Gidon Kremer (vln) (DG 445 820)

  GARDNER: Entry of the Three Kings - John Anderson (ob/cor anglais), Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 462 050)

  GRIEG: In the hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Hallé Chorus & Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI 7 94431)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Solveig Kringelborn

  The Norwegian soprano in conversation with Christine Argyle (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Celebrate Christmas with the APO

  Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), Matthew Landreth (bar), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Kenneth Young

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; FINZI: In Terra Pax; ADAM: Cantique de Noël; PFITZNER: Das Christelflein, Overture; RODRIGO: Retablo de Navidad; MENDELSSOHN arr Harris: Hark! the herald angels sing; GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night (recorded in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Baroque Violin

  BACH: Violin Partita No 3 in E BWV1006 - Alina Ibragimova (vln) (Hyperion CDA 67691/2)

  LECLAIR: Violin Sonata in G Op 1/8 - Adrian Butterfield (vln), Alison McGillivray (vla da gamba), Laurence Cummings (hpschd) (Naxos 8.570889)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book 2 - Julius Katchen (pno) (Decca 417 644)

  ROSETTI: Concerto in F for two horns K3/49 - Klaus Wallendorf, Sarah Willis (horns), Kurpfälzisches CO/Johannes Moesus (CPO 777 288)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 90 in C - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

  11:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 13 in Bb minor Op 138 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 463 284)

  Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), Fitzwilliam String Quartet (Decca 411 940)

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