Schedule for Friday 25 December 2009

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1
"Sing in Exultation"
GAUNTLETT: Once in royal David's city; GRÜBER: Silent Night (Po Marie); TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: O little town of Bethlehem; HEAD: The little road to Bethlehem; ANON arr Praetorius: Est ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; MADDEN: I sing of a maiden; ADAM arr Rutter: O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël); DARKE: In the bleak mid-winter; BASQUE arr Willcocks: The infant King; ANON arr Willcocks: Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?; MACKY arr Hamilton: Te Harinui; RUTTER: Candlelight Carol; TRAD arr Jacques: Good King Wenceslas; ANON: Ding dong! merrily on high; WADE arr Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful; GANNON/KENT arr Huff: I'll be home for Christmas; PIERPOINT: Jingle Bells; GARDNER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; SWEELINCK: Hodie Christus natus est - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)
1:10 (approx) - Disc 2
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia; Hodie - Janice Watson (sop), Peter Hoare (ten), Stephen Gadd (bar), Guildford Choral Society, St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir, Royal Phil/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.570439)
2:20 (approx) - Disc 3
SWINGLE/MOORE: A visit from St Nicholas; TRAD add McNeff: Carol of the bells; KIRKPATRICK arr McNeff: Away in a manger; PIERPOINT arr McNeff: Jingle bells; TRAD arr McNeff: The first nowell; TCHAIKOVSKY arr McNeff: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy; HOPKINS arr McNeff: We three kings; TRAD arr McNeff: Angels from the realms of glory; Coventry Carol; TRAD arr Cable: D'où viens-tu, bergère; The twelve days of Christmas; TRAD arr Gillis: O Come, Emmanuel; I wonder as I wander; What Child is this?; TRAD arr Cable: La cloche de Noël; TRAD arr McNeff: We wish you a merry Christmas; TRAD arr Cable: Noël nouvelet; MENDELSSOHN arr McNeff: Hark! the herald angels sing; GRUBER arr McNeff: Silent night; TRAD arr McNeff: Good King Wenceslas; HANDEL arr Mills: Hallelujah chorus; PRAETORIUS arr Cable: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming; TRAD arr McNeff: Oh come, all ye faithful - Canadian Brass, Elmer Iseler Singers (Philips 426 835)
3:35 (approx) - Disc 4
ROUSE: Karolju; LUTOSLAWSKI; Polish Christmas carols; RODRIGO: Retablo de Navidad - Julia Doyle (sop), Anna Stephant (mezzo), Philharmonia Chorus, Deborah Miles-Johnson (dir), BBC SO/David Zinman (RCA 88697 11561)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
LISZT: Christmas Tree; Weihnachtslied; Via Crucis; Chorale - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66388)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 TRAD arr Warrell: We wish you a merry Christmas - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)
VIVALDI: Mandolin Concerto in C RV425 - Rolf Lislevand (mandolin), period instrument ensemble (Naïve OP 30429)
LISZT: Litanies de Marie, from Litanies de Marie - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67187)
DUPARC: Aux Etoiles - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI CDC 5 55385)
GRANDJANY: Children's Hour Suite - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)
SVENDSEN: Last year I was tending the goats - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)
7:00 TRAD arr Watts: Unto us a boy is born - Maddy Prior (vocalist), Carnival Band (Portrait PCL 1007)
JC BACH: Sinfonia No 1 in Eb - London Wind Soloists/Jack Brymer (dir) (Testament SBT 1345)
ALBÉNIZ arr Balaguer: Capricho Catalan - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)
GRAINGER: Colonial Song, Up-Country Song - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)
MEDTNER: Fairy-tales Op 48 - Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67491/2)
RODNEY BENNETT: Little Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2113)
8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah - Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1498/99)
SWEELINCK: Under the Linden tree - Douglas Mews (organ of the Katharinenkirche, Braunschweig) (Douglas Mews DCM 001)
SUK rev Musil: Fantastic Scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras (Decca 475 7061)
RUTTER: Angels' Carol - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 111)
KREISLER: Caprice viennois; Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)
GLAZUNOV: Concert Waltz No 1 in D Op 47 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9658)
9:00 AM. Christmastide: music for the festive season

WILLCOCKS: Fanfare; O come all ye faithful - Bach Choir, members of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (Decca 436 484)
McDOWALL: Christus natus est - Rachel Nicholls (sop), Canterbury Chamber Choir, Parmiter's Senior Singers, Orchestra Nova/George Vass (Dutton CDLX 7146)
REBIKOV: Waltz, from The Christmas Tree - USSR State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Orch/Boris Khaikin (Melodyia MEL CD 10 00660)
TRAD arr Jacques: Good King Wenceslas; HEAD: The little road to Bethlehem; TRAD arr Willcocks: God rest ye merry, gentlemen - Tewkesbury Abbey Choir/Andrew Sackett (org/dir) (Naxos 8.553077)
TCHAIKOVSKY orch Gauk: December, Christmas, from The Seasons - USSR State Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00660)
ANON arr Langford: A Christmas Fantasy - Huddersfield Choral Society, John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome (Chandos CHAN 8679)
10:00 AM. The Works

MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 761)
SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No 1 in F# minor Op 11 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (Vanguard Classics 99034)
SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor Op 61 - Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1470)
MUSSORGSKY arr various: Pictures at an Exhibition - Nashville Chorus & SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.570716)
Noon Millennium of Music

The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach
A Norwegian Christmas
Ole Edvard Antonsen (tpt), Nidaros Choir of Trondheim, Trondheim SO/Bjorn Moe; Majorstuen
ANON: Adeste fideles; KNUDSEN: I am so glad each Christmas Eve; PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen; ANON: Deilig er Jorden; The little child, so happy; BRORSON: Now comes the humble little child; ANON Gregorian chant: Hodie Christus natus est; PRAETORIUS/VULPIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen; SCHEIDT: Puer natus in Bethlehem; ANON: Rejoice on earth and beneath the stars; PRAETORIUS: En natus est Emmanuel; PALESTRINA: Sanctus; Benedictus, from Missa Hodie Christus natus est; LOTTI: Agnus Dei; BRORSON: My heart always wanders; At this joyful Christmastide; Most beautiful rose; TRAD: A child is born in Bethlehem; Rakkelvise, from Sunndaklen (WFMT)
1:15 PM. Opening the Toybox

HERBERT: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 66710)
GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)
ROSSINI orch Respighi: Tarantella, from La Boutique Fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 444 610)
DOWLAND: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy - Paul O'Dette (lute) (Auvidis Astrée E 7715)
L MOZART: Third movement. Allegro, from Toy Symphony in G - English CO/Daniel Barenboim (DG 480 0475)
MARTINU: Puppets, Book 1 - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.557918)
BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (EMI CD CFP 4086)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

HANDEL: Organ Concerto in G minor Op 4/3 - Hannes Meyer (organ of L'Eglise St Thomas de Berne), Orchestre Il tempo giusto/Dominique Roggen (Accord 20050)
MOZART: Alleluia, from Exsultate, jubilate - Leontyne Price (sop), Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 440 402)
CHOPIN: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Fou Ts'ong (pno) (Sony MLK 64057)
WADE arr Rombi: Adeste fideles; GRUBER arr Rombi: Stille Nacht - Rolando Villazón (ten), Bel' Arte SO/Philippe Rombi (Virgin 395245)
KARG-ELERT: Homage to Handel - Winfried Bönig (organ of Cologne Cathedral) (Motette CD 12191)
FOSTER: While shepherds watched their flocks by night; CEREROLS: Serafín, que con dulce harmonía - Emily van Evera (sop), Timothy Wilson (countertenor), Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54529)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. Coppélia

The sentimental comic three act ballet by Léo DELIBES concerning the mysterious Doctor Coppélius and his life-size dancing doll - Swiss Romande Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 472)
4:45 PM. Playing with Dolls

POLDINI arr Kreisler: Dancing Doll - Midori (vln), Robert McDonald (pno) (Sony SK 89700)
ANDERSON: China Doll - Eastman-Rochester Pops Orch/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 432 013)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Dolly is ill; Dolly's funeral; My new dolly, from Album for the Young Op 39 - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.550885)
5:00 PM. Early Evening Concert

TOMLINSON: Lakeside Idyll - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7170)
MILHAUD: Fantaisie pastorale Op 188 - Michael Korstick (pno), South West German Radio Orch/Alun Francis (CPO 777 162)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 477 5864)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
FARR: Rangitoto - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2042)
GAUBERT: Divertissement Grec - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)
HAMILTON: I have a dozen dragons; My gifts to keep; Christmas Cradle Song; The Angel's visit, from Noël - Opus 1998/David Hamilton (David Hamilton)
PERGOLESI: Sinfonia for cello & basso continuo - Natalia Pavlutskaya, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)
SIBELIUS: Kuolema Op 44 & Op 62 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)
7:00 PM. The Chart Toppers

A selection of the CDs sold this year that have risen to No 1 on the Concert Classical Chart
GRIEG: To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)
GUASTAVINO: The rose & the willow - Anna Netrebko (sop), Prague Philharmonia/Emmanuel Villaume (DG 477 7639)
TAKEMITSU: The Night, from Toward the Sea II - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), Joshua Smith (alto fl), Oberlin 21/Bridget-Michaele Reischl (Telarc CD 80694)
PROKOFIEV: Madrigal, from Romeo & Juliet Suite - Christchurch SO/William Southgate (Chch Symph Trust CHCH 004)
CHOPIN: Nocturne in C# minor Op 27/1 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67706)
HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Rolando Villazón (ten), Gabrieli Players/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 8056)
DONIZETTI: Ah! dal ciel discenda un raggio, from Maria Stuarda - Elina Garanca (mezzo), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass), Elizabeth Futral (sop), Bologna Teatro Communale Orch/Roberto Abbado (DG 477 7460)
ROSSINI: Dei Pappataci s'avanza il coro, from The Italian Girl in Algiers - Florence May Festival Chorus and Orch/Silvio Varviso (Decca 475 8275)
RACHMANINOV: Prelude No 8 in Ab, from Ten Preludes Op 23 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)
TCHAIKOVSKY: If I had wished to pass my life, from Eugene Onegin - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Nuccia Focile (sop), St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Paris Orch/Semyon Bychkov (Philips 438 235)
LILBURN: No 4, Canzona, The Flower of the Sea, from Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)
PARRY: Jerusalem - Robert Quinney (org), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Universal 179 5732)
BACH: Presto, from Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV1001 - Itzhak Perlman (vln) (EMI 4 76811)
HOLST: I vow to thee, my country - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 2 28944)
BACH: First movement, Prelude, from Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 2001/02)
PORPORA: Come nave in mezzo all'onde, from Siface - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Decca 478 1521)
8:00 PM. Christmas Oratorio

BACH: Christmas Oratorio, a collection of six cantatas written for the Christmas season - Malin Hartelius (sop), Kristina Hammarström (contralto), Jörg Dürmüller (ten), Detlef Roth (bass), Amsterdam Cappella, Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (Challenge CC 76607)
10:20 PM. Day's End

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 - Nash Ensemble (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0007)
11:00 HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67554)
SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde - Mandelring Quartet (Audite 92.524)