Saturday 26 December 2009 Rāhoroi 26 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  SABOLY: Ben urosa la naissença; Orgulbós, plen de maganha; Tu que cerques tei delices; CORDAT: O monde, que tu es heureux; Mortels, assamblez tous vos voix; SABOLY: Li a quanqua ren que m'a fat paur; DANDRIEU: Adam fut un pauvre home; PEZANT: Coratge, moainada; CORDAT: Aquò's pro durmit, mainada; SABOLY: Li a pron de gens; CORDAT: Sus chrestiens, préparons nous; SABOLY: Sant Jousè m'a dit - La Camera delle Lacrime, Bruno Bonhoure (dir), Caroline Bardot (sop), Martin Bauer, Andreas Linos (dessus & bass viols), Jean-Luc Tamby (theorbo, baroque gtr), Elisabeth Geiger (org, harpsichord), Oliver Germond, Matthieu Benoit (tens), Jean-Louis Paya (bar) (Alpha 117)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  Renaissance and Baroque Christmas Music for Brass in the Schwerin Cathedral - Schweriner Blechbläser-Collegium, Jan Ernest (org) (Hänssler CD 98.444)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  RUTTER: Wexford Carol; Jesus childe; There is a flower; Donkey Carol; Wild wood carol; Angels' carol; Nativity carol; Mary's lullaby; Star carol; Candlelight carol; Shepherd's pipe carol; Christmas lullaby; Dormi, Jesu; Love came down at Christmas; Sans Day carol; I wonder as I wander; What sweeter music; Joy to the world; I saw three ships; Deck the hall; The very best time of the year; We wish you a merry Christmas; Silent night - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter, Stephen Varcoe (bar) (Collegium CSCD 510)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  PALESTRINA: Alma redemptoris mater; Canite tuba; Deus tu conversus; Hodie Christus natus est; Missa Hodie Christus natus est; O magnum mysterium; Tui sunt coeli; O admirable commercium; Christe, redemptor omnium; Magnificat Primi toni - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67396)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  Four Centuries of Christmas Music including works by BACH, HAYDN, PRAETORIUS, REGER, NICOLAI, BRITTEN and STRAVINSKY - Claron McFadden (sop), Olaf Bär (bar), SWR Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, Mainz Dom Choir; SWR Radio Orch, Kaiserslautern/Paul Goodwin (Hännsler CD 93.114)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SVENDSEN: Zorahayda - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in G HobXV/25, Gypsy - Eisenstadt Haydn Trio (Phoenix Edition 161)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Second movement, Maestoso-Allegro, from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Peter Averi (organ of the Wellington Town Hall), New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  PAGANINI: Cantabile in D Op 17 - Pekka Kuusisto (vln), Ismo Eskelinen (gtr) (Ondine ODE 1142)

  BRETON: Andalusian Scenes, excerpts - Gran Orquesta Sinfónica/Ataúlfo Argenta (Medici Arts MM 025)

  7:00 BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture - Philharmonia Virtuosi/Richard Kapp (Sony MLK 64058)

  HANDEL arr E Grigoryan: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)

  CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Samson François (pno) (EMI 2 12695)

  DEBUSSY: Valse romantique - Lily Laskine (harp) (Erato 4509 92131)

  NEWMAN: Prince of Foxes Suite from the film music - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

  8:00 MENOTTI: Introduction, March & Shepherd's Dance, from Amahl & the Night Visitors - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7005)

  BRUCH: Ave Maria Op 61 - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

  TRAD: Improvisations on Four English Folksongs, O Waly Waly; I will give my love an apple; The three ravens; Barbara Allen - Rachael Beesley (vln), Anthea Cottee (cello), Paul Dyer (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 428)

  ALBRIGHT: Three Original Rags, On the Lamb; The Queen of Sheba; Onion Skin - Nicola Melville (pno) (Equilibrium EQ 57)

  RAVEL: Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62746)

• 9:00 AM. NZSO's 2010 Guests

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 417 762)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 18 in G K301 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Natalie Zhu (pno) (DG 477 5572)

  LISZT: Transcendental Studies, No 5, Feux follets; No 6, Vision - Freddy Kempf (pno) (BIS CD 1210)

  SCHUBERT arr Denisov: Suite of Waltzes from D145 - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  ADAM arr Norman: O Holy Night - Malvina Major (sop), Christchurch City Choir/Brian Law (Kiwi Pacific CD SLC 235)

  O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

  LANE: The Night before Christmas - Stephen Fry (narrator), BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Naxos 8.570331)

  GF SAMMARTINI: Recorder Sonata in F minor - Michael Schneider (rec), Camerata Cologne (DHM 05472 77283)

  TRAD: Wassail Song - Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery), Anonymous 4 (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7325)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - Brynjar Hoff (ob), English CO/Ian Watson (Simax PSC 1049)

  TRAD arr Sullivan/Hughes: It came upon a midnight clear - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 207)

  ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Scottish CO/Jaime Laredo (dir) (RegisC 1160)

  TRAD: Angelus emittitur; Verbum caro factum est, from Piae Cantiones - Timo Väänänen (kantele), Antwerp Cathedral Choir, Zefiro Torna/Sebastiaan van Steenberge (Etcetera KTC 4023)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hodie - Janice Watson (sop), Peter Hoare (ten), Stephen Gadd (bar), St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir, Guildford Choral Society, Royal Phil/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.570439)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

  Host Wycliffe Gordon offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (1) From the Heart of Steeltown

  Pittsburgh-born drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts and vibraphonist Steve Nelson put pedals to the metal in a tribute to the Pittsburgh's heavy hitters. The songs of Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn and Jeff Watts all get the treatment (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Colombian singer Marta Gómez

  Entre Cada Palabra, from Colombian singer-songwriter Marta Gómez, is a collection of original songs which draw on the rhythms of South America, the chamame from Argentina, the Peruvian lando, and the cumbia from Colombia, to name just a few (Chesky Records JD301)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Helen Bevin (vla), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

  MOZART: The Magic Flute, Overture; A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto; HEXTALL: Unbroken Chain; BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 9 in Eb Op 70 (recorded in St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:20 PM. Schubert Chamber Works

  Piano Sonata No 4 in A minor D537 - Herbert Schuch (pno) (Oehms OC 593)

  Piano Trio No 2 in Eb D929 - Gould Piano Trio (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0026)

  Violin Sonatina in A minor D385 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5082)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  RÓZSA: Hungarian Nocturne - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7191)

  MCLEOD: Tone Clock Pieces 1, 4, 5, 6 - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Sounz Volume 1)

  PIAZZOLLA: Café 1930, from Histoire du Tango - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in A, Sinfonia nazionale nel gusto di cinque nazioni - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Vienna 1900

  WALTER: The child's sleep; The lark; Elves - Emma Bell (sop), Andrew West (pno) (Linn CKD 238)

  MARX: Love has touched; A need is in my heart; Crowned with dreams; And yesterday he brought me roses - Emma Bell (sop), Andrew West (pno) (Linn CKD 238)

  SCHOENBERG: Song of the Wood Dove, from Gurrelieder; BERG: Seven early songs, Night; Song amid the reeds; The nightingale; Crowned in dreams; In the chamber; Ode to love; Summer days - Maria Riccarda Wesseling (mezzo), Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain/Pierre-Alain Monot (Claves CD 50-2312)

  MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder - Stephan Genz (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67392)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Nikolai Demidenko (pno), Christchurch Symphony/William Southgate

  ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70; CARR: Symphony No 3; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique (recorded in the Christchurch Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini Op 35 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 456 706)

  PLEYEL: Symphonie Concertante in Bb Ben112 - David Perry (vln), Victoria Chiang (vla), Baltimore CO/Markand Thakar (Naxos 8.570320)

  WARLOCK: Serenade - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 384)

  11:00 GRAINGER: In a Nutshell - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1767)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 127 - Smetana Quartet (Supraphon SU 3870)

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