Wednesday 30 December 2009 Rāapa 30 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 13 in D; No 14 in A; No 15 in D; No 16 in Bb - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66534)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  C SCHUMANN: Romance in A minor; Scherzo in D minor; Romances Op 11, Nos 1-3; Scherzo No 2 in C minor; Pieces Fugitives; Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann Op 20; Romances Op 21, Nos 1-3; Romance in B minor - Cristina Ortiz (pno) (Carlton Classics 30366 00292)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  CHARPENTIER: Messe de minuit pour Noël; POULENC: Quatre motets por le temps de Noël; Salve Regina; Quatre motets por le temps de penitence - Alan Walker, Alistair Flutter (trebles), James Turnbull (countertenor), Ben Cooper (ten), Andrew Rupp (bar), Robert Huw Morgan (org), Choir of St John's College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia/George Guest (Chandos CHAN 10448)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  The Maiden's Prayer

  Piano music by Baranowska, DVORÁK, Beethoven, Saint-SaËns, Rubinstein, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Kreisler, Sinding, Paderewski, Lange, Grieg, Drdla, Gossec, Elgar, LehÁr, Fibich & Jessel - Various artists (Naxos 8.550646)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  Cinema Classics 3

  Music by Mozart, Mouret, Puccini, Gershwin, Mascagni, Handel, Orff, Verdi & Beethoven - Various artists (Naxos 8.551153)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ABEL: Symphony in E Op 10/1 - La Stagione Frankfurt/Michael Schneider (CPO 999 207)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Roskilly: Tanguango - Totally Plucked, the Wellington Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  TELEMANN: Concerto in E minor for flute & violin - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Rachel Brown (fl), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0519)

  SZELIGOWSKI: Nocturne for Orchestra - Poznan Phil/Mariusz Smolij (Naxos 8.570371)

  HOVHANESS: A Rose Tree Blossoms - St John's Episcopal Cathedral Choir/Donald Pearson (Delos DE 3700)

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing, Suite Op 11 - London SO/André Previn (DG 453 436)

  7:00 TRAD arr Runswick: The Virgin Mary had a baby boy - Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org) (TreeHouse T 0017)

  ROSSINI arr Demersseman/Berthélèmy/Gallois: Fantasy on William Tell - Patrick Gallois (fl), Malcolm Messiter (ob), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  KALKBRENNER: Fantasia on Beethoven's Celebrated Waltz - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)

  MENDELSSOHN: Fugue in Eb Op 81/4 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570002)

  HAMILTON: Didn't it rain? - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Ode CD ODE 1308)

  HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 2, Rugby - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (DG 435 438)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GIBBONS: Lord of Salisbury Pavane & Galliard - Andrew Rangell (pno) (Dorian DOR 93194)

  DELIUS: Sleigh Ride - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)

  ERNST: Grand Caprice on Schubert's Der Erlkönig Op 26 - Ilya Gringolts (vln) (Hyperion CDA 67619)

  SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Dances - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Clasics 93634)

  JC BACH: Sinfonia No 2 in Bb - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 0434)

  BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Cologne Radio SO/Gary Bertini (Capriccio 71 094)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  TAVENER: Ex Maria Virgine - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Timothy Brown, James McVinnie (org) (Naxos 8.572168)

  FINZI: New Year Music - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 454 438)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 18 in Bb K456 - Christian Zacharias (pno/dir), Lausanne CO (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 940 1488)

  BRAHMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51 - Budapest String Quartet (Sony 82876 78748)

  BRITTEN: Les Illuminations - Sally Matthews (sop), London Phil/Vladimir Jurowski (LPO 0037)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 1 in F minor Op 10 - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 58077)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Music for Life

  Four programmes

  Writer, scholar, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Waikato and broadcaster Marshall Walker talks to Tim Dodd and introduces the music he loves (3) (RNZ)

• 2:10 PM. Afternoon Requests

  TRAD arr Bunting: Carolan's Concerto, from The Ancient Music of Ireland - Invocation/Timothy Roberts (Hyperion CDA 66774)

  GOTTSCHALK: Pasquinade - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66697)

  PALESTRINA: Missa Hodie Christus natus est - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67396)

  DEBUSSY trans Ravel: Nocturnes Nos 1 & 2 - Katia & Marielle Labèque (pno duet) (Philips 454 471)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 - London SO/Antal Dorati (rec 1959) (Mercury 434 312)

  RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand - Leon Fleisher (pno), Baltimore SO/Sergiu Comissiona (rec 1982) (Philips 456 775)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HOGAN: Chasing the White Whale - Toru Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  HUMMEL: Trois Amusements en forme des Caprices Op 105 - John Khouri (fpno) (Music & Arts CD 1165)

  PLEYEL: Symphony in C minor Ben121 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  HANDEL arr Archibald: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - Schweriner Blechbläser-Collegium/Hans-Joachim Drechsler (Berlin Classics 1655 BC)

  KREISLER: La Gitana - Caroline Goulding (vln), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Telarc CD 80744)

  BECK: Sinfonia in F Op 1/2 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  BERGE: Sterrenprinses, after a theme by A Waignein - Luc Bergé (horn) (Fuga Libera FUG 541)

  WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Vienna Phil/Hans Knappertsbusch (Decca 414 625)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/4 - Lili Kraus (pno) (Vanguard OVC 4068)

  ADDISON: Murder, She Wrote, Main theme from the film music - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

  VERDI: Chorus of Murderers, Chi osò mandarvi a noi? from Macbeth - La Scala Chorus & Orch, Milan/Claudio Abbado (DG 449 732)

  PROKOFIEV: Death of Tybalt, from Romeo & Juliet - NHK SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 190)

  MEYER: Death by triple fiddle - Joshua Bell, Mike Marshall (vlns), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 60864)

  BENNETT: Murder on the Orient Express film music - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9867)

  SEISS: German Dances - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)

  OFFENBACH: Intermezzo & Barcarolle, from Tales of Hoffmann - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  REED/MASON arr Takemitsu: The last waltz - Franz Halász (gtr) (BIS CD 1075)

  HALVORSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 1 - Bergen Phil/Karsten Andersen (NCB 435 963)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  In Memoriam

  Four programmes marking musicians on CD who have passed on this year

  (3) Contraltos Anne Collins (b1943) & Helen Watts (b1927); Composer Nicholas Maw (b1935)

  VIVALDI: Magnificat in G minor RV611 - Margaret Marshall, Felicity Lott (sops), Sally Burgess (mezzo), Linda Finnie (mezzo), Anne Collins (contralto), John Constable (organ), John Alldis Choir, English CO/Vittorio Negri (Philips 420 649)

  MAW: Sonatina for flute & piano - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Charles Abramovic (pno) (Avie AV 0016)

  BACH: Magnificat in D BWV243 - Elly Ameling, Hanneke van Bork (sops), Helen Watts (contralto), Werner Krenn (ten), Tom Krause (bar), Vienna Academy Choir, Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger (Decca 425 441)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Live! at the Concertgebouw 2009

  Kees Hülsmann (vln), Rotterdam Phil/Valery Gergiev

  BORODIN: Polovtsian March, from Prince Igor; TISHCHENKO: Yaroslavna Suite Op 58; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade; BORODIN: Symphony No 2 in B minor; KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus (Radio Netherlands)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  REGER: String Trio in A minor Op 77b - members of Aperto Piano Quartet (Naxos 8.570785)

  MICHELIS: Schottische Op 59 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (piccolo), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 96 in D, Miracle - Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 736)

  11:00 RACHMANINOV: Preludes Op 23 - Tahu Matheson (pno) (Kiwi CD SLD 98)

  GIULIANI: Trio in A for violin, cello & guitar - Leonid Kogan (vln), Fyodor Lusanov (cello), Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy (gtr) (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00655)

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