Thursday 31 December 2009 Rāpare 31 Hakihea 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2; GLAZUNOV: Chant du Menstrel for cello and orchestra; KHACHATURIAN: Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8579)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonatas Op 5 Nos 1-6 - Ilio Barontini (hpschd), Marco Fornaciari (vln) (Florentia Musicae FLO 69001)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  While Shepherds Watched…

  Christmas Music from English Parish Churches, 1740-1830 - Psalmody, Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (Hyperion CDA 66924)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  IRELAND: A Sea Idyll; On a Birthday Morning; Soliloquy; Two Pieces, April; Bergomask; Spring will not wait; Two Pieces, February's Child; Aubade; Ballade of London Nights; Month's Mind; Three Pastels, A Grecian Lad; The Boy Bishop; Puck's Birthday; Columbine; Sarnia - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9250)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  MADETOJA: Comedy Overture; Symphony No 3 in A; Okon Fuoko Suite No 1; Ostrobothnians Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9036)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D96 - Giuliano Carmignola (vln), Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (Archiv 474 5172)

  TAUSIG: Adagio, from Beethoven's String Quartet Op 59/1 - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)

  MILFORD: Interlude for flute & strings Op 69a - Julian Sperry (fl), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67444)

  TOURNIER: Harp Sonatina Op 30 - Erica Goodman (harp) (BIS CD 319)

  GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand - Philip Martin (pno), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)

  7:00 TRAD: Behold, here is the best morning - Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque hp), Anonymous 4 (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7325)

  HOLST: Lyric Movement for viola - Stephen Tees (vla), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9270)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Mazurka, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  HAYDN: Armida, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

  RIES: Piano Sonatina in A minor Op 45 - Susan Kagan (pno) (Naxos 8.570796)

  LEWIS: A Miniature Symphony - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2131)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Dona nobis pacem, from Mass in B minor - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  KOECHLIN: Chansons bretonnes, Book 3 - Peter Bruns (cello), Roglit Ishay (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.258)

  DYSON: Woodland Suite for strings & wind - members of BBC SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10439)

  PUNTO: Horn Concerto No 6 in Eb - Barry Tuckwell (horn), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 69395)

  HOROWITZ: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony SK 62691)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Virgin VC 7 91487)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  GEBEL the younger: New Year's Oratorio - Monika Mauch (sop), Kai Wessel (countertenor), Nico van der Meel (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Cantus Thuringia, Capella Thuringia/Bernhard Klapprott (CPO 999 993)

  NIETZSCHE: Eine Sylvesternacht - Nicholas Eanet (vln), John Bell Young (pno) (Newport Classic NPD 85535)

  BOYCE: Ode for the New Year - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SIBELIUS: Pelléas & Mélisande Op 46 - Philharmonia/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1272)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (EMI 5 00906)

  JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta Op 60 - BBC Phil/Charles Mackerras (BBC Music BBC MM 302)

• 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 (4) (RNZ)

• 2:10 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BERNSTEIN: Mambo, from West Side Story, Symphonic Dances - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)

  LORKIN: Family at the Beach - Linn Lorkin (pno/vocalist), Hershal (accordion), Kelvin Roy (horn) (Rouge Records PRCD 1002)

  LISZT: Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen - Thomas Trotter (organ of Merseburg Cathedral, Germany) (Decca 440 283)

  VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium; MARSHALL: Bless the Child - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 501)

  JC BACH: Symphony in Bb - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 487)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No 1 in Eb - Dennis Brain (horn), Philharmonia/Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec 1956) (EMI CDC 7 47834)

  Capriccio, Moonlight music & closing scene - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Philharmonia/Otto Ackermann (rec 1953) (EMI 5 85825)

  Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb - Dennis Brain (horn), Philharmonia/Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec 1956) (EMI CDC 7 47834)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  PSATHAS: Waiting for the Aeroplane - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D006)

  A RITCHIE: Double Concerto for bass clarinet & cello Op 93 - Andrew Uren (bass cl), Katherine Hebley (cello), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes (Atoll ACD 129)

  BUCHANAN: Under the southern skies, from An Ocean Between Us - Rhona Fraser (sop), New Zealand Piano Quartet (RNZ)

  HILL: Symphony No 5 in A minor, The Carnival - Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.223538)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  LANNER arr Kunzel: Court Ball Dances Op 161 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80547)

  H BLAKE: Jazz Dances Op 520a - Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Howard Blake (pno) (Naxos 8.572083)

  PURCELL arr Britten: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.557753)

  BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 119 - Markus Groh (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93990)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Nation shall not lift up a sword, from Dona nobis pacem - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

  BOCCHERINI: Third movement, Minuet, from String Quintet in E G275 - I Musici (Philips 420 816)

  GRIEG: Cradle song, from Lyric Pieces Op 68 - Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due (Naxos 8.557890)

  GROVLEZ: Sicilienne et Allegro giocoso - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

  GERSHWIN arr Fernie: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)

  MEWS: Tango Fantastique - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  ELMS: Fandango fantástico - Victoria Green (gtr), Stuart Nicholson (organ of Temple Church, London) (Dutton CDLX 7175)

  NADERMAN: Etude fantastique in F - Masumi Nagasawa (harp) (Etcetera KTC 1341)

  LUMBYE: Sandman, Galop Fantastique - Odense SO/Peter Guth (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9089)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  In Memoriam

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

  (4) Bass baritone Ian Wallace (b1919); Soprano Elisabeth Söderström (b1927); Composer Leon Kirchner (b1919); Mezzo Heather Begg (b1932)

  COATES: The green hills o'Somerset - Ian Wallace (bbar), BBC Concert Orch/Adrian Boult (BBC Radio Classics BBCRD 9106)

  RAVEL: Shéhérazade - Elisabeth Söderström (sop), Malmö SO/Stig Rybrant (Bluebell ABCD 095)

  KIRCHNER: String Quartet No 2 - Mendelssohn String Quartet (BIS SACD 1264)

  TREMAIN: Four Medieval Lyrics - Heather Begg (mezzo), Ruth Pearl (vln), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Farquhar Wilkinson (cello) (Kiwi SLD 16)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Ewa Kupiec (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Lionel Bringuier

  DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; SZYMANOWSKI: Symphony No 4 Op 60; BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. As Time Goes By

  CHILCOTT: Beach - Paul Silverthorne (vla), BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott (Signum SIGCD 100)

  CALDINI: Clockwork Toccata - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Channel Classics CCS SA 25707)

  HUPFELD arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

• 10:05 PM. Day's End

  PACHELBEL: Canon in D - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock - Orch of the 18th Century/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

  FRANÇAIX: Flower clock - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Radio SO/Uri Segal (CPO 999 779)

  11:00 REINECKE: Trio in Bb for clarinet, horn & piano Op 274 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1295)

  HASTED: Celebration Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 02 CD)

  WAXMAN: Auld Lang Syne Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Ula Ulijona (vla), Marta Sudraba (cello), Louis Lortie (pno) (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

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