Monday 25 January 2010 Rāhina 25 Kohi-tātea 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  TELEMANN: Concerto in A for two violins; Concerto in D for four violins; Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba & strings; Concerto in G minor for recorder & strings; Concerto in C for four violins; Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute & strings - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (DG 439 444)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No 1; Piano Concerto in F, Allegro Agitata; An American in Paris; Prelude No 3; Medley from Porgy & Bess; Fascinating Rhythm; Lullaby; Promenade; Cuban Overture - Sarah Vaughn (sop), André Previn (pno), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 64060)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 - Monika Frimmer (sop), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 941/2)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27, Moonlight; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 34509)

  4:35 (approx) - Disc 5

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen; Summer Afternoon; Impressions of a Princess; Salute the Soldier; Two Light Syncopated Pieces, Moon Magic; Rose of Samarkand; For Your Delight; The Unknown Singers; I Sing to You; Coquette; Over to You; Idyll; Under the Stars; By the Tamarisk; Mirage; Last Love; The Greenland - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 JC BACH: Catone in Utica, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

  CONSTANTINESCU: Toccata - Mihaela Ursuleasa (pno) (Berlin Classics 1654 BC)

  WOLF-FERRARI: Overture & Intermezzo, from Doctor Cupid - Stephen Orton (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 7 54585)

  CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/7 - Rémy Baudet (vln), Pieter-Jan Belder (hpschd) (Brilliant Classics 92403)

  KORNGOLD: Captain Blood, film music - London SO/André Previn (DG 471 347)

  7:00 WEBER: Ruler of the Spirits, Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 070)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre - Peter Schaffer (vln), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

  COLLINS: Victoria the Great - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7162)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Piatti: Song without Words Op 62/6, Spring Song - Mischa Maisky (cello), Sergio Tiempo (pno) (DG 471 565)

  BAX: London Pageant - BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Chandos CHAN 9879)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BOTTESINI: Elégie No 1 in D - Thomas Martin (dbass), London SO/Franco Petracchi (Naxos 8.570398)

  TURINA: Danzas fantásticas Op 22 - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80574)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; RACHMANINOV: Melodie Op 3/3 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

  BRAHMS arr Fischer: Hungarian Dance No 14 in D minor - strings of Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 28309)

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

  HEUBERGER: The Opera Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  Choral Curtain Raisers

  Six programmes

  (4) With Brian Kay

  Britten's public statement of his anti-war convictions (RNZ)

  BRITTEN: War Requiem - Elisabeth Söderström (sop), Robert Tear (ten), Thomas Allen (bar), Boys of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, CBSO Chorus, CBSO/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 05909)

  GLINKA: Kamarinskaya - Brno State Phil/Oskar Danon (Supraphon 11 0622-2)

  RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit - Martha Argerich (pno) (EMI 5 57101)

  RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - John Williams (gtr), Philharmonia/Louis Frémaux (CBS M2K 44791)

  WAGNER: Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 041)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Music in Czechoslovakia 1900-1909

  SUK: Fantastic Scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 8897)

  MARTINU: Elegy - Bohuslav Matousek (vln), Petr Adamec (pno) (Supraphon SU 3950)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

  VERDI: La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto - Juan Diego Flórez (ten), Giuseppe Verdi Orch, Milan/Carlo Rizzi (Decca 475 550)

  BABIN: Hillandale Waltzes - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

  VANHAL: Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Enid Haines (sop), Nina Scott Stoddart (mezzo), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), James Tibbles (org), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (rec 1991) (EMI 3 71462)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 6 in C HobXVI/10 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Chartreuse TB 7)

  HEENAN: War & Peace, Suite for orchestra - New Zealand SO/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

  BARBER: Dover Beach Op 3 - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Belcea Quartet (EMI 5 58076)

  FARR: Time & Tide, based on music from the television police-drama "Duggan" - Donald Armstrong (vln), Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba), NZSO Chamber Orch/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2036)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

  DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Lisa Wellbaum (harp), Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 471 614)

  CHOPIN: Ballade No 3 in Ab Op 47 - Alain Planès (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2052)

  PAGANINI arr Kreisler: La campanella - David Galoustov (vln), Julien Gernay (pno) (Lyrinx LYR 2207)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Running Set - Royal Liverpool Phil/James Judd (Naxos 8.572304)

  TRAD arr Britten: The Salley Gardens - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Sharolyn Kimmorley (pno) (ABC 476 7175)

  RACHMANINOV trans Capuçon/Montero: Variation 18, from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gabriela Montero (pno) (Virgin 3 85786)

  ADDINSELL arr Isaacs: The Passionate Friends, Suite from the film music - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)

  DOWLAND: If my complaints could passions move - Catherine King (mezzo), Jacob Heringman (ten lute) (Virgin VC 5 45288)

  PURCELL arr JC Pepusch: If Love's a Sweet Passion, from The Beggar's Opera - Frode Thorsen (rec), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello), Bergen Barokk (BIS CD 965)

  BOTTESINI: Gran Duo Passione Amorosa - Boguslaw Furtok, Johannes Stähle (dbasses), Frankfurt Radio SO/Ulrich Edelmann (CPO 999 665)

  MUSSORGSKY: Passionate impromptu - Vovka Ashkenazy (pno) (Conifer 75605 51274)

  HANDEL: What passion cannot music raise to quell, from Ode for St Cecilia's Day - Sandrine Piau (sop), Marco Frezzato (cello), Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari (Naïve OP 30484)

  W HAYES: The Passions, Overture - Capriccio Basel (Capriccio 71 135)

• 7:00 PM. Best of Composer of the Week 2009

  Eight programmes

  (4) Bryan Crump looks at the life and music of ANTON BRUCKNER (1824-1896) (RNZ)

  Intermezzo in D minor - Fine Arts Quartet, Gil Sharon (vla) (Naxos 8.570788)

  Te Deum in C - Joan Rodgers (sop), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Keith Lewis (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66650)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Michael Houstoun (pno)

  BACH: Viola da gamba Sonata No 1 in G BWV1027; SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40; SCHUBERT: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor; PROKOFIEV arr Sapozhnikov: Fragments from the ballet Chout (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. Recent Release

  STRAUSS: Metamorphosen - Weimar State Orch/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570895)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  POULENC: Flute Sonata - Patrick Gallois (fl), Lydia Wong (pno) (Naxos 8.557328)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Isaac Stern (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (CBS MK 42256)

  SIBELIUS: Scènes historiques, Suite No 1 - Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 6591)

  11:00 MOZART: Violin Sonata No 35 in A K526 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Natalie Zhu (pno) (DG 477 5572)

  CRUSELL: Clarinet Quartet No 3 in D Op 7 - Osmo Vänskä (cl), Pekka Kauppinen (vln), Anu Airas (vla), Ilkka Pälli (cello) (BIS CD 741)

Next day - Tue 26

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