Saturday 20 March 2010 Rāhoroi 20 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132; Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  LECUONA: Rapsodia Negra for piano & orchestra; Suite Espanola; Ante El Escorial; Zambra Gitana; Aragonesa; Granada; Zambra; San Fransisco El Grande; Aragón; Preludio en la Noche; La Habanera; Mazurka en Glissande; Canto del Guajiro; Three Miniatures; Canto Sibony; Noche Azul - Thomas Tirino (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Michael Bartos (BIS CD 754)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Music, love & wine; Bonny laddie, Highland laddie; I'll praise the saint with early song; Sally in our alley; Sunset; Faithfu' Johnnie; Behold, my love; His boat comes on the sunny tide; Enchantress, Farewell; The pulse of an Irishman; To the aeolian harp; O Charlie is my darling; Duncan Gray; To the blackbird; 'Tis sunshine at last; Cease your funning; Oh sweet were the hours; Save me from the grave & wise; Farewell bliss & farewell Nancy; Love without hope; Farewell thou noisy town; He promis'd me at parting; The monks of Bangor's march; Robin Adair; O swiftly glides the bonny boat; Sad & luckless was the season; Come draw we round a cheerful ring; The sweetest lad was Jamie; Come fill, fill, my good fellow - Elaine Woods (sop), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Josef Protschka (ten), Richard Salter (bar), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet Op 81; String Quartet No 12 Op 96, American - Hiroko Nakamura (pno), Tokyo String Quartet (CBS MK 44920)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Suite No 4; Masquerade Suite; Music from the Ballet, Circus; Dance Suite - St Petersburg State SO/André Anichanov, Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: The Creation, Sinfonia, The Representation of Chaos - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Polonaise in F minor Op 77 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5152)

  MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 4 in A - Henk de Graaf (cl), Rotterdam Amadeus Ensemble/Marien van Staalen (Brilliant Classics 93337)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Bolero - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (Naxos 8.570399)

  REYNOLDS: Alice through the Looking-Glass, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

  7:00 BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Cologne Radio SO/Gary Bertini (Capriccio 71 094)

  HUBAY: Czárdas Scene No 4, Beautiful Katie - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Bournemouth SO/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.572078)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 19 in G minor Op 49/1 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2013)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Sonata in Bb, from Essercizii Musici - Sarah Francis (ob), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1240)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Brilliant Classics 99926)

  8:00 RUTTER: Suite for strings - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

  PUCCINI arr Tamminga: Piccolo valzer for piano - Liuwe Tamminga (organ of St Pietro Somaldi, Lucca, Italy) (Passacaille 952)

  COPRARIO: Fantasia, Chi può mirarvi - Fretwork (Virgin VC 5 45346)

  FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Idil Biret (pno), Bilkent SO/Alain Pâris (Alpha 104)

  GRIEG: In Autumn, Overture - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1191)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  BIZET: Symphony in C - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553027)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two cellos RV531 - Georg Faust, Kristin von der Goltz (cellos), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (Avi 855 3060)

  RACHMANINOV: Prelude in Eb Op 23/6 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)

  HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, Let thy hand be strengthened - Tallis Chamber Choir, Royal Academy Consort/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557003)

  Appointment - Janetta McStay

  An illustrated interview with Peter Mechen (RNZ)

  (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

  (13) Rags, Strides & Stomps

  Put cut in your strut and take pride in your stride! Virtuoso Marcus Roberts with newcomers Jonathan Batiste and Aaron Diehl take turns in a cutting contest on the keys. Jazz's piano masters are still hard to beat. Our trio honours the giants of the stride piano, Fats Waller, James P Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Classical music from Iran

  To celebrate Nowruz (the traditional Iranian New Year), music from classical Iranian ensemble Dastan. The group perform instrumental music and songs to poems by the contemporary poet Sayeh, and the great mystics: Attar, Rumi and Hafiz (Network Medien 495120)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 79th season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Sixteen programmes

  (12) Tao Lin (pno), Bergonzi String Quartet

  MOZART: String Quartet No 19 in C K465, Dissonance; SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57; C SCHUMANN arr Flavin: Liebst du um Schönheit; A MAHLER arr Flavin: Laue Sommernacht; BRAHMS arr Flavin: Minnelied Op 71/5; TOUZET arr Flavin: Siempre en clave; SCHUBERT arr Flavin: Erlkönig D328; BERNSTEIN arr Flavin: Glitter and be gay, from Candide; YEPEZ arr Flavin: Danza Equatoriana; GLIERE: String Quartet No 2 in G minor Op 20 (Keystone Broadcasting)

• 5:05 PM. Folk Influences in the 1920s

  WARLOCK arr Lane: Folksong Preludes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)

  BARTÓK: Three Rondos on Folk Tunes Sz84 - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 23407)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 2 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9697)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  UTTING: Spirals - New Zealand SO/David Atherton (RNZ)

  TOSCANINI: Minuettino; Berceuse - David Vine (pno) (RNZ)

  BESSER: Klez - Isidor Saslav (vln), Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

  FROM SCRATCH: 9,10,11, from Gung Ho 1,2,3D - From Scratch/Philip Dadson (Flying Nun FN 085)

  MCLEOD: Cambridge Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Mezzo, Susan Graham

  HAHN: A Chloris; L'Énamourée; Trois jours de vendange; Infidélité; Dans la nuit; Fêtes Galantes; L'Heure exquise - Roger Vignoles (pno) (Sony SK 60168)

  DEBUSSY orch Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire - BBC SO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Warner 2564 61938)

  ROREM: Jeanie with the light brown hair; Ode; For Poulenc; Little Elegy; O Do Not Love Too Long; Far-Far-Away; For Susan; A Journey - Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Erato 8573 80222)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bbar), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  FARQUHAR: Ring Round the Moon; HANDEL: The trumpet shall sound, from Messiah; Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes; Revenge, Timotheus cries, from Alexander's Feast; MOZART: Per questa bella mano K612; Non più andrai, from The Marriage of Figaro; Deh vieni alla finestra, from Don Giovanni; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. The Allies

  HILL: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, Allies - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Linn CKD 315)

  GIULIANI: Guitar Concerto No 3 in F Op 70 - Paolo Pugliese (gtr), Ensemble Ottocento/Andrea Rognoni (dir) (Brilliant Classics 92621)

  ROUSSEL: Bacchus & Ariadne, Suite No 2 - Paris Orch/Serge Baudo (EMI CZS 7 62669)

  11:00 SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 - Dolf Bettelheim (vln), Samuel Rhodes (vla), Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 420 791)

  SPOHR: String Sextet in C Op 140 - L'Archibudelli & Smithsonian Chamber Players (Sony SK 53370)

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