Wednesday 24 March 2010 Rāapa 24 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59; PADEREWSKI: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 17 - Piers Lane (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66452)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  IRELAND: Fantasy Sonata in Eb; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song; BAX: Clarinet Sonata; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Vocalises for soprano & clarinet; BLISS: Pastoral; STANFORD: Clarinet Sonata; BLISS: Two Nursery Rhymes, The Ragwort; The Dandelion - Emma Johnson (cl), Judith Howarth (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (ASV CD DCA 891)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  GOUNOD: Requiem; Mass No 2 in G Op 1 - Eva Buffoni (sop), Irene Friedli (alto), Ruben Amoretti (ten), Alain Clement (bass), Chorale du Brassus/Andre Charlet, Francois Margot (org) (Claves CD 50-9326)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in E Kk532; in A Kk322; MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 K331; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 Op 27/2, Moonlight; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 Op 35, Marche funèbre; MOSKOWSKI: Etude Op 72/11; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 8/12; SCHUMANN: Träumerei; HOROWITZ: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 44797)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  DELIUS: Prelude; La Calinda; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Intermezzo; Violin Concerto; Two Pieces for Small Orchestra; Sleigh Ride - Philloppe Djokic (vln), Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SNCD 5134)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: First movement, The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Justine Cormack (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Mark Op 4/6 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 749)

  DEBUSSY: Pagodas, from Estampes - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62802)

  7:00 WALTON arr Mathieson: Richard III, a Shakespeare Suite - Philharmonia/William Walton (EMI CDM 5 65007)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1990)

  TRAD: The Bonnie Earl O'Moray - Royal Scottish National Orch Chorus, BBC Scottish SO/John Currie (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)

  GRANADOS: Andalucia, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2103)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Adagio, from Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV1052 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), ASMF (Sony SK 89245)

  THOMAS: Mignon, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 425 083)

  BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor - György Pauk (vln), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93989)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in C Op 6/10 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

  GERSHWIN arr Stoltzman: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930)

  Side by Side, excerpts, The little things you do together; You must meet my wife; Getting married today; I remember; Can that boy foxtrot - Julia McKenzie, David Kernan, Millicent Martin (artists), Tim Higgs, Stuart Pedlar (pno duo)/(RCA 1851-2-RG)

  Marry me a little, a Musical Revue, excerpts, Saturday Night; So many people; A moment with you; The Girls of Summer; Pour le Sport

  Man ... Craig Lucas

  Woman ... Suzanne Henry

  unknown pianist (RCA 7142-2-RG)

  Back in business, from Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty's film) - Liza Minnelli, Billy Stritch (vocalists), Ensemble & American Theatre Orchestra/Paul Gemignani (RCA 61516)

  Side by Side, excerpts, Everybody says don't; There won't be trumpets; Pretty Lady; Could I leave you; Side by side by side: - Julia McKenzie, David Kernan, Millicent Martin (artists), Tim Higgs, Stuart Pedlar (pno duo) (RCA 1851-2-RG)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  RESPIGHI: The Birds - BBC Phil/Patrick Thomas (BBC Music BBC MM 277)

  FUCHS: Piano Trio No 1 in C Op 22 - Gould Piano Trio (Quartz QTZ 2028)

  PAUER: Quintet in F for piano & winds Op 44 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1374)

  MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 22 in B minor Op 54 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Music in Finland, 1920-1929

  MADETOJA: Comedy Overture Op 53 - Oulu SO/Arvo Volmer (Alba ABCD 162)

  SIBELIUS: A lonely ski-trail, for recitation & piano - Lasse Pöysti (narrator), Folke Gräsbeck (pno) (BIS CD 1412)

  KLAMI: Symphonie enfantine Op 17 - Kymi Sinfonietta/Juha Nikkola (Alba ABCD 171)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  WAGNER: Wesendonk Lieder - Janet Baker (mezzo), BBC SO/Reginald Goodall (BBC Legends BBCL 4086)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2 in D Op 36 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (PentaTone PTC 5186 118)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  Leonid Kogan (vln)

  MOZART: Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216 - USSR State SO/Kirill Kondrashin (mono rec) (rec 1959)

  BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Moscow Phil/Kirill Kondrashin (mono rec) (rec 1962)

  MOZART: Adagio in E K261 - Moscow Phil/Pavel Kogan (rec 1981) (Brilliant Classics 93030)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Viva CO)

  BELLINI: Ah! Non credea mirarti, from La Sonnambula - Malvina Major (sop), Gerald Gover (pno) (EMI 5 56724)

  MCLEOD: Dirge for Doomsday - New Zealand Youth Choir/Peter Godfrey (RNZ)

  RÓZSA: Love Scene, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

  L LIEBERMANN: Sonata for flute & guitar Op 25 - Alexa Still (fl), Franco Platino (gtr) (Koch 3-7549)

  HAMILTON: Elysian Fields - New Zealand SO/Matthias Bamert (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ELGAR: Empire March - BBC Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHAN 10570)

  CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 448 128)

  HANDEL arr Drechsler: Sinfonia; La Marche; Più amabile beltà, from Giulio Cesare - Schwerin Brass Collegium/Hans-Joachim Drechsler (Berlin Classics 1655 BC)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Character Dances, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

  CLEMENT SCOTT arr Farquhar: Now is the Hour - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

  IRELAND: The Advent; Hymn for a Child, from Songs Sacred & Profane - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67261/2)

  ALWYN: Prelude - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7237)

  PÄRT: De Profundis clamavi ad te Domine - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tonu Kaljuste (Virgin VC 5 45276)

  GRIEG arr Baadsvik: Anitra's Dance, from Peer Gynt - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Musica Vitae/Björn Sagstad (BIS CD 1285)

  STRAUSS: Love songs - Lucia Popp (sop), Wolfgang Sawallisch (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49318)

  GOUNOD arr Stoltzman: Jewel Song, from Faust - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

  GIBBONS: The King's Jewel - James Johnstone (virginal) (ASV CD GAU 191)

  WOLF-FERRARI: Intermezzo, from The Jewels of the Madonna, Act 2 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  GOTTSCHALK: Colliers d'or - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67349)

  SULLIVAN orch Spencer: The Sapphire Necklace, Overture - RTE Concert Orch/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223461)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  World Book Club

  Four programmes

  (1) Salman Rushdie

  Salman Rushdie discusses Midnight's Children. The book is surrealist fiction that deals with the history of India from 1910 to the declaration of emergency in 1976 through the eyes (and nose) of Saleem Sinai, born on the strike of midnight August 15 1947. He is one of 1001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent.

  Writer and critic Malcolm Bradbury hailed Midnight's Children (in The Modern British Novel penguin, 1994) "a new start for the late-twentieth-century novel" (BBC)

• 7:30 PM. New Release

  MARTINU : Piano Concerto No 5, Fantasia concertante - Giorgio Koukl (pno), Bohuslav Martinu Phil/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.572206)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Live! at the Concertgebouw 2008

  Enrico Pace (pno), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/David Robertson, brass & percussion of the Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Ivan Meylemans

  KEURIS: Antologia; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10; GUBAIDULINA: The Rider on the White Horse; PROKOFIEV: Autumn Op 8; Symphony No 1 in D Op 25; HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber; OTTERLOO: Serenade; HENZE: Ragtimes & Habaneras (Radio Netherlands)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FAURÉ: Pelléas & Mélisande Suite - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 058)

  H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs - BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Warner 2564 61956)

  DRAGONETTI: Double Bass Concerto in A - Massimo Giorgi (dbass), I Solisti Aquilani/Vittorio Antonellini (Koch Schwann 3-1424)

  11:00 REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Marya Martin (fl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 030)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quintet No 1 in A Op 18 - Hausmusik (EMI CDC 7 49958)

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