Saturday 1 May 2010 Rāhoroi 1 Haratua 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphonies, No 9 in C; No 11 in F; No 12 in G minor - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5143)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, in F minor Op 2/1; in A Op 2/2; in C Op 2/3 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011-3)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  Vepres à la Vierge en Chine

  Choral Vespers service from China - Shi Kelong (chant), Cyrille Gerstenhaber (sop), Christophe Laporte (countertenor), Benoit Porcherot, Howard Shelton (tens), Ronan Nédélec (bar), Choir of the North, Beijing, XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières/Jean-Christophe Frisch (K617 155)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  ELGAR: String Quartet in E minor Op 83; BRIDGE: Three Idylls; WALTON: String Quartet in A minor - Coull Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66718)

  4:55 (approx) - Disc 5

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D BWV1050; Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051; Concerto in A for oboe d'amore BWV1055; Concerto in D minor for violin & oboe BWV1060 - Munich Bach Orch/Karl Richter (Archiv 427 143)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 LILBURN: Fourth movement, Andante, from Diversions for Strings - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  CLARKE: The King's March; MOURET: Rondo, from Suites de Symphonies - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Anthony Newman (Sony SK 60804)

  FINZI: The Fall of the Leaf - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49912)

  LUFT: Fantasy on Russian Folk Themes - Ivan Paisov (ob), Natalia Shcherbakova (pno) (Naxos 8.570596)

  BENJAMIN: North American Square Dance Suite - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 314)

  7:00 TOMLINSON: Concert Jig, from Silverthorn Suite - Orch/Jack Coles (EMI 5 66676)

  DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor - Justine Cormack (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 101)

  GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

  SMETANA: Three Salon Polkas Op 7 - András Schiff (pno) (Teldec 3984 21261)

  DOHNÁNYI: Festival Overture Op 31 - Hungarian National Phil/Zoltán Kocsis (BMC CD 101)

  8:00 CHAUSSON: Soir de Fête - Belgian Radio SO/José Serebrier (Chandos CHAN 8369)

  KHACHATURIAN: Sonatina - Elena Filonova (pno) (Calliope CAL 9421.3)

  TRAD arr Marshall: Sau la'u teine Samoa; Pusi nofo - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Liviu Prunaru (vln), Paris Orchestral Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-2210)

  ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

• 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

  BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in Bb G482 - Enrico Bronzi (cello/dir), Verona Accademia i Filarmonici (Brilliant Classics 92618)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Trio in A minor Op 50 - Smetana Trio (Supraphon SU 3949)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Turtle Dove - James Oxley (ten), Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9425)

  PICCININI: Partite variate sopra la folia aria Romanesca; Corrente IX; Chiaconna - Fred Jacobs (theorbo) (Channel Classics CCS SA 21305)

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in G Op 32/5; in F minor Op 32/6 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)

  G CHARPENTIER: Depuis le jour, from Louise - Lucia Popp (sop), Munich Radio Orch/Kurt Eichhorn (Acanta 43326)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - Brynjar Hoff (ob), English CO/Ian Watson (Simax PSC 1049)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (6) Jazz Families: Marsalis, Jones, Heath, Cohen et al (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Finnish duo Lepistö & Lehti

  The pairing of accordion and double bass isn't the most obvious of combinations, but Finnish master musicians Markku Lepistö and Pekka Lehti somehow make it work. Their musical backgrounds are quite different too: Leipistö has concentrated on folk music while Lehti's career has been in jazz, fusion and funk. In Global Sounds this afternoon, the duo (who featured in this year's WOMAD festival in Taranaki) perform their own compositions (Aito Records AICD012)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2009 NZSO Todd Young Composers

  Two programmes

  (1) AJITA GOH: Freedom is not free; ALEX TAYLOR: Fray; ARNA SHAW: Timatanga; CORWIN NEWALL: Significant Figures; ROBBIE ELLIS: Feral; MINTO FUNG: The Chase - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:10 PM. Music from 1939

  On the brink of a new decade and new war

  STRAUSS: Munich, A Memorial Waltz - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9606)

  RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez - Kaori Muraji (gtr), Galicia SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Decca 478 0076)

  HAHN: String Quartet in A minor - Quatuor Parisii (Auvidis Valois V 4848)

  BRITTEN: Les Illuminations - Sandrine Piau (sop), Northern Sinfonia/Thomas Zehetmair (NMC D 140)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 54 - BBC SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (BBC Legends BBCL 4242)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CANNABICH: Symphony No 47 in G - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

  ROSLAVETS: Cello Sonata No 2 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tatyana Lazareva (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9881)

  FARR: Waipoua - Marina Sturm (cl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  CHOPIN: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Carol Hohauser (fl), Diane Cooper (pno) (RNZ)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304980)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  New Zealand Voices

  PHILIPS: Salve Regina; Conceptio tua - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.555056)

  MOZART: Bella mia fiamma, addio! K528; Nehmt meinen Dank, ihr holden Gönner! K383 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Vienna CO/György Fischer (Decca 452 624)

  SCHUMANN: Schlusslied des Narren Op 127/5; Der frohe Wandersmann Op 77/1; Trost im Gesang Op 142/1; Der deutscher Rhein - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), members of the Ex Cathedra Consort, Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33108)

  HAYDN: The Wanderer; The Mermaid's Song; Fidelity; Despair - Anna Leese (sop), Alisdair Hogarth (pno) (Michael Storrs Music MSM 0012)

  LISZT: My songs are poisoned; Sound softly, my song; My child, if I were king - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Cho-Liang Lin (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  PSATHAS: Olympiad XXVIII; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63; MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. Kovacevich plays Beethoven

  Piano Sonatas, No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique; No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (EMI 9 65922)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUBERT trans anon for cello: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen D343; Die Forelle D550; Der Doppelgänger D957/13 - Anne Gastinel (cello), Claire Désert (pno) (Naïve V 5021)

  TELEMANN: Suite in A minor - Maurice Steger (recorder), Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1917)

  J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in A Op 1/2 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)

  11:00 TAFFANEL: Andante pastorale & Scherzettino - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

  MEDTNER: Violin Sonata No 3 in E minor Op 57, Epica - Laurence Kayaleh (vln), Paul Stewart (pno) (Naxos 8.570298)

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