Wednesday 19 May 2010 Rāapa 19 Haratua 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  BLOMDAHL: Symphonies, No 1; No 2; No 3, Facets - Swedish Radio SO/Leif Segerstam (BIS CD 611)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  REGONDI: Remembrance; A Set of Three Waltzes; Hexaméron du concertiniste; Souvenir d'amitié - Helmut Jacobs (accordion) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 9030 1420)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  FAYRFAX: Albanus Domini Laudans, from Alloquio dulcis vultu; Missa Albanus; O Maria Deo Gratia; Ave Lumen Gratie; Eterne Laudis Lilum - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (ASV DC GAU 160)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  Reverie

  Adaptations and improvisations on piano works by Debussy, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin & Liszt - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Downstage DSR 1009)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  MOZART: Concertone in C for two flutes K190; CIMAROSA: Concerto in G for two flutes; VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two flutes & strings RV533; A STAMITZ: Concerto in G for two flutes - Shigenori Kudo, Jean-Pierre Rampal (fls), Mozarteum Orch (Sony SK 45930)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PEZ: Concert Pastoral in D R16 - Les Muffatti/Peter van Heyghen (Ramée RAM 0705)

  MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93975)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in C, Alexander's Feast - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 422 053)

  GERMAN: Suite for flute & piano - Kenneth Smith (fl), Paul Rhodes (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25069)

  ARNOLD: Four Irish Dances - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

  7:00 BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (RNZ)

  D SCARLATTI arr Renz: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Christoph Hartmann (ob), Berlin Ensemble (EMI 5 14232)

  BLISS: Bliss (A One Step) - Stephen De Pledge (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1128)

  GRAINGER: Duke of Marlborough's Fanfare, The British war mood grows - brass section of BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

  BALAKIREV orch Casella: Islamey - Philharmonia/Eugene Goossens (Medici Arts MM 009)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572296)

  BERLIOZ arr Barton/Sinozich: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath, from Symphonie fantastique - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

  MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 67014)

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  WIDOR arr Beckett/Widor: Scherzo & Romance, from Suite Op 34 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 - Atlanta SO/Donald Runnicles (Telarc CD 80677)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

  Operas

  The Marriage of Figaro, Overture - Concerto Cologne/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 80 1818.20)

  The Marriage of Figaro, excerpts

  Figaro........................... Hermann Prey

  Cherubino..................... Tatiana Troyanos

  Conte............................ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Susanna........................ Edith Mathis

  Contessa....................... Gundula Janowitz

  Orch of German Opera, Berlin/Karl Böhm (DG 427 033)

  Don Giovanni, excerpts

  Leporello...................... Stephen Bennett

  Donna Anna.................. Gillian Sullivan

  Don Giovanni................ Jeffrey Black

  Commendatore............. Donald Shanks

  Donna Elvira................. Lisa Gasteen

  Zerlina........................... Fiona Janes

  Don Ottavio.................. David Hobson

  Masetto........................ Douglas McNicol

  Australian Opera & Ballet Orch/György Fischer (ABC Classics 434 140)

  Così fan tutte, Overture - Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30479)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in E minor TWV55/e3 - Holland Baroque Society/Alexis Kossenko (dir) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28409)

  SCHUBERT: Fantasy in F minor D940 - Joseph Tong, Waka Hasegawa (pno duet) (Quartz QTZ 2068)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - Hans Kalafusz (vln), Stuttgart Radio SO/Sergiu Celibidache (DG 445 141)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 2292 46452)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Music from 1942

  HADLEY: One Morning in Spring - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 245)

  BRITTEN: Hymn to St Cecilia Op 27 - Carys Lane, Belinda Yates (sops), Kathryn Cook (contralto), Andrew Carwood (ten), Matthew Brook (bass), Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9511)

  VINTER: Hunter's Moon - David Pyatt (horn), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 316)

  RUBBRA: A Tribute Op 56 for Ralph Vaughan Williams on his 70th birthday - Philharmonia/Norman Del Mar (Lyrita SRCD 202)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1946)

  STRAUSS: Die Heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland, from Six Songs Op 56 - Karita Mattila (sop), London SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (Sony SK 48242)

  BORODIN: Symphony No 1 in Eb - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 435 757)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BACH: Organ Concerto in D minor BWV596, after Vivaldi's Violin Concerto RV565; Organ Concerto in A minor BWV593, after Vivaldi's Violin Concerto RV522 - Lionel Rogg (organ of St Nicholas' Church, Åbrenå, Denmark) (rec 1972) (EMI 3 81766)

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in C RV469; Bassoon Concerto in D minor RV481 - Daniel Smith (bsn), English CO/Philip Ledger (rec 1986/89) (RegisC 1277)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HOWELLS: Come sing & dance; King David - Anna Leese (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 2 07639)

  K YOUNG: Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 10 in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Jan Krenz (Philips 475 7825)

  GRANADOS: The maiden & the nightingale, from Goyescas - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 411 958)

  BENJAMIN: Five Negro Spirituals - members of the Locrian Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7110)

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - BBC Phil/Paavo Järvi (BBC Music BBC MM 210)

  DONIZETTI: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'amore - Plácido Domingo (ten), Los Angeles Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 415 366)

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

  WALTON ed Palmer: The Three Sisters - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Chandos CHAN 8870)

  TRAD: Dearest sister, dance with me! - Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna CO/Uwe Christian Harrer (Philips 400 014)

  DADSON: Sisters Dance - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D006)

  PUCCINI: Senza mamma, from Suor Angelica - Renée Fleming (sop), Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 1533)

  MANKELL: Legend Op 59/3, Sister Beatrice - Anna Christensson (pno) (Phoenix Edition 184)

  GRAINGER: The Nightingale & the Two Sisters, from Danish Folk Music Suite - Melbourne SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 465 086)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Decker Years

  The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Laureate, Franz-Paul Decker has had an association with the orchestra for over 40 years. Peter Shaw surveys the recorded performances from Radio New Zealand's archives and examines Decker's significant influence on orchestral performance in New Zealand

  Four programmes

  (3) Dashing the myth that Decker was only a German specialist, he also excelled in French, Spanish, Russian and American repertoire. He could even turn a deft show tune (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Crossing Borders

  Crossing the borders of a native country, culture, religion or knowledge has always been the main ingredient for discovering new horizons and forming new ideas and new mentalities

  Four programmes

  (2) Dezsö Ránki (pno), Adrienn Miks (sop), Hungarian Radio SO/Stephen D'Agostino

  DOHNÁNYI: American Rhapsody Op 47; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466; Fantasy in D minor K397; MAHLER: Symphony No 4 in G (recorded in the Academy of Music, Budapest by Hungarian Radio)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: String Quartet in G Op 17/5, Recitative - London Haydn Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67722)

  PUNTO: Horn Concerto No 10 in F - Barry Tuckwell (horn), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 69395)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

  11:00 WEBER: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 34 - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67464)

  D'INDY: String Sextet in Bb Op 92 - Joachim Quartet, François Mereaux (vla), Michel Poulet (cello) (Calliope CAL 3891.2)

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