Thursday 20 May 2010 Rāpare 20 Haratua 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scene Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro; Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39; Twelve Poems Op 35 - Ian Partridge (ten), Thomas Hemsley (bar), Jennifer Partridge, Paul Hamburger (pnos) (BBC MM 122)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  ELGAR: Serenade in E minor for strings Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling all workers; March, The dam busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 J STAMITZ: Symphony in D Op 4/2 - Sinfonia Pastorale Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.554447)

  RACHMANINOV: No 1 in F minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in Eb minor; No 6 in C# minor, from Etudes-tableaux Op 33 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56350)

  MUSSORGSKY arr Stokowski: A Night on Bare Mountain - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557645)

  FAURÉ: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

  HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Warner Classics 3984-25544)

  7:00 SALIERI: La grotta di Trofonio, Overture - Mannheim Mozart Orch/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.554)

  CORELLI: Trio Sonata in B minor Op 3/4 - Rémy Baudet, Sayuri Yamagata (vlns), Albert Brüggen (cello), David van Ooijen (archlute), Pieter-Jan Belder (org) (Brilliant Classics 92403)

  WALDTEUFEL: Etincelles, Waltz Op 229 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223688)

  JOPLIN arr Crespo: Pineapple Rag - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)

  GLINKA: Dances in Naina's Castle, from Russlan & Ludmilla - Moscow Radio SO/Mark Ermler (RegisC 1242)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: WAGNER: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Matthias Goerne (bar), Swedish Radio SO/Manfred Honeck (Decca 467 263)

  SCHUMANN: Adagio & Allegro in Ab Op 70 - Maria Kliegel (cello), Kristin Merscher (pno) (Naxos 8.550654)

  COPLAND: El Salón México - London Phil/John Pritchard (EMI CDB 7 62037)

  TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Edward Tarr (Naxos 8.554375)

  VERDI ed Rizzo: Sinfonia in C - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

  Operas

  La Clemenza di Tito, Overture & Act 1

  Vitellia........................... Julia Varady

  Sesto............................ Anne Sofie von Otter

  Annio............................ Catherine Robbin

  Publio........................... Cornelius Hauptmann

  Tito............................... Anthony Rolfe Johnson

  Servilia.......................... Sylvia McNair

  Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 431 806)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 4 in A minor Op 63 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0601)

  STANFORD: Piano Quintet in D minor Op 25 - Piers Lane (pno), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67505)

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051 - English Baroque Soloists (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 707)

  KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 2023)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Music from 1943

  GINASTERA: Overture to the Creole "Faust" Op 9 - Granada City Orch/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1808)

  KORNGOLD restored Morgan: Cello Concerto in C Op 37, Deception - Alexander Zagorinsky (cello), Moscow SO/William Stromberg (Naxos 8.570110-11)

  HINDEMITH: Horn Sonata in Eb - Lin Jiang (horn), Benjamin Martin (pno) (Melba MR 301 116)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 9 in E minor - London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47217)

  J RITCHIE: Canary Wine - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  SCHMIDT: Intermezzo, from Notre Dame - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

  ANTHEIL: A Jazz Symphony - Marcus Becker (pno), North German Radio PO/Eiji Oue (CPO 777 109)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor Op 30/2 - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (rec 1971-73) (EMI 3 65224)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 59; Mazurkas Op 63; Mazurka in A minor (à Émile Gaillard); Mazurka in A minor (Notre temps) - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (rec 1965-66) (RCA RD 85171)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  WEBER: Silvana, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

  C STAMITZ: Symphonie Concertante in D for violin & viola - Richard Friedman (vln), Roger Best (vla), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 650)

  BAX: Eternity - Patricia Wright (sop), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1000)

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in G minor (Grave g1) - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553974)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  HAYDN: L'Isola disabitata, Sinfonia - Netherlands CO/Gordan Nikolic (dir) (PentaTone PTC 5186 300)

  VIOTTI: Serenade for flute & piano Op 23/1 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)

  SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 3 - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI CDC 7 49471)

  LEO: Cello Concerto No 1 in D - Julius Berger (cello), Southwest German CO, Pforzheim/Vladislav Czarnecki (Brilliant Classics 93681)

  BUXTEHUDE: Fugue in C BuxWV174 - John Wells (organ of Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland) (RNZ)

  MEYERBEER: Coronation March, from The Prophet - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  SCHUMANN: Four Military Poems of Nikolaus Lenau - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33102)

  BERIOT: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 16, Military - Takako Nishizaki (vln), RTBF Orch, Brussels/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.220440)

  SCHUBERT: Military Marches D733 - Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz (pno duet) (Brilliant Classics 92858)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Concert Piece in Eb for clarinet & military band - Sölve Kingstedt (cl), Stockholm Concert Band/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9444)

  HOLBROOKE: Three Blind Mice Op 37/1, Symphonic Variations on an old English Air - Brandenburg State Orch/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 442)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Giulietta Simionato

  The great Italian mezzo-soprano turns 100 this month. Roger Flury and Des Wilson review her life and career (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2009

  Three programmes

  (1) Semi-finals, Day 1

  Three of the six semi-finalists perform with Michael Houstoun (pno) and Ashley Brown (cello)

  RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - David McCarroll (vln)

  DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Tessa Lark (vln)

  BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 101 - Danbi Um (vln) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. At Les Ballets Russes

  STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op 28 - South West German Radio SO/Sylvain Cambreling (Hänssler CD 93.237)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stravinsky: Sleeping Beauty, excerpts - Christian Ostertag (vln), South West German Radio SO/Hiroshi Wakasugi (Hänssler CD 93.234)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in D, Goldfinch RV428 - Henry Lebon (fl), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Jean-Baptiste Mari (Mandala MNE 5067)

  MCLEOD: Little Symphony - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

  BACH: Cantata No 140, Wachet auf - Rosemarie Landry (sop), Ben Heppner (ten), Mark Pedrotti (bass), Tudor Singers of Montreal, CBC Vancouver Orch/Wayne Riddell (CBC Records SMCD 5163)

  11:00 ELGAR: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82 - Tasmin Little (vln), Martin Roscoe (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 047)

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in Bb G447 - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Philips 426 092)

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