Saturday 17 July 2010 Rāhoroi 17 Hōngoingoi 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; Music for Children, Galop finale - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs - Elizabeth Söderström (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 436 204)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  TUBIN: Double bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SAINT-GEORGES: Symphonie Concertante in G for two violins G024 - Christophe Guiot, Bertrand Cervera (vlns), Les Archets de Paris (Calliope CAL 9373)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Piece in Eb D946/2 - Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1449)

  J WILLIAMS: Theme from Angela's Ashes - orchestra/John Williams (Decca 466 761)

  SUNG: Dance of the White Lotus Under the Silver Moon - Susan Glaser (fl), Emily Mitchell (harp) (Koch International 3-7497)

  HUMPERDINCK: Humoresque in E - Bamberg Sinfonia/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-1197)

  7:00 CARR: Aubade - Alan Vivian (cl), Sydney SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

  PUJOL: Tango, Milonga & Final - Giorgio Mirto, Victor Villadangos (gtrs) (Brilliant Classics 9088)

  PURCELL: The Fairy Queen, Suite, Act 5 - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (dir) (Naïve ES 9934)

  DUPARC: Extase; Phidylé; Sérénade - José van Dam (bbar), Maciej Pikulski (pno) (Forlane UCD 16692)

  RAFF: Romeo & Juliet, Overture - Philharmonia/Francesco d'Avalos (ASV CD DCA 793)

  8:00 LOCATELLI: Concerto in C minor Op 4/11 - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2154)

  LISZT: Hymne à Sainte Cécile - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)

  WALDTEUFEL: Tenderness, Waltz Op 217 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223692)

  CRAS: Largo - Aleksandr Khramouchin (cello), Alain Jacquon (pno) (Timpani 1C 1151)

  COATES: Summer Days Suite - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2070)

• 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

  WAGNER trans Lemare: Rienzi, Overture - Thomas Trotter (organ of Birmingham Town Hall) (Regent REGCD 265)

  MARAIS: Unknown La Basque - Dennis Brain (horn), Wilfrid Parry (pno) (rec 1957) (BBC Legends BBCL 4048)

  KAPSBERGER: Canzone No 1 - Fred Jacobs (theorbo) (Channel Classics CCS 19998)

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Daniel Propper (pno) (Skarbo DSK 1079)

  VERDI: Ritorna vincitor! from Aida - Alessandra Marc (sop), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Delos DE 3108)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in F for violin & organ RV542 - Ingeborg Scheerer (vln/dir), Johannes Geffert (org), Johann Christian Bach Akademie (Audite 20.002)

  ZIEHRER: On the High Seas Waltz Op 66 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8 225172)

  The Magic Flute

  Simon Romanos offers some thoughts on what Mozart's multi-layered masterpiece all means (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

  Hosts Wendell Pierce and Wynton Marsalis offer backgrounds, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (7) Mary Lou Williams Centennial

  Pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams was always ahead of her era. In a fifty-year career, she changed with the times, but always kept her soulful style. A century after her birth, pianists Geri Allen, Geoffrey Keezer and Dan Nimmer join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to honour the perpetually contemporary First Lady of Jazz (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Saharan sounds

  A programme of music from the Sahel, the belt of semi-arid grasslands that stretches across Africa and borders the Sahara desert. We'll hear music from Mali, Niger and Mauritania along with songs by desert blues band Etran Finatawa from their latest album, Let's Go! (Marabi 46827.2; Riverboat Records TUGCD 1055)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  The New York Philharmonic This Week

  Actor Alec Baldwin, winner of Emmy & Tony awards and an Oscar nomination, hosts a series of concerts from the New York Phil under its new music director Alan Gilbert

  Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), New York Phil/Alan Gilbert

  WEBERN: Im Sommerwind; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488; WEBERN: Symphony Op 21; SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 (recorded in Avery Fisher Hall, New York by WFMT)

• 4:55 PM. Là ci darem Variants

  GLINKA: Variations on a theme of Mozart - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66038)

  ANDERSEN: Fantasy on Don Giovanni Op 45/5 - Kyle Dzapo (fl), Matthew Mazzoni (pno) (Naxos 8.572277)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Là ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni - Ricercar Academy (Ricercar RIC 287)

• 5:20 PM. At the Movies in the 1960s

  ROTA: Waltzes, from music for the film The Leopard - Teatro Massimo SO/Marzio Conti (Chandos CHAN 10090)

  ADDINSELL arr Lane: Greengage Summer, Suite - Robert Gibbs (vln), Peter Lawson (pno), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2108)

  GOODWIN: 633 Squadron, Main Theme; Love Theme - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10262)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Gaudeamus Overture - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Corellia CRA 1005)

  LITHGOW: Invercargill March - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher ( CDWB 3896340/01)

  GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 - Richard Farrell (pno), Hallé Orch/George Weldon (rec 1956-58) (Atoll ACD 208)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  DEBUSSY: Pantomime; Clair de lune; Mandoline; En sourdine; Fantoches; Les cloches; Voici que le printemps; Nuit d'étoiles - Gillian Keith (sop), Simon Lepper (pno) (Deux-Elles DXL 1052)

  HANDEL: Then long eternity, from Samson; May at last my weary age, from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Robert Expert (countertenor), Amarillis (Ambroisie AMB 9958)

  RAVEL: Three Madagascan Songs; SCHULHOFF: Three Mood Pictures Op 12 - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Paul Edmund-Davies (fl), Jirí Bárta (cello), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 471 581)

  KAPRALOVA: Two Songs Op 4, Morning; Orphaned - Dana Buresová (sop), Timothy Cheek (pno) (Supraphon SU 3752-2 231)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Li-Wei (cello), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  HARRIS: Three Pieces for Orchestra; HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1

  (Interval)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 5 in C# minor (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  VIVALDI: Nisi Dominus in G minor RV608 - Patricia Lawrey (mezzo), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Peter Avery (org), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 52)

  ROSSINI: String Sonata No 4 in Bb - Ensemble Explorations/Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1776)

  11:00 IRELAND: Sextet for clarinet, horn & string quartet - Melos Ensemble (Lyrita SRCD 2271)

  BRAHMS: Viola Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Roberto Díaz (vla), Jeremy Denk (pno) (Naxos 8.570827)

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