Schedule for Thursday 26 August 2010

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
JC BACH: Symphonies, Op 6/1-6; Op 18/2, 4 & 6 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)
1:05 approx - Disc 2
MALIPIERO: Preludi Autunnali; Barlumi; Maschere che Passano; Poemi Asolani; Omaggi; A Claudio Debussy - Sandro Ivo Bartoli (pno) (ASV CD DCA 929)
2:15 approx - Disc 3
SCHUBERT: Lieder - Christine Schaefer (sop), Matthias Görne (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33027)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
BERWALD: String Quartets, No 1 in G minor; No 2 in A minor; No 3 in Eb - Yggdrasil Quartet (BIS CD 759)
4:50 approx - Disc 5
SIBELIUS: Scaramouche Op 71; The Language of the Birds, Wedding March - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 502)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 KRAUS: Aeneas in Carthage, Acts 3 & 4, excerpts - Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.570585)
SCHUBERT trans Wispelwey: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS 9696)
PITFIELD: Three Nautical Sketches - John Turner (rec), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Olympia OCD 667)
CLEMENTI: Keyboard Sonatina in C Op 36/3 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67814)
ZIEHRER: Recipes for love, Waltz Op 434 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223814)
7:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (RCA 09026 68844)
THEODORAKIS arr Samprovalakis: Cretan Concertino - Theodore Kerkezos (sax), Thessaloniki State SO/Myron Michailidis (Naxos 8.557992)
ROSSINI orch Respighi: Tarantella, from La Boutique Fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 444 610)
BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)
ELGAR: Funeral March, from Grania & Diarmid - London Phil/Adrian Boult (BBC Legends BBCL 4170)
8:00 Beauty Spot: LEHMANN: Ah, moon of my delight, from In a Persian Garden - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66709)
HERBERT: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 66710)
POULENC: Flute Sonata - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno) (Avie AV 0027)
FAURÉ arr Casals: Après un Rêve - Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson (cello), Allan Sternfield (pno) (Naxos 8.570545)
HERTEL: Trumpet Concerto No 2 in Eb - Wolfgang Bauer (tpt/dir), Württemberg CO, Heilbronn (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1499)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Character Dances, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

ARVO PÄRT (b1935)
Triodion - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67375)
Lamentate - Alexei Lubimov (pno), South West German Radio SO/Andrey Boreyko (ECM 1930)
10:00 AM. The Works

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - BBC Welsh National Orch/Thierry Fischer (Signum SIGCD 195)
LALO: Symphonie espagnole - Sarah Chang (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Charles Dutoit (EMI CDC 5 55292)
SULLIVAN: The Foresters (Robin Hood and Maid Marian)
Kate............................. Claire Rutter
Marian.......................... Frances McCafferty
Will Scarlet................... Ashley Catling
Titania........................... Joanna Cohn
Fairy............................. Catherine Hopper
London Chorus, New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67486)
LUIGINI: Ballet Egyptien - London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 864)
Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
1:30 PM. Music from 1974

GOODWIN: Deadly Strangers, Main Theme - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10262)
PIAZZOLLA arr Milone: Libertango - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)
FRANCAIX: Le Gay Paris - Prague Wind Quintet (Praga PRD 250 126)
MEWS: A sound came from heaven - Choir of Wellington Cathedral/Philip Walsh (Herald HAVP CD 191)
PRUDEN: Night Song - Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 66)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

FUCIK: Florentine March Op 214 - Cleveland Symphonic Winds/Frederick Fennell (Telarc CD 80099)
LEBRUN: Oboe Concerto No 1 in D minor - Bart Schneemann (ob), Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Channel Classics CCS 16198)
TAVENER: Funeral Ikos - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson (Naxos 8.555256)
RACHMANINOV: Suite No 1 in G minor for two pianos Op 5, Fantaisie-tableaux - Brigitte Engerer, Boris Berezovsky (pno duo) (Mirare MIR 070)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
VIVALDI: Four Seasons - Enrico Onofri (vln), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (rec 1993) (Teldec 4509 96158)
ANON: Plainchant Hymne Aeterna Christi; Plainchant Sanctorum Meritis (Hymne des Martyrs) - A Sei Voci, Maîtrise des Pays de Loire/Bernard Fabre-Garrus (Naïve E 8809)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
GERSHWIN arr Bennett: Gershwin in Hollywood - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)
CROWE: Bali H'ai, Five Songs of the New Hebrides - Schola Players/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 77)
FIELD: Rondo in Ab - John Khouri (fpno) (Entr'acte ESCD 6503)
CARR: Waiheke Island - Amoris Consort (Amoris AR 1002)
MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - Philharmonia/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9066)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA 74321 84112)
D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E Kk380 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (DG 419 499)
SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Adele Anthony (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (Canary Classics CC 07)
SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (EMI CDC 7 47636)
VERDI: Cortigiani, vil razza dannata, from Rigoletto - José van Dam (bar), Loire Phil/Marc Soustrot (Forlane UCD 16681)
L MOZART: Trumpet Concerto in D - Maurice André (tpt), Rouen CO/Albert Beaucamp (Philips 420 877)
PURCELL: Ground, from Celebrate the festival - Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7428)
HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 447 279)
GRAINGER: Arrival Platform Humlet, from the suite In a nutshell - Noriko Ogawa (pno) (BIS CD 1045)
SCHUMANN: Arrival & departure Op 90/3 - Peter Schreier (ten), Christoph Eschenbach (pno) (Teldec 2292 46154)
LIEBERT: Morning Arrival in Goa - Ottmar Liebert, Calvin Hazen (gtrs), Jon Gagan (dbass), Mark Clark (perc), Domenico Camardella (pno) (Epic 480 614)
HAYDN: Cantata, Al Tuo arrivo felice HobXXIVa/3 - Johanna Stojkovic (sop), Cologne Vocal Ensemble, Cappella Coloniensis/Andreas Spering (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1765)
WAGNER: Arrival at the Black Swans - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)
LANNER: Ankunfts Waltz Op 34 - Slovak State Phil/Mika Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)
7:00 PM. Appointment

Tristan & Isolde
This Sunday's opera from Vienna State Opera is Wagner's breathtaking meditation on love and death. Simon Romanos offers some thoughts on what it all means (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Hespèrion XXI with Jordi Savall
ORTIZ: Romanesca & Passamezzo; TRAD Catalan arr F Savall: La cançó del Lladre; TRAD: Danse de l'âme; Dialogue; TRAD Sephardic: Paxarico tu to llamas; Hermoza muchachica; MARAIS: Muzettes I, II; TRAD Catalan arr F Savall: El Mariner; TRAD: Rast, Murass'a; TRAD Hebrew: Noumi, noumi yaldatii; HUME: Soldier's March; Harke, Harke, from Musicall Humors; TRAD: Mireu el nostre mar; TRAD Iranian: Chaharmezrab; TRAD African: African Ostinato; MARCABRU: Pax in nomine Domini; El testament d'Amèlia, from Musicall Humors; TRAD: Saltarello, from Cantigas de Santa Maria; TRAD Sephardic: Marinero soy de amor; Yo m'enamori d'un aire (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

J FONTANA: La Havanne Op 10 - Hubert Rutkowski (pno) (Acte Préalable AP 0160)
PAGANINI arr Grigoryan: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)
MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 - Christoph Eschenbach (pno/dir), London Phil (EMI 3 81793)
ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Scottish CO/Jaime Laredo (dir) (RegisC 1160)
11:00 SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 - Gordan Nicolitch (vln), Christophe Coin (cello), Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 158)
BRUCH: Octet in Bb Op posth - Ulf Hoelscher Ensemble (CPO 999 451)