Thursday 23 September 2010 Rāpare 23 Mahuru 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BARBER: The School for Scandal, Overture; Symphony No 1 Op 9; BEACH: Symphony in E minor Op 32, Gaelic - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8958)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  SAINT-SAËNS trans Liszt: Danse Macabre; CHOPIN trans Liszt: Six Polish Songs; BERLIOZ trans Liszt: L'Idée fixe; Les Francs-Juges, Overture; Harold in Italy, Marche des Pelerins; The Damnation of Faust, Waltz of the Sylphes; King Lear, Overture - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66346)

  2:35 approx - Disc 3

  HOLST: Seven Part Songs Op 44; A Choral Fantasia Op 51; A Dirge for Two Veterans; Ode to Death Op 38 - Patricia Rozario (sop), Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9437)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  JC BACH: Keyboard Sonatas, No 1 in G; No 2 in C minor; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in G; No 5 in A; No 6 in Bb - Robert Woolley (fpno) (Chandos CHAN 0543)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10; Les Illuminations for soprano & string orchestra; Lachrymae, Reflections on a song of Dowland for viola & string orchestra - Christina Högman (sop), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), New Stockholm Chamber Orch/Péter Csaba (BIS CD 435)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ALBÉNIZ: Henry Clifford, Prelude - Madrid Symphony Orch/José de Eusebio (Decca 473 937)

  CATOIRE: Romance Op 1/4 - Laurent Abrecht Breuninger (vln), Anna Zassimova (pno) (CPO 777 378)

  GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34 - NZSO Chamber Orch (RNZ)

  SOR: L'Encouragement Op 34 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  MENDELSSOHN: Album Leaf in E minor Op 117 - Sebastian Knauer (pno) (Berlin Classics 1637 BC)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc CD 80698)

  7:00 WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Sydney SO/Charles Mackerras (ABC 476 6440)

  CLEMENTI: Keyboard Sonatina in D Op 36/6 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67814)

  FARNON: Jumping Bean - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Warner 2564 62020)

  MYERS: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - John Williams (gtr/dir), string orch (Sony MLK 66704)

  PURCELL: Abdelazer, incidental music - Theatre of Early Music (Analekta AN 2 9948)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? from Semele - Benita Valente (sop), Robert Sylvester (cello), David Effron (hpschd) (Pantheon D 10680)

  J STRAUSS II: Perpetuum Mobile Op 257 - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (SCL)

  KABALEVSKY: Rhapsody on the theme of the song School Years - Hsin-Ni Liu (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557794)

  BRITTEN: Five Flower Songs Op 47 - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1516)

  THALBEN-BALL: Variations on a theme by Paganini for pedals - Thomas Trotter (organ of Birmingham Town Hall) (Regent REGCD 265)

  ARNOLD: The Fair Field - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10293)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ALBAN BERG (1885-1935)

  Lulu, Act 3

  Lulu.............................. Teresa Stratas

  Rodrigo......................... Gerd Nienstedt

  Banker.......................... Jules Bastin

  Journalist....................... Claude Meloni

  Marquis........................ Helmut Pampuch

  Alwa............................. Kenneth Riegel

  Manservant................... Pierre-Yves le Maigat

  Groom.......................... Hanna Schwarz

  Lady Artist.................... Anna Ringart

  Mother.......................... Ursula Boese

  Young Girl.................... Jane Manning

  Countess....................... Yvonne Minton

  Schigolch...................... Toni Blankenheim

  Negro........................... Robert Tear

  Jack the Ripper............. Franz Mazura

  Paris Opera Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 415 489)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 492)

  BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 - Miklós Perényi (cello), Dénes Várjon (pno) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0035)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 84 in Eb - Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (DHM 82876 60602)

  DRAESEKE: Piano Concerto in Eb Op 36 - Markus Becker (pno), Berlin Radio SO/Michael Sanderling (Hyperion CDA 67636)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Music from 1984

  HEDGES: A Cleveland Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2137)

  PELÉCIS: Concertino bianco for piano & chamber orchestra - Alexei Lubimov (pno), Bremen German Chamber Phil/Heinrich Schiff (Erato 0630 12709)

  PÄRT: Two Slavonic Psalms, Psalms 117 & 131 - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907401)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  DEBUSSY: Arabesque No 1 - Roger Woodward (pno) (Warner 9031 77472)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 2292 45921)

  TRAD arr Higginbottom: Early one morning; MOLLOY arr Rowley: The Kerry Dance - Nicholas Fuggle (treble), Edward Dougan (bar), Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Erato 0630 19065)

  GLAZUNOV: Raymonda, Suite - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (Warner Classics 2564 61939)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 18 in Eb Op 31/3 - Artur Schnabel (pno) (rec 1932) (Naxos 8.110760)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas, in F minor Op 7/3; in Bb Op 7/1; in A minor Op 7/2; in D Op 33/2; in B minor Op 33/4; in Bb Op 24/4; in C# minor Op 41/1; in C# minor Op 41/1 (2nd rec); in Ab Op 50/2; in C# Op 63/3; in C Op 67/3; in A minor Op 67/4; in A minor Op 68/2 - Ignaz Friedman (pno) (rec 1929-1930) (Naxos 8.110690)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - New Zealand SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  BONFA/MARIA arr Silvetti: Manha de Carnaval - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Alex Klein (ob), Robert Kassinger (dbass), Cyro Baptista (perc) (Teldec 3984 21482)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/1 - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Catherine Mackintosh (dir) (BBC Music BBC MM 201)

  LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium - Armonico Consort/Christopher Monks (dir) (Signum SIGCD 180)

  ALWYN: Autumn Legend - Rachael Pankhurst (cor anglais), Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

  DU MINGXIN arr Wu Zuqiang: Straw hat dance, from The Mermaid, Suite - Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 6229)

  PARTICHELA arr Hope: Mexican Hat Dance - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

  NYMAN: Lady in the red hat - The Zoo Duet (Signum SIGCD 506)

  FALLA: The Three-cornered Hat, Suite No 2 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  KROMMER: Variations on a theme by Pleyel - Eric Hoeprich, Carles Riera, Toni Salar Verdu (cls) (Glossa GCD 920 604)

  ABEL: Symphony in Eb Op 7/6 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

  F STRAUSS: Horn Concerto in C minor - Zdenek Tylsar (horn), Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 3892)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Magnificats

  In his series Choral Connections Brian Kay looks at settings of the Magnificat (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2010

  Fourteen programmes

  (9) Karita Mattila (sop), Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle

  WAGNER: Parsifal, Prelude to Act 1; STRAUSS: Four Last Songs; SCHOENBERG: Five Pieces for Orchestra Op 16; WEBERN: Six Pieces for Large Orchestra Op 6; BERG: Three Orchestral Pieces Op 6 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 13 in G Op 106 - Chilingirian Quartet (Chandos CHAN 8874)

  ROSETTI: Horn Concerto in Eb K3/36 - Radek Baborák (horn), Prague CO (Supraphon SU 4017)

  11:00 GIULIANI: Gran Duetto Concertante in A Op 52 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)

  SCHÜTZ: Musikalische Exequien SWV279-281 - La Chapelle Royale/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 1261)

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