Thursday 28 October 2010 Rāpare 28 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  YOUNG: Symphony; Virgen de la Esperanza; Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano; Images; Berceuse héroïque; Elégie; Six épigraphes antiques - Boris Berman (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9294)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  DU MONT: Motets, Christus natus est nobis; Domine salvum fac regem; Seigneur, ma puissance supreme; Quand l'esprit accable; Tristitia vestra; Bernardus Doctor; Cantate domino; Santa Caecilia; In lecturo meo; Credidi propter; O panis angelorum; Laudibus cives; Panis angelicus; O domine Deus; Laudemus dominum; Domine Salvum fac regem; Litanies de la vierge - Concert Royal of Nancy/Rene Depoutot (ADDA 581034)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  ARENSKY: Piano Concerto in F minor; Fantasia on Russian Folksongs; BORTKIEWICZ: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66624)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  MARAIS: Suite in D; Suite in G; Suite in D for Robert Visée; Suite in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RICCI: Sinfonia in D Op 2/1 - Netherlands Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Etcetera KTC 1342)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus WoO45 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67755)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in Bb for violin & oboe RV548 - Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Jonathan Kelly (ob), Berlin Baroque Soloists (Berlin Philharmonic 06003)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in F# minor Op 44 - Folke Nauta (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93995)

  GROFÉ: Sunrise, from Grand Canyon Suite - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80474)

  7:00 SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Overture - RCA Victor SO/Leopold Stokowski (RCA 09026 61503)

  DEMERSSEMAN/BERTHELEMY orch Dodgson: Duo Brillante, on themes from William Tell - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Pierre Pierlot (ob), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

  DEBUSSY: Danse bohémienne - Håkon Austbö (pno) (Simax PSC 1297)

  ALBÉNIZ: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Friedemann Wuttke (gtr) (Profil PH 07001)

  KODÁLY: Dances of Marosszék - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GIORDANO: Amor ti vieta, from Fedora - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Oliviero de Fabritiis (Decca 425 681)

  VERDI: A Masked Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Philips 411 469)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Maria Kliegel (cello), Kristin Merscher (pno) (Naxos 8.550654)

  SOLER trans Biggs: The Emperor's fanfare - Michael Murray (organ of Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York) (Telarc CD 80277)

  LISZT arr Busoni: Rhapsodie espagnole S254 - John Ogdon (pno), Philharmonia/John Pritchard (EMI 3 92747)

  TOCH: Spiel Op 39 for wind orchestra - German SO, Berlin/Roger Epple (Wergo WER 6641)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  NINO ROTA (1911-1979) and ENNIO MORRICONE (b1928)

  Introduced by William Dart

  ROTA: Il Presepio; Vivacissimo, from Nonet - Anna Maria Pammer (sop), Hagen Quartet, musicians of the Kremerata Musica (BIS CD 870)

  MORRICONE: Deep Down - Mike Patton (vocalist) (Ipecac IPC 119)

  ROTA: You'll come to me - Deborah Harry (vocalist) (Decca 289 467)

  MORRICONE: Anthea and the Desert, from Secret of the Sahara - soundtrack artists (BMG 74321 34226)

  Cadenza for flute and magnetic tape - musicians of Musica d'Oggi (Milan M2-36036)

  ROTA: La Dolce Vita Suite - Sharon Freeman (horn), and other musicians (Hannibal 9301)

  MORRICONE: Selections, from Sacco and Vanzetti - soundtrack artists (Omega 3015)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  IRELAND arr Bush: Julius Caesar, Scherzo & Cortège - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 240)

  BRUCKNER: Mass No 2 in E minor - French Radio Choir & Phil/Norbert Balatsch (Radio France FRF 006)

  ENESCU: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 25, on popular Romanian themes - Sarah Nemtanu (vln), Romain Descharmes (pno) (Naïve V 5235)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Testament SBT 1431)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Anthony Ritchie in the 1990s

  From the Southern Marches, Prelude - City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private recording)

  Birds & a Steam Train in the Catlins - Tom McGrath (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5098)

  Remember Parihaka - Auckland CO/Peter Scholes (Atoll ACD 129)

  Spring; What I would take out of the world; Two-word poem, from Then I Understood - 2001-2002 NZ Secondary Students' Choir/Elise Bradley, Sheryl Clarke (pno) (NZSSC)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor K310 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 473 689)

  ELGAR: The Dream of Gerontius, Part 2b, There was a mortal, who is now above - Janet Baker (mezzo), John Mitchinson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bar), CBSO Chorus & Orch/Simon Rattle (EMI CDS 7 49549)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BARTÓK: Contrasts Sz111 - György Pauk (vln), Kálmán Berkes (cl), Jenö Jandó (pno) (rec 1993) (Naxos 8.550749)

  Violin Concerto No 2 Sz112 - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Philharmonia/Wilhelm Furtwängler (rec 1953) (EMI CDH 7 69804)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  TCHEREPNIN: Cello Sonata No 1 Op 29 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9770)

  RÓZSA: Hungarian Nocturne - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7191)

  LILBURN: Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Milton Parker (gtr) (Kiwi SLD 47)

  WAGNER: Die Frist ist um, from The Flying Dutchman - Donald McIntyre (bbar), New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLD 39)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon, Overture - Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer (CBC SMCD 5069)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Sarah Chang (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDC 5 55026)

  ALBÉNIZ: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Linn CKD 355)

  KREISLER arr Tertis: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Pugnani - Roger Chase (vla), Michiko Otaki (pno) (Naxos 8.572293)

  GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 026)

  ORFF: O Fortuna, from Carmina Burana - Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 62622)

  ZIEHRER: The Charming Rigo, Overture - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.225332)

  BRITTEN: A Charm of Lullabies - Ann Murray (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Avie AV 2077)

  WAXMAN: The Charm Bracelet - David Buechner (pno) (Koch 3-7225)

  TRAD: I fell in love with the charms - Lucie Skeaping (sop), The Burning Bush (Saydisc CD SDL 395)

  TRAD arr McDonald: Believe me if all those endearing young charms - Susann McDonald (harp) (Delos DE 3005)

  GOUNOD: She alone charmeth my sadness, from Irene - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Maurice Till (pno) (Columbia 475 544)

  WALDTEUFEL: My charming lady, Waltz Op 166 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223687)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Georg Tintner: A Disrupted Life

  Peter Shaw looks at the life of Viennese-born conductor and composer Georg Tintner (1917-1999) who came to New Zealand in 1940 as a refugee from the Nazis. Later he lived in Australia, South Africa and Nova Scotia but often returned here to work, always with distinguished results. This programme looks at Tintner's work here in the context of his international career, including his late, acclaimed Bruckner cycle which also began in New Zealand (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  BACH: St Matthew Passion BWV244

  Christus......................... Teddy Tahu Rhodes

  Rebecca Ryan (sop), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Ian Honeyman (ten), Conal Coad (bass), Black Watch Singers from St Cuthbert's College, University of Auckland Chamber Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ALWYN: Conversations - Lucy Gould (vln), Robert Plane (cl), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos 8.572425)

  GODARD arr Pierre: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (hp), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  FAURÉ: Pavane - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  11:00 DVORÁK: Romantic Pieces Op 75 - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 16 in A minor D845 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Avie AV 2156)

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