Thursday 17 March 2011 Rāpare 17 Poutū-te-rangi 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs, Part 1; KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia, from Spartacus; MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides Overture; OFFENBACH: Barcarolle, from The Tales of Hoffmann; WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship; LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture; WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  NIELSEN: Violin Concerto Op 33; Flute Concerto; Clarinet Concerto Op 57 - Kim Sjøgren (vln), Toke Lund Christiansen (fl), Niels Thomsen (cl), Danish National Radio SO/Michael Schønwandt (Chandos CHAN 8894)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  Hildegard von BINGEN: O Quam Mirabilis; O Ecclesia; O Clarissima Mater; O Tu Illustrata; MONK: Dawn; Quarry weave 1; Quarry Lullaby; Quarry weave 2; Farmer's Song; Astronaut Anthem; Nightfall - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenberg (Catalyst 09026 68329)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  LIAPUNOV: 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante Op 11; Lullaby; Dance of the ghosts; Pealing of bells; Terek; Summer night; Storm; Idyll; Epic song; Aeolian harps; Lesginka; Dance of the Elves; Elegy in memory of Franz Liszt - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223491)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Symphony for cello & orchestra; Four Sea-Interludes from Peter Grimes; PÄRT: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten - Truls Mørk (cello), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Andrea Mion (ob), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Naïve OP 30301)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Elias String Quartet (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0028)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dance No 5 - Richard Mapp (pno) (Meridian CDE 84403)

  GLAZUNOV: Poem Lyrique in Db Op 12 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 93565)

  SARASATE: Canciones rusas Op 49 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572216)

  7:00 PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

  PAGANINI arr Grigoryan: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker - Royal Phil/George Weldon (EMI 7 94431)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Air & Variations - John Bradbury (cl), James Cryer (pno) (Naxos 8.570539)

  RHEINBERGER: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen Op 35 - Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge/Geoffrey Webber, Helen Cole (harp) (ASV CD DCA 989)

  HANDEL: Atalanta, Overture - Robert Farley (tpt), Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 67128)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Turin Theatre Royal Orch/John Mauceri (Decca 452 417)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro, after Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

  FALLA ed Ligorio: El Amor Brujo, Suite - Daniel Ligorio (pno) (Naxos 8.555065)

  M HAYDN: Divertimento in G - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

  JOPLIN arr Crespo: Ragtime Dance - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)

  GRIEG: In Autumn, Overture - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1191)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ALAN HOVHANESS (1911-2000)

  Fantasy on Japanese Wood Prints - Evelyn Glennie (perc), Singapore SO/Lan Shui (BIS CD 1222)

  Three pieces for two pianos, Mihr; Ko-ola-u; Vijag - Martin Berkofsky, Atakan Sari, Sergei Podobedov (pnos) (Black Box BBM 1103)

  String Quartet No 4, The Ancient Tree - Shanghai String Quartet (Delos DE 3700)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)

  MOZART: Sonata in D for two pianos K448 - Benjamin Britten, Sviatoslav Richter (pno duo) (Decca 466 821)

  BRITTEN: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 15 - Janine Jansen (vln), London SO/Paavo Järvi (Decca 478 1530)

  RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 3 - Sinfonia 21/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9415)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Taking the Air

  HANDEL: Air, from Water Music Suite No 1 in F - Berlin Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI 5 66967)

  CHISHOLM: Scottish Airs - Murray McLachlan (pno) (Diversions DDV 24149)

  TRAD arr Grainger: County Derry Air - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9499)

  M-A CHARPENTIER arr Held: Second Air de Trompette, from Two Triumphal Airs - Hannes Läubin, Wolfgang Läubin, Bernhard Läubin (tpts), Norbert Schmitt (timp), Simon Preston (org) (DG 419 245)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 4 in C minor Op 44 - Jean-Philippe Collard (pno), Royal Phil/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47816)

  GOUNOD: O divine redeemer; STÖLZEL: Bist du bei mir - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Barry Rose (Philips 412 629)

  CHOPIN: Prelude in Db Op 28/15, Raindrop - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 417 751)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in Bb for violin & oboe RV548 - Maurice André (tpt), Danièle Artur (vln), Rouen CO/Albert Beaucamp (Philips 420 877)

  LANQUETUIT: Toccata in D - Christopher Herrick (organ of the Melbourne Town Hall) (Hyperion CDA 67758)

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• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music - Concertgebouw Orch/George Szell (rec 1957) (Decca 475 6780)

  Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit ((rec 1981) Decca 421 450)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HURLSTONE: Four characteristic pieces - Murray Khouri (cl), Stephen Emmerson (pno) (Continuum CCD 1079)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Mtzyri - Claudia Barainsky (sop), Bamberg SO/Gary Brain (Conifer 75605 51317)

  STRAUSS trans Lawrence: Allerseelen; BRAHMS trans Lawrence: Von ewiger Liebe; STRAUSS trans Lawrence: Das Rosenband - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

  LILBURN: A Birthday Offering - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9653)

  SCHUMANN: Erstes Grün Op 35/4; Der Nussbaum Op 25/3; Sonntags am Rhein Op 36/1 - Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo), Friedrich Haider (pno) (RCA 09026 68763)

  DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Lisa Wellbaum (harp), Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 471 614)

  G WALKER: Lyric for Strings - Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 061)

  TÁRREGA: Alborada; Capricho arabe - Adriano Del Sal (gtr) (Naxos 8.572657)

  GRIEG: Melodies Op 53 - Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due (Naxos 8.557890)

  PARRY arr Hazell: Jerusalem - Canterbury Cathedral Choir, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Allan Wicks, David Flood (org) (Decca 425 848)

  O'BOYLE: Uilleann Sunrise - Robert John (vln), Victoria State Orch/Sean O'Boyle (ABC Classics 465 682)

  HUBICKI: Irish fantasy - James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10322)

  LOHAN arr Lawson: Out of the Woods - King's Singers (Signum SIGCD 177)

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

  TANN: From the Song of Amergin - Emily Beynon (fl), Roland Krämer (vla), Petra van der Heide (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26408)

  ARNOLD: Four Irish Dances - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Allan Thomas

  Winner of the 2011 CANZ KBB citation for services to NZ music, ethnomusicologist Allan Thomas was a valued contributor to RNZ Concert, until his death last September. Tonight we repeat two of the many programmes he made over the years. The first is a 'Composer of the Week' talk from 2004 about the Music of the Silk Road, and the second an example from his 'Hymns for the People' series of 2008 (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2011 Auckland Arts Festival

  Three programmes

  From the Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

  (1) O Cambodia

  Four Composers Respond to Cambodia

  Cambodia's history inspires new works by Chinary Ung, Him Sophy, Gillian Whitehead and Jack Body

  Vocalists, NZTrio, Cambodian traditional instrument players

  CHINARY UNG: In Memoriam, for amplified piano trio & voices; HIM SOPHY: The First Strike; WHITEHEAD: the river flows on...; BODY: O Cambodia (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

  BACH: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 - BBC Singers/Stephen Cleobury (BBC Music MM 44)

  RR BENNETT: Reflections on a Scottish folk song - Paul Watkins (cello), Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

  11:00 KLUGHARDT: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 43 - Olga Gollej (pno), Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1652)

  PUJOL: River Plate Suite No 1 - Victor Villadangos (gtr) (Naxos 8.555058)

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