Thursday 31 March 2011 Rāpare 31 Poutū-te-rangi 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Suite from the Gadfly Op 97; Suite from Five Days Five Nights Op 111 - Ukraine National SO/Theodore Kuchar (Naxos 8.553299)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  SATIE: Gnossiennes, Nos 1-3; Embryons desséchés; Avant-dernières pensées; Pièces froides; Sonatine bureaucratique; Gymnopédies, Nos 1-3; Véritanles préludes flasques; Gnossiennes, Nos 4-6; Les trios calses distinguées du précieux dégoùte; Sarabande No 3 - Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 317)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  FAYRFAX: Kyrie, Obis factor; Missa O Quam Glorifica; Hymnus, O Quam Glorifica; Ave Dei patris filia; Sumwhat musyng; That was my Joy; To complayne me, alas - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (ASV CD GAU 142)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  WF BACH: Sonatas, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in G; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in F; No 5 in Eb; No 6 in F minor - Penelope Evison, Pierre Séchet (transverse flutes) (Stil 1908 SAN 80)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  AUBERT: Offrande; Six Symphonic Tableaux, Cinema; Symphonic Tableaux, Dryade; Five Children's Pieces, Feuille d'Images; Tombeau de Chateaubriand - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam (Marco Polo 8.223531)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture - Sydney SO/Edo de Waart (ABC Classics 462 013)

  SCHUMANN: Abegg Variations Op 1 - Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 169)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9593)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Leila Josefowicz (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Philips 462 592)

  J STRAUSS II: Joke Polka Op 72; Where the Lemon Trees Bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67169)

  7:00 CURTIS: At Twilight - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2055)

  KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Bolero - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (Naxos 8.570399)

  FALLA: The Three-cornered Hat, Suite No 1 - Ulster Orch/Josep Caballé-Domenech (BBC Music BBC MM 255)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DELIUS: Two Aquarelles - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Tring International TRP 037)

  VERDI: Sicilian Vespers, Overture - Royal Phil/Tullio Serafin (Medici Arts MM 008)

  MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 67014)

  HAMILTON: Three Spirituals - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  BIBER: Sonata No 4 in C for trumpet, 2 violins & cello - Otto Sauter (tpt), Capella Istropolitana/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 93714)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: The Assault on Beautiful Gorky, from The Unforgettable Year 1919 - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10361)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PERCY GRAINGER (1882-1961)

  Faeroe Island Dance - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  The sprig of thyme; Died for love; British waterside; The pretty maid milkin' her cow, from 13 Folksongs - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 463 479)

  In a Nutshell - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

  Fantasy on Gershwin's Porgy & Bess - Peter Donohoe, Martin Roscoe (pno duo) (Carlton Classics 3036 60068)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  GADE: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 6 - Christina Åstrand (vln), Per Salo (pno) (Dacapo 8.226066)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 103 in Eb, Drumroll - Orch of the 18th Century/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

  MOSCHELES: Fantasy, Variations & Finale Op 46 - Nash Ensemble (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0007)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno), Polish Radio National SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (EMI 3 71472)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Holiday Sketches

  MOERAN: Bank Holiday - John McCabe (pno) (BMS 103 CDH)

  ANDERSON: A Bugler's Holiday - Eastman-Rochester Pops Orch/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 434 376)

  WEILL: September song, from Knickerbocker Holiday - Jessye Norman (sop), John Williams (pno) (Philips 422 401)

  FOULDS: Holiday Sketches Op 16 - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7252)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  STRAUSS: Ruhe meine seele Op 27/1; Morgen Op 27/4; Befreit Op 39/4 - Steve Davislim (ten), Victoria State Orch/Simone Young (Melba 301 081)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Stuttgart Radio SO/Christoph Eschenbach (Hänssler CD 93.707)

  SCHUMANN: Die beiden Grenadiere Op 49/1; Abends am Strand Op 45/3; Die feindlichen Brüder Op 49/2 - Florian Boesch (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Onyx 4041)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - Vienna Phil/Pierre Monteux (rec 1959); SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - London SO/Pierre Monteux (rec 1958) (Decca 475 7798)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BLAKE: Century Fanfare, Auckland! - Auckland Philharmonia/James Sedares (Atoll ACD 100)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  BRAHMS: Third movement, Poco allegretto, from Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  POLLACK arr Gale: That's a-plenty; SOUSA arr Werden: The Washington Post; GERSHWIN arr Elkjer: I got Rhythm - BonaNZa Trombone Quartet (Rata RT 011)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 4 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

  VIVALDI: Chamber Concerto in G, Alla rustica RV151 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Rudolf Baumgartner (Decca 443 768)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Op 38, excerpts, Melodie; Halling; Elegie; Waltz - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

  WOLF: Italian Serenade - Ana Bela Chaves (vla), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Erato 2292 45416)

  BACH: Allegro, from Flute Sonata in C BWV1033; Siciliano, from Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031; CPE BACH: Rondo in G, from Flute Sonata in G Wq133 - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

  SCHUBERT arr Schoenberg: Ständchen, Horch! horch! die Lerch D889 - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

  SAMMONS: The Faithful Bird - Paul Barritt (vln), Catherine Edwards (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67096)

  SULLIVAN: Tit Willow, from The Mikado - John Reed (bar), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Phil/Royston Nash (Decca 430 095)

  CHAUSSON: Le Colibri Op 2/7, from Seven Songs Op 2 - Sandrine Piau (sop), Susan Manoff (pno) (Naïve V 5063)

  TRAD arr Hope: The lark in the clear air - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

  J RITCHIE: So sweet is she, from Canary Wine - Women of the Auckland Youth Choir/Terence Maskell (Manu CD MANU 1509)

  JF WAGNER: Under the Double Eagle - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 66710)

  TURINA: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

  BOCCHERINI: String Quartet in D G177 - Petersen Quartet (Capriccio 67 208)

  GERMAN: Nell Gwyn, Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223419)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Exotic Scotland

  Adrienne Simpson was a valued contributor to RNZ Concert, until her death last December. Tonight we repeat one of the many programmes she made for us over the years.

  Romanticised notions of misty, feuding, bloodthirsty Scotland were fashionable in 19th century Europe and resulted in dozens of operas on Scottish subjects. One of these is Lucia di Lammermoor which is coming up from the Met this Sunday (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Arabian Nights

  David Geringas (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Garry Walker

  DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104

  (interval)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade Op 35 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Royal Phil/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47468)

  11:00 PAGANINI: Guitar Quartet No 7 in E - Anthea Gifford (gtr), Mozart String Trio (Denon CO 77069)

  FUCHS: Piano Trio No 2 in Bb Op 72 - Gould Piano Trio (Quartz QTZ 2028)

Next day - Fri 01

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