Thursday 12 May 2011 Rāpare 12 Haratua 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SMETANA: The Moldau; Vysehrad; DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66; LISZT: Les Préludes; Hungarian Rhapsody No 4 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 220)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  STENHAMMAR: Piano Sonata No 1 in C; Fantasie in A minor; Piano Sonata No 2 in C minor; Piano Sonata No 3 in Ab; Piano Sonata No 4 in G minor - Lucia Negro (pno) (BIS CD 634)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Magnificat in D BWV243; Cantata No 21, Ich hatte viel Bekummernis - Greta de Reyghere (sop), René Jacobs (countertenor), Christoph Pregardien (ten), Peter Lika (bass), Netherlands Chamber Choir, La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken (Virgin VC 7 90779)

  3:25 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Symphonies, Nos 1-3 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  CPE BACH: Symphonies, in G Wq182/1; in Bb Wq182/2; in C Wq182/3; in A Wq182/4; in B minor Wq182/5; in E Wq182/6 - Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Cappriccio 10 106)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 LANGLEY: Overture & Beginners - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2133)

  ALBINONI: Concerto in C for two oboes Op 9/9 - Stefan Schilli, Giovanni Deangeli (obs), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

  DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2012)

  SATIE arr Debussy/Veen: Gymnopédies Nos 3 & 1 - Sandra Mol, Jeroen van Veen (pno duet) (Brilliant Classics 9129)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

  7:00 LIADOV: Polonaise in D Op 55 - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)

  TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - Delmé String Quartet (Hyperion CDH 88038)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Libor Pesek (RegisC 1099)

  D'ERLANGER: Poëme in D - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Welsh National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67838)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Character Dances, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)

  ALBÉNIZ: Cádiz; Granada; Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

  H WOOD: Montmartre, from Paris Suite - Southern Festival Orch/Robin White (Flyback FBCD 2005)

  BIZET: Grande Valse de concert in Eb - Julia Severus (pno) (Naxos 8.570831-32)

  BRITTEN after Rossini: Matinées musicales - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911)

  Symphony No 3 in D minor - Bernadette Greevy (mezzo), women of Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Scots College Boys' Choir, New Zealand SO/Franz Paul Decker (RNZ)

• 10:50 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 5 in Eb Op 44/3 - Gewandhaus Quartet (NCA 60205)

  MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (BBC Music BBC MM 327)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Robert & Clara Getting Romantic

  SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 28 - Felipe Scagliusi (pno) (Avie AV 2177)

  C SCHUMANN arr Nelleke: Three Romances Op 22 - Karine Georgian (cello), Jan Willem Nelleke (pno) (Naxos 8.572375)

  SCHUMANN: Romance in F minor - Florian Uhlig (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.603)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus, Overture - Berlin Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 3984 24489)

  MOZART: Second movement, Adagio, from Clarinet Concerto in A K622 - Philip Green (cl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Maria Chiara (sop), National Phil/Kurt Herbert Adler (Decca 421 397)

  HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Erato ECD 88005)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D899/3 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

  RAVEL: Boléro - Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 68600)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  Cellist, Zara Nelsova

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19; SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33 - with Artur Balsam (pno), London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1956/53) (Decca 475 6327)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  ARNOLD: Clarinet Sonatina Op 29 - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)

  PRUDEN: String Trio - Donald Armstrong (vln), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Farquhar Wilkinson (cello) (Kiwi CD SLD 83)

  WIDOR: Allegro cantabile; Adagio; Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor Op 42/1 - Christopher Hainsworth (organ of St Matthews, Hastings) (Ribbonwood RCD 1025)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  M HAYDN: Symphony No 1 in C - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 101)

  SVENDSEN: Romance in G Op 26 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

  HOLBROOKE: The Pit & the Pendulum Op 126, Fantasy for orchestra - Royal Liverpool Phil/George Vass (Dutton CDLX 7251)

  ANON: What shall we do with the drunken sailor? - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9554)

  BANTOCK: The Pierrot of the Minute - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 67395)

  LEONCAVALLO arr D & F Alagna: Au clair de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot - Roberto Alagna (ten), David & Frédérico Alagna (gtrs) (EMI 5 56426)

  FOULDS: La Belle Pierrette, Intermezzo impromptu - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7260)

  JARVLEPP: Pierrot Solaire - Sara Louise Seck (fl), Mark Friedman (vln), Tracy Mortimore (dbass), Ken Simpson (perc), Parvaneh Eshghi (pno) (J&W CD 001)

  DOHNÁNYI: Wedding Waltz, from The Veil of Pierrette - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 1107)

  JOPLIN: The Entertainer; The Cascades - Morten Gunnar Larsen (pno) (Decca 460 499)

  HOLST: St Paul's Suite - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8375)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Maurice Till - in memoriam

  In tonight's Appointment we repeat Tim Dodd's recent interview with the man who was one of the first pianists to sustain a performing career while remaining in New Zealand. During the 50s, 60s and 70s he accompanied in recitals and broadcasts many visiting overseas singers and instrumentalists including Victoria de los Angeles, Rita Streich, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Pierre Fournier. Included in the programme are recordings of some of these performances sourced from Maurice Till's own archive (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman

  WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture; DOHNÁNYI: Concert Piece in D Op 12; DVORÁK: Silent Woods; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:40 PM. Opera omnia

  REGIS: Motets, Lux solemnis; Clangat plebs - The Clerks/Edward Wickham (dir) (Musique en Wallonie MEW 0848-0849)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FUCHS: Piano Concerto in Bb minor Op 27 - Franz Vorraber (pno), Luxembourg Phil/Alun Francis (CPO 999 893)

  WAGNER arr Stokowski: Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music, from Die Walküre - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9686)

  11:00 THIERIOT: String Sextet in D Op posth - Hamburg Chamber Players (Toccata Classics TOCC 0080)

  GRANADOS: Romantic Scenes - Richard Mapp (pno) (Meridian CDE 84403)

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