Wednesday 29 June 2011 Rāapa 29 Pipiri 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ARNOLD: Symphony No 6 Op 95; Fantasy on a Theme of John Field for piano & orchestra Op 116; Concert Suite, Sweeney Todd Op 68a; Tam O'Shanter, Overture - John Lill (pno), Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Conifer CDCF 224)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  CHOPIN: Piano Sonatas, No 1 in C minor Op 4; No 2 in Bb minor Op 35; No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Arabesque Z6628)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  STRAUSS: The Donkey's Shadow, a Singspiel based on Christoph Martin Wieland's novel Die Abderiten - Peter Ustinov (narrator), Berlin Radio Choir & Orch/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-6548)

  3:45 approx - Disc 4

  M HAYDN: Symphonies, No 18 in C; No 25 in G; Divertimento in G - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 155)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  RESPIGHI: Chaconne for violin, organ & strings; Concerto All'Antica for violin & orchestra; Pastorale for violin & strings; Concerto a cinque for oboe, trumpet, violin, double bass, piano & strings - Ingolf Turban (vln), English CO/Marcello Viotti (Claves CD 50-9017)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

  SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Karine Georgian (cello), Jan Willem Nelleke (pno) (Naxos 8.572375)

  BRITTEN: Hymn to St Cecilia Op 27 - Richard Cross (treble), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (EMI 5 62796)

  FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1271)

  SOR: La Romanesca - John Anderson (ob), Simon Wynberg (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 6581)

  WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  7:00 SCHUBERT: Fierabras, Overture - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (Koch Schwann 3-1121)

  BIZET arr anon: Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 2; Entr'acte to Act 3, from Carmen - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Anthony Ferner)

  PUCCINI arr Picarband/Nevi: Corazzata Sicilia, after La Bohème - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 320)

  CHOPIN arr H Wood: Third movement, Funeral March, from Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)

  MARTINU arr Teml: Czech Rhapsody - Bohuslav Matousek (vln), Czech Phil/Christopher Hogwood (Hyperion CDA 67672)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Upbeat Classics URCD 140)

  D'INDY: Istar - Iceland SO/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10585)

  RAVEL arr Wood: Boléro - Bruce McKinnon (perc), Saxcess (Saxcess)

  ALWYN: Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570705)

  SUK: Elegy Op 23 - Atos Trio (CPO 777 470)

  BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 050 502)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FROM RAGS TO REICH

  Twentieth Century American composers of piano music

  GERSHWIN: Promenade; James P JOHNSON: The Mule Walk - Alan Feinberg (pno) (Argo 444 457)

  COWELL: Woof I; Woof II; NANCARROW trans Druckman: Player Piano Study No 6 - Alan Feinberg (pno), Daniel Druckman (marimba) (Argo 444 457)

  CAGE: Dream - Jeanne Kirstein (pno) (New World Records 80664)

  COWELL: Three legends; Concerto Piccolo - Stefan Litwin (pno), Saarbrücken Radio SO/Michael Stern (Col Legno WWE 1CD 20064)

  NANCARROW: Studies for Player Piano, No 3c; No 3e, from Boogie-Woogie Suite - recorded on Conlon Nancarrow's custom-altered 1927 Ampico reproducing piano in the composer's studio, Mexico City (Wergo WER 6907)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Norrköping SO/Lü Jia (BIS CD 1140)

  DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments Op 44 - Czech Nonet (Praga PRD 350 021)

  TUBIN: Symphony No 7 - Estonian National SO/Arvo Volmer (Alba ABCD 155)

  POULENC: Concerto in D minor for two pianos - François-René Duchâble, Jean-Philippe Collard (pno duo), Rotterdam Phil/James Conlon (Erato ECD 88140)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Instrumental Duos

  PUJOL: Tiempo del hombre - Giorgio Mirto, Victor Villadangos (gtrs) (Brilliant Classics 9088)

  VIVALDI: Double Concerto in Bb for two violins RV526 - Sara Deborah Struntz (vln), La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir/vln) (Avie AV 2201)

  STRAVINSKY arr Moore: The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei; Lullaby; Finale, from The Firebird - Philip Moore, Simon Crawford-Phillips (pno duo) (Deux-Elles DXL 1081)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SAINZ DE LA MAZA: Zapateado - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 02 CD)

  BARBER: Agnus Dei - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  BACH arr Münchinger: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger (London 440 082)

  HANDEL: Scherza infida in grembo al drudo, from Ariodante - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 457 271-2)

  BUNCH: Swing shift - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57357)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  LISZT: Eglogue, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - Jorge Bolet (pno) (rec 1983) (Decca 410 160)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (rec 1979) (Decca 421 074)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  MCLEOD: Rock Sonata No 2 - Rae de Lisle (pno) (RNZ)

  BEETHOVEN: Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont Op 84 - Madeleine Pierard (sop), Claus Obalski (narrator), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557264)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ELGAR: Froissart Overture Op 19 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  MOZART: Porgi amor, from The Marriage of Figaro - Aga Mikolaj (sop), Cologne Radio SO/Karl Sollak (CPO 777 641)

  Josef STRAUSS: Moulinet Op 57 - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 425 427)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Stokowski: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Eric Kunzel (Telarc CD 80338)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Polonaise in F minor Op 77 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5152)

  RESPIGHI: St Michael the Archangel, from Church Windows - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8317)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in F K244 - Patrice Legrand, Robert Aribaud (vlns), Philippe Pennanguer (cello), Patrick Delabre (org) (Syrius SYR 141404)

  HIGDON: Blue Cathedral - Atlanta SO/Robert Spano (Telarc CD 80596)

  DEBUSSY: La cathédrale engloutie, from Preludes, Book 1 - Pascal Rogé (pno) (Onyx 4004)

  GUILMANT: Marche-fantaisie sur deux chants d'église - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHSA 5048)

  MENDELSSOHN: Capriccio in E minor Op 81/3 - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 267)

  COPLAND: El Salón México - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (BBC Music BBC MM 98)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Kari Kriikku

  The Finnish clarinet player in conversation with Kate Mead (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  100 Years Ago

  Four programmes

  (3) Anders Kjellberg Nilsson (vln), Jacob Koranyi (cello), Peter Friis Johansson (pno)

  DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1; Cello Sonata in D minor; Violin Sonata in G; Piano Trio in G (recorded in the Musikaliska Concert Hall, Stockholm by Swedish Radio)

• 9:30 PM. A Beecham Edition

  DELIUS ed Beecham: The Song of the High Hills - Olivia Robinson (sop), Christopher Bowen (ten), BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5088)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SPOHR: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78 - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67788)

  GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Alice Giles (harp), Adelaide SO/David Porcelijn (ABC Classics 454 506)

  11:00 HAYDN: String Quartet in G Op 76/1 - Doric String Quartet (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0032)

  ROTA: Nonetto - Kremerata Musica (BIS CD 870)

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