Saturday 9 July 2011 Rāhoroi 9 Hōngoingoi 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture: Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins; Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 JC HERTEL: Sinfonia No 3 in D - Württemberg CO, Heilbronn/Wolfgang Bauer (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1499)

  DEBUSSY: Petite Suite - Laurence Fromentin, Dominique Plancade (pno duet) (EMI 5 72526)

  COATES: A la Gavotte - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2112)

  DELIUS arr Tertis: Caprice & Elegy for viola & orchestra - Sarah-Jane Bradley (vla), BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Dutton CDLX 7226)

  SOR: Fantasy in D on a favourite Scottish Air Op 40, Variations on Ye banks & braes - Stefano Palamidessi (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 93960)

  RAMEAU trans anon: The Hen, from Pièces de clavecin - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

  7:00 FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques Op 112 - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 449 186)

  JC BACH arr Flautando: Quartet in G Op 19/3 - Cologne Flautando (Carus 83.360)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Three Spring Miniatures - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9595)

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in C# minor Op 3/2; in D Op 23/4; in G minor Op 23/5 - Richard Farrell (pno) (rec 1958) (Atoll ACD 909)

  HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  8:00 CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro, after Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 470 291)

  HOLZBAUER: Symphony in G - Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (dir) (CPO 999 585)

  MATHIAS: Santa Fe Suite - Claire Jones (harp) (Classic FM CFMD 16)

  IRELAND: A London Overture - London SO/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47984)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  SCHUBERT: Overture in D D26 - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570328)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), English CO (CBS M13K 42055)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570002)

  PSATHAS: Fragment - Stephen Gosling (pno duet) (Trust MMT 2047)

  S ASSAD: Interchange, Concerto for four guitars & orchestra - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Delaware SO/David Amado (Telarc TEL 31754)

  VERDI: Ah, fors'è lui, from La Traviata - Joan Sutherland (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

  HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Tring International TRP 996)

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

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• 1:00 PM. Jazz Concerts

  Thirteen live jazz concerts from the EBU

  (9) René Urtreger Trio @ Studio Charles Trenet

  René Urtreger Trio: René Urtreger (pno), Yves Torchinsky (dbass), Eric Dervieu (drums)

  LANE: Old devil moon; URTREGER: St Eustache, Paloma; MONK: Ruby, my dear; MANDELL: Sinbad the sailor; URTREGER: La Fornarina: LOESSER: If I were a bell; POWELL: Un poco loco; BASIE: Easy does it (Radio France, Paris)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  English folk band Bellowhead

  "We're a party band with serious intellectual pretensions," says Bellowhead's percussionist Pete Flood, whose instruments may include anything from coal scuttles, party blowers and clockwork toys to frying pans

  The band recently won the Best Group category in both the Songlines Music and Radio 2 Folk awards. As well as the latter's Best Live Act award for the fifth time. Today in Global Sounds we play music from their latest album Hedonism, and 2008 release Matachin (Navigator 17; Navigator 042)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Live! at the Concertgebouw 2010

  Ten programmes

  (6) Jane Irwin (mezzo), Eduardo del Pueyo (pno), Netherlands Radio Choir & Phil/Jaap van Zweden, Frans Brüggen, Jean Fournet

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21; ELGAR: The Music Makers Op 69; FALLA: Second movement, Danza lejana, from Nights in the Gardens of Spain; FRANCK: Morceau symphonique, from Rédemption; RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2; HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été (Radio Netherlands)

• 5:00 PM. The Art of Jean-Yves Thibaudet

  CHOPIN: Waltzes, in Ab Op 34/1; in A minor Op 34/2; in F Op 34/3; in A minor Op posth - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 060)

  DEBUSSY: Chansons de Bilitis - Renée Fleming (sop), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 467 697)

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

  Waltz, from Gounod's Faust S407 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 061)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BRIDGE: Enter Spring - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

  SARASATE: Playera Op 23/1 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

  GAVIN: The Hypocrites - Gitbox Rebellion (Rattle RAT D001)

  HILL: String Quartet No 9 in A minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Thomas Quasthoff (bar)

  MAHLER: Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt; Lob des hohen Verstandes, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn - with Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 477 6159)

  BACH: Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug - with Albrecht Mayer (ob), Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Berlin Baroque Soloists (DG 477 6159)

  SCHUBERT: Auf der Bruck D853; Heidenröslein D257; Die Forelle D550; LISZT: Die Lorelei; O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst; Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; LOEWE: Herr Oluf - with Justus Zeyen (pno) (DG 477 6159)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Heath Lees

  Brahms' 4th, so much symphony from so little material (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Solveig Kringelborn (sop), New Zealand SO/Leif Segerstam

  SIBELIUS: Luonnotar; CREE BROWN: Icescape; GRIEG: Solveig's song, from Peer Gynt Op 23; The Last Spring Op 34/2; From Monte Pincio, from Romances Op 39; A swan Op 25/2; BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RUBBRA: Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (Chandos CHAN 8378)

  READE: The Victorian Kitchen Garden, Suite - Michael Collins (cl), Michael McHale (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10637)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 - Musica Viva Instrumental Ensemble/Alexander Rudin (Brilliant Classics 94188)

  11:00 HUMMEL: Trio in A for flute, cello & piano - Lise Daoust (fl), Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Carmen Picard (pno) (Naxos 8.553473)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Household Music, Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes for String Quartet (Crug-y-bar; St Denio; Aberystwyth) - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67381/2)

  SUK: Lullabies Op 33 - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9026/7)

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