Friday 19 August 2011 Rāmere 19 Here-turi-kōkā 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ELGAR: The Spanish Lady; Sketches from Symphony No 3 - Keith Swallow (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Anne Manson, BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (BBC Music MM38 Volume IV No 2)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BESSER arr Bravura: Turn; Stretto and Round; Mitzvah Round; Shimmering Stillness; M ADAMS: Floating; BESSER arr Bravura: Five New York Tone Rows 2003; Solemnity; Resolution; Gamjam IV - Bravura (Rattle RAT D013)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Sea Drift; Songs of Farewell; Songs of Sunset - Sally Burgess (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bar), Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, members of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9214)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  LISZT: Ave Maria; Ave Maris Stella; Invocation; Hymne du Martin; Hymne de la nuit; Harmonies Poetique et Religieuses - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66421)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; The Birds; Pines of Rome - BBC National Orch of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka, BBC Phil/Patrick Thomas (BBC Music BBC MM 277)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ABEL: Symphony in E Op 10/1 - Frankfurt La Stagione/Michael Schneider (CPO 999 207)

  VIOTTI: Nocturne No 3 for flute & piano - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G RV310, from L'Estro Armonico Op 3 - Roberto Michelucci (vln/dir), I Musici (Philips 446 169)

  BEETHOVEN arr Stees: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus - Barrick Stees (bsn), Randall Fusco (pno) (Claves CD 50-9815)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, Last Spring; The Wounded Heart - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  7:00 RACHMANINOV arr Stokowski: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Eric Kunzel (Telarc CD 80338)

  LISZT: Funérailles - Lise de la Salle (pno) (Naïve V 5267)

  TAVENER: Song for Athene - Atlanta SO/Chamber Chorus/Norman Mackenzie (Telarc CD 80654)

  ORFF arr anon: In trutina, from Carmina Burana - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

  M HAYDN: Symphony No 15 in D - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 154)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GLINKA trans Balakirev: The Lark - Alexander Paley (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1746)

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  WILBY: Cyrano - Joseph Cook (tuba), Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.572166)

  J STRAUSS I: Radetzky March - Danish National SO/Sergiu Celibidache (IMG Artists 5 62872)

  D BAKER: Third movement, Dance, from Clarinet Sonata - Mark Walton (cl), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - London SO/Colin Davis (RCA 09026 68770)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  RANDY NEWMAN (b1943)

  Chris Bourke looks at Newman's albums Bad Love, the two Songbooks, and Harps and Angels (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  RAMEAU: Les Boréades, Suite - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA 9882)

  MOLIQUE: Flute Concerto in D minor - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Czech National SO/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 080)

  STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - Enigma Ensemble (Balance BAL 9442-1)

  ROTA: Symphony No 3 in C - Filarmonica '900 of the Turin Teatro Regio/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10669)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Miniatures

  ADDINSELL arr Lane: Miniature Overture, from Encore - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)

  MOLEIRO: Two miniatures, The girl from the blacksmith's; The Blacksmith - Clara Rodriguez (pno) (Nimbus NI 6104)

  KREISLER: Marche miniature viennoise - Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Aude Capuçon (pno) (Virgin Classics 3 32626)

  BOWEN: Miniature Suite in C Op 14 - Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67827)

  LEWIS: A Miniature Symphony - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2131)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  VERDI: Ritorna vincitor! from Aida - Renata Tebaldi (sop), Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 440 408)

  LILBURN: Four Canzonas - NZSO CO (RNZ)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in D minor TWV51/d2 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (DG 477 5923)

  BRAHMS: Variations on an Original Theme Op 21/1 - Andreas Boyde (pno) (Oehms OC 586)

  PUCCINI: Love duet, from Madame Butterfly - Mirella Freni (sop), Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 440 072)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in B minor Op 6/12 - Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7228/29)

  BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Steven Isserlis (cello) (rec 2005) (Hyperion CDA 67541/2)

  PURCELL: Hark! Hark! the echoing air; O, let me weep, from The Fairy Queen - Sylvia McNair (sop), Crispian Steele Perkins (tpt), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (rec 1994) (Philips 446 081)

  BIBER: Violin Sonata in A, Sonata Representativa - Andrew Manze (baroque vln), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (hpschd), Romanesca (rec 1993) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7134/5)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite - New Zealand SO/JoAnn Falletta (Koch International 3-7368)

  A RITCHIE: Viola Sonata Op 64b - Donald Maurice (vla), Emma Sayers (pno) (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 113)

  VANHAL: Sinfonia in C, Comista (Bryan C11) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SCHUBERT: Alfonso & Estrella, Overture - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (Koch Schwann 3-1121)

  SARASATE: Gavotte after Mignon - Gil Shaham (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (Canary Classics CC 07)

  SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Dances - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy Op 57 - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

  FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 2 in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

  CRUFT: Traditional Hornpipe Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Sanctuary CD RSB 205)

  RUTTER: Five traditional songs, The girl I left behind me; O waly, waly; The British Grenadiers; Golden slumbers; Dashing away with the smoothing iron - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt (Bayer BR 100 334)

  EISTER: Fantasia on a Traditional Persian Song - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Archer ARR 31926)

  TRAD arr Langford: Fantasy on British Sea Songs - Auckland Brass/Nigel Weeks (Kiwi CD SLC 247)

  RODRIGO: Three traditional dance airs - Castile & León SO/Max Bragado Darman (Naxos 8.555962)

  TURINA: Two dances on traditional Spanish themes Op 41 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.557150)

  TRAD arr Kozlov: Kalinka - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (Philips 456 399)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Critic's Chair

  Thomas Goss reviews recent releases of Renaissance and Baroque period performances (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Munro-Smith-Berlin Trio: Ian Munro (pno), Wilma Smith (vln), David Berlin (cello)

  MOZART: Piano Trio No 4 in E K542; BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3; SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. Old Americana

  COPLAND arr Fine: Old American Songs, Set 1, The boatmen's dance; The dodger; Long time ago; Simple gifts; I bought me a cat - Don Becker (bar), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 42140)

  RR BENNETT ed Higgins: Suite of Old American Dances, Cake walk; Schottische; Western one-step; Wallflower waltz; Rag - Lone Star Wind Orch/Eugene Migliaro Corporon (Naxos 8.570968)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Hermann und Dorothea, Overture - Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (EMI 3 71497)

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 10 in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

  J STRAUSS II arr anon/orch Pollack: A Night in Venice, Potpourri - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.225074)

  11:00 IBERT: String Quartet - Quatuor Parisii (Adda 581 126)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes, in Bb minor Op 9/1; in Eb Op 9/2; in C# minor Op posth - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 060)

  BRIDGE: Phantasie Piano Quartet in F# minor - London Bridge Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7205)

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