Monday 5 September 2011 Rāhina 5 Mahuru 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; Horn Concertos, in D HobVIId/3; in D HobVIId/4; Cello Concerto in C HobVIIb/1 - Håkan Hardenburger (tpt), Hermann Baumann (horn), Heinrich Schiff (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner, Iona Brown (Philips 432 060)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  JANÁCEK: On an Overgrown Path; SMETANA: Trois Polkas de Salon Op 7; Trois Polkas Poétique Op 8; Souvenirs de Bohème en forme de Polkas - Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 4206)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Leiderkreis Op 39; Aus Den Östlichen Rosen; Die Soldatenbraut; Der Nussbaum; Widmung; Frauenliebe und Leben Op 42; Mignon; Meine Rose; Requiem - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (IMP MCD 22)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece No 2 in D minor Op 114; Rondo Capriccioso Op 14; Songs without Words, in F# minor Op 67/2; in A Op 62/6; in F Op 53/4; in C Op 67/4; Clarinet Sonata in Eb; Songs without Words, Venetian Gondola Song in A minor Op 62/5; Venetian Gondola Song in A (1842); 17 Variations Serieuses Op 54; Concert Piece No 1 in F minor Op 113 - Alan Hacker (cl), Lesley Schatzberger (basset horn), Richard Burnett (pno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 38)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture; Symphonic Rhapsody; Saga-drøm Op 39; An Evening at Giske; Paraphrase on Nearer my God to thee; Bohemian-Danish folk tune; Rhapsody Overture, An imaginary journey to the Foeroe Islands; Pan & Syrinx - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in C, Alexander's Feast - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 422 053)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 4 in Eb K282 - Henry Wong Doe (pno) (Private Recording)

  MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)

  SUK: Ballade & Serenade for cello & piano Op 3 - Stefan Heinemeyer (cello), Thomas Hoppe (pno) (CPO 777 470)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 552)

  7:00 NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

  TELEMANN: Flute Concerto in D TWV51/D2 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Frankfurt La Stagione/Michael Schneider (CPO 777 400)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in B minor Op 119/1 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Decca 417 559)

  CURTIS: Open Road - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MACDOWELL: To a wild rose, from Woodland Sketches - Joseph Cooper (pno) (London 443 333)

  PROKOFIEV: Montagues & Capulets, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

  FROLOV: Fantasy on Themes from Porgy & Bess - Haik Kazazyan (vln), Andrey Shibko (pno) (Delos DE 3384)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 49 in C# minor HobXVI/36 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (Sony SK 89363)

  DELIUS arr Fenby: Serenade, from Hassan - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  GLIÈRE: Concert Waltz - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ANTON ARENSKY (1861-1906)

  Symphony No 1 in B minor Op 4 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 10086)

  Etudes Op 41, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in F#; No 3 in Eb minor; No 4 in A minor - Adam Neiman (pno) (Naxos 8.572233)

  Three Vocal Quartets Op 57, Serenade; To the Dying Stars; The Hot Spring - Russian State Symphonic Capella/Valeri Polyansky, Dmitri Miller (cello) (Chandos CHAN 10086)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  KODÁLY: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song, Peacock Variations - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 322)

  RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - John Williams (gtr), Philharmonia/Louis Frémaux (CBS M2K 44791)

  LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Bridge 9337)

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Every Day's a Birthday

  PRUDEN: Birthday Disguises - NZSO CO (RNZ)

  HEIDRICH: Happy Birthday Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

  DYSON: My Birthday - David Owen Norris (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7137)

  ALWYN: Chaconne for Tom - John Turner (recorder), Iain Burnside (pno) (Naxos 8.570340)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  LACAGNINA: Concerto Serenata, Omaggio a Astor Piazzolla - Edoardo Catemario (gtr), Vincenzo Galilei Orch/Nicola Paszkowski (Arts 47728)

  MACHAUT: Ballade 32, Plourez dames,from Songs from Le Voir Dit - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.553833)

  DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme - Mark Walton (sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

  PEROTIN: Beata viscera - Rebecca Hickey (sop) (Naxos 8.557340)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  DEBUSSY: La Mer - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (rec 1991) (DG 439 896)

  RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Quatuor Ebène (rec 2008) (Virgin 5 19045)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Concert Overture in D - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  FARQUHAR: Divisions on a Bach Passacaglia Bass - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

  BACH: First movement, Allegro, from Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 - Daniel Hope (vln), Chamber Orch of Europe (Warner 2564 62545)

  LISZT: Three Liebesträume - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (RNZ)

  MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - James Kreger (cello), Gerald Robbins (pno) (Koch Discover DICD 920 586)

  DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

  HANDEL: Silent Worship, from Ptolemy - Kenneth McKellar (ten), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Adrian Boult (Decca 425 851)

  GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - James Tibbles (organ of Auckland Town Hall) (RNZ)

  SUGATA: Peaceful Dance of Two Dragons - Kanagawa Phil/Kazuhiko Komatsu (Naxos 8.570319)

  CHARLES: The green-eyed Dragon - Gerald Finley (bbar), Julius Drake (pno) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0025)

  TAN DUN: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, theme - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Shanghai SO, Shanghai National Orch, Shanghai Percussion Ensemble/Tan Dun (Sony SK 89347)

  HAMILTON: I have a dozen dragons - Opus 1998/David Hamilton (David Hamilton)

  Josef STRAUSS: The Dragonfly - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)

  YAMADA arr Yashiro: Red Dragonfly - Sonoko Numata (vln), Akemi Tadenuma (pno) (Camerata 30CM-409)

  NEWMAN: Dragonwyck, film music - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  The 150th anniversary of the birth of ANTON ARENSKY (1861-1906)

  The life and music of the composer presented by Charlotte Wilson (RNZ)

  Piano Concerto in F minor Op 2 - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570526)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2011 Auckland Arts Festival

  Seven programmes

  (1) A Symphonic Odyssey

  V8 Vocal Ensemble, New Zealand SO/James Judd

  A programme based around two seminal works of the 1960s avant-garde, which also pays tribute to Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey

  STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30; LIGETI: Atmosphères; J STRAUSS II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube; BERIO: Sinfonia (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Arias with Obbligati Instruments

  MOZART: Ch'io mi scordi di te K505; JC BACH: Sventurata, in van mi lagno - Hjördis Thébault (sop), Dafni Kokkoni (fpno), Rudolf Linner, Vilian Vojcík (hns), Solamente Naturali/Didier Talpain (Brilliant Classics 94116)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Portrait of Madame Butterfly - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  RESPIGHI: Chaconne in G minor, after Vitali's Chaconne - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

  BORODIN orch Glazunov: Petite Suite - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9386)

  11:00 RACHMANINOV: Suite No 1 in G minor for two pianos Op 5, Fantaisie-tableaux - Brigitte Engerer, Boris Berezovsky (pno duo) (Mirare MIR 070)

  GLAZUNOV: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 10 - Utrecht String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1237)

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