Thursday 5 January 2012 Rāpare 5 Kohi-tātea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  GRAINGER: The Warriors; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 445 860)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LISZT arr Gounod: Hymne à Sainte Cécile; Les Sabéennes; LISZT: Rêve d'amour No 2, Seleger Tod; Vallée d'Obermann; Rêve d'amour No 1, Hohe Liebe; arr Gounod: Les Adieux; LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor; Six Consolations; Rêve d'amour No 3, O Lieb - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis - Charlotte Margiono (sop), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), William Kendall (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 429 779)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  KOECHLIN: Sonata for Horn Op 70; Morceau de Lecture pour cor; Fifteen Pieces Op 180; Sonneries - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Daniel Blumenthal (pno) (ASV CD DCA 716)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  VIVALDI: Concertos, in F for violin & organ RV542; in Bb for violin & oboe RV548; in C for two trumpets RV537; in G for 2 violins & 2 cellos RV575; in C for oboe RV447; in D minor for 2 violins & cello RV565 - I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 8651)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 OFFENBACH: La Belle Hélène, Overture - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 332)

  DONIZETTI trans Stees: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'amore - Barrick Stees (bsn), Sylvia Norris (harp) (Claves CD 50-9815)

  WEBER orch Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 411 898)

  BOWERMAN: Fantasy on a theme of Elgar - Ittai Shapira (vln), Julian Milford (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 015)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/5 - Avison Ensemble/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (Linn CKD 362)

  7:00 SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

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

  WIDOR: Romance, from Suite Op 34 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Bolero - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (Naxos 8.570399)

  MARQUEZ: Dance No 2 - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden - Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best, John Scott (org) (Hyperion CDA 66359)

  HEDGES: Fiddler's Green - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2134)

  LILBURN: Processional Fanfare - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  GLAZUNOV: Grand Waltz, from Raymonda - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Marina Gusak-Grin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8500)

  BARBER: Summer Music - Canberra Wind Soloists (ABC Classics 456 357)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in Bb RV362, Hunt - Stefano Montanari (vln), Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (dir) (Arts 47565)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  DITTERSDORF: Serenade in F - Oradea Phil/Romeo Rîmbu (Olympia OCD 425)

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Ludovica Mosca (castanets), Almodis Chamber Ensemble (Columna Música 1CM 0125)

  GRIEG: Sigurd Jorsalfar - Håkan Hagegård (bar), men of the Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1391)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 123 - Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67095)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (CBS MK 42194)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Backstage at the Met

  In the first of a two-part series, Paul Bushnell goes through the stage door at New York's Metropolitan Opera to find out how it works. His backstage interviews feature a wide range of the key people who get the productions onstage and make it run, including the General Manager Peter Gelb. The talk is interwoven with music from several Met productions, including the opening of the controversial new Ring Cycle directed by Robert Lepage (RNZ)

• 1:10 PM. Meistersinger Minus the Singers

  WAGNER arr Vlieger: Meistersinger, an orchestral tribute - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5092)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BALFE arr Chichon: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, from The Bohemian Girl - Elina Garanca (mezzo), RAI National Orch/Karel Mark Chichon (DG 477 8776)

  PM DUBOIS: Sonatine - Mark Walton (sax), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)

  RUBBRA: A Hymn to the Virgin - Samantha Jeune (sop), Alison Holden (pno) (Private 2148)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Daniel Barenboim (pno), New Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CMS 7 63360)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 - North German Radio SO/Günter Wand (rec 1983) (RCA GD 60087)

  Two Songs for contralto, viola & piano Op 91, Gestillte Sehnsucht; Geistliches Wiegenlied - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Herbert Downes (vla), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (rec 1965/66) (EMI CMS 7 64074)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  CARR: Sinfonietta - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1077)

  RACHMANINOV: No 1 in C; No 8 in A minor; No 12 in G# minor; No 10 in B minor, from Preludes Op 32 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (HMV ASD 9009)

  RAUTAVAARA: Lorca Suite - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1299)

  MAREK: Rural Scenes - Elzbieta Szmytka (sop), Philharmonia/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6441)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Calliope CAL 9351.2)

  GERSHWIN: Fascinatin' Rhythm, from Lady, be Good! - Al Gallodoro (reeds), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Procession of the Sardar, from Caucasian Sketches Op 10 - Tasmanian SO/Shalom Ronly-Riklis (ABC Classics 464 194)

  HALVORSEN arr Cello Duello: Passacaglia after Handel - Cello Duello (Solo Musica SM 146)

  PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1327)

  BOLCOM: Cabaret Songs, Surprise!; The actor; Song of black max; Amor; Toothbrush time; The total stranger in the garden; George - Measha Brueggergosman (sop), BBC SO/David Robertson (DG 477 6589)

  BERLIOZ arr Barton/Sinozich: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath, from Symphonie fantastique - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

  SCHUBERT: German Dances D90 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 333)

  TRAD arr Baker: Tarantella - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)

  ARENSKY: Symphonic Scherzo - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570526)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Glenn Gould, The Radio Artist

  Four programmes

  (1) The Idea of North

  A train ride northward in Canada is the imaginative and sonic foundation of this documentary in which the speakers are woven in and out of the textures, sometimes alone and clear, sometimes overlapping - Glenn Gould (CBC Records PSCD 20315)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Robert Costin (org), Auckland Philharmonia/Garry Walker

  HAYDN: Il Ritorno di Tobia, Sinfonia; GUILMANT: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 42; ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Dedicated to Dussek

  ONSLOW: Piano Trio in A Op 3/1 - Trio Cascades (CPO 777 232)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  LISZT: Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem No 6, after Victor Hugo - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (BBC Music BBC MM 336)

  TURINA: Variaciones clásicas Op 72 - Felix Ayo (vln), Bruno Canino (pno) (Dynamic CDS 391)

  MOZART: Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 - James Galway (fl/dir), Catrin Finch (harp), Sinfonia Varsovia (DG 477 6233)

  11:00 CHERUBINI: String Quartet No 1 in Eb - Britten Quartet (Brilliant Classics 9197)

  SCHUMANN: Intermezzi Op 4 - Herbert Schuch (pno) (Oehms OC 754)

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