Thursday 22 March 2012 Rāpare 22 Poutū-te-rangi 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), RIAS SO, Berlin Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Artists Live FED 049)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  DVORÁK: Five Bagatelles for two violins, cello & harmonium Op 47; String Quintet in Eb Op 97; Terzetto in C for two violins & viola Op 74 - Robert Ireland (harmonium), Patrick Ireland (vla), Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 806)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  Fairest Work of Happy Nature

  BLOW: Songs & Keyboard Music - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Timothy Roberts (spinet, hpschd, chamber org), Paula Chataeuneuf (theorbo, baroque gtr) (Hyperion CDA 66646)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BAX: Cello Sonata in Eb; Folk-Tale; Sonatina in D; Legend-Sonata in F# minor - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 896)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings Op 48; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11; Elegy; Scherzo in C minor Op 42/2 - Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9116)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CIMAROSA: L'Impresario in Angustie, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

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

  STENHAMMAR: Two Sentimental Romances Op 28 - Tobias Ringborg (vln), Swedish CO/Niklas Willén (Naxos 8.554287)

  SULLIVAN: Dance of the Nymphs & Satyrs, from L'Ile Enchantée - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223003)

  MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/6, Venetian gondola song - Luba Edlina (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8948/9)

  CHAUSSON: Soir de Fête - Belgian Radio SO/José Serebrier (Chandos CHAN 8369)

  7:00 VERDI: Spuntato ecco il dì, from Don Carlos - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

  HAHN: L'Heure exquise - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (Decca 473 168)

  ARNOLD: English Dances Suite No 2 - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

  BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Variations on a theme of Tárrega - Enno Voorhorst (gtr) (Naxos 8.555718)

  CORELLI: Concertino in seven parts - Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (dir) (Decca 470 296)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GLUCK: Che farò senza Euridice? from Orpheus & Euridice - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 449 206)

  LILBURN: Two Diversions - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D, Carnival in Pest - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

  BRIAN: Festal Dance - RTE National SO/Adrian Leaper (Naxos 8.572020)

  MILHAUD: Suite d'après Corrette - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6536)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - London SO/André Previn (RCA GD 87830)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

  Film Music

  The poet acts; Morning passages, from the film, The Hours - Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), Michael Riesman (pno), orchestral accompaniment/Nick Ingman (Nonesuch 79693)

  Koyaanisqatsi, excerpts - Albert de Ruiter (bass), Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (Nonesuch 7559 79506)

  Powaqqatsi, excerpts - Percussion ensemble, session orch/Michael Reisman (Nonesuch 7559 79192)

  Naqoyqatsi - Tony Boutté (ten), Paul Houghtaling (bar), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), members of Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (Sony SK 87709)

  The Thin Blue Line, End credits, from the film soundtrack - studio orchestra/Michael Riesman (Nonesuch 7559 79209)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr Barshai: Chamber Symphony in C minor Op 110a - Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould (vln/dir) (Linn CKD 095)

  PLEYEL: Piano Trio in E minor Ben435 - Trio 1790 (CPO 777 544)

  SPOHR: Symphony No 8 in G Op 137 - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67802)

  HUBAY orch Huszár: Viola Concerto Op 20, Second & Third movements - Péter Bársony (vla), Erkel CO/Gergely Vajda (Hungaroton Classic HCD 32626)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Opera for Chamber Forces

  PUCCINI arr Tamminga: Te Deum, from Tosca - Liuwe Tamminga (organ of St Pietro Somaldi, Lucca, Italy), Valentino Marré, Mirko Natalizi (percussion) (Passacaille 952)

  DEBUSSY arr Mouton: Pelléas & Mélisande, Piano Trio - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1711)

  HANDEL arr Temmingh: Tornami a vagheggiar, from Alcina - Stefan Temmingh (recorder), Domen Marincic (vla da gamba), Axel Wolf (lute), Olga Watts (hpschd) (Oehms Classics OC 772)

  STRAUSS arr Taubmann: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5153)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture - Boston SO/Charles Munch (RCA 09026 68999)

  CHERUBINI: Nemo gaudeat - Barbara Fleckenstein (sop), Barbara Müller (contralto), Bernhard Schneider, Andrew Meyer (tens), Christoph Hartkopf (bass), Harald Feller, Max Hanft (orgs), Bavarian Radio Chorus/Riccardo Muti (EMI 3 94316)

  SPRATLEY: Suite Op 12b, In Outlaw Country - Tracey Redfern (tpt), Eira Lynn Jones (harp), Manchester Sinfonia/Philip Spratley (Toccata Classics TOCC 0088)

  WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Vera Schlosser, Berit Lindholm, Brigitte Fassbaender, Helen Watts, Helga Dernesch, Vera Little, Marilyn Tyler, Claudia Hellmann (Valkyries), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - London SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47843)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BACH: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor BWV1002 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln) (rec 1981) (RegisC 2077)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595 - Christoph Eschenbach (pno/dir), London Phil (rec 1978) (EMI 3 81793)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  TREMAIN: Tenera Juventa; FARQUHAR: Three of a Kind - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey, Alison Lander, Martin Ryman (pno duet) (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Boléro in G minor Op 166 - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1031)

  JANÁCEK arr Breiner: Kátya Kabanová, Suite - New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570556)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - La Scala Orch, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 218)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522, from L'Estro Armonico - Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir), Geneviève Gilardeau (vln), Tafelmusik Baroque Orch (Analekta AN 2 9835)

  GIGOUT: Scherzo, from Ten Pieces - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

  CPE BACH: Symphony in F Wq183/3 - Salzburg Chamber Phil/Yoon K Lee (Naxos 8.553289)

  BIZET trans Mercz: Entr'acte to Act 3, from Carmen; Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

  WOLF-FERRARI: Overture & Intermezzo, from Doctor Love - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

  WOODFORDE-FINDEN: Kashmiri Love Song - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

  RÓZSA: Love Scene, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

  TRAD arr Mizzi: Three love poems, Hula; Lahaina; Hana - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Spearhead Music SM 200)

  BRIDGE: Speak to me, my love! - Sarah Connolly (mezzo), BBC Welsh National Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10310)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS SACD 1518)

  WARBECK: Shakespeare in Love, theme from the motion picture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80551)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Progress, Patriotism and Protest

  Three programmes in which Matthew Crawford navigates the turbulent confluence of music and politics in 20th century America.(2) A national anthem at last, music for war, Strange Fruit in the South, Frank Sinatra pleads for tolerance and Leonard Bernstein takes aim at the forces of McCarthyism (Media Maker)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Nikolai Demidenko (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; SCHREKER: Interlude, from Der Ferne Klang; RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé, Suites Nos 1 & 2 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Ehnes plays Bartók

  Rhapsodies, No 1 Sz86; No 2 Sz89 - James Ehnes (vln), Andrew Armstrong (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10705)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ROUSSEL: The Spider's Feast - French National Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 3 71487)

  BERG: Seven early songs, Night; Song amid the reeds; The nightingale; Crowned in dreams; Indoors; Ode to love; Summer days - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 437 515)

  KUULA: South Ostrobothnian, Suite No 2 - BBC Concert Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7272)

  11:00 SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)

  MARAIS arr Heinrich: Les folies d'Espagne - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 221)

  FIBICH: String Quartet No 2 in G Op 8 - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3470-2 131)

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