Thursday 12 July 2012 Rāpare 12 Hōngoingoi 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise; TCHAIKOVSKY: Puss in Boots and the White Cat, from Sleeping Beauty; DVORÁK: The Wood Dove Op 110; ELGAR: Elegy for strings Op 58; MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood; SAINT SAËNS: Aquarium, from The Carnival of the Animals; FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo; LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  ABBUEHL: Bathyal; BERIO arr Abbuehl: Black is the colour…; COURLANDER: Where flamingos fly; BERIO arr Abbuehl: Lo fiolairé; ABBUEHL: Sea, sea!; Don't set sail; The twilight turns from amethyst; Primrose; Bright cap and streamers; SUN RA: A call for all demons; CHICK COREA: Children's song No 1; ABBUEHL: In the dark pine-wood - Susanne Abbuehl (voicalist), Wolfert Brederode (pno), Christof May (cl/bass cl), Michel Portal (cl), Lucas Niggli (drums/perc) (ECM 1906)

  2:10 approx - Disc 3

  GRIEG: Ballade in G minor Op 24; Peer Gynt Suite Nos 1 & 2; Three Orchestral Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar - Eva Knardahl (pno) (BIS CD 109)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  A & G GABRIELI: A Venetian Coronation, 1595 - Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh (Virgin VC 7 91110)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  KRAUS: Piano Trio in D; Violin Sonata in D minor; Violin Sonata in C; Vienna Flute Quintet in D - Lucia Negro (fpno), Jaap Schroder (vln), Kari Ottesen (cello), Nils-Erik Sparf (vln), Maria Wieslander (hpschd), Lena Weman (baroque fl), Per Sandklef (vln), Bjorn Sjogren (vla) (Musica Sveciae MSCD 415)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PURCELL arr Stokowski: Suite of Five Pieces, Trumpet tune; Echo; Hornpipe; When I am laid in earth; Largo & Allegro - Brussels Phil/Richard Egarr (Glossa GCDSA 922209)

  MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Sebastian Knauer (pno) (Berlin Classics 1637 BC)

  BACALOV arr Redford/Bell: Il Postino - Joshua Bell (vln), instrumental ensemble (Sony 88697 55436)

  SOR: Divertissement Op 38 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in A Op 7/2 - Richard Egarr (org/dir), Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7447.48)

  7:00 WEBER: Oberon, Overture - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 7 49889)

  FRESCOBALDI arr Mills: Toccata - Canadian Brass (RCA RCD 1-3554)

  TRAD arr Allen/Mills: Little David play on your harp; My Lord, what a mornin'; Give me Jesus - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

  ROSETTI: Bassoon Concerto in F (Murray C75) - Eckart Hübner (bsn/dir), Neuss German Chamber Academy (CPO 999 936)

  BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NIM 5062)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GOLDMARK: Magische Töne, from Die Königin von Saba - Mark Dubois (ten), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony/Raffi Armenian (CBC 2-5077)

  SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 478 3564)

  SMETANA: The Peasant Woman - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

  MYSLIVECEK: Octet No 2 in Eb - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice andalous - Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1470)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Hopak, from Mazeppa - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80541)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  Woody Guthrie and the Protest Song

  Tribute Time

  Contemporary musicians pay tribute to Woody Guthrie in albums ranging from the 1988 Folkways: A Vision Shared through 2000's Til We Outnumber 'Em to last year's Note of Hope. Billy Bragg and Wilco took a more radical step by setting Guthrie's unpublished lyrics in the various installments of their Mermaid Avenue project (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc CD 80743)

  MOZART: Violin Concerto No 5 in A K219, Turkish - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Trondheim Soloists/Øvind Gimse (dir) (2L 38)

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 - Jan Panenka (pno), Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3921)

  GRAENER: Variations on a Russian Folk Song - North German Radio Phil, Hanover/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 777 447)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. A Gallic Dance

  CHABRIER: Danse Slave, from Le Roi malgré lui - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 303)

  DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), Oberlin 21/Bridget-Michaele Reischl (Telarc CD 80694)

  VIARDOT-GARCIA: La Danse, after Chopin's Mazurka in C Op 50/1 - Karin Ott (sop), Christoph Keller (pno) (CPO 999 044)

  SAINT-SAËNS trans Liszt/Horowitz: Danse macabre - Behzod Abduraimov (pno) (Decca 478 3301)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HAYDN: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 2 15300)

  REBER: Remembrance - Gil Dech (pno) (EMI 8 59899)

  VERDI: Willow Song & Ave Maria, from Otello - Montserrat Caballé (sop), Elizabeth Bainbridge (mezzo), Royal Phil/Anton Guadagno (EMI CMS 5 65530)

  FLETCHER: Festival Toccata - Jeremy Woodside (organ of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (ChristChurch Cathedral)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58; Choral Fantasia Op 80 - Julius Katchen (pno), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Piero Gamba (rec 1963/65) (Decca 460 825)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  GERSHWIN arr Robert R Bennett: Gershwin in Hollywood - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

  GAVIN: Threnody for Francisco Mendez - Gitbox Rebellion (Rattle RAT D001)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Ellen Sherman (cor anglais), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - Schola Players/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 77)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Serenade - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ingrid Wahlberg (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1426)

  L MOZART: Symphony in G - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553347)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture - Lamoureux Orch/Yutaka Sado (Warner 2564 60480)

  BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Sony SK 60681)

  MEDTNER: Three Pieces Op 31 - Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67851)

  CHOPIN orch Stravinsky: Nocturne in Ab Op 32/2 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 315)

  PARSONS: Ave Maria - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 6605)

  COSTE: Les Soirées d'Auteuil Op 23, Sérénade & Scherzo - Anabel Montesinos (gtr) (Naxos 8.557294)

  TORELLI: Sinfonia in D for two trumpets G23 - Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Blackadder (tpts), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0716)

  WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantella - Joshua Bell (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Decca 417 891)

  MENDELSSOHN: First movement, Allegro molto appassionato, from Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 - Joshua Bell (vln), Salzburg Camerata/Roger Norrington (Sony SK 89505)

  MEYER/MARSHALL: Short trip home - Joshua Bell (vln), Edgar Meyer (dbass), Sam Bush (mandolin), Mike Marshall (gtr) (Sony SK 60864)

  DOWLAND arr Redford/Bell: Come again - Sting (vocalist), Joshua Bell (vln), instrumental ensemble (Sony 88697 55436)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Joshua Bell (vln/dir), ASMF (Sony 88697 11013)

  DUBOIS: Toccata in G, from 12 New Pieces - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (RCA 09026 68844)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Lexus Song Quest 2012

  The Semi-Finals

  Four programmes

  (3) Rodney Macann introduces a set of semi-finalists in New Zealand's premier singing competition, each singing two items, Marlena Devoe (sop), Kawiti Waetford (bar), Isabella Moore (sop), Moses Mackay (bbar), Grace Park (sop), and Amitai Pati (ten) (RNZ) (Programme 4 on Saturday at 7.00pm)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Diva

  Christine Brewer (sop), Auckland Philharmonia/Tadaaki Otaka

  STRAUSS: Selected lieder; Death & Transfiguration Op 24

  (Interval)

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll; Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  LEFEVRE: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Eb - Eduard Brunner (cl), Munich CO/Reinhard Goebel (Tudor 7098)

  GIBBS: Suite for strings, Prelude; A song of sleep; Promise of Spring - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67093)

  11:00 FUNCK: Suite in D - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

  HUMMEL: Piano Quintet in D minor Op 74 - Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet (Brilliant Classics 94023)

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