Thursday 2 August 2012 Rāpare 2 Here-turi-kōkā 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor; BRAHMS orch Rubbra: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8825)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  CORIGLIANO: Sonata for violin & piano; PÄRT: Fratres; MORAVEC: Sonata for violin & piano; GLINSKY: Toccata-Scherzo; MESSIAEN: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus - Maria Bachmann (vln), Jon Klibonoff (pno) (Catalyst 09026 61824)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  FINZI: God is gone up Op 27/2; Welcome sweet & sacred feast Op 27/3; Three Short Elegies Op 5; Thou didst delight my eyes Op 32; My lovely one Op 27/1; Let us now praise famous men Op 35; Seven Partsongs Op 17; Magnificat Op 36; White-flowering days Op 37; All this night Op 33; Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer, Harry Bicket (org) (Chandos CHAN 8936)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17; PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 Op 28; SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 9 Op 68; RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 39 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2028)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BIZET: Overture in A; Scene bohémiennes, La Jolie Fille de Perth; Symphony in C; Dramatic Overture, Patrie - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: La vera costanza, Sinfonia - Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis (dir) (DHM 88697 32632)

  SEVERAC: Sous les lauriers roses - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.572428)

  FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean Racine - Accentus, members of French National Orch/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 5137)

  BACALOV arr Russell: Theme from II Postino - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

  CARSE: Two Sketches, A Northern Song; A Northern Dance - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

  BELLINI: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Alessandro Baccini (ob), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

  7:00 GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9554)

  BRAHMS arr Elkjer: Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor - BonaNZa Trombone Quartet (Rata RT 011)

  L MOZART: Symphony in C, Eisen D1 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10496)

  KELLY: Three Pieces for strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

  BRUCKNER: Locus iste - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

  RAVEL: Menuet antique - French National Orch/Eliahu Inbal (Brilliant Classics 6980)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Mass in B minor, Dona nobis pacem - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  SCHMITT: Sonatine en trio Op 85 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Paul Meyer (cl), Eric Le Sage (pno) (EMI 5 57948)

  ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68901)

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in Eb Op 23/6; in G Op 32/5; in G# minor Op 32/12 - Richard Farrell (pno) (rec 1958) (Atoll ACD 909)

  DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

  LIADOV: Polonaise in C Op 49, In memory of Pushkin - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  THE BROTHERS GRIMM

  Jacob (1785-1863) & Wilhelm (1786-1859)

  ORFF: Der Mond, A theatrical microcosm in one act

  Narrator………………Rudolf Christ

  Four Rascals………….Karl Schmitt-Walter, Helmut Graml, Paul Kuén, Peter Lagger

  A Farmer……………..Albrecht Peter

  St Peter……………….Hans Hotter

  Philharmonia Children's Chorus, Chorus & Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI 6 87638)

• 10:20 AM. The Works

  BOIELDIEU: Harp Concerto in C - Marisa Robles (harp), ASMF/Iona Brown (Decca 425 723)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 5370)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 7 in C# minor Op 131 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - Italian State Police Band, St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 70065)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Sweets for Children

  ARENSKY: Suite No 5 for two pianos Op 65, Children's Suite - Aglika Genova, Liuben Dimitrov (pno duo) (CPO 777 651)

  BIZET: March, from Jeux d'enfants - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553596)

  GRANDJANY: Children's Hour Suite - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

  ROSSINI orch Respighi: Tarantella, from La Boutique Fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 444 610)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MAYERL: Jill all alone; Autumn Crocus; Shallow Waters; Railroad Rhythm - Susan Tomes (pno) (Virgin VC 7 90745)

  PAINE: Still life, from Alberton - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Bruce Paine BNP DVD 001)

  JANÁCEK: Elegy on the death of my Daughter Olga - Thomas Walker (ten), Philip Mayers (pno), Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2097)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 104 in D, London - New Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 2 15300)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A - Ivry Gitlis (vln), Martha Argerich (pno) (rec 1977) (RCA 74321 98836)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17 - Martha Argerich (pno) (rec 1976) (RCA 74321 98836)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

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

  BEETHOVEN: Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont Op 84 - Madeleine Pierard (sop), Claus Obalski (narrator), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557264)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 1501)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - Dag Jensen (bsn), Leonard Hokanson (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 0395)

  HANDEL: Berenice, Overture - Scottish CO/Jaime Laredo (dir) (RegisC 1160)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

  ALAIN: Litanies - Christopher Herrick (organ of Turku Cathedral, Finland) (Hyperion CDA 66676)

  RUTTER: My True Love Hath My Heart - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66947)

  AGUILAR: Oboe Concerto in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Padua & Venice Orch (CPO 777 715)

  CHOPIN: Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (RCA 82876 72554)

  BARRY: Gifts of Nature - English CO/John Barry (London 460 009)

  ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op 12 - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Steven Isserlis (cello), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

  BACH: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman (Challenge CC 72309)

  TRAD arr Meyer: Simple Gifts - Alison Krauss (sop), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 89667)

  KHACHATURIAN: First movement, Allegro con fermezza, from Violin Concerto in D minor - David Oistrakh (vln), Moscow Radio SO/Aram Khachaturian (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01805)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  South Pacific

  Elric Hooper and Des Wilson take us through the story and music of Rodgers and Hammerstein's hit Broadway musical. Set on a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young American nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission, but one of the main themes of the show is underlying racial prejudice (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Wellington Orchestra, Season Twenty Eleven

  Four programmes

  (2) Diedre Irons (pno), Margaret Medlyn (sop), Wellington Orch/Marc Taddei

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor K491; Ch'io mi scordi di te? K505; BERIO: Rendering (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ) (Programme 3 tomorrow night at 8.00pm)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GAL: Divertimento for mandolin & harp Op 80 - Sonja Wiedemer (mandolin), Petra van der Heide (harp) (Antes BMCD 31.9171)

  FOOTE: Suite in E Op 63 - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwartz (Naxos 8.559365)

  CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Bb Op 11 - Martin Fröst (cl), Gothenburg SO/Okko Kamu (BIS SACD 1723)

  11:00 HILL: String Quartet No 11 in D minor - Australian String Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223746)

  KLUGHARDT: Five Fantasy Pieces Op 28 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Tabea Zimmermann (vla), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 478 3564)

  BRAHMS: Four Songs Op 17 - Danish National Radio Choir/Stefan Parkman, Caitriona Yeats (harp), Per McClelland Jakobsen, Leif Lind (horns) (Chandos CHAN 9806)

Next day - Fri 03

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