Saturday 15 September 2012 Rāhoroi 15 Mahuru 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 29 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 218)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor; HARWOOD: Sonata No 1 in C# minor; PARRY: Chorale Prelude; STATHAM: Rhapsody on a Ground; WALFORD DAVIES: Solemn Melody; ELGAR arr Gower: Enigma Variations, Nimrod; MENDELSSOHN: First movement, from Organ Sonata in A Op 65/3; MENDELSSOHN arr Best: War March of the Priests; SUMSION: Ceremonial March - Robert Costin (organ of the Wellington Town Hall) (Kiwi Pacific CD TRL 076)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  BIBER: Missa Salisburensis; Sonata tam aris quam aulis servientes; Sonata No 12 & No 5; Sancti Polycarpi; Plaudite tympana - Gabrieli Consort & Players, Musica Antiqua Cologne/Paul McCreesh (Archiv 471 632)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  HAYDN: Trios, No 40 in F# minor, Op 73/3; No 37 in D, Op 71/3; No 36 in Eb Op 71/2 - Jérome Hantaï (fpno), Philippe Couvert (vln), Alix Verzier (cello) (Naïve E 8811)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  Stokowski Orchestral Transcriptions

  BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor; Prelude in Eb minor; Geistliches Lied, Mein Jesu; Chorale Prelude, Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Chorale from Easter Cantata; Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor; BYRD: Pavan, The Earl of Salisbury & Galliard; CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary; SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux, No 3 in F minor; CHOPIN: Mazurka in A minor Op 17/4; TCHAIKOVSKY: Chant sans paroles; DUPARC: Extase; RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Czech Phil, London SO/Leopold Stokowski (London 448 946)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BRAHMS arr Grainger: Cradle Song; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Après un rêve; Nell - Piers Lane (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67279)

  GOSSEC: Symphony in D Op 5/3, Pastorella - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9661)

  DVORÁK: Songs my mother taught me, No 4 from Gypsy Melodies Op 55 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), István Hajdu (pno) (Philips 446 560)

  BORODIN arr Rimsky-Korsakov: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - St Petersburg Camerata (Newton 880 2097)

  D'INDY: Fantasy on French Popular Themes - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

  7:00 NIELSEN: Master Olaf Rides, Prelude - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

  BACH arr Suzuki: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Terence Dennis (pno) (Naxos 8.572383)

  BIZET: L'Arlésienne - Lyon Opera Chorus, Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5130)

  GIULIANI: Variations on Folia di Spagna Op 45 - Dale Kavanagh (gtr) (Hänssler CD 98.400)

  CPE BACH: Symphony in Eb Wq183/2 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Erato 2292 45361)

  8:00 CARR: Aubade - Alan Vivian (cl), Sydney SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

  STANLEY: Voluntary in G Op 6/7 - John Wells (organ of Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland) (RNZ)

  HOLST: Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Alto ALC 1013)

  HANDEL: Concerto No 1 in Bb for two wind choirs - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (dir) (L'Oiseau-Lyre 411 721)

  CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (EMI 5 00906)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  BRIDGE: Summer - BBC National Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10112)

  BRUCH: In Memoriam Op 65 - Salvatore Accardo (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 432 282)

  PUCCINI: Addio, fiorito asil, from Madame Butterfly - Salvatore Licitra (ten), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony SK 89923)

  DEBUSSY: Syrinx - Juliette Hurel (fl) (Zig Zag ZZT 110 401)

  L COUPERIN: Pieces in C, Prélude; Allemande, Le Moutier (de Chambonnières); Double du Moutier; Courante; Sarabande; Passacaille; Menuet - Rosalind Halton (hpschd) (Orpheus Music OM 501)

  MOZART: Violin Sonata No 3 in Bb K8 - Rachel Podger (vln), Gary Cooper (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 23606)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59 - Markus Pawlik (pno), Polish National Radio SO, Katowice/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.553989)

  OFFENBACH arr Bonynge: Le Papillon, Suite - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz Profiles

  Nancy Wilson hosts the 8-part Peabody Award winning series chronicling the people, places and events in jazz, with a focus on legends and musical themes

  (6) Artie Shaw

  Rating along with Benny Goodman and Peewee Russell as one of the truly important clarinet players of any age (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Mediterranean songs - Melos

  In his latest project, Persian percussionist Keyvan Chemirani brings together flamenco, Greek music and Maghreb traditions from northwest Africa (Accords Croises AC 146)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  The New York Philharmonic This Week

  Actor Alec Baldwin, winner of Emmy & Tony awards and an Oscar nomination, hosts thirteen concerts from the New York Philharmonic

  (11) Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), Gábor Bretz (bass), New York Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen

  LIGETI: Concerto Románesc (Romanian Concerto); HAYDN: Symphony No 7 in C, Le Midi; BARTÓK: Bluebeard's Castle (recorded in Avery Fisher Hall, New York by WFMT)

• 5:05 PM. Childhood Thoughts Reworked

  ELGAR: Wand of Youth Suite No 1 Op 1a - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 28 - Anne-Marie McDermott (pno) (Bridge 9298)

  BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - English CO/Gilbert Levine (Arabesque Z 6603)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  A RITCHIE: Yet another Poem of Spring - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Alan Loveday (vln), Leonard Cassini (pno) (Fidelio ALT 4060)

  COPLAND: Appalachian Spring - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova 74321 37854)

• 7:00 PM. BBC Proms 2012

  40 programmes from the world's greatest classical music festival

  (27) MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, an opera in four acts

  Since its inception, opera at Glyndebourne has been almost synonymous with Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro being the first work to be performed there, in May 1934. Servants outwit their master again in this latest production, new for 2012, which confirms a recent preference for period instruments

  Susanna........................ Lydia Teuscher

  Countess Almaviva...... Sally Matthews

  Count Almaviva.......... Audun Iversen

  Figaro........................... Vito Priante

  Bartolo......................... Andrew Shore

  Marcellina.................... Ann Murray

  Cherubino.................... Isabel Leonard

  Don Basilio.................. Alan Oke

  Antonio........................ Nicholas Folwell

  Don Curzio.................. Colin Judson

  Barbarina..................... Sarah Shafer

  First bridesmaid........... Ellie Laugharne

  Second bridesmaid...... Katie Bray

  Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus, Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Robin Ticciati (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by BBC) (Programme 28 on Monday at 10.00am)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GOLDMARK: Rustic Wedding Symphony - Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel (Vanguard Classics 08 9051 71)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Wedding Cake, Caprice-Valse Op 76 - Pascal & Ami Rogé (pno duo)

  GLAZUNOV: Wedding March Op 21 - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553839)

  11:00 SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No 1 in F# minor Op 11 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (Vanguard Classics 99034)

  FESCA: Flute Quartet in F Op 40 - Linos Ensemble (CPO 777 126)

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