Thursday 1 November 2012 Rāpare 1 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor, Unfinished; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica - BBC Phil/Stephen Kovacevich, Günther Herbig (BBC Music MM 136)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor; String Quintet in E Op 1 - Mannheim String Quartet, Joachim Griesheimer (cello) (CPO 999 352)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  MUSSORGSKY: Songs & Dances of Death; The Nursery; The Puppet-Show; Forgotten; The Seminarist; Darling Savishna; The He-Goat, A Wordly Story; Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51229)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  G GABRIELLI: Canzona noni toni; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3; MANFREDINI: Concerto in G minor Op 3/10; ALBINONI: Concerto in A minor Op 5/5; TORELLI: Concerto musicale in D minor Op 6/10; LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 1/9; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 436 224)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GINASTERA: Piezas Infantiles; Milonga, from Dos Canciones Op 3; Tres Piezas Op 6; Malambo Op 7; Suite de Criollas Op 15; Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos Op 19; Piano Sonata No 2 Op 53; Toccata; Piano Sonata No 3 Op 55 - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 880)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 A SCARLATTI: Sinfonia No 12 in C minor, La Geniale - Les Boréades de Montréal/Francis Colpron (dir/rec) (Atma ACD 2 2606)

  TRAD: Improvisations on Four English Folksongs, O Waly Waly; I will give my love an apple; The three ravens; Barbara Allen - Rachael Beesley (vln), Anthea Cottee (cello), Paul Dyer (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 428)

  INNS arr Russell: Robbin' Harry - Evelyn Glennie (perc), National Phil/Ray Russell (RCA 60242-2-RC)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in F# minor Op 44 - Lazar Berman (pno) (DG 449 090)

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19, Midsummer Vigil - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

  7:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: May Night, Overture - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572788)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro after Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

  VERDI: Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDM 7 69054)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

  MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise - New Zealand SO/James Judd (RNZ)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

  HALVORSEN: Entry March of the Boyars - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80170)

  GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces Op 65/6 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 74789)

  WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - John Abberger (ob), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances, in E minor Op 72/2; in Ab Op 46/3 - Cleveland Orch/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47618)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Vocal Music

  Mass in C Op 86 - Rebecca Evans (sop), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Mark Padmore (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 0703)

  Benedictus, from Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 - Luba Orgonasova (sop), Anna Larsson (contralto), Rainer Trost (ten), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Primoz Novsak (vln), Swiss Chamber Choir, Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 74321 87074)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BORODIN: Symphony No 2 in B minor - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 17582)

  KRAFT: Cello Concerto in C Op 4 - Michal Kanka (cello), Prague CO (Supraphon SU 4108)

  BALAKIREV: Fantasy on Glinka's A Life for the Tsar - Etsuko Hirose (pno) (Mirare MIR 181)

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

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  GARDEL: Por una cabeza, from Scent of a Woman - Nicola Benedetti, Alexander Sitkovetsky (vlns), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Alexei Grynyuk (pno) (Decca 478 3529)

  ROSAS/AARONSON: The loveliest night the year - Joseph Calleja (ten), BBC Concert Orch/Steven Mercurio (Decca 478 3531)

  EINAUDI: Nightbook - Ludovico Einaudi (pno/gtrs) Marco Decimo (cello), Ronald Lippok (percussion), Harald Küdgen (marimba) (Decca 476 4490)

  RODRIGUEZ arr Goss: La cumparsita - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 479 0063)

  LLOYD WEBBER: Music of the night, from Phantom of the Opera - Katherine Jenkins (sop), Rudolfinium Hall Orch, Prague (Decca 476 4974)

  DEBUSSY arr Marshall: La fille aux cheveux de lin, from Preludes, Book 1 - Claire Jones (harp), English CO/Stuart Morley (Classic FM 28947 65143)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  J STRAUSS I orch Jacob: Radetzky March - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI CD CFP 4499)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - Anatoli Kotcherga (bar), South Tyrolean Children's Choir, Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (Sony SK 62034)

  SCHUMANN arr Isserlis: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth - Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67661)

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue in D BWV850, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - Artur Schnabel (pno) (rec 1950) (Naxos 8.111286)

  WHITACRE: Alleluia - Grace Davidson (sop), Alexander Learmonth (bar), Eric Whitacre Singers/Eric Whitacre (Decca 279 6323)

  BARRY: A Childhood Memory - English CO/John Barry (London 460 009)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (rec 1991) (Virgin VC 7 91487)

  Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (rec 1985) (CBS MK 39563)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  SCHUBERT: Introduction & Variations on Trockne Blumen, from Die schöne Müllerin - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

  LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 1 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

  PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - Geoffrey Lancaster (hpschd/dir), Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players (ABC Classics 472 424)

  KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani - Nigel Kennedy (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56626)

  BIZET arr anon: Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 2; Entr'acte to Act 3, from Carmen - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Private)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - BBC Welsh National Orch/Lesley Hatfield (dir) (BBC Music BBC MM 250)

  HANDEL: Dixit Dominus, from Dixit Dominus - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), Ruth Massey (contralto), Mark Dobell (ten), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16102)

  PURCELL ed Britten: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - English CO/Benjamin Britten (London 425 160)

  DUNCAN: The Visionaries Grand March - Slovak Radio SO/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223517)

  O BULL: A Mountain Vision - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Dala Sinfonietta/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572827)

  LEHÁR: Eine Vision, Meine Jugendzeit - North German Radio Phil/Klauspeter Seibel (CPO 999 423)

  STRAUSS: Freundliche Vision Op 48/1 - Karita Mattila (sop), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 445 182)

  ALEXANDROV: Visions Op 111 - Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67328)

  STILL: Summerland, from Three Visions - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7192)

  PROKOFIEV arr Barshai/Balashov: Visions fugitives Op 22, excerpts - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Onyx 4017)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  How will opera survive?

  John Drummond presents four programmes considering The Future of Opera in the contemporary world of mass popular culture, digital technology and global financial crisis. He draws on results from a current research project called Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures based at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music

  (1) The future for opera companies (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Cédric Tiberghien (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83; DVORÁK: Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. A Solo Voice

  CPE BACH: Flute Sonata in A minor Wq132 - Céline Moinet (ob) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2118)

  TELEMANN: Fantasy No 6 in E minor for solo violin - Lara Hall (vln) (Atoll ACD 341)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FRANÇAIX: Suite Carmélite - Gillian Weir (org) (Priory PRCD 752)

  BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Heinz Wallberg (Philips 475 7825)

  MILHAUD: Le Boeuf sur le toit - French National Orch/Leonard Bersnetin (EMI CDC 7 47845)

  11:00 W MACFARREN: Cello Sonata in E minor - Joseph Spooner (cello), Kathryn Mosley (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7225)

  DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Gould Piano Trio (Champs Hill CHRCD 034)

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