Saturday 15 December 2012 Rāhoroi 15 Hakihea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  1:00 approx - Disc 2

  VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoema; Cirandas Nos 1-16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  LLOYD: Drop down ye heavens; TRAD: Lo! he comes with clouds descending; ORD: Adam lay ybounden; GUEST: The Lord at first did Adam make; BRAHMS: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her; HOWELLS: A spotless rose; MACONCHY: There is no rose; MENDELSSOHN: Ave Maria; BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin; HADLEY: I sing of a maiden; HOLST: This have I done for my true love; HOWELLS: Magnificat, The Gloucester Service; WARLOCK: Benedicamus Domino; TRAD: O little town of Bethlehem - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson (Nimbus NI 5414)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaiques (Astrée Auvidis E 8784)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, Impressions for Orchestra, No 2; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, Three Impressions for Orch, No 3; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ZIPOLI arr Hunt: Elevazione - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Niklass Veltman (cello), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

  LANGGAARD: Little Summer Memories - Berit Johansen Tange (pno) (Dacapo 6.220565)

  A SMITH: Veni Redemptor gentium; TRAD: Away in a manger; LEIGHTON: Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child - Elizabeth Barber, Ruth Cunningham (sops), Emilie Williams (contralto), New York Polyphony (Avie AV 2141)

  MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80318)

  HASTED: Celebration Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

  GERMAN: Henry VIII, Overture - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7285)

  7:00 MUSTONEN: Petite Suite - Martti Rousi (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Olli Mustonen (Ondine ODE 974)

  KVERNO: Corpus Christi Carol - Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  CAMILLERI: Overture Classique - Bournemouth SO/Brian Schembri (Diversions DDV 24126)

  IRELAND: The Almond Trees; On a Birthday Morning; Soliloquy - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.570461)

  SIBELIUS: Theme & Variations in C# minor - Tempera Quartet (BIS CD 1376)

  HAYDN: Acide & Galatea, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

  8:00 NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

  FAURÉ: The Lady of the Castle in her Tower Op 110 - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

  FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 2 in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

  TRAD arr Idenstam: Spel Jocke - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Aurora - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9595)

  TRAD arr Cable: A Canadian Brass Christmas Card - Canadian Brass (BWE Classics BWE 0196)

• 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

  COCHRAN: Tin sentinel, from Animation Suite No 1; Wooden dolls, from Animation Suite No 4 - Julian Cochran (pno) (Digital Scores EXTRACTS 2010)

  STEFFANI: Ogni core può sperar, from Servio Tullio - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Decca 478 473)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in Bb for two violins RV530, from La Cetra Op 9 - Simon Standage, Catherine Mackintosh (vlns), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 475 7693)

  PUCCINI: Firenze è come un alberto fiorito, from Gianni Schicchi - Vittorio Grigolo (ten), Orch del Teatro Regio di Parma/Pier Giorgio Morandi (Sony 88697 75260)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47213)

  LOEWE: Der getreue Eckart Op 44/2 - Hermann Prey (bar), Karl Engel (pno) (Philips 422 244)

  MOZART: Concerto in Eb for two pianos K365 - Håvard Gimse, Vebjörn Anvik (pno duo), Norwegian CO/Iona Brown (dir) (Chandos CHAN 10507)

  S ADAMS: Star of Bethlehem - Aled Jones (treble), BBC Welsh SO/Robin Stapleton (BBC CD 569)

  MENDELSSOHN: Songs without words Op 67 - Daniel Barenboim (pno) (DG 423 931)

  HANDEL: Spring is coming; Come to me, soothing sleep, from Ottone - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Gerald Moore (pno) (rec 1945) (EMI CDH 7 61003)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - Gothenburg Symphony Brass Band, Gothenburg Artillery Division, Churchbells of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Symphony Chorus & Orch/Neeme Järvi (DG 429 984)

  (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 Peabody Award winning series chronicling the people, places and events in jazz, with a focus on legends and musical themes

  Ten programmes

  (1) Miles Davis (Part 1)

  Kicking off a new series of Jazz Profiles Nancy Wilson looks at the influential music-making of trumpeter Miles Davis and his ever changing 'Miles Styles' (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Welsh sounds

  A selection of music from Wales representing its rich and diverse traditions (Fflach CD287H; Songlines Promo Wales; Wales Arts International PRCD 001)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Natalie Harris (cl), Auckland Youth Orch/Antun Poljanich

  ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20; WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 74; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:10 PM. Honoured with a Mass Noun

  SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana Op 16 - Bruce Levingston (pno) (Sono Luminus DSL 92137)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Bachiana Brasileira No 6 - Michel Debost (fl), André Sennedat (bsn), Paris Orch/Paul Capolongo (EMI 7 47357)

  GLAZUNOV: Chopiniana Op 46 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 315)

  CASELLA: Scarlattiana Op 44 - Anthony Spiri (pno), Basel CO/Christopher Hogwood (Arte Nova 74321 92765)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  K YOUNG: Brass Quintet No 1 - NZ Chamber Brass (Private)

• 6:30 PM. Messiah

  Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Celebrate the Christmas season with Handel's most famous work and one of the best-loved in the choral repertoire

  Madeleine Pierard (sop), Anna Pierard (mezzo), Simon O'Neill (ten), Andrew Collis (bass), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/Graham Abbott

  HANDEL: Messiah (RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. Hewitt Goes French

  DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano  - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67898); CHABRIER: Album Leaf; Habanera; CHABRIER cpted Le Boucher: Bourrée fantasque - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DELIUS: Suite for violin & orchestra - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Dutton CDLX 7226)

  BEACH: Theme & Variations - Emily Beynon (fl), Henk Rubingh, Marijn Mijnders (vlns), Roland Krämer (vla), Daniël Esser (cello) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26408)

  ADAMO: Alcott Music, from the opera Little Women - Eclipse CO/Sylvia Alimena (Naxos 8.559258)

  11:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Oboe Sonata in D Op 166 - Nicholas Daniel (ob), Julius Drake (pno) (Cala CACD 1017)

  AYALA: American Series - Victor Villadangos (gtr) (Naxos 8.555058)

  HILL: String Quartet No 9 in A minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)

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