Tuesday 18 December 2012 Rātū 18 Hakihea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  VILLA-LOBOS: Discovery of Brazil Suites Nos 1-4 - Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Slovak Radio SO/Roberto Duarte (Marco Polo 8.223551)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  PSATHAS: Island Songs; KELLY: Sono; NORRIS: Dirty pixels; GRENFELL: A Feather of Blue; AXTENS: For Violin, Violoncello and Piano; FARR: Ahi - New Zealand Trio (Trust MMT 2066)

  2:35 approx - Disc 3

  Sleep, Holy Babe: A Collection of Christmas Lullabies

  CAMPKIN: Sleep, Holy Babe; FINZI: A Lullaby; MANCHICOURT: O Emanuel; MUDGE: O magnum mysterium; LING: Magnificat; CAMPBELL: Sleep, my dreaming one; TRAD: Sing Lullaby; PYGOTT: Quid petis, O Fili?; BEVAN: Magnificat; DUGGAN: O Babe, born bare; BURGES: Coventry Carol; POTT: Lullay, my Liking - Blossom Street/Hilary Campbell (Naxos 8.572868)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  ALKAN: Études Nos 8-12 - Jack Gibbons (pno) (ASV CD DCS 227)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  LARSSON: Pastoral Suite Op 19; ROMAN: Concerto in D for oboe d'amore, string orchestra & harpsichord; ATTERBERG: Suite No 3 for violin, viola & string orchestra; ROSENBERG: A small piece for cello & strings; LARSSON: The Winter's Tale; ALFVÉN: The Mountain King, Dance of the cow-girl; Blomdahl; Adagio - Alf Nilsson (ob d'amore), Anders Öhrwall (hpschd), Nils-Erik Sparf (vln), Jouko Mansnerus (vla), Elemér Lavotha (cello), Stockholm Sinfonietta/Jan-Olav Wedin (BIS CD 165)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 W LLOYD WEBBER: Serenade for Strings - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9595)

  CPE BACH: Keyboard Sonata in Eb Wq65/42 - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28511)

  GEVAERT: Le sommeil de l'enfant Jésus; Voisin, d'où venait ce grand bruit?; Noël pastoral - Caroline Weynants (sop), Le Petit Sablon Vocal Ensemble/Thibaut Lenaerts (Fuga Libera FUG 545)

  DELIUS: The March of Spring, from North Country Sketches - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7528)

  GERSHWIN: Variations on I Got Rhythm - Orion Weiss (pno), Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559705)

  7:00 TRAD arr Gundermann: Süsser die Glocken nie klingen - Arsys Bourgogne/Pierre Cao (Naïve V 5319)

  BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  TANSMAN: Sonatine for bassoon & piano - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in D Op 3/6 - Northern Sinfonia of England/George Malcolm (dir) (Resonance CD RSN 3065)

  FARRENC: Valse brillante Op 48 - Konstanze Eickhorst (pno) (CPO 999 879)

  MACDOWELL: Romance - Aisling Drury Byrne (cello), Ireland National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.559049)

  MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture - Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30479)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CANTELOUBE: Brezairola, from Songs of the Auvergne - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

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

  DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Detroit SO/Antal Dorati (Decca 444 610)

  RUTTER: What sweeter music - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56605)

  ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CMS 5 66650)

  TAILLEFERRE: Suite burlesque - Philippe Corre, Edouard Exerjean (pno duo) (Pierre Verany PV 786091)

  HAYDN: Lo speziale, Overture - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  British Christmas Music

  BRITTEN: Wolcum Yole!; There is no rose; Balulalow; This little Babe, from A Ceremony of Carols - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Sioned Williams (harp) (Coro COR 16034)

  ANON ed/arr Wishart: Nowell! This is the salutacyon of the angell Gabryell - Sinfonye (Hyperion CDH 55151)

  HOLST: Ave Maria; A welcome song; Terly Terlow - BBC Singers/Justin Doyle, Richard Simpson (ob), Susan Monks (cello) (BBC Music BBC MM 252)

  RR BENNETT: Five Carols, There is no rose; Out of your sleep; That younge child; Sweet was the song; Susanni - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSACD 901)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Thomas Allen (bar), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best, Charles Tunnell (cello) (Hyperion CDA 66420)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MARX: Partita in modo antico - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1158)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - György Pauk (vln), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93989)

  HORNEMAN: Kalanus, Suite - Danish National SO/Johannes Gustavsson (Dacapo 6.220564)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (EMI CDC 5 56654)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  Rózsa Goes Roman

  RÓZSA arr Robbins: Overture; Star of Bethlehem/Adoration of the Magi, from Ben-Hur, Choral Suite - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80631)

  The Ides of March; Caesar's ghost; Approach of Octavian's army & death of Brutus, from Julius Caesar film music - National Phil/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 421 268)

  RÓZSA arr Robbins: Overture; Roman Legions; Nativity, from King of Kings, Choral Suite - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80631)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival - BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559381)

  FIELD: Piano Concerto No 5 in C, L'Incendie par l'orage - Benjamin Frith (pno), Northern Sinfonia/David Haslam (Naxos 8.554221)

  MCPHAIL/MICHELS: San - London Sinfonietta/Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 7 47991)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D899/3 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 245)

  EMMANUEL: The Great Doxology - A Capella Choir/Constantin Zorbas (Ikon IKO 9011)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MOZART: String Quartet No 14 in G K387 - Cleveland Quartet (rec 1991) (Telarc CD 80297)

  WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 22 - Ida Haendel (vln), Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (rec 1965) (Supraphon SU 3782)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  HAMILTON: A Child comes forth - Key Cygnetures/Elise Bradley, Helen Webby (harp), Rowan Johnston (percussion) (RNZ)

  CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  FARR: Funambulistic Strains - David Bremner (tbn), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Atoll ACD 109)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - Charles Medlam (cello/dir), London Baroque (BIS CD 1135)

  GAUBERT: Lied; Menuet; Cortège, from Trois Pièces - Justus Grimm (cello), Florian Wiek (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 556)

  BERWALD: Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

  BACH: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 - Canadian Brass & Berlin Philharmonic Brass (CBS MK 39035)

  PÄRT: Hymn to a Great City - Michael McHale (pno) (Louth CMS LCMS 901)

  BOWERMAN: Fantasy on a Fugue of Elgar - Laura Samuel (vln), Emily Pailthorpe (ob), Anna Stokes (fl), London Serenata/Krzystof Chorzelski (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

  IRELAND orch Bridgewater: Two Salon Pieces, Menuetto-Impromptu; Villanella - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7215)

  MORRICONE arr Erquiaga: Cinema Paradiso - Steve Erquiaga (gtr) (Imaginary Road 536 765)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Janine Jansen (vln), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 475 011)

  TRAD arr Bond: Prepare a way for the Lord; G HAHN: The earth is waiting - Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  DEMACHI: First movement, Allegro assai, from Sinfonia in F, Le campane di Roma - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 3 63430)

  GRIFFES: The white peacock; The fountains of Acqua Paola, from Four Roman Sketches Op 7 - Michael Lewin (pno) (Naxos 8.223850)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS SACD 1408)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 Double Happy 60/50

  The Karlheinz Company presents a combined birthday celebration for composers and staff members, Associate Professor John Elmsly and Dr Leonie Holmes. A selection of their music will be played by staff, guest and student performers, as well as a few surprise tributes

  ELMSLY: Ascend; HOLMES: Fragment for String Quartet; ELMSLY: Three Pieces for piano; HOLMES: Is there anybody in there?; ELMSLY: East Wind for alto flute and electronics; HOLMES: A Tedious Brief Scene, Bottom's Dance; ELMSLY: Winesongs for choir; HOLMES: Nocturne and Adagio, from Silver Whispers Suite; RIMMER: Beyond the Call (recorded in Auckland University Music Theatre by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 19

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