Saturday 22 December 2012 Rāhoroi 22 Hakihea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  FEENEY: Cinderella; MULDOWNEY: The Brontës; DAVIS: A Christmas Carol - Northern Ballet Theatre Orch/John Pryce-Jones (Naxos 8.553495)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BACH: Goldberg Variations; Preludes & Fugues, in F# minor; in Eb; in Bb minor; in E - Glenn Gould (pno) (CBC PSCD 2007)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  Once As I Remember: The Story of Christmas in readings and music based on the Springhead Christmas Play including plainsong, motets by PALESTRINA; BASSANO; SWEELINCK; BYRD; DERING; WEELKES; TAVENER; GARDNER; ARMSTRONG; BÁRDOS; HOWELLS; SCHÜTZ; and traditional carols - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 462 050)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: String Sextet in A Op 48; String Quintet in G Op 77 - Nash Ensemble (ASV GLD 4011)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  SALIERI: Symphony in D, Il Giorno Onomastico; Concerto in C for flute, oboe & orchestra; Symphony in D, La Veneziana; Piccola Serenata in Bb - Günther Pohl (fl), Otto Winter, Hartmut Festerling (obs), Elizabeth Kulenkampff , Wolfgang Braun (hns), Gustavo Nuñes (bsn), Lukas Consort/Viktor Lukas (CampionCD 1330)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 JC BACH: Symphony in Bb Op 9/1 - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 487)

  CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 48 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  MILFORD: Two Orchestral Interludes Op 19e, Mr John Peel passes by; Mr Ben Jonson's pleasure - Julian Sperry (fl), Julian Milford (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67444)

  SARASATE: Gavotte after Mignon - Tianwa Yang (vln), Markus Hadulla (pno) (Naxos 8.570192)

  ELGAR: Froissart Overture Op 19 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7509)

  7:00 QUILTER: A Children's Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7259)

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Venusberg Music - Vienna Singverein, Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 475 8502)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Aquarium, from Carnival of the Animals - Peter Katin, Philip Fowke (pno duo), Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (EMI CDS 7 81421)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia, after Corelli's Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc CD 80698)

  8:00 LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - Turin RAI Orch/Peter Maag (Arts Archives 43041)

  GODOWSKY: Studies 7-12a, from Studies on Chopin Etudes - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67411/2)

  CARDON: Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman - Frances Kelly (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66497)

  GOUNOD: Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHSA 5048)

  SULLIVAN: Pirates of Penzance, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

• 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

  PAUL: The Littlest Angel

  A story written by Charles Tazewell with a musical score by Charles Paul - Loretta Young (reader), Ken Darby Choir, studio orch/Victor Young (rel 1950) (EMI 5 80254)

  DONIZETTI: Oboe Concertino in F - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Padua & Venice Orch (CPO 777 715)

  STEFFANI: Dal mio petto, from Niobe, regina di Tebe - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Decca 478 473)

  COCHRAN: Mazurka No 3 - Julian Cochran (pno) (Digital Scores EXTRACTS 2010)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G RV300, from La Cetra Op 9 - Simon Standage (vln), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 475 7693)

  VERDI: Tutto parea sorridere all'amor mio primiero, from Il Corsaro - Vittorio Grigolo (ten), Danilo Rigosa (bass), Parma Teatro Regio Chorus & Orch/Pier Giorgio Morandi (Sony 88697 75260)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Overton: Six Christmas Pieces - James Galway (fl), Munich Radio Orch/John Georgiadis (RCA RD 60736)

  A Classical Kids Christmas

  The Christmas story in music and poetry, written by Susan Hammond - J Granik, R Manson, S Morgenstern (actors), Mary Bella, Michael Colvin (vocalists), High Park Choirs of Toronto, instrumental ensemble (Classical Kids 84354)

  (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

  (2) Miles Davis (Part 2)

  Today's programme explores the jazz trumpeter's greatest and most successful album, Kind of Blue (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Bosnian singer Amira

  Music from the Bosnian sevdah singer Amira Medunjanin. Sevdah is a traditional lyric song form from the Balkans, an urban folk music sometimes likened to Portuguese fado. The songs are of love, loss and longing (World Village 260064; World Village 450012)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Martin Riseley (vln), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture; BRITTEN: Passacaglia & Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes; SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77 (recorded in St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington, by RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. The Fantastic Imagination

  HUGUES: Sonata fantastica Op 100 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (piccolo), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  CAPLET: Conte fantastique - Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1430)

  BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572886)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARQUHAR: Serenade for Strings - NZSO CO (Manu CD MANU 1550)

  GERSHWIN: An American in Paris - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

  GRANADOS: Moresque; Canción Arabe, from Spanish Dances - Richard Mapp (pno) (Meridian CDE 84403)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Scandinavian Composers

  GRIEG: Songs Op 18, Moonlit forest; My darling is as white as snow; The poet's farewell; Autumn storms; Poesy; The young birch-tree; The cottage; The rosebud; Serenade for Welhaven - Håkan Hagegård (bar), Warren Jones (pno) (RCA 09026 61518)

  SIBELIUS: The wood nymph Op 15 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (BIS CD 757)

  RANGSTRÖM: Five Songs to poems by Bo Bergman, Melody; Pan; A farewell; Prayer to the night; Wings in the night - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (EMI 5 568842)

  SIBELIUS: Five Songs Op 37, The First Kiss; Little Lasse; Sunrise; Was it a Dream?; The Tryst - Katarina Karnéus (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67318)

  TRAD: Swedish folksong, Like a star in the clear sky - Barbara Hendricks (sop) (EMI 5 568842)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

  A service led by the Very Reverend Frank Nelson, with readings from the staff, clergy and choir members - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher (dir), Richard Apperley (org) (recorded in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

• 9:40 PM. Bach on Guitar

  BACH arr Yang: Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Elias String Quartet (EMI 6 79018)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RAVEL trans Garban: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2 - Sergio Tiempo, Karin Lechner (pno duo) (EMI 5 18333)

  PELÉCIS: Flowering Jasmine - Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica CO/Gidon Kremer (dir/vln) (Nonesuch 287228)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little - Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (Pentatone PTC 5186 446)

  11:00 HAYDN: String Trio in D HobXI/74 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

  MOZART: Divertimento in D K334 - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), André Cazalet, Jean-Michel Vinit (horns), Trio Pasquier (Sony SK 47230)

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