Wednesday 26 December 2012 Rāapa 26 Hakihea 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MidWinter's Eve: Music for Christmas

  TRAD: Deck the halls: HOLST: In the bleak midwinter; TRAD: Coventry Carol; GRUBER: Silent Night; TRAD: What child is this?; BACH: Jesu, joy of man's desiring; SCHUBERT: Ave Maria; ADAM: O Holy Night; TRAD: Wexford Carol; KIRKPATRICK: Away in a manger; TRAD: O Christmas Tree; PACHECO: Moita Festa; TRAD: Away in a manger; REDNER: O little town of Bethlehem; WILLIS: It came upon a midnight clear; TRAD: Joy to the world; TRAD: O come, all ye faithful - Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay (vln), Margaret Campbell, Daniel Pailthorpe (fls), Julia Graham, Robert Max (cellos), Hugh Webb (harp), London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Sony 88697 98887)

  12:55 approx - Disc 2

  RUTTER: Wexford Carol; Jesus childe; There is a flower; Donkey Carol; Wild wood carol; Angels' carol; Nativity carol; Mary's lullaby; Star carol; Candlelight carol; Shepherd's pipe carol; Christmas lullaby; Dormi, Jesu; Love came down at Christmas; Sans Day carol; I wonder as I wander; What sweeter music; Joy to the world; I saw three ships; Deck the hall; The very best time of the year; We wish you a merry Christmas; Silent night - Stephen Varcoe (bar), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 510)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  Carol our Christmas

  A collection of contemporary New Zealand carols - Rachel Gillon (sop), Mike Wespel-Rose (ten), Wellington Youth Choir/Stuart Douglas, Kiwikids with Radha, Wellington Cathedral Choir/Philip Walsh, Sings Harry, Wellington Secondary Students' Choir/Roger Stevenson (NZ Hymnbook Trust)

  3:10 approx - Disc 4

  Music for Christmas

  A concert of festive music from around Europe. Taken from a 14-hour live radio broadcast by European Broadcasting Union members, which was transmitted on 18 December 1994 - various composers and artists (BBC BBC MM 40 )

  4:25 approx - Disc 5

  BIBER: Fanfare No 4 à due; Sonata; Kyrie & Gloria, from Missa Christi Resurgentis; Sonata à 6; Credo, from Missa Christi Resurgentis; SCHMELTZER: Sonata XII; Sanctus, from Missa Christi Resurgentis; Sonata XI; Agnus Dei, from Missa Christi Resurgentis; Fanfare No 1 à due; Sonatas I; V; III; VII - The English Concert and Choir/Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7397)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture Op 80 - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDM 7 69651)

  GEMINIANI: Scots Airs, Auld Bob Morrice; Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament; Sleepy body - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 010)

  SMETANA: Sárka, from Má Vlast - Malaysian Phil/Claus Peter Flor (BIS SACD 1805)

  GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Pawel Zuzanski (vln), Cologne String Quintet (MGR Productions 2010A)

  BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Padua & Venice Orch/Yuri Bashmet (Teldec 4509 94245)

  7:00 TRAD: I saw three ships - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha, John Challenger (org) (Chandos CHSA 5096)

  DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - Kari Kriikku (cl), Finnish Radio SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste (Ondine ODE 778)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Kuss Quartet (Onyx 4090)

  WAGNER: Dance of the Apprentices & Entry of the Masters, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDC 7 47255)

  ELGAR: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Sarah Chang (vln), Sandra Rivers (pno) (EMI 7 54352)

  ABEL: Symphony in F Op 7/4 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  RAVEL: La Valse - Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 9 66342)

  ALBÉNIZ: Torre Bermeja, from 12 Characteristic Pieces - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc TEL 32712)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Paul Goodwin (ob), King's Consort/Robert King (hpschd/dir) (Hyperion CDA 66383)

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19, Midsummer Vigil - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  Feast of St Stephen

  TALLIS: Missa Puer natus est nobis - Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips (Gimell CDGIM 202)

  WELLS: Variations on Good King Wenceslas - John Wells (organ of Auckland Town Hall) (RNZ)

  STÖLZEL: Cantata, Denen zu Zion wird ein Erlöser kommen - Lemgo Ute Schulze (sop), Schirin Partowi (contralto), Andreas Post (ten), Klaus Mertens (bass), Chamber Choir of St Mary's Choral Society, Handel's Company/Rainer Johannes Homberg (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 905 1369)

  BODY: Carol to St Stephen - 1992 NZ National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Eros Roselli (gtr), La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 92892)

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2 - Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Potsdam Kammerakademie/Michael Sanderling (Genuin GEN 89148)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 12 - Martha Argerich (pno) (RCA 74321 98836)

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 5 Op 50 - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (CBS MK 44547)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  An RTE Irish Public Radio series

  Three programmes

  (1) Agatha Christie's Final Mystery

  John Curran is an Irishman whose passion for the crime stories of Agatha Christie has taken him around the world. It eventually led him to Greenway House in Devon, the idyllic former summer house of Agatha Christie, where he uncovered a missing Hercule Poirot mystery, 'The Capture of Cerberus' (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)

• 12:45 PM. Holding the Mystique

  HOVHANESS: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain - London SO/John Williams (Sony SK 62729)

  K FUCHS: Divinum Mysterium - Paul Silverthorne (vla), London SO/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559723)

  G GABRIELI: O magnum mysterium - John Angelo Messana (countertenor), Monteverdi Choir, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/John Eliot Gardiner (Decca 436 285)

  BIBER: The Nativity, from The Five Joyful Mysteries - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7321.22)

  GIGOUT: Poèmes mystiques - Gerard Brooks (organ of St Etienne, Caen) (Priory PRCD 763)

  Josef STRAUSS: Dynamiden Waltz Op 173, The mysterious powers of magnetism - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 425 425)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  TRAD: The First Nowell - Introduced by Heath Lees (RNZ)

  The First Nowell - Hamburg Monteverdi Choir/Jürgen Jürgens (Ambitus AMB 97 856)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor Op 90 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2001)

  NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Teldec 0630-10788)

  OFFENBACH: Au mont Ida, from La Belle Hélène - Joseph Calleja (ten), ASMF/Carlo Rizzi (Decca 475 6931)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas de deux, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Janos Starker (cello) (rec 1992) (RCA 09026 61436)

  GRAUN: Misero pargoletto, from Demofoonte - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (rec 2009) (Decca 478 1521)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in C minor RV196, La Stravaganza Op 4/10 - Rachel Podger (vln), Arte Dei Suonatori (rec 2002) (Channel Classics CCS 19598)

  PURCELL: The Gordian Knot Unty'd, incidental music - Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari (rec 2010) (Decca 478 226)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

  GAVIN: Autumnscape; In Vocation; Rajasthani Heart - Duncan Haynes (cello), Jim Langabeer (fl), Babu Chatterji (tabla), Gitbox (Rattle RAT D005)

  NORRIS: Honk! - Saxcess (Waiteata WTA 007)

  SIBELIUS: King Christian II, Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

  DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 446)

  COATES: Knightsbridge, from London Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Naxos 8.553596)

  MYERS: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - John Williams (gtr/dir), string orch (Sony MLK 66704)

  FAURÉ arr Busser: Pavane - Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson (cello), Allan Sternfield (pno) (Naxos 8.570545)

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

  BEETHOVEN: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - Isaac Stern (vln/dir), Franz Liszt CO (Sony SK 62693)

  CASTALDI: O Gloria; Shoot, yes, shoot; O cruel love; She who was so; No longer do I look at you; That haughty one; Love, she who makes me languish every hour - Il Furioso/David Dolata (dir) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0081)

  LISZT: Transcendental Study No 11, Harmonies du soir - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS SACD 1828)

  GRIEG: Solveig's song, from Peer Gynt Op 23 - Bamberg SO/Richard Kraus (DG 427 204)

  BOWERMAN: An Island Fantasy - Diana Galvydyte (vln), Jakob Fichert (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 005)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Onyx 4074)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  At home with John Lunn

  Celebrated film composer John Lunn, the creator of the theme music for the award winning Downton Abbey television series, talks with Jon Tolansky about his life and career, composing for Downton Abbey, the Edwardian era, and some of his favourite music from that period (WFMT)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Gala Concert marking Sir Georg Solti's 100th birthday

  Angela Gheorghiu (sop), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (sop), Matilda Paulsson (mezzo), Roberto Gomez-Ortiz (ten), Ross Ramgobin (bar), World Orchestra for Peace/Valery Gergiev

  MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, Overture; STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20; MOZART: In diesen heil'gen Hallen, from The Magic Flute; VERDI: Addio del passato, from La Traviata; MOZART: Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni; VERDI: Bella figlia dell'amore, from Rigoletto; MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor; BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra (recorded in Symphony Hall, Chicago by WFMT)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SOR: Les deux amis Op 41 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  WIDOR: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 77 - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7275)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - Bavarian Radio SO/Lorin Maazel (BR Media 900 706)

  11:00 WALTON: String Quartet in A minor - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10661)

  FUCHS: Piano Trio No 2 in Bb Op 72 - Gould Piano Trio (Quartz QTZ 2028)

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