Schedule for Friday 28 December 2012

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
JC BACH: Adriano in Siria, Overture; Symphony in Eb for double orchestra Op 18/1; Symphony in G minor Op 6/6; Sinfonia Concertante in C; Symphony in D Op 18/4 - Rachel Brown (fl), Frank de Bruine (ob), David Watkin (cello), Academy of Ancient Music/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0540)
1:05 approx - Disc 2
GERSHWIN: Fascinatin' rhythm; WALLER: Ain't misbehavin'; ELLINGTON: Solitude; JOHNSON: The mule walk; GERSHWIN: That certain feeling; GOTTSCHALK: Bamboula; BLOOM: Spring fever; COWELL: Woof I; Woof II; NANCARROW: Player Piano Study No 6; GERSHWIN: Clap yo' hands; Promenade; POWELL: Dusk in Sandi; BLOOM: Silhouette; BEIDERBECKE: Candlelights; MORTON: Mamanita; JOPLIN: Magnetic Rag; CERVANTES: Por que, eh?; GOTTSCHALK: Columbia; GERSHWIN: The man I love; GRAINGER: In Dahomey; WALLER: Squeeze me; CONFREY: Kitten on the keys - Alan Feinberg (pno), Daniel Druckman (marimba) (Argo 444 457)
2:20 approx - Disc 3
On Christmas Night
RUTTER: What sweeter music; TRAD: Noël nouvelet; BURTON: Balulalow; DARKE: A babe is born Op 55; In the bleak mid-winter; TRAD: Ding dong! merrily on high; POSTON: Jesus Christ the apple tree; TRAD: I saw three ships; BENNETT: Out of your sleep; WARLOCK: Benedicamus Domino; JOUBERT: There is no rose; TRAD: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; MARTIN: Adam lay ybounden; FLECHA: Riu, riu, riu; TRAD: O little town of Bethlehem; Es ist ein Ros' estsprungen; C ROBINSON: Make we joy; MENDELSSOHN: Hark! the herald angels sing; TAVENER: The Lamb; FINNISSY: Telling; LEIGHTON: Coventry Carol; TRAD: On Christmas Night; GRUBER: Silent Night; WADE: O come, all ye faithful - Julian Gregory (ten), Peter Hicks, Julius Foo (trebles), Freddie James, John Challenger (orgs), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5096)
3:30 approx - Disc 4
MARAIS: Suites, in Bb; in G minor; in F - Quadro Hotteterre (Teldec 9031-77617)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
PROKOFIEV: Divertimento Op 43; Andante, from Piano Sonata No 4; Symphonic Song Op 57; The Prodigal Son Op 46 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8728)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 HERSCHEL: Symphony No 14 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)
GOTTSCHALK: The dying poet - Alan Marks (pno) (Nimbus NI 7045/6)
GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)
SOR: Fantasy in D on a favourite Scottish Air Op 40, Variations on Ye banks & braes - Stefano Palamidessi (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 93960)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 - Philadelphia Orch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)
7:00 TRAD arr Willcocks: Deck the hall - Arsys Bourgogne/Pierre Cao (Naïve V 5319)
VERDI ed Spada: Force of Destiny, Prelude - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Young Prince & the Young Princess, from Scheherazade - Richard Roberts (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 410 253)
PABST: Paraphrase on Sleeping Beauty after Tchaikovsky - Earl Wild (pno) (Sony SK 62036)
ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 66173)
SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 3 Op 21 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)
8:00 Beauty Spot: BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - Royal Liverpool Phil/Grant Llewellyn (Argo 436 401)
BIZET arr Grafe: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante; Près des remparts de Séville, from Carmen - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)
PUCCINI arr Kondonassis: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Bohème - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)
GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano - Diedre Irons (pno) (Trust MMT 2041)
A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Andrea Mion (ob), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Naïve OP 30301)
GOUNOD: Waltz, from Faust - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)
9:00 AM. Christmastide

A Five Nations Christmas
PÄRT: Magnificat - Rachel Elliott (sop), Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion NOEL 2)
DURANTE arr Oda: Cito pastores - Monica Piccinini (sop), Ursula Eittinger (mezzo), Alberto ter Doest (ten), Thilo Dahlmann (bass), Cologne Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens (CPO 777 734)
DANDRIEU: Michau qui causoit ce grand bruit; Puer nobis nascitur; A minuit fut fait un Reveil - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Priory PRCD 778)
RYBA: Three Christmas Pastorellas, Oh, you charming nightingale; Graceful song; How sweet & lovely - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Capella Regia Musicalis/Robert Hugo (Archiv 477 8365)
TRAD arr Trepte: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - Choir of Ely Cathedral, Brass ensemble/Paul Trepte (dir), David Price (org) (Herald HAVPCD 178)
10:00 AM. The Works

DVORÁK: Czech Suite Op 39 - Malaysian Phil/Claus Peter Flor (BIS SACD 1856)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Mahler CO (Sony 88725 42058)
MOZART arr Triebensee: Don Giovanni arr for eight wind & double bass - members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Hans Krul (dbass) (Philips 422 545)
RESPIGHI: The Birds - I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato ECD 75366)
Noon Summer Sonic

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12:45 PM. Sounding Off

RAFF: Symphony No 8 in A Op 205, Spring Sounds - Philharmonia Hungarica/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 536)
GUBAIDULINA: Sounds of the Forest - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)
POENITZ: Klänge aus der Alhambra, Fantasy Op 68 - Laura Vinciguerra (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9179)
J STRAUSS II arr Cohen: Sounds from Boston, Waltz - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

PIERPONT: Jingle Bells - Introduced by Heath Lees (RNZ)
Jingle Bells - Bach Choir, Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, David Corkhill, Nigel Bates (percussion), Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble/David Willcocks (Chandos CHAN 8973)
BOVET: Totentanz, from Three Préludes Hambourgeois - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)
HANDEL: And the glory of the Lord, from Messiah - Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 421 059)
GAL: Symphony No 3 in A Op 62 - Orch of the Swan/Kenneth Woods (Avie AV 2230)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
SCRIABIN: Preludes Op 15; Piano Sonata No 3 in F# minor Op 23 - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (rec 2004) (RCA 82876 65389)
SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No 2 Op 61 - Thomas Zehetmair (vln), CBSO/Simon Rattle (rec 1995) (EMI CDC 5 55607)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
VIVALDI: Cello Sonata No 6 in Bb RV46 - Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd) (Musicaphon M 56917)
SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Db Op 37 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)
BADEN-POWELL: Vals sem nome - Julie Bevan (gtr), Andreas Lepper (perc) (Audio Projects AP 2006)
BESSER: Mr Darwin's Dances, excerpts - Jonathan Besser (pno), Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin (gtr), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (accordion), Peter Scott (dbass), Yair Katz (perc) (Atoll ACD 409)
CANNABICH: Symphony No 51 in D - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Gustav Kuhn (Capriccio 71 045)
J RITCHIE: Concertino in A for clarinet & strings - Marina Sturm (cl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Trust MMT 2040)
GLINKA trans Balakirev: The Lark - Gordon Fergus-Thompson (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2066)
PERGOLESI: Andantino; SCHUBERT: Ständchen D957 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), István Hajdu (pno) (Philips 446 560)
FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No 2 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)
STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Trio & Finale from Act 3 - Yvonne Kenny, Lorina Gore (sops), Kirsti Harms (mezzo), David Hibbard (bbar), Queensland SO/Johannes Fritzsch (ABC 476 3954)
PUCCINI: Crisantemi - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1495)
K FUCHS: Discover the Wild - London SO/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559723)
GIBBS arr Nestico: Runnin' Wild - Michael Monaghan (sax), Timothy Morrison (tpt), Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68598)
W LLOYD WEBBER: The forest of wild thyme - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67008)
LISZT: Transcendental Study No 8 in C minor, Wilde Jagd - Mariangela Vacatello (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94250)
BAX: Dance of Wild Irravel, from Four Orchestral Sketches - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8454)
SCHUBERT: Wild rose D257 - Renée Fleming (sop), Christoph Eschenbach (pno) (Decca 455 294)
KOCH: The wild hunt - Gareth Koch (gtr) (Artworks AW 018)
MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/3, The Wild Rider - Ignaz Friedman (pno) (rec 1930) (Philips 456 784)
TRAD arr Leon: Wild mountain thyme - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)
TICHELI: Wild Nights! - University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss (Naxos 8.572129)
7:00 PM. Appointment

In Memoriam
Marking musicians on CD who have passed on this year
Second of two programmes
SCHUBERT: Gute Nacht, from Winterreise - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Gerald Moore (pno) (DG 415 187)
ELGAR arr Martin: Imperial March Op 32 - Carlo Curley (organ of Church of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol) (Argo 433 450)
ARBAN: Fantaisie Brillante - Maurice André (cornet), Wind Band of the Paris Guardians of the Peace/Claude Pichaureau (RCA 60025)
PAGANINI: Le Streghe Op 8, Witches Dance, Variations on a theme from Süssmayr's Il Noce de Benevento - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Louis Persinger (pno) (Decca 458 191)
MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in F minor Op 113 - Alan Hacker (cl), Lesley Schatzberger (basset horn), Richard Burnett (fpno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 38)
KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid - Colin Horsley (pno) (Atoll ACD 442)
HAMLISCH: The Way We Were, Theme - City of Prague Phil/Nic Raine (SilvaScreen Records 111309)
PARRY: I was glad - New Philharmonia, Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Philip Ledger (EMI 2 28944)
BRAHMS: Wie Melodien zieht e smir Op 105/1 - Lisa della Casa (sop), Karl Hudez (pno) (rec 1956) (Testament SBT 1341)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Michael Endres (pno)
SCHUBERT: Impromptus D935; DEBUSSY: L'isle joyeuse; SCHUMANN: Symphonic Studies Op 13 (recorded in the Maurice Till Concert Hall, Christchurch by RNZ)
9:15 PM. Americana

BARBER: Violin Concerto Op 14 - Ittai Shapira (vln), Russian Phil/Thomas Sanderling (Champs Hill CHRCD 043)
COPLAND: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559240)
10:00 PM. Day's End

BACH arr Yang: Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV1001, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 6 79018)
BRAHMS arr Joachim: Hungarian Dances, Vol 1 Book 2 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67663)
RIETZ: Concert Piece in F minor Op 33 - Diana Doherty (ob), Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert (ABC Classics 456 681)
WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - Vienna Phil/Otto Klemperer (Testament SBT8 1365)
11:00 RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Elégiaque - Borodin Trio (Chandos CHAN 8341)
Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10095)