Schedule for Saturday 19 January 2013

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
BARBER: The School for Scandal, Overture; Symphony No 1 Op 9; BEACH: Symphony in E minor Op 32, Gaelic - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8958)
1:20 approx - Disc 2
SAINT-SAËNS trans Liszt: Danse Macabre; CHOPIN trans Liszt: Six Polish Songs; BERLIOZ trans Liszt: L'Idée fixe; Les Francs-Juges, Overture; Harold in Italy, Marche des Pelerins; The Damnation of Faust, Waltz of the Sylphes; King Lear, Overture - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66346)
2:35 approx - Disc 3
HOLST: Seven Part Songs Op 44; A Choral Fantasia Op 51; A Dirge for Two Veterans; Ode to Death Op 38 - Patricia Rozario (sop), Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9437)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
JC BACH: Sonatas, No 1 in G; No 2 in C minor; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in G; No 5 in A; No 6 in Bb - Robert Woolley (fpno) (Chandos CHAN 0543)
4:50 approx - Disc 5
BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10; Les Illuminations for soprano & string orchestra; Lachrymae, Reflections on a song of Dowland for viola & string orchestra - Christina Högman (sop), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), New Stockholm Chamber Orch/Péter Csaba (BIS CD 435)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 6/3 - Avison Ensemble/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (Linn CKD 362)
IRELAND: Bagatelle - Lucy Gould (vln), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Naxos 8.570507)
BRAHMS: Third movement, Poco allegretto, from Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)
MOZART arr Grieg: Piano Sonata No 16 in C K545, For Beginners - Piano Duo Trenkner (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 930 1382)
BIZET arr Guiraud: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5130)
7:00 GARDNER: Sinfonia Piccola Op 47 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2125)
GIAMPIERI: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Mark Walton (cl), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)
FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80149)
PAGANINI: Sonata in A for violin & guitar Op 64/1 - Amiram Ganz (vln), Maria Isabel Siewers (gtr) (Challenge Classics CC 72118)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Overture on Russian Themes Op 28 - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553858)
8:00 A BUTTERWORTH: Gigues Op 42 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Arthur Butterworth (Dutton CDLX 7253)
RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)
SCHUBERT arr Webern: German Dances D790 - Berlin Radio SO/Matthias Bamert (Musica Mundi 311 135)
HAYDN: Divertimento in F HobII/16 - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1806/08)
ROSSINI: William Tell, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)
9:00 AM. The Works

BAX: Symphony No 1 in Eb - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 10122)
PLEYEL: Sinfonia Concertante in Bb for two clarinets & orchestra - Dieter Klöcker, Sandra Arnold (cls), South West German CO/Sebastian Tewinkel (CPO 777 241)
10:00 AM. Your Choice

TCHAIKOVSKY: Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS SACD 1418)
COCHRAN: Maelstrom I - Julian Cochran (pno) (Digital Scores EXTRACTS 2010)
KALKBRENNER: Piano Concerto No 2 in E minor Op 85 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Tasmanian SO (Hyperion CDA 67843)
MALOTTE: The Lord's Prayer - John Charles Thomas (bar), Carroll Hollister (pno) (rec 1935) (ABC Classics CD 38779)
BACH: Preludes & Fugues, No 17 in Ab BWV862; No 22 in Bb minor BWV891, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 - Rosalyn Tureck (pno) (rec 1953) (DG 463 305)
VERDI: Ma se m'è forza perderti, from Un ballo in maschera - Vittorio Grigolo (ten), Parma Teatro Regio Orch/Pier Giorgio Morandi (Sony 88697 75260)
CORELLI: Trumpet Sonata in D - John Wallace (tpt), Peter Thomas, Lyn Fletcher (vlns), Andrew Schulman (cello), Leslie Pearson (continuo) (Nimbus NI 1757)
STEFFANI: Ti stringo, mio Nume, from Niobe, regina di Tebe - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Decca 478 473)
RACHMANINOV: Preludes Op 23, No 6 in Eb; No 10 in Gb; No 9 in Eb; No 4 in D; No 5 in G minor; No 1 in F# minor; No 2 in Bb - Colin Horsley (pno) (Atoll ACD 442)
VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in B minor RV391 - Simon Standage (vln), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 475 7693)
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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
(5) Nat Adderley
The great jazz trumpeter who was often known as "the little brother" - Nancy Wilson explains why (NPR)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
Highlights from 2012
The second of two programmes of highlights from last year's Global Sounds. There's a selection of on-location recordings from the BBC series World Routes, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma teams up with three top string players from different disciplines, and Canadian trio Genticorum performs traditional Québécois music (Nascente NASCE001; Sony 789186; Roues et Archets RA015)
3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

The New York Philharmonic This Week
Actor Alec Baldwin, winner of Emmy & Tony awards and an Oscar nomination, hosts five concerts from the New York Philharmonic
(3) Karita Mattila (sop), New York Phil/Alan Gilbert
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93; Ah! Perfido Op 65; SIBELIUS: Songs with orchestra; NIELSEN: Symphony No 2 Op 16, The Four Temperaments (WFMT)
5:05 PM. Using Handel

BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - Jonathan Plowright (pno) (BIS SACD 2047)
GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)
TIPPETT: Fantasia on a Theme of Handel - Steven Osborne (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67461/2)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
BACH arr Farquhar: Six Chorale Preludes, Alle Menschen müssen sterben; Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag; Hilf Gott, das mir's gelinge; O Lamm Gottes; Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar; In dulci jubilo - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)
DUTILLEUX: Au gré des ondes - John Chen (pno) (Naxos 8.557823)
DELIUS arr Fenby: Sonata for string orchestra - NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

GLINKA: Do not tempt me - Elena Kelessidi (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Onyx 4031)
MUSSORGSKY orch Shostakovich: Songs & Dances of Death - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), London Phil/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 5 62653)
RACHMANINOV: Three Russian Songs Op 41, Over a brook, a swift-running brook; Oh Vanka, what a hothead you are! White of my cheeks, blush of my cheeks! - Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10706)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Pilgrim's Song - Oscar Natzka (bass), Hubert Greenslade (pno) (Ode CD ODE 1365)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale Op 2/2; The clouds begin to scatter Op 42/3 (Elegy); The Nymph Op 56/1; Summer night's dream Op 56/2 - Anna Netrebko (sop), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (DG 477 8589)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Eroica Trio: Susie Park (vln), Sara Sant'Ambrogio (cello), Erika Nickrenz (pno)
LALO: Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Op 7; VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 5; SCHOENFIELD: Café Music; MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49 (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)
9:30 PM. Rhenish

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 289 457 591)
10:00 PM. Day's End

TAVENER: Mahashakti - Ruth Palmer (vln), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (EMI 2 35134)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 3, Pastoral - Patricia Rozario (sop), Bournemouth SO/Kees Bakels (Naxos 8.550733)
11:00 TANEYEV: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 30 - Vadim Repin, Ilya Gringolts (vlns), Nobuko Imai (vla), Lynn Harrell (cello), Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 477 5419)
SATIE arr Hackett/Hackett: Gnossiennes Nos 1-3 - John Hackett (fl), Steve Hackett (gtr) (Camino CAMCD 20)