Thursday 31 January 2013 Rāpare 31 Kohi-tātea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture; DELIUS: Summer evening; BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad; The banks of Green Willow; FINZI: Suite from Love's Labours - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  NIELSEN: String Quartet in G minor Op 13; String Quartet in F Op 44; String Quintet in G - Philipp Naegele (vla), Kontra Quartet (BIS CD 504)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  BUSNOIS: Missa L'home armé; Anima mea liquefacta est; Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus; Busnois: Gaude celestis domina; PULLOIS: Flos de spina - Binchois Consort/Andrew Kirkman (Hyperion CDA 67319)

  3:45 approx - Disc 4

  STRAVINSKY arr Crabb/Draugsvoll: Petrushka, 1947 version; Tango; MUSSORGSKY arr Crabb/Draugsvoll: Pictures at an Exhibition - James Crabb, Geir Draugsvoll (accordions) (EMI CDZ 5 69705)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  Enchanting melodies from Victorian and Edwardian times

  Piano Works - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP CD 0589)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 JC BACH: Symphony in D Op 18/4 - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 752)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from Mozart's The Magic Flute - Adrian Brendel (cello), Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 475 379)

  PUCCINI: Minuet No 3 in A - Berlin Radio SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 410 007)

  RAVEL arr Salzedo/Vallières: Trio for flute, viola & harp - Valérie Milot (harp), Jocelyne Roy (fl), François Vallières (vla) (Analekta AN 2 9985)

  HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

  7:00 STRAVINSKY: Four Norwegian Moods - Norrlands Opera SO/Kristjan Järvi (CCn'C 02962)

  PONCE arr Peña: Estrellita - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Summit DCD 236)

  SCHUBERT: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - Stephen Stirling (horn), Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1122)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor S359 - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 041 102)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PALESTRINA: Gloria, from Missa Papae Marcelli - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.555319-20)

  CURTIS: A Festival Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2085)

  VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV447 - Alex Klein (ob), New Brandenburg Collegium/Anthony Newman (Cedille CDR 7003)

  VERDI: Fire Chorus, Fuoco di gioia, from Otello - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

  RUIZ-PIPO: Canción y Danza No 1 - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Teldec 3984 25736)

  J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Wilfried Scharf (zither), Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  RAFF: Jubilee Overture - Philharmonia Hungarica/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 289)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in G minor Op 20/3 - Amsterdam String Quartet (Channel Classics CCS SA 25907)

  THALBERG: Piano Concerto in F minor Op 5 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Tasmanian SO (Hyperion CDA 67915)

  RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 2 - Sinfonia 21/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9415)

  MATIEGKA: Notturno in G Op 21 - Sérénade à trois (CPO 777 190)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (BBC Legends BBCL 4251)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  Playing with Music's Saint

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN interpreted by Richard Souther: Kyrie - Sister Germaine Fritz (sop), Davy Spillane (low whistles), Scott Frankfurt (drums), Richard Souther (keyboards/synthesizers), Cello string ensemble (Sony SK 62853)

  O ignis spiritus - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1700 (465 122)

  Introit, Karitas habundat; Antiphon, O virtus sapientie; Epilogue, ZuuenZ - Billy Taylor (medieval harps), Guy Sigsworth (hand bells/org), electronic sounds, Sinfonye/Stevie Wishart (Decca 476 5117)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  A Composer of the Week talk on Bach's organ music presented by Martin Setchell (RNZ)

  SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Michael Rabin (vln), Hollywood Bowl SO/Felix Slatkin (Medici Arts MM 023)

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 475 8502)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Dresden State Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (EMI 5 67988)

  Abu Hassan, Overture; Euryanthe, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Gustav Kuhn (Capriccio 71 045)

  Concert Piece in F minor Op 79 - Alfred Brendel (pno), London SO/Claudio Abbado (Philips 420 905)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  HILL: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

  STRAUSS: Zweite Brautnacht, from The Egyptian Helen - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Julius Rudel (EMI 5 56417)

  PSATHAS: Jettatura - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

  A RITCHIE: Symphony No 3 Op 150 - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (Atoll ACD 741)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  5:00 ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Signum Classics SIG CD 201)

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Robert Veyron-Lacroix (hpschd) (Philips 475 7825)

  WALDTEUFEL: Bagatelle, Polka Op 233 - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223688)

  BRITTEN: Choral Dances, from Gloriana - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9511)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in F# Op 15/2 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Decca 478 3206)

  FAURÉ arr Talmi: Fantaisie Op 79 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1359)

  6:00 HOLST: Lyric Movement for viola - Andriy Viytovych (vla), English Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.570339)

  GRIEG: Evening in the mountains; At the cradle, from Lyric Pieces Op 68 - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)

  GOOSSENS: Lyric Poem Op 35 - Robert Gibbs (vln), Gusztáv Fenyo (pno) (Naxos 8.572860)

  BURGON: Theme, from Brideshead Revisited - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Burgon (Silva Screen FILM CD 117)

  TOMLINSON: Nocturne, from Lyrical Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223413)

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr T Batiashvili: Lyrical Waltz, from Seven Doll's Dances - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Bavarian Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (DG 477 9299)

  GLAZUNOV: Poem Lyrique in Db Op 12 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 93565)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Song of America

  This 13-part series presented by Thomas Hampson examines connections between poetry, music, history and culture from the perspective of classic American song

  (5) War Cries

  Throughout history, America has gone to war with bravado and with anguish. Songs have helped to shape those emotions and to express them, whether inspiring courage or lamenting losses (WFMT)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Michael Endres (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/John Nelson

  BODY: Hector's Ghost; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 26 in D K537, Coronation; BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13 - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI 5 57167)

  DVORÁK: The Golden Spinning Wheel Op 109 - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 082)

  11:00 SCHUMANN: Andante & Variations in Bb Op 46 - L William Kuyper (horn), Alan Stepansky, Gerald Appleman (cellos), Hecht & Shapiro (pno duo) (Eri-Elysium Recordings GRK 709)

  Die Tochter Jephthas Op 95/1; Requiem Op 90/7 - Pepe Becker (sop), Helen Webby (harp) (Ode CD MANU 5103)

  String Quartet in F Op 41/2 - Gringolts Quartet (Onyx 4081)

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