Wednesday 20 March 2013 Rāapa 20 Poutū-te-rangi 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  WILLIAM WALLACE: Symphonic Poems: No 5, Sir William Wallace; No 6, Villon; No 1, The Passing of Beatrice; No 3, Sister Helen - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66848)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 54, Nos 1-3 - Salomon Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66971)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Liederkries Op 24; Lieder - Mark Padmore (ten), Christopher Maltman, Jonathon Lemalu (bars), Graham Johnson (pno), Ex Cathedra (Hyperion CDJ 33108)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BACH: Brandenburg Concertos Nos 4-6; Air from Orchestral Suite No 3; Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio - Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger (Decca 417 770)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  Piano music by ARENSKY, GLAZUNOV, LYADOV, RACHMANINOV, TANAYEV & TCHAIKOVSKY - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9218)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CHERUBINI: Anacréon, Overture - CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-9513)

  BACH: Violin Concerto in G minor BWV1056, after Harpsichord Concerto in F minor BWV1056 - Rachel Podger (vln/dir), Brecon Baroque (Channel Classics CCS SA 30910)

  SMETANA: Polka, To our Girls - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

  FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79; Berceuse in D Op 16 - Juliette Hurel (fl), Hélène Couvert (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 110 401)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Introduction, Waltz & Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin - La Scala Orch, Milan/Lovro von Matacic (Testament SBT 1330)

  7:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 26 in D minor, Lamentation - English Consort/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 463 731)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Russell: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80576)

  ARBAN: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Maurice André (alto flugelhorn), Wind Band of the Paris Guardians of the Peace/Claude Pichaureau (RCA 60025)

  RAVEL: Menuet antique - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 307)

  ZIEHRER: The world is mine, March Op 499; Dear Bismarck, do not roll, French polka Op 465 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223815)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MACDOWELL: To a water-lily, from Woodland Sketches - Joseph Cooper (pno) (London 443 333)

  COPLAND: Variations on a Shaker Melody, from Appalachian Spring - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80503)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 43 - Johannes Moser (cello), Stuttgart Radio SO/Fabrice Bollon (Hänssler CD 93.222)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Sarah Francis (ob), Allegri String Quartet (Decca 433 173)

  RUTTER: Suite for strings - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

  PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org) (Argo 430 836)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  LENNON/MCCCARTNEY/HARRISON/STARKEY

  Jeremy Ansell introduces selections from the Beatles' albums Beatles for Sale and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, as well as hit singles, alternative versions and interview material (RNZ)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  WITT: Symphony in C, Jena - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (BBC Music BBC MM 42)

  MENDELSSOHN: Piano Sextet in D Op 110 - Jaromir Klepác (pno), Paula Hula (vln), Josef Kluson, Zbynek Padourek (vlas), Václav Bernásek (cello), Jirí Hudec (dbass) (Praga PRD 250 221)

  STRAUSS: Three Hymns Op 71 - Karita Mattila (sop), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (Sony SK 53975)

  BAX: Spring Fire - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7528)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  The Grammy Award Winners

  WILLSON: Overture/Rock Island; Ya got trouble; Seventy-Six trombones; Lida Rose/Will I ever tell you, from The Music Man

  Travelling Salesmen..... Russell Goodwin, Hal Norman, Robert Howard, James Gannon, Robert Lenn, Vernon Lusby, Robert Evans

  Harold Hill................... Robert Preston

  Marian Paroo............... Barbara Cook

  Majestic Theatre Orch, New York/Herbert Green (Angel 764663)

  LOEWE: Overture; Thank heaven for little girls; The night they invented champagne; I remember it well, from Gigi

  Honore......................... Maurice Chevalier

  Gigi.............................. Betty Wand

  Gaston......................... Louis Jordan

  Grandmama................. Hermione Gingold

  MGM Studio Orch/André Previn (CBS 170 277)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), English CO (CBS M13K 42055)

  LIDDLE: How lovely are thy dwellings - Stuart Burrows (ten), Martin Neary (org) (Decca 433 673)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in C# minor Op 27/1 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (NIFC NIFCCD 014)

  GERSHWIN arr Dokshitser: Rhapsody in Blue - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Teldec 8573 80651)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, Introduction & Act 1 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (LSO Live LSO 0682)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  SPARKE: The Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in Eb WoO36/1 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Naxos 8.570998)

  THOMSON: Symphony No 2 in C - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - Philippe Quint (vln), Mineria SO/Carlos Miguel Prieto (Naxos 8.570791)

  BACH realized Jackson: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - London Concertante/Nicholas Jackson (dir) (Somm SOMMCD 077)

  HANDEL: Mr Handel's Water Piece - Thomas Reiner (tpt), Southwest German CO/Sebastian Tewinkel (Naxos 8.570501)

  WALTON: Façade Suite No 1 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

  6:00 S WAGNER: Kingdom of the Black Swan, Prelude - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 377)

  COWARD: Wandering the King's Highway - Oscar Natzka (bass), orchestral accompaniment/Walter Goehr (rec 1940) (Atoll ACD 400)

  TCHEREPNIN: The Enchanted Kingdom Op 39 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 447 084)

  HANDEL arr Southgate: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - Mark Walton (cls) (Kiwi CD TRL 071)

  WIKANDER: King Lily of the valley - Allmänna Sången/Cecilia Rydinger Alin (dir) (BIS CD 1714)

  SATIE arr Ourdine: La Diva de l'Empire - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 470 290)

  ELGAR: The immortal legions, from Pageant of Empire - BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd Jones (Dutton CDLX 7148)

  SAUNDERS: The Magic Kingdom - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7147)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Age of Reason

  How has the world changed for women? Six inspiring octogenarians look back

  Six programmes

  (6) Dr Nawal el Saadawi

  Nawal El Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist, physician and writer. She qualified as a doctor in the 1950s and has spent much of her life drawing attention to the oppression of women. Her work has been banned and she has been imprisoned for her beliefs. Now aged 81 she continues to campaign. She's in conversation with Lyse Doucet about her life and work (BBC)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Philip Arkinstall (cl), Wilma Smith (vln), Caleb Wright (vla), Rohan de Korte (cello), Donald Nicolson (pno)

  STRAVINSKY: The Soldier's Tale, Suite for violin, clarinet & piano; HINDEMITH: Quartet for clarinet & piano trio; BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 60 (recorded in the Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne by ABC)

• 9:30 PM. Hebrew Strings

  BLOCH: Hebrew Rhapsody, Schelomo - Steven Isserlis (cello), German SO, Berlin/Hugh Wolff (BIS SACD 1992)

  ACHRON arr Auer: Hebrew Melody - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead Op 29 - St Petersburg Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 00885)

  HOVHANESS: Harp Concerto Op 267 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80530)

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572704)

  11:00 ENESCU: Impressions d'enfance Op 28 - Remus Azoitei (vln), Eduard Stan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.239)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Quintet in Bb for piano & winds - Nash Ensemble (CRD 3409)

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