Saturday 23 March 2013 Rāhoroi 23 Poutū-te-rangi 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 13 in D; No 14 in A; No 15 in D; No 16 in Bb - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66534)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  C SCHUMANN: Romance in A minor; Scherzo in D minor; Romances Op 11 No 1-3; Scherzo No 2 in C minor; Pieces Fugitives; Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann Op 20; Romances Op 21 Nos 1-3; Romance in B minor - Cristina Ortiz (pno) (Carlton Classics 30366 00292)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge; GURNEY: The Western Playland; Ludlow & Teme - Adrian Thompson (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Iain Burnside (pno), Delmé String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66385)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  The Maiden's Prayer

  Piano music by Baranowska, DVORÁK, Beethoven, Saint-SaËns, Rubinstein, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Kreisler, Sinding, Paderewski, Lange, Grieg, Drdla, Gossec, Elgar, Lehar, Fibich & Jessel - Various artists (Naxos 8.550646)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  Cinema Classics 3

  Music by Mozart, Mouret, Puccini, Gershwin, Mascagni, Handel, Orff, Verdi & Beethoven - Various artists (Naxos 8.551153)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PAISIELLO: The Barber of Seville, Overture - Haydn Philharmonia/Ezio Rojatti (Nuova Era 6726)

  VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV447 - Alfredo Bernardini (ob/dir), Zefiro (Naïve OP 30478)

  ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.191)

  PROKOFIEV arr Heifetz: Masks, from Romeo & Juliet - Gil Shaham (vln), Orli Shaham (pno) (Artemis ATM CD 1555)

  D SCARLATTI arr Tommasini: Good-Humoured Ladies - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

  7:00 GRAINGER: Early one morning - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9584)

  GRANADOS: Improvisation on the Jota valenciana - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

  DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572675)

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in F HWV370 - Riccardo Minasi (vln), Marco Ceccato (cello), Giulia Nuti (hpschd), Luca Pianca (archlute) (DHM 88697 70531)

  KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10052)

  8:00 WAGNER: Siegfried's Funeral March, from Götterdämmerung - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

  MYERS arr Williams: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  BRAHMS: Second movement, Andante moderato, from Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - Vienna Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 429 403)

  WHITACRE: Five Hebrew love songs, A picture; Light bride; Mostly; What snow!; Tenderness - Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew), Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, Pavào Quartet/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), English CO (CBS M13K 42055)

  PURCELL: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary, 1690, Arise, my Muse - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels (countertenors), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Michael George (bass), King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66314)

  POULENC: Trois Pièces, Pastorale; Hymne; Toccata - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8637)

  ROSSINI: Largo al factotum, from The Barber of Seville - Dennis Noble (bar), Sadler's Wells Orch/Warwick Braithwaite (rec 1939) (Dutton CDLX 7018)

  FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

  STEFFANI: Sfere amiche, or date al labbro, from Niobe, regina di Tebe - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Decca 478 473)

  POPPER: Requiem Op 66 - Maria Kliegel, Caroline Stinson, Johann Ludwig (cellos), Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Gerhard Markson (Naxos 8.554657)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 2 in Bb D125 - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 652)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (4) The Music of John Coltrane (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  English folk and Finnish folk

  James Findlay is a young singer, fiddler and guitarist from Dorset, and today in Global Sounds we play a selection of traditional ballads and songs from his debut album Sport and Play

  And then, as they say, for something completely different: it's Sväng, the harmonica quartet from Finland with tunes from their album Schladtzshe (Fellside 602382; Aito 344016)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2011 New Zealand International Piano Festival

  Two programmes

  (2) Diedre Irons (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 3 in C Op 2/3; CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 27; Fantasy in F minor Op 49; WHITEHEAD: Tumanako, Journey through an unknown landscape; RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin; DEBUSSY: La plus que lente (recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 4:40 PM. Chasing Butterflies

  COWEN: The Butterfly's Ball, Concert Overture - Czechoslovak State Phil, Kosice/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223273)

  FAURÉ: Papillon Op 77 - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557889)

  SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - Katia Bronska (pno) (Aparté AP 039)

  PUCCINI: Humming Chorus, from Madame Butterfly - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDM 7 69054)

  CHEN/HE: Butterfly Lovers Piano Concerto - Chen Jie (pno), New Zealand SO/Carolyn Kuan (Naxos 8.570607)

  OFFENBACH arr Bonynge: Le Papillon, Suite - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BACH: Flute Sonata in C BWV1033 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions CM 2)

  FARR: Balinese Pieces, Sepuluh Jari; Tentang Cara Gamelan; Jangan Lupa - Henry Wong Doe (pno) (Trust MMT 2070)

  FARQUHAR: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/Juan Matteucci (Kiwi SLD 14)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  A BRAHMS Edition

  Eternal love Op 43/1; May night Op 43/2 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (DG 447 501)

  Tell me, my fairest shepherdess; Permit me, lovely maiden, to walk in the garden; Love has allied my heart; Good evening, my sweetheart in a thousand, from 49 German Folksongs - Edith Mathis (sop), Peter Schreier (ten), Karl Engel (pno) (DG 449 641)

  Four Serious Songs Op 121 - Nathan Berg (bar), Julius Drake (pno) (ATMA ACD 2 2571)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2013 Auckland Festival

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Orla Boylan (sop), Timothy Robinson (ten), Ivan Ludlow (bar), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand Youth Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier BRITTEN: War Requiem (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  STERNDALE BENNETT: The Wood Nymphs, Overture - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 206)

  HOVHANESS: Spirit of Trees, Sonata for harp & guitar - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), David Leisner (gtr) (Telarc CD 80530)

  LILBURN: Forest - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  11:00 LISZT: Les Préludes - Marialena Fernandes, Ranko Markovic (pno duet) (Gramola 98948)

  SVENDSEN: String Octet in A - ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9258)

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