Tuesday 30 April 2013 Rātū 30 Paenga-whāwhā 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture, Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins; Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 2 in C - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (dir/hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 66524)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; RACHMANINOV: Melodie Op 3/3 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Second movement, part 2, Maestoso-Allegro, from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Michael Murray (organ of St Francis de Sales' Church, Philadelphia), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Telarc CD 80277)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Juilliard String Quartet (Testament SBT 1372)

  RAVEL: La Valse - NZSO National Youth Orchestra 2007/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (RNZ)

  7:00 MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, Overture - Royal Phil/Jane Glover (Tring International TRP 996)

  ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

  EICHHORN: Duo & Variations on a theme from Paganini's The Carnival of Venice - Friedemann Eichhorn, Reto Kuppel (vlns), Alexia Eichhorn (vla) (Naxos 8.572066)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations in C on God save the King WoO78 - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

  BRITTEN: Courtly Dances, from Gloriana - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1751)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LEHMANN: Ah, moon of my delight, from In a Persian Garden - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66709)

  QUILTER: Where the Rainbow Ends - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223444)

  BORNE arr Labrie: Fantaisie Brillante on Bizet's Carmen - Similia (Analekta AN 2 9819)

  ROSSINI orch Respighi: Tarantella, from La Boutique Fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 444 610)

  GERSHWIN arr Villard: Piano Concerto in F, excerpt from the second movement - Michel Lethiec (cl), Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.570939)

  WOLF-FERRARI: Intermezzo & Ritornello, from Il campiello - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN (1813-1888)

  Twenty-five Preludes Op 31, Nos 1, 21, 24 & 25 - Olli Mustonen (pno) (Decca 433 055)

  Grand Duo Concertant in F# minor Op 21, for violin & piano - Kolja Lessing (vln), Rainer Klaas (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223383)

  Twelve pedal études, Nos 1-6, for organ or for piano with pedal keyboard - Kevin Bowyer (organ of Blackburn Cathedral) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0030)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Rotterdam CO/Conrad van Alphen (Telarc CD 80623)

  HOFFMEISTER: Flute Concerto No 24 in D - Bruno Meier (fl), Prague CO (Naxos 8.572738)

  BACH: Cantata No 80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott - Susanne Rydén (sop), Pascal Bertin (countertenor), Gerd Türk (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1421)

  BORODIN: Symphony No 2 in B minor - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Brilliant Classics 93348)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards

  STEINER: Stagecoach; The ride to hell; Santa Fe; Red shadows; Diligence, from Stagecoach - London Festival Chorus & Orch/Stanley Black (Decca 417 845)

  COHAN: I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, from the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney (vocalist), Studio Chorus & Orch/Leo Forbstein (QED 720 259)

  HERRMANN: Overture; Variations; Ragtime; Finale, from Citizen Kane - London Phil/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 417 852)

  STYNE: I'm the greatest star, from Funny Girl - Barbra Streisand (vocalist), Studio orch/Herbert Ross (CBS 170 044)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  DVORÁK arr Hazell: Goin' home, after the Second movement, from Symphony No 9, From the New World - Bryn Terfel (bbar), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 474 438)

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in F RV491 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (Philips 446 066)

  SHORE: The end of all things, from The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King - Renée Fleming (sop), London Voices, London Oratory School Schola, London Phil/Howard Shore (Reprise 248521)

  YAMADA: Symphony in F, Triumph & Peace - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555350)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in Eb Op 18 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Krystian Zimerman (pno) (rec 1988) (DG 427 617)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 3 in D Op 44/1 - Melos Quartet (rec 1981) (DG 415 883)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Festival Overture - Orchestra Wellington/Kenneth Young (Vector Wgtn Orch VWO 001)

  HILL: The Sacred Mountain - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Hill Records 001)

  BRAHMS: Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit, from A German Requiem - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Chicago SO & Chorus/Georg Solti (Decca 475 459)

  KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

  MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 1 - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI: Force of Destiny, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

  A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Albrecht Mayer (ob/dir), New Seasons Ensemble (Decca 478 0313)

  KREISLER arr Prior: Liebesleid - Rowan Prior (cello), Jonathan Pritchard (vln) (Ode CD Ode 1363)

  DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano - Michel Béroff (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47897)

  HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Warner Classics 3984 25544)

  6:00 A BUTTERWORTH: The Quiet Tarn Op 21 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Arthur Butterworth (Dutton CDLX 7253)

  DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Jamie Walton (cello), Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Signum SIGCD 322)

  SCHUMANN: Stille Tränen - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Richard Amner (pno) (CBS MK 76868)

  PIGOVAT: Silent Music - Donald Maurice (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 114)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon, from The House of Life - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 477 5336)

  C WILLIAMS: A Quiet Stroll - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  ANON arr Forshaw: Let all mortal flesh keep silence - Aimée Green (sop), Christian Forshaw (sax/synth/perc), Alexander Eadon (org) (Quartz QTZ 2009)

  RACHMANINOV arr Maisky: In the Silence of the Night Op 4/3 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Sergio Tiempo (pno) (DG 477 7235)

  COPLAND: Quiet City - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova 74321 37854)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 DAVE BRUBECK (b Dec 6 1920, d Dec 5 2012)

  Norm Meehan looks at the life & music of the American jazz pianist

  (3) Forming the Quartet and the college circuit (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 01

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