Wednesday 29 May 2013 Rāapa 29 Haratua 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

  1:00 approx - Disc 2

  VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoema; Cirandas Nos 1-16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  NIELSEN: Hymnus Amoris; The Sleep; Springtime in Funen; Three Motets Op 55 - Inga Nielsen (sop), Poul Elming (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Children's Chorus of St Anne School, Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Leif Segerstam, Stefan Parkman (Chandos CHAN 8853)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis E 8784)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, Three Impressions for Orchestra, No 2; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, Three Impressions for Orch, No 3; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522 - Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Bernhard Forck (vln), Berlin Baroque Soloists (Avi 855 3060)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Db Op 37 - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

  CARSE: Two Sketches, A Northern Song; A Northern Dance - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

  BRUCKNER: Locus iste - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67629)

  PONCE: Gavota - Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 926)

  WEISSENBERG: Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet, Street corner; You forgot your horse; April in Paris; Boum!; You who pass by without seeing me; Ménilmontant - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67656)

  7:00 TORELLI: Five-part Sonata for trumpet - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

  SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Viva CO 2003A)

  DAMASE: Sicilienne variée - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

  WALDTEUFEL: The Skaters, Waltz - National Phil/Douglas Gamley (Decca 460 400)

  ALBÉNIZ: Capricho Catalán - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc TEL 32712)

  GERMAN: Henry VIII, Overture - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7285)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL trans Kempff: Minuet in G minor - Idil Biret (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223452)

  DONIZETTI: Cor anglais Concertino in G - Alessandro Baccini (cor anglais), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

  STRAVINSKY: Tango, Waltz & Ragtime, from The Soldier's Tale - Gidon Kremer (vln), Eduard Brunner (cl), Aloys Kontarsky (pno) (ECM 1304/5)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/6 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)

  HEDIN: Spring song - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

  ROSSINI: Tancredi, Overture - Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner (ABC 476 259)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  New Zealand Women Composers

  BOWATER: New Year Fanfare - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Atoll/Move MD 3327)

  BUCHANAN: Flute Song for the Birds - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  HULFORD: Pyramids - The Blue String Quartet: Miranda Adams, Sally Keestra (vlns), Nigel Keay (vla), Claudia Price (cello) (Manu CD MANU 1478)

  FISHER: Pounamu - Elise Bradley (contralto), Richard Nunns (koauau), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  MOON: Shadows - Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 71)

  COWAN: My alphabet of light - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Private)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Purcell - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc CD 80743)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 - John O'Conor (pno), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80219)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 22 - IPO Richter String Quartet (Helicon 02-9639)

  REINECKE: Symphony No 3 in G minor - Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 9893)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  A Tribute in two parts to John Williams

  (1) A collection marking the 80th birthday last year of John Williams

  WILLIAMS: Sound the Bells!; Out to sea/The shark cage fugue, from Jaws; Theme, from Sabrina; March, from 1941; Adventures of Earth, from ET, The Extra-Terrestrial - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Arts Orch of Los Angeles; Boston Pops Orch; Pittsburgh SO/John Williams (Sony 88691 94253) (Part Two tomorrow 1.30pm)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  Song of America

  Thomas Hampson examines connections between poetry, music, history and culture from the perspective of classic American song

  Ives the Chronicler

  Charles Ives was unprecedented at suiting his musical style to the story he wanted to tell, and he created dozens of surprising 'snapshots in song' of what it was like to be alive in America during his lifetime (WFMT)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 19 in Eb Op 46 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (rec 1970) (Warner 2564 69689-8)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (rec 1997) (EMI CDC 5 56654)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LITHGOW: Invercargill March - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

  C STAMITZ: Duo in D for violin & cello Op 19 - members of Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  GRAENER: Comedietta Op 82 - North German Radio Phil, Hanover/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 777 447)

  WEELKES/FUX arr Reynolds: Renaissance Suite - Canadian Brass (Vanguard Records VCD 72018)

  MOERAN: Two Folksong arrangements, Irish love song; The white mountain - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 012/013)

  GRIEG arr Freyhan: Ich liebe dich Op 5/3; To Spring Op 43/6 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  COPLAND: El Salón México - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (BBC Music BBC MM 98)

  6:00 BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  MAXWELL DAVIES arr Eriksson: Farewell to Stromness - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

  GUANG orch Suzuki: Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon - Hong Kong Phil/Kenneth Jean (Marco Polo 8.223911)

  BODY: Long-Ge, from Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT 0009)

  TAN DUN: The eternal vow, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Alimjan (rawap), Kasim & David Cossin (hand drums), Shanghai SO, Shanghai National Orch/Tan Dun (Sony SK 89347)

  TRAD arr Wu Zuqiang: Spring flowers in the moonlit night on the river - Lang Lang (pno), Fan Wei (pipa) (DG 477 6229)

  PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turnadot - Plácido Domingo (ten), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 5 57580)

  BACALOV arr Redford/Bell: Il Postino - Joshua Bell (vln), instrumental ensemble (Sony 88697 55436)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E Kk206 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Running Set - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10001)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  High-class Middlebrow

  Three British Light Music Conductors

  (2) Ronald Corp

  Brian Kay talks to conductor and composer Ronald Corp, whose recordings of light music for Hyperion in the 90s became immensely popular and helped to re-ignite interest in the field of light music (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2011 Canberra International Music Festival

  (7) Pascal & Ami Rogé (pno duo)

  DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir; RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole; DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; DEBUSSY arr Rogé: Sirens, from Nocturnes; DEBUSSY arr Rogé: La Mer (recorded in the Fitters Workshop, Canberra by ABC)

• 9:25 PM. String Idylls

  JANÁCEK: Idyll for string orchestra - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572698)

  ELGAR: Idylle - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Black Box BBM 1016)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CAPLET: Divertissements - Sandrine Chatron (harp) (Ambroisie AMB 9978)

  BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été - Stella Doufexis (mezzo), German State Phil of Rhineland-Palatinate/Karl-Heinz Steffens (Berlin Classics 030 0523 BC)

  MYASKOVSKY: Serenade in Eb Op 32/1 - Moscow New Opera Orch/Yevgeny Samoilov (RegisC 1244)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Isabelle Faust (vln), Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1981)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G Op 18/2 - Endellion Quartet (Warner 2564 62161)

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