Schedule for Monday 22 July 2013

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
DYSON: Concerto Leggiero for piano and orchestra; Concerto da Camera; Concerto da Chiesa - Eric Parkin (pno), Andrew Watkinson, Edward Roberts (vlns), Stephen Tees (vla), Stephen Orton (cello), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9076)
1:10 approx - Disc 2
The Only True Opera Gala
Arrangements for cello ensemble of opera works by Rossini, Mozart, Françaix, Weber, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Strauss, Gershwin & J Strauss II - Philharmonic Cellists (Koch 3 6546)
2:20 approx - Disc 3
PHILIPS: Sacred music for 5 voices - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.555056)
3:30 approx - Disc 4
REGER: Suites, No 1 in G; No 2 in D minor; No 3 in A minor; Sonata in Bb for voila & piano Op 107 - Keith Harvey (cello), Ivo van der Werff (vla), Simon Marlow (pno) (ASV CD DCA 976)
4. 05 approx - Disc 5
MAYERL: Filigree; Three Miniatures in Syncopation; Siberian Lament; In My Garden: Summertime; Two pieces from Three Japanese Pictures; Beguine Impromptu; The Big Top; The Legends of King Arthur, Two Pieces; Honky-Tonk; In my Garden, Autumntime; Romanesque; Insect Oddities; Leprechaun's Leap - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9141)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 JIRANEK: Bassoon Concerto in F - Sergio Azzolini (bsn), Collegium Marianum/Jana Semerádová (dir) (Supraphon SU 4039)
MALATS arr Tárrega: Spanish Serenade - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80576)
BANTOCK: Two Irish Folksongs, Arranmore; Emer's Lament for Cuchulain - Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton (Meridian CDE 84570)
BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 66967)
G GABRIELI ed Jones: Canzon IV in 6 parts - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Stephen Cleobury (Argo 417 468)
ELGAR arr Barfoed: Salut d'amour Op 12 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Danish National SO/Mario Venzago (RCA 88697 63081)
HERSCHEL: Symphony No 12 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)
7:00 GALEAZZI arr Pluhar: Voglio una casa - Lucilla Galeazzi (sop), Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)
BOWEN: Miniatures Op 44 - Joop Celis (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10506)
VIVALDI: Concerto in Bb for violin & oboe RV548 - Rachel Podger (vln), Frank de Bruine (ob), Academy of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0005)
COOKE: Concert Jig - Christopher Perry (dulcimer), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7190)
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Prelude & Fugue in A minor - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)
SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)
8:00 Beauty Spot: THE DOORS arr & orch Coleman: The Unknown Soldier, from The Doors Concerto - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Tran Quang Hai (dan trahn), Prague SO/Peter Scholes (Decca 467 350)
W LLOYD WEBBER: Air & Variations - John Bradbury (cl), James Cryer (pno) (Naxos 8.570539)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 - members of Berlin Radio SO/Steven Sloane (Capriccio 71 096)
HANDEL: Love sounds th'alarm, from Acis & Galatea - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)
PITOMBEIRA: Ajubete jepê amô mbaê - Berlin Phil/Wind Quintet (BIS 2072)
DOHNÁNYI: American Rhapsody Op 47 - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 1107)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

GABRIEL PIERNÉ (1863-1937)
March of the Little Lead Soldiers - BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena (Chandos CHAN 10633)
Album pour mes petits amis Op 14 - Jean-Paul Sevilla (pno) (Discover International DICD 920 169-70)
Flute Sonata in D minor Op 36 - Michel Bellavance (fl), Roy Howat (pno) (Meridian CDE 84509)
Scherzo-Caprice in D Op 25 - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67348)
10:00 AM. The Works

HAYDN: Oboe Concerto in C HobVIIg/C1 - Hansjörg Schellenberger (ob), Cologne Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 05045)
RESPIGHI rev di Vittorio: Suite for strings - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.572332)
MENDELSSOHN: Cello Sonata No 1 in Bb Op 45 - Gary Hoffman (cello), David Selig (pno) (La Dolce Volta LDV 05)
RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 - Sydney Symphony/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Exton EXCL 00018)
Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
1:30 PM. Lighten Up

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts
Movie Musicals into the 21st Century
LLOYD WEBBER: Another suitcase in another hall, from Evita
Eva Perón.................... Madonna
Warner Bros Studio Orch/John Mauceri (Warner 246 432)
ARMSTRONG: Come what may, from Moulin Rouge
Satine........................... Nicole Kidman
Christian...................... Ewan McGregor
London Orch/Cecilia Weston (Interscope 333 832)
KANDER: Mister Cellophane, from Chicago
Amos Hart................... John C Reilly
Air Studios Orch/Paul Bogaev (Sony 510 532)
LLOYD WEBBER: All I ask of you, from Phantom of the Opera
Raoul........................... Patrick Wilson
Christine Daaé............. Emmy Rossum
Abbey Road Studio Orch/Simon Lee (Sony 693 521)
SONDHEIM: The contest, from Sweeney Todd
Signor Adolfo Pirelli... Sacha Baron Cohen
Sweeney Todd............. Johnny Depp
Beadle Bamford.......... Timothy Spall
Air Lyndhurst Studios Orch/Paul Gemignani (Nonesuch 368572)
BECK: Welcome to Burlesque, from Burlesque
Tess.............................. Cher
Charlie Bisharat (vln), Jim Cox (pno), Burlesque Lounge Troupe (RCA 780 457)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

Letters to Sibelius
Five programmes in the form of letters from Marshall Walker to the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Walker is a retired Professor of English who lives in Hamilton. He grew up in Glasgow and at an early age he was hooked by the music of Sibelius. These programmes recount episodes in Walker's life and the powerful effect that Sibelius had in them
(5) North and South
Walker tells of his encounters with his boyhood hero, Scottish conductor Ian Whyte. As a student, he has to banish the music of Sibelius until he finishes his degree. Later, he moves from Scotland to New Zealand bringing Sibelius to a new landscape (RNZ)
K JENKINS: Charge!, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - Paul Beniston (tpt), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 32; Nocturnes Op 37 - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (rec 2005) (DG 477 5718)
BARTÓK: String Quartet No 1 Sz40 - Emerson String Quartet (rec 1988) (DG 423 657)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
VAÑHAL: Sinfonia in A (Bryan A9) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)
MASSENET: Gavotte, from Manon, Act 3 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 1)
LILBURN: Sings Harry - Roger Wilson (bar), Gillian Bibby (pno) (Waiteata WTA 009)
PSATHAS: Nemesi - Katherine McIndoe (sop), Gillian McNaughton (contralto), New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2011-12/Andrew Withington, Lane Ashby-King, Brooks Kershaw (percussion) (NZSSC)
MATTEIS: Violin Suite in D minor, from Ayres for the Violin, Part 4 (London, 1685) - Bronwen Pugh (vln), Robert Petre (hpschd) (Meridian CDE 84316)
NEWMAN: Dragonwyck - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

LEHÁR: Gold & Silver Waltz - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80547)
CHABRIER: Impromptu in C - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)
RICHTER: Symphony No 8 in Bb - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.570597)
PAULUS: The Road Home - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7518)
SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op 87 - Joseph Swensen (vln), Finnish Radio SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste (RCA 09026 60444)
GLINKA: Kamarinskaya - BBC Philharmonic/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)
6:00 MOZART: Second movement, Andantino, from Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 - Emily Beynon (fl), Catherine Beynon (harp), BBC National Orch of Wales/Thierry Fischer (BBC Music MM 354)
DUREY: Sonatine Op 25 - Emily Beynon (fl), Andrew West (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67204)
FARRENC: Fourth movement, Presto, from Piano Trio No 3 in E minor Op 45 - Emily Beynon (fl), Daniël Esser (cello), Sepp Grotenhuis (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26408)
POULENC arr L Berkeley: Flute Sonata - Emily Beynon (fl), BBC Welsh National Orch/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10718)
HEDIN: Spring song - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)
DVORÁK: Song to the Moon, from Rusalka - Gabriela Benackova (sop), Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 3853)
7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

Michael Stewart takes a look at the life and music of GABRIEL PIERNÉ (1863-1937) in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth next month (16 August) (RNZ)
Nuit divine - Philippe Koch (vln), Julia Knowles (harmonium), Rémy Franck (narrator) (Timpani 2C1110)
Solo de concert Op 35 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)
Impromptu-Caprice Op 9 - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)
Fantasy-Ballet in Bb Op 6 - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67348)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Direct from Auckland Town Hall
Einstein's Universe
Jack Liebeck (vln), Stephen de Pledge (pno), Victoria Sayles (vln), Julia Joyce (vla), Andrew Joyce (cello)
MARTINU: Five Madrigal Stanzas; MOZART: Violin Sonata No 21 in E minor K304; BLOCH: Baal Shem
(Interval)
BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 (RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

VILLA-LOBOS: Harp Concerto - Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 135 SACD)
11:00 RAFF: String Sextet in G minor Op 178 - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1181)
HINDEMITH: Six Chansons, La biche; Un cygne; Puisque tout passe; Printemps; En hiver; Verger - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay (Globe GLO 5125)
MORTELMANS: Nachtmijmering; VAN EECHAUTE: Pastorale; Canzonetta; Berceuse - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)
SCHNITTKE: Variations for string quartet - Oleh Krysa, Natalia Lomeiko (vlns), Konstantin Boyarsky (vla), Alexander Ivashkin (cello) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0091)