Thursday 12 September 2013 Rāpare 12 Mahuru 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  DELIUS: Brigg Fair; A Song Before Sunrise; The Walk to Paradise Garden; A Song of Summer; In a Summer Garden; Summer Night on a River - Philharmonia/Owain Arwel Hughes (ASV CD CDA 627)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  MOZART: Fantasia in C minor K475; HAYDN: Sonata in G HobXVI/40; DUSSEK: Sonata in Bb Op 9/1; MOZART: Sonata in C K330; Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op 13, Pathétique - Kemp English (ftpno) (Manu CD MANU 5001)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  RAMINSH: Songs of the Lights; Song; The Great Sea; Come, My Light; Ave Maria; Ave verum corpus; Magnificat - Sandra Graham (mezzo), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orch/Jon Washburn (CBC SMCD 5116)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  JOLIVET: Five Incantations; Incantation; Chant de Linos for flute & piano; Sonata for flute & piano; Ascèses - Manuela Weisler (fl), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 549)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Love theme, from Romeo & Juliet; Waltz, from Serenade for Strings; None but the lonely heart; Second movement, from Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23; Souvenir de Florence, Adagio; Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker ; Andante cantabile, from String Quartet No 1; Chant sans paroles; Dance of the Mirlitons, from The Nutcracker; Elegie for strings; Valse sentimentale; Preghiera, from Suite No 4, Mozartiana; Dance of the Queen of the Swans, from Swan Lake; Panorama, from Sleeping Beauty; Second movement from Symphony No 6, Pathètique - Various artists (London 440 366)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)

  ALBINONI: Sonata in Bb in five parts Op 2/5 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

  KREEK: Three Folksongs, Sing, sing, sickles; Sleep, little Matsik; Why are you chirping, little bird? - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7485)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2; Mazurka in C# minor Op 41/1 - Vladimir Sofronitsky (pno) (Philips 456 970)

  BUSONI: Tanzwalzer Op 53 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.572922)

  7:00 BEETHOVEN: Name-Day Overture Op 115 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 349)

  KODÁLY: Adagio - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), István Hajdu (pno) (Philips 446 560)

  COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man - London SO/Aaron Copland (Sony MLK 64059)

  PROKOFIEV: Troika, from Lieutenant Kijé - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 247)

  MEDAGLIA: Suite Popular Brasileira - Berlin Phil Wind Quintet (BIS 2072)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - Peter Schaffer (vln), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD arr R Clarke: I'll bid my heart be still - Helen Callus (vla), Robert McDonald (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1130)

  GERSHWIN arr Stoltzman: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

  SVENDSEN: Zorahayda - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

  DVORÁK arr Poltéra: Song to the Moon, from Rusalka; Songs my mother taught me, No 4 from Gypsy Melodies Op 55 - Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS SACD 1947)

  HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI 5 65041)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PYTOR IL'YICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

  String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 - Jerusalem String Quartet (EMI 5 74349)

  Introduction, The Lilac Fairy; Adagio, Pas d'action; Pas de caractère (Puss in Boots & the White Cat); Panorama; Waltz, from Sleeping Beauty - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (Private)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 19 in C minor D958 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 579)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 44 - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

  DE LA BARRE: Suite No 6 in C - Nancy Hadden (transverse fl), Lucy Carolan (hpschd), Erin Headley (vla da gamba) (ASV CD GAU 181)

  FRANCK: Symphony in D minor Op 48 - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI CDC 7 47547)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Lighten Up

  Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

  Classical Crossover

  SCHWARTZ: Haunted Heart - Renée Fleming (sop), Fred Hersch (pno) (Decca 988 0602)

  MACCOLL: The first time ever I saw your face - Bryn Terfel (bar), John Paricelli (gtr), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 477 7471)

  DEARIE: Bring all your love along - Kiri Te Kanawa, Malcolm McNeill (vocalists), Carl Doy (keyboard), Jeremy Lubbock (synth), Duncan Lamont (sax), Mitch Dalton (gtr), Rob Winch (bgtr), Kere Buchanan (drums), Rob Winch, Frank Ricotti (perc) (EMI 7 54299)

  LENNON/MCCARTNEY arr Takemitsu: Hey Jude - Göran Söllscher (gtr) (DG 447 104)

  MERCURY/MORAN: La Japonaise - Montserrat Caballé (sop), Freddie Mercury (vocalist), Mike Moran (pno), Townhouse Studio Ensemble, London (Hollywood Records HR 61366)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  DELIUS: First movement, Daybreak & Dance, from Florida Suite - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 8413)

  A LLOYD WEBBER: With one look, from Sunset Boulevard - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Stephen Barlow (Decca 443 600)

  MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in F minor Op 113 - Alan Hacker (cl), Lesley Schatzberger (basset horn), Richard Burnett (fpno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 38)

  SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1265)

  SCHUMANN: Andante & Variations in Bb Op 46 - Martha Argerich, Gabriela Montero (pno duo) (EMI 5 18333)

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in G RV494 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (Philips 446 066)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BARTÓK: Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant songs - Charles Rosen (pno) (Sony SK 94726)

  Concerto for Orchestra - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SK 94726)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FALLA: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2006)

  HARRIS: Music for Jonny - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  BOWERMAN: Five Shakespeare Songs, I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows; The quality of mercy; Sweet are the uses of adversity; How poor are they that have not patience!; O sleep, O gentle sleep - Anna Leese (sop), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

  BESSER arr Bravura: Stretto & Round - Bravura (Rattle RAT D013)

  AKUTAGAWA: Rapsodia per orchestra - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555975)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI: Sicilian Vespers, Overture - Royal Phil/Tullio Serafin (Medici Arts MM 008)

  DELIBES: Czárdás, from Coppélia - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 215)

  LISZT: Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Rienzi - David Allen Wehr (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4199)

  ORFF arr anon: In Trutina, from Carmina Burana - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Neapolitan Song Op 63 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10424)

  J STRAUSS II/Josef STRAUSS: Pizzicato Polka - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

  DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (Sanctuary CD RSN 3046)

  6:00 PAGANINI arr Milone/Balsom: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Alison Balsom (tpt) (EMI 3 53255)

  TRAD arr Zygel: Prière - Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) (Naïve V 5226)

  TRAD arr Kondonassis: Small River Flowing - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80488)

  VIVALDI arr Rousseau: Le Printemps de Vivaldi - Mario Folena (fl) (Brilliant Classics 93703)

  EDWARDS arr Walter: Guitar Dances - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Naxos 8.570949)

  RODRIGO: Castilian Lyrics, San Juan & Pascua; Farewell & solitude; Awaiting the beloved - Ana Maria Martinez (sop), Joan Vives (recorder), Lluis Solé (cornett), Xavier Coll (vihuela) (Brilliant Classics 9172)

  CHABRIER: Three movements from L'Étoile, Overture; Entr'actes before Act 2 & 3 - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Flash Harry

  John Wells looks at the career of Sir Malcolm Sargent, one of the greatest and yet most controversial British conductors of the 20th century (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Alban Gerhardt (cello), Nicole Car (sop), Sarah Castle (mezzo), Paul McMahon (ten), Stephan Loges (bar), Voices New Zealand, Auckland Philharmonia/Bernard Labadie

  HAYDN: Symphony No 26 in D minor, Lamentation;

  Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1

  (Interval)

  MOZART: Requiem in D minor K626 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  KLEIN: String Trio - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67973)

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  JACOB: Concertino for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

  11:00 GAL: Clarinet Sonata Op 84 - Murray Khouri (cl), John McCabe (pno) (Continuum CCD 1027)

  ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32 - Borodin Trio (Chandos CHAN 8477)

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