Schedule for Thursday 10 October 2013

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan; WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Franz-Paul Decker (Bell BELL-CD 1991)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
ROSSINI: Waltz in Eb; Thème; Allegretto; Scherzo in A minor; Un Rien; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, Morceau réservés; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 9 - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)
2:25 approx - Disc 3
LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; A Song of Islands, Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
FUCHS: Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor; Fantasiestücke Op 78; Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb - Nancy Green (cello), Caroline Palmer (pno) (Biddulph LAW 005)
4:50 approx - Disc 5
ELGAR: In the South Op 50; Froissart Op 19; Variations on an original theme, Enigma Op 36 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Conifer CDCF 187)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 GOSSEC: Symphony in D B86 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9661)
BACH: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor BWV1014 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Egida Giordani Sartori (hpschd) (Philips 475 7825)
Josef STRAUSS: Artist's Greeting Polka - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)
SARASATE arr A Labrie: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Similia (Analekta AN 2 9819)
PURCELL arr Stokowski: Suite of Five Pieces, Trumpet tune; Echo; Hornpipe; When I am laid in earth; Largo & Allegro - Brussels Phil/Richard Egarr (Glossa GCDSA 922209)
7:00 SCHUBERT: Overture in D D556 - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570329)
BEETHOVEN: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus WoO45 - Inbal Megiddo (cello), Jian Liu (pno) (Rattle RAT D035)
ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDZ 7 62526)
TAFFANEL orch Gamzou: Fantasy on themes from Weber's Der Freischütz - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 4 57814)
8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD arr Leon: She moved through the fair - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp) (Decca 468 499)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Dance of the reed pipes, from The Nutcracker - Royal Phil/Yuri Simonov (Tring International TRP 996)
BERNSTEIN arr Penaforte: West Side Story, Suite - Eroica Trio (EMI 5 07351)
LAMBERT: The Bird Actors - State Orch of Victoria/John Lanchbery (Chandos CHAN 9865)
GRIEG arr Haaland: Butterfly; Erotikon; To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Fredrik Fors (cl), Sveinung Bjelland (pno) (2L 55)
J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 74321 61687)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895-1968)
Chamber Concerto for oboe & string orch Op 146 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)
Romancero gitano - Birgitta Larsson (sop), Malena Ernman (mezzo), David Lundblad (ten), Joakim Bergdahl (bar), Ola Eliasson (bass), Gustaf Sjökvist's Chamber Choir/Gustaf Sjökvist, Mats Bergström (gtr) (Proprius PRCD 9124)
Four Dances from Love's Labour's Lost Op 167 - Malmö SO/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.572823)
10:05 AM. The Works

CPE BACH: Keyboard Sonata in A Wq48/6 - Susan Alexander-Max (pno) (Naxos 8.572674)
WAGNER arr Vlieger: Meistersinger, an orchestral tribute - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5092)
CRUSELL: Clarinet Quartet No 2 in C minor Op 4 - Håkan Rosengren (cl), Per Enoksson (vln), Öyvor Volle (vla), Leo Winland (cello) (Caprice CAP 21592)
KODÁLY: Háry János Suite - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572749)
Noon Upbeat

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

RAFF: The Tempest, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5117)
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557358-60)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

MOZART: Dalla sua pace, from Don Giovanni - Rolando Villazón (ten), Mahler CO/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 477 9878)
SCHMIDT: Piano Concerto in Eb for piano (left hand) & orchestra - Markus Becker (pno), North German Radio Phil/Eiji Oue (CPO 777 338)
CHAUSSON: Two Duos Op 11, La nuit; Le réveil - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 5 74206)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 59, No 1 in A minor; No 2 in Ab; No 3 in F# minor; Scherzo No 3 in C# minor Op 39; Scherzo No 2 in Bb minor Op 31; Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Martha Argerich (pno) (Philips 456 703)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)
A RITCHIE: Music for Tristan - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)
MAREK: Serenade for violin & orchestra - Ingolf Turban (vln), Philharmonia/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6440)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

STRACHEY: In Party Mood - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67148)
FALLA arr Kochanski: Popular Spanish Suite - Timora Rosler (cello), Klára Würtz (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9157)
CATALANI: La Wally, Act 3 Intermezzo - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)
SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (CBC MVCD 1168)
MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165 - Barbara Hendricks (sop), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 6 31801)
6:00 SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)
KORNGOLD: Military March in Bb - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10433)
SCHUMANN: Four Military Poems of Nikolaus Lenau - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33102)
SAINT-SAËNS: French military march, from Algerian Suite - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5104)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Variations for oboe & military band - Alf Nilsson (ob), Stockholm Concert Band/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9444)
RUBINSTEIN: Cavalry Trot - Wuppertal SO/George Hanson (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 335 1240)
CHOPIN: Polonaise in A Op 40/1, Military - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 421 032)
J STRAUSS I: Military Quadrille - Slovak Sinfonietta of Zilina/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.225284)
7:00 PM. Appointment

East, West: Cultural Counterpoints
The Ideas of Edward Saïd
The influential and sometimes controversial writings of Edward Saïd (1935-2003) cover political and cultural history, literature and music. Amongst many other things he founded, together with Daniel Barenboim the West-Eastern Divan, an orchestra made up of musicians from several Middle East countries
Five programmes presented by John Drummond and Vijay Devadas, both of the University of Otago
(4) Saïd on Music and Silence
In a 1997 essay Saïd explored the development of Western Classical Music from Beethoven through Wagner to Schoenberg and beyond. John Drummond explores Saïd's stimulating and controversial ideas (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Gunilla Süssmann (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier
TURNAGE: Scherzoid; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466; GRIEG: Sarabande, from Holberg Suite; STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)
9:35 PM. Songs of Ireland

Songs of a Wayfarer, Memory; When Daffodils begin to peer; English May; I was not sorrowful; I will walk on the earth; Mother & Child, Newborn; The only child; Hope; Skylark and nightingale; The blind boy; Baby; Death-parting; The garland - Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Benjamin Luxon (bar), Alan Rowlands (pno) (Lyrita SRCD 2261)
10:00 PM. Day's End

RODE: Violin Concerto No 3 in G minor Op 5 - Friedemann Eichhorn (vln), Jena Phil/Nicolás Pasquet (Naxos 8.570767)
PLEYEL: Symphony in C minor Ben121 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)
11:00 WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Janet Hilton (cl), Keith Swallow (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8366)
BORODIN: String Quartet No 1 in A - Borodin String Quartet (EMI CDC 7 47795)