Friday 29 November 2013 Rāmere 29 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 3, Sinfonia Espansiva; Symphony No 5 - Catherine Bott (sop), Stephen Roberts (bar), Royal Scottish Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9067)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9; Symphonic Etudes Op 13; Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Alfred Cortot (pno), Jacques Thibaud (vln), Pablo Casals (cello) (Biddulph LHW 004)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  FAURÉ: Requiem; DURUFLÉ: Four Motets, Ubi caritas; Tota pulchra es; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo; Messe Cum jubilo; MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium - Camilla Otaki (sop), Mark Griffiths (bar), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, London Musici/Richard Marlow, Briony Shaw (vln), Richard Pearce (org) (Conifer CDCF 176)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  REINCKEN: Sonata in A minor; BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in Bb; ROSENMÜLLER: Sonata in E minor; WESTHOFF: Sonata in A; PACHELBEL: Suite in G; Canon & Gigue in D - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 437 089)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphonies, No 7 in D minor; No 8 in D; No 9 in C minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 6/1 - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557358-60)

  POENITZ: Klänge aus der Alhambra, Fantasy Op 68 - Laura Vinciguerra (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9179)

  KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)

  BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV971 - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  BRAHMS orch Parlow: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D - Stuttgart Radio SO/Georges Prêtre (Forlane 16770)

  7:00 REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Dresden Phil/Herbert Kegel (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  BRUCH: Second movement, Adagio, from Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 478 5338)

  WAGNER: Procession into the Hall of Song, from Tannhäuser - Chorus of the Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Swedish Orch/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.557714)

  HANDEL arr Tracey: Second movement, Alla Hornpipe, from Water Music Suite No 2 in D - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral) (EMI CDB 7 62813)

  HOLBROOKE: Three Blind Mice Op 37/1, Symphonic Variations on an old English Air - Brandenburg State Orch/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 442)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  O BULL: Los Recuerdos de la Habana - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Dala Sinfonietta/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572827)

  LISZT: Three Liebesträume - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (RNZ)

  FRANCHOMME: Fantasy on a Melody by Schubert - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

  YRADIER trans Tárrega: La Paloma - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 432 102)

  J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 74321 61687)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  EDWARD BENJAMIN BRITTEN, BARON BRITTEN (1913-1976)

  The Golden Vanity

  Golden Vanity:

  Captain..................... Mark Emney

  Bosun........................ John Wojciechowski

  Cabin-boy................. Barnaby Jago

  Turkish Galilee:

  Captain..................... Adrian Thompson

  Bosun........................ Terry Lovell

  Wandsworth School Boys' Choir/Russell Burgess, Benjamin Britten (pno) (London 436 397)

  Death in Venice, Scenes 12-17

  Aschenbach................. Peter Pears

  Dionysus/Barber/

  Hotel Manager............. John Shirley-Quirk

  Apollo.......................... James Bowman

  Porter........................... Kenneth Bowen

  members of The English Opera Group, English CO/Steuart Bedford (London 425 669)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.571225)

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Lynn Harrell (cello), Angeli Ensemble (Azica ACD 71265)

  CPE BACH: Keyboard Sonata No 4 in D minor Wq51/4 - Miklós Spányi (clavichord) (BIS CD 2043)

  GLAZUNOV: The Seasons Op 67 - Minnesota Orch/Edo de Waart (Telarc CD 80347)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  LECLAIR: Flute Sonata in F Op 2/2 - Adrian Butterfield (baroque vln), Jonathan Mason (vla da gamba), Laurence Cummings (hpschd) (Naxos 8.572866)

  SCHUBERT: Variations on a theme by Hüttenbrenner D576 - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.616)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 411 148)

  WALTON arr Walden: Touch her soft lips and part, from Henry V; CHOPIN: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Amy Dickson (sax), London Session Orch/Chris Walden (Sony 88725 47957)

  M HAYDN: German Mass MH602 - Cécile Dibon-Lafarge (sop), Anaïk Morel (mezzo), Calliope Women's Choir & Orch/Régine Théodoresco (Calliope CAL 9328)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BAX: Symphony No 7 - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (rec 2003) (Chandos CHAN 10122)

  GRAINGER: Love Verses, from The Song of Solomon - Monteverdi Choir, English Country Gardiner Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (rec 1994) (Philips 446 657)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BORODIN arr anon: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  ARNOLD: Clarinet Sonatina Op 29 - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)

  BODY: Three Transcriptions, Long Gi Yi (China); Ramandriana (Madagascar); Ratschenitsa (Bulgaria) - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 118)

  HILL: Tribute to a Musician; Regrets - Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.223538)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 22 in F Op 54 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2002)

  NEWMAN: Prisoner of Zenda - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  IRELAND: A London Overture - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

  PAGANINI: Introduction & Variations on Di tanti palpiti, from Rossini's Tancredi Op 13 - Ivan Pochekin (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570487)

  ANON: Folia, Rodrigo Martinez - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Michael Behringer (org), Pedro Estevan (drum), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (bells) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

  CHABRIER: España - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 064)

  6:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Miniature Overture, from The Nutcracker - Paris Orch/Seiji Ozawa (PentaTone PTC 5186 107)

  ELGAR: A little bird in the air, from Scenes from The Saga of King Olaf Op 30 - London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Vernon Handley (EMI CDS 7 47659)

  DVORÁK: Miniatures Op 75 - Erich Höbarth, Peter Matzka (vlns), Thomas Riebl (vla), members of Vienna String Sextet (EMI CDC 5 55272)

  SULLIVAN: I'm called Little Buttercup, from HMS Pinafore - Gillian Knight (mezzo), New London SO/Isidore Godfrey (Decca 430 095)

  Three little maids from school are we, from The Mikado Valerie Masterson (sop), Peggy Ann Jones (mezzo), Pauline Wales (mezzo), Royal Phil/Royston Nash (Decca 430 095)

  GLAZUNOV: Three Miniatures Op 42 - Tatjana Franová (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223151)

  GUNNING: Five Little Pigs - Yuri Torchinsky (vln), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10625)

  HEDGES: Four Miniature Dances - RTE Sinfonietta/Anthony Hedges (Marco Polo 8.223886)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Critic's Chair

  William Dart reviews recent releases (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Takács Quartet

  BARTÓK: String Quartet No 3 Sz85; JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters; RAVEL: String Quartet in F (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:40 PM. The Pursuit of Happiness

  HILL: Symphony No 4 in C minor - Melbourne SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.220345)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird - Borodin Quartet (Onyx 4069)

  POULENC: Concerto in D minor for two pianos - François-René Duchâble, Jean-Philippe Collard (pno duo), Rotterdam Phil/James Conlon (Erato ECD 88140)

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam (Ondine ODE 878)

  11:00 IRELAND: String Quartet No 1 in D minor Op posth - Holywell Ensemble (ASV CD DCA 1017)

  IRELAND: Sextet for clarinet, horn & string quartet - Robert Plane (cl), David Pyatt (horn), Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.570550)

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