Thursday 5 December 2013 Rāpare 5 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by JL Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BECK: Sinfonia in F Op 1/2 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  GERSHWIN arr Cohn: Preludes for piano - Julien Hervé (cl), Jean-Hisanori Sugitani (pno) (Naxos 8.573032)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Grafe: Lensky's Aria, from Eugene Onegin - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

  PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Portrait of Madame Butterfly - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

  7:00 TRAD arr Skeaping: Oh, Christmas now is drawing near at hand; We've been awhile a-wandering; The Waits - Maddy Prior (vocalist), Sneak's Noyse (Portrait PCL 1007)

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

  HUPFELD arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

  FALLA arr M Nakariakov: Spanish Dance, from La Vida breve - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 4509 94554)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C# minor S244 - Leonid Kuzmin (pno) (XXICR CD 20005)

  GROFÉ: On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (Naxos 8.559007)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Alma redemptoris mater (Gregorian chant) - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1869)

  LARSSON: Pastoral Suite - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

  PADEREWSKI: Minuet in G Op 14/1 - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (Decca 433 651)

  GERSHWIN arr Milone: It ain't necessarily so, from Porgy & Bess - 48 violas from ASMF, BBC SO, London Phil, ENO Orch/Geoffrey Simon (Cala CACD 0106)

  K JENKINS: La Folia - Neil Percy (marimba), London SO/Karl Jenkins (EMI 5 00235)

  WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (Teldec 4509 99595)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  LUCIANO BERIO (1925-2003)

  Coro - Austrian Radio Chorus & SO/Leif Segerstam (Orfeo C 626 041 B)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BORODIN: Symphony No 2 in B minor - Stuttgart Radio SO/Carlos Kleiber (Hänssler CD 93.116)

  GRIEG: Haugtussa Op 67 - Solveig Kringelborn (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (NMA 3)

  RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Charles Ramirez (gtr), CO of Europe/Douglas Boyd (Signum SIGCD 244)

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  BACH: Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in F RV283 - Giuliano Carmignola (vln), Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (Archiv 479 1075)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  SIBELIUS: Fourth movement, Allegro molto, from Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - Berlin Phil/Herbert van Karajan (DG 415 107)

  IBERT: Flute Concerto - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling (BIS SACD 1559)

  BYRD: O Mistrys Myne - Sophie Yates (virginal) (Chandos CHAN 0578)

  WHITACRE: Water night - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67543)

  ALKAN: Forty-eight Esquisses, Book 3 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67377)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  DEBUSSY: Nocturnes - women's voices of the Collegium Musicum Amstelo, Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (rec 1979) (Philips 400 023)

  POULENC: Four Christmas Motets, O magnum mysterium; Quem vidistis pastores dicite; Videntes stellam; Hodie Christus natus est; Mass in G - RIAS Chamber Choir/Marcus Creed (rec 1995) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1588)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op 18 - Gillian Weir (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

  K WILSON: Wind Quintet - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

  RIES: Piano Concerto in Eb Op 42 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572742)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.251)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Second movement, Andante, from Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102 - Tamás Vesmás (pno), New Zealand SO/Edwin Outwater (Private)

  PONCE arr Peña: Estrellita - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Summit DCD 236)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in F# minor Op 44 - Lazar Berman (pno) (DG 449 090)

  WALTON: Façade Suite No 1, Polka; Valse; Swiss Jodelling Song; Tango, Pasodoblé; Tarantella, Sevillana - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

  6:00 BISHOP: Home Sweet Home - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 1)

  MOLLOY: Love's Old Sweet Song - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

  TRAD Spiritual: Swing low, sweet chariot - Kathleen Battle (sop) (DG 474 184)

  FARNABY: Bonny Sweet Robin - Gary Cooper (hpschd) (Philips 446 687)

  BYRD: This sweet & merry month of May - Clare Wilkinson (mezzo), Rose Consort of Viols (Deux-Elles DXL 1129)

  PURCELL arr JC Pepusch: If love's a sweet passion, from The Beggar's Opera - Frode Thorsen (rec), Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (cello), Bergen Barokk (BIS CD 965)

  RUTTER: What sweeter music - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes, Nicholas Forbes (org) (Atoll ACD 342)

  ALBRIGHT: Sweet Sixteenths - Nicola Melville (pno) (Equilibrium EQ 57)

  SIMPSON: Ricercar on Bonny sweet Robin - Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (Hyperion CDA 66435)

  HERBERT: Ah! Sweet mystery of life, from Naughty Marietta - Beverly Sills (sop), London SO/André Kostelanetz (EMI CDC 7 47197)

  J RITCHIE: Sweet & Sour - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Verdi & Shakespeare

  Two programmes

  A Verdi anniversary this year (200) and a Shakespeare one next (450) prompts Elizabeth Hudson to examine the inspiration that the English playwright was for the Italian composer

  (2) Comedy and Tragedy (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Erica Challis

  Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Magnificent Mozart

  Marking the anniversary of Mozart's death on the 5th of December 1791

  Vesa-Matti Leppanen (vln), Julia Joyce (vla), New Zealand SO/Andrew Grams

  MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture; Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364; Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RAVEL arr Salzedo/Vallières: Trio for flute, viola & harp - Valérie Milot (harp), Jocelyne Roy (fl), François Vallières (vla) (Analekta AN 2 9985)

  HUMMEL ed Beyer: Potpourri in G minor Op 94, an improvisation on tunes by Mozart and Rossini - James Ehnes (vla), London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10255)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 9 in C - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 1 in D Op 12/1 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 457 619)

  BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Danish Horn Trio (Chandos CHAN 9964)

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