Saturday 4 January 2014 Rāhoroi 4 Kohi-tātea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Ten programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (7) Terpsichore, Spirit of the Dance

  Folk traditions are given new life in the concert hall thanks to Arnold, Bartók and Dvorák. Also, Peter Maxwell Davies and William Alwyn find inspiration in British dances of the Renaissance (RNZC)

  1:00 approx Disc 1

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132; Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  2:15 approx - Disc 2

  VAN EECHAUTE: Pastorale; MORTELMANS: Saïdjah's lied; Intermezzo in A; RYELANDT: Nocturne; VAN EECHAUTE: Canzonetta; Berceuse; RYELANDT: Five Fantasy Pieces; BENOIT: Derde Fantasie; VAN EECHAUTE: Suite ancienne; DE GREEF: Coucher de Soleil; MORTELMANS: Nachtmijmering - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

  3:35 approx - Disc 3

  REBAY: Three Concert Pieces; BEETHOVEN arr Rebay: Dance No 4; REBAY: Little Variations; BEETHOVEN arr Rebay: Dance No 5; REBAY: Sonata in D minor for clarinet & guitar; BEETHOVEN arr Rebay: Dance No 7; REBAY: Sonata in A minor for clarinet & guitar; Sonatina in Bb for clarinet & guitar - Luigi Magistrelli (cl), Massimo Laura (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94171)

  4:55 approx - Disc 4

  CPE BACH: Symphonies, in G Wq182/1; in Bb Wq182/2; in C Wq182/3; in A Wq182/4; in B minor Wq182/5; in E Wq182/6 - Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Cappriccio 10 106)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 C STAMITZ: Symphony in F, La chasse - L'arte del mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (CPO 777 526)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 414 557)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: The Assault on Beautiful Gorky, from The Unforgettable Year 1919 Op 89 - Dmitri Alexeev (pno), English CO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (EMI CD CFP 4547)

  PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 9299)

  LIADOV: Polonaise in C Op 49, In memory of Pushkin - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)

  7:00 ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 893)

  GOUNOD: Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn - Richard Prosseda (pedal piano), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67975)

  WAGNER: Pilgrims' Chorus, from Tannhäuser - Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

  SCHUMANN: Novelettes Op 21, No 1 in F; No 2 in D - Harold Bauer (pno roll) (Nimbus NI 8817)

  WALTON: Façade Suite No 2 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

  8:00 GRAINGER: Country Gardens - CBSO/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 56412)

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in C# minor Op 3/2; in D Op 23/4; in G minor Op 23/5 - Richard Farrell (pno) (rec 1958) (Atoll ACD 909)

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7259)

  WALTON: Coronation March, Crown Imperial - Simon Lindley (org), English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.555869)

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

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  DEBUSSY: Ibéria, from Images for Orchestra - Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 480 6630)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Wedding Cake, Caprice-Valse Op 76 - Davide Cabassi (pno), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

  BOWEN: Cello Sonata in A Op 64 - Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10792)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  TRAD arr Curnow: Christmas Tryptich - Skellerup Woolston Band (Rajon CDR 0045)

  STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Larry Combs (cl), David McGill (bsn), Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (Teldec 3984 23913)

  LISZT: Three Songs from Wilhelm Tell, The fisher-boy; The shepherd; The alpine hunter - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

  BACH: Cello Suite No 4 in Eb BWV1010 - Pablo Casals (cello) (rec 1939) (EMI CHS 7 61027)

  PURCELL: Love's goddess sure was blind, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary (1692) - Kate Royal (sop), Edward Phillips (treble), David Hansen, Tim Mead (countertenors), Andrew Staples (ten), Jacques Imbrailo (bass), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 3 44438)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (DG 477 8777)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  A special edition in which Phil Broadhurst presents a preview of his oncoming series looking at jazz recordings from the 1960s until now (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Zazara - Amsterdam Klezmer Band

  Original compositions rooted in the klezmer tradition and infused with a generous dose of Balkan, gypsy and Russian sounds (Essay Recordings AY CD19)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  University of Auckland Lilburn Composition Prize

  Two programmes

  (1) CAMERON ALLEN: Suite for solo cello - Rachel Wells (cello)

  HANNAH BRIGHT: The Shingle Nile - Rachel Grimwood, Crystal Lin, Alex MacDonald (vlas), Cameron Stuart, Michael Weiss (cellos), Eric Scholes (dbass)

  SEAN SCANLEN: Her Hand Softly Touches the Walls of the World - Celeste Oram (vocalist/fl)

  TSUBASA KAWAMOTO: Aika (Threnody) - Tsubasa Kawamoto (motion capture triggered audio)

  OLIVER HUANG XU: Trio Gloria - Kieran Deane-Alder (countertenor), Ella Tunnicliffe-Glass (fl), Natasha Manowitz (vln), Michael Weiss (cello)

  JOEL HOLMES-MARLER: Desertflower - Rachel Grimwood (vla), Ann Kim, Grace Neal (cellos), Caitlin Abbot (pno), Manjit Singh (tabla), Matt Kofoed, Joel Holmes-Marler (percussion)

  ALEX TAYLOR: Deepwalker for solo clarinet - Natalie Harris (cl) (recorded in the Auckland University Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. Herreweghe Conducts

  MOZART: Symphony No 39 in Eb K543 - Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (PHI LPH 011)

  MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 40 - Martin Helmchen (pno), Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (PentaTone PTC 5186 366)

  PURCELL: Welcome to All the Pleasures, Ode to St Cecilia's Day - Susan Hamilton, Siri Thornhill (sops), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Mark Padmore (ten), Jonathan Arnold (bass), Collegium Vocale Choir & Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1643)

  FRANCK: Symphony in D minor Op 48 - Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1771)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 7 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

  WARLOCK: Six English Tunes, The witch; Daphne; Strawberry leaves; Tickle my toe; Sweet youth; A toy - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

  GAVIN: Autumnscape; In Vocation; Rajasthani Heart - Duncan Haynes (cello), Jim Langabeer (fl), Babu Chatterji (tabla), Gitbox (Rattle RAT D005)

  HILL: Symphony No 10 in C, Short - Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.223538)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  POULENC: Métamorphoses; Two poems of Louis Aragon, 'C'; Fêtes galantes - Pierre Bernac (bar), Francis Poulenc (pno) (rec 1945) (EMI 7 54605)

  Banalités; Les Chansons villageoises - Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Inger Södergren (pno) (RCA 09026 63137)

  Five Poems; Le Bestiaire; Cocardes - Didier Henry (bar), Angeline Pondepeyre (pno), Ensemble/Carl Stamitz (REM Editions 311 105)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Erica Challis

  Nielsen's Symphony No 5 Op 50 (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Bold Worlds

  Colin Currie (percussion), New Zealand SO/Osmo Vänskä

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten; AHO: Sieidi, Concerto for percussion & orchestra; NIELSEN: Symphony No 5 Op 50 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TANEYEV: String Quartet No 5 in A Op 13 - Carpe Diem String Quartet (Naxos 8.573010)

  JANÁCEK arr Stein: Nursery rhymes - Accentus/Pieter-Jelle de Boer, Lise Berthaud (vla), Alain Planès (pno), Raquele Magalhaes (fl/piccolo/ocarino) (Naïve V 5330)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Ellen Sherman (cor anglais), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 391)

  11:00 GADE: Novelettes Op 29 - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1665)

  DVORÁK: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 87 - Renaud Capuçon (vln), Lida Chen (vla), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Walter Delahunt (pno) (EMI 4 76871)

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