Saturday 18 January 2014 Rāhoroi 18 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

  (9) New Wine in Old Bottles!

  Composers turn back the clock, adopting old forms to create new music. Ravel and Villa-Lobos apply their own touches to the Toccata and Stravinsky imagines an orchestra of Bach's time (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  GOODWIN: Theme from 633 Squadron; Drake 400 Suite; Puppet Serenade; New Zealand Suite; Arabian Celebration; Venus Waltz; Prisoners of War March; Minuet in Blue; Theme from The Trap; Girl with a Dream; Theme from Lancelot & Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  STRIGGIO: Ecce beatam lucem; Missa Ecco sì beato giorno; GALILEI: Contrapunto Secondo; STRIGGIO: Fuggi, spene mia; O giovenil ardire; Altr'io che queste spighe; D'ogni gratia et d'amor; O de la belle Etruria invitto Duce; Caro dolce ben mio; Miser'oimè; Spem in alium (Sarum plainchant); TALLIS: Spem in alium - I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth (Decca 478 2734) 3:20 approx - Disc 3

  DECRÜCK: Sonata in C#; DELVINCOURT: Croquembouches; SANCAN: Lamento et Rondo; Maurice: Tableaux de Provence; Köchlin: Etudes for saxophone and piano Op 188; DESENCLOS: Prélude, Cadence et Finale - Claude Delangle (sax), Odile Delangle (pno) (BIS CD 1130)

  4:35 approx - Disc 4

  RAWSTHORNE: Bagatelles; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Delius; HOUGH: Valses Enigmatique Nos 1 & 2; ELGAR: In Smyrna; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Fauré; BANTOCK arr Hough: Song to the Seals; BOWEN: Reverie d'amour Op 20/2; Serious Dance Op 51/2; The way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op 76; BRIDGE: The Dew Fairy; Heart's Ease; LEIGHTON: Six Studies (Study-Variations) Op 56 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67267)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in A Op 5/9 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 040 301)

  MARXSEN: Variations on an old German Folksong Op 67/1 - Anthony Spiri (pno) (CPO 777 319)

  SARASATE: Barcarolle vénitienne Op 46 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572275)

  KUFFNER: Introduction, Theme & Variations - Kálmán Berkes (cl), Auer Quartet (Naxos 8.553122)

  MOERAN: Lonely Waters - Rebekah Coffey (sop), Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573034)

  SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  7:00 GERMAN: Much Ado About Nothing, Overture - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7285)

  GADE: Capriccio in A minor - Hideko Udagawa (vln), Philharmonia/Martyn Brabbins (Signum SIGCD 224)

  GRIEG: Ave maris stella - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5085)

  MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 62/1; Op 85/6 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 466 425)

  BACH: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 - Canadian Brass & Berlin Philharmonic Brass (CBS MK 39035)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 1 in D K412 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1946)

  ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Royal Phil/Evelino Pidò (Tring International TRP 066)

  8:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Philadelphia Orch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)

  MAYERL: Nos 2 & 3 from Three Japanese Pictures, A Temple in Kyoto; The Cherry Dance - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9141)

  ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  PROKOFIEV: Dance of the five couples, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Chant Saphique Op 91; Gavotte Op post - Luigi Piovano (cello), Luisa Prayer (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0401)

  RESER arr Vappie: Suite for banjo & orchestra - Don Vappie (banjo), Hot Springs Music Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559647)

  FREEDMAN: Laurentian moods - Toronto Wind Orch/Tony Gomes (Naxos 8.572248)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

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

  GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), Bavarian Radio SO/Lawrence Renes (BR Media 900 106)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne, Act 2

  Alphonse.......................... André Batisse

  Frick................................. Jean-Christophe Benoit

  Gabrielle........................... Mady Mesplé

  Baron Gondremarck......... Luis Masson

  Raoul de Gardefeu........... Michel Sénéchal

  Bobinet............................. Michel Trempont

  Baroness Gondremarck.... Christiane Chateau

  Métella.............................. Régine Crespin

  Toulouse Capitole Chorus & Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 114 123/8)

  HEBERLE: Concerto in G for recorder & string orch - Maurice Steger (rec), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

  BACH: Cello Suite No 5 in C minor BWV1011 - Pablo Casals (cello) (rec 1939) (EMI CHS 7 61027)

  K JENKINS: Canción plateada, from Adiemus Colores - Karl Jenkins (pno) (DG 479 1067)

  ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Frank de Bruine (ob), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 458 129)

  PURCELL: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary, 1691, Welcome, welcome, glorious morn - Gillian Fisher, Evelyn Tubb (sops), James Bowman, Nigel Short (countertenors), Rogers Covey-Crump, John Mark Ainsley (tens), Michael George, Charles Pott (basses), King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66476)

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

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• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Django Reinhardt, Guitar Hero

  Two programmes

  (2) Steve Danby focusses on Django Reinhardt's guitar technique and describes the instruments he played. We hear how Reinhardt fared during the German occupation of France in World War Two and how his career declined as the jazz world was overtaken by bebop (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Ancestors Call - Huun Huur Tu

  "Ethereal, shimmering melodies hover like a flock of birds over an undulating landscape of growling drones," wrote Songlines magazine editor Simon Broughton. He was describing the sound of Huun Huur Tu, Tuva's internationally successful throat-singing band. Today in Global Sounds we play music from the band's album Ancestors Call (World Village 468107)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Thomas Gaynor (organ of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington)

  VIERNE: Hymne au Soleil; Clair de lune; Toccata, from Pièces de Fantaisie Op 53; Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 59 (recorded in St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. First Viennese School

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 2292 46452)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 - Ronald Brautigam (fpno), Cologne Academy/Michael Alexander Willens (BIS SACD 2014)

  SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C D956 - Quatuor Diotima, Anna Gastinel (cello) (Naive V 5331)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Four Preludes (1944) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in C Op 2/6 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

  DEBUSSY arr Lenski: Bilitis - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  NORTH: Concerto for piano & orchestra with trumpet obbligato - David Buechner (pno), John Taber (tpt), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  BARBER: A slumber song of the Madonna; There's nae lark; Love at the door; Serenades; Love's caution; Night wanderers; Of that so sweet imprisonment; Strings in the earth & air; Beggar's song; In the dark pinewood; Three Songs Op 2, The daisies; With rue my heart is laden; Bessie Bobtail; Three Songs Op 10, Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army; Four Songs Op 13, A nun takes the veil; The secrets of the old; Sure on this shining night; Nocturne; Two Songs Op 18, The Queen's face on the summery coin; Monks & raisans; Nuvoletta Op 25 - Cheryl Studer (sop), Thomas Hampson (bar), John Browning (pno), Emerson String Quartet (DG 435 867)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Stephen de Pledge (pno), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  RAVEL: La Valse; Piano Concerto in G; SCRIABIN: Poem of Ecstasy; RAVEL: Boléro (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. English Royal Funeral Music

  PURCELL: Funeral Sentences, Man that born of a woman Z27; In the midst of life Z17a; Thou knowest, Lord Z58c; Remember not, Lord, our offences Z50 - Vox Luminis/Lionel Meunier, Jorge López-Escribano, Masato Suzuki (orgs) (Ricercar RIC 332)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GATTI: Septet in F for oboe, 2 horns, violin, viola, cello & dbass - Zefiro (Ambroisie AMB 9934)

  COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2, The little horses; Zion's walls; The golden willow tree; At the river; Ching-a-ring chaw - St Charles Singers, Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos 8.559297)

  WEINER: Pastorale, phantaisie et fugue - Budapest Chamber Symphony/Tibor Varga (BMC CD 018)

  11:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Quintet in C minor - Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10465)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Guitar Sonata in D Op 77, Homage to Boccherini - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572717)

  WHITACRE: Sleep - Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

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