Saturday 29 March 2014 Rāhoroi 29 Poutū-te-rangi 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30; Death & Transfiguration; Don Juan Op 20 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 438 300)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  ANON: Lamento di Tristano; Trotto; Salterello; ATTAINGNANT: Basse danses, La Brosse; La Gatta; La Magdalena; DALZA: Calata ala Ronde; NEUSIDLER: Der Judentanz; Welscher Tanz Wascha mesa; SUSATO: Ronde; GERVAISE: Branle de Bourgogne; Branle de Champagne; Palese; Passamezzo d'Italye - Konrad Ragossnig (lute), Ulsamer Collegium (Archiv 415 294)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  GRIFFITHS: Lie Deep, My Love; FISHER: Pounamu; McCALLUM: The moon's glow once lit; HAMILTON: Veni, Sancte Spiritus; WHITEHEAD: Taiohi Taiao; HAMILTON: Lux Aeterna; A RITCHIE: Widow's songs; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III; CHILDS: O Magnum Mysterium - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata; String Quartet No 2, Intimate letters; On an overgrown path - Talich Quartet, Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 9699)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  ROSSINI: Péchés de Vieillesse - Jeffrey Swan (pno) (Akademia CDAK 103)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SVENDSEN: Andante funèbre - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  SZYMANOWSKI: Caprice No 24, from Three Paganini Caprices Op 40 - Graf Mourja (vln), Natalia Gous (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1769)

  MOZART: Flute Quartet No 1 in D K285 - Imme-Jeanne Klett (fl), Stefan Latzko (vln), Roswitha Killian-Priebe (vla), Andreas Hamborg (cello) (Ensemble Obligat 0867)

  MOERAN: Rhapsody No 1 in F - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573106)

  BELLINI: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Guy Touvron (tpt), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (RCA 09026 61815)

  7:00 GLINKA: A Life for the Tsar, Overture - Sofia Festival Orch/Emil Tchakarov (Sony S3K 46487)

  SATIE arr Debussy/Veen: Gymnopédies Nos 3 & 1 - Sandra Mol, Jeroen van Veen (pno duet) (Brilliant Classics 9129)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Variations for oboe & military band - Alf Nilsson (ob), Stockholm Concert Band/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9444)

  GRANADOS: Intermezzo; Tonadilla, La Maja de Goya, from Goyescas - William Feasley (gtr) (Sonora SO 22587 CD)

  KETÈLBEY: Wedgwood Blue - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)

  VIVALDI arr Red Priest: Four Seasons, Summer - Red Priest (Dorian DOR 90317)

  8:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: May Night, Overture - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553858)

  BOWERMAN: Isolde Fantasy - Diana Galvydyte (vln), Anna Peletsis (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 015)

  GIAMPIERI: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Mark Walton (cl), Paul Bateman (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 001)

  LEHÁR: Suite de Danse - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

  SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  WEBER: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 11 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDA 66729)

  BOULEZ: Le Marteau sans Maître - Hilary Summers (mezzo), Ensemble Intercontemporain/Pierre Boulez (DG 477 5327)

  LILBURN: Four Canzonas - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

  BACH arr McFerrin: Second movement, Air, from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 - Bobby McFerrin (vocal), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 48177)

  BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Henryk Szeryng (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Newton 880 2053)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz Profiles

  Ten programmes in which Nancy Wilson hosts the Peabody Award winning series chronicling the people, places and events in jazz, with a focus on legends and musical themes

  (10) Louis Armstrong, the timeless success story (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Devil's Tale - Adrian Raso and Fanfare Ciocărlia

  "The eastern force field of Balkan brass meets Gypsy jazz guitar". That's how music writer Garth Cartwright describes this collaborative album between Romania's Fanfare Ciocărlia and Canadian master guitarist Adrian Raso (Ashphalt 984022)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2012 Gisborne International Music Competition

  Three programmes

  (1) BACH: First movement, Grave, from Violin Sonata No 2 in A minor BWV1003; BEETHOVEN: Two variations from the Second movement; Third movement, Finale, from Violin Sonata No 9 in Op 47, Kreutzer - Camille Barry (vln), Rosemary Barnes (pno)

  SCHUMANN: Adagio & Allegro in Ab Op 70; KABALEVSKY: Third movement, Allegretto, from Cello Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 49 - Sally Kim (cello), Rosemary Barnes (pno)

  PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango; GERSHWIN: It ain't necessarily so, from Porgy & Bess - Olivia Francis (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: First & Second movements, Allegro ma non troppo; Scherzo, from Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 - Jesbery Hertono (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  HAYDN: First & Second movements, Allegro; Andante, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; RODDIE: Caesium Bomb - Thomas Eves (tpt), Bruce Greenfield (pno)

  BRAHMS: First movement, Allegro, from Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108; DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Diane Huh (vln), Bruce Greenfield (pno)

  HINDEMITH: Fifth movement, Massig schnell, from Sonata for solo cello Op 25/3; DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Min Jin Lee (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno) (recorded in the Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:50 PM. Going Byronesque

  SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Op 115 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Walter Weller (BBC Music BBC MM 216)

  JANÁCEK: Ave Maria - Christ Church Cathedral Choir/Stephen Darlington (Griffin GCCD 4042)

  MONTSALVATGE: Manfred - Barcelona SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Naxos 8.573077)

  JOACHIM: Third movement, Andante cantabile, Impressions of Byron's poems, from Hebrew Melodies - Sarah-Jane Bradley (vla), Anthony Hewitt (pno) (Naxos 8.572533)

  FREITAS BRANCO: The Death of Manfred - RTE National SO/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.572370)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  PSATHAS: Matre's Dance - David Guerin (pno), Bruce McKinnon (perc) (Rattle RAT D003)

  DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: A Chaos of Delight III - Madeleine Pierard (sop), women of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - NZSO National Youth Orch 2004/Alasdair Neale (National Youth Orch)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  STANFORD: The Pibroch Op 157/1; Phoebe Op 125/3; Songs of the Sea Op 91, Drake's drum; Outward bound; Devon, O Devon, in wind and rain; Homeward bound; The Old Superb; For ever mine; Windy nights Op 30/4; A lullaby Op 19/2; To the rose Op 19/3 - Stephen Varcoe (bar), Clifford Benson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67124)

  WALTON: Three Façade Settings, Daphne; Through gilded trellises; Old Sir Faulk; A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table, The Lord Mayor's Table; Glide gently; Wapping old stairs; Holy Thursday; The contrast; Rhyme - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Collins Classics 14932)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Mantis, The Music of Drew Menzies

  Julian Wilson (sax), James Illingworth (pno), Brett Hirst (dbass), Reuben Bradley (drums), NZ String Quartet

  MENZIES/BRADLEY: Mansfield St; I've got nothing good to say; MENZIES/BRADLEY/ILLINGWORTH: 9 Out of 10 Out of Its; MENZIES/BRADLEY: Laura's Laska; Ladies man; MENZIES/ILLINGWORTH: Mantis and Muscles; MENZIES/BRADLEY: Meeting at Union Square; Man's life (recorded at Wellington Opera House by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. Falla Favourites

  La Vida Breve, Interlude & Spanish Dance; El amor Brujo - Marina de Gabarain (mezzo), Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Praga PRD 350 064; PRD 350 090)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Onyx 4037)

  LOCATELLI: Violin Sonata in C Op 8/4 - Locatelli Trio (Hyperion CDD 22057)

  PLEYEL: Symphony in D minor Ben147 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9525)

  11:00 OFFENBACH: Suite for two cellos Op 54/1 - Roland Pidoux, Etienne Péclard (cellos) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1043)

  PROKOFIEV: Ten Pieces from Romeo & Juliet Op 75 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 452 062)

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