Friday 4 April 2014 Rāmere 4 Paenga-whāwhā 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BANTOCK: Celtic Symphony; The Witch of Atlas; The Sea Reivers; A Hebridean Symphony - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66450)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 1 in D minor Op 74; Piano Septet No 2 in C Op 114, Septet Militaire - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66396)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  STRAUSS: Arias from Guntram; Feuersnot; Die Frau ohne Schatten; Intermezzo; Die Liebe der Danae; Daphne; Die schweigsame Frau; Der Rosenkavalier - Ben Heppner (ten), Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5142)

  3:25 approx - Disc 4

  TARTINI: Violin Sonata in G minor Op 1/10, Didone abbandonata; Violin Sonata in C minor Op 1/8; Violin Sonata in F Op 1/2; Pastorale in A; Violin Sonata in F Op 1/12; Violin Sonata in G minor, Devil's Trill - Locatelli Trio (Hyperion CDA 66430)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  HOLST: A Winter Idyll; Symphony in F Op 8, Elegy in Memoriam William Morris; Indra Op 13; A Song of the Night Op 19/1; Sita, Interlude; Invocation Op 19/2; The Lure, Ballet Music; Morning of the Year, Dances - Lorraine McAslan (vln), Alexander Baillie (cello), London Phil, London SO/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1839/40)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

  ROUSSEL: Elpénor, radio score Op 59 - Paul Verhey (fl), Janneke van der Meer, Wim de Jong (vlns), Henk Guittart (vla), Viola de Hoog (cello) (Olympia OCD 460)

  MENDELSSOHN: Theme with Variations Op 81/1 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

  RAVEL: La Valse - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 330)

  7:00 BORODIN: Polovtsian March, from Prince Igor - Orch of Liège/Paul Strauss (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  CASSADO arr Messier: Requiebros - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Analekta AN 2 9897)

  SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Adele Anthony (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (Canary Classics CC 07)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Private)

  CURTIS: At Twilight - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2055)

  PIAZZOLLA orch Bacalov: Libertango - Luis Bacalov (pno), Héctor Ulises Passarella (bandoneón), St Cecilia Academy Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 463 471)

  BEETHOVEN: Third movement, Scherzo, from Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Orchestra Wellington/James Sedares (Private)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MACDOWELL: To a wild rose, from Woodland Sketches - Joseph Cooper (pno) (London 443 333)

  D SCARLATTI: Mandolin Sonata in D minor Kk77 - Artemandoline (Brilliant Classics 94477)

  ROSETTI: Bassoon Concerto in C (Murray 67) - Eckart Hübner (bsn/dir), Kurpfälzisches CO (CPO 777 742)

  FALLA arr Kochanski: Popular Spanish Suite - Timora Rosler (cello), Klára Würtz (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9157)

  BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Phil/Andrea Licata (Tring International TRP 046)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890)

  Chorale No 3 in A minor - Gillian Weir (organ of Århus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

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

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SUK: Piano Quartet in A minor Op 1 - Jan Panenka (pno), Josef Suk (vln), Jan Talich (vla), Michaela Fukacová (cello) (Supraphon 11 1532)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 - Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Karel Ancerl (EMI 5 75091)

  PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 80 - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Atoll ACD 513)

  KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 77 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (BBC Music BBC MM 338)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  MUCZYNSKI: Time Pieces - Michael Collins (cl), Michael McHale (pno) (Chandos 10804)

  BLOCH: Poems of the Sea - London SO/Dalia Atlas (Naxos 8.573241)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in G G480 - Bruno Cocset (cello), Les Basses Réunies (Alpha 084)

  LEHÁR: Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert; Du bist meine Sonne; Schönste der Frauen, from Giuditta - Richard Tauber (ten), Vienna Phil/Franz Lehár (rec 1934) (Preiser 90150)

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Richard Burnett (fpno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 67)

  BELLINI: La sonnambula, Act 2 finale

  Amina............................... Joan Sutherland

  Rodolfo............................ Nicolai Ghiaurov

  Teresa............................... Della Jones

  Elvino............................... Luciano Pavarotti

  National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 424)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MAHLER arr Cooke: Symphony No 10 in F# minor - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (rec 1999) (EMI CDC 5 56972)

• 4:25 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  K YOUNG: Three Sad Waltzes - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 209)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  HOLST: Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Alto ALC 1013)

  J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

  BACH realized Jackson: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - London Concertante/Nicholas Jackson (dir) (Somm SOMMCD 077)

  TRAD arr Meyer: Star of the County Down - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

  GRAINGER: Mock Morris - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9653)

  LISZT: Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Rienzi - David Allen Wehr (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4199)

  DEBUSSY orch Molinari: L'isle joyeuse - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

  6:00 BOELLMANN: Two Pieces for cello and piano Op 31 - Michael Gross (cello), Chia Chou (pno) (MDG 303 1755)

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

  IRELAND: Merry Andrew - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553889)

  HANDEL: New scenes of joy, from Theodora - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (Avie AV 0030)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: I bless you, forests Op 47/5 - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

  WOLF: Bless the happy mother, from Italian Songbook - Daniel Lichti (bbar), Leslie De'Ath (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9956)

  BAX: The Happy Forest - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 10446)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Critic's Chair

  Roger Wilson reviews recent releases focusing on the finalists in 2014 BBC Music Magazine Awards (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Einstein's Universe

  Jack Liebeck (vln), Stephen de Pledge (pno), Victoria Sayles (vln), Julia Joyce (vla), Andrew Joyce (cello)

  MARTINU: Five Madrigal Stanzas; MOZART: Violin Sonata No 21 in E minor K304; BLOCH: Baal Shem; BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite - CBSO/Andris Nelsons (Orfeo C 803 091 A)

  RESPIGHI: Adagio with Variations - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

  GODARD: Scènes poétiques Op 46 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Kirk Trevor (Naxos 8.570554)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor Op 30/2 - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Sony 87654 40142)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840, Relique - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

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