Saturday 12 April 2014 Rāhoroi 12 Paenga-whāwhā 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Words & Music

  Five programmes in which Brian Kay explores some favourite territory displaying the words and music in perfect combination

  (2) Gilbert & Sullivan (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  SMETANA: Má Vlast - Prague Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 4032)

  2:15 approx - Disc 2

  KARAINDROU: Soundtrack from the film Ulysses' Gaze - Kim Kashkashian (vla), Vangelis Christopoulos (ob), Andreas Tsekouras (accordion), Socratis Anthis (tpt), Vangelis Skouras (hn), Christos Sfetsas (cello), Georgia Voulvi (vocalist), string orch/Lefteris Chalkiadakis (ECM 1570)

  3:15 approx - Disc 3

  HANDEL: Zadok the Priest; ELGAR: Lux aeterna; GOSS: Praise, my soul, the king of heaven; TALLIS: Spem in alium; GOSS: The Lord is my shepherd; HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah; RUTTER: Pie Jesu, from Requiem; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Come down, O love divine; TALLIS: O nata lux de lumine; GARDINER: Evening Hymn; BYRD: Ave verum corpus; MILLER: When I survey the wondrous cross; STANFORD: Beati quorum via; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Antiphon, from Five Mystical Songs; BYRD: Iustorum animae; PURCELL: Come ye sons of art away, excerpt; HARRIS: Faire is the Heaven; BAIRSTOW: Psalm 67, God be merciful unto us; PARSONS: Ave Maria; BOURGEOIS: All people that on earth do dwell - Edward Saklatvala (treble), Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge, ASMF, Wallace Collection/Stephen Cleobury, David Willcocks, Thomas Williamson, Oliver Brett, James Lancelot, Benjamin Bayl (org) (EMI 2 28944)

  4:35 Approx - Disc 4

  GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16; BRAHMS: Ballades Op 10; Waltzes Op 39 - Richard Farrell (pno), Hallé Orch/George Weldon (Atoll ACD 208)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CATALANI: Il Mattino (Sinfonia romantica) - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

  BANTOCK: Two Scottish Folksongs, O can ye sew cushions; Dumbarton's drums - Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton (Meridian CDE 84570)

  JEANJEAN: Clair Matin - Julian Bliss (cl), Julien Quentin (pno) (EMI 5 85639)

  BECK: Sinfonia in G Op 1/5 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

  HALVORSEN: Norwegian Dances Nos 1 & 2 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

  CHABRIER: Aubade - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

  7:00 GOLDMARK: Serenade, from Rustic Wedding Symphony - Singapore SO/Lan Shui (BIS 1842)

  FAURÉ arr anon: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

  HANDEL: O ruddier than the cherry, from Acis & Galatea - Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67842)

  BURTON: Sonatina - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

  SUK: Fantastic Scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 8897)

  8:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Berlin Radio SO/Steven Sloane (Capriccio 71 096)

  CHAUSSON: Two Duos Op 11, La nuit; Le réveil - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 5 74206)

  GOODALL: The Seasons, Summer - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

  RAMEAU: Dardanus, Overture - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D899/3 - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2115.16)

  HERSCHEL: Symphony No 2 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

• 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

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 - French National Orch/Kurt Masur (Naïve V 5040)

  SCHUMANN: Abegg Variations Op 1 - Clara Haskil (pno) (Philips 420 851)

  K JENKINS: Canción verde, from Adiemus Colores - Milos Karadaglic (gtr), Pacho Flores (tpt), Mervi Hiltunen-Multamäki (mezzo), Adiemus Singers, Orch of Colours/Karl Jenkins (DG 479 1067)

  LORD: Durham Concerto - Matthew Barley (cello), Jon Lord (Hammond org), Ruth Palmer (vln), Kathryn Tickell (pipes), Royal Liverpool Phil/Mischa Damev (Avie AV 2145)

  (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

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (2) Classic Albums 1960-64 (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Arghyam: The Offering - Ashwini Bhide Deshpande

  Part of a series celebrating the music of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, Arghyam: The Offering features the classical Hindustani singer Ashwini Bhide Deshpande. Shankar himself described her as "not only a music scholar but also blessed with a beautiful voice." On the album she performs a selection of Shankar's ragas as well as one of her own (East Meets West Music 1010)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2012 Gisborne International Music Competition

  Three programmes

  (3) STRAUSS: First movement, Allegro, ma non troppo, from Violin Sonata in Eb Op 18; TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - James Dong (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  HAYDN: Second & Third movements, Adagio; Allegro, from Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2; CHOPIN: Introduction & Polonaise brillant in C Op 3 - Min Jin Lee (cello), Sarah Watkins (pno)

  TORELLI: Trumpet Concerto in D; GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue - Thomas Eves (tpt), Bruce Greenfield (pno) (recorded in the Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. Music for Holy Week & Easter

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture - Malaysian Phil/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1387)

  BIBER: The Agony in the Garden, from The Five Sorrowful Mysteries - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7321.22)

  BEMBO: Lamento della Vergine - Roberta Invernizzi (sop), Bizzarrie Armoniche (Naïve OP 30500)

  VIVALDI: Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro RV169 - Peter Avery (org), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 52)

  LISZT: Christus, Part 3, Passion & Resurrection - Franziska Hirzel (sop), Birgit Remmert (contralto), Donald Kaasch (ten), Ralf Lukas (bar), Christoph Anselm Noll (org), Czech Philharmonic Choir, Bonn Beethoven Orch/Roman Kofman (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 937 1366)

  RUTTER: Variations on an Easter theme - Christopher Herrick, Jeremy Spurgeon (organ of the Concert Hall of the Francis Winspear Centre, Edmonton, Canada) (Hyperion CDA 67458)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARQUHAR: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2060)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - John Chen (pno), NZSO National Youth Orch 2005/Edwin Outwater (Private)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  HOLMES: A Trianon; VIARDOT-GARCIA: Berceuse cosaque; Der Jüngling und das Mädchen; MALIBRAN: Les brigands; La morte; VIEU: La Belle au bois dormant; Sérénade japonaise - Katherine Eberle (mezzo), Robin Guy (pno) (Vienna Modern Masters VMM 2005)

  CHAMINADE: Ronde d'amour; La Lune paresseuse; Sombrero; Mignonne; L'Anneau d'argent; Ma première letter; L'Amour captif; Attente (Au pays de Provence); Voisinage; Bonne humeur; Alleluia; Malgré nous; Nice-la-belle; Menuet; Te souviens-tu?; Auprès de ma mie; Viens! mon bien-aimé!; Si j'étais jardinier; Villanelle - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 471 331)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), Yevgeny Sudbin (pno), New Zealand SO/Mark Wigglesworth

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19; D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in F minor Kk466; CHOPIN arr Sudbin: Paraphrase on The Minute Waltz; ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DEBUSSY arr Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Suite bergamasque - Amsterdam Guitar Trio (Newton 880 2093)

  BACH arr Mahler: Bach Suite - Annelie de Man (hpschd), Richard Ram (org), Paul Verhey (fl), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 470 652)

  MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (DG 479 0065)

  11:00 MOZART: String Quartet No 19 in C K465, Dissonance - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 0 70922)

  FAURÉ: Piano Trio in D minor Op 120 - Priya Mitchell (vln), Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10447)

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