Saturday 26 April 2014 Rāhoroi 26 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

  (4) Noel Coward (RNZ)

  12:00 approx - Disc 1

  PÄRT: Symphony No 4, Los Angeles - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Konan pokajanen, fragments - Estonian Phil Chamber Choir/Tonu Kaljuste (ECM 2160)

  1:50 approx - Disc 2

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10; FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121; RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

  3:10 approx - Disc 3

  MISKINIS: Dum medium silentium; O sacrum convivium; Pater noster; Tenebrae factae sunt; Don't leave me, Sun; Seven O Antiphons; Oh, it's getting cold; O Magnum Mysterium; Ave Maria (second setting); Salve Regina; Ave Maria (third setting); Time is endless - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67818)

  4:25 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Three Sea Changes; Sonatina No 2; Prelude (1951); From the Port Hills; Sonata (1956); Nine Short Pieces; Adagio Sostenuto; Two Preludes (1951); Sonata (1949) - Margaret Nielson (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VIVALDI: Double Concerto in D minor RV540 - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 5 45723)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Sarah Francis (ob), Allegri String Quartet (Decca 433 173)

  ELGAR: Chanson de matin Op 15/2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  BORODIN: String Sextet in D minor - Nash Ensemble (Onyx 4067)

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture - Leningrad Phil/Evgeny Mravinsky (Melodiya 74321 25199)

  7:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 30 in C, Alleluja - Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 9031 76460)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Tárrega: Tango, from España Op 165 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Third movement, Romanza, from Symphony No 5 in D - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

  MAYERL: The Harp of the Winds - Susan Tomes (pno) (Virgin VC 7 90745)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 - Anthony Halstead (natural horn), Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Nimbus NI 1756)

  8:00 ARENSKY: The dream on the Volga, Overture - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10024)

  F HERMANN: Burleske in G Op 9 - Friedemann & Alexia Eichhorn, Reto Kuppel (vlns) (Naxos 8.572066)

  VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 459 146)

  PRAETORIUS arr Lane: Dances from Terpsichore - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2142)

  FRANCHI: Suite for flute & harp - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

  SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 3 Op 21 - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10711)

• 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

  CHARPENTIER: Depuis le jour, from Louise - Pilar Lorengar (sop), St Cecilia Academy Orch, Rome/Giuseppe Patanè (Decca 443 931)

  ARIOSTI: Lesson No 2 in A - Thomas Georgi (vla d'amore), Lucas Harris (theorbo), Joëlle Morton (vla da gamba) (BIS CD 1535)

  BELLINI: Casta diva, from Norma - Joan Sutherland (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

  DUBERY: Harlequinade for recorder & guitar - John Turner (rec), Craig Ogden (gtr) (Metier MSV 28523)

  The Mozart Question

  Children's author Michael Morpurgo takes part in a dramatisation of his story charting a small boy's discovery of his love for the violin, and of his parents' traumatic past in a concentration camp during the Second World War

  MORPURGO: The Mozart Question

  Paolo............................ Michael Morpurgo

  Lesley.......................... Alison Reid

  Jack Liebeck (vln), London Phil/Nicholas Collon (LPO 0067)

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

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  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

  (4) Classic Albums 1965-69 (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Japan - Traditional vocal & instrumental music

  A selection of traditional Japanese music performed by the Ensemble Nipponia. Four of the most important of Japan's traditional instruments are represented: the koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, and biwa (Nonesuch 511731)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  University of Auckland Graduation Gala Concerto Competition

  Shauno Isamura (vln), Linda Filimoehala (euphonium), Liam Wooding (pno), Tuirina Wehi, Tuwhiti Happy (vocalists), Lachlan Craig (gtr), University of Auckland Chamber Choir, Auckland Chamber Choir, University of Auckland Orch/Karen Grylls, Uwe Grodd

  ORFF: Tempus est iocundum, from Carmina Burana; SIBELIUS: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47; HOROVITZ: Concerto for euphonium & chamber orchestra; RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; WEHI/HAPPY: Aio (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall, May 2013, by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Saturday Serenade

  MOZART: Serenade No 1 in D K100 - Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil (Sony S2K 47260)

  SIBELIUS: Two Serenades Op 69 - Pekka Kuusisto (vln/dir), Tapiola Sinfonietta (Ondine ODE 1074)

  BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 8 - Trio Zimmermann (BIS SACD 2087)

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 11 - Capella Augustina/Andreas Spering (CPO 777 300)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  CHOPIN: Ballade No 3 in Ab Op 47 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar CD TRL 069)

  MCLEOD: Little Symphony - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

  SCHUBERT: Violin Sonata in A D574 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5082)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  To the Song, The Poetry of Walt Whitman

  BRIDGE: Last invocation; STANFORD: To the soul; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A clear midnight; NAGINSKI: Look down fair moon; NEIDLINGER: Memories of Lincoln - Thomas Hampson (bar), Craig Rutenberg (pno) (EMI 5 55028)

  SCHREKER: Two lyrical songs, Roots & leaves themselves alone; A child said - Sibylle Ehlert (sop), Reinild Mees (pno) (Channel CCS 14398)

  BURLEIGH: Ethiopia saluting the colours; WEILL: Dirge for two veterans; URQUHART: Among the multitude; BERNSTEIN: To what you said - Thomas Hampson (bar), Craig Rutenberg (pno) (EMI 5 55028)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Erica Challis

  Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Fireworks & Fantasy

  Plamena Mangova (pno), New Zealand SO/Julian Kuerti

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23; GINASTERA: Argentinian Dances Op 2 Nos 2-3; BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:25 PM. Day's End

  DITTERSDORF: String Quartet No 5 in Eb - Franz Schubert Quartet (CPO 999 038)

  BRIDGE: Two poems, The open air; The story of my heart - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

  11:00 DUSSEK: Trio in F for flute, cello & piano Op 65 - Clive Conway (fl), Christina Shillito (cello), Christine Croshaw (pno) (Meridian CDE 84383)

  DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Dvorák Trio (Supraphon SU 4144)

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