Thursday 22 May 2014 Rāpare 22 Haratua 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by JL Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; J RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VANHAL: Sinfonia in A (Bryan A9) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

  DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 332)

  PAGANINI: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - David Garrett (vln) (DG 453 489)

  RAVEL: Menuet antique - French National Orch/Eliahu Inbal (Brilliant Classics 6980)

  7:00 VERDI: Sicilian Vespers, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

  A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - John Abberger (ob), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

  WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarentelle in G minor Op 16 - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (CBC MVCD 1168)

  LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67015)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from Swan Lake Act 1 Scene 2 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: ELGAR arr Cameron: Lux aeterna - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 0039)

  MASSENET: Hérodiade, Ballet Suite - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  HANDEL arr Suzuki: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Terence Dennis (pno) (Naxos 8.572382)

  GLINKA: Variations on Scottish Themes - Valery Kamishov (pno) (Melodiya MCD 124)

  MILFORD: Two Orchestral Interludes Op 19e, Mr John Peel passes by; Mr Ben Jonson's pleasure - Julian Sperry (fl), Julian Milford (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67444)

  HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from Planets Suite Op 32 - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  Early Tudor music, focussing on ROBERT FAYRFAX (1464-1521) and JOHN TAVERNER (c1490-1545)

  FAYRFAX: Missa o Quam Glorifica - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (ASV CD GAU 142)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  WAGNER arr Vlieger: The Ring, Orchestral excerpts - Royal Swedish Orch/Lawrence Renes (BIS 2052)

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in F# minor HobXV/26 - Kungsbacka Piano Trio (Naxos 8.572040)

  LEHÁR: Concertino in Bb minor for violin & orchestra - Latica Honda-Rosenberg (vln), North German Radio Phil/Klauspeter Seibel (CPO 999 423)

  KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 2023)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  BOYER: Celebration Overture - London Phil/Peter Boyer (Naxos 8.559769)

  TRAD arr Higdon: Amazing Grace - Serafin String Quartet (Naxos 8.559752)

  ROREM: Piano Album 1, excerpts - Carolyn Enger (pno) (Naxos 8.559761)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  PROKOFIEV: Peter & the Wolf - Ralph Richardson (narr), London SO/Malcolm Sargent (Decca 421 626)

  MOZART: Symphony No 4 in D K19 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80256)

  BACH: Es ist vollbracht! from St John Passion - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Berlin Phil/Karl Forster (EMI CMS 7 64074)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 308)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Chicago SO/Erich Leinsdorf (rec 1960) (RCA 07863 56518)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  J RITCHIE: Papanui Road - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2040)

  MESSAGER: Solo de concours - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

  A RITCHIE: As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb (1823) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture - Baltimore SO/David Zinman (Decca 452 916)

  SARASATE: Fantasy on Mozart's Don Giovanni Op 51 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572276)

  GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces Op 65/6 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 459 671)

  HUBAY: Czárdás Scene No 4, Hejre Kati Op 32 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)

  HOLBROOKE: Three Blind Mice Op 37/1, Symphonic Variations on an old English Air - Brandenburg State Orch/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 442)

  6:00 REYNOLDS: The Sirens of Southend - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

  RODGERS: Some enchanted evening, from South Pacific - Bryn Terfel (bar), English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (DG 449 163)

  SCHARWENKA: Pictures from the South Op 39, excerpt - Evelinde Trenkner, Sontraud Speidel (pno duet) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 330 1134)

  ELGAR: In Moonlight, from In the South, Alassio - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

  ADDINSELL arr Lane: Southern Rhapsody - Peter Lawson (pno), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)

  RAK: Follow the Southern Cross - Stepán Rak (gtr) (Monitor 660 352)

  A RITCHIE/G GRIFFITHS: From the Southern Marches, The Old Identity - Iain Fraser (bar), Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private)

  MUSSORGSKY: On the southern shore of the Crimea - Vovka Ashkenazy (pno) (Conifer 75605 51274)

  TRAD: Blow the wind southerly - Sarah Walker (mezzo), John Constable (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 055)

  J STRAUSS II: Roses from the South - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Judith Clark CNZM (1931-2014)

  Christine Argyle presents a tribute to the Wellington piano teacher who passed away earlier this year (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Ingrid Fliter (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Christoph Altstaedt

  LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21; DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Fugal Feats

  SCHUMANN: Four Fugues Op 72 - Juan Carlos Rodríguez (pno) (Naxos 8.573094)

  BOWERMAN: Fantasy on a Fugue of Elgar - Laura Samuel (vln), Emily Pailthorpe (ob), Anna Stokes (fl), London Serenata/Krzystof Chorzelski (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

  HOVHANESS: Processional & Fugue Op 76/5 - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Kerry Stratton (Dorian DOR 93166)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BRITTEN: Hymn to St Cecilia Op 27 - Alexander Banwell, William Hirtzel (trebles), Andreas Eccles-Williams (countertenor), Ruairi Bowen (ten), Daniel D'Souza (bass), Choir of King's College Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (Choir of King's College KGS 0003)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Moscow SO/Valeri Polyansky (Manu CD MANU 1542)

  GLINKA orch Shebalin: Symphony on Two Russian Themes - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Chant du Monde LDC 278 819)

  11:00 IRELAND: Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor - Alan Loveday (vln), Leonard Cassini (pno) (Revolution RCB 5)

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

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