Thursday 12 June 2014 Rāpare 12 Pipiri 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 2 in Bb D125; Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509-91184)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  WIDOR: Symphonie No 5 Op 42/1, Toccata; FRANCK: Prélude, fugue et variation Op 18; MESSIAEN: Transports de joie; VIERNE: Berceuse Op 31/19; ALAIN: Litanies; DURUFLÉ: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d' Alain Op 7; Prélude; Fugue; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie in Eb; FRANCK: Choral No 3 in A minor; LANGLAIS: Prélude modal; VIERNE: Symphonie No 1 Op 14, Finale - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  Great Opera Quintets & Sextets

  Quintets & Sextets from Così fan tutte, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Lakmé, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, Anna Bolena, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Le nozze di Figaro, Macbeth & Lucia di Lamermoor - Various artists (Decca 448 061)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2, Razumovsky; String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp - Borodin Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10191)

  5:00 approx - Disc 5

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concertos, in F RV485; in Bb RV503; in Eb RV483; in A minor RV497; in C RV473; in G RV492 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (Philips 416 355)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BOYCE: Overture No 1 in D - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (Chandos CHAN 6531)

  SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - Frank Braley (pno), Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gérard Caussé (vla), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Alois Posch (dbass) (Virgin 5 45563)

  FAURÉ arr Talmi: Fantaisie Op 79 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1359)

  PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Portrait of Madame Butterfly - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Hugh Maguire, Raymond Keenlyside (vlns), Kenneth Essex (vla), Kenneth Heath (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 384)

  7:00 WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (Teldec 4509 99595)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Gil Shaham (vln), Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 064)

  BRAHMS arr Magen: Intermezzo in A minor; Intermezzo in E, from Fantasies Op 116 - Sivan Magen (harp) (Linn CKD 441)

  ABREU arr Silvetti: Tico-Tico no Fubá - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Robert Kassinger (dbass), Cyro Baptista (perc) (Teldec 3984 21482)

  COPLAND: Cuban Dance - New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (Argo 436 737)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DVORÁK arr Gamley: Songs my mother taught me - Joan Sutherland (sop), New Philharmonia/Richard Bonynge (Decca 443 765)

  RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62746)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabeus - Steven Isserlis (cello), Robert Levin (fpno) (Hyperion CDA 67981)

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

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 - Simon Lindley (organ of Holy Cross Church, Fenham, England), Northern Sinfonia/Bradley Creswick (Naxos 8.553835)

  GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

  Wind and brass music

  Introduction, Theme and Variations in Eb - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 430 370)

  Sonatina No 2 in Eb for winds, from The Happy Workshop - Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart (Newton 880 2066)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in Ab HobXV/14 - Kungsbacka Piano Trio (Naxos 8.572063)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - Hermione Gingold (narrator), Aloys & Alfons Kontarsky (pno duo), Wolfgang Herzer (cello), Vienna Phil/Karl Böhm (DG 415 351)

  BACH: Concerto in C for two keyboards BWV1061 - Masaaki Suzuki, Masato Suzuki (hpschd duo), Bach Collegium Japan (BIS SACD 2051)

  GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 3 in D Op 33 - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (Warner 2564 68904)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  ERNST: Carnival of Venice, Variations burlesques on the jingle Cara mamma mia - Josef Spacek (vln), Gordon Back (pno) (Naxos 8.572575)

  SMETANA: Album Leaves Op 2 - Roberto Plano (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94788)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 12 in G minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  MORRICONE: Gabriel's oboe; The mission from The Mission - London Voices, London Phil/Ennio Morricone (Disky 863 032)

  CORELLI: Trio Sonata in F Op 1/1, Church Sonata - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)

  STANFORD: Magnificat in Bb Op 164; C WOOD: Nunc dimittis in Bb - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 802)

  MOZART: Adagio in E K261 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 415 958)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, excerpts - Boston SO/Erich Leinsdorf (rec 1967) (Testament SBT 1394)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  Lexus Song Quest 2014, The Semi-Finals

  Four programmes

  (3) Rodney Macann features six of the semi-finalists in New Zealand’s premier singing competition (RNZ) (Programme 4 on Saturday at 4.00pm)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro - Gilles Apap (vln/dir), Sinfonia Varsovia (Apapaziz Productions GKJ 00103)

  CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10813)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)

  WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

  6:00 SALIERI: Falstaff, or The three hoaxes, Overture - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9877)

  PURCELL: If music be the food of love - Meredith Hall (sop), Musicians of The Globe/Philip Pickett (Philips 446 218)

  PURCELL: Symphony to Act 4, from The Fairy Queen - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection, English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  WILSON: Take, o take those lips away, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure - Rosalind Waters & Jacob Heringman from Musicians of the Globe (Philips 446 687)

  PROKOFIEV: Dance of the five couples, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

  attr JOHNSON: Hark, Hark! The Lark, from Shakespeare's Cymbeline - Musicians of the Globe/Philip Pickett (dir) (Philips 446 687)

  IRELAND: Scherzo & Cortège on themes from Julius Caesar - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8994)

  MORLEY: Shakespeare's Musick, Daphne; O mistress mine; Robin; It was a lover & his Lass - Musicians of The Globe/Philip Pickett (dir) (Philips 446 687)

  M PHILLIPS: A Shakespearean Scherzo, Titania & her Elvish Court - BBC Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7140)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Richard Strauss, Lion of Opera

  Two programmes

  To mark the composer's 150th birthday this week, Thomas Hampson presents an appreciation of Strauss's genius in opera, with contributions from other acclaimed singers including Montserrat Caballé, Martha Eggerth, Maria Ewing, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, Kiri Te Kanawa, Lotte Lehmann, Felicity Lott, Nadja Michael and Deborah Polaski, and conductors Mark Elder and Bernard Keeffe

  (2) (RNZ/WFMT)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  The Immortal Beethoven, Complete Symphonies

  New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21; Symphony No 2 in D Op 36

  (Interval)

  Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (RNZ)

  (Symphonies No 4 & 5 tomorrow night)

  See www.radionz.co.nz/collections/beethoven

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Phantasy Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67313)

  STANFORD: Rondo in F - Gemma Rosefield (cello), BBC Scottish SO/Andrew Manze (Hyperion CDA 67859)

  HARTY: Fantasy Scenes, from An Eastern Romance - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

  11:00 GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 2 in G Op 13 - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Dynamic CDS 278)

  FAURÉ: Piano Quintet No 2 in C minor Op 115 - Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10576)

Next day - Fri 13

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