Schedule for Saturday 21 June 2014

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

British Choral Tradition
In six programmes Brian Kay highlights the great choirs, conductors and composers who are central to the British Choral Tradition
(1) An introduction (RNZ)
1:00 approx - Disc 1
MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scene Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
2:10 approx - Disc 2
RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Élégiaque; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Trio in A minor Op 50 - Vadim Repin (vln), Mischa Maisky (cello), Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 8099)
3:15 approx - Disc 3
WILD: Grand Fantasy on Porgy & Bess, Seven Virtuoso Etudes, Improvisation on Someone to watch over me, Piano Sonata - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10626)
4:35 approx - Disc 4
WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 22; PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 6; SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28; SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20; DINICU: Hora Staccato; PAGANINI: Moto perpetuo in C Op 11 - Michael Rabin (vln), Philharmonia Orch/Eugene Goossens, Hollywood Bowl SO/Felix Slatkin (Medici Arts MM 023)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 BIBER: Battalia in D - Baroque Band/Garry Clarke (dir) (Cedille CDR 90000 116)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (DG 477 5718)

VIVALDI: Concerto in D minor for two violins & cello RV565, from L'Estro Armonico Op 3 - Federico Guglielmo, Carlo Lazari (vlns), Pietro Bosna (cello), L'Arte dell'Arco/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 0689)

J STRAUSS II arr Schoenberg: Roses from the South - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

VERDI: Grand March, from Aida - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

7:00 ROSSINI: Tancredi, Overture - Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner (ABC 476 259)

VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 - Maurice André (tpt), English CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 415 980)

DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano, Prélude; Sarabande; Toccata - Roberta Rust (pno) (CRC 2867)

BACH: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Amandine Beyer (vln) (Zig Zag ZZT 050 601)

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 - BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Warner 2564 61552)

8:00 PROKOFIEV: Troika, from Lieutenant Kijé - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 247)

ALBRIGHT: Three Novelty Rags, Sleight of Hand Rag; Burnt Fingers; Brass Knuckles - Nicola Melville (pno) (Equilibrium EQ 57)

HURLSTONE: Four characteristic pieces - Murray Khouri (cl), Stephen Emmerson (pno) (Continuum CCD 1079)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Second movement, Andante, from Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102 - Tamás Vesmás (pno), New Zealand SO/Edwin Outwater (Private)

MOERAN: Rhapsody No 1 in F - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573106)
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

VASKS: Viatore - Sinfonietta Riga/Normunds Sne (Wergo WER 6705)
PUCCINI: Tosca, Act 3
Tosca................................ Angela Gheorghiu
Cavaradossi...................... Roberto Alagna
Sciarrone.......................... Sorin Coliban
Jailer................................. Gwynne Howell
Shepherd boy................... James Savage-Hanford
Tiffin Boys' Choir, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Antonio Pappano (EMI 5 57173)
LILBURN: Sonatina for clarinet & piano - Walter Hamer (cl), Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 57)
MOREL: Danza Brasilera - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)
MOMPOU: Hoy la tierra y los cielos me sonríen; El lago, from Paisajes; Pour appeler la joie, from Charmes, No 6 - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)
HAHN: A Chloris - Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Eugene Asti (pno) (Signum SIGCD 072)
DUBERY: Two Stopfordian Impressions, Pinch Belly Park; The Glass Umbrella - John Turner (rec), Paul Janes (pno) (Metier MSV 28523)
PSATHAS: Corybas - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 542)
HUMMEL: Bassoon Concerto in F - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Opera North Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch (Chandos CHAN 10477)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs
1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series
Hosts Wendell Pierce and Wynton Marsalis offer backgrounds, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats
(2) The Music of Gillespie & Puente
The vibrant sound of Latin jazz is rooted in the musical heritage of Dizzy Gillespie and Mambo King Tito Puente. Bassist Carlos Henriquez leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with conguero Giovanni Hidalgo and drummer Ignacio Berroa. Selections include Manteca, Ran Kan Kan, Oye Como Va and more (Murray Street Productions)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
Knee-Deep In Heaven - Janusz Prusinowski Trio
The Janusz Prusinowski Trio (actually a quintet) is a group of Polish musicians who follow in the traditions of the village masters they've learned from. But they're also an avant-garde band with their own characteristic sound and language of improvisation, combining the archaic with the modern (Danzone 210628)
3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Sam Jones (sax), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young
HAKIWAI: As Above, So Below (première performance); STRAUSS: Death & Transfiguration Op 24; SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédies Nos 3 & 1; IBERT: Concertino da Camera for alto saxophone; FAURÉ orch Rabaud: Dolly Suite (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)
4:20 PM. Austrian Romantics

WOLF: Der Musikant; Verschwiegene Liebe; Das Ständchen; Nachtzauber; Seemanns Abschied, from Eichendorff Lieder - Ian Bostridge (ten), Antonio Pappano (pno) (EMI 3 42256)
SCHUMANN: Carnival Jest from Vienna Op 26 - Finghin Collins (pno) (Claves 50 2806/07)
SCHUBERT arr Harris: Ave Maria D839 - Isaac Stern (vln), Columbia SO/Milton Katims (Sony SK 45816)
BRUCKNER ed Carragan: Symphony No 2 in C minor - Suisse Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (Pentatone PTC 5186 448)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
FISHER: Pounamu - Uwe Grodd (fl), Kristin Darragh (mezzo), Auckland University Singers/Karen Grylls (Kiwi CD SLD 108)
WAGNER: Sonata for Mathilde Wesendonck's Album - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)
SIBELIUS: Symphony No 3 in C Op 52 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Four Romances Op 2, Lean thy cheek to mine; Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale sings; Lullaby; From my tears; Six Romances Op 8, Where thou art, my thought flies to thee; Night; The secret; Arise, come down; In the kingdom of roses & wine; I am loved; Four Songs Op 39, O, if thou couldst; The west dies out in pallid rose; Silence descends over the valleys; Sleep, my poor friend; Four Romances Op 50, The maiden & the sun; The singer; Quiet is the blue sea; I am still filled, dear friend; Five Romances Op 51, Slowly drag my days; Do not sing to me, o lovely one; Withered flower; The beauty; The rainy day has waned - Natalia Gerassimova (sop), Marina Choutova (mezzo), Alexey Martynov (ten), Mikhaïl Lanskoy (bar), Sergey Baykov (bass), Ilya Scheps, Éléna Tchéglakova, Vladimir Skanavy, Aristote Konstantinidi (pnos) (Chant du Monde LDC 288 038/40)
8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

With Erica Challis
Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 (RNZ)
8:20 PM. Music Alive

Magnificent Mozart
Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), Julia Joyce (vla), New Zealand SO/Andrew Grams
MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture; Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364; Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)
10:05 PM. Day's End

LISZT: Liebestraum No 1 in Ab - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.116)
BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Sarah Francis (ob), Allegri String Quartet (Decca 433 173)
DOHNÁNYI: Variations on a Nursery Song Op 25 - Ernst von Dohnányi (pno), Royal Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1956) (Praga PRD 250 231)
MARTINU: Idyll, from Bouquet of Flowers - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 110624)
11:00 GOUNOD: Petite symphonie pour instruments à vent - St Paul CO/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 430 231)
RHEINBERGER: Piano Trio No 4 in F Op 191 - Parnassus Trio (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 0419)