Thursday 17 July 2014 Rāpare 17 Hōngoingoi 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MASSENET: Hérodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scènes Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scènes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro; Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39; Twelve Poems Op 35 - Ian Partridge (ten), Thomas Hemsley (bar), Jennifer Partridge, Paul Hamburger (pnos) (BBC MM 122)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  ELGAR: Serenade in E minor for strings Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling all workers; March, The dam busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BAX: Tintagel - London Phil/Osmo Vänskä (LPO 0036)

  GAUBERT: Pièce romantique - Emanuel Ensemble (Champs Hill CHRCD 023)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Birchall: Ave Maria Op 23/2 - Cellophony (Edition Classics EDN 1047)

  CARULLI: Nocturne in G Op 127 - Franz Halász (gtr), Débora Halász (pno) (Naxos 8.570587)

  SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 2 Op 19 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

  7:00 SMETANA: Skocná, from The Bartered Bride - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

  ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - East Winds (Naxos 8.570294)

  HUBAY: Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Livia Sohn (vln), Benjamin Loeb (pno) (Naxos 8.570202)

  SCHUMANN: Andante und Allegro Op 70 - Niels Bijl (tenor sax), Hans-Erik Dijkstra (pno) (Aliud ACD HN 014)

  ABEL: Symphony in F Op 7/4 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Plácido Domingo (ten), Rome Theatre Opera Orch, Florence May Festival Orch/Zubin Mehta (Decca 440 072)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc CD 80698)

  MERK: Fantasy on Donizetti's Torquato Tasso Op 26/3 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

  SOR: Grand Solo (Sonata Prima) Op 14 - Roland Dyens (gtr) (ATMA ACD 2 2397)

  HOPE: Four French Dances - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934)

  Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7500)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  GADE: Violin Sonata No 3 in Bb Op 59 - Christina Åstrand (vln), Per Salo (pno) (Dacapo 8.226066)

  D'INDY: String Quartet No 2 in E Op 45 - Joachim Quartet (Calliope CAL 3891.2)

  FARRENC: Sextet in C minor for piano & winds Op 40 - Linos Ensemble (CPO 777 256)

  KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto in Db - Boris Berezovsky (pno), Ural Phil/Dmitri Liss (Warner 2564 63074)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  CPE BACH: Violin Sonata in B minor Wq76 - Leila Schayegh (baroque vln), Jörg Halubek (hpschd) (Pan Classics PC 10305)

  WF BACH: Sinfonia in D F64 - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HAYDN: Symphony No 88 in G - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 677)

  MOZART: Rondo in A K386 - Alfred Brendel (pno), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 442 269)

  HANDEL: Father of Heaven, from Judas Maccabaeus - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London SO/Adrian Boult (rec 1952) (Decca 475 078)

  CORELLI: Trio Sonata in Bb Op 1/5, Church Sonata - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in A minor Op 32/8; in A Op 32/9; in B minor Op 32/10 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 478 2938)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 2 in C# minor Op 129 - David Oistrakh (vln), Moscow Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (rec 1968); SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No 1 Op 35 - David Oistrakh (vln), USSR State SO/Kurt Sanderling (rec 1960) (Brilliant Classics 92609)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - Schola Players/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 77)

  RAVEL: Sonatine - Diedre Irons (pno) (Trust MMT 2041)

  TRAD arr Wilby: The Farmer's Boy; Marianne, from Three North Country Folksongs - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1993-1994/Roger Stevenson (Private)

  BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

  GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9630)

  ADDINSELL: Warsaw Concerto - Isador Goodman (pno), Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas (DG 423 772)

  FALLA arr Howe: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - Tetra Guitar Quartet (Cadenza Music CAD CD 0460)

  KREISLER: Liebesfreud; Caprice viennois - Yossif Ivanov (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Naïve AM 136)

  GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572403)

  6:00 J WILLIAMS arr Pierobon: Superman; ET; GOLDSMITH arr Pierobon: Star Trek, Opening, Chorale, Closing; ARNOLD arr Pierobon: Independence Day; GOLDSMITH arr Pierobon: Apollo 13; J WILLIAMS arr Pierobon: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Gomalan Brass Quintet (Naxos 8.572244)

  HAMILTON: The Moon is Silently Singing - Greg Hill, Peter Sharman (horns), 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA 09026 68999)

  PONCE arr Heifetz: Estrellita - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

  TRAD: Like a star in the clear sky - Barbara Hendricks (sop) (EMI 5 568842)

  HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA 09026 68999)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Roger Flury

  In May this year, Roger Flury, music librarian, historian and broadcaster, returned to the UK after living here for 40 years. Before his departure, Des Wilson talked to him about his time in New Zealand from the earliest days of music-making in Gisborne through to his years at the National Library, Alexander Turnbull Library, and his recent role as President of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Aivale Cole (sop), Michael Houstoun (pno), Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19; STRAUSS: Death & Transfiguration Op 24; Four Last Songs (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Recent Schubert Releases

  Introduction & Variations on Trockne Blumen, from Die schöne Müllerin - Juliette Hurel (fl), Hélène Couvert (pno) (Naïve V 5342)

  An Schwager Kronos D369; Geisternähe D100 - Matthias Goerne (bar), Eric Schneider (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902109)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 570)

  ALBINONI: Sonata in C in five parts Op 2/2 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

  MARX: Spring Music, from Nature Trilogy - Vienna Radio SO/Johannes Wildner (CPO 777 320)

  11:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 - Brodsky Quartet (Challenge CC 72106)

  FAURÉ: Piano Trio in D minor Op 120 - Eric Le Sage (pno), Pierre Colombet (vln), Raphaël Merlin (cello) (Alpha 603)

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