Schedule for Thursday 31 July 2014

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
HANSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 33; The Lament for Beowulf Op 25; Symphony No 5 Op 43, Sinfonia Sacra - Seattle Chorale & SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3709)
1:10 approx - Disc 2
GARDNER: Petite Suite Op 245; McCABE: Domestic Life; LAWSON: Song of the Lesser Twayblade; LEIGHTON: Concerto Op 88; LANE: Suite Champêtre; MELLERS: Aubade; MILFORD: Two Pipe Tunes; KAY: Mr Pitfield's Pavane; DODGSON: Concerto Chacony - John Turner (rec), Keith Elcombe (hpschd), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)
2:20 approx - Disc 3
VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G; Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Haines (sop), Nina Stoddart (contralto), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
BACH: Keyboard Concertos, No 1 in D minor BWV1052; No 5 in F minor BWV1056; Concerto for two harpsichords & strings BWV1060; Concerto in C for three harpsichords & strings BWV1064; Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords & strings BWV1065 - Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, Philip Ledger, Blandine Verlet (hpschds), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 497)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op 12; Op 38; Op 43; Op 47 - Gerard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 6 in Eb - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)
DVORÁK arr Poltéra: Song to the moon, from Rusalka - Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS SACD 1947)
M HAYDN: Romance for horn & string quartet MH806 - Jasper de Waal (horn), Concertgebouw CO/Henk Rubingh (Channel Classics CCS SA 30210)
SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Trio Latitude 41 (Eloquentia EL 1129)
STANFORD: The blue bird Op 119/3 - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Decca 473 168)
GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)
7:00 KHACHATURIAN: Awakening & Dance of Ayesha, from Gayaneh - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)
ERNST: Rondo Papageno Op 20 - Sherban Lupu (vln), Ian Hobson (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0118)
O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)
PAGANINI: Polacca in F - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)
LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D S359/6, Carnival in Pest - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)
8:00 Beauty Spot: BERLIOZ: D'amour l'ardente flamme, from La Damnation de Faust - Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 443 378)
JC BACH: Symphony in Eb Op 6/2 - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1803)
HINDEMITH: Kleine Kammermusik Op 24/2 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 433 816)
WALTON: Façade Suite No 1 - London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9148)
9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939)
World Rhythms - tape & gong (New World Records 80653)
Lake Tear of the Clouds, Mt Marcy; Stuyvesant, with tugboat & train; Great Kills Beach, Staten Island, from A Sound Map of the Hudson River, an aural journey from the source of the river to the Atlantic Ocean (Lovely Music LCD 2081)
Duende, a colloboration with Thomas Buckner - Thomas Buckner (bar), tape (Lovely Music LCD 2082)
10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

To mark the anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth we are broadcasting a sonnet, read by a New Zealander, each morning at 10.00am for the 154 days left in this year

Sonnet No 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase

Read by Charles Pierard (RNZ)
10:02 AM. The Works

ANDERSON: Irish Suite, The Irish Washerwoman; The Minstrel Boy; The Rakes of Mallow; The wearing of the Green; The Last Rose of Summer; The Girl I left behind me - BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559381)
LITOLFF: Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor Op 102 - Peter Donohoe (pno), Bournemouth SO/Andrew Litton (Hyperion CDA 66889)
SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 2 in A Op 68 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 463 284)
KORNGOLD: Sursum Corda Op 13 - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9317)
Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
1:30 PM. Recent Releases

PURCELL: My heart is inditing - Voces8, Les Inventions/Patrick Ayrton, Barnaby Smith (dirs) (Signum SIGCD 375)
DOWLAND arr Denoth: Preludium; Lachrimae; The Frog Galliard; My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; A Coy Joy - Christoph Denoth (gtr) (Signum SIGCD 901)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

HAYDN: Symphony No 83 in G minor, The Hen - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 677)
HEBERLE: Concerto in G for recorder & string orch - Maurice Steger (rec), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)
CORELLI: Trio Sonata in C Op 1/7, Church Sonata - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)
K JENKINS: Lament, from Stabat Mater - Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo), Royal Liverpool Phil/Karl Jenkins (EMI 5 00283)
GÁL: Biedermeiertänze Op 66 for mandolin orchestra - Baden Orch of Plucked Instruments/Volker Gerland (Antes BMCD 31.9171)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
MOZART: Fantasia in D minor K397; DEBUSSY: Etudes - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1983/89) (Philips 422 117; 456 982)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in C minor Op 4/3 - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
BRITTEN: Five Flower Songs Op 47 - Voices16/Karen Grylls (Atoll ACD 213)
FARR: Ruaumoko - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2042)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

REYNOLDS: Festival March - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)
BRIDGE: Phantasie Quartet in F minor - members of London Bridge Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7254)
COATES: Covent Garden, from London Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Warner 2564 62020)
E MARTIN: Hasta Alicia Baila - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)
KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10052)
6:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80551)
A THOMAS: The shepherd's dream - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)
ABE: Dream of the cherry blossoms - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)
NIELSEN: Saga Dream - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1839/40)
TRAD arr Beethoven: The dream, from 26 Welsh Songs WoO155 - Catrin Wyn Davies (sop), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Marieke Blankestijn (vln), Ursula Smith (cello), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 453 786)
SQUIRE: Dream Bird - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)
LUMBYE: The Dream after the Ball - Tivoli SO/Giordano Bellincampi (Marco Polo 8.223744)
7:00 PM. Appointment

Germans in Maoriland?

Two programmes

(2) Classical Musicians

With around 10,000 Germans settling in New Zealand between the early 1840s and the start of World War I, Germans formed the second largest immigrant group after the British. Reading this fact can't help make us wonder whether some of these Germans might have played an important role in New Zealand's early musical history, as they did in England at the same time. Musicologist Samantha Owens sets about investigating (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Chloë Hanslip (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier
WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude; CORIGLIANO: Violin Concerto, The Red Violin; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)
9:40 PM. A Forgotten English Romantic

G COOKE: Gothic Prelude; Bargain Basement, Suite of Seven Pieces - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)
10:00 PM. Day's End

HAYDN/HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D - Barthold Kuijken (fl), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Sony SK 48045)
STENHAMMAR: Serenade in F Op 31 - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Musica Sveciae MSCD 626)
11:00 HOFFSTETTER: String Quartet in E Op 3/1 - Kodály Quartet (Naxos 8.555703)
BRUCH: Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola & piano Op 83 - Jean-Luc Votano (cl), Arnaud Thorette (vla), Johan Farjot (pno) (Cypres CYP 7611)