Thursday 28 August 2014 Rāpare 28 Here-turi-kōkā 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BAX: Violin Concerto; Legend; Romantic Overture; Golden Eagle, Incidental music - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9003)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas, Opp 41; 50; 56; 59; 63; 67; 68; Mazurka in A minor, 'à Emile Gaillard'; Mazurka in A minor, 'Notre temps' - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 417 584)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  FINZI: Requiem da Camera; BRITTEN: Deus in adjutorium meum; Chorale on an old French carol; Cantata misericordium Op 69; HOLST: Two Psalms, Nos 86 & 148 - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8997)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata; String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters; DVORÁK: Cypresses for string quartet - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 749)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  DEBUSSY: Rêverie; Arabesque No 1; Claire de lune, from Suite Bergamasque; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 42/4; BACH: Wachet Auf!; Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; GLINKA: The Lark; GODOWSKY: Alt Wien; SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan; SCHUMANN: Arabesque in C Op 18; Träumerei Op 15/7; BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2; GRIEG: Butterfly Op 43/1; Nocturne Op 54/4; RAVEL: Forlane; Pavane pour une infante défunte - Gordon Fergus-Thompson (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2066)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 DUFF: Meath Pastoral - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

  MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 38/2; Op 19/3, Hunter's Song - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

  BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in A G475 - Enrico Bronzi (cello/dir), Verona Accademia i Filarmonici (Brilliant Classics 92618)

  VILLETTE: Three motets, O quam amabilis es; Jesu, dulcis memoria; Panis angelicus - BBC Singers/Stephen Jackson (BBC Music MM 85)

  IBERT: Cinq pièces en trio - Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1104)

  ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - Prague SO/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570934)

  7:00 LOEILLET trans Godowsky: Gigue - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223795)

  DONIZETTI arr Lenczés: Oboe Concertino in F - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

  SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 457 654)

  THOMAS: Fantasia on David of the White Rock - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

  WAGNER: In fernem land, from Lohengrin - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (Decca 478 1463)

  RESPIGHI: Valse caressante, from Six Pieces - Marco Rogliano (vln), Maurizio Paciariello (pno) (Tactus TC 871890)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

  RAVEL: Fourth movement, Feria, from Rapsodie espagnole - New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (Private)

  FARR: Three Etudes, From Duggan; For Jeremy Fitzsimons; For Suzanne Warner - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

  DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

  FRANCOEUR: Cello Sonata in E - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Delos DE 3326)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Running Set - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10001)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953)

  The Light That Fills The World - Marty Walker (bass cl), Amy Knowles (vibraphone/marimba), Bryan Pezzone (pno), Nathaniel Reichman (keyboard), Robin Lorentz (vln), Barry Newton (dbass) (Cold Blue CB 0010)

  Red Arc/Blue Veil - Stephen Drury (pno), Scott Deal (vibraphone/crotales) (Cold Blue CB 0026)

  In the rain - electro-acoustic soundscape (Cold Blue CB 0032)

  Dark Waves - Stephen Drury, Yukiko Takagi (pno duo) (Cold Blue CB 0026)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

  Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. BBC Proms 2014

  Sixty-six programmes

  (26) Joshua Bell (vln/dir), John Hurt (narrator), Trinity Boys' Choir, London Phil Choir, ASMF/Neville Marriner

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21; BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26; WALTON arr Palmer: Henry V, A Shakespeare Scenario (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  BRUGGE: Six Pieces for Strings - Salzburg Chamber Soloists/Lavard Skou-Larsen (vln/dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 924 1856)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Little Piano Book, Valse lente; Nocturne; Canon; Two-Part Invention in F; Two-Part Invention in Eb; Two-Part Invention in G - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

  TRAD arr Brügge: Scarborough Fair - Salzburg Chamber Soloists/Lavard Skou-Larsen (vln/dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 924 1856)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  WEBER: Symphony No 1 in C Op 19 - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 5 55348)

  CHAMINADE: Flute Concertino Op 107 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

  SCHUBERT: Auf dem Strom D943 - Peter Pears (ten), Dennis Brain (horn), Noel Mewton-Wood (pno) (rec 1953) (BBC Legends BBCL 4066)

  CORELLI: Trio Sonatas, in D minor Op 1/11; in D Op 1/12, Church Sonatas - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Act 3 - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 413)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Mark Walton (cl), Simon Ballard (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 003)

  DVORÁK: The Wood Dove Op 110 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  STATHAM: Suite for flute & string quartet - Adrianna Lis (fl), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

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

  HANDEL: O ruddier than the cherry, from Acis & Galatea - Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67842)

  SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67661)

  STANFORD: The blue bird Op 119/3 - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (dir) (Collegium COLCD 104)

  SOROZABAL: Two Basque sketches - Basque National Orch/Cristian Mandeal (Claves CD 50-2205)

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

  6:00 C CHAMPAGNE: Danse villageoise - Quebec Conservatory of Music/Jacques Lacombe (Bell CD 1993)

  MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 4 in B - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

  TSABROPOULOS: Chant - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888)

  MALIBRAN orch anon: Rataplan - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Benjamin Forster (drum), La Scintilla Orch/Adam Fischer (Decca 475 9077)

  BIZET: Minuet & Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Slovak Phil/Anthony Bramall (Naxos 8.558058)

  BAINES: Seven Preludes - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 012/013)

  GERSHWIN arr Anderson: Girl Crazy, Suite - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 404)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Willie Manson, the songs and stories of a lost composer

  Peter Downes tells the story of a talented young New Zealander killed in action on the Somme in 1916 (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Christine Brewer (sop), Auckland Philharmonia/Leo Hussain

  MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter; BEETHOVEN: Ah! Perfido Op 65

  (Interval)

  MARX: Songs, Selige Nacht; Marienlied; Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht; Hat dich die Liebe berürht; Waldseligkeit; Der bescheidene Schäfer; MAHLER: First movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 10 in F# minor (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Cello Suite No 4 in Eb BWV1010 - Janos Starker (cello) (RCA 09026 61436)

  PEDROLLO: Concertino for oboe & string orchestra - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

  11:00 FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121 - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

  SILVESTROV: Diptychon - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

  PÄRT: Fratres - Moray Welsh, Alastair Blayden, Michael Stirling (cellos) (Sony SK 61753)

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