Saturday 30 August 2014 Rāhoroi 30 Here-turi-kōkā 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  FARQUHAR: String Quartet; Magpies and Other Birds; Suite for Guitar; In Despite of Death; Echoes and Reflections - John Mills (gtr), David Griffiths (bar), Terence Dennis (pno), New Zealand String Quartet, New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  LECLAIR: Overture No 1 in G; Sonata No 1 in B minor; Overture No 2 in D; Sonata No 2 in A; Overture No 3 in D; Sonata No 3 in G minor - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0542)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  PALIASHVILI: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Arshavskaya (Olympia OCD 483)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Trios, in F minor Op 65; in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Emanuel Ax (pno), Young Uck Kim (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (CBS MK 44527)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  CHOPIN arr Godowsky: Etudes, No 7; 8; 19 and 31 for the left hand, No 45; SCHUBERT arr Godowsky: Good Night; Litany; Music for Rosamunde; STRAUSS arr Godowsky: Serenade; ALBÉNIZ arr Godowsky: Tango; LOEILLES arr Godowsky: Gigue from Renaissance; GODOWSKY: Passacaglia; Prelude & Fugue on BACH for left hand; Etude Macabre; Puppet Shadow Plays; The Gardens of Buitenzorg from Suite Java - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Musica Viva MVCD 1026)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CANNABICH: Symphony No 63 in D - Lukas Consort/Viktor Lukas (Naxos 8.553960)

  DEBUSSY: Intermezzo - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Robert Kulek (pno) (EMI 5 75201)

  VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

  SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1 - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Private)

  ALBINONI: Sonata in Bb in five parts Op 2/5 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

  LANGFORD: A Song for all Seasons - William Stephenson (pno), BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10115)

  7:00 HAYDN: Overture in D HobIa/7 - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.522)

  WOLF: Italian Serenade - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.557374)

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in A Op 7/2 - Simon Preston (org), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 413 468)

  BESSER: Predawn Meditation - New Zealand SO/Derrick Inouye (RNZ)

  RODRIGUEZ arr Goss: La cumparsita - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 479 0063)

  GRAINGER: English Dance, A Tally of English Energy - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

  8:00 BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture Op 62 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 425 696)

  BITSCH: Concertino - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the snowflakes, from The Nutcracker - members of the Finchley Children's Music Group, National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 458 595)

  BRIDGE: Phantasie Piano Quartet in F# minor - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 68003)

  BAX: Tintagel - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 231)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts

  Read by Max Cryer (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. Your Choice

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 4 in C Op 112 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

  BELLINI: Qui la voce sua soave, from I Puritani - Joan Sutherland (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

  HANDEL: Chaconne in G HWV435 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

  MOZART: Adagio & Rondo in C minor K617 - Nash Ensemble (Virgin VC 7 91074)

  SCHUBERT: Der Wanderer D489; Der Wanderer D469; Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 - Florian Boesch (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68010)

  Piano Sonata No 20 in A D959 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 456 573)

  (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

  (12) SFJazz Collective: The Music of Sevie Wonder

  Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio presents the SF Jazz Collective interpreting the ebullient songbook of Stevie Wonder. Iconic compositions like "My Cheri Amour", "Superstition", "Do I Do", " and "Sir Duke" are rediscovered by the group the New York Times described as the "superbrain" for what serious jazz sounds like now (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Tales from the Forbidden City - a five-part series documenting this collaborative NZ-Chinese musical project

  Last year, China's renowned ensemble the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra joined with the New Zealand String Quartet to commission seven New Zealand and Chinese composers to write music for their ensembles. Radio NZ Concert's Kate Mead visited the project's headquarters in Beijing and spoke with the musicians and composers about their lives, their instruments, their music and the successes and challenges of this innovative project

  (5) In the final programme of this series, composer Zou Hang introduces his work Ten Changes & Five Variables. And we hear from musicians Wang Yang (sheng), Shen Cheng (huqin) and Zhao Chengwei (san xian) (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Organ Week

  Robert Costin (organ of Auckland Town Hall)

  SUSATO: Mohrentanz; BACH: Prelude & Fugue in E minor BWV548, The Wedge; NEVIN: Narcissus; GRAINGER: Colonial Song; MENDELSSOHN: Organ Sonata No. 6 in D Minor, Op. 65; LEFEBURE-WELY: Boléro de Concert Op 166; BACH: Trio Sonata in Eb BWV525; LANGLAIS: Incantation pour un jour saint (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:10 PM. Remembering Claudio

  SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 - Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado (DG 479 1061)

  BARTÓK: Two Portraits Op 5 - Shlomo Mintz (vln), London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 909)

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 11 - Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (DG 476 5786)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  WILLAN: Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue - Gillian Weir (organ of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston MA) (Priory PRCD 751)

  LILBURN: Violin Sonata in Eb - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/4 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 373 250)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  MEDTNER: I will creep from door to door; Self-deception; She loves me! In rows & in circles; In court; Calm sea; Prosperous voyage; Nearness of the beloved; The faithless lad, from Twelve Goethe Lieder Op 15 - Susan Gritton (sop), Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10093)

  SCHUBERT: Five Goethe Songs, Der Sänger D149; Der Musensohn D764; Ganymed D544; Wanderers Nachtlied D224; Erlkönig D328 - Ernst Buscagne (bar), Tom McGrath (pno) (Genuin GMP 020202)

  BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Ann Hallenberg (mezzo), Collegium Vocale Gent, Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (PHI LPH 003)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2014

  Sixty-six programmes

  (28) London Voices (amplified), European Union Youth Orch/Semyon Bychkov

  BERIO: Sinfonia; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 4 in C minor Op 43 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Pepe Romero (gtr), Tristan Fry (perc), Academy Chamber Ensemble (Philips 420 385)

  CATALANI: Hero and Leander - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

  11:00 LOEILLET: Sonata in D for trumpet & organ - Ludwig Güttler (tpt), Friedrich Kircheis (org) (Berlin Classics 001621)

  RAFF: String Sextet in G minor Op 178 - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1181)

  CPE BACH: Quartet in G Wq95 - Helianthus Ensemble (Brilliant Classics 94884)

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