Saturday 6 September 2014 Rāhoroi 6 Mahuru 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TELEMANN: Concerto in A for two violins; Concerto in D for four violins; Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba & strings; Concerto in G minor for recorder & strings; Concerto in C for four violins; Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute & strings - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (DG 439 444)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No 1; Piano Concerto in F, Allegro Agitata; An American in Paris; Prelude No 3; Medley from Porgy & Bess; Fascinating Rhythm; Lullaby; Promenade; Cuban Overture - Sarah Vaughn (sop), André Previn (pno), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 64060)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 - Monika Frimmer (sop), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 941/2)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27, Moonlight; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 34509)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  COATES: Sweet Seventeen; Summer Afternoon; Impressions of a Princess; Salute the Soldier; Two Light Syncopated Pieces, Moon Magic; Rose of Samarkand; For Your Delight; The Unknown Singers; I Sing to You; Coquette; Over to You; Idyll; Under the Stars; By the Tamarisk; Mirage; Last Love; The Greenland - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

  COSTE: Scherzo & Pastorale Op 10 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  ELGAR: Spanish Serenade Op 23 - BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd Jones (Dutton CDLX 7148)

  HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 1 in A HWV426 - Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68041)

  ROSSINI: Andante & Variations on Di tanti palpiti, from Tancredi - Alessandro Baccini (ob), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

  KELLY: O'Carolan Suite in Baroque Style - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

  7:00 HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  TAFFANEL: Andante pastorale & Scherzettino - James Galway (fl), Philip Moll (pno) (RCA 09026 68882)

  CPE BACH: Symphony in D Wq183/1 - Barokkanerne/Alfredo Bernardini (dir) (LAWO Classics LWC 1038)

  SCHUBERT: Psalm 23 - Arnold Schoenberg Choir/Erwin Ortner, András Schiff (pno) (Teldec 0630 18024)

  SCHMITT arr Watkins/Chatron: Andante & Scherzo for harp & string quartet - Sandrine Chatron (harp), Elias String Quartet (Ambroisie AMB 9978)

  DRING: Festival Scherzo for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

  8:00 GRIEG: Melodies Op 53, Norwegian; The first meeting - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572403)

  TRAD arr Rutter: Afton Water; Down by the Sally Gardens - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell, Claire Caldwell (pno) (Atoll ACD 105)

  FORSTER: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Lajos Lencsés (ob), La Follia Instrumental Ensemble/Christophe Poiget (dir) (Hänssler CD 98.217)

  YORK: Sunburst - Karin Schaupp (gtr) (Warner Classics 3984 23306)

  MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso - Gil Shaham (vln), Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 454 647)

  MONIUSZKO: Verbum nobile, Overture - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572716)

• 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 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent

  Read by Charlotte Graham (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. Your Choice

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 100 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

  BACH: Grief for sin, from St Matthew Passion - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1952) (Decca 414 623)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 10 in C K330 - Kemp English (fpno) (Manu CD MANU 5001)

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - London SO/André Previn (DG 453 436)

  SCHUMANN: Lust der Sturmnacht; Strib, Lieb' und Freund'; Wanderlust, from Twelve Poems of Justinus Kerner Op 35 - Thomas Hemsley (bar), Paul Hamburger (pno) (BBC Music BBC MM 122)

  HARTY: A John Field Suite - Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 6583)

  (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

  (13) Monty Alexander, The Music of Nat King Cole & Frank Sinatra

  Monty Alexander discovered jazz at a Nat King Cole concert and played his first New York gig at Sinatra's old haunt called "Jilly's." Alexander offers fresh, inventive readings on Sweet Lorraine; Come Fly with Me, and more. With vocalists James DeFrances and Allan Harris (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Deeyah presents: Iranian Woman

  Since the 1979 revolution in Iran, solo or duo female singers are not allowed to perform in public unless it's for an all-female audience. This compilation from film maker and human rights activist Deeyah Khan showcases some of Iran's women singers (Heilo 207269)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Cameron Carpenter (organ of Auckland Town Hall)

  BACH: First movement, Prelude with improvisation, from Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007; Fantasia & Fugue in G minor BWV542; CARPENTER: Improvisation; LISZT: Transcendental Studies, No 5, Feux follets; No 3 in G# minor, La Campanella; DUPRÉ: Variations sur un Noël Op 20; BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture; BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 15 in G BWV550; CARPENTER: What Worlds Await, from Science Fiction Scenes; Love song No 2, Leaving Alexandria; Improvisation; CHOPIN: Waltz in Db Op 64/1, Minute; CARPENTER: Improvisation on the theme from Jeeves & Wooster (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ) (John Wells profiles Cameron Carpenter at 2.00pm tomorrow)

• 4:25 PM. Italian

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90 - CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 9031 72308)

• 4:55 PM. Recent Period Instrument Releases

  CPE BACH: Violin Sonata in D Wq71 - Leila Schayegh (baroque vln), Jörg Halubek (hpschd) (Pan Classics PC 10305)

  PLATTI: Piano Concerto in G - Luca Guglielmi (fpno/dir), Concerto Madrigalesco (Arcana A 375)

  RAMEAU: Castor & Pollux, Suite - Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (CPO 777 914)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb (1823) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

  HEENAN: War & Peace, Suite for orchestra - New Zealand SO/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  DVORÁK: Four Duets Op 20, Destined; Parting; The silken band; The last wish; Four Duets Op 38, Hoping in vain; Greeting from afar; The crown; Smart; Two Duets, There on our roof; A child's song - Martina Kritznerová, Marie Bartosová (sops), Daniela Demuthová, Martina Spiritová (contraltos), Stanislav Mistr (ten), Jaroslav Saroun (pno) (Brilliant Classics 92883)

  MILHAUD: L'Amour chante Op 409, True love; I love you; Sonnet; His pain, and the beauties of his Lady; The less I see her; Nevermore; Evening company; Spirits; The Honeysuckle Lea; Poèmes juifs Op 34, Song of the nurse; Song of Sion; Song of the ploughman; Song of pity; Song of resignation; Song of love; Song of the blacksmith; Lamentation - Carole Farley (sop), John Constable (pno) (Naxos 8.572298)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2014

  Sixty-six programmes

  (35) Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), BBC Phil/John Storgårds

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia; MAXWELL DAVIES: Symphony No 5; BRIDGE: Oration, Concerto Elegiaco; SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SALZEDO: Variations on a theme in the old style - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  MARX: Old Vienna Serenades - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1158)

  11:00 FIBICH: String Quartet No 1 in A - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3470-2 131)

  STANFORD ed Dibble: Piano Quartet No 2 in C minor Op 133 - Gould Piano Trio, David Adams (vla) (Naxos 8.572452)

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