Saturday 20 September 2014 Rāhoroi 20 Mahuru 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Concerto for Balalaika & Orchestra; Music for Strings - Swedish Radio Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 351)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C Op 15; No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  DVORÁK: Mass in D Op 86; Te Deum Op 103 - Marina Meshcheriakova (sop), Sergei Miasnikov (bass), Russian State Cappella & SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9505)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn; A la maniére…Borodin; A la maniére…Chabrier; Prélude; Miroirs; Sonatine - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8647)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40; Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op 47; Serenade for Strings Op 20; Enigma Variations Op 36 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 L MOZART: Sinfonia in D, Peasant Wedding - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Challenge CC 72189)

  FAURÉ: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Gaby Pas-van Riet (fl), Sophie Hallynck (harp) (Hänssler CD 93.175)

  MASSENET: The Last Sleep of the Virgin - Truls Mørk (cello), Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5137)

  MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Idil Biret (pno), London String Quartet (IBA 8.571278)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 - Anthony Halstead (natural horn), Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Nimbus NI 1756)

  7:00 ANDERSON: Saraband - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

  GRIEG: To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)

  BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - Han-Na Chang (cello), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI CDC 5 56126)

  BOCCHERINI: Flute Quintet in C G427 - Carlo Ipata (fl), Auser Musici (Hyperion CDA 67646)

  BIZET arr Guiraud: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - Pastorale; Intermezzo; Menuet; Farandole Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5130)

  8:00 OFFENBACH arr Haensch: La Belle Hélène, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  MILHAUD: Suite Op 157b - Frédéric Pélassy (vln), Jean-Marc Fessard (cl), Eliane Reyes (pno) (Naxos 8.572278)

  LEHÁR: Chinese Ballet Suite - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

  TRAD arr Kennedy/Lenehan/Messiter: Scarborough Fair - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), London Voices, English CO (EMI 5 56923)

  CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Eldar Nebolsin (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572335)

• 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 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key

  Read by Michael Hurst (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. Your Choice

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 7 in C# minor Op 131 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

  TRAD: Bonnie Mary of Argyle - Kenneth McKellar (ten), orch/Robert Sharples (Decca 985 92720029)

  DVOŘÁK arr Poltéra: Song to the moon, from Rusalka - Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS SACD 1947)

  SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Finnish Radio SO/Jean Sibelius (rec 1939) (Ondine ODE 992)

  HANDEL: Oh! Had I Jubal's lyre, from Joshua - Isobel Baillie (sop), orch/Charles Prentice (rec 1928) (Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7013)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Cello Concerto No 2 - Antonio Meneses (cello), Galicia SO/Víctor Pablo Pérez (Auvidis Valois V 4843)

  LAUGHTON: Chartres Cathedral Story - Charles Laughton (speaker) (Capitol TBO 1650)

  STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite - Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons (BR Media 900 707)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (2) Classic Albums 1985-89 (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Mexican guitar

  The Best of Lydia Mendoza: A selection of songs from the Mexican guitarist and singer of Tijano music, who became known as 'La Alondra de la Frontera' - The Lark of the Border (Arhoolie Productions CD 536)

  rodrigo y gabriela: Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero are a Mexican acoustic guitar duo with a distinctive, highly rhythmic sound that draws on Latin harmonies and rhythms (Rubyworks 561414)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2013 New Zealand International Piano Festival

  Three programmes

  (2) Dénes Várjon (pno)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 53 in E minor HobXVI/34; JANÁČEK: In the mists; BARTÓK: Four old tunes, from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs; SCHUMANN: Symphonic Studies Op 13; SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D935/2; MOZART: Second movement, Andante cantabile, from Piano Sonata No 10 in C K330 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 4:20 PM. Festival Performers

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 - Oregon Bach Festival CO/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 94.605)

  MEWS: Ghosts, Fire, Water - Hazel Allan (sop), Susan Elliott (mezzo), Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  HOLST: Seven Scottish Airs - Michael Freyhan (pno), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 340 220)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 31111)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  PIAZZOLLA arr Roskilly: Tanguango - Totally Plucked, the Wellington Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  A RITCHIE: Polish Dances Op 155 - Adrianna Lis (fl), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 742)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 5 in Eb Op 44/3 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570002)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Early songs by SCHOENBERG (1874-1951), born 140 years ago

  The Book of the Hanging Gardens Op 15 - Christian Gerhaher (bar), Gerold Huber (pno) (Sony 88691 93543)

  Cabaret Songs - Jennifer Goltz (sop), Gayle Blankenburg (pno) (MSR Classics MS 1208)

  EISLER: The Son; To a portable radio; In the willows; Finnish landscape - Matthias Goerne (bar), Eric Schneider (pno) (Decca 460 582)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2014

  Sixty-six programmes

  (56) Lucy Crowe (sop), Jennifer Johnson (mezzo), Michael Spyres (ten), Matthew Rose (bass), Monteverdi Chorus, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner

  BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 9:25 PM. Recent Russian Releases

  PROKOFIEV: Five Melodies Op 35b - Alina Ibragimova (vln), Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67514)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in G Op 37 - Joseph Moog (pno) (Onyx 4126)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  S ARNOLD: Macbeth, Incidental Music - Toronto Camerata/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557484)

  KRUMPHOLZ: Harp Concerto No 6 - Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (Erato 2292 45084)

  KAHN: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 72 - Hyperion Trio (CPO 777 791)

  REGER: Serenade in D Op 77a - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Sándor Végh (vln), Rainer Moog (vla) (Claves CD 50-8104)

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