Thursday 11 December 2014 Rāpare 11 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  PLEYEL: Symphonies, in C Ben128; in F minor Ben138; in C minor Ben121 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 32 in G minor HobXVI/44; Keyboard Sonata No 31 in Ab HobXVI/46; Arietta & 12 Variations in Eb HobXVII/3; Keyboard Sonata No 33 in C minor HobXVI/20 - Geoffrey Lancaster (fpno) (ABC Classics 465 702)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  GILLES: Requiem; Motet Beatus quem elegisti - Véronique Gens (sop), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Hervé Lamy (tens), Peter Harvey, Jean-Louis Paya (basses), Le Concert Spirituel Choir & Orch/Hervé Niquet (Accord 465 924)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  GUSTAVSEN: Deep as love; Graceful touch; Melted matter; At a glance; Song of yearning; Turning point; Interlude; Where Breathing Starts; Going places; Your eyes; Graceful touch, variation; Song of yearning - Tord Gustavsen Trio (ECM 1834)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  VINTER: Entertainments; ELGAR: Sospiri; WARLOCK: Four Folksong Preludes; FOX: Countryside Suite; MARSHALL: Elegy; SCOTT: First Suite for Strings; WALTERS: Sinfonia Breve - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (White Line CD WHL 2139)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

  ALBÉNIZ: Suite ancienne No 1 - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1243)

  HANDEL: Rinaldo, Overture - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Philips 434 992)

  STATHAM: Pastorale - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  LIADOV: Marionettes Op 29 - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66986)

  IBERT: Hommage à Mozart - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 440 332)

  7:00 POULENC: Videntes Stellam, from Four Christmas Motets - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51521)

  CHAMINADE: Sérénade aux Etoiles - Christine Hankin (fl), Timothy Murray (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7193)

  HAYDN: Philemon & Baucis, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

  DELIBES: Flower Duet, from Lakmé - Joan Sutherland (sop), Jane Berbié (mezzo), Monte Carlo Opera Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 322)

  KODÁLY: Epigrams - Natalie Clein (cello), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67829)

  BERLIOZ: Hungarian March, from The Damnation of Faust - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Siciliano, from Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031 - Lara St John (vln), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) (Ancalagon ANC 139)

  DELIUS: La Calinda, from Koanga - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 390)

  BANTOCK: Two Scottish Folksongs, O can ye sew cushions; Dumbarton's drums - Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton (Meridian CDE 84570)

  KOFRON: Sonatina for horn and piano - Premysl Vojta (hn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (Supraphon SU 4125)

  REGONDI: Fête villageoise Op 20 - Alberto Mesirca (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94841)

  WF BACH: Sinfonia in F F88 - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

  FRANÇAIX: Concertino for piano & orchestra - Philippe Cassard (pno), Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67384)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PIETRO LOCATELLI (1695-1764)

  Violin Sonata in D minor Op 6/12; Capriccio prova del' intonatione in D Op 6 - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paul Nicholson (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 66363)

  Flute Sonata in F Op 2/8 - Stephen Preston (transverse fl), Christopher Hogwood (hpschd), Anthony Pleeth (cello) (Oiseau-Lyre 436 191)

  Concerto Grosso in Eb Op 7/6, Il pianto d'Arianna - Enrico Onofri (vln), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30399)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine

  Read by Raymond Hawthorne (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. The Works

  STRAUSS: Dance Suite from Keyboard Pieces by François Couperin - CO of Europe/Erich Leinsdorf (ASV CD COE 809)

  FARRENC: Clarinet Trio in Eb Op 44 - Diana Ambache (pno), Joan Enric Lluna (cl), Naomi Butterworth (cello) (BBC Music BBC MM 45)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7501)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  VASSILIEV: Three Forest Paintings, The Old Oak; Snowdrops; Dance of the Forest Ghosts - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.573308)

  FOULDS: Miniature Suite Op 38 - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7307)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  A SCARLATTI: Cantata pastorale per la nascità di Nostro Signore - Patricia Lawrey (mezzo), Peter Averi (hpschd), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (ex Kiwi SLD 52)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 31 in Ab Op 110 - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 1949)

  HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)

  TRAD arr Pettman: Basque carol, The Angel Gabriel; BRADLEY: The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap; TRAD arr Willcocks: Deck the hall; PRAETORIUS: In dulci jubilo - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 207)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Clifford Curzon (pno), London SO/George Szell (rec 1962) (Decca 417 641)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr W Kanengiser: Capriccio Espagnol Op 34 - New Zealand Guitar Quartet (Ode CDMANU 5153)

  DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Century fanfare, Other echoes - Auckland Philharmonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Atoll ACD 300)

  FAURÉ: Automne; La lune blanche luit dans les bois - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2006)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 209)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - The Sixteen Orch/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16066)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: 'Tis evening, from Pique Dame - Maria Guleghina (sop), Olga Borodina (mezzo), Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 442 013)

  KOECHLIN: Bassoon Sonata Op 71 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

  SULLIVAN: Ruddigore, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

  M HAYDN: Romance for horn & string quartet MH806 - Jasper de Waal (horn), Concertgebouw CO/Henk Rubingh (Channel Classics CCS SA 30210)

  CAROLAN: The O'Connor Jigs - Helen Webby (Celtic harp), Davy Stuart (gtr) (Private HBCD 2)

  MARQUEZ: Dance No 2 - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)

  6:00 VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - La Scala Chorus & Orch, Milan/Claudio Abbado (DG 459 064)

  KASKA: Majestic Journey - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 268)

  DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - English CO/Benjamin Britten (BBC Music BBCB 8008)

  PARRY: Jerusalem - Choir of Westminster Abbey, Chapel Royal, London Chamber Orch/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Decca 276 842)

  GRIEG arr Bertrand/Amoyel: At your feet Op 68/3, from Lyric Pieces - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1986)

  GOULD: Fourth movement, Minuet, from Concerto for tap dancer & orchestra - Lane Alexander (dancer), Czech National SO/Paul Freeman (Albany TROY 521)

  GERSHWIN arr Finnissy: Fidgety Feet - Joanna MacGregor (pno) (LDR LDRCD 1004)

  WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - Camerata Wales/Owain Arwel Hughes (BIS CD 1589)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Christmas Oratorio

  Peter Walls takes us through JS Bach's 6-part masterpiece which you can hear in full on Sunday at 6.30pm (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Adrianna Lis (fl), Martin Lee (ob), Peter Scholes (cl), Ben Hoadley (bsn), David Kay (horn), Christie Cook (mezzo), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes

  LIGETI: Bagatelles; POULENC: Le bal masqué; WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 9:00 PM. Franz Schubert

  Impromptu in F minor D935/4 - Jura Margulis (pno) (Oehms OC 435)

  Mass No 5 in Ab D678 - Donna Brown (sop), Monica Groop (contralto), James Taylor (ten), Michael Volle (bass), Oregon Festival Chorus & Orch/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.033)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DVORÁK: Romantic Pieces Op 75 - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (DG 453 440)

  RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Milos Karadaglic (gtr), London Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0652)

  FOOTE: Suite in E Op 63 - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559365)

  11:00 RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

  MOZART: Sonata in D for two pianos K448 - Elizabeth Joy Roe, Greg Anderson (pno duo) (Steinway & Sons STNS 30022)

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