Monday 22 December 2014 Rāhina 22 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  J STAMITZ: Symphonies, in D Op 3/2; in Eb Op 11/3; Three Manheim Symphonies, in G; in A; in Bb; Trio in E Op 5/3 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553194)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84; BRIDGE: Quintet in D minor for piano, two violins, viola & cello - Allan Schiller (pno), Coull String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 678)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  COOK: Paean on 'Divinum Mysterium'; BINGHAM: Epiphany; HOWELLS: Here is the little door; WARLOCK: Bethlehem Down; BURGON: Nunc dimittis; RUTTER: Hymn to the Creator of Light - Robert Dixon, Timothy Lambourn (orgs), Rebecca Crawshaw (tpt), Olympia Hetherington, Emma Walton (sops), Frances Burn (contralto), Edward Leach (ten), Alexander Beetschen (bar), Matthew Smith (bass), Nico Bryan (treble), Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge/Mark Williams (dir) (Signum SIGCD 269)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  VILLA-LOBOS: Preludes, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in E; No 3 in A minor; PONCE: Preludio, Balletto & Giga; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Capriccio Diabolico; ALBÉNIZ: Asturias; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata; TURINA: Fandanguillo; SOR: Introduction & Allegro Op 14 - Guillermo Fierens (gtr) (ASV CD DCA 685)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite Op 40; Elegiac Melodies Op 34; SIBELIUS: Valse Triste Op 44; NIELSEN: Little Suite Op 1; WIRÉN: Serenade Op 11; SIBELIUS: Rakastava Op 14 - Roy Gillard (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Argo 417 132)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 M HAYDN: Symphony No 9 in D - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Zambra, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9902)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in A Op 124 - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  CIMAROSA: Oboe Concerto in C minor - Anthony Camden (ob), City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.553991)

  7:00 BODY: People look east - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  YAMADA: Overture in D - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555350)

  SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in D D384 - Sara Trickey (vln), Daniel Tong (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 080)

  RAVEL arr Samazeuilh: Menuet antique - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  HERSCHEL: Symphony No 13 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SIBELIUS: Valse triste, from Kuolema - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI CDZ 7 67253)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 22 in F Op 54 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)

  BRIDGE arr Cornford: Scherzetto - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  ELGAR: Harmony Music No 4, The Farmyard - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6554)

  WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  PEERSON: Blow out the trumpet in Sion; BYRD: Laetentur caeli; WILBY: Echo Carol; RUTTER: Hymn to the Creator of Light; TRAD arr Willcocks: Angelus ad virginem; BRUCKNER: Virga Jesse floruit; PARSONS: Ave Maria - Edmund Melik-Mourad, Edward Burrowes (trebles), Robert Johnston (ten), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott, Andrew Lucas (organ) (Helios CDH 55463)

  FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

  A CARTER: Organ Toccata on Veni Emmanuel; TRAD arr Carter: O come, O come, Emmanuel - Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott, Andrew Lucas (organ) (Helios CDH 55463)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make

  Read by Charles Pierard (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. The Works

  JARNEFELT: Symphonic Fantasy - Lahti SO/Jaakko Kuusisto (BIS CD 1753)

  MENDELSSOHN: Concerto in D minor for violin & piano - Polina Leschenko (pno), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (BIS SACD 1568)

  REICHA: Wind Quintet in Eb Op 88/2 - Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1802)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555862)

• Noon The Best of Upbeat 2014

  Three programmes in which Radio New Zealand Concert's daily arts current-affairs programme looks back on some of its more memorable guests from 2014. They include pianist Michael Houstoun launching his monumental recording of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, conductor Nicholas McGegan talking about the naughty bits in Haydn's oratorio The Creation, composer Jack Body celebrating his 70th birthday, and Simon Denny detailing the FBI-seized assets from the Dotom Mansion (1) (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  FIBICH: Toman and the Forest Nymph Op 49 - Czech National SO/Marek Stilec (Naxos 8.573197)

  BRAHMS: Song of Destiny Op 54 - Philip Mayers (pno), Angela Gassenhuber (pno), Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2160)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  RODGERS: The song of the high seas; The Pacific boils over; Fire on the waters; Guadalcanal March, from Victory at Sea - RCA Victor SO/Robert Russell Bennett (RCA 6660 2RC)

  TRAD arr S Jaroff: Song of the Volga Boatmen - Ivan Beresoff (bar), Don Cossack Choir/Serge Jaroff (DG 423 770)

  FRANCK: Chorale No 1 in E - Thomas Gaynor (organ of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul) (Organism ORG 016)

  SCHUMANN: Du bist wie eine Blume; Was will die einsame Träne?; Die Lotosblume, from Myrthen Op 25 - Florian Boesch (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Onyx 4041)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Gregory Op 4/1 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 71/1 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

  MOZART: Rondo in D K485; Rondo in A minor K511; Adagio in B minor K540; Gigue in G K574 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1986) (Philips 422 117)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 4, Scènes pittoresques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

  FARQUHAR: Three Medieval Carols, Mary & Jesus; The lily-white rose; Jankin & Alison - Pepe Becker (sop), David Farquhar (pno) (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 112)

  HILL: String Quartet No 9 in A minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  WALLACE: Lurline, Overture - Victorian Opera Orch/Richard Bonynge (Somm SOMMCD 0123)

  MENDELSSOHN: On wings of song Op 34/2; Schilflied Op 71/4; Assai tranquillo; Song without Words in D Op 109 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Jonathan Gilad (pno) (Orfeo C 750 101 A)

  DEMERSSEMAN/BERTHELEMY orch Dodgson: Duo Brillante, on themes from William Tell - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Pierre Pierlot (ob), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

  PUCCINI arr Kondonassis: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Bohème - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  A LEVY: Samba, from Suíte Brasileira - Sao Paulo SO/Roberto Minczuk (BIS SACD 1430)

  6:00 IRELAND orch Bridgewater: Two Salon Pieces, Menuetto-Impromptu; Villanella - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7215)

  J STRAUSS II: Artists' Life Waltz - Vienna Ensemble (Koch Schwann 3-6564)

  SMETANA: Prelude, from Libuse - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

  SCHUMANN arr Auer: Vogel als Prophet, from Forest Scenes Op 82 - Joshua Bell (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Decca 417 891)

  MEYERBEER: Overture; Coronation March, from The Prophet - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

• 7:00 PM. Christmastide

  TRAD arr Rutter: I wonder as I wander; TRAD arr Willcocks: Gabriel's Message; GRUBER arr Lindner: Silent Night; J BASSI: Quem pastores laudavere - Robyn Donnelly (sop), Laudibus/Robert Isaacs (BBC BBC MM 352)

  DUBOIS: Suite de Noëls - Christopher Hainsworth (organ of the Church of Saint Saturnin in Cazouls-les-Béziers) (Private)

  RUBBRA: Advent Cantata, Natum Maria Virgine Op 136 - Stephen Varcoe (bar), ASMF Chorus, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9847)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Puer natus est nobis

  Jane McKinlay (sop), Phillip Collins, Richard Taylor, Philip Roderick (tens), Tudor Consort/Michael Stewart

  ANON Sarum chant: A solis ortus cardine; Ther is no Ros; Hayl Mary, full of grace; LAMBE: Stella caeli; ANON: Coventry carol; BALLOT: Sweet was the song; BYRD: This day Christ was born; LAMBE: Nesciens mater; ANON: Verbum caro factum est; GUERRERO: A un niño llorando al yelo; TALLIS: Videte miraculum; PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est; O magnum mysterium; MOUTON: Quaeramus cum pastoribus; LASSUS: Resonet in laudibus (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:10 PM. Telling Tales

  MEDTNER: Fairy Tale in D minor (1915) - Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67491/2)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - Jonathan Crow (vln), Toronto SO/Peter Oundjian (Chandos CHSA 5145)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 5 in F Op 76 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 7 49995)

  11:00 RÓZSA: String Trio Op 1 - John Mills (vln), Julia O'Riordan (vla), Bozidar Vukotic (cello) (Naxos 8.572903)

  HERZOGENBERG: Trio in D for oboe, horn & piano Op 61 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 478 3564)

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