Thursday 25 December 2014 Rāpare 25 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  The Concerto Köln Christmas Album

  M-A CHARPENTIER: Noels pour les instruments; J STAMITZ: Sinfonia pastorale Op 4/2; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; VEJVANOVSKY: Sonata natalis in C; VIVALDI: Concerto in E RV270; BACH: Sinfonia, from Christmas Oratorio BWV248; VIVALDI: Concerto for 2 violins, mandolin & strings in D; TORELLI: Concerto Grosso Op 8/6 - Anna Torge (mandolin), Markus Hoffman (vln), Concerto Cologne/Martin Sandhoff, Markus Hoffman, Hannes Rux (Berlin Classics 030 0276 BC)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Harpsichord at the Holidays

  Christmas Carols past and present played on the harpsichord - Elaine Funaro (hpschd)

  (Alienor ARCD 1207)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  TRAD: In dulci jubilo; OWEN:The holly & the ivy; TRAD: Rocking; VILLETTE: Hymne à la Vierge; TRANCHELL: If ye would hear the angels sing; MATHIAS: Wassail Carol; TRAD: Resonet in laudibus; Adeste fideles; TRAD: Sussex Carol; RUTTI: A Patre unigenitus; HOWELLS: Here is the little door; PARSONS: Ave Maria; POULENC: Videntes Stellam, from Four Christmas Motets; TRAD arr Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Adeste fidels (organ solo); WEBERN: Dormi, Jesu; SHAW: Hills of the north, rejoice; WALTON: Make we joy now in this fest; TH JONES: What child is this?; GRUBER: Stille Nacht; G GABRIELI: O magnum mysterium; TRAD: Of the Father's heart begotten; PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - Nick Lee, Annie Lydford (orgs), Joe Shiner (cl), Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (BBC BBC MM 339)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BACH: Chorale Prelude, Wachtet auf BWV140; BALBASTRE: Noel, Où s'en vont ces gais bergers?; GUILMANT: Two variations on Puer nobis nascitur; BUXTEHUDE: Chorale Prelude, In dulci jubilo BuxWV197; LUBECK: In dulci jubilo; DAQUIN: Noël No 10 in G, Noël grand jeu et duo; BOELY: Noëls sur cantiques de Denisot Op 15, excerpts; FISCHER: Prelude on O Jesulein süss; BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; MAUGHAN BARNETT: Variations on the Christmas tune Mendelssohn - Richard Apperley (org), Michael Stewart (org) (Organism ORG 015)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  While Shepherds Watched

  Christmas Music from English Parish Churches, 1740-1830 - Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (Hyperion CDA 66924)

   

   

   

   

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Movements Nos 1-3, Prelude; Carol; Christmas Dance, from Suite for viola & orchestra - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)

  TARTINI: Flute Concerto in G - Jed Wentz (fl), Musica ad Rhenum (Brilliant Classics 92687)

  MARTUCCI: Momento musicale; Minuetto - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570932)

  GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

  WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  7:00 HAYDN: March for the Royal Society of Musicians HobVIII/3bis - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1806/08)

  WAGNER: Shepherd's melody, from Tristan and Isolde - Céline Moinet (cor anglais) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2175)

  BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 3 36403)

  VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - Il Giardino Armonico (Teldec 4509 91852)

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 1501)

• 8:00 AM. Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  A day of listeners' requests with some stories relating to their choices

  COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man - Atlanta SO/Louis Lane (Telarc SACD 60648)

  BODY: Carol to St Stephen - Auckland Dorian Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi SLD 56)

  TRAD arr Henderson: The Huron carol - Canadian Brass (CBS)

  TRAD: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - BBC Singers/Brian Kay, Richard Pearce (org) (BBC Music BBC MMCC)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (vln/dir) (Opus 111 OPS 10-009)

  GRUBER arr Travers: Silent Night - Cathie Travers (accordion/vocalist) (Private)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 873)

  9:00 PROKOFIEV: Troika, from Lieutenant Kijé - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 247)

  RHEINBERGER: The Star of Bethlehem Op 164 - Rita Streich (sop), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Bavarian Radio Chorus, Graunke SO/Robert Heger (Carus 83.111)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 148: O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head

  Read by Keith Adams (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 026)

  RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narrator), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 115)

  PRAETORIUS: Christmas Mass, Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning - Gabrieli Consort & Players, Boys' Choir, Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral/Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts (organ of Roskilde Cathedral) (Archiv 439 250)

• Noon Celebrate Christmas

  The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Christmas Concert for 2014

  Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Benjamin Northey

  BRITTEN: Fanfare for St Edmundsbury; TORELLI: Concerto a quattro per il santo natale Op 8/6; HANDEL: The trumpet shall sound; For unto us a child is born, from Messiah; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival; CORNELIUS: The Three Kings; RESPIGHI: Second movement, L'Adorazione dei Magi, from Three Botticelli Pictures; RUTTER: Nativity Carol; Jesus Child; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Polonaise, from Christmas Eve Suite; TRAD arr Cohen: The First Nowell; MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing; GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  K JENKINS: Palladio - Konstantin Stoianov, Duncan Riddell, Robert St John Wright, Dermot Crehan (vlns), strings of the London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Sony SK 62276)

  GIBBONS: The silver swan - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 502)

  WISHART: Alleluia: A new Work is come on hand - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66925)

  BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin; WARLOCK: Balulalow - Patricia Forbes (sop), Christopher Royal (countertenor), Neil MacKenzie (ten), Simon Birchall (bass), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Margaret Phillips (org) (Collins Classics 12702)

  HANDEL: Endless pleasure, endless love, from Semele - Danielle de Niese (sop), Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Decca 475 8746)

  TRAD arr Pitts: Good King Wenceslas - Tonus Peregrinus/Antony Pitts, Nicholas Chalmers (org) (Naxos 8.557330)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Suite - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 873)

  3:00 MENOTTI: Amahl & the Night Visitors, an opera in one act

  Amahl............................... Ike Hawkersmith

  Mother.............................. Kirsten Gunlogson

  King Kaspar..................... Dean Anthony

  King Melchior.................. Todd Thomas

  King Balthazar................. Kevin Short

  Page.................................. Bart LeFan

  Members of Nashville Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Chorus, Nashville SO/Alastair Willis (Naxos 8.669019)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 29 in Bb Op 106, Hammerklavier - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)

  BERLIOZ: Shepherds' Farewell, from The Childhood of Christ - ASMF & Chorus/Neville Marriner (Decca 468 503)

  ADAM: O Holy Night - Elina Garanca (mezzo), Saarbrücken Radio SO/Karel Mark Chichon (DG 479 2071)

  TRAD: Adam lay ybounden - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 106)

  TRAD arr Hope: All through the night - Aled Jones (treble), BBC Welsh Chorus & SO/Robin Stapleton (BBC Music CD 569)

  TRAD arr Prizeman: All through the night - Aled Jones (bar), Libera, English Session Orch/Robert Prizeman (Decca 982 8975)

  TRAD: Veni, veni, Emmanuel; In dulci jubilo; Jubilate Deo - Daniel Fontannaz, Jakob De Menezes-Wood (trebles), Libera, orchestral accompaniment/Robert Prizeman (EMI 88635)

  JOPLIN: The Entertainer - Alexander Peskanov (pno) (Naxos 8.559114)

  VIVALDI: Agitata da due venti, from Griselda - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Decca 455 981)

  FRANCHI: The Oxen - Orpheus Choir of Wellington/Peter Godfrey (Tartar TRL 057)

  GODARD: Angels guard thee, from Jocelyn - Kenneth McKellar (ten), orchestral accompaniment/Peter Knight (ABC 456 366)

  DUBERY: One night in December, from Night Songs - Adrienne Murray (mezzo), Michael Cox (fl), David Dubery (pno) (Metier MSV 28548)

  BACH: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, from Cantata No 110 - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1951)

• 6:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  6:00 SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Finale: Allegro vivace, from Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 39382)

  G GABRIELI: Quem vidistis pastores? - Thomas Elias (treble), Charles Brett (countertenor), William Kendall, Peter Hall (tens), Ian Caddy (bass), Richard Farnes (org), Stephen Layton (org), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Stephen Cleobury (Argo 417 468)

  BACH: Opening Chorus, Jauchzet, frohlocket, from Christmas Oratorio - Tölz Boys' Choir, Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Eugen Jochum (Philips 416 402)

  BLAKE: Walking in the air, from The Snowman - Aled Jones (treble), orchestral accompaniment (EMI 7 94670)

  BERLIN: White Christmas - Richard Tauber (ten), with chorus & orchestral accompaniment (Renaissance RO 101)

  BREAU: On a Bach Bourée - Buddy Emmons (pedal steel gtr), Lenny Breau (gtr), Randy Goodrum (keyboard), Charles Dungey (dbass), Kenny Malone (drums) (Art of Life AL 1014)

  SCHUBERT arr Mercurio: Mille cherubini in coro - Plácido Domingo (ten), Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & SO, Milan/Marcello Viotti (DG 471 575)

  DONIZETTI: Mad Scene, Il dolce suono, from Lucia di Lammermoor - Joan Sutherland (sop), Paris Opera Chorus, Paris Conservatoire Orch/Nello Santi (Decca 421 305)

  RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 13 - St Petersburg Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 00885)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Viva Voce/John Rosser

  Yuletide Carols Being Sung by a Choir

  CAURROY: Noël, Sus, troupe chantresse; BRITTEN: A boy was born; CHILCOTT: The shepherd's carol; TRAD arr Williams: Mary had a baby; TRAD arr Rathbone: Coventry carol; ROBERTS: Poverty; TRAD arr Wood: Ding dong! merrily on high; PIERPONT arr Rathbone: Jingle bells; TORME/WELLS arr Gritton: The Christmas song; PRAETORIUS: Resonet in laudibus; LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium; TAVENER: The lamb; TRAD arr Rathbone: Carol medley; MARTIN/BLAINE arr Gritton: Have yourself a merry little Christmas; TRAD: The twelve days of Christmas (recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 9:10 PM. More Gifts from Under the Christmas Tree

  SCHUBERT orch Guiraud: Military March in D - Cleveland Pops Orch/Louis Lane (Sony SBK 63052)

  BRUCH: Serenade Op 75 - Maxim Fedotov (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557395)

  POSTON: Jesus Christ the apple tree - Marianne Cotterill (sop), Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Abacus ABA 604)

  WADE arr Wilberg: O come, all ye faithful; Still, still, still; TRAD arr Hazell: What child is this? - Bryn Terfel (bar), Côrdydd, Welsh National Opera Orch/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)

  GOUNOD: St Cecilia Mass - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Laurence Dale (ten), Jean-Philippe Lafont (bar), Jean-Louis Gil (org), Radio France Choir & New Phil/Georges Prêtre (EMI CDC 7 47094)

  11:00 WEBBE: Variations in A on Adestes Fideles - Salomon Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66780)

  TRAD arr Greatorex: Adeste fideles - Taverner Consort, Choir & Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54529)

  J RITCHIE: Fourteen Christmas Cards - Jubilate Singers, Jubilate CO/John Pattinson (JubilateJUB 001)

  BRUHNS: Cantata, Muss nicht der Mensch auf dieser Erden in stetem Streite sein - Cantus Cologne Choir & Orch/Konrad Junghänel (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1752)

  NYMAN: The inifinte complexities of Christmas, from Carrington - Michael Nyman Band/Michael Nyman (Argo 444 873)

Next day - Fri 26

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