Saturday 27 December 2014 Rāhoroi 27 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2; GLAZUNOV: Chant du Menstrel for cello and orchestra; KHACHATURIAN: Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8579)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonatas Op 5 Nos 1-6 - Ilio Barontini (hpschd), Marco Fornaciari (vln) (Florentia Musicae FLO 69001)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Arias & Choruses from the Christmas Oratorio - Nancy Argenta, Katie Pringle (sops), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Hans Peter Blochwitz (ten), Olaf Bär (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 653)

  3:25 approx - Disc 4

  IRELAND: A sea idyll; On a birthday morning; Soliloquy; Two pieces, April; Bergomask; Spring will not wait; Two pieces, February's child; Aubade; Ballade of London nights; Month's mind; Three pastels, A Grecian lad; The boy bishop; Puck's birthday; Columbine; Sarnia - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9250)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  MADETOJA: Comedy Overture; Symphony No 3 in A; Okon Fuoko Suite No 1; Ostrobothnians Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9036)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 FRANCHOMME: Variations on Russian & Scottish Themes - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

  SVENDSEN: Andante funèbre - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  G GABRIELI: Audite principes - Taverner Consort, Choir & Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54265)

  WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1 - South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.062)

  PURCELL: Abdelazer, incidental music - Theatre of Early Music (Analekta AN 2 9948)

  7:00 SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Op 115 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Walter Weller (BBC Music BBC MM 216)

  CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - Rémy Baudet (vln), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Mike Fentross (theorbo/gtr), Pieter-Jan Belder (hpschd) (Brilliant Classics 92403)

  GRIEG arr Haaland: Butterfly; Erotikon; To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Fredrik Fors (cl), Sveinung Bjelland (pno) (2L 55)

  ELGAR: Dream Children Op 43 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

  RACHMANINOV: Dances from Aleko - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60670)

  8:00 JANÁCEK: The Fiddler's Child - Petr Zdvihal (vln), Prague Radio SO/Tomás Netopil (Supraphon SU 4131)

  ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDZ 7 62526)

  ROUSSEL: Sonatine Op 16 - Jean-Pierre Armengaud (pno) (Naxos 8.573093)

  GUBITSCH: Traversuras - François Salque (cello), Vincent Peirani (accordion), Tomás Gubitsch (gtr) (Zig Zag ZZT 322)

  GERSHWIN orch Rose: Strike Up The Band, Overture - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559750)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  RESPIGHI: Belkis, Queen of Sheba - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8405)

  BOCCHERINI: Piano Quintet No 1 in E minor - Patrick Cohen (fpno), Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidis Astrée E 8518)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might

  Read by Donogh Rees (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. Your Choice

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)

  SCHÜTZ: Ich ruf zu Dir Herr Jesu Christ SWV326; Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr SWV327 - Stefan Beckerbauer, Philipp Cieslewicz, Stefan Zwanzger (trebles), Andreas Schulist, Carsten Müller (tens), Christian Immler (bass), Max Engel (cello), Roman Summereder (org)/Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (Capriccio 10 418)

  MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 - Michael Collins (cl/dir), Swedish CO (Chandos CHAN 10756)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 18 in Eb Op 31/3 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)

  HEENAN: A Maori Suite - Donna Awatere, Laurette Gibb (sops), Girls' Youth Choir, New Zealand Youth Orchestra/Juan Matteucci (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

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• 1:00 PM. Jazz on Concert

  The Boswell Sisters

  Steve Danby takes a look at the close harmony singing sisters from New Orleans that came to prominence in the 1930s (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Kiriké - Kassé Mady

  Malian singer Kassé Mady is the centrepiece of this recent release on the NoFormat label. The album's curated by French cellist Vincent Segal who sometimes adds his cello to the subtle accompaniment of traditional African instruments: ngoni, balafon and kora (No Format 630118)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Piers Lane (pno), Goldner String Quartet

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13; FARR: Te Tai-O-Rehua; FRANCK: Piano Quintet in F minor (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:45 PM. Sounds Fantastic

  BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - London SO/Valery Gergiev (LSO Live LSO 0757)

  MEWS: Tango Fantastique - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  SAURET: Scherzo fantastique Op 9 - Michi Wiancko (vln), Dina Vainshtein (pno) (Naxos 8.572366)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  J RITCHIE: Partita for brass quintet - NZ Chamber Brass (Private)

  WAGNER: Arrival at the Black Swans - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

  MAREK: Sinfonietta - Philharmonia/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6440)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  RAVEL: Sheherazade - Renée Fleming (sop), Radio France Phil/Alan Gilbert (Decca 478 3500)

  Three poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Sigh; Vain petition; Risen from the springing croup; Histoires naturelles, The peacock; The grasshopper; The swan; The kingfisher; The guinea hen; Sur l'herbe; Les grands vents venus d'Outre-mer; Rêves - François Le Roux (bar), Michel Moraguès, Patrice Kirchhof (fls), Antoine Marguier, Michel Westphal (cls), Castagneri Quartet/Tommaso Placidi (dir) (Le Chant du Mond LDC 278 1131)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Erica Challis

  Nielsen's Symphony No 5 Op 50 (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Bold Worlds

  Colin Currie (percussion), New Zealand SO/Osmo Vänskä

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten; AHO: Sieidi, Concerto for percussion & orchestra; NIELSEN: Symphony No 5 Op 50 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony in C minor Op 110a - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (vln/dir) (Channel Classics CCS SA 34313)

  PIAZZOLLA: Contrabajissimo - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

  DEBUSSY: Ibéria, from Images for Orchestra - Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 480 6630)

  11:00 MEDTNER: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor Op 21 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Igor Tchetuev (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67963)

  ONSLOW: String Quintet in G Op 35 - Momento Musicale Quintet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1253)

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