Tuesday 30 December 2014 Rātū 30 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture; FRANCK: Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 382)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BLISS: Introduction & Allegro; Concerto for cello & orchestra; Meditations on a Theme by John Blow - Robert Cohen (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Argo 443 170)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  Choruses & Lieder by Boulanger, Hensel, C Schumann - Christine Friedek (sop), Regine Böhm, Mitsuko Shirai (mezzos), Bernhard Gärtner (ten), Hartmut Höll, Sabine Eberspächer (pnos), Heidelberg Madrigal Choir/Gerald Kegelman (Bayar BR 100 041 CD)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerti, No 3 in Bb; No 11 in Eb; J STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto in Bb; C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto No 10 in Bb - Sabine Meyer (cl), ASMF/Iona Brown (EMI CDC 7 54842)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BACH: Partitas, No 5 in G BWV829; No 3 in A minor BWV827; No 6 in E minor BWV830 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (Archiv 415 493)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 LARSSON: The Winter's Tale, Four Vignettes - Helsingborg SO/Andrew Manze (CPO 777 671)

  ANON: Masque Dances - Alison Melville (recorder), Margaret Gay (cello), Peter Lehman (theorbo), Valerie Weeks (hpschd) (EBS EBS 6016)

  LISZT arr Kreisler: La Campanella, Transcendental Study No 3 in G# minor after Paganini - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Irina Ryumina (pno) (BIS CD 999)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 - Odense SO/Jan Wagner (Bridge 9129)

  MARTUCCI: Andante Op 69/2 - Andrea Noferini (cello), Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

  7:00 GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Grande Tarentelle Op 67 - Reid Nibley (pno), Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel (Vanguard Classics 08 4051 71)

  IBERT: Cinq pièces en trio - Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1104)

  SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Gil Shaham (vln), Castile & León SO/Alejandro Posada (Canary Classics CC 07)

  WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 420 946)

  FASCH: Quartet in D minor FWVN/D2 - Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Ensemble Marsyas (Linn CKD 467)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: Allerseelen - Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Japan Phil/Shigeo Genda (BIS CD 949)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Paean to the wilderness; Wedding procession and Tartar invasion; Battle of Kershenets, from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 320)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Feola: Asturias; Castilla, from Spanish Songs Op 232 - Giuseppe Feola (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94047)

  HANDEL: Trio Sonata in G minor Op 2/6 - Farran Scott, Rachel Harris (vlns), Tatty Theo (cello), Carolyn Gibley (hpschd), Brook Street Band (Avie AV 2282)

  FOULDS: April, England Op 48/1, Impressions of Time & Place No 1 - CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Warner 2564 62999)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  GOSS/WILLCOCKS: See amid the winter's snow; DARKE: In the bleak midwinter; TRAD/SHAW: Coventry Carol; TRAD/WOOD: Shepherds, in the field abiding; JOUBERT: Torches - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks, Simon Preston (org) (Decca 425 499)

  KORNGOLD: The Snowman, excerpts - Peter Manning (vln), BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9631)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the snowflakes, from The Nutcracker - Finchley Children's Music Group, National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 460 400)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 153: Cupid laid his brand, and fell asleep

  Read by Elizabeth McRae (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C minor Op 17/4 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

  STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Musicales Actes Sud ASM 15)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840, Relique - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

  GOLDMARK: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor - Joshua Bell (vln), Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony SK 65949)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Lancashire Lad

  Four programmes in which Indra Hughes promises some surprising twists and turns with an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal music from Bach to Tormé

  (2) 300 Years to the Day (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HEBERLE: Concerto in G for recorder & string orch - Maurice Steger (rec), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

  MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165 - Emma Kirkby (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 443 200)

  TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - John Williams (gtr) (CBS MK 44794)

  BACH: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 - Nina Kotova (cello) (Warner 2564 639411)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (rec 1967) (DG 415 062)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini - New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (rec 1969) (EMI 5 65053)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Wellington Orpheus Choir, New Zealand SO/Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2007)

  CARR: Aubade - Alan Vivian (cl), Sydney SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  CHOPIN: Impromptu No 1 in Ab Op 29 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10813)

  BRAHMS arr Rysanov: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor - Maxim Rysanov (vla), Evelyn Chang (pno) (Avie AV 2111)

  CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  GERSHWIN orch Grofé: The man I love, from Lady, Be Good! - Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Hermann: Song without Words in D Op 109 - Thomas Albertus Irnberger (vln), Edoardo Torbianelli (pno) (Gramola 98942)

  DVORÁK arr Lutz: Humoresque in Gb Op 101/7 - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Indianapolis SO/Krzysztof Urbanski (Telarc TEL 34030)

  6:00 GLAZUNOV: Spanish Serenade Op 20 - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Analekta AN 2 9897)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude & Fugue No 11 in B, from 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 466 066)

  CHATMAN: Elves' Bells - Vancouver Chamber Choir/Jon Washburn (Canadian Music Centre CMC CD 13608)

  BOHME: La Napolitaine Op 25, Tarantelle - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

  SVENDSEN: Last year I was tending the goats - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  J STRAUSS II: Ballet Music, from Die Fledermaus - Bratislava City Chorus, Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

  RIDOUT: Ferdinand the Bull - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Héctor Elizondo (narrator) (Cedille CDR 90000 124)

  LANCHBERY: The Tale of Two Bad Mice, from Tales of Beatrix Potter - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/John Lanchbery (EMI 5 72813)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Ryan Smith hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 Voice of the Whale

  Adrianna Lis (fl), Katherine Austin (pno), James Tennant (cello), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes

  MESSIAEN: Le merle noir; CRUMB: Vox Balaenae; VAN DER AA: Mask; SCHOLES: Raga Machine; ADAMS: Fearful Symmetries (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 31

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