Wednesday 14 January 2015 Rāapa 14 Kohi-tātea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  KABALEVSKY: Romeo & Juliet Suite; Comedians' Suite; Colas Breugnon Suite - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 967)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  TELEMANN: Oboe Sonatas, in Bb; in G minor, from Tafelmusik; HANDEL: Oboe Sonata in C minor Op 1/8; TELEMANN: Oboe Sonata in A minor; HANDEL: Oboe Sonatas, in Bb, Fitzwilliam; in G minor Op 1/6; TELEMANN: Oboe Sonatas, in E minor; in G minor; HANDEL: Oboe Sonata in F Op 1/5 - Marilyn Zupnik (ob), Mark Shuman (cello), Raymond Leppard (hpschd) (ASV CD DCA 663)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  Songs by Italian Opera Composers: including BELLINI, Verdi, Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini, and Mascagni - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno)

  (Atoll A 9803)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  PATITUCCI: Tell Tale; JOBIM: Chovendo Na Roseira; HART: I will rise again; DJAVAN: Lei; HOLST: In the Bleak Midwinter; PATITUCCI: Three Faces; SOUZA: Now the River; PATITUCCI: Soulmate; Rhapsodic Journey; RODGERS: It never entered my mind; PATITUCCI: Love Eternal; COLTRANE: Wise One - various artists (Concord Records CCD 2149)

  4:30 approx - Disc 5

  CATALINI: Impressioni, 10 Pieces; Se tu sapessi; Scherzo-tarantella; Aspirazione; Ricordi di Lugano; A Sera; Eleganza; Notturno; Contemplazione; Loreley - Pietro Spada (pno) (ASV CD DCA 921)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet before parting, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Conifer 75605 51343)

  VIVALDI arr Red Priest: Four Seasons, Autumn - Red Priest (Red Priest RP 003)

  ISASI: Suite No 2 in E Op 21 - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557584)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: An evening in Georgia - Gillian Tingay (harp), members of Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1090)

  J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

  7:00 ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - St Cecilia National Academy Orch/Antonio Pappano (Warner 0825 646243440)

  PIAZZOLLA: Libertango; Oblivion - Versus Ensemble (Naxos 8.570523)

  GERSHWIN: Promenade: Walking the dog, from Shall We Dance? - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (BBC Music BBC MM 234)

  BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in C minor - Leonidas Kavakos (vln), Yuja Wang (pno) (Decca 478 6442)

  BEETHOVEN: Third movement, Scherzo, from Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Orchestra Wellington/James Sedares (Private)

  SAINT-SAËNS arr M Nakariakov: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Teldec 8573 80651)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD arr R Clarke: I'll bid my heart be still - Helen Callus (vla), Robert McDonald (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1130)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Libor Pesek (RegisC 1099)

  HOVHANESS: Bagatelles Op 30 - Shanghai String Quartet (Delos DE 3700)

  WALTON: Crown Imperial - Trumpeters of the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, London Chamber Orch/Christopher Warren-Green (Decca 276 842)

  GUASTAVINO: El Ceibo; Bailecito - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

  DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Timothy Walden (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek (Virgin 3 91346)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  How to Hear Classical Music

  Ten programmes

  A guide to assist the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of classical music. Spanning from the earliest plainsong chants to today's most avant-garde contemporary classical music offerings, the scope of How to Hear Classical Music is epic. Writer/presenter Davinia Caddy doesn't offer 'answers' as such, but will open your eyes and ears to the endless adaptability of classical music, its enduring appeal, and its extraordinary power and reach. Each episode features musical excerpts to illuminate the writer's perspective (3) (RNZ)

  SVENDSEN: String Octet in A - ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9258)

• 10:00 AM. Adam Chamber Music Festival 2013

  Eighteen programmes

  (9) Bach Cello Suites, Part Two

  Colin Carr (cello)

  BACH: Cello Suites, No 4 in Eb BWV1010; No 5 in C minor BWV1011; No 6 in D BWV1012 (recorded in Nelson Cathedral by RNZ)

• 11:35 AM. More Works

  RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez - Charles Ramirez (gtr), CO of Europe/Douglas Boyd (Signum SIGCD 244)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  A Classical Collection

  Five programmes

  At home, David Morriss has some real treasures in his record collection and this week on Summer Sonic he shares with us a personal selection of the rare, the exquisite and the sometimes astounding (3) (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BANTOCK: Celtic Symphony for string orchestra & six harps - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66450)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Artur Rubinstein (pno), Philharmonia Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini (rec 1961) (BBC BBCL 4105)

  GRÉTRY: Contredanse; Non! mon père (No, my father); Pas de deux, from Anacréon chez Polycrate - Sophie Karthäuser (sop), Les Agrémens/Guy van Waas (Ricercar RIC 234)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 74/1 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 1 in C K279 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1987) (Philips 422 116)

  STRAUSS: Zueignung Op 10/1; Nichts Op 10/2; Die Nacht Op 10/3; Allerseelen Op 10/8; Befreit Op 39/4 - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (rec 2005) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1879)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MEYERBEER: Overture; Orgie (Drinking Song, Act 1); Entr'actes to Acts 2 & 5, from Les Huguenots - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

  A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Atoll ACD 202)

  FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Victoria University Orch, Gamelan Padhang Moncar/Peter Walls (Manu CD MANU 1514)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Dresden Phil/Herbert Kegel (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  ALBÉNIZ: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 477 9338)

  BORODIN arr Black: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Royal Phil/Stanley Black (Decca 444 614)

  WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Edo de Waart (Philips 475 7825)

  ALBINONI arr Red Priest: Adagio in G minor - Red Priest (Red Priest RP 004)

  MONCAYO: Huapango - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

  6:00 MERK: Fantasy on Verdi's Ernani Op 31 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 7 54273)

  HANDEL: Love sounds th'alarm, from Acis & Galatea - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

  RODRIGO: En Aranjuez, con tu amor - Ana Maria Martinez (sop), Albert Guinovart (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9172)

  BIZET: Flower song, from Carmen - Plácido Domingo (ten), Los Angeles Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 415 366)

  MARENZIO: Donna bella e crudel, from Prima fiore della ghirlanda musicale - La Compagnia del Madrigale (Glossa GCD 922 802)

  PUCCINI: Love duet, from Madame Butterfly - Mirella Freni (sop), Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 440 072)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  World War One Book Club

  Three programmes

  (2) Dispatches from the front

  With Kate Camp, Harry Ricketts, Jane Stafford and guest Kate Hunter

  A freewheeling look at literature from the front lines, including All Quiet on the Western Front, Testament of Youth, and We Shall Not Cease. What makes the accounts of soldiers, nurses and pacifists more than mere diaries? And how did a German novel become the most influential account of fighting in World War One? (recorded at City Gallery Wellington by RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  San Francisco Opera Season

  Ten operas from one of the world's leading producers for the lyric stage

  (4) DONIZETTI: Lucrezia Borgia, an opera in a prologue and two acts

  Apostolo Gazella............. Austin Kness

  Ascanio Petrucci.............. Ao Li

  Maffio Orsini................... Elizabeth DeShong

  Jeppo Liverotto................ Christopher Jackson

  Oloferno Vitellozzo......... Brian Jagde

  Gubetta............................. Igor Vieira

  Gennaro............................ Michael Fabiano

  Lucrezia Borgia............... Renée Fleming

  Duke Alfonso................... Vitalik Kowaljow

  Rustighello....................... Daniel Montenegro

  Astolfo............................. Ryan Kuster

  Princess Negroni.............. Blanche Hampton

  San Francisco Opera Chorus & Orch/Riccardo Frizza (San Francisco Opera)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  IRGENS-JENSEN: Passacaglia - Trondheim SO/Eivind Aadland (CPO 777 347)

  TURINA: Violin Sonata No 2 in G Op 82, Spanish - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67889)

  11:00 SCHUBERT arr Grodd: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

  FRANCK: Piano Trio in B minor Op 1/3 - Bekova Sisters (Chandos CHAN 9742)

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