Monday 23 February 2015 Rāhina 23 Hui-tanguru 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30; Death & Transfiguration; Don Juan Op 20 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 438 300)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  ANON: Lamento di Tristano; Trotto; Salterello; ATTAINGNANT: Basse danses, La Brosse; La Gatta; La Magdalena; DALZA: Calata ala Ronde; NEUSIDLER: Der Judentanz; Welscher Tanz Wascha mesa; SUSATO: Ronde; GERVAISE: Branle de Bourgogne; Branle de Champagne; Palese; Passamezzo d'Italye - Konrad Ragossnig (lute), Ulsamer Collegium (Archiv 415 294)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  GRIFFITHS: Lie Deep, My Love; FISHER: Pounamu; McCALLUM: The moon's glow once lit; HAMILTON: Veni, Sancte Spiritus; WHITEHEAD: Taiohi Taiao; HAMILTON: Lux Aeterna; A RITCHIE: Widow's songs; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III; CHILDS: O Magnum Mysterium - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata; String Quartet No 2, Intimate letters; On an overgrown path - Talich Quartet, Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 9699)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  ROSSINI: Péchés de Vieillesse - Jeffrey Swan (pno) (Akademia CDAK 103)

  Freeview 51; Sky 422

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 30 in C, Alleluja - Concentus Musicus Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 9031 76460)

  BRIDGE: An Irish Melody, The Londonderry Air - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 68003)

  KREISLER arr Terracini: Liebesleid - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

  CHOPIN trans Liszt: The maiden's wish, from Polish Songs Op 74 - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

  YSAŸE: Elegiac Poem in D minor Op 12 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 143)

  7:00 BARNETT: The Mountain Sylph, Overture - Victorian Opera Orch/Richard Bonynge (Somm SOMMCD 0123)

  POULENC: Flute Sonata - Patrick Gallois (fl), Lydia Wong (pno) (Naxos 8.557328)

  BRESCIANELLO: Sinfonia No 1 in D - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Göran Söllscher (gtr) (DG 459 138)

  WAGNER: Forest Murmurs, from Siegfried - National SO, Washington DC/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 775)

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

  WEINBERG: Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes Op 47/1 - Yuri Kalnits (vln), Michael Csányi-Wills (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0026)

  WALDTEUFEL: Bella bocca, Polka - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223685)

  DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Tatjana Vassilieva (cello), Yumiko Urabe (pno) (Naxos 8.555762)

  BIZET: Carmen Suite No 1 - Royal Phil/Mark Ermler (Tring International TRP 002)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44 - Peter Donohoe (pno), Bournemouth SO/Rudolf Barshai (EMI CDC 7 49124)

  KROMMER: Wind Partita in Eb Op 45/1 - Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble (Naxos 8.553868)

  GERSHWIN arr Bowen: Catfish Row, from Porgy & Bess - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559750)

  SIBELIUS: Kullervo - Monica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (bar), men of the London Symphony Chorus, London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0574)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  HANDEL: Overture, from The Occasional Oratorio - Dresden Baroque Orch (CPO 777 782)

  BEETHOVEN: Grosse Fuge in Bb Op 133 - Brentano Quartet (Aeon AECD 1438)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  KHACHATURIAN: Symphony No 3 in C, Symphony-Poem - Moscow Phil/Kirill Kondrashin (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01006)

  M SHEPPARD: Prologue; Soliloquy; The soul rests eternal; Epilogue, from The Soul Rests Eternal - Caroline Dale (cello), English CO/Steve Sidwell (Signum SIGCD 232)

  MOZART: Concert aria, Oh, temerario Arbace! ... Per quel paterno amplesso K79 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Vienna CO/György Fischer (Decca 440 401)

  MOULINIE: Fantasies, Nos 1-3 - Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea de Carlo (dir) (Ricercar RIC 284)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 1, A Sea Symphony - Felicity Lott (sop), Jonathan Summers (bar), Cantilena, London Phil & Choir/Bernard Haitink (rec 1989) (EMI CDC 7 49911)

• 4:20 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  A RITCHIE: Polish Dances Op 155, Chlopaki, Chlopaki; Mazurka in A minor; Polka Szabasowka - Adrianna Lis (fl), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 742)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 4 in E minor Op 44/2 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  RIES: Ouverture bardique WoO24 - West German Radio SO/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 609)

  PAGANINI trans Williams: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - John Williams (gtr) (Sony MLK 66704)

  ADDINSELL arr Lane: Southern Rhapsody - Peter Lawson (pno), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)

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

  J STRAUSS II: Roses from the South - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

  6:00 BINGE: The Whispering Valley, Prelude - Silvia Cápová (pno), Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

  GIBBS: Dale & Fell - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67093)

  RAVEL: La vallée des cloches, from Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  PEJMAN: Empty Valley - National Phil/Ahmad Pejman (Aladdin ALD CL 3000)

  JERSILD: My dear valley - Accentus Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson (Naïve V 5037)

  SUPPÉ: Up Hill & Down Dale, March - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5110)

  LISZT: Vallée d'Obermann, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.116)

  GROFÉ: Sand storm, from Death Valley Suite - Bournemouth SO/William Stromberg (Naxos 8.559017)

• 7:00 PM. Best of Composer of the Week 2014

  Eight programmes

  (8) JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

  BACH is one of the super-stars of Western Classical music, but it hasn't always been the case as Peter Walls points out (RNZ)

  Cantata No 150, Nach dir, herr, verlanget mich - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), James Gilchrist (ten), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Magdalena Consort (Channel Classic CCS SA 35214)

  Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - Alan Loveday, Iona Brown (vlns), David Munrow, John Turner (recs), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 089)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Wallace National Piano Festival 2014

  Three programmes

  (2) Read Gainsford (pno)

  HAYDN: Fantasia (Capriccio) in C HobXVII/4; SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 21 in Bb D960; RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 39; BACH: Prelude in B minor; SCRIABIN: Etude in C# minor Op 2/1 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. Rossini Offstage

  String Sonata No 1 in G - members of City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

  arr anon: Quintet for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, bassoon and double bass - Consortium Classicum (CPO 777 650)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WEYSE: Symphony No 7 in Eb - Royal Danish Orch/Michael Schønwandt (Da Capo 8.224014)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  11:00 L DUBOIS: Octet for eight chromatic horns - Luc Bergé, Bart Cypers, Miek Laforce, Frank Clarysse, Jeron Billiet, Mark de Merlier, Bart Indevuyst, Bert Vanderhoeft (horns) (Fuga Libera FUG 550)

  REBAY: Three Concert Pieces, Praeludium; Villanelle mit variationen; Rondo Walzer - Luigi Magistrelli (cl), Massimo Laura (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94171)

  GYROWETZ: String Quartet in D Op 13/1 - Pleyel Quartet, Cologne (CPO 777 770)

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