Tuesday 24 February 2015 Rātū 24 Hui-tanguru 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; orch Palmer: Galop finale, from Music for Children - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs - Elizabeth Söderström (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 436 204)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  TUBIN: Double bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

  Freeview 51; Sky 422

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MEYER: First Impressions - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (pno) (Sony SK 68460)

  GALEAZZI arr Pluhar: Voglio una casa - Lucilla Galeazzi (sop), Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 6/1 - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557358-60)

  GERSHWIN arr Arnold: Summertime, from Porgy & Bess - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Opera North Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch (Chandos CHAN 10477)

  REED: On Waterford Quay (An Irish Impression); Reverie; Toccata - Robert Gibbs (vln), Mary Mei-Loc Wu (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7135)

  MENDELSSOHN: Capriccio in E minor Op 81/3 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570002)

  CATALANI: Scherzo - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

  7:00 SCRIABIN: Etude in C# minor Op 2/1 - Michèle Gurdal (pno) (Challenge CC 72640)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 1 Op 10, Nos 2 & 4 - Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Goetzel (Onyx 4124)

  BARTÓK arr Rokyta: Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík Sz35a; An evening in the village - Bart Schneemann (ob), Jan Rokyta (cimbalom) (Channel Classics CCS 18598)

  TRAD arr Stanford: Six Irish Dances, The Long Dance; The Humours of Bandon; The Ace and Deuce of Pipering; Jig; The Rocky Road; The Gobby O - Alberto Bologni (vln), Christopher Howell (pno) (Sheva SH 100)

  GRIEG: In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt - Oslo Phil Chorus & Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

  COPLAND: The promise of living, from The Tender Land - Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 64059)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - 16 soloists, London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

  ALBÉNIZ: Balbina Valverde - Rubén Ramiro (pno) (Naxos 8.573294)

  CLEMENTI: Minuetto Pastorale - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573273)

  FLETCHER: Festival Toccata - Jeremy Woodside (organ of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (Private)

  MAURER: Three pieces, Maestoso alla Marcia; Andante con moto; Allegro grazioso - Center City Brass Quintet (Collins Classics 14892)

  DEBUSSY trans Roelens: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Alexander Dedyukhin (pno) (EMI 5 72017)

  SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572704)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 349)

  BACH: Partita No 2 in C minor BWV826 - Igor Levit (pno) (Sony 88843 03682)

  SCHUBERT: German Mass D872 - Immortal Bach Ensemble, Leipzig CO/Morten Schuldt-Jensen (Naxos 8.570764)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: String Sextet in A - Kocian String Quartet, Joseph Kluson (vla), Michal Kanka (cello) (Praga PRD 250 188)

  BRITTEN: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 15 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 5 57500)

  SIBELIUS: Pelléas & Mélisande Op 46, incidental music to Maeterlinck's play - Philharmonia/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1272)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  PANUFNIK arr R Panufnik: Modlitwa - Clare Hammond (pno) (BIS SACD 2003)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Jana Vonáskova-Nováková (vln), Irina Kondratenko (pno) (Supraphon SU 4170)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  FALLA arr Kochanski: Suite populaire espagnole - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDM 7 63533)

  PINCHARD: Concerto Giocoso for organ & strings - Hervé Desarbre (organ of Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce, Paris), Stringendo/Jean Thorel (Mandala MAN 5049)

  KODÁLY: Psalmus hungaricus Op 13 - Peter Svensson (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir, Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Charles Mackerras (Chandos CHAN 9310)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb Op 63 - London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1975-76) (EMI CDC 7 47205)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARQUHAR: Concertino for piano & strings - Thomas Hecht (pno), NZSO CO (RNZ)

  HAMILTON: Song for a Young Country - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1999-2000/David Hamilton (Private)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: I bless you, forests Op 47/5 - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

  HOGAN: In the Caves - Toru Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  A RITCHIE: Double Concerto for bass clarinet & cello Op 93 - Andrew Uren (bass cl), Katherine Hebley (cello), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes (Atoll ACD 129)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MULET: Carillon-Sortie in D - Christopher Herrick (organ of Turku Cathedral, Finland) (Hyperion CDA 66676)

  HAHN arr Hazell: A Chloris - Albrecht Mayer (cor anglais), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS orch Foster: Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49745)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in C minor D899/1 - Jura Margulis (pno) (Oehms OC 435)

  CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Maria Callas (sop), Philharmonia/Tullio Serafin (rec 1954) (EMI CDC 7 47282)

  PETIT: Toccata - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1348)

  KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Warner 8573 80438)

  6:00 TRAD arr Leon: I will give my love an apple - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stacey Shames (harp), Edin Karamazov (lute), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

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

  PROKOFIEV arr Heifetz: March, from The Love for Three Oranges - Gil Shaham (vln), Orli Shaham (pno) (Artemis ATM CD 1555)

  PAULUS: The Road Home - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7518)

  TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

  NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - DiamantEnsemblet (Dacapo 8.226064)

  FAURÉ: Pavane - ASMF & Chorus/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 014)

  ZI: Plum Blossoms in the Snow - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 2 06322)

  ROSSINI: William Tell, Overture - World Orch for Peace/Georg Solti (BBC Music BBC MM 350)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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