Tuesday 17 March 2015 Rātū 17 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn; Nanie Op 82; Symphony No 4 in E minor - Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 435 349)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BACH: Partitas, No 1 in Bb BWV825; No 2 in C minor BWV826; No 4 in D BWV 828 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (Archiv 415 493)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  MOZART: Sinfonia in Eb K16; Va, dal furor portata K21; Or che il dover … tali e cotanti sono K36; Si mostra la sortes K209; Con ossequio, con rispetto K210; Se al labbro mio con credi K295; Clarice cara mia sposa K256; Divertimento No 3 in F K138; Per pietà, non ricercate K420; Misero! o sogno … aura, che intorno spiri K431 - Christoph Prégardien (ten), L'Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (CPO 999 810)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  SZÉKELY: Quartet (1937); DVORÁK: Quartet in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade; Scottish Rhapsody; Miss Melanie; Las Castanuelas; Madrugado; The Red Sombrero; Trade Winds; Faire Frou-Frou; String Song; Alto Saxophone Concerto in Eb; The Watermill; Scherzo, Allegro molto; The Dance of the Snowflakes; High Stepper; Prelude, The Whispering Valley; Venetian Carnival; Sailing By - Kenneth Edge (sax), Silvia Capova (pno), Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PERGOLESI: Sinfonia in F - Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer (Hyperion CDA 67230)

  GLAZUNOV: Three Miniatures Op 42 - Tatjana Franová (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223151)

  KREEK: Three Folksongs, Sing, sing, sickles; Sleep, little Matsik; Why are you chirping, little bird? - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7485)

  DONIZETTI arr Lencsés: Oboe Concertino in F - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

  MOZART: Laudate Dominum, from Solemn Vespers K339 - Lucia Popp (sop), Bavarian Radio Chorus & SO/Kurt Eichhorn (RCA 09026 68606)

  HEDIN: Polska poem - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

  SMYTH: Two interlinked French melodies, from Entente Cordiale - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

  7:00 DRING: Festival Scherzo for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

  BURTON: Sonatina - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

  UNGAR orch Ellisor: Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar (vln), Molly Mason (gtr), Nashville CO/Paul Gambrill (EMI 3 82225)

  SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 457 654)

  BRUCKNER: Locus iste - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67629)

  DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: YEDIDIA: Lullabye - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57357)

  HANDEL: Va tacito e nascosto, from Julius Caesar - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 453 480)

  DUFF: Meath Pastoral - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas, in Bb Op 17/1; in C# minor Op 63/3 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

  HOHNE arr Gloppen: Slavonic Fantasy - Ole Edvard Antonsen (cornet), Royal Norwegian Navy Band/Ingar Bergby (BIS SACD 1598)

  DUARTE: English Suite Op 31 - Andrés Segovia (gtr) (DG 477 6050)

  CHABRIER: Fête Polonaise, from Le Roi malgré lui - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 303)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937)

  Miroirs - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 307)

  Three poems of Stéphane Mallarmé - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Andreas Alin, Peter Rydström (fls), Lars Paulsson, Per Billman (cls), Nils-Erik Sparf, Ulf Forsberg (vlns), Matti Hirvikangas (vla), Mats Lindström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 447 752)

  La Valse - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 427 314)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Lithuanian CO (BIS SACD 2007)

  CHABRIER: Suite Pastorale - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Mirare MIR 036)

  FOERSTER: String Quartet No 1 in E Op 15 - Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Maurizio Pollini (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 447 041)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  F MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb - Cavaleri Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 085)

  SCHUMANN: Abegg Variations Op 1 - Andreas Staier (fpno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 21171)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BIBER: Violin Sonata in A, Sonata Representativa - Andrew Manze (baroque vln), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (hpschd), Romanesca (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7134/5)

  VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

  CARTER: Tempo e Tempi - Susan Narucki (sop), members of Speculum Musicae (Bridge 9111)

  CARDILLO: Core 'ngrato - Jonathan Antoine (ten), Latvian National Opera Orch/Julian Reynolds (Sony 88843 08537)

  WAXMAN: Auld Lang Syne Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Ula Ulijona (vla), Marta Sudraba (cello), Louis Lortie (pno) (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HAYDN: Symphony No 91 in Eb - Vienna Phil/Karl Böhm (rec 1973) (IMG Artists 5 75944)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Heinz Wallberg (rec 1973) (Philips 475 7825)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  GERSHWIN: Strike Up The Band, Overture - Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL 1999a)

  DONIZETTI: Il pallor funesto, from Lucia di Lammermoor - Malvina Major (sop), Roger Creagh (bar), Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 227)

  CRESTON: Fantasy Op 42 - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

  PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

  MIGOT: Dialogue No 2 - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.105)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ROSSINI orch Respighi: Galop, from La Boutique fantasque - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 455 983)

  HANDEL arr Tarkmann: Air & Variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith, from Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Guilhaume Santana (bsn), Monika Razynska (hpschd) (DG 476 5681)

  GRANADOS arr Henry Wood: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)

  O BULL: Los Recuerdos de la Habana - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Dala Sinfonietta/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572827)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Bb minor Op 117/2 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Philips 456 895)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Nation shall not lift up a sword, from Dona nobis pacem - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (Sony SK 53979)

  6:00 HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

  GJEILO: Serenity - Phoenix Chorale/Charles Bruffy, Emmanuel Lopez (cello) (Chandos CHSA 5100)

  MASSENET: Le roman d'Arlequin - Stefan Irmer (pno) (MDG 618 1729)

  IBERT: Scherzetto - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

  DVORÁK: Song to the moon, from Rusalka - Renée Fleming (sop), London SO/Georg Solti (Decca 455 760)

  VIEUXTEMPS arr Bailey: Souvenir d'Amérique, Variations on Yankee Doodle Op 17 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Delos DE 3326)

  EINAUDI: I giorni - Daniel Hope (vln), Jacques Ammon (pno), Berlin CO/Simon Halsey (DG 479 0571)

  HANSON: Maypole Dances, from Merry Mount Suite - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68786)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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