Monday 23 March 2015 Rāhina 23 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  KORNGOLD: Between Two Worlds: Judgement Day; Symphonic Serenade Op 39; Theme & Variations Op 42 - Alexander Fry (pno), German Symphony Orch, Berlin/John Mauceri (Decca 444 170)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24; Four Ballades Op 10; Variations on a theme by Schumann Op 9 - Jorge Federico Osorio (pno) (ASV CD DCA 616)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BRIDGE: Adoration; Go not, happy day; Love went a-riding; LILBURN: Elegy ; IRELAND: Great things; Sea fever; When lights go rolling round the sky; CW ORR: Song cycle, from A Shropshire Lad; FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Paul Whelan (bar), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2023)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  SPOHR: String Quartets, No 3, Quatuor brillant in D minor Op 11; No 4 in Eb Op 15/1; No 6 in G minor Op 27 - New Budapest Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223254)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  PURCELL: Instrumental music, from Dioclesian; King Arthur; The Fairy Queen; The Indian Queen - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (Sony SK 66169)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Third movement, Romanza (Lento), from Symphony No 5 in D - Adelaide SO/Patrick Thomas (ABC Classics 472 984)

  ANON arr van Eyck: English Nightingale/The Nightingale, from The Flute's Garden of Delight - Erik Bosgraaf (recorder) (Brilliant Classics 93391)

  CORELLI arr Suzuki: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Terence Dennis (pno) (Naxos 8.572382)

  BAX: The Happy Forest - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

  WAGNER arr Dukas: Venusberg Music & Bacchanale, from Tannhäuser - Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen (pno duo) (Sony 88765 441592)

  7:00 FALLA: Interlude & Dance, from La Vida Breve - Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1271)

  GOLDMARK: Third movement, Serenade, from Rustic Wedding Symphony - Singapore SO/Lan Shui (BIS 1842)

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

  MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement in A minor - Kremerata Musica (DG 447 112)

  GERSHWIN: Variations on I Got Rhythm - Freddy Kempf (pno), Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (BIS SACD 1940)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: POULENC: Ave Maria, from Les Dialogues des Carmelites - Dinah Wright (sop), Louisa Pilkington (mezzo), Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org) (TreeHouse T 0017)

  GÁL: Variations on a popular Viennese tune Op 9 - Karin Adam (vln), Christoph Stradner (cello), Doris Adam (pno) (Camerata CMCD 28149)

  RESPIGHI ed di Vittorio: Aria for strings - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.572332)

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19, Midsummer Vigil - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-80 CD)

  ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 66173)

  BRUCH: Romance in F Op 85 - Arnaud Thorette (vla), Liège Phil, Wallonia/Pascal Rophé (Cypres CYP 7611)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  PYTOR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

  Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture (original 1869 version) - Russian National Orch/Vladimir Jurowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 330)

  Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno), Berlin Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (EMI CDC 7 49632)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 123 - Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67095)

  CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London SO/Daniel Harding (DG 987 057)

  HAYDN: Piano Trio in Ab HobXV/14 - Kungsbacka Piano Trio (Naxos 8.572063)

  SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 - Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado (DG 479 1061)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  MORENO TORROBA: Aires de la Mancha - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Naxos 8.573255)

  LAZZARI: Rapsodie in E minor - Philippe Graffin (vln), Royal Flemish Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 68005)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  PURCELL arr Britten: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - Bochmann String Quartet (Redcliffe 020)

  GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

  HANDEL: Qual'insolita luce; Caddi, è ver, from La Resurrezione - Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67842)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno), Sinfonia Varsovia/Alexander Vedernikov (Naïve AM 212)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MONTEVERDI: Salve Regina; Laudate pueri No 1, from Selva morale e spirituale - Cantus Cologne/Konrad Junghänel (lute/dir) (rec 2000) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1718.20)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 17 in Bb K570 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1986) Philips 422 117)

  I HOLST: String Trio No 1 - Court Lane Music (rec 2007) (Court Lane Music CLM 37601)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Walter Susskind (Kiwi SLD 66)

  MERK: Fantasy on Donizetti's Torquato Tasso Op 26/3 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

  DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  SATIE arr anon: Gymnopédies - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

  CANNABICH: Symphony No 48 in Bb - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ERNST: Rondo Papageno Op 20 - Sherban Lupu (vln), Ian Hobson (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0118)

  SIBELIUS: Valse triste, from Kuolema - Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (RegisC 1216)

  CHABRIER: Habanera - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

  DELIBES: Czárdás, from Coppélia - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 215)

  BRITTEN: Storm, from Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6538)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - António Meneses (cello), Celina Szrvinsk (pno) (Avie AV 2162)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 - CBSO/Mark Elder (Signum SIGCD 051)

  6:00 RODRÍGUEZ arr Goss: La cumparsita - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 479 0063)

  MILLER arr Hayman: Moonlight Serenade - Thomas Martin (cl), Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68598)

  R KING: Moonlight Reverie - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 0125)

  SCHUBERT: Romance, from Rosamunde D797 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 586)

  CHILDS: Sonnet of the Moon - NZ Secondary Students Choir 2013-14/Andrew Withington, Brent Stewart (pno) (Private)

  BLODEK: Moonrise, from In the Well - Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (Supraphon 10 1429)

  ELGAR: In Moonlight - Christine Rice (mezzo), Mark Elder (pno) (Hallé CD HLL 7500)

  FARQUHAR: Ring Round the Moon - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  A look at the life and music of PYTOR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) presented by William Dart (RNZ)

  Swan Lake, Suite - Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 448 704)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Auckland Festival 2015

  Indra Thomas (sop), Victoria Simmonds (contralto), Nicky Spence (ten), Derek Welton (bass), New Zealand Youth Choir, Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

  PÄRT: Silouan's Song; MESSIAEN: Hymne au Saint-Sacrement: TIPPETT: A Child of Our Time (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall on 21 March by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ROUSSEL: Bacchus & Ariadne, Suite No 2 - Paris Orch/Serge Baudo (EMI CZS 7 62669)

  PASCULLI arr Christ: Fantasy on the opera Poliuto - Céline Moinet (ob), Sarah Christ (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902 175)

  CPE BACH: Double Concerto in F Wq46 - Alexei Lubimov, Yury Martynov (fpno duo), Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS SACD 2098)

  11:00 HUMMEL: Clarinet Quartet in Eb - Fabrizio Meloni (cl), Andrea Pecolo (vln), Luca Ranieri (vla), Mario Finotti (cello) (Naxos 8.554280)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 135 - Zehetmair Quartet (ECM 2195/6 (476 3942))

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