Saturday 28 March 2015 Rāhoroi 28 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  The Stars are Comforting

  The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)

  Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made Beatrice Tinsley a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice also played her violin and wrote home to her family

  Twenty programmes, with letters edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien

  (2) National Youth Orchestra and General Relativity Theory; 1959-60 (RNZ)

  12:45 approx - Disc 1

  YOUNG: Symphony; Virgen de la Esperanza; Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

  2:05 approx - Disc 2

  Arias from operas by PUCCINI, MASCAGNI, CATALANI, LEONCAVALLO, ZANDONAI, CILEA & GIORDANO - Renée Fleming (sop), with various other singers, Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 1533)

  3:15 approx - Disc 3

  Hau by Japanese ambient minimalist duo Opitope

  DATE/HATAKEYAMA: A White Cloth Falling From The Snow Branches; Goat's Horn; A Far Room; A Quiet Morning Arriving To The Valley; Bird Standing On The Fall; Coral Sand's Backside; Mist On The Sea; A Place Under The Paired Sal Tree - Tomoyoshi Date (electric gtr/pno/electronics), Chihei Hatakeyama (electric, acoustic and bass gtrs/pno/vibraphone/electronics) (Spekk 672901)

  4:25 approx - Disc 4

  RODE: 24 Caprices in the form of Etudes (1-12) - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln) (CPO 777 129)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  J NOVACEK: Four Rags for two Jons; D'RIVERA: The Cape Cod Files; BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata; GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano; I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Jon Manasse (cl), Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7508)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MATTEIS: Sett of Ayres - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 126)

  HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 3 in G minor - Annette Berryman (ob), La Ricordanza (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 505 1381)

  LEHÁR: Sirens of the Ball, Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song - Anthony Pike (cl), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.573191)

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80551)

  7:00 GOTTSCHALK orch Kay: Grande Tarentelle Op 67 - William Tritt (pno), Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80112)

  PAGANINI: Polacca in F - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

  SZELIGOWSKI: Four Polish Dances - Anna Ziólkowska (vln), Poznan Phil/Mariusz Smolij (Naxos 8.570371)

  BRAHMS arr Bailey: Sapphische Ode Op 94/4; Liebestreu Op 3/1; Minnelied Op 71/5; Wiegenlied Op 49/4 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Awadagin Pratt (pno) (Telarc TEL 32664)

  SVENDSEN: Carnival in Paris - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  8:00 VERDI ed Pedretti: Capriccio for bassoon & orchestra - Andrea Magnani (bsn), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

  PURCELL: Abdelazer, incidental music - Theatre of Early Music (Analekta AN 2 9948)

  FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 110624)

  S GOSS: Gnossiennes, after Erik Satie - Tetra Guitar Quartet (Cadenza Music CAD CD 0460)

  SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Emanuel Brabec (cello), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in C RV581, per la Santissima Assenzione di Maria Vergine - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Il Seminario Musicale (Virgin 7 59232)

  JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 8093)

  CZERNY: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 780 - Brandenburg State Orch, Frankfurt/Nikos Athinäos (Christophorus CHE 0152)

  MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (Warner 8573 80438)

  TRAD: Walk, my beloved - Julie Fowlis (vocalist), Nicola Benedetti (vln), Phil Cunningham (accordion), Tony Byrne (gtr), Eamon Doorley (bouzouki), Ewen Vernal (dbass) (Decca 478 6690)

  PARISH ALVARS: Harp Concerto in G minor Op 81 - Elizabeth Hainen (harp), Bulgarian National Radio Orch/Rossen Milanov (Avie AV 2221)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (4) Classical Connection (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2013 New Zealand Youth Choir Farewell Concert

  New Zealand Youth Choir/David Squire

  BALDWIN: Magnificat; SCHUMANN: Four Songs for Double Choir Op 141; HOWELLS: Take him, earth, for cherishing; LANGE: He wishes for the cloths of heaven; HAMILTON: Una noche de Verano; CARTER: Musicians wrestle everywhere; SCHAFER: Miniwanka (or The Movements of Water); TIPPETT: Five Negro Spirituals, from A Child of our Time; TRAD arr Schlenker: O Come, O Come Emmanuel; TE WHANAU WEHI: Te Iwi E; SHEARING: Lullaby of Birdland (recorded in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland by RNZ)

• 4:20 PM. Veils

  TAVENER: The Protecting Veil - Steven Isserlis (cello), London SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Virgin VC 7 91474)

  PURCELL: Now that the sun hath veil'd his light - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari (Decca 478 226)

  attrib PURCELL arr Britten: Cantata, When Night her Purple Veil had Softly Spread - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Benjamin Britten (pno), members of the Alberni String Quartet (BBC Music BBCB 8003)

  STRAUSS arr Taubmann: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5153)

  DOHNÁNYI: Pierrot's Love-lament; Waltz-rondo; Merry Funeral March; Wedding Waltz, from The Veil of Pierrette Op 18 - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9733)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  SCHUBERT: Introduction & Variations on Trockne Blumen from Die schöne Müllerin - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

  PSATHAS: Matre's Dance - David Guerin (pno), Bruce McKinnon (perc) (Rattle RAT D003)

  PLEYEL: String Quartet in C Op 2/2 - Enso String Quartet (Naxos 8.557496)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  WALTON: Anon in love - Martyn Hill (ten), Craig Ogden (gtr) (Collins Classics 14932)

  A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Collins Classics 14932)

  RACHMANINOV: At night in my garden Op 38/1; Fragment from A Musset Op 21/6; All passes Op 26/15 - Sergei Larin (ten), Eleonora Bekova (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9562)

  The night is mournful Op 26/12; Oh, never sing to me again Op 4/4; Music Op 34/8; Spring waters Op 14/11; Vocalise Op 34/14 - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), Mstislav Rostropovich (pno) (DG 477 6195)

• 7:30 PM. Music Alive

  From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Janine Jansen (vln), New Zealand SO/Daniel Blendulf

  LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake; TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35

  (Interval)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 100 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FASCH: Suite for 2 oboes & 2 bassoons in G minor FWV K/g3 - Basel CO/Julia Schröder (DHM 88697 44641)

  RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome - Royal Phil/Josep Caballé-Domenech (Onyx 4083)

  11:00 LALO: Piano Trio No 3 in A minor Op 26 - Trio Salomon (Meridian CDE 84437)

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G Op 18/2 - Minetti Quartet (Hänssler CD 98.029)

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