Saturday 4 April 2015 Rāhoroi 4 Paenga-whāwhā 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

  (3) Physics, philosophy, love and marriage to Brian Tinsley; 1960-61 (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  SIBELIUS: Symphonies No 1 in E minor Op 39; No 3 in C Op 52 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  SNYDER: Who's sorry now?; DINICU arr Walton: Hora staccato; KREISLER arr Walton: Praeludium & Allegro; GARDNER: Mild & bitter; CAVALLINI: Adagio & Tarantella; ITURRALDE: Pequeña Czarda; PHILIPS: Clarinet Cadenza; BOTSFORD arr Walton: Black & White Rag; DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme; FA SCHUBERT: The bee; RAMEAU arr Mule: Gavotte, from Le Temple de la Gloire; HERBERT: Punchinello; MATITIA: Devil's rag; SHAPIRO/CONNELLY/CAMPBELL: If I had you; CURZON: Clarinetto con moto; DRASKOCZY: Dances from Transylvania; CAVALLINI: Serenata; RAVEL: Piece in the form of a Habanera; MONTI: Czárdás; BENDIX: The butterfly; GABRIEL-MARIE arr Woody Herman: Golden Wedding - Mark Walton (cl), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private Recording)

  3:20 approx - Disc 3

  PERGOLESI: Cantata, Nel chiuso centro; Sinfonia, from Li prodigi della divina grazia; Cantata, Questo è il piano; Stabat Mater, Cuius animam gementem, and Quis est homo qui non fleret, from Stabat Mater - Anna Netrebko (sop), Marianna Pizzolato (contralto), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (DG 477 9337)

  4:35 approx - Disc 4

  MENDELSSOHN: Prelude & Fugues, in E minor Op 35/1; in D Op 35/2; in B minor Op 35/3; in Ab Op 35/4; in F minor Op 35/5; in Bb Op 35/6; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture; Andante & Variations in Bb Op 83a; Andante & Allegro brillant in A Op 92 - Mi-Joo Lee (pno), Klaus Hellwig (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 904 1653)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GRAINGER: Fisher's Boarding-House - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

  JEANJEAN: Idyll, Clair Matin - Julian Bliss (cl), Julien Quentin (pno) (EMI 5 85639)

  HANDEL: Where'er you walk, from Semele - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Augustine Op 4/3 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  BOWEN: Miniatures Op 44, Prelude; Intermezzo; Scherzo - Joop Celis (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10506)

  RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Quentin Poole (ob), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 100)

  TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Teldec 3984 25736)

  CARSE: Two Sketches, A Northern Song; A Northern Dance - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

  7:00 MENDELSSOHN: St Paul Op 36, Overture - Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus 83.214)

  SCHUBERT: Moment musicale No 4 in C# minor - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67091/2)

  COSTE: Scherzo & Pastorale Op 10 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  KASKA: Ballade - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

  STATHAM: Landscape No 1 - Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  GLASS: Primacy of Number - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), members of Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (Sony SK 87709)

  BACH: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen, from Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug - Rodney Macann (bass), Alastair Ross (org) (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

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

  8:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 70 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  ROSSINI: Sinfonia in Eb - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.572735)

  ABE: Dream of the cherry blossoms - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

  GRANADOS orch Breiner: Rondella aragonesa, from Spanish Dances - Norbert Kraft (gtr), Razumovsky Sinfonia, Bratislava/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.554103)

  IRELAND: Three dances, Gipsy Dance; Country Dance; Reapers' Dance - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.572598)

  BELLINI: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Guy Touvron (tpt), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (RCA 09026 61815)

  GERMAN: Henry VIII, Overture - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7285)

• 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

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572705)

  GOUNOD: Nuit d'hyménée, from Romeo & Juliet - Vittorio Grigòlo (ten), Sonya Yoncheva (sop), RAI National SO/Evelino Pidò (Sony 88883 75658)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor Op 90 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)

  VICTORIA: Improperia, Popule Meus - St Mary of the Angels Choir, Wellington/Maxwell Fernie (Kiwi LD 5)

  LILBURN arr Couch: Desdemona's Song; SAGRERAS: El Colibri; PRINCESS TE RANGI PAI arr Couch: Hine e Hine - John Couch (gtr) (Private)

  J HUGHES: Calon Lân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Black Mountain Chorus, Risca Male Choir, Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

  NIELSEN: Aladdin's Dream & Dance of the Morning Mist, from Aladdin Suite - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 447 757)

  GALWAY: Psalm of the Seafarers - St Paul's Choir, Dunedin/Raymond White (South Pacific SPR 4)

  ROGG: Toccata, from Partita on the Chorale Nun fret euch - Thomas Trotter (east organ of St Giles Cripplegate, London) (Regent REGCD 302)

  SCHUBERT: Im Walde D708 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Gerald Moore (pno) (DG 437 225)

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67376)

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

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  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

  (5) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2013 Auckland University Lilburn Composition Competition

  Two programmes

  (1) ANYA LEENMAN: Portrait of Unknown Woman - Finn Schofield (cl), Robert Drage (cello), Eddie Giffney (pno)

  OLIVER HUANG-XU: 57 Years in the Cage - Robert Drage (cello)

  CLOVIS MCEVOY: Death Warmed Up - electroacoustic

  AH YOUNG JEONG: Calling from Heigh-Ho Valley - Pearl Huang (fl), Hyun-Jun Jang (cl), Stella Kim, Mikeal Na (vlns), Anya Leenman (vla), Gunhee Lee (cello), Ah Young Jeong (harp)

  BARNABY FLAVELL-CHITTY: Change - electroacoustic

  CALLUM BLACKMORE: The Ghost Sonata - Callum Blackmore (vocalist) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:10 PM. Jansons on the Podium

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Brilliant Classics 92779)

  STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben Op 40 - Anton Barachovsky (vln), Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons (BR Klassik 900 127)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Chandos CHAN 8460)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), Berlin Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 57486)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  WAGNER: Siegfried's Funeral March, from Götterdämmerung - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

  PSATHAS: Piano Quintet - Stephen Gosling (pno), New Zealand String Quartet (Trust MMT 2047)

  MOZART: Symphony No 29 in A K201 - Auckland Philharmonia/Kenneth Klein (Ribbonwood RCD 1002)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  HOWE: Der Einsame; Viennese Waltz; You; Men - Katherine Eberle (mezzo), Robin Guy (pno) (Vienna Modern Masters VMM 2005)

  HAYDN: Sailor's song; Recollection; The wanderer; A pastoral song; Piercing eyes; Despair; Sympathy; Pleasing pains; She never told her love; The mermaid's song; Content; Fidelity - Lisa Milne (sop), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67174)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Music for Easter

  DVORÁK: Stabat Mater - Mariana Zvetkova (sop), Ruxandra Donose (mezzo), Johan Botha (ten), Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass), Dresden State Opera Chorus & Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli (DG 471 033) (recorded at the Dresden State Opera, April 2000)

• 9:30 PM. Russian Cello

  KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 77 - Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Netherlands Phil/Andrew Litton (Onyx 4122)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp - Philippe Bernold (fl), Gérard Caussé (vla), Isabelle Moretti (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1647)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Stéphane Rancourt (ob), Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7529)

  GIBBS: Prelude, Andante & Finale - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (Hyperion CDA 67093)

  11:00 SCHUMANN arr Kirchner: Six Studies in Canonic Form Op 56 - Heinz Holliger (ob d'amore), Anita Leuzinger (cello), Anton Kernjak (pno) (ECM 2395)

  KOEHNE: A Closed World of Fine Feelings & Grand Design - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Naxos 8.570949)

  BRAHMS: Variations on an Original Theme Op 21/1 - Andreas Boyde (pno) (Oehms OC 586)

  VICTORIA: Lesson 3, Incipit oratio Jeremiae Prophetae, from Lamentations for Holy Saturday - Nordic Voices (Chandos CHAN 0763)

  PÄRT: Da Pacem Domine - Callino Quartet (Louth CMS LCMS 901)

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