Saturday 11 April 2015 Rāhoroi 11 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

  (4) Twenty-first, nuclear proliferation and M.Sc; 1962-3 (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  BRUCKNER: Symphony No 8 in C minor - Dresden State Opera Orch/Christian Thielemann (Profil PH 10031)

  2:25 approx - Disc 2

  Brian Eno's Music for Airports - Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno (Virgin 8 66495)

  3:15 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Piano Trios, No 1 in D minor Op 63, No2 in F Op 80; Six Studies in Canonic Form Op 56 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 0 94180)

  4:30 approx - Disc 4

  SALIERI: Les Horaces, Overture; Piano Concerto in C; Semiramide, Overture; Piano Concerto in Bb; Twenty-six variations on La Follia Di Spagna - Pietro Spada (pno), Philharmonia/Pietro Spada (ASV CD DCA 955)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GERMAN: The Willow Song - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7156)

  MILHAUD arr Seidenberg: La Creation du monde - Turtle Island String Quartet, Ying Quartet (Telarc SACD 60630)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), members of the Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57647)

  MOZART: Adagio & Rondo in C minor K617 - Nash Ensemble (Virgin VC 7 91074)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Solveig's Song, from Peer Gynt Op 23; Ingrid's Lament Op 55/1 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (ASV CD DCA 1176)

  7:00 LEHÁR: The Merry Widow, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

  MEDAGLIA: Suite Popular Brasileira - Berlin Phil Wind Quintet (BIS CD 2072)

  OFFENBACH: Ballet of the Snowflakes, from Voyage to the Moon - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 6403)

  TÁRREGA: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Dimitri Illarionov (gtr) (Naxos 8.557293)

  LISZT arr Liszt/Doppler: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in D minor S359/2 - Vienna Academy Orch/Martin Haselböck (CPO 777 797)

  8:00 SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy Op 25 - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Placido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

  J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus Quadrille - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)

  PURCELL: Fantasia in F, Upon one note (in 5 parts); In Nomine in G minor (in 6 parts); In Nomine in G minor, Dorian (in 7 parts) - Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7502)

  DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Anna Polonsky (pno) (Decca 478 5705)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - Mariinsky Orch/Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky MAR 0553)

• 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

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - Herman Krebbers (vln), Concertgebouw Orch/Kirill Kondrashin (Philips 475 7570)

  BUCHANAN: Watermarked; Lingua Franca, from An Ocean Between Us - Rhona Fraser (sop), New Zealand Piano Quartet (RNZ)

  FAURÉ: Romance sans paroles Op 17/3 - Kathryn Stott (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67064)

  GOUNOD: L'amour! from Romeo & Juliet - Vittorio Grigòlo (ten), RAI National SO/Evelino Pidò (Sony 88883 75658)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy & Bravura Variations on Italian motifs - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

  RUTTER: Out of the deep, from Requiem - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 500)

  MESSIAEN: First movement, La Vierge et L'Enfant, from La Nativité du Seigneur - Gillian Weir (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (Priory PRCD 921)

  DELL'ACQUA: Villanelle - Rita Streich (sop), RIAS SO, Berlin/Kurt Gaebel (rel 1955) (DG 457 729)

  ROSSINI: Première Communion; Thème naïf et variations idem...; Ouf! Les petits pois, from Sins of Old Age - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 12398)

  GESUALDO: Madonna io ben vorrei; Come esser può; Gelo ha Madonna il seno, from Madrigals, Book 1 - Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara/Sergio Vartolo (hpschd/dir), Loredana Gintoli (harp) (Brilliant Classics 92635)

  (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

  (6) Back to Back, same song, different treatments (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

  (2) NELSON LAM: holo/apo; with (in)/without - Rachel Grimwood (vla), Robert Drage (cello), Liam Wooding (pno)

  TYNAN BURKHARDT: Extenta - Tynan Burkhardt (gtr)

  JONATHAN CRUZ: I'm not - electroacoustic

  JOSIAH CARR: Lux Aeterna - Callum Blackmore (vocalist), Annabel Lovatt (cor anglais), Alex Eichelbaum (cl), Christiaan Swanepoel (alto sax), Brendan Agnew (pno)

  SEBASTIAN BENNETT: The Breath of Sakhmet - Imogen Morris (rec)

  JONATHAN FULLER: Ships in Bottles - electroacoustic

  ELEANORE CHEN: Mirror Mirror - Christine Chang, Miriam Chou (vlns), Pearl Huang (vla), Yoo Jung Lee (cello) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:10 PM. Gardiner Conducts

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 721)

  SCHUMANN: Concert Piece in F for four horns Op 86 - Robert Montgomery, Gavin Edwards, Susan Dent, Robert Maskell (horns), Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 457 591)

  BERLIOZ: Tristia - Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 446 676)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 703)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  HAYDN: Divertimento No 4 in C - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

  FARR: Balinese Pieces, Sepuluh Jari; Tentang Cara Gamelan; Jangan Lupa - Henry Wong Doe (pno) (Trust MMT 2070)

  MOROSS: Concerto for flute with string orchestra - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Koch International 3-7367)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  TOSTI: Malia; A vucchella; L'ultima canzone; Aprile; Non t'amo piu; Luna d'estate; La serenata; Ideale - Stefano Secco (ten), David Abramovitz (pno) (Naxos 8.572471)

  GINASTERA: Canción al arbol del olvido Op 3/2; Five Canciones populares argentinas Op 10 - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67186)

  TOSTI: Marechiare; Sogno; L'alba separa della luce l'ombra; Partir c'est mourir un peu - Stefano Secco (ten), David Abramovitz (pno) (Naxos 8.572471)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Sasha Cooke (mezzo), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  LILBURN: Symphony No 3; MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer; STRAVINSKY: The Firebird (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. Selva Morale e Spirituale

  MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum No 2; Iste confessor No 2; Beatus vir No 2; E questa vita un lampo - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16109)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SPOHR: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C minor Op 26 - Paul Meyer (cl/dir), Lausanne CO (Alpha 605)

  RESPIGHI: Brazilian Impressions - Liège Royal Phil/John Neschling (BIS SACD 2050)

  SIBELIUS: The Tempest, Suite No 2 - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 540)

  11:00 SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 14 in A minor D784 - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2165)

  BACH: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor BWV1002 - Monica Huggett (vln) (Virgin Classics VCD 5 45205)

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