Schedule for Wednesday 15 April 2015

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
LAMBERT: Horoscope; WALTON: Façade; BLISS: Checkmate - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66436)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
CPE BACH: Flute Concertos, in D minor WQ22; in A minor WQ166; in A for WQ168 - Eckart Haupt (fl), CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Capriccio 10 104)
2:25 approx - Disc 3
MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden; Kyrie eleison; Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe; Ave Maria Op 23/2; Mitten wir im Leben sind Op 23/3; Heilig, heilig ist Gott, der Herr Zebaoth; Six Anthems Op 79; Three Psalms Op 78, Warum toben die Heiden; Richte mich, Gott, und fuhre meine Sache; Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?; Hor mein Bitten, Herr, neige dich zu mir - Anne Dawson (sop), Rogers Covey-Crump (ten), John Scott (org), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66359)
3:40 approx - Disc 4
DEBUSSY: Sonata for cello & piano; DOHNÁNYI: Sonata in Bb minor for cello & piano Op 8; BRIDGE: Two Short Pieces; Sonata in D for cello & piano - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 796)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
Overtures, ROSSINI: William Tell; BIZET: Carmen; REZNICEK: Donna Diana; WEBER: Freischütz; ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie; VERDI: The Force of Destiny; ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder; MOZART: The Magic Flute; NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor - Various orchestras & conductors (DG 423 781)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 F-AD PHILIDOR: The Blacksmith, Overture - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.573066)
VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), NZSO CO (Atoll ACD 702)
ADDINSELL: Out of the Clouds, Theme - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2108)
SATIE arr Williams: Gnossiennes Nos 1-2 - John Williams (gtr) (Sony SK 60586)
HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Lausanne CO/Jesús López-Cobos (Teldec 4509 90846)
7:00 WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)
GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7415)
GRÉTRY: String Quartet in Eb Op 3/2 - Haydn Quartet (Koch Schwann 310 158)
BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Mirare MIR 036)
8:00 Beauty Spot: VERACINI: Largo, from Violin Sonata in A Op 2/6 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Catherine Rimmer (cello), Thomas Dunford (theorbo), Christian Curnyn (hpschd/dir) (Decca 476 434)
HARLE: Hymn to the Sun - The Silencium Ensemble/John Harle (Argo 458 356)
FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Henri Demarquette (cello), Brittany Orch/Moshe Atzmon (Timpani 1C 1172)
BURKHART: Toccata - Amadeus Guitar Duo (Naxos 8.573439)
DENZA arr Schoenberg: Funiculì-Funiculà - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)
BROD arr Moinet: Fantasy on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor Op 57 - Céline Moinet (ob), Sarah Christ (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2175)
WAGNER: Rienzi, Overture - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (LPO 0003)
9:00 Composer of the Week
FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-1849)
Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Emily Beynon (fl), Philip Moore (pno) (Naxos 8.572585)
Mazurkas Op 17, No 4 in A minor; No 2 in E minor - Ingrid Fliter (pno) (Linn CKD 475)
Piano Trio in G minor Op 8 - Vilde Frang (vln), Andreas Brantelid (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (pno) (EMI 6 87742)
Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (Philips 456 841)
10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

MOZART: Symphony No 36 in C K425, Linz - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 647)
STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb - David Pyatt (horn), Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (EMI CD EMX 2238)
ONSLOW: String Quintet in E minor Op 19 - Manuel van der Nahmer (cello), Diogenes Quartet (CPO 777 187)
DVORÁK: Symphony No 5 in F Op 76 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 7 49995)
12:00 Recent Releases
SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Thomas Søndergård (Linn CKD 462)
ELGAR: Duett for trombone & double bass; La Brunette - Duncan Wilson (tbn), John Tattersdill (dbass), Innovation Chamber Ensemble/Barry Collett (Somm SOMMCD 252)
1:00 Afternoon Requests
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Mozart Orch/Claudio Abbado (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2105)
LILBURN: Bagatelle No 4, From the Port Hills, from Five Bagatelles - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2068-69)
BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Bremen German Chamber Phil (Channel Classics CCS SA 16501)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
2:00 PM. Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

CD Masters
Classic performances from the back catalogue
BRITTEN: Choral Dances, from Gloriana - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (rec 1999-2000) (Hyperion CDA 67140)
ADAMS: Harmonielehre - San Francisco SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (rec 2011) (SFS Media SFS 0053)
4:00 Made in New Zealand
NZ performers and composers
KOZELUCH: Piano Sonata in A Op 2/2 - Kemp English (fpno) (Grand Piano GP 643)
HILL: Quintet for piano, strings & voices, Life - Bryony Williams, Amelia Berry (sops), Linden Loader, Annabelle Cheetham (mezzos), Richard Greager, Chris Berentson (tens), Daniel O'Connor, Keith Small (basses), Richard Mapp (pno), Dominion Quartet/Mark Dorrell (Naxos 8.572844)
5:00 QUILTER: A Children's Overture - Light Music Society Orch/Vivian Dunn (EMI CDM 7 64131)
FARKAS: Old Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century - Phoebus Quintet (Toccata Classics TOCC 0019)
REYNOLDS: The Sirens of Southend - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)
SCHUBERT: Gretchen am Spinnrade D118 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Richard Amner (pno) (CBS MK 76868)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Ballet Suite No 4 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8630)
6:00 SMETANA: The Secret, Overture - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)
COWARD arr Tunick: I'll follow my secret heart, from Conversation Piece - Ben Heppner (ten), London Phil/Jonathan Tunick (RCA 09026 63508)
ZIEHRER orch Pollack: Secret loves Op 538 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)
FAURÉ: Le Secret Op 23/3 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66320)
KHACHATURIAN: Secret Mission - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 966)
BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)
ARNOLD: English Dances Suite No 2 - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)
7:00 PM. Appointment

Germans in Maoriland?
Two programmes
(2) Classical Musicians
With around 10,000 Germans settling in New Zealand between the early 1840s and the start of World War I, Germans formed the second largest immigrant group after the British. Reading this fact can't help make us wonder whether some of these Germans might have played an important role in New Zealand's early musical history, as they did in England at the same time. Musicologist Samantha Owens sets about investigating (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Deutsche Welle Festival
Thirteen programmes
(2) Berlin State Orch/Daniel Barenboim; West German Radio SO/Andris Nelsons
WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude; Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde; STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben Op 40; Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten (recorded in the Semper Opera House, Dresden by Deutsche Welle/WFMT)
10:00 PM. Day's End

RIES: String Quartet in C WoO37 - Schuppanzigh Quartet (CPO 777 014)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Impressions for Orchestra, Burley Heath; The Solent; Harnham Down - Royal Liverpool Phil/Paul Daniel (Albion ALBCD 016)
CRUSELL: Clarinet Quartet No 3 in D Op 7 - Osmo Vänskä (cl), Pekka Kauppinen (vln), Anu Airas (vla), Ilkka Pälli (cello) (BIS CD 741)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence, String Sextet in D minor - Borodin Quartet, Yuri Bashmet (vla), Natalia Gutman (cello) (EMI CDS 7 49775)