Thursday 16 April 2015 Rāpare 16 Paenga-whāwhā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59; PADEREWSKI: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 17 - Piers Lane (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66452)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  IRELAND: Fantasy Sonata in Eb; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song; BAX: Clarinet Sonata; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Vocalises for soprano & clarinet; BLISS: Pastoral; STANFORD: Clarinet Sonata; BLISS: Two Nursery Rhymes, The Ragwort; The Dandelion - Emma Johnson (cl), Judith Howarth (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (ASV CD DCA 891)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  GOUNOD: Requiem; Mass No 2 in G Op 1 - Eva Buffoni (sop), Irene Friedli (contralto), Ruben Amoretti (ten), Alain Clement (bass), Chorale du Brassus/Andre Charlet, Francois Margot (org) (Claves CD 50-9326)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in E Kk532; in A Kk322; MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 K331; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 Op 27/2, Moonlight; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 Op 35, Marche funèbre; MOSKOWSKI: Etude Op 72/11; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 8/12; SCHUMANN: Träumerei; HOROWITZ: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 44797)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  DELIUS: Prelude; La Calinda; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Intermezzo; Violin Concerto; Two Pieces for Small Orchestra; Sleigh Ride - Philloppe Djokic (vln), Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SNCD 5134)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 TRAD arr Hope: The lark in the clear air - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

  GRAINGER/TRAD: The Nightingale/Molly on the Shore reel - Kathryn Tickell (vln), The Side (Resilient 162524)

  ZAVATERI: Concerto No 3 in C - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (vln/dir) (DHM 05472 77352)

  ROSSINI arr anon: Quintet for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, bassoon and double bass - Consortium Classicum (CPO 777 650)

  STANFORD: The blue bird Op 119/3 - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (dir) (Collegium COLCD 104)

  SCHREKER: Intermezzo Op 8 - Lucerne SO/John Axelrod (Nimbus NI 5808)

  JANÁCEK: The barn owl has not flown away!, from On an overgrown path - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68030)

  KOEHNE: The nightingale; Morning chorus of birds, from Between Two Worlds - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC 481 1480)

  7:00 NIELSEN: Humoresque Bagatelles, Good Morning!; Spinning Top; A little slow waltz; Jumping Jack; Doll's March; Musical Clock - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 74789)

  ALBÉNIZ: Champagne - Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1513)

  BACH arr Balsom: First movement, Allegro, from Trio Sonata No 5 BWV529 - Alison Balsom (tpt), Alina Ibragimova (vln), Alistair Ross (hpschd), Mark Caudle (vla da gamba) (EMI 5 58047)

  ANON arr Lislevand: Tourdion - Linn Andrea Fuglseth (sop), Anna Maria Friman (sop), period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088)

  DUBERY: Sonatina for oboe & piano - Richard Simpson (ob), Paul Janes (pno) (Metier MSV 28523)

  MEYERBEER: The Prophet, Overture - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GOLDMARK: Magische Töne, from Die Königin von Saba - Mark Dubois (ten), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony/Raffi Armenian (CBC 2-5077)

  C CHAMPAGNE: Danse villageoise - Quebec Conservatory of Music/Jacques Lacombe (Bell CD 1993)

  GLIÈRE: Impromptu - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Berlin Baroque Soloists (Berlin Philharmonic 06003)

  VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDZ 7 62521)

  ENESCU: Sérénade Lointaine - Trio Brancusi (Zig Zag ZZT 303)

  MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 468 600)

  MOZART: The Magic Flute, Overture - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2068)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-1849)

  Preludes Op 28, Nos 1 in C; 2 in A minor; 4 in E minor; 10 in C# minor; 15 in Db, Raindrop; 24 in D minor - Alfred Cortot (pno) (Philips 456 754)

  Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 (Chopin's own version for piano & string quartet) - Roger Woodward (pno), Alexander String Quartet (Celestial Harmonies 13277)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in D TWV55/D15 - Arte Dei Suonatori/Martin Gester (dir) (BIS 1979 SACD)

  WEBER: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 34 - Charles Neidich (cl), L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 57968)

  BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Nicola Benedetti (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Rory Macdonald (Decca 478 6690)

  GRIEG: Symphonic Dances on Norwegian motifs Op 64 - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 10287)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  ROSSINI: Ne m'abandonne point...Asile héréditaire, from William Tell; BERLIOZ: Nature immense, from The Damnation of Faust; VERDI: Je veux encore entendre, from Jerusalem - Bryan Hymel (ten), Czech Phil Choir of Brno, Prague SO/Emmanuel Villaume (Warner 2564 17950)

  HOROVITZ: Concerto for euphonium & chamber orchestra - David Childs (euphonium), BBC National Orch of Wales/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10830)

  RAFF: The Jealous Ones, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5135)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  RACHMANINOV: Bogoroditse devo, from Vespers Op 37 - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1206)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 31111)

  (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

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 13 in Bb K333 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 420 839)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Daniel Barenboim (pno), New Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CMS 7 63360)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MCLEOD: Childhood - 1996 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  5:00 MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - World Orch for Peace/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 6937)

  GERSHWIN arr Arnold: Summertime, from Porgy & Bess - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Opera North Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch (Chandos CHAN 10477)

  DOHNÁNYI: Waltz, after Waltz of the doll, from Delibes' Coppélia - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67871)

  FOOTE: Air, from Air & Gavotte - Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay (dir) (Capriccio 10 505)

  WHITACRE: Water night - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67543)

  TOSCANINI: Two Pieces for string quartet - Cindy Yan, Miyo Yoon (vlns), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Paul Mitchell (cello) (RNZ)

  KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Warner 8573 80438)

  6:00 SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Entr'acte to Act III - Das Neue Orch/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-192)

  ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - East Winds (Naxos 8.570294)

  GIBBONS: O clap your hands - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51231)

  KOEHNE: Forty Reasons to be Cheerful - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC 481 1480)

  HANDEL: Happy we! from Acis & Galatea - Ian Bostridge (ten), Kate Royal (sop), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

  DEBUSSY orch Molinari: L'isle joyeuse - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

  BACH: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, from Cantata No 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Trinity Baroque, English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)

  STATHAM: Happy Ending - Ben Hoadley (bsn), Nicola Baker (horn), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  CHABRIER: Joyeuse Marche - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 475 8140)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Circumstances of Beethoven's Symphonies

  Some believe that they were conceived as a set with an overarching grand schema, but Thomas Goss points out the often more expedient external factors that influenced Beethoven in composing his nine symphonies (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Out of This World

  Nicolas Alstaedt (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

  BACH: First movement, Overture, from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068; DUTILLEUX: Cello Concerto, Tout un monde lointain

  (Interval)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  KAPUSTIN: Suite in the Old Style Op 28 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67433)

  FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9416)

  JT EICHNER: Harp Concerto in D Op 5/2 - Silke Aichhorn (harp), Kurpfalz CO/Stefan Fraas (CPO 777 835)

  FUCHS: Serenade No 2 in C Op 14 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)

  MENDELSSOHN: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor - Domus (Virgin VC 7 91183)

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