Schedule for Saturday 26 September 2015

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Old Wine in New Bottles
Ten programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented
(8) Variations on a Theme
The masters weave complex new fabrics from the threads of simple themes, including Brahms on Paganini, Françaix on Haydn and Britten on Purcell (RNZ)
1:00 Disc 1
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding
String Sextet No 2 in G Op 36 - Isabelle Faust, Julia-Maria Kretz (vlns), Stefan Fehlandt, Pauline Sachse (vlas), Christoph Richter, Xenia Jankovic (cellos) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2075)
2:15 approx - Disc 2
Frère Jacques: Round About Offenbach
Various works by OFFENBACH arranged for clarinet and accordion - Gianluigi Trovesi (cls/piccolo), Gianni Coscia (accordion) (ECM 2217)
3:30 approx - Disc 3
TALLIS: Videte miraculum; TAVERNER: Audivi vocem de caelo; BYRD: Rorate caeli desuper; TALLIS: Missa puer natus est, Gloria; BYRD: Tollite portas; TALLIS: Missa puer natus est, Sanctus & Benedictus; BYRD: Ave Maria; TALLIS: Missa puer natus est, Agnus Dei; BYRD: Ecce virgo concipiet; WHITE: Magnificat; TRAD: Puer natus est nobis (chant); SHEPPARD: Verbum caro factum est - Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7517)
4:50 approx - Disc 4
GENISHTA: Nocturne; TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso Op 62; Solo from Sleeping Beauty; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Serenade; GLAZUNOV: Elegy in memorial of Franz Liszt Op 17; Spanish Serenade Op 20/2; RACHMANINOV: Prelude Op 2/1; Oriental Dance Op 2/2; ROSLAVETS: Dance of the white girls; MOSLOV: Legende Op 5; PROKOFIEV: Adagio from Cinderella Op 97; SHOSTAKOVICH: Moderato - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ingrid Wahlberg (pno) (Manu CD 1426)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6/4 - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Nicholas McGegan (dir) (Virgin VC 5 45348)
BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in D BuxWV260 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0784)
CHOPIN arr H Wood: Third movement, Funeral March, from Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)
FAURÉ arr Busser: Pavane - Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson (cello), Allan Sternfield (pno) (Naxos 8.570545)
VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G RV301 - Francesco Cerrato (vln/dir), Armoniosa (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1885)
7:00 DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Strasbourg Phil/Marc Albrecht (PentaTone PTC 5186 336)
ARBAN: Variations on a theme from Bellini's Norma - Håkan Hardenberger (cornet), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 287)
TCHAIKOVSKY: First movement, Pezzo in forma di Sonatina, from Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7394)
PUJOL: Grises y soles - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)
TELEMANN: Flute Concerto in D TWV51/D2 - Alexis Kossenko (fl/dir), Les Ambassadeurs (Alpha 200)
8:00 BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 193)
PURCELL: Fantasias, No 1 in D minor; No 2 in F; No 3 in G minor - Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7502)
SIBELIUS: Ballade, from Karelia Suite - Baltic Sea Youth Phil/Kristjan Järvi (Naïve V 5407)
PIAZZOLLA: Vivat tango - Ladislav Horák (accordion), Petr Nouzovsky (cello) (Supraphon SU 4161)
MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - London SO/Claudio Abbado (RCA 09026 61354)
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

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 1 in C - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)
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)
HUMMEL: Mandolin Concerto in G - Kristian Harris (mandolin), State CO of Zilina, Slovakia/Jan Valta (Point Classics 267 2032)
STATHAM: Landscapes, Nos 1 & 2 - Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
KHACHATURIAN: Waltz, from Masquerade - Hamburg State Phil/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI 5 56970)
REGER: Postludium in D minor - Wolfgang Rubsam (organ of Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago) (Naxos 8.572908)
SCHUMANN: The Pilgrimage of the Rose Op 112 - Camilla Nylund (sop), Claudia Schubert (contralto), Rainer Trost (ten), Jochen Kupfer (bar), Andreas Schmidt (bass), Anke Hoffman, Simone Kermes (sops), Chorus Musicus Cologne, Das Neue Orchester/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-190)
(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
(10) This year's highlights: revisiting favourite albums (RNZ)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world
3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Lexus Song Quest 2014

Four programmes

The Semi-Finals

(3) Rodney Macann introduces the second set of semi-finalists in New Zealand's premier singing competition (RNZ)
4:05 PM. Première Recordings

GODARD: Overture des Guelfes - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7291)
HOFFMEISTER: Flute Concerto No 17 in D - Bruno Meier (fl), Prague CO (Naxos 8.573040)
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Four Dances from Love's Labour's Lost Op 167 - Malmö SO/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.572823)
PICK-MANGIAGALLI: Violin Sonata in B minor - Emy Bernecoli (vln), Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi (pno) (Naxos 8.573130)
DOBRZYNSKI: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 15, Characteristic - Polish Radio SO/Lukasz Borowicz (Chandos CHAN 10778)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in C WoO36/3 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Naxos 8.570998)
PAINE: Sea Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)
HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Weber - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

STENHAMMAR: The Wanderer; Butterfly Orchid; A Ship Sails; Maid blonde & maid brunette, from Songs & Moods Op 26 - Camilla Tilling (sop), Paul Rivinius (pno) (BIS SACD 2154)
ALFVÉN: The Bells Op 13 - Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (bar), Gävle SO/Stefan Parkman (Sterling CDS 1036)
Peonies; Take my heart - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 474 700)
I Long for You; Now Take My Heart - Jussi Björling (ten), Royal Stockholm Orch/Nils Grevillius (Swedish Society SCD 1100)
STENHAMMAR: In the forest; The girl came from meeting her lover; ALFVÉN: The forest sleeps - Camilla Tilling (sop), Paul Rivinius (pno) (BIS SACD 2154)
STENHAMMAR: Gold and forests green; Ingalill, from Four Swedish Songs Op 16 - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Åke Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)
Sverige Op 22/2 - Barbara Bonney (sop), Antonio Pappano (pno) (Decca 466 762)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Dreams Lie Deeper
Dave Dobbyn (gtr/vocalist), Ross Burge (drums), Mark Vanilau (pno), Jonathan Barus (dbass), Christopher Clark (tpt), Wellington Young Voices, Lyrica, Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Brass Band/Mark Dorrell, Christopher Clark
HARRIS: If Blood be the Price, recalling the 1912 Waihi Miners' Strike; DOBBYN: This Love, In memory of the Pike River miners; MCCARTHY: 17 Days, A tribute to the Chilean miners rescued in the 2010 disaster (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)
9:20 PM. Baltic Sea Voyage

NIELSEN: Maskarade, Overture; GELGOTAS: Never ignore the cosmic ocean; STENHAMMAR: Interlude, from The Song Op 44; PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten; WAGNER arr Vlieger: Brünhildes Opfertat, from The Ring - Baltic Sea Youth Phil/Kristjan Järvi (Naïve V 5407)
10:00 PM. Day's End

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio Espagnol Op 34 - New Philharmonia/Leopold Stokowski (Decca 417 753)
SAINT-SAËNS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 167 - Lisa Shklyaver (cl), Jos van Immerseel (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 358)
DOHNÁNYI: Concert Piece in D Op 12 - János Starker (cello), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572749)
11:00 BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), György Sebok (pno) (PentaTone PTC 5186 155)
KUHLAU: Flute Quintet in D Op 51/1 - Ginevra Petrucci (fl), Kodály Quartet (Brilliant Classics 94769)