Saturday 3 October 2015 Rāhoroi 3 Whiringa-ā-nuku 2015

• 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

  (9) New Wine in Old Bottles!

  Composers turn back the clock, adopting old forms to create new music. Ravel and Villa-Lobos apply their own touches to the Toccata and Stravinsky imagines an orchestra of Bach's time (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  GOODWIN: Theme from 633 Squadron; Drake 400 Suite; Puppet Serenade; New Zealand Suite; Arabian Celebration; Venus Waltz; Prisoners of War March; Minuet in Blue; Theme from The Trap; Girl with a Dream; Theme from Lancelot & Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  STRIGGIO: Ecce beatam lucem; Missa Ecco sì beato giorno; GALILEI: Contrapunto Secondo; STRIGGIO: Fuggi, spene mia; O giovenil ardire; Altr'io che queste spighe; D'ogni gratia et d'amor; O de la belle Etruria invitto Duce; Caro dolce ben mio; Miser'oimè; Spem in alium (Sarum plainchant); TALLIS: Spem in alium - I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth (Decca 478 2734)

  3:20 approx - Disc 3

  DECRÜCK: Sonata in C#; DELVINCOURT: Croquembouches; SANCAN: Lamento et Rondo; Maurice: Tableaux de Provence; Köchlin: Etudes for saxophone and piano Op 188; DESENCLOS: Prélude, Cadence et Finale - Claude Delangle (sax), Odile Delangle (pno) (BIS CD 1130)

  4:35 approx - Disc 4

  RAWSTHORNE: Bagatelles; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Delius; HOUGH: Valse Enigmatique Nos 1 & 2; ELGAR: In Smyrna; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Fauré; BANTOCK arr Hough: Song to the Seals; BOWEN: Reverie d'amour Op 20/2; Serious Dance Op 51/2; The way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op 76; BRIDGE: The Dew Fairy; Heart's Ease; LEIGHTON: Six Studies (Study-Variations) Op 56 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67267)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CATALANI: Contemplazione - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

  CHOPIN: Rondo in C Op 73 - New Zealand Piano Duo: Judith McDonald, Shirley Power (Kiwi LD 6)

  MARTIN Y COL: Variations on La Folia - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (castanets) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in C RV185 - Francesco Cerrato (vln/dir), Armoniosa (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1885)

  J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

  7:00 GLINKA: A Life for the Tsar, Overture - Sofia Festival Orch/Emil Tchakarov (Sony S3K 46487)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Kuss Quartet (Onyx 4090)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 46/2 - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1325)

  FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79; Berceuse in D Op 16 - Juliette Hurel (fl), Hélène Couvert (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 110 401)

  VEJVANOVSKY: Sonata Venatoria; Sonata in six parts; Sonata in five parts - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Symphonia SY 96151)

  NIELSEN: Pan and Syrinx - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)

  8:00 DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Collins Classics 16082)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Feola: Asturias; Castilla, from Spanish Songs Op 232 - Giuseppe Feola (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94047)

  DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - François Petit (cl), Carole Carniel (pno) (Ligia LIDI 030 2216-10)

  WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1 - South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.062)

  HANDEL: Trio Sonata in G minor Op 2/6 - Farran Scott, Rachel Harris (vlns), Tatty Theo (cello), Carolyn Gibley (hpschd), Brook Street Band (Avie AV 2282)

• 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

  FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain - Martha Argerich (pno), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Erato 2292 45266)

  TODD: For Peace - Tenebrae & English Chamber Orch/Nigel Short (Signum Classics SIGCD 394)

  VANHAL: Symphony in A (Bryan A4) - Esterhazy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554662)

  MENDELSSOHN: Elijah Op 70, Part 2 - Gwyneth Jones (sop), Janet Baker (mezzo), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Nicolai Gedda (ten), Simon Woolf (treble), Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, New Philharmonia Chorus & Orch/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (EMI CZS 5 68601)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Night Lights Classic Jazz

  Twelve programmes

  A weekly jazz programme hosted by David Brent Johnson (1) Why Jazz Happened, with Marc Myers

  A programme of classic jazz music in which JazzWax blogger and Wall Street Journal music writer, Marc Myers, discusses his book about how cultural, economic and social forces shaped the sound of jazz (WFIU)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Lexus Song Quest 2014

  The Semi-Finals

  Four programmes

  (4) Rodney Macann introduces the final set of semi-finalists in New Zealand's premier singing competition (RNZ)

• 4:00 PM. Late Afternoon with Prokofiev

  PROKOFIEV: Sinfonietta in A Op 5/48 - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Onyx 4139)

  arr Barshai: Visions fugitives Op 22 - Camerata Nordica/Terje Tønnesen (BIS SACD 2126)

  Peter & the Wolf - Joanna Lumley (narrator), English Northern Philharmonia/Stephen Barlow (Sanctuary CD RSN 3041)

  Piano Sonata No 2 in D minor Op 14 - Peter Donohoe (pno) (SOMM SOMMCD 249)

  Symphony No 7 in C# minor Op 131 - Bavarian Radio SO/Klaus Tennstedt (Profil PH 05003)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  NUNNS/BAILEY arr Garden: Twilight (Ririko) - Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), Judy Bailey (pno)

  BAILEY: Reflections II (He Hokinga Mahara) - Judy Bailey (pno) (Rattle RAT D011)

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

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  STANFORD: From the red rose - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66937)

  A Fire of Turf Op 139 - Stephen Varcoe (bar), Clifford Benson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67124)

  HOLST: Six Songs Op 16, Calm is the morn; My true love hath my heart; Weep you no more; Lovely kind and kindly loving; Cradle song - Susan Gritton (sop), Steuart Bedford (pno) (Collins Classics 15322)

  IRELAND: Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy, Summer Schemes; Her Song; Weathers;

  I have twelve oxen; Great Things; Earth's Call (A Sylvan Rhapsody); Hope the Hornblower; The Journey; Bed in Summer - Lisa Milne (sop), Christopher Maltman (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67261/2)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2015

  36 programmes

  (36) Last Night of the Proms

  Benjamin Grosvenor (pno), Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Danielle de Niese (sop), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Marin Alsop

  ALBERGA: Arise, Athena! (BBC commission, première); SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102; PÄRT: Credo; STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op 28; PUCCINI: Recondita armonia, from Tosca; Donna non vidi mai, from Manon Lescaut;

  Nessun dorma, from Turandot; James P JOHNSON: Victory Stride; COPLAND: I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs; GRIEG: Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1; GERSHWIN: Love walked in, from The Goldwyn Follies; GOULD: Boogie-Woogie Etude; DELIBES: Les filles de Cadix; LEHÁR: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz, from The Land of Smiles; RODGERS arr Hazell: The Sound of Music, medley; WOOD: Hornpipe (Jack's the Lad); Home, sweet home, from Fantasia on British Sea Songs; ARNE arr Sargent: Rule Britannia; ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1; PARRY orch Elgar: Jerusalem; TRAD arr Britten: God Save the Queen; TRAD arr Cedric Thorpe Davie: Auld Lang Syne (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 11:00 PM. (approx), Day's End

  ZEMLINSKY: String Quartet No 1 in A Op 4 - Artis Quartet (Nimbus NI 5563)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 131 - Nicolas Chumachenko (vln), Kalle Randalu (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1649)

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