Thursday 10 December 2015 Rāpare 10 Hakihea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish; Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian - Prague Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3876)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  LILBURN: Piano Sonata; Four Preludes; Two Christmas Pieces for LB; Allegro; Four Preludes; Rondino; Two Preludes; Andante; Poco Lento; Three Bars for MN; Adagio sostentuto; Andante commodo; Still Music for WNR; Six short pieces; Piano Sonata in A minor; Moths & Candles - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  ANON: Judeo-Spanish songs: La Rosa enflorece; Yo m'enamori; La madre de la novia; Hija mia; Una caza chica; Puncha Puncha; Y una madre; Durme mi angelico; Noches buenas; El Conde nino; El villano vil; La sirena; Gerineldo; David y Absolan; Morenica sos; Ithyo; Ilono; Ak Egartho - Esther Lamandier (sop, harp, org & spinette) (Alienor AL 1012)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  JADIN: String Quartet in Eb Op 2/1; VACHON: String Quartet in G minor Op 5/2; JADIN: String Quartet Op 4/1; VACHON: String Quartet in D Op 7/2; JADIN: String Quartet in F minor Op 1/3 - Rasumovsky Quartet (ASV CD GAU 151)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  HURLSTONE: Four Characteristic Pieces; BLISS: Pastoral for clarinet & piano; STOKER: Sonatina for clarinet & piano Op 5; FERGUSON: Four Short Pieces Op 6; DUNHILL: Phantasy Suite Op 91; STANFORD: Clarinet Sonata Op 129; ARNOLD: Clarinet Sonatina Op 29 - Einar Johannesson (cl), Philip Jenkins (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9079)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - The Sixteen Orch/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16066)

  ARCAS: Jota Aragonesa - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

  RACHMANINOV: Mélodie in E Op 3/3 - Irish National SO/Alexander Anissimov (Naxos 8.550808)

  DOHNÁNYI: Valses nobles - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67932)

  TRAD arr Leon: She moved through the fair - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp) (Decca 468 499)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in F minor TWV51/f1 - Burkhard Glaetzner (ob), Berlin CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Berlin Classics 1386 BC)

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

  7:00 TRAD arr Cullen: Angels from the realms of glory - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Carl Davis (Decca 414 632)

  RUBINSTEIN arr Julian Lloyd Webber: The Angel - Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cellos), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.573251)

  BOWERMAN: Fantasy on a Fugue of Elgar - Laura Samuel (vln), Emily Pailthorpe (ob), Anna Stokes (fl), London Serenata/Krzystof Chorzelski (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

  SIBELIUS: Suite champêtre Op 98b - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7716/7)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/4 - Jura Margulis (pno) (Oehms OC 435)

  M HAYDN: Bassoon Concertino in Bb - Makiko Kurabayashi (bsn), Salzburg Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777 538)

  MONIUSZKO: Verbum nobile, Overture - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572716)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle No 25 in A minor, Für Elise - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 466 462)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: March, from The Nutcracker - NZSO National Youth Orch 2005/Edwin Outwater (Private)

  ZARZYCKI: Introduction & Cracovienne Op 35 - Eugene Ugorski (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Michal Dworzynski (Hyperion CDA 67990)

  STATHAM: Pastorale - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  SATIE orch Milhaud: Jack-in-the-Box - London Festival Players/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 421 395)

  ANON: Istampittas, Saltarello I; Saltarello II - Jordi Savall (vielle/rebab/dir), Pedro Estevan (pandereta/darbouka), Dimitris Psonis (santur) (Alia Vox ASVA 9848)

  GOULD: Gospel train/Old time religion, from Spirituals for Strings - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9848)

  SMETANA: Prague Carnival - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10413)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL (1778-1837)

  The Magic Castle, Suite - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10415)

  Piano Concerto in A minor Op 85 - Stephen Hough (pno), English CO/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8507)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quartet in Bb Op 41 - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 943 1519)

  KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)

  SCHUMANN: Spanish Love Songs Op 138 - Mitsuko Shirai (sop), Marjana Lipovsek (contralto), Josef Protschka (tenor), Matthias Hölle (bass), Helmut Deutsch, Norman Shetler (pnos) (Capriccio 67 209)

  GRIEG: Symphonic Dances Op 64 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557279)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  MENDELSSOHN: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage, Overture - City of Birmingham SO/Edward Gardner (Chandos CHSA 5151)

  SARASATE: Concert Fantasy on Gounod's Faust - Volker Reinhold (vln), Ralph Zedler (pno) (MDG 903 1909)

  MÜTHEL: Keyboard Concerto No 5 in Bb - Marcin Swiatkiewicz (hpschd/dir), Arte dei Suonatori (BIS 2179)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  SCHUBERT arr Birnie: Eighteen Dances - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

  GRANDI: Sonata decima nona; CAUDA: Iste sanctus; Beatus vir; PASINO: Sonata XII detta la Savolda - Drew Minter, Eric Brenner (countertenors), Sumner Thompson (ten), Peter Becker (bass), Sacabuche!/Linda Pearse (Atma ACD 22712)

  JC BACH: Symphony in Bb Op 6/4 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)

  DUBERY: Three songs to poems by Douglas Gibson, Swans in flight; Lizard; A memory - James Gilchrist (ten), Michael Cox (fl), David Dubery (pno) (Metier MSV 28548)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 7 in Bb Op 83 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (rec 1959) (Philips 456 946)

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

• 2:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

  Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

  CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder - Janet Baker (mezzo), New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (rec 1969) (EMI CDC 7 47793)

  STRAUSS: Metamorphosen - strings of New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (rec 1967) (EMI 2 12690)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Piano Sonata (1949) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs - David Griffiths (bar), Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls, Anthony Jennings (org) (Manu CD MANU 1299)

  MAYUZUMI: Symphonic Mood - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557693)

  5:00 GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - Sydney SO/Edo de Waart (ABC Classics 462 013)

  BIZET trans Mercz: Entr'acte to Act 3, from Carmen; Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

  PRAETORIUS arr Williams: Dances from Terpsichore, excerpts - Craig Ogden (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9674)

  GROFÉ: On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite - London Festival Orch/Stanley Black (Decca 425 508)

  MASSENET: Toccata; Valse folle - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHSA 5084)

  BRUCKNER: Locus iste - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

  DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7512)

  6:00 YEGHIAZARIAN: Dances of the golden fish, from Sevan Suite No 2 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 1037)

  BABAJANIAN: Second movement, Andante, from Piano Trio in F# minor - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 209)

  ANON arr Shoujounian: Open for us, Lord; ANON arr Yegmalian/Shoujounian: The Lord's Prayer - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler Singers & CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

  GURDJIEFF arr Lechner/Couturier: Sayyid chant and dance No 3/Hymn No 7 - Anja Lechner (cello), François Couturier (pno) (ECM 2367)

  SIUNETSI arr Erazhisht: My heart is trembling; ANON: Gorani - Anna Mailian (mezzo), Sharakan/Grigor Danielian (Celestial Harmonies 13116)

  KOMITAS: Six Dances for Piano, Erangi; Unabi; Marali; Shushiki; Het-Arach; Shoror - Mikael Ayrapetyan (pno) (Naxos 8.573467)

  KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Dorothy Buchanan (b. 1945)

  New Zealand composer Dorothy Quita Buchanan was a pioneer of the Composer-in-Schools scheme in the 1970s, also an active violinist, pianist, teacher, publisher and composer. In 2001 she received an ONZM recognising a lifetime's involvement in music. To mark her 70th birthday this year, Dorothy talks with Elizabeth Kerr (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The Emperor Meets Brahms

  Behzod Abduraimov (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Pablo Gonzalez

  BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture Op 80; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor; BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  NIELSEN: Little Suite for Strings - Danish National Radio SO/Ulf Schirmer (Decca 452 486)

  DEBUSSY: La Mer - Cologne Radio SO/Gary Bertini (Capriccio 71 092)

  PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Igor Uriash (pno) (EMI CZS 5 72016)

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 13 in G Op 106 - Ragazze Quartet (Channel Classics CCS SA 36815)

  BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in G minor G351 - Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67287)

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