Wednesday 16 December 2015 Rāapa 16 Hakihea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MASSENET: Hérodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scènes Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scènes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro; Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39; Twelve Poems Op 35 - Ian Partridge (ten), Thomas Hemsley (bar), Jennifer Partridge, Paul Hamburger (pnos) (BBC MM 122)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  ELGAR: Serenade in E minor for strings Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling all workers; March, The dam busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 A LLOYD WEBBER arr Cullen: Pie Jesu, from Requiem - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Philips 462 712)

  SUK: Elegy Op 23 - Sitkovetsky Trio (BIS SACD 2059)

  PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie (Atma ACD 2 2600)

  AHO: Song of the Earth - Jan Lehtola (org), Kaija Saarikettu (vln), Anna-Kaisa Pippuri (ob) (BIS SACD 1966)

  BRITTEN: Rhapsody - Emperor Quartet (BIS SACD 1870)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Ambrose Op 4/2 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 - John Wilbraham, Philip Jones (tpts), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 443 768)

  7:00 DELL: Where is the room? - Sings Harry, Andrew MacMillan (org) (NZ Hymnbook Trust)

  DEBUSSY: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

  O'CONNOR: Misty Moonlight Waltz - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 66782)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Turull: Asturias, from Spanish Songs Op 232 - Sebastian See-Schierenberg (vln) (Signum SIGCD 405)

  ACOSTA: Jazmin (Tango) - Anette Maiburg (fl), Juan Lama, Andreas von Wangenheim (gtrs), Wlodzimierz Gula (dbass), Alberto Alarcon (castanets), Luis Llorente (cajon/palmas) (DGM 910 1727)

  ANDERSON: Promenade - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stravinsky: Bluebird pas de deux, from Sleeping Beauty - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble/Robert Craft (Naxos 8.557532)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Desyatnikov: Otoño porteño - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 7559 79568)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: FOOTE: Air, from Air & Gavotte - Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay (dir) (Capriccio 10 505)

  RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Stuttgart Radio SO/Stéphane Denève (Hänssler CD 93.325)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

  SCRIABIN: Fantasy in A minor for two pianos Op posth - Alexander Mogilevsky, Daniel Rivera (pno duo) (Warner 2564 61346)

  JC BACH: Sinfonia No 4 in Bb - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 0434)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  DAVID HAMILTON (b1955)

  The Moon is Silently Singing - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls, Greg Hill, Peter Sharman (horns) (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  Passacaglia - Alexa Still (fl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7345)

  Canción de Invierno - Nota Bene/Christine Argyle (RNZ)

  Nix Olympica - David Guerin (pno), Auckland Wind Quartet (Kiwi CD SLD 83)

  Three Spirituals, Whosoever will; In the garden; Walk you in the light - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  CHOPIN: Piano Trio in G minor Op 8 - Vilde Frang (vln), Andreas Brantelid (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (pno) (EMI 6 87742)

  SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Prague Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 3882)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Dietrich Henschel (bar), Fritz Schwinghammer (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1875)

  GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 - Joseph Moog (pno), German Radio Phil, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/Nicholas Milton (Onyx 4144)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  MOZART arr Hummel: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Uwe Grodd (fl), Friedemann Eichhorn (vln), Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572842)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 20 in G Op 49/2 - Olga Pashchenko (fpno) (Alpha 201)

  HAYDN: Miseri noi, misera patria! - Christiane Karg (sop), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Berlin Classics 0300646 BC)

  BECK: Sinfonia in G minor Op 2/2 - Thirteen Strings CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.573323)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  KAMEN: Main theme, from Band of Brothers - London Metropolitan Chorus & Orch/Michael Kamen (Sony SK 89719)

  LILBURN: Sonatina No 2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

  VERDI: Di destarlo per tempo il re m'impose, from Macbeth - Leo Nucci (bar), Shirley Verrett, Anna Caterina Antonacci (mezzos), Veriano Luchetti, Antonio Barasorda (tens), Samuel Ramey (bar), Chorus & Orch of the Communale Theatre, Bologna/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 061)

  CIMAROSA arr Renz: Oboe Concerto in Bb - Christoph Hartmann (ob), Berlin Ensemble (EMI 5 14232)

  PLEYEL: Symphony in Bb Ben125 - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572550)

  (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

  SCHUMANN: Six Poems & Requiem Op 90, Blacksmith's song; My Rose; Meeting and Parting; The Herdsgirl; Loneliness; The Sultry Evening; Requiem - Christine Schäfer (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33101)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 5344)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FINZI: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)

  HILL: String Quartet No 12 in E - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.573267)

  J RITCHIE: Canary Wine - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  WAXMAN: Rhapsody for piano & orchestra, from the film, The Paradine Case - David Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

  5:00 SMETANA: Skocná, from The Bartered Bride - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

  DANZI trans Klug: Variations on a theme by Mozart - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557613)

  GRANADOS: Intermezzo; Tonadilla, La Maja de Goya, from Goyescas - William Feasley (gtr) (Sonora SO/22587 CD)

  PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

  HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Pinchas Zukerman (vla) (RCA 09026 68768)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 - Odense SO/Jan Wagner (Bridge 9129)

  6:00 WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1 - Het Collectief/Reinbert de Leeuw (Zig Zag ZZT 345)

  WOLF: Italian Serenade - Alfama Quartet (Fuga Libera FUG 582)

  MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusina, Overture Op 32 - Swiss Romande Orch/Armin Jordan (Erato 4509 91734)

  DEBUSSY arr Heifetz: Beau soir - Janine Jansen (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Decca 478 2256)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Let beauty awake, from Songs of Travel - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 445 946)

  HOWELLS: My eyes for beauty pine - Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir/Paul Spicer, Jonathan Stamp (org) (Somm SOMMCD 0140)

  BIZET: The Fair Maid of Perth, Suite - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Georgina Zellan-Smith

  Tim Dodd talks to pianist Georgina Zellan-Smith about her early life in South Otago and her years in London in the 1960s and 70s where she had a successful performing career and rubbed shoulders with many of the great musicians from that era (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Euroradio Christmas Season

  Five programmes

  (3) Soile Isokoski (sop), Lapland CO/John Storgårds

  MADETOJA: Cast off thy everyday cares; KASKI: The snowbound cabins sleep; IKONEN: Little boy's prayer; KOCH: Vinterpastoral; PALMGREN: The Virgin rocks her baby boy; REGER: Maria Wiegenlied; REGER: Aria Op 103a/3, On the G string; RANTA: Lullaby from Lapland; SIBELIUS: Give me no splendour, gold or pomp Op 1/4; MERIKANTO: Children's Christmas; B HUMMEL: Scherzando, from Christmas Suite; MADETOJA: Starry sky; ADAM: O Holy Night (recorded in Kallio Church, Helsinki by Finnish Radio)

• 8:50 PM. Romantic

  BRUCKNER ed Nowak: Symphony No 4 in Eb - Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (Pentatone PTC 5186 450)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SARASATE: Fantasy on La Dame Blanche Op 3 - Volker Reinhold (vln), Ralph Zedler (pno) (MDG 903 1909)

  POULENC: Aubade, choreographic concerto for piano & 18 instruments - Louis Lortie (pno), BBC Phil/Edward Gardner (Chandos CHAN 10875)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

  RHEINBERGER: Piano Trio No 4 in F Op 191 - Parnassus Trio (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 0419)

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - José Miguel Moreno (gtr), La Real Cámara (Glossa GCD C80305)

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