Thursday 17 December 2015 Rāpare 17 Hakihea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  J STAMITZ: Symphonies, in D Op 3/2; in Eb Op 11/3; Three Manheim Symphonies, in G; in A; in Bb; Trio in E Op 5/3 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553194)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84; BRIDGE: Quintet in D minor for piano, two violins, viola & cello - Allan Schiller (pno), Coull String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 678)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  HAYDN: Mass in Bb HobXXII/12, Theresienmesse; Mass in G, St Nicholas - Nancy Argenta (sop), Catherine Robbin (contralto), Michael Schade (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), English Consort & Choir/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 437 807)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  VILLA-LOBOS: Preludes, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in E; No 3 in A minor; PONCE: Preludio, Balletto & Giga; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Capriccio Diabolico; ALBÉNIZ: Asturias; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata; TURINA: Fandanguillo; SOR: Introduction & Allegro Op 14 - Guillermo Fierens (gtr) (ASV CD DCA 685)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite Op 40; Elegiac Melodies Op 34; SIBELIUS: Valse Triste Op 44; NIELSEN: Little Suite Op 1; WIRÉN: Serenade Op 11; SIBELIUS: Rakastava Op 14 - Roy Gillard (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Argo 417 132)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 CPE BACH: Symphony in Eb Wq179 - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 1711)

  SCHUBERT arr Maisky: Moment Musicale No 3 in F minor D780 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 439 863)

  BRIDGE: There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)

  A MARCELLO: Second movement, Larghetto, from Oboe Concerto in D minor - József Kiss (ob), Ferenc Erkel CO (Naxos 8.550556)

  MOZART: Second movement, Larghetto, from Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb K493 - Péter Nagy (pno), members of New Zealand String Quartet (NZ String Quartet)

  GLINKA: Summer Night in Madrid, Spanish Overture No 2 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

  7:00 ATTWOOD: O God, who by the leading of a star - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 207)

  SIBELIUS: Processional, from Masonic Ritual Music Op 113 - Turku Phil/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.573300)

  FIELD: Divertissement No 1 in E - Míceál O'Rourke (pno), London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10468)

  WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.550744)

  CHOPIN: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

  HELSTED/PAULLI: The Flower Festival in Genzano - Aalborg SO/Peter Ernst Lassen (Danacord DACOCD 631-639)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: ANON: Hush now, go to sleep - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9826)

  BINGE: The Watermill - Ruth Scott (ob), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

  GRIEG: In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt - Oslo Phil Chorus & Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

  ROSSINI: Serenata in Eb - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 27708)

  ALFVÉN: Dance of the Herdmaiden, from The Mountain King - Malmö SO/James DePreist (BIS CD 570)

  ALBÉNIZ: Tango Op 164 - Louise Bessette (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9963)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Lascae: Mélodie, from Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Janine Jansen (vln), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Decca 478 0651)

  WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 2022)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  DAVID HAMILTON (b1955)

  An Offering for Parihaka - Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), strings of the New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2033)

  Rakiura - Elise Bradley (contralto), Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1509)

  Hurdy Gurdy - CadeNZa/Kenneth Young (Private)

  My Gifts to Keep; Christmas Cradle Song - Opus 1998/David Hamilton (Private)

  Karakia of the Stars - Voices16/Karen Grylls, Horomona Horo (taonga puoro) (Atoll ACD 213)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  WF BACH: Overture-Suite in G minor - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

  DVORÁK: Piano Concerto in G minor Op 33 - Francesco Piemontesi (pno), BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Naïve V 5327)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 2 in A Op 68 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 463 284)

  FAURÉ: Pelléas & Mélisande, Concert Suite - Czech Phil/Serge Baudo (Supraphon SU 3899)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  PUCCINI: Preludio Sinfonico in A - Graz Phil/Lodovico Zocche (CPO 777 953)

  DONIZETTI: Ancor non giunse .. Perché non ho del vento .. Torna, torna, o caro oggetto from Rosmonda d'Inghilterra; BELLINI: Ah! non credea mirarti, from La Sonnambula - Diana Damrau (sop), Royal Theatre Orch, Turin/Gianandrea Noseda (Erato 0825 646166749)

  WOLF-FERRARI: The Jewels of the Madonna, Intermezzo No 2 - Graz Phil/Lodovico Zocche (CPO 777 953)

  VERDI: È strano ... Sempre libera, from La Traviata - Sonya Yoncheva (sop), Valencia Comunitat Orch/Frederic Chaslin (Sony 88875 01720)

  MASCAGNI: Le maschere, Sinfonia - Graz Phil/Lodovico Zocche (CPO 777 953)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  JC BACH: Symphony in G Op 6/1 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)

  LEONI: Deus exaudi; In te Domine speravi - Aaron Sheehan (ten), Sacabuche!/Linda Pearse (Atma ACD 22712)

  KHACHATURIAN: Waltz, from Masquerade - Hamburg State Phil/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI 5 56970)

  DUBERY: One night in December, from Night Songs - Adrienne Murray (mezzo), Michael Cox (fl), David Dubery (pno) (Metier MSV 28548)

  DUNCAN: March, from A Little Suite - Light Music Society Orch/Vivian Dunn (EMI 5 66676)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 8 in Bb Op 84 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Philips 456 946)

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• 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

  HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Pierre Fournier (cello), Lucerne Festival Strings/Rudolf Baumgartner (rec 1967) (DG 477 5939)

  HAYDN ed Gevaert: Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2 - Pierre Fournier (cello), Bavarian Radio SO/Eugen Jochum (rec 1952) (Tahra TAH 566)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (EMI 5 58076)

  BACH: Concerto in C for two keyboards BWV1061 - James Tibbles, Jenny Thomas (hpschds) (Atoll ACD 509)

  A RITCHIE: The Blue Sonata Op 90 - David Chickering (cello), Richard Mapp (pno) (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 113)

  5:00 CHAUSSON: Soir de Fête - Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 357)

  LISZT arr Kreisler: La Campanella, Transcendental Study No 3 in G# minor after Paganini - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Irina Ryumina (pno) (BIS CD 999)

  HOPE: Momentum Suite - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

  KREISLER arr Dokshitser: Schön Rosmarin - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 46/3 - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Warner 25646 45276)

  6:00 BARBER: School for Scandal, Overture Op 5 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559024)

  SOR: L'Encouragement Op 34 - Julian Bream, John Williams (gtrs) (RCA RD 83257)

  SIBELIUS: The way to school; School song - Estonian Phil Chamber Choir/Heikki Seppänen (Ondine ODE 1260-2D)

  TRAD arr Meyer/O'Connor: College Hornpipe - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  UTTING arr Moriarty: Onslow College Suite - New Zealand Guitar Quartet (Ode CDMANU 5153)

  KABALEVSKY: Rhapsody on the theme of the song School Years - Hsin-Ni Liu (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557794)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Christchurch Harmonic Society 1965 tour

  Fifty years ago, 150 members of the Christchurch Harmonic Society Choir and Chorale travelled to England to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Arts Festival. Clarissa Dunn talks to the Music Director William Hawkey and some of the choir members about this highlight of their musical lives (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Celebrate Christmas

  The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Christmas Concert for 2014

  Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Benjamin Northey

  BRITTEN: Fanfare for St Edmundsbury; TORELLI: Concerto a quattro per il santo natale Op 8/6; HANDEL: The trumpet shall sound; For unto us a child is born, from Messiah; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival; CORNELIUS: The Three Kings; RESPIGHI: Second movement, L'Adorazione dei Magi, from Three Botticelli Pictures; RUTTER: Nativity Carol; Jesus Child; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Polonaise, from Christmas Eve Suite; TRAD arr Cohen: The First Nowell; MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing; GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. Beethoven in 1800

  Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 - La Chambre Philharmonique/Emmanuel Krivine (Naïve V 5258)

  Variations in G on an Original Theme WoO77 - Ronald Brautigam (fpno) (BIS SACD 1673)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FASCH: Overture in F - Dresden Baroque Orch (CPO 777 782)

  FARRENC: Trio in Eb for clarinet, cello & piano Op 44 - Romain Guyot (cl), François Salque (cello), Brigitte Engerer (pno) (Naïve V 5033)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 2 in A minor Op 55 - London SO/Yondani Butt (ASV CD DCA 599)

  MARTUCCI: Piano Trio No 2 in Eb Op 62 - Trio Vega (Naxos 8.573438)

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