Schedule for Saturday 19 December 2015

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Richard Farrell - New Zealand Pianist
The recorded legacy of Richard Farrell, who died in a car crash in 1958 at the age of 31, shows a pianist of outstanding technique and insight. Peter Mechen presents four programmes reviewing the surviving recordings and talking to those who remember Farrell's playing
(2) Elegant Romantic (RNZ)
1:00 approx - Disc 1
LISZT: Hungaria S103; Hamlet S104; Battle of the Huns S105; Die Ideale S106 - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10490)
2:20 approx - Disc 2
MOONDOG: Blast Off; New York; Paris; Bumbo; Heath on the Heather; Torisa; Shakespeare City; Frankanon; You Have To Have Hope; A.Sax; Reedroy; The Cosmicode - Moondog Big band, London Brass, London Saxophonic (Roof Music RD 2633272)
3:10 approx - Disc 4
D'HERVELOIS: Suite No 2 in G; VISÉE: Passacaille; Anne-Danican PHILIDOR: Recorder Sonata in D minor; DIEUPART: Suite No 1 in A; VISÉE: Theorbo Suite in D minor; F COUPERIN: Le Rossignol en amour; DIEUPART: Suite No 6 in F minor; F COUPERIN: Le Rossignole Vainqueur; Double de Rossignole - Pamela Thorby (recorders), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute/theorbo), Elizabeth Kenny (gtr) (Linn CKD 341)
4:35 approx - Disc 5
ROSS: Marching Strings; HOPE: Jaunting car, from The Ring of Kerry; DUNCAN: High Heels; CURZON: Dance of an ostracised imp; FOULDS: Keltic Lament, from A Keltic Suite Op 29; WILLIAMS: Rhythm on Rails; COATES: By the sleepy lagoon; BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba; KETÈLBEY: In a monastery garden; WILLIAMS: A quiet stroll; FLETCHER: Demoiselle chic, from Parisian Sketches No 1; BEAVER: Cavalcade of Youth; BAYCO: Elizabethan Masque; GARDINER: Shepherd Fennel Dance; ANCLIFFE: Thrills; ROSSE: The doge's march, from The Merchant of Venice; COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Petite Suite de Concert Op 77 - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 CHOPIN arr Breiner: Third movement, Funeral March, from Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Eschwe (Naxos 8.553596)

LISZT: Petrarch Sonnet No 47 - David Wilde (pno) (Delphian DCD 34118)

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)

BACH: Choral Fantasia, Jesu, meine Freude BWV713 - Jane Downer (ob d'amore), Peter Hagen (org) (Chandos CHAN 0809)

PÄRT: Magnificat; Bogoroditse Devo - South Dakota Chorale/Brian A Schmidt (Pentatone PTC 5186 530)

MOZART: Church Sonata in F K224 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

LOCATELLI: Introduction in D Op 4/1 - Raglan Baroque Players/Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67041/2)

7:00 PUCCINI rev Chailly: Scherzo - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 320)

MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Claude Delangle (sax), Singapore SO/Lan Shui (BIS CD 1357)

KREISLER: Gypsy Caprice - Caroline Goulding (vln), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Telarc CD 80744)

VILLA-LOBOS: Etude No 1 in E minor; Prelude No 1 - René Bartoli (gtr) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 19 0928)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA 74321 84112)

STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

8:00 NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 43 - Luigi Piovano (cello), Luisa Prayer (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0401)

COPLAND: Two ballads - Eugene Drucker (vln), Diane Walsh (pno) (Bridge 9145)

GUBITSCH: Traversuras - François Salque (cello), Vincent Peirani (accordion), Tomás Gubitsch (gtr) (Zig Zag ZZT 322)

RACHMANINOV: Second movement, Adagio sostenuto, from Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Alexander Lubiantsev (pno), Sydney SO/János Fürst (ABC 476 272)

SCHUMANN: First movement, Andante espressivo, from String Quartet in A Op 41/3 - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10692)
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

VANHAL: Symphony in E minor (Bryan e2) - Camerata Schweiz/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 612)
LILBURN: Two Christmas Pieces for LB (1941) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ)
BLOCH: Schelomo - Pierre Fournier (cello), Berlin Phil/Alfred Wallenstein (DG 457 761)
TODD: A Celtic Blessing - James Sherlock (pno), Tenebrae, English CO/Nigel Short (Signum Classics SIGCD 394)
STRAVINSKY arr Crabb/Draugsvoll: Petrushka - James Crabb, Geir Draugsvoll (accordions) (EMI CDZ 5 69705)
SCHUBERT: Magnificat in C D486 - Lucia Popp (sop), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Adolf Dallapozza (ten), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Elmar Schloter (org), Bavarian Radio Chorus & SO/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CMS 7 64783)
DEBUSSY: Piano Trio in G - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67114)
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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
(12) Live at Cafe Bohemia, Hardbop in the Heart of Greenwich Village
During the mid-1950s, Cafe Bohemia was one of the most happening jazz clubs in New York City, a Greenwich Village club where Manhattan's infections art and intellectual scene thrived. On any given night a visitor might hear Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, or Kenny Dorham holding down the stage, with future cult figure Herbie Nichols taking a turn as intermission pianist.
The style of jazz played there was progressive hardbop, often in a minor key, and executed at world-class levels of passion and precision. This programme features live recordings made at the club by Mingus, Davis, Blakey, Dorham's short-lived Jazz Prophets group, and pianists Randy Weston and George Wallington (WFIU)
2:00 PM. Global Sounds

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

Jian Liu (pno), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young
LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; FAURÉ: Prélude; Fileuse; Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37; DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)
4:50 PM. For the Young

PROKOFIEV: Peter & the Wolf - John Gielgud (narrator), Royal Phil/Andrea Licata (Tring International TRP 046)
ACHRON: Children's Suite - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67841)
IRELAND orch Palmer: The Holy Boy - Lorraine McAslan (vln), Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7215)
BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (narr/dir) (BBC Music MM 94)
6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
STATHAM: Suite for flute & string quartet - Adrianna Lis (fl), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - NZSO National Youth Orch 2004/Alasdair Neale (National Youth Orch)
7:00 PM. Vocalied

BERLIOZ: The beautiful traveller; Farewell, Bessy!; How dear to me the hour; The origin of the harp; Elégie, from Nine Mélodies (Irlande) Op 2 - Thomas Hampson (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55047)
PUCCINI: Terra e mare; E L'uccellino; Storiella d'amore; Sole e amore - Anna Leese (sop), Stephen De Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 050)
BALAKIREV: Embrace, kiss; Spanish song - Daniil Shtoda (ten), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (EMI 5 74232)
Russian Songs, When I but hear your voice; Over the lake; My restless heart; Selim's Song; I loved him - Olga Borodina (mezzo), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (Philips 442 780)
R FUCHS: A New Zealand Christmas - Jenny Wollerman (sop), Margaret Medlyn (mezzo), Richard Greager (ten), Roger Wilson (bass), Richard Mapp (pno) (Rollover Productions 2010A)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
The traditional Christmas service, from the chapel in which it was first conceived in 1918, with readings from choir members, Cambridge residents and the clergy of King's College - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Ben-San Lau (org) (Choir of King's College KGS 0001)
9:40 PM. Instrumental Lessons

ARIOSTI: Lesson No 1 in Eb - Thomas Georgi (vla d'amore), Lucas Harris (archlute), Joëlle Morton (vla da gamba) (BIS CD 1535)
NARES: Lesson No 2 in D - Julian Perkins (hpschd) (Avie AV 2152)
10:00 PM. Day's End

GRIEG: Lyric Suite Op 54 - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1291)
FRANÇAIX: L'Horloge de flore - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)
SIBELIUS: The Wood Nymph Op 15 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS SACD 1745)
11:00 HAYDN: Piano Trio in C HobXV/21 - Erich Höbarth (vln), Christophe Coin (cello), Patrick Cohen (fpno) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 296 8298.99)
MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 5 in Eb Op 44/3 - Piatti Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 085)