Thursday 24 December 2015 Rāpare 24 Hakihea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture; FRANCK: Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 382)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  BLISS: Introduction & Allegro; Concerto for cello & orchestra; Meditations on a Theme by John Blow - Robert Cohen (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Argo 443 170)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  Choruses & Lieder by Boulanger, Hensel, C Schumann - Christine Friedek (sop), Regine Böhm, Mitsuko Shirai (mezzos), Bernhard Gärtner (ten), Hartmut Höll, Sabine Eberspächer (pnos), Heidelberg Madrigal Choir/Gerald Kegelman (Bayar BR 100 041 CD)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerti, No 3 in Bb; No 11 in Eb; J STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto in Bb; C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto No 10 in Bb - Sabine Meyer (cl), ASMF/Iona Brown (EMI CDC 7 54842)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BACH: Partitas, No 5 in G BWV829; No 3 in A minor BWV827; No 6 in E minor BWV830 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (Archiv 415 493)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 MOZART: Overture, Il sogno di Scipione - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Oiseau-Lyre 417 592)

  DEBUSSY: Jardins sous la pluie, from Estampes - Cécile Ousset (pno) (Berlin Classics 1345 BC)

  MUSSORGSKY arr Liadov: Sorochinsky Fair, Introduction - Russian National Orch/Carlo Ponti (PentaTone PTC 5186 332)

  THOMAS: Fantasia on David of the White Rock - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

  HALVORSEN: Air norvégien - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10614)

  SCHMITT: Sonatine en trio Op 85 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Paul Meyer (cl), Eric Le Sage (pno) (EMI 5 57948)

  SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  7:00 GJEILO: A spotless rose - Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1265)

  KATS-CHERNIN: Eliza's Aria - Nicola Sweeney (vln), Sarah Nicolls (pno) (Signum SIGCD 058)

  MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - London SO/John Eliot Gardiner (LSO Live LSO 0765)

  SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Private)

  PETIT: Toccata - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1348)

  DRING: Festival Scherzo for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

  ELGAR: Andante & Allegro - Victoria Brawn (ob), Zoë Beyers (vln), Louise Williams (vla), Richard Jenkinson (cello) (Somm SOMMCD 252)

  BRAHMS: Rhapsody in G minor Op 79/2 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

  HAYDN: Third movement, Finale, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Sony SK 60804)

  HURLSTONE: Second movement, Snow White in the woods, from The Magic Mirror, Suite - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 208)

  NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - Stephen Stirling (horn), Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1122)

  CORNELIUS arr Mottl: The Barber of Baghdad, Overture - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel (Naxos 8.573418)

  9:00 Christmastide

  Music for the Christmas season

  VARIOUS: Processional; Nowell, Nowell, Tydings Trew; Noël nouvelet; Sussex Carol; Taladh Chriosda (Christ Child's Lullaby); Hodie, Christus natus est; Hymn: All Sons of Adam, sing Nowell!; Postlude: Christmas Eve, from Sacrum Mysterium, A Celtic Christmas Vespers - Meredith Hall (sop), Plainchant cantors: Amanda Powell (sop), Jesse Blumberg (bar), Sylvain Bergeron (archlute), Apollo's Fire, Apollo's Singers, Ensemble La Nef/Jeannette Sorrell (Avie AV 2269)

  TRAD arr Sullivan: It came upon a midnight clear; GRUBER: Silent Night; TRAD arr Lloyd: I saw three ships come sailing in - Choir of Merton College, Oxford/Benjamin Nicholas, Charlie Warren, Peter Shepherd (org) (BBC Music BBC MM 378)

  VARIOUS arr Peak: Christmas Medley - Welsh National Youth Orch/Owain Arwel Hughes (Quartz QTZ 2035)

  TRAD arr Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Ian Hare (org) (EMI 5 66923)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  HANDEL: Rodrigo, Overture - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5234)

  RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez - Milos Karadaglic (gtr), Sue Böhling (cor anglais), London Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0652)

  GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 2 in G Op 13 - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Dynamic CDS 278)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 - San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS 821936 0062)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  REICHA: Wind Quintet in G Op 88/3 - Thalia Ensemble (Linn CKD 471)

  ERNST: Feuillet d'album - Thomas Christian (vln), Evgeny Sinayskiy (pno) (CPO 777 894)

  MARTINU: String Quartet No 3 - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10840)

  FUCÍK: Concert Overture, Winter Storms Op 184 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5158)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

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

  USPER: Vulnerasti cor meum; Intonuit de caelo - Sacabuche!/Linda Pearse (Atma ACD 22712)

  GIBBS: Dusk, from Fancy Dress Suite - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

  GOUNOD: Salut! demeure chaste et pure, from Faust - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Prague Phil/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 6029)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 9 in C Op 103 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Memoria 991 001)

  (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: Frauenliebe und -leben Op 42 - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Bruno Walter (pno) (rec 1949) (Decca 433 476)

  Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120 - Berlin Phil/Wilhelm Furtwängler (rec 1953) (DG 427 404)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Elégiaque - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)

  PSATHAS: Seikilos - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

  GALUPPI: Keyboard Sonata in D minor Illy66 - Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.572672)

  GÓRECKI: Totus tuus - Nota Bene/Christine Argyle (Nota Bene NB 001)

  HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 3, Allegro marcato - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  5:00 MOZART: The Magic Flute, Overture - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2068)

  CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Arthur Rubinstein (pno) (Philips 456 955)

  TRAD: Wexford Carol - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16085)

  HUMPERDINCK: Humoresque in E - Bamberg Sinfonia/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-1197)

  M HAYDN: Bassoon Concertino in Bb - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)

  VORÍSEK: Rondo Op 11 - Kocian Quartet (Praga PRD 250 204)

  LAURO: Venezuelan Waltzes - John Couch (gtr) (Private)

  MARQUEZ: Conga del fuego nuevo - Simón Bolívar SO/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 0069)

  6:00 DEBUSSY: Passepied, from Suite bergamasque - Ji Liu (pno) (Classic FM CFMD 33)

  POULENC: Trois mouvements perpétuels - William Bennett (fl), Nicholas Daniel (ob), James Campbell (cl), Rachel Gough (bsn), Richard Watkins (horn), Chris West (dbass), members of the Allegri String Quartet chamber ensemble (Cala CACD 1018)

  CURTIS: Christmas rush - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2085)

  MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (Sony SK 87287)

  GIBSON: Peace Child - Sings Harry, Andrew MacMillan (org) (NZ Hymnbook Trust)

  HANDEL: La paix, from Music for the Royal Fireworks - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 411 122)

  TRAD arr Idenstam: Inner peace - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

  GJEILO: Serenity - Bartosz Cajler (vln), Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  ELGAR: Salut d'Amour Op 12 - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Steven Isserlis (cello), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

  HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from Planets Suite Op 32 - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  A Classical Christmas

  Anthems, motets, lieder and opera for the the festive season; William Dart explores the Christmas spirit through composers from Cornelius and Wolf to Poulenc, Hindemith and David Farquhar (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Puer natus est nobis

  Jane McKinlay (sop), Phillip Collins, Richard Taylor, Philip Roderick (tens), Tudor Consort/Michael Stewart

  ANON Sarum chant: A solis ortus cardine; Ther is no Ros; Hayl Mary, full of grace; LAMBE: Stella caeli; ANON: Coventry carol; BALLOT: Sweet was the song; BYRD: This day Christ was born; LAMBE: Nesciens mater; ANON: Verbum caro factum est; GUERRERO: A un niño llorando al yelo; TALLIS: Videte miraculum; PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est; O magnum mysterium; MOUTON: Quaeramus cum pastoribus; LASSUS: Resonet in laudibus (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:10 PM. Going Grand

  GIULIANI: Grand Variation on a Savoyard Theme - David Starobin (gtr) (Bridge Records BRIDGE 9418)

  CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Wojciech Switala (pno) (NIFC NIFCCD 006)

  PASCULLI: Grand Concerto on themes from Verdi's Sicilian Vespers - Philippe Magnan (ob), I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9662)

  AUBER: Grand Pas Classique - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Christmas Eve, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8327/9)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Augustin Dumay (vln), Louis Lortie (pno) (Onyx 4133)

  MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth from Nature Trilogy - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1137)

  HOVHANESS: Spirit of Trees, Sonata for harp & guitar - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), David Leisner (gtr) (Telarc CD 80530)

  TEGNER: Bethlehems stjärna - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (org), Svante Henryson (cello) (DG 459 685)

  TRAD arr A Isserlis: O Jesulein Süss!; MORAEUS arr Moraeus/Jansson: Koppången - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Ulf Forsberg, Ulrika Jansson (vlns), Torbjörn Helander (vla), Ola Karlsson (cello), Bengan Jansson (acc/org), Kalle Moraeus (gtr/vln/mand), Svante Henryson (cello/dbass) (DG 459 685)

Next day - Fri 25

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