Schedule for Friday 25 December 2015

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

12:00 approx - Disc 1
Harpsichord at the Holidays
Christmas Carols past and present played on the harpsichord - Elaine Funaro (hpschd) (Alienor ARCD 1207)
1:40 approx - Disc 2
TRAD: In dulci jubilo; OWEN:The holly & the ivy; TRAD: Rocking; VILLETTE: Hymne à la Vierge; TRANCHELL: If ye would hear the angels sing; MATHIAS: Wassail Carol; TRAD: Resonet in laudibus; Adeste fideles; TRAD: Sussex Carol; RUTTI: A Patre unigenitus; HOWELLS: Here is the little door; PARSONS: Ave Maria; POULENC: Videntes Stellam, from Four Christmas Motets; TRAD arr Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Adeste fideles (organ solo); WEBERN: Dormi, Jesu; SHAW: Hills of the north, rejoice; WALTON: Make we joy now in this fest; TH JONES: What child is this?; GRUBER: Stille Nacht; G GABRIELI: O magnum mysterium; TRAD: Of the Father's heart begotten; PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - Nick Lee, Annie Lydford (orgs), Joe Shiner (cl), Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (BBC BBC MM 339)
2:45 approx - Disc 3
PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est; Christe, redemptor omnium; Magnificat quinti toni; Tui sunt caeli; Reges Tharsis; Missa Hodie Christus natus est; Song of Songs (excerpts); O magnum mysterium - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16105)3:55 approx - Disc 4
BACH: Chorale Prelude, Wachtet auf BWV140; BALBASTRE: Noel, Où s'en vont ces gais bergers?; GUILMANT: Two variations on Puer nobis nascitur; BUXTEHUDE: Chorale Prelude, In dulci jubilo BuxWV197; LUBECK: In dulci jubilo; DAQUIN: Noël No 10 in G, Noël grand jeu et duo; BOELY: Noëls sur cantiques de Denisot Op 15, excerpts; FISCHER: Prelude on O Jesulein süss; BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; MAUGHAN BARNETT: Variations on the Christmas tune Mendelssohn - Richard Apperley (org), Michael Stewart (org) (Organism ORG 015)
5:05 approx - Disc 5
TRAD: Introduction to the Great Compline; ZINOVYEV: God is with us, from The Great Compline; TRAD: Today the Virgin gives birth; STROKIN: Nunc dimittis; TRUBACHEV: The Six Psalms; KHRISTOV: The Great Litany; TRAD: God is the Lord and hath appeared unto us; KHRISTOV: Praise the name of the Lord; DODONOV: The exaltation of the Nativity of Christ; TRAD: From my youth; Gospel Reading: Matthew 1:18-25; Glory to God in the highest; F ALEXANDROV: The Heirmos of the Canon & Small Litany; NIKOLAYEV-STRUMSKY: Great Doxology; TRAD: Thy nativity, O Christ our God Troparion; Litany of supplication; KOSOLAPOV: Establish, O God; TRAD: Dismissal; BORTNYANSKY: Many years - Don Cossacks Choir Russia/Marcel Nicolajevich Verhoeff (Christophorus CHR 77336)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 TRAD arr Warrell: We wish you a merry Christmas - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)
PAGANINI arr Kreisler: Third movement, La campanella, from Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 7 - Ning Feng (vln), Thomas Hoppe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80807)
SULEK: Trombone sonata, Vox Gabrieli - Stefan Schulz (bass tbn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (BIS CD 1824)
PURCELL: Abdelazer, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)
DITTERSDORF: String Quartet No 1 in D - Franz Schubert Quartet (CPO 999 038)
ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Alastair Ross (org), Simon Standage (vln), Richard Hickox Orch/Richard Hickox (Decca 425 854)
7:00 SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)
BRAHMS arr Bailey: Sapphische Ode Op 94/4; Liebestreu Op 3/1; Minnelied Op 71/5; Wiegenlied Op 49/4 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Awadagin Pratt (pno) (Telarc TEL 32664)
RODRIGO: Second movement, Larghetto, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Alexandre Lagoya (gtr), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (ABC Classics 446 631)
SIBELIUS: Theme & Variations in C# minor - Tempera Quartet (BIS CD 1376)
J STRAUSS II: Roses from the South - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 425 429)
8:00 AM. Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

At Our Listeners' Pleasure
A day where we turn our programme over to you, our audience, in grateful thanks for your continued listenership
SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Entr'acte to Act III - Das Neue Orch/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-192)
FOSTER: While shepherds watched their flocks by night - Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54529)
CHOPIN: Prelude in Db Op 28/15, Raindrop - Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1982)
BRITTEN: A boy was born - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Graham Ross (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907 615)
HELY-HUTCHINSON: Carol Symphony - Pro Arte Orch/Barry Rose (EMI CDM 7 64131)
9:00 K YOUNG: Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)
FRANCK: Panis angelicus, from Mass for three voices - Bryn Terfel (bar), Aled Jones (ten), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 477 5563)
BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasia Op 80 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno), Ingeborg Dobozy (sop), Marie-Luise Wilke (mezzo), Dorte Küsters (contralto), Wilhelm Füchsl (ten), Klaus Thiem (bar), Rudolph Hillebrand (bass), RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Radio SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 705)
BACH: Jesu, joy of man's desiring - Christopher Parkening (gtr) (Angel CDC 7 47191)
FLETCHER arr Newsome: Ring out, wild bells - Huddersfield Choral Society, John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome, Keith Rhodes (org) (Chandos CHAN 8679)
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 373 250)
ANON: Sibila Castellana - Montserrat Figueras (sop), La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9900)
HOLST: Brook Green Suite - English Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.570339)
SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, from Samson & Delilah - Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Vienna Opera Orch/Henry Lewis (Decca 444 552)
BIBER: The Five Joyful Mysteries, Sonatas Nos 1-5: The annunciation; The visitation; The nativity; The presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple; Finding the 12-year-old Jesus in the temple - Gunar Letzbor (vln/dir), Ars Antiqua Austria (Arcana A 381)
BILLINGS: Methinks I see an heav'nly host; A Virgin Unspotted - Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54529)
TRAD arr Cullen: Angels from the realms of glory - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Carl Davis (Decca 433 010)
GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)
Noon Celebrate Christmas

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Christmas Concert for 2015
Sarah Castle (mezzo), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Benjamin Northey
G GABRIELI: Canzon in echo duodecimi toni à 10; POULENC: O magnum mysterium, from Four Christmas Motets; BACH: Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen, from Christmas Oratorio; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus; WADE arr Willcocks: O come all ye faithful; MARTIN/BLANE arr Marsh: Have yourself a merry little Christmas; ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride; BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin; TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Suite; HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture & Act 3, Scene 3; RUTTER: Star carol; ADAM arr Ryden: O Holy Night; MASON arr Wilberg: Joy to the world; GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night (recorded in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland by RNZ)
2:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narrator), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 115)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Hervey Alan (bar), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, London SO/David Willcocks (Decca 425 499)

HANDEL: He shall feed his flock, from Messiah - Isobel Baillie (sop), Gladys Ripley (mezzo), Liverpool Phil/Malcolm Sargent (rec 1946) (Dutton CDEA 5010)

3:00 GOUNOD: Faust, ballet music - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 462 125)

TRAD arr Lloyd: I saw three ships come sailing in - Choir of Merton College, Oxford/Benjamin Nicholas, Peter Shepherd (org) (BBC Music BBC MM 378)

SCHUBERT: Impromptus D935 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 245)

VIVALDI: Agitata da due venti, from Griselda - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Decca 455 981)

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (EMI 5 56798)

SAINT-SAËNS: Christmas Oratorio Op 12 - Michèle Lagrange (sop), Annie Tasset, Hanna Schaer (mezzos), Georges Gauthier (ten), Paul Guigue (bar), Paul Couëffé (org), Germaine Lorenzini (harp), Le Madrigal de Lyon, Lyon CO/Milan Bauer (Arion ARN 68059)

PROKOFIEV: Troika, from Lieutenant Kijé - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 247)

GERSHWIN: Embraceable you, from Girl Crazy - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Princess Theatre Orch/John McGlinn (EMI 7 47454)

GOLD: From a distance - Judy Collins (vocalist) (Gold Castle D2 71318)

TRAD arr Kelly: Christmas Countdown (12 Days of Christmas) - Frank Kelly (narrator), with instrumental accompaniment (EMI 5 93548)

MENDELSSOHN arr Wesley/Lim: Hark, the herald angels sing; HANDEL arr Watts/Durham: Joy to the world - Judith Durham (vocalist), instrumental accompaniment (Decca 375 8649)

PIERPONT arr B Parry: Jingle Bells - Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse (Naxos 8.573030)

WILLIAMS: Reunion of friends, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - London SO/William Ross (Warner 7567 931592)
6:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree (cont.)

L MOZART: Toy Symphony in G - Toulouse CO/Georges Armand (vln/dir) (EMI CDZ 7 62516)

HANDEL: Worthy is the Lamb, from Messiah - The Sixteen & Orch/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16066)

KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani - Nigel Kennedy (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56626)

LAURIDSEN: Sure on this shining night, from Nocturnes - Vox Humana/David Childs, Bradley Hunter Welch (pno) (Naxos 8.572511)

WILLIS arr Leon: It came upon a midnight clear - Robert Max (cello), London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Sony 88697 98887)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Wither's Rocking Hymn - Choir of Worcester Cathedral/ Christopher Robinson (Chandos CHAN 6550)

GRUBER arr Rose: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht - Dresden Vocal Concert/Peter Kopp (Berlin Classics 1644 BC)

VIVALDI: Mandolin Concerto in C RV425 - Bonifacio Bianchi (mandolin), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 2292 45058)

STRAUSS: Im Abendrot, from Four Last Songs - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Berlin Radio SO/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47276)

RYBA: Czech Christmas Mass, Hail Master - Dagmar Vankátová (sop), Pavla Ksicová (contralto), Vladimír Dolezal (ten), Václav Sibera (bass), Josef Ksica (org), Choir & Orch of the Czech Madrigalists/Frantisek Xaver Thuri (Naxos 8.554428)

TAYLOR: Watt's Cradle Song - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (EMI CDM 7 64130)

G GABRIELI: In ecclesiis - Canadian Brass & Berlin Philharmonic Brass (CBS MK 39035)

BYRD: Gloria, from Mass for five voices - Westminster Cathedral Choir/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 68038)

HANDEL: O Thou that tellest, from Messiah - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Phil/Adrian Boult (rec 1952) (Decca 414 623)

GIBILARO: Carrettieri, from Four Sicilian Miniatures - Beniamino Gigli (ten), orchestral accompaniment/Vito Carnevali (rec 1949) (EMI CHS 7 63390)

PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - Bremen Cathedral Choir/Wolfgang Helbich (CPO 777 238)

BARBER: Violin Concerto Op 14 - Joshua Bell (vln), Baltimore SO/David Zinman (Decca 452 851)

SCHUBERT: An die Musik D547 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47861)

BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols - James Clark, Julian Godlee (trebles), Osian Ellis (harp), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (EMI 5 62796)

DOUGLAS: Deep Peace - Bill Douglas (pno/synth), Stephanie Arado (vln), Brett Wallace (cello), Ars Nova Singers (ABC 472 610)

WADE arr Wilberg: O come, all ye faithful; BERLIN arr Hazell: White Christmas; TRAD arr Hazell: What child is this? TRAD arr Wilberg: Still, still, still - Bryn Terfel (bar), Côrdydd, Welsh National Opera Orch/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)

SCHUBERT: Moment musicale No 2 in Ab - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 422 076)

ROUSE: Karolju - Philharmonia Chorus, BBC SO/David Zinman (RCA 88697 11561)

BACH: Sich üben im Lieben, from Cantata No 202, Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten (Wedding Cantata); Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not, from Cantata No 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - Ursula Langmayr (sop), Alison Dunlop (ob), Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd) (Atoll ACD 916)

VICTORIA: O quam gloriosum - Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66114)

BUXTEHUDE: Cantata, Das neugebor'ne Kindelein BuxWV13 - Emma Kirkby (sop), Michael Chance (countertenor), Charles Daniels (ten), Peter Harvey (bass), Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0723)

ADAM arr Totzauer: O Holy Night; HOPKINS: We three kings of Orient are; TRAD arr Meyer: Angels we have heard on high - Leontyne Price (sop), Chorus of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 421 103)
11:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree (cont.)

VICTORIA: Mass, O Magnum Mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Munich Bach Choir & Orch/Karl Richter (DG 423 774)

TCHAIKOVSKY: We hymn thee; Cherubic Hymn, from The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Op 41 - Holst Singers/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66928)

RUTTER: Gloria - Cambridge Singers, Gary Kettel (timp), Eric Allen (perc), John Scott (org), Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 100)