Saturday 26 December 2015 Rāhoroi 26 Hakihea 2015

• 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

  (3) At home with Brahms (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  PSATHAS: Island Songs; KELLY: Sono; NORRIS: Dirty pixels; GRENFELL: A Feather of Blue; AXTENS: For Violin, Violoncello and Piano; FARR: Ahi - New Zealand Trio (Trust MMT 2066)

  2:15 approx - Disc 2

  PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater, Flute Concerto in G, Sinfonia in F, Salve Regina in C minor - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Ashley Solomon (fl), Jennifer Morsches (cello), Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS SA 29810)

  3:30 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15, Davidsbündlertänze Op 6, Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 22 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67780)

  4:45 approx - Disc 4

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings Op 48; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11; Elegy; Scherzo in C minor Op 42/2 - Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9116)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in C Op 6/10 - Rémy Baudet, Sayuri Yamagata (vlns), Richte van der Meer (cello), Hank Heyink (archlute), Musica Amphion/Pieter-Jan Belder (dir) (Brilliant Classics 92403)

  VEJVANOVSKY: Serenada - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Symphonia SY 96151)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr J Harnoy: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Ofra Harnoy (cello), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (RCA RD 60758)

  ANON: Greensleeves to a ground - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9820)

  TELEMANN: Sinfonia melodica in C TWV50/2 - Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (DG 477 5923)

  7:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 - Noah Geller (vln), Kansas City SO/Michael Stern (Reference Recordings 136)

  PIAZZOLLA: Summer, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Versus Ensemble (Naxos 8.570523)

  PELÉCIS: Flowering Jasmine - Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica CO/Gidon Kremer (dir/vln) (Nonesuch 287228)

  RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Kathryn Stott (pno) (EMI 4 16471)

  TRAD arr Koncz: Dances from Transylvania - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Leonidas Kavakos, Christoph Koncz (vln), Oszkár Ökrös (cimbalom), Antoine Tamestit (vla), Stephan Koncz (cello), Ödön Rácz (dbass)/Predrag Tomic (accordion/dir) (DG 481 1409)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends - Laurence Thorstenberg (cor anglais), Boston SO/Colin Davis (Philips 446 160)

  8:00 ELGAR: Spanish Lady Suite - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter (dir) (RCA RD 87761)

  GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9630)

  JANÁCEK: The Fiddler's Child - Elizabeth Layton (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67517)

  DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80418)

  BECK: Sinfonia in Eb Op 2/4 - Thirteen Strings CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.573323)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  GRIEG: Symphonic Dances on Norwegian motifs Op 64 - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 10287)

  ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7038)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  WAGENSEIL: Symphony in C WV361 - Stuttgart CO/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 777 112)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno), Sinfonia Varsovia/Alexander Vedernikov (Naive AM 212)

  BALFE: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, from The Bohemian Girl - Joan Sutherland (sop), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 850)

  RUBBRA: Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott Op 69 - Peter Cooper (pno) (Pye GGC 14110)

  TODD: Precious moment; Encircled - James Sherlock (pno), Tenebrae, English CO/Nigel Short (Signum Classics SIGCD 394)

  GLASS: Mad Rush - Valentina Lisitsa (pno) (Decca 478 8079)

  ANON: First Delphic Hymn of Apollo - Atrium Musicae de Madrid/Gregorio Paniagua (Harmonia Mundi HMA 190 1015)

  MOZART: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 - Andrew Manze (vln), English Concert (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7385)

  (Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  Ten programmes from the last year

  (1) Recent Releases from Vijay Ayer, Ben Monder and others (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Lazarus Quartet: Emma Yoon, Julianne Song (vlns), Lindsay McLay (vla), Alice Gott (cello)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 20/2; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G Op 18/2; BRAHMS: String Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 51 (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:30 PM. Tennstedt Conducts

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 7 in C# minor Op 131 - Bavarian Radio SO/Klaus Tennstedt (Profil PH 05003)

  WAGNER: Elizabeth's Greeting, Dich teure Halle; Allmächt'ge Jungfrau, from Tannhäuser - Jessye Norman (sop), London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (EMI CDC 7 49759)

  DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53 - Peter Zazofsky (vln), Berlin Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (Testament SBT 2 1449)

  BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture Op 62 - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (LPO LPO 0087)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LOVREGLIO: Fantasia on Verdi's La Traviata - Mark Walton (cl), Paul Bateman (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 001)

  BESSER: Summer Riffs - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

  GERSHWIN arr Wilkinson: Rhapsody in Blue - National Band of New Zealand/Kevin Jarrett (Kiwi Pacific CD SLC 226)

  FAURÉ: Nocturne No 4 in Eb Op 36 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

  BRIDGE: Two poems - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  RAVEL: Three Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Sigh; Vain petition; Risen from the springing croup; Histoires naturelles, The peacock; The grasshopper; The swan; The kingfisher; The guinea hen; Sur l'herbe; Les grands vents venus d'Outre-mer - François Le Roux (bar), Pascal Rogé (pno), Michel Moraguès, Patrice Kirchhof (fls), Antoine Marguier, Michel Westphal (cls), Castagneri Quartet/Tommaso Placidi (dir) (Le Chant du Mond LDC 278 1131)

  Spanish song; French song (Limousin folksong); Scottish song; Italian song; Hebrew song; Song of the spinning wheel - Inva Mula, Valérie Millot (sops), Claire Brua (mezzo), Gérard Theruel, Laurent Naouri (bars), David Abramovitz (pno) (Naxos 8.554176-77)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The King's Singers: David Hurley, Timothy Wayne-Wright (countertenors), Paul Phoenix (ten), Christopher Bruerton, Christopher Gabbitas (bars), Jonathan Howard (bass)

  ARLEN/KOEHLER arr Hart: Get Happy; ARLEN arr L'Estrange: I've got the world on a string; GERSHWIN arr Bennett: Love is here to stay; GERSHWIN arr Chilcott: Oh! I can't sit down; TRAD arr Price-Jackman: Stand still, Jordan; TRAD arr Chilcott: Steal away; TRAD arr Lawson: Down to the river to pray; TRAD arr Knight: Swing low, sweet chariot; TRAD arr Roberts: Little David, play on your harp; PORTER arr L'Estrange: It's de-lovely, Begin the Beguine, Night and day, I've got you under my skin, Let's misbehave; COLEMAN: The best is yet to come; KERN: I won't dance; YOUNG: When I fall in love; TRENET: Beyond the sea; HAMILTON: Cry me a river; RODGERS: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered; BERLIN: Cheek to cheek; RODGERS: My funny Valentine, The lady is a tramp (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall in June 2014 by RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. South of the Border

  COPLAND: El Salón México - New Philharmonia/Aaron Copland (CBS MK 42429)

  PONCE: Sonata mexicana - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Naxos 8.573284)

  SOUSA: New Mexico March - Royal Artillery Band/Keith Brion (Naxos 8.559132)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SPOHR: Violin Concerto in E minor WoO10 - Ulf Hoelscher (vln), Berlin Radio SO/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 751)

  POULENC: Trio for piano, oboe & bassoon - Ensemble Blumina (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 903 1827)

  RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome - Atlanta SO/Louis Lane (Telarc CD 80085)

  11:00 BÉRIOT: Piano Trio in C minor Op 64 - Hirotoshi Kasai (pno), Kuniko Nagata (vln), Mark Drobinsky (cello) (Talent DOM 2911 127)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 10 in Eb D87 - Quatuor Mosaïques (Naïve E 8580)

Next day - Sun 27

Download a PDF of this page: Large print | Medium print | Small print