Schedule for Tuesday 29 December 2015

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27; Vocalise in E minor Op 34/14 - Philharmonia/Jacek Kaspszyk (Collins 10542)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
MEDTNER: Sonata Reminiscenza in A minor Op 38/1; Russian Fairy Tale Op 42/1; Dancing Fairy Tale Op 48/1; Organ Grinder Op 54/3; Fairy Tales, in F minor Op 26/3; in D minor Op 51/1; Funeral March Op 31/2; Fairy Tale in G# minor Op 31/3 - Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9050)
2:25 approx - Disc 3
STANFORD: For lo I raise up; HARRIS: Bring us O Lord God; HARVEY: The tree; PURCELL: Hear my prayer O Lord; BOYCE: O where shall wisdom be found; TAVENER: Hymn to the mother of God; WALTON: Jubilate Deo; HAYDN: Insanae et Vanae Curae; NAYLOR: Vox Dicentis, Clama; BLOW: Salvator Mundi; WOOD: Great Lord of Lords; BALFOUR GARDINER: Evening Hymn; FINZI: God is gone up Op 27 - Choir of Norwich Cathedral/Michael Nicholas, Neil Taylor (org) (Priory PRCD 351)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
SCHARWENKA: Piano Concertos, No 2 in C minor Op 56; No 3 in C# minor Op 80 - Seta Tanyel (pno), Hanover Radio Phil/Tadeuz Strugala (Hyperion CDA 67365)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
LEASK: Aatidahlge; BACH arr Koonce: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV998; MERTZ: Hungarian Fantasy; KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz; DOMENICONI: Variations on an Anatolian Folksong; PIAZZOLLA: Tanguango (arr Roskilly); Milonga del angel (arr Benitez); Verano Porteña; Primavera Porteña - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5004)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 GAUTIER DE COINCY Hui matin a l'ajournee - New London Consort/Philip Pickett (Decca 460 794)
GRIEG orch Halvorsen: The Bridal Procession passes by, from Pictures from life in the country - Royal Scottish National Orch/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557854)
CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Samson François (pno) (EMI 2 12695)
MONTSALVATGE: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negritto, from Five Negro Songs - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), James Parker (pno), cello ensemble (Musica Viva MVCD 1164)
GRAINGER arr Robertson: Molly on the Shore - James Campbell (cl), Allegri String Quartet (Marquis Classics ERAD 119)
PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Tasmin Little (vln), Martin Roscoe (pno) (EMI CD EMX 2221)
TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)
BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances Sz68 - Hungarian National Phil/Zoltán Kocsis (Hungaroton HSACD 32506)
7:00 EDWARDS: No small wonder - Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir/Jeffrey Skidmore, Andrew Fletcher (org) (Sanctuary CD RSN 3054)
LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)
UCCELLINI arr Red Priest: Aria on La Bergamasca - Red Priest (Red Priest RP 001)
PORTER arr Burton: Brush up your Shakespeare, from Kiss Me Kate - Sarah Fox (sop), James Burton (bar/pno) (Signum SIGCD 406)
MONTI arr Lenehan: Czárdás - Nicola Benedetti, Tamás András (vlns), Thomas Carroll (cello), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Petr Limonov (pno) (Decca 478 5338)
IRELAND: Minuet, from A Downland Suite - English CO/Julian Lloyd Webber (Naxos 8.573250)
GOUNOD: Soldiers' chorus, from Faust - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 266)
DEBUSSY trans Bauer: Arabesque No 1 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)
FRANCHOMME: Variations on Russian & Scottish Themes - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)
8:00 Beauty Spot: MAHLER: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, from Rückert Lieder - Janet Baker (mezzo), New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47793)
BEETHOVEN: Finale, from Creatures of Prometheus - Helsingborg SO/Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7470)
D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in F minor Kk386; in F minor Kk387 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (Virgin VCD 5 45123)
FARQUHAR: Musette - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)
HERZOG: When the meadows turn green - Alpine Rose Yodelling Club, Münsingen/Stephan Haldemann (Musica Helvetica MHCD 96.2)
G GREEN arr Graham: Triplets - Evelyn Glennie (xylophone), Black Dyke Band/James Watson (RCA 09026 63234)
HOLST: St Paul's Suite - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8375)
9:00 AM. Christmastide

LILBURN: A Christmas Offering - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2068-69)
TRAD arr Miolin: Les anges dans nos campagnes; Lulajze, Jezuniu - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS SACD 2026)
REED: Russian Christmas Music - Emory Symphonic Winds/Scott A Stewart (Naxos 8.573002)
10:00 AM. The Works

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 449 213)
HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Philip Edward Fisher (pno) (Naxos 8.573397)
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051 - Freiburg Baroque Orch (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2176)
FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)
SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Thomas Søndergård (Linn CKD 462)
Noon Recent Releases

BECK: Sinfonia in D Op 2/1 - Thirteen Strings CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.573323)
MOZART: String Quintet No 3 in C K515 - Lise Berthaud (vla), Quatuor Voce (Alpha 214)
HOFFMEISTER: Der Königssohn aus Ithaka, Overture - Orchestra della Svizzera italiana/Howard Griffiths (CPO CPO 777 895)
1:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

RAVEL: Boléro - Paris National Opera Orch/Philippe Jordan (Naïve V 5332)
MOERAN: Violin Concerto - Tasmin Little (vln), BBC Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHAN 10796)
SOUSA: While Navy Ships are Coaling; White Plume March - Central Band of the RAF/Keith Brion (Naxos 8.559729)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

International Chopin Competition Winners
CHOPIN: Nocturne in B Op 62/1; Etude in G# minor Op 25/6 - Adam Harasiewicz (pno) (Polskie Nagrania PNCD 002)
Scherzo No 3 in C# minor Op 39; Nocturne in Eb Op 55/2 - Martha Argerich (pno) (Polskie Nagrania PNCD 003)
Scherzo No 4 in E Op 54 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (Polskie Nagrania PNCD 004)
Mazurkas Op 33; Waltz in F Op 34/3 - Stanislav Bunin (pno) (DG 423 067)
Polonaise in Ab Op 53, Heroic - Rafal Blechacz (pno) (Accord ACD 136)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
TCHAIKOVSKY rev Stokovski: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - The Hague Residentie Orch/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1951) (Archipel ARPCD 0087)
PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky - Sophia van Sante (mezzo), Large Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Phil/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1970) (Medici Arts MM 026)
4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - Stephen De Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 030)
LISZT: Orpheus - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)
PSATHAS: Corybas - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 542)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)
5:00 PM. Early Evening Classics

ANON arr Pluhar: Bastiao - L'Arpeggiata, King's Singers/Christine Pluhar (Naïve V 5055)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)
WEBER arr Quartetto Gelato: Presto giocoso, from Concert Piece in F minor Op 79 - Quartetto Gelato (QG 2 70025)
BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Sony SK 60681)
TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)
BESSER: Bass Polka - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music 1995a)
ROSSINI orch Respighi: Tarantella, from La Boutique Fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 444 610)
VIERNE: Naïades, from Fantasy Pieces Op 55 - John Wells (organ in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Timaru) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)
BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Royal Philharmonic Chorus & Orch/Leopold Stokowski (Decca 417 753)
6:00 GERMAN: Four jolly sailormen, from The Princess of Kensington - Oscar Natzka (bass), male quartet, session orch/Walter Goehr (Atoll ACD 400)
ANON: Salterello; SILVA: O virgo benedicta - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Oiseau-Lyre 444 537)
FAURÉ: Second movement, Scherzo, from Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Domus (Hyperion CDA 66166)
COPLAND arr Kanengiser: Mexican landscape; Dance of Jalisco, from Three Latin American Sketches - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Telarc CD 80593)
MOZART: Non ti fidar, from Don Giovanni - Margaret Price, Sylvia Sass (sops), Stuart Burrows (ten), Bernd Weikl (baritone), London Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 448 060)
VIVALDI: Concerto in E minor for four violins RV550, from L'Estro Armonico Op 3 - Rachel Podger (vln/dir), Brecon Baroque (Channel CCS SA 36515)
BACH trans Laycock: Chorale Prelude & Fugue from Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied BWV225; GRAINGER trans Patrick: Shepherd's Hey - Rascher Saxophone Quartet (CALA CACD 77003)
PUCCINI: Dunque è proprio finita, from La Bohème - Mirella Freni, Elizabeth Harwood (sops), Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Rolando Panerai (bar), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 448 060)
7:00 PM. Appointment

Burt Bacharach
In a COW series from 2007 William Dart interviews and looks at the music of the American composer who has recently visited New Zealand
(5) Odds and Ends; Loneliness Remembers what Happiness Forgets; Paper Maché - Dionne Warwick (vocalist); Anyone who had a heart - Cilla Black (vocalist); Raindrops keep fallin' on my head - BJ Thomas (vocalist); selections from original cast recordings for On the Flip Side and Promises, Promises; Ceux qui ont un Coeur - Petula Clark (vocalist); Ein haus ist kein Zuhaus - Katja Ebstein (vocalist) (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Auckland Arts Festival 2015
Two programmes
(2) Rachel Alexander, Natasha Wilson (sops), Lachian Craig (countertenor), Jeffery Chang (ten), Rowan Johnston (bar), Nicholas Forbes (bass), James Tibbles (org), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls, David Squire
ANON: Te lucis ante terminum; ESENVALDS: Stars; WHITACRE: Lux aurumque; TALLIS: O nata lux; LAURIDSEN: O nata lux; T WEHI arr Wiremu: Waerenga-a-Hika; ELGAR arr Cameron: Lux Aeterna; GJEILO: Northern Lights; BATES: Observer in the Magellanic Cloud; SCHAFER: Epitaph for Moonlight; CHILCOTT: Canticles of Light; HAMILTON: Ecce beatum lucem (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)
9:15 PM. Classical Cello

BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 5/2 - Pierre Fournier (cello), Friedrich Gulda (pno) (rec 1959) (DG 477 6266)
GRAZIANI: Cello Concerto in C - Edgar Moreau (cello), Il Pomo d'Oro/Riccardo Minasi (Erato 0825 646052660)
10:00 PM. Day's End

K YOUNG: For Gil - Trevor Bremner (cornet) (Private)
SVIGALS: Dybbuk Shers - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Klezmatics (EMI CDC 5 55555)
GONTCHAROV: We bow down before your cross - Orthodox Singers Male Choir/Gueorgui Smirnov (CdM Russian Season RUS 288 158)
PÄRT: Summa - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt (EMI CD EMX 2221)
DVORÁK: Four Duets Op 38, Hoping in vain; Greeting from afar; The crown; Smart - Martina Kritznerová (sop), Daniela Demuthová (contralto), Jaroslav Saroun (pno) (Brilliant Classics 92883)
HOVHANESS: Concerto No 2 for guitar & strings Op 394 - Javier Calderón (gtr), Royal Scottish National Orch/Stewart Robertson (Naxos 8.559336)
BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - David Watkin (cello) (Resonus RES 10147)
MOZART: Variations in C on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)
BOCHSA: Harp Concerto No 1 in D minor - Lily Laskine (harp), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Jean-Baptiste Mari (Erato 2292 45084)