Wednesday 30 December 2015 Rāapa 30 Hakihea 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphony No 25 in G minor; VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in F RV487; MOZART: Rondo in Eb for horn K371; MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor; WOLF: Italian Serenade; J STRAUSS II: Blue Danube Waltz; Emperor Waltz - Matthew Wilkie (bsn), Jonathan Williams (horn), Douglas Boyd (ob), Diemut Poppen (vla), Chamber Orch of Europe/Alexander Schneider (ASV CD COE 810)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  WALTON: Violin Concerto; Sonata for violin & orchestra; Two Pieces for violin & orchestra - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9073)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  MACHAUT: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit, Ballade 32, Plourez dames; Ballade 33, Nes qu'on porroit; Rondeau 4, Sans cuer dolens; Lai 13, Le lay de bonne esperance; Rondeau 18, Puis qu'en oubli; Rondeau 17, Dis et sept cinq - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.553833)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  FOLEY: Oiseaux Excentriques; LOUIE: Music for piano; SOUTHAM: Rivers, excerpts; SMITH: Zart; HÉTU: Petite Suite - Louise Bessette (pno) (CBC MVCD 1064)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  DUKAS: La Péri, Fanfare; La Péri; Symphony in C; The Sorcerer's Apprentice -Netherlands Radio Phil/Jean Fournet (Denon CO 75284)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CROFT: Overture in D - Michael Laird (tpt), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55258)

  CPE BACH: Rondo in A Wq58/1 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

  BOUGHTON: Three Folk Dances - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67185)

  HUPFELD arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

  FAURÉ: Pavane - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  ERNST: Rondino grazioso, from Morceaux de Salon Op 13 - Thomas Christian Ensemble (CPO 777 894)

  DEBUSSY arr Kondonassis: Valse romantique - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  HANDEL: As steals the morn, from L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato - Lucy Crowe (sop), Mark Padmore (ten), English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7422)

  7:00 TRAD: Away in a manger - New York Polyphony (Avie AV 2141)

  HOVHANESS: Bagatelles Op 30 - Shanghai String Quartet (Delos DE 3700)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS orch Stanton: Six Studies in English Folk Song, excerpts - Laurence Perkins (bsn), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67453)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 2 in C - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (dir/hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 66524)

  CHAMINADE: Flute Concertino Op 107 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

  ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  HANSON: Rhythmic Variations on two Ancient Hymns - Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.559072)

  8:00 Beauty Spot:

  LILBURN: Willow Song, from Othello - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

  SIBELIUS: Menuetto - Turku Phil/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.573300)

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dance No 5 - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Tsiboulski APT-CD 101)

  JC BACH: Symphony in Eb Op 6/5 - Netherlands CO/David Zinman (Philips 442 275)

  BRIDGE: Miniature Pastorals, Set 1 - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.557842)

  KOMITAS arr Aslamazian: Ten Armenian Folk Songs & Dances, excerpts - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 10094)

  KREISLER: Sicilienne & Rigaudon, in the style of Francoeur - Akiko Suwanai (vln), Philharmonia/Charles Dutoit (Philips 475 6189)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  TELEMANN: Orchestral Suite in A, Festive - Northwest CO, Seattle/Alun Francis (Hyperion CDH 55048)

  BACH: Schlafe, mein Liebster, geniesse der Ruh, from Christmas Oratorio, Part 2 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 653)

  MENDELSSOHN: Kinderstücke Op 72 - Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93975)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Donald Sweeney (bass), Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, David Dunnett (organ) (Decca 444 130)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  VASKS: Little Summer Music - Cyril Garac (vln), Maria Martinova (pno) (Delphian DCD 34156)

  FOOTE: Suite in E Op 63 - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559365)

  GLIÈRE: String Sextet No 3 in C Op 11 - members of Berlin Philharmonic String Octet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 308 1196)

  LASSER: Piano Concerto, The Circle and the Child - Simone Dinnerstein (pno), MDR Leipzig Radio SO/Kristjan Järvi (Sony 88875 03245)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 458 142)

• Noon Recent Releases

  GRIEG: At the Wedding; Peer Gynt's Homecoming, from Peer Gynt Op 23 - BBC Scottish SO/Hannu Lintu (BBC MM 388)

  SIBELIUS: The song of the men of Uusimaa; The bells of Kallio Church; Dreams; Men from plain & sea - Estonian Phil Chamber Choir/Heikki Seppänen (Ondine ODE 1260-2D)

  KUULA: South Ostrobothnian, Suite No 1 - Turku Phil/Leif Segerstam (Ondine ODE 1270)

• 1:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  TCHAIKOVSKY orch Lane: Troika - RTE Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.572744)

  BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Andrea Bocelli (ten), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 474 438)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 1 in D K412 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1946)

  DONIZETTI: Per me non sia turbato, from Anna Bolena - Elena Souliotis (sop), John Alexander, Piero de Palma (tens), Nicolai Ghiaurov, Stafford Dean (basses), Vienna State Opera Chorus & Orch/Silvio Varviso (Decca 448 061)

  ADAMS: Shaker Loops - Ensemble Modern/Sian Edwards (RCA 09026 68674)

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

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

  DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - London SO/Valery Gergiev (LSO Live LSO 0692)

  COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto - Michael Collins (cl/dir), Swedish CO (Chandos CHAN 10756)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 9 in Eb Op 70 - Mariinsky Orch/Valery Gergiev (Mariinsky MAR 0524)

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  DELIUS: Sleigh Ride - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1958) (EMI CDS 7 47509)

  BUTTERWORTH: Bredon Hill; O fair enough are sky and plain; When the lad for longing sighs; On the idle hill of summer; With rue my heart is laden - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Sony 88697 94424)

  DELIUS rev & ed Beecham: Florida Suite - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1960) (EMI CDS 7 47509)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARR: Te Papa - Mere Boynton (karanga), Virginia-Marie Stack (mezzo), Simon O'Neill (ten), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2026)

  SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in F# minor Op 23 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar CD TRL 069)

  HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D - Elizabeth Hirst (fl), University of Auckland Orch/Uwe Grodd (Uni of Auckland UAAA 01)

• 5:00 PM. Early Evening Classics

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80551)

  KEMPFF: Pastorale variée - Cyprien Katsaris (pno) (Sony SK 52551)

  HANDEL: O ruddier than the cherry, from Acis & Galatea - Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67842)

  ZI: Plum Blossoms in the Snow - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 2 06322)

  CURTIS: Pas de Deux - Alaster Bentley (ob), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2015)

  GOODALL: The Seasons, Summer - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

  6:00 GARNER/BURKE arr Barley: Misty - Viktoria Mullova (vln) (Philips 464 184)

  GERSHWIN: A foggy day in London town - Catherine Bott (sop), David Owen Norris (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67457)

  FRANKEL arr Kennaway: Footsteps in the Fog - Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 809)

  O'CONNOR: Misty Moonlight Waltz - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 66782)

  DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

  PETIT: Tarentelle - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  BELLINI: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Padua & Venice Orch (CPO 777 715)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  In Memoriam

  Two programmes commemorating the artists who have passed away this year

  (2) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bright is the ring of words, from Songs of Travel; Linden Lea; Hugh's Song of the Land, from Hugh the Drover - Jon Vickers (ten), Richard Woitach (pno) (CBC PSCD 2024)

  VIVALDI: Il Giustino, Sinfonia - Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis (dir) (Veritas 5 45518)

  COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Danse Nègre, from African Suite - Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 055)

  BACH: Cantata No 140, Wachet auf, from Cantata No 140, Wachet auf - South German Madrigal Choir, Consortium Musicum/Wolfgang Gönnenwein (EMI CMS 5 66650)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas, in E minor Op 41/1; in C Op 7/5 - Ivan Moravec (pno) (Supraphon SU 4059)

  BEETHOVEN: Thirty-two Variations in C minor WoO80 - Gianluca Cascioli (pno), Serge Collot (vla) (DG 447 766)

  BERGH: Norwegian Dance No 2, Old Holin - Håvard Gimse (pno) (Naxos 8.557834)

  TRAD arr Willcocks: Sussex Carol; RUTTER: Star Carol - Bach Choir, John Scott (org), Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music/David Willcocks (Chandos CHAN 8973)

  BERLIOZ: Premier transports, from Romeo & Juliet - Patricia Kern (contralto), London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 416 962)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stravinsky: Bluebird pas de deux, from Sleeping Beauty - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble/Robert Craft (Naxos 8.557532)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Euroradio Christmas Season

  Five programmes

  (5) Big Band of the Riga Professional Symphonic Band/Raitis Asmanis

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Ellington: Overture; Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes); Peanut Brittle Brigade (March); Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy); Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers), from The Nutcracker; TRAD arr Curnow: Lo, how a rose ever blooming; TRAD arr Goodwin: Hark, the herald angels sing; MOZART arr Goodwin: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550, excerpt; TRAD arr McElrath: O Tannenbaum; TRAD arr Goodwin: God rest ye merry gentlemen; TRAD arr Kubis: We wish you a merry Christmas (recorded in Studio 1, Latvian Radio Broadcasting House, Riga by Latvian Radio)

• 8:55 PM. Going Seasonal

  SVOBODA: Overture of the Season Op 89 - Oregon SO/James DePreist (Albany Troy 604)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter - Ensemble Cordevento/Erik Bosgraaf (rec/dir) (Brilliant Classics 94637)

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

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 247)

  BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 723)

  CIMAROSA: Concerto in G for two flutes - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Alex Klein (ob), Czech National SO/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 080)

  TRAD: Three Irish & Scottish Songs, The Musical Priest/Scotch Mary Caledonia's Wail for Niel Gow; The Humours of Scariff - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish hp) (Alia Vox AVSA 9865)

  LAURIDSEN: Les Chansons des Roses - Polyphony/Stephen Layton, Morten Lauridsen (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67580)

  SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux D780 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 422 076)

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