Saturday 2 January 2016 Rāhoroi 2 Kohi-tātea 2016

• 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

  (4) Cosmopolitan Pianist (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  BRIDGE: Suite for String Orchestra; DELIUS: Sonata for String Orchestra; BRIDGE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  WAGNER: In fernem Land and Mein lieber Schwan!, from Lohengrin; MOZART: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön; Die Weisheitslehre dieser Knaben, from The Magic Flute; SCHUBERT: In tiefbewegter Brust, from Fierrabras, Schon wenn es beginnt zu tagen, from Alfonso & Estrella; BEETHOVEN: Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!, from Fidelio; WAGNER: Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond, from Die Walküre; Amfortas! Die Wunde! and Nur eine Waffe taugt, from Parsifal - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (Decca 478 1463)

  3:20 approx - Disc 3

  MENDELSSOHN: Preludes & Fugues, in E minor Op 35/1; in D Op 35/2; in B minor Op 35/3; in Ab Op 35/4; in F minor Op 35/5; in Bb Op 35/6; Overture, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Andante & Variations in Bb Op 83a; Andante & Allegro brillant in A Op 92 - Mi-Joo Lee (pno), Klaus Hellwig (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 904 1653)

  4:35 approx - Disc 4

  MARAIS: Suite in D; Suite in G; Suite in D for Robert Visée; Suite in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 DELIUS arr Fenby: La Calinda, from Koanga - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

  GRIEG: Nocturne; Homeward, from Lyric Pieces - Emil Gilels (pno) (DG 449 721)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Fröscher: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Roland Fröscher (euphonium), Capella Istropolitana/Dominique Roggen (Naxos 8.570725)

  HOVHANESS: Harp Sonata Op 127 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80530)

  SCHUBERT: Du bist die Ruh' D776; Heidenröslein D257; An die Laute D905 - Bryn Terfel (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 445 294)

  MATTEIS: Violin Suite in D minor, from Ayres for the Violin, Part 4 (London, 1685) - Bronwen Pugh (vln), Robert Petre (hpschd) (Meridian CDE 84316)

  7:00 GAUTIER DE COINCY: S'amour dont sui espris - New London Consort/Philip Pickett (Decca 460 794)

  SHANKAR: Variant Moods - Joshua Bell (vln), Anoushka Shankar (sitar), Samir Chatterjee (tabla), Kenji Ota (tanpura) (Sony 88697 55436)

  FOULDS: Kashmiri Boat Song on Jhelum River - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7307)

  FALLA trans Maréchal/Llobet: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Màrquez (gtr) (Naïve V 5182)

  COPLAND: Hoe Down, from Rodeo - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559758)

  CARMICHAEL arr Hurst: A Country Fair - Jack Harrison (cl), West Australian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics 442 374-2)

  8:00 FAURÉ: Pie Jesu, from Requiem Op 48 - Anthony Way (treble), English Sinfonia/Neil Page, Daniel Phillips (organ) (Decca 455 645)

  BACH: Violin Partita No 3 in E BWV1006 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln) (Philips 475 7552)

  WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 420 946)

  DUBOIS: Toccata in G, from 12 New Pieces - Joseph Nolan (organ in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace, London) (Signum SIGCD 114)

  HILL arr Stiles: Berceuse - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Hill Records 001)

  VERDI: Triumphal Scene, Gloria all'Egitto, from Aida - Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 430 226)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Barry Tuckwell (horn), London SO/Peter Maag (Decca 443 762)

  DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)

  LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas - Edmund Hillary (narrator), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Koch International 3-7260)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Boris Berezovsky (pno), Ural Phil/Dmitri Liss (Mirare MIR 019)

  PÄRT: The Beatitudes - BBC Singers/Paul Brough, Iain Farrington (org) (BBC MM 387)

  WAGENSEIL: Symphony in F WV398 - Stuttgart CO/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 777 112)

  BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Aaron Rosand (vln), North German Radio Phil/Christoph Wyneken (Vox VXP 7906)

  BRAHMS: Der Schmied Op 19/4; Wiegenlied Op 49/4 - Maureen Forrester (contralto), Thomas Muraco (pno) (CBC Records PSCD 2017)

  ELGAR: Die junge Kokette - Innovation Chamber Ensemble/Barry Collett (Somm SOMMCD 252)

  VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDZ 7 62521)

  RIES: Piano Concerto in Eb Op 42 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572742)

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

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• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  Ten programmes from the last year

  (2) The Monk Lives On, further explorations of Thelonious' oeuvre (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Anniversary Celebration 2014

  Jayne Tankersley (sop), Jessica Shaw (rec), Sally Tibbles (fl), NZ Barok

  HANDEL: Sinfonia; Comfort ye; Ev'ry valley; Pifa; Rejoice greatly, from Messiah; TELEMANN: Recorder Concerto in C; QUANTZ: Flute Concerto in D QV5/45; HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 1 in F (recorded in St Luke's Church, Remuera by RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. Dream On

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream Op 61 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 2166)

  BERLIOZ: Rêverie & Caprice - Soyoung Yoon (vln), Basel SO/Ivor Bolton (Solo Musica SOB 08)

  CORTESE: I Dream'd in a Dream - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)

  GLAZUNOV: Rêverie Op 24 - David Mueller-Cajar (hn), Tim Emerson (pno) (Private)

  BEACH: Dreaming Op 15/3 - members of Ambache (Chandos CHAN 10162)

  ANDERSON: Forgotten dreams - Barbara Lieberman (pno), Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

  ELGAR: Dream Children Op 43 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARQUHAR: Suite for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

  MCLEOD: Childhood - 1996 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

  COPLAND: Billy the Kid - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559106)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  TIPPETT: The heart's assurance, Song; The heart's assurance; Compassion; The dancer; Remember your loves - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Iain Burnside (pno) (Signum SIGCD 066)

  Boyhood's end - Mark Padmore (ten), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67459)

  POULENC: Tel jour telle nuit, Bonne journée; Une ruine coquille vide; Le fron comme un drapeau; Une roulotte couverte en tuiles; A toutes brides; Une herbe pauvre; Je n'ai envie que de t'aimer; Figure de force brûlante et farouche; Nous avons fait la nuit - Sophie Karthäuser (sop), Eugene Asti (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2179)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Mikhail Ovrutsky (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll; KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35; MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN arr A Far Cry: O ignis Spiritus - A Far Cry (Crier Records CR 1401)

  BLANCAFORT: Youthful pieces - Miquel Villalba (pno) (Naxos 8.557332)

  SKALKOTTAS: Thirty-six Greek Dances, excerpts - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 10094)

  RACY: Ecstasy - Ali Jihad Racy (nay), Souhail Kaspar (tar), Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79490)

  FALLA: Cradle Song - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9826)

  TRAD arr Burleigh: Negro Spirituals, Deep river; Didn't it rain?; Swing low sweet chariot; I got a robe - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Maurice Till (pno) (Kiwi CD SLC 248)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 3 in C Op 2/3 - Lang Lang (pno) (Sony 88697 71900)

  GEMINIANI: Three Scotch Airs with Variations, from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick - Brian Berryman (fl), Axel Wolf (gtr/lute/theorbo), Eckhart Kuper (hpschd) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 505 1127)

  D SCARLATTI arr anon: Mandolin Sonata in D minor Kk90 - Steven Isserlis, Robin Michael (cellos), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 68045)

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