Thursday 18 February 2016 Rāpare 18 Hui-tanguru 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; Music for Children, Galop finale - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs - Elizabeth Söderström (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 436 204)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  TUBIN: Double bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 GRÉTRY: Silvain, Overture - Brittany Orch/Stefan Sanderling (ASV CD DCA 1095)

  SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - András Schiff (pno), Alois Posch (dbass), members of the Hagen Quartet (Decca 466 945)

  BRIDGE: There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)

  TAVENER: Song for Athene - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London Phil/Andrew Litton (Decca 478 6424)

  MOLINO: Trio for flute, viola & guitar Op 4/3 - Carlo Tamponi (fl), Raffaele Mallozzi (vla), Gianluigi Giglio (gtr) (Tactus TC 763801)

  MUSSORGSKY arr Stokowski: A Night on Bare Mountain - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557645)

  7:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304980)

  SIBELIUS: Valse triste, from Kuolema - Folke Gräsbeck (pno) (BIS 2132)

  FRANCK: Les Éolides - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9875)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 1 in D K412 - Pip Eastop (natural horn), Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (Hyperion CDA 68097)

  YRADIER trans Tárrega: La Paloma - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 432 102)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Open for us - Karineh Avetissian (sop) (Celestial Harmonies 13115)

  OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne, Overture - Vienna SO/Bruno Weil (Sony SK 53288)

  VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in C RV82 - L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (dir) (Brilliant Classics 93810)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 70 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  MONTANA: Third movement, Bambuco, from Suite Colombiana No 2 - José Antonio Escobar (gtr) (Naxos 8.573059)

  ROSSINI arr Schagerl: La Danza - Andreas Ottensamer, Daniel Ottensamer (cls), Ernst Ottensamer (basset horn) Vienna Virtoso (DG 481 1917)

  CHABRIER: Cortège burlesque - Laurent Martin, Eric Cerantola (pno duet) (Ligia LIDI 020 1205-09)

  LEHÁR: Sirens of the Ball, Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

  9:00 The Works

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 10 in E minor Op 93 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 413 361)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  FAURÉ: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 - Eric Le Sage (pno), Quatuor Ebène (Alpha 602)

  BOÏELDIEU: Harp Concerto in C - Marisa Robles (harp),

  ASMF/Iona Brown (Decca 425 723)

  CZERNY: Duo Concertante in G Op 129 - Kazunori Seo (fl), Makoto Ueno (pno) (Naxos 8.573335)

  SULLIVAN: Symphony in E, Irish - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9859)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  FRANCIS: Characteristic Pieces Vol 1, Waltz; Siciliano; A child's tune; Nocturne; April shower; Berceuse; The old millwheel; Sea idyll; Merry-go-round; Frolic - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMR CD034)

  LAWES: Sett a 4 in D minor - Laurence Dreyfus (viol/dir), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Phantasm (Linn CKD 470)

  BERKELEY: Piece for flute, clarinet & bassoon - Sarah Bennington (fl), John Slack (cl), Andrew Watson (bsn) (Resonus RES 10149)

  C SIMPSON: Twenty Ayres for Two Trebles & Two Basses, Nos 17-20 in G minor - Dan Tidhar (hpschd), Chelys Consort of Viols (BIS SACD 2153)

• 1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

  Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30 - Valentina Lisitsa (pno), London SO/Michael Francis (Decca 478 4890)

  BEETHOVEN: Gott, welch' Dunkel hier, from Fidelio - Siegfried Jerusalem (ten), Munich Radio Orch/Heinz Wallberg (Eurodisc GD 69109)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Schaupp: Granada, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Karin Schaupp (gtr) (Warner 3984 23306)

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

• 3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

  CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Song of Destiny Op 54 - Ambrosian Singers, London Phil/Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec 1989-1991) (Brilliant Classics 92878)

  Gesang der Parzen Op 89 - Ernst Senff Choir, Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 5 56983)

  Song of Triumph Op 55 - Bo Skovhus (bar), Danish National Choir & SO/Gerd Albrecht (Chandos CHAN 10165)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.116)

  FARR: Time & Tide - Donald Armstrong (vln), Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba), NZSO CO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2036)

  POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani - Gillian Weir (organ of Royal Festival Hall, London), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Virgin 5 22045)

  5:00 WEBER: Oberon, Overture - Israel Phil/Daniel Barenboim (RCA 09026 68768)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)

  FUCÍK: The Merry Blacksmiths Op 218 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5158)

  BOUGHTON: Three Songs without Words - Sarah Francis (ob), members of Rasumovsky Quartet (Helios CDH 55174)

  BALAKIREV arr Lyapunov: Islamey - Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Goetzel (Onyx 4124)

  6:00 WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

  Steuermann, lass die Wacht!, from The Flying Dutchman - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

  Josef STRAUSS: Sailors' Polka Op 52 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

  ANON: What shall we do with the drunken sailor? - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  GRAINGER: Sailor's Song - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1767)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: First movement, The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Tatiana Porshneva (vln), Russian National Orch/Carlo Ponti (PentaTone PTC 5186 378)

  STANFORD: Sailing at dawn, from Songs of the Fleet - Gerald Finley (bar), BBC National Chorus and Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5043)

  BINGE: Sailing By - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66968)

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Thy ship must sail WoO153/20 - Lynne Dawson (sop), Alida Schat (vln), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Bart van Oort (fpno) (Berlin Classics 001639)

  GLIÈRE: Russian Sailor's Dance, from The Red Poppy - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Beethoven's Piano Concertos

  Indra Hughes presents an overview of Beethoven's five piano concertos, as well as a little-known piano concerto that Beethoven wrote when he was just 13 years old (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from the Auckland Town Hall

  A Grand Opening

  Li-Wei Qin (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Christopher Seaman

  WALTON: Cello Concerto

  (Interval)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 5 in C# minor (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SPOHR: Nonet in F Op 31 - Consortium Classicum (Orfeo C 155 871 A)

  MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words Op 30 - Ronald Brautigam (pno) (BIS SACD 1982)

  WOLF-FERRARI: Idillio-concertino in A Op 15 - Andrea Tenaglia (ob), Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.572921)

  SOR: Grand Solo (Sonata Prima) Op 14 - Roland Dyens (gtr) (ATMA ACD 2 2397)

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