Saturday 20 February 2016 Rāhoroi 20 Hui-tanguru 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Fearful Symmetries

  Eleven documentaries celebrating each decade of the twentieth century; Roger Smith along with a selection of New Zealand experts survey musical landmarks and innovative movements in the arts

  (4) 1930-1939: Arts in Exile (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise; TCHAIKOVSKY: Puss in Boots and the White Cat, from Sleeping Beauty; DVORÁK: The Wood Dove Op 110; ELGAR: Elegy for strings Op 58; MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood; SAINT SAËNS: Aquarium, from The Carnival of the Animals; FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo; LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  2:15 approx - Disc 2

  German Baroque songs by NAUWACH, ALBERT, FISCHER, KRIEGER, KRIEGER, HAMMERSCHMIDT, HAGEN, & GÖRNER - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Markus Märkl (hpschd), Alix Verzier (cello), Karl-Ernst Schröder (lute), Pablo Valetti, Stephanie Pfister (vlns), Friederike Heumann, Juan Manuel Quintana (vle da gambas) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1505)

  3:25 approx - Disc 3

  GIAMPIERI: Variations on The Carnival of Venice; MESSAGER: Solo de concours; MILHAUD: Scaramouche; LOVREGLIO: Fantasia on Verdi's La Traviata; GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano; RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14; WEBER: Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op 48; MILTON: Carmen Fantasy Op 22 - Michael Collins (cl), Piers Lane (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10615)

  4:40 approx - Disc 4

  HEINICHEN: Concerto in F; DIEUPART: Concerto in A minor; FASCH: Concerto in D minor; PISENDEL: Sonata in C minor; HEINICHEN: Pastorale in A; QUANTZ: Concerto in G; VERACINI: Overture No 5 in B - Musica Antiqua, Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 447 644)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 WF BACH: Sinfonia in D F64 - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

  HEAD: Siciliana - Althea Ifeka (ob), Katharine May (hpschd) (Oboe Classics CC 2013)

  MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (EMI 5 66650)

  SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1445)

  STILL ed Alexa Still: Suite for violin and piano, excerpts - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7192)

  PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)

  7:00 LÉHAR: The Merry Widow, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

  WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 432 081)

  GLAZUNOV: Concert Waltz No 2 in F Op 51 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9658)

  BACH: Trio Sonata in E minor BWV528 - Gillian Weir (organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig) (Priory PRCD 800)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two cellos RV531 - Natalia Pavlutskaya (cello), Canterbury CO/Alexander Ivashkin (cello/dir) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)

  8:00 PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Bragato: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires (excerpts) - Gryphone Trio (Analekta AN 2 9857)

  J STRAUSS II: Champagne Polka; Wine, Women & Song, Waltz - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

  BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - David James (pno) (RNZ)

  DANZI: Variations on a theme by Mozart - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (dir) (Nimbus NI 5868)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap of the week's national and international music news with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F# minor Op 1 - Stephen Hough (pno), Dallas SO/Andrew Litton (Hyperion CDA 67501/2)

  SCHUBERT: Stabat Mater D383 - Sheila Armstrong (sop), Alejandro Ramirez (ten), Philippe Huttenlocher (bar), Lausanne Vocal Ensemble & CO/Michel Corboz (Erato 4509 96961)

  DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor - Ginette Neveu (vln), Jean Neveu (pno) (rec 1948) (EMI CDH 7 63493)

  HASSELMANS: La Source - Claire Jones (harp) (Classic FM 28947 65143)

  PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 1)

  CZERNY: Variations on a theme from Bellini's Norma - Rosemary Tuck (pno), English CO/Richard Bonynge (Naxos 8.573254)

  (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

  (9) Jazz in NZ, Steve Garden talks about the Rattle Jazz label (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Jade String Quartet, Auckland CO/Peter Scholes

  MOZART: String Quartet No 23 in F K590, Prussian; JANÁCEK: Mládí; ADAMS: Son of Chamber Symphony; REVUELTAS: Sensemayá (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. Street Music

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 9 - Hong Kong Phil/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.555241)

  GERSHWIN arr Berkowitz: Promenade: Walking the dog, from Shall we dance? - John Fullam (cl), Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559750)

  BOLLING: Spirituelle, from Toot Suite - Maurice André (tpt), Claude Bolling (pno), Guy Pedersen (dbass), Daniel Humair (drums) (Sony MK 36731)

  RUSSO: Street Music, A Blues Concerto - Corky Siegel (harmonica/pno), San Francisco SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 419 625)

  BERNSTEIN: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances - CBSO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin VC 5 45295)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  PSATHAS: Aegean - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 542)

  HOLMES: Frond - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

  REIS: Three Brazilian Pieces - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Waiata 9501)

  MENOTTI: Sebastian, Suite - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7005)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Teacher and student

  PARRY: Three Songs Op 12, The poet's song; More fond than Cushat Dove; Music; Take, O take those lips away; No longer mourn for me, from English Lyrics, Set II; English Lyrics, Set III, To Lucasta, on going to the wars; If thou would'st ease thine heart; To Althea, from prison; Why so pale and wan?; Through the ivory gate - Stephen Varcoe (bar), Clifford Benson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67044)

  HOWELLS: Wanderers; The Lady Caroline; Before dawn, from A Garland for de la Mare; Four French Chansons Op 29, Sainte Catherine; C'est le grand duc du Maine; Angèle au Couvent; Le petit Couturier - Catherine Pierard (sop), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Julius Drake (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9185/6)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The Immortal Beethoven, Symphonies

  Four programmes

  (3) New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral; Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. A Maori Legend in Four Scenes

  HILL: String Quartet No 2 in G minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GLIÈRE: The Red Poppy Suite - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Chandos CHAN 9160)

  FINZI: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Gervase de Peyer (cl), Gwenneth Pryor (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8549)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Maurizio Pollini (pno), Philharmonia/Paul Kletzki (Philips 456 940)

  TÁRREGA: Prelude No 1; Endecha; Oremus; Rosita, Polka; Capricio arabe - Srdjan Bulat (gtr) (Naxos 8.573026)

  HANDEL: Suite in G minor - Anthony Camden, Julia Girdwood (obs), City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.553430)

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