Thursday 25 February 2016 Rāpare 25 Hui-tanguru 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture: Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins; Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 RAMEAU: Zaïs, Overture - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

  SCHUBERT: Allegretto in C minor D915 - Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1449)

  IVANOVICI: The Waves of the Danube, Waltz - Vienna Volksoper Orch/Franz Bauer-Theussl (Philips 420 815)

  WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

  SATIE: Gymnopédies - Bojan Gorisek (pno) (LTM LTMCD 2501)

  HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - Concerto Cologne (Berlin Classics 1617 BC)

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

  HUMMEL: Fantasy in G minor - Rainer Moog (vla), Hamburg Soloists/Emil Klein (Arte Nova 74321 37319)

  TRAD arr Rawsthorne: Londonderry Air - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Russian Dance, from Swan Lake - Ulana Bashava (vln), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  GRAINGER: Spoon River - Martin Jones, Richard McMahon (pno duo) (Nimbus NI 1767)

  J STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LEHMANN: Ah, moon of my delight, from In a Persian Garden - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66709)

  SCHUMANN: Romance & Humoresque, from Fantasy Pieces Op 88 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 432 165)

  DOYLE: Non nobis, domine, from the Kenneth Branagh film of Henry V - Patrick Doyle (bar), Stephen Hill Singers, Renaissance Theatre Company, City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 7 49919)

  MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - English CO/Alfredo Bonavera (Hyperion CDA 66290)

  RAVEL arr Samazeuilh: Menuet antique - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

  SCHUBERT arr Webern: German Dances D790 - Berlin Radio SO/Matthias Bamert (Musica Mundi 311 135)

  9:00 The Works

  BERNSTEIN arr Harmon: Candide Suite - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-87 CD)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Quintet in C minor - London Soloist's Ensemble (Naxos 8.573191)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  MASSENET: Piano Concerto in Eb - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Hyperion CDA 66897)

  KUHLAU: Flute Quintet in D Op 51/1 - Ginevra Petrucci (fl), Kodály Quartet (Brilliant Classics 94769)

  ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb Op 63 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0018)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in D RV428, Il gardellino - Mario Folena (fl), L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (vln/dir) (Brilliant Classics 95047)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 53 in D, L'impériale - Royal Northern Sinfonia/Rebecca Miller (Signum SIGCD 434)

  MOZART: Divertimento in F K253 - Scottish CO Wind Soloists (Linn CKD 479)

• 1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

  Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59 - Markus Pawlik (pno), Polish National Radio SO, Katowice/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.553989)

  CORRADINI: Cantate Domino - Eric Brenner (countertenor), Aaron Sheehan (ten), Sacabuche!/Linda Pearse (Atma ACD 22712)

  BACH: Second movement, Siciliano, from Oboe Concerto in D minor - Heinz Holliger (ob), ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Philips 412 851)

  RACHMANINOV: Before my window - John McCormack (ten), Fritz Kreisler (vln), Edwin Schneider (pno) (rec 1924) (Biddulph LAB 068/69)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in E Kk531; in E minor Kk98 - Zhu Xiao-Mei (pno) (INA, Mémoire IMV 019)

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

• 3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

  3:00 CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (rec 1995) (Philips 456 580)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  GINASTERA: Piano Sonata No 1 Op 22 - David James (pno) (RNZ)

  UTTING: Spirals - New Zealand SO/David Atherton (RNZ)

  MATHIAS: Improvisations Op 10 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

  CHARLTON: Sonata for flute & guitar - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private)

  CURNOW: Brass Metamorphosis - National Band of New Zealand/Kevin Jarrett (Kiwi Pacific CD SLC 226)

  5:00 Early Evening Classics

  HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 5 62621)

  GRIEG: Melodie; Halling; Elegie; Waltz, from Lyric Pieces Op 38 - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

  TRAD arr Campbell: Loch Lomond - Nicola Benedetti (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Rory Macdonald (Decca 478 6690)

  WAGNER trans Liszt: Spinning chorus, from The Flying Dutchman - Niu Niu (pno) (EMI 7 25332)

  KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

  6:00 BUCHANAN: Century fanfare, Peace - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 100)

  DELIUS: Through Long, Long Years - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.572902)

  BRIDGE: Tis but a week - Gerald Finley (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67181/2)

  PUCCINI: Un bel dì, from Madame Butterfly - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/John Pritchard (Sony SMK 48094)

  BOSSI: Hora gaudiosa Op 132/5, Hour of Joy - Pier Damiano Peretti (organ of Verden Cathedral, Lower Saxony, Germany) (Naxos 8.572177)

  DOHNÁNYI: Symphonic Minutes - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9455)

  ALBÉNIZ: Second Spanish Suite Op 97 - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1973)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Four Last Songs

  Peter Shaw looks at Richard Strauss's final years and his Four Last Songs, today one of the most popular works in the classical repertoire. He surveys some of the many recordings (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Poetry and Power

  Dejan Lazic (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Antonio Méndez

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15

  (Interval)

  DEBUSSY: Ibéria, from Images for Orchestra; RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GLIÈRE: String Octet in D Op 5 - Berlin Philharmonic String Octet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 308 1196)

  CPE BACH: Flute Concerto in G Wq169 - Alexis Kossenko (fl/dir), Arte Dei Suonatori (Alpha 821)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2007)

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