Saturday 24 December 2016 Rāhoroi 24 Hakihea 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Whittaker's Musical Museum

  Tim Dodd visits the Whittaker's Music Museum on Waiheke Island and talks to Lloyd and Joan Whittaker about their marvellous collection of harmonicas, accordions, concertinas, pianolas, pianos and organs (RNZ)

  1:00 Approx - Disc 1

  GERSHWIN: Variations on I Got Rhythm - Lincoln Mayorga (pno), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman

  The Yankee Doodle blues; That certain feeling, from Tip-Toes; Somebody loves me; Sweet and low down, from Tip-Toes; I'll build a stairway to paradise; The man I love, from Lady, Be Good! - Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman

  Fascinatin' Rhythm, from Lady, be Good!; Summertime, from Porgy & Bess - Al Gallodoro (reeds), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/ Steven Richman

  Rhapsody in Blue - Al Gallodoro (cl/bcl), Lincoln Mayorga (pno), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

  1:50 Approx - Disc 2

  Soundtrack by Yann Tiersen, from the film Amelie

  TIERSEN: J'y Suis Jamais Allé, Les Jours Tristes, La Valse d'Amélie, Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi, La Noyée, L'autre Valse d'Amélie - Yann Tiersen (pno/accordion/various other instruments), Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis, Christian Quermalet (percussion)

  KHAN/WHITING/AKST: Guilty - Al Bowlly (vocalist), Roy Fox and his Orchestra (recorded 1931)

  TIERSEN: A Quai, Le Moulin, Pas Si Simple, La Valse d'Amélie (orch version), La Valse Des Vieux Os, La Dispute - Yann Tiersen (pno/accordion/various other instruments), Christine Ott (ondes-martenots), Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis

  BAYLE/CLARET: Si Tu N'étais Pas Là - Fréhel (vocalist), orchestral accompaniment (recorded 1934)

  TIERSEN: Soir De Fête, La Redécouverte, Sur Le Fil, Le Banquet, La Valse d'Amélie (pno version), La Valse Des Monstres -Yann Tiersen (pno/accordion/various other instruments) (Virgin 811 239)

  2:45 Approx - Disc 3

  FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop), Jonathan Brown (bar), Stephen Farr (org), English Voices, London Festival Orch/Ross Pople

  Cantique de Jean Racine - English Voices, London Festival Orch/Ross Pople

  Messe Basse - Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop), Stephen Farr (org), women of English Voices/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304 670)

  3:40 Approx - Disc 4

  SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129; VOLKMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 33; SCHUMANN: Abendlied Op 85/12; VOLKMANN: Andante with variations for three cellos; Troubadour's Song Op 10; Capriccio Op 74; SCHUMANN: Abendlied Op 85/12 - Peter Bruns, Gregor Nowak, Jakob Stepp (cellos), Annegret Kuttner (pno), Leipzig Mendelssohn CO/Jürgen Bruns (Hänssler CD 98.594)

  4:50 Approx - Disc 5

  CPE BACH: Keyboard Concertos, in G minor H409; in A H411; in D H421 - Miklós Spányi (hpschd), Concerto Armonico (BIS CD 767)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  STRADELLA: Trumpet Sonata in D - Jürgen Schuster (tpt), Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.551077)

  DONIZETTI arr Christ: Andante in F minor - Céline Moinet (ob), Sarah Christ (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2175)

  VIVALDI: Viola d'amore Concerto in F RV97 - Rachel Barton Pine (vla d'amore/dir), Ars Antigua (Cedille CDR 90000 159)

  CARULLI: Serenade in A Op 96 - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1710)

  CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Kun Woo Paik (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Decca 475 169)

  7.00

  HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

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

  JANÁCEK: The Fiddler's Child - Petr Zdvihal (vln), Prague Radio SO/Tomás Netopil (Supraphon SU 4131)

  SPOHR: Variations on I am still in my youth, from an opera by Méhul - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66038)

  DVORÁK: The Noon Witch Op 108 - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras (Supraphon SU 4012)

  8.00

  BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 3 36403)

  STRAUSS: Liebesliedchen - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 643 1355)

  BACH orch Barbirolli: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Chandos CHSA 5030)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Tarantella in A minor Op 6 - Joanna G'froerer (fl), Kimball Sykes (cl), Stéphane Lemelin (pno) (Naxos 8.570964)

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

  POPPER: Dance of the Elves Op 39 - Richard Harwood (cello), Christoph Berner (pno) (EMI 3 59645)

  CURTIS: Christmas rush - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2085)

• 9:00 AM. Christmas Fare

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5060)

  TRAD arr Sullivan: It came upon a midnight clear; GRUBER: Silent Night; TRAD arr Lloyd: I saw three ships come sailing in - Choir of Merton College, Oxford/Benjamin Nicholas, Charlie Warren, Peter Shepherd (org) (BBC Music BBC MM 378)

  LISZT arr Collins: The Christmas Tree Suite, excerpts - Rebecca Turner (vln), BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Naxos 8.570331)

  TRAD: God rest you merry, gentlemen; TRAD arr Wood: Ding dong! merrily on high; H MARTIN arr Gritton: Have yourself a merry little Christmas - Armonico Consort/Christopher Monks, Charles Matthews (org) (Signum SIGCD 386)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  GARBAREK: Rites - Jan Garbarek (sax), Bugge Wesseltoft (synth) (ECM 1685/86 (559 006))

  MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing - Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London/Malcolm Archer, Huw Williams (org) (Griffin GCCD 4051)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Pletnev: Andante maestoso, from The Nutcracker - Simon Trpceski (pno) (EMI 5 75202)

  FRY: Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony - Royal Scottish National Orch/Tony Rowe (Naxos 8.559057)

  ROSENLID: The Plucked Halling - Annbjørg Lien (hardanger fiddle), Roger Tallroth (gtr), Iver Kleive (org) (Shanachie 164060)

  PRAETORIUS: Christmas Mass, excerpts - Gabrieli Consort & Players Boys' Choir, Congregational Choir of Roskilde Cathedral/Paul McCreesh, Timothy Roberts (organ of Roskilde Cathedral) (Archiv 439 250)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. John Rutter: Christmas and other music

  The popular British composer of choral music talks with Brian Kay (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

  Tuscan Summer

  Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), New Zealand SO/Jun'ichi Hirokami

  ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture; MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64; BRITTEN: Soirées musicales; MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:35 PM. An Afternoon Classic

  COPLAND: Appalachian Spring, original version - New York Harmonie Ensemble/Steven Richman (Bridge 9145)

• 5:00 PM. Inside Out with Nick Tipping

  Join Nick Tipping for a two-hour journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

  The traditional Christmas service, from the chapel in which it was first conceived in 1918, with readings from choir members, Cambridge residents and the clergy of King's College - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Ben-San Lau (org) (Choir of King's College KGS 0001)

• 8:30 PM. Evening Classics

  PONCHIELLI: Capriccio - Katsuya Watanabe (ob), David Johnson (pno) (Profil PH 10001)

  C STAMITZ: Orchestral Quartet in G - Cappella Coloniensis/Ulf Björlin (Phoenix Edition 177)

• 9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  NZ performers and composers

  REED: A Christmas Intrada - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce/Squadron Leader Graham Hanify, Janet Gibbs (org) (Kiwi CD SLC 216)

  HAMILTON: Christmas Bells; I know Moonrise; Nunc Dimittis - Opus 1997/David Hamilton (Private)

  VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G - Mary Enid Haines (sop), Nina Scott Stoddart (mezzo), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd, James Tibbles (org), (Naxos 8.555080)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  LANE Three Christmas Pictures, Sleighbell Serenade; Starlight Lullaby; Christmas Eve Waltz - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225185)

  MERCADANTE: Flute Concerto in E minor - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä (Naxos 8.572731)

  SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 2122/23 (476 3909))

  BRUCKNER: Motets, Ave Maria; Locus iste; Os justi; Christus factus est - Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge/David Rowland (Christ's College CCC CD 003)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Christmas Eve, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8327/9)

  PEROTTI ed Akakpo: Sonata in G - Komalé Akakpo (psaltery), Martin Gester (org), Tomasz Pokrzywinski (cello), Dohyo Sol (archlute) (BIS BIS 2089)

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