Saturday 11 February 2017 Rāhoroi 11 Hui-tanguru 2017

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Two Great Romantics

  The rivalry between Tchaikovsky and Brahms was legendary, and it went beyond mere distaste for each other's musical direction. Thomas Goss tells the story of the relationship between two of the giants of 19th century music.

  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!; 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; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture; 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: Suites, in D; in G; in D for Robert Visée; in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CIMAROSA: Il Convito, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

  LISZT arr Oistrakh: Valse-Caprice No 6, from Soirées de Vienne, after Schubert - Ingolf Turban (vln), Lukas Maria Kuen (pno) (Oehms Classics OC 415)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

  TRAD arr Davis: Danny Boy - Peter DeSotto (ten), Quartetto Gelato (QG 2 70025)

  HOLST ed Matthews/I Holst: Dances, from The Morning of the Year - London SO/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

  7:00 DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Century fanfare, Other echoes - Auckland Philharmonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Atoll ACD 100)

  SCHUMANN: Adagio & Allegro in Ab Op 70 - Yuri Bashmet (vla), Mikhail Muntian (pno) (RCA RD 60112)

  BERWALD: Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

  ELGAR: A Singing Quadrille - Innovation Chamber Ensemble/Barry Collett (Somm SOMMCD 252)

  PIERNÉ: Concertstück - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), Avignon Provence Regional Orch/Samuel Jean (Naïve V 5419)

  8:00 ESTÉVEZ: Mediodía en el Llano - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)

  BRUCH arr Meerovitch: Kol Nidrei - Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

  YAMADA: India (Spellbinding) - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570552)

  GRANADOS arr Cassadó: Intermezzo, from Goyescas - Mischa Maisky (cello), Lily Maisky (pno) (DG 477 8100)

  MASSENET: Hérodiade, Ballet Suite - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  QUILTER: A Children's Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  HOPE: Momentum Suite - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  HOWELLS: Elegy for viola, string quartet & string orch - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)

  HEAD: The ships of Arcady - Robin Tritschler (ten), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Signum SIGCD 401)

  REVUELTAS: Sensemayá - New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (Argo 436 737)

  BIZET: Carmen, excerpts - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Roberto Alagna (ten), Thomas Hampson, Ludovic Tézier (bars), La Lauzeta Children's Choir, Les Éléments Choir, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 5 57503)

  J STRAUSS I: Radetzky March - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (Sony SK 45808)

  TRAD arr Humphris: Tredegar Orpheus Male Voice Choir/Ieuan Davies, harp accompaniment (Chandos CHAN 6540)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0014)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

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• 1:00 PM. Art, Life, Music

  A series of five programmes in which Charlotte Wilson visits prominent NZ artists in their studios to ask about the role of music in their life and work

  (3) Gavin Bishop - illustrator, co-creator of such beloved characters as Mr Whistler, Quaky Cat, and Mrs McGinty, writer of quirky original stories, and re-teller of European classics and Maori mythology (RNZ)

• 1:25 PM. Maori Legends

  HILL: String Quartet No 2 in G minor, A Maori Legend in Four Scenes - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

  The Sacred Mountain, Mount Tongariro - Melbourne SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.220345)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

  From the Adam Chamber Music Festival 2013

  Rhapsody

  BARTÓK: Rhapsody No 1 Sz86 - Douglas Beilman (vln), Péter Nagy (pno)

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Colin Carr (cello), Diedre Irons (pno)

  SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C D956 - NZ String Quartet, Colin Carr (cello) (recorded in the Nelson School of Music by RNZ)

• 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

  Aotearoa Plus

  David Bremner (tbn), New Zealand SO/Christian Lindberg (tbn/dir)

  NORRIS: Claro (première performance); SANDSTRÖM: Echoes of Eternity; LILBURN: Symphony No 2 (recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

  NZ performers and composers

  MENDELSSOHN: Theme with Variations Op 81/1 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

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

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 59 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  K YOUNG: Brass Quintet No 1 - NZ Chamber Brass (Private)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  PROKOFIEV: Sinfonietta in A Op 5/48 - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Onyx 4139)

  VAN EECHAUTE: Suite ancienne - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

  EICHNER: Harp Concerto in D Op 9 - Silke Aichhorn (harp), Kurpfalz CO/Stefan Fraas (CPO 777 835)

  RAFF: String Quartet No 2 in A Op 90 - Mannheim String Quartet (CPO 777 004)

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