Saturday 11 March 2017 Rāhoroi 11 Poutū-te-rangi 2017

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Lili Kraus

  School children cheered and music-lovers hungrily devoured the post-war concerts given in New Zealand by Hungarian-born pianist Lili Kraus. Charlotte Wilson presents a tribute to the life and work of this remarkable woman

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  FINZI: A Severn Rhapsody; New Year Music; Love's Labours Lost, Three Soliloquies; Romance in Eb Op 11; Prelude in F minor; The Fall of the Leaf; Introit in F; Eclogue Op 10; Grand Fantasia & Toccata Op 38 - Peter Katin (pno), New Philharmonia/Vernon Handley; London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 239)

  2:20 approx - Disc 2

  Southern Voices

  Opera arias performed by Frances Alda, Rosina Buckman, Malvina Major, Kiri Te Kanawa (sops), Heather Begg, Patricia Payne (mezzos), Peter Baillie, Anson Austin, Richard Greager, Patrick Power, Keith Lewis (tens), Barry Mora, Denis Dowling, Bryan Drake (bars), Donald McIntyre, Rodney Macann (bbars), Noel Mangin, Oscar Natzka, Inia Te Wiata (basses) (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

  3:30 approx - Disc 3

  BRAHMS: Lerchengesang Op 70/2; Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38; Feldeinsamkeit Op 86/2; Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op 105/1; Sapphische Ode Op 94/4; Liebestreu Op 3/1; Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor; Minnelied III Op 71/5; Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99; Wiegenlied Op 49/15 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Awadagin Pratt (pno) (Telarc TEL 32664)

  4:45 approx - Disc 4

  DEBUSSY: La Boîte à joujoux; Six Epigraphes antiques; Pagodas & La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes; L'Isle Joyeuse; Le triomphe de Bacchus - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572568)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  SCHUBERT: Overture in D D556 - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570329)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Figaro, a concert transcription from Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Vadim Gluzman (vln), Angela Yoffe (pno) (BIS SACD 1652)

  VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in D RV428, Il gardellino - Janet See (fl), Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 5193)

  HOFFSTETTER: String Quartet in E Op 3/1 - Kodály Quartet (Naxos 8.555703)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Juliana Athayde (vln), Singers from Opera Rochester, Rochester Phil/Christopher Seaman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7567)

  7.00

  ZIEHRER: Viennese Girls Waltz Op 388 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)

  SOLER: Keyboard Sonata No 90 in F# - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67565)

  ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Tallinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 1745)

  YORK: Andecy - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Sony 88697 45456)

  GOLDMARK: Serenade & Dance, from Rustic Wedding Symphony - Los Angeles Phil/Jesús López-Cobos (Decca 476 8743)

  8.00

  FRANCAIX: Concertino for piano & orchestra - Philippe Cassard (pno), Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67384)

  BEETHOVEN: Rondino in Eb WoO25 - Consortium Classicum (CPO 999 438)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (Sony SK 48382)

  ABE: Dream of the cherry blossoms - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

  TRAD arr Mews: Blood red roses - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1509)

  MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain, original version - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Onyx 4074)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2113.14)

  BARBER: Violin Concerto Op 14 - Mikhail Simonyan (vln), London SO/Kristjan Järvi (DG 477 9827)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  J STRAUSS II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube - Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 662)

  MOZART: Sonata in D for two pianos K448 - Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu (pno duo) (CBS MK 39511)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Tatiana's Letter Scene, from Eugene Onegin - Inessa Galante (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Neeme Järvi (ROH 75605 55022)

  HERSCHEL: Symphony No 13 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

  KETÈLBEY: Sanctuary of the heart - Oscar Natzka (bass), session chorus & orch/Warwick Braithwaite (Atoll ACD 400)

  SCHUBERT: Fantasy in C D760, Wanderer - Barry Douglas (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10807)

  GLASS: Funeral of Amenhotep III, from Akhnaten - Stuttgart State Opera Orch & Chorus/Dennis Russell Davies (Sony SM3K 62960)

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

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• 1:00 PM. Astor Piazzolla - Nuevo Tango

  Charlotte Wilson looks at the life and work of the Argentine musical revolutionary (RNZ)

  PIAZZOLLA: Concerto for bandoneón, strings & percussion - Astor Piazzolla (bandoneón), Orch of St Lukes/Lalo Schifrin (Nonesuch 7559 79174)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

  From the 2015 Adam Chamber Music Festival

  Ying Quartet

  HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20 No 4; A RITCHIE: Spring String Trio; TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 (recorded in Old St John's, Nelson by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Walton Classics

  Portsmouth Point, Overture - London SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47624)

  Viola Concerto in A minor, 1961 version - Maxim Vengerov (vla), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 5 57500)

  Crown Imperial - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Philips 454 172)

• 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

  National Concerto Competition 2016-17

  The four finalists perform with the New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich

  DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 - Hye In Kim (cello)

  RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Delvan Lin (pno)

  Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Siyu Sun (pno), SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 - Matthias Balzat (cello) (recorded in the Aurora Centre, Christchurch by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RODRIGO: Elogio de la guitarra - Petrit Ceku (gtr) (Naxos 8.572033)

  KARLOWICZ: Serenade in C Op 2 - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572274)

  MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Lithuanian CO (BIS SACD 2007)

  JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata - Talich String Quartet (Calliope CAL 9699)

  DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir - Martha Argerich, Stephen Kovacevich (pno duo) (Philips 446 557)

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