Saturday 31 March 2018 Rāhoroi 31 Poutū-te-rangi 2018

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 479 0090)

  PROKOFIEV: A Summer Day - Scottish CO/José Serebrier (ASV CDQS 6114)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde - New Zealand String Quartet (RNZ UB63)

  1:00 approx

  TAUSIG: Nouvelles Soirées de Vienne - Piers Lane (pno) (HYPERION CDA 66785)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 - Quatuor Ebène (EMI 4 64546)

  WAGNER: Sonata for Mathilde Wesendonck's Album - Terence Dennis (pno) (ODE CD MANU 2038)

  2:00 approx

  LOCATELLI: Concerto in C minor Op 4/11 - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2154)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 2 in C Op 53 - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9454)

  HOWELLS: By the waters of Babylon - Paul Whelan (bar), David Adams (vln), Alice Neary (cello), Timothy Ravalde (org)/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHAN 10587)

  3:00 approx

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, excerpts - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)

  BRAHMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51 - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2152)

  FAURÉ: Nocturne No 7 in C# minor Op 74 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ UB66)

  4:00 approx

  FASCH: Concerto in C minor FWV L/c2 - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)

  RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 13 - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SB2K 63257)

  FREED: Deserted Beach - Margaret Medlyn (mezzo), Victoria Jones (dbass), New Zealand String Quartet (RNZ UB64)

  5:00 approx

  POULENC: Trio for piano, oboe & bassoon - members of Hexagon (Bridge 9079)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Liviu Prunaru (vln), Paris Orchestral Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (CLAVES CD 50-2210)

  RESPIGHI: Three Botticelli Pictures - Lausanne CO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80309)

  GLASS: Symphony No 3 (1) - Stuttgart CO/Dennis Russell Davies (nonesuch 7559 79581)

  DOWLAND arr Grainger: Now, o now, I needs must part - Piers Lane (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67279)

  PROKOFIEV: Marches for Military Band (4) - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 10166)

  FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223522)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  BACH: Flute Sonata in G minor BWV1020 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

  BECK: Sinfonia in A Op 1/3 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (NAXOS 8.554071)

  MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 (1) - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Lithuanian CO (BIS SACD 2007)

  BOCCHERINI: Symphony in C G505 (1) - German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 172)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance Op 72 No 4 in Db - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)

  HANDEL: Concerto in F HWV331 - English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 949)

  7.00

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite (3) - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)

  HANSON: Rhythmic Variations on two Ancient Hymns - Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.559072)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17 (3) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67166)

  HU-WEI HUANG YI-WEN JIANG: Pictures from Bashu (Six Sichuan folk songs) - Eugenia Zukerman (fl), Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

  ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 4 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.557273)

  8.00

  BEETHOVEN: Clarinet Trio in Bb Op 11 (3) - Peter Schmidl (cl), Friedrich Dolezal (cello), Erich Binder (pno (Decca 414 576)

  STRIGGIO: Ecce beatam lucem - Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel (Sony SK 66261)

  VIVALDI arr Behrend: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC Classics 476 5948)

  SCHUBERT arr Boehm: Ständchen D957/4 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (NAXOS 8.570754)

  RAVEL arr Renz: Le Tombeau de Couperin (3) - Berlin Ensemble (berlin philharmonic 6001)

  SPOHR: The Alchemist, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 093)

• 9:00 AM. Saturday Brunch

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 492)

  ROPARTZ: Piece in Eb minor - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

  BERNSTEIN: Fancy Free - Billie Holiday (vocal), Baltimore SO/David Zinman (Decca 452 916)

  DEBUSSY: Rêverie - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

  10.00

  WHITACRE: Equus - London SO/Eric Whitacre (Decca 279 6323)

  A SCARLATTI: Cantata pastorale - Patricia Lawrey (mezzo), Peter Averi (hpschd), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (KIWI SLD 52)

  MARX: Sinfonia in modo classico - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1158)

  11.00

  CHOPIN: Fantasy in F minor Op 49 - David James (pno) (RNZ)

  SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Joshua Bell (vln), Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (SONY SK 65949)

  PÄRT: Summa - Montreal Studio de Musique Ancienne/Christopher Jackson (Atma ACD 2 2310)

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

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• 1:00 PM. The Sound File

  David Houston explores the art of sound

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E Kk28; Keyboard Sonata in A Kk24 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Philips 456 886)

  TAVENER: Exhortation - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (UNIVERSAL 476 3160)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 (1) - Emanuel Ax (pno), Boston SO/Bernard Haitink (SONY SK 63229)

  MOZART Süssmayr - Dutron 2016 completion: Requiem in D minor K626, excerpts - Sophie Karthäuser (sop), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (ten), Johannes Weisser (bar), RIAS Chamber Choir, Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMM 90 2291)

• 2:00 PM. Worlds of Music

  Trans-global, fusion and folk roots music, with Trevor Reekie (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Music Alive Matinée

  Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

  NZ Barok - Galant Delights

  SAMMARTINI: Overture for strings in F Op 10/5; DALL'ABACO: Concerto Grosso in D Op 5/6; SAMMARTINI: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 5/4;

  DE LALANDE: Chaconne, from Les fontaines de Versailles;

  DALL'ABACO: Overture in Bb; CORRETTE: Les sauvages, from Concerto Comique No 25;

  WASSENAER: Concerto Armonico No 3 in A; BRESCIANELLO: Chaconne in A (recorded in St Luke's Church, Remuera by RNZ)

• 5:00 PM. Inside Out

  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. Jazz meets Classical

  BERNSTEIN: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs - Benny Goodman (cl), Columbia Jazz Combo/Leonard Bernstein (CBS MK 42227)

  GERSHWIN: Walking the dog; I've got beginner's luck; They all laughed; Let's call the whole thing off, from Shall we dance - Patti Austin (vocal), Gregory Hines (vocal), Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 434 274)

  JOPLIN arr Kunzel: The Entertainer,Solace,Maple Leaf Rag - William Tritt (pno), Keith Lockhart (pno), Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80112)

• 7:30 PM. Music Alive

  Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

  Illuminations of the Beyond

  7:30 Curtain Raiser: Elizabeth Kerr explores Messiaen's last orchestral work, Éclairs sur l'au-delá (Illuminations of the Beyond) (RNZ)

  7:50 New Zealand SO & NZSO National Youth Orch/Andrew Davis

  MESSIAEN: Éclairs sur l'au-delá (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

  MCLEOD: Rock Concerto - Eugene Albulescu (pno), Bridget Douglas (fl), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.572671)

• 9:30 PM. Sound Lounge

  The Canadian Mosaic: (1) Listening for Canada

  David Houston explores the musical evolution of Canada’s classical composers. 

  STEVE BARRY: Avian Bagatelle; Interlude 2, Meander; Interlude 3, Colonial Echoes - Steve Barry (pno) (Rattle RAT D081)

  FRASER/BONIFACE: Putorino Suite - Al Fraser (taonga puoro), Phil Boniface (dbass) (Rattle RAT D079)

  TIM HECKER: Obsidian Counterpoint; Music of the Air; Violet Monumental I; Up Red Bull Creek - Tim Hecker (electronics) (4AD CAD 3614)

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