Wednesday 25 December 2019 Rāapa 25 Hakihea 2019

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in Eb Kk474 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68184)

  KERNIS: Air - Joshua Bell (vln), Minnesota Orch/David Zinman (Argo 460 226)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Phaéton - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (SONY SK 53979)

  MENDELSSOHN: Ruy Blas, Overture - Paris Orchestral Ensemble/John Nelson (Virgin 5 45532)

  HILL: String Quartet No 3 in A minor, Carnival - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

  HAGBERG arr Lidholm: Madonna's lullaby - Jeanette KÖhn (sop), Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  MORELY: Snowride - RTE Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.572744)

  1:00 approx

  DELIUS: Life's Dance - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (DUTTON CDLX 7264)

  MERKEL: Fantasy on Donizetti's Torquato Tasso Op 26/3 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

  BYRD: Infelix ego - Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips (Gimell 454 895)

  COUPERIN: Sixième Concert - Douglas Boyd (ob), Harold Lester (hpschd), Richard Lester (cello) (ASV CD DCA 656)

  SMITH: Veni Redemptor gentium - New York Polyphony (Avie AV 2141)

  MESSIAEN: La Nativité du Seigneur (5) - Gillian Weir (org) (Priory PRCD 921)

  2:00 approx

  DUSSEK: Sinfonia in A - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.572683)

  WEISSENBERG: Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67656)

  CANTELOUBE: Poème - Philippe Graffin (vln), Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67294)

  SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - Leon McCawley (pno) (Avie AV 0029)

  BRUMEL: Noe, noe, noe - Orlando Consort (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7418)

  ROREM: While all things were in quiet silence - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)

  3:00 approx

  MOZART: Horn Quintet in Eb K407 - Nash Ensemble (Virgin VC 7 91074)

  WAGNER: Parsifal, Prelude to Act 1 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (BBC Music BBC MM 257)

  SUK: Fantastic Scherzo Op 25 - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.572323)

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 6/11 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)

  GRUBER Trans Brentano Quartet: - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Brentano Quartet (ERATO 9029564219)

  WEIR: My Guardian Angel - ORA/Suzi Digby (ORA )

  4:00 approx

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird - Casals Quartet (HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 296 2022.23)

  COPLAND: Quiet City - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova 74321 37854)

  LUKAS: Three American Pieces - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (EMI CDC 5 55360)

  TANSMAN: Sonatine for flute & piano - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno) (Avie AV 0027)

  WISEMAN: The Christmas Tree - ORA/Suzi Digby (ORA )

  HAIRSTON arr Cullen & Hazell: Mary's Boy Child - Bryn Terfel (bar), Côrdydd, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)

  5:00 approx

  PURCELL: Abdelazer, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33 - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), English CO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Philips 432 084)

  DVORÁK arr Kreisler: Slavonic Dances, excerpts - Pavel Sporcl (vln), Petr Jiríkovsky (pno) (SUPRAPHON SU 3884)

  PUCCINI: Crisantemi - London SO/Antonio Pappano (EMI 5 57159)

  BUXTEHUDE: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BuxWV223 - Ton Koopman (org) (Novalis 150 048)

  WALTON: Make we joy now in this fest - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)

• 6:00 AM. Summer Classics

  Specially chosen favourites for a classical summer morning

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10385)

  DOHNÁNYI: Pastorale on a Hungarian Christmas Song - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67871)

  TRADITIONAL arr Hazell: What Child is This? (Greensleeves) - Bryn Terfel (bar), Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)

  TRADITIONAL: In dulci jubilo - Chanticleer (Teldec 94563)

  SIRETT: - Choir of St. John's, Elora (Marshall Arts )

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 286)

  CORNELIUS arr Atkins: The Three Kings - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation (ABC Classics 472 044)

  HOWELLS: Here is the little door - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)

  WILLAN: The Three Kings - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.554179)

  FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

  7.00

  DE LALANDE: Simphonies des noëls - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)

  FOSTER: While shepherds watched their flocks - Taverner Choir and Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI 7 54529)

  PALESTRINA trans Stokowski: Adoramus te - Brussels Phil/Richard Egarr (GLOSSA GCDSA 922209)

  NILES arr Henryson: I wonder as I wander - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Svante Henryson (cello), Markus Leoson (perc) (DG 459 685)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Krystian Zimerman (pno), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 459 643)

  HAMILTON: A Child comes forth - Helen Webby (harp), Rowan Johnston (percussion), Key Cygnetures/Elise Bradley (RNZ UB15)

  BACH: Prelude, from Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (SONY 19075854652)

  8.00

  Beauty Spot:

  RUTTER: What sweeter music - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.554179)

  CORRETTE: Christmas Symphony No 2 - La Fantasia/Rien Voskuilen (Brilliant Classics 95569BR)

  BACH: Ave Maria - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Utah SO/Julius Rudel (Decca 473 168)

  BIEBL: Ave Maria - Julian Chu-Tan (ten), Theo Moolenaar (ten), Harry Grigg (bass), NZ Secondary Students Choir 2013-14 (RNZ DB35)

  TIOMKIN: Main Title from It's a Wonderful Life - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers/David Newman (TELARC CD 88801)

  MONTERO: Improvisation on Handel's Hallelujah - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)

  TRADITIONAL arr Holst: Masters in this hall - Robert Quinney (org), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16085)

  MARAIS: March, air & tambourin pour les Matelots - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)

  ARLEN: Over the rainbow - Natalie Dessay (sop), Quatuor Ébène (Virgin 6 286689)

  ADAM: O Holy Night - Josh Groban (vocal, piano), studio chorus and orchestra ( )

  9.00

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

  APO: Celebrate Christmas 2019

  Music is always at the heart of any celebration and Christmas music is the most marvelous way to embrace the festive spirit. The programme will include Humperdinck's Overture to Hansel and Gretel, Mozart's Laudate Dominum and Prokofiev's Troika, as well a

  Isabella Moore (soprano), Graduate Choir NZ, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Holly Mathieson

  Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland (RNZ)

  STAMITZ: Christmas Symphony 4/2 - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

  RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narrator), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia (Collegium COL CD 115)

• Noon Summer Afternoons

  Including 1:00 Afternoon Concert

  HESS: A Christmas Overture - Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 10767)

  ZÉSPEDES: Convidando está la noche - Harp Consort ( )

  ANDERSON: Mele Kalikimaka - Sol3 Mio (Universal 671 3660)

  LILBURN: Christmas 1943 - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2068-69)

  TRADITIONAL arr Jennings: Glory to the newborn King - Chanticleer (Teldec 94563)

  GLAZUNOV: Festive Moods - Shostakovich Quartet (Olympia OCD 575)

  1:00 Afternoon Concert

  NZSO: Messiah

  HANDEL: Messiah

  Anna Leese (sop), Sally Anne Russell (mezzo), Steve Davislim (ten), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bass), New Zealand SO Messiah Chorale/Nicholas McGegan

  Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)

  TRADITIONAL arr. by J. Sorrell: - Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL: - Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL arr Sorrell: Nowell Sing We, Both All and Some - Amanda Powell, Molly Netter, Ross Hauck, Jeffrey Strauss (vocals), Apollo's Singers, Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL arr Kathie Stewart: Innesheer / Ships in Full Sail + I Saw Three Ships / New Christmas Reel - Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL: - Michael Temesi (treble), Jeffrey Strauss (baritone), With Apollo's Musettes, Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL: - Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL: - Amanda Powell & Ross Hauck (vocals) (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL: - Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)

  TRADITIONAL: - Amanda Powell & Ross Hauck (vocals) (Avie AV2396)

  ANONYMOUS: Cachua (Christmas Song) - Montserrat Figueras (sop), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9834)

  4.00

  Brilliant Brass Christmas Special 2014

  5.00

  Inside Out Christmas Special 2019

  IVES arr Hillier: A Christmas Carol - Theatre of Voices (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 7079)

   

• 6:00 PM. Summer Evenings

  MARTIN: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Sol3 Mio (Universal 674 3660)

  GRUBER: Stille Nacht - Madison Nonoa (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC Live 2017)

  TRADITIONAL arr Palmer: Coventry Carol - Madison Nonoa (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC Live 2017)

  HAMILTON: Follow the star, from Noël; Ma te atua; (3) - Opus 1998/David Hamilton (Private - DH 2000A)

  PHILIPS: Stella, quam viderant Magi - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.555056)

  LILBURN: Two Christmas Pieces for LB (1941) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ )

  LILBURN: Two Christmas Pieces for LB (1949) - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ )

  RITCHIE: Fourteen Christmas Cards - Jubilate Singers, Jubilate Chamber Orchestra/John Pattinson (JUBILATE JUB 001)

  BENNETT arr Hornblow: Awake before sunrise - instrumental group, Wellington Secondary Students' Choir/Roger Stevenson (NZ HYMNBOOK TRUST 2002A)

• 7:00 PM. Exploring Music

  With Bill McGlaughlin (WFMT)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Christmas Concert from Aachen Cathedral

  With festive Christmas music from Aachen Cathedral, the WDR Radio Orchestra brings music of joy, peace and reflection on the essence of our lives. Aachen Cathedral is one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe, constructed by order of the emperor Charlemagne,

  Polina Pastirchak (soprano), Harriet Krigh (cello), Michael Hoppe (organ), ChorWerk Ruhr, Aachen Cathedral Girls' Choir, WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne/Enrico Delamboye

  Cathedral, Aachen (WDR/EBU)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RNZ Concert's musical nightcap

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Christmas Night - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia (Chandos CHAN 10385)

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

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Suite - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Virgin 3 91372)

  ODERMATT: Summer, from Three Images Op 18 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

  WEBERN: Im Sommerwind - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 430 324)

  STENHAMMAR: Late Summer Nights - Martin Sturfält (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67689)

  ESTACIO: Summer Nocturne, from A Farmer's Symphony - Edmonton SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records SMCD5232)

  DELIUS: Two Pieces for small orchestra, (2) - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records SMCD 5134)

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