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Saturday 21 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

BLISS: A Colour Symphony; Adam Zero - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.553460)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in G Op 1/2; FAURÉ: Piano Trio in D minor Op 120; BRAHMS: Piano Trio in C minor Op 101 - Gould Piano Trio (BBC Music BBC MM 48)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

HANDEL: Opera arias, from Ariodante, Giustino, Giulio Cesare, Flavio, Radamisto, Agrippina, Theodora & Attone - Dorothea Röschmann, Sally Bradshaw (sops), Lorraine Hunt (mezzo), Jennifer Larmore (contralto), Michael Chance, Jeffrey Gall, Derek Lee Ragin, Ralf Popken, Drew Minter (countertenors), Various ensembles & conductors (BBC BBC HM 2)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

SCHUBERT: Quartets, in Eb Op 125/1; in A minor Op 29/13 - Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidus Astrée 8580)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

BEETHOVEN: Overture, Leonore No 3; PRÉVOST: Fantasmes; DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; DVORÁK: Scherzo Capriccioso; TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Raffi Armenian (Bell 1990)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 PURCELL: Abdelazer, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

LASSUS: Three French Madrigals, La nuit froide et sombre; Quand mon mari vient; Toutes les nuits - King's Singers (EMI CDC 7 49158)

MARTUCCI: Andante Op 69/2 - Andrea Noferini (cello), Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Alessio Bax (pno) (Signum SIGCD 264)

BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 17582)

7:00 WEBER: Peter Schmoll, Overture - Philharmonia/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9066)

PROKOFIEV arr Borisovsky: Morning Serenade; Dance of the Lily Maidens; Epilogue: Parting Scene & Death of Juliet, from Romeo & Juliet, Acts 3 & 4 - Matthew Jones, Rivka Golani (vlas), Michael Hampton (pno) (Naxos 8.572318)

WALDTEUFEL: Gaîté, Waltz - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223684)

VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 6 - Sato Moughalian (fl), Alexandre Silvério (bsn) (BIS CD 1410)

ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Queensland SO/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.553526)

8:00 MOZART: Rondo in Bb K269 - James Ehnes (vln/dir), Mozart Anniversary Orch (CBC SMCD 5238)

GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - BBC SO/Reginald Goodall (BBC Music BBCL 4086)

WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantella - Eugene Fodor (vln), Kiyoshi Tomagawa (pno) (Clarity CCD 1017)

PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

SMETANA: Sárka, from Má Vlast - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

9:00 AM. The Works

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Atlanta SO/Robert Spano (Telarc CD 80676)

BRAHMS: String Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 51 - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 2 16622)

10:00 AM. Your Choice

HAYDN: Symphony No 11 in Eb - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (hpschd/dir) (Hyperion CDA 66529)

SCHUBERT: Erlkönig D328 - Christine Schäfer (sop), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33024)

RODE: Violin Concerto No 3 in G minor Op 5 - Friedemann Eichhorn (vln), Jena Phil/Nicolás Pasquet (Naxos 8.570767)

LAURIDSEN: O magnum mysterium - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 67576)

HERZOGENBERG: Theme & Variations Op 13 - Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow (pno duet) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0010)

J GADE arr anon: Jealousy - Andreas Blau (fl), Hendrik Heilmann (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 308 1659)

SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - Noel Coward (narrator), Andre Kostelanetz & his Orch (Coronet KLL 529)

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

Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

1:00 PM. Jazz Concerts

Nineteen live jazz concerts from the EBU

(14) Brotherhood - this new quartet featuring pianist Jan Lundgren, trumpet and flugel horner player Paolo Fresu, bassist Lars Danielsson and drummer Clarence Penn had its first concerts in Basel last year and the reaction of the public was overwhelming. A month later they were recorded in Hamburg with this programme of contemporary music (recorded in the Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg by German Radio Hamburg)

2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

Chinese New Year

2012 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar, and to mark the New Year celebrations we feature music for qin zither and xiao flute. We'll also hear from Anda Union, a folk band from Inner Mongolia (Caprice CAP 21818; Hohhot Records)

3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Kerikeri National Piano Competition 2010

Six programmes

(1) Selected performances from the first and second rounds

CHOPIN: Etudes, in Gb Op 10/5, Black Keys; in F Op 10/8; HYDE: Brownhill Creek in Spring; MENDELSSOHN: Andante & Rondo Capriccioso Op 14 - Alex Raineri (pno)

BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con brio, from Piano Sonata No 3 in C Op 2/3; CHOPIN: Etude in A minor Op 25/11, Winter Wind - James Guan (pno)

HAYDN: Second & Third movements, Allegretto; Finale, Presto, from Keyboard Sonata No 46 in E HobXVI/31; MESSIAEN: Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus, from Vingt Régards sur l'Enfant-Jésus; LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - Sam Huang (pno)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in Bb Kk551; TCHAIKOVSKY: Original Theme & Variations in F Op 19/6; SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Sonata No 1 Op 12 - Brieley Cutting (pno) (recorded in The Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ)

4:40 PM. Getting Romantic

SVENDSEN: Romance in G Op 26 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 4 in Eb, Romantic - Dresden State Opera Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (Dal Segno DSPRCD 045)

6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Chopin Op 22 - Elen Rapoport (pno) (Private recording ER 0001)

LILBURN: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

7:00 PM. Vocalied

SCHUBERT: Wie Ulfru fischt D525; Fischerweise D881b; Des Fischers Liebesglück D933; Im Walde D834 - Per Vollestad (bar), Sigmund Hjelset (pno) (Simax PSC 1071)

WOLF: Mühvoll komm' ich und beladen; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Wer tat deinem Füsslein weh?; Wehe der, die mir verstrickte; In dem Schatten meiner Locken, from Spanisches Liederbuch - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Gerald Moore (pno) (rec 1958) (EMI CDH 7 64905)

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39 - Olaf Bär (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47397)

8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

With Peter Watts

Beethoven's Third Symphony, Eroica (RNZ)

8:20 PM. Music Alive

Sebastien Hurtaud (cello), New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit

PENDERECKI: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima; HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

DITTERSDORF: String Quartet No 5 in Eb - Franz Schubert Quartet (CPO 999 038)

FRANCK: Les Djinns - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno/dir), Berlin Radio SO (Decca 425 432)

RESPIGHI: Roman Festivals - Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling (BIS SACD 1720)

11:00 STRAUSS: Cello Sonata in F Op 6 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Pavel Gililov (pno) (DG 477 7465)

ONSLOW: Piano Trio in D minor Op 20 - Trio Cascades (CPO 777 232)

Sunday 22 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

DURAND: Waltz No 1 Op 83; TCHAIKOVSKY: Petit Suite de Ballet; SHOSTAKOVICH: Suite de Ballet; PETRALI: Versetto in D; WALDTEUFEL: España, after Chabrier; WEBER: Six German Dances; LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Three Pieces; ROSSINI: Petit caprice dans le style d'Offenbach; CAMPO: Maschera on an aria from Rigoletto; VILLOLDO: El Choclo; RODRIGUEZ: La Cumparsita - Hervé Désarbre (org) (Mandala Man 4894)

1. 05 approx - Disc 2

SALIERI: Les Horaces, Overture; Piano Concerto in C; Semiramide, Overture; Piano Concerto in Bb; Twenty-six variations on La Follia Di Spagna - Pietro Spada (pno), Philharmonia/Pietro Spada (ASV CD DCA 955)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Singet dem Herrn; Komm, Jesu, komm!; Lobet den Herrn; Fürchte dich nicht; Der Geist hilft; Jesu, meine Freude - Kim Porter (mezzo), Neil MacKenzie (ten), Stephen Charlesworth (bar), BBC Singers/Stephen Cleobury, Christopher Hughes (org) (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 44)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

STRAUSS: Don Quixote; LALO: Cello Concerto in D minor - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult, Cleveland Orch/Daniel Barenboim (EMI CDC 5 55528)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

CHERUBINI: Overtures, Ali-Baba; Les Abencérages; Les Deux Journées; Lodoïska; Médée; Anacréon; Faniska; L'Hotellerie Portugaise - City of Birmingham SO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50 9513)

6:00 AM. Sanctuary

TRAD: Magnificat cum Alleluia - Nóirín Ní Riain (ABC 456 366)

KLENGEL: Hymn for twelve cellos Op 57 - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

KALINNIKOV: Cherubic Hymn - St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (Philips 454 461)

BIBER: The Guardian Angel - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln), Timothy West (reader) (Avie AV 0038)

WFE BACH: Vater unser - Adalbert Kraus (ten), Wolfgang Schöne (bass), Stuttgart Bach Collegium, Gedächtniskirche Choir/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.614)

DUBRA: Stetit Angelus; Missa de Spiritu Sancto - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough, Alexander Norman (org) (Hyperion CDA 67799)

MARX: Die Flur der Engel - Tonya Lemoh (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10479)

TRAD: Angels watching over me; Fix me Jesus - Kathleen Battle (sop) (Sony SK 89464)

GOULD: Spirituals for Strings - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9848)

TRAD arr R Panufnik: Angels Sing! - Joyful Company of Singers/Peter Broadbent, Jeremy Filsell (org) (Warner Classics 2564 60292)

BURGON: Nunc Dimittis - Catherine Hart, Frances Henderson (sops), Choir of Wells Cathedral/Matthew Owens (Hyperion CDA 67567)

8:00 AM. Grace Notes

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - London Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI CD EMX 9508)

GIBBONS: This is the record of John - John Blackwood (countertenor), King's College Choir, Cambridge, Jacobean Consort of Viols/David Willcocks, Simon Preston (org) (ABC Classics 456 360)

SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Stanislav Bunin (pno) (DG 427 315)

LIADOV: A Musical Snuffbox - members of the Serenade Orch/Janos Komives (Koch Schwann 3-6419)

MASSENET: Pourquoi me réveiller?, from Werther - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Oliviero de Fabritiis (Decca 421 876)

VILLA-LOBOS arr Mondvay: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 - I Salonisti (Decca 425 228)

BRUCH: Second movement, Adagio, from Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 447 070)

9:00 AM. The Works

FAURÉ: Pelléas & Mélisande, Concert Suite - Czech Phil/Serge Baudo (Supraphon SU 3899)

CPE BACH: Keyboard Concerto in C Wq112/1 - Michael Rische (pno), Leipzig CO/Morten Schuldt-Jensen (Hänssler CD 98.639)

DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp - Doriot Anthony Dwyer (fl), Burton Fine (vla), Ann Hobson (harp) (DG 476 7703)

ROTT: Symphony No 1 in E - Munich Radio Orch/Sebastian Weigle (Arte Nova 82876 57748)

11:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

Thirteen programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City

(11) Baroque Mix, Focus on the Fiddle

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - Ransom Wilson, Sooyun Kim (fls), Jennifer Frautschi, Joseph Silverstein, Amy Lee (vlns), Mark Holloway (vla), Fred Sherry (cello), Kurt Muroki (dbass), Anthony Newman (hpschd)

MOZART: Fugue No 1 in C minor K405/1, after JS Bach BWV871, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - Orion String Quartet

TELEMANN: Violin Concerto in A minor TWV51/a1 - Daniel Hope (vln solo), Bella Hristova, Yura Lee (vlns), Mark Holloway (vla), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Kurt Muroki (dbass), Kenneth Weiss (hpschd)

MATTEIS: Diverse bizzarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaccona - Bella Hristova, Kristin Lee (vlns), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Kenneth Weiss (hpschd), Paul O'Dette (lute)

FALCONIERI: Ciaccona for two violins, continuo & percussion - Daniel Hope, Kristin Lee (vlns), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Charles Weaver (gtr), Shane Shanahan (percussion), Kenneth Weiss (hpschd), Paul O'Dette (lute)

WESTHOFF: Imitazione delle campane, from Violin Sonata No 3 - Daniel Hope (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello)

Imitazione del liuto, from Violin Sonata No 2 - Daniel Hope (violin), Paul O'Dette (lute), Avi Avital (mandolin)

La Guerra cosi nominate di sua maestà, from Violin Sonata in A, La Guerra - Daniel Hope (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Paul O'Dette (lute), Avi Avital (mandolin), Shane Shanahan (percussion)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - Amy Lee, Joseph Silverstein, Jennifer Frautschi (vlns), Paul Neubauer, Daniel Phillips (vlas), Fred Sherry, Nicholas Canellakis, Efe Baltacigil (cellos), Kurt Muroki (dbass), Anthony Newman (hpschd) (WFMT)

Noon Alte Musik

Nine programmes

(4) Requiem

MOZART compltd Süssmayr: Requiem in D minor K626 - Simone Kermes (sop), Stéphanie Houtzeel (contralto), Markus Brutscher (ten), Arnaud Richard (bass), New Siberian Singers, MusicAeterna/Teodor Currentzis (Alpha 178)

1:00 PM. Vintage Years

VIVALDI: Summer, from The Four Seasons - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (rec 1969) (Decca 466 232)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Alan Loveday (vln), Leonard Cassini (pno) (rec c1963) (Fidelio ALT 4060)

LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb - Richard Farrell (pno), Hallé Orch/George Weldon (rec 1956) (EMI CDM 7 63778)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 38/6, Duetto - Richard Farrell (pno) (rec 1950s) (Atoll ACD 909)

2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

24 Frames, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

A documentary remembering Jonathan Dennis, broadcaster and first director of the New Zealand Film Archive. Dennis died in January 2002 at the age of 49, and to mark the 10th anniversary of his death "24 Frames" creates an aural landscape of the sounds, textures and voices that surrounded him and his work. Produced by Gareth Watkins (RNZ)

3:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Metropolitan Opera Season

Twenty-three operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

(3) PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly, an opera in three acts

A Japanese geisha marries an American naval officer, unaware that what is for her a life-and-death commitment is for him a passing fancy

Cio-Cio San.................. Liping Zhang

Suzuki........................... Maria Zifchak

Pinkerton...................... Robert Dean Smith

Sharpless...................... Luca Salsi

Goro............................. Joel Sorensen

Prince Yamadori........... Luthando Qave

The Bonze..................... Daniel Sumegi

Yakuside....................... Craig Montgomery

Commissioner............... David Crawford

Official Registrar............ David Lowe

Kate Pinkerton.............. Jennifer Johnson Cano

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Plácido Domingo (EBU)

6:40 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

GRIEG: Butterfly, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

PRUDEN: Night Song - Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 66)

LILBURN: Moths & Candles - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

FA SCHUBERT: The bee; BENDIX: The butterfly - Mark Walton (cl/sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

7:00 PM. Randy Newman

Six programmes

(3) Chris Bourke looks at the 1970s albums Sail Away and Good Old Boys, and the soundtrack Ragtime (RNZ)

8:00 PM. Young Australia

Cameron Hill (vln), Australian Youth Orch/Brad Cohen

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96; STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D; PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, excerpts (recorded in the Perth Concert Hall by the ABC)

9:20 PM. A Late Quartet

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 127 - Brentano String Quartet (Aeon AECD 1110)

10:00 PM. Day's End

JARNEFELT: Symphonic Fantasy - Lahti SO/Jaakko Kuusisto (BIS CD 1753)

FIELD: Piano Concerto No 2 in Ab H31 - Míceál O'Rourke (pno), London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10468)

11:00 JOPLIN arr Perlman: The Rag-Time Dance; Solace; Elite Syncopations - Itzhak Perlman (vln), André Previn (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47170)

WEISS: Lute Sonata No 40 in C - Robert Barto (lute) (Naxos 8.572219)

Monday 23 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

HAYDN: Symphonies, No 22 in Eb, The Philosopher; No 23 in G; No 24 in D; No 25 in C - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66536)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

MOLIERO: Sonatinas, No 1 in A minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in G minor; No 4 in D; No 5 in A minor; Toccatas, in C# minor; in B minor; in C; Little Suite; Prelude & Fugue in C# minor; Children's Suite; Two Miniatures; Playera; The Fountain; Serenade in the Spanish Style; Concert Study; Pictures of the Plains; Joropo - Clara Rodriguez (pno) (ASV CD DCA 890)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder; 5 Rückertlieder; Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen - Janet Baker (mezzo), Hallé Orch, New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 747 793)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

HANDEL: Sonatas, in G for two violins & basso continuo Op 5/4; in A for violin & basso continuo Op 1/3; in G minor for two violins & basso continuo; in B minor for flute, violin & basso continuo Op 2/1; in D for two violins & basso continuo Op 5/2; in Bb for two violins & basso continuo Op 2/3 - English Concert (Archiv 415 497)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

ARNOLD: The Bridge on the River Kwai; Whistle Down the Wind; The Sound Barrier; Hobson's Choice; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9100)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 RUTTER: Suite for strings - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

MOSZKOWSKI: Caprice Espagnol Op 37 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Private Recording 837 001)

VICTORIA: O quam gloriosum - Christ Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (EMI 5 86048)

JC BACH: Il tutore e la pupilla, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

MALATS arr Tárrega: Spanish Serenade - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op 89 - Alla gavotta in G minor; Andantino in G minor; Commodo in Eb; Allegro in G minor - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 474 814)

7:00 J STRAUSS II: Czárdás, from Die Fledermaus - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 2020 601)

IRELAND: Three Dances, Gipsy Dance; Country Dance; Reapers' Dance - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.572598)

SCHUBERT: Overture in D D590, In the Italian Style - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570329)

GERMAN: Romance - Lisa Friend (fl), Mark Kinkaid (pno) (Signum SIGCD 199)

CLEMENTI ed Spada: Symphony in Bb Op 18/1 - Philharmonia/Francesco d'Avalos (ASV CD DCS 322)

8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ arr Busser/Hazell: Après un rêve - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

BEETHOVEN: Fourth movement, Presto, from Piano Trio No 1 in Eb Op 1/1 - Borodin Trio (Chandos CHAN 9627)

BRUCH: Swedish Dances Op 63 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 420 932)

JONGEN: Andante espressivo - Nathan Braude (vla), Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 586)

STRAUSS: Serenade in Eb for winds Op 7 - wind players of the Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 74321 98496)

WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 070)

9:00 AM. The Works

HUMMEL: The Magic Castle, Suite - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10415)

KLUGHARDT: Violin Concerto in D Op 68 - Mirjam Tschopp (vln), Dessau Anhalt Phil/Golo Berg (CPO 777 465)

PERGOLESI: Mass in F, St Emygdius' Mass - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30461)

A ROMBERG: String Quartet in G minor Op 1/2 - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 0963)

MEDTNER: Fairy-tales Op 34 - Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67491/2)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 6 in E minor - Bavarian Radio SO/Colin Davis (BR Media 900 705)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. On the Gallop

L WALDTEUFEL orch Pollack: The Mail-Coach Galop - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223687)

GOTTSCHALK: Tournament Galop - Alan Marks (pno) (Nimbus NI 7045/6)

FAHRBACH: Locomotive Galop Op 31 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Mika Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223471)

DUPARC: Le Galop - José van Dam (bar), Maciej Pikulski (pno) (Forlane UCD 16692)

LANNER: Malapou Galop Op 148 - Willi Boskovsky (vln/dir), Willi Boskovsky Ensemble (Vanguard 08 8017 71)

LISZT: Grand galop chromatique - Lang Lang (pno) (Sony 88697 89140)

LUMBYE: Final Galop, from Napoli - Odense SO/Peter Guth (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9089)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

GRECHANINOV: The Creed, from the Second Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - G Pavlenko (contralto), Russian Metropolitan Church Choir, Paris/Nicolai Afonsky (EMI 5 85911)

MOZART: Flute Concerto No 1 in G K313 - Irena Grafenauer (fl), Bavarian Radio SO/Günter Wand (BR Media 900 710)

HAYDN: The Mermaid's Song - Anna Leese (sop), Alisdair Hogarth (pno) (Michael Storrs Music MSM 0012)

ANON: Faronell's Division on a Ground; Prelude, from the publications of John Playford - David Douglass (vln), Paul O'Dette (theorbo), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7186)

CLERK: Eheu! quam diris hominis - Catherine Bott (sop), Concerto Caledonia (Hyperion CDA 67007)

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3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (rec 1983) (Decca 421 458)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 29 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (rec 2000) (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

G CHARPENTIER: Depuis le jour, from Louise; GOUNOD: Jewel Song, from Faust - Renée Fleming (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (rec 1998) (Decca 458 858)

4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5082)

A RITCHIE: Down in the Brunner Mine - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

DITTERSDORF: Symphony in D, Il Combattimento delle passioni umani - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from Planets Suite Op 32 - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

MARX: Schmetterlingsgeschichten - Jonathan Powell (pno) (Danacord DACOCD 649)

TELEMANN: Concerto No 1 in G, from the Paris Quartets - John Holloway (vln), Linde Brunmayr (fl), Lorenz Duftschmid (vla da gamba), Ulrike Becker (cello), Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (hpschd) (CPO 777 376)

WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Guild GMCD 7304)

SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédies Nos 3 & 1 - Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/John Barbirolli (Testament SBT 1252)

YORK: Evening Dance - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs) (ABC 472 824)

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Brilliant Classics 92779)

DUBRA: Ubi caritas - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67799)

BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con spirito, from Violin Sonata No 3 in Eb Op 12/3 - Baiba Skride (vln), Lauma Skride (pno) (Sony 82876 88872)

DARZINS: Valse mélancolique - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

VASKS: Sanctus, from Mass - Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1106)

PIAZZOLLA arr Leonid Desyatnikov: Primavera porteña - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 79568)

PUCCINI: Si, mi chiamano Mimi, from La Bohème - Inessa Galante (sop), Latvian National SO/Alexander Vilumanis (CampionCD 1335)

STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - CBSO/Andris Nelsons (Orfeo C 833 111 A)

7:00 PM. Best of Composer of the Week 2011

Nine programmes

(4) REYNALDO HAHN (1874/5-1947)

William Dart explores a number of avenues in HAHN's life and work: his acceptance into the artistic social circles of Paris, the relationship with his lover Proust and his work as a critic (RNZ)

Piano Concerto in E - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Hyperion CDA 66897)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

A Chinese New Year Extravaganza

Postcards from Exotic Places

Tianwa Yang (vln), Jon Jackson (bar), New Zealand SO/Perry So

SHENG: Postcards; LALO: Symphonie espagnole; BODY: Alley Arias; DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

10:10 PM. Day's End

BACH: English Suite No 2 in A minor BWV807 - Pamela Ross (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4201)

GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 3 44722)

11:00 BENNETT: Songs before sleep, The mouse and the bumble-bee; Wee Willie Winkie; Twinkle, twinkle, little star; Baby, baby, naughty baby; As I walked by myself; There was an old woman - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Guitar Sonata in D Op 77, Homage to Boccherini - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572717)

RHEINBERGER: Clarinet Sonata Op 105a - Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer (cl), Hans Eijsackers (pno) (Challenge CC 72505)

Tuesday 24 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

LILBURN: Festival Overture; A Song of Islands; Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

1:00 approx - Disc 2

VILLA-LOBOS: Rudepoema; Cirandas Nos 1-16 - Alma Petchersky (pno) (ASV CD DCA 959)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

NIELSEN: Hymnus Amoris; The Sleep; Springtime in Funen; Three Motets Op 55 - Inga Nielsen (sop), Poul Elming (ten), Copenhagen Boys' Choir; Children's Chorus of St Anne School; Danish National Radio Choir & SO/Leif Segerstam, Stefan Parkman (Chandos CHAN 8853)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

HAYDN: String Quartets Op 20, No 2 in C; No 4 in D; No 3 in G minor - Quatuor Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis E 8784)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

FARNON: Portrait of a Flirt; How Beautiful is the Night; Melody Fair; A la Claire Fontaine; The Peanut Polka; In a Calm, Impressions for Orchestra, No 2; Gateway to the West; Jumping Bean; Pictures in the Fire; Little Miss Molly; Colditz March; A Star is Born; The Westminster Waltz; Manhattan Playboy, Three Impressions for Orch, No 3; Lake in the Woods; Derby Day; State Occasion - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223401)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 PERGOLESI: Salustia, Sinfonia - St Cecilia CO/Alessio Vlad (Europa Musica 350 262)

DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572296)

WHITACRE: Five Hebrew love songs, A picture; Light bride; Mostly; What snow!; Tenderness - Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew), Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, Pavào Quartet/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 749)

BERLIOZ arr Barton/Sinozich: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath, from Symphonie fantastique - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

GRAINGER: Green Bushes, Passacaglia on an English folksong - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)

7:00 IRELAND: A London Overture - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

PAGANINI: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - World Orch for Peace/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 6937)

KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh; Galop, from Masquerade - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

FASCH: Concerto in D in three choirs, for nine trumpets, three pairs of timpani, nine oboes, three bassoons & double bassoon - Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble, Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Güttler (Berlin Classics 030 0167 BC)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Et incarnatus est, from Mass No 18 in C minor K427, Great - Sylvia McNair (sop), Lisa Beznosiuk (fl), Anthony Robson (ob), Alastair Mitchell (bsn), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 420 210)

MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Phil/Andrea Licata (Tring International TRP 046)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 28 - Alexandra Silocea (pno) (Avie AV 2183)

BRUCKNER: Third movement, Scherzo, from Symphony No 4 in Eb, Romantic - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 84723)

9:00 AM. The Works

GRIEG: Symphonic Dances on Norwegian motifs Op 64 - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 10287 X)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 - Weilerstein Trio (Koch KICCD 7754)

DELIUS: Songs of Farewell - Ambrosian Singers, Royal Phil/Eric Fenby (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9008/9)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Eros Roselli (gtr), La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 92892)

JANÁCEK: Fairy-tale - Tomás Jamník (cello), Ivo Kahánek (pno) (Supraphon SU 3928)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Chicago SO/Erich Leinsdorf (RCA 07863 56518)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Landscapes

PRUDEN: Haast Highway - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

BINGE: The Whispering Valley, Prelude - Silvia Cápová (pno), Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

STATHAM: Landscapes Nos 1 & 2- Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake - Eastman Philharmonia/Howard Hanson (Mercury 434 390)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216 - James Ehnes (vln/dir), Mozart Anniversary Orch (CBC SMCD 5238)

SIBELIUS: The Jewish girl's song, from Belshazzar's Feast; Alikeness; A song - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (BIS CD 757)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 16 in G Op 31/1 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2018)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Leningrad Phil/Evgeny Mravinsky (rec 1960) (DG 419 745)

None but the lonely heart Op 6/6; Not a word, beloved Op 6/2; Heed not, my love Op 6/1 - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), Mstislav Rostropovich (pno) (rec 1961) (Philips 446 212)

4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

BACH: Partita in A minor BWV1013 - Alexa Still (fl) (RNZ)

LILBURN: Violin Sonata in Eb - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Gareth Farr (gamelan gongs), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - Osian Ellis (harp), English CO/Paul Goodwin (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7258)

CHOPIN: Berceuse in Db Op 57 - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (RCA RD 89911)

J STRAUSS II: Vienna Blood Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

SCHUBERT arr Webern: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 333)

GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

TRAD arr Finegan/Hayman: Song of the Volga Boatmen - Timothy Morrison (tpt), Michael Monaghan (sax), Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68598)

MARTINU: Songs for a Friend of my Country - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (DG 463 472)

MUSSORGSKY: Song of the Flea - Inia Te Wiata (bass), London Concert Orch/Vilem Tausky (rec 1950s) (Columbia 475 544)

SANDSTRÖM: Song to Lotta - Stefan Schulz (bass tbn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (BIS CD 1824)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Song of India, from Sadko - Zurab Sotkilava (ten), Moscow Bolshoi Theatre Orch/Andrei Tchistyakov (Sony SMK 57653)

ROSSINI: Souvenir of man, from The Album for Lively Children - Frederic Chiu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 7102)

FAURÉ orch Gaubert: Romance in Bb Op 28 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 143)

HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, Let thy hand be strengthened - Tallis Chamber Choir, Royal Academy Consort/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557003)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 3 Op 21 - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 New Zealand Electronic Music Symposium

Alex MacDonald (vla), Alex Bennett (bagpipes), Nicolas Maza (bcl), Ashley Brown (cello), Gretchen La Roche (cl)

STANSBIE: Escapade; C CHILDS: Recall; A BENNETT: Stagpipes; HALAC: Blown; DIRIE: Hwatu, Decks & Steps; DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: Breathe; J CHEN: The Wanderer; J YOUNG: Arrivederci; NORRIS/A BROWN: Eight Maps for the Lost; CREE BROWN: Inner Bellow (recorded in the Music Theatre & Kenneth Myers Centre, University of Auckland by RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Wednesday 25 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb - Hallé Orch/James Loughran; Serenade in E minor - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD QS 6087)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

ALKAN: Études Nos 1-7; Nocturne in Bb; Allegro Barbero; Assez vivement; J'était endormie, mais mon coeur veillait; Le staccatissimo; Les cloches; Les soupirs; En songe; Gros temps; Barcarolle; Le chanson de la folle au bord de la mer; Le temps qui n'est plus - Jack Gibbons (pno) (ASV CD DCS 227)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

LEIGHTON: Gloria, from Sarum Mass; MEWS: A sound came from heaven; PHILIPS: O crux splendidior; LANGLAIS: Kyrie, from Messe solenelle; TAVERNER: Dum transisset Sabbatum; SHEPHARD: Jesu, dulcis memoria; MENDELSSOHN: Heilig; FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean Racine; PALESTRINA: Angus Dei, from Missa brevis; TALLIS: O sacrum convivium; HESFORD: Psalm 90; J RITCHIE: Lord, when the sense; BRITTEN: The sycamore tree; PURCELL: Hear my prayer, O Lord; GIBBONS: Short Service, Nunc dimittis; O Lord, in thy wrath; WARLOCK: Benedicamus Domino; HOWELLS: Magnificat, from St Paul's Service - Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington/Philip Walsh, Andrew Macmillan (org) (Herald HAVPCD 191)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

CPE BACH: Trio Sonatas, in B minor; in G; in D minor; in A; in C - Le Nouveau Quatuor (Amon CD SAR 44)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 9 K271; BELLINI: Oboe Concerto; WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2; F STRAUSS: Horn Concerto - Leon McCauley (pno), Nicholas Daniel (ob), Michael Collins (cl), David Pyatt (horn), BBC Phil/Adrian Leaper (BBC MUSIC MM 46)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 ARRIAGA: Overture Op 1 - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Fuga Libera FUG 522)

VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - Daniel Hope, Lorenzo Borrani (vlns), members of Chamber Orch of Europe (DG 477 7463)

BEETHOVEN: Prisoners' Chorus, O welche Lust, from Fidelio - Ekkehard Wagner (ten), Frank Schiller (bar), Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 10 in C HobXVI/1 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Chartreuse TB 6)

KETÈLBEY: Wedgwood Blue - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Paul Goodwin (ob), King's Consort/Robert King (hpschd/dir) (Hyperion CDA 66383)

7:00 L MOZART: Toy Symphony in G - Toulouse CO/Georges Armand (vln/dir) (EMI CDZ 7 62516)

PAGANINI arr Kreisler: Third movement, La campanella, from Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 7 - Feng Ning (vln), Thomas Hoppe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80807)

GERMAN: Country dance, from Dances from Nell Gwyn - Southern Festival Orch/Robin White (Chandos CHAN 9110)

GRANADOS arr Miolin: Zambra, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

KAPP: Don Carlos - BBC Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10441)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Rachel Gauk (gtr) (BIS CD 969)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Erato ECD 88005)

JONGEN: Concert Study No 2 Op 65/2 - Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 586)

MARTINU: Idyll, from Bouquet of Flowers - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Orfeo 180 891)

STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier - Ilkka Talvi (vln), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

9:00 AM. The Works

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture & Venusberg Music - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concerto No 1 in E Op 10 - Vineta Sareika (vln), Liège Royal Phil/Patrick Davin (Fuga libera FUG 575)

DVORÁK: Ten Legends Op 59 - Prague Piano Duo (Praga PRD 250 173)

MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder - Susan Graham (mezzo), San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media 821936 0036)

L DUBOIS: Octet for eight chromatic horns - Luc Bergé, Bart Cypers, Miek Laforce, Frank Clarysse, Jeron Billiet, Mark de Merlier, Bart Indevuyst, Bert Vanderhoeft (horns) (Fuga Libera FUG 550)

VILLA-LOBOS: Harp Concerto - Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 135 SACD)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Musical Poetry

FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 4058)

D'ERLANGER: Poëme in D - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Welsh National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67838)

SCRIABIN: Poems Op 63; Poems Op 69; Poems Op 71 - Alexander Ghindin (pno) (Naxos 8.572440)

NIELSEN: Amor and the Poet, Overture Op 54 - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

MONTEVERDI: Lamento della Ninfa, from the 8th Book of Madrigals, Venice 1638 - Nuria Rial (sop), Jan van Elsacker, Cyril Auvity (tens), Nicolas Achten (bar), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (dir) (Virgin 2 36140)

ALBINONI arr anon: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - Alison Balsom (tpt), Scottish Ensemble (EMI 4 56094)

RAVEL: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, an opera in one act

Child........................................... Magdalena Kozená

Fire/Princess/Nightingale.............. Annick Massis

Mother/China Cup/Dragonfly....... Nathalie Stutzmann Sofa/Cat/Squirrel/Shepherd Sophie Koch

Armchair/Tree............................. José van Dam

Clock/Cat................................... François Le Roux

Tea pot/Little Old Man/Frog........ Jean-Paul Fouchécourt

Shepherdess/Bat/Owl.................. Mojca Erdmann

Berlin Radio Chorus, Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 2 64197)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PROKOFIEV arr Barshai/Balashov: Visions fugitives Op 22 - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (rec 2006) (Onyx 4017)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F# minor Op 1 - Stephen Hough (pno), Dallas SO/Andrew Litton (rec 2004) (Hyperion CDA 67501/2)

4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

HUMMEL: Te Deum in D - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557193)

PSATHAS: Jettatura - Stephen Gosling (pno) (Trust MMT 2047)

IBERT: Entr'acte - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503 - Patrick O'Byrne (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Kenneth Klein (Ribbonwood RCD 1002)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

CHERUBINI: Il Giulio Sabino, Overture - Bacau Phil/Silvano Frontalini (Nuova Era 6819)

GRANADOS arr Moriarty: La maja de Goya - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

MARTELLI: Cock Linnett - Neil Thomson and his orch (Dutton CDLX 7147)

BACH realized Jackson: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - London Concertante/Nicholas Jackson (dir) (Somm SOMMCD 077)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

SCHUMANN: Blumenstück Op 19 - András Schiff (pno) (Teldec 4509 99176)

MUSSORGSKY arr Liadov: Sorochinsky Fair, Introduction - Russian National Orch/Carlo Ponti (PentaTone PTC 5186 332)

GRAINGER: Brigg Fair - James Gilchrist (ten), Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.553088)

COLLINS: Vanity Fair - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7162)

GAY: Virgins are like the fair flower, from The Beggar's Opera - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 645)

C SCOTT: Russian Fair - Leslie De'Ath, Anya Alexeyev (pno duo) (Dutton CDLX 7166)

ARNOLD: The Fair Field - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10293)

HUANG YIJUN arr Peng Xiuwen: Fair Flowers under Full Moon - Sharon Bezaly (piccolo), Taipei Chinese Orch/Chung Yiu-Kwong (BIS SACD 1759)

PEARSALL: Who shall win my lady fair? - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1516)

HAWES: Fair Albion - Prague SO/Patrick Hawes (Signum SIGCD 178)

TRAD arr Kennedy/Lenehan/Messiter: Scarborough Fair - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), London Voices, English CO (EMI 5 56923)

CARMICHAEL: A Country Fair - Jack Harrison (cl), West Australian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics 442 374)

7:00 PM. Appointment

Dame Janet Baker

Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011 Gramophone Awards

Four programmes

(4) Lieder

Devoted Baker-holic, Alan Platt, provides insights to Dame Janet Baker's lied performances and guides us through some recordings of this repertoire, including a few rare editions from his collection (RNZ)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

2011 Adam Chamber Music Festival

Thirteen programmes

(3) Winterreise

SCHUBERT: Winterreise D911 - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (recorded in the Nelson School of Music by RNZ)

9:20 PM. Musical Colleagues

VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concerto No 7 in A minor Op 49 - Harriet Langley (vln), Liège Royal Phil/Patrick Davin (Fuga libera FUG 575)

THALBERG: Variations on themes from Rossini's Semiramide - Francesco Nicolosi (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223366)

10:00 PM. Day's End

DITTERSDORF: Symphony in G minor (Grave g1) - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553974)

CHAUSSON: Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19 - Jessye Norman (sop), Monte Carlo Phil/Armin Jordan (Erato 2292 45368)

11:00 SCHMID: Trio for clarinet, viola & piano Op 114 - Johannes Zurl (cl), Nils Mönkemeyer (vla), Nicholas Rimmer (pno) (CPO 777 391)

BEETHOVEN: String Trio in G Op 9/1 - Trio Zimmermann (BIS SACD 1857)

Thursday 26 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

SULLIVAN: Symphony in E, Irish; Imperial March; Victoria & Merrie England Ballet Suite No 1; Overture in C, In Memoriam - Linden Harris (ob), BBC Concert Orch/Owain Arwel Hughes (CPO 999 171)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BOCCHERINI: Divertimentos Op 16, No 1 in A; No 4 in Eb; No 5 in A; No 6 in C - Eckart Haupt (fl), Mi-Kyung Lee, Silvia Walch (vlns), Diemut Poppen (vla), Ludwig Quandt, Gotz Teutsch (cellos), Esko Laine (dbass) (Capriccio 10 456)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

MENDELSSOHN: Hear My Prayer; ROSE: Feast Song for St Cecilia; BRAHMS: Ye now are sorrowful; ALLEGRI: Miserere; HARVEY: Come, Holy Ghost; TAVENER: Psalm 121, I will lift up mine eyes; WISE: The ways of Zion do mourn; STANFORD: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in G; BRITTEN: Festival Te Deum in E - Jeremy Budd (treble), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott, Andrew Lucas (org) (Hyperion CDA 66439)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

TUBIN: Three Pieces; Suite on Estonian Dances; Suite on Estonian Dance Tunes; Sonata - Arvo Leibur (vln), Vardo Rumessen (pno) (BIS CD 541)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

HUMMEL: Trumpet Concerto in Eb; TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D; NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb; TARTINI: Trumpet Concerto in D; HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Ole Edvard Antonsen (tpt), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI 7 54897)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 GERMAN: Valse Gracieuse - Ireland National SO/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.223726)

RUTTER: Loving shepherd of thy sheep - Caroline Ashton (sop), Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 113)

HAYDN: Organ Concerto in C HobXVIII/8 - Harald Hoeren (org), Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.570486)

SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Karine Georgian (cello), Jan Willem Nelleke (pno) (Naxos 8.572375)

CATALANI: La Wally, Act 3 Intermezzo - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)

HÜE: Fantaisie - Katherine Bryan (fl), Royal Scottish National Orch/Paul Daniel (Linn CKD 367)

7:00 SMYTH: Two interlinked French melodies, from Entente Cordiale - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

MERTZ: Tarantella, from Bardic Sounds Op 13 - Marco Schmidt (gtr) (Private Recording CAS 0120)

COPLAND: Prairie Journal - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559240)

SIBELIUS: Suite for violin & strings Op 117 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Virgin 5 45534)

RUBINSTEIN: Russian Serenade in B minor - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos 8.570942)

MOZART: Così fan tutte, Overture - Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30479)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Wie zittern und wanken, from Cantata No 105, Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht - Miah Persson (sop), Masamitsu San'nomiya (ob), Bach Collegium, Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 951)

LARSSON: Pastoral Suite - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

CHOPIN: Waltz in Db Op 64/1, Minute - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 466 357)

TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - Delmé String Quartet (Hyperion CDH 88038)

MILFORD: Fishing by Moonlight Op 96a - Julian Milford (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67444)

DOHNÁNYI: American Rhapsody Op 47 - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 1107)

9:00 AM. The Works

RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Natalie Clein (cello), Charles Owen (pno) (EMI 3 66938)

BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 723)

REINECKE: Wind Octet in Bb Op 216 - members of Boston SO (Naxos 8.570777)

SCHUBERT: Impromptus D899 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Avie AV 2158)

RODRIGO: Concierto andaluz - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Delaware SO/David Amado (Telarc TEL 31754)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Paavo Berglund (Ondine ODE 990)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Middle of the Day

HERRMANN: Silent Noon - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7224)

JONGEN: Soleil à midi Op 33/1 - Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 586)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon, from The House of Life - Sarah Walker (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (CRD 3473)

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

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Maria Callas (sop), Philharmonia/Tullio Serafin (rec 1954) (EMI 5 62794)

GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 026)

TRAD Sephardic Tres Hermanicas - Carolina Moon (vocalist), Mostyn Cole (dbass), Ron Samsom (drums), plus backing group (Ode CD Manu 5109)

Martin Setchell's Composer of the Week talk on the life and music of JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) focusing on the composer's organ repertoire (RNZ)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Cellist, Pierre Fournier

PAGANINI arr Silva: Variations on a theme by Rossini; DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - with Lamar Crowson (pno) (rec 1969) (DG 477 5939)

Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 - with Berlin Phil/George Szell (rec 1961) (DG 477 5939)

4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 6 in Eb Op 70/2 - Canterbury Trio (RNZ)

HAMILTON: Elysian Fields - New Zealand SO/Matthias Bamert (RNZ)

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

5:00 PM. Cadenza

ORFF: O fortuna, from Carmina Burana - London Phil Choir, Southend Boys' Choir, London Phil/Zubin Mehta (Warner Classics 3984-25544)

MAXWELL DAVIES arr Eriksson: Farewell to Stromness - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

BÖHME: Danse russe - Giuliano Sommerhalder (cornet), Westphalia New Phil/Heiko Mathias Förster (Solo Musica SM 125)

HAMELIN: Theme and Variations (Cathy's Variations) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

CLEMENTI ed Spada: Minuetto Pastorale - Philharmonia/Francesco d'Avalos (ASV CD DCS 322)

PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 9299)

ELGAR: Romance Op 62 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Opera North Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch (Chandos CHAN 10477)

GERSHWIN arr Fernie: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)

N RAWSTHORNE: Hornpipe Humoresque - Kemp English (organ of Dunedin Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

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

HILL: Blue evening; Valse lente; Waltz caprice - Asmira Woodward-Page (vln), Scott Davie (pno) (Artworks AW 034)

SCULTHORPE: Djilile - Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (dir/vln) (Chandos CHAN 10063)

BELLINI: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Diana Doherty (ob), Queensland SO/Werner Andreas Albert (ABC Classics 456 681)

LISZT: Le lac de Wallenstadt S156/2a; Angelus! S162a/2 - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67408-10)

TOWNS arr Simonds: Perfect day - Sara Macliver (sop), Sinfonia Australis/Guy Noble (ABC Classics 472 044)

7:00 PM. Appointment

The Chinese Nureyev

Darcey Bussell presents the amazing story of Li Cunxin, born in rural China, recruited by Madame Mao's Dance Academy, a dramatic defection while on exchange in the US, and a star of American and Australian ballet companies (Ladbroke Productions)

CHOPIN orch Douglas: Les Sylphides - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 864)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

Splendour of Vienna

Three programmes

(3) Song of the Earth

Liane Keegan (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (ten), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

9:40 PM. Symphonic Brass

GRAINGER arr Higgins: A Lincolnshire Posy - Chicago SO Brass/Mark Ridenour (Chicago SO CSOR 901 1103)

DEL STEIGERS: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Clyde Dixon (cornet), National Band of New Zealand/Kevin Jarrett (Kiwi Pacific CD SLC 226)

10:00 PM. Day's End

ADAMO: Alcott Music, from the opera Little Women - Eclipse CO/Sylvia Alimena (Naxos 8.559258)

JADASSOHN: Piano Trio No 1 in F Op 16 - Syrius Trio (Toccata Classics TOCC 0107)

HOVHANESS: Harp Concerto Op 267 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80530)

11:00 PELÉCIS: Nevertheless - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Vadim Sacharov (pno), German CO (Teldec 0630 14654)

VERDI arr Turovsky: String Quartet in E minor - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9662)

Friday 27 January 2012

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

BERWALD: Tragic Overture, Estrella de Soria; Reminiscences from the Norwegian Mountains; Racing; Symphony No 2 in D, Sinfonie capricieuse; Symphony No 4 in Eb - Royal Phil/Ulf Bjorlin (EMI CDM 5 65866)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

CLEMENTI: Preludio, alla Haydn Op 19; Sonata in F minor Op 13/6; Capriccio in Bb Op 17; Sonata in G minor Op 34/2; Preludio, alla Mozart Op 19; Sonata in F Op 33/2; Fantasia on Au Clair de la Lune Op 48 - Andreas Staier (fpno) (Teldec 3984 26731)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

DOWLAND: Second Book of Songs - Emma Kirkby (sop), John York Skinner (countertenor), Martyn Hill (ten), David Thomas (bass), Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley (lute) (Oiseau-Lyre 425 889)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

CORELLI: Sonatas, in F Op 3/1; in D Op 3/2; in C Op 4/1; in G minor Op 4/2; in Bb Op 3/3; in B minor Op 3/4; in A Op 4/3; in D Op 4/4; in D minor Op 3/5; in G Op 3/6; in A minor Op 4/5; in E Op 4/6 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0526)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

NIELSEN: Prelude to the second act of Saul & David; Rapsodic Overture; The Mother; Little suite for strings Op 1; Pan & Syrinx Op 49; En Sagadrøm; Overture, Prelude & Dance of the Cockrells from Maskarade - Odense SO/Tamás Vetö (Big Ben 571 011)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner (RCA 60387 2 RG)

BIZET arr anon: Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 2; Entr'acte to Act 3, from Carmen - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Anthony Ferner)

COATES: London Suite - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9869)

TRAD arr Kondonassis: Small River Flowing - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80488)

WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (CBC MVCD 1168)

BACH orch Elgar: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV537 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7509)

7:00 WAGNER: Dance of the Apprentices & Entry of the Masters, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDC 7 47255)

PROKOFIEV: Andante in G minor - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tatyana Lazareva (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10045)

TELEMANN trans Williams: Bourrée alla Polacca - John Williams (gtr) (CBS MK 44518)

DEBUSSY orch Molinari: L'Isle Joyeuse - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

FARKAS: Old Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century - Thurston Clarinet Quartet (ASV White Line CD WHL 2076)

VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in G RV413 - Georg Faust (cello), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (Avi 855 3060)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GEMINIANI: Lady Ann Bothwel's Lament - Genevieve Lacey (rec), Linda Kent (org) (ABC Classics 472 226)

RAVEL arr Grainger: La vallée des cloches, from Miroirs - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 058)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 66173)

HUBAY: Czárdas Scene No 4, Beautiful Katie - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Bournemouth SO/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.572078)

DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 6503)

9:00 AM. The Works

SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 6 - Alexander Ghindin (pno) (Naxos 8.572440)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 3 in C Op 52 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)

HUMMEL: String Quartet in Eb Op 30/3 - Delmé Quartet (Hyperion CDH 55166)

FALLA: El Amor Brujo - Nancy Fabiola Herrera (mezzo), Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1271)

CURTIS: Four Winds Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2085)

DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53 - Hrachya Avanesyan (vln), Sinfonia Varsovia/Augustin Dumay (Fuga Libera FUG 588)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. A Communion of Saints

CALDARA: Sant' Elena al Calvario, Sinfonia - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Georg Kallweit (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2095)

HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3157)

AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Mark Op 4/6 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

MENDELSSOHN: St Paul Op 36, Overture - Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus 83.214)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

ELGAR: Falstaff, Symphonic Study in C minor Op 68 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7505)

VERDI: Tacea la notte placida, from Il Trovatore - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 230)

THALBERG: Fantasy on God Save the Queen - Steven Mayer (pno) (ASV CD DCA 783)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Larry Combs (cl), David McGill (bsn), Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (rec 1998) (Teldec 3984 23913)

STRAUSS: Wiegenlied Op 41/1 - Jessye Norman (sop), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (rec 1982) (Philips 411 052)

STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in Eb Op 18 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Krystian Zimerman (pno) (rec 1988) (DG 427 617)

4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

RÓZSA: El Cid, Overture & Prelude - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7601)

MOZART: Ach, ich fühl's, from The Magic Flute - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Julius Rudel (EMI 5 56417)

BESSER: Mr Darwin's Dances, excerpts - Jonathan Besser (pno), Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin (gtr), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (accordion), Peter Scott (dbass), Yai Katz (perc) (Atoll ACD 409)

CHARLTON: Three Sentimental Scenes - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions CM 2)

POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani - Gillian Weir (organ of Royal Festival Hall, London), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Virgin 5 22045)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

J STRAUSS II: The Gypsy Baron, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80547)

ALBÉNIZ: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Linn CKD 355)

MCLEOD: The Skye Boat Song - Royal Scottish National Chorus & Orch/Alexander Gibson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CMS 5 66650)

ANDERSON: Belle of the Ball - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

BORODIN: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Borodin Quartet (Decca 444 389)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA 74321 84112)

SMETANA: The Kiss, Overture - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

LEHÁR: Girls were made to love and kiss, from Paganini - Plácido Domingo (ten), English CO/Julius Rudel (Angel CDC 5 55616)

NORTON: Any time's kissing time, from Chu Chin Chow - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Julie Bryan (sop), Michael Collins and his orchestra (Columbia 475 545)

SOUTULLO: The Legend of the Kiss, Intermezzo - Madrid Community Orch/Miguel Roa (Naxos 8.555957)

MATTEIS: Sett of Ayres - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 126)

SINDING: Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10 - Daniel Röhn (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Claves CD 50-2507)

HANDEL arr E Grigoryan: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)

7:00 PM. Appointment

2011 Gramophone Awards

Best Instrumental Recording

BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24; Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1; Piano Pieces Op 118 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony 88697 79469)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

WOMAD Taranaki 2011

Eleven programmes

(4) Tiki Taane

Tiki Taane has become one of New Zealand's most popular and diverse award-winning artists. The former Salmonella Dub member and his band The Dub Soldiers are joined on stage by Ngaruawahia's celebrated 35-member kapa haka group Te Pou o Mangatawhiri of Turangawaewae Marae (RNZ)

8:55 PM. French Favourites

POULENC: French Suite after Claude Gervaise - Anima Eterna Brugge/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 110 403)

FRANCK trans Delsart: Violin Sonata in A - Alexander Kniazev (cello), Plamena Mangova (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 587)

BOIELDIEU: Harp Concerto in C - Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 135 SACD)

10:00 PM. Day's End

RESPIGHI: Pines of Rome - Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling (BIS SACD 1720)

REGER: Chorale Fantasia on Freu' dich sehr, o meine Seele Op 30 - Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen (pno duet) (Sony 88697 12146)

FUCHS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 9 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)

11:00 SCHUMANN: Andante & Variations in Bb Op 46 - L William Kuyper (horn), Alan Stepansky, Gerald Appleman (cellos), Hecht & Shapiro (pno duo) (Eri-Elysium Recordings GRK 709)

VASKS: String Quartet No 4 - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79695)

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