Schedules for 14 - 20 April, 2012

Disc 1

SMETANA: The Moldau; Vysehrad; DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66; LISZT: Les Preludes; Hungarian Rhapsody No 4 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 220)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

STENHAMMAR: Piano Sonata No 1 in C; Fantasie in A minor; Piano Sonata No 2 in C minor; Piano Sonata No 3 in Ab; Piano Sonata No 4 in G minor - Lucia Negro (pno) (BIS CD 634)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Magnificat in D BWV243; Cantata No 21, Ich hatte viel Bekummernis - Greta de Reyghere (sop), René Jacobs (countertenor), Christoph Pregardien (ten), Peter Lika (bass), Netherlands Chamber Choir, La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken (Virgin VC 7 90779)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

LILBURN: Symphonies, Nos 1-3 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

CPE BACH: Symphonies, in G Wq182/1; in Bb Wq182/2; in C Wq182/3; in A Wq182/4; in B minor Wq182/5; in E Wq182/6 - Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Cappriccio 10 106)

6:00 WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 474 377)

VILLA-LOBOS: Cor dulce, cor amabile - South West German Radio Vocal Ensemble/Marcus Creed (Hänssler CD 93.268)

TARTINI arr Baril: Violin Sonata in G minor Op 2/1, Devil's Trill - Angèle Dubeau (vln), La Pietà (Analekta AN 2 8723)

RAVEL: La Valse - Vladimir Ashkenazy & Vovka Ashkenazy (pno duo) (Decca 478 1090)

WOOD: Roses of Picardy - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223605)

7:00 FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80149)

WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasy - Yossif Ivanov (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Naïve AM 136)

ARBAN: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Maurice André (alto flugelhorn), Wind Band of the Paris Guardians of the Peace/Claude Pichaureau (RCA 60025)

RODRIGO: Three Spanish pieces, Fandango; Passacaglia; Zapateado - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (BGS CD 107)

SMETANA: Sárka, from Má Vlast - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)

8:00 DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras (Argo 433 704)

KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - London SO/André Previn (DG 453 436)

NORTON: Sonatina - Carol Hohauser (fl), Karen Spiegel-Neumann (pno) (RNZ)

ROSSINI: String Sonata No 1 in G - members of Serenata of London (ASV CD DCA 767)

SAINT-SAËNS: Second movement, part 2, Maestoso-Allegro, from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Michael Murray (organ of St Francis de Sales' Church, Philadelphia), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Telarc CD 80277)

A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

SAINT-GEORGES: Symphony Concertante in G Op 13 - Jiri Zilak (vln), Jan Motlik (vla), Pilsen Radio SO/Frantisek Preisler jnr (Avenira AV 9988)

KNAIFEL: O Heavenly King; SILVESTROV: Ikon - Patricia Rozario (sop), Michael McHale (pno), Callino Quartet (Louth CMS LCMS 901)

PURCELL: Abdelazer, incidental music - Theatre of Early Music (Analekta AN 2 9948)

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

MENDELSSOHN: Fantasia in F# minor Op 28, Sonate écossaise - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66781)

ROTT: Symphony in E - Vienna Radio SO/Dennis Russell Davies (CPO 999 854)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

(7) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

BBC World Routes: On the Road

The second of two programmes featuring music from World Routes: On the road. It's a compilation of previously unreleased material recorded by the BBC radio series World Routes on location around the globe to celebrate its first ten years on the air (Nascente NASCE001)

Diedre Irons (pno), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 11 in G minor Op 103, The Year 1905 (recorded at St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

Pascal Rogé (pno)

DEBUSSY: Etudes, Book 1 (Onyx 4056)

D'INDY: Sarabande & Menuet - with Catherine Cantin (fl), Maurice Bourgue (ob), Michel Portal (cl), Amaury Wallez (bsn), André Cazalet (horn) (Decca 425 861)

POULENC: Aubade - with French National Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 937)

Elegy for horn & piano - with André Cazalet (horn) (Decca 443 968)

SAINT-SAËNS: Wedding Cake, Caprice-Valse Op 76 - with Ami Rogé (pno duo) (Onyx 4047)

NZ musicians and composers

MAYUZUMI: Rumba Rhapsody - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557693)

BARBER: Toccata Festiva Op 36 - Gillian Weir (organ of St Augustine's Chapel, Tonbridge School), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Linn CKD 178)

BESSER: Frida Kahlo's Tango; Hudson River 1; Hudson River 4; Friday Night Alone; Opening Night Tango - Jonathan Besser (pno), Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin (gtr), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (accordion), Peter Scott (dbass), Yair Katz (perc) (Atoll ACD 409)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Spanish Dance & Final Scene, from Swan Lake - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

A Lesson in Love

Kate Royal (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno)

Waiting

BOLCOM: Waitin; SCHUMANN: Jemand; WOLF: Die Kleine; LISZT: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein

The Meeting

DEBUSSY: Apparition; WOLF: O wär dein Haus; SCHUBERT: Gretchen am Spinnrade; CANTELOUBE: Tchut, tchut; BRIDGE: Love went a-riding; COPLAND: Pastorale; BEACH: Ah, Love, but a day

The Wedding

SCHUMANN: Lied der Braut I; Lied der Braut II; RAVEL: Chanson de la mariée; FAURÉ: Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été; STRAUSS: Hochaeitlich Lied; DUPARC: Extase

Betrayal

BRAHMS: Am Sonntag Morgen; SCHUBERT: Du liebst mich nicht; BRITTEN: O Waly, Waly; WOLF: Verschling' der Abgrund meines Liebsten Hütte; TRAD: Danny Boy; HUGHES: I will walk with my love; BOLCOM: Waitin (EMI 9 48536)

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Sasha Cooke (mezzo), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen L'Oiseau De Feu

LILBURN: Symphony No 3; MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer

(Interval)

STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite (RNZ)

JACOB: Viola Concerto No 1 in C minor - Helen Callus (vla), BBC Concert Orch/Stephen Bell (Dutton CDLX 7258)

C STAMITZ: Symphony in E minor Op 15/2 - l'arte del mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (CPO 777 526)

11:00 SIBELIUS: String Quartet in D minor Op 56, Intimate Voices - Tetzlaff Quartet (Avi Music 8553202)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 4 in Bb Op 11 - Gryphon Trio (Analekta AN 2 9860)

Disc 1

NIELSEN: Concerto for violin & orchestra Op 33; Concerto for flute & orchestra; Concerto for clarinet & orchestra Op 57 - Dong-Suk Kang (vln), Patrick Gallois (fl), Olle Schill (cl), Gothenburg SO/Myung-Whun Chung (BIS CD 616)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

SCHUBERT: Quartet for flute, guitar, viola and cello; KREUTZER: Grand Trio for flute, clarinet and guitar Op 16; BEETHOVEN: Serenade for flute, clarinet and guitar Op 8 - Johann Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Robert Alemany (cl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Ronald Thomas (cello) (Koch 3 7404 2H1)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

MORALES: Missa Mille Regretz - Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh (Archiv 449 143)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

IRELAND: In Those Days; London Pieces; Leaves from a Child's Sketchbook; The Darkened Valley; Two Pieces; Equinox Sonatina; Prelude in Eb; Ballade; Greenways - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9140)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trios, in C Op 1/1; in A Op 1/2; in F Op 1/3; in C minor Op 4/3 - New Zealand SO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553213)

PEROTINUS arr Garbarek: Beata Viscera - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525 (445 369))

LE JEUNE: Third Fantasy for five viols - Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea de Carlo (dir) (Ricercar RIC 284)

STANFORD: Three Latin Motets Op 38 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (dir) (Conifer CDCF 155)

BACH: Cantata No 42, That evening, of the very same Sabbath, the disciples assembled (written for the first Sunday after Easter) - Gillian Keith (sop), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Charles Daniels (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 131)

PÄRT: I am the True Vine - Theatre of Voices, Pro Arte Singers/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7242)

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

SILVESTROV: Alleluia - Kiev Chamber Choir/Mykola Hobdych (ECM 2117 (476 3316))

HUMMEL: Mass in Bb Op 77 - Westminster Oratorio Choir, New Brunswick CO/John Eric Floreen (Koch International 3-7117)

W HARRIS: Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 6605)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Db Op 37 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

TAVENER: Svyati - Kiev Chamber Choir/Mykola Gobdych (dir), Steven Isserlis (cello) (RCA 09026 68761)

SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Trio Latitude 41 (Eloquentia EL 1129)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)

PREISNER: Love, from Requiem for my friend - Dorota Slezak (vocalist), Jerzy Glowczewski (sax), Warsaw Sinfonia/Jacek Kaspszyk (Erato 3984 24146)

ROBERTS: An English Elegy - Roland Roberts (vln), City of Oxford Orch/Levon Parikian (Quartz QTZ 2036)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

A programme in which some of the less familiar winners are featured, presented by Steve Danby (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Six programmes in which Bill McGlaughlin talks with chamber musicians in the studio

(3) Charles Wadsworth and Friends

Four young artists join Charles Wadsworth, founder of Charleston's Spoleto Chamber Music Festival, in various combinations of chamber music

DVORÁK: Silent Woods Op 68/5; Slavonic Dances, in E minor Op 72/2; in C Op 46/1 - Andrés Díaz (cello), Wendy Chen (pno)

MENDELSSOHN: Second & Third movements, Andante con moto; Scherzo, from Piano Trio in D minor Op 49 - Chee-Yun (vln), Andrés Díaz (cello), Wendy Chen (pno)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Todd Palmer (cl), Wendy Chen (pno)

PRUTSMANN: I've Got Rhythm-Not - Todd Palmer (cl), Wendy Chen (pno), Chee-Yun (vln), Andrés Díaz (cello) (American Public Media)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Guitar Concerto No 1 in D Op 99 - Friedemann Wuttke (gtr), Hungarian CO/Nicolás Pasquet (Profil PH 04022)

BATE: Symphony No 4 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7255)

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

FALLA: El Amor Brujo - Teresa Berganza (mezzo), French National Radio Orch/Ataúlfo Argenta (rec 1957) (Medici Arts MM 025)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - Boston SO/Serge Koussevitzky (rec 1936) (Naxos 8.110170)

The sonic world of horror

Ryan Smith explores the music, atmospheres and sounds that inhabit the shadowy world of horror films. From the scores of early silent German expressionist cinema to 21st century Japanese horror, the dark side of Hollywood and the sounds of terror in New Zealand film (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(15) MOZART: Don Giovanni, an opera in two acts

The libertine and blasphemer Don Giovanni, whose main purpose in life is the seduction of women, gets his just reward in what many consider Mozart's greatest opera

Don Giovanni………... Gerald Finley

Donna Anna…………. Marina Rebeka

Donna Elvira………… Ellie Dehn

Zerlina……………….. Isabel Leonard

Leporello…………….. Bryn Terfel

Il Commendatore……. James Morris

Don Ottavio…………. Matthew Polenzani

Masetto……………… Shenyang

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Andrew Davis (EBU)

LILBURN: Four Canzonas - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

Nine programmes

(6) William Dart reviews new releases from local artists Linden Puffin, Victoria Girling-Butcher and The Verlaines (RNZ)

Reuben Chin (sax), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

BRUCKNER arr Sauer: Locus iste; Vexilla Regis; GILMOUR: Existence - Aether 1 (première performance & broadcast); DUBOIS: Saxophone Concerto; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2 in D Op 36 (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

ARNOLD: Prelude and opening scene, from Homage to the Queen, Ballet Suite Op 42a - Royal Aarhus Academy of Music SO/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 424)

ARNELL: The great detective Op 68 - BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7208)

LANCHBERY: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, from Tales of Beatrix Potter - Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/John Lanchbery (EMI 5 72813)

S ROSSI: Psalm 146, Hallelujah, Let my soul praise the Lord; The living God we praise; Magnified and sanctified may His great name be; Praise the Lord; Source of Blessing - New York Baroque/Eric Milnes (dir) (Dorian DOR 93210)

TAVENER: The Protecting Veil - Steven Isserlis (cello), London SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Virgin VC 7 91474)

11:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Quintet in Bb for piano & winds - Vovka Ashkenazy (pno), members of Reykjavik Wind Quintet (Chandos CHAN 10420)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1683)

Disc 1

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27; Vocalise in E minor Op 34/14 - Philharmonia/Jacek Kaspszyk (Collins 10542)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

MEDTNER: Sonata Reminiscenza in A minor Op 38/1; Russian Fairy Tale Op 42/1; Dancing Fairy Tale Op 48/1; Organ Grinder Op 54/3; Fairy Tales, in F minor Op 26/3; in D minor Op 51/1; Funeral March Op 31/2; Fairy Tale in G# minor Op 31/3 - Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9050)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

STANFORD: For lo I raise up; HARRIS: Bring us O Lord God; HARVEY: The tree; PURCELL: Hear my prayer O Lord; BOYCE: O where shall wisdom be found; TAVENER: Hymn to the mother of God; WALTON: Jubilate Deo; HAYDN: Insanae et Vanae Curae; NAYLOR: Vox Dicentis, Clama; BLOW: Salvator Mundi; WOOD: Great Lord of Lords; BALFOUR GARDINER: Evening Hymn; FINZI: God is gone up Op 27 - Choir of Norwich Cathedral/Michael Nicholas, Neil Taylor (org) (Priory PRCD 351)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SCHARWENKA: Piano Concertos, No 2 in C minor Op 56; No 3 in C# minor Op 80 - Seta Tanyel (pno), Hanover Radio Phil/Tadeuz Strugala (Collins 14852)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

LEASK: Aatidahlge; BACH arr Koonce: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV998; MERTZ: Hungarian Fantasy; KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz; DOMENICONI: Variations on an Anatolian Folksong; PIAZZOLLA: Tanguango (arr Roskilly); Milonga del angel (arr Benitez); Verano Porteña; Primavera Porteña - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5004)

6:00 HERSCHEL: Symphony No 14 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

BLANCAFORT: Two Tonades, Innocent tune; Intermittent tune - Miquel Villalba (pno) (Naxos 8.572220)

RACHMANINOV: Mélodie in E Op 3/3 - Irish National SO/Alexander Anissimov (Naxos 8.550808)

JANÁCEK: Six Moravian Choruses - Philip Mayers (pno), Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2097)

SINDING: Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

7:00 KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon, Overture - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

ANON: Canarios - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9820)

ARRIEU: Sonatine for flute & piano - Christine Hankin (fl), Timothy Murray (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7193)

NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Romain Leleu (tpt), Baltic CO/Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme (Aparté AP 025)

SIBELIUS: Pan & Echo Op 53 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 268)

GARDINER: Shepherd Fennel's Dance - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

JC BACH: Concertino in F for organ & strings - Johannes Geffert (Klais Chamber Organ, Emanuel Church, Cologne-Rondorf), Johann Christian Bach Akademie/Ingeborg Scheerer (dir) (Audite 20.002)

BRIDGE: Phantasie Quartet in F minor - members of London Bridge Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7254)

REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Paris Conservatoire Orch/Albert Wolff (Testament SBT 1308)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

MAILLART: Les Dragons de Villars, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

ROGER-DUCASSE: Pastorale in F - Joseph Nolan (organ of the Abbey Church of St Ouen, Rouen) (ASV CD DCA 1175)

D'OLLONE: The Village Fiddler - Mark Kaplan (vln), Barcelona SO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-2301)

BITSCH: Concertino - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

MOZART: Symphony No 36 in C K425, Linz - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Linn CKD 350)

R CLARKE: Viola Sonata - Matthew Jones (vla), Michael Hampton (pno) (Naxos 8.572579)

BRITTEN: Piano Concerto in D Op 13 - Steven Osborne (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67625)

RESPIGHI: Roman Festivals - National Youth Orch of Great Britain/Vasily Petrenko (BBC Music BBC MM 337)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

TRIEBENSEE: Variations on a theme of Haydn, from Symphony No 94, Surprise - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor ang) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

CURRIER: Scarlatti Cadences - Joyce Yang (pno) (Avie AV 2229)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDM 5 66761)

STAINER: God so loved the world, from The Crucifixion - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest (Decca 425 849)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Artur Rubinstein (pno), BBC SO/Colin Davis (BBC Legends BBCL 4187)

PUCCINI: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Maria Callas (sop), La Scala Orch, Milan/Victor de Sabata (EMI 5 57062)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 14 in A minor D784 - Ivana Gavric (pno) (rec 2009) (Champs Hill CHRCD 009)

TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Estonian National SO/Arvo Volmer (rec 2001) (Alba ABCD 163)

NZ musicians and composers

J RITCHIE: Partita for brass quintet - NZ Chamber Brass (Private Recording)

FARR: Le Temps est à la Pluie - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

DOMENICONI: Variations on an Anatolian Folksong - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

BOCCHERINI: String Trio in A Op 38/1 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

HUMMEL: Rondo brillant in F Op 127, Le retour à Londres - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557845)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7025)

RODRIGO: Sonata giocosa - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (BGS CD 107)

BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Jerry Hadley (ten), Thomas Hampson (bar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Carlo Rizzi (Erato 3984 26499)

DUTILLEUX: Sonatine - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Eric Le Sage (pno) (EMI 5 56488)

RAMEAU: Les Surprises de l'Amour, Overture - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)

GRÍMSDÓTTIR: I will praise her and laud - Hljómeyki/Bernhardur Wilkinson (Iceland Music Centre SMK 23)

CHOPIN arr Debski: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Polish CO/Jacek Kaspszyk (EMI 3 79934)

BARBER: Summer Music - Galliard Ensemble (BBC BBC MM 243)

RESPIGHI ed di Vittorio: Aria for strings - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.572332)

SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 2122/23)

VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in G minor RV496 - Tamás Benkócs (bsn), Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos (Naxos 8.570798)

ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie, Overture - Royal Phil/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

A programme in which some of the less familiar winners are featured, presented by Steve Danby (RNZ)

Miranda Adams (vln), Robert Ashworth (vla), NZTrio

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57; PSATHAS: Piano Quintet; BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 (recorded in the Auckland Museum Auditorium by RNZ)

BACH: Recorder Concerto in Bb BWV1055 - Erik Bosgraff (recorder), Ensemble Cordevento (Brilliant Classics 94296)

FUCHS: Serenade No 2 in C Op 14 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)

DURUFLÉ: Messe Cum jubilo - Thomas Hampson (bar), baritones of the Orfeon Donostiarra, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson, Marie-Claire Alain (org) (EMI CDC 5 56878)

ALWYN: Concerto for oboe, harp & strings - Jonathan Small (ob), Eleanor Hudson (harp), Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570144)

11:00 DVORÁK: String Sextet in A Op 48 - Panocha Quartet, Josef Kluson (vla), Michal Kanka (cello) (Supraphon SU 3921)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Sonata No 1 in C minor Op 32 - Henri Demarquette (cello), Boris Berezovsky (pno) (Mirare MIR 108)

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphony No 25 in G minor; VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in F RV487; MOZART: Rondo in Eb for horn K371; A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor; WOLF: Italian Serenade; J STRAUSS II: Blue Danube Waltz; Emperor Waltz - Matthew Wilkie (bsn), Jonathan Williams (horn), Douglas Boyd (ob), Diemut Poppen (vla), Chamber Orch of Europe/Alexander Schneider (ASV CD COE 810)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

WALTON: Violin Concerto; Sonata for violin & orchestra; Two Pieces for violin & orchestra - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9073)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

MACHAUT: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit, Ballade 32, Plourez dames; Ballade 33, Nes qu'on porroit; Rondeau 4, Sans cuer dolens; Lai 13, Le lay de bonne esperance; Rondeau 18, Puis qu'en oubli; Rondeau 17, Dis et sept cinq - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.553833)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

FOLEY: Oiseaux Excentriques; LOUIE: Music for piano; SOUTHAM: Rivers, excerpts; SMITH: Zart; HÉTU: Petite Suite - Louise Bessette (pno) (CBC MVCD 1064)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

DUKAS: La Péri, Fanfare; La Péri; Symphony in C; The Sorcerer's Apprentice -Netherlands Radio Phil/Jean Fournet (Denon CO 75284)

6:00 SUK: Fantastic Scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 8897)

FRANCK arr Delsart: Fourth movement, Allegretto poco mosso, from Violin Sonata in A - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (EMI 5 65955)

GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Grande Tarentelle Op 67 - Reid Nibley (pno), Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel (Vanguard Classics 08 4051 71)

MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 4 in B - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

DVORÁK: The Noon Witch Op 108 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8530)

7:00 BACH: Violin Concerto in G minor BWV1056 - Rachel Podger (vln/dir), Brecon Baroque (Channel Classics CCS SA 30910)

DEBUSSY: Nuages, from Nocturnes - Boston SO/Charles Munch (RCA 82876 59416)

GLAZUNOV: Orientale, from Five Novelettes Op 15 - St Petersburg String Quartet (Delos DE 3262)

COPLAND: Our Town - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 61699)

ARNOLD: A Grand Grand Festival Overture - Kathy Jones, Helena Miles, Chris Hoyle (vacuum cleaners), Fiona Macintosh (floor polisher), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10293)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BIZET: Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - London SO/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 464)

BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Un Sueño en la Floresta - Johannes Möller (gtr) (Naxos 8.572715)

GRAINGER: To a Nordic Princess - Danish National Radio SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9721)

FALLA arr Kochanski: Popular Spanish Suite - Timora Rosler (cello), Klára Würtz (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9157)

GOUNOD: Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHSA 5048)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

SANCAN: Sonatine - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Love Derwinger (pno) (BIS SACD 1639)

DUPONT: La maison dans les dunes - François Kerdoncuff (pno) (Timpani 1C 1072)

VIDAL: Gavotte, from Zino-Zina - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (EMI CDM 7 63412)

HAYDN: Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise - Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 0662)

BLISS: Clarinet Quintet - David Campbell (cl), Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.557394)

GRIEG: Haugtussa Op 67 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 437 521)

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Eldar Nebolsin (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572336)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

RATCLIFFE: Caprice - John Wells (organ of Auckland Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 641)

MILHAUD: Three Rag-Caprices - Capella Cracoviensis/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-1138)

GOTTSCHALK arr Savant: La Jota Aragonesa, Caprice espagnol - Eugene List, Cary Lewis (piano duet) (Vanguard Classics 08 4051 71)

PAGANINI: 24 Caprices Op 1, excerpts, Nos 4 in C minor; 9 in E; 21 in A - Augustin Hadelich (vln) (Avie AV 2180)

ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8451)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Gundula Janowitz (sop)

MOZART: Ah, lo previdi...Ah, t'invola K272; Bella mia fiamma, addio! K528 - with Vienna Symphony/Wilfried Boettcher (rec 1966)

Per pietà, ben mio, from Così fan tutte - with Vienna Symphony/John Pritchard (rec 1970)

WEBER: Leise, leise; Und ob die Wolke, from Der Freischütz - with Orch of the German Opera, Berlin/Ferdinand Leitner (rec 1962) (DG 477 5832)

NZ musicians and composers

GERSHWIN: Strike Up The Band, Overture - Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL)

ROSSINI: La promessa; La pastorella dell' Alpi, from Soirées musicales - Malvina Major (sop), Joy Crabtree (pno) (Kiwi CD SLC 227)

MOZART: Non siate ritrosi; Donne mie, la fate a tanti; Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, from Così fan tutte - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner (ABC 472 826)

TRAD arr Mulholland: The Banks O'Doon - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1999-2000/Roger Stevenson, Stacey Dixon (ob) (Private Recording)

NEWMAN: Dragonwyck, Film music - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

LILBURN: Three Sea Changes - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 78)

GOODWIN: Arabian Celebration - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Emanuel Brabec (cello), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)

WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 444 389)

ALBÉNIZ: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Tsiboulski APT-CD 101)

BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade - Sydney SO/Patrick Thomas (ABC Classics 472 509)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - James Kreger (cello), Gerald Robbins (pno) (Koch Discover DICD 920 586)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Gil Shaham (vln), Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 064)

BUCHANAN: Century fanfare, Peace - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 100)

PÄRT: Da pacem Domine - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Talinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 2050 (476 6990))

MILHAUD: Cantate de la Paix - Hilde Venken (sop), Helena Bohuszewicz, Marleen Delputte (contraltos), Ivan Goossens (ten), Flemish Radio Choir/Paul Hillier (Glossa GCDSA 922 207)

LISZT: Rhapsodie espagnole S254 - Haochen Zhang (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7506)

SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice on Danish & Russian Airs, for flute, oboe, clarinet & piano Op 79 - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 0395)

PAGANINI: Sonata for gran viola Op 35 - David Carpenter (vla), Helsinki Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Ondine ODE 1188)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 Combined choirs of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul & Trinity College, Melbourne, members of NZ Brass/Michael Fulcher & Michael Leighton Jones, Richard Apperley, Jonathan Bradley (orgs)

PARRY: I Was Glad; SHEPHERD: And when the builders; BALDWIN: Haec dies; Magnificat, from St Paul's Service; HARRIS: Most Glorious Lord of Life; LEIGHTON JONES: Do not go gentle into that good night; HOWELLS: Like as the hart; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O how amiable; Mass in G minor (recorded at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

9:30 Stroma/Hamish McKeich

EVANGELISTA: O Bali; CHINARY UNG: Still Life after Death; Khse Buon; ISADORA: The little baby Jesus and the bee; CROFT: Murmures secrez … Avernales eaux; SIERRA: Cuentos (recorded at St Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

HANSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 33; The Lament for Beowulf Op 25; Symphony No 5 Op 43, Sinfonia Sacra - Seattle Chorale & SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3709)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

GARDNER: Petite Suite Op 245; McCABE: Domestic Life; LAWSON: Song of the Lesser Twayblade; LEIGHTON: Concerto Op 88; LANE: Suite Champêtre; MELLERS: Aubade; MILFORD: Two Pipe Tunes; KAY: Mr Pitfield's Pavane; DODGSON: Concerto Chacony - John Turner (rec), Keith Elcombe (hpschd), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G; Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Haines (sop), Nina Stoddart (contralto), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BACH: Keyboard Concertos, No 1 in D minor BWV1052; No 5 in F minor BWV1056; Concerto for two harpsichords & strings BWV1060; Concerto in C for three harpsichords & strings BWV1064; Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords & strings BWV1065 - Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, Philip Ledger, Blandine Verlet (hpschds), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 497)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op 12; Op 38; Op 43; Op 47 - Gerard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

6:00 PURCELL: Curtain Tune, from Timon of Athens - Lautten Compagney/Wolfgang Katschner (dir) (Carus 83.435)

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Op 68, excerpts, Evening in the mountains; At the cradle - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)

ALKAN: Bombardo-Carillon - Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow (pno duet) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0070)

ZIPOLI arr Hunt: Elevazione - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Niklass Veltman (cello), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in A minor Op 95 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20 - West Kazakhstan Phil/Bundit Ungrangsee (Naxos 8.572643-45)

7:00 SCHUMAN: American Festival Overture - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 61282)

RAVEL trans Garban: Kaddisch, from Two Hebrew Melodies - Jaime Laredo (vln), Joseph Kalichstein (pno) (Arabesque Z 6736)

LINCKE: Glow Worm Idyll - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66998)

TRAD arr Flower: The Drunken Sailor; Wild Mountain Thyme - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Sony 88697 45456)

BORNE orch Dodgson: Fantaisie Brillante on Bizet's Carmen - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

8:00 Beauty Spot: DEBUSSY: La plus que lente - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 247)

LILBURN: Allegro for Strings - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

BRIDGE: Spring Song; Mélodie - Guy Johnston (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (Orchid Classics ORC 100010)

VERDI: La Traviata, Preludes to Acts I & III - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 345)

STRAVINSKY: Tango, Waltz & Ragtime, from The Soldier's Tale - Gidon Kremer (vln), Eduard Brunner (cl), Aloys Kontarsky (pno) (ECM 1304/5 (827 024))

TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Scottish CO/Jahja Ling (Telarc CD 80227)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

SAVARD: Morceau de concours - Reinhold Friedrich (tpt), Thomas Duis (pno) (Capriccio 67 152)

CAPLET: Conte fantastique, after The masque of the red death by Edgar Allan Poe - Sandrine Chatron (harp), Elias String Quartet (Ambroisie AMB 9978)

DESENCLOS: Prelude, Cadence & Finale - Joseph Lulloff (sax), Philip Hosford (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 10497)

BOURGAULT-DUCOUDRAY: Rhapsodie cambodgienne - Slovak Radio SO/Adriano (Marco Polo 8.225234)

BACH: Triple Concerto in A minor BWV1044 - Christoph Huntgeburth (fl), Georg Kallweit (vln), Zvi Meniker (fpno), Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1740)

SCHUBERT: German Mass D872 - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch, Elmar Schloter (org) (EMI CMS 7 64783)

F SCHMIDT: Piano Quintet in G, for left hand piano - Leon Fleisher (pno), Joseph Silverstein, Joel Smirnoff (vlns), Michael Tree (vla), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 48253)

WITT: Symphony No 9 in D minor - Hamburg SO/Johannes Moesus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 329 1299)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY trans Kreisler: Chant sans paroles, from Souvenir de Hapsal - Nicolas Koeckert (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Naxos 8.557388)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without words Op 67/1, Andante in Eb - Silver Garburg Piano Duo (Oehms Classics OC 755)

GIORGINAKIS: Song without Words - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

STATHAM: Song without Words - Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

DAMASE: Trois Prières sans paroles - Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), Simon Preston (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (BIS CD 1109)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 26 in Eb Op 81a, Les Adieux - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 414 630)

TALLIS: Spem in alium - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 2 28944)

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 - Franklin Cohen (cl), Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 443 176)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 2 Nos 1-6 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (rec 1991) (DG 435 773)

L'année en vain chasse l'année, from L'Enfant prodigue - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Georges Prêtre (rec 1962) (EMI CMS 5 65061)

String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Quatuor Ebène (rec 2008) (Virgin 5 19045)

NZ musicians and composers

RÓZSA: El Cid, excerpts - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

VIVALDI: Cello Sonata No 4 in Bb RV45 - Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd) (Musicaphon M 56917)

HAMILTON: Whisper you all the way home - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir, 2003-04/Elise Bradley (NZSSC)

BESSER: Summer Riffs - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

SULLIVAN: Mikado, Overture - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (EMI CDM 5 66538)

GRAINGER: Mock Morris - Kenneth Sillito (vln), Hamish Milne (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9746)

KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Warner 8573 80438)

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

WOLF: Italian Serenade - Formosa Quartet (EMI 3 66557)

COATES: Sweet Seventeen - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV trans Mercz: Song of India, from Sadko - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

LECUONA: Andalucia - Eastman-Rochester Pops Orch/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 434 349)

HAMELIN: Etudes, from 12 Etudes in all the minor keys, No 1 in A minor, Triple Etude after Chopin; No 2 in E minor, Coma Berenices; No 4 in C minor, Etude à mouvement perpétuellement semblable, after Alkan; No 9 in F minor, after Rossini - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

STRAUSS: Four Songs Op 27, excerpts, Cäcilie; Morgen!; Ruhe, meine Seele - Jessye Norman (sop), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 411 052)

STENHAMMAR: Five songs to texts by Johan Runeberg Op 8, Leaning on the fence; The daughter said to her old mother; Early sorrow; To a rose; Delights - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Åke Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

FAURÉ: Pavane - ASMF & Chorus/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 014)

SANZ: Canarios - Hopkinson Smith (baroque gtr) (Auvidis Astrée E 8623)

KETÈLBEY: Chal Romano - Philharmonia/John Lanchbery (EMI 7 47806)

Philosophy Talk

Presented by Ken Taylor and John Perry of Stanford University

Six programmes

(6) Digital Selves

Second Life and dozens of other online adventures involve creating digital selves, and millions of users are taking advantage of the opportunity to develop new personas. Cyberpunk literature, like William Gibson's Neuromancer, describes worlds in which the line between digital selves and real selves is hard to draw. What makes your digital self you? What does your choice of digital selves show about you? And what makes onscreen representation more or less effective as digital selves? John and Ken are joined by Jeremy Bailenson, Director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, for a programme recorded before a live audience at The Marsh Theatre in San Francisco (Ben Manilla Productions)

Competition Galas

Three programmes

(3) Clara Haskil International Piano Competition 2011

With Winterthur Musikkollegium/Jesús López-Cobos

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - Joo Hyeon Park (pno)

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Zhi Chao Julian Jia (pno)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - Cheng Zhang (pno) (First Prize Winner) (recorded in the Stravinsky Auditorium, Montreux by Swiss Radio)

TANEYEV: String Trio in D - Leopold String Trio (Hyperion CDA 67573)

11:00 SCHNITTKE arr Spivakov & Milman: Suite in the Old Style - Ulf Wallin (vln), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Ralf Gothóni (BIS CD 1437)

GIULIANI: Rossiniana No 1 Op 119 - Friedemann Wuttke (gtr) (Profil PH 07001)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 71/3 - Takács Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67793)

Disc 1

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faun; La fille aux cheveux de lin; Fêtes, from Nocturnes; La Cathédral engloutie, from Prèludes Book 1; Clair de Lune, from Suite Bergamasque; Golliwogg's cakewalk, from Children's Corner ; Rêverie; Le Matin d'un jour de fêtes from Iberia; Arabesque No 1; Prèlude to The Council of the False Gods; String Quartet in G minor Op 10, Scherzo; La Mer - Various artists (Sony MLK 64065)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BARBER: Canzone; COPLAND: Vocalise; BURTON: Sonatina; PORTER: Blues Lontains; COPLAND: Duo for flute & piano; ROCHBERG: Between Two Worlds; Five Images for flute & piano; MUCZYNSKI: Flute Sonata; BLOCH: Last Two Poems (Maybe…) - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah; MOZART: Laudate Dominum, from Vesperae solennes de confessore K339; MENDELSSOHN: Thanks be to God, from Elijah; GLUCK: Che faro senza Euridice, from Orpheus & Euridice; PUCCINI: Humming Chorus, from Madama Butterfly; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Song of Thanksgiving; HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest; SCHUBERT arr Hazell: Ave Maria; CANTELOUBE: Bailero, from Chants d'Auvergne; MOZART: Ave verum corpus K618; COPLAND: Simple gifts, from Old American Songs; I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs; HALL arr Hazell: Jenny Rebecca; BERNSTEIN arr Cullen: Somewhere, from West Side Story - Frederica von Stade (sop), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake Childrens Chorus, Utah SO/Joseph Silverstein (London 436 284)

3:45 - Disc 4

GLAZUNOV: The Seasons; Scenes de Ballet Op 52 - Czech Radio SO Bratislava/Ondrej Lenard (Marco Polo 8.223136)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in D minor RV406; Cello Sonata No 7 in A minor RV44; Cello Concerto in C minor RV402; Cello Sonata No 8 in Eb RV39; Cello Sonata No 9 in G minor RV42; Cello Concerto in G RV414 - Christophe Coin (cello), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'oiseau-Lyre 433 052)

6:00 EL-KHOURY: Serenade No 1, Autumn Leaves Op 10 - Colonne Orch/Pierre Dervaux (Naxos 8.557692)

ALBÉNIZ: Autumn Waltz - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1953)

HANDEL: Instrumental Suite, from Radamisto - Academy of Early Music, Berlin (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1685)

STANFORD: Autumn Leaves - King's Singers (EMI CDC 7 49765)

CHAMINADE: Sérénade aux Etoiles - Christine Hankin (fl), Timothy Murray (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7193)

GOODALL: The Seasons, Autumn, Russet fall; Charcoal burning; Cider harvest; Poppies - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

7:00 DELIUS arr Fenby: La Calinda, from Koanga - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

BELLINI: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Alessandro Baccini (ob), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

SPOHR: Fantasia in C minor Op 35 - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

BAGUER: Symphony No 16 in G - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9456)

TAILLEFERRE: Suite burlesque - Philippe Corre, Edouard Exerjean (pno duo) (Pierre Verany PV 786091)

8:00 Beauty Spot: VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDZ 7 62521)

WHITACRE: October - Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Stephen Gage (Naxos 8.570946)

BRITTEN: Courtly Dances, from Gloriana - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1751)

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 29410)

FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2044)

BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Signum SIGCD 200)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

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

Y DESPORTES: French Suite - Thurston Clarinet Quartet (ASV CD WHL 2076)

L BOULANGER: Faust et Hélène - Lynne Dawson (sop), Bonaventura Bottone (ten), Jason Howard (bass), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9745)

FASCH: Overture in Bb - Das Kleine Konzert/Hermann Max (CPO 999 594)

GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), Bavarian Radio SO/Lawrence Renes (BR Media 900 106)

RIES: Piano Sonata in D Op 9/1 - Susan Kagan (pno) (Naxos 8.572299)

DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.277)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: A Midsummer Night's Dream Op 108 - West Australian SO/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.572500)

KORNGOLD: Four Shakespeare Songs Op 31, Desdemona's song; Under the greenwood tree; Blow, blow, thou winter wind; When birds do sing - Sarah Connolly (mezzo), William Dazeley (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Signum SIGCD 160)

WAGENAAR: Twelfth Night Op 36 -Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 425 833)

BACH orch Stokowski: Prelude in Eb minor BWV853 - Czech Phil/Leopold Stokowski (London 440 082)

LOEILLET DE GANT: Recorder Sonata in G Op 1/3 - Daniel Rothert (recorder), Vanessa Young (cello), Ketil Haugsand (hpschd) (Naxos 8.572023)

BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Sioned Williams (harp) (Coro Cor 16034)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E K380 - Yuja Wang (pno) (DG 477 8795)

HOFFMEISTER: Double Bass Quartet No 3 in D - Norbert Duka (dbass), Ernö Sebestyén (vln), Helmut Nicolai (vla), Martin Ostertag (cello) (Naxos 8.572187)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HAYDN: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock (rec 1959); BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56a (rec 1958); DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (rec 1961) - London SO/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

NZ musicians and composers

SCHUBERT: String Trio in Bb D471 (fragment) - members of the NZ String Quartet (RNZ)

KARLOWICZ: A Sorrowful Tale, Preludes to Eternity - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570295)

A RITCHIE: Children & Adults - Anna Leese (sop), Tom McGrath (pno), Kate Hamilton (vla) (Ode CD MANU 5032)

PIAZZOLLA arr Voirpy: Café 1930, from Histoire du Tango - Rachel McLarin (alto sax), Saxcess (Saxcess)

GRETCHANINOV: Cello Concerto - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9559)

JEFFES: Music for a Found Harmonium, from Four Pieces for Orchestra - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 425 218)

DEBUSSY: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - Noriko Ogawa (pno) (BIS CD 1405)

KAJANUS: Finnish Rhapsody No 1 in D minor Op 5 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1223)

TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in F minor TWV51/f1 - Sarah Francis (ob/dir), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1118)

ELGAR: There is sweet music - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

GLAZUNOV: Rêverie Orientale Op 14/2 - Lesley Schatzberger (cl), Fitzwilliam String Quartet (Linn CKD 278)

GRIEG: Nordic Melodies Op 63 - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572403)

BELLINATI: Jongo - Eden Stell Guitar Duo (Hänssler CD 98.211)

MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80318)

BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con brio, from Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 - Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio (Koch KIC CD 7724)

HANDEL: Berenice, Overture - Scottish CO/Jaime Laredo (dir) (RegisC 1160)

RAVEL: Sonata in A minor for violin & piano - Jaime Laredo (vln), Joseph Kalichstein (pno) (Arabesque Z 6736)

PACHELBEL: Canon in D - Scottish CO/Jaime Laredo (dir) (RegisC 1160)

Elizabeth Connell (1946-2012)

Soprano Elizabeth Connell was an enormous personality, a powerful singer with a commanding stage presence. Conductor Richard Bonynge regarded her as one of the strongest singers he had known. She seemed invincible (The Times)

When Elizabeth Connell came to New Zealand to judge the Lexus Song Quest in 2007 she talked with Christine Argyle (RNZ)

Direct from the Auckland Town Hall

Barnabás Kelemen (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Gary Walker

Enigma Variations

BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10; MOZART: Violin Concerto No 5 in A K219, Turkish

(Interval)

ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma (RNZ)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Household Music, Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes for String Quartet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67381/2)

FOOTE: Suite in E Op 63 - Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay (dir) (Capriccio 10 505)

11:00 MOZART: String Quartet No 4 in C K157 - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2076)

BACH: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 27108)

FRANÇAIX: Aubade for twelve cellos - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

Disc 1

ALWYN: Symphony No 5, Hydriotaphia; Sinfonietta for Strings; Piano Concerto No 2 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9196)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Flute Sonatas, in E minor BWV1034; in C BWV1033; in E BWV1035, in B minor BWV1030, in A BWV1032; in Eb BWV1031 - John Solum (baroque fl), Igor Kipnis (hpschd), Barbara Bogatin (cello) (Arabesque Z 6589)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

CHESNOKOV: Requiem No 2 Op 39; Orthodox Chants - Olga Slovesnova (contralto), Mikhail Falkov (ten), Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Ashavskaya (Olympia OCD 482)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

LILBURN: Nine Short Pieces for Piano; Three Sea Changes; Seven Short Pieces; Short Piece; Prelude; Sonata; 2 Untitled Pieces; Sonatina No 1; A Musical Offering - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GLIÈRE: Gyul'sara, Overture; Concert Waltz Op 90; Shakh-Senem, Overture; GLIÈRE orch Derzhanovsky: Ballad Op 4; GLIÈRE: Overture on Slavonic Themes; Heroic March for the Buryiat-Mongolian ASSR Op 71; Holiday at Ferghana, Overture - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

6:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - USSR Cinema SO/Emin Khachaturian (EMI CDB 7 62578)

BEETHOVEN: Second movement, Adagio, from String Quartet in F Op 18/1 - Cleveland Quartet (Telarc CD 80382)

SIBELIUS: Väinö's Song Op 110 - Dominante Choir, Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1565)

FALLA: Neighbour's Dance & Miller's Dance, from The Three-cornered Hat - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

VEJVANOVSKY: Serenada - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Symphonia SY 96151)

ADDINSELL: Warsaw Concerto - Isador Goodman (pno), Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas (ABC Classics 472 509)

7:00 WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

WIENIAWSKI: Memory of Moscow Op 6 - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.550744)

DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - Paul Meyer (cl), Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572675)

HARTY: In Ireland - Kenneth Smith (fl), Paul Rhodes (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25069)

WAGNER: Forest Murmurs, from Siegfried - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Victrola 7819-2-RV)

8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: Morgen Op 27/4 - Renée Fleming (sop), Paul Willey (vln), Osian Ellis (harp), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 458 858)

PIAZZOLLA arr Assad: Tango-Etudes, excerpts - Cavatina Duo (Bridge 9330)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Sadko Op 5 - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572787)

PURCELL: Fantasias, No 10 in E minor; No 11 in G; No 12 in D minor - Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7502)

RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 434 127)

Unsung Heroes of the Prix de Rome

BAZIN: Je pense à vous, from Maître Pathelin - Roberto Alagna (ten), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Bertrand de Billy (EMI 5 57012)

ERLANGER: Solo de trompette chromatique - Reinhold Friedrich (tpt), Thomas Duis (pno) (Capriccio 67 152)

HILLEMACHER: Gavotte tendre - Lynn Harrell (cello), Bruno Canino (pno) (Decca 425 611)

PARAY: Joan of Arc Mass - Frances Yeend (sop), Frances Bible (mezzo), David Lloyd (ten), Yi-Kwei-Sze (bass), Rackham Symphony Choir, Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 432 719)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K457 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

DOHNÁNYI: Ruralia Hungarica Op 32b - Danubia SO/Domonkos Héja (Warner 2564 62409)

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 24 - Werner Güra (ten), Christoph Berner (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1842)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 2, A London Symphony (rev vesion) - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (PRT PVCD 8375)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

REBER: Remembrance - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

BARRY: A Childhood Memory - English CO/John Barry (London 460 009)

HAYDN: Recollection - Anna Leese (sop), Peter Lodahl (ten), Alisdair Hogarth (pno) (Michael Storrs Music MSM 0012)

ZIEHRER: Nostalgia Waltz Op 436 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223815)

DELIBES: Où va la jeune Indoue? from Lakmé - Natalie Dessay (sop), Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (Virgin Classic 3 63332)

WEBERN: Concerto for nine instruments Op 24 - members of the London SO/Pierre Boulez (Sony SM3K 45845)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 - Bremen German Chamber Phil/Paavo Järvi (RCA 88697 21418)

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Classic performances from the back catalogue

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 1 in Eb Op 12 - Emerson String Quartet (rec 2003) (DG 477 5370)

BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No 2 Sz95 - Yefim Bronfman (pno), Chicago SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (rec 1994) (Sony SK 66718)

NZ musicians and composers

LILBURN: Cambridge Overture - Schola Players/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 77)

MAREK: A look backwards - Philharmonia Orch & Chorus/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6441)

BACH arr Farquhar: Six Chorale Preludes, Alle Menschen müssen sterben; Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag; Hilf Gott, das mir's gelinge; O Lamm Gottes; Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar; In dulci jubilo - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

COPLAND: Quiet City - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Alison Jepson (cor anglais), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)

ALBÉNIZ: Cordoba, from Spanish Songs - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 3, Allegro marcato - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

BRIDGE arr Cornford: Scherzetto - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: Promenade, from Pictures at an Exhibition - New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (Sony MLK 66702)

ELGAR: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Sarah Chang (vln), Sandra Rivers (pno) (EMI 7 54352)

VERDI: Aida, Prelude - Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 856)

GRANADOS: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2103)

KHACHATURIAN: Waltz, from Masquerade - Hamburg State Phil/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI 5 56970)

VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

PAGANINI: Polacca in F - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Warner Classics 3984-25544)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Pawel Zuzanski (vln), Cologne String Quintet (MGR Productions)

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

JOPLIN arr Crespo: Pineapple Rag - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)

BAX: Apple Blossom Time - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8732)

TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - Bridge String Quartet (Somm SOMMCD 087)

J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle/Michael Tomascheck (Koch International 324 073)

BELLINI: Three Ariettas, Il fervido desiderio; Dolente immagine di fille mia; Vaga luna che inargenti - Dennis O'Neill (ten), Ingrid Surgenor (pno) (Collins Classics 15072)

KODÁLY: Kádár Kata - Márta Szirmay (contralto), Budapest SO/György Lehel (Hungaroton HCD 12839/40)

TARTINI: Violin Concerto in E minor D55 - Nils-Erik Sparf (vln), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 1975)

The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (RNZ)

Julia Fredersdorff (baroque vln), Laura Vaughan (vla da gamba), Donald Nicolson (hpschd), Latitude 37

BUXTEHUDE: Sonata No 6 in D minor BuxWV257; LECLAIR: Trio Sonata No 8 in D Op 2; F COUPERIN: Le Tic-Toc-Choc, ou Les Maillotins; CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia; MARAIS: La Sonnerie de Saint-Geneviève du Mont de Paris; BECKER: Trio Sonata in D; TELEMANN: Trio Sonata No 10 in D TWV42/D9; MARAIS: Le Badinage; RAMEAU: Concert No 3, from Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

SIBELIUS: Sandels - YL Male Voice Choir, Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1525)

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

GRIEG: Lyric Suite Op 54 - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572403)

SPOHR: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C minor Op 26 - Emma Johnson (cl), English CO/Gerard Schwarz (ASV CD DCA 659)

RUTTER: Five Meditations - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

11:00 SCHUBERT: Moments Musicaux D780 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 458 608)

REBEL: The Elements - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 221)