Schedules for 28 Apr - 04 May, 2012

Disc 1

WILLIAM WALLACE: Symphonic Poems, No 5, Sir William Wallace; No 6, Villon; No 1, The Passing of Beatrice; No 3, Sister Helen - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66848)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

HAYDN: String Quartets Op 54 Nos 1-3 - Salomon Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66971)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 24; Lieder - Mark Padmore (ten), Christopher Maltman, Jonathon Lemalu (bars), Graham Johnson (pno), Ex Cathedra (Hyperion CDJ 33108)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BACH: Brandenburg Concertos Nos 4-6; Air from Orchestral Suite No 3; Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio - Stuttgart CO/Karl Münchinger (Decca 417 770)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

Piano music by ARENSKY; GLAZUNOV; LYADOV; RACHMANINOV; TANAYEV; TCHAIKOVSKY - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9218)

6:00 FUNCK: Suite in D - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song - Emma Johnson (cl), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (ASV CD DCA 891)

L MOZART: Symphony in G - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553347)

KUULA: Sunrise - Accentus Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson (Naïve V 5037)

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

7:00 FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 2 in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

LILBURN: Two Preludes (1951) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

KORNGOLD: Dance in the Old Style - Helsinki Phil/John Storgårds (Ondine ODE 1182)

FARKAS: Serenade for wind quintet - Phoebus Quintet (Toccata Classics TOCC 0019)

KELLY: O'Carolan Suite in Baroque Style - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

8:00 ARNE: Overture No 2 in A, from Eight Overtures in eight parts - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0722)

BACH arr Watts: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208 - Canadian Brass (RCA RCD 1-3554)

MIELCK: Concert Piece in D Op 8 - John Storgårds (vln), Finnish Radio SO/Sakari Oramo (Ondine ODE 1019)

BRUCKNER: Locus iste - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67629)

SEISS: German Dances - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)

SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 336)

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

BRITTEN after Rossini: Matinées musicales - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

LALO: Cello Concerto in D minor - Anne Gastinel (cello), Lyon National Orch/Emmanuel Krivine (Naïve V 5246)

MOMPOU orch Ros-Marbá: Damunt de tú nómes les flors, from El Combat del Somni - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Antonio Ros-Marbá (EMI CMS 5 65061)

HAWES: Rain - English CO/Patrick Hawes (Black Box BBM 1081)

SCHUMANN: Gesänge der Frühe Op 133 - Michael Endres (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 84386)

ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

WARLOCK: Sleep - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (pno) (rec 1949) (Decca 433 473)

JOPLIN: Magnetic Rag - Alan Feinberg (pno) (Argo 444 457)

GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Cakewalk Ballet - Louisville Orch/Akira Endo (Albany Troy 016)

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This week's best-selling CDs

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

(9) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

Into the light: music of Korea

An overview of current traditional music performance from Korea (Korean Arts Management Service)

Jason Bae (pno), 2010 NZSO National Youth Orch/Rossen Milanov

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; STRAVINSKY: Concerto for piano & wind instruments; ADAMS: The Chairman Dances; RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

COATES: Youth of Britain March, from The Three Elizabeths Suite - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 246)

ANON: Let us not that young man be - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (L'Oiseau-Lyre 436 155)

FINZI: A young man's exhortation - Mark Padmore (ten), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67459)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271, Jeunehomme - Sophie Pacini (pno), Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Radoslaw Szulc (Onyx 4088)

BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1751)

NZ performers and composers

Children's Hour

DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1521)

ELGAR: Wand of Youth Suite No 1 Op 1a - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

GRANDJANY: Children's Hour Suite - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

SCHUBERT: Die Götter Griechenlands D677; Waldesnacht D708; Der Wanderer an dem Mond D870; Freiwilliges Versinken D700; Himmelsfunken D651; Prometheus D674; Gondelfahrer D808; Die Sterne D939; Auf der Bruck D853 - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (EMI 5 65234)

DEBUSSY: Proses lyriques - Elly Ameling (sop), Dalton Baldwin (pno) (EMI CMS 7 64095)

Pinchas Zukerman (vln), New Zealand SO/James Judd

BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 3; Pinchas Zukerman and James Judd along with the NZSO discuss and illustrate Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Op 61 followed by a complete performance (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

trans Hoppstock: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in Eb BWV998 - Judicaël Perroy (gtr) (Naxos 8.572427)

Cello Suite No 5 in C minor BWV1011 - Ophélie Gaillard (cello) (Aparté AP 017)

GIBBS: Oboe Concerto Op 48 - Jonathan Small (ob), Royal Liverpool Phil/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7249)

POULENC: Seven Songs, The white snow; Barely disfigured; On a new night; Every right; Beautiful & lifelike; Marie; Gleaming - RIAS Chamber Choir/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1872)

FARQUHAR: Serenade for Strings - NZSO CO (Manu CD MANU 1550)

11:00 FAURÉ: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 117 - Alban Gerhardt (cello), Cecile Licad (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67872)

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 9 in D minor - Wihan Quartet (Nimbus NI 6115)

Disc 1

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5; Overture on Russian & Kirghiz themes; Novorossisk Chimes, from The Fire of Eternal Glory; Symphonic Poem, October - Royal PO/Enrique Batiz (ASV CD DCA 707)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Sonata in G minor BWV1030; TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in Eb; VIVALDI: Sonata in C minor RV53; COUPERIN: Concerto No 6; CPE BACH: Sonata in C minor for oboe & harpsichord - Douglas Boyd (ob), Harold Lester (hpschd/org), Roderick Elms (hpschd), Richard Lester (cello) (ASV CD DCA 656)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

Bid Adieu

Irish Songs by HUGHES; JOYCE; PENDLETON; BEETHOVEN; MOERAN; BERLIOZ; BARBER; RIETTI; HEAD; BAX and TRAD - Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Forlane 16784)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

MOZART: Piano Sonatas, in F K533; Bb K281; D K311 and C K309 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 417 572)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

NIELSEN: Symphony No 5; Helios Overture Op 17; SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16; Night Ride & Sunrise Op 55 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 6533)

LAURIDSEN: Introitus, from Lux aeterna - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt, Jörg Halubek (org) (Bayer BR 100 305)

VIVANCO: Missa In manus tuas - Choir & Orchestra of the Renaissance/Michael Noone (Glossa GCD 921 405)

SCHUBERT: Offertorium in Bb D963 - Marius Brenciu (ten), Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Chorus & Orch/Lawrence Foster, Pedro Ribeiro (ob) (PentaTone PTC 5186 359)

HANDEL: Gloria in Bb - Gillian Keith (sop), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 462 597)

G JACKSON: Salve Regina 2 - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

RHEINBERGER: Marian Hymns Op 171 - Lydia Teuscher (sop), Christine Müller (mezzo), Annette Markert (contralto), Götz Payer (pno) (Carus 83.431)

PÄRT: The Beatitudes - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison, Jurgen Petrenko (org) (Naxos 8.557299)

HOWELLS: Te Deum & Benedictus (St George's, Windsor) - Choir of Wells Cathedral/Malcolm Archer, Rupert Gough (org) (Hyperion CDA 67494)

DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Royal Flemish Phil/Daniele Callegari (Talent DOM 2929 95)

ROTA arr Lencsés: Elegy - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

PURCELL: When I am laid in earth; With drooping wings, from Dido & Aeneas - Janet Baker (mezzo), Thurston Dart (hpschd), St Anthony Singers, English CO/Anthony Lewis (Decca 478 0320)

BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele - Douglas Mews (organ of Wellington Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1030)

BOLZONI: Minuet - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

FRANCK arr Boustead: Panis angelicus, from Mass for three voices - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Barry Rose (Decca 468 503)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr Meshchaninov: Melody, from Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Vytautas Sondeckis (cello), Lithuanian CO/David Geringas (Naxos 8.554381)

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

Murray Khouri takes a look at the life and music of CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951) (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

The Bird Actors, Overture - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67545)

orch Easterbrook/Shipley: Piano Concerto - Jonathan Plowright (pno), English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67545)

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

(5) Matt Haimovitz (cello), Jean Marchand (pno)

BACH: Fourth & Sixth movements, Sarabande; Gigue, from Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009; GOLIJOV: Omaramor; SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 (American Public Media)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - Winterthur Musikkollegium/Heinz Holliger (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 16636)

WEBER: Concert Piece in F minor Op 79 - Alfred Brendel (pno), London SO/Claudio Abbado (Philips 456 733)

David Morriss reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

LARSSON: Little Serenade - Stockholm Chamber Ensemble (rec 1965) (Swedish Society SCD 1051)

GRAGNANI: Sonata in F for violin & guitar - Leonid Kogan (vln), Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy (gtr) (rec 1950) (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00655)

SALMANOV: Symphony No 2 in G - Leningrad Philharmonia/Evgeny Mravinsky (rec 1960) (IM Lab IMLCD 073/74)

The Philharmonia Story

Two programmes in which Murray Khouri profiles the London orchestra which was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge (1) (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(17) VERDI: Macbeth, an opera in four acts

Verdi's life-long love of the works of Shakespeare has its first expression in this, his tenth opera. When writing to the librettist, Piave, he expressed how important the subject was, "... this tragedy is one of the greatest creations of man ... If we can't make something great out of it let us at least try to do something out of the ordinary"

Macbeth....................... Thomas Hampson

Lady Macbeth............. Nadja Michael

Banquo........................ Günther Groissböck

Macduff....................... Dimitri Pittas

Lady-in-waiting........... Claudia Waite

Malcolm....................... Richard Cox

Doctor.......................... James Courtney

Servant......................... Tyler Simpson

Herald.......................... Brandon Mayberry

Assassin....................... Donovan Singletary

Bloody Child............... Jennifer Zetlan

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Gianandrea Noseda (EBU)

NZ performers and composers

More Shakespeare in Music

MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.570794)

FARQUHAR: Prospero Dreaming - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

LISZT: Hamlet S104 - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

Nine programmes

(8) William Dart looks at new albums from Anais Mitchell, Jim White and Shelley Hirsch (RNZ)

NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composer Awards 2011

Two programmes

In September, 13 selected young New Zealand composers had their works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Janina Nicoll talks to each composer and we hear the recording of their piece

(2) HANNAH BLUMHARDT: Tensile Strength; ALEX TAYLOR: [Inner]; MARGARIETHA DU PREEZ: Te Putangitangi-a-Tane; JOANIE CHUNG YEE LEE: Earthquake; ALEX CAMPBELL-HUNT: Progress; NATALIE MATIAS: The Crucible, Act 1, Overture - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

SCHUMANN: String Quartet in F Op 41/2 - Gringolts Quartet (Onyx 4081)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Onyx 4078)

GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 4 - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 3 - Netania Davrath (sop), orch accompaniment/Pierre de la Roche (Vanguard 08 8002.72)

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

ALBINONI: Sinfonia in G minor - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0602)

11:00 MOZART: Violin Sonata No 33 in Eb K481 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1706)

Disc 1

DELIUS: Brigg Fair; A Song Before Sunrise; The Walk to Paradise Garden; A Song of Summer; In a Summer Garden; Summer Night on a River - Philharmonia/Owain Arwel Hughes (ASV CD CDA 627)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

MOZART: Fantasia in C minor K475; HAYDN: Sonata in G HobXVI/40; DUSSEK: Sonata in Bb Op 9/1; MOZART: Sonata in C K330; Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op 13, Pathétique - Kemp English (ftpno) (Manu CD MANU 5001)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

RAMINSH: Songs of the Lights; Song; The Great Sea; Come, My Light; Ave Maria; Ave verum corpus; Magnificat - Sandra Graham (mezzo), Vancouver Chamber Choir, CBC Vancouver Orch/Jon Washburn (CBC SMCD 5116)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

JOLIVET: Five Incantations; Incantation; Chant de Linos for flute & piano; Sonata for flute & piano; Ascèses - Manuela Weisler (fl), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 549)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

TCHAIKOVSKY: Love theme, from Romeo & Juliet; Waltz, from Serenade for Strings; None but the lonely heart; Second movement, from Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23; Souvenir de Florence, Adagio; Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker ; Andante cantabile, from String Quartet No 1; Chant sans paroles; Dance of the Mirlitons, from The Nutcracker; Elegie for strings; Valse sentimentale; Preghiera, from Suite No 4, Mozartiana; Dance of the Queen of the Swans, from Swan Lake; Panorama, from Sleeping Beauty; Second movement, from Symphony No 6, Pathètique - Various artists (London 440 366)

6:00 HAYDN: Overture in D HobIa/4 - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

FASCH: Concerto in G for two oboes da caccia - Benoît Laurent (ob da caccia/dir), Lidewei de Sterck (ob da caccia), Lingua Franca (Ricercar RIC 304)

RAVEL: Menuet antique - French National Orch/Eliahu Inbal (Brilliant Classics 6980)

M PHILLIPS: Moorland Idyll Op 61 - BBC Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7140)

WAGNER trans Liszt: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Tristan Pfaff (pno) (Aparté AP 019)

BACH reconstr Alessandrini: Italian Concerto in F BWV971 - Francesca Vicari (vln), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30301)

7:00 BEETHOVEN: Two Marches for military band WoO18/19 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557264)

G BÖHM: Capriccio in D - Anthony Jennings (hpschd) (Trust MMT 2025)

MOZART arr Leleux: Four Arias from Don Giovanni, Là ci darem la mano; Non mi dir, bell'idol mio; Deh, vieni alla finestra; Fin ch'han dal vino - François Leleux (ob/dir), Salzburg Camerata (Sony 88697 33943)

MYERS arr Setchell: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, Act 2 Part 1 - London SO/André Previn (EMI 5 68607)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Bremen German Chamber Phil (Channel Classics CCS SA 16501)

GOTTSCHALK: Scherzo Romantique - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66697)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D RV210 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 365)

SARASATE arr A Labrie: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Similia (Analekta AN 2 9819)

OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951)

Romeo & Juliet - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67545)

Piano Sonata - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 062)

PLEYEL: Symphony in Bb Ben125 - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572550)

DELIUS ed Beecham: The Song of the High Hills - Olivia Robinson (sop), Christopher Bowen (ten), BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5088)

POULENC: Violin Sonata - Iskandar Widjaja (vln), Anastassiya Dranchuk (pno) (Oehms OC 822)

BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (CBS MYK 37259)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (PentaTone PTC 5186 386)

ANON: Sarabande Italienne - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9815)

VERDI: Giuriam d'Italia, from La battaglia de Legnano - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Carlo Franci (Decca 417 721)

POENITZ: Italienische Romanze Op 27 - Laura Vinciguerra (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9179)

LISZT: From the Cradle to the Grave - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

CASALS: Nigra sum sed formosa - Voices of Ascension/Dennis Keene, Mark Kruczek (org) (Naxos 8.570533)

PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 4 in D minor - Henryk Szeryng (vln), London SO/Alexander Gibson (PentaTone PTC 5186 178)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Flos ut rosa floruit; O viridissima virga - Tapestry/Laurie Monahan (dir) (Telarc CD 80456)

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Classic performances from the back catalogue

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 21 in Bb D960 - Radu Lupu (pno) (rec 1991) (Decca 440 295)

BIBER: Passacaglia, from The Mystery Sonatas - Monica Huggett (vln) (rec 2000) (ASV CD GAU 203)

NZ performers and composers

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - New Zealand SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Naxos 8.553126)

FARR: Waka - Aroha Priest (vocalist), Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (Vector Wgtn Orch VWO 001)

LILBURN: Sonatina for clarinet & piano - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 4 in E minor Op 44/2 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)

GERSHWIN: Promenade: Walking the dog, from Shall We Dance? - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (BBC Music BBC MM 234)

TRAD: Improvisations on Four English Folksongs, O Waly Waly; I will give my love an apple; The three ravens; Barbara Allen - Rachael Beesley (vln), Anthea Cottee (cello), Paul Dyer (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 428)

ELGAR: Spanish Lady Suite - Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter (dir) (RCA RD 87761)

SCHOENBERG: Theme and Variations Op 43a for Symphonic Band - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Band/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9805)

BUSONI: Sonatina No 6, Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Wolf Harden (pno) (Naxos 8.572422)

WALTON: Scapino, Comedy Overture - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

VOLLSTEDT arr Sonnenburg: Comic Cake Walk - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

SUPPÉ: Humorous Variations on 'Was kommt dort?' - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223683)

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

RIISAGER: Comoedie, Danish Pictures No 4 - Aarhus SO/Bo Holten (Dacapo 8.226146)

PATTERSON: Comedy for five winds - Vega Wind Quintet (LDR LDRC 1002)

J STRAUSS II: Joke Polka Op 72; Where the Lemon Trees Bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67169)

Murray Khouri takes a look at the life and music of CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951) (RNZ)

Eight Poems of Li-Po - Philip Langridge (ten), Nash Ensemble/Lionel Friend (Hyperion CDA 66754)

Music for Orchestra - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 215)

La Mer

Sasha Cooke (mezzo), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes, Peter Grimes; CHAUSSON: Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19; SIBELIUS: The Oceanides; DEBUSSY: La Mer (recorded 27th April in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Idil Biret (pno), London String Quartet (IBA 8.571278)

VANHAL: Sinfonia in D (Bryan D17) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

11:00 GRIEG arr Årdal: String Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 27 - Oslo Camarata/Stephan Barratt-Due (dir) (Naxos 8.572441)

HURLSTONE: Sonata in F for bassoon & piano - Peter Musson (bsn), Stephen Emmerson (pno) (Continuum CCD 1079)

Disc 1

HAYDN: Symphonies, No 13 in D; No 14 in A; No 15 in D; No 16 in Bb - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66534)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

C SCHUMANN: Romance in A minor; Scherzo in D minor; Romances Op 11 No 1-3; Scherzo No 2 in C minor; Pieces Fugitives; Variations on a theme of Robert Schumann Op 20; Romances Op 21 Nos 1-3; Romance in B minor - Cristina Ortiz (pno) (Carlton Classics 30366 00292)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge; GURNEY: The Western Playland; Ludlow & Teme - Adrian Thompson (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Iain Burnside (pno), Delmé String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66385)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

The Maiden's Prayer

Piano music by Baranowska, DVORÁK, Beethoven, Saint-SaËns, Rubinstein, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Kreisler, Sinding, Paderewski, Lange, Grieg, Drdla, Gossec, Elgar, LehÁr, Fibich & Jessel - Various artists (Naxos 8.550646)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

Cinema Classics 3

Music by Mozart, Mouret, Puccini, Gershwin, Mascagni, Handel, Orff, Verdi & Beethoven - Various artists (Naxos 8.551153)

6:00 HAYDN: La vera costanza, Sinfonia - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.572130)

REGER: Romance in D Op 50/2 - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), Berlin Konzerthaus Orch/Lothar Zagrosek (Hyperion CDA 67892)

PADEREWSKI: Minuet in G Op 14/1 - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

BRIDGE: Rosemary; Canzonetta - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)

SCHUMANN: Die Lotosblume; Die rose stand im Thau; Der Träumende see - The Gents/Béni Csillag (Channel Classics CCS SA 30109)

BACH: Oboe Concerto in D minor BWV1059 - Heinz Holliger (ob), Bern Camerata/Erich Höbarth (dir) (ECM 2229)

7:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Running Set - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10001)

LARSEN: Soloist's waltz - Berit Opheim Versto (sop), Gjermund Larsen (fiddle), Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 1871)

ROSSINI: Saltarello à l'italienne; Prélude Moresque, from Sins of Old Age, Book 5, Album pour les enfants adolescents - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10387)

CHAMINADE: Flute Concertino Op 107 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

LAURO: Venezuelan Waltzes - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, Overture - Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square/John Lubbock (Resonance CD RSN 3072)

8:00 Beauty Spot: DESENCLOS: Nos autem gloriari oportet - Les Eléments Chamber Choir/Joël Suhubiette (Hortus 009)

DEBUSSY: Arabesque No 1 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

LEHÁR: Resignation, from Das Fürstenkind - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

GRIEG arr Haaland: Butterfly; Erotikon; To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Fredrik Fors (cl), Sveinung Bjelland (pno) (2L 55)

VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 - Anner Bylsma (cello), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir) (Sony SK 62719)

RÖNTGEN: Fourth movement, Allegro molto vivace, from Serenade in A for seven wind instruments Op 14 - Viotta Ensemble (NM Classics 92035)

CHABRIER: Fête Polonaise, from Le Roi malgré lui - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 303)

CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951)

Pomona - State Orch of Victoria/John Lanchbery (Chandos CHAN 9865)

The Rio Grande - Sally Burgess (mezzo), Jack Gibbons (pno), Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66565)

Mars and Venus, an arrangement of works by D Scarlatti - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Barry Wordsworth (Dutton CDLX 7149)

CHOPIN: Etudes Op 10 - Nelson Goerner (pno) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0039)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33 - Luigi Piovano (cello), Chieti Marrucino Opera Orch/Piero Bellugi (Eloquentia EL 1024)

HAYDN: Mass No 11 in D minor, Nelson Mass - Ann Hoyt (sop), Kirsten Sollek (contralto), Daniel Mutlu (ten), Andrew Nolen (bass), Trinity Choir, Rebel Baroque Orch/Owen Burdick (Naxos 8.572123)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 9 in Eb Op 70 - Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 475 8748)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

SUPPÉ: The Mannikin, Overture - Royal Phil/Gustav Kuhn (Eurodisc RD 69226)

GRANADOS: El pelele, from Goyescas - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67846)

GOODWIN: Puppet Serenade - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

MARTINU: Puppets, Book 1 - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.557918)

GOODALL: The Seasons, Winter - Tippett Quartet, Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

ANDERSSON/ULVAEUS arr Wadenius: I am just a girl - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Georg Wadenius, Lasse Englund (gtrs), Kalle Moraeus (banjo), Karl Jakobsson (tuba), Pär Grebacken (cl), Fredrik Jonsson (dbass), Magnus Persson (drums/percussion) (DG 477 590)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 4 in A minor Op 63 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572227)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PUCCINI: Il Tabarro, an opera in one act

Michele........................ Robert Merrill

Giorgetta...................... Renata Tebaldi

Luigi............................ Mario del Monaco

Il Tinca......................... Renato Ercolani

Il Talpa......................... Silvio Maionica

La Frugola................... Lucia Danieli

Pedlar........................... Piero de Palma

Lovers.......................... Dora Carral

Gianfranco Manganotti

Florence May Festival Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (rec 1962) (Decca 475 7625)

NZ performers and composers

FARQUHAR: Suite for guitar - John Mills (gtr) (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

KHACHATURIAN: Awakening & Dance of Ayesha, from Gayaneh - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

SCHUBERT arr Grodd: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Wellington Orch/James Sedares (Wgtn Sinfonia)

WOOD: A May-Day Overture - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223605)

ALBÉNIZ: Serenata árabe - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1243)

WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Jaakko Luoma (bsn), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)

ELGAR: May Song - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

IRELAND: Fantasy Trio in A minor - Barbican Piano Trio (ASV CD DCA 646)

GIORDANO: Come un bel dì di maggio, from Andrea Chénier - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (Decca 478 2258)

TRAD arr Young: O Waly Waly - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7415)

RESER arr Vappie: Suite for banjo & orchestra - Don Vappie (banjo), Hot Springs Music Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559647)

ANON arr Trio Mediaeval: Dou way Robyn/Sancta Mater - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1929)

BRAHMS: Die Mainacht Op 43/2 - Anthony Leroy (cello), Sandra Moubarak (pno) (Zig Zag 070 202)

CARSE: Two Sketches, A Northern Song; A Northern Dance - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 67014)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: May Night, Overture - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572788)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

9:00 World Guitar Day - an improvisation by Nigel Gavin (recorded at the Herald Theatre, Auckland, by RNZ)

9:30 Strange Loops

GRISEY: Périodes; DOWNES: Expulse (première); LARDELLI: Four Scenes (première); HOLLOWAY: Strange Loops (première); XENAKIS: Echange - Richard Haynes (bcl), Donald Nicolson (pno), Stroma/Hamish McKeich (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44; Fantasie de Concert Op 56 - Bernd Glemser (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.550820)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

KUHLAU: Flute Sonatas, in G Op 83/1; in C Op 83/2; in G minor Op 83/3 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.555346)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

Siegel/Brighetti/Martino: Estate (Summer); MASON: Dizzy blonde; GREEN: Out of nowhere; CARMICHAEL: Skylark; BROWN: Joy spring; PORTER: Love for sale; BROADHURST: Herman Leonard; REID: I'll close my eyes; PETRUCCIANI: Lullaby; COOTS: You go to my head; MASON: The Jody grind; MONK: Round midnight - Julie Mason (pno/vocals), Alberto Santarelli (dbass/electric dbass), Frank Gibson (drums), Brian Smith (ten sax), Joseph Anderson (gtr), Phil Broadhurst (pno), Grant Mason (tpt/flugelhorn) (VOX 0004)

3:30 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Suite No 4 in Eb BWV1010; Suite No 5 in C minor BWV1011; Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - Anner Bylsma (cello) (Sony S2K 48047)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

Music by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Myers, Flotow, DVORÁK, Bach, Prokofiev & Shostakovich - Various artists (Naxos 8.551172)

6:00 JC BACH: Artaserse, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

FALLA ed Ligorio: El Amor Brujo, Suite - Daniel Ligorio (pno) (Naxos 8.555065)

DEBUSSY: Rêverie - James Galway (fl/dir), Marisa Robles (harp), CO of Europe (RCA RD 87173)

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in D D384 - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - Camerata Wales/Owain Arwel Hughes (BIS CD 1589)

7:00 DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.251)

TCHAIKOVSKY: The black swan, from Swan Lake - Erich Gruenberg (vln), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 861)

LISZT: Au lac de Wallenstadt; Pastorale; Au bord d'une source, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - David James (pno) (RNZ)

PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - London Baroque (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1539)

SMETANA: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)

GROFÉ: Sunrise, from Grand Canyon Suite - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80474)

HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Yuri Zhislin (vla) (Naxos 8.572522)

TRAD arr Dawson: Ain'-a that good news! - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Alastair Ross (org), Simon Standage (vln), Richard Hickox Orch/Richard Hickox (Decca 425 854)

GRANADOS orch de Grignon: Spanish Dances - Ulster Orch/Josep Caballé-Domenech (BBC Music BBC MM 255)

CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951)

Concerto for piano & nine players - Ian Brown (pno), Nash Ensemble/Lionel Friend (Hyperion CDA 66754)

Elegiac Blues - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67545)

Mr Bear Squash-you-all-flat - Nigel Hawthorne (narrator), Nash Ensemble/Lionel Friend (Hyperion CDA 66754)

VOGEL: Symphony No 1 in D - Bavarian Chamber Phil/Reinhard Goebel (Oehms OC 735)

GIULIANI: Guitar Concerto No 2 in A Op 36 - Edoardo Catemario (gtr), Vienna Academy/Martin Haselböck (Arts Music 47688)

SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47 - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 943 17126)

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

NEXUS: Le Dialogue du bois - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Nexus (BIS CD 1108)

BLANCAFORT: Cavatina & Dialogue - Miquel Villalba (pno) (Naxos 8.557335)

TOURNEMIRE: Dialogue sacré Op 50 - Michael Bundy (bar), Claire Seaton (sop), Helen Crayford (pno) (Naxos 8.572347)

DUREY: Deux dialogues Op 114 - Emily Beynon (fl) (Hyperion CDA 67204)

HILL: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Simon Trpceski (pno), BBC SO/Andrew Davis (BBC Music BBC MM 321)

DELIBES arr Jane Rutter: Flower duet, from Lakmé - Amanda Thane (sop), Jane Rutter (fl), Louise Johnson (harp) (BMG 115202)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor Op 90 - Solomon (pno) (rec 1956) (EMI 7 67735)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HAYDN: Symphony No 87 in A - Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (rec 2001-2002) (DHM 82876 60602)

MOLTER: Trumpet Concerto in D MWV4/13 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (rel 1984) (CBS MK 39061)

VIVALDI: Zeffiretti, che sussurrate; Sventurata navicella, from Giustino - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (rec 1999) (Decca 466 569)

NZ performers and composers

BACH: Flute Sonata in C BWV1033 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions CM 2)

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

HOWELLS: Rhapsody in Db Op 17/1 - Nigel Potts (organ of St Paul's Church, Washington, DC) (Herald HAVPCD 344)

A RITCHIE/G GRIFFITHS: Scottish Interlude, from From the Southern Marches - Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private recording)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 5 in D Op 70/1, Ghost - Ogen Trio (Ogen OG 0010)

LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)

CHOPIN: Polonaise in F# minor Op 44 - Piotr Anderszewski (pno) (Virgin 5 45619)

MARTIN Y COL: Variations on La Folia - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (castanets) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

RAMEAU trans anon: The Hen, from Pièces de clavecin - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Turin Theatre Royal Orch/John Mauceri (Decca 452 417)

ELGAR arr Barfoed: Sospiri Op 70 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Danish National SO/Mario Venzago (RCA 88697 63081)

J STRAUSS I: Maskenlieder Op 170 - Slovak Sinfonietta of Zilina/Ernst Märzendorfer (Marco Polo 8.225338)

J STRAUSS II: Alle maskiert, from A Night in Venice - René Kollo (ten), Melanie Holliday, Marina Edelhagen (sops), Markus Schäfer (ten), Cologne Radio Orch & Chorus/Heinz Geese (Acanta 43263)

PROKOFIEV arr Heifetz: Masks, from Romeo & Juliet - Gil Shaham (vln), Orli Shaham (pno) (Artemis ATM CD 1555)

FLETCHER: Bal Masqué, from Two Parisian Sketches - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66968)

ASTON: Hugh Aston's Maskes - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (L'Oiseau-Lyre 436 155)

KORNGOLD: Masquerade, from Much Ado About Nothing Suite - Joseph Lin (vln), Benjamin Loeb (pno) (Naxos 8.557067)

VERDI: Teco io sto, from A Masked Ball - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Margaret Price (sop), National Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 430 724)

MOERAN: Overture for a Masque - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 247)

Bruno Walter

To mark the 50th anniversary of Walter's death, Jon Tolansky presents a two part tribute to the German-born conductor (1) (VIP)

Ida Falk Winland (sop), Matti Hirvonen (pno)

ALMQVIST: Listening Mary; PETERSON-BERGER: Longing is what I intended; RANGSTRÖM: The girl beneath the new moon; Pan; LINDE: Apple trees and pear trees; The meadow where you kissed me; NYSTROEM: Only the one; The song of the sea; The only thing; A wish; STENHAMMAR: The girl comes from meeting her lover; SIBELIUS: The girl comes from meeting her lover; POULENC: Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne; COPLAND: Nature, the gentlest mother; Why do they shut me out of heaven?; The world feels dusty; Dear March, come in!; When they come back; Going to heaven!, from 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson; BERNSTEIN: I Hate Music; STRAUSS: Three Ophelia Songs Op 67; Frühlingsfeier Op 56/5; Hat gesagt bleibt's nicht dabei Op 36/3; HANDEL: V'adoro pupille, from Giulio Cesare (recorded in the Grünewald Hall, Concert Hall, Stockholm by Swedish Radio)

Piano Concerto No 13 in C K415 - Christian Zacharias (pno/dir), Lausanne CO (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 940 16676)

Violin Sonata No 25 in F K377 - Friederike Starkoff (vln), José Gallardo (pno) (Oehms OC 756)

TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 55 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.557150)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 119 - Luigi Piovano (cello), Chieti Marrucino Opera Orch/Piero Bellugi (Eloquentia EL 1024)

SHOSTAKOVICH arr Barshai: Chamber Symphony in C minor Op 110a - Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould (vln/dir) (Linn CKD 095)

11:00 SOR: Twenty-four Progressive Pieces - Jason Vieaux (gtr) (Naxos 8.553986)

THUILLE: String Quartet No 1 in A - Signum Quartet (Capriccio 5049)

Disc 1

SCHUMANN arr Mahler: Symphonies, No 1 in Bb, Spring; No 2 in C - Bergen Phil/Aldo Ceccato (BIS CD 361)

1:15 approx -Disc 2

GRANADOS: Moresque; Cançion Arabe; Danza Española No 5; Escenas Romanticas; Danza Lenta Op 37; Mazurka Op 2; Cuertos de la Juventud Op 1; Allegro de Concierto - Richard Mapp (pno) (Meridian CDE 84403)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

OCKEGHEM: Missa Prolationum; Alma redemptoris mater; Salve regina; Intermerata Dei mater; Ave Maria; Salve regina - Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier (EMI CDC 7 49798)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

GLAZUNOV: The Kremlin; From the Middle Ages; Poème lyrique; Poème épique - Moscow SO/Konstantine Krimets (Naxos 8.553537)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

TELEMANN: Recorder Concerto in F; Oboe Concerto in E minor; Flute Concerto in D; Concerto in A minor for recorder & viola da gamba; Concerto in D for bassoon & two violins - Michael Schneider (rec), Karl Kaiser (transverse fl), Hans-Peter Westermann (ob), Michael McCraw (bsn), Mary Utiger Hajo Bäss (vlns), Rainer Zipperling (vla da gamba), Camerata Cologne (DHM RD 77201)

6:00 HAYDN: Overture in D HobIa/7 - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.522)

ALBINONI: Violin Concerto in D Op 9/7 - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), European Chamber Soloists/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

BEETHOVEN arr Stees: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus - Barrick Stees (bsn), Randall Fusco (pno) (Claves CD 50-9815)

COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 1, The boatmen's song; The dodger; Long time ago; Simple gifts; I bought me a cat - St Charles Singers, Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos 8.559297)

7:00 ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.191)

WAGNER: Arrival at the Black Swans - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

PUCCINI: Minuet No 1 in A - Berlin Radio SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 410 007)

WOLF: Italian Serenade - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.557374)

DEBUSSY: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, from Samson & Delilah - Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Vienna Opera Orch/Henry Lewis (Decca 444 552)

GRIEG: Shepherd Boy; March of the Dwarfs; Notturno; Scherzo, from Lyric Pieces Book 5 - Håkon Austbö (pno) (RegisC 1071)

M HAYDN: Romance for horn & string quartet MH806 - Jasper de Waal (horn), Concertgebouw CO/Henk Rubingh (Channel Classics CCS SA 30210)

TALLIS arr Kronos: Spem in alium - Kronos Quartet (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79242)

BRITTEN/BERKELEY: Mont Juic Suite of Catalan Dances Op 9 - English CO/Steuart Bedford (Collins 11232)

CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951)

Summer's Last Will and Testament - William Shimell (bar), Chorus of Opera North, Leeds Festival Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66565)

ROUSSEL: Bacchus & Ariadne Op 43 - French National Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 3 71487)

BACH: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor BWV1014 - Lara St John (vln), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) (Ancalagon ANC 139)

STANFORD orch Bush: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 171 - Malcolm Binns (pno), Royal Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 321)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 3 in D D200 - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

STRACHEY: In Party Mood - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67148)

GRAINGER: The Widow's Party - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9554)

STILL: The cake walk contest, from Miss Sally's Party - Orch of the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota/Philip Brunelle (Collins 14542)

VINTER: Portuguese Party - RTE Concert Orch/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223522)

GERSHWIN: A wonderful party, from Lady, be Good! - studio chorus & orch/Eric Stern (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79308)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr Davis: The Tea Party, from Alice in Wonderland - City of Prague SO/Carl Davis (Threefold CDC 001)

MOZART: Divertimento in D K136 - Concerto Cologne/Anton Steck (Archiv 477 5800)

BERIOT: Violin Concerto No 5 in D Op 55 - Philippe Quint (vln), Slovak Radio SO/Kirk Trevor (Naxos 8.570360)

VIVALDI: Nisi Dominus in G minor RV608 - Patricia Lawrey (mezzo), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Peter Averi (org), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 52)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

FAURÉ: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 13 - Pierre Amoyal (vln), Pascal Rogé (pno) (rec 1992) (Decca 436 866)

BACH: Fugue on the Magnificat BWV733; Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch BWV769; Prelude & Fugue in C BWV547 - Marie-Claire Alain (organ of the Holmenskirche, Copenhagen) (rec 1964) (Erato 0630 15343)

NZ performers and composers

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 5 in Bb - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

Abendlied - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell, Claire Caldwell (pno) (Atoll ACD 105)

CARR: Symphony No 3 - Auckland Philharmonia/John Hopkins (Manu CD MANU 1415)

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

SMETANA: Richard III - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

SALIERI: La calamita de' cuori, Act 2 Sinfonia - Mannheim Mozart Orch/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.554)

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

CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

REYNOLDS: Swiss Family Robinson, Lullaby & Ballet - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

GRAINGER: Father & Daughter - Monteverdi Choir, English Country Gardiner Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 446 657)

DOYLE: My Father's Favourite, from the motion picture soundtrack Sense & Sensibility - Tony Hymas (pno), studio orch/Robert Ziegler (ABC 456 366)

WALTON ed Palmer: The Three Sisters - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Chandos CHAN 8870)

DEBUSSY: Prélude; Cortège & Airs de danse, from L'Enfant prodique - Adrienne Soós, Ivo Haag (pno duet) (Naxos 8.572385)

MOZART: O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn!, from The Magic Flute - Natalie Dessay (sop), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Louis Langrée (Virgin 5 45447)

ROTA: Music from the film, Rocco & his brothers - La Scala Orch, Milan/Riccardo Muti (Sony SK 63359)

OLCOTT/BALL: Mother Machree - Thomas Allen (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67374)

NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber (Sony SK 48376)

Puccini on Disc

Roger Flury and Des Wilson look at a century of recordings of the master of melody Giacomo Puccini (RNZ)

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Into the Light

Li-Wei Qin (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Garry Walker

HAYDN: Symphony No 44 in E minor, Mourning; HARRIS: Cello Concerto (world première performance & broadcast)

(Interval)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 (RNZ)

VILLA-LOBOS: Twelve Etudes, Nos 1-6 - Frank Bungarten (gtr) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 905 1629)

HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D - Alexis Kossenko (fl/dir), Le Cercle de l'Harmonie (Eloquentia EL 0917)

11:00 BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in E G275 - Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin (vlns), Jaime Laredo (vla), Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson (cellos) (Sony SK 53983)

HERZOGENBERG: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 43 - Oliver Triendl (pno), members of Orsoline Wind Quintet (CPO 777 081)

Disc 1

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2; WALTON: Symphony No 2 - BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk, Martyn Brabbins (BBC MUSIC MM 39)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BURTON: Sonata No 1 in D; JC BACH: Sonata in C minor Op 17/2; BUSBY: Sonata in E Op 1/4; CLEMENTI: Sonata in F minor Op 13/6; DUSSEK: Sonata in Eb, The Farewell; WESLEY: Rondo on God Rest You Merry Gentlemen - Ian Hobson (pno) (Arabesque Z 6594)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

HOLST: Ave Maria; Of one that is so fair and bright; A welcome song; Jesu, Thou the Virgin-born; Terly Terlow; Lullay my liking; Bring us in good ale; Diverus and Lazarus; This have I done for my true love; Songs from the Princess; O spiritual pilgrim; My sweetheart's like Venus; Two Eastern pictures; Light leaves whisper; In youth is pleasure; Six Choral Folk Songs - Holst Singers/Stephen Layton, David Theodore (ob), Robert Truman (cello), Sioned Williams (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66705)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81; Terzetto for two violins and viola Op 74; Drobnosti for two violins and viola Op 75a; Gavotte for three violins - Jeremy Menuhin (pno), Chilingirian Quartet (Chandos CHAN 9173)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

MOURET: Fanfares, Première Suite; Simphonies, Seconde Suite; DE LALANDE: Simphonies pour les soupers du roi, Quatrième Suite, Sixième Suite, Première Caprice; PHILIDOR: Marche à quatre Timbales; LULLY: Airs de Trompettes, Timbales et Hautbois; CHARPENTIER: Prélude du Te Deum - Edith Selig (sop), Adolf Scherbaum (tpt), Paul Kuentz CO/Paul Keuntz (Archiv 453 169)

6:00 REICHENAUER: Oboe Concerto in F - Geoffrey Coates (ob), Charivari Agréable/Kah-Ming Ng (dir) (Signum SIGCD 249)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 3 in E minor - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.536)

DEBUSSY: Jardins sous la pluie, from Estampes - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (DG 457 667)

BIZET arr Kanengiser: Habanera, from Carmen Suite - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Telarc CD 80593)

G WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes - London SO/Charles Groves (Lyrita SRCD 323)

TRAD arr R Clarke: I'll bid my heart be still - Philip Dukes (vla), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos 8.557934)

HANDEL: Atalanta, Overture - Robert Farley (tpt), Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 67128)

7:00 LEHÁR: Chinese Ballet Suite - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

RHEINBERGER arr Cullen: Cantilena, from Organ Sonata No 11 in D minor - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

BRACKETT: Simple Gifts - Bryn Terfel (bar), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 477 5563)

NYMAN arr Nyman: The heart asks pleasure first, from The Piano - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57022)

CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Nelson Goerner (pno) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0039)

JOBIM: The arrival of the Candangos, from Sinfonia da Alvorada - Sao Paulo SO/Roberto Minczuk (BIS SACD 1430)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRIDGE: Lament - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

GAUBERT: Nocturne & Allegro Scherzando - James Galway (fl), Philip Moll (pno) (RCA 09026 68882)

DUFF: Irish Suite for Strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

MULET: Carillon-Sortie in D - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

LAURO: Suite Venezolana - Peter McAven (gtr) (Private recording)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln), Australian Brandenburg Orch/Paul Dyer (dir/hpschd) (ABC Classics 456 364)

CONSTANT LAMBERT (1905-1951)

Merchant Seamen, Suite - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10459)

Elegy - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 062)

Salome, Suite - Nash Ensemble/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67239)

Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches - Peter Lawson, Alan MacLean (pno duet) (Albany TROY 142)

Tiresias, Act 3 - Michael Cleaver (pno), English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67049)

MOZART: Symphony No 29 in A K201 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80165)

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Prague Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 3932)

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

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 476 409)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

SOUSA arr Brion: Humoresque on Kern's Look for the silver lining - Royal Norwegian Navy Band/Keith Brion (Naxos 8.559397)

MEYER/THILE: Look Away - Joshua Bell (vln), Edgar Meyer (dbass), Chris Thile (mandolin) (Sony 88697 55436)

RUTTER: Look at the world - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 129)

PRUDEN: Looking for a lost guinea-pig at daybreak - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 78)

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

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - Cleveland Orch/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80095)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051 - Café Zimmermann/Pablo Valetti (dir) (Alpha 168)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 2 in G Op 13 - Vadim Repin (vln), Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (rec 2010) (DG 477 8794)

RAMEAU: In convertendo Dominus - Sophie Daneman, Noémi Rime (sops), Paul Agnew, Nicolas Rivenq (tens), Nicolas Cavallier (bass), Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (rec 1994) (Erato 2292 96967)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (rec 1987) (Archiv 423 626)

NZ performers and composers

K YOUNG: Brass Quintet No 1 - NZ Brass Quintet (Kiwi SLD 72)

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

LISZT: Héroïde funèbre - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.557847)

MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Concerto Cologne/Anton Steck (Archiv 477 5800)

CATALANI: Loreley, Danza delle Ondine - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)

DOHNÁNYI: Waltz after Waltz of the doll, from Delibes' Coppélia - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67871)

BERLIOZ: Le Spectre de la Rose, from Les Nuits d'été - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Berlin Deutsches SO/Kent Nagano (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1932)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 2 Op 19 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

DRING: Trio for flute, oboe & piano - Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7181)

REIS: Three Brazilian Pieces - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Waiata 9501)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - Consort of London/Robert Haydon Clark (Brilliant Classics 93779)

ELGAR: Andante with variations, Evesham Andante - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6553)

LAURIDSEN: O Magnum Mysterium - Armonico Consort/Christopher Monks (dir) (Signum SIGCD 180)

IRELAND orch Parlett: Cavatina - Justine Watts (vln), Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7215)

POULENC: Three Novelettes - Charles Owen (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 035)

DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572675)

PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)

The Critic's Chair

David Morriss reviews recent releases (RNZ)

From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

For the Fallen

Lynn Harrell (cello), New Zealand SO/Andrew Grams

MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture; ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85

(Interval)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120 (RNZ)

BACH: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 - Netherlands Chamber Choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 27108)

MAGNARD: Suite in the Ancient Style Op 2 - Luxembourg Phil/Mark Stringer (Timpani 1C 1067)

11:00 GLAZUNOV: Saxophone Quartet in Bb - Habanera Saxophone Quartet (Alpha 041)

GLIÈRE: String Sextet No 3 in C Op 11 - members of Berlin Philharmonic String Octet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 308 1196)