Schedules for 22 - 28 April, 2017

Music and Dreams

Since ancient times, the arts have been inspired by dreams. Ryan Smith looks at some famous composers from different eras who have lifted ideas and music straight out of their dreams.(2 of 4) The dark side of dreams - Nightmares and madness

1:00 approx Disc 1

LISZT: Dante Symphony - Gillian Keith (sop), women of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda

St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds; St Francis de Paule walking on the water - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10524)

2:00 approx - Disc 2

Helsinki by Finnish duo Lepisto & Lehti

LEPISTO: Helsinki; LEHTI: Vainajalan Tango; LEPISTO: Lansiranta; LEHTI: Sarastus; LEPISTO: Caprice Diatonique; LEHTI: Eskolle; LEPISTO: Concerto Diatonique; LEHTI: Muistelo - Markku Lepisto (accordions), Pekka Lehti (dbass) (AITO 440125)

2:40 approx - Disc 3

TRAD: I am a poor wayfaring stranger; My love is like a red, red rose; Henry Martin; I will give my love an apple; She moved through the fair; Blow the wind southerly; Pretty Saro; Barbara Allen; The wraggle taggle gypsies O!; Black is the colour - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp), Jon Pickow (dulcimer), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

THOMSON: Symphonies, No 2 in C; No 3; Pilgrims and Pioneers; on a Hymn Tune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

BEETHOVEN: Octet in Eb Op 103 (2) - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble (EMI CDC 5 56817)

SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (NIMBUS NI 7067/8)

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

A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - John Abberger (ob), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (ANALEKTA AN 2 9811)

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor (1) - Mie Kobayashi (vln), Yoko Hasegawa (cello), Pascal Rogé (pno) (ONYX 4008)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 (1) - Philadelphia Orch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)

7.00

BRAHMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51 (4) - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2152)

BACH arr Balsom: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 (2) - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, excerpts (4) - Royal Phil/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80151)

CHOPIN: Berceuse in Db Op 57 - Frederic Chiu (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7282)

ELGAR: Funeral March, from Grania & Diarmid - New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.557273)

MOZART: Symphony No 36 in C K425, Linz (4) - Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1891)

8.00

DEBUSSY: Jardins sous la pluie, from Estampes - Cécile Ousset (pno) (BERLIN CLASSICS 1345 BC)

SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 1 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (PHILIPS 426 051)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 (4) - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Dmitry Kouzov (cello), Peter Laul (pno) (ONYX 4072)

VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in F RV434 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (dir) (EMI 3 47212)

BOELLMANN: Piano Quartet in F minor Op 10 (3) - Trio Parnassus, Gérard Caussé (vla), Trio Parnassus: Yamei Yu (v (MDG 303 1755)

SAMETZ: I Have Had Singing - Chanticleer (TELDEC 4509 96515)

SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor Op 61 (3) - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), London SO/Lawrence Foster (Decca 448 128)

HANDEL: Sonata (Concerto) in five parts in Bb - Simon Standage (vln), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 415 291)

RUTTER: Suite Antique - Duke Dobing (fl), Wayne Marshall (hpschd), City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (COLLEGIUM CSCD 516)

PROKOFIEV: Lieutenant Kijé Suite - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (TELARC SACD 60683)

TRAD arr Leon: I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271, Jeunehomme - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), English CO (CBS M13K 42055)

BELLINI: Mira, O Norma, from Norma - Joan Sutherland (sop), Marilyn Horne (mezzo), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 480 2594)

MAYERL: From A Spanish Lattice - Eric Parkin (pno) (CHANDOS CHAN 8560)

SCHUBERT: Octet in F D803 - Vienna Octet (Decca 430 516)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

When considering the music of Grieg, Rachel Hyde quickly realises that although a handful of his works are very well-known, there are many lesser-known gems (RNZ)

GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 1 in F Op 8 - Vilde Frang (vln), Michail Lifits (pno) (EMI 9 47639)

GRIEG arr Baadsvik: Norwegian Dance Op 35/1 - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Musica Vitae/Bjørn Sagstad (BIS CD 1285)

Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie (RNZ)

QuintEssence

A three-part mini-festival featuring Mozart and Brahms quintets, presented by CMNZ

2) James Dunham (viola), New Zealand String Quartet

MOZART: String Quintet No 5 in D K593; BRAHMS: String Quintet No 1 in F Op 88 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre by RNZ)

(Programme 3 on Sunday 30 April at 3pm)

STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 430 370)

GERSHWIN arr Robert R Bennett: Porgy & Bess, A Symphonic Picture - London Phil/John Pritchard (EMI CDB 7 62037)

Join Nick Tipping for a two-hour journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way (RNZ)

Cedric Tiberghien (pno), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Kazuki Yamada

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess; SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian; DEBUSSY: La Puerta del vino, from Preludes, Book 2; BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

BACH: Viola da gamba Sonata No 2 in D BWV1028 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (ORFEO C 693 071 A)

NZ performers and composers

A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (ATOLL ACD 202)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 20 in G Op 49/2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (TRUST MMT 2013)

LILBURN: Introduction & Allegro - NZSO CO (RNZ)

MCLEOD: Three Celebrations (1) - New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.572671)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 (4) - New Zealand String Quartet (NAXOS 8.570001)

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Strings of the Philharmonia/Christopher Warren-Green (dir) (Chandos CHAN 6526)

MACMILLAN: A child's prayer - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (UNIVERSAL 476 3160)

SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129 - Truls Mørk (cello), French Radio Phil/Paavo Järvi (virgin 5 45664)

HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Philips 456 886)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 76/4, Sunrise - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI CDC 5 56166)

PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Thomas Kemp (vln), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (BLACK BOX BBM 1071)

Disc 1

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Flos Campi; Suite for viola & orchestra; Hymn-tune Prelude No 1, Eventide; Hymn-tune Prelude No 2, Dominus Regit Me; The Poisoned Kiss, Overture; The Running Set - Frederick Riddle (vla), Bournemouth Choir & Sinfonietta/Norman del Mar, George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 6545)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

CPE BACH: Viola da gamba Sonata in D Wq137; Sonata in G minor for keyboard & viola da gamba; ABEL: Adagio for viola da gamba solo; CPE BACH: Viola da gamba Sonata in C Wq136; ABEL: Postlude - Friederike Heumann (vla da gamba), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Dirk Börner (fpno) (Alpha 080)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BIZET: Votre toast…..Toréador en garde, from Carmen; BELLINI: Ah! Per sempre io perdei, from I Puritani; GOUNOD: Avant de quitter ces lieux, from Faust; TCHAIKOVSKY: I love you beyond all measure, from The Queen of Spades; PUCCINI: Questo amor, from Edgar; WAGNER: O du mein holder Abenstern, from Tannhäuser; BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers; BACH: Mache dich, mein Herze rein, from St Matthew Passion; Gebt mir meinen Jesum wieder, from St Matthew Passion; HANDEL: Why do the nations?, from Messiah; TRAD arr Grainger: Shallow Brown; TRAD arr O'Boyle: O Waly, Waly; Princess TE RANGI PAI arr O'Boyle: Hine e hine; TOMOANA arr O'Boyle: Pokarekare ana - David Hobson (ten), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australus, Orch of the Antipodes/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

3:20 approx - Disc 4

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 22; String Sextet in D minor Op 70; Souvenir de Florence - Rami Solomonow (vla), John Sharp (cello), Vermeer Quartet (Cedille CDR 9000 0017)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

SCOTT: Impromptu, A Mountain Brook Op 41; Chimes Op 40/3; Columbine Op 47/2; Andante, Study for a slow movement No 1; Largo Study for a slow movement No 2; Klavierstü />

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Ave, generosa - Margaret Philpot (contralto) (HYPERION CDA 66039)

GURDJIEFF trans Harmann, arr Lechner/Tsabropoulos: Chant from a Holy Book - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888 (981 9613))

DURUFLÉ: Four Motets on Gregorian themes Op 10 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Chandos CHAN 10357)

PÄRT: Littlemore Tractus - Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (org), Polyphony/Stephen Layton (HYPERION CDA 67375)

BACH: Cantata No 42, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats - 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)

STANFORD: The Lord is my shepherd - Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill, Stephen Farr (org) (HYPERION CDA 66964)

CHILCOTT: Peace Mass - Cotswold Children's Choir/Hilary Tadman-Robins, Philip Ledger (pno) (COTSWOLD CCC 0401)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

PICKER: Old & Lost Rivers - London SO/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)

PARADIS arr Dushkin: Sicilienne in Eb - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI 5 65955)

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

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 (2) - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 447 070)

A MARCELLO arr Wild: Oboe Concerto in D minor (2) - Earl Wild (pno) (IVORY CLASSICS 64405 73005)

BACH: Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from Cantata No 147 - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1951)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 33, excerpts - Hélène Grimaud (pno) (Teldec 8573 84376)

BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67633)

DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Marisa Robles (harp), CO of Europe/James Galway (RCA RD 87173)

FAURÉ: Five Songs Op 58 - Carolyn Sampson (sop),

Cédric Tiberghien (pno)

HARTMANN: Concerto funèbre - Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Mairead Hickey (vlns), Lawrence Power, Georgy Kovalek (vlas), Ella van Poucke (cello), Festival Strings, Beara, Behn, & Hydra Quartets

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810, Death and the Maiden - Chiaroscuro Quartet: Alina Ibragimova, Pablo Hernan Benedi (vlns), Emilie Hörnlund (vla), Claire Thirion (cello) (WFMT)

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/2 - Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen (CPO 777 488)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 448 704)

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Job, A Masque for Dancing - Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Davis (CHANDOS CHAN 5180)

MOZART: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds K452 - Colin Horsley (pno), Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble (EMI 5 66898)

HEENAN: Three Sea Songs - Donald Munro (bar), National Orch/John Hopkins (KIWI CD SLD 102)

WALTON: Partita for Orchestra - New Zealand SO/William Walton (Bridge 9133A/B)

KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid - Colin Horsley (pno) (Atoll ACD 442)

Somme Parade

Poets and composers were not exempt from military service in WWI and were called up along with everyone else. Inevitably they turned to their craft to attempt to express and come to terms with their experiences.

Kate Kennedy is a specialist in the literature and music of WWI and she discusses with Roger Smith the procession of composers and poets sent to the Somme (RNZ)

2015 Adam Chamber Music Festival

Flights of Fancy

Kathryn Stott (pno), Donald Armstrong (vln), Gillian Ansell (vla), David Ying (cello)

PSATHAS: Waiting for the Aeroplane; GAO PING: Dance Fury; DVORÁK: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 87 (recorded in Old St John's Church, Nelson by RNZ)

WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1 - Berlin Phil/Seiji Ozawa (PHILIPS 426 271)

SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto in F# minor Op 20 - Peter Jablonski (pno), German Symphony Orch Berlin/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 452 852)

VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two violins RV507 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), Daniel Stabrawa (vln), members of Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57859)

William Dart hosts a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, following a personal trail to explore where his ears, gaze and nose guide him (RNZ)

BOLCOM: Three Rags - Ying Quartet (QUARTZ QTZ 2055)

MERLIN: Suite del Recuerdo - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP 02 CD)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(16) ROSSINI: Guillaume Tell, an opera in four acts based on Schiller's play about the legend of William Tell

William Tell................. Gerald Finley

Hedwige...................... Maria Zifchak

Jemmy.......................... Janai Brugger

Mathilde...................... Marina Rebeka

Arnold......................... Bryan Hymel

Melchtal....................... Kwangchul Youn

Gesler........................... John Relyea

Walter.......................... Marco Spotti

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/12 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 28 in A Op 101 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9435)

METCALFE: The Third Fire - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (REAL WORLD CDRW 175)

MOZART: Symphony No 21 in A K134 - Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Adam Fischer (Dacapo 6.220541)

BACH: Cello Suite No 5 in C minor BWV1011 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (SONY S2K 63203)

Disc 1

SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 29 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 218)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor; HARWOOD: Sonata No 1 in C# minor; PARRY: Chorale Prelude; STATHAM: Rhapsody on a Ground; WALFORD DAVIES: Solemn Melody; ELGAR arr Gower: Enigma Variations, Nimrod; MENDELSSOHN: Organ Sonata in A Op 65/3 (1); MENDELSSOHN arr Best: War March of the Priests; SUMSION: Ceremonial March - Robert Costin (organ of the Wellington Town Hall) (Kiwi Pacific CD TRL 076)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

RIEDL: Fanfare; AUGUSTINER: Fanfare; BIBER: Missa Salisburensis; Sonata tam aris quam aulis servientes; Sonata No 12 & No 5; Sancti Polycarpi; Plaudite tympana - Gabrieli Consort & Players, Musica Antiqua Cologne/Paul McCreesh (Archiv 471 632)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

HAYDN: Trios, No 40 in F# minor, Op 73/3; No 37 in D, Op 71/3; No 36 in Eb Op 71/2 - Jérome Hantaï (fpno), Philippe Couvert (vln), Alix Verzier (cello) (Naïve E 8811)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

Stokowski Orchestral Transcriptions

BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor; Prelude in Eb minor; Geistliches Lied, Mein Jesu; Chorale Prelude, Wir glauben all' an einen Gott; Chorale from Easter Cantata; Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor; BYRD: Pavan, The Earl of Salisbury & Galliard; CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary; SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux, No 3 in F minor; CHOPIN: Mazurka in A minor Op 17/4; TCHAIKOVSKY: Chant sans paroles; DUPARC: Extase; RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Czech Phil, London SO/Leopold Stokowski (London 448 946)

TRAD: Hinemoa - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2016)

BRIDGE: Lament - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Romances for violin and piano Op 6 - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (pno) (DG 479 0835)

BOYCE: Symphony No 7 in Bb - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (NAXOS 8.557278)

FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Eric Le Sage (pno) (alpha 603)

TOMASI: Trumpet Concerto (2) - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

BIZET: Je crois entendre encore, from The Pearl Fishers - Roberto Alagna (ten), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Bertrand de Billy (EMI 5 57012)

WEBER: Abu Hassan, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (NAXOS 8.570296)

7.00

DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments Op 44 (3) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (PHILIPS 400 020)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (3) - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 3 72478)

SCHNITTKE: Pantomime, from Suite in the Old Style - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (PHILIPS 456 016)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E Kk380 - Yuja Wang (pno) (DG 477 8795)

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

COWARD: Zigeuner, from Bitter Sweet - Ian Bostridge (ten), Jeffrey Tate (pno) (EMI 5 57374)

DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque (4) - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67898)

BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival Overture - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (SONY SM3K 64103)

8.00

TAVENER: Song for Athene - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London Phil/Andrew Litton (DG 476 6198)

HERSCHEL: Symphony No 12 in D (3) - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)

BACH arr Yang: Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 (3) - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Elias String Quartet (EMI 6 79018)

GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Ichiro Suzuki (gtr) (MARCO POLO 8.220165)

CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (VIRGIN 4 57845)

WEILL: September song, from Knickerbocker Holiday - Jessye Norman (sop), John Williams (pno) (PHILIPS 422 401)

SONDHEIM arr Silberschlag/McKinley: Johanna, from Sweeney Todd - Jeffrey Silberschlag (tpt), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559719)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 (3) - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 5 56118)

9.00

HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (ARCHIV 447 279)

TARTINI arr Kreisler: Violin Sonata in G minor, Devil's Trill - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (FLEURS DE LYS FL 2 3159)

GOUNOD: Salut! demeure chaste et pure, from Faust - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Prague Phil/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 6029)

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

LISZT arr Horowitz: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 5976)

MOZART: Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Julie Palloc (harp), Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas (BIS SACD 1539)

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

SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No 1 in Bb D898 - Philip Setzer (vln), David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (pno) (ARTISTLED 10802)

CAPLET: Divertissement à la française - Maria Graf (harp) (Philips 432 103)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105 - Boston SO/Colin Davis (philips 446 160)

12.00

PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 31 in Ab Op 110 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 475 6935)

AVISON: Concerto Grosso No 3 in D minor - Café Zimmermann (ALPHA 31)

VERDI: Pace, pace, mio Dio, from The Force of Destiny - Miriam Gauci (sop), Belgium Radio & Television Phil/Alexander Rahbari (NAXOS 8.550606)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

HILL: Symphony No 6 in Bb, Celtic - Melbourne SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.220345)

PSATHAS: Motet - Michael Houstoun (pno), Diedre Irons (pno) (RATTLE RAT D008)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso - strings of New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.555867)

OFFENBACH arr Haensch: La Belle Hélène, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 425 083)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 22 in Eb K482 - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Bavarian Radio SO/Rafael Kubelík (BR MEDIA 900 709)

MARAIS: Tombeau pour Monsieur de St Colombe - Sophie Watillon (vla da gamba), Xavier Diaz (theorbo) (ALPHA 36)

HOVHANESS: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain - London SO/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)

PUCCINI: Che gelida manina, from La Bohème - Carlo Bergonzi (ten), St Cecilia Academy Orch, Rome/Tullio Serafin (Decca 467 023)

SCHUMANN: Nachtstücke Op 23 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Decca 436 456)

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Vienna SO/Karel Ancerl (EMI 5 75091)

5.00

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 (4) - Trio Wanderer (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2100)

BLAVET: Flute Concerto in A minor - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ERATO ECD 55040)

GRAINGER: The Lads of Wamphray March - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

BRAHMS: Viola Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 (4) - Yuri Bashmet (vla), Mikhail Muntian (pno) (RCA 09026 63293)

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

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor (8) - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI CDC 5 56166)

6.00

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 (5) - Karl Kaiser (fl), Freiburg Baroque Orch (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2113.14)

DVORÁK: Cypresses (1) - Panocha Quartet (SUPRAPHON SU 4048)

STOKOWSKI: Two ancient liturgical melodies - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (NAXOS 8.557883)

LOPEZ-QUIROGA arr Trepat: Francisco Alegre - Rafael Aguirre Miñarro (gtr) (Naxos 8.572916)

ROSSINI: Ricciardo & Zoraide, Overture - Ambrosian Singers, ASMF/Neville Marriner (PHILIPS 434 016)

STRAUSS: Winterweihe Op 48/4 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Glenn Gould (pno) (Sony 88725 44136)

PAISIELLO ed Spada: Piano Concerto No 3 in A - Mariaclara Monetti (pno), English CO/Stephanie Gonley (vln/dir) (ASV CD DCA 872)

Reimagining the Classics

Uri Caine joins forces with the New Zealand String Quartet in a concert that takes classical music as an inspiration for improvisation. Their jazz reflections are based on the Allegretto from Beethoven's String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp, and Bach's Goldberg Variations, along with Caine's original compositions for piano & string quartet, Jagged Edges and String Theories (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

BALAKIREV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F# minor Op 1 - Anastasia Seifetdinova (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (NAXOS 8.570396)

POULENC: ALFVEN: Vallvisa, from Alvdalen - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1412)

ROTA: Divertimento concertante - Davide Botto (dbass), Filarmonica '900 of the Turin Teatro Regio/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10669)

BRUCH: Concerto in E minor for clarinet & viola Op 88 - Thea King (cl), Nobuko Imai (vla), London SO/Alun Francis (HYPERION CDA 66022)

CPE BACH: Keyboard Sonata in G Wq62/19 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 459 614)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on a theme from Handel's - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 42121)

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

BACH compltd Charlston: Flute Sonata in A BWV1032 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Terence Charlston (hpschd) (BIS CD 1689)

DEBUSSY: Images, Book 1 - Cécile Ousset (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49497)

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 - James Ehnes (vln/dir), Mozart Anniversary Orch (CBC SMCD 5238)

Disc 1

MOZART: Violin Concertos, No 1 in Bb K207; No 2 in D K211; Adagio in E K261; Rondos, in Bb K269; in C K373 - James Ehnes (vln), Mozart Anniversary Orch (CBC SMCD 5238)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

PINTO: Piano Sonata in C minor; WEBER: Adagio Patetico in C# minor; FIELD: Piano Sonata in Eb Op 1/1; CRAMER: Sonata in F Op 27/1; CLEMENTI: Capriccio in E minor Op 47/1 - Ian Hobson (pno) (Arabesque Z 6595)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

MOZART: Bass Arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, Bastien and Bastienne and The Abduction from the Seraglio - Conal Coad (bass), Tasmanian SO/Dobbs Franks (ABC 432 697)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

LIEBERMANN: Album for the Young, excerpts; Sonata for flute and guitar Op 25; Eight pieces for solo flute Op 59; Sonata for flute and harp Op 56; Soliloquy for solo flute Op 44; Sonata for flute and piano Op 23; A Poet and His Beloved Op 40 - Alexa Still (fl), David Korevaar (pno), Franco Platino (gtr), Victoria Drake (hp), Curt Peterson (ten), Yumi Hwang, Claude Sim (vlns), Erika Eckert (vla), Judith Glyde (cello) (Koch 3 7549)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

ROSS: Marching Strings; HOPE: Jaunting car, from The Ring of Kerry; DUNCAN: High Heels; CURZON: Dance of an ostracised imp; FOULDS: Keltic Lament, from A Keltic Suite Op 29; WILLIAMS: Rhythm on Rails; COATES: By the sleepy lagoon; BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba; KETÈLBEY: In a monastery garden; WILLIAMS: A quiet stroll; FLETCHER: Demoiselle chic, from Parisian Sketches No 1; BEAVER: Cavalcade of Youth; BAYCO: Elizabethan Masque; GARDINER: Shepherd Fennel Dance; ANCLIFFE: Thrills; ROSSE: The doge's march, from The Merchant of Venice; COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Petite Suite de Concert Op 77 - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

Direct from Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, Wellington, presented by Philippa Tolley (RNZ)

HANDEL: Water Music (11) - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (SONY SK 68257)

DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 (4) - Jonathan Biss (pno), Elias String Quartet (Onyx 4092)

GOUNOD: Sanctus, from St Cecilia Mass - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, English CO/Barry Rose (PHILIPS 412 629)

HILL: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, Allies (3) - Dominion Quartet (NAXOS 8.572446)

BACH arr Töttcher/Müller: Oboe Concerto in F BWV1053 (1) - Han de Vries (ob/dir), I Solisti di Zagreb (EMI 3 50905)

THOMAS: Raymond, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 527)

NOVELLO arr Tunick: Love Is My Reason For Living - Ben Heppner (ten), London Phil/Jonathan Tunick (RCA 09026 63508)

8.00

CHATMAN: Remember - St. John's Choir, Elora/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.557493)

ELGAR arr Cameron: Lux Aeterna - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (AVIE AV 0039)

MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 (3) - Apollo's Fire (Cleveland Baroque Orch)/Jeannette Sorrell (AVIE AV 2159)

RUIZ DE RIBAYAZ: Españoletas - Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (alpha 512)

WALTON arr Fernie: Spitfire Fugue - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (naxos 8.570726)

NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb (1) - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (teldec 0630-10788)

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 5719)

GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

9.00

A RITCHIE: A Bugle will do - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (ATOLL ACD 741)

RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Agnus Dei, from Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 - Birgit Remmert (contralto), James Taylor (ten), Cornelius Hauptm/Philippe Herreweghe (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1557)

BACH arr Tarkmann: Concerto for oboe, strings & continuo - Albrecht Mayer (ob), English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)

SAINT-SAËNS: Suite for cello & piano Op 16 - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1962)

BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - Royal Liverpool Phil/Grant Llewellyn (ARGO 436 401)

ALAIN: Litanies - Philip Walsh (org) (TRUST MMT 2014)

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

CORIGLIANO: Voyage - Paul Edmund-Davies (fl), I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (TELARC CD 80503)

MARX: Quartetto in modo classico - Thomas Christian Ensemble (CPO 777 066)

K JENKINS: Better is Peace, from The Armed Man - National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

12.00

GLAZUNOV: Orientale, from Suite for Strings Op 35 - Amati Ensemble of Munich/Attila Balogh (CALIG CAL 50 940)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Anne Gastinel (cello), Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (AUVIDIS VALOIS V 4820)

BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56b - Emanuel Ax (pno), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (SONY SK 89868)

On ANZAC Eve

Peter Elliott (presenter/reader), James Egglestone (ten), New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans

EDWARDS: Symphony No 1, Da pacem Domine; BLAKE: Till Human Voices Wake Us; ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

DUKAS: Alla Gitana - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (CONTINUUM CCD 1014)

FARR: Uri taniwha - Mere Boynton (sop), Richard Nunns (koauau), Richard Nunns (putorino), Gamelan Padhang Moncar (TRUST MMT 2034)

WAGNER: For Princess Metternich's Album - Terence Dennis (pno) (ODE CD MANU 2038)

BUSNOIS: L'Homme, l'homme; L'Homme armé; - Cantica Symphonia/Giuseppe Maletto (dir) (GLOSSA GCD P 31906)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 3, Pastoral - Rebecca Evans (sop), London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10001)

PURCELL: Remember not, Lord, our offences - Choir of St John's College Cambridge & St John's Sinfonia/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHAN 0790)

SAINTE-COLOMBE: Concert for two viols, Tombeau les regrets - Tientos (ASV CD GAU 240)

PREISNER: Lacrimosa, from Requiem for my friend - Sumi Jo (sop), Cologne Philharmonic Choir, Cologne Güzenich Orch/James Conlon (erato 8573 85772)

GRIFFES: De profundis - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67907)

FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Henriette Puig-Roget (org), Elisabeth Brasseur Chorale, Paris Conservatoire Orch/André Cluytens (EMI 9 65933)

5.00

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

MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20 (3) - Amati String Orch (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94205)

STRAUSS: Love Scene, from Feuersnot Op 50 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5120)

LISZT: Consolation No 3 in Db - Murray Perahia (pno) (PHILIPS 456 922)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Nocturne in D minor Op 19/4 - Alexander Kniazev (cello), Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (warner 2564 62061)

LEONCAVALLO: Vesti la giubba, from Pagliacci - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (Decca 478 2258)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Kazuhito Yamashita (gtr), Tokyo String Quartet (RCA RD 60421)

6.00

WALTON arr Fernie: Spitfire Fugue - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (naxos 8.570726)

GRIEG: Holberg Suite (5) - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (RCA 09026 63314)

MOZART: Violin Sonata No 32 in Bb K454 (2) - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 477 5801)

NIELSEN: Saga Dream - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (NAXOS 8.557164)

GUERRERO: Duo seraphim - New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)

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

Ascending from War

Andrew Beer (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

With poems by Jessie Pope, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves and Dietrich Soakai read by veteran actor George Henare and two secondary school student performers selected by audition, Liam Hughes of Northcote College and Rachel Roberts of St Cuthbert's College

SATIE: Parade; DEBUSSY: Berceuse héroïque; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; RAVEL: La Valse (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 2 in E BWV1053 - András Schiff (pno/dir), CO of Europe (Decca 425 676)

C SCHUMANN: Six Songs - Barbara Bonney (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 452 898)

KORNGOLD: Captain Blood - London SO/André Previn (DG 471 347)

HOWELLS: Evening Service in B minor - Max Kenworthy (org), Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher (Private - WCSP 2007a)

MERK: Air Suisse & Rondeau Op 32 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam (ONDINE ODE 1035)

LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Dresden State Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (EMI 5 67988)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D935/2 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (AVIE AV 2157)

MOZART: Oboe Quartet in F K370 - François Leleux (ob), Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Lawrence Power (vla), Sebastian Klinger (cello) (SONY 88697 28585)

J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

CHILDS: Salve Regina - Madeleine Pierard (sop), New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)

MELANI: Sonata in C for two trumpets & strings - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), Alison Balsom (tpt), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (org/dir) (HYPERION CDA 67359)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in Bb minor Op 9/1; Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2; Nocturne in C# minor Op posth - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (DAL SEGNO DSPRCD 060)

Disc 1

MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suite No 1; Orchestral Suite No 2, Scene Hongroises; Orchestral Suite No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

DUARTE: Suite piemontese Op 46; Toute en ronde Op 57; Musikones Op 107; English Suite Op 31; Variations on a Catalan folk song Op 25; Birds Op 66; Homage to Antonio Lauro; Sonatinette Op 35 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39; Twelve Poems Op 35 - Ian Partridge (ten), Thomas Hemsley (bar), Jennifer Partridge, Paul Hamburger (pnos) (BBC MM 122)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

ELGAR: Serenade in E minor for strings Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; Cinderella; The Selfish Giant; London Again Suite; Calling all workers; March, The dam busters - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223445)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - António Meneses (cello), Gérard Wyss (pno) (AVIE AV 2140)

TOMLINSON: Lakeside Idyll - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (DUTTON CDLX 7170)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in Bb RV376 - Giuliano Carmignola (baroque vln), Andrea Marcon (organ/dir), Venice Baroque Orch (SONY SK 51352)

BRAHMS: All meine Herzgedanken Op 62/5 - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1412)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade (3) - Richard Roberts (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 410 253)

MONTI: Czárdás - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (BEN BAKER BBCD 01)

REICHA: Finale: Allegretto, from Wind Quintet in Eb Op 88 No 2 - (BIS CD 1802)

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 (3) - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (SONY SK 60804)

7.00

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 46/3 - Israel Phil/István Kertész (Decca 425 087)

FASCH: Concerto in B minor for flute & oboe FWV L/h1 - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)

RAVEL arr Salzedo/Vallières: Sonatine (1) - Valérie Milot (harp), Jocelyne Roy (fl), François Vallières (vla) (Analekta AN 2 9985)

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Lang Lang (pno) (SONY 88697 89140)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 1 in G minor Op 13, Winter Daydreams (3) - Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (SUPRAPHON SU 3895)

RACHMANINOV: Do not sing to me, my darlin - Kathleen Battle (sop), Margo Garrett (pno) (DG 435 440)

BEETHOVEN: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 16 (2) - Stephen Hough (pno), Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1552)

SMETANA: Polka, from The Bartered Bride - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

8.00

HAHN: L'heure exquise - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian (3) - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Swiss Romande Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 475 8764)

HUPFELD arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (SONY SK 60773)

BACH arr Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051 (3) - Amsterdam Guitar Trio (NEWTON 880 2093)

QI LUI: Red Flowers in Bloom - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

DEBUSSY orch Busser: La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

BIZET: C'est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire, - Renée Fleming (sop), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (Decca 467 049)

DALZA arr Lislevand: Saltarello; Piva - period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ecm 2088 (476 3317))

9.00

ELGAR: Triumphal March, from Caractacus - New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.557273)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 423 090)

STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 458 142)

TELEMANN rcnstr Aske & Feld: Flute Concerto in G TWV51/G2 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (EMI 5 57397)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor Op 90 - Jonathan Biss (pno) (EMI 3 94422)

HOVHANESS: Alleluia & Fugue Op 40b - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (TELARC CD 80503)

MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Martin Fröst (cl), Vertavo String Quartet (BIS SACD 1263)

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

LALO: Symphonie espagnole - Isaac Stern (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (praga PRD 350 094)

12.00

LIADOV: Mazurka Op 19 - Slovak Phil/Stephen Gunzenhauser (Marco Polo 8.220348)

MERK: Fantasy on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 6/3 - Avison Ensemble/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (LINN CKD 362)

MYASKOVSKY: Pathetic Overture in C minor Op 76 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (warner 2564 69689-8)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in C minor Op 4/3 - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (NAXOS 8.553213)

PÄRT: Piano Sonata Op 1/1; Piano Sonata Op 1/2 - Stephen De Pledge (pno) (BLACK BOX BBM 1071)

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

TOSCANINI: Two Pieces for string quartet - Cindy Yan (vln), Miyo Yoon (vln), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Paul Mitchell (cello) (RNZ)

WEBER: Turandot, Overture & March - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (NAXOS 8.570296)

SMETANA: Fanfares for Shakespeare's Richard III - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10413)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Clifford Curzon (pno), London SO/George Szell (Decca 417 641)

MOZART: String Quartet No 23 in F K590, Prussian - Weller Quartet (Decca 475 6796)

MOULINIE: Que Philis a de perfections; Jeune merveille (1) - Charles Daniels (ten), Catherine King (mezzo), Jacob Heringman (lute) (LINN CKD 089)

MOULINIE: Que Philis a de perfections; Jeune merveille (2) - Charles Daniels (ten), Catherine King (mezzo), Jacob Heringman (lute) (LINN CKD 089)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Concertino in A minor for two pianos Op 94 - Martha Argerich (pno), Lilya Zilberstein (pno) (EMI 5 04504)

BACH orch Respighi: Violin Sonata No 4 in E minor BWV1023 - Ilkka Talvi (vln), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (NAXOS 8.572741)

5.00

DVORÁK: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 87 (4) - Menahem Pressler (pno), members of Emerson Quartet (DG 439 868)

SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela - Jukka Hirvikangas (cor anglais), Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1015)

DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Susan Drake (harp) (HYPERION CDA 66340)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little (3) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 654)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 9 (1) - Claudio Arrau (pno) (PHILIPS 416 441)

VICTORIA: Trahe me post te - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO CORSACD 16033)

SEIXAS: Sinfonia in Bb - Algarve Orch/Alvaro Cassuto (NAXOS 8.557207)

6.00

BIZET arr Fernie: Carmen Suite - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)

DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

DVORÁK: Sorrowful reverie, from Poetic Tone Pictures - Vassily Primakov (pno) (Bridge 9309)

MOZART: Vedrai, carino, from Don Giovanni - Kathleen Battle (sop), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 439 949)

FESCH: Concerto No 4 in D (Allegro) - Musica ad Rhenum (NM CLASSICS 97001)

GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)

VIVALDI: Viola d'amore Concerto in F RV97 - Fabio Biondi (vla d'amore/dir), Europa Galante (VIRGIN 3 95146)

Carnegie Hall Live!

(6) Jan Lisiecki (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin

J STRAUSS II: 'Tales from the Vienna Woods' Waltz Op 325; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op58; BEETHOVEN (arr Mahler): String Quartet in F minor Op 95, Serioso; HK GRUBER: Charivari; SCHUMANN: Träumerei from Kinderszenen Op 15; J STRAUSS II: Perpetuum Mobile Op 257

(recorded in Carnegie Hall, New York for WFMT)

HUMMEL: Piano Trio No 4 in G Op 65 - Voces Intimae (WARNER 2564 62596)

WOLF: Verborgenheit - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (DG 477 5556)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Pentatone PTC 5186 382)

LISZT: Die Lorelei - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Decca 425 820)

BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Antje Weithaas (vln), Silke Avenhaus (pno) (BIS SACD 1859)

RAUTAVAARA: Apotheosis - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (NAXOS 8.570069)

BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 12 in F minor BWV857 - Glenn Gould (pno) (SONY SM2K 52600)

BECK: Sinfonia in Eb Op 3/4 - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (naxos 8.570799)

LEIGHTON: Rockingham - Jeremy Woodside (org) (CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL 2009A)

BORODIN orch Drew: String Quartet No 2 in D - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9484)

Disc 1

J STAMITZ: Symphonies, in D Op 3/2; in Eb Op 11/3; Three Manheim Symphonies, in G; in A; in Bb; Trio in E Op 5/3 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553194)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84; BRIDGE: Quintet in D minor for piano, two violins, viola & cello - Allan Schiller (pno), Coull String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 678)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

HAYDN: Mass in Bb HobXXII/12, Theresienmesse; Mass in G, St. Nicholas - Nancy Argenta (sop) Catherine Robbin (contralto), Michael Schade (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), English Consort & Choir/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 437 807)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

VILLA-LOBOS: Preludes, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in E; No 3 in A minor; PONCE: Preludio, Balletto & Giga; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Capriccio Diabolico; ALBÉNIZ: Asturias; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata; TURINA: Fandanguillo; SOR: Introduction & Allegro Op 14 - Guillermo Fierens (gtr) (ASV CD DCA 685)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GRIEG: Holberg Suite Op 40; Elegiac Melodies Op 34; SIBELIUS: Valse Triste Op 44; NIELSEN: Little Suite Op 1; WIRÉN: Serenade Op 11; SIBELIUS: Rakastava Op 14 - Roy Gillard (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Argo 417 132)

BACH: Six Little Preludes, - Angela Hewitt (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67121/2)

MARINI: Sonata in 4 parts - Jörgen van Rijen (tbn), members of Amsterdam Combattimento Conso/Jan Willem de Vriend (dir) (CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 26708)

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Prelude to Act 3 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 257)

J RITCHIE: Partita for brass quintet - New Zealand Brass Quintet (Kiwi SLD 72)

CHABRIER: Habanera - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

ANON arr Guy Jansen: Pokarekare ana - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), 1982 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Guy Jansen (KIWI CD TRL 025)

J STRAUSS II: Wine, Women & Song - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)

7.00

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 10 in Eb Op 51 (4) - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI 5 57013)

O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 15 in D Op 28, Pastoral (4) - Murray Perahia (pno) (SONY 88697 32646)

HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 2a in Bb - David Reichenberg (ob), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 415 291)

BOCCHERINI: Introduction & Fandango - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (DELOS DE 3144)

RUTTER: All things bright & beautiful - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (COLLEGIUM COL CD 100)

GERSHWIN arr Milone: It ain't necessarily so, from Porgy & Bess - 48 violas from ASMF, BBC SO, London Phil, ENO Orch/Geoffrey Simon (CALA CACD 0106)

CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Decca 475 6617)

8.00

FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2021)

TELEMANN: Concerto in A for flute, violin & cello (2) - Rachel Brown (fl), Jane Coe (cello), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0580)

A GRIFFITHS: Naseby - Jessica Wells (contralto), Albert Mataafa (ten), New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 (2) - Jon Manasse (cl), Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7430)

VIVALDI: Concerto in C minor for strings RV119 - Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (dir) (ARCHIV 474 5092)

COPLAND: Simple gifts, from Appalachian Spring - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (SONY MLK 64059)

LASSUS: Four French Madrigals - King's Singers (EMI CDC 7 49158)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1 in Bb Op 38, Spring (3) - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1569)

9.00

SCHUBERT: Three Piano Pieces D946 (3) - András Schiff (pno) (PHILIPS 456 925)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto in D HobVIIb/4 - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (VIRGIN 5 45560)

TERZI: Petit Jacquet; ORTIZ; Quinta pars - Linn Andrea Fuglseth (sop), Anna Maria Friman (sop), period instrument ensemble (ECM 2088 (476 3317))

HOLST: A Moorside Suite - London Collegiate Brass/James Stobart (REGISC 1200)

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

DEBUSSY: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - François Chaplin (pno) (PIERRE VERANY PV 702 101)

JL BACH: Das ist meine Freude - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1516)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno), Netherlands Radio CO/Lev Markiz (CHALLENGE CC 72043)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Lullaby of the Sea Princess, from Sadko - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), London Phil/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI CMS 5 65716)

SAINT-SAËNS arr Ma: Havanaise - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (SONY SK 87287)

RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 8532)

12.00

TORKE: Javelin - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (ARGO 452 101)

MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words Op 19 - Daniel Barenboim (pno) (DG 423 931)

ZANNETTI: Il Scolaro, excerpts - King's Noyse, Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)/David Douglass (dir) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7159)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 518)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

SIBELIUS: Night Ride & Sunrise - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)

LILBURN: Wind Quintet - Concertante Ensemble (Kiwi SLD 58)

TELEMANN: Fantasy No 9 in B minor for solo violin - Lara Hall (vln) (Atoll ACD 341)

VERDI: Il lacerato spirito, from Simon Boccanegra - Noel Mangin (bass), Auckland Opera Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (KIWI CD SLC 234)

DEBUSSY: Estampes - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

HANDEL orch Elgar: Overture in D minor, from Chandos Anthem No 2 - London Phil/Leonard Slatkin (RCA RD 87862)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 54 - Leningrad Phil/Yevgeny Mravinsky (MELODIYA 74321 25198)

SCHUMANN: Fairy-tale Scenes Op 113 - Nobuko Imai (vla), Martha Argerich (pno) (EMI 5 55484)

BEETHOVEN: Grosse Fuge in Bb Op 133 - Smetana Quartet (SUPRAPHON SU 3870)

BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 3 in D BWV1054 - András Schiff (pno/dir), Chamber Orch of Europe (Decca 425 676)

WAGNER: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Montserrat Caballé (sop), New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (SONY MLK 64061)

FRANCK: Le Chasseur Maudit - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 475 8140)

5.00

WALTON arr Duthoit: Crown Imperial - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Janet Gibbs (organ)/Graham Hanify (KIWI CD SLC 216)

DOPPLER: Hungarian Duet Op 36 - János Bálint (fl), Imre Kovács (fl), Budapest Strings (Capriccio 10 831)

CHABRIER: Bourrée fantasque - Emmanuel Strosser (pno) (MIRARE MIR 116)

MOZART: Mass No 18 in C minor K427, Great (1) - Arleen Augér (sop), Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Frank Lopardo (ten), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Leonard Bernstein (DG 431 791)

TELEMANN: Cricket Symphony (1) - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0547)

DVORAK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American (4) - Simón Bolívar String Quartet (DG 479 0429)

OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne, Overture - Philharmonia/Neville Marriner (PHILIPS 411 476)

6.00

CPE BACH: Cello Concerto in A Wq172 (3) - Lynn Harrell (cello), Angeli Ensemble (AZICA ACD 71265)

GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9346)

STRAUSS: Suite in Bb for winds Op 4 (2) - Royal Liverpool PO/Gerard Schwarz (RLPO LIVE RLCD 401 P)

CILEA: Poveri fiori, from Adriana Lecouvreur - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

ALBENIZ: Jerez, from Iberia Book 4 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67476/7)

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

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Piero Toso (vln), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (ERATO ECD 55018)

Outraged

Benjamin Baker (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Giordano Bellincampi

MOZART: Overture, from The Marriage of Figaro; TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35; STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome; KREISLER: Recitative & Scherzo-caprice Op 6; BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

C STAMITZ: Flute Concerto in G Op 29 - Barthold Kuijken (fl), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (SONY SK 48045)

PIERNE: Fantasy-Ballet in Bb Op 6 - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Ronald Corp (HYPERION CDA 67348)

DAVERNE: A Pocket Overture - Moravian Phil/Petr Pololáník (EMI 557 9042)

LISZT transcr Grainger: Hungarian Fantasy S123 - Ivan Hovorun (pno), Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 10455)

STRAUSS trans Lawrence: Das Rosenband - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (ATOLL ACD 109)

RAVEL: Mother Goose - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 2 64197)

SPARKE arr Frey: Pantomime - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (NAXOS 8.570538)

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 1 in Bb K207 - James Ehnes (vln/dir), Mozart Anniversary Orch (CBC SMCD 5238)

SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS SACD 1431)

LASSUS: Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me - Henry's Eight/Jonathan Brown (HYPERION CDD 22056)

HOFFMEISTER: Flute Concerto No 17 in D (1) - Bruno Meier (fl), Prague CO (Naxos 8.57304)

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphony No 31 in D, Paris; Andante from K297; Symphony No 35 in D, Haffner; Symphony No 36 in C, Linz - Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Josef Krips (Philips 426 063)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerti, No 7 in A minor RV497; No 8 in F RV485; No 27 in Eb RV483; No 3 in C RV478; No 2 in A minor RV498; No 9 in C RV480; No 24 in Bb RV502 - Daniel Smith (bsn), Zagreb Soloists/Tonko Ninic (ASV CD DCA 975)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

VARIOUS: Popular arias & folksongs - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Various orchestras & conductors (Philips 454 395)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

ROSSINI: 14 Pieces from Sins of Old Age - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 901)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

KRAUS: Symphony in D, Sinfonia da chiesa; Symphonies, in C# minor; in C; in C minor, Symphonie funebre - Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 430)

DEBUSSY orch Busser: Petite Suite (1) - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonata in A D574 (1) - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (ODE CD MANU 5082)

MUDARRA arr Lislevand: Fantasia que contrahaza la harpa - period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ecm 2088 (476 3317))

RZEWSKI: Down by the riverside - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67077)

TRAD: Deep River - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Maurice Till (pno) (ATOLL ACD 507)

FASCH: Lute Concerto in D minor (3) - Michael Dücker (lute), Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (ARCHIV 447 644)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

7.00

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances Op 46 (5) - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp (1) - Gewandhaus Quartet (nca 60139)

ANON arr Ashmore: Greensleeves - Richard Stolzman (cl), Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter (dir) (RCA RD 60437)

BEACH: Scherzo, from Piano Concerto in C# Minor Op 45 - Danny Driver (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Rebecca Miller (Hyperion CDA 68130)

PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - London Baroque (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1539)

ROTA: Symphony No 3 in C (1) - Filarmonica '900 of the Turin Teatro Regio/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10669)

ROSSINI: Nacqui all'affano, from La Cenerentola - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Bologna Teatro Communale Chorus & Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 300)

MOZART: Rondo in C K373 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Northern Sinfonia/Heinrich Schiff (Virgin VC 7 91489)

8.00

BALDWIN: O vos omnes - Lisette Wesseling (sop), Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher (Private - WCSP 2007a)

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

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian (4) - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)

SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Decca 473 902)

ORTIZ: Passamezzo antico - Latitude 37, Begins with low drum beat (mf) 6 seconds in (ABC Classics 476 4525)

GIBBONS: O clap your hands - Chanticleer (TELDEC 4509 96515)

BACH arr Tarkmann: Concerto for oboe d'amore, strings & continuo (3) - Albrecht Mayer (ob d'amore), English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)

BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (4) - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (TELARC CD 80578)

9.00

PROKOFIEV trans Terashima: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Martha Argerich (pno), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (EMI 4 76871)

MOZART: Vado, ma dove? oh Dei! K583 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Vienna CO/György Fischer (Decca 452 624)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Op 40 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (WARNER 2564 61946)

WEBER: Preciosa, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (NAXOS 8.570296)

BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 - David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (pno) (Artistled 10501)

PARSONS: Ave Maria - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16056)

HAYDN: Symphony No 84 in Eb - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 677)

TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp - Valérie Milot (harp) (Analekta AN 2 9985)

BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

12.00

GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Op 65/6 - Katya Apekisheva (pno) (QUARTZ QTZ 2061)

GOLDMARK: Rustic Wedding Symphony - Los Angeles Phil/Jesús López-Cobos (Decca 476 8743)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (TRUST MMT 2040)

RIES: Piano Concerto in C# minor Op 55 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.557844)

LODGE: Hinterland - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2037)

DOHNÁNYI: Variations on a Nursery Song Op 25 - Julius Katchen (pno), London Phil/Adrian Boult (PHILIPS 456 859)

LOCKE: Suite No 1 in C minor, - Phantasm (GMN GMNC 0109)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 8 in G Op 30/3 - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (EMI 3 65224)

FINZI: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 40 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 9949)

PUCCINI: Senza mamma, from Suor Angelica - Miriam Gauci (sop), Belgium Radio & Television Phil/Alexander Rahbari (NAXOS 8.550606)

MONDONVILLE: Sonata Op 3/4 - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (ARCHIV 457 600)

5.00

SUPPE: Light Cavalry, Overture - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Takács Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67864)

FRANCAIX: Divertissement - members of the Aulos Wind Quintet (MUSICA MUNDI 310 022)

PHILIPS: Gaude Maria virgo - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (NAXOS 8.555056)

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 (2) - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Lars Vogt (pno) (EMI 5 57525)

LU WENCHENG arr Chen Peixun: Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake - Lang Lang (pno) (Deutsche Grammophon DG 477 6229)

MOZART: Symphony No 28 in C K200 (4) - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80165)

6.00

BACH: Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Trinity Baroque, English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)

MCCARTNEY: Interlude (Lament), from Ecce Cor Meum - ASMF, London Voices/Gavin Greenaway (EMI 3 70424)

DEBUSSY: Jeux de vagues, from La Mer - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Chandos CHSA 5102)

GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia - Purcell Quartet with Purcell Band (HYPERION CDA 66264)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas d'action, from Swan Lake - Baiba Skride (vln), Ulrich Heinen (cello), Robert Johnston (harp), CBSO/Andris Nelsons (SONY 88697 21423)

PLUHAR/GALEAZZI arr Pluhar: Ninna Nanna sopra la Romanesca - Lucilla Galeazzi (sop), Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (alpha 512)

WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Philharmonia/Lorin Maazel (SONY MLK 64061)

Pacific Rhythms

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra presents music influenced by different Pacific cultures

Strike Percussion, Banju Gunung Saliju Gamelan Ensemble, Christchurch SO/Hamish McKeich

ZIPORYN: Ngaben (for Sari Club); BODY: Melodies for Orchestra; TAKEMITSU: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; FARR: Concerto for percussion and orchestra (recorded in Air Force Museum, Wigram by RNZ)

BOWEN: Phantasie in E minor Op 34 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67991)

WOLF-FERRARI: Suite-Concertino in F Op 16 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

Charlotte Wilson presents a weekly forum for contemporary music

11:00 New Music Dreams

Come along for a mesmerising ride as Ryan Smith explores ambient and drone music - handpicked from the very latest, to 20th century seminal masterpieces and everything in between