Schedules for 12 - 18 December, 2020
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Saturday 12 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)
HILL: String Quartet No 9 in A minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)
GLAZUNOV: Carolers, from Festive Moods - Shostakovich Quartet (Olympia OCD 575)
HUMMEL: Te Deum in D - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557193)
1:00 approx
BEETHOVEN: Variations on a theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 42121)
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 1 - cellists of Sao Paulo SO/Roberto Minczuk (BIS CD 1410)
VIVALDI arr Sorrell: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - Cynthia Roberts (vln), Julie Andrijeski (vln), Apollo's Fire (Cl/Jeannette Sorrell (dir) (Avie AV 2211)
LISZT: Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 420 837)
BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 118 (3) - John Chen (pno) (RNZ UB13)
SAINT-SAËNS arr Hargreaves: French military march, from Algerian Suite - Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Peter Parkes (Chandos CHAN 4542)
2:00 approx
GLICK: Old Toronto Klezmer Suite - Angèle Dubeau (vln) and La Pieta/Angèle Dubeau (Analekta AN28721)
MARX: Partita in modo antico - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane ( CD DCA 1158)
HAMILTON: Waltz, from Imagined Dances - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
BLISS: Pastoral - Emma Johnson (cl), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (ASV CD DCA 891)
3:00 approx
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 - Isaac Stern (vln), Pinchas Zukerman (vla), New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (CBS CD 36692)
BEETHOVEN: Sextet in Eb Op 71 - members of the CO of Europe (ASV CD COE 807)
FINZI: Fughetta, from Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)
HANDEL: Belshazzar, Overture - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 447 279)
4:00 approx
RESPIGHI: Rossiniana - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.557711)
DVORÁK: Violin Sonatina in G Op 100 - Antje Weithaas (vln), Lars Vogt (pno) (EMI 5 58062)
BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (2) - Christchurch SO/William Southgate (Chch Symph Trust CHCH 004)
LILBURN: Four Canzonas (2) - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (KIWI CD SLD 99)
CHABRIER: Danse Slave - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)
5:00 approx
DIAMOND: Symphony No 4 - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559154)
BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV971 - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ UA39)
HOLST: Hammersmith Op 52 - North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon (GIA Publications CD655)
BELLINATI: Jongo - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 1 in D Op 12/1 (3) - Bella Hristova (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RATTLE RATD088)
BREBEUF arr Anderson: The Huron Carol - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)
RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra (2) - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (TRUST MMT 2040)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning
Music, news & weather to start your day
MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)
TARTINI: Violin Concerto in Bb D117 (2) - Adrian Chandler (vln/dir), La Serenissima (Avie AV 2154)
RACHMANINOV: Prelude No 5 in G Major, Op 32 - Colin Horsley (pno) (Atoll ACD 442)
DONIZETTI trans Stees: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'Amore - Barrick Stees (bsn), Sylvia Norris (harp) (Claves CD 50-9815)
HOVHANESS: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain (1) - London SO/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)
CURTIS: Irish lullaby - Helen Keen (fl), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2035)
FASCH: Lute Concerto in D minor (1) - Michael Dücker (lute), Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 447 644)
MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 (2) - members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 417 643)
7.00
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 (3) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 2191)
7:15 Kids' Classics
FINZI: Fughetta, from Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Michael Collins (cl), Michael McHale (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10637)
MUSSORGSKY arr Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Igor Markevitch (Berlin Classics 1383 BC)
BLAKE: Jazz Dances Op 520a (6) - Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Howard Blake (pno) (Naxos 8.572083)
WESTLAKE: Penguin ballet, from Antarctica - Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn (ABC Classics 462 017)
8.00
BORODIN: Symphony No 1 in Eb (2) - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 435 757)
HARVEY: Concerto Antico (1) - John Williams (gtr), London SO/Paul Daniel (Sony SK 68337)
GAL: Clarinet Sonata Op 84 (2) - Murray Khouri (cl), John McCabe (pno) (Continuum CCD 1027)
FAURÉ: Pie Jesu, from Requiem Op 48 - Sara Macliver (sop), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), David Drury (org), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC Classics 472 045)
BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - London Phil/David Parry (X5 105)
TCHAIKOVSKY arr Lascae: Souvenir d'un lieu cher (3) - Janine Jansen (vln), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Decca 478 0651)
MCDOWALL: Now may we singen - Canterbury Chamber Choir/George Vass (DUTTON CDLX 7230)
ELGAR: Triumphal March, from Caractacus - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)
9:00 AM. Weekend Brunch
KORNGOLD: Hornpipe, from Much Ado About Nothing Op 11 - Linz Bruckner Orch/Caspar Richter (ASV CD DCA 1146)
SMETANA: Blaník, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Decca 4833187)
WHITBOURN: The Magi's Dream - Henry Websdale (org), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (King's College KGS0033)
MARAIRE: Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) - Dumisani Maraire (ngoma/hosho), Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79275)
MOZART: Symphony No 20 in D K133 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80217)
10.00
DALZ arr Lislevand: Saltarello; Piva - Rolf Lislevand (lute), Marco Ambrosini (viola d amore), Thor Harald Johnsen (lute), Michael Behringer (clavichord), David Mayoral (percussion), Bjørn Kjellemyr (colascione), Giovanna Pessi (harp)/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))
BACH: Menuets I & II, from Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony 19075854652)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 5 in D Op 70/1, Ghost - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 412 891)
SAUNDERS: Fairytale Sleighride - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.572744)
ZIPOLI arr Hunt: Elevazione - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Niklass Veltman (cello), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)
SOMMA: Toccata in A - Martin Setchell (org) (Pipeline Press PP2)
DEBUSSY trans Nicholls: Rêverie - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)
DVORÁK: Slavonic Rhapsody No 3 in Ab minor Op 45 - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (TELDEC 8.44072)
MOROSS: Concerto for flute with string orchestra - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Koch International 1996842)
CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Véronique Gens (sop), Lille National Orch/Jean-Claude Casadesus (Naxos 8.557491)
Noon From the Top
Selections from Settling the Score
VERDI arr Fernie: Grand March, from Aida - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Orpheus CO (DG 419 191)
BACH arr Maginley: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 (6) - Andrew Maginley (lute) (Avie AV 2115)
FAURÉ: Introit and Kyrie, from Requiem Op 48 - Johannette Zomer (sop), Stephan Genz (bar), La Chapelle Royale,/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1771)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - John O'Conor (pno) (TELARC CD 80118)
1:00 PM. Onstage
MOZART: Symphony No 38 in D K504, Prague - Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei (RNZ 2018)
PIAZZOLLA: Rondo brillant in B minor D895 - Nikki Chooi (violin), Jian Liu (piano) (RNZ 2019)
RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for Strings - Auckland Phil/Daniel Blendulf (RNZ 2019)
2:00 PM. Worlds of Music with Trevor Reekie
Trans-global, fusion and folk roots music
GNATTALI arr Cazes: Remexendo - Camerata Brazil/Henrique Cazes (dir) (EMI 5 56939)
3:00 PM. RNZ Concert Afternoons
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 5 in D minor, Reformation (2) - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMM 902325)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (CHANDOS CHAN 9227)
TRADITIONAL arr Wilcocks: Quelle est cette odeur agreable - Chanticleer (Teldec 94563)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana (3) - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (London 440 366)
RAVEL: Sonatine - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)
LIADOV: About Olden Times Op 21b - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
BEETHOVEN: Septet in Eb Op 20 (2) - Nash Ensemble (ASV GLD 4002)
SCHUMANN: Scherzo in C minor - Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) (Decca 4850020)
HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 (1) - Santiago Cañón Valencia (cello), Brussels Phil/Stéphane Denève (2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition )
MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)
PORTER: In the Still of the Night - Peter Maunder (tbn), Helen Webby (harp) (Atoll ACD 115)
MARAIS: Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics ABC 4818575)
GRUBER Trans Brentano Quartet: Silent Night - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Brentano Quartet (ERATO 9029564219)
ANONYMOUS arr Wilcocks: Ding, Dong Merrily On High - Elora Festival Singers, Michael Bloss (org) (Naxos 8.554179)
RACHMANINOV: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 36 (2) - Jason Bae (pno) (Austrian Gramophone AG 0003)
VIVALDI: Concerto in F for multiple instruments RV569 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30283)
5:00 PM. Inside Out with Nick Tipping
A journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way
7:00 PM. RNZ Concert Evenings
LILBURN: Forest - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)
GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3321)
7:30 PM. Music Alive
NZSO: Messiah
HANDEL: Messiah
Anna Leese (soprano), Sarah Court (mezzo), Frederick Jones (tenor), Robert Tucker (bass), The Tudor Consort, New Zealand SO/Gemma New
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)
10:00 PM. Sound Lounge
A weekly forum for contemporary music
HAROLD BUDD: Madrigals of the Rose Angel - Harold Budd (piano), with various musicians (Obscure Records)
ERIK SATIE: Embryons desséchés - Bojan Gorisek (pno) (LTM LTMCD 2501)
NATALIE HUNT: Compass - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ 2012)
CHRISTOPHER GUNNING: Saxophone Concerto, On Hungerford Bridge - John Harle (sax), ASMF/Christopher Gunning (ASV CD WHL 2138)
11.00
MICHAEL NORRIS: Exitus - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 118)
FLO WILSON: Music for Dance 1, 2 & 3 - Flo Wilson (voice, electronics) (Private)
EDWIN CARR: The Snow Maiden - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Ex Kiwi SLD 55)
JEREMY CULLEN: Valse Nostalgique, Gymnopedie, Avenue des Gobelins, from The World of Eugene Atget - Jeremy Cullen (pno), Maria Grigoryeva (vla), Lyudmila Kadyrbaeva (cello) (Notornis NTS 001) (Notornis NTS 001)
Sunday 13 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
CHOPIN: Ballade No 2 in F Op 38 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 423 090)
ROUSSEL: Serenade Op 30 - Skaila Kanga (harp), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 8621)
NORMAN: The flight & the stars; Cold & darkness; Warmth & light; The Sun King; The journey continues; The Lost Boys - Orchestra Wellington/Kenneth Young (RNZB 1999A)
RITCHIE: Symphony No 3 Op 150 (2) - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (Atoll ACD 741)
1:00 approx
TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - Montreal SO (Decca 417 300)
BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in C G391 - Ensemble 415 (HARMONIA MUNDI HMA 195 1402)
DELIUS: Two Pieces for small orchestra, - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records SMCD 5134)
BACH: Chorale Prelude, Nun danket alle Gott BWV657 - Gillian Weir (org) (PRIORY PRCD 800)
GLAZUNOV: Rêverie Op 24 - Felix Klieser (horn), Christof Keymer (pno) (Berlin Classics 030 0530 BC)
2:00 approx
MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi HMM 905299)
SCHUMANN: The Poet Speaks, from Kinderszenen Op 16 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)
3:00 approx
BACH: Oboe Sonata in C minor - Douglas Boyd (ob), Harold Lester (hpschd) (ASV CD DCA 656)
HAYDN: String Quartet in G minor Op 74/3, Rider - Emerson String Quartet ( 471 327)
SCHNITTKE arr Spivakov/Milman: Suite in the Old Style - Tapiola Sinfonietta/Ralf Gothóni (BIS CD 1437)
SCHUBERT: Der Schiffer D536 - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (EMI 5 75203)
4:00 approx
BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 3 - BBC SO/Rudolf Kempe (BBC Legends BBCL 4056)
BACH: Violin Partita No 3 in E BWV1006 - Rachel Podger (vln) (Channel Classics CCS 14498)
RIES: Introduction & Rondeau brillant WoO54 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Bournemouth SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572088)
GOEMANNE arr Setchell: El Dia De Fiesta - Martin Setchell (org) (Pipeline Press PP2)
RACHMANINOV: Intermezzo from Aleko - London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7645302)
5:00 approx
MOZART: Symphony No 18 in F K130 - Royal Phil/Erich Leinsdorf (DG 477 5847)
BENDA: Violin Concerto in E - Lara Hall (vln), NZ Barok/Peter Walls (Atoll ACD 419)
ELLINGTON arr Silberman: Beggar's Holiday suite; Lush Life - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 811)
BRAHMS: Minnelied Op 71/5 - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (pno) (Atoll ACD280)
PUANAKI: Ka Waiata - 1996 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2016)
BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Sol3 Mio, City of Prague Orch/Paul Bateman (Decca 375 7602)
6:00 AM. Sanctuary
Music for the spirit and soul
MISKINIS: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67818)
SQUIRE: Dream Bird - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (MASTER PERFORMERS MP 010)
MANFREDINI: Christmas Concerto in C Op 3/12 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 449 924)
GRETCHANINOV: Missa Sancti Spiritus - Tatiana Jeranje (contralto), Russian State Symphonic Cappella, unnamed organist/Valéry Polyansky (Chandos CHAN)
GJEILO: Serenity - Bartosz Cajler (vln), Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)
CANNING: Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (TELARC CD 80503)
RUTTER: Of a rose, from Magnificat - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 114)
RUTTER: Et misericordia, from Magnificat - Patricia Forbes (sop), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 114)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS orch Foster: Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (2) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDZ 7 62529)
TRADITIONAL arr Puanaki: Ka Waiata - 1996 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)
7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday
A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns, presented by Robyn Jaquiery
8:00 AM. Grace Notes
BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 2 in E BWV1053 (2) - Glenn Gould (pno), Columbia SO/Vladimir Golschmann (CBS M2K 42270)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Song of India, from Sadko - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Catrin Finch (harp) (EMI 3 59488)
TRADITIONAL arr Shaw/Parker: The Carol of the Birds - Janice Chandler (sop), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80461)
SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 (1) - Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), Ian Brown (piano) (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)
PELECIS: Flowering Jasmine - Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica CO/Gidon Kremer (dir/vln) (NONESUCH 287228)
BARBER: Agnus Dei - Viva Voce/John Rosser (VIVA VOCE ACD 901)
ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 (2) - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)
MOZART: Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita (3) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 726)
RESPIGHI: Pastorale in A (1) - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)
9:00 AM. Weekend Brunch
BRAHMS orch various: Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (LINN CKD 224)
MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words Op 19 - Daniel Barenboim (pno) (DG 423 931)
HANDEL: Glory to God, from Messiah - Susan Hamilton (sop), Annie Gill (mezzo), Clare Wilkinson (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (ten), Matthew Brook (bass), Dunedin Consort & Players/John Butt (LINN CKD 285)
BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy (4) - Jascha Heifetz (vln), New SO of London/Malcolm Sargent (RCA RD 86214)
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (TELARC CD 80587)
10.00
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5060)
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 1 in F Op 5/1 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67633)
MATHIAS: Sir Christèmas - John Finney (org), Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)
VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two violins RV507 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), Daniel Stabrawa (vln), members of Berli (EMI 5 57859)
LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - David James (pno) (RNZ UB48)
FAURÉ: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Albrecht Mayer (ob d'amore), ASMF (Decca 478 2564)
BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - London Phil/Vladimir Jurowski (LPO 43)
Noon Pick and Mix
Eva Radich mixes it up with great musicians across genres
BOB DYLAN: The Times They Are A-Changin' - The Byrds (COLUMBIA 487995)
BOB DYLAN: It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Joan Baez (Vanguard 797012)
BOB DYLAN: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Maria Muldaur (TELARC 483643)
BOB DYLAN: Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash (UNIVERSAL 713840)
MEHLDAU: Suite- April 2020 - I. waking up - Brad Mehldau (PRIVATE P002207)
MEHLDAU: Suite- April 2020 - V. remembering before all this - Brad Mehldau (PRIVATE P002207)
B.G. DESYLVA / JEROME KERN: Look for the Silver Lining - Brad Mehldau (PRIVATE P002207)
TRAD: The Garden of England (Seeds Of Love) - Sam Lee (Cooking Vinyl COOKLP743X)
TRAD: The Moon Shines Bright - Sam Lee & Elizabeth Fraser (Cooking Vinyl COOKLP743X)
YORKSTON/ THORNE/ KHAN: Sukhe Phool - Yorkston/ Thorne/ Khan (DOMINO WIGCD439)
YORKSTON/ THORNE/ KHAN: Twa Brothers - Yorkston/ Thorne/ Khan (DOMINO WIGCD439)
WILLIAMS: Arahura - Marlon Williams (UNIVERSAL PROMOPLASTIC)
EVANS, LIVINGSTON: Never Let Me Go - Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette (ECM 737344)
1:00 PM. Onstage
BEETHOVEN: Creatures of Prometheus, Overture - New Zealand SO/Lars Vogt (RNZ 2018)
London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle and Lisa Batiashvili, in London
BERG: Violin Concerto, To the Memory of An Angel
BEETHOVEN: Christ on the Mount of Olives Op 85
Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Elsa Dreisig (sop), Pavol Breslik (ten), David Soar (bass), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Simon Rattle
(BBC)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in E Op 109 - Read Gainsford (pno) (RNZ 2018)
3:00 PM. The Musical Omnivore
with David Morriss including Vintage Years
CICONIA: Sus une fontayne - members of Ferrara Ensemble/Crawford Young (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 5241)
PEÑALOSA: Sacris Solemnis - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 66629)
COPRARIO: Fantasia-suite in C - London Baroque (BIS CD 1455)
BONONCINI: Per la gloria d'adorarvi, from Griselda - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Bologna Theatre Orch/Richard Bonynge (ABC Classics 472 610)
WITT: Symphony in C, Jena (4) - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois ( 8.572089)
LEHAR: Lippen schweigen, from The Merry Widow - Richard Tauber (ten), unnamed orch/Erich Korngold (ASV CDAJA5146)
WHITACRE: Lux Aurumque - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA67543)
CHOPIN: Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (pno) (PRAGA PR 256 003)
MOZART: Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni - Rita Streich (sop), George London (bass), Cologne Radio SO/Otto Klemperer (Testament SBT 2149)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Philharmonia/Guido Cantelli (TESTAMENT SBT 1316)
BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 2 in A Op 100 - Isaac Stern (vln), Myra Hess (pno) (Testament SBT 1458)
BEETHOVEN ed Cooper: Symphony No 10 in Eb (1) - London SO/Wyn Morris (IMP PCD 911)
5:00 PM. New Horizons with William Dart
A guide to the worlds of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond
5.30
MORELY: Snowride - RTE Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.572744)
TRADITIONAL: Joy to the World - Joan Sutherland (sop), New Philharmonia/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 095)
WILLIAMS: The Rise of Skywalker, from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - session orchestra/John Williams (Walt Disney Records 8743994)
HILL: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, Allies (1) - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)
BACH: Sinfonia, from Cantata No 52, Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion CDA68111)
6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday
Royal Opera House: Fidelio
BEETHOVEN: Fidelio
Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Lise Davidsen (Leonore), Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Don Pizarro), Amanda Forsythe (Marzelline), Robin Tritschler (Jaquino), Egils Silinš (Don Fernando), Filipe Manu (First Prisoner), Timothy Dawkins (Second Prisoner), Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Antonio Pappano
Royal Opera House, London (BBC)
KORNGOLD: String Quartet Op 26/2 - Jerusalem Quartet (RNZ 2019)
9:00 PM. Made in New Zealand
NZ performers and composers
WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - Nigel Potts (org) (HERALD HAVPCD 344)
DAVERNE: Gem of the Kaipara - Kevin Friedrich (accordion), Moravian Phil/Petr Pololáník (EMI 557 9042)
SHOSTAKOVICH arr Barley: Suite from Cheryomushki - Matthew Barley (cello), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Quartz QTZ 2032)
MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)
SPARKE: The Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)
MACKY: Te Harinui - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle D048)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)
11:00 PM. New Music Dreams
Ryan Smith explores ambient and drone music
AL FRASER/ ARIANA TIKAO: Toitū Te Pūoro (album) - Al Fraser (taonga pūoro, electronics), Ariana Tikao (vocals) (Rattle D086)
Monday 14 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
DEBUSSY: Bruyères, from Preludes, Book 2 - Bert Lucarelli (ob), Susan Jolles (harp) (Stradivari SCD 6034)
BLOCH: Suite No 1 for cello solo - Pieter Wispelwey (cello) (Onyx 4042)
SOLER: Keyboard Sonata No 87 in G minor - Terence Dennis (pno) (RNZ UB39)
TRADITIONAL arr Schlenker: O come, O come, Emmanuel - 2013 New Zealand National Youth Choir/David Squire (RNZ 2013)
YOUNG: Symphony No 2 - Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), Andrew Joyce (cello), NZSO/Kenneth Young (Atoll 502164)
1:00 approx
HANDEL: For unto us a child is born, from Messiah - English Concert & Choir/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 630)
LISZT arr Selmeczi: Four valses oubliées - Camerata Transsylvanica/György Selmeczi (BMC CD 060)
BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 41 - Alexa Still (fl), Rae de Lisle (pno) (RNZ UB61)
MOZART: String Quartet No 19 in C K465, Dissonance (4) - New Zealand String Quartet (NZ String Quartet 2006)
TORKE: West, Concerto for Bassoon (2) - Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Albany SO/David Alan Miller (Albany TROY1784)
2:00 approx
WEBER: Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op 48 - Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano) (DG 4836069)
HAYDN: Symphony No 80 in D minor - BBC Phil/Nicholas Kraemer (BBC Music BBC MM 307)
BACH arr Safri Duo/Mortensen: English Suite No 4 in F BWV809 - Safri Duo (Chandos CHAN 9339)
BRAHMS: Waltzes Op 39 (15) - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)
RAMEAU: Contredance, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)
3:00 approx
SCHUMANN: Album for the Young Op 68, Part 1 - Michael Endres (pno) (OEHMS OC 240)
SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 9063)
HAMILTON: A Waltz for Those Who Don't Dance, from Imagined Dances II - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
JOPLIN arr Crespo: Ragtime Dance - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)
4:00 approx
FARR: Taheke - Bridget Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (hrp) (Atoll ACD 709)
FAURÉ: Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 109 - Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) (BIS BIS2220)
PHILLIPS: Sinfonietta in C Op 70 - BBC Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (DUTTON CDLX 7140)
MARINI: Romanesca - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)
GOOSSENS: Bacchanal, from Two Nature Poems Op 25 - Melbourne SO/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5119)
5:00 approx
BUCHARDO: Argentinian Scenes - Entre Ríos SO/Gabriel Castagna (Chandos CHAN 10185)
HOROVITZ: Sonatina for clarinet & piano - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)
TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in Eb - Douglas Boyd (ob), Harold Lester (org), Richard Lester (cello), Roderick Elms (hpschd) (ASV CD DCA 656)
LILBURN: Diversions for Strings (4) - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)
RUTTER: There Is A Flower - Choir of St. John's, Elora (Marshall Arts NA)
STILL ed Alexa Still: Bayou Home - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (KOCH 1932925)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Dance of the Sugar, from The Nutcracker Suite - Montreal SO (Decca 417 300)
VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G minor RV317 (1) - Takako Nishizaki (vln), NZSO National Youth Orch/Peter Walls (Naxos 8.572381)
6:00 AM. Daybreak
The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight (1) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RAT D048)
HEINICHEN: Concerto in G, from Dresden Concerti S217 (4) - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir)
ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)
TARREGA: Gran vals - Mats Bergström (gtr) (Naxos 8.572365)
BLUMENFELD: Etude for the left hand in Ab Op 36 - Nelson Goerner (pno) (Cascavelle VEL 3051)
BACH: Sanctus, from Mass in B Minor - Cantus Cologne choir & orch/Konrad Junghänel A
MENDELSSOHN: Overture - Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Koch 37169)
HAYDN: Keyboard Concerto in D HobXVIII/11 (2) - Nikita Magaloff (pno), North German Radio SO/ Günter Wand
7.00
BOYCE: Symphony No 6 in F - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir)
BOTTESINI: Duetto for clarinet, double bass & orch - George Pieterson (cl), Hans Roelofsen (dbass), Arnhem Phil/Alun Francis (Brilliant Classics 92513)
MCCABE: Three Marian Carols (1) - BBC Singers/David Hill (Naxos 8.573053)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Philadelphia Orch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)
BEETHOVEN: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 426 064)
HASSE: Sepre a si vaghi rai - Jakub Józef Orlinski (countertenor), Il Pomo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev (Erato 9029542338)
MOZART: Divertimento in D K334 (5) - Cologne CO/ Helmut Müller-Brühl8.00
Beauty Spot:
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 135 (3) - Lindsay String Quartet
LIADOV: A Musical Snuffbox - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
WADE arr Wilcocks: O come, all ye faithful - Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Shepherd (organ)/Benjamin Nicholas (Delphian DCD34192)
BIZET: Symphony in C (1) - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI CDM 7 69643)
RACHMANINOV: Preludes Op 23 No 5 in G minor: Alla marcia - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (MANU CD MANU 1523)
ORD: Adam lay y-bounden - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16085)
BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123. Gloria (3) - Ann-Helen Moen (soprano), Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki
FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (MMT 2043)
9:00 AM. The Works
Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces
STRAUSS II: The Gypsy Baron, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80547)
GLAZUNOV: Chant du Ménestrel - Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Phil/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records SMCD 5153)
KREISLER: Marche miniature viennoise; Toy Soldier's March (1) - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Kathryn Stott (pno) (EMI 4 16471)
TRADITIONAL: Es Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)
HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), English CO/José-Luis Garcia (CBS MK 36674)
SCHUBERT: An die Musik D547 - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Kristian Chong (pno) (ABC Classics 476 4363)
LEONTOVICH MYKOLA arr J Oliver: Carol of the bells - Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (Mark Records 7878-MCD)
GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34 - NZSO CO (RNZ UA02)
10.00
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 - Martha Argerich (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt (SRF 44057)
DOMPIERRE: Les Beautés du diable - Angèle Dubeau (vln), La Pietà (Analekta AN 2 8723)
MOZART: Soave sia il vento, from Così fan tutte - Miah Persson (sop), Christine Rice (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bar), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 477 6297)
MOREL: Dansa brasilera - Craig Ogden (gtr) (CHANDOS CHAN 9674)
BARTOK: Romanian Folk Dances - Hungarian State SO/Adam Fischer (Portrait PCL 2108)
11.00
HOLST: Fantasia on the 'Dargason', from Suite No 2 for Military Band Op 28/2 - North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon (GIA Publications CD655)
RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (EX Tartar TRL 020)
MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20 - St Paul CO/Pinchas Zukerman (dir) (Philips 412 212)
BACH: Concerto in D minor BWV974 - Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) (DG 4835022)
WHEELER: Sweet Time Suite (Part 1, Opening) - Kenny Wheeler Ensemble (ECM 1415/16)
Noon Upbeat
Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss
1:00 PM. Onstage
NZSO Beethoven Festival: Heroic (1 of 4)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2 in D Op 36
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica
New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Classical Connection
Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B
BACH: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 (3) - Ramón Ortega Quero (ob), Janine Jansen & Friends/Janine Jansen (vln/dir) (Decca 478 5362)
IRELAND orch Bridgewater: Bagatelle - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (DUTTON CDLX 7215)
KODÁLY: Háry János Suite (2) - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)
CLARKE: Down by the Salley Gardens - Patricia Wright (sop), Kathron Sturrock (pno) (GUILD GMCD 7208)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from Swan Lake Act 1 Scene 2 - Vienna Phil/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 6297)
CHILCOTT: The shepherd's carol - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 67716)
HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 51 in Eb HobXVI/38 (1) - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
4.00
SCHUBERT: Symphony No 3 in D D200 (4) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)
RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Renée Fleming (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 458858)
GERSHWIN arr Heifetz: Bess, you is my woman now, from Porgy & Bess - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 471 500)
BEETHOVEN arr McNEFF: Symphony of triumph, from Wellington's Victory - Canadian Brass, Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra & New York Philharmonic/Georg Tintner (Philips 426 487)
CHOPIN: Scherzo No 3 in C# minor Op 39 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (TARTAR CD TRL 069)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar's Bride, Overture - Malaysian Phil/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1577)
TORELLI: Concerto a quattro Op 8/6 - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)
PINKHAM: Sweet music - Susan Consoli (sop), Janice Giampa (sop), Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)
LASSER: Piano Concerto, The Circle and the Child (3) - Simone Dinnerstein (pno), MDR Leipzig Radio SO/Kristjan Järvi (Sony 88875 03245)
5.00
DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 (3) - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9484)
MOZART: String Quartet No 14 in G K387 (4) - New Zealand String Quartet (NZ String Quartet 2006)
HEINICHEN: Pastorale in A - Dresden Instrumental-Concert/Peter Kopp (Carus 83.169)
MONTEVERDI: Vago augelletto, from the 8th book of Madrigals - Nuria Rial (sop), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Cyril Auvit (ten)y (ten), Jan van Elsacker (ten) & Joaõ Fernandes (bass), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (theorbo/dir) (Virgin 2 36140)
FARRENC: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 32 (3) - North German Radio Phil/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 603)
EVANS: Ring-A The News - Elora Festival Singers, Michael Bloss (org) (Naxos 8.554179)
BACH: Aria Da Capo, from Goldberg Variations BWV988 - Glenn Gould (piano) (Sony SMK 52619)
BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 (3) - Sharon Kam (cl), Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2152)
GLAZUNOV: Concert Waltz No 2 in F Op 51 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9658)
6.00
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)
RITCHIE: Three Whimsies (2) - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Rattle D097)
BAZZINI: La Ronde des Lutins - Gil Shaham (vln), Jonathan Feldman (pno) (DG 463 483)
PURCELL arr Balsom: King Arthur, excerpts - Alison Balsom (trumpet), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (EMI 440329)
WAGNER: Nur eine Waffe taugt, from Parsifal - Simon O'Neill (ten), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)
SHOSTAKOVICH arr Levon Atovmyan: Nocturne, from The Gadfly Suite - Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), City of Birmingham SO/Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla (Decca 483 2948)
HUMMEL ed Hogger/Shelley: Rondo alla Polacca in A - James Ehnes (vln), London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10255)
7:00 PM. Evening Classics
CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - Arabella Steinbacher (vln), Lisbon Gulbenkian Orch/Lawrence Foster (Pentatone PTC 5186 503)
SIBELIUS: Belshazzar's Feast, Suite - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 359)
TRADITIONAL: The Coventry Carol - Huddersfield Choral Society, Sellers Engineering Band/Brian Kay (Chandos CHAN 4530)
LILBURN: Tribute to Kendrick Smithyman, from Salutes to Seven Poets - Donald Maurice (vla), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 413)
YOUNG: Invocation - Robert Orr (oboe d'amore), NZSO/Kenneth Young (Atoll 502164)
PROKOFIEV trans Prokofiev: Ten Pieces from Romeo & Juliet Op 76 (10) - Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 093)
8:00 PM. Music Alive
Deutsche Welle Festival: BTHVN Week
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in C minor Op 1 No 3 (2, 4)
BEETHOVEN: String Trio in C minor Op 9/3 (2, 3)
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor Op 30/2 (4)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C minor Op 18/4
BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 8 (1, 5, 6, 7)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 18/1
Anne Katharina Schreiber (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano), Pablo Hernan Benedi (violin), Emilie Hörnlund (viola), Claire Thirion (cello), Chiaroscuro Quartet, Martin Funda (violin), Theresa Schwamm (viola), Peter-Philipp Stemmler (cello), Armida Quartet
Beethoven House, Bonn (Deutsche Welle)
10:00 PM. Day's End
RNZ Concert's musical nightcap
DANZI: Fantasy on Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Potsdam Kammerakademie (DG 481 4711)
STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 430 370)
HILL: String Quartet No 1 in Bb, Maori (1) - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)
GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC Classics 472 610)
SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 11 - Isata Kanneh-Mason (pno) (Decca 4850020)
11.00
FARQUHAR: Prospero Dreaming - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)
MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2) - Australian Chamber Orchestra/Richard Tognetti (dir) (ABC Classics ABC4816494)
BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A minor Op 116/2 - Barry Douglas (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10757)
DVORÁK: The Water Goblin Op 107 - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 58019)
BACH: Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 - Penelope Evison (fl), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 249)
Tuesday 15 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
SCHUBERT: Introduction & Variations on Trockne Blumen - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)
PAPANDOPULO: Pintarichiana - Zagreb Soloists (CPO 777 829)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Overture, from The Nutcracker Suite - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 3 in Eb Op 12/3 - Bella Hristova (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RATTLE RATD088)
MARTYNOV: The Beatitudes - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 529776)
1:00 approx
HAYDN: Symphony No 67 in F - BBC Phil/Nicholas Kraemer (BBC Music BBC MM 307)
PALESTRINA: Missa Te Deum Laudamus - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67785)
DEBUSSY arr Heifetz: Beau soir - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (MANU CD MANU 5006)
PUJOL: Milonga, from River Plate Suite No 1 - Miloš Karadaglic (gtr) (Decca 7779637)
2:00 approx
MAHLER: Symphony No 4 in G - Reri Grist (sop), New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (CBS MK 42197)
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 (4) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA35)
3:00 approx
HUME: Captaine Humes Pavan - Marianne Muller (viola da gamba) (Zig Zag ZZT 100 501)
BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in D minor G280 - La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 93076)
HEENAN: War & Peace, Suite for orchestra - New Zealand SO/Ashley Heenan (KIWI CD SLD 102)
BRAHMS: Ballade in B minor Op 10/3 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)
SONDHEIM arr Silberschlag/McKinley: Johanna, from Sweeney Todd - Jeffrey Silberschlag (tpt), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559719)
4:00 approx
MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter - English CO/Daniel Barenboim (EMI CD EMX 2074)
ROUSSEL: Bacchus & Ariadne, Suite No 2 - NZSO National Youth Orch 2008/Jacques Lacombe ( (RNZ) CTD888)
PIERNÉ: Canzonetta Op 19 - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)
OFFENBACH: Bluebeard, Overture - Philharmonia/Neville Marriner (Philips 411 476)
5:00 approx
FAURÉ: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville - Petits Chanteurs de St-Louis, Ensemble Musique Oblique/Philippe Herreweghe (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1292)
DUARTE: Variations on a Catalan folksong - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (WAIATA 9501)
GLANVILLE-HICKS: Etruscan Concerto - Caroline Almonte (piano), Tasmanian SO (ABC Classics ABC 4817995)
BIBER: The Annunciation, from The Mystery Sonatas - John Holloway (vln), Tragicomedia (Virgin VCD 7 90838)
TRADITIONAL: Mes Belles Amourettes - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics ABC 4818575)
VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Auckland Opera Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Brian Law (KIWI CD SLC 234)
6:00 AM. Daybreak
The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan
BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV1052 (1) - Raphael Alpermann (hpschd), Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMA 195 1740)
DELIUS arr Fenby: Fennimore & Gerda, Intermezzo - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records SMCD 5134)
PARADIS arr Dushkin: Sicilienne in Eb - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI 5 65955)
BRAHMS: How lovely is Thy dwelling place, from A German Requiem - Rupert Gough (org), Wells Cathedral Choir/Malcolm Archer (Cantoris CRCD 6070)
RAVEL: Jeux d'eau - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ UA43)
BEETHOVEN: Octet in Eb Op 103 (1) - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble
LISZT: Der Müller und der Bach from Die schöne Müllerin - Arcadi Volodos (pno)
DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)
7.00
BACH: Ei! Wie schmeckt der Coffee Süsse, from Coffee Cantata - Ursula Langmayr (sop), Eric Lamb (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd)
BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Op 56 (2) - David Oistrakh (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 566 902)
TELEMANN: Concerto in A for flute, violin & cello (4) - Rachel Brown (fl), Jane Coe (cello), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0580)
WARLOCK: Bethlehem Down, a carol for strings - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland
MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor (3) - John Abberger (ob), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)
MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture - Bavarian State Opera Orch/Eugen Jochum
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata no 31 in Ab Op 110 (1) - James Rhodes (pno)
WARREN: Away in a manger - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier (HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 297 7079)
SCHUBERT: Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 (1) - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (KIWI CD SLC 215)
8.00
Beauty Spot:
BEETHOVEN: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - James Ehnes (violin), Royal Liverpool Phil/Andrew Manze
VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 (1) - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (SONY SK 60804)
HANDEL trans Stokowski: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557883)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence (2) - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (leader) (Channel Classics CCS SA 21504)
FALLA: Neighbour's Dance & Miller's Dance - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)
POTT: Balulalow - Voces8 (Decca 4830968)
SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1 in Bb Op 38, Spring (3) - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1569)
BACH: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 (1) - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1970.71)
9:00 AM. The Works
Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces
PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)
BOULANGER: D'un Soir Triste - Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Koch 37169)
MEHLDAU: Uncertainty - Brad Mehldau (pno) (private)
ALLEGRI: Canario - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)
RODGERS arr Hamlisch: I'll take Manhattan - Joshua Bell (vln), Marvin Hamlisch (pno) (SONY 88697 55436)
HAYDN: Symphony No 8 in G, Le Soir - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 296 1767)
FINZI: Prelude, from Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)
PRAETORIUS: Quem pastores laudavere - Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Parley of Instruments/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66200)
10.00
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Lang Lang (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Paavo Järvi (NPO 43777)
DALZA: Calata ala spagnola - Piffaro (Archiv 453 441)
SAVALL: L'Amor - Arianna Savall (sop/harp) (Alia Vox AV 9839)
LAURIDSEN: Veni, Sancte Spiritus, from Lux aeterna - Britten Sinfonia, Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion SACDA 67449)
11.00
ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)
PICKER: Old & Lost Rivers - London SO/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)
DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - Members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 425 537)
FIELD: Nocturne No 10 in E minor - Elizabeth Joy Roe (pno) (Decca 478 9672)
MADDEN: O little town of Bethlehem - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)
Noon Upbeat
Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Iona Brown (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 518)
1:00 PM. Onstage
NZSO Beethoven Festival: Destiny (2 of 4)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67
New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)
MOZART: Bassoon Concerto in Bb K191 - Robert Weeks (bassoon) New Zealand SO/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (RNZ 2018)
3:00 PM. Classical Connection
Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B
LECLAIR: Violin Concerto in F Op 10/4 (3) - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0589)
LISZT: Grand galop chromatique - Lang Lang (piano) (Sony 19075862332)
BIZET: Je dis, que rien ne m'épouvante, from Carmen - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 475 459)
FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques (3) - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9416)
GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 (1) - Rachel Masters (harp), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9094)
PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Thomas Kemp (vln), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Black Box BBM 1071)
JOHNSON: Georgie - Emma Johnson (clar), Royal Phil/Julian Reynolds (Decca 9866180)
VIGNIERI: Hodie Christus natus est - Christòpheren Nomura (bar), John Finney (org), Handel & Haydn So/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102 (3) - Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Naxos 8.553126)
4.00
ALBÉNIZ: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - René Bartoli (gtr) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMA 19 0928)
TRADITIONAL arr O'Boyle: O Waly, Waly - Jane Sheldon (sop), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)
DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American (3) - Simón Bolívar String Quartet (DG 479 0429)
BOYCE: Symphony No 4 in F - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557278)
BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 (1) - Marie Ross (clarinet), Claire-Lise Démettre (cello), Petra Somlai (piano) (Centaur CRC3760)
BEETHOVEN: Fidelio, Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 415 066)
MENDELSSOHN arr Cleobury: Hark! the herald angels sing - Henry Websdale (org), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (King's College KGS0033)
KANNEH-MASON: Melody - Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) (Decca 2020)
WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 74 (2) - Charles Neidich (cl), Orpheus CO (DG 435 875)
5.00
DEBUSSY: Prélude, from Pour le Piano - Ivan Moravec (pno) (Philips 456 910)
BERLIOZ: March to the Scaffold, from Symphonie fantastique - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (KIWI CD SLC 215)
KOCHER arr Willcocks: As with gladness men of old - Robert Quinney (org), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16085)
CHOPIN: Preludes Op 28/15 in Db, Raindrop - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (RCA 09026 63535)
LALO: Symphonie espagnole (5) - Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), French National Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa (EMI CDC 7 47318)
HANDEL: Rejoice greatly, from Messiah - Kathleen Battle (sop), session orchestra/Robert Sadin (SONY SK 89464)
PUCCINI arr MIKHASHOFF: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)
GLASS: Mechanical Ballet, from The Voyage - Vienna Radio SO/Dennis Russell Davies (Nonesuch 7559 79581)
NAVARA: Sinfonia/Sonata in C in five parts - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2106)
6.00
SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (NIMBUS NI 7067/8)
JENKINS: Better is peace than always war, from The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace - National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)
RACHMANINOV: Prelude No 6 in Eb , Op 23 - Colin Horsley (pno) (Atoll ACD 442)
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 (1) - Michala Petri (rec), Albrecht Mayer (ob), Reinhold Friedrich (tpt), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (RCA 74321 57130)
EDWARDS: Chorale and Ecstatic Dance (Enyato I) - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics ABC 476 227)
IMAMOVIC: Sarajevo Nights - New Zealand Guitar Quartet (Ode CDMANU 5153)
RAFF: Abends-Rhapsodie Op 163b - Philharmonia/Francesco d'Avalos (ASV CD DCA 793)
HAYDN: Trio in G for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/15 (2) - Uwe Grodd (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), Christopher Hinterhuber (pno) (Naxos 8.572667)
7:00 PM. Evening Classics
FOOTE: Suite in E Op 63 - London Octave/Kypros Markou (DUTTON CDLX 7238)
VIVALDI: Concerto in Bb for multiple instruments RV553 - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (vln/dir) (Avie AV 0031)
KAPUSTIN: Concert Etude Op 40/7, Intermezzo - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (PRIVATE RECORDING 837 001)
KVERNO: Corpus Christi Carol - Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)
GOOSSENS: Kaleidoscope Op 18 - Melbourne SO/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5119)
WELCHER: All the Words to all the Songs - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7658)
8:00 PM. Music Alive
Beethoven Live Around the World: Quatuor Ebène
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G Op 18/2
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F minor Op 95, Serioso
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp
DAVIS: Milestones
Quatuor Ebène
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)
COHEN arr Hagan: Hallelujah - Ingrid Hagan (bsn), Ashley Brown (cello) (RNZ )
10:00 PM. Day's End
RNZ Concert's musical nightcap
BACH: Trio Sonata in G BWV1038 - Jed Wentz (fl), Igor Ruhadze (vln), Job ter Haar (cello), Michael Borgstede (hpschd) (Brilliant Classics 93814)
MOMPOU: Songs & Dances Nos 1-6 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (NEWTON 880 2096)
VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 432 102)
CIMAROSA: Concerto in G for two flutes (3) - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Alex Klein (ob), Czech National SO/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 080)
TOSTI: Sogno; Non t'amo più; Ideale; Luna d'estate - Anna Leese (sop), Stephen De Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 050)
11.00
FONTANA: Sonata No 2 - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)
GRIEG: Holberg Suite (3) - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)
DEBUSSY: Arabesque No 2 - Bert Lucarelli (ob), Susan Jolles (harp) (Stradivari SCD 6034)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 28 in A Op 101 - Murray Perahia (pno) (SONY SK 93043)
RESPIGHI: The Birds - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Stradivari SCD 8013)
Wednesday 16 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
HAYDN: Notturno in F - Orpheus CO (DG 437 782)
DITTERSDORF: Symphony in A minor Grave a2 - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)
WILLIAMS: Suite per antiche archi - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
TRADITIONAL arr Craig: The darkest midnight in December - New York Polyphony (Avie AV 2141)
BRAHMS: Variations on an Original Theme Op 21/1 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)
1:00 approx
PHILLIPS: Symphony in C minor - BBC Concert Orch/Gavin Sutherland (DUTTON CDLX 7140)
KORNGOLD: The Snowman - Peter Manning (vln), BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9631)
RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 (3) - NZSO National Youth Orchestra/Pietari Inkinen (RNZ 2011)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Carol, from Suite for viola & orchestra (2) - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)
COPLAND: Down a Country Lane - Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Teldec 77310)
2:00 approx
HANDEL: Recorder Sonata in B minor HWV367b - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Charles Medlam (bass viol), Terence Charlston (hpschd) (BIS CD 1689)
HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 33/2, Joke - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 236)
ROSSINI: Bassoon Concerto in Bb - Jaakko Luoma (bassoon), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Janne Nisonen, concertmaster (Ondine ODE13242)
SCHUBERT: Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (pno) (Atoll ACD280)
RAMEAU: The Hen - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)
3:00 approx
HOLST: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Third Group - Sioned Williams (harp), BBC Singers/Justin Doyle (BBC Music BBC MM 252)
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 5 in D Op 102/2 - Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Shai Wosner (pno) (Onyx 4178)
FUCHS: Serenade No 2 in C Op 14 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)
BACH: Chorale Prelude, Von Gott will ich nicht Lassen - Gillian Weir (org) (PRIORY PRCD 800)
SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Bb Op 27 - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)
4:00 approx
ESTACIO: A Farmer's Symphony - Edmonton SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records SMCD5232)
VICTORIA: Mass, O Magnum Mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)
CHOPIN: Fantasy in F minor Op 49 - David James (pno) (RNZ UB48)
STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in A Op 1/2 (1) - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
5:00 approx
CANTELOUBE: Suite, Dans la montagne - Philippe Graffin (vln), Pascal Devoyon (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67427)
MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.570794)
HILL arr Vidulich: Viola Concerto 1910 (3) - Donald Maurice (vla), Massey CO (HILL RECORDS 2)
TAVENER: God is with us - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)
DEBUSSY: Bruyères, from Preludes - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)
6:00 AM. Daybreak
The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan
MOZART: Flute Concerto No 1 in G K313 (3) - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas (BIS SACD 1539)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 1 in Eb Op1/1 (2) - Eisenstadt Haydn Trio
MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Nigel Kennedy (vln), National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 448 687)
GJEILO: The Rose - Ola Gjeilo (piano), Choir Of Royal Holloway, 12 Ensemble (Decca 4816326)
DAVIS: Infinite Ocean (2) - Benjamin Baker (vln), Royal Phil/Paul Bateman (Signum SIGCD590)
GOLLAND arr Frey: Peace - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)
LOCATELLI: Concerto in G Op 4/9 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Challenge CC 72134)
HANDEL: Angels, Ever Bright and Fair, from Theodora - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo), Philharmonia Orch/Nicholas McGeghan
MARIANELLI: Mrs Darcy, from Pride and Prejudice - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), English CO
7.00
GROFE: Mississippi Suite (4) - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (Naxos 8.559007)
TRADITIONAL arr Erb: Shenandoah - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1412)
DVORÁK adapt T Batiashvili: Largo from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Berlin Radio SO/Nikoloz Rachveli (DG 4838586)
SIBELIUS: Pan & Echo Op 53 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in B minor, Grandioso Recitativo - Claudio Arrau (pno)
BILLINGS: Bethlehem - Anonymous 4 (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 80 7453)
BRAHMS: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 (4) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 6775)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 7 in Bb Op 97, Archduke (1) - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (EMI 5 65955)
REFICE: Ombra di Nube - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), St Cecilia National Orch/Antonio Pappano
8.00
Beauty Spot:
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique (2) - Michael Houstoun (pno)
MOZART: Symphony No 19 in Eb K132 (1) - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80217)
TORREJÓN Y VELASCO SÁNCHEZ: Desvelado dueño mio - Montserrat Figueras (sop), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9834)
BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles Op 119 (3) - Alfred Brendel (pno)
THOMAS: Raymond, Overture - Montreal SO (Decca 421 527)
BACH: Missa Brevis in G BWV236 (2) - Terry Wey (countertenor), Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro (ten), Christian Immler (bass), Pygmalion, Eugénie Warnier (sop)/Raphael Pichon
HOFMANN attr Haydn: Flute Concerto in D (1) - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Haydn Ensemble, Berlin/Hansjörg Schellenberger (EMI CDC 5 56577)
BEETHOVEN: Five Folksongs, Sunset (3) - Wolfgang Holzmair (bar), Trio Fontenay
9:00 AM. The Works
Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces
SHOSTAKOVICH: The Assault on Beautiful Gorky, from The Unforgettable Year 1919 - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10361)
FASCH: Concerto in D for two flutes FWV L/D9 - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)
DELIUS: Marche Caprice - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (LYRITA SRCD 246)
RODRIGO arr Coelho: Con qué la lavaré, from Four Madrigals of Love - Madison Nonoa (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC Live 2017)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade for Strings Op 48 - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Onyx 4037)
GLUCK arr Kreisler: Melody, from Orpheus & Euridice - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (MANU CD MANU 5006)
GARDNER: The Holly and the Ivy - Huddersfield Choral Society, Sellers Engineering Band/Brian Kay (Chandos CHAN 4530)
10.00
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Beatrice Rana (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko (BBC 43485)
CHOPIN: Etude in A minor Op 25/11, Winter Wind - Beatrice Rana (piano) (BBC 43485)
11.00
SCHUBERT arr Boehm: Ständchen D957/4 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)
DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Danse - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Atma SACD 2 2377)
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (LINN CKD 216)
SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in A Kk537 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)
WATKINS: Carol eliseus - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (King's College KGS0033)
TRAD: Danny Boy - Bill Evans (pno) (Riverside VIJ-6365)
GRANADOS: Minueto, from Spanis Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)
Noon Upbeat
Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss
MORRICONE: Nella fantasia - Sol3 Mio, City of Prague Orch/Paul Bateman (Universal 470 4768)
SDRAULIG: Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (piano) (Sony 19439822372)
PRAETORIUS: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66200)
PSATHAS: To Yelasto Paidi, from View from Olympus - Michael Houstoun (pno), Pedro Carneiro (perc), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)
12.30
Eva Radich talks with Michael Houstoun about performing Beethoven
1:00 PM. Onstage
NZSO Beethoven Festival: Pastoral (3 of 4)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92
New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Classical Connection
Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B
SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No 1 in Bb D898 (4) - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Marc Coppey (cello), Peter Laul (pno) (Aeon AECD 1095)
MUSSORGSKY arr Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on Bare Mountain - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Igor Markevitch (Berlin Classics 1383 BC)
MOZART: Madamina, il catalogo è questo - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), New Zealand SO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)
JOPLIN arr Kunzel: The Entertainer - William Tritt (pno), Keith Lockhart (pno), Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80112)
BRAHMS: String Quintet No 1 in F Op 88 (3) - New Zealand String Quartet, Maria Lambros (vla) (Naxos 8.573455)
VIANA DA MOTA: Three impromptus on Portuguese popular motifs - Royal Liverpool Phil/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.573495)
LASSUS: Resonet in laudibus - The King's Singers (Signum SIGCD497)
BACH arr Andrew York: Fugue in G minor BWV578 - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (DELOS DE 3205)
PROKOFIEV: Balcony Scene, from Romeo & Juliet - Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 102)
4.00
DEBUSSY orch Molinari: L'isle joyeuse - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572568)
GEORGES BIZET: Habanera, from Carmen Suite - London Phil/David Parry (X5 105)
KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Marcel Gazelle (pno) (EMI 5 65963)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 (4) - Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Decca 4218142)
BEETHOVEN: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 16 (1) - Stephen Hough (pno), Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1552)
RICHTER: Symphony No 6 in Bb (3) - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.557818)
THOMSON: O my deir hert - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)
TORKE: Saxophone concerto, Part III - John Harle (sax), Albany SO/David Alan Miller (Argo 443 529)
RACHMANINOV: Andante, from Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10095)
5.00
HAYDN: Violin Concerto in C HobVIIa/1 (3) - Simon Standage (vln), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 427 316)
GRIEG: Morning Mood, from Peer Gynt - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)
TRADITIONAL: Gabriel's Message - Salisbury Cathedral Choir/Richard Seal (Meridian 384068)
KANENGISER: African Suite - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Tim Timmermans (djembe) (Sony SK 60274)
CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 1 (3) - Michael Collins (cl/dir), Swedish CO (CHANDOS CHSA 5187)
CHOPIN: Waltz in Db Op 64/1, Minute - Lang Lang (piano) (Sony 19075862332)
DVORÁK: Humoresque in Gb Op 101/7 - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (CHANDOS CHAN 9227)
ROUSE: Amhran, from Flute Concerto - Carol Wincenc (fl), Houston Symphony/Christoph Eschenbach (Telarc CD 80474)
GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 7 in F Op 77, Pastoral (4) - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (WARNER 2564 63236)
6.00
MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - English CO/Alfredo Bonavera (Hyperion CDA 66290)
VIVALDI: Chamber Concerto in C RV114 - Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (dir) (Archiv 474 5092)
BYRD: Pavana, The Earle of Salisbury - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
BACH arr Boëls: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 (1) - Pascal Boëls (gtr) (Calliope CAL 9385)
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 6/7 - Avison Ensemble/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (LINN CKD 362)
FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A (4) - Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) (Hyperion CDA68204)
GOLDMARK: Rustic Wedding Symphony (3) - Los Angeles Phil/Jesús López-Cobos (Decca 476 8743)
PALESTRINA: Tota pulchra es - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics ABC 4818575)
7:00 PM. RNZ Concert Evenings
MENDELSSOHN arr Piatti: Song without Words Op 19/3, The Wild Rider - António Meneses (cello), Gérard Wyss (pno) (Avie AV 2140)
TELEMANN: Flute Concerto in D TWV51/D2 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Berlin Baroque Soloists (EMI 5 57397)
STRAUSS II: Wine, Women & Song - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)
7:30 PM. Music Alive
Ludwig van Beethoven Turns 250!
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 7 in D Op 10/3
BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles Op 119
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 29 in Bb Op 106, Hammerklavier, (3) Adagio Sostenuto
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein
Michael Houstoun (piano)
Concert Chamber, Auckland (RNZ)
TAVENER: Svyati - Andrew Joyce (cello), Tudor Consort (RNZ 2018)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (1) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (2) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (3) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (4) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (5) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (6) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (7) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 (8) - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
10:00 PM. Day's End
RNZ Concert's musical nightcap
WEISS: Lute Concerto in D minor - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC Classics 476 5948)
HERZOGENBERG: Trio in D for oboe, horn & piano Op 61 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 4783564)
KORNGOLD: Dance Song of Pierrot, from Die tote Stadt - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 4783529)
MOZART: Symphony No 28 in C K200 (4) - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80165)
BECK: Sinfonia in G minor Op 1/1 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)
11.00
SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Jonathan Biss (pno) (EMI 3 65391)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Scene dansante, from Sleeping Beauty - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 634)
HILL: The Dedication, from String Quartet No 2 in G minor, A Maori Legend - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 3 in C Op 2/3 - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (DG 477 6594)
ALBRECHTSBERGER: Trombone Concerto in Bb - Jörgen van Rijen (tbn), Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (dir) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26708)
Thursday 17 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
GLICK: Suite Hébraïque No 5 III Wedding Dance - Suzanne Shulman (fl), James Campbell (cl), Andrew Dawes (vln), Daniel Domb (cello) (CBC Records MVCD 1046)
HAYDN: Trio in D for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/16 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), Christopher Hinterhuber (pno) (Naxos 8.572667)
ARGENTO: Three Motets - Sylvain Pineault (tpt), Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music S/Philip Brunelle (Collins Classics 15232)
HANDL: Mirabile mysterium - Chanticleer (Teldec 94563)
MARTINU: Estampes - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon 10 4140)
1:00 approx
WALTON: Viola Concerto in C minor Op 25 (3) - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)
SCHUBERT: Fantasy in C D760, Wanderer - Murray Perahia (pno) (CBS MK 42124)
BRUCH: In Memoriam Op 65 - Salvatore Accardo (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 432 282)
STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in C minor Op 4/3 (2) - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/1 - Denis Kozhukhin (piano) (Pentatone PTC5186734)
2:00 approx
BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448 (4) - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (perc), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)
DOVE: Flute Concerto, The Magic Flute Dances - Emily Beynon (fl), BBC Welsh National Orch/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10718)
MOZART: Duo in G for violin & viola K423 - Gidon Kremer (vln), Kim Kashkashian (vla) (DG 415 483)
CLEMENTI: Adagio sostenuto - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
PIAZZOLLA arr Milone: Libertango - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)
3:00 approx
BEETHOVEN arr Matiegka: Serenade in D Op 8 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Robert Alemany (cl) (KOCH INTERNATIONAL 2010356)
POULENC: Les Biches - French National Orch (Decca 452 937)
PUGH: And Flights of Angels ... - The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble (SIGNUM SIGCD 504)
STRAUSS: Ruhe, meine Seele Op 27/1 - Simon O'Neill (tenor), Terence Dennis (piano) (Decca ABC4817865)
GRANADOS arr Henry Wood: Spanish Dance No 5 - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (LYRITA SRCD 216)
4:00 approx
BACH: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor BWV1014 - James Ehnes (vln), Luc Beauséjour (hpschd) (Analekta AN 2 9829)
HUMMEL: Bassoon Concerto in F - Jaakko Luoma (bassoon), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Janne Nisonen (Ondine ODE13242)
MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer - Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Berlin Deutsches SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 425 790)
SHOSTAKOVICH arr Barley: Suite from Cheryomushki (1) - Matthew Barley (cello), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Quartz QTZ 2032)
TUBIN: Valse Triste - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)
5:00 approx
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in D Op 18/3 - Tokyo String Quartet (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7436.37)
HOWELLS: Elegy for viola, string quartet & string orch - Helen Callus (vla), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)
SMETANA: Vyšehrad, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Decca 4833187)
BRAHMS: Ballades Op 10 (1) - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)
VAVILOV arr Palmer: Ave Maria - Madison Nonoa (sop), Australian Brandenburg Choir & Orch/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC Live 2017)
MOREL: Danza Brasilera - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)
6:00 AM. Daybreak
The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan
VIVALDI: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 476 434)
SHENG: Black Swan (after Brahms) - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559679)
SCHUBERT: Ständchen D920 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno), 1982 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi CD TRL 025)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 4 in Bb Op11 (2) - Ib Hausmann (cl), Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.570943)
MOZART: Mass No 18 in C minor K427, Great (13) - Diana Montague (sop), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sylvia McNair (sop)
D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E kk206 - Angela Hewitt (pno)
BORODIN arr anon: Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)
BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations Op 120 (3) - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 969)
7.00
NERUDA: Trumpet Concerto in Eb (3) - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Teldec 0630-10788)
FAURÉ: Papillon Op 77 - Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) (BIS BIS2220)
BOLZONI: Minuet - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (CHANDOS CHAN 9227)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 (3) - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDS 44301/5)
HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 37 in E HobXVI/22 (1) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67882)
TRAD: O come, O come, Emmanuel - 2013 New Zealand National Youth Choir/David Squires
HUBAY: Violin Concerto No 4 in A minor (3) - Hagai Shaham (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67367)
SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 (2) - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1519)
BEETHOVEN: Cupid's Kindness, from Five Folksongs - Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Trio Fontenay (Philips 442 784)
8.00
Beauty Spot:
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor (2) - Alfred Brendel (pno), Vienna Phil/Simon Rattle
TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stokowski: Humoresque Op 10/2 - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557645)
DEBUSSY: Dialogue du vent et de la mer, from La Mer - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 58045)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Wither's rocking hymn - Robert Quinney (org), The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16085)
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 1 in Eb Op 2 (2) - Frankfurt Radio SO/Eliahu Inbal (PentaTone PTC 5186 157)
VIVALDI: L'Olimpiade, Overture - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Thomas Hengelbrock
MOZART: Che soave Zeffiretto, from The Marriage of Figaro - Lucia Popp (sop), Barbara Hendricks (sop), ASMF/Neville Marriner
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 2 in A Op 12/2 (2) - Augustin Duman (vln), Maria Joao Pires (pno)
9:00 AM. The Works
Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces
REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)
BARBER: Canzonetta for oboe & strings - Stéphane Rancourt (ob), Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559135)
BERNSTEIN: Mambo, from West Side Story - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)
TRADITIONAL arr Guy Turner: O Waly Waly - The King's Men (Kings College KGS 0023)
HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304980)
GERSHWIN arr Robert R Bennett: Porgy & Bess, A Symphonic Picture - London Phil/John Pritchard (EMI CDB 7 62037)
10.00
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - Inon Barnatan (piano), Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra/Alan Gilbert (SRF 43554)
MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Inon Barnatan (piano)/Alan Gilbert (SRF 43554)
11.00
ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)
SATIE: Gymnopédie No 3 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 470 290)
PARRY: I Was Glad - Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Vivat 101)
BRAHMS: Double Concerto in A minor Op 102 - Gil Shaham (vln), Jian Wang (cello), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 469 529)
BLAKE: We all fall down - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 403)
JOUBERT: There is no rose - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)
HESS: A Christmas Overture - Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 10767)
Noon Upbeat
Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss
1:00 PM. Onstage
NZSO Beethoven Festival: Joy (4 of 4)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125
Sabina Cvilak (soprano), Kristin Darragh (mezzo), Oliver Johnston (tenor), Anthony Robin Schneider (bass), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (RNZ)
3:00 PM. Classical Connection
Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B
RAVEL: String Quartet in F (2) - Belcea Quartet (EMI 5 74020)
HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Montreal SO (Decca 417 553)
SIBELIUS: Intermezzo, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)
GRIMSDOTTIR: I will praise her and laud - Hljómeyki/Bernhardur Wilkinson (Iceland Music Centre SMK 23)
PACHELBEL: Canon in D - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB12)
PRICE: Finale, from Symphony No 1 in E minor (4) - Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter (Naxos 8.559827)
MARIANELLI: Dawn, from Pride and Prejudice - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Silvascreen 111309)
PUCCINI: Humming Chorus, from Madame Butterfly - André Rieu & his Choir & Orch (UNIVERSAL 589 306)
WARLOCK: Six English Tunes - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)
4.00
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (3) - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 6228)
RAMEAU: Musette & Tambourin, from Les Fêtes d'Hébé - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)
SCHUMANN arr Catherine: Träumerei, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - Christian Ferras (vln), Jean-Claude Ambrosini (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93791)
WITT: Flute Concerto in G Op 8 (3) - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia (Naxos 8.572089)
STANFORD: Symphony No 3 in F minor Op 28, Irish (2) - Bournemouth SO/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570355)
CHOPIN: Polonaise in C minor Op 40/2 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
BEAMISH: In the stillness - ORA/Suzi Digby (ORA )
HANDEL: Harp Concerto in Bb HWV294 (1) - Maxine Eilander (harp), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)
ALBÉNIZ orch Arbós/Surinach: El Polo from Iberia Book 3 - Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos (TELARC 2CD 80470)
5.00
BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 6 in F BWV1057 (3) - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), ASMF (Sony SK 89690)
FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (EX Tartar TRL 020)
BIZET: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle, from Carmen - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Royal Phil/Marco Armiliato (EMI 0 84377)
CUNNINGHAM: The gentle light that wakes me - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Aly Bain (vln), Phil Cunningham (pno) (Decca 478 6690)
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian (3) - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)
SCHUBERT trans Maisky: Ständchen, from Schwanengesang - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 449 817)
GRUBER: Silent Night (Po Marie) - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)
SMYTHE: Moto Mojo - Helen Webby (harp) (Ode CD MANU 5144)
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Legend Op 14 - Lorraine McAslan (vln), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (LYRITA SRCD 317)
6.00
PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical (1) - Orpheus Chamber Orch (DG 423 624)
FORSYTH: Jubilee Overture - Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer (CBC Records SMCD 5069)
FARR: A Horizon from Owhiro Bay - Henry Wong Doe (pno) (Rattle RAT D046)
DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance Op 72 No 3 in F major - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)
ARENSKY: Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky Op 35a - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 10086)
MATHIAS: A Babe is Born - John Finney (org), Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)
TCHAIKOVSKY arr Hough: None but the lonely heart Op 6/6 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67711/2)
WEBER orch Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (EX Tartar TRL 020)
7:00 PM. Evening Classics
ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Tallinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 1745)
ORTIZ: Passamezzo antico - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)
NIELSEN: Helios Overture - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)
SCHUBERT: German Dances D783 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Avie AV 2157)
COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2 - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 42140)
8:00 PM. Music Alive
APO: Beethoven's Triple
BEETHOVEN, L: Triple Concerto in C Op 56
BRUCKNER, A: Symphony No 7 in E
Tianwa Yang (violin), Gabriel Schwabe (cello), Nicholas Rimmer (piano), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Giordano Bellincampi
Town Hall, Auckland (RNZ)
LISZT: Petrarch Sonnet No 123 - Avan Yu (piano) (RNZ 2018)
10:00 PM. Day's End
RNZ Concert's musical nightcap
DEBUSSY arr Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Amsterdam Guitar Trio (NEWTON 880 2093)
SCHEIDT arr Hazell: O Jesulein zart - Bryn Terfel (bar), Côrdydd, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)
WOLF-FERRARI: Suite-Concertino in F Op 16 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)
HARRISS: Music for Jonny - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)
MAURICE: Tableaux de Provence (4) - Theodore Kerkezos (sax), London SO/Yuri Simonov (ONYX 4065)
CANNABICH: Symphony No 52 in E - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.55434)
11.00
BACH compltd Charlston: Flute Sonata in A BWV1032 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Terence Charlston (hpschd) (BIS CD 1689)
BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 119 (2) - Emanuel Ax (pno) (SONY SK 69284)
FOOTE: Four Character Pieces after The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559365)
GRUBER arr Hazell: Silent Night - Bryn Terfel (bar), Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera/Tecwyn Evans (DG 477 8768)
FUCHS: Andante grazioso & Capriccio Op 63 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)
Friday 18 December 2020
12:00 AM. Music Through the Night
BEAU: Piano Concerto in D minor Op 37 (2) - Katia Tchemberdji (piano), Berlin Chamber SO/Jurgen Bruns (Dreyer Gaido CD21015)
MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (Naxos 8.557233)
HAMILTON: Parlour Games - Jade String Quartet (Rattle RAT D073)
TRADITIONAL: King Jesus Hath A Garden - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)
LILBURN: Piano Sonata (1949) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)
1:00 approx
FRANÇAIX: L'Horloge de flore - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)
RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead Op 29 - London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7645302)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture - Royal Phil (ONYX 4064)
BRAHMS: Liebestreu Op 3/1 - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (pno) (Atoll ACD280)
GRAINGER: Harvest Hymn - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)
2:00 approx
BEETHOVEN arr Druzecky: Septet in Eb Op 20 - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble (EMI CDC 5 56817)
BACH transcr Stokowski: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor BWV582 - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557883)
CHOPIN arr Milstein: Nocturne in C# minor Op posth - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (MANU CD MANU 5006)
HOVHANESS: Armenian Rhapsody No 3 - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Kerry Stratton (DORIAN DOR 93166)
3:00 approx
VICTORIA: Te Deum laudamus - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67785)
GLASS: The Light - Vienna Radio SO/Dennis Russell Davies (nonesuch 7559 79581)
MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 1 - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
COUPERIN: Les Grâces-Naturèles - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
MOZART: Idomeneo, Overture - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 449 938)
4:00 approx
OFFENBACH: Les Fées du Rhin, excerpts - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 6403)
HAYDN: Symphony No 83 in G minor, The Hen - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 677)
PÄRT: Tabula Rasa (2) - Adele Anthony (vln), Gil Shaham (vln), Erik Risberg (prep pno),/Neeme Järvi (DG 457 647)
RAVEL: Sonatine - 3. Animé - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)
DEBUSSY orch Busser: Menuet, from Petite Suite - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Atma SACD 2 2377)
5:00 approx
LISZT arr Janácek: Mass in Bb - Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Clive Driskill-Smith (org)/Stephen Darlington (Griffin GCCD 4042)
MUFFAT: Armonico tributo Sonata No 2 in G minor - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)
TELEMANN: Concerto in F for three violins - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Micaela Comberti (vln), Catherine Weiss (vln), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0580)
HAHN: A Chloris - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (pno) (Atoll ACD280)
LLOYD WEBBER arr Southgate: Wishing you were somehow here again - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/William Southgate (KIWI CD SLC 221)
SANDSTRÖM after Michael Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Voces8 (Decca 4830968)
6:00 AM. Daybreak
The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/2 - Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen (CPO 777 488)
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian (4) - Prague Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (SUPRAPHON SU 3876)
ELGAR: May Song - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)
MARTIN Y SOLER: Sinfonia - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)
LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)
FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean Racine - Netherlands Chamber Choir, Limburg SO/Ed Spanjaard (PENTATONE PTC 5186 020)
GRIEG: The Last Spring Op 34/2 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Bb Op 18/6 (2) - Borodin Quartet
7.00
AVISON: Concerto Grosso No 3 in D minor - Café Zimmermann (Alpha 31)
DVORÁK: Waltz in Db Op 54/4 - Cecilia String Quartet (Analekta 29892)
CHOPIN: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Pascal Rogé (pno) (Onyx 4057)
TRADITIONAL: O santissimo natale - Hamburg Monteverdi Choir/Jürgen Jürgens (Ambitus AMB 97 856)
BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte Op 98 (1) - Fritz Wunderlich (ten), Heinrich Scmidt (pno)
M HAYDN: Symphony in Bb P28 (2) - Oradea Phil/Ervin Acél
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata - Lixin Zhang (pno)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral (1) - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan
VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D RV204 (3) - Rachel Podger (vln), Arte Dei Suonatori (CCS 19598)
8.00
Beauty Spot:
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RAT D048)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Act 3 (3) - New Zealand SO/Patrick Flynn
TRESEDER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - ORA/Suzi Digby (ORA )
BEETHOVEN: Rondo a capriccio Op 129, Rage over a lost penny - Evgeny Kissin (pno)
HANDEL: But who may abide the day of his coming? - Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Bach Collegium, Japan/Yoshikazu Mera
BEETHOVEN: Adelaide Op 46 - Jussi Björling (ten), Frederick Schauwecker (pno)
CPE BACH: Sinfonia No 1 in D (1) - Berlin Academy for Early Music
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, "Choral": Ode to Joy - London Phil Choir, The London Chorus, London Phil/David Parry
9:00 AM. The Works
Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces
VIVALDI: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Olivier Chassain (gtr), La Follia/Christophe Poiget (dir) (Calliope CAL 9273)
PHILLIPS: Hampton Court - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)
ELLINGTON arr Distler: Solitude - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 811)
BOCCHERINI: Minuet, from String Quintet in E G275 - Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67287)
BEETHOVEN: Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur - Stephan Genz (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion 67055)
HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 76/4, Sunrise - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI CDC 5 56166)
SCHUBERT arr Boehm: Gute Nacht D911/1 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)
GAUNTLETT arr Mann & Cleobury: Once in Royal David's City - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (King's College KGS0033)
10.00
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Emanuel Ax (piano), NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt (NDR 43448)
SCHUMANN: Des Abends, from Fantasy Pieces Op 12 - Emanuel Ax (piano) (NDR 43448)
11.00
BEETHOVEN: Cease Your Funning, Woo 156 No.5 - Elaine Woods (sop), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno)
BEETHOVEN: String Quintet in Eb Op 4 - Endellion String Quartet, David Adams (vla) (Warner Classics 2564 69471)
BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasia Op 80 - Alfred Brendel (pno), London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 347)
BEETHOVEN arr Forster, Hahn, Forster: Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op 13 "Pathetique" (2) - Klazz Brothers (Sony SK 93090)
BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles Op 119 (6) - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 457 493)
Noon Upbeat
Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss
1:00 PM. Onstage
BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 - NZTrio - Amalia Hall (vln), Ashley Brown (cello), Somi Kim (pno) (RNZ )
BEETHOVEN: Mir ist so wunderbar, from Fidelio - Eliza Boom (sop), Natasha Wilson (sop), Manase Latu (ten), Benson Wilson (bar), Somi Kim (piano) (RNZ )
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 59/1, Razumovsky - New Zealand String Quartet (RNZ 2018)
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 - Ning Feng (vln), Auckland Phil (RNZ 2019)
3:00 PM. Classical Connection
Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B
DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 (4) - Jonathan Biss (pno), Elias String Quartet (Onyx 4092)
TRADITIONAL arr Reeve: Il est né - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, James Blades (perc), David Corkill (perc)/Philip Jones (dir) (Decca 448 980)
BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208 - Jayson Gillham (pno) (ABC Classics ABC4817686)
RACHMANINOV: String Quartet No 1 (1) - Orava Quartet (DG 4816874)
PARK: Shepherd's cradle song - ORA/Suzi Digby (ORA )
HANDEL: Air and variations, "The Harmonius Blacksmith", from Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Judy Loman (harp) (Marquis 117)
4.00
TORKE: Sky, Concerto for Violin (2) - Tessa Lark (violin), Albany SO/David Alan Miller (Albany TROY1784)
LILBURN: Four Canzonas (1) - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (KIWI CD SLD 99)
PIAZZOLLA arr Assad: Tango-Etudes, excerpts (1) - Cavatina Duo (Bridge 9330)
NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)
BRAHMS: Viola Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 (3) - Yuri Bashmet (vla), Mikhail Muntian (pno) (RCA 09026 63293)
ZÉSPEDES: Convidando esta la noche - Ex Cathedra Choir & Baroque Ensemble/Jeffrey Skidmore (Hyperion CDA 67380)
CAZZATI: Passacaglia - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)
GABRIELLI: Trumpet Sonata No 4 in D - Thomas Reiner (tpt), Southwest German CO/Sebastian Tewinkel (Naxos 8.570501)
5.00
ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - National Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 400 049)
DEBUSSY: Soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA23)
ROREM: While all things were in quiet silence - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 2078)
BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy (1b) - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records SMCD 5222)
FASCH: Concerto in D FWV L/D3 (3) - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)
ARMSTRONG arr Metcalfe: Life For Rent - Miloš Karadaglic (guitar), Katherine Tinker (piano), 12 ensemble (Decca 7779637)
PORTER: Begin the Beguine - Peter Maunder (tbn), Helen Webby (harp) (Atoll ACD 115)
SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 43 - Jean-Philippe Collard (pno), Royal Phil/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 49757)
6.00
KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 (2) - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Vienna Phil/Valery Gergiev (RCA 88697 10336)
FAURÉ orch Aubert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Richard Davis (fl), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9416)
WILLIAMS: Devil's Galop - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)
LECLAIR: Violin Concerto in D Op 10/3 - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0589)
RITCHIE: Pas de deux Op 51a (2) - Jane Curry, Owen Moriarty (gtrs) (Naxos 8.579041)
CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Rudolf Buchbinder (pno) (EMI 5 85807)
7:00 PM. Evening Classics
KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)
BRITTEN: Five Waltzes - Stephen Hough (pno) (EMI CDM 5 67429)
STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in C Op 1/1 (4) - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
RUTTER: All Bells in Paradise - Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra/Benjamin Nicholas (Delphian DCD34192)
HILL: String Quartet No 3 in A minor, Carnival (4) - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)
WAXMAN: Rhapsody for piano & orchestra - Sara Davis Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (KOCH 1944978)
8:00 PM. Music Alive
WCMT: Vesa and Friends
BEETHOVEN: String Trio in Eb Op 3
MOZART: Horn Quintet in Eb K407
BEETHOVEN: Sextet in Eb Op 81b
Vesa-Matti Leppänen (violin), Andrew Thomson (violin), Nicholas Hancox (viola), Andrew Joyce (cello), Samuel Jacobs (horn)
St Andrews on The Terrace, Wellington (RNZ)
VINTEN: Sinfonietta - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ 2012)
RAVEL: Introduction and Allegro - Ingrid Bauer (harp), Auckland Phil chamber ensemble (RNZ 2020)
FUX: Overture in D minor - New Zealand SO/Vesa-Matti Leppänen (dir) (RNZ 2019)
10:00 PM. Day's End
RNZ Concert's musical nightcap
ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (SIMAX PSC 1292)
DEBUSSY: Nocturnes - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Chandos CHSA 5102)
DARZINS: Valse mélancolique - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (CHANDOS CHAN 9227)
LIADOV: Glorification, from Festive Moods - Shostakovich Quartet (Olympia OCD 575)
GÓRECKI: Totus tuus - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 0039)
11.00
HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 2 in F HWV427 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67736)
DE LALANDE: Simphonies des noëls - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)
BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (3) - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80450)
MOZART: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 - Claire Briggs (horn), Royal Liverpool Phil/Stephen Kovacevich (EMI 3 82227)
PEZ: Concerto pastorale in F major - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)
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