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12:00 Music Through the Night

Disc 1

JC BACH: Adriano in Siria, Overture; Symphony in Eb for double orchestra Op 18/1; Symphony in G minor Op 6/6; Sinfonia Concertante in C; Symphony in D Op 18/4 - Rachel Brown (fl), Frank de Bruine (ob), David Watkin (cello), Academy of Ancient Music/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0540)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

GERSHWIN: Fascinatin' rhythm; WALLER: Ain't misbehavin'; ELLINGTON: Solitude; JOHNSON: The mule walk; GERSHWIN: That certain feeling; GOTTSCHALK: Bamboula; BLOOM: Spring fever; COWELL: Woof I; Woof II; NANCARROW: Player Piano Study No 6; GERSHWIN: Clap yo' hands; Promenade; POWELL: Dusk in Sandi; BLOOM: Silhouette; BEIDERBECKE: Candlelights; MORTON: Mamanita; JOPLIN: Magnetic Rag; CERVANTES: Por que, eh?; GOTTSCHALK: Columbia; GERSHWIN: The man I love; GRAINGER: In Dahomey; WALLER: Squeeze me; CONFREY: Kitten on the keys - Alan Feinberg (pno), Daniel Druckman (marimba) (Argo 444 457)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

STRAUSS arr Rosser: Also Sprach Zarathustra; LASSUS: Matona mia cara; MONTEVERDI: Si ch'io vorrei morire; A RITCHIE: As long as time; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Cloud-capp'd Towers; MORTON: L'homme armé; BYRD: Though Amaryllis Dance; DEBUSSY: Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder!; LEHRER arr Christopher Marshall: I hold your hand in mine; GLOVER-KIND arr Carter: I do like to be beside the seaside; BARBER: To be sung on the water; TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: The lover's ghost; HAMMOND/HAZELWOOD arr Knight: I'm a train; PEARSALL: Great God of love; BARBER: Agnus Dei; HAMILTON: Three Spirituals; ELGAR: There is sweet music - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

MARAIS: Suites, in Bb; in G minor; in F - Quadro Hotteterre (Teldec 9031-77617)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

PROKOFIEV: Divertimento Op 43; Andante, from Piano Sonata No 4; Symphonic Song Op 57; The Prodigal Son Op 46 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8728)

6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 FASCH: Sinfonia in G minor FWV M/g1 - Tempesta di Mare/Emlyn Ngai (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0783)

CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Véronique Gens (sop), Lille National Orchestra/Jean-Claude Casadesus (Naxos 8.557491)

DUARTE: English Suite Op 31 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

PEDROLLO: Concertino for oboe & string orch - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

KUMMER: Cello Duet Op 103/1 - Phoebe Carrai, Tanya Tomkins (cellos) (Avie AV 2060)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

7:00 TELEMANN: Flute Sonata in B minor, from Tafelmusik - Karl Kaiser (fl), members of Freiburg Baroque Orch (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2042.45)

SCHUMANN: Der Nussbaum Op 25/3; Widmung - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 447 042)

GERMAN: Three Dances, from Henry VIII - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

DAMASE: Sicilienne variée - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5060)

8:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 803)

CHOPIN: Impromptu No 2 in F# Op 36 - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (RCA RD 89911)

O'BOYLE: Uilleann Sunrise - Robert John (vln), Victoria State Orch/Sean O'Boyle (ABC Classics 465 682)

FINZI: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Gervase de Peyer (cl), Gwenneth Pryor (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8549)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Tugan Sokhiev (Naïve V 5252)

9:00 Best of Upbeat

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

10:00 Your Choice

HAYDN: Symphony No 13 in D - Oren Shevlin (cello), Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.554762)

K JENKINS: Kyrie, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - Tristan Hambleton (treble), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

HELSTED/PAULLI: Pas de deux, from The Flower Festival in Genzano - Aalborg SO/Peter Ernst Lassen (Danacord DACOCD 631-639)

BUXTEHUDE: Cantata, Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr BuxWV41 - Cantus Cologne/Konrad Junghänel (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 1629)

FALLA: Nocturno - Javier Perianes (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2099)

Blue Smoke: The birth of New Zealand Pop

Radio and New Zealand pop

Chris Bourke looks at the impact of radio, and considers the influence of broadcasters such as Arthur Pearce (Turntable) and Bob Bothamley. The latter was NBS's "head of dance", who created the radio band system in which the top New Zealand bandleaders were featured each week presenting new arrangements with the best local musicians. The music includes RNZ Sound Archive recordings of Julian Lee, Crombie Murdoch, Don Richardson and Lew Campbell. The programme also looks at the shift in pop radio from the conservative approach of ZB in the 1950s to the dawn of pop radio as we understand it now, using archive clips of the The Lever Hit Parade (RNZ)

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12:00 The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

1:00 Jazz Concerts

Nineteen live jazz concerts from the EBU

(16) Perrine Mansuy Trio

From the 2010 Radio France and Montpellier Festival, pianist and composer Perrine Mansuy offers us her mixture of improvised pop, jazz in instrumental music and song. Eric Surmenian on double bass and Joe Quitzke on various percussion instruments join Mansuy to form the Perrine Mansuy Trio (recorded at the Théâtre de l'Agora, Montpellier by Radio France)

2:00 Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

Mavra Froudia - Stelios Petrakis, Efrèn López, Bijan Chemirani

Mavra Froudia (Black Eyebrows) is a collaboration between lyra virtuoso Stelios Petrakis (whose eyebrows provided the inspiration for the title track), Efrèn López (guitar) and percussionist Bijan Chemirani. It's an album of original compositions which draw on the performers' musical heritages: Cretan, Spanish and Iranian respectively (Musièpoca MEPCD003)

3:00 Saturday Concert

Kerikeri National Piano Competition 2010

Six programmes

(3) Selected performances from the first and second rounds

MOZART: First movement, Allegro maestoso, from Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor K310; MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses in D minor Op 54 - Jane Nayoung Koo (pno)

HAYDN: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Keyboard Sonata No 62 in Eb HobXVI/52; RAVEL: Oiseaux tristes, from Miroirs; VINE: First movement, from Piano Sonata No 1 - David Soo (pno)

SCHUMANN: Des Abends; Warum?, from Fantasy Pieces Op 12; ALBÉNIZ: Evocación; El Puerto, from Iberia, Book 1 - Lorelle McNaughton (pno)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Op 109; LISZT: Funérailles - John Paul Muir (pno) (recorded in The Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ)

4:40 Oriental Studies

HOLST: Japanese Suite - London SO/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 222)

BENNETT: Theme & Waltz, from Murder on the Orient Express - Philip Fowke (pno), RTE Concert Orch/Proinnsías O Duinn (Naxos 8.554323)

GLINKA: Oriental Dances in Chernomor's Castle, from Ruslan & Lyudmila - USSR State Academic SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01449)

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

HOLBROOKE: Violin Sonata No 3 in F Op 83, Orientale - Jacqueline Roche (vln), Robert Stevenson (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7219)

GODARD: Symphonie orientale Op 84 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7274)

6:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

VINE: Flute Sonata - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)

LILBURN: String Quartet in E minor - Schola Musica Quartet (Kiwi SLD 57)

ELGAR: Wand of Youth Suite No 2 Op 1b - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

7:00 Vocalied

Soprano Arleen Augér

SCHUBERT: Daphne am Bach D411; Lambertine D301; Thekla D857; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D965 - with Thea King (cl), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33009)

STRAUSS: Morgen Op 27/4; Hat gesagt Bleibt's nicht dabei Op 36/3; Glückes genug Op 37/1; Gefunden Op 56/1 - with Irwin Gage (pno) (CBS MK 42447)

COPLAND: Pastorale; OBRADORS: Del Cabello más sutil; OVALLE: Azulao; MARX: Selige Nacht; CIMARA: Stornello; DONAUDY: O del mio amato ben - with Dalton Baldwin (pno) (Delos DE 3029)

8:00 Music Alive

Freddy Kempf (pno), New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev

GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture; RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; WAGNER trans Liszt: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde

(Interval interview: Pianist Freddy Kempf talks with Eva Radich)

GLAZUNOV: The Seasons Op 67 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

10:05 Day's End

DVORÁK: Nos 1, 2, 8, 9 & 11, from Cypresses - Quatuor Thymos (Avie AV 2234)

RHEINBERGER: Three Sacred Songs Op 69, Morning Song; Hymn; Evening Song - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)

BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in D G483 - Ophélie Gaillard (cello/dir), Maude Gratton (fpno), Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

11:00 BLOCH: Three Nocturnes - Hartley Trio (Dal Segno DSPRCD 057)

BEETHOVEN: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 16 - Alfred Brendel (pno), Heinz Holliger (ob), Eduard Brunner (cl), Klaus Thunemann (bsn), Hermann Baumann (horn) (Philips 420 182)

CASSADO: Suite for solo cello - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2078)

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