Monday to Friday at 5 pm.
A two-hour selection of shorter, popular classics that includes well-known opera arias and choruses. The programme also includes a musical component built around a daily theme.
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The weekly competition disc features around 5:30 pm. If you correctly answer our question a copy of the disc could be yours. Send your answers to concert@radionz.co.nz or Radio New Zealand Concert Competition, PO Box 123, Wellington.
COPLAND: John Henry, A railroad ballad - South West German Radio SO/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)
CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Oleg Marshev (pno) (Danacord DACOCD 677)
MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso - Gil Shaham (vln), Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 454 647)
GRIEG: Ave maris stella - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5085)
GOSSEC: Tambourin; Gavotte - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Private)
M HAYDN: Romance for horn & string quartet MH806 - Jasper de Waal (horn), Concertgebouw CO/Henk Rubingh (Channel Classics CCS SA 30210)
ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)
6:00 SVENDSEN: Polonaise No 2 in D Op 28 - Danish National Radio SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 9932)
STANFORD: The Blue Bird Op 119/3 - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Decca 473 168)
MENDELSSOHN arr Harrell: Songs without Words, Op 19/1; Op 109 - Lynn Harrell (cello), Bruno Canino (pno) (Decca 430 198)
CAMILLERI: Overture Classique - Bournemouth SO/Brian Schembri (Diversions DDV 24126)
DVARIONAS: Elegy for Violin & String Orchestra - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), German CO (Teldec 0630 14654)
CHAPLIN arr Ogermann: Smile, from Modern Times - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Telarc 0630 17222)
BACH: Fourth movement, Allegro assai, from Violin Sonata No 3 in C BWV1005 - Gidon Kremer (vln) (ECM 1926/27)
PIAZZOLLA arr Desyatnikov: Otoño porteño - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 7559 79568)
BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances Sz68 - Hungarian National Phil/Zoltán Kocsis (Hungaroton HSACD 32506)
MOZART: Second movement, Adagio, from Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216 - Jan Talich (vln/dir), Talich CO (Calliope CAL 9365)
SATIE: Gymnopédies - Philippe Entremont (pno) (CBS MYK 45505)
CHOPIN: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Emily Beynon (fl), Philip Moore (pno) (Naxos 8.572585)
PLAYFORD: Faronell's Division - Manfredo Kraemer (vln), Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (vla da gamba/dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9844)
BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9684)
6:00 GRANADOS: Collection of Tonadillas in the Antique Style, The Maja of Goya; The Discreet Lover; The Tralala & the Strum; The Timid Young Man; The Maja's Gaze; Love & Hate; Roaming; The Modest Damsels - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Love Derwinger (pno) (Arte Verum ARV 001)
DUPARC: Chanson triste - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Lyon Opera Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (EMI CDC 7 49689)
SMETANA: Sárka, from Má Vlast - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)
BOWERMAN: String Quartet on a Prelude, Chorale & Fugue of César Franck - Bronte Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)
SALIERI: Symphony in D, The Venetian - Lukas Consort/Viktor Lukas (CampionCD 1330)
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