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Cadenza

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.

For details about music on Cadenza, visit Radio New Zealand Concert's schedules.

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.

5:00 pm Tomorrow

MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (EMI 5 66650)

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in D D384 - Baiba Skride (vln), Lauma Skride (pno) (Sony 82876 88872)

WARLOCK arr Lane: Folksong Preludes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)

RAMEAU: Air tendre pour les Muses, from Le temple de la gloire - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

BARRIOS MANGORE: Madrigal Gavotte - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 01CD)

GLAZUNOV: Idyll - Stephen Stirling (horn), Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1122)

MYASKOVSKY: Slav Rhapsody in D minor Op 71 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

BOUGHTON: Three Songs without Words - Sarah Francis (ob), members of Rasumovsky Quartet (Helios CDH 55174)

ROSSINI: Petite polka chinoise - Jenny Lin (pno) (BIS CD 1110)

BLACKFORD: Canticle of the birds, from Mirror of Perfection - Bo Skovhus (bar), Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ballard Lane School Choir, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Blackford (Sony SK 60285)

LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in Eb Op 7/6, Il pianto d'Arianna - Margaret Faultless (vln), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Challenge CC 72134)

JACOBS-BOND: A perfect day - Thomas Allen (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67374)

HOLST: The Perfect Fool, ballet music - Royal Phil/Malcolm Sargent (EMI 5 65041)

5:00 pm on Tuesday (14 Feb 2012)

SUPPÉ: The Beautiful Galatea, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Teldec 8.43240)

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

PUCCINI: Crisantemi - Quartetto Puccini (ASV CD DCA 909)

SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - András Schiff (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 044)

WOLF: Italian Serenade - Hagen Quartet (Newton 880 2072)

TIPPETT: Five Negro Spirituals, from A Child of our Time, Steal away; Nobody knows; Go down, Moses; By and by; Deep river - BBC Singers/Stephen Cleobury (Signum SIGCD 092)

J STRAUSS II: Wilde Rosen, Waltz Op 42 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Mika Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223471)

GIBBS arr Nestico: Runnin' Wild - Michael Monaghan (sax), Timothy Morrison (tpt), Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68598)

TRAD arr Leon: Wild mountain thyme - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

BAX: Dance of Wild Irravel, from Four Orchestral Sketches - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8454)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/3, The Wild Rider - Ignaz Friedman (pno) (Philips 456 784)

TICHELI: Wild Nights! - University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss (Naxos 8.572129)

LISZT: Transcendental Study No 8 in C minor, Wilde Jagd - Mariangela Vacatello (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94250)

SCHUBERT: Heidenröslein D257 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47861)

LEHÁR: Wild Roses, Waltz - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

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