12 February 2012 - 3:13 pm NZ time
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Disc 1
SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)
1:05 approx - Disc 2
HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)
2:15 approx - Disc 3
STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by JL Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; J RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)
6:00 SanctuaryDESENCLOS: Pater noster - tenors of Les Eléments Chamber Choir/Joël Suhubiette, Frédéric Desenclos (org) (Hortus 009)
VICTORIA: Missa De Beata Maria Virgine - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker (Hyperion CDA 67891)
ROREM: Prayers, No 1 & No 4, from Four Prayers - Marya Martin (fl), Colette Valentine (pno) (Naxos 8.559629)
POULENC: Four short prayers of St Francis of Assisi - Tenebrae/Nigel Short (Signum SIGCD 197)
JCF BACH: Wachet auf - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Rickman Godlee (cello), Christopher Allsop (chamber organ) (Conifer 75605 51306)
RHEINBERGER: Sarabande, from Suite for organ, violin & cello Op 149 - Christopher Herrick (org), Paul Barritt (vln), Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 66883)
MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 42 - Anna Korondi (sop), RIAS Chamber Choir, Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1786)
ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)
PÄRT: Cantique des degrés - RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Radio SO/Kristjan Järvi (Sony 88697 72334)
Disc 1
ALFVÉN: Suite from The Mountain King; Symphony No 5 in A minor; Elegy from Gustav Adolf II - Royal Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 585)
1:10 approx - Disc 2
BRUNETTI: Symphonies, No 26 in Bb; No 22 in G minor; No 36 in A - Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 489)
2:15 approx - Disc 3
CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (EMI CDC 7 47970)
3:30 approx - Disc 4
TAKTAKISHVILI: Sonata for flute & piano; FELD: Sonata for flute & piano; GUBAIDULINA: Allegro Rustico; Sounds of the Forest; AMIROV: Six pieces for flute & piano; MARTINU: Sonata for flute & piano, First Sonata - Leslie Newman (fl), Amanda Hurton (pno) (Cala CACD 88026)
4:45 approx - Disc 5
J STRAUSS II: Vienna Blood, Waltz; Champagne Polka; Vienna Bonbons, Waltz; New Pizzicato Polka; Liebeslieder, Waltz; Hungarian Polka; Artists Life, Waltz; Bandits Galop; Russian March; Thunder & Lightning Polka; Morning Papers, Waltz; JOSEF STRAUSS: Holiday Trip Polka; Village Swallows, Waltz; J STRAUSS II: Kaiser Franz Joseph I Jubilee March - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 425 428)
6:00 Classic Morning6:00 HAYDN: The Creation, Sinfonia, The Representation of Chaos - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)
HANDEL arr Russell: Recorder Sonata in A minor HWV362 - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80559)
DUFF: Irish Suite for Strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)
JERSILD: Three romantic songs for unaccompanied choir, My favourite valley; Night rain; The tedious winter went its way - Academic Choir of Aarhus/Uffe Most (Danacord DACOCD 621)
FIELD: Divertissement No 1 in E - Míceál O'Rourke (pno), London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10468)
DVORÁK: Legend in G minor Op 59/3 - Nordic CO/Christian Lindberg (BIS CD 1708)
7:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Scherzo - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67381/2)
SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela - Pirjo Leppänen (cor anglais), Estonian-Finnish SO/Anu Tali (Finlandia 8573 89876)
LISZT: Au bord d'une source, from Album d'un voyageur - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570768)
TELEMANN: First & Fourth movements, Largo & Presto, from Viola Concerto in G - Victoria Jaenecke (vla), Viva CO (Viva CO)
TCHAIKOVSKY arr Rawsthorne: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)
J STRAUSS II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube - Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)
HERSCHEL: Symphony No 13 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)
8:00 Beauty Spot: KREISLER: Liebesleid - Nigel Kennedy (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56626)
SUPPÉ: Tyrolean Dance and Frischka - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223864)
PARRY: I was glad - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Robert Quinney (org) (Universal 179 5732)
MENDELSSOHN: Theme with Variations Op 81/1 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)
MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in D Op 2/5 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)
GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces Book 8 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 57296)
BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture - Hamburg State Phil/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI 5 56970)
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