Saturday 7 June 2008 Rāhoroi 7 Pipiri 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor; BRAHMS orch Rubbra: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8825)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  CORIGLIANO: Sonata for violin & piano; PÄRT: Fratres; MORAVEC: Sonata for violin & piano; GLINSKY: Toccata-Scherzo; MESSIAEN: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus - Maria Bachmann (vln), Jon Klibonoff (pno) (Catalyst 09026 61824)

  2:20 (approx) - Disc 3

  FINZI: God is gone up Op 27/2; Welcome sweet & sacred feast Op 27/3; Three Short Elegies Op 5; Thou didst delight my eyes Op 32; My lovely one Op 27/1; Let us now praise famous men Op 35; Seven Partsongs Op 17; Magnificat Op 36; White-flowering days Op 37; All this night Op 33; Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer, Harry Bicket (org) (Chandos CHAN 8936)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C Op 17; PROKOFIEV: Sonata No 3 Op 28; SCRIABIN: Sonata No 9 Op 68; RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 39 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2028)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  BIZET: Ouverture in A; Scene bohemiennes, La Jolie Fille de Perth; Symphony in C; Dramatic Overture, Patrie - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CIMAROSA: L'Italiana a Londra, Overture - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570279)

  SCHUBERT: Five Minuets and Trios D89 - Maggini Quartet (Resonance CD RSN 3036)

  HANSON: Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth - Carol Rosenberger (pno), New York Chamber Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3092)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.553987)

  J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Queensland SO/Vladimir Ponkin (ABC Classics 432 250)

  7:00 LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in D minor - Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan (IMG Artists 5 62869)

  KASKA: Majestic Journey - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

  BRITTEN: The King's Stamp - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Martyn Brabbins (NMC D 112)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 17 - Frederic Chiu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7352.53)

  ROSSINI: Tancredi, Overture - Orpheus Chamber Orch (DG 415 363)

  8:00 OFFENBACH: Barbe-Bleue, Preludes & Melodramas - Montpellier National Orch/Jean-Christophe Keck (Accord 476 8999)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Sarah Chang (vln), Orpheus CO (EMI 3 94431)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Davis/Tse: Tango in D, from España Op 165 - Kenneth Tse (sop sax) Alan Huckleberry (pno) (Crystal CD 658)

  RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in C# minor Op 3/2; in G minor Op 23/5; in G Op 32/5; in G# minor Op 32/12 - John Ogdon (pno) (Philips 456 916)

  MARTELLI: Jubilee march - Neil Thomson and his orch (Dutton CDLX 7147)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

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

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC SO/Martyn Brabbins (Nimbus NI 5764/5)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 3 - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (EMI CDC 7 47970)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in Bb Kk545; in F minor Kk466; in F minor Kk365; in D Kk435 - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS CD 1508)

  PRIMA: Sing, Sing, Sing - Sabine Meyer, Wolfgang Meyer (cls), Bamberg Symphony Big Band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)

  LILBURN: The Return - Tim Elliott (narrator), Mahi Potiki (Maori voice), NZBC Electronic Studio/Willi Gailer (technical supervisor) (Atoll ACD 404)

  PUNTO: Horn Concerto No 11 in E - Barry Tuckwell (horn), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 69395)

  BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Plácido Domingo (ten), Thomas Hampson (bar), Philharmonia/Eugene Kohn (EMI Classics 5561982)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 427 222)

  (Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (10) Recent releases and reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Irish Folk Music

  A selection of traditional reels, jigs and airs performed by master of the Irish concertina, Noel Hill. In this recording he is joined by Arty McGlynn, Steve Conney (gtrs), Alec Finn (bouzouki), Liam O'Connor (fiddle) and Brian McGrath (keyboards)

  Singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, best known as the lead vocalist for the Afro Celt Sound System, blends the old with the new in a collection of original pieces and arrangements. A exponent of sean-nós (literally 'old style'), a style common in traditional Irish singing, Ó Lionáird places his songs in an ambient setting, interspersing sampled voices, and programmed loops with the vocals and instruments (Noel Hill NHCD 002; Real World CDRW 126)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Ben Morrison (vln), Allison Cormack (sop), Wellington Youth Orch/Marc Taddei, Owen Clarke

  RAVEL: Boléro; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77; MAHLER: Fourth movement, Sehr behaglich, from Symphony No 4 in G (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Music in the Family

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Jeremy Menuhin (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47353)

  BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV1052 - Ksenia Bashmet (pno), Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Quartz QTZ 2060)

  RACHMANINOV: Italian Polka; Six Morceaux Op 11 - Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy (pno duet), Alastair Mackie (tpt) (Decca 470 291)

  WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Andrew Marriner (cl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 432 146)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  A RITCHIE: From the Southern Marches, Prelude - City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private recording)

  FARR: Nga Tai Hurihuri - Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), Aroha Priest (vocalist), Strike (Trust MMT 2036)

  BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 118 - John Chen (pno) (RNZ)

  ELGAR: Coronation March Op 65 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  A GRIEG edition

  A dream Op 46/6; From Monte Pincio Op 39/1; The youth Op 33/1; The Rondane mountains Op 33/9; A swan Op 25/2; The wounded heart Op 33/3 - Kirsten Flagstad (sop), Philharmonia/Warwick Braithwaite (rec 1948) (EMI CDH 7 63305)

  Melodies of the Heart Op 5 - Håkan Hagegård (bar), Warren Jones (pno) (RCA 09026 61518)

  GRIEG: Haugtussa Op 67 - Monica Groop (mezzo), Love Derwinger (pno) (BIS CD 637)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), New Zealand SO/Massimo Zanetti

  MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner; HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; HK GRUBER: 3 MOB Pieces; SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Recent Baroque Releases

  BUXTEHUDE: Sacred Concerto, Trio Sonata in Bb BuxWV273 - John Holloway (vln), Jaap ter Linden (vla da gamba), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (org) (Naxos 8.557250)

  RAMEAU: Le temple de la gloire, excerpts - Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (ten), Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet (Virgin 5 22027)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op 28 - USSR RTV Large SO/Neeme Järvi (Melodiya 74321 40722)

  MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Rudolf Serkin (pno), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (CBS M2YK 45675)

  ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - Isabelle van Keulen (vln), Ronald Brautigam (pno) (Challenge CC 72171)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in A Op 6/11 - ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Brilliant Classics 99986)

  11:00 BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in C G397 - Ensemble 415 (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1402)

  ONSLOW: Piano Trio in Eb Op 14/2 - Trio Cascades (CPO 777 230)

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