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Thursday 7 August 2008 Rāpare 7 Here-turi-kōkā 2008

Thursday 7 August 2008

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)

STÖLZEL: Concerto grosso in D - Cappella Istropolitana/Reinhold Friedrich (dir) (Capriccio 71 107)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 1 in C K279 - Leon McCawley (pno) (Avie AV 2105)

GEMINIANI: Sonata in C for cello & continuo Op 5/3 - Jaap ter Linden (cello), Judith-Maria Becker (cello continuo), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (hpschd) (Brilliant Classics 93646)

KORNGOLD: Straussiana - Northwest German Philharmonia/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 146)

7:00 SMETANA: Doktor Faust, Overture - members of Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Clasics 93634)

HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, The king shall rejoice - Tallis Chamber Choir, Royal Academy Consort/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557003)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Russian State SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.555949)

FRANCHI: Suite for flute & harp - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

BAX: Tintagel - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557145)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)

ROUSSEL: Pour une fête de printemps - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Naxos 8.570529)

YUSTE: Capricho Pintoresco Op 41 - Maximiliano Martín (cl), Inocencio Negrín (pno) (Linn CKD 280)

Josef STRAUSS: Feuerfest - Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL)

CARDON: Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman - Frances Kelly (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66497)

POULENC: French Suite after Claude Gervaise - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick (ASV White Line CD WHL 2067)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (1882-1967)

Concerto for Orchestra - Budapest Phil/Zoltán Kodály (DG 427 408)

Sonatina for cello & piano - Sung-Won Yang (cello), Ick-Choo Moon (pno) (EMI 5 75685)

Missa Brevis - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/James O'Donnell, Andrew Reid (org) (Hyperion CDA 67147)

10:10 The Works

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

GRETCHANINOV: String Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 75 - Utrecht String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1388)

JFC FISCHER: Suite No 1 in C - Handel's Company/Rainer Johannes Homberg (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 605 1477)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 - London Phil/Franz Welser-Möst (EMI 5 20954)

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade, Suite - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 2023)

PONCHIELLI: Cielo e mar, from La Gioconda - Rolando Villazón (ten), Milan Giuseppe Verdi SO/Daniele Callegari (DG 477 7224)

SCHUBERT: Three Piano Pieces D946 - Maria João Pires (pno) (DG 477 6607)

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

 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 5 in D Op 70/1, Ghost - Henryk Szeryng (vln), Pierre Fournier (cello), Wilhelm Kempff (pno) (rec 1970) (DG 429 712)

BERG: Violin Concerto, To the Memory of an Angel - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), London SO/Pierre Boulez (rec 1986) (CBS MK 39741)

 4:00 Made in

NZ musicians and composers

CARR: Gaudeamus Overture - SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Corellia CRA 1005)

BACH: Second movement, Largo ma non tanto, from Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), Andrew Thomson (vln), NZSO Chamber Orch (RNZ)

POYNTON: Nga Iwi E - Dan Poynton (pno) (SOUNZfine Vol 3)

MOZART: Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia K582 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Vienna CO/György Fischer (Decca 440 401)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 7 in D minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

 5:00 Cadenza

WALTON arr Sargent: Henry V Suite - London Phil Choir & Orch/Carl Davis (EMI CDC 7 47944)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 37 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 464 694)

BOYCE: Concerto Grosso in B minor - Thames CO/Michael Dobson (CRD 3331)

MIELCK: Concert Piece in D Op 8 - John Storgårds (vln), Finnish Radio SO/Sakari Oramo (Ondine ODE 1019)

CPE BACH: Rondo in A Wq58/1 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

GLAZUNOV: Wedding March Op 21 - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553839)

WAGNER: Wedding March, Treulich geführt, from Lohengrin - Chorus & Orch of Bayreuth Festival/Wolfgang Sawallisch (Philips 422 266)

ALPAERTS: Wedding feast, from Pallieter - BRTN Phil, Brussels/Alexander Rahbari (Discover DICD 920 100)

GABRIEL-MARIE arr Herman: Golden wedding - Mark Walton (cl), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

DOHNÁNYI: Wedding Waltz, from The Veil of Pierrette - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 1107)

RACHMANINOV arr Potts: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Festival Coronation March in D - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8476)

 7:00 Appointment

Kristjan Järvi

Visitors to his childhood home included Rostropovich, Oistrakh, Khachaturian and Arvo Pärt

Kristjan Järvi likens his family’s exit from Soviet occupied to the events of a spy-novel. He was seven when the family arrived in the and went on to study at the Manhattan School of Music. Now an international conductor in his own right, Kristjan Järvi was in earlier this year for the NZ International Arts Festival and talked with David Morriss (RNZ)

 8:00 Music Alive

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Susanna Stefani-Caetani (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Kirill Karabits

BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No 1 Sz83

(Interval)

MAHLER: Symphony No 5 in C# minor (RNZ)

10:00 Day's End

MOZART: Flute Quartet No 1 in D K285 - Lisa Beznosiuk (fl), Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln), Tom Dunn (vla), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) (Avie AV 2108)

BRAHMS arr Joachim: Hungarian Dances, Vol 2 Book 3 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67663)

11:00 D'INDY: String Quartet No 3 in Db Op 96 - Joachim Quartet (Calliope CAL 3891.2)

TELEMANN: Paris Quartet No 2 in A minor - Musica ad Rhenum (Brilliant Classics 93649)

12:00 Music Through the Night

Disc 1

HANDEL: Hornpipe, Air & Gigue, from Water Music; DEBUSSY: Reflets dans l’eau, from Images, Book 1; J STRAUSS II: Lagunen-Walzer; RAVEL: Jeau d’eau; VIVALDI: Largo, from Four Seasons, Winter; SMETANA: Vltava; CHOPIN: Prelude in Db Op 28/15, Raindrop; SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Die Forelle; TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas d’action, from Swan Lake; DELIUS orch Fenby: Aquarelle No 2; SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Auf dem Wasser zu singen; J STRAUSS II: The Blue Danube - Various artists (London 443 332)

 1:15 approx -Disc 2

SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana Op 16; Arabesque in C Op 18; Humoresque Op 20 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Calliope CAL 9207)

 2:30 approx - Disc 3

PURCELL: Ode for Queen Mary’s birthday Z331; Ode for St Cecilia’s Day Z334; Ode for St Cecilia’s Day Z329; Welcome for Charles II, Z326 - Gillian Fisher, Mary Seers (sops), James Bowman, Nigel Short (countertenors), Mark Padmore, Andrew Tusa (tens), Michael George, Robert Evans (basses), King’s Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 66494)

 3:40 approx - Disc 4

SMYTH: Piano Trio in D minor; Violin Sonata in A minor Op 7; Cello Sonata in A minor Op 5 - Chagall Trio (Meridian CDE 84286)

 4:50 approx - Disc 5

WALDTEUFEL: Soiree d’ete, Waltz Op 188; Invitation a la gavotte Op 246; Les Sirenes, Waltz Op 154; Ma Voisine, Polka Op 206; Les Sourires, Waltz Op 187; Pluie de diamants, Waltz Op 160; Tres jolie, Waltz Op 159; Joyeux Paris, Polka Op 215; Tout en rose, Waltz Op 200 - Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223441)

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