Saturday 18 April 2009 Rāhoroi 18 Paenga-whāwhā 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  ELGAR: The Spanish Lady; Sketches from Symphony No 3 - Keith Swallow (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Anne Manson, BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (BBC Music MM38 Volume IV No 2)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  BESSER arr Bravura: Turn; Stretto and Round; Mitzvah Round; Shimmering Stillness; M ADAMS: Floating; BESSER arr Bravura: Five New York Tone Rows 2003; Solemnity; Resolution; Gamjam IV - Bravura (Rattle RAT D013)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Sea Drift; Songs of Farewell; Songs of Sunset - Sally Burgess (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bar), Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, members of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9214)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LISZT: Harmonies, Poetiques et Religieuses; Ave Maria; Ave Maris Stella; Invocation; Hymne du Martin; Hymne de la nuit; Harmonies Poetique et Religieuses - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66421)

  4:50 (approx) - Disc 5

  RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; The Birds; Pines of Rome - BBC Welsh SO/Tadaaki Otaka, BBC Phil/Patrick Thomas (BBC Music BBC MM 277)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in D TWV55/D22 - Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire (Brilliant Classics 93416)

  HUMMEL: Introduction, Theme & Variations in F Op 102 - Pierre W Feit (ob), Bamberg SO/Martin Turnovsky (Koch Schwann 3-1385)

  ERNST: Grand Caprice on Schubert's The Erl King Op 26 - Gidon Kremer (vln) (DG 445 820)

  BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV971 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 433 313)

  ROSAS: Sobre las olas, Waltz - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

  7:00 HALVORSEN: Entry March of the Boyars - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)

  MILHAUD: Piano Concerto No 2 Op 225 - Michael Korstick (pno), South West German Radio Orch/Alun Francis (CPO 777 162)

  JCF BACH: Flute Quartet No 3 in C - Les Adieux (DHM RD 77250)

  TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 84 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

  J STRAUSS II: Vienna Blood Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

  8:00 SAINT-SAËNS: French military march, from Algerian Suite - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler (RCA VD 87881)

  RÓZSA: Piano Concerto, Spellbound, from the film Spellbound - Philip Fowke (pno), RTE Concert Orch/Proinnsías O Duinn (Naxos 8.554323)

  FALLA: Miller's Dance, from The Three-Cornered Hat - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

  STRAVINSKY trans compsr/Dushkin: Suite italienne - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Katia Labèque (pno) (Onyx 4015)

  J RITCHIE: Suite No 2 for String Orchestra, Aquarius - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

• 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

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Symphony in E minor Op 46 - Bamberg SO/Gary Brain (Conifer 75605 51317)

  CHOPIN: Second movement, Romance: Allegro, from Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (EMI 5 56798)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - 16 soloists, London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

  JOSQUIN DESPREZ/NARVAEZ: Mille Regretz - Arianna Savall (harp) (Alia Vox AV 9814)

  MAHLER: Symphony No 4 in G - Christine Schäfer (sop), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (RCO Live RCO 07003)

  (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

  (9) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Mexican guitar

  The Best of Lydia Mendoza: A selection of songs from the Mexican guitarist and singer of Tijano music, who became known as 'La Alondra de la Frontera', The Lark of the Border (Arhoolie Productions CD 536)

  rodrigo y gabriela: Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero are a Mexican acoustic guitar duo with a distinctive, highly rhythmic sound that draws on Latin harmonies and rhythms (ATO Records ATO 0030 88088-21557-2)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Music Mountain

  Performances recorded at the 78th season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

  Sixteen programmes

  (15) Yuja Wang (pno), Shanghai String Quartet

  TRAD arr Jang: China Song selections; GRIEG: String Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 27; SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 (WFMT)

• 4:25 PM. Masur at Leipzig

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Brilliant Classics 99926)

  STRAUSS: Four Last Songs - Jessye Norman (sop), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 411 052)

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 11 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (PentaTone PTC 5186 188)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  WELLS: Prelude & Fugue in E, from The Well-Tempered Piano - John Wells (pno) (RNZ)

  PERGOLESI: Sinfonia for cello & basso continuo - Natalia Pavlutskaya, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)

  LILBURN: Forest - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29 - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

  GRENFELL: ... serenades and skirmishing - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Sacred and Secular

  The Song of the Sybil, from the time of King Alfonso X, Alfonso The Wise (1221-1284)

  ANON: Sibila Galaica - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9900)

  Music of the Trouvères: song and dances from 12th/13th-century France

  CHAMPAGNE: J'aloie l'autrier; AMIENS: Her sweet look; It's certain; Take care; ANON: Fair maid; Some talk; BODEL: Les un pins; ANON: Would you like me to sing to you?; ANON: La septieme estampie Real - Vivien Ellis (sop), Dufay Collective (Chandos CHAN 9544)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2008 New Zealand International Arts Festival

  Landscapes

  Stephen de Pledge (pno)

  MOZART: Variations on a theme of Gluck K455; MESSIAEN: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux

  (Interval: Stephen de Pledge talks to Kate Mead about commissioning a significant new set of New Zealand piano pieces)

  Landscape Preludes (première performance & broadcast)

  WHITEHEAD: Arapatiki; HARRIS: A landscape with too few lovers; CRESSWELL: Chiaroscuro; FARR: The Horizon from Owhiro Bay; LARDELLI: Reign; DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: this liquid drift of light; BODY: The Street Where I Live; HOLLOWAY: Terrain Vague; NORRIS: Machine Noises; PSATHAS: Sleeper; McLEOD: Landscape Prelude; KELLY: Goodnight Kiwi (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. Arranged for Les Ballets Russes

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stravinsky: Sleeping Beauty, excerpts - Christian Ostertag (vln), South West German Radio SO/Hiroshi Wakasugi (Hänssler CD 93.234)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American - Prague String Quartet (DG 429 193)

  SIBELIUS: Serenade No 2 in G minor Op 69b - Ida Haendel (vln), Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund (EMI 5 74200)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 83 in G minor, The Hen - Württemberg CO/Ruben Gazarian (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1395)

  11:00 GOOSSENS: Five Impressions of a Holiday Op 7 - Susan Milan (fl), John Heley (cello), Ian Brown (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10259)

  CHAUSSON: Concert for violin, piano & string quartet Op 21 - Joshua Bell (vln), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Takács Quartet (Decca 425 860)

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