Friday 8 May 2009 Rāmere 8 Haratua 2009

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs, Part 1; KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia; MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides Overture; OFFENBACH: The Tales of Hoffmann, Barcarolle; WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship; LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture; WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  NIELSEN: Violin Concerto Op 33; Flute Concerto; Clarinet Concerto Op 57 - Kim Sjøgren (vln), Toke Lund Christiansen (fl), Niels Thomsen (cl), Danish National Radio SO/Michael Schønwandt (Chandos CHAN 8894)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  Hildegard von BINGEN: O quam mirabilis; O ecclesia; O clarissima mater; O tu illustrata; MONK: Dawn; Quarry weave 1; Quarry Lullaby; Quarry weave 2; Farmer's Song; Astronaut Anthem; Nightfall - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenberg (Catalyst 09026 68329)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LIAPUNOV: 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante Op 11: Lullaby; Dance of the ghosts; Pealing of bells; Terek; Summer night; Storm; Idyll; Epic song; Aeolian harps; Lesginka; Dance of the Elves; Elegy in memory of Franz Liszt - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223491)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Symphony for cello & orchestra; Four Sea-Interludes from Peter Grimes; PÄRT: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten - Truls Mørk (cello), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TELEMANN: Quartet in G TWV43/G12 - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 477 5379)

  F MENDELSSOHN: Three Pieces for piano, four hands - Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen (pno duet) (Sony SK 48494)

  CANNING: Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80503)

  NADERMAN: Harp Sonatina No 6 in D minor - Masumi Nagasawa (harp) (Etcetera KTC 1341)

  DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

  7:00 STÖLZEL: Partita di Signore Steltzeln - Christophe Rousset (hpschd) (Ambroisie AMB 9977)

  KUULA: Sunrise; My bonnie lass - Accentus Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson (Naïve V 5037)

  BERWALD: Serious & joyful fancies - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

  GRANADOS: Madrigal - Emil Klein (cello), Sorin Melinte (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 39109)

  J STRAUSS II: Joke Polka Op 72; Where the Lemon Trees Bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67169)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: Signore ascolta, from Turandot - Inessa Galante (sop), Latvian Opera Orch/Alexander Vilumanis (CampionCD 1338)

  MILHAUD: Le Bal Martiniquais - Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 67014)

  CROFT: Overture in D - Michael Laird (tpt), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55258)

  DIABELLI: Variations on a favourite theme Op 57 - Johannes Tappert, Thomas Müller-Pering (gtrs) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1389)

  WIENIAWSKI: Allegro de Sonate Op 2 - Piotr Janowski (vln), Wolfgang Plagge (pno) (2L 30)

  BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 17582)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ARNOLD BAX (1883-1953)

  Coronation March, for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953 - London SO/Malcolm Sargent (rec 1953) (London 425 662)

  Country-Tune - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.557592)

  Symphony No 7 - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557145)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BACH: Partita No 5 in G BWV829 - Masaaki Suzuki (hpschd) (BIS CD 1313/14)

  MOZART: Mass No 11 in C K257, Credo - Barbara Schlick (sop), Erika Schmidt-Valentin (contralto), Clemens Bieber (ten), Thomas Quasthoff (bbar), Limburg Cathedral Choir, Cologne Gürzenich CO/Klaus Knubben (Profil CD PH 04013)

  JACOB: Sextet Op 3 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1374)

  BARTÓK: Concerto for orchestra - Hungarian State SO/Adam Fischer (Portrait PCL 2109)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Concerto Releases

  TORELLI: Concerto in A Op 6/12 - Charivari Agréable/Kah-Ming Ng (dir) (Signum SIGCD 157)

  JADASSOHN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 90 - Markus Becker (pno), Berlin Radio SO/Michael Sanderling (Hyperion CDA 67636)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  STOCKHAUSEN: Stimmung, sections 45-51 - Singcircle/Gregory Rose (Hyperion CDA 66115)

  ALWYN: Pastoral Fantasia - Philip Dukes (vla), Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

  QUILTER: Now sleeps the crimson petal; F LAMBERT: She is far from the land - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Kiwi CD TRL 025)

  MOSCHELES: Sextet in Eb Op 35 for piano, violin, cello, flute & two horns - Consortium Classicum (Bayer BR 100 231)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 1 in G minor Op 13, Winter Daydreams - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (rec 1985) (Chandos CHAN 8402)

  Romance in F Op 51/5 - Alexander Goldenweiser (pno) (rec 1947) (Melodiya 74321 25172)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FARR: Rangitoto - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2042)

  BELLINATI: Jongo - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

  RIES: Swedish National Airs with Variations Op 52 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557844)

  IBERT: Entr'acte - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

  HEENAN: War & Peace, Suite for orchestra - New Zealand SO/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 6 in Eb - Concerto Cologne (Teldec 4509 98435)

  STRAVINSKY: Tango - Victor Sangiorgio (pno) (Naxos 8.570377)

  VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in G RV413 - Georg Faust (cello), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (Avi 855 3060)

  SMYTH: Two interlinked French melodies, from Entente Cordiale - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2147)

  ALAIN: Litanies - William Whitehead (organ of St Étienne Cathedral, Auxerre, France) (Chandos CHAN 10315)

  SIBELIUS: Valse Triste, from Kuolema - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 439 527)

  BUTTERWORTH: Love blows as the wind blows; In the year that's come & gone; Life in her creaking shoes; Fill a glass with golden wine; On the way to Kew - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Belcea Quartet (EMI 5 58076)

  ALBINONI arr Giazotto: Adagio in G minor - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDZ 7 62526)

  FRANÇAIX: L'Heure du berger - Vovka Ashkenazy (pno), Reykjavik Wind Quintet (Chandos CHAN 10420)

  HANDEL arr Beecham: Minuet, from The Faithful Shepherd - London SO/George Szell (Decca 417 694)

  DEBUSSY arr Galway: The Little Shepherd, from Children's Corner - James Galway (fl), CO of Europe (RCA 74321 37731)

  RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Christopher Hooker (ob), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56605)

  GARDINER: Shepherd Fennel's Dance - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  BOCCHERINI: Introduction & Fandango - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Delos DE 3144)

  STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier - Ilkka Talvi (vln), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Pressing On with David Morriss (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2008 New Zealand International Arts Festival

  Schumann & Friends

  An evening of words and music, devised by Steven Isserlis, exploring Robert and Clara Schumann's relationship with Brahms and Robert's last years in a mental asylum

  The performance is preceded by an interview in which Steven Isserlis talks to Kate Mead

  Raymond Hawthorne (narrator), Sara Macliver (sop), Wilma Smith (vln), Caroline Henbest (vla), Steven Isserlis (cello), Michael Houstoun (pno)

  BRAHMS: Scherzo in Eb minor Op 4; SCHUMANN: Die Flüchtlinge Op 122/2; BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in C minor; SCHUMANN: Third movement, Intermezzo, from Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth; Frühlings Ankunft Op 79/19; Variations in Eb Op posth; Gebet Op 135/5; C SCHUMANN: Romance in A minor; SCHUMANN: Chorale Prelude; BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 60 (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:15 PM. Day's End

  HANDEL arr Beecham: Amaryllis Suite - Royal Phil/Yehudi Menuhin (RPO CDRPO 8002)

  TAUSCH: Clarinet Concerto in Eb - Karl Schlechta (cl), Kurpfälz CO/Jirí Malát (Arte Nova 74321 37298)

  11:00 KORNGOLD: String Sextet in D Op 10 - Flesch Quartet, Ian Humphries (vla), David Bucknall (cello) (ASV CD DCA 1062)

  GAMBARO: Wind Quartet No 1 in Eb - Consortium Classicum (MDG MDG 301 1009)

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