12 February 2012 - 3:37 pm NZ time
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12:00 - Disc 1
TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Concerto for Balalaika & Orchestra; Music for Strings - Swedish Radio Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 351)
1:15 (approx) - Disc 2
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C Op 15; No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)
2:30 (approx) - Disc 3
DVORÁK: Mass in D Op 86; Te Deum Op 103 - Marina Meshcheriakova (sop), Sergei Miasnikov (bass), Russian State Cappella & SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9505)
3:35 (approx) - Disc 4
RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn; A la maniére…Borodin; A la maniére…Chabrier; Prélude; Miroirs; Sonatine - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8647)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40; Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op 47; Serenade for Strings Op 20; Enigma Variations Op 36 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)
6:00 L MOZART: Symphony in G, Eisen G8 - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570499)
PÄRT: The Woman with the Alabaster Box - Cantillation/Antony Walker (ABC Classics 465 824)
STANLEY: Organ Concerto in E Op 10/1 - Gerald Gifford (org/dir), Northern Sinfonia (CRD 3365)
BRAHMS arr Cziffra: Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor; J STRAUSS II arr Cziffra: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Private Recording 837 001)
LUMBYE: Sandman, Galop Fantastique - Odense SO/Peter Guth (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9089)
7:00 ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Young Prince & the Young Princess, from Scheherazade - Richard Roberts (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 410 253)
GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)
VERDI: Witches' chorus, Tre volte miagola, from Macbeth - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Carlo Rizzi (Teldec 4509 90267)
GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 026)
8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)
SMETANA: Prelude; Infernal Dance, from The Devil's Wall - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)
SPARKE: The Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin - Minneapolis SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 305)
CLARKE: Trumpet Aire and Symphony of flatt trumpets, from The Island Princess - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection, English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)
WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7517)
GLINKA: La Jota Aragonesa, Spanish Overture No 1 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Le Chant du Monde LDC 278 819)
MEDTNER: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 50 - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno), North Carolina Symphony/Grant Llewellyn (BIS SACD 1728)
HOFFSTETTER: String Quartet in F Op 3/5 - Kodály Quartet (Naxos 8.555704)
SCHUBERT: Winterreise D911 - Mark Padmore (ten), Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7484)
DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Rotterdam CO/Conrad van Alphen (Telarc CD 80623)
Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
TOVEY: The Bride of Dionysus, Prelude - Malmö Opera Orch/George Vass (Toccata Classics TOCC 0033)
DEBUSSY: Syrinx - Sharon Bezaly (fl) (BIS SACD 1459)
VIERNE: Psyché Op 33 - Steve Davislim (ten), Queensland Orch/Guillaume Tourniaire (Melba MR 301 123)
NIELSEN: Pan and Syrinx - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)
HAYDN: Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66532)
WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)
BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 17 in Ab BWV862, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - John Wells (organ of St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland) (Ribbonwood RCD 1007)
VIOTTI: Serenade for flute & piano Op 23/5 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)
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Classic performances from the back catalogue
BIZET: L'Arlésienne - Jacques Noureddine (sax), Orfeón Donostiarra, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (rec 1985) (EMI 3 55671)
NZ musicians and composers
VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)
MCLEOD: Childhood - Bach Choir/Roy Tankersley (Kiwi SLD 74)
MORENO TORROBA: Sonatina for guitar - Peter McAven (gtr) (Private recording)
SCHUBERT: String Trio in Bb D471, fragment - members of the NZ String Quartet (RNZ)
MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)
WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 070)
VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV447 - Alfredo Bernardini (ob/dir), Zefiro (Naïve OP 30478)
MYERS: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.554400)
PAINE: Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn - Christopher Herrick (organ of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre) (Hyperion CDA 66978)
MEYERBEER: Coronation March, from The Prophet - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)
VERDI: Morrò, ma prima in grazia, from A Masked Ball - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Shana Downes (cello), Giuseppe Verdi Orch of Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 466 952)
SCOTT: The Toy Trumpet - Mark Calder (tpt), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67067)
RACHMANINOV trans Kreisler: Daisies Op 38/3 - Hideko Udagawa (vln), Konstantin Lifschitz (pno) (Signum SIGCD 164)
SUPPÉ: Love for the People, Entr'acte - Julius Klein (cl), Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223863)
HANDEL: The people shall hear and be afraid, from Israel in Egypt - Bach Choir, English Concert/David Hill (BIS SACD 1736)
SCHUMANN: About Foreign Lands & Peoples, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - William Kapell (pno) (RCA 09026 68997)
BOURGEOIS arr Vaughan Williams: All people that on earth do dwell - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Andrew Lamb (org) (Conifer 75605 51249)
BENJAMIN: A tune & variations, For Little People - members of the Locrian Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7110)
MUSSORGSKY orch Rimsky-Korsakov: Chorus of People in the Temple, from Oedipus in Athens - London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Claudio Abbado (RCA 09026 61354)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ed Hogger: The People's Land, film music - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10007)
Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music
In Search of Perfect Joy, an introduction to Messiaen's opera St François d'Assise, presented by Simon Romanos (RNZ)
8:00 MESSIAEN: St François d'Assise, an opera in three acts
L'Ange.......................... Dawn Upshaw
St François.................... José van Dam
Le Lépreux................... Chris Merritt
Frère Léon.................... Urban Malmberg
Frère Massée................ John Aler
Frère Elie...................... Guy Renard
Frère Bernard............... Tom Krause
Frère Sylvestre.............. Akos Banlaky
Frère Rufin.................... Dirk D'Ase
Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Hallé Orch/Kent Nagano (DG 445 176)
11:00 New Music Dreams
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