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Tuesday 9 February 2010 Rātū 9 Hui-tanguru 2010

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

 6:00 Classic Morning

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)

 9:00 The Works

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)

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 1:30 Greek Myth

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)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

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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 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BIZET: L'Arlésienne - Jacques Noureddine (sax), Orfeón Donostiarra, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (rec 1985) (EMI 3 55671)

 4:00 Made in New Zealand

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)

 5:00 Cadenza

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)

 7:00 Sound Lounge

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

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1

LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy; Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb; Piano Concerto No 2 in A; Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Op 1 - Midori Seiler (vln) (CBS MK 44944)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Die Nacht; Die Nachtigall; Wehmut; Der Gondelfahrer; Mondenschein; Nachthelle; Das Dorfchen; Die Einsiedelei; Sehnsucht; Grab und Mond; Frühlingsgesang; Liebe; Widerspruch; An den Frühling; La pastorella; Ständchen; Der Entfernten - Karl Dent, Richard Clement (tens), Martha Hart (mezzo), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Mary Akerman (gtr), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

ELLER: Elegia for harp & strings; Five Pieces for string orchestra; Tone Poem, Dawn; RAID: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Eluned Pierce (harp), John Digney (ob), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

WALTON: Façade, Long Steel Grass; STEVENS: Symphony of Liberation, Resistance; FRANKEL: First movement, from Symphony No 5; SEARLE: First movement, from Symphony No 2; FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair; WALTON: Old Sir Faulk, from Façade; Touch her soft lips & part, from Henry V; Gloria, from Christopher Columbus; ALWYN: First movement, from Lyra Angelica; Prelude to Odd Man Out; BLISS: Pastoral, The Pigeon Song, Lie strewn the white flocks; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; LEIGHTON: Adagio molto, Third movement, from Symphony No 3 - Susana Walton (narrator), Della Jones (mezzo), Arthur Davies, Neil Mackie (tens), Michael Davis (vln), Rachel Masters (harp), Westminster Singers, London SO, Royal Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 7008)