12 February 2012 - 8:31 pm NZ time
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12:00 - Disc 1
KORNGOLD: Between Two Worlds: Judgement Day; Symphonic Serenade Op 39; Theme & Variations Op 42 - Alexander Fry (pno), German Symphony Orch, Berlin/John Mauceri (Decca 444 170)
1:15 (approx) - Disc 2
BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24; Four Ballades Op 10; Variations on a theme by Schumann Op 9 - Jorge Federico Osorio (pno) (ASV CD DCA 616)
2:20 (approx) - Disc 3
BRIDGE: Adoration; Go not, happy day; Love went a-riding; LILBURN: Elegy ; IRELAND: Great things; Sea fever; When lights go rolling round the sky; CW ORR: Song cycle, from A Shropshire Lad; FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Paul Whelan (bar), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2023)
3:30 (approx) - Disc 4
SPOHR: String Quartets, No 3, Quatuor brillant in D minor Op 11; No 4 in Eb Op 15/1; No 6 in G minor Op 27 - New Budapest Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223254)
4:45 (approx) - Disc 5
PURCELL: Instrumental music, from Dioclesian; King Arthur; The Fairy Queen; The Indian Queen - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (Sony SK 66169)
6:00 GIBBS: Dusk, from Fancy Dress Suite - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)
BENJAMIN: Le Tombeau de Ravel - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1074)
BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vln), Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Naïve V 5174)
RZEWSKI: Down by the riverside, from Four North American Ballads - Paul Jacobs (pno) (Arbiter 155)
LARSSON: Pastoral Suite - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)
7:00 ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 5 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)
GIULIANI: Potpourri No 3 Op 28 - Claudio Maccari, Paolo Pugliese (gtrs) (Brilliant Classics 93686)
CURTIS: At Twilight - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2055)
HANDEL: Violin Sonata in A HWV361 - Nathan Milstein (vln), Georges Pludermacher (pno) (Teldec 4509 95998)
GLINKA: Summer Night in Madrid, Spanish Overture No 2 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Le Chant du Monde LDC 278 819)
8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: Crisantemi - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)
TOURNIER: Images, Suite No 1 Op 29 - Chantal Mathieu (harp) (Claves CD 50-9816)
WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 3 & Bridal Procession - Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (RNZ)
VIVALDI: Sonata in D for violin & continuo RV810 - Enrico Casazza (vln), Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli (dir) (Naïve OP 30480)
KODÁLY: Dances of Marosszék - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 322)
FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-1849)
Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Kun Woo Paik (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Decca 475 169)
Rondo in C minor Op 1 - Abdel Rahman El Bacha (pno) (Forlane 16767)
Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Carol Hohauser (fl), Diane Cooper (pno) (RNZ)
Variations in E on Der Schweizerbub - Abdel Rahman El Bacha (pno) (Forlane 16767)
Fantasy in A on Polish Airs Op 13 - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (EMI 5 00906)
JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1472)
DEBUSSY: Nocturnes - women's voices of the Philharmonia Choir, Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62746)
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77 - Daniel Hope (vln), BBC SO/Maxim Shostakovich (Warner 2564 62546)
COPLAND: Billy the Kid - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559106)
Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)
SCRIABIN: Dances Op 73, Guirlandes; Flammes sombres - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Naxos 8.570412)
GRANADOS: L'herba de l'amor - Lucy Crowe (sop), Tansy Castledine (org), Coro Cervantes/Carlos Fernández Aransay (Guild GMCD 7243)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Michael Davis (vln), London SO/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 7008)
SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 1 in E D157 - Gottlieb Wallisch (pno) (Naxos 8.570118)
VERDI: Deh! lasciate a un'alma amante, from Un Giorno di Regno - Juan Diego Flórez (ten), Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Carlo Rizzi (Decca 475 550)
FARRENC: Etudes Op 26 - Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (pno) (Naïve V 5033)
SIBELIUS: King Christian II, Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
Classic performances from the back catalogue
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 - Igor Oistrakh (vln), David Oistrakh (vla), Moscow Phil/Kyrill Kondrashin (Decca 417 759)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 223)
NZ musicians and composers
PRUDEN: Haast Highway - Skellerup Woolston Band/Mervyn J Waters (Kiwi SLD 66)
WELLS: Organ Concerto - John Wells (organ of Christchurch Town Hall), Christchurch Symphony/Brian Law (Ribbonwood RCD 1009)
MERTZ: Hungarian Fantasy - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)
CARR: Nightmusic, Scherzo for orchestra - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)
J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle/Michael Tomascheck (Koch International 324 073)
F COUPERIN: Les baricades mistérieuses, from Ordre No 6; Le Carillon de Cithére, from Ordre No 14; Muséte de taverni, from Ordre No 15; Les Chérubins ou l'aimable Lazure, from Ordre No 20 - Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1956)
RODRIGUEZ orch Damario: La cumparsita - Enrique Tellería (bandoneón), Barcelona SO/José Serebrier (BIS CD 1175)
BOCCHERINI: Introduction & Fandango - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Delos DE 3144)
RHEINBERGER arr Cullen: Cantilena, from Organ Sonata No 11 in D minor - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)
SANCAN: Sonatine - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Love Derwinger (pno) (BIS SACD 1639)
SEIXAS: Sinfonia in Bb - Algarve Orch/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.557207)
LAURIDSEN: Ave Maria - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion SACDA 67449)
SALZEDO: Tango, from Suite of Eight Dances - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7461.62)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Fletcher: Flight of the bumblebee, from Tsar Saltan - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Philip Jones (dir) (Claves CD 50-8503)
RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)
SAINT-SAËNS: Berceuse in Bb Op 38 - Olivier Charlier (vln), Jean Hubeau (pno) (Musifrance 245 017)
BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture & entr'acte - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (Sony SM3K 64103)
FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-1849)
The first two weeks of Composer of the Week for 2010 feature Chopin as we celebrate the bicentenary of his birth
(Week 1) Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss the composer's life and music (RNZ)
Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Linn CKD 250)
Alan Broadbent (pno), Frank Gibson (drums), Tom Dennison (dbass)
GROUYA: Flamingo; DIETZ/SCHWARTZ: Alone together; HEYMAN/SOUR/EYTON/GREEN: Body & soul; MORGAN: Ceora; BROWN: Daahoud; BROADBENT: Continuity; GERSHWIN/ROLLINS/YOUNG: Oleo; ROMBERG: Softly as in a morning sunrise; YOUNG: Beautiful love; DAMERON: If you could see me now; Hot house; I wish I knew; RAKSIN: The bad and the beautiful; BROADBENT: Sonny's step; Journey home (recorded in the Sky City Theatre, Auckland by RNZ)
HAYDN: Violin Concerto in A HobVIIa/3 - Andrea Cappelletti (vln), Scottish CO/James Blair (Il Canale DC U25)
BRETON: Andalusian Scenes - Madrid Community Orch/Miguel Roa (Naxos 8.572076)
11:00 DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 2 in G minor Op 26 - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67572)
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 1 - cellos of the Royal PO/Enrique Bátiz (EMI CDS 7 47901)
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