Saturday 10 August 2013 Rāhoroi 10 Here-turi-kōkā 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  An Englishman Abroad

  Brian Kay's 10-part collection of musical favourites

  (4) Music on the Move

  Today we celebrate various ways of getting from A to B. Included are Aaron Copland's bucking broncos, Handel's river boat and a short ride in John Adams' fast machine (RNZC)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  BRIDGE: Suite for String Orchestra; DELIUS: Sonata for String Orchestra; BRIDGE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  WAGNER: In fernem Land and Mein lieber Schwan!, from Lohengrin; MOZART: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön; Die Weisheitslehre dieser Knaben, from The Magic Flute; SCHUBERT: In tiefbewegter Brust, from Fierrabras, Schon wenn es beginnt zu tagen, from Alfonso & Estrella; BEETHOVEN: Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!, from Fidelio; WAGNER: Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond, from Die Walküre; Amfortas! Die Wunde!; Nur eine Waffe taugt, from Parsifal - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (Decca 478 1463)

  3:20 approx - Disc 3

  MENDELSSOHN: Preludes & Fugues, in E minor Op 35/1; in D Op 35/2; in B minor Op 35/3; in Ab Op 35/4; in F minor Op 35/5; in Bb Op 35/6; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture; Andante & Variations in Bb Op 83a; Andante & Allegro brillant in A Op 92 - Mi-Joo Lee, Klaus Hellwig (pno duet/pno duo) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 904 1653)

  4:35 approx - Disc 4

  MARAIS: Suite in D; Suite in G; Suite in D for Robert Visée; Suite in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in E Op 2/2 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

  SCHUMANN arr Liszt: Widmung - Yundi Li (pno) (DG 471 585)

  BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor BWV1056 - András Schiff (pno), English CO/George Malcolm (Dal Segno DSPRCD 042)

  MENDELSSOHN: On wings of song Op 34/2; Schilflied Op 71/4; Assai tranquillo; Song without Words in D Op 109 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Jonathan Gilad (pno) (Orfeo C 750 101 A)

  GROFÉ: On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (Naxos 8.559007)

  7:00 LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

  HAYDN: Third movement, Finale, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (Simax PSC 1292)

  PABST: Paraphrase on Sleeping Beauty after Tchaikovsky - Oleg Marshev (pno) (Danacord DACOCD 450)

  TARTINI: Violin Sonata in G minor, Devil's Trill - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Catherine Rimmer (cello), Thomas Dunford (lute), Christian Curnyn (hpschd/dir) (Decca 476 434)

  PUCCINI: Capriccio Sinfonico - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti (Sony SK 63025)

  8:00 RAVEL: Boléro - Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 68600)

  REBER: Remembrance - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

  DONIZETTI trans Stees: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'amore - Barrick Stees (bsn), Sylvia Norris (harp) (Claves CD 50-9815)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: The black swan, from Swan Lake - Erich Gruenberg (vln), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 861)

  STERNDALE BENNETT: The Naiades, Overture - Philharmonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 206)

• 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

  BEETHOVEN: Wellington's Victory, or The Battle of Vitoria (Battle Symphony) - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 624)

  ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 - Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Berlin State Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Decca 478 2735)

  MARSHALL: Horizon 1; To L.H.B., from To the Horizon - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 407)

  GODARD arr Pierre: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (harp), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  SPICER: Kiwi Fireworks, Variations on God defend New Zealand - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 603)

  BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Janet Baker (mezzo), men's voices of the John Alldis Choir, London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI 5 62791)

  SCHUBERT realised Newbould: Symphony No 10 in D D936a - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDA 67000)

  (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

  (2) Jazz from Europe, including Enrico Rava and Jacques Schwartz-Bart (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Central Asian sounds

  Mugham is the traditional classical music of Azerbaijan, and in Global Sounds today we feature some of the current stars of the genre. As well, there's a collaboration between America's premiere new music quartet Kronos, and leading Afghan rubab player Homayun Sakhi (Smithsonian 740527)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Beethoven!

  Six programmes featuring the Complete String Quartets performed by the New Zealand String Quartet

  (6) String Quartets, in Bb Op 130; in C# minor Op 131 (recorded in St Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:40 PM. Going Hispanic

  RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572887)

  RODRIGO: Tres piezas españolas - Pepe Romero (gtr) (DG 479 0073)

  LALO: Symphonie espagnole - Sarah Chang (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Charles Dutoit (EMI CDC 5 55292)

  LISZT: Rhapsodie espagnole S254 - Polina Leschenko (pno) (EMI 5 62666)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  ELGAR: Dream Children Op 43 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

  ROSSINI: Une larme, Variations for cello & piano - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  NORTON: Sonatina - Carol Hohauser (fl), Karen Spiegel-Neumann (pno) (RNZ)

  MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  JANÁCEK: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (DG 463 472)

  The Diary of One who Disappeared, excerpts - Ian Bostridge (ten), Diane Atherton (sop), Ruby Philogene, Deryn Edwards (mezzos), Susan Flannery (contralto), Thomas Adès (pno) (EMI 5 57219)

  Elegy on the death of my Daughter Olga - Thomas Walker (ten), Philip Mayers (pno), Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2097)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Five Satires Op 109, Pictures of the Past on verses by Sasha Chorny To a critic; The awakening of Spring; Descendants; Misunderstanding; Kreutzer Sonata - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 471 581)

  Four poems of Captain Lebyadkin Op 146 - Fyodor Kuznetsov (bass), Yuri Serov (pno) (Delos DE 3307)

  Three Songs on Verses by Robert Burns, from Six Romances Op 62, In snow-girt fields; McPherson before his execution; Jenny - Vassily Savenko (bbar), Alexander Blok (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0039)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Celebrity Recital

  Olivier Latry, Shin-Young Lee (organ of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul)

  DUPRÉ: Cortège et Litanie Op 19/2; TOURNEMIRE: Petite Rhapsodie improvisée; MESSIAEN: Alléluias sereins d'une âme qui désire le ciel; Transports de joie, from L'Ascension; VIERNE: Feux follets Op 53/4; Carillon de Westminster Op 54/6, from Fantasy Pieces, Suite No 3; STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (from Stravinsky's piano duet arrangement) (recorded in Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Plump Jack

  SALIERI: Falstaff, or The three hoaxes, Overture - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9877)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on La stessa, la stessissima WoO73 from Salieri's Falstaff - Ian Yungwook Yoo (pno) (Naxos 8.572160)

  ELGAR: Two Interludes, from Falstaff - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

  VERDI: L'onore! Ladri!, from Falstaff - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), New Zealand SO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

  GETTY: Plump Jack, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Pentatone PTC 5186 356)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 414 557)

  GIULIANI: Guitar Concerto No 3 in F Op 70 - Paolo Pugliese (gtr), Ensemble Ottocento/Andrea Rognoni (dir) (Brilliant Classics 92621)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 219)

  11:00 D'INDY: String Quartet No 3 in Db Op 96 - Joachim Quartet (Calliope CAL 3891.2)

  DEBUSSY: Piano Trio in G - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67114)

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