Saturday 7 December 2013 Rāhoroi 7 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Six programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (4) Arrangement

  Vaughan Williams recreates a folk song classic, Rossini's opera becomes ballet thanks to Britten and Britten himself is given period treatment by Julian Bream (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  BRUCKNER: Symphony No 8 in C minor - Dresden State Opera Orch/Christian Thielemann (Profil PH 10031)

  2:25 approx - Disc 2

  Brian Eno's Music for Airports - Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno (Virgin 866495)

  3:15 approx - Disc 3

  SCHUMANN: Piano Trios, No 1 in D minor Op 63; No2 in F Op 80; Six Studies in Canonic Form Op 56 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Tanja Tetzkaff (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (pno)

  4:30 approx - Disc 4

  SALIERI: Les Horaces, Overture; Piano Concerto in C; Semiramide, Overture; Piano Concerto in Bb; Twenty-six variations on La Follia di Spagna - Pietro Spada (pno), Philharmonia/Pietro Spada (ASV CD DCA 955)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 FUNCK: Suite in D - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

  DEBUSSY: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10467)

  SIBELIUS: Impromptu Op 19 - women of Dominante Choir, Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1565)

  RODRIGO: Sonata giocosa - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (BGS CD 107)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 5/10 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 040 301)

  7:00 GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 66650)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - Dag Jensen (bsn), Leonard Hokanson (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 0395)

  TRAD arr Hope: The lark in the clear air - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

  PRAETORIUS: Come, thou Redeemer; BODY: People, look East; WARLOCK: Adam lay ybounden - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Philip Walsh, Andrew MacMillan (org) (Herald HAVPCD 224)

  JC BACH orch Beyer: Viola Concerto in C minor - Hartmut Rohde (vla), Lithuanian CO, Vilnius/Georg Mais (Arte Nova 74321 67502)

  HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  8:00 MULET: Carillon-Sortie in D - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

  FRANÇAIX: Sérénade - Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67323)

  SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67661)

  HALVORSEN: Norwegian Dances Nos 1 & 2 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

  LILBURN: Piano Sonatina No 1 - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)

  MOZART: The Magic Flute, Overture - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2068)

• 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

  BERLIOZ: Queen Mab Scherzo, from Romeo & Juliet - London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 438 307)

  HILLER: Piano Concerto No 3 in Ab Op 170, Concerto espressivo - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Tasmanian SO (Hyperion CDA 67655)

  RUTTER: Lux aeterna, from Requiem - Thomas Harries (treble), Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 5 56605)

  BACH: French Suite No 6 in E BWV817 - Joanna MacGregor (pno) (SoundCircus SC 901)

  PURCELL: Come ye sons of art away, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary (1694) - Kate Royal (sop), David Hansen, Tim Mead (countertenors), Jacques Imbrailo (bass), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 3 44438)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 7 67723)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz Profiles

  Eleven programmes in which Nancy Wilson hosts the Peabody Award winning series chronicling the people, places and events in jazz, with a focus on legends and musical themes

  (8) Sax Fest (Part 2 of 3)

  Johnny Griffin, carrying the flame of Bebop (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Sounds from Spain

  Kalakan is a three-man band that plays traditional Basque music. Singing in Euskara (the Basque language), they accompany themselves on a mix of percussion instruments including the txalaparta, danborrak, pandereta and ttun ttun. And then there's their connection to pop superstar Madonna…

  Also in the programme, flamenco-flavoured compositions from Spanish guitarist José Luis Montón (KML 287223; ECM 2246)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Serenata Italiana

  I Musici

  ROSSINI: String Sonata No 1 in G; Une larme; DONIZETTI: Allegro in C; PAGANINI: Variations on The Carnival of Venice; BOSSI: Three Intermezzi Goldaniani Op 127; RESPIGHI: Aria per strumenti ad arco; ROTA: Concerto for Strings; BACALOV: Concerto Grosso for I Musici's 60th anniversary; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter, excerpt; LILBURN: Canzona No 1; ROSSINI: Boléro (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:55 PM. Stanford & Parry

  PARRY orch Elgar: Jerusalem - Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Vivat 101)

  Lady Radnor's Suite - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5068)

  STANFORD: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in G - Carolyn Sampson (sop), David Wilson-Johnson, Catrin Finch (basses), Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Vivat 101)

  Concert Piece Op 181 - Gillian Weir (organ of Ulster Hall, Belfast), Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7002/3)

  PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Vivat 101)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARR: Sepuluh Jari - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2020)

  HOLSINGER: Liturgical dances - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce/Graham Hanify (Kiwi CD SLC 216)

  HILL: String Quartet No 8 in A - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

  H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts - David Bremner (euphonium), Ashley Brown (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  MASCAGNI: Awakening; Love's sorrows; He loves me...he loves me not; Your star; Rose; To the moon; Serenade - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno) (Atoll A 9803)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia Hymn; Jager March; In the morning mist; Song of the Athenians; The broken voice; To the Fatherland - Hannu Jurmu (ten), Jouni Somero (pno) (Naxos 8.570020)

  Seven Songs Op 13, Under the fir trees; The kiss's hope; The heart's morning; Spring flies speedily; The dream; To Frigga; The young huntsman; The thought - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (BIS CD 757)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Murray Khouri

  Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B minor (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  PRUDEN: Soliloquy; DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104; RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:10 PM. Day's End

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67662)

  FUCHS: Andante grazioso & Capriccio Op 63 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)

  11:00 KLUGHARDT: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 43 - Olga Gollej (pno), Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1652)

  HOVHANESS: Harp Sonata Op 127 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80530)

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