Saturday 14 December 2013 Rāhoroi 14 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

  (5) Pastiche

  Peter Warlock finds inspiration in 16th century dance steps, Stephen Hough gives Rodgers' Carousel a whirl and Glenn Gould shares his wisdom on fugues (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  LISZT: From the Cradle to the Grave S107; Orpheus S98; The Ideals S106; Hamlet S104 - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

  2:05 approx - Disc 3

  OSCAR WILDE: The Happy Prince; The Rose & the Nightingale; The Selfish Giant - John Gielgud (narrator), English String Orch/Youra Guller (Nimbus NI 5036)

  3:00 approx - Disc 4

  ARNOLD: Oboe Sonatina Op 28; PONCHIELLI: Capriccio; AGUILA: Summer Song Op 26; PASCULLI: Concerto on themes from Donizetti's La favorita; PIERNÉ: Serenade - Katsuya Watanabe (ob), David Johnson (pno) (Profil PH 10001)

  4:00 approx - Disc 5

  SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy Op 25; Concert Fantasy on Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; Canciones rusas Op 49; Song of the Nightingale Op 29; La chasse Op 44; Jota de Pablo Op 52 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572216)

  5:00 approx - Disc 6

  RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; The Birds; Pines of Rome - BBC National Orch of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka, BBC Phil/Patrick Thomas (BBC Music BBC MM 277)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MOZART: Symphony No 7 in D K45 - Danish National CO/Adam Fischer (Da Capo 6.220537)

  SMETANA: Three Salon Polkas Op 7 - Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 4206)

  DELIUS arr Fenby: Serenade, from Hassan - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Assad: Nos 1-3, from Tango-Etudes - Cavatina Duo (Bridge 9330)

  J STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz - London Phil/Franz Welser-Möst (EMI 5 20974)

  7:00 WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

  LITOLFF: Second movement, Scherzo, from Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor Op 102 - Misha Dichter (pno), Philharmonia/Neville Marriner (Philips 411 123)

  DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - François Petit (cl), Carole Carniel (pno) (Ligia LIDI 030 2216-10)

  STRAVINSKY arr Moore: The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei; Lullaby; Finale, from The Firebird - Philip Moore, Simon Crawford-Phillips (pno duo) (Deux-Elles DXL 1081)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D S359/6, Carnival in Pest - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

  8:00 GLIÈRE: Russian Sailor's Dance, from The Red Poppy - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

  GRAINGER arr Wells: Blithe Bells - John Wells (organ of Sacred Heart Basilica, Timaru) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)

  LILBURN: Four Canzonas - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

  ROSSINI: William Tell, Overture - World Orch for Peace/Georg Solti (BBC Music BBC MM 350)

• 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

  MENDELSSOHN ed Hogwood: Hebrides Overture - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 1525)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Violin Concerto in C Op 30 - Tasmin Little (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67389)

  GRUBER arr Meissner: Stille Nacht - Regensburg Cathedral Choir/Georg Ratzinger (DG 477 6299)

  BACH: Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 - Francesco Piemontesi (pno) (Avanti 5414706 10342)

  SCHÜTZ: Little Sacred Concerto, Ich ruf zu Dir Herr Jesu Christ SWV326 - soloists of the Tölz Boys' Choir, Stefan Beckerbauer, Philipp Cieslewicz, Stefan Zwanzger (trebles), Christian Immler (bass), Max Engel (cello), Roman Summereder (org)/Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (Capriccio 10 418)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 21 in Bb D960 - Kemp English (fpno) (Ode CD MANU 5085)

  LASSUS: Aurora lucis rutilat - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (ABC Classics ABC 472 310)

  (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

  (9) Sax Fest (Part 3 of 3)

  Phil Woods is one of the most decorated survivors of the jazz wars and he's from small town America (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Eplemøya Songlag is a female a cappella trio from Norway - two jazz singers and one folk. Their self-titled debut album mixes in these styles in a series of traditional songs covering different facets of a woman's life (NORCD 1091)

  Imaginarium

  French guitarist Kevin Seddiki teams up with Persian percussionist Bijan Chemirani in this recently released album of original compositions and improvisations. Chemirani comes from a family of percussionists whose name has become synonymous with the Persian zarb or goblet drum (Harmonia Mundi 600380)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  45th National Concerto Competition

  With the Christchurch Symphony/William Southgate

  CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - Blythe Press (vln)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 - Santiago Canon Valencia (cello)

  WIENIAWSKI: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 22 - Hilary Hayes (vln) (recorded in the Aurora Centre, Christchurch by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Venetian Scenes

  SALIERI: Sinfonia Veneziana in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9877)

  SARASATE: Barcarolle vénitienne Op 46 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572275)

  LESCHETIZKY: Venetian Ballad Op 39/1 - Hubert Rutkowski (pno) (Acte Préalable AP 0191)

  HUMPERDINCK: Love Scene, from The Merchant of Venice - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Martin Fischer-Dieskau (Marco Polo 8.223369)

  HEAD: Songs of Venice, The gondolier; St Mark's Square; Rainstorm - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0009)

  ERNST: Carnival of Venice, Variations burlesques on the jingle Cara mamma mia - Sherban Lupu (vln), Ian Hobson (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0118)

  MANCINELLI: Venetian Scenes, Suite - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573074)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Violin Sonata in Eb - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in D, Il Combattimento delle passioni umani - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  BEETHOVEN: Irish Songs - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Galina Solodchin (vln), Jonathan Williams (cello), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 5 74206)

  An die ferne Geliebte Op 98 - Wolfgang Holzmair (bar), Imogen Cooper (pno) (Philips 454 475)

  SAINT-SAËNS: French Songs & Duets - Ann Murray (mezzo), Philip Langridge (ten), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Virgin VC 7 91179)

  Clair de lune; Extase; Rêverie - José van Dam (bar), Jean-Philippe Collard (pno) (EMI CDC 7 54818)

  Pastorale; El desdichado - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 5 74206)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Anna Leese (sop), Russell Harcourt (countertenor), James Egglestone (ten), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Orpheus Choir, New Zealand SO/Richard Gill

  HANDEL: Messiah (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in F# minor Op 48/2 - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (Philips 456 955)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, Last Spring; The Wounded Heart - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  BRIDGE: There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)

  11:00 KUHLAU: Flute Sonata in G Op 83/1 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.555346)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 236)

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