Saturday 21 December 2013 Rāhoroi 21 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Old Wine in New Bottles

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

  (6) Last of the Vintage

  Grieg takes Mozart's Beginners' Sonata to a new level, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble puffs up Beethoven's Seventh and Orff rides the wheel of fortune (RNZ) (next programme 4 January)

  1:00 approx Disc 1

  LISZT: Dante Symphony - Gillian Keith (sop), women of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda

  St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds; St Francis de Paule walking on the water - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10524)

  2:00 approx - Disc 2

  Helsinki by Finnish duo Lepisto & Lehti

  LEPISTO: Helsinki; LEHTI: Vainajalan Tango; LEPISTO: Lansiranta; LEHTI: Sarastus; LEPISTO: Caprice Diatonique; LEHTI: Eskolle; LEPISTO: Concerto Diatonique; LEHTI: Muistelo - Markku Lepisto (accordions), Pekka Lehti (dbass) (AITO 440125)

  2:40 approx - Disc 3

  TRAD: Silent Night; Carol of the Bells; G GABRIELI: O magnum mysterium; TRAD: Joseph dearest, Joseph mine; BILLINGS: The shepherd's carol; TRAD: Still, still, still; O Tannenbaum; The first Nowell; FRIEDELL: Saw you never in the twilight; TRAD: The holly & the ivy; BRITTEN: Hymn to the Virgin; TRAD: O little town of Bethlehem; Patapan; Away in a manger; HASSLER: Angelus ad pastores ait; AVERRE: Did Mary know?; TRAD: Deck the hall; Coventry Carol; MARENZIO: Hodie Christus natus est; TRAD: Baloo, Lammy; I saw three ships; Of the father's love begotten; MANZ: E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come; TRAD: As with gladness men of old; I wonder as I wander; A la nanita nan; Ding Dong! Merrily on high - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenburg

  (DG 429 732)

  3:45 approx - Disc 4

  THOMSON: Symphonies, No 2 in C; No 3; Pilgrims and Pioneers; on a Hymn Tune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  HANDEL: Oboe Concertos, No 1 in Bb; No 2 in Bb; No 3 in G minor; Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3; Sonata a 5 in Bb; Concerto Grosso in C, Alexander's Feast; Overture in D; Hornpipe in D - Heinz Holliger, Neil Black, James Brown (obs), Kenneth Sillito, John Tunnell (vlns), Richard Adenay (fl), Kenneth Heath (cello), Leslie Pearson (org/hpschd), John Constable (hpschd), James Tyler (chitarrone), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 426 082)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MOZART: First movement, Molto allegro, from Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 - Paris Orchestral Ensemble/Armin Jordan (Warner Classics 3984 25544)

  PEDROLLO: Concertino for oboe & string orchestra - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in C# minor Kk247 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

  FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of New College, Oxford, Capricorn/Edward Higginbottom (Erato 0630 14634)

  SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in D D384 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5082)

  BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Signum SIGCD 200)

  7:00 HELLENDAAL: Grand Concerto in F Op 3/3 - Andrew Manze (vln), European Community Baroque Orch/Roy Goodman (vln/dir) (Channel Classics CCS 3492)

  DVORÁK arr Schubert Ensemble: Songs my mother taught me Op 55/4 - Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10719)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Paean to the wilderness; Wedding procession and Tartar invasion; Battle of Kershenets, from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 320)

  MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Vlastimil Holek (vln), Josef Kluson (vla), Michal Kanka (cello), Sachiko Kayahara (pno) (Praga PRD 250 168)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Libor Pesek (RegisC 1099)

  8:00 WALTON: Scapino, Comedy Overture - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS SACD 1518)

  DENZA arr Schoenberg: Funiculì-Funiculà - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

  ROLLA: Flute Quartet in E minor Op 2/1 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Enrico Casazza (vln), Carlo de Martini (vla), Marcello Scandelli (cello) (Dynamic CDS 594)

  VERDI: Grand March, from Aida - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

• 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

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 3 in D Op 29, Polish - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Pentatone PTC 5186 383)

  A SCARLATTI: Cantata pastorale, per la nascità di Nostro Signore - Patricia Lawrey (mezzo), Peter Averi (hpschd), Schola Musica/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 52)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno), Polish Radio National SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (EMI 3 71472)

  WEATHERLEY/ADAMS: The Star of Bethlehem - Richard Crooks (ten), orchestral accompaniment (rec 1925) (ABC Classics CD 38779)

  BERLIOZ: Royal Hunt & Storm, from The Trojans - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (Sony SM3K 64103)

  (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

  (10) So deep, so touching and consoling ... the expressive vocalism of Sheila Jordan (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Christmas in a Folk Style (Sweden)

  Global Sounds goes festive this week. 'Jul i Folkton' (Christmas in a folk style) is the name of an annual concert tour given by a group of Sweden's foremost folk musicians. Each year the musicians perform their favourite carols, songs and instrumental pieces from the Swedish folk tradition, with a few original compositions thrown in for good measure. Today's music comes from an album recorded after one of their concerts (Amigo Music 2005)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Zephyr Wind Quintet

  FRANÇAIX: Wind Quintet; HARRIS: Fanfares for wind quintet (a CMNZ commission); WILSON: Wind Quintet; HINDEMITH: Kleine Kammermusik Op 24/2; HARBISON: Wind Quintet; IBERT: Three Short Pieces for wind quintet (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:40 PM. The Greatest Child

  MATTHESON: Christmas Oratorio, Das grösste Kind - Susanne Rydén, Nele Gramss (sops), Anne Schmid, Melissa Hegney (contraltos), Gerd Türk, Ulrich Cordes (tens), Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thilo Dahlmann (basses), Cologne Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens (CPO 777 455)

• 5:40 PM. In the Spirit of Bach

  REGER: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor Op 29 - Christian Barthen (org) (Naxos 8.572906)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  MOZART: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor K478 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  BALAKIREV: Russian Songs, When I but hear your voice; Over the lake; My restless heart; Selim's Song; I loved him - Olga Borodina (mezzo), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (Philips 442 780)

  Barcarola; When I hear your voice; They keep calling me a fool; Hebrew melody - Mikhail Svetlov (bass), Pavlina Dokovska (pno) (Naxos 8.572218)

  BERLIOZ: The beautiful traveller; Farewell, Bessy!; How dear to me the hour; The origin of the harp; Elégie (When he who adores thee), from Nine Mélodies (Irlande) Op 2 - Thomas Hampson (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55047)

  PUCCINI: Terra e mare; E L'uccellino; Storiella d'amore; Sole e amore - Anna Leese (sop), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 050)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

  The traditional Christmas service, from the chapel in which it was first conceived in 1918, with readings from choir members, Cambridge residents and the clergy of King's College - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Ben-San Lau (org) (Choir of King's College KGS 0001)

• 9:40 PM. Philosopher

  HAYDN: Symphony No 22 in Eb - Sinfonia Classica/Gernot Süssmuth (Landor LAN 282)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHEN/HE: Butterfly Lovers Piano Concerto - Chen Jie (pno), New Zealand SO/Carolyn Kuan (Naxos 8.570607)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 3 in C Op 52 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55533)

  11:00 PILATI: Sonata for flute & piano - Luca Manghi (fl), David Kelly (pno) (Atoll ACD 882)

  D'INDY String Quartet No 2 in E Op 45 - Joachim Quartet (Calliope CAL 3891.2)

Next day - Sun 22

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