Tuesday 24 December 2013 Rātū 24 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 Op 47; Cello Concerto No 1 Op 107 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein, Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (CBS MDK 44903)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb; Piano Sonata in B minor; Hungarian Rhapsody No 6; Annê de pèlerinage-année 1, Vallée d'Obermann; Annê de pèlerinage-année 3, Les Jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este - Martha Argerich, Lazar Berman (pnos), London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 439 409)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  A Christmas Carol from Westminster Abbey

  PEARSALL: In dulci jubilo; POULENC: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël; LEIGHTON: A Christmas Carol Op 21; WALTON: All this time; LAVINO: Nativity; RUTTER: Dormi, Jesu; CHILCOTT: Shepherd's Carol; DOVE: The three kings; TRAD arr Cleobury: Joys Seven; GRUBER arr Bowers-Broadbent: Silent Night; TRAD arr O'Donnell: I saw Three Ships; HEAD: The Little Road to Bethlehem; MATHIAS: Ave Rex Op 45 - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67716)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  LAZZARI: String Quartet in A minor Op 17; LALO: String Quartet in Eb Op 45 - Quator à Cordes de Paris (Chant Du Monde LCD 278 807)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  DELIUS: Violin Concerto; Two Aquarelles; On hearing the first cuckoo in spring; Summer Night on the River; Fennimore & Gerda, Intermezzo; Irmelin Prelude; Dance Rhapsodies - Tasmin Little (vln), Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras (Argo 433 704)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 DIEPENBROCK: Hymn for violin & orchestra - Emmy Verhey (vln), Hague Residentie Orch/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)

  BOCCHERINI: Fourth movement, Fandango, from Guitar Quintet in D G448 - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (perc), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

  MILHAUD: Fantaisie pastorale Op 188 - Michael Korstick (pno), South West German Radio Orch/Alun Francis (CPO 777 162)

  GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Private)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the snowflakes, from The Nutcracker - Members of the Finchley Children's Music Group, National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 458 595)

  7:00 TRAD arr Carter: A maiden most gentle - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher, Richard Apperley (org) (Raven OAR 924)

  JEFFREYS: Serenade for Strings - Orchestra de Camera/Kenneth Page (Divine Art DDA 25082)

  TRAD arr Poster/Balsom: Nobody Knows - Alison Balsom (tpt), BBC Scottish SO/Lawrence Renes (EMI 6 78590)

  PROKOFIEV: Waltz, from Cinderella - Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 410 162)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Decca 417 599)

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19, Midsummer Vigil - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: RODRIGO: En Aranjuez, con tu amor - Ana Maria Martinez (sop), Albert Guinovart (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9172)

  VERDI: A Masked Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Philips 411 469)

  PASCULLI: Concerto on themes from Donizetti's La favorita - Heinz Holliger (ob), Gabriel Bürgin (pno) (Philips 426 288)

  TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D115 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 476 434)

  WALDTEUFEL: The Skaters, Waltz - National Phil/Douglas Gamley (Decca 460 400)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  ANON arr Horton: A Christmas Festival Overture; FLETCHER arr Newsome: Ring out, wild bells; TRAD arr Rutter: Twelve Days of Christmas - Huddersfield Choral Society, John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome, Keith Rhodes, Anthony Cooke (org) (Chandos CHAN 8679)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Christmas Eve, Suite - Malaysian Phil/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1577)

  ANON arr Langford: A Christmas Fantasy - Huddersfield Choral Society, John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome (Chandos CHAN 8679)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G - Krystian Zimerman (pno), Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 449 213)

  MOZART: String Quartet No 15 in D minor K421 - Cleveland Quartet (Telarc CD 80297)

  RIES: Sextet in G minor Op 142 - Frankfurt Ensemble Concertant (CPO 999 622)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicolas McGegan (Philharmonia Baroque PBP 06)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  RUTTER: Suite Antique - Christopher D Lewis (hpschd), John McMurtery (fl), West Side CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.573146)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Stanton: Six Studies in English Folk Song - James Turnbull (cor anglais), Libby Burgess (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 051)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  LLOYD: John Socman, Overture - BBC Phil/George Lloyd (Albany TROY 015)

  GIULIANI: Guitar Concerto No 2 in A Op 36 - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 454 262)

  MACKY: Not on a snowy night (Te Harinui) - Nicola Sutherland (pno), Wellington Youth Choir/Stuart Douglas (NZ Hymnbook Trust)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Emmanuelle Boisvert (vln), Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

  ELGAR: Praise to the Holiest in the height, from The Dream of Gerontius - Yvonne Minton (contralto), Peter Pears (ten), King's College Choir, Cambridge London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Benjamin Britten (Decca 430 094)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Weber - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (rel 1979) (EMI CDC 7 47615)

  MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDM 7 69499)

  BACH: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor BWV542 - Karl Richter (organ of Jaegersborg Church, Copenhagen) (rel 1964) (DG 423 779)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  STILL: Summerland, from Three Visions - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7192)

  GOUNOD: O divine redeemer - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Barry Rose (Philips 412 629)

  J RITCHIE: Fourteen Christmas Cards - Jubilate Singers, Jubilate Chamber Orchestra/John Pattinson (Jubilate JUB 001)

  MENOTTI: Introduction, March & Shepherd's Dance, from Amahl & the Night Visitors - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7005)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  ALBINONI: Sinfonia in G minor - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0602)

  SCHUBERT arr Forget: Der Lindenbaum, from Winterreise - Christoph Prégardien (ten), Joseph Petric (accordion), Pentaèdre (ATMA ACD 2 2546)

  ODERMATT: Summer, from Three Images Op 18 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

  DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2012)

  ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68901)

  6:00 HESS: A Christmas Overture - Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 10767)

  MARTINU: Christmas, The sledge; Child's lullaby; Christmas carol - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.557914)

  TRAD arr Leon: Deck the halls; HOLST arr Leon: In the bleak midwinter - Hugh Webb (harp), London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Sony 88697 98887)

  TORELLI: Christmas Concerto in G minor Op 8/6 - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Catherine Weiss (vln), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0716)

  ANON: Greensleeves - Ronn McFarlane (lute) (Dorian DOR 90008)

  LANE: Three Christmas Pictures, Sleighbell Serenade; Starlight Lullaby; Christmas Eve Waltz - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225185)

  GAUNTLETT arr Mann/O'Donnell: Once in royal David's city - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Brass Ensemble/Michael Fulcher, Thomas Gaynor (org) (Raven OAR 924)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:00 Resound 2013

  Ten programmes

  (10) WHITEHEAD: Tamatea Tutahi - Sarah Watkins (pno) (RNZ)

  TREMAIN: Symphony for strings - New Zealand SO/Dobbs Franks (RNZ)

  HARRIS: Ave Maris Stella; FRYKBERG: Virgin Mother; SHORTIS: Adam Lay Ibounden - Baroque Voices/Pepe Becker (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 25

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