Wednesday 25 December 2013 Rāapa 25 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  The Concerto Köln Christmas Album

  M-A CHARPENTIER: Noels pour les instruments; J STAMITZ: Sinfonia pastorale Op 4/2; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; VEJVANOVSKY: Sonata natalis in C; VIVALDI: Concerto in E RV270; BACH: Sinfonia, from Christmas Oratorio BWV248; VIVALDI: Concerto for 2 violins, mandolin & strings in D; TORELLI: Concerto Grosso Op 8/6 - Anna Torge (mandolin), Markus Hoffman (vln), Concerto Cologne/Martin Sandhoff, Markus Hoffman, Hannes Rux (Berlin Classics 030 0276 BC)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Christmas at San Marco

  BERTONI: Kyrie in F; GALUPPI: Messe per San Marco, Motet, Adeste Fideles; LATILLA: Sinfonia in G; GALUPPI: Te Deum Laudamus in C - Gemma Bertagnolli, Valentina Varriale (sops), Mary-Ellen Nesi (mezzo), Julien Behr (ten), Clemens Heidrich (bass), Vocal Concert Dresden, Dresdner Instrumental Concert/Peter Kopp (Berlin Classics 030 0063 BC)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  Harpsichord at the Holidays

  Christmas Carols past and present played on the harpsichord - Elaine Funaro (hpschd) (Alienor ARCD 1207)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  RUTTER: Gloria; What sweeter music; WILBERG: Noe! Noe!; WADE arr Wilcocks: Fanfare and O come, all ye faithful; WELLS: Metamorphoses on a Noël; RUTTER: Mary's lullaby; STRAUSS arr Hughes: Feierlicher Einzug; PARRY: Welcome, Yule!; TRAD arr Vaughan Williams/Walsh: O little town of Bethlehem; TRAD arr Wilberg: Ding, dong! Merrily on high; LEIGHTON JONES: Christmas Medley; TRAD arr Leighton Jones: The holly and the ivy; TRAD arr Wilcocks: Unto us is born a Son; TRAD arr Rutter: Deck the hall; MENDELSSOHN arr Wilcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing - APO Brass & Percussion, Music Sacra/Indra Hughes, John Wells, Nicholas Forbes (orgs) (Atoll ACD 342)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  Christmas Dreams on 13 Strings

  GRUBER: Stille Nacht; TRAD: Good King Wenceslas; Lulajze, Jezuniu; Noël nouvelet; Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle; V Lesu Rodilas elochka; Nu Tändas tusen Julejus; Es wird schon gleich dunkel; Adeste Fideles; Convidando está la noche; Les anges dans nos campanges; Maria durch ein Dornwald ging; Canzone d'l Zampognari; SULLIVAN: It came upon a midnight clear; TRAD: In dulci jubilo; I Saw Three Ships; Baloo Lammy; Balulalow; MIOLIN: Azure Christmas; Stellae nocte hibernali somniantes - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS SACD 2026)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TRAD arr Warrell: We wish you a merry Christmas - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2052)

  RAMEAU: Les Surprises de l'Amour, Prologue - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)

  WILD: Improvisation on Someone to watch over me - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10626)

  HUBAY: Czárdas Scene No 4, Beautiful Katie - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Bournemouth SO/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.572078)

  REGONDI: Introduction & Caprice Op 23 - Anabel Montesinos (gtr) (Naxos 8.557294)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

  7:00 TRAD arr Willcocks: Deck the hall - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 207)

  GLINKA: Summer Night in Madrid, Spanish Overture No 2 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

  GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

  DEBUSSY: Jardins sous la pluie, from Estampes - Chenyin Li (pno) (Genuin GEN 12228)

  BOWERMAN: Isolde Fantasy - Diana Galvydyte (vln), Anna Peletsis (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 015)

  WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

• 8:00 AM. Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  A selection of gifts from our listeners - their stories of when music first moved them. In return we play the music for them to relive the experience

  MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 7 49889)

  SAINT-SAËNS arr Hazell: The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals - Han-Na Chang (cello), Aline Brewer (harp), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

  LISZT: La campanella - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1446)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Barry Tuckwell (horn/dir), English CO (Decca 410 284)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Berlin SO/Kurt Sanderling (Brilliant Classics 6328)

  9:00 OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

  BRAHMS: Waltz in Ab Op 39/15 - Julius Katchen (pno) (Decca 436 858)

  HANDEL: For unto us a child is born, from Messiah - Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 421 059)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 - David Oistrakh (vln), Stockholm Festival Orch/Sixten Ehrling (Testament SBT 1032)

  TRAD: Hohe Nacht der klaren Sterne - Gus Anton Mens' Chorus, organ accompaniment (Song Digital 1296)

  BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in A Op 40/1, Military - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 421 032)

  FAURÉ: Pavane - ASMF & Chorus/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 014)

  STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

  PUCCINI: La Bohème, Act 4

  Mimì................................. Victoria de los Angeles

  Rodolfo............................ Jussi Björling

  Musetta............................. Lucine Amara

  Marcello............................ Robert Merrill

  Schaunard......................... John Reardon

  Colline.............................. Giorgio Tozzi

  RCA Victor Orch/Thomas Beecham (EMI CDS 7 47235)

  RAVEL: Boléro - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

• Noon APO Christmas Concert 2013

  Ben Makisi (ten), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Brett Kelly

  BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! HANDEL: Every valley shall be exalted, from Messiah; BERLIOZ: Act 2 Overture, The Flight into Egypt, from The Childhood of Christ; TCHAIKOVSKY: December, Christmas, from The Seasons; ARTLEY: The Ashwell Carol; MENOTTI: Shepherd's dance, from Amahl & the Night Visitors; TRAD: O come, all ye faithful; GARDNER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves; ADAM: O Holy Night; RUTTER: Sans Day Carol; Donkey Carol; SCHUBERT arr Tyzik: Ave Maria D839; FOX arr Lane: Carol Fantasia; MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! the herald angels sing; GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night (recorded in the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland by RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  DELIUS: La Calinda, from Koanga - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 390)

  WILDE: The Selfish Giant - Frederic March narrates Oscar Wilde's story with other actors, sound effects and the music of Lehman Engel (rec 1945) (EMI 5 80254)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Sinfonia of London/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47537)

  FREEMAN: Diana and the Golden Apples - Art Gilmore narrates the story, written by Bud Freeman to Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé (EMI 5 36391)

  CHOPIN: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 420 655)

  MOZART: Queen of the Night aria, Der Hölle Rache, from The Magic Flute - Natalie Dessay (sop), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Louis Langrée (EMI 2 16109)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Dance of the cygnets, from Swan Lake - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 425 516)

  3:00 1812 Overture - Gothenburg Symphony Brass Band, Gothenburg Artillery Division, Churchbells of Gothenburg, Gothenburg Symphony Chorus & Orch/Neeme Järvi (DG 429 984)

  STANFORD: The blue bird Op 119/3 - Glasgow Orpheus Choir/Hugh Roberton (rec 1940s) (RegisC 1280)

  GRIEG: Åse's death, from Peer Gynt - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI CDZ 7 67253)

  HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 456 502)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Ballet Suite No 3 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8730)

  DONIZETTI: Mad Scene, Il dolce suono, etc from Lucia di Lammermoor - Joan Sutherland (sop), Cesare Siepi (bass), St Cecilia Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/John Pritchard (Decca 411 622)

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 400 034)

  FRANCK: Panis angelicus, from Mass for three voices - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Wandsworth Boys' Choir, National Phil/Kurt Herbert Adler (Decca 425 854)

  MUSSORGSKY arr Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on Bare Mountain - Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

  MENDELSSOHN: I waited for the Lord, from Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 52, Hymn of Praise - Ernest Lough, Ronald Mallet (trebles), Temple Church Choir, London, George Thalben-Ball (org) (Pearl GEMM CD 9211)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Paris Orch/Seiji Ozawa (PentaTone PTC 5186 107)

  6:00 ROSSINI: William Tell, Overture - Philharmonia/Alceo Galliera (EMI CDZ 7 67255)

  PROKOFIEV: Peter & the Wolf - Ralph Richardson (narr), London SO/Malcolm Sargent (Decca 421 626)

  MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (EMI 5 66650)

  TRAD arr Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (ABC Classics 472 044)

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - Michael Houstoun (pno) (HMV ASD 9009)

  BEETHOVEN: Fourth movement, Allegro assai, from Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral - Anna Samuil (sop), Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Peter Seiffert (ten), Wolfgang Koch (bass), Cologne Cathedral Vocal Ensemble, West-Eastern Divan Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Warner 2564 63927)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The EBU Christmas Concerts

  Four programmes

  (4) Aurora/Sandra Peter, Luther Ringers/Gregory Peterson, Nordic Choir/Allen Hightower, Collegiate Chorale/Andrew Last, Cathedral Choir/Sandra Peter, Norsemen/Andrew Last, Luther College SO/Daniel Baldwin

  TRAD French: Angels we have heard on high; ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations; TRAD: Patapan; On this day earth shall ring; HOLST: Christmas Day; TRAD arr Warland: Wexford Carol; TRAD arr Prentice: Sing we now of Christmas; TRAD arr Koepke: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming; DURUFLÉ: Sanctus, from Requiem; TRAD arr Jennings: Ding dong! merrily on high; GORIEB/HOSMAN: A king is born; DILWORTH: Sistah Mary; NEAR: Carillon on a Ukrainian Bell; MEALOR: A spotless rose; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Prologue, from Hodie (recorded in the Center for Faith and Life, Luther College, Decorah, Minnesota by USA Radio, Minnesota)

• 9:00 PM. More Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree

  FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  BRAHMS arr Phillips: Lullaby - Huddersfield Choral Society/Brian Kay, Phillip McCann (cornet), Simon Lindley (org) (Chandos CHAN 4530)

  CHOPIN arr Breiner: Third movement, Funeral March, from Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Eschwe (Naxos 8.553596)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 - Peter Donohoe (pno), New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (Private)

  STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring - Philadelphia Orch/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1940 for the Disney film Fantasia) (Festival 45055)

  ADDINSELL: Warsaw Concerto, from the film Dangerous Moonlight - Daniel Adni (pno), Bournemouth SO/Kenneth Alwyn (EMI CDB 7 62038)

  CHOPIN orch Douglas: Les Sylphides - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 864)

  11:00 ELGAR: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Natalie Clein (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 01409)

  PURCELL: If music be the food of love; Music for a while - Alfred Deller (countertenor), William Christie (hpschd), Wieland Kuijken (vla da gamba) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8003)

  GODARD: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Eroica Trio (EMI 5 58002)

  BRAHMS: Waltzes Op 39 No s 12-16 - Wilhelm Backhaus (pno) (Music & Arts CD 1132)

  BACH: Christmas Oratorio, Part 1, for Christmas Day - Lynda Russell (sop), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Mark Padmore (ten), Michael George (bass), The Sixteen, Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16017)

Next day - Thu 26

Download a PDF of this page: Large print | Medium print | Small print