Schedule for Thursday 26 December 2013

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

BACH: Cantata No 142, Uns ist ein Kind geboren; TORELLI: Christmas Concerto in G minor Op 8/6; MANFREDINI: Sinfonia Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale; LALANDE: Christmas Symphony; FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony; M HAYDN: Pastorello; J STAMITZ: Christmas Symphony Op 4/2; GOSSEC: Christmas Suite; HANDEL: Pifa, from Messiah; VALENTINI: Christmas Symphony Op 1/12 - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

TALLIS: Videte miraculum, TAVERNER: Audivi vocem de caelo, BYRD: Rorate caeli desuper, TALLIS: Missa Puer natus est nobis, Gloria, BYRD: Tollite portas, TALLIS: Missa Puer natus est nobis, Sanctus & Benedictus, BYRD: Ave Maria, TALLIS: Missa Puer natus est nobis, Agnus Dei, BYRD: Ecce virgo concipiet, WHITE: Magnificat, TRAD: Puer natus est nobis (chant), SHEPPARD: Verbum caro factum est - Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7517)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

WILLCOCK: Southern Star; RUTTER: Mary's lullaby; LEIGHTON JONES: Jesus Christ the apple tree; That Lord that lay in assë stall; KIRKPATRICK: Away in a manger; A CARTER: Mary's Magnificat; BRITTEN: A Ceremony of Carols - Jonathan Bradley (org), Siobhán Stagg, Kristy Biber, Clare Kenyon, Suzanne Shakespeare (sops), Marshall McGuire (harp), Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics ABC 476 6349)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

Joy to the World: An American Christmas

TRAD: I wonder as I wander; O magnum mysterium; LAURINDSEN: O magnum mysterium; TRAD: Joy to the World; It came upon the midnight clear; HOLST: In the bleak midwinter; BILLINGS: Shepherds, rejoice!; TRAD: In dulci jubilo (original English); CHILCOTT: The Shepherd's carol; RUTTER: There is a flower; TRAD American: O little town of Bethlehem; TRAD: Angels we have heard on high; HOWELLS: A spotless rose; H PRAETORIUS: In dulci jubilo (German); BASSI: Quem pastores laudavere; BILLINGS: A Virgin Unspotted; RL Pearsall: In dulci jubilo; TRAD: O little town of Bethlehem; LEONTOVICH: Carol of the Bells - Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16117)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

LISZT: Christmas Tree; Weihnachtslied; Via Crucis; Chorale - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66388)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 DELIUS: Spring morning, from Three Small Tone Poems - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)
HAMILTON: Ohana i runga rawa - Sarah Jeffrey (ob), Toronto Children's Chorus/Elise Bradley (Marquis 81439)
GLICK: Magic Prayer - Joaquin Valdepeñas (cl), Kathryn Tremills (pno), Toronto Children's Chorus/Elise Bradley (Marquis 81439)
LESLIE arr Calvert: Cape Breton Lullaby - Toronto Children's Chorus/Elise Bradley, Michel Ross (pno) (Marquis 81439)
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in D Op 3/6 - Northern Sinfonia of England/George Malcolm (dir) (Resonance CD RSN 3065)
GOODALL: The Seasons, Summer - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)
BERWALD: Racing - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)
7:00 CORNELIUS arr Atkins: The Three Kings - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation (ABC Classics 472 044)
YORK: Andecy - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Sony 88697 45456)
BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in A G475 - Enrico Bronzi (cello/dir), Verona Accademia i Filarmonici (Brilliant Classics 92618)
FOOTE: Air, from Air & Gavotte - Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay (dir) (Capriccio 10 505)
ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 66173)
GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)
8:00 Beauty Spot: GIORDANI: Caro mio ben - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), György Fischer (pno) (Decca 448 300)
BRIDGE: Rosemary; Canzonetta - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)
HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Alexandra Koll (vln), Heinrich Koll (vla) (Naxos 8.557606)
HERBERT: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)
FORSTER: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Lajos Lencsés (ob), La Follia Instrumental Ensemble/Christophe Poiget (dir) (Hänssler CD 98.217)
SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774 - Louis Schwizgebel (pno) (Aparte AP 067)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Running Set - Royal Liverpool Phil/James Judd (Naxos 8.572304)
9:00 AM. Christmastide

BODY: Carol to St Stephen - 1992 NZ National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto - L'Arte del Mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (Phoenix Edition 149)
LUNDEN-WELDEN: St Stephen's Holiday - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Trondheim SO/Torodd Wigum (BIS CD 1885)
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Suite - Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Telarc SACD 60650)
10:00 AM. The Works

BACH: English Suite No 1 in A BWV806 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 60276)
RODRIGO: Concierto pastoral - Jennifer Stinton (fl), English CO/Steuart Bedford (Alto ALC 1090)
RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Cuarteto Casals (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 8390.91)
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Olivier Latry (org), Philadelphia Orch/Christoph Eschenbach (Ondine ODE 1094)
Noon Summer Sonic

1928 Columbia Competition
To mark the centenary of the death of Schubert the 'Columbia Graphophone Company of Great Britain' held a much-publicised competition for composers to submit a completion of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony.
Were they serious? Well, there were 513 entries but the winning work became known as the 'Dollar Symphony' and caused an international controversy. Presented by Steve Danby (RNZ)
SCHUBERT: Allegretto in C minor D915 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)
String Quartet No 15 in G D887 - New Zealand String Quartet (Trust MMT 2062)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

BYRD: La volta; Ad Dominum cum tribularer - Sophie Yates (virginal), I Fagiolini, Fretwork/Robert Hollingworth (Chandos CHAN 0578)
WEBER: Piano Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 32 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDA 66729)
ELGAR: Sea Pictures Op 37 - Roderick Williams (bar), BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7243)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
HAYDN: Symphony No 43 in Eb, Mercury - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (rec 1989) (Archiv 435 001)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 16 - Emanuel Ax (pno), Isaac Stern (vln), Jaime Laredo (vla), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (rel 1986) (Sony SK 53339)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers
CARR: Sinfonietta - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1077)
L MOZART: Sinfonia pastorale in G - Edward Allen (horn), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553347)
CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 4 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)
WELLS: Variations on Good King Wenceslas - John Wells (organ of Auckland Town Hall) (RNZ)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

M-A CHARPENTIER: Prelude, from Te Deum - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (DG 457 357)
DECORTI: Arabesque - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)
SIBELIUS: Humoresques Op 87 - Joseph Swensen (vln), Finnish Radio SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste (RCA 09026 60444)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)
DUBERY: Sonatina for oboe & piano - Richard Simpson (ob), Paul Janes (pno) (Metier MSV 28523)
ALFVÉN: See how brightly shines the star; SIXTEN: Mary's lullaby - Jeanette Köhn (sop), Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)
GIBBS: Almayne, from Four Harmonisations for String Orchestra - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67093)
6:00 MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: The Great Gate of Kiev, from Pictures at an Exhibition - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 2 17448)
HANDEL arr Tarkmann: Air & Variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Guilhaume Santana (bsn), Monika Razynska (hpschd) (DG 476 5681)
SULLIVAN: Overture, from Cox and Box - BBC National Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10321)
PÄRT: The Woman with the Alabaster Box - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Universal 476 3160)
FRIEDMAN: Music Box - Yun-Yi Qin (pno) (Naxos 8.572341)
BEBEY: The magic box - John Williams (gtr) (Sony SK 89483)
SATIE orch Milhaud: Jack-in-the-Box - London Festival Players/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 421 395)
FORSYTHE: Golyardes' Grounde - Canadian Brass (Vanguard Records VCD 72018)
LEHÁR: Gold & Silver Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)
7:00 PM. Appointment

In Memoriam John Amis (1922-2013)
In 1985 John Amis recorded 13 programmes for RNZ Concert under the title Amiscellany in which he recalled some of the music and personalities he had encountered on his travels as a wandering miscellanist. In Crrrrrrr-RITic! John Amis talks about his work as the London music critic for The Scotsman (RNZ)
7:40 approx John Amis was, for many years, the manager of Sir Thomas Beecham
ROSSINI: La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Overture - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1961) (EMI CDZ 7 67255)
DELIUS: Hassan, closing scene - Jan van der Gucht (ten), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus, London Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1938) (Naxos 8.110906)
BERLIOZ: March, from The Trojans - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1951) (BBC Legends BBCL 4065)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Ilya Gringolts (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Nicholas Kraemer
HAYDN: Symphony No 85 in Bb, La Reine; MOZART: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

REINECKE: Trio in A minor Op 188 - Luc Bergé (horn), Marcel Ponseele (ob), Jan Michiels (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 541)
DEBUSSY orch Debussy/Caplet: La Boîte à joujoux - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572568)
11:00 STRAVINSKY: Suite italienne - Susanne Beer (cello), Gareth Hancock (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25068)
IBERT: Six harp pieces, Matin sur l'eau; Scherzetto; En barque, le soir; Ballade; Reflets dans l'eau; Fantaisie - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28908)