Tuesday 11 March 2014 Rātū 11 Poutū-te-rangi 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica; Symphony No 8 in F - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos (Naxos 8.553475)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in C minor Op 40/2; SCHUMANN: Arabeske Op 18; Stucklein Op 99/1; LISZT: Il Pensieroso; BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1; GRIEG: Arietta Op 12/1; FAURÉ: Fantasia in Ab Op 84/2; DEBUSSY: Et la line descend sur le temple qui fut; La fille aux cheveux de lin; SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1; GRANADOS: Danza Española No 5 in E minor; SCRIABIN: Etude in F# Op 42/4; RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G# minor Op 32/12; RAVEL: Sonatine; BARTÓK: No 1 from 3 Rondos on Folk Tunes - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3 WAL 80432)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  VERDI: Solingo, errante, misero, from Ernani; BELLINI: Adalgisa!....; Ma di'…, from Norma; PONCHIELLI: Ecco la barca, addio; Deh! Non turbare, from La Gioconda; VERDI: Già nella notte densa, from Otello; Madre, non dormi?, from Il Trovatore - Joan Sutherland (sop), Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Jake Gardner (bar), New York City Opera Orchestra/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 587)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  TELEMANN: Overture in Bb; Quartet in E minor; Concerto in Eb; Trio in D; Solo in G minor for oboe; Conclusion in B - Ensemble Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Accent ACC 78643)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge Op 10; Elegy for unaccompanied viola; Lachrymae; Variation on Sellenger's Round of Byrd; Chacony - Gérard Caussé (vla), Toulouse National CO/Bojidar Bratoev (Auvidis A 6124)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 ABEL: Symphony in G Op 7/1 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

  PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Portrait of Madame Butterfly - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

  MILFORD: Two Orchestral Interludes Op 19e, Mr John Peel passes by; Mr Ben Jonson's pleasure - Julian Sperry (fl), Julian Milford (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67444)

  FALLA arr Kochanski: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Jesús Angel León (vln), Miguel Angel Muñoz (pno) (Verso VRS 2018)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 552)

  7:00 ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

  J WILLIAMS: Schindler's List theme - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 5338)

  KETÈLBEY: In a Persian Market - New Symphony Orch of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)

  MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Domus (Virgin VC 7 90739)

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

  8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: The Song of Apollo's Priestess, from Four Songs Op 33 - Karita Mattila (sop), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 445 182)

  DEBUSSY: Scottish March - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Chandos CHSA 5102)

  SARASATE: Gavotte after Mignon - Tianwa Yang (vln), Markus Hadulla (pno) (Naxos 8.570192)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

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

  WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 3 & Bridal Procession - Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (Private)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908)

  Sadko Op 5 - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572787)

  Two Songs of the Venetian Merchant, from Sadko - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Kirov Orch, St Petersburg/Valéry Gergiev (Philips 454 395)

  String Sextet in A - Kocian String Quartet, Joseph Kluson (vla), Michal Kanka (cello) (Praga PRD 250 188)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian - Orch of the Eighteenth Century/Franz Brüggen (Glossa GCD 921117)

  SCHUMANN: Introduction & Allegro Op 134 - Michel Dalberto (pno), Vienna SO/Eliahu Inbal (Denon CO 75859)

  BRUCKNER: Mass No 3 in F minor - Lennek Ruiten (sop), Iris Vermillion (mezzo), Shawn Mathey (ten), Franz-Josef Selig (bass), Berlin Radio Choir, Swiss Romande Orch/Markus Janowski (Pentatone 5186 501)

  SMETANA: March for the Shakespeare Festival - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  HINDEMITH: Violin Sonata in C - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), Péter Nagy (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68014)

  BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (LSO Live LSO 0733)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Sweet Richard WoO155/18; Since greybeards inform us WoO153/4, from Irish & Welsh Songs - Lynne Dawson (sop), Alida Schat (vln), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Bart van Oort (fpno) (Berlin Classics 001639)

  LLOYD: Concerto for violin and strings - Cristina Anghelescu (vln), Philharmonia/David Parry (Albany TROY 316)

  RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 1 - Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 419 868)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 127 - Weller Quartet (rec 1969) (Decca 475 6796)

  SCHUBERT: Rondo in A D951 - Christoph Eschenbach, Justus Frantz (pno duet) (rec 1978/79) (Brilliant Classics 92858)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  ELGAR: Froissart Overture Op 19 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  J RITCHIE: Concertino in A for clarinet & strings - Marina Sturm (cl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Trust MMT 2040)

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in G minor (Grave g1) - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553974)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

  CHAMINADE orch Uy: Automne - Michael Guttman (vln), Royal Phil/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 855)

  HUMMEL: Variations on a theme by Mozart Op 34/3 - Madoka Inui (pno) (Naxos 8.572736)

  KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh, excerpts - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

  J STRAUSS II: Voices of Spring - Berlin Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 3984 24489)

  6:00 BENNETT: Murder on the Orient Express - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9867)

  GLAZUNOV: Oriental romance Op 27/2 - Ekaterina Sementchuk (mezzo), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1881)

  RACHMANINOV: Oriental Dance Op 2/2 - Moray Welsh (cello), Martin Roscoe (pno) (Black Box BBM 1044)

  GLINKA: Oriental Dances in Chernomor's Castle, from Ruslan & Lyudmila - USSR State Academic SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01449)

  ALBÉNIZ trans Marchionda: Oriental, from Spanish Songs Op 232 - Stephen Marchionda (gtr) (MDG 903 1739)

  HANDEL: Splenda l'alba in oriente - Gérard Lesne (countertenor), Il Seminario Musicale (Virgin VC 7 91480)

  PETERSON-BERGER: Oriental Dance - Norrköping SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 564)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:30 Auckland CO's Jazz Symphony concert from 2013

  CRUMB: Eleven Echoes of Autumn; ANTHEIL: A Jazz Symphony; MARTINU: La Revue de Cuisine; BERWALD: Septet (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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