Tuesday 1 April 2014 Rātū 1 Paenga-whāwhā 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings; Elegie; Suite No 4 in G, Mozartiana; Sleeping Beauty (orch Stravinsky), excerpts; String Quartet No 1 in D (orch Serebrier), Andante Cantabile - John Doig (vln), Scottish Chamber Orch/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  MOLTER: Sonata in F for two wind bands; Cello Concerto in C; Overture in C minor; Sinfonia in F; Oboe Concerto in C minor; Sinfonia in F - Roman Storojenko (cello), Voichita Popa (ob), Josef Bock (hpschd), Europa Symphony/Wolfgang Gröhs (Arte Nova 74321 40741)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  STANFORD: Stabat Mater Op 96; Bible Songs Op 113; Te Deum laudamus - Ingrid Attrot (sop), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Nigel Robson (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9548)

  3:45 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Three Sea Changes; Sonatina No 2; Prelude (1951); From the Port Hills; Sonata (1956); Nine Short Pieces; Adagio Sostenuto; Two Preludes (1951); Sonata (1949) - Margaret Nielson (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  BACH: Suite in E BWV1006a; Prelude in C minor BWV999; Fugue in G minor BWV1000; Suite in G minor BWV995 - Nigel North (baroque lute) (Amon Ra CD SAR 23)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 410 899)

  PAGANINI: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  FIBICH: Selanka, Idyll for clarinet & orchestra Op 16 - Irvin Venys (cl), Czech National SO/Marek Stilec (Naxos 8.573157)

  JC BACH: Oboe Quartet in Bb Op 8/6 - Keisuke Wakao (ob), Malcolm Lowe (vln), Cathy Basrak (vla), Sato Knudsen (cello) (PentaTone PTC 5186 018)

  ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Philharmonia/Robert Irving (EMI 5 66120)

  7:00 DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

  WAGNER: Pilgrims' Chorus, from Tannhäuser - Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

  HOVHANESS: Bagatelles Op 30 - Shanghai String Quartet (Delos DE 3700)

  MASSENET arr Mikhail: Nakariakov Meditation, from Thaïs - Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Teldec 8573 80651)

  DONIZETTI: Sonata for flute & harp - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Marielle Nordmann (harp) (Sony SK 44552)

  KORNGOLD: Dance in the Old Style - Helsinki Phil/John Storgårds (Ondine ODE 1182)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

  FALLA arr Pekkera: Spanish Dance; FALLA arr Piatigorsky: Ritual Fire Dance - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bernd Glemser (pno) (Naxos 8.550785)

  MENDELSSOHN: Capriccio in E minor Op 81/3 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 5370)

  TELEMANN: Concerto No 1 in G, from the Paris Quartets - John Holloway (vln), Linde Brunmayr (fl), Lorenz Duftschmid (vla da gamba), Ulrike Becker (cello), Lars-Ulrik Mortensen (hpschd) (CPO 777 376)

  DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Royal Flemish Phil/Daniele Callegari (Talent DOM 2929 95)

  SUPPÉ: Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 414 408)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890)

  Les Eolides - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9875)

  orch Ropartz: Nocturne, O fraîche Nuit - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (DG 437 244)

  Piano Quintet in F minor - Pascal Rogé (pno), Quatuor Ysaÿe (Ysaÿe YR 03)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: String Quintet No 2 in C minor K406 - Éder Quartet, János Fehérvári (vla) (Naxos 8.553104)

  BUSONI: Violin Concerto in D Op 35a - Frank Peter Zimmermann (vln), RAI National SO/John Storgårds (Sony SK 94497)

  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)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 86 in D - Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (DHM 82876 60602)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  BACH: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Ramón Ortega Quero (ob), Janine Jansen & Friends/Janine Jansen (vln/dir) (Decca 478 5362)

  VIVALDI: Cantata, Lungi dal vago volto RV680 - Deirdre Moynihan (sop), Ensemble Nota Velata (Naxos 8.573003)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  GERSHWIN arr Robert R Bennett: Gershwin in Hollywood - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

  GLASS: Double Concerto for violin, cello & orchestra - Tim Fain (vln), Wendy Sutter (cello), Hague Phil/Jurjen Hempel (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0077)

  ANON arr Archbishop: O gardener - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

  CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Mirare MIR 096)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BOITO: Mefistofele, Prologue in Heaven - Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1977) (DG 477 5910)

  STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils; Closing scene, from Salome - Montserrat Caballé (sop), French National Orch/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1977) (DG 477 5910)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  CPE BACH: Quartet in A minor Wq93 - Extempore (Atoll ACD 204)

  CARR: Auckland 71, Ode - Heath Lees (narrator), Orpheus Choir of Wellington Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 5 in D Op 70/1, Ghost - Ogen Trio (Ogen OG 0010)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  CHABRIER: España - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

  HUBAY: Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Gil Shaham (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (DG 447 640)

  GRAINGER: Harvest Hymn; Country Gardens - Penelope Thwaites, Wayne Marshall, John Lavender, Rhondda Gillespie (pnos, eight hands) (Chandos CHAN 9702)

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (RegisC 1215)

  ALBÉNIZ arr Couch: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - Luben Yordanoff (vln), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (DG 415 847)

  6:00 MILHAUD: Cantate de la Paix - Hilde Venken (sop), Helena Bohuszewicz, Marleen Delputte (contraltos), Ivan Goossens (ten), Flemish Radio Choir/Paul Hillier (Glossa GCDSA 922 207)

  BAX: The white peace - Patricia Wright (sop), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1046)

  EVANS trans Aitken: Peace Piece - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 455 512)

  BUCHANAN: Peace song - Kathryn Tremills (pno), Toronto Children's Chorus/Elise Bradley (Marquis 81439)

  CLAUSEN: In pace - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5045)

  PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - London Baroque/Charles Medlem (dir) (BIS CD 1135)

  CIMAROSA arr Benjamin: Oboe Concerto in C minor - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0131)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:30 Blackbirds in Autumn

  Karlheinz Company

  WEBSTER: An Infinite Shore; TAYLOR: thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird (recorded at the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 02

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