Saturday 3 May 2014 Rāhoroi 3 Haratua 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Words & Music

  Five programmes in which Brian Kay explores some favourite territory displaying the words and music in perfect combination

  (5) Flanders & Swann (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish; orch Voss: Opening sketch of "Scottish" Symphony; Piano Concerto No 3 in E minor; Hebrides Overture - Roberto Prosseda (pno), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19; GRIEG: Cello Sonata in A minor Op 36 - Jamie Walton (cello), Daniel Grimwood (pno) (Signum SIGCD 172)

  3:05 approx - Disc 3

  VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G; Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Haines (sop), Nina Stoddart (contralto), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

  4:15 approx - Disc 4

  GLASS: Violin Concerto No 2, The American Four Seasons - Robert McDuffie (vln), London Phil/Marin Alsop (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0072)

  4:55 approx - Disc 5

  TOURNIER: Suite for flute, harp & string trio Op 34; SCHMITT: Suite en rocaille Op 84; PIERNÉ: Variations libres et finale Op 51; FRANÇAIX: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio; ROUSSEL: Serenade Op 30 - Mirage Quintet (Naxos 8.570444)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RAMEAU: Les Indes galantes, Suite, excerpt - NZBarok (Atoll ACD 813)

  LILBURN: Three Sea Changes - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)

  BRAHMS: How lovely are thy dwellings, from A German Requiem - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  CATALANI: Scherzo - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

  RAK: Remembering Prague - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

  DRING: Second movement, Andante semplice, from Trio for flute, oboe & piano - Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7181)

  WARLOCK arr Lane: Folksong Preludes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)

  7:00 BARBER: Mutations from Bach - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559135)

  SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  DELIBES arr Dohnányi: Naïla Waltz - Piers Lane (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67967)

  HÜE: Gigue and Nocturne - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  DAMASE: Sicilienne variée - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - Freiburg Baroque Orch (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2176)

  8:00 MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Bless the Lord, O my soul - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 807526)

  BRIDGE: A Sea Idyll - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 082)

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

  SAKAMOTO arr Bessas: Theme from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

  TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - Delmé String Quartet (Helios CDH 88038)

  RAVEL: Fourth movement, Feria, from Rapsodie espagnole - New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (Private)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  J WILLIAMS: Return of the Jedi, Themes - Prague Phil/Nic Raine (Silvascreen 720 359)

  K JENKINS: Canción azul, from Adiemus Colores - Mervi Hiltunen Multamäki (mezzo), Milos Karadaglic (gtr), Pacho Flores (tpt), Adiemus Singers & Orch of Colours/Karl Jenkins (DG 479 1067)

  MOZART: Rondo in A K386 - Clara Haskil (pno), Vienna SO/Bernhard Paumgartner (rec 1954) (Philips 456 826)

  SCHUBERT: Auf dem Strom D943 - Ian Bostridge (ten), Timothy Brown (horn), Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 57266)

  MONIUSZKO arr Melcer: The spinning girl - Felicja Blumenthal (pno) (Brana BR 0014)

  HANDEL: O ruddier than the cherry; Cease to beauty to be suing, from Acis & Galatea - Oscar Natzka (bass), Frances James (sop), orchestral accompaniment/Eugene Goossens (rec 1942) (Atoll ACD 500)

  DUBERY: Walking Cimbrone - Graham Salvage (bsn), Paul Janes (pno) (Metier MSV 28523)

  VICTORIA: Missa pro defunctis - Tenebrae/Nigel Short (Signum SIGCD 248)

  FUX: Overture in Bb - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (dir) (Vanguard 99705)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (5) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Aotearoa National Maori Choir with The Yoots

  From their WOMAD 2013 performance, the 80-voice choir from around New Zealand sing waiata, ska style (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Performances from the University of Auckland's Llewellyn Jones Piano Composition Prize Concert and Lilburn Composition Prize Concert

  NELSON LAM: Apartment 1609 (...as I drift into misty reverie) - Cindy Tsao (pno)

  SARAH BALLARD: Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet where only Specialised Life Forms Exist - Estrella Quartet

  CLOVIS MCEVOY: Flâneur - pre-recorded electronics

  SVEN PETTERSEN: The Raspberry Press - Matthew Burns (gtr)

  JONATHAN FULLER: MusicBox - pre-recorded electronics

  DAVE MILLER: Too de Vaar - Celeste Oram (vocalist), Angela Kong (vln)

  EVA LI: The Friendship - pre-recorded electronics

  SARAH BALLARD: felsic mafic - ensemble/Sarah Ballard (recorded in the Auckland University Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. Touring the Americas

  DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American - Cypress String Quartet (Avie AV 2304)

  REIS: Three Brazilian Pieces - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Waiata 9501)

  JOPLIN: Solace, A Mexican Serenade - Alexander Peskanov (pno) (Naxos 8.559114)

  BUCHARDO: Argentinian Scenes - Entre Ríos SO/Gabriel Castagna (Chandos CHAN 10185)

  LAURO: Suite Venezolana - Peter McAven (gtr) (Private)

  ORTIZ: South American Suite for harp & orchestra - Alfredo Rolando Ortiz (harp), El Paso SO/Gürer Aykal (ARO CD 1027)

  BRITTEN: An American Overture - New Zealand SO/Myer Fredman (Naxos 8.553107)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Violin Sonata (1950) - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

  DEBUSSY arr Terracini: La plus que lente - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

  FARQUHAR: Magpies & other Birds - Jones & Co (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 7, Scènes alsaciennes - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  R FUCHS: In a strange land; Swallows; The Kaddish; The Nightingale; The death of a child; Redemption; In a strange land; Holy day; Dream; Sonnet to Eade; On the way; Song; Prayer of a blind man; Hymn to God (Hassidich song); Blue; Lament; A New Zealand Christmas - Jenny Wollerman (sop), Margaret Medlyn (mezzo), Richard Greager (ten), Roger Wilson (bass), Richard Mapp (pno) (Rollover Productions)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  We Remember: Music, mateship and memories

  Sara Macliver (sop), New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich

  BODY: Little Elegies; SCULTHORPE: Memento Mori

  (Interval)

  GÓRECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  FUNCK: Suite in D - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

  KROMMER: Oboe Concerto in F Op 37 - Ingo Goritzki (ob), Polish Chamber Phil/Wojciech Rajski (Claves CD 50-9018)

  11:00 J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - Schola Players/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi SLD 77)

  RHEINBERGER: Clarinet Sonata Op 105a - Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer (cl), Hans Eijsackers (pno) (Challenge CC 72505)

  GLINKA: Serenade on themes from Donizetti's Anna Bolena - Russian National SO/Soloists (RegisC 1288)

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