Friday 16 May 2014 Rāmere 16 Haratua 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132; Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LECUONA: Rapsodia Negra for piano & orchestra; Suite Espanola; Ante El Escorial; Zambra Gitana; Aragonesa; Granada; Zambra; San Fransisco El Grande; Aragón; Preludio en la Noche; La Habanera; Mazurka en Glissande; Canto del Guajiro; Three Miniatures; Canto Sibony; Noche Azul - Thomas Tirino (pno), Polish National Radio SO/Michael Bartos (BIS CD 754)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  TRAD arr Beethoven: Music, love & wine; Bonny laddie, Highland laddie; I'll praise the saint with early song; Sally in our alley; Sunset; Faithfu' Johnnie; Behold, my love; His boat comes on the sunny tide; Enchantress, Farewell; The pulse of an Irishman; To the aeolian harp; O Charlie is my darling; Duncan Gray; To the blackbird; 'Tis sunshine at last; Cease your funning; Oh sweet were the hours; Save me from the grave & wise; Farewell bliss & farewell Nancy; Love without hope; Farewell thou noisy town; He promis'd me at parting; The monks of Bangor's march; Robin Adair; O swiftly glides the bonny boat; Sad & luckless was the season; Come draw we round a cheerful ring; The sweetest lad was Jamie; Come fill, fill, my good fellow - Elaine Woods (sop), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Josef Protschka (ten), Richard Salter (bar), Christian Altenburger (vln), Julius Berger (cello), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Sony SK 64301)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet Op 81; String Quartet No 12 Op 96, American - Hiroko Nakamura (pno), Tokyo String Quartet (CBS MK 44920)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Suite No 4; Masquerade Suite; Music from the Ballet, Circus; Dance Suite - St Petersburg State SO/André Anichanov, Moscow SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.550802)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HAYDN: Symphony No 38 in C, Echo - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 910)

  LISZT: Three Liebesträume - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (RNZ)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro after Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Jacob: English Folk Song Suite - London SO/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

  7:00 GLINKA: Summer Night in Madrid, Spanish Overture No 2 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas d'action, from Swan Lake - Mincho Minchev (vln), Francisco Gabarro (cello), National Phil/Richard Bonynge (London 443 332)

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

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen from The Magic Flute - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 42121)

  LEHÁR: Sirens of the Ball, Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: KORNGOLD: Romance-Impromptu - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (pno) (Nimbus NI 5806)

  BIZET: The Fair Maid of Perth, Suite - Melbourne SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 456 669)

  STANLEY arr Pearson: Trumpet Tune in D - John Wilbraham (tpt), Leslie Pearson (org) (Decca 458 194)

  LISZT: Waltz, from Gounod's Faust S407 - Soyeon Lee (pno) (Naxos 8.572589)

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr Atovmian: Romance, from The Gadfly - Daniel Hope (vln), BBC SO/Maxim Shostakovich (Warner 2564 62546)

  J STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  ERNEST CHAUSSON (1855-1899)

  String Quartet in C minor Op 35 - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10754)

  Soir de Fête - Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 357)

  Chanson perpétuelle - Jessye Norman (sop), Michel Dalberto (pno), Ronald Patterson, Salvatore Sansalone (vlns), Jean-Pierre Pigerre (vla), Lane Anderson (cello) (Erato 2292 45368)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  DVORÁK: Hussite Overture Op 67 - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 425 784)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Berlin State Orch/Andris Nelsons (DG 477 9520)

  JOSQUIN DESPREZ: Missa Ave maris stella - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell CDGIM 044)

  MOZART: Symphony No 39 in Eb K543 - Danish National CO/Adam Fischer (Dacapo 6.220546)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  YAMADA: A Song of Young People, Little Symphonic Poem - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570552)

  FRANÇAIX: Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano - Ensemble Blumina (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 903 1827)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 444 543)

  BARBARA arr Ekdahl: Göttingen - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengan Janson (accordion), Anders Jakobsson (vln), Bengt Forsberg (pno), Olle Linder (dbass) (Naïve V 5343)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - The Music Collection (Chandos CHAN 0800)

  DONIZETTI: Ah! mes amis, from The Daughter of the Regiment - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Eric Garrett (bar), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorus & Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 638)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 12 in Ab Op 26 - Glenn Gould (pno) (rec 1979) (Sony 88697 14855)

  Symphony No 2 in D Op 36 - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (rec 1986) (EMI CDC 7 47698)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BOCCHERINI: String Trio in A Op 38/1 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

  K WILSON: Wind Quintet - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

  TREMAIN: Three Mystical Songs - Anthea Moller (mezzo), Lindsay String Orch/Dobbs Franks (Kiwi SLD 16)

  GERSHWIN: An American in Paris - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI: Force of Destiny, Overture - Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 856)

  GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

  ERNST: Rondo Papageno Op 20 - Sherban Lupu (vln), Ian Hobson (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0118)

  BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book 2 - Julius Katchen (pno) (Decca 417 644)

  SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Dances - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

  6:00 KOECHLIN: Fourth movement, Clara Bow and sunny California, from The Seven Stars' Symphony Op 132 - Deutsches SO, Berlin/James Judd (RCA 09026 68146)

  LEHMANN: Thoughts have wings - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66709)

  ADDINSELL: Cavalry of the Clouds, from The Lion has Wings - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2108)

  MENDELSSOHN arr Ichinose: On wings of song - Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Japan Phil/Shigeo Genda (BIS CD 949)

  WALTON arr Morrell: Spitfire Prelude - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

  GOODWIN: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, excerpts - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10262)

  NEWSOME: Concorde - Philip McCann (cornet), Black Dyke Mills Band/Roy Newsome (Chandos CHAN 6539)

  DAVIES: March Past of the Royal Air Force - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2149)

  TRAD arr Parker: I want two wings - Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Nimbus NI 5568)

  HOLST: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from The Planets - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony SMK 63087)

  LEIGHTON: Give me the wings of faith - Francis Steele (bass), Huw Williams (org), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott (Hyperion CDA 67087)

  Josef STRAUSS: On the Wing Op 230 Polka - Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 662)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Critic's Chair

  Nick Tipping reviews recent New Zealand jazz releases (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  New Zealand Festival 2014

  Five programmes

  (4) GOLIJOV: Ainadamar

  8:00 Kate Mead talks to the composer Osvaldo Golijov

  8:20 approx Ainadamar

  Writer Federico Garcia Lorca's muse, Margarita Xirgu, conjures up the poet's dramatic life and tragic death in front of a firing squad at Ainadamar, at the start of the Spanish Civil War

  Margarita Xirgu................ Jessica Rivera

  Federico Garcia Lorca...... Kelley O'Connor

  Nuria................................. Leanne Kenneally

  Ruiz Alonso...................... Jesus Montoya

  Jose Tripaldi..................... James Clayton

  Bullfighter......................... Frederick Jones

  School Teacher................ Kieran Rainer

  Women of the Chapman Tripp New Zealand Opera Chorus, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:20 PM. Day's End

  MARAIS: Les folies d'Espagne - members of Purcell Quartet, William Hunt (vla da gamba) (Hyperion CDA 67035)

  MOMPOU: Scenes of childhood - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)

  11:00 GADE: Violin Sonata No 3 in Bb Op 59 - Christina Åstrand (vln), Per Salo (pno) (Dacapo 8.226066)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 14 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

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