Wednesday 17 September 2014 Rāapa 17 Mahuru 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture: Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins; Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CHERUBINI: Anacréon, Overture - CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-9513)

  REBER: Remembrance - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

  MASSENET: Scène religieuse, from Les Erinnyes - Truls Mørk (cello), Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5137)

  S GOSS: Gnossiennes, after Erik Satie - Tetra Guitar Quartet (Cadenza Music CAD CD 0460)

  BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Oscar Shumsky (vln), Scottish CO (Nimbus NI 1757)

  7:00 SCHUBERT: First movement, Allegro, from Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Heinz Holliger (ob), Anton Kernjak (pno) (ECM 2395)

  MILHAUD: Fantaisie pastorale Op 188 - Michael Korstick (pno), South West German Radio Orch/Alun Francis (CPO 777 162)

  RAVEL arr Nicholls: Second movement, Mouvement de menuet, from Sonatine - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Private)

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

  8:00 Beauty Spot: MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Rachel Gauk (gtr) (BIS CD 969)

  Josef STRAUSS: Village Swallows of Austria, Waltz Op 164 - Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber (Sony SK 48376)

  CHABRIER: Scherzo-valse, from Ten Picturesque Pieces - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

  ROSETTI: Symphony in C A9/KI21 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9567)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Third movement, Allegro vivacissimo, from Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 478 5338)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683-1764)

  Thétis - Peter Harvey (bar), Ingrid Seifert (vln), London Baroque (BIS CD 1495)

  Suite in E minor - William Christie (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8011)

  Quam dilecta tabernacula - Véronique Gens, Isabelle Desrochers (sops), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (countertenor), Hervé Lamy (ten), Peter Harvey, Marcos Loureiro de Sa (bars), Stephan Imbodem (bass), Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet (Virgin 5 22027)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 49: Against that time, if ever that time came

  Read by Charles Pierard (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. BBC Proms 2014

  Sixty-six programmes

  (50) Louis Schwizgebel (pno), Royal String Quartet, Katarzyna Budnik-Galazka (vla), Marcin Zdunik (cello), Tomasz Januchta (dbass)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 9 in D K311; MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement in A minor; STRAUSS arr Godowsky: Metamorphosen arranged for string septet (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

• 11:00 AM. The Works

  HORNEMAN: A Hero's Life, Overture - Danish National SO/Johannes Gustavsson (Dacapo 6.220564)

  PLEYEL: Sinfonia Concertante No 5 in F Ben115 - Gaby Pas-Van Riet (fl), Anne Angerer (ob), Hanno Dönneweg (bsn), Wolfgang Wipfler (hn), Stuttgart Radio SO/Johannes Moesus (CPO 777 606)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  RACHMANINOV: No 4 in D; No 5 in G minor; No 6 in Eb, from Preludes Op 23 - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10816)

  SCHNITTKE: Suite in the Old Style - Natascia Gazzana (vln), Raffaella Gazzana (pno) (ECM 2356)

  SCRIABIN: Rêverie Op 24; Poème languide Op 52/3 - Ivan Ilic (pno) (Heresy HERESY 015)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  K JENKINS: Sanctus; Hymn before action; Charge!, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - Paul Beniston (tpt), National Youth Choir of Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

  RUBINSTEIN: Kamennoi-Ostrov Op 10/19, Agitato - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos 8.223847)

  MASCAGNI trans anon: Ave Maria, based on the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Vera Nakariakova (pno) (Teldec 0630 15687)

  GARBAREK: As seen from above - Jan Garbarek (sax), Kim Kashkashian (vla), Manu Katché (drums) (ECM 1880)

  MARTINU: Symphony No 2 - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0382)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 54/2 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

  VICTORIA: Missa Ave maris stella - Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill (rec 1983) (Hyperion CDA 66114)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Diversions for Strings - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  BROUWER: Suite No 2 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private)

  GRANADOS: The maiden & the nightingale, from Goyescas - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Decca 425 820)

  GERSHWIN arr Robert R Bennett: Porgy & Bess, A Symphonic Picture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MASSENET: Le Roi de Lahore, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5137)

  HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Alexandra Koll (vln), Heinrich Koll (vla) (Naxos 8.557606)

  HOLST: Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Alto ALC 1013)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Wedding Cake, Caprice-Valse Op 76 - Nicholas Walker (pno), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 570)

  COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2, The little horses; Zion's walls; The golden willow tree; At the river; Ching-a-ring chaw - St Charles Singers, Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos 8.559297)

  6:00 SHOSTAKOVICH: Adagio; Polka; Dance, from Golden Age Suite - New Zealand SO/Edwin Outwater (Private)

  WENZEL: O golden dream of youth Op 302 - Lars Roos (pno) (Philips 412 998)

  GABRIEL-MARIE arr Herman: Golden wedding - Mark Walton (cl), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

  TRAD arr Beethoven: The golden robe, from 26 Welsh Songs WoO155 - Catrin Wyn Davies (sop), Christopher Maltman (bar), Marieke Blankestijn (vln), Ursula Smith (cello), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 453 786)

  YEGHIAZARIAN: Dances of the golden fish, from Sevan Suite No 2 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 1037)

  BAX: Golden Eagle - Richard Nunn (pno), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9003)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV/ZIMBALIST: Fantasy on themes from The Golden Cockerel - Haik Kazazyan (vln), Andrey Shibko (pno) (Delos DE 3384)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Claire Cowan

  Kenneth Young talks with the NZ composer, artistic collaborator and director of the Blackbird Ensemble (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2014

  Sixty-six programmes

  (51) Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek

  JANÁCEK: From the House of the Dead, Overture; DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GIULIANI arr Dyens: Rossiniana No 1 Op 119 - Roland Dyens (gtr), Quatuor Arthur-LeBlanc (ATMA ACD 2 2397)

  RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 3 - I Musici (Fonè SACD 063)

  11:00 L DUBOIS: Octet for eight chromatic horns - Luc Bergé, Bart Cypers, Miek Laforce, Frank Clarysse, Jeron Billiet, Mark de Merlier, Bart Indevuyst, Bert Vanderhoeft (horns) (Fuga Libera FUG 550)

  ONSLOW: Quintet in G for piano & strings Op 76 - Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet (Brilliant Classics 93203)

Next day - Thu 18

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