Saturday 6 December 2014 Rāhoroi 6 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  TUBIN: Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs; Concerto for piano & orchestra; Symphony No 7 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 401)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances; JOACHIM: Andantino in A minor; Romance in Bb - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553026)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  BACH: Cantatas, BWV199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; BWV165, O heiliges Geist-und Wasserbad; BWV185, Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe; BWV163, Nur jedem das Seine - Midori Suzuki, Aki Yanagisawa (sops), Makoto Sakurada (ten), Stephan Schreckenbergerger (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Suzuki (BIS CD 801)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  DECRÜCK: Sonata in C# DELVINCOURT: Croquembouches; SANCAN: Lamento et Rondo; Maurice: Tableaux de Provence; Köchlin: Etudes for saxophone and piano Op 188; DESENCLOS: Prélude, Cadence et Finale - Claude Delangle (sax), Odile Delangle (pno) (BIS CD 1130)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  RAWSTHORNE: Bagatelles; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Delius; HOUGH: Valse Enigmatique Nos 1 & 2; ELGAR: In Smyrna; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Fauré; BANTOCK arr Hough: Song to the Seals; BOWEN: Reverie d'amour Op 20/2; Serious Dance Op 51/2; The way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op 76; BRIDGE: The Dew Fairy; Heart's Ease; LEIGHTON: Six Studies (Study-Variations) Op 56 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67267)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5117)

  GRANADOS arr Kashkashian/Levin: El mirar de la Maja; El Majo olvidado; La Maja dolorosa; El Majo discreto, from Tonadillas al estio antiguo - Kim Kashkashian (vla), Robert Levin (pno) (ECM 1975)

  LASSUS: Timor et tremor - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51521)

  GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)

  HANDEL arr Suzuki: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Terence Dennis (pno) (Naxos 8.572382)

  7:00 WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 2022)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Tatiana Porshneva (vln), Russian National Orch/Carlo Ponti (PentaTone PTC 5186 378)

  PIAZZOLLA: Winter, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Trio Tangophoria (BIS SACD 2108)

  GROFÉ: On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite - London Festival Orch/Stanley Black (Decca 425 508)

  PALESTRINA: Gloria, from Missa Papae Marcelli - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.555319-20)

  LIADOV: Kikimora Op 63 - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Artek AR 0056)

  8:00 MILTON: Carmen Fantasy Op 22 - Michael Collins (cl), Piers Lane (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10615)

  MOLTER: Trumpet Concerto in D MWV4/13 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

  LÉHAR: Suite de Danse - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

  OLDFIELD arr Baker: Tubular Bells, from The Exorcist - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

  BAX: Tintagel - London Phil/Osmo Vänskä (LPO 0036)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

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

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame

  Read by Elric Hooper (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. Your Choice

  BEETHOVEN: Wellington's Victory - cannons & muskets of the North-South Skirmish Association, Cincinnati SO/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80640)

  MOZART: Queen of the Night's aria, Der Hölle Rache, from The Magic Flute - Lucia Popp (sop), Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDM 7 69056)

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3868)

  LAUGHTON: Chartres Cathedral Story

  Charles Laughton tells his own personal story about his discovery of Chartres Cathedral and its head guardian Etienne Houvet - Charles Laughton (speaker) (Capitol TBO 1650)

  TÁRREGA: Capricho árabe - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  RACHMANINOV: It is beautiful here Op 21/7 - Anna Netrebko (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (DG 477 6384)

  TOWER: Fanfare No 1 for the Uncommon Woman - Colorado SO/Marin Alsop (Koch International 3-7469)

  RYBA: Czech Christmas Mass, Hail Master - Gabriela Eibenová (sop), Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Jaroslav Brezina (ten), Michael Pospísil (bass), Capella Regia Musicalis/Robert Hugo (Archiv 477 8365)

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• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  George Wein

  Still going strong in his ninth decade, Wein celebrates his 88th birthday behind the piano accompanied by the latest iteration of his band, the Newport All-Stars, featuring tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin, trumpeter Randy Brecker, saxophonist-clarinetist Anat Cohen, guitarist Howard Alden, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Lewis Nash. (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  We mark some recently celebrated national days from around the world in today's programme. There's music from Romania (1 December), Laos (2 December), and Finland (6 December)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2011 Auckland Arts Festival

  Four programmes

  (2) Bright Light and Cloud Shadows, Sounds of Asia

  New Zealand String Quartet

  GAO PING: Bright Light and Cloud Shadows; CHINARY UNG: Spiral III; ZHOU LONG: Song of the Ch'in; TAKEMITSU: A Way a Lone; TAN DUN: Eight Colours (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Celebrating the Slavic

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Boston SO/Erich Leinsdorf (RCA VD 87881)

  RESPIGHI: Slavonic Fantasy - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Chandos CHAN 9311)

  KREISLER: Slavonic Fantasy - Nicolas Koeckert (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Naxos 8.557388)

  TRAD: Slavonic Folk Songs - Musica Antiqua/Michael Uridge (Symposium 1157)

  STOKOWSKI: Traditional Slavic Christmas Music - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557645)

  PÄRT: Two Slavonic Psalms, Nos 117 & 131 - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7401)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Rhapsody No 3 in Ab Op 45 - Royal Phil/Rafael Kubelík (EMI 5 62863)

  HOHNE arr Gloppen: Slavonic Fantasy - Ole Edvard Antonsen (cornet), Royal Norwegian Navy Band/Ingar Bergby (BIS SACD 1598)

  GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 1 in E Op 5, Slavyanskaya - Moscow Radio SO/Vladimir Fedoseyev (Brilliant Classics 94719)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  VIVALDI: Cello Sonata No 3 in A minor RV43 - Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd) (Musicaphon M 56917)

  SPARKE: The Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

  HUMMEL: Rondo brillant in F Op 127, Le retour à Londres - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557845)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  MASCAGNI: Risveglio; Pena d'amore; M'ama...non m'ama; La tua stella; Rosa; Alla luna; Serenata - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno) (Atoll A 9803)

  SIBELIUS: Finlandia Hymn; Jager March; In the morning mist; Song of the Athenians; The broken voice; To the Fatherland - Hannu Jurmu (ten), Jouni Somero (pno) (Naxos 8.570020)

  Seven Songs Op 13, Under the fir trees; The kiss's hope; The heart's morning; Spring flies speedily; The dream; To Frigga; The young huntsman - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (BIS CD 757)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  NZ Barok/Rachael Beesley (vln/dir)

  BRESCIANELLO: Sinfonia No 1 in D; MOZART: Divertimento in D K136; RICHTER: Sinfonia a Quattro in Bb; HAYDN: Violin Concerto in G HobVIIa/4; BOCCHERINI: Third movement, Minuet & Trio, from String Quintet in E G275; J STAMITZ: String Symphony in A (recorded in St Luke's Church, Remuera, Auckland by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Much Ado with Shakespeare

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - Detlef Hahn (vln), Andrew Ball (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1080)

  FOULDS: Henry VIII Suite Op 87 - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7260)

  WALTON arr Bennett: Touch her soft lips and part, from Henry V - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

  SCHUMANN: Julius Caesar, Overture - Robert Schumann Phil/Frank Beermann (CPO 777 719)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RÓZSA: Ben Hur, Suite for Orchestra - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10806)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - Christopher Millard (bsn), Stéphane Lemelin (pno) (Naxos 8.570964)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished - Boston SO/Eugen Jochum (DG 427 195)

  11:00 ENESCU: Piano Trio in A minor - Remus Azoitei (vln), Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10790)

  VASKS: String Quartet No 4 - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79695)

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