Saturday 20 December 2014 Rāhoroi 20 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2; GLAZUNOV: Chant du Menstrel for cello and orchestra; KHACHATURIAN: Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8579)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonatas Op 5 Nos 1-6 - Ilio Barontini (hpschd), Marco Fornaciari (vln) (Florentia Musicae FLO 69001)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  BRAHMS: Lieder - Elly Ameling (sop), Rudolf Jansen (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66444)

  3:25 approx - Disc 4

  IRELAND: A Sea Idyll; On a Birthday Morning; Soliloquy; Two Pieces, April; Bergomask; Spring will not wait; Two Pieces, February's Child; Aubade; Ballade of London Nights; Month's Mind; Three Pastels, A Grecian Lad; The Boy Bishop; Puck's Birthday; Columbine; Sarnia - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9250)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  MADETOJA: Comedy Overture; Symphony No 3 in A; Okon Fuoko Suite No 1; Ostrobothnians Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9036)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 104)

  WARLOCK: Six English Tunes, The witch; Daphne; Strawberry leaves; Tickle my toe; Sweet youth; A toy - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Solveig's Song, from Peer Gynt Op 23; Ingrid's Lament Op 55/1 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  BOISMORTIER: Sonata in G Op 50/2 - Peter Whelan (bsn), Ensemble Marsyas (Linn CKD 435)

  RESPIGHI: Second movement, L'Adorazione dei Magi, Three Botticelli Pictures - Bonn Beethoven Orch/Stefan Blunier (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 937 16776)

  7:00 WEBER: Invitation to the Dance - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 336)

  BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Un sueño en la floresta - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 479 0063)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Ballade in G minor Op 16/1 - Tasmin Little (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67389)

  BRIDGE: An Irish Melody, The Londonderry Air - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 68003)

  M HAYDN: Symphony No 15 in D - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 154)

  8:00 GERMAN: Nell Gwyn, Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223419)

  BOWERMAN: String Quartet on a Prelude, Chorale & Fugue of César Franck - Bronte Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

  HUBAY ed Huszár: Poèmes Hongrois Op 27/1 & 6 - Péter Bársony (vla), Márta Gulyás (pno) (Hungaroton Classic HCD 32626)

  GRIFFES: The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559164)

  PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)

• 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 143: Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch

  Read by Cameron Rhodes (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. Your Choice

  MEYERBEER: The Skaters, from The Prophet - Barcelona SO/Michal Nesterowicz (Naxos 8.573076)

  HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 85 - Stephen Hough (pno), English CO/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8507)

  S ADAMS: Star of Bethlehem - Aled Jones (treble), BBC Welsh SO/Robin Stapleton (BBC CD 569)

  HAYDN: Trio in F for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/17 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), Christopher Hinterhuber (pno) (Naxos 8.572667)

  PUCCINI: Mario! Mario! Mario! from Tosca - Maria Callas (sop), Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), La Scala Orch, Milan/Victor de Sabata (EMI CDC 7 47175)

  DEBUSSY arr Terracini: La fille aux cheveux de lin - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

  PÄRT: Christmas Lullaby; REGER: Maria Wiegenlied - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Hespèrion XXI, Paul Badura-Skoda (pno) (Alia Vox AV 9826)

  MOMPOU: I, Angelico; II, Lent; XXVII, Lento molto; XXIV, Moderato, from Música callada - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)

  ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 - Royal Choral Society, BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Philips 454 172)

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

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  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz on Concert

  The Art of Jazz

  An end of year special presented by Phil Broadhurst (RNZ)

   

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Princes amongst men: Journeys with gypsy musicians

  In 2003, New Zealand music journalist Garth Cartwright travelled across four Balkans states - Serbia, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria - meeting with Romani musicians and asking them about their lives, music and opinions. This compilation CD, which shares its title with Cartwright's book of his experiences, features the music of some of these musicians (Asphalt Tango Records CD-ATR 1608)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2011 Auckland Arts Festival

  Four programmes

  (4) Spirit of India

  Pandit Rajendra Prasanna (bansuri/shehnai), Rishab Prasanna (bansuri), Vikas Babu (shehnai), Subh Maharaj (tabla) (recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 4:50 PM. The Seasons

  KLUGHARDT: Concert Overture Op 30, Im Frühling - Dessau Anhalt Phil/Antony Hermus (CPO 777 693)

  A BUTTERWORTH: Summer Music Op 77 - Graham Salvage (bsn), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Arthur Butterworth (ASV White Line CD WHL 2132)

  GOODALL: The Seasons, Autumn, Russet fall; Charcoal burning; Cider harvest; Poppies - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

  BLOCH: Hiver-Printemps - Luxembourg Phil/David Shallon (Timpani 1C 1052)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  GRAINGER arr Wells: Blythe Bells - John Wells (organ of Sacred Heart Basilica, Timaru) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)

  R CLARKE: The tiger; Tears; God made a tree; Come, oh come, my life's delight; Greeting; The donkey - Patricia Wright (sop), Kathron Sturrock (pno) (Guild GMCD 7208)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Puss in Boots & the White Cat, from Sleeping Beauty - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  PRUDEN: Looking for a lost guinea-pig at daybreak - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 78)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 570)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  BERLIOZ: The beautiful traveller; Farewell, Bessy!; How dear to me the hour; The origin of the harp; Elégie (When he who adores thee), from Nine Mélodies (Irlande) Op 2 - Thomas Hampson (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55047)

  PUCCINI: Terra e mare; E L'uccellino; Storiella d'amore; Sole e amore - Anna Leese (sop), Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 050)

  BALAKIREV: Embrace, kiss; Spanish Song - Daniil Shtoda (ten), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (EMI 5 74232)

  Russian Songs, When I but hear your voice; Over the lake; My restless heart; Selim's Song; I loved him - Olga Borodina (mezzo), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (Philips 442 780)

  R FUCHS: A New Zealand Christmas - Jenny Wollerman (sop), Margaret Medlyn (mezzo), Richard Greager (ten), Roger Wilson (bass), Richard Mapp (pno) (Rollover Productions 2010A)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

  A service led by the Very Reverend Frank Nelson, with readings from the staff, clergy and choir members - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher (dir), Richard Apperley (org) (recorded in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Handel's Self Borrowings

  Act 3 Overture, from The Occasional Oratorio - David Woodcock, Miles Golding (vlns), Jane Coe (cello), King's Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 66961/2)

  Concerto Grosso in G Op 6/1 - Combattimento Consort, Amsterdam/Jan Willem de Vriend (Challenge Classics CC 72570)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HINDEMITH: Violin Sonata in E - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), Péter Nagy (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68014)

  KODÁLY: Háry János Suite - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572749)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572705)

  11:00 CHOPIN: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65 - Pierre Fournier (cello), Jean Fonda (pno) (DG 477 5939)

  SMETANA: Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 - Feininger Trio (Avi 8553293)

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