Friday 26 December 2014 Rāmere 26 Hakihea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BACH: Cantata No 142, Uns ist ein Kind geboren; TORELLI: Christmas Concerto in G minor Op 8/6; MANFREDINI: Sinfonia Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale; LALANDE: Christmas Symphony; FERRANDINI: Christmas Symphony; M HAYDN: Pastorello; J STAMITZ: Christmas Symphony Op 4/2; GOSSEC: Christmas Suite; HANDEL: Pifa, from Messiah; VALENTINI: Christmas Symphony Op 1/12 - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2043)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  Christmas Dreams on 13 Strings

  GRUBER: Stille Nacht; TRAD: Good King Wenceslas; Lulajze, Jezuniu; Noël nouvelet; Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle; V Lesu Rodilas elochka; Nu Tändas tusen Julejus; Es wird schon gleich dunkel; Adeste Fideles; Convidando está la noche; Les anges dans nos campanges; Maria durch ein Dornwald ging; Canzone d'l zampognari; SULLIVAN: It came upon a midnight clear; TRAD: In dulci jubilo; I saw three ships; Baloo Lammy; Balulalow; MIOLIN: Azure Christmas; Stellae nocte hibernali somniantes - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS SACD 2026)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est; Christe, redemptor omnium; Magnificat quinti toni; Tui sunt caeli; Reges Tharsis; Missa Hodie Christus natus est; Song of Songs (excerpts); O magnum mysterium - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16105)

  3:25 approx - Disc 4

  TRAD: Eight Traditional English Carols; TRAD: Twelve Traditional Carols from Hertfordshire; TRAD: Six English Folk Songs - Derek Welton (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Albion ALBCD 013)

  4:20 approx - Disc 5

  TRAD: Introduction to the Great Compline; ZINOVYEV: God is with us, from The Great Compline; TRAD: Today the Virgin gives birth; STROKIN: Nunc dimittis; TRUBACHEV: The Six Psalms; KHRISTOV: The Great Litany; TRAD: God is the Lord and hath appeared unto us; KHRISTOV: Praise the name of the Lord; DODONOV: The exaltation of the Nativity of Christ; TRAD: From my youth; Gospel Reading: Matthew 1:18-25; Glory to God in the highest; F ALEXANDROV: The Heirmos of the Canon & Small Litany; NIKOLAYEV-STRUMSKY: Great Doxology; TRAD: Thy nativity, O Christ our God Troparion; Litany of supplication; KOSOLAPOV: Establish, O God; TRAD: Dismissal; BORTNYANSKY: Many years - Don Cossacks Choir Russia, Marcel Nicolajevich Verhoeff (Christophorus CHR 77336)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CIMAROSA: Il Matrimonio Segreto, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

  OLSSON: God's son is born - Sofia Vocal Ensemble/Bengt Ollén (Footprint Records FRCD 060)

  ENESCU: Aria and Scherzino - Remus Azoitei (vln), Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10790)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in F minor TWV51/f1 - Burkhard Glaetzner (ob), Berlin CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Berlin Classics 1386 BC)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D899/4 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66781)

  STANFORD: Rondo in F - Gemma Rosefield (cello), BBC Scottish SO/Andrew Manze (Hyperion CDA 67859)

  DEBUSSY orch Stokowski: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

  7:00 BYRD: Lullaby, my sweet little baby - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/John Harper (RegisC 1190)

  EINAUDI: I giorni - Daniel Hope (vln), Jacques Ammon (pno), Berlin CO/Simon Halsey (DG 479 0571)

  RAVEL: Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno) (Warner 2564 62160)

  JOPLIN arr Crespo: Solace, A Mexican Serenade - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)

  M HAYDN: Trombone Concertino in F - Norbert Salvenmoser (tbn), Salzburg Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777 538)

  CAZZATI/STORACE/PLUHAR: Ciaccona - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

  TORKE: Javelin - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Argo 452 101)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)

  DELIUS: Air & Dance - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2136)

  HUPFELD arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

  GAUBERT: Pièce romantique - Emanuel Ensemble (Champs Hill CHRCD 023)

  GOODALL: The Seasons, Summer, Cornflower sky; Racing green; End of the pier; Dippers - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

  SMETANA: Prague Carnival - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10413)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  WELLS: Variations on Good King Wenceslas - John Wells (organ of Auckland Town Hall) (RNZ)

  KODÁLY: Hymn to St Stephen - Chamber Choir of Pécs/Aurél Tillai (Hungaroton HCD 31524)

  VASKS: Small, Warm Holiday; Summer - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1194)

  LUNDEN-WELDEN: St Stephen's Holiday - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Trondheim SO/Torodd Wigum (BIS CD 1885)

  TRAD arr Berkey: The Good King/Good King Wenceslas; Gentlemen, God rest ye!/The nine-finger carol; Three kings of the Orient/We three kings - Elaine Funaro (hpschd) (Alienor ARCD 1207)

  NORMAN: Wenceslas - Christchurch City Choir, Christchurch Cathedral Choir, Christchurch SO/Brian Law (Chch Symph Trust CHCH 005)

• 10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

  The 154 Sonnets

  Sonnet No 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not

  Read by Stuart Devenie (RNZ)

• 10:02 AM. The Works

  FOOTE: Serenade for Strings Op 25 - London Octave/Kypros Markou (Dutton CDLX 7238)

  DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (fl), Pierre-Henri Xuereb (vla), Fabrice Pierre (harp) (Calliope CAL 9837)

  HANSON arr Boyd: Merry Mount, Suite Op 31 - Lone Star Wind Orch/Eugene Migliaro Corporon (Naxos 8.570968)

  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 - Nelson Freire (pno), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 7637)

• Noon Musical Chairs

  Departing manager of Radio New Zealand Concert, Roger Smith shares some personal perspectives and favourite music with David Morriss (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MALISE/NUTI: Il mare calmo della sera - Andrea Bocelli (ten), Italiana Phil/Mauro Malavasi (Universal 06025 1746798)

  MOZART: Second movement, Andante, from Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 - Géza Anda (pno/dir), Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica (Decca 473 862)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in C minor Kk48; in C Kk49 - Scott Ross (hpschd) (Erato ECD 75404)

  HANDEL: I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah - Isobel Baillie (sop), Hallé Orch/Leslie Heward (rec 1941) (Dutton Laboratories CDLX 7013)

  SPOHR: String Sextet in C Op 140 - New Haydn Quartet, Sándor Papp (vla), Tamás Varga (cello) (Marco Polo 8.555968)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations Op 120 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (rec 2008) (Onyx 4035)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BODY: Five Lullabies - Tudor Consort/Simon Ravens (RNZ)

  PONCE: Sonata romántica, Hommage à Franz Schubert - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  NORTH: Concerto for piano & orchestra with trumpet obbligato - David Buechner (pno), John Taber (tpt), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 155)

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

  WESTLAKE: Penguin ballet, from Antarctica - Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn (ABC 462 017)

  VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV450 - Xenia Löffler (baroque ob), Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/Georg Kallweit (vln/dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2185)

  HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Lynn Harrell (cello) (EMI CDC 5 56963)

  SMYTH: Two interlinked French melodies, from Entente Cordiale - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Jeremy Woodside (organ of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (ChristChurch Cathedral 2009A)

  6:00 LOEILLET trans Godowsky: Gigue - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223795)

  HUMPERDINCK: Humoresque in E - Bamberg Sinfonia/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-1197)

  ALBÉNIZ: Capricho Catalán - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc TEL 32712)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS orch Stanton: Spurn Point; Van Dieman's Land; She borrowed some of her mother's gold; As I walked over London Bridge, from Six Studies in English Folk Song - Laurence Perkins (bsn), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67453)

  COATES: By the Sleepy Lagoon - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  WHITACRE: Sleep - Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

  PSATHAS: Sleeper - Henry Wong Doe (pno) (Rattle RAT D046)

  CHOPIN arr Krawczyk: Sleep, little Jesus - Accentus Chamber Choir/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 4947)

  J STRAUSS I: Remedy for sleep - Vienna Ensemble (Koch 3-6525)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  New Horizons

  William Dart presents a special Christmas edition (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Emma Fraser (sop), Henry Choo (ten), James Clayton (bar), Orpheus Choir, Wellington Young Voices Choir, Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei

  ORFF: Carmina Burana (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:05 PM. A Little French Programme

  RAVEL: Sonata in A minor for violin & piano (1897) - Tasmin Little (vln), Martin Roscoe (pno) (Chandos CHAM 10812)

  LALO: Symphonie espagnole - Tasmin Little (vln), Royal Scottish National Orch/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 66119)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HANDEL: Rodrigo, Overture - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5234)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Variations on a theme of Beethoven Op 35 - New Zealand Piano Duo (Kiwi LD 6)

  WEINER: Pastorale, phantaisie et fugue - Budapest Chamber Symphony/Tibor Varga (BMC CD 018)

  11:00 STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - Enigma Ensemble (Balance BAL 9442-1)

  TRAD arr Mizzi: Three love poems, Hula; Lahaina; Hana - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Spearhead Music SM 200)

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