Saturday 18 April 2015 Rāhoroi 18 Paenga-whāwhā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  The Stars are Comforting

  The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)

  Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made Beatrice Tinsley a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice also played her violin and wrote home to her family

  Twenty programmes, with letters edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien

  (5) Dallas, assassination, Astrophysics symposium, concerts, Austin; 1963-4 (RNZ)

  12:45 approx - Disc 1

  LISZT: From the Cradle to the Grave S107; Orpheus S98; The Ideals S106; Hamlet S104 - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

  1:50 approx - Disc 2

  OSCAR WILDE: The Happy Prince; The Rose & the Nightingale; The Selfish Giant - John Guilgud (narrator), English String Orch/Youra Guller (Nimbus NI 5036)

  2:45 approx - Disc 3

  ARNOLD: Oboe Sonatina Op 28; PONCHIELLI: Capriccio; AGUILA: Summer Song Op 26; PASCULLI: Concerto on themes from Donizetti's La favorita; PIERNÉ: Serenade - Katsuya Watanabe (ob), David Johnson (pno) (Profil PH 10001)

  3:45 approx - Disc 4

  SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy Op 25; Concert Fantasy on Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; Canciones rusas Op 49; Song of the Nightingale Op 29; La chasse Op 44; Jota de Pablo Op 52 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572216)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; The Birds; Pines of Rome - BBC National Orch of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka, BBC Phil/Patrick Thomas (BBC Music BBC MM 277)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CPE BACH: Keyboard Concerto in G Wq43/5 - Andreas Staier (hpschd), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2083.84)

  CAMPA: Three miniatures, Menuet; Gavotte; Thème varié - Cuarteto Latinoamericano (Sono Luminus DSL 92130)

  DEBUSSY orch Hazell: La fille aux cheveux de lin, from Preludes, Book 1 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

  BEETHOVEN: Andante in F WoO57, Andante favori - Ronald Brautigam (fpno) (BIS SACD 1892)

  DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Plácido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

  7:00 GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572403)

  STATHAM: Landscape No 2 - Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 - Richard Egarr (org/dir), Academy of Ancient Music (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7446)

  LISZT arr Bangó: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Roby Lakatos (vln/dir), László Bóni (vln), Oszkár Németh (dbass), Ernest Bangó (gtr/cymbalon), Kálmán Cséki (pno) (DG 459 642)

  HARTY: Fantasy Scenes, from An Eastern Romance - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

  8:00 SPOHR: The Goblin, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 093)

  BALAKIREV: Islamey - Gary Graffman (pno) (Sony S2K 94737)

  WAGNER: Steuermann, lass die Wacht! from The Flying Dutchman - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

  ROLLA: Flute Quartet in E minor Op 2/1 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Enrico Casazza (vln), Carlo de Martini (vla), Marcello Scandelli (cello) (Dynamic CDS 594)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Liviu Prunaru (vln), Paris Orchestral Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-2210)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

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

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  MOZART: Symphony No 19 in Eb K132 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80217)

  HEBERLE: Sonate brillante - Hugo Reyne (csakan) (Musiques Chabotterie 605007)

  RUTTER: Pie Jesu; Sanctus; Agnus Dei, from Requiem - Edward Saklatvala (treble), Duke Dobing (fl), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56605)

  SANDERSON: Sincerite; THOME: Simple Aveu; FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

  HOVHANESS: Nocturne Op 20/1 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80418)

  RACHMANINOV: Third movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 - London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7 64530)

  ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61 - Ida Haendel (vln), CBSO/Simon Rattle (Testament SBT 1444)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz on Concert

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (7) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  World on a String

  Samantha Dempsey (sop), NZ Secondary Students Choir/Andrew Withington, Brent Stewart (pno/hpschd/drum)

  PARRY arr McGlynn: Jerusalem; MOZART: Dies Irae, from Requiem in D minor K626; MENDELSSOHN: Weihnachten; SCHÜTZ: Psalm 115, Nicht uns, Herr, nicht uns, sondern deinem Namen gib Ehre; BIEBL: Ave Maria; BRAHMS: Vineta, from Three Songs Op 42; ANON arr Keane/Faulkner: Mouth Music; TRAD arr Smith: Scarborough Fair; CHILDS: In Remembrance; GUILLAUME: Twa Tanbou; WEHI WHANAU: Kua Rongo; CHILDS: Requiescat; OSWIN: Lux Aeterna; CHILDS: Sonnet of the Moon; MIRANDA: Bumba Chora; Dende Trapia, from Suite Nordestina; WHITACRE: Cloudburst; BERNSTEIN: America, from West Side Story; HAMPTON: Celebrate!; ARLEN: I've got the whole world on a string; RAPANA: Ta te le fia manatua; TRAD arr Schmitt: Siyabangena; Ke nna yo Morena (recorded in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

• 4:35 PM. In Tandem

  TORELLI: Sinfonia in D for two trumpets G23 - Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Blackadder (tpts), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0716)

  CPE BACH: Duet in C for two clarinets Wq142 - Trio di Clarone (Avi Music AVI 8553162)

  CARULLI: Duo in G Op 34 - Julian Bream, John Williams (gtrs) (RCA RD 83257)

  BACH: Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - Jaime Laredo, Jennifer Koh (vlns), Curtis 20/21 Ensemble/Vinay Parameswaran (Cedille CDR 90000 146)

  LISZT: Grand Concert Piece, after Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words - Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov (CPO 777 896)

  MOLTER: Sonata in F for two orchestras - Europa Symphony/Wolfgang Gröhs (Arte Nova 74321 40741)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FISHER: Pounamu - Uwe Grodd (fl), Kristin Darragh (mezzo), Auckland University Singers/Karen Grylls (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi - NZTrio (Trust MMT 2066)

  HEENAN: War & Peace - New Zealand SO/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  LEONCAVALLO: Aprile!; C'è nel tuo sguardo; Hymne à la Lyre; La Chanson des yeux; L'addio - Plácido Domingo (ten), Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 6633)

  SMYTH: Three Songs (1913) - Melinda Paulsen (mezzo), Angela Gassenhuber (pno) (Troubadisc TRO CD 01405)

  PROKOFIEV: The little green grove; The guelder tree on the hill - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMI 2006)

  Three Romances Op 73, Pine trees; Crimson dawn; In your chamber - Carole Farley (sop), Arkady Aronov (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8509)

  The ugly duckling - Peter Schreier (ten), Wolfgang Sawallisch (pno) (Philips 426 237)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Erica Challis

  Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Fireworks & Fantasy

  Plamena Mangova (pno), New Zealand SO/Julian Kuerti

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23; BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:35 PM. Day's End

  HAYDN: Philemon & Baucis, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

  M HAYDN: Horn Concertino in D - Johannes Hinterholzer (natural horn), Salzburger Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777 781)

  11:00 ROGER: Viola Sonata Op 31, "Irish" - Philip Dukes (vla), Piers Lane (pno) (Naxos 8.573011)

  MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20 - Richard Tognetti, Helena Rathbone, Satu Vänskä, Rebecca Chan (vlns), Christopher Moore, Nicole Divall (vlas), Timo-Veikko Valve, Julian Thompson (cellos) (BIS SACD 1984)

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