Monday 20 April 2015 Rāhina 20 Paenga-whāwhā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ALFVÉN: Suite from The Mountain King; Symphony No 5 in A minor; Elegy from Gustav Adolf II - Royal Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 585)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  BRUNETTI: Symphonies, No 26 in Bb; No 22 in G minor; No 36 in A - Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 489)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch (EMI CDC 7 47970)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  TAKTAKISHVILI: Sonata for flute & piano; FELD: Sonata for flute & piano; GUBAIDULINA: Allegro Rustico; Sounds of the Forest; AMIROV: Six pieces for flute & piano; MARTINU: Sonata for flute & piano, First Sonata - Leslie Newman (fl), Amanda Hurton (pno) (Cala CACD 88026)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  J STRAUSS II: Vienna Blood, Waltz; Champagne Polka; Vienna Bonbons, Waltz; New Pizzicato Polka; Liebeslieder, Waltz; Hungarian Polka; Artists Life, Waltz; Bandits Galop; Russian March; Thunder & Lightning Polka; Morning Papers, Waltz; Josef STRAUSS: Holiday Trip Polka; Village Swallows, Waltz; J STRAUSS II: Kaiser Franz Joseph I Jubilee March - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 425 428)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 PURCELL: The Gordian Knot Unty'd, incidental music - Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7110)

  ERNST: Rondo Papageno Op 20 - Sherban Lupu (vln), Ian Hobson (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0118)

  KLEMPERER: Merry Waltz, from Das Ziel - New Philharmonia/Leopold Stokowski (BBC Legends BBCL 4205)

  WIDOR: Romance, from Suite Op 34 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Prelude & Fugues, No 3 in A minor; No 4 in E, from The Well-Tempered Guitars Op 199 - Andrea Pace, Cristiano Poli Cappelli (gtrs) (Brilliant Classics 94833)

  MOZART: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Symphony No 29 in A K201 - Berlin Phil/Academy Orch/Stephan Frucht (Sony 88697 68582)

  7:00 HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA 09026 68999)

  BIZET: Minuet & Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Slovak Phil/Anthony Bramall (Naxos 8.558058)

  HUBAY: Maggiolata Op 15/2 - Péter Bársony (vla), Márta Gulyás (pno) (Hungaroton Classic HCD 32626)

  SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

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

  RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs - Basque National Orch/Gilbert Varga (Claves CD 50-2101)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PACHELBEL: Canon in D - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CMS 5 66650)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Rhapsody of the Auvergne - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  TRIEBENSEE: Variations on a theme of Haydn from Symphony No 94, Surprise - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor anglais) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

  HERBERT: Three pieces for string orchestra, Air de ballet; Forget-me-not; Sunset - South West German CO/Sebastian Tewinkel (CPO 777 576)

  GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9630)

  L MOZART: Toy Symphony in G - Toulouse CO/Georges Armand (vln/dir) (EMI CDZ 7 62516)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  GIACINTO SCELSI (1905-1988)

  First & third movements, Mosso, con spirito; Mosso, from Hispania - Stephen Clarke (pno) (Mode Records 227)

  Kya - François Houle (cl), Turning Point Ensemble/Owen Underhill (ATMA ACD 2 2394)

  9:35 The Works

  SUPPÉ: Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 414 408)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  Bugle Stories

  Shelley Wilkinson talks about something close to her heart. We'll join her each day to look at different shiny or dull facets of a little copper and brass instrument, the standard army issue bugle

  Six programmes

  (1) What's a bugle?

  We'll start with some practical facts; what it actually is, how to make one, its history and what sort of music is played on it (RNZ)

  PELÉCIS: Nevertheless - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Vadim Sacharov (pno), German CO (Teldec 0630 14654)

  SCHUMANN: Romances & Ballads Op 67 - Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble/Rupert Huber (Hänssler CD 93.002)

  BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 - Ophélie Gaillard (cello), Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (pno) (Aparté AP 053)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 3 in D D200 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2154)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  TRAD: They do not let Masha; There is not one path through the field - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Grand Choir, Masters of Choral Singing/Lev Kontorovich (Ondine ODE 1238)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Sonata in G Op 37 - Alexander Paley (pno) (Aparté AP 087)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - The Sixteen Orch/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16066)

  WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll - Berlin German Opera Orch/Christian Thielemann (DG 469 008)

  GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue - Julius Katchen (pno), Mantovani & his Orch (rec 1955) (Decca 475 6159)

  PROKOFIEV: Overture; Waltz for the New Year's Eve Ball; Waltz "Since we met", from War and Peace - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (BBC Music BBC MM 228)

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

• 2:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

  Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

  CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  LAURO: Virgilio; RUIZ-PIPO: Canción y Danza No 1; TRAD arr Takemitsu: Londonderry Air - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (rec 1999) (Teldec 3984 25736)

  LEONCAVALLO: Si può? from I Pagliacci; CILEA: Come due tizzi accesi, from L'Arlesiana - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Munich Radio Orchestra/Ulf Schirmer (rec 2006) (Sony 828768 84822)

  FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Domus (rec 1985) (Hyperion CDA 66166)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  CARR: Mardi Gras Overture - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

  Two Mansfield Poems, Sanary; Sleeping Together - Jennifer Paull (ob d'amore), Read Gainsford (pno) (Amoris AR 1003)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 2 in G Op 1/2 - Canterbury Trio (RNZ)

  5:00 CHABRIER: España - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 064)

  VILLA-LOBOS arr Mondvay: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 - I Salonisti (Decca 425 228)

  ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner (ABC 476 259)

  RACHMANINOV arr Kreisler: Variation 18, from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

  DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80418)

  MONTI arr Lenehan: Czárdás - Nicola Benedetti, Tamás András (vlns), Thomas Carroll (cello), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Petr Limonov (pno) (Decca 478 5338)

  RODGERS arr Powell/Levene: The Carousel Waltz, from Carousel - John Wilson Orch/John Wilson (EMI 3 19301)

  6:00 PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Britten Sinfonia/Joanna MacGregor (SoundCircus SC 008)

  KORVITS: May Jesus now be praised, from Kreek's Notebook - Choir of Royal Holloway, Britten Sinfonia/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67968)

  TOBIAS: Now Rest Beneath Night's Shadow (Night Piece) - Ene Salumäe (org) (Ondine ODE 1221)

  SISAK: Alleluia, from Gloria Patri - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2005/2006/Elise Bradley (Private)

  PÄRT: For Alina - Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591)

  KREEK: Three Folksongs, Sing, sing, sickles; Sleep, little Matsik; Why are you chirping, little bird? - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7485)

  ELLER: Dawn - John Digney (ob), Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  Ryan Smith takes a look at the life and music of GIANCINTO SCELSI (1905-1988), marking the 110th anniversary of the composer's birth earlier this year (8 January) (RNZ)

  Tetratkys - Roberto Fabbriciani (fl) (Stradivarius STR 33806)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  John Chen (pno), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes

  VASKS: Viatore; SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor Op 35; COPLAND: Quiet City; BRITTEN: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. A Secular Cantata

  BACH: Cantata No 207, Vereinigte Zwietracht - Joanne Lunn (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Wolfram Lattke (ten), Roderick Williams (bar), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS SACD 2001)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 3 44722)

  FALLA arr Kochanski: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Jesús Angel León (vln), Miguel Angel Muñoz (pno) (Verso VRS 2018)

  DELIUS: On the Mountains - Bergen Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5131)

  HUMMEL: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 87 - The Music Collection (ASV CD GAU 210)

  REGER: Clarinet Quintet in A Op 146 - Karl Leister (cl), Drolc Quartet (DG 477 5518)

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