Saturday 25 April 2015 Rāhoroi 25 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

  (6) Commuting between Dallas and Austin, Ph.D, baby; 1964-6 (RNZ)

  1:00 approx Disc 1

  LISZT: Dante Symphony; St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds; St Francis de Paule walking on the water - Gillian Keith (sop), women of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10524)

  2:00 approx - Disc 2

  Helsinki by Finnish duo Lepisto & Lehti

  LEPISTO: Helsinki; LEHTI: Vainajalan Tango; LEPISTO: Lansiranta; LEHTI: Sarastus; LEPISTO: Caprice Diatonique; LEHTI: Eskolle; LEPISTO: Concerto Diatonique; LEHTI: Muistelo - Markku Lepisto (accordions), Pekka Lehti (dbass) (AITO 440125)

  2:40 approx - Disc 3

  TRAD: I am a poor wayfaring stranger; My love is like a red, red rose; Henry Martin; I will give my love an apple; She moved through the fair; Blow the wind southerly; Pretty Saro; Barbara Allen; The wraggle taggle gypsies O!; Black is the colour - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp), Jon Pickow (dulcimer), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

  3:45 approx - Disc 4

  THOMSON: Symphonies, No 2 in C; No 3; Pilgrims and Pioneers; on a Hymn Tune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  HANDEL: Oboe Concertos, No 1 in Bb; No 2 in Bb; No 3 in G minor; Concerto grosso in G Op 3/3; Sonata a 5 in Bb; Concerto grosso in C, Alexander's Feast; Overture in D; Hornpipe in D - Heinz Holliger, Neil Black, James Brown (obs), Kenneth Sillito, John Tunnell (vlns), Richard Adenay (fl), Kenneth Heath (cello), Leslie Pearson (org/hpschd), John Constable (hpschd), James Tyler (chitarrone), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 426 082)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D100 - Carlo Lazari (vln), L'Arte dell'Arco/Giovanni Guglielmo (vln/dir) (Dynamic CDS 591/1-2)

  HANDEL arr Russell: Recorder Sonata in A minor HWV362 - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80559)

  DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

  PROKOFIEV arr Grjunes: Montagues & Capulets (Dance of the Knights); Dance of the girls with lilies; Masks, from Romeo & Juliet - Vadim Gluzman (vln), Angela Yoffe (pno) (BIS SACD 2032)

  HOFMANN: Symphony in D (Badley D4) - Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553866)

  7:00 BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture & entr'acte - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (Sony SM3K 64103)

  RACHMANINOV: Danse orientale Op 2/2 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Sergio Tiempo (pno) (DG 477 7235)

  BRIDGE: Summer - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

  MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Jean-Marc Fessard (cl), Eliane Reyes (pno) (Naxos 8.572278)

  SIBELIUS: Belshazzar's Feast, Suite - Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam (Ondine ODE 878)

  8:00 MEYERBEER: L'Etoile du Nord, Overture - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

  ARNOLD: English Dances Suite No 1 - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

  GERSHWIN trans Heifetz: Preludes for piano - Joshua Bell (vln), John Williams (pno) (Sony SK 60659)

  SCHUMANN: Romance & Humoresque, from Fantasy Pieces Op 88 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 432 165)

  HOLST: St Paul's Suite - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8375)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

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

• 10:00 AM. 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

  (6) A kind of bitsa

  The Last Post, what is it and what does it mean to an old soldier, to civilians and to musicians hearing and performing it these days? (RNZ)

• 10:25 AM. Your Choice

  SAINT-SAËNS arr Glennie: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 - Evelyn Glennie (marimba), National Phil/Barry Wordsworth (RCA 60242-2-RC)

  HOVHANESS: Suite for harp Op 270 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80418)

  RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Christopher Hooker (ob), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56605)

  RUTTER: Lux aeterna, from Requiem - Thomas Harries (treble), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56605)

  HEBERLE: Andante con variazioni - Hugo Reyne (csakan), Philippe Couvert, Frank Pichon (vlns), Serge Raban (vla), Dominique Dujardin (cello) (Musiques Chabotterie 605007)

  ELGAR: Salut d'Amour Op 12; PONSONBY MOORE: Berceuse (Lullaby); KETTERER: Gaëtana - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59 - Markus Pawlik (pno), Polish National Radio SO, Katowice/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.553989)

  (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

  (8) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  In Remembrance

  Inbal Megiddo (cello), Donald Maurice (vla), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

  A RITCHIE: Remember Parihaka; BLOCH: Schelomo; PSATHAS: Luminous; PIGOVAT: The Holocaust Requiem (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

• 4:25 PM. Keyboard Variants

  BYRD: Pavana Lachrymae; Galliard - Jovanka Marville (virginal) (Aeon AECD 0865)

  BACH arr Rondeau: Lute Suite in C minor BWV997 - Jean Rondeau (hpschd) (Erato 0825 646220090)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595 - Andreas Staier (fpno), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1980)

  BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles Op 119 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 456 031)

  POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani - Gillian Weir (organ of St Augustine's Chapel, Tonbridge School), English CO/David Hill (Linn CKD 178)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Three Canzonettas for violin & viola - Helene Pohl (vln), Gillian Ansell (vla) (Naxos 8.573079)

  HAMILTON: The Moon is Silently Singing - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls, Greg Hill, Peter Sharman (horns) (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  MAGNARD: Le Rhin allemande; BUTTERWORTH: On the idle hill of summer, from A Shropshire Lad; Denis BROWNE: Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy; To Gratiana dancing and singing; Diaphenia - Robin Tritschler (ten), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Signum SIGCD 401)

  SHAW: Over the sea; Pity the poor fighting men; The egg-shell; The land of heart's desire; Bab-lock-hythe; Child of the flowing tide; Come away, death; Brookland Road; Summer - Sophie Bevan (sop), Roderick Williams (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Delphian DCD 34105)

• 7:45 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Indra Hughes

  The Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Spirit of Anzac

  Madeleine Pierard (sop), George Henare (narrator), New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand SO/Benjamin Northey

  COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man; M WILLIAMS: Symphony No 1, Letters from the Front; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; LEDGER: War Music (recorded this week in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

  QUANTZ: Flute Concerto in D minor QV5:81 - Mary Oleskiewicz (fl), Concerto Armonico/Miklós Spányi (Naxos 8.573120)

  11:00 BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 - Fabio di Càsola (cl), Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (pno), Ophélie Gaillard (cello) (Aparté AP 053)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10831)

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