Monday 4 May 2015 Rāhina 4 Haratua 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  BARBER: The School for Scandal, Overture; Symphony No 1 Op 9; BEACH: Symphony in E minor Op 32, Gaelic - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8958)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  SAINT-SAËNS trans Liszt: Danse Macabre; CHOPIN trans Liszt: Six Polish Songs; BERLIOZ trans Liszt: L'Idée fixe; Les Francs-Juges, Overture; Harold in Italy, Marche des Pelerins; The Damnation of Faust, Waltz of the Sylphes; King Lear, Overture - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66346)

  2:35 approx - Disc 3

  HOLST: Seven Part Songs Op 44; A Choral Fantasia Op 51; A Dirge for Two Veterans; Ode to Death Op 38 - Patricia Rozario (sop), Joyful Company of Singers, London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9437)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  JC BACH: Sonatas, No 1 in G; No 2 in C minor; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in G; No 5 in A; No 6 in Bb - Robert Woolley (fpno) (Chandos CHAN 0543)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge Op 10; Les Illuminations for soprano & string orchestra; Lachrymae, Reflections on a song of Dowland for viola & string orchestra - Christina Högman (sop), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), New Stockholm Chamber Orch/Péter Csaba (BIS CD 435)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 CPE BACH: Symphony in F Wq181 - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94777)

  WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

  BEACH: Berceuse - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0131)

  DITTERSDORF: String Quartet No 1 in D - Franz Schubert Quartet (CPO 999 038)

  WEBER orch Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 411 898)

  7:00 GODARD: Overture des Guelfes - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7291)

  GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand - Kenneth Sillito (vln), Stephen Orton (cello), Hamish Milne (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9746)

  SCHUBERT arr Webern: German Dances D790 - Berlin Radio SO/Matthias Bamert (Musica Mundi 311 135)

  REIS: Three Brazilian Pieces - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Waiata 9501)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances, in E minor Op 72/2; in Ab Op 46/3 - Cleveland Orch/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47618)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BEETHOVEN: Second movement, Adagio cantabile, from Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique - Stephen De Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 030)

  SIBELIUS: Pan & Echo Op 53 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 359)

  PAGANINI: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Thomas Zehetmair (vln) (ECM 2124)

  RAVEL: Menuet antique - Stuttgart Radio SO/Stéphane Denève (Hänssler CD 93.087)

  WAGNER: Entry of the Guests, from Tannhäuser, Freudig begrüssen wir die edle Halle - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

  ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Vega Wind Quintet (LDR LDRC 1002)

  J STRAUSS II: Roses from the South - Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  ROSS HARRIS (b1945)

  Trio for flute, viola & harp - Jennifer White (fl), Rebecca Harris (harp), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla) (Kiwi SLD 50)

  To a Child - realized by the composer (Kiwi SLD 46)

  Dreams, Yellow Lions - David Griffiths (bar), Richard Panting (vln), Josephine Young (cello), David Armstrong (flugelhorn), June Byng (bass cl)/Ross Harris (Waiteata WTA 004)

  Ricochet - Strike (Trust MMT 2030)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 1 in D minor Op 43 - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9587)

  RIES: Piano Concerto in Eb Op 42 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572742)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 5344)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  CHOPIN: Preludes Op 28 - Andrew Tyson (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 347)

  SAINT-SAËNS arr Lemare, rev Warnier: Danse macabre - Vincent Warnier (restored former organ of the Trocadero and Chaillot Palaces, Paris) (Naxos 8.573331)

  JONGEN: Fantasia in E Op 12 - Philippe Graffin (vln), Royal Flemish Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 68005)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  HANDEL: As steals the morn, from L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato - Lucy Crowe (sop), Mark Padmore (ten), English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7422)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Luke Op 4/7 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  G COOKE: Three Pieces; Sundown; Reef's End - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

  POULENC: Gloria - Catherine Dubosc (sop), Westminster Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Virgin 3 63294)

  (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

  VIVALDI: Concerto in A RV552, Per eco in lontano - Enrico Onofri, Marco Bianchi (vlns), Il Giardino Armonico, Milan/Giovanni Antonini (rec 1994) (Teldec 4509 94552)

  BACH: Cantata No 175, He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out - Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Christoph Genz (ten), Stephan Loges (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (rec 2000) (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 138)

  PANDOLFI: Violin Sonata Op 3/5, La Clemente - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (rec 1999) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7241)

  MOZART: Symphony No 24 in Bb K182 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (rec 1979) (Oiseau-Lyre 417 592)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  ALBRIGHT: Grand Sonata in Rag, Scott Joplin's Victory; Ragtime Turtledove; Behemoth Two-step - Nicola Melville (pno) (Equilibrium EQ 57)

  FARQUHAR: Serenade for Strings - NZSO CO (Manu CD MANU 1550)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 3 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

  5:00 MONIUSZKO orch Noskowski: The Hetman's Mistress, Overture - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572716)

  SCHUBERT trans Wispelwey: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS 9696)

  MOZART: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, from Così fan tutte - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 445 866)

  MILHAUD: Brazileira, from Scaramouche - Mark Walton (sax), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)

  STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier, first sequence - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (Decca 475 6550)

  6:00 PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)

  CASSADO: Dance of the Green Devil - Maria Kliegel (cello), Raymund Havenith (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223403)

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

  MACDOWELL: Witches' Dance Op 17/2 - Stephen Prutsman (pno), Ireland National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.559049)

  GLINKA: Dance for oboe & cello with orchestra - Anatoly Lyubimov (ob), Fedor Luzhanov (cello), Moscow Radio SO/Boris Demchenko (RegisC 1242)

  FALLA: Miller's Dance, from The Three-Cornered Hat - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

  SARASATE: Spanish Dance Op 26/8 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDM 7 63533)

  BERNSTEIN: On the Town, Three Dance Episodes - Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559177)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The BBC Philharmonic marks the 100th anniversary of Anzac Day

  Tony Lee (pno), BBC Phil/Tecwyn Evans

  WILLIAMSON: Sinfonietta; FARR: Concerto for piano & orchestra; LILBURN: Symphony No 2 (recorded in the BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SMETANA: String Quartet No 1 in E minor, From my life - Takács Quartet (Decca 452 239)

  KARLOWICZ: Serenade in C Op 2 - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572274)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Twelve Etudes - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Ode CD MANU 5016)

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