Thursday 4 February 2016 Rāpare 4 Hui-tanguru 2016

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  FARQUHAR: String Quartet; Magpies and Other Birds; Suite for Guitar; In Despite of Death; Echoes and Reflections - John Mills (gtr), David Griffiths (bar), Terence Dennis (pno), New Zealand String Quartet, New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  LECLAIR: Overture No 1 in G; Sonata No 1 in B minor; Overture No 2 in D; Sonata No 2 in A; Overture No 3 in D; Sonata No 3 in G minor - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0542)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  PALIASHVILI: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Arshavskaya (Olympia OCD 483)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  DVORÁK: Piano Trios, in F minor Op 65; in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Emanuel Ax (pno), Young Uck Kim (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (CBS MK 44527)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  CHOPIN arr Godowsky: Etudes, No 7; 8; 19 and 31 for the left hand, No 45; SCHUBERT arr Godowsky: Good Night; Litany; Music for Rosamunde; STRAUSS arr Godowsky: Serenade; ALBÉNIZ arr Godowsky: Tango; LOEILLES arr Godowsky: Gigue from Renaissance; GODOWSKY: Passacaglia; Prelude & Fugue on BACH for left hand; Etude Macabre; Puppet Shadow Plays; The Gardens of Buitenzorg, from Suite Java - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Musica Viva MVCD 1026)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 ARNE: Overture No 1 in E minor, from Eight Overtures in eight parts - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0722)

  STILL: Summerland, from Three Visions - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7192)

  FRANCHOMME: Variations on Russian & Scottish Themes - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

  HAYDN: Divertimento in C HobII/7 - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1806/08)

  CHOPIN: Second movement, Larghetto, from Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (EMI 5 56798)

  BINGE: The Watermill - Light Music Society Orch/Vivian Dunn (EMI CDM 5 66537)

  7:00 WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

  ELLINGTON arr Silberman: Beggar's Holiday suite - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 811)

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 1501)

  KREISLER: Caprice viennois Op 2 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - John Couch (gtr) (Private)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BERLIOZ: D'amour l'ardente flamme, from La Damnation de Faust - Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 443 378)

  SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  ELGAR: La Capricieuse; FAURÉ: Après un rêve Op 7/1 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), István Hajdu (pno) (Philips 446 560)

  STRAYHORN arr & orch Henderson: Take the "A" train - Geri Allen (pno), Lewis Nash (drums), Peter Washington (dbass), Clark Terry (tpt), Bobby Watson, Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano (saxes), Regina Carter (vln), City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 57014)

  PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47664)

  GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces Op 65/6 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 57296)

  9:00 The Works

  WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture & Venusberg Music - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 155)

  KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh, Suite - Bolshoi Theatre Orch/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Brilliant Classics 9256)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Chilingirian Quartet (EMI 3 82231)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Louis Schwizgebel (pno), BBC SO/Martyn Brabbins (Aparté AP 112)

  HOLST arr Wright: A Moorside Suite - London Collegiate Brass/James Stobart (RRC 1200)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Philharmonia/Antal Dorati (Decca 443 765)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  BAGDASARIAN: Rhapsody - Sergey Khachatryan (vln), Lusine Khachatryan (pno) (Naïve V 5414)

  RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Daniil Trifonov (pno), Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 479 4970)

  SPENDIARIAN: Crimean Sketches, Air de dans; Chanson élégaïque; Chanson à boire; Air de danse, Kaitarma - Mikael Ayrapetyan (pno) (Naxos 8.573467)

  SHOSTAKOVICH arr Bryan/orch Hazell: Romance, from The Gadfly - Katherine Bryan (fl), Royal Scottish National Orch/Jac van Steen (Linn CKD 520)

• 1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

  Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture - Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (RCA 74321 56698)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in A Kk533; in D minor Kk32 - Zhu Xiao-Mei (pno) (INA, Mémoire IMV 019)

  TELEMANN: Concerto in E minor for flute & recorder TWV52/e1 - Clas Pehrsson (recorder), Penelope Evison (fl), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 1488/90)

  DUBERY: Full fathom five - Adrienne Murray (mezzo), David Dubery (pno) (Metier MSV 28548)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 3 in E D459 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

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

• 3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

  CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini - USSR Radio SO/Nikolai Golovanov (rec 1949) (Gebhardt JGCD 0058-3)

  BANTOCK: Dante & Beatrice - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (rec 1995) (Hyperion CDA 66810)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  STRAUSS trans anon: Horn Concerto No 1 in Eb - David Mueller-Cajar (hn), Tim Emerson (pno) (Private)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb (1823) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

  HAMILTON: Song for a Young Country - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1999-2000/David Hamilton (Private)

  ELGAR: Triumphal March, from Caractacus - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

  5:00 Early Evening Classics

  SUPPÉ: Vienna Jubilation Overture - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223863)

  LISZT: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Nobuyuki Tsujii (pno) (Challenge CC 72371)

  BERNSTEIN: On the Town, Three Dance Episodes - Israel Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 427 806)

  PAGANINI: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Salvatore Accardo (vln), CO of Europe/Franco Tamponi (EMI 7 67567)

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

  6:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1754)

  PASCULLI trans Tse: Le Api - Kenneth Tse (sop sax), Alan Huckleberry (pno) (Crystal CD 658)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the bumblebee, from Tsar Saltan - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8327/9)

  MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/1, Bee's Wedding - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 421 119)

  KRIWACZEK: Bee Sting Dance in Rohan's Kitchen - Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen (Meridian CDE 84561)

  HASSE: Come l'ape di fiore in fiore - Lia Serafini (sop), Accademia del Ricercare/Pietro Busca (Brilliant Classics 93636)

  NYMAN: Where the Bee Dances - Amy Dickson (sax), Royal Phil/Mikel Toms (Sony 88697 376792)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Circumstances of Beethoven's Symphonies

  Some believe that they were conceived as a set with an overarching grand schema, but Thomas Goss points out the often more expedient external factors that influenced Beethoven in composing his nine symphonies (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Beethoven reCYCLE

  Seven programmes

  (6) Michael Houstoun (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 4 in Eb Op 7; No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight; No 15 in D Op 28, Pastoral; No 31 in Ab Op 110 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:45 PM. The Hunt

  GOSSEC: Symphony in D Op 13/3 - Concerto Cologne/Werner Ehrhardt (dir) (Capriccio 67 073)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D BWV1069 - Oregon Bach Festival CO/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 94.605)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 - Dolf Bettelheim (vln), Samuel Rhodes (vla), Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 420 791)

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Pepe Romero (gtr), Tristan Fry (perc), Academy Chamber Ensemble (Philips 420 385)

  RUTTER: Five Meditations - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

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