Radio New Zealand

12:00 am Music Through the Night

Spotlight on Instruments

Murray Khouri reveals the special character of ten instruments in the orchestra

(9) Trumpet (RNZ)

Disc 1

GERSHWIN: Variations on I Got Rhythm - Lincoln Mayorga (pno), Harmonie Ensemble, New York, Steven Richman

The Yankee Doodle Blues - Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman

That certain feeling, from Tip-Toes; Somebody loves me; Sweet and low down, from Tip-Toes; I'll build a stairway to paradise; The man I love, from Lady, Be Good! - Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman

Fascinatin' Rhythm, from Lady, be Good! - Al Gallodoro (reeds), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/ Steven Richman

Summertime, from Porgy & Bess - Al Gallodoro (alto sax), Lincoln Mayorga (pno)

Rhapsody in Blue - Al Gallodoro (cl/bcl), Lincoln Mayorga (pno), Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

12:50 approx - Disc 2

Soundtrack by Yann Tiersen, from the film Amelie

TIERSEN: J'y Suis Jamais Allé, Les Jours Tristes, La Valse d'Amélie, Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'après Midi, La Noyée, L'autre Valse d'Amélie - Yann Tiersen (pno/accordion/various other instruments), Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis, Christian Quermalet (percussion)

KHAN/WHITING/AKST: Guilty - Al Bowlly (voice), Roy Fox and his Orchestra (recorded 1931)

TIERSEN: A Quai, Le Moulin, Pas Si Simple, La Valse d'Amélie (orch version), La Valse Des Vieux Os, La Dispute - Yann Tiersen (pno/accordion/various other instruments), Christine Ott (ondes martenot), Ensemble Orchestral Synaxis

BAYLE/CLARET: Si Tu N'étais Pas Là - Fréhel (vocalist), orchestra (recorded 1934)

TIERSEN: Soir De Fête, La Redécouverte, Sur Le Fil, Le Banquet, La Valse d'Amélie (pno version), La Valse Des Monstres - Yann Tiersen (pno/accordion/various other instruments) (Virgin 811239)

1:50 approx - Disc 3

FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop), Jonathan Brown (bar), Stephen Farr (org), English Voices, London Festival Orch/Ross Pople

Cantique de Jean Racine - English Voices, London Festival Orch/Ross Pople

Messe Basse - Angharad Gruffydd Jones (sop), Stephen Farr (org), women of English Voices/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304 670)

2:45 approx - Disc 4

SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129; VOLKMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 33; SCHUMANN: Abendlied Op 85/12; Troubadour's Song Op 10; Capriccio Op 74; SCHUMANN: Abendlied Op 85/12 - Peter Bruns, Gregor Nowak, Jakob Stepp (cellos), Annegret Kuttner (pno), Leipzig Mendelssohn CO/Jürgen Bruns (Hänssler CD 98.594)

3:50 approx - Disc 5

SZÉKELY: Quartet (1937); DVORÁK: Quartet in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

4:50 approx - Disc 6

CPE BACH: Keyboard Concertos, in A H411; in D H421 - Miklós Spányi (hpschd), Concerto Armonico (BIS CD 767)

6:00 am Classic Morning

6:00 GOSSEC: Symphony in D Op 5/3, Pastorella - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9661)

BEETHOVEN: Third movement, Scherzo, from String Quartet in F Op 18/1 - Artemis Quartet (Virgin 6 28659)

TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in F minor TWV51/f1 - Burkhard Glaetzner (ob), Berlin CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Berlin Classics 1386 BC)

DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.105)

HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

7:00 WEBER: Oberon, Overture - Israel Phil/Daniel Barenboim (RCA 09026 68768)

CHOPIN arr Milstein: Nocturne in C# minor Op posth - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

WALTON ed Palmer: The Three Sisters - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Chandos CHAN 8870)

RAVEL trans Garban: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2 - Sergio Tiempo, Karin Lechner (pno duo) (EMI 5 18333)

ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20 - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Tring International TRP 037)

8:00 GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (BIS SACD 1877)

DEMUS: Amour - Maria Kliegel (cello), Jörg Demus (pno) (Marco Polo 8.225036)

HANDEL: Coronation Anthem No 1, Zadok the Priest HWV258 - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English CO/David Willcocks (Decca 444 543)

SCHMITT arr Watkins/Chatron: Andante & Scherzo for harp & string quartet - Sandrine Chatron (harp), Elias String Quartet (Ambroisie AMB 9978)

BAX: Tintagel - London Phil/Osmo Vänskä (LPO 0036)

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

LIGETI: Lux Aeterna - Choir of North German Radio/Helmut Franz (DG 477 6443)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), English CO (CBS M13K 42055)

BELLINI: Mira, o Norma, from Norma - Beverly Sills (sop), Shirley Verrett (mezzo), New Philharmonia/James Levine (DG 474 947)

SCHUBERT: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Nicolas Deletaille (arpeggione), Paul Badura-Skoda (fpno) (Fuga Libera FUG 529)

GOUNOD: St Cecilia Mass - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Laurence Dale (ten), Jean-Philippe Lafont (bar), Jean-Louis Gil (org), Radio France Choir & New Phil/Georges Prêtre (EMI CDC 7 47094)

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

Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

1:00 pm Jazz Profiles

Nancy Wilson hosts the Peabody Award-winning series chronicling the people, places and events in jazz, with a focus on legends and musical themes

Twelve programmes

(6) Jazz violinist Claude "Fiddler" Williams (NPR)

2:00 pm Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

Tromper le Temps - Le Vent du Nord

French-Canadian folk music from the all-male Québécois quartet Le Vent du Nord (Borealis 581214)

3:00 pm Saturday Concert

2011 Adam Chamber Music Festival

Thirteen programmes

(12) Liszt Celebration

Martin Roscoe (pno)

LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor; Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses; Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort; La lugubre gondola (second version); Tarantella, from Venice & Naples; Piano Sonata in B minor; WAGNER trans Liszt: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde (recorded in the Nelson School of Music by RNZ)

4:45 pm Music from the Netherlands

DIEPENBROCK: The Birds, Overture - Hague Residentie Orch/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)

BADINGS: Cello Concerto No 2 - Michaël Müller (cello), Netherlands Radio Chamber Phil/Henrik Schaefer (Etcetera KTC 1371)

GILSE: Symphony No 1 in F - Netherlands SO/David Porcelijn (CPO 777 349)

6:00 pm Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

RACHMANINOV: Moment Musical Op 16/1 - Elen Rapoport (pno) (Private)

J RITCHIE: Snow Goose - Alexa Still (fl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7345)

KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 209)

7:00 pm Vocalied

DVORÁK: Gypsy Melodies Op 55, excerpts - Thomas Hampson (bar), Wolfram Rieger (pno) (Orfeo C 656 052 I)

SCHUMANN: Frauenliebe und -leben Op 42; C SCHUMANN: Das ist ein Tag der klingen mag Op 23/5; Sie liebten sich beide Op 13/2; Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen Op 12/1: Geheimes Flüstern hier und dort Op 23/3; Was weinst du, Blümlein Op 23/1 - Patricia Wright (sop), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: O moonlit night; At the ball; Legend; Don Juan's Serenade Op 38/1 - Nicolai Gedda (ten), Jan Eyron (pno) (EMI CMS 5 65685)

8:00 pm Music Alive

From the Wellington Town Hall

Tokyo String Quartet

MOZART: String Quartet No 20 in D K499, Hoffmeister; BARTÓK: String Quartet No 6 Sz114

(Interval)

BRAHMS: String Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 51 (RNZ)

10:00 pm Day's End

SULLIVAN: Overture di Ballo - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 5066)

C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Bb - Sabine Meyer (cl), ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (EMI CDC 7 54842)

11:00 MATIEGKA: Notturno in G Op 21 - Sérénade à trois (CPO 777 190)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Sonata No 1 in C minor Op 32 - Henri Demarquette (cello), Boris Berezovsky (pno) (Mirare MIR 108)

12:00 am Music Through the Night

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)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

CLÉRAMBAULT: Suite du Premier Ton; Suite du Deuxième Ton; BRUHNS: Praeludiums, No 1 in G; No 2 in E minor; No 3 in E minor; Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Gillian Weir (organ of Clare College, Cambridge) (Argo 460 185)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Goethe-lieder, Erlkönig; Schäfers Klagelied; Meeres Stille; Heidenröslein; Jägers Abendlied; Gesänge der Harfner; An Schwager Kronos; An Mignon; Ganymed; Prometheus; Versunken; Geheimes; Grenzen der Menschheit; Der Musensohn; Auf dem See; Geistes-Gruss; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse; Willkommen und Abschied; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh - Thierry Félix (bar), Paul Badura-Skoda (fpno) (Arcana A37)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

DOHNÁNYI: Violin Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 43; Concertino for harp and chamber orchestra Op 45: Piano Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 42 - James Ehnes (vln), Clifford Lantaff (harp), Howard Shelley (pno), BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos 10245)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

HAYDN: String Quartets, in D Op 20/4; in F# minor Op 50/4; in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 731)

6:00 am Sanctuary

TAVENER: Svyati - Steven Isserlis (cello), Kiev Chamber Choir/Mykola Gobdych (dir) (RCA 09026 68761)

GIBBONS: This is the record of John - John Blackwood (countertenor), King's College Choir, Cambridge, Jacobean Consort of Viols/David Willcocks, Simon Preston (org) (ABC Classics 456 360)

BIBER: The Ascension, from The Five Glorious Mysteries - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd), Alison McGillivray (cello) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7321.22)

TORREJON Y VELASCO: Desvelado dueño mio - Montserrat Figueras (sop), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9834)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Columba aspexit - Emma Kirkby, Emily van Evera, Poppy Holden, Judith Stell (sops), Doreen Muskett (symphony)/Christopher Page (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66039)

PÄRT: Da pacem Domine - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Talinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 2050)

BACH: Fürchte dich nicht BWV228 - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS SACD 1841)

MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum - Núria Rial (sop), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

PURCELL: My heart is inditing - Chanticleer, Capriccio Stravagante/Joseph Jennings (Teldec 2564 60290)

BAINTON: And I saw a new Heaven - Auckland Cathedral Singers/James Tibbles, Matthew Harris (org) (Corellia COR 1007)

GAFFURIO arr Lundgren: Kyrie, from Missa de Carneval; LASSUS arr Lundgren: Carmina chromatico, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum - Gustaf Sjökvist Chamber Choir, Jan Lundgren (keyboard), Lars Danielsson (cello) (ACT 9457)

TRAD arr Burleigh: Negro Spirituals, Deep river; Didn't it rain?; Swing low sweet chariot; I got a robe - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Maurice Till (pno) (Kiwi CD SLC 248)

MENDELSSOHN: St Paul Op 36, Overture - Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus 83.214)

8:00 am Grace Notes

CHOPIN arr Cullen: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

BIZET: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante, from Carmen - Inessa Galante (sop), Latvian National SO/Alexander Vilumanis (CampionCD 1335)

PAGANINI: Cantabile in D - Pekka Kuusisto (vln), Ismo Eskelinen (gtr) (Ondine ODE 1142)

NAREKATSI: About the bird - Artsvik Demourchian (sop) (Celestial Harmonies 13115)

LA RUE: O salutaris hostia - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525)

SVENDSEN: Romance in G Op 26 - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

LIADOV: A Musical Snuffbox - members of the Serenade Orch/Janos Komives (Koch Schwann 3-6419)

ELGAR: Carissima - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Black Box BBM 1016)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)

9:00 am Composer of the Week

A look at the life and music of ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916) presented by Erica Challis (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Salve Regina - Coro Cervantes/Carlos Fernández Aransay, Tansy Castledine (org) (Guild GMCD 7243)

Allegro de concierto - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (RCA RD 604008)

L'herba de l'amor - Lucy Crowe (sop), Coro Cervantes/Carlos Fernández Aransay, Tansy Castledine (org) (Guild GMCD 7243)

10:00 am Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Thirteen programmes from one of the world's pre-eminent music festivals, which invites scores of distinguished musicians, along with emerging young talent, to its six-week season

Thirteen programmes

(1) VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in E minor, arr from the Cello Sonata RV40 - Lynn Harrell (cello), Benny Kim, Kathleen Brauer (vlns), LP How (vla), Joseph Johnson (cello), Kristen Bruya (dbass), Kathleen McIntosh (hpschd)

SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No 1 in Bb D898 - Jeremy Denk (pno), Benny Kim (vln), Lynn Harrell (cello) (WFMT)

11:00 am The Works

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1519)

Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Francesco Piemontesi (pno), BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Naïve V 5327)

Noon The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

1:00 pm Vintage Years

FAURÉ: Dolly Suite - Robert Casadesus, Gaby Casadesus (pno duet) (rec 1959) (Philips 456 739)

TRAD: The drunken sailor; TRAD: Rio Grande; TRAD: Shenandoah; TRAD: A'rovin' recorded as Shanty Songs for Shanty Men - Oscar Natzka (bass), The Commodores, pno & org accomp (rec 1948) (Atoll ACD 500)

BLOCH: Prayer; Supplication; Jewish Song, from From Jewish Life - Zara Nelsova (cello), Ernest Bloch (pno) (rec 1950) (Decca 475 6327)

MOZART: Symphony No 31 in D K297, Paris - Concertgebouw Orch/Josef Krips (rec 1973) (Decca 475 8473)

2:00 pm The Sunday Feature

How will opera survive?

John Drummond presents four programmes considering The Future of Opera in the contemporary world of mass popular culture, digital technology and global financial crisis. He draws on results from a current research project called Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures based at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music

(3) Challenges and opportunities (RNZ)

3:00 pm Opera on Sunday

Euroradio Opera Season

A selection of live operatic performances recorded by some of the world's major public broadcasters

MEYERBEER: Robert le Diable, an opera in five acts

Robert............................... Bryan Hymel

Isabelle.............................. Patrizia Ciofi

Bertram............................. John Relyea

Alice.................................. Marina Poplavskaya

Raimbaut........................... Jean-François Borras

Alberti............................... Nicolas Courjal

Herald............................... Pablo Bemsch

Lady-in-waiting.................. Dusica Bijelic

Priest................................. Jihoon Kim

Master of Ceremonies........ David Butt Philip

Knight................................ Ashley Riches

Royal Opera House Chorus & Orch, Covent Garden/Daniel Oren (recorded in the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London by BBC)

7:25 pm New Horizons

Eleven programmes

(1) With William Dart (RNZ)

8:25 pm Young New Zealand

Irina Andreeva (vla), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

BRITTEN: Suite on English Folk Tunes; MILHAUD: Viola Concerto No 2 Op 340; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique (recorded at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

10:00 pm Day's End

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique - Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 030)

BRUCH: In Memoriam Op 65 - Salvatore Accardo (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 432 282)

TELEMANN: Overture in G, Burlesque de Don Quixotte TWV55/10 - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0700)

11:00 ONSLOW: Piano Trio in D minor Op 20 - Trio Cascades (CPO 777 232)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 287)

12:00 am Music Through the Night

Disc 1

MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59; PADEREWSKI: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 17 - Piers Lane (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66452)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

IRELAND: Fantasy Sonata in Eb; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song; BAX: Clarinet Sonata; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Vocalises for soprano & clarinet; BLISS: Pastoral; STANFORD: Clarinet Sonata; BLISS: Two Nursery Rhymes, The Ragwort; The Dandelion - Emma Johnson (cl), Judith Howarth (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (ASV CD DCA 891)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

GOUNOD: Requiem; Mass No 2 in G Op 1 - Eva Buffoni (sop), Irene Friedli (contralto), Ruben Amoretti (ten), Alain Clement (bass), Chorale du Brassus/Andre Charlet, Francois Margot (org) (Claves CD 50-9326)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in E Kk532; in A Kk322; MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 K331; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 Op 27/2, Moonlight; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 Op 35, Marche funèbre; MOSKOWSKI: Etude Op 72/11; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 8/12; SCHUMANN: Träumerei; HOROWITZ: Variations on a theme from Bizet's Carmen - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 44797)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

DELIUS: Prelude; La Calinda; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; Intermezzo; Violin Concerto; Two Pieces for Small Orchestra; Sleigh Ride - Philloppe Djokic (vln), Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SNCD 5134)

6:00 am Classic Morning

6:00 JC BACH: Symphony in G Op 6/1 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Carus 83.307)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

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

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonatina Canonica - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

7:00 BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI CDZ 7 62605)

SHOSTAKOVICH arr Atovmian: Romance, from The Gadfly - Daniel Hope (vln), BBC SO/Maxim Shostakovich (Warner 2564 62546)

GLAZUNOV: Grand Concert Waltz Op 41 - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66833)

AURIC: Where is your heart?, from the film Moulin Rouge - Ransom Wilson (fl), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Etcetera KTC 1073)

KORNGOLD: The archery tournament; Escape from the gallows; Robin & Lady Marion; Coronation procession, from The Adventures of Robin Hood - National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA GD 80912)

8:00 Beauty Spot: HAMELIN: Little Nocturne - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

RESPIGHI: Dance of the Tartar Archers, from the Magic Pot - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adriano (Marco Polo 8.223003)

BRAHMS arr Joachim: Hungarian Dances, Vol 1 Book 1 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67663)

THEODORAKIS arr Bessas: The fire inside, from Zorba the Greek - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

SONDHEIM arr Silberschlag/McKinley: Johanna, from Sweeney Todd - Jeffrey Silberschlag (tpt), Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559719)

LOPES-GRACA: Suite Rústica No 1 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Álvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.572892)

9:00 am Composer of the Week

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916)

Spanish Dances Op 37, Books 1 & 2 - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3321)

Piano Trio Op 50 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 446 684)

10:00 am The Works

D'INDY: Médée Op 47 - Iceland SO/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10760)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme - Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Cologne Gürzenich Orch/Dmitri Kitajenko (Oehms OC 669)

BACH: Magnificat in D BWV243 - Miah Persson, Yukari Nonoshita (sops), Akira Tachikawa (countertenor), Gerd Türk (ten), Chiyuki Urano (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 1011)

MOZART: Serenade No 9 in D K320, Posthorn - Bavarian Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 05006)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 pm Lighten Up

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

American Film Institute's Top Six Heroes

SHORE orch Denison: Clarice, from The Silence of the Lambs - Munich SO/Howard Shore (MCA 110194)

TIOMKIN: Do not forsake me, from High Noon - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler (RCA GD 60392)

STEINER: Airport final scene, from Casablanca - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid & Conrad Veidt (actors), Warner Bros Studio Orch/Max Steiner (Rhino 272 911)

NORMAN: James Bond Theme, from Dr No - Monte Norman Orch (EMI 5 23294)

WILLIAMS: The Raider's March, from Raiders of the Lost Ark - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony 459 972)

E BERNSTEIN: Main title, from To Kill a Mockingbird - Penny Haydock (pno), John Grant (fl), Royal Scottish National Orch/Elmer Bernstein (Varese Sarabande 657 542)

2:00 pm Afternoon Requests

LANGGAARD: String Quartet No 2 - Nightingale String Quartet (Da Capo 6.220575)

HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3157)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude & Fugue No 15 in Db, from 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 466 066)

VIVALDI: Nisi Dominus in G minor RV608 - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Ensemble Matheus/Jean-Christophe Spinosi (Naïve OP 30453)

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

3:00 pm CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno), London Phil/Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec 1991) (EMI 7 54578)

4:00 pm Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

HILL: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

LISZT: Der du von dem Himmel bist; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

MAREK: A look backwards - Philharmonia Chorus & Orch/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6441)

TRAD arr Young: O Waly Waly - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

HAYDN: Keyboard Concerto in D HobXVIII/11 - Rachael Griffiths-Hughes (hpschd), University of Auckland Orch/Uwe Grodd (Uni of Auckland UAAA 01)

5:00 pm Cadenza

WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 041)

THOMAS arr Stoltzman: Je suis Titania, from Mignon - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces Op 65/6 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 74789)

KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin; Tambourin chinois; Polichinelle; Syncopation; Toy-Soldier March - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)

HOLST: Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Alto ALC 1013)

6:00 J STRAUSS II arr Stalla: Reiche Mädchen, Overture from Die Göttin der Vernunft - Die flotten Geisster Orch/Christian Pollack (JR 0160)

STRAUSS: Mädchenblumen Op 22 - Lyne Fortin (sop), Esther Gonthier (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9972)

DEBUSSY: La fille aux cheveux de lin - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

O BULL: The Herd-Girl's Sunday - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Razumovsky SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.554497)

LEHÁR: Girls were made to love and kiss, from Paganini - Plácido Domingo (ten), English CO/Julius Rudel (Angel CDC 5 55616)

RODRIGO: Air de ballet sur le nom d'une jeune fille - María Garzón (pno) (ASV CD DCA 990)

SCHUMANN: Mädchenlieder Op 103 - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33110)

ZIEHRER: Viennese Girls Waltz Op 388 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)

7:00 pm Composer of the Week

A look at the life and music of ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916) presented by Erica Challis (RNZ)

Libro de horas - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1734)

Cant de les estrelles - Douglas Riva (pno), Mark Kruczek (org), Voices of Ascension/Dennis Keene (Naxos 8.570533)

8:00 pm Music Alive

Anglican Cathedral Choirs Festival Concert, 2012

Choirs of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland; Cathedral Church of St Peter, Hamilton; Waiapu Anglican Cathedral, Napier; Christ Church Cathedral, Nelson; Wellington Cathedral of St Paul; ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch; St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin

Organists: Richard Apperley, Michael Stewart

Conductors: Rachael Griffiths-Hughes, George Chittenden, Timothy Noon, Brian Law, Michael Stewart

PARRY: Hear my words, ye people; STAINER: I saw the Lord; SHEPPARD: Libera nos, salva nos; IRELAND: Ex ore innocentium; HOLMAN: Prevent us, O Lord; PALESTRINA: Agnus Dei, from Missa Aeterna Christe Munera; FERGUSON: It was on that train; NOON: Behold how good and joyful; BRUCKNER: Ave Maria; HALLEY: My beloved spake; ELGAR: Great is the Lord (recorded in Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

9:20 pm The Eighteenth Century Orchestra

MONZA ed Biondi: Sinfonia in D, La tempesta di mare - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 3 63430)

PEREZ: Flute Concerto in G - Carlo Ipata (fl), Auser Musici (Hyperion CDA 67884)

BOCCHERINI: Symphony in C G515 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10604)

10:00 pm Day's End

BOWEN: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 112 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67991)

TAVENER orch Werthen: The Last Sleep of the Virgin - Carlo Willems (handbells), I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80487)

GARDNER: Sinfonia Piccola Op 47 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2125)

11:00 SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in A minor D385 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5082)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp - Takács Quartet (Decca 470 847)

12:00 am Music Through the Night

Disc 1

STILL: Symphony No 2 in G minor, Song of a New Race; DAWSON: Negro Folk Symphony; ELLINGTON: Harlem - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9226)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

PAGANINI trans Kraft: Grand Sonata; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Capriccio diabolico Op 85; PONCE: Sonata romantica; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata in D Op 77 - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9033)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

HANDEL: Clori, mia bella Clori; Armida Abbandonata; Delirio Amoroso - Ann Murray (sop), Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (Collins 15032)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

PONCHIELLI: Capriccio; HÜE: Petite Piece; PALADILHE: Solo for oboe; KALLIWODA: Le Morceau de Salon Op 228; PASCULLI: Concerto Sopra Motivi Dell'Opera La Favorita di Donizetti; DONIZETTI: Solo for oboe; FAURÉ: Piece; SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94; FRANCK: Piece No 5; SINIGAGLIA: 12 Variations on a Theme by Schubert Op 19 - John Anderson (ob), Gordon Back (pno) (ASV CD WHL 2100)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel Suite; The Tale of the Tsar Saltan Suite; The Flight of the Bumble-Bee, from Tsar Saltan; Christmas Eve Suite - Yuri Boghosian (vln), Digran Gevorgian (fl), Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 772)

6:00 am Classic Morning

6:00 M HAYDN: Symphony No 15 in D - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 154)

SCHUBERT arr Maisky: Moment Musicale No 3 in F minor D780 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 439 863)

BUTTERWORTH: Two English Idylls - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

SATIE arr anon: Gymnopédies - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Act 2b - women of Ambrosian Singers, London SO/André Previn (EMI 9 67694)

7:00 BEETHOVEN: Fidelio, Overture - Cologne Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 04052)

MASSENET: Toccata; Valse folle - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHSA 5084)

A MARCELLO: Concerto No 1 in D, from La Cetra - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0563)

ROSSINI: Serenata in Eb - Ensemble Explorations/Roel Dieltiens (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1847)

PLEYEL: Sonata in Bb for piano duet - Wolfgang Brunner, Leonore von Stauss (fpno duet) (Profil PH 06025)

8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL: Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa, from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Decca 455 981)

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

VIVALDI: Recorder Concerto in C RV443 - Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Arcana A 334)

SAINT-SAËNS: Chant Saphique Op 91; Gavotte Op post - Luigi Piovano (cello), Luisa Prayer (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0401)

RAVEL: La Valse - Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 9 66342)

9:00 am Composer of the Week

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916)

Valenciana; Melancolica, from Spanish Dances - Enrique Granados (pno roll) (Nimbus NI 8813)

Piano Quintet in G minor Op 49 - Manuel Porta Gallego (vln), Joaquin Riquelme Garcia (vla), LOM Piano Trio (Naxos 8.572262)

Six Pieces on Popular Spanish Songs - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3322)

10:00 am The Works

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 5 in D - Bournemouth SO/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7286)

MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165 - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner (EMI 6 31801)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence, String Sextet in D minor Op 70 - Sarah Nemtanu, Luc Héry (vlns), Sabine Toutain, Christophe Gaugué (vlas), Raphaël Perraud, Jean-Luc Bourré (cellos) (Naïve V 5325)

STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite - Netherlands Radio Chamber Phil/Jaap van Zweden (Octavia OVCL 00378)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 pm Lighten Up

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies

Two programmes

(1) RODGERS arr Deutsch/Courage: Overture; Oh, what a beautiful mornin'; People will say we're in love, from Oklahoma

Laurey Williams............. Sierra Boggess

Curley........................... Julian Ovenden

RODGERS arr Powell/Levene: The Carousel Waltz; If I loved you, from Carousel

Julie Jordan................... Sierra Boggess

Billy Bigelow................. Julian Ovenden

John Wilson Orch/John Wilson (EMI 3 19301) (Programme 2 tomorrow)

2:00 pm Afternoon Requests

FIELD: Piano Concerto No 2 in Ab H31 - Míceál O'Rourke (pno), London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10468)

WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, excerpt from Act II - Alessandra Marc (sop), Donald McIntyre (bbar), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Manu CD MANU 1317)

MOZART: Rondo in C K373 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), ASMF/James MacMillan (Decca 476 3159)

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

3:00 pm CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BACH: French Suites, No 1 in D minor BWV812; No 5 in G BWV816 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (rec 1993) (DG 445 840)

Prelude & Fugue in Eb BWV552, St Anne - Karl Richter (organ of Jaegersborg Church, Copenhagen) (rel 1964) (DG 423 779)

4:00 pm Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: Concert Overture in D - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

Bagatelle No 4, From the Port Hills - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 475 459)

CAVALLINI: Adagio & Tarantella - Mark Walton (cl), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

DITTERSDORF: Symphony in D, Il Combattimento delle passioni umani - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

5:00 pm Cadenza

ELGAR: Coronation March Op 65 - Bournemouth SO/George Hurst (Naxos 8.553564)

BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor - Shlomo Mintz (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Avie AV 2057)

LEHÁR: Adriatic Waltz - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - DiamantEnsemblet (Dacapo 8.226064)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Overture on Russian Themes Op 28 - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572788)

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage, Overture - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 104)

KASKA: Majestic Journey - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

J STRAUSS II arr Schönherr: Excursion Train Polka Op 281 - Queensland SO/Vladimir Ponkin (ABC Classics 432 250)

G FOSTER: Four Voyages, Buenos Aires; Moscow; Venice; Marrakesh - Mira Yevtich (pno) (Bel Air Music BAM 2041)

BEETHOVEN: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage Op 112 - Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation Chorus & Orch/Lawrence Foster (PentaTone PTC 5186 359)

ROSENBERG: Railway Fugue, from Journey to America - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

7:00 pm Sound Lounge

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 Metropolis New Music Festival

Three programmes

(3) Steven Isserlis (cello), Melbourne SO/Thomas Adès

CASTIGLIONI: inverno-in-ver; TURNAGE: Kai (world première); KURTÁG: Three pieces for solo cello; ADÈS: Dances, from Powder Her Face (recorded by ABC Classic FM)

11:00 New Music Dreams

12:00 am Music Through the Night

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by JL Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; J RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, No 3 & No 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

6:00 am Classic Morning

6:00 HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 5 62621)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 32 - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 15998)

ARIOSTI: Lesson No 1 in Eb - Thomas Georgi (vla d'amore), Lucas Harris (archlute), Joëlle Morton (vla da gamba) (BIS CD 1535)

MOZART: Second movement, Romanza, from Eine kleine Nachtmusik - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 66967)

DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

7:00 PROKOFIEV: Montagues & Capulets, from Romeo & Juliet - Cleveland Orch/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80551)

FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 4058)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066, Overture - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)

KETÈLBEY: In a Persian Market - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

GRIEG: Nordic Melodies Op 63, In folk style; Cow-call; Peasant dance - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572403)

8:00 Beauty Spot: DARZINS: Valse mélancolique - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.554265)

VERDI arr Genin/Guiot: Fantasy on La Traviata - Patrick Gallois (fl), Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Igor Uriash (pno) (EMI CZS 5 72016)

CHARLTON: Figure Eight - Totally Plucked, the Wellington Guitar Quartet (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music - Vienna Phil/Karl Münchinger (Decca 444 546)

9:00 am Composer of the Week

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916)

Violin Sonata - Felix Ayo (vln), Bruno Canino (pno) (Dynamic CDS 391)

Danza lenta - Richard Mapp (pno) (Meridian CDE 84403)

Dante - Nancy Fabiola Herrera (mezzo), Gran Canaria PO/Adrian Leaper (ASV CD DCA 1110)

10:00 am The Works

HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidis Astrée E 8784)

JANÁCEK arr Breiner: The Cunning Little Vixen, Suite - Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), Bridget Douglas (fl), New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570706)

GRANDJANY: Children's Hour Suite - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

NIELSEN: Symphony No 5 Op 50 - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (CBS MK 44547)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 pm Lighten Up

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies

Two programmes

(2) RODGERS arr Powell: I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair; Bali Ha'i, from South Pacific; The King & I, Overture

Nellie Forbush............... Anna-Jane Casey

Bloody Mary................. Maria Ewing

RODGERS arr Kostal: Main title & prelude; I have confidence; Climb ev'ry mountain, from The Sound of Music

Maria............................ Sierra Boggess

Mother Abbess............. Joyce DiDonato

Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson Orch/John Wilson (EMI 3 19301)

2:00 pm Afternoon Requests

ARBAN arr Markovich: Variations on a Theme from Bellini's Norma - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 4509 94554)

LILBURN: The Young Pine Tree - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2067)

GESUALDO: Se così dolce è il duolo ... Ma se avverrà ch'io moia; Se taccio, il duol s'avanza, from Madrigals, Book 2 - Delitiae Musicae/Marco Longhini (Naxos 8.570549)

MENDELSSOHN: Concerto in D minor for violin & piano - Gidon Kremer (vln), Martha Argerich (pno), Orpheus CO (DG 427 338)

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

3:00 pm CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 7 in F# minor Op 108 - Emerson String Quartet (rec 1998) (DG 463 284)

MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 17 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (rel 2007) (Warner 2564 69689-8)

4:00 pm Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 10 in G Op 14/2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2017)

GOFFIN: Rhapsody in Brass - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

JC BACH: Trio Sonata in F - Extempore (Atoll ACD 204)

FINZI: Let us garlands bring - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), BBC SO/Jac van Steen (BBC Music BBC MM 298)

5:00 pm Cadenza

TCHAIKOVSKY: March, from The Nutcracker - Slovak Phil/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553596)

GERSHWIN arr Villard: An American in Paris, excerpt - Michel Lethiec (cl), Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.570939)

ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

DEBUSSY: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Boston SO/Charles Munch (RCA 82876 59416)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - Tasmanian SO/David Stanhope (ABC Classics 472 984)

BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Gordon Fergus-Thompson (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2066)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G minor RV332 - Stefano Montanari (vln), Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (dir) (Arts 47565)

6:00 PUCCINI: Che gelida manina, from La Bohème - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), La Scala Orch, Milan/Antonino Votto (EMI CDZ 7 62520)

DI LAZZARO: Chitarra romana - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), New SO of London/Dino Olivieri (Decca 417 794)

TRAD arr Favara: A la Barcillunisa; Cantu a Timuni - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), London SO/Alberto Erede (EMI CDM 7 63105)

VERDI: Celeste Aida, from Aida - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Bruno Bartoletti (DG 477 6194)

SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - Dag Jensen (bsn), Leonard Hokanson (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 0395)

BRIDGE: Phantasie Quartet in F minor - members of London Bridge Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7254)

WALTON: Portsmouth Point, Overture - London SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47624)

7:00 pm Appointment

Beethoven reCYCLE

Three programmes

(2) In 2013 for Chamber Music New Zealand, Michael Houstoun revisits the cycle of 32 Piano Sonatas by Beethoven that he first presented 20 years ago. In this second programme, Michael Houstoun & Tim Dodd continue their conversation about the sonatas and Houstoun's approach to performing them. They talk in detail about the five sonatas in his fourth concert of the cycle including the "Appassionata" (Programme 3 will be broadcast later in the year) (RNZ)

8:00 pm Music Alive

2011 Canberra International Music Festival

Eleven programmes

(10) KOEHNE: Mass for the Middle-Aged - Song Company/Roland Peelman

Nashville Tuning - Pascal & Ami Rogé (pno duo)

Three Poems of Byron - Christina Wilson (mezzo), Danish String Quartet

Ringtone Cycle - Louise Page (sop), Anna McMichael (vln), David Pereira (cello), Alan Hicks (pno)

A Closed World of Fine Feelings and Grand Design - Callum Henshaw (gtr) (recorded in the Fitters Workshop, Canberra by ABC)

9:25 pm Stenz & Strauss

STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche Op 28; Morgen mittag um elf, from Capriccio - Anne Schwanewilms (sop), Cologne Gürzenich Orch/Markus Stenz (Hyperion CDA 67960; Orfeo C 858 121)

10:00 pm Day's End

BIZET: Carmen Suite No 2 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80703)

RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - John Williams (gtr), Philharmonia/Louis Frémaux (CBS M2K 44791)

C STAMITZ: Symphony in E minor Op 15/2 - l'arte del mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (CPO 777 526)

11:00 RAFF: Violin Sonata No 3 in D Op 128 - Ariadne Daskalakis (vln), Roglit Ishay (pno) (Tudor 7122)

DOHNÁNYI: Cello Sonata in Bb minor Op 8 - Mark Kosower (cello), Jee-Won Oh (pno) (Naxos 8.570570)

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

6:00 BECK: Sinfonia in G minor Op 1/1 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

SCHUBERT trans Maisky: Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 449 817)

FARRES arr Israel/Goss: Quizás, quizás, quizás - Milos Karadaglic (gtr), Studio Orch of the European Film Phil/Christoph Israel (DG 479 0063)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

B ORR: A John Gay Suite - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 10409)

7:00 ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - National Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 400 049)

GERSHWIN arr Brahn: I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Joshua Bell (vln), London SO/John Williams (Sony SK 60659)

MOZART: Fantasia in C minor K475 - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)

BACH: Allemande, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Alison Balsom (tpt) (EMI 5 75683)

LEHÁR: Gold & Silver Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Ar hyd y nos - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Black Mountain Chorus, Risca Male Choir, Welsh National Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Fantasia on Serbian Themes Op 6 - USSR Academic SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Olympia OCD 211)

GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore - Kenneth Sillito (vln), Hamish Milne (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9746)

GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Evgeny Kissin (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 439 898)

WAGNER: Kaisermarsch (Imperial March) - Hong Kong Phil/Varujan Kojian (Marco Polo 8.220114)

9:00 am Composer of the Week

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916)

Tonadillas, The discreet Majo; The grieving Maja; Love & Hate; The Maja's glance; Tralala & Guitar-picking - María Bayo (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Naïve V 4933)

trans Horreaux/Trehard: Two Characteristic Dances, Danza gitana; Danza aragonesa - Jean Horreaux, Jean-Marie Trehard (gtrs) (Calliope CAL 9204)

Sketches - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (RCA 82876 53351)

Canciones Amatorias, Look, I'm just a girl, love, let me be!; Weep, O my heart, for you have good reason; Don't cry, bright eyes; Going to the pine grove; Find out for yourself my secret care; It was in the morning; O, you grace, you are so beautiful - María Bayo (sop), Juan Antonio Alvarez-Parejo (pno) (Claves CD 50-9205)

10:00 am The Works

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (PentaTone PTC 5186 384)

BORODIN: Petite Suite - Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10676)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Munich Phil/Lorin Maazel (Sony 88725 43575)

BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - English CO/Gilbert Levine (Arabesque Z 6603)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 pm Lighten Up

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

Jerome Kern the Chameleon

KERN: Bill; Can't help lovin' dat man of mine, from Show Boat

Queenie........................ Karla Burns

Magnolia Hawks........... Frederica von Stade

Julie LaVerne................ Teresa Stratas

Joe................................ Bruce Hubbard

Ambrosian Chorus, London Sinfonietta/John McGlinn (EMI 7 49847)

The way you look tonight, from Swing Time - Bruce Hubbard (bar), Orch of St Luke's/Dennis Russell Davies (EMI CDC 7 49928)

I'm old fashioned, from You Were Never Lovelier - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Sinfonietta/Jonathan Tunick (EMI 7 54527)

Smoke gets in your eyes, from Roberta - Ian Wallace (bar), Keith Swallow (pno) (Pickwick 466 089)

Long ago and far away, from Cover Girl - Lesley Garrett (sop), BBC Concert Orch/Paul Bateman (Silva SILVAD 3602)

Can't help singing, from Can't Help Singing - Voices of Ascension/Dennis Keene (Delos 913 224)

2:00 pm Afternoon Requests

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 6/1 - Avison Ensemble/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (Linn CKD 362)

PÄRT: Kuus, kuus, kallike - Montserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall (sops), Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9826)

GLINKA arr Balakirev: The Lark - Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67806)

DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 425 537)

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

3:00 pm CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1 in Bb Op 38, Spring - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 209)

Dichterliebe Op 48 - Fritz Wunderlich (ten), Hubert Giesen (pno) (DG 429 933)

4:05 pm Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

SCULTHORPE: Memento Mori - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557382)

WHITEHEAD: Lullaby for Matthew - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D006)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 10 in G Op 96 - Martin Riseley (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (Rattle RAT D032)

5:00 pm Cadenza

VERDI: Sicilian Vespers, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

PAGANINI: Moto perpetuo in C Op 11 - Ivan Pochekin (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570487)

ALBÉNIZ: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Private Recording 837 001)

ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 66173)

BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (EMI CD CFP 4086)

6:00 DEBUSSY orch Molinari: L'isle joyeuse - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

J STRAUSS II: Czárdás, from Die Fledermaus - Lucia Popp (sop), Munich Radio Orch/Plácido Domingo (EMI 5 69839)

LOWENSTEIN/WERTHEIM/FREUDENBERG: Music for the Wertheim Harmoniemusik - London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble/Christopher Larkin (Hyperion CDA 67119)

RAMEAU: L'Enharmonique, from Pièces de Clavecin, Gustav Leonhardt (hpschd) (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi RD 77924)

PUCCINI: Recondita armonia, from Tosca - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Italo Tajo (bass), National Phil/Nicola Rescigno (Decca 444 555)

ADDINSELL arr Sutherland: Harmony for false lovers - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7151)

BILLINGS: Invocation, from The Continental Harmony - members of Boston Camerata/Joel Cohen (Erato 0630 12711)

BOWEN: Valse harmonique - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67991)

ELGAR: Harmony Music No 1 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6553)

SUPPÉ: Harmony of Hearts, Polka - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223683)

7:00 pm Appointment

The Rite of Spring and its Polynesian Ancestry

Imagine The Rite of Spring composed as a haka, and a challenge, to the peers and audiences of its composer, Igor Stravinsky. We continue our celebration of The Rite of Spring's centenary with Robin Maconie who brings a uniquely New Zealand perspective on Stravinsky's most famous work (RNZ)

8:00 pm Music Alive

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Dance

Tamara Anna Cislowska (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Nicholas Collon

KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta; LISZT: Totentanz; (Interval)

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales; STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier; BALAKIREV orch Liapounow: Islamey (RNZ)

10:00 pm Day's End

DIABELLI: Guitar Sonata in C Op 29/3 - Anthony Glise (gtr) (Dorian DIS 80113)

PIAZZOLLA arr Crabb: Romance del Diablo - James Crabb (accordion), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 10163)

GLAZUNOV: Poem Lyrique in Db Op 12 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 93565)

11:00 REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Marya Martin (fl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 030)

SVENDSEN: String Quintet in C Op 5 - Oslo String Quartet, Henning Kraggerud (vla) (CPO 999 858)

12:00 am Music Through the Night

Disc 1

ROSSINI orch Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque; BIZET: L'Arlesienne Suite No 2; Jeux d'Enfants - Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBS MDK 46508)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

KRAUS: Sinfonies in C minor; in Eb; in C; in D - Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 396)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

MONTSALVATGE: Five Negro Songs; OBRADORS: Classical Spanish Songs Vol 1; GURIDI: Six Castilian Songs; RODRIGO: Four Sephardic Songs; GRANADOS: Tonadillas - Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2038)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

TAGELL: Flamenco; CASSADÓ: Solo Suite; FALLA arr Pekkera: Spanish Dance; FALLA arr Piatigorsky: Ritual Fire Dance; RACHMANINOV: Oriental Dance Op 2/2; POPPER: Gnomentanz Op 50/2; Mazurka Op 11/3; Gavotte Op 23; Menuetto Op 65/2; Tarantella Op 33; TCHAIKOVSKY arr Rose: Valse sentimentale in F minor Op 51/6; PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bernd Glemser (pno) (Naxos 8.550785)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

DIEPENBROCK: The Birds, Overture; Concert Suite, Marsyas; Hymn for violin & orchestra; Electra, Symphonic Suite - Emmy Verhey (vln), Residentie Orch, The Hague/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)

6:00 am Classic Morning

6:00 SMETANA: The Kiss, Overture - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

RACHMANINOV trans Mikhailovsky: Danse orientale Op 2/2 - Hideko Udagawa (vln), Konstantin Lifschitz (pno) (Signum SIGCD 164)

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

HANDEL: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7259)

LILBURN: Allegro for Strings - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

7:00 M HAYDN: Symphony No 9 in D - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on See the conqu'ring hero comes, from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus WoO45 - Inbal Megiddo (cello), Jian Liu (pno) (Rattle RAT D035)

WALDTEUFEL: Ma Voisine, Polka Op 206 - Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223441)

ROSSINI: Andante & Variations on Di tanti palpiti, from Tancredi - Heinz Holliger (ob), Ursula Holliger (harp) (Philips 426 288)

WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Ständchen, from Schwanengesang - Oxana Yablonskaya (pno) (Naxos 8.553062)

STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30, opening - Los Angeles Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 421 397)

HOFFMEISTER: Double Bass Quartet No 3 in D - Norbert Duka (dbass), Ernö Sebestyén (vln), Helmut Nicolai (vla), Martin Ostertag (cello) (Naxos 8.572187)

ROSAS arr Ljova: Sobre las olas - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

FIELD: Rondo in Ab - John Khouri (fpno) (Entr'acte ESCD 6503)

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - San Diego SO/Yoav Talmi (Naxos 8.558058)

9:00 am Composer of the Week

ENRIQUE GRANADOS (1867-1916)

Madrigal - Emil Klein (cello), Sorin Melinte (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 39109)

El fandango de candil; Quejas ó la maja y el ruiseñor; Epílogo: Serenata del espectro, from Goyescas; El pelele - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (RCA RD 604008)

Intermezzo, from Goyescas - Gran Canaria Phil/Adrian Leaper (ASV CD DCA 1110)

Quejas, o la maja y il ruiseñor, from Goyescas - Frances Lucey (sop), Gran Canaria PO/Adrian Leaper (ASV CD DCA 1110)

Rêverie - Enrique Granados (pno roll) (Nimbus NI 8813)

10:00 am The Works

REICHENAUER: Overture in Bb - Luise Haugk (ob), Musica Florea/Marek Stryncl (dir) (Supraphon SU 4056)

GAL: Cello Concerto Op 67 - António Meneses (cello), Northern Sinfonia/Claudio Cruz (Avie AV 2237)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphony Op 58 - Cologne Gürzenich Orch/Dmitri Kitajenko (Oehms OC 665)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 pm Lighten Up

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

From the Charts

MORRICONE: Nella fantasia - Katherine Jenkins (mezzo), Keith Scott (gtr), King's Consort, Philharmonia/Nicholas Dodd (Universal 270 9882)

EINAUDI: Two Trees - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Decca 481 0173)

MUSUMARRA: Il Canto - Plácido Domingo (ten), Il Volo, Czech Symphony (Universal B0018198)

ROTA: La Strada - Amy Dickson (sax), London Session Orch/Chris Walden (Sony 88725 47957)

CLEGG arr Rieu: My African Dream - Kimmy Skota (vocalist), Hou Bay Music Project, Bloemfontein Children's Choir, Johann Strauss Orch/André Rieu (dir) (Universal 728 0919)

2:00 pm Afternoon Requests

MOURET: Rondeau - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

WAGNER: Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music, from Die Walküre - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 348)

PAGANINI: I Palpiti, Introduction and Variations on "Di tanti palpiti", from Rossini's Tancredi Op 13 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Louis Persinger (pno) (Decca 458 191)

Spotlight on Instruments

Murray Khouri reveals the special character of the clarinet (RNZ)

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

3:00 pm CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BACH: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - János Starker (cello) (rec 1992) (RCA 09026 61436)

PURCELL: Sweeter than roses, from Pausanias; Fairest isle, from King Arthur; She that would gain a faithful lover; Cupid, the slyest rogue alive; I attempt from love's sickness to fly, from The Indian Queen; Jig - Sylvia McNair (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (rec 1994) (Philips 446 081)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in C RV185, from La Stravaganza Op 4/7 - Rachel Podger (vln), Arte Dei Suonatori (rec 2002) (Channel Classics CCS 19598)

4:00 pm Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

ROUSSEL: Impromptu Op 21 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

GUBAIDULINA: Allegro rustico - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 373 250)

HAMILTON: Didn't it rain?; TRAD arr Marshall: Minoi, Minoi; TRAD arr Dawson: Ain'-a that good news! - 1999 New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2029)

DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 399)

5:00 pm Cadenza

ABEL: Sinfonia in Bb Op 17/2 - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Passacaille 903)

J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus Quadrille - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)

ANDERSON: Belle of the Ball - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

SCHUMANN: On to the high chase, from Hunting Songs Op 137 - New Detmold Liedertafel, Detmold Horn Quartet/Thorsten Roth (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 622 1316)

SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Michael Rabin (vln), Hollywood Bowl SO/Felix Slatkin (Medici Arts MM 023)

MERTZ: Lob der Tränen - Gabriel Bianco (gtr) (Naxos 8.572306)

GLIÈRE: Heroic March for the Buryiat-Mongolian ASSR - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

6:00 LYON: Overture to a Comic Opera - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Marco Polo 8.225039)

WEILL: Mack the knife, from The Threepenny Opera - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Swedish Radio SO/Paul Daniel (DG 477 8091)

LLOYD WEBBER: Music of the night, from Phantom of the Opera - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Philips 446 050)

SCHUBERT: Variations on a theme from Hérold's opera, Marie - Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen (pno duet) (Sony S2K 58955)

HEUBERGER: The Opera Ball, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

Im chambre séparée, from The Opera Ball - Joan Sutherland (sop), New Philharmonia/Richard Bonynge (Decca 475 7981)

GODARD: Suite No 1, from the opera Jocelyn Op 100 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7291)

7:00 pm Appointment

The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (RNZ)

8:00 pm Music Alive

Felix the Quartet

PSATHAS: A Cool Wind; SIBELIUS: String Quartet in D minor Op 56, Intimate Voices; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 59/1, Razumovsky (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

9:30 pm Mozart on Original Instruments

Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503 - Rudolf Buchbinder (fpno), Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Sony 88765 40904)

10:00 pm Day's End

SZYMANOWSKI: Symphony No 3 Op 27, Song of the Night - Ryszard Minkiewicz (ten), Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570721)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

11:00 HOVHANESS: Spirit of Trees, Sonata for harp & guitar - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), David Leisner (gtr) (Telarc CD 80530)

PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 80 - Janine Jansen (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Decca 478 3546)