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Saturday 20 March 2010 Rāhoroi 20 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 6.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 HAYDN: The Creation, Sinfonia, The Representation of Chaos - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

SAINT-SAËNS: Polonaise in F minor Op 77 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5152)

MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 4 in A - Henk de Graaf (cl), Rotterdam Amadeus Ensemble/Marien van Staalen (Brilliant Classics 93337)

BOTTESINI: Introduction & Bolero - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (Naxos 8.570399)

REYNOLDS: Alice through the Looking-Glass, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

7:00 BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - Cologne Radio SO/Gary Bertini (Capriccio 71 094)

HUBAY: Czárdas Scene No 4, Beautiful Katie - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Bournemouth SO/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.572078)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 19 in G minor Op 49/1 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2013)

TELEMANN: Oboe Sonata in Bb, from Essercizii Musici - Sarah Francis (ob), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1240)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Brilliant Classics 99926)

8:00 RUTTER: Suite for strings - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

PUCCINI arr Tamminga: Piccolo valzer for piano - Liuwe Tamminga (organ of St Pietro Somaldi, Lucca, Italy) (Passacaille 952)

COPRARIO: Fantasia, Chi può mirarvi - Fretwork (Virgin VC 5 45346)

FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Idil Biret (pno), Bilkent SO/Alain Pâris (Alpha 104)

GRIEG: In Autumn, Overture - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1191)

 9:00 Best of Upbeat

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

10:00 Your Choice

BIZET: Symphony in C - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553027)

VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two cellos RV531 - Georg Faust, Kristin von der Goltz (cellos), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (Avi 855 3060)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in Eb Op 23/6 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)

HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, Let thy hand be strengthened - Tallis Chamber Choir, Royal Academy Consort/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557003)

Appointment - Janetta McStay

An illustrated interview with Peter Mechen (RNZ)

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

12:00 The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

 1:00 Jazz at Lincoln Center

Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

Host Wycliffe Gordon offers background, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

(13) Rags, Strides & Stomps

Put cut in your strut and take pride in your stride! Virtuoso Marcus Roberts with newcomers Jonathan Batiste and Aaron Diehl take turns in a cutting contest on the keys. Jazz’s piano masters are still hard to beat. Our trio honours the giants of the stride piano, Fats Waller, James P Johnson and Willie “The Lion” Smith (Murray Street Productions)

 2:00 Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

Classical music from Iran

To celebrate Nowruz (the traditional Iranian New Year), music from classical Iranian ensemble Dastan. The group perform instrumental music and songs to poems by the contemporary poet Sayeh, and the great mystics: Attar, Rumi and Hafiz (Network Medien 495120)

 3:00 Saturday Concert

Music Mountain

Performances recorded at the 79th season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

Sixteen programmes

(12) Tao Lin (pno), Bergonzi String Quartet

MOZART: String Quartet No 19 in C K465, Dissonance; SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57; C SCHUMANN arr Flavin: Liebst du um Schönheit; A MAHLER arr Flavin: Laue Sommernacht; BRAHMS arr Flavin: Minnelied Op 71/5; TOUZET arr Flavin: Siempre en clave; SCHUBERT arr Flavin: Erlkönig D328; BERNSTEIN arr Flavin: Glitter and be gay, from Candide; YEPEZ arr Flavin: Danza Equatoriana; GLIERE: String Quartet No 2 in G minor Op 20 (Keystone Broadcasting)

 5:05 Folk Influences in the 1920s

WARLOCK arr Lane: Folksong Preludes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)

BARTÓK: Three Rondos on Folk Tunes Sz84 - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 23407)

CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 2 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9697)

 6:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

UTTING: Spirals - New Zealand SO/David Atherton (RNZ)

TOSCANINI: Minuettino; Berceuse - David Vine (pno) (RNZ)

BESSER: Klez - Isidor Saslav (vln), Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

FROM SCRATCH: 9,10,11, from Gung Ho 1,2,3D - From Scratch/Philip Dadson (Flying Nun FN 085)

MCLEOD: Cambridge Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

 7:00 Vocalied

Mezzo, Susan Graham

HAHN: A Chloris; L'Énamourée; Trois jours de vendange; Infidélité; Dans la nuit; Fêtes Galantes; L'Heure exquise - Roger Vignoles (pno) (Sony SK 60168)

DEBUSSY orch Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire - BBC SO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Warner 2564 61938)

ROREM: Jeanie with the light brown hair; Ode; For Poulenc; Little Elegy; O Do Not Love Too Long; Far-Far-Away; For Susan; A Journey - Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Erato 8573 80222)

 8:00 Music Alive

Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bbar), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

FARQUHAR: Ring Round the Moon; HANDEL: The trumpet shall sound, from Messiah; Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes; Revenge, Timotheus cries, from Alexander’s Feast; MOZART: Per questa bella mano K612; Non più andrai, from The Marriage of Figaro; Deh vieni alla finestra, from Don Giovanni; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

 9:30 The Allies

HILL: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, Allies - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)

10:00 Day's End

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Linn CKD 315)

GIULIANI: Guitar Concerto No 3 in F Op 70 - Paolo Pugliese (gtr), Ensemble Ottocento/Andrea Rognoni (dir) (Brilliant Classics 92621)

ROUSSEL: Bacchus & Ariadne, Suite No 2 - Paris Orch/Serge Baudo (EMI CZS 7 62669)

11:00 SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 - Dolf Bettelheim (vln), Samuel Rhodes (vla), Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 420 791)

SPOHR: String Sextet in C Op 140 - L'Archibudelli & Smithsonian Chamber Players (Sony SK 53370)

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1

NIELSEN: Symphony No 3, Sinfonia Espansiva; Symphony No 5 - Catherine Bott (sop), Stephen Roberts (bar), Royal Scottish Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9067)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9; Symphonic Etudes Op 13; Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Alfred Cortot (pno), Jacques Thibaud (vln), Pablo Casals (cello) (Biddulph LHW 004)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

FAURÉ: Requiem; DURUFLÉ: Four Motets, Ubi caritas; Tota pulchra es; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo; Messe Cum jubilo; MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium - Camilla Otaki (sop), Mark Griffiths (bar), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, London Musici/Richard Marlow, Briony Shaw (vln), Richard Pearce (org) (Conifer CDCF 176)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

REINCKEN: Sonata in A minor; BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in Bb; ROSENMÜLLER: Sonata in E minor; WESTHOFF: Sonata in A; PACHELBEL: Suite in G; Canon & Gigue in D - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 437 089)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies, No 7 in D minor; No 8 in D; No 9 in C minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

Sunday 21 March 2010 Rātapu 21 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 6.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Sanctuary

TYE: Amavit eum Dominus; Miserere mei, Deus - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/Bill Ives, Byrde Recorder Consort (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7396)

M HAYDN: Missa Tempore Quadragesimae - Ex Tempore/Florian Heyerick (Etcetera FTC 4020)

BACH: Jesu, meine Freude; Verleih' uns Frieden gnädlich - Matthew Barley (cello) (Black Box BBM 1068)

BROSSARD: Dialogus poenitentis animae cum Deo - Noémi Rime (sop), Ian Honeyman (ten), Le Parlement de Musique/Martin Gester (org/dir) (Opus 111 OPS 10-002)

GRETCHANINOV: Passion Week, excerpts - Caroline Markham (mezzo), Paul Davidson (ten), Bryan Taylor (bar), Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5044)

LISZT: Benedictus & Offertorium from the Hungarian Coronation Mass - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Thomas Labé (pno) (Dorian DOR-90251)

FINZI: Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson, Christopher Whitton (org) (Naxos 8.555792)

 8:00 Grace Notes

VERDI: La Traviata, Prelude to Act I - Mexico SO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 856)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - Gidon Kremer (vln), CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 9031 74881)

SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Calliope CAL 9207)

WAGNER: Euch lüften, die mein Klagen, from Lohengrin - Régine Crespin (sop), French National Radio Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 5 58031)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

GRAINGER: Brigg Fair - James Gilchrist (ten), Hallé Choir/James Burton (Hallé CD HLL 7503)

MOZART: Second movement, Andantino, from Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 - Irena Grafenauer (fl), Maria Graf (harp), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 051)

TRAD arr Harty: Londonderry Air - Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 7033)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

Rachel Hyde takes a look at the life and music of STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930) as we celebrate the composer/lyricist’s 80th birthday this week (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Sunday in the Park, excerpts, Sunday in the Park with George; No Life; Color and Light; Children and Art

George ......................... Mandy Patinkin

Marie/Dot .................... Bernadette Peters

Jules ............................. Charles Kimbrough

Yvonne ........................ Dana Ivey

Full Company, American Theatre Orchestra/Paul Gemignani (RCA RCD 1 5042)

10:00 Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

Twenty-six programmes hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City

(2) Claron McFadden (sop), Gilbert Kalish (pno), Pacifica Quartet

CHAUSSON: Chanson perpétuelle; SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810, Death & the Maiden

(WFMT)

11:00 The Works

STANFORD: The Revenge, A Ballad of the Fleet - BBC Welsh National Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5043)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Op 40 (original version 1926) - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno), North Carolina Symphony/Grant Llewellyn (BIS SACD 1728)

12:00 Opera on Sunday

Metropolitan Opera Season

Twenty-two operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

(12) PUCCINI: La Bohème, an opera in four acts

Living the Bohemian life beneath the cold, grey skies of Paris’s Latin Quarter, the poet Rodolfo and the frail seamstress Mimi find love, merriment and despair

Mimì ............................ Anna Netrebko

Musetta ........................ Nicole Cabell

Rodolfo ........................ Piotr Beczala

Marcello ...................... Gerald Finley

Schaunard .................... Massimo Cavalletti

Colline ......................... Oren Gradus

Benoit/Alcindoro .......... Paul Plishka

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Marco Armiliato (EBU)

 3:30 Auckland Town Hall Organ Inauguration Concert

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

John Wells (organ of the Auckland Town Hall), Musica Sacra, Graduate Choir, Viva Voce/Terence Maskell & John Rosser, Indra Hughes (org), Auckland Youth Orch/Anton Poljanich, Paul Tarling (org)

Speeches including a Karakia and words from Mayor John Banks and organ builder Philipp Klais

BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565; BRAHMS: Geistliches Lied Op 30; PARRY: I was glad; WELLS: Organ Symphony; GUILMANT: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 42 (RNZ)

 6:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

PÉRILHOU: Ballade - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

VERDI: Il tramonto; Ad una stella; - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno) (Atoll A 9803)

J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies, Full fathom five; Tell me, where is fancy bred; Blow, blow thou Winter wind - John Mills (gtr) (RNZ)

ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

A RITCHIE: Music for Tristan - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

KHACHATURIAN: Awakening & Dance of Ayesha, from Gayaneh - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

 7:00 New Horizons

Ten programmes

(4) William Dart looks at The Complete Fourmyula, the recently released exhaustive collection of recordings from the late-sixties New Zealand band (RNZ)

 8:00 Young New Zealand

The Big Sing 2009

Nine programmes

(1) Highlights from the National Finale featuring Bellissimo (Whangaparaoa College), Saint Cecilia Singers (Diocesan School for Girls), The Tenners (Sacred Heart Girls' College), The Fundamentals (Rangitoto College), Con Anima (St Patrick's College, Wellington), Craighead Chorale (Craighead Diocesan School)

DURUFLÉ: Ubi caritas; BRAHMS: Wenn so lind dein Auge mir; CARMICHAEL arr Shaw: Georgia on my mind; BURDON: Aotearoa; TRAD arr Sargent: Little David play on your harp; SCHUMANN: Zigeunerleben; BURKE/GARNER arr Lojeski: Misty; BENNET: Weep, o mine eyes; HAMILTON: The chameleon; CERTON arr Robinson: Je le vous diray; GROBAN/MATTHEWS/VAN DER SAAG arr Huff: Lullaby (recorded in the Dunedin Town Hall by RNZ)

 8:45 Martinu in 1929

MARTINU: Borová, Seven Czech Dances - Emil Leichner (pno) (Supraphon SU 3656-2 133)

 9:00 Pressing On

Recent releases with Robert Johnson (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

10:00 Day's End

SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana Op 16 - Wu Qian (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 041)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105 - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.554387)

11:00 HANDEL: Chaconne in G HWV435 - Enno Voorhorst (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 9136)

RAFF: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 107 - Kalle Randalu (pno), Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1181)

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - Disc 1

LAMBERT: Horoscope; WALTON: Façade; BLISS: Checkmate - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66436)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

CPE BACH: Concertos for flute & orchestra, in D minor WQ22; in A minor WQ166; in A for WQ168 - Eckart Haupt (fl), CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Capriccio 10 104)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

MENDELSSOHN: Verleih’ uns Frieden; Kyrie eleison; Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe; Ave Maria Op 23/2; Mitten wir im Leben sind Op 23/3; Heilig, heilig ist Gott, der Herr Zebaoth; Six Anthems Op 79; Three Psalms Op 78, Warum toben die Heiden; Richte mich, Gott, und fuhre meine Sache; Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?; Hor mein Bitten, Herr, neige dich zu mir - Anne Dawson (sop), Rogers Covey-Crump (ten), John Scott (org), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66359)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

DEBUSSY: Sonata for cello & piano; DOHNÁNYI: Sonata in Bb minor for cello & piano Op 8; BRIDGE: Two Short Pieces; Sonata in D for cello & piano - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 796)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

Overtures, ROSSINI: William Tell; BIZET: Carmen; REZNICEK: Donna Diana; WEBER: Freischutz; ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie; VERDI: The Force of Destiny; ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder; MOZART: The Magic Flute; NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor - Various Orchestras & Conductors (DG 423 781)

Monday 22 March 2010 Rāhina 22 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 WAGENAAR: Larghetto for oboe & orchestra - Ingrid Nissen (ob), Netherlands Radio SO/Eri Klas (Etcetera KTC 1326)

GADE: Folkdances Op 31 - Elisabeth Westenholz (pno) (Kontrapunkt 32124)

BRAHMS: How lovely are thy dwellings, from A German Requiem - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

ROPARTZ: Prelude, Marine & Chansons - Linos Harp Quintet (Hänssler CD 93.175)

MOZART: Idomeneo, excerpts - Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30479)

7:00 J STRAUSS II: Morning Papers, Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

J WILLIAMS: Schindler's List theme - Janine Jansen (vln), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 475 011)

ANON: Canarios - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9820)

GRIEG: Butterfly, from Lyric Pieces Book 3; Melody, from Lyric Pieces Book 4 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 459 671)

RODRIGO: Castanets & tambourines - Castile & León SO/Max Bragado Darman (Naxos 8.555962)

SAINT-SAËNS: Prelude & Fugue in B Op 99/2 - Andrew-John Smith (organ of La Madeleine, Paris) (Hyperion CDA 67713)

FAURÉ: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 2)

WEISS arr Noad: Passacaglia - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ELGAR: Carissima - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Black Box BBM 1016)

YORK: Sunburst - Karin Schaupp (gtr) (Warner Classics 3984-23306)

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), National Phil/Raymond Leppard (CBS CD 37846)

CHOPIN: Polonaise in Ab Op 53, Heroic - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (DG 477 7558)

KODÁLY: Intermezzo for string trio - Berlin Philharmonic String Trio (Arte Nova 74321 54845)

WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 342)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930)

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum, Act 1, excerpts

Prologus ....................... Zero Mostel

Hero ............................ Brian Davies

Philia ............................ Preshy Marker

Senex ........................... David Burns

Hysterium ..................... Jack Gilford

Lycus ........................... Jack Carradine

Company & Theatre Orchestra/Harold Hastings (Angel 64770)

Into the Woods, Prologue - Tom Aldredge (narrator), Company & Theatre Orchestra/Paul Gemignani (RCA 6796-2-RC)

Stay with me, from Into the woods - Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Sony SK 64498)

Into the Woods, Finale: Children will listen

Witch ........................... Bernadette Peters

Company & Theatre Orchestra/Paul Gemignani (RCA 6796-2-RC)

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum, Act 2 excerpts

Domina ........................ Ruth Kobart

Pseudolus ..................... Zero Mostel

Miles Gloriosus ............ Ronald Holgate

Company & Theatre Orchestra/Harold Hastings (Angel 64770)

10:00 The Works

BACH: Partita No 2 in C minor BWV826 - Andrea Bacchetti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 629/1-2)

E HALFFTER: Sinfonietta - Ondrej Lewit (vln), Robert Pytel (cello), Peter Jones (dbass), Tenerife SO/Víctor Pablo Pérez (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7067)

LARSSON: Divertimento Op 55, Quattro tempi - Reykjavik Wind Quintet (Chandos CHAN 9849)

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 - London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7 64530)

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 1:30 Music in Denmark, 1920-1929

J GADE: Jealousy - Friederike Spaulding (vln), Barcelona SO/José Serebrier (BIS CD 1175)

NIELSEN: An imaginary trip to the Faroe Islands - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

JÖRGENSEN: Suite for trombone & orchestra Op 22 - Jesper Juul (tbn), Danish National SO/Henrik Vagn Christensen (Dacapo 6.220526)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 4 in A minor D537 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 470 265)

WILMS: Overture in D - North German Radio Phil/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 209)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Matthias Metzger (vln), Gerrit Zitterbart (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.462)

GLUCK: J'ai perdu mon Eurydice, from Orphée et Eurydice; ROSSINI: La speranza più, from Semiramide - Juan Diego Flórez (ten), Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Carlo Rizzi (Decca 475 550)

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

 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Salvatore Accardo (vln), BBC SO/Colin Davis (rec 1975) (Philips 420 717)

arr Pletnev: The Nutcracker, Suite - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (rec 1978) (Melodiya 74321 25172)

 4:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 2, Rugby - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

WALTON: Daphne; Through Gilded Trellises; Old Sir Faulk - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Richard Amner (pno) (CBS MK 76868)

SIBELIUS: Belshazzar's Feast, Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)

PROSSER arr Besser/Prosser: City Raga - Jonathan Besser (pno), Christopher Prosser (vln) (Kiwi CD SLD 114)

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

WEBER: Peter Schmoll, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

 5:00 Cadenza

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - London SO/André Previn (EMI 3 82157)

HANDEL: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 4/6 - Ton Koopman (org/dir), Amsterdam Baroque Orch (Erato 2292 45394)

SAVARD: Morceau de concours - Reinhold Friedrich (tpt), Thomas Duis (pno) (Capriccio 67 152)

MUSSORGSKY: Chorus of Blind Psalterists, from The Snow Maiden - Bolshoi Chorus, Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Erato 4509 91723)

JC BACH: Quintet in G Op 11/2 - Les Adieux (DHM RD 77250)

SCHARWENKA arr Henry Wood: Polish Dance Op 3/3 - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)

DUBOIS: Méditation & Scherzetto - Anne Robert (vln), Stéphane Lemelin (pno) (ATMA ACD 2 2380)

ALBENIZ: Spanish Suite Op 47, excerpts, Cádiz; Granada; Seville - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

AUBER: Jenny Bell, Overture - Gothenburg Opera Orch/B Tommy Andersson (Sterling CDS 1039)

MARAIS: Cloches ou Carillon, from Pièces de viole Book 2 Part 1 - Jean-Louis Charbonnier, Paul Rousseau (vlas da gamba), Mauricio Buraglia (theorbo), Pierre Trocellier (hpschd) (Ligia LIDI 030 1195-08)

TRAD arr Pokela/Sariola/Kontio: Bells of Konevitsa Monastery - Martti Pokela, Eeva-Leena Sariola, Matti Kontio (kanteles) (Finlandia 0630 12722)

WARREN: Wexford Bells, Suite on old Irish tunes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Sanctuary CD RSB 205)

LISZT: La campanella - François-René Duchâble (pno) (Virgin 3 63278)

SOUSA: Liberty Bell - Incredible Columbia All-Star Band/Gunther Schuller (Sony MLK 66710)

 7:00 Composer of the Week

Rachel Hyde takes a look at the life and music of STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930) as we celebrate the composer/lyricist’s 80th birthday this week (RNZ)

A Little Night Music, excerpts

Quintet ......................... John J Moore, Chris Melville, Liz Robertson, David Bexon, Jacquey Chappell

Fredrika ....................... Christine McKenna

Desirée ........................ Jean Simmons

Madame Armfeldt ........ Hermione Gingold

A Little Night Music Pit Orchestra/Ray Cook (RCA 5090-2-RG)

The Night Waltzes, from A Little Night Music - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 438 685)

 8:00 Music Alive

Diedre Irons (pno), Haihong Liu (vln), Zhongxian Jin (vla), Rowan Prior (cello), Hiroshi Ikematsu (dbass)

ROSSINI: String Sonata No 3 in C; HUMMEL: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 87; SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

 9:15 In the Hungarian Style

JOACHIM: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 11, "in the Hungarian style" - Suyoen Kim (vln), Weimar State Orch/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.570991)

10:00 Day's End

BAINTON: An English Idyll - Paul Whelan (bar), BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Chandos CHAN 10019)

OFFENBACH: Suite for two cellos Op 54/1 - Roland Pidoux, Etienne Péclard (cellos) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1043)

FOOTE: Air & Gavotte - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwartz (Naxos 8.559365)

11:00 JONGEN: Rhapsody Op 70 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1259)

DOMENICONI: Variations on an Anatolian Folksong - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

F COUPERIN: Suite No 1 in E minor - Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, Mikko Perkola (bass viols), Aapo Häkkinen (hpschd) (Avie AV 2132)

12:00 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-Gruβ; An die Entfernte; Am Fluβe; 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)

Tuesday 23 March 2010 Rātū 23 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 CANNABICH: Symphony No 47 in G - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

CARREÑO: Un bal en rêve Op 26 - Clara Rodriguez (pno) (Nimbus NI 6103)

WEINBERG: Concerto for flute & string orchestra Op 75 - Anders Jonhäll (fl), members of Gothenburg SO/Thord Svedlund (Chandos CHSA 5064)

ANON: Meza Note Gagliarda (XI) - Ensemble Doulce Mémoire (Dorian DOR 90262)

ROGERS: Once upon a time, Five fairy tales - Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson (Mercury 434 319)

7:00 DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.251)

TRAD: The Skye Boat Song - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 416 698)

LENNON/MCCARTNEY: Nudging Dance & Michelle Pas de Deux, from The Fool on the Hill - Sydney SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 472 509)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 28 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2028)

STANFORD: Irish Rhapsody No 5 in G minor Op 147 - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7002/3)

8:00 Beauty Spot: VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

BORODIN arr Rimsky-Korsakov/Glazunov: Prince Igor, Overture - London SO/Georg Solti (Decca 444 389)

KHACHATURIAN: Waltz, from Masquerade - Murray McLachlan (pno) (RegisC 1184)

PUCCINI arr Picarband/Nevi: Corazzata Sicilia, after La Bohème - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 475 320)

ROSSINI arr Demersseman/Berthélèmy/Gallois: Fantasy on William Tell - Patrick Gallois (fl), Malcolm Messiter (ob), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

D SCARLATTI arr Tommasini: Good-Humoured Ladies - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930)

STYNE: Gypsy, excerpts (Lyrics by Sondheim)

Louise .......................... Sandra Church

Rose ............................ Ethel Merman

Theatre Orchestra/Milton Rodenstock (dir) (Sony SK 60848)

SONDHEIM: Follies, Act 1 excerpts

Roscoe ........................ Paul Bentley

Wally ........................... Teddy Johnson

Billy ............................. Pearl Carr

Stella ............................ Lynda Baron

Phyllis .......................... Diana Rigg

Ben .............................. Daniel Massey

The Follies Orchestra/Martin Koch (dir) (First Night Encore CD3)

BERNSTEIN: Somewhere, from West Side Story (Lyrics by Sondheim)

Kim Criswell (sop), Lamoureux Orch/Yutaka Sado (Warner Classics 2564 60480)

SONDHEIM: Follies, Act 2 excerpts

Carlotta ........................ Dolores Gray

Sally ............................. Julia McKenzie

Ben .............................. Daniel Massey

Chorus & The Follies Orchestra/Martin Koch (dir) (First Night Encore CD3)

10:00 The Works

WAGENAAR: Summer of Life Op 21 - Northwest German Phil/Antony Hermus (CPO 777 479)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 15 in G D887 - Prazàk Quartet (Praga PRD 250 240)

SCHUMANN: Concert Piece in F for four horns Op 86 - David Pyatt, Michael Thompson, Martin Owen, Cormac O hAodáin (horns), BBC Phil/Charles Mackerras (BBC Music BBC MM 314)

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

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 1:30 Music in Austria, 1920-1929

KREISLER: Gypsy Caprice - Caroline Goulding (vln), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Telarc CD 80744)

KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing, Suite Op 11 - Philippe Quint (vln), Mineria SO/Carlos Miguel Prieto (Naxos 8.570791)

LEHÁR: Clo-Clo, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 5 in D BWV874, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - John Wells (organ of St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland) (Ribbonwood RCD 1007)

MENDELSSOHN: Serenade & Allegro Giocoso in B minor Op 43 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Hyperion CDA 66969)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 in A K331 - Jean-Bernard Pommier (pno) (Virgin 6 99473)

SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - James Ehnes (vln), Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Analekta FL 2 3151)

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

 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

VERDI: Requiem - Amy Shuard (sop), Anna Reynolds (mezzo), Richard Lewis (ten), David Ward (bass), Philharmonia Chorus & Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini (rec 1963) (BBC Legends BBCL 4029)

 4:35 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

FARR: Ahi - Ogen Trio (Atoll ACD 108)

RAVEL: Fourth movement, Feria, from Rapsodie espagnole - New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (NZSO)

 5:00 Cadenza

OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

BACH arr Giegling: Concerto in D minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Heinz Holliger (ob), Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Edo de Waart (Philips 420 700)

LISZT: Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Rienzi - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

TELEMANN trans Williams: Bourrée alla Polacca - John Williams (gtr) (CBS MK 44518)

MARTINU: Idyll, from The Bouquet - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Orfeo 180 891)

GOUNOD: Avant de quitter ces lieux, from Faust - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

HILL: As Night Falls - Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.223538)

RAMSEY: How are the mighty fallen - Cambridge Taverner Choir/Owen Rees (dir) (Herald HAVP CD 187)

ROSSINI: Rising & falling scales, from Sins of my old age Book 3 - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)

GALUPPI: In the flesh thou didst fall asleep - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7318)

J WILLIAMS arr Woude: Hymn to the Fallen, from Saving Private Ryan - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Interpreted by Richard Souther: Red River Falling - Sister Germaine Fritz, Katie McMahon (sops), Richard Souther (keyb), Davy Spillane (whistles), Maria Kitsopoulos (cello) (Sony SK 62853)

FINZI: The Fall of the Leaf - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49912)

BELLINI arr Smedvig: Second movement, Allegro, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Scottish CO/Jahja Ling (Telarc CD 80550)

ELGAR: Imperial March Op 32 - London Phil/Daniel Barenboim (Sony SMK 46682)

 7:00 Sound Lounge

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 International Rostrum of Composers 2009

Five programmes with ABC Classic FM’s Julian Day and Duncan Yardley

(3) The latest new music from radio stations around the globe

A LECHUSZA: Plack Bage - Mad Trio (Black Phone Records)

JAMES RUSHFORD: Mirrors - The Song Company/Roland Peelman (ABC Classic FM)

MIRJAM TALLY: Turbulence - Estonian National Orchestra/Risto Joost (Estonian Public Broadcasting)

MARTIJN PADDING: First Harmonium Concerto - Dirk Luijmes (harmonium), Orkest de Ereprijs/Wim Boerman) (Netherlands Public Broadcasting)

JUSTE JANULYTE: Aquarelle - Estonian Phil Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Lithuanian Radio)

MARIA VANESA RUFFA: Los Siete Brazos - Orch of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies/Alejandro Iglesias Rossi (Radio Universidad Nacional LM, Argentina)

NATASHA ANDERSON/JÉRÔME NOETINGER/AMANDA STEWART: Morphallaxis - Natasha Anderson, Jérôme Noetinger & Amanda Stewart (ABC Classic FM)

11:00 New Music Dreams

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - 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 (alto), 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)

Wednesday 24 March 2010 Rāapa 24 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: First movement, The Sea & Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade - Justine Cormack (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Mark Op 4/6 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 749)

DEBUSSY: Pagodas, from Estampes - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62802)

7:00 WALTON arr Mathieson: Richard III, a Shakespeare Suite - Philharmonia/William Walton (EMI CDM 5 65007)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1990)

TRAD: The Bonnie Earl O'Moray - Royal Scottish National Orch Chorus, BBC Scottish SO/John Currie (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)

GRANADOS: Andalucia, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2103)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Adagio, from Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV1052 - Murray Perahia (pno/dir), ASMF (Sony SK 89245)

THOMAS: Mignon, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 425 083)

BRAHMS: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor - György Pauk (vln), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93989)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in C Op 6/10 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1406/7)

GERSHWIN arr Stoltzman: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930)

Side by Side, excerpts, The little things you do together; You must meet my wife; Getting married today; I remember; Can that boy foxtrot - Julia McKenzie, David Kernan, Millicent Martin (artists), Tim Higgs, Stuart Pedlar (pno duo)/(RCA 1851-2-RG)

Marry me a little, a Musical Revue, excerpts, Saturday Night; So many people; A moment with you; The Girls of Summer; Pour le Sport

Man ... Craig Lucas

Woman ... Suzanne Henry

unknown pianist (RCA 7142-2-RG)

Back in business, from Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty's film) - Liza Minnelli, Billy Stritch (vocalists), Ensemble & American Theatre Orchestra/Paul Gemignani (RCA 61516)

Side by Side, excerpts, Everybody says don't; There won't be trumpets; Pretty Lady; Could I leave you; Side by side by side: - Julia McKenzie, David Kernan, Millicent Martin (artists), Tim Higgs, Stuart Pedlar (pno duo) (RCA 1851-2-RG)

10:00 The Works

RESPIGHI: The Birds - BBC Phil/Patrick Thomas (BBC Music BBC MM 277)

FUCHS: Piano Trio No 1 in C Op 22 - Gould Piano Trio (Quartz QTZ 2028)

PAUER: Quintet in F for piano & winds Op 44 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1374)

MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 22 in B minor Op 54 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 1:30 Music in Finland, 1920-1929

MADETOJA: Comedy Overture Op 53 - Oulu SO/Arvo Volmer (Alba ABCD 162)

SIBELIUS: A lonely ski-trail, for recitation & piano - Lasse Pöysti (narrator), Folke Gräsbeck (pno) (BIS CD 1412)

KLAMI: Symphonie enfantine Op 17 - Kymi Sinfonietta/Juha Nikkola (Alba ABCD 171)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

WAGNER: Wesendonk Lieder - Janet Baker (mezzo), BBC SO/Reginald Goodall (BBC Legends BBCL 4086)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2 in D Op 36 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (PentaTone PTC 5186 118)

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

 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Leonid Kogan (vln)

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216 - USSR State SO/Kirill Kondrashin (mono rec) (rec 1959)

BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Moscow Phil/Kirill Kondrashin (mono rec) (rec 1962)

MOZART: Adagio in E K261 - Moscow Phil/Pavel Kogan (rec 1981) (Brilliant Classics 93030)

 4:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Viva CO)

BELLINI: Ah! Non credea mirarti, from La Sonnambula - Malvina Major (sop), Gerald Gover (pno) (EMI 5 56724)

MCLEOD: Dirge for Doomsday - New Zealand Youth Choir/Peter Godfrey (RNZ)

RÓZSA: Love Scene, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

L LIEBERMANN: Sonata for flute & guitar Op 25 - Alexa Still (fl), Franco Platino (gtr) (Koch 3-7549)

HAMILTON: Elysian Fields - New Zealand SO/Matthias Bamert (RNZ)

 5:00 Cadenza

ELGAR: Empire March - BBC Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHAN 10570)

CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 448 128)

HANDEL arr Drechsler: Sinfonia; La Marche; Più amabile beltà, from Giulio Cesare - Schwerin Brass Collegium/Hans-Joachim Drechsler (Berlin Classics 1655 BC)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Character Dances, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

CLEMENT SCOTT arr Farquhar: Now is the Hour - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

IRELAND: The Advent; Hymn for a Child, from Songs Sacred & Profane - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67261/2)

ALWYN: Prelude - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7237)

PÄRT: De Profundis clamavi ad te Domine - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tonu Kaljuste (Virgin VC 5 45276)

GRIEG arr Baadsvik: Anitra's Dance, from Peer Gynt - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Musica Vitae/Björn Sagstad (BIS CD 1285)

STRAUSS: Love songs - Lucia Popp (sop), Wolfgang Sawallisch (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49318)

GOUNOD arr Stoltzman: Jewel Song, from Faust - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

GIBBONS: The King's Jewel - James Johnstone (virginal) (ASV CD GAU 191)

WOLF-FERRARI: Intermezzo, from The Jewels of the Madonna, Act 2 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

GOTTSCHALK: Colliers d'or - Philip Martin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67349)

SULLIVAN orch Spencer: The Sapphire Necklace, Overture - RTE Concert Orch/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223461)

 7:00 Appointment

World Book Club

Four programmes

(1) Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie discusses Midnight’s Children. The book is surrealist fiction that deals with the history of India from 1910 to the declaration of emergency in 1976 through the eyes (and nose) of Saleem Sinai, born on the strike of midnight August 15 1947. He is one of 1001 children born that midnight, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent.

Writer and critic Malcolm Bradbury hailed Midnight’s Children (in The Modern British Novel penguin, 1994) “a new start for the late-twentieth-century novel” (BBC)

 7:30 New Release

MARTINU : Piano Concerto No 5, Fantasia concertante - Giorgio Koukl (pno), Bohuslav Martinu Phil/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.572206)

 8:00 Music Alive

Live! at the Concertgebouw 2008

Enrico Pace (pno), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/David Robertson, brass & percussion of the Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Ivan Meylemans

KEURIS: Antologia; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10; GUBAIDULINA: The Rider on the White Horse; PROKOFIEV: Autumn Op 8; Symphony No 1 in D Op 25; HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes of Weber; OTTERLOO: Serenade; HENZE: Ragtimes & Habaneras (Radio Netherlands)

10:00 Day's End

FAURÉ: Pelléas & Mélisande Suite - Netherlands Phil/Yakov Kreizberg (PentaTone PTC 5186 058)

H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs - BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Warner 2564 61956)

DRAGONETTI: Double Bass Concerto in A - Massimo Giorgi (dbass), I Solisti Aquilani/Vittorio Antonellini (Koch Schwann 3-1424)

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

MENDELSSOHN: String Quintet No 1 in A Op 18 - Hausmusik (EMI CDC 7 49958)

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - 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)

Thursday 25 March 2010 Rāpare 25 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 MARTUCCI: Giga Op 61/3 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

JCF BACH: Flute Quartet No 3 in C - Les Adieux (DHM RD 77250)

MAYKAPAR: Birulki Op 28 - Elena Filonova (pno) (Calliope CAL 9421.3)

SIBELIUS: Suite for violin & strings Op 117 - Pekka Kuusisto (vln/dir), Tapiola Sinfonietta (Ondine ODE 1074)

ARCAS: Fantasy on themes from Verdi's La Traviata - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

7:00 SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 4 Op 22 - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

MENDELSSOHN: Andante cantabile & Presto agitato in B - Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93975)

BRESCIANELLO: Concerto in Bb for violin & bassoon - David Plantier (vln), Eckhard Lenzing (bsn), Vaclav Luks (hpschd/dir), La Cetra Baroque Orch, Basel (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 5262)

GLENNIE: A Little Prayer - Evelyn Glennie (perc) (RCA 60242-2-RC)

COATES: Wood Nymphs - Eric Coates & his Orch (EMI CDM 5 66537)

8:00 Beauty Spot: CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

BRIDGE: Miniatures for Piano Trio, Set 3 - Jack Liebeck (vln), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570792)

SUK: First movement, Andante con moto, from Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Viva CO (Viva CO)

FINZI: Prelude in F minor - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 239)

PASCULLI: Homage to Bellini - Hansjörg Schellenberger (cor angl), Margit-Anna Süss (harp) (Denon CO 76611)

ZIEHRER: Nostalgia Waltz Op 436 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223815)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930)

Merrily we roll along, excerpts

Frank ........................... Michael Cantwell

Charlie ......................... Evan Pappas

Mary ............................ Maria Friedman

Beth ............................. Jacqueline Dankworth

Leicester Haymarket Theatre Company & Orchestra/Paul Kerryson (TER CDTER 1225)

Company, excerpts

Robert ......................... Dean Jones/Larry Kert

April ............................ Susan Browning

Pit Orchestra/Harold Hastings (Sony SK 48201)

Sweeney Todd, Act One excerpts

Judge Turpin ................ Edmund Lyndeck

Beadle ......................... Jack Eric Williams

Anthony ....................... Victor Garber

Johanna ........................ Sarah Rice

Sweeney Todd ............. Len Cariou

Mrs Lovett ................... Angela Lansbury

unnamed theatre orch/Paul Gemignani (RCA 3379 RC)

10:00 The Works

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances Op 46 - London SO/Jean Martinon (Decca 467 2742)

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

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde - Verdi Quartet (Hänssler CD 98.546)

KLEVEN: Lotus Land Op 5 - Stavanger SO/Susanna Mälkki (BIS CD 1542)

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 1:30 Music from 1921

MARTINU: Evening at the Shore - Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.572024)

STRAVINSKY: Suite No 2 - Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez (Sony MLK 64068)

DUPRÉ: Cortège et Litanie Op 19/2 - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHSA 5048)

D'INDY: Horizons verts, Falconara, from Poème des rivages - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

SCHUMANN: Overture, Scherzo & Finale Op 52 - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 448 930)

ARBAN: Fantaisie Brillante - Maurice André (cornet), Wind Band of the Paris Guardians of the Peace/Claude Pichaureau (RCA 60025)

TCHAIKOVSKY orch Taneyev: Do you not hear the nightingale?, from Romeo & Juliet - Suzanne Murphy (sop), Keith Lewis (ten), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8476)

BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes - New Zealand SO/Myer Fredman (Naxos 8.553107)

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

 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 - Zino Francescatti (vln), Columbia SO/Bruno Walter (rec 1961) (CBS MK 42018)

BEETHOVEN: Andante in F WoO57, Andante favori - Youri Egorov (pno) (rec 1987) (Canal Grande CG 9216)

 4:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

DITTERSDORF: Symphony in F (Grave F7) - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553974)

FARQUHAR: Five songs of e.e. cummings - David Griffiths (bar), Christine Griffiths (pno) (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 112)

GRIEG: Fourth movement, Air, from Holberg Suite - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

BODY: Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT D009)

GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

 5:00 Cadenza

BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - Vienna Phil/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

GLUCK arr Brahms: Gavotte, from Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide - Louis Demetrius Alvanis (pno) (Meridian CDE 84435)

TORELLI: Trumpet Concerto in D - Alison Balsom (tpt), German Chamber Phil, Bremen (EMI 2 16213)

STRAVINSKY: Suite No 1 - Orpheus CO (Brilliant Classics 9089)

MORENO TORROBA: Nocturne - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

TRAD arr Currie: Ye banks and braes o' Bonnie Doon - Royal Scottish National Chorus, BBC Scottish SO/John Currie (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)

SINDING: Romance in D Op 100 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Christian Ihle Hadland (pno) (Naxos 8.572255)

MORLEY: My bonny lass; Doe you not know?; DERING: Pavan - Canadian Brass (CBS MK 45792)

SCHUBERT: Des Teufels Lustschloss, Overture - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (Koch Schwann 3-1121)

HANDEL: Endless pleasure, endless love, from Semele - Renée Fleming (sop), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (Decca 475 547)

VORÍSEK: Le Plaisir Op 4 - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Collins 14772)

GRIFFES: The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan - Buffalo PO/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559164)

VERDI: Bella figlia dell'amore, from Rigoletto - Edita Gruberova (sop), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Neil Shicoff (ten), Renato Bruson (bar), St Cecilia Academy Orch and Chorus, Rome/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Philips 412 592)

NYMAN: The heart asks pleasure first, from The Piano - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 467 620)

BENNETT: Suite Française - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2131)

 7:00 Appointment

Magda Olivero

On the day of her 100th birthday Roger Flury and Des Wilson review the career of the great Italian verismo soprano (RNZ)

 8:00 Music Alive

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Thomas Trotter (organ of Auckland Town Hall), Auckland Philharmonia/Arvo Volmer

WALTON: Crown Imperial; POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani

(Interval)

SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ (RNZ)

10:00 Day's End

PÄRT: Fratres - Juho Vartiainen (perc), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 834)

BACH: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 - Gavriel Lipkind (cello) (Berlin Clasics 1613 GLP)

FRANCESCO DA MILANO arr Lislevand: Canon, La Spagna; ROBINSON arr Lislevand: Passamezzo Gaillard; ORTIZ arr Lislevand: Recercada segunda; MUDARRA: arr Lislevand; Fantasia que contrahaza la harpa en la manera de Ludovic; TERZI arr Lislevand: Vestiva I collo; ORTIZ arr Lislevand: Recercada quinta; ANON arr Lislevand: Tourdion - Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman (sops), period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))

11:00 ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 3 in Eb - Arriaga Quartet (ASV CD DCA 1012)

BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 118 - Håkon Austbö (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93990)

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - 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 J.L. 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; 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)

Friday 26 March 2010 Rāmere 26 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 ADDINSELL arr S Bernstein: Scrooge, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)

HARTY: Romance & Scherzo Op 8 - Andrew Fuller (cello), Michael Dussek (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7102)

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304980)

SCHUMAN: trans Liszt: Widmung - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (RCA RD 60443)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 2, excerpts - Novosibirsk Phil/Arnold Katz (Harmonia Mundi RUS 788164)

7:00 J SMITH: The Tempest, Overture & Hornpipe - Capella Savari/Mary Térey-Smith (Dorian DOR 93251)

ANDERSON: Clarinet Candy - Gretchen Dunsmore, Zdenek Drholecky (cls), Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL)

J STRAUSS II: Tritsch-Tratsch, Polka; Leichtes Blut - Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 662)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C# minor S244 - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)

RABAUD: Divertissement on Russian Songs Op 2 - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam (Marco Polo 8.223503)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART arr Hasel: Adagio in C K580a - Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1132)

BORODIN: Polovtsian March, from Prince Igor - Orch of Liège/Paul Strauss (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

RAVEL: Jeux d'eau - Artur Pizarro (pno) (Linn CKD 290)

MEYERBEER arr Hesford: Coronation March, from The Prophet - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Guild GMCD 7304)

LALO: Norwegian Fantasy - Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Granada City Orch/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1680)

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Analekta FL 2 3151)

 9:00 Composer of the Week

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (b1930)

Assassins, excerpts

Proprietor .................... William Parry

Balladeer ...................... Patrick Cassidy

Booth ........................... Victor Garber

David Herold ............... Marcus Olson

Hinckley ....................... Greg Germann

Fromme ....................... Annie Golden

The Assassins Orchestra/Paul Gemignani (RCA RD 60737)

Anyone can whistle, excerpts

Fay .............................. Lee Remick

Cora Hoover Hooper ... Angela Lansbury

Doctor Hapgood .......... Harry Guardino

Anyone Can Whistle Orchestra/Herbert Greene (dir) (Sony SK 48201)

Bounce, Act 1 excerpts

Wilson ......................... Howard McGillin

Addison ....................... Richard Kind

Papa Mizner ................. Herndon Lackey

Mama Mizner ............... Jane Powell

Hollis ........................... Gavin Cree

The Kennedy Centre Musical Theatre Orchestra/David Caddick (Nonesuch 79830)

10:00 The Works

DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - London Phil/Enrique Bátiz (Resonance CD RSN 3063)

MARTINU: Three Madrigals for violin & viola - Bohuslav Matousek (vln), Alexander Besa (vla) (Supraphon SU 3952)

ELGAR: The Music Makers Op 69 - Janet Baker (mezzo), London Phil Choir & Orch/Adrian Boult (EMI CDS 7 47208)

PROKOFIEV: The Love for Three Oranges, Suite - National SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68801)

12:00 Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

 1:30 Music from 1922

STENHAMMAR arr Rosenberg: Romeo & Juliet Suite - Carl Andersson (ob), Helsingborg SO/Arvo Volmer (Sterling CDS 1045)

STANFORD: Prelude & Fugue in C Op 193/3 - Andrew Smith (organ of The Chapel of New College, Oxford) (CRD 3497)

RASBACH: Trees - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Ernest Lush (pno) (rec 1955) (Kiwi CD SLC 248)

SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Tempera Quartet (BIS CD 1466)

 2:00 Afternoon Requests

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 3, Pastoral - Patricia Rozario (sop), Bournemouth SO/Kees Bakels (Naxos 8.550733)

HAYDN: Piano Trio in E HobXV/28 - Robert Levin (fpno), Vera Beth (vln), Anner Bylsma (cello) (Sony SK 53120)

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

 3:00 CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

FALLA: El Amor Brujo - Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (rec 1981) (Decca 410 008)

Nights in the Gardens of Spain - Martha Argerich (pno), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (rec 1986) (Erato 2292 45266)

 4:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

J RITCHIE: Partita for brass quintet - New Zealand Brass Quintet (Kiwi SLD 72)

WF BACH: Sonata No 3 in Eb for two flutes F55 - Penelope Evison, Pierre Séchet (transverse fls) (STIL 1908 SAN 80)

NORRIS: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

RR BENNETT: Songs before sleep - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

STRAVINSKY: Lullaby & Finale, from Firebird Suite - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

 5:00 Cadenza

LILBURN: Festival Overture - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), members of the Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57647)

KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh, excerpts - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

SMETANA: Three Salon Polkas Op 7 - András Schiff (pno) (Teldec 3984 21261)

PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

ROSSINI: Nacqui all'affanno, from La Cenerentola - Katharina Flade (sop), Elina Garanca, Heike Liebmann (mezzos), Dominik Licht (bar), Mirko Tuma (bass), Dresden State Opera Chorus & Orch/Fabio Luisi (DG 477 6231)

MOURET: Rondo, from Suites de Symphonies - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Anthony Newman (Sony SK 60804)

GREENE: Thou visitest the earth - Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom, Timothy Morris (org) (CRD 3484)

CURIALE: Awakening (Songs of the Earth) - Raymond Simmons (tpt), Kelvin Thomson (pno), Royal Philharmonic Orch/Joseph Curiale (Black Box BBM 1050)

PURCELL: When I am laid in earth, from Dido & Aeneas - Véronique Gens (sop), Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Warner 2564 69689)

GUY: Breathing Earth - Maya Homburger (bar vln), Barry Guy (dbass) (ECM 1643 (453 847))

BOURGEOIS arr Vaughan Williams: All people that on earth do dwell - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Andrew Lamb (org) (Conifer 75605 51249)

BARRY: The Day the Earth Fell Silent - English CO/John Barry (London 460 009)

RUTTER: For the beauty of the earth - Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 100)

SUPPÉ: Under the Earth, Overture - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223863)

 7:00 Appointment

Pressing On

Recent releases with Robert Johnson (RNZ)

 8:00 Music Alive

WOMAD Taranaki 2009

Thirteen programmes

(11) Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas combines Middle Eastern and Western styles, electronic beats with North African and Arabic music to create a unique musical and cultural fusion. While always delving deeply into her Egyptian roots she sings in Arabic, English, Hindi and French (RNZ)

 9:05 Recent Chamber Releases

SPOHR: Double Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 77 - Forde Ensemble (Naxos 8.570963)

MOZART: Violin Sonata No 23 in D K306 - Duo Amadè (Chandos CHAN 0764)

10:00 Day's End

LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2008)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Db Op 37 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 7 67723)

11:00 SCHUBERT arr Wispelway: Violin Sonata in A D574 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (fpno) (Onyx 4046)

BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Danish Horn Trio (Chandos CHAN 9964)

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - 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)

Saturday 27 March 2010 Rāhoroi 27 Poutū-te-rangi 2010

News & Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am, 12 noon, 3.00, 6.00, 11.00pm

 6:00 Classic Morning

6:00 SCRIABIN: Prelude in C# minor Op 9/1 for the left hand - Racha Arodaky (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 030 902)

GRANADOS orch Breiner: Rondella aragonesa, from Spanish Dances - Norbert Kraft (gtr), Razumovsky Sinfonia, Bratislava/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.554103)

MENDELSSOHN: original Third movement, Minuetto, from String Quintet No 1 in A Op 18 - Fine Arts Quartet, Danilo Rossi (vla) (Naxos 8.570488)

VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in G minor RV439, La Notte - Laura Pontecorvo (fl), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30301)

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

WALTON arr Mathieson: Hamlet & Ophelia - BBC Welsh National Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5034)

7:00 WAGENAAR: The Taming of the Shrew, Overture - Northwest German Phil/Antony Hermus (CPO 777 479)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2 - Diedre Irons (pno) (Trust MMT 2041)

ELGAR orch Payne: So many true Princesses who have gone - BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd Jones (Dutton CDLX 7148)

REINHARDT: Nuages - Michael Conn (gtr), English CO/Leslie Williams (Decca 425 201)

MOZART: String Quartet No 3 in G K156 - Amadeus Quartet (DG 423 300)

PAISIELLO: Piano Concerto No 5 in D - Francesco Nicolosi (pno), Campania CO/Luigi Piovano (Naxos 8.572065)

8:00 SOR: Introduction & Variations on a theme by Mozart Op 9 - Goran Krivokapic (gtr) (Naxos 8.570502)

ADDISON: Strange Invaders - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

PUCCINI arr Tamminga: Fugue in G minor - Liuwe Tamminga (organ of St Lorenzo, Farneta, Italy) (Passacaille 952)

LEO: Sinfonie Concertante in C minor - Julius Berger (cello), Southwest German CO, Pforzheim/Vladislav Czarnecki (Brilliant Classics 93681)

HOLBROOKE: Three Blind Mice Op 37/1 - Brandenburg State Orch/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 442)

 9:00 Best of Upbeat

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

10:00 Your Choice

TRAD arr Hope: The lark in the clear air - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

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

HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, The king shall rejoice - Choir of Westminster Abbey, English Concert/Simon Preston (Archiv 410 030)

CLEMENT: Violin Concerto in D - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Royal Phil/José Serebrier (Cedille CDR 90000 106)

MOULDER/WILSON/BEAUCHAMP: The Legend Returns

Comedian and trained opera singer Helen Moulder plays an ageing operatic diva workshopping a new opera with her pianist Rose Beauchamp (RNZ)

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

12:00 The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

 1:00 The Art of Jazz

Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

(1) Recent releases & reissues including Stefon Harris' Blackout and drummer Ari Hoenig (RNZ)

 2:00 Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

Traditional music from Italy

Italy: Traditional music

Recordings from the 1950s of traditional vocal music from throughout Italy (Ocora C 600016)

The Legend of the Tarantella: Arakne Mediterranea

The origin of the tarantella is connected to ‘tarantism’, a sort of illness or form of hysteria which appeared in Italy between the 15th and 17th century, and was associated with the bite of the tarantula spider. Victims were said to be able to cure themselves by ecstatic dancing. Traditional music ensemble Arakne Mediterranea performs examples of the three remaining forms of the folk dance: pizzica-taranta, pizzica de core and pizzica-scherma (ARC Music EUCD 1753)

 3:00 Saturday Concert

Music Mountain

Performances recorded at the 79th season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

Sixteen programmes

(13)

Blair String Quartet, Sally Pinkas (pno)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 18/1; IVES: String Quartet No 1, From the Salvation Army; DOHNÁNYI: Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor Op 1; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp, excerpt (Keystone Broadcasting)

 5:05 Futurism in the 1920s

PROKOFIEV: Le Pas d'acier - West German Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 974)

ANTHEIL: Ballet Mécanique - Philadelphia Virtuosi CO/Daniel Spalding (Naxos 8.559060)

 6:00 Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers

VANHAL: Sinfonia in A (Bryan A9) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Élégiaque - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)

GRIEG: The Last Spring Op 34/2 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

NORTON: Sonatina - Carol Hohauser (fl), Karen Spiegel-Neumann (pno) (RNZ)

MENOTTI: Amahl & the Night Visitors, excerpts - New Zealand SO/Andrew Schenck (Koch International 3-7005)

 7:00 Vocalied

DOWLAND: Lachrimae, Seven Teares figured in seven Passionate Pavans together with six songs of Tears & Weeping - Randi Stene (mezzo), Rolf Lislevand (lute/dir) Norwegian Baroque Orch (Linn CKD 194)

 8:00 Music Alive

Alexander Melnikov (pno), New Zealand SO/Mark Wigglesworth

BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem Op 20; HAYDN: Symphony No 90 in C; BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

 9:45 Le Concert des Violes

Bernard Zonderman (theorbo), Ensemble Mare Nostrum/Andrea de Carlo (dir)

L COUPERIN: Fantasy for five viols; CAURROY: Five Fantasies on Une jeune fillette; DU MONT: Allemanda gravis for four viols (Ricercar RIC 284)

10:00 Day's End

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 9 in Eb Op 70 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (Naxos 8.572167)

RAFF: Cello Concerto No 2 in G Op posth - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Bamberg SO/Hans Stadlmair (Tudor 7121)

11:00 KHACHATURIAN: Children's Album No 1 - Elena Filonova (pno) (Calliope CAL 9421.3)

ONSLOW: Septet in Bb Op 79 - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1480)

12:00 Music Through the Night

12:00 - 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; de FALLA arr Pekkera: Spanish Dance; 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)