Schedules for 8 - 14 January, 2011

Disc 1

HEENAN: Jack Winter's Dream, Nine Portraits for Orchestra; Webfoot Charlie's Shanty; Three Sea Songs; A Maori Suite; War and Peace, Suite for Orchestra - Donald Munro (bar), Donna Awatere, Laurette Gibb (sops), New Zealand Youth Choir & Orch, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Juan Matteucci, Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SOLER: Fandango; BOCCHERINI: Minuet; ANON: My Lady Carey's Dompe; GLUCK: Musette; PHILIPS: Galliard; COUPERIN: L'Arlequine; FARNABY: Tower Hill; PURCELL: Sailor's Song; A New Ground; A New Scotch Tune in G; D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in A minor; in D minor; in A; ANON: Coranto; MOZART: Rondo alla turca; ANON: Scottish Gigue; EXAUDET: Gavotte; ANGLES: Aria; SOLER: Sonata No 10 in B minor; Sonata No 117 in D minor; Sonata No 90 in F#; CABANILLES: Batalla Imperial - Jonathan Woods (hpschd) (Allegro PDC 1086)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

DEBUSSY: Ariettes oubliées; BIZET: La coccinelle; Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe; Pastel; Vous ne priez pas; MESSIAEN: Trois mélodies; FAURÉ: Rêve d'amour; Au bord de l'eau; Notre amour; POULENC: Bluet; Banalités; Hôtel; Voyage à Paris; Métamorphoses - Sylvia McNair (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Philips 446 656)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

PROKOFIEV: Sonatas, No 1 in F minor Op 1; No 2 in D minor Op 14; No 3 in A minor Op 28; Sonatina in E minor Op 54/1; Sonatina in G Op 54/2; Visions Fugitives Op 22 - John Lill (pno) (ASV CD DCA 753)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20; DELIUS: Prelude to Irmelin; Two pieces for small orchestra; HOLST: St Paul's Suite Op 29/2; Brook Green Suite; WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - Royal Phil/Alan Barlow (ASV CD DCA 623)

6:00 ELGAR: Romance Op 62 - Graham Sheen (bsn), BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 4509 98436)

PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Benjamin Hudson (vln), Jürgen Kruse (pno) (Brilliant Classics 8847)

PIAZZOLLA: Contrabajissimo - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

BORNE arr Labrie: Fantaisie Brillante on Bizet's Carmen - Similia (Analekta AN 2 9819)

GLINKA: Jota Aragonesa, Spanish Overture No 1 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Le Chant du Monde LDC 278 819)

7:00 HOLST: Lyric Movement for viola - Andriy Viytovych (vla), English Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.570339)

RAVEL arr Back: Piece in the form of a habanera; Pavane for a dead princess - Emma Johnson (cl), Gordon Back (pno) (ASV CD DCA 621)

ALBINONI: Sonata in C in five parts Op 2/2 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

JANÁCEK: Fairy-tale - Marek Jerie (cello), Ivan Klánsky (pno) (Praga PRD 350 031)

GLAZUNOV: The Seasons, Autumn - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 6511)

8:00 GLUCK arr Wagner: Iphigénie en Aulide, Overture - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 5 62621)

GÁL: Piano Trio in G Op 49b - Karin Adam (vln), Christoph Stradner (cello), Doris Adam (pno) (Camerata CMCD 28149)

VERDI: Grand March, from Aida - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony MLK 66710)

MOMPOU: Scenes of Childhood - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.554332)

J STRAUSS II: Roses from the South - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 425 429)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 6 in D minor Op 104 - Moscow Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01669)

KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Jascha Heifetz (vln), Los Angeles Phil/Alfred Wallenstein (rec 1953) (RCA GD 87963)

RACHMANINOV: Intermezzo & Women's dance, from Aleko - London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7 64530)

BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasia Op 80 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno), Ingeborg Dobozy (sop), Marie-Luise Wilke (mezzo), Dorte Küsters (contralto), Wilhelm Füchsl (ten), Klaus Thiem (bar), Rudolph Hillebrand (bass), RIAS Chamber Choir, Berlin Radio SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 705)

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Book 8 - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

KUHLAU: Flute Trio in F Op 13/3 - European Flute Trio (Naxos 8.570220)

BALFE: Galop; What sounds break on the ear?, from The Bohemian Girl - Timothy German (ten), Jonathan Summers (bar), Radio Telefis Eireann Phil Choir, Ireland National SO/Richard Bonynge (Argo 433 324)

MOINE: Prelude; Chaconne - William Carter (theorbo) (Linn CKD 100)

VANHAL: Missa solemnis in C - Mary Enid Haines (sop), Nina Scott Stoddart (mezzo), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), James Tibbles (org), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

Hosts Wendell Pierce and Wynton Marsalis offer backgrounds, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

(8) The Music of Fats Waller

A light-hearted entertainer and a very serious musician, Thomas Fats Waller mastered the stride piano and wrote some of jazz's most enduring and endearing tunes. Hear Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin and A Handful of Keys in the hands of pianist Ehud Asherie, vocalist Allen Harris and guitar master Doug Wamble, under the direction of that multifarious fiddler and reedman Andy Farber (Murray Street Productions)

Indigenous music from around the world

Highlights from 2010

In the first of two programmes of highlights from Global Sounds 2010 we've music from Hungarian singer Marta Sebestyen, and Geordie folk-singer sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank. Banjoist Béla Fleck is joined by friends from his travels in Africa, and the Finnish accordion and bass duo Lepistö & Lehti play original compositions (World Village 450009; Rabble Rouser CTX54CD; Rounder 11661-0634-2; Aito Records AICD012)

University of Auckland Concerto Competition 2009

University of Auckland SO/Uwe Grodd

BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con brio, from Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - Joong-Han Jung (pno)

IBERT Flute Concerto - Christine Kim (fl)

LISZT: Piano Concerto No 2 in A S125 - Tiantian Xu (pno) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

HERRMANN: Clarinet Quintet, Souvenirs de Voyage - David Shifrin (cl), Pamela Frank (vln), Theodore Arm (vln), Walter Trampler (vla), Warren Lash (cello) (Delos DE 3088)

RÓZSA: Viola Concerto - Lawrence Power (vla), Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (Hyperion CDA 67687)

KORNGOLD: Symphony in F# Op 40 - Philadelphia Orch/Franz Welser-Möst (EMI CDC 5 56169)

NZ musicians and composers

LILBURN: Four Preludes (1960) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

FALLA: Asturiana, from Popular Spanish Suite - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

COPLAND: Vocalise for flute & piano - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

FARR: Time & Tide - Donald Armstrong (vln), Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba), NZSO CO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2036)

EDWARDS: Piano Trio - NZTrio (Rattle RAT D017)

Love songs

SCHUBERT: Nähe des Geliebten D162; Bei dir allein! D866; Du bist die ruh D776; BRAHMS: Dein blaues Auge Op 59/8; Sonntag Op 47/3; Meine Liebe ist grün Op 63/5 - Olaf Bär (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI 5 55345)

LECUONA: Siempre en mi corazón; Allá en la sierra; Tu no tienes corazón; Mi corazón se fué; Dame de tus rosas - Carole Farley (sop), John Constable (pno) (BIS CD 1374)

ANON: Ah! vous dirai-je maman; Qui vòu audir cançon; MARTINI: Plaisir d'amour - Le Poème Harmonique/Vincent Dumestre (Alpha 513)

WOLF: Erwartung; Verschwiegene Liebe; Liebesglück; STRAUSS: Du meines Herzens Krönelein Op 21/2; Heimliche Aufforderung Op 27/3; Breit' über mein Haupt Op 19/2; Zueignung Op 10/1 - Olaf Bär (bar), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55345)

Cho-Liang Lin (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

PSATHAS: Olympiad XXVIII; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63; MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

Flute Sonata in G minor BWV1020 - Joshua Smith (fl), Jory Vinikour (hpschd) (Delos DE 3402)

Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D BWV1050 - Apollo's Fire/Jeannette Sorrell (dir) (Avie AV 2207)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Phantasy Quintet - English String Quartet, Norbert Blume (vla) (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9076)

WEBER: Concert Piece in F minor Op 79 - Melvyn Tan (fpno), London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 5 55348)

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker, Suite - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.254)

11:00 BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Philips 426 092)

MOZART: Violin Sonata No 35 in A K526 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Natalie Zhu (pno) (DG 477 5572)

Disc 1

TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Concerto for Balalaika & Orchestra; Music for Strings - Swedish Radio Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 351)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C Op 15; No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

DVORÁK: Mass in D Op 86; Te Deum Op 103 - Marina Meshcheriakova (sop), Sergei Miasnikov (bass), Russian State Cappella & SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9505)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn; A la maniére…Borodin; A la maniére…Chabrier; Prélude; Miroirs; Sonatine - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8647)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40; Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op 47; Serenade for Strings Op 20; Enigma Variations Op 36 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)

G JACKSON: To morning - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

TRAD: Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany, with organ excerpts from L'Orgue Mystique by Charles Tournemire - Schola Gregoriana Monacensis/Johannes Berchmans Göschl, Harald Feller (organ of St Mary's Cathedral, Munich) (Ars Musici 232 369)

MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 42, As the hart panteth after the water brooks - Anna Korondi (sop), RIAS Chamber Choir, Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1786)

MISKINIS: Ave Maria (second setting); Salve Regina; Ave Maria (third setting); Time is endless - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67818)

BACH: Cantata No 124 written for the 1st Sunday after the Epiphany, I will not leave my Jesus - Yukari Nonoshita (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Andreas Weller (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS SACD 1501)

BEVAN: Magnificat; C WOOD: Nunc Dimittis in Bb; BAKER: Marche des Rois mages - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker, Matthew Martin, Martin Baker (organs) (Hyperion CDA 67707)

ELGAR: Elegy Op 58 - New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47537)

PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turandot - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), John Alldis Choir, London Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 444 555)

MYERS arr Williams: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

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

GIBBONS: The silver swan - Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier (dir) (EMI CDC 7 49197)

MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

SAINT-SAËNS: The nightingale & the rose - Rita Streich (sop), Berlin Radio SO/Kurt Gaebel (DG 457 729)

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

RESPIGHI: Pastorale in A after a Tartini Violin Sonata - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 417 762)

KRUMPHOLZ: Harp Concerto No 6 - Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (Erato 2292 45084)

DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 - Clifford Curzon (pno), Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (Decca 421 153)

GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 6 in C minor Op 58 - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (Warner Classics 2564 69627)

Performances recorded at the 2010 season of the Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Falls Village, Connecticut

Twenty-six programmes

(10) Amernet String Quartet, Chauncey Patterson (vla)

MOZART: String Quintets, No 4 in G minor K516; No 2 in C minor K406 (Keystone Productions)

Ten programmes

(4) Rossini's Memory of Youth - excerpts from L'Album pour les enfants adolescents played on a 1858 Pleyel

Première Communion; Thème naïf et variations idem...; Saltarello à l'italienne; La Lagune de Venise à l'expiration de l'année; Valse lugubre; Impromptu anodin; L'innocence italienne, La candeur française; Ouf! Les petits pois; Un sauté; Prélude convulsif - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 12398)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/dir), London SO (rec 1965) (BBC BBCL 4198)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Emil Gilels (pno), Leonid Kogan (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) (rec 1958) (DG 477 7476)

Old Wine in New Bottles

Four programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

(2) Variations on a Theme

The masters weave complex new fabrics from the threads of simple themes, including Brahms on Paganini, Françaix on Haydn and Britten on Purcell (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(2) SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, an opera in three acts

The peasant Krusina, gave his daughter, Marenka, in marriage, as collateral for a loan that was made before she was born. But she is in love with another …

Krusina......................... Derek Hammond Stroud

Ludmila......................... Elizabeth Cross

Marenka....................... Teresa Stratas

Háta.............................. Jean Kraft

Vasek........................... Jon Vickers

Jeník............................. Nicolai Gedda

Kecal............................ Martti Talvela

Tobias........................... John Cheek

Circus Barker................ Alan Crofoot

Esmeralda..................... Colette Boky

Indian............................ Andrij Dobriansky

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine (archive broadcast from December 2, 1978) (EBU)

NZ musicians and composers

BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557264)

WELLS: Third Organ Suite - John Wells (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Ribbonwood RCD 1009)

HILL: String Quartet No 1 in Bb, Maori - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

Britain's lost progressive rock music

Six programmes

(1) Canterbury Roots - Children of the Wilde Flowers

Thomas Goss introduces the many bands of the British progressive rock genre known as The Canterbury Scene, including Soft Machine, Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Gilgamesh, and National Health (RNZ)

The Big Sing 2010

Nine programmes

(2) Femme (Southland Girls' High School), Bella Voce (Marlborough Girls' College), Bel Canto (Burnside High School), Cantala (Wellington East Girls' College), Resolutions (Rangi Ruru Girls' High School), SOS (Rangitoto College)

TRAD Xhosa arr Puddy: Dubula; SPEVACEK: Danza; PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est; TRAD: E Kiwi E; LEEK: Goolay-yali; MANKEN: Under the Sea; TRAD Maori: Wairua tapu tau mai ra (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Scottish CO/Alexander Platt (Cedille CDR 90000 083)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 2 in C minor - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1829)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Calliope CAL 9351.2)

ROSSINI orch/arr Respighi: La Boutique fantasque - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

11:00 BAX: Piano Quintet in G minor - Ashley Wass (pno), Tippett Quartet (Naxos 8.572474)

TANSMAN: Variations on a Theme of Scriabin - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572390)

Disc 1

LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy; Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb; Piano Concerto No 2 in A; Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Op 1 - Midori Seiler (vln) (CBS MK 44944)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Die Nacht; Die Nachtigall; Wehmut; Der Gondelfahrer; Mondenschein; Nachthelle; Das Dorfchen; Die Einsiedelei; Sehnsucht; Grab und Mond; Frühlingsgesang; Liebe; Widerspruch; An den Frühling; La pastorella; Ständchen; Der Entfernten - Karl Dent, Richard Clement (tens), Martha Hart (mezzo), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Mary Akerman (gtr), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

ELLER: Elegia for harp & strings; Five Pieces for string orchestra; Tone Poem, Dawn; RAID: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Eluned Pierce (harp), John Digney (ob), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

WALTON: Façade, Long Steel Grass; STEVENS: Symphony of Liberation, Resistance; FRANKEL: First movement, from Symphony No 5; SEARLE: First movement, from Symphony No 2; FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair; WALTON: Old Sir Faulk, from Façade; Touch her soft lips & part, from Henry V; Gloria, from Christopher Columbus; ALWYN: First movement, from Lyra Angelica; Prelude to Odd Man Out; BLISS: Pastoral, The Pigeon Song, Lie strewn the white flocks; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; LEIGHTON: Adagio molto, Third movement, from Symphony No 3 - Susana Walton (narrator), Della Jones (mezzo), Arthur Davies, Neil Mackie (tens), Michael Davis (vln), Rachel Masters (harp), Westminster Singers, London SO, Royal Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 7008)

6:00 CIMAROSA: Artaserse, Overture - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570279)

TAJCEVIC: Sonatina (1923) - Radmila Stojanovic-Kiriluk (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0041)

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

FAURÉ arr Rutter: Cantique de Jean Racine - Huddersfield Choral Society, BBC Phil/Brian Kay (Chandos CHAN 7025)

JC BACH: Oboe Quartet in Bb Op 8/6 - Keisuke Wakao (ob), Malcolm Lowe (vln), Cathy Basrak (vla), Sato Knudsen (cello) (PentaTone PTC 5186 018)

SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Entr'acte to Act III - Das Neue Orch/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-192)

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

ELGAR: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in Bb RV502 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (PentaTone PTC 5186 154)

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 29410)

TUROK: Variations on an American Song - Nashville SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559373-74)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RACHMANINOV arr Kreisler: Daisies Op 38/3 - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10028)

BARRIOS MANGORE: The Cathedral - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

VERDI ed Rizzo: Canto di Virginia - Alessandro Potenza (ob), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Third movement, Romanza, from Symphony No 5 in D - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

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

RAMEAU: Castor & Pollux, Instrumental Suite - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 426 714)

SEVERAC: Cerdaña - Billy Eidi (pno) (Ogam 488 019)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 119 - Johannes Moser (cello), Stuttgart Radio SO/Fabrice Bollon (Hänssler CD 93.222)

RACHMANINOV: Caprice bohémien Op 12 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 8532)

R CLARKE: Viola Sonata - Philip Dukes (vla), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos8.557934)

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - MontrealSO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 417 619)

2011 Drama Season

Five programmes

(1) The Elk Safari by Uri Khein

Kate Harcourt and Donogh Rees play mother and daughter in a journey from the concentration camps of Nazi Germany to a career as first violinist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Based on the true storyof Clare Galambos-Winter (RNZ)

GÓRECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Dawn Upshaw (sop), London Sinfonietta/David Zinman (Nonesuch 7559 79282)

MOZART: Serenade No 9 in D K320, Posthorn - Zdenek Tylsar PragueCO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80108)

VICTORIA: Psalm 113, Laudate pueri Dominum - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67479)

DUGUE: Sonata in C - Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien (Alpha 148)

(Box 123, Wellingtonor concert@radionz.co.nz)

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 6 in A minor, Tragic - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (rec 2004) (DG 477 5573)

NZ musicians and composers

BUCHANAN: Song Cycle, An ocean between us - Rhona Fraser (sop), New Zealand Piano Quartet (RNZ)

HANDEL: Zadok the Priest - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 2 28944)

RESPIGHI: Valse caressante-Serenata, from Six Pieces - Marco Rogliano (vln), Maurizio Paciariello (pno) (Tactus TC 871890)

SPOHR: Variations in Bb on a theme from Alruna - Michael Collins (cl), Swedish CO/Robin O'Neill (Hyperion CDA 67509)

DEBUSSY: Ballade - Artur Pizarro (pno) (BBC Music BBC MM 324)

BRUCH: Swedish Dances Op 63 - LeipzigGewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 420 932)

D SCARLATTI arr Allen: Keyboard Sonata in A Kk209 - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)

WAGENSEIL arr Bryan: Trombone Concerto in Eb - Michael Bertoncello (tbn), Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 82876 58424)

LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New ZealandSO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

COPLAND: Hoedown, from Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo - Zina Schiff (vln), Cameron Grant (pno) (4Tay CD 4005)

ELGAR: Harmony Music No 4, The Farmyard - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6554)

GRIEG: Cowkeeper's tune, from 2 Nordic Melodies Op 63 - National Phil/Willi Boskovsky (London443 333)

TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: Ca' the yowes - Mark Dobell (ten), Laudibus/Michael Brewer (Hyperion CDA 67076)

GINASTERA: Estancia, Ballet Suite - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)

Eight programmes

(2) Erica Challis and friends take a look at the orchestral music of LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) (RNZ)

Leonore Overture No 3 - North German Radio SO/Günter Wand (RCA RD60755)

Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Berlin Phil/Daniel Barenboim (EMI CDC 7 49567)

Third movement, Scherzo, from Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Wellington Orch/James Sedares (Wgtn Sinfonia)

Dorothee Jansen (sop), Christie Cook (mezzo), Oliver Sewell (ten), Chris Bruerton (bar), Ben Caukwell (bass), Jeremy Woodside (org), ChristChurch Cathedral Choir, L'Estro Armonico Orch/Brian Law

HAYDN: Mass No 10 in C, Missa in tempore belli, including Mozart's Church Sonata in C K336, the second movement from Divertimento in D & Ave verum corpus K618 (recorded in ChristChurch Cathedral by RNZ)

KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh, excerpts - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Onyx 4063)

GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 82 - Sasha Rozhdestvensky (vln), Russian State Symphonic Capella/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Nimbus NI 6123)

RUBINSTEIN: Russian Serenade in B minor - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos8.570942)

LEBRUN: Oboe Concerto No 1 in D minor - Bart Schneemann (ob), Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Channel Classics CCS 16198)

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

RUBBRA: Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby - BournemouthSinfonietta/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (Chandos CHAN 8378)

11:00 STRAUSS: Suite in Bb for winds Op 4 - members of Swiss CO/Christian Siegmann (Claves CD 50-9409)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 2 in F Op 80 - Gordan Nicolitch (vln), Christophe Coin (cello), Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 158)

Disc 1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien Op 45; Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture; PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet Op 64; BERLIOZ: Romeo & Juliet Op 17 - BerlinPhil/Ferdinand Leitner; San Francisco SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 427 019)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

CORELLI: Concerto Grossi Op 6 Nos 1-6 - La Petit Band/Sigiswald Kuijken (EMI CDS 747919)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

Wings in the Night, Swedish Songs - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 449 189)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

SCHUBERT: String Quartets, D18; in C D32; in B D36; in C minor D103 - Melos Quartet (DG 419 879)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

BACH: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV564; Fantasia in G BWV572; Trio Sonata No 1 in Eb BWV525; Passacaglia in C minor BWV582; MARCHAND: Deux Pièces d'Orgue; BULL: Dr Bull's My Selfe; Dr Bull's Jewell - Gillian Weir (organ of St Lawrence, Rotterdam; Great Organ of the Church of St Maximin, Thionville, France; Organ of Hexham Abbey) (Argo 460 185)

6:00 SARASATE: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Gil Shaham (vln), Castile & León SO/Alejandro Posada (Canary Classics CC 07)

VAUGHANWILLIAMS: NorfolkRhapsody No 1 - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

PONCE: Sonatina meridional - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos8.572390)

JC BACH: Symphony in Bb Op 18/2 - HanoverBand/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 752)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), NZSO CO (Atoll ACD 702)

7:00 BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book 2 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67777)

COATES: Dam Busters March - LondonPhil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 246)

TRAD arr Mews: Blood red roses - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1509)

BERLIOZ arr Barton/Sinozich: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath, from Symphonie fantastique - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Patrick Sinozich (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 041)

ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Philharmonia/Tullio Serafin (Medici Arts MM 008)

8:00 Beauty Spot: STÖLZEL arr Bergmann: Bist du bei mir - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 465 680)

FALLA: Neighbour's Dance & Miller's Dance, from The Three-cornered Hat - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continum NZSO 100)

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

HAYDN: Divertimento in F HobII/23 - LondonWind Soloists (Testament SBT 1346)

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

BRIDGE: Rebus - LondonPhil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

MOZART: Symphony No 28 in C K200 - Danish National CO/Adam Fischer (Dacapo 6.220543)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Ogen Trio (Ogen OG 0010)

NIELSEN: Violin Concerto Op 33 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), London Phil/Lawrence Foster (EMI 5 56906)

SCHUBERT: Variations in Ab D813 - Paul Lewis, Steven Osborne (pno duet) (Hyperion CDA 67665)

RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé - LondonSymphony Chorus & Orch/Valery Gergiev (LSO Live LSO 0693)

2011 Drama Season

Five programmes

(2) Watermark by Alana Valentine

A chronicle of both the physical and psychological devastation of flood in the Northern Territorytown of Katherineon January 26, 1998. Based on written and oral testimony from flood survivors, the play evokes the power and torment of flood damage in a small town

Cast includes Heather Mitchell, Shari Sebbens, Socratis Otto, Jane Phegan, Anni Finsterer, Matt Dyktynski, Philip Dodd and Jamie Croft (ABC)

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

BELIMOV: Living Water & Dead Water, Concerto for oboe & strings - Juozas Rimas (ob), USSR Ministry of Culture SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Brilliant Classics 9019)

CADMAN trans Yost: From the land of the sky-blue water Op 45/1 - Peter Zazofsky (vln), Paul Posnak (pno) (Naxos 8.559067)

RACHMANINOV trans Sudbin: Spring waters Op 14/11 - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS SACD 1728)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 1 in F - Concerto Cologne(BerlinClassics 1617 BC)

STRAUSS: Serenade in Eb for winds Op 7 - wind players of the Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 74321 98496)

GODARD: Violin Concerto No 2 Op 131 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Kirk Trevor (Naxos8.570554)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr Lemare: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Douglas Mews (organ of WellingtonTown Hall) (Priory PRCD 1030)

(Box 123, Wellingtonor concert@radionz.co.nz)

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SAINT-SAËNS: Etudes Op 111; Variations on a theme of Beethoven Op 35; Polonaise in F minor Op 77 - Marylène Dosse, Annie Petit (pno duo) (rec 1974) (Vox CD5X 3607)

NZ musicians and composers

FARQUHAR: Symphony No 1 - New ZealandSO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2060)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 6 in Eb Op 70/2 - CanterburyTrio (RNZ)

WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasy - Mayuko Kamio (vln), Vadim Gladkov (pno) (Sony 88697 30100)

GRAINGER: Dreamery - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9584)

GRANADOS: Spanish Dance No 5, Andaluza - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Tsiboulski APT-CD 101)

PAGANINI: Third movement, Rondo ossia Polonese, from Violin Concerto No 6 in E minor Op posth - Salvatore Accardo (vln), London Phil/Charles Dutoit (DG 437 210)

CHILCOTT: Weather report - Micaela Haslam (sop), Kim Porter (mezzo), BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott (Signum SIGCD 100)

HEED: In Storm and Sunshine - Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell (Mercury 432 019)

ELGAR: The shower - Holst Singers/Hilary Davan Wetton (Unicorn Kanchana DKP CD 9116)

CLIFFE: Orchestral Picture, Cloud & Sunshine - Malmö Opera Orch/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1055)

HAMILTON: Didn't it rain? - 1999 New ZealandYouth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2029)

BACH: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman (Challenge CC 72309)

FAURÉ: Nocturne - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

SCHUMANN: Die beiden Grenadiere Op 49/1; Abends am Strand Op 45/3; Die feindlichen Brüder Op 49/2 - Florian Boesch (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Onyx 4041)

SVENDSEN: Festival Polonaise - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

A forum for contemporary music, this week hosted by Robbie Ellis

8:00 2010 ISCM Music Days from Sydney

Eleven programmes

(10) NZTrio present Triple Helix

CREE BROWN: The Triumvirate; BAILEY: So Many Rivers; GENDALL: Intaglio; GREENBAUM: The year without a summer; BODY: Fire in the Belly; YUDANE: Entering the Stream; PSATHAS: Helix (recorded in Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydneyby ABC Classic FM)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

BLASIUS arr Koch: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C; FIALA: Concerto in Bb for clarinet, cor anglais & orchestra; DEMAR: Clarinet Concerto in Eb - Karl Schlechta (cl), Helmut Koch (cor anglais), Kurpfalz CO/Jiri Malat (Arte Nova 74321-37299)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 27 in E minor; No 28 in A; No 29 in Bb, Hammerklavier - Jeffrey Swan (pno) (Arkadia CDAK 140.1)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BEETHOVEN: Adelaide; SCHUBERT: Frühlingsglaube D686; Die Forelle D550; Ständchen D957; Die böse Farbe D795; STRAUSS: Traum durch die Dämmerung; Cäcilie; BRAHMS: Ständchen Op 106/1; MOZART: Don Giovanni, Il mio tesoro; GIORDANO: Fedora, Amor ti vieta; Chénier, Come un bel dì di Maggio; BIZET: Carmen, Flower Song; MASSENET: Manon, The Dream; GRIEG: En Svane; En Drøm; SIBELIUS: Demanten på marssnön; Säv, säv susa; Svarta rosor; SJØBERG: Tonerna; MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana, Addio alla madre; TOSTI: Ideale; L'Alba separà della luce ombra; PUCCINI: Tosca, E lucevan le stelle; La Bohème Che gelida manina; FOSTER: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Jussi Björling (ten), Frederick Schauwecker (pno) (RCA 82876 53379)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

MOZART: Divertimentos, No 8 in F K213; No 9 in Bb K240; No 12 in Eb K252; No 13 in F K253; No 14 in Bb K270; No 16 in Eb K289 - Octophoros (Accent ACC 8856 D)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

FAURÉ: En Prière; ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer; TRAD arr Young: Barb'ra Ellen; O Waly Waly; The Last Rose of Summer; VILLA-LOBOS: Song of the Black Swan; FAURÉ: Nocturne; RAVEL: Habanera; FALLA: Nana; Astoriana; Cancion; RAVEL arr Maganin/Lawrence: Pavane for a Dead Princess; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy for violin and harp; MASSENET: Méditation - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (hp) (Atoll ACD 199)

6:00 HAYDN: Overture in D HobIa/7 - ViennaHaydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

CORRI: Sonata No 2 in G Op 2 - Floraleda Sacchi (harp) (Tactus TC 772801)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 5 in Bb - HeidelbergSO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.547)

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

BIZET arr Grafe: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante; Prés des pemparts de Séville, from Carmen - Sol Gabetta (cello), PraguePhil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 359622)

7:00 TOVEYarrShore: Air for strings - Ulster Orch/George Vass (Toccata Classics TOCC 0038)

SARASATE: Magic Flute Fantasy - Haik Kazazyan (vln), Andrey Shibko (pno) (DelosDE3384)

LALO: Scherzo in D minor - Royal Phil/Yondani Butt (ASV CD DCA 709)

SCHUMANN: Romances & Ballads Op 67 - Southwest German Radio Vocal Ensemble/Rupert Huber (Hänssler CD 93.002)

VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 - Maurice André (tpt), English CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 415 980)

8:00 Beauty Spot: TCHAIKOVSKY: Nocturne in D minor Op 19/4 - Nina Kotova (cello), Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Philips 462 612)

GLINKA: Variations on Scottish Themes - Valery Kamishov (pno) (Melodiya MCD 124)

MUSSORGSKY arr Liadov: Sorochinsky Fair, Introduction - Russian National Orch/Carlo Ponti (PentaTone PTC 5186 332)

CANNABICH: Flute Quintet in E minor Op 7/3 - Camerata Cologne (CPO 999 544)

DOHNÁNYI: American Rhapsody Op 47 - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 1107)

STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite - Chamber Orch of Europe/Alexander Janiczek (dir) (Linn CKD 330)

HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 1 in D minor Op 74 - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66396)

ARENSKY: Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky Op 35a - UlsterOrch/Alexander Anissimov (BBC Music BBC MM 276)

WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)

CHOPIN: Preludes Op 28 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (PentaTone PTC 5186 165)

SHEBALIN: Symphony No 3 in C Op 17 - USSR Ministry of Culture SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Brilliant Classics 9019)

2011 Drama Season

Five programmes

(3) Shakespeare Uncut

SHAKESPEARE's As You Like It, A pastoral comedy, Acts 1 & 2

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity - The anonymous actors of the Marlowe Society of Cambridge (rec 1957) (Argo RG 125-127)

(Act 3 tomorrow and Acts 4 & 5 on Friday after middaynews)

KUHLAU: William Shakespeare, Overture - Danish National Radio SO/Michael Schønwandt (Chandos CHAN 9648)

KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing, Suite Op 11 - Philippe Quint (vln), Mineria SO/Carlos Miguel Prieto (Naxos8.570791)

VERDI: Macbeth, ballet music - London SO/Antonio de Almeida (Philips 422 846)

ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

MOLTER: Trumpet Concerto in D MWV4/13 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Columba Aspexit - Tapestry (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 344 1193)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 2 in A Op 2/2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011)

(Box 123, Wellingtonor concert@radionz.co.nz)

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Berlin Phil/Wilhelm Furtwängler (rec 1951) (DG 427 405)

NZ musicians and composers

MIGOT: Three Pieces for cello & piano - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.105)

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

RIES: Piano Concerto in C Op 123 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos8.557638)

JG GRAUN: Sinfonia Grosso in D - Vienna Academy/Martin Haselböck (CPO 999 887)

SATIE arr Hackett/Hackett: Gnossiennes Nos 1-3 - John Hackett (fl), Steve Hackett (gtr) (Camino CAMCD 20)

MARTUCCI: Canzonetta Op 65/2 - RomeSO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos8.570929)

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

TRIEBENSEE: Trio in Bb - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor anglais) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

LEIGH: The Frogs, Overture; Dance - LondonPhil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 289)

DOWLAND: The Frog Galliard, from The Dowland Lute Book 1610 - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (Brilliant Classics 93698)

HINDEMITH: Variations on A Frog he went a-courting - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (pno) (RNZ)

HANDEL: Their land brought forth frogs, from Israelin Egypt- Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Capriccio 10 532)

SANDERS: Two Speckled Frogs - Andreas Lepper (perc), Agus Supriawan (kendang) (Manu CD MANU 2002)

BANTOCK arr Wright: The Frogs of Aristophanes - Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band/Peter Parkes (Chandos CHAN 4553)

H CASADESUS: Concerto in G minor in the style of JC Bach - Joel Quarrington (dbass), Andrew Burashko (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9931)

COPLAND: El Salón México - LondonPhil/John Pritchard (EMI CDB 7 62037)

CBC Massey Lectures 2009

Five programmes

The Wayfinders by Wade Davis

Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

(2) The Wayfinders (CBC)

Dawn Upshaw (sop), Christopher Moore (vla), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir)

LEDGER: Restless Night; MOZART: Symphony No 29 in A K201; GOLIJOV: Three songs

(Interval interview: Soprano Dawn Upshaw in conversation with the ABC's Mairi Nicolson)

BARTÓK: Five Hungarian Folk Songs; MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364; STRAUSS: Morgen Op 27/4 (recorded in Hamer Hall, the Arts Centre, Melbourneby the ABC)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 - Concerto Cologne/Werner Matzke (dir) (Berlin Classics 030 0061 BC)

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

11:00 SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe Op 48 - Mark Padmore (ten), Kristian Bezuidenhout (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7521)

HILL: String Quartet No 2 in G minor, A Maori Legend in Four Scenes - Dominion Quartet (Naxos8.570491)

Disc 1

GRAINGER: The Warriors; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 445 860)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

LISZT arr Gounod: Hymne à Sainte Cécile; Les Sabéennes; LISZT: Rêve d'amour No 2, Seleger Tod; Vallée d'Obermann; Rêve d'amour No 1, Hohe Liebe; arr Gounod: Les Adieux; LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor; Six Consolations; Rêve d'amour No 3, O Lieb - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis - Charlotte Margiono (sop), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), William Kendall (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 429 779)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

KOECHLIN: Sonata for horn Op 70; Morceau de Lecture pour cor; Fifteen Pieces Op 180; Sonneries - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Daniel Blumenthal (pno) (ASV CD DCA 716)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Concertos, in F for violin & organ RV542; in Bb for violin & oboe RV548; in C for two trumpets RV537; in G for 2 violins & 2 cellos RV575; in C for oboe RV447; in D minor for 2 violins & cello RV565 - I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 8651)

6:00 PURCELL: Abdelazer, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

RUTTER: The Lord is my Shepherd, from Requiem - Quentin Poole (ob), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter(Collegium COL CD 100)

SALZEDO: Ballade Op 28 - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28908)

PONCE: Gavota - MexicoStateSO/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 926)

GROVLEZ: Sicilienne et Allegro giocoso - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

DRAESEKE: Gudrun, Overture - North German Radio Phil/Jörg-Peter Weigle (CPO 999 746)

7:00 BRAHMS orch Juon: Hungarian Dance No 4 in F# minor - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)

A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in C minor - Evelyn Rothwell (ob), Pro Arte Orch/John Barbirolli (PRT PVCD 8374)

KREISLER: Berceuse romantique Op 9 - Caroline Goulding (vln), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Telarc CD 80744)

GRANADOS arr Afshar: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Summit DCD 236)

OFFENBACHarr Grafe: Promptes à servir la pratique; O mon cher amant, from La Périchole - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 359622)

DOHNÁNYI: Festival Overture Op 31 - Hungarian National Phil/Zoltán Kocsis (BMC CD 101)

8:00 Beauty Spot: HANDEL arr Hazell: Lascia ch'io pianga, from Rinaldo - Inessa Galante (sop), London Musici/Mark Stephenson (CampionCD 1345)

FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New ZealandSO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2044)

GIULIANI: Grand Overture Op 61 - Claudio Maccari, Paolo Pugliese (gtrs) (Brilliant Classics 93686)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Procession of the Sardar, from Caucasian Sketches Op 10 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CDQS 6119)

VIOTTI: Serenade for flute & piano Op 23/1 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

MENDELSSOHN ed Schmidt-Beste: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 1525)

FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Kathryn Stott (pno), Hermitage String Trio (Chandos CHAN 10582)

RODRIGO: Concierto pastoral - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling (BIS SACD 1559)

VIVALDI: Gloria in D RV589 - Anna Simboli, Alena Dantcheva (sops), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30485)

HOLST: The Planets Suite - BerlinPhil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 69690)

2011 Drama Season

Five programmes

(4) Shakespeare Uncut

SHAKESPEARE's As You Like It, A pastoral comedy, Act 3

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity - The anonymous actors of the Marlowe Society of Cambridge (rec 1957) (Argo RG 125-127)

(Acts 4 & 5 tomorrow after middaynews)

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

PURCELL: Symphony to Act 4, from The Fairy Queen - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection, English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

ERNST: Fantaisie brillante on the March & Romance from Rossini's opera Otello Op 11 - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Ashley Wass (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67619)

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet before parting, from 10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet Op 75 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Philips 456 715)

FINZI: Love's Labours Lost, Suite - English SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5210)

TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - USSR Radio SO/Nikolai Golovanov (rec 1947-48) (Gebhardt JGCD 0058-3)

TRAD arr Grainger: Marching Tune - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox(Chandos CHAN 9499)

SPOHR: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 57 - Jon Manasse (cl), SeattleSymphony/Gerard Schwarz (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7516)

PDQ BACH: Cantata, Iphigenia in Brooklyn S53162 - John Ferrante (countertenor), Leonid Hambro (hpschd), Seymour Platt (tpt mouthpiece), Peter Schickele (wine bottle), Chamber Orchestra/Jorge Mester (Vanguard VBD 79195)

(Box 123, Wellingtonor concert@radionz.co.nz)

Classic performances from the back catalogue

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 - London SO/André Previn (rec 1973) (EMI CMS 7 64530)

NZ musicians and composers

K YOUNG: Sonatine - John Mills (gtr) (RNZ)

CARR: Seven Mediaeval Lyrics - Jubilate Singers, QueenslandSO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi SLD 70)

VANHAL: Flute Quartet in Bb Op 7/2 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Janaki String Trio (Naxos8.570234)

SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

TAJCEVIC: Serbian Dances - Radmila Stojanovic-Kiriluk (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0041)

HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (DelosDE3157)

DUFF: Irish Suite for Strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

ELGAR: There is sweet music - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

ACHRON arr Auer: Hebrew Melody - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

ALBÉNIZ arr Balaguer: Capricho Catalan - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

WILDER arr Rosenthal: Suite No 1 for tuba & orchestra, Effie the Elephant - Peter Whish-Wilson (tuba), Adelaide SO/David Stanhope (ABC 476 5251)

RAWSTHORNE: Ballade in G# minor, based on the first line of Good King Wenceslas - John McCabe (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7167)

SERLY: Rhapsody for viola & orchestra, based on Hungarian folk tunes harmonized by Béla Bartók - Lawrence Power (vla), Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (Hyperion CDA 67687)

BARBER: Mutations from Bach - LondonSymphony Brass/Eric Crees (RegisC 1209)

BOCHSA: Introduction & Air, based on O let eternal honours, & From mighty kings from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus - Mara Galassi (harp) (Glossa GCD 921 303)

ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 2 Op 24, Uppsala-rapsodi, Academic Festival Overture based on student songs - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (Brilliant Classics 8974)

Richard Bonynge at 80

Three programmes

On the eve of his 80th birthday last September, the eminent Australian conductor Richard Bonynge talked about his career and musical passions and his experiences working with some of the greatest operatic artists of the last six decades, with Moffatt Oxenbould

(2) An International Career

Since making his operatic debut in Vancouver in 1963, Richard Bonynge has restored many neglected operas and ballets to the repertoire, and has worked in opera houses and recording studios with many of the greatest international artists of our time - most notably his late wife, Dame Joan Sutherland (ABC)

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

WALTON: Crown Imperial; POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani; SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ (recorded in AucklandTown Hallby RNZ)

PERGOLESI: Manca la guida al piè, from La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania - Veronica Cangemi (sop), Mozart Orch/Claudio Abbado (Archiv 477 8463)

ALBINONI trans Balsom: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Alison Balsom (tpt), BBC Scottish SO/Baldur Brönnimann (BBC Music BBC MM 325)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D BWV1069 - Concerto Cologne/Sylvie Kraus (dir) (Berlin Classics 030 0061 BC)

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - NZTrio (Rattle RAT D019)

STRAUSS: Dance Suite - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 446 696)

11:00 FRANÇAIX: Wind Quintet No 1 - PragueWind Quintet (Praga PRD 250 126)

BUTTERWORTH: Six songs from A Shropshire Lad, Loveliest of trees; When I was one-and-twenty; Look not in my eyes; Think no more, lad; The lads in their hundreds; Is my team ploughing? - Brett Polegato (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (CBC MVCD 1134)

MARAIS: Suite in D, from Premier Livre de Pièces de Viole, Paris, 1686 - Margaret Little (vla da gamba) (ATMA ACD 2 2612)

Disc 1

BRITTEN: Les Illuminations Op 18; Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Op 10; Simple Symphony Op 4 - Elisabeth Söderström (sop), English Chamber Orch/Gilbert Levine (Arabesque Z 6603)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

KROMMER: Octet-Partita in F Op 57; JANÁCEK: Mladi; Septet for wind; SEIBER: Serenade for wind; HUMMEL: Octet-Partita in Eb; DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances, in G minor Op 46/8; in C Op 72/1; in C Op 72/7 - Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orch of Europe (ASV CD COE 812)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

QUILTER: Seven Elizabethan Lyrics Op 12, Weep you no more; Fair house of joy; Love's philosophy; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Three Songs Op 3; ROBERTSON: The fidgety bairn; Highland cradle song; HUGHS: The stuttering lovers; I will walk with my love; The lover's curse; Kitty, my love, will you marry me; HOLST: Nine hymns from the Rig Veda Op 24, Dawn; The waters; WHITTAKER: Blow the wind southerly; PARRY: Love is a bable; PLUMSTEAD: Close thine eyes; BRIDGE: Go not, happy days; STANFORD: A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster Op 140, A soft day; The bold unbiddable child; An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures Op 77, The fairy lough; BRITTEN: O waly, waly; The salley gardens; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent noon; Hands, eyes and heart; Tired, from Four Last Songs; SCOTT: Think on me - Linda Finnie (mezzo), Anthony Legge (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8749)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

PUJOL: Elegia; KOSHKIN: The Prince's Toys; PUJOL: Tres Piezas Rioplatenses; BODDROVÁ: Gypsy Ballad; DUARTE: Sonatina del Sur - María Isabel Siewers (gtr) (Aurophon CD AU 3405)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

HANDEL: Concerto Grossi, in Bb Op 3/1; in Bb Op 3/2; in G Op 3/3; in F Op 3/4a; in F Op 3/4b; in D minor Op 3/5; in D Op 3/6; Organ Concerto movement in D minor - Brandenburg Consort/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66633)

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - German SO, Berlin/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 466 098)

FALLA arr Pekkera: Spanish Dance; FALLA arr Piatigorsky: Ritual Fire Dance - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bernd Glemser (pno) (Naxos8.550785)

PURCELL: Fantasias, No 10 in E minor; No 11 in G; No 12 in D minor - Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7502)

VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 7, Settimino - members of Sao Paulo SO (BIS CD 1440)

ADDINSELL: WarsawConcerto - Isador Goodman (pno), Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas (DG 423 772)

7:00 GLIÈRE ed Grechesky: Solemn Overture for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution Op 72 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 10166)

FAURÉ: Impromptu in Db Op 86 - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

ALBÉNIZ arr Arnold: Tango, from España Op 165 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - Frank Braley (pno), Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gérard Caussé (vla), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Alois Posch (dbass) (Virgin 5 45563)

GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D minor, La Folia, after Corelli's Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12 - Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Telarc CD 80698)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 268)

COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2, The little horses; Zion's walls; The golden willow tree; At the river; Ching-a-ring chaw - St Charles Singers, Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos8.559297)

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

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), NZSO CO (Atoll ACD 702)

BALAKIREV orch Casella: Islamey - Philharmonia/Eugene Goossens (Medici Arts MM 009)

STRAUSS: Death & Transfiguration Op 24 - DresdenStateOpera Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Profil PH 07704)

DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp - Carol Hohauser (fl), Peter Barber (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: SwanLake, Act 1, Scene 1 - New ZealandSO/Patrick Flynn (RNZB)

PARRY: Piano Quartet in Ab - Deakin Piano Trio, Yuko Inoue (vla) (Meridian CDE 84248)

WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Janet Hilton (cl), Keith Swallow (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8366)

BERLIOZ: Harold in Italy- Csaba Erdélyi (vla), New ZealandSO/Marc Taddei (Concordance CCD 03)

2011 Drama Season

Five programmes

(5) Shakespeare Uncut

SHAKESPEARE's As You Like It, A pastoral comedy, Acts 4 & 5

Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden, only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust, and mistaken identity - The anonymous actors of the Marlowe Society of Cambridge (rec 1957) (Argo RG 125-127)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: The Taming of the Shrew Op 61 - West Australian SO/Andrew Penny (Naxos8.572500)

LILBURN arr Couch: Desdemona's Song - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

SIBELIUS: The Tempest, Suite No 1 - HelsinkiPhil/Leif Segerstam (Ondine ODE 655)

NUSE/TRAD: The Scottish Play Set; NUSE: Life is But a Walking Shadow; TRAD: Mill, Mill O'; GLEN: Pawky Adam Glen - Ensemble Galilei (Telarc CD 80556)

VAUGHANWILLIAMS: Serenade to Music, Orchestral version - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Claudio Arrau (pno), London Phil/Eliahu Inbal (Philips 420 654)

MOZART: Non mi dir, bell'idol mio, from Don Giovanni - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD TRL 075)

ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84 - John Ogdon (pno), Allegri Quartet (EMI CDM 7 69889)

(Box 123, Wellingtonor concert@radionz.co.nz)

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1966) (CBS MK 42194)

NZ musicians and composers

BACH: Partita No 4 in D BWV828 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

PRUDEN: String Trio - Donald Armstrong (vln), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Farquhar Wilkinson (cello) (Kiwi CD SLD 83)

REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - ParisConservatoire Orch/Albert Wolff (Testament SBT 1308)

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

SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - PhiladelphiaOrch/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)

GRANADOS arr Miolin: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

HOLST: St Paul's Suite - LondonFestival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 340 220)

BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Parisii Quartet (Capriccio 10 454)

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

DVORÁK: Gypsy Melodies Op 55 - Peter Schreier (ten), Marián Lapsansky (pno) (Capriccio 10-053)

ANON: Dark Eyes - Roby Lakatos (vln), Kálmán Cséki (pno), Ernest Bangó (cymbalon/gtr), Oszkár Németh (dbass), László Bóni (vln) (DG 457 879)

GROKHOVSKY: Gypsy Rhapsody - Vladimir Ivanov (vln), Moscow Radio SO/Vyacheslav Grokhovsky (Campion CAMEO 2016)

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

SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55529)

GRIEG: Homage March, from Sigurd Jorsalfar - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony MLK 64064)

2010 Gramophone Awards

Best Chamber Recording

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonatas, No 3 in Eb Op 12/3; No 5 in F Op 24, Spring; No 8 in G Op 30/3 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2025.27)

WOMAD Taranaki 2010

Twelve programmes

(2) The Skatalites

Since forming in 1963, The Skatalites have always been the seminal ska group. Most of the original members came from a big band jazz background and together they revolutionised Jamaican music, laying the foundation for rock-steady, reggae, dub, dancehall and raga. Although founders Tommy McCook and Rolando Alphonso both died in 1998, the original duo of Lloyd Knibb (drums), and Lester Stirling (alto sax) remain at the core of this nine-piece group that continues to provide the irresistible Skatalites beat (RNZ)

WILD: Grand Fantasy on Porgy & Bess, based on themes from the opera by George Gershwin - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10626)

RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Earl Wild (pno), Royal Phil/Jascha Horenstein (rec 1965) (Chandos CHAN 7114)

WILD: Improvisation on Someone to watch over me, in the form of a theme and three variations on the song by George Gershwin - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10626)

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

J STRAUSS II: Artists' Life Waltz - ViennaEnsemble (Koch Schwann 3-6564)

HOVHANESS: Harp Concerto Op 267 - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80530)

CPE BACH: Symphony in Eb Wq183/2 - English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7403)

11:00 PROKOFIEV: Flute Sonata in D Op 94 - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Aleksandar Madzar (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1770)

HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 236)