Schedules for 12 - 18 May, 2012

Disc 1

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica; Symphony No 8 in F - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos (Naxos 8.553475)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

CHOPIN: Polonaise in C minor Op 40/2; SCHUMANN: Arabeske Op 18; Stucklein Op 99/1; LISZT: Il Pensieroso; BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1; GRIEG: Arietta Op 12/1; FAURÉ: Fantasia in Ab Op 84/2; DEBUSSY: Et la line descend sur le temple qui fut; La fille aux cheveux de lin; SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1; GRANADOS: Danza Española No 5 in E minor; SCRIABIN: Etude in F# Op 42/4; RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G# minor Op 32/12; RAVEL: Sonatine; BARTÓK: No 1 from 3 Rondos on Folk Tunes - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3 WAL 80432)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

VERDI: Solingo, errante, misero, from Ernani; BELLLINI: Adalgisa!....; Ma di'…, from Norma; PONCHIELLI: Ecco la barca, addio; Deh! Non turbare, from La Gioconda; VERDI: Già nella notte densa, from Otello; Madre, non dormi?, from Il Trovatore - Joan Sutherland (sop), Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Jake Gardner (bar), New York City Opera Orchestra/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 587)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

TELEMANN: Overture in Bb; Quartet in E minor; Concerto in Eb; Trio in D; Solo in G minor for oboe; Conclusion in B - Ensemble Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Accent ACC 78643)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BRITTEN: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge Op 10; Elegy for unaccompanied viola; Lachrymae; Variation on Sellenger's Round of Byrd; Chacony - Gérard Caussé (vla), Toulouse National CO/Bojidar Bratoev (Auvidis A 6124)

6:00 HOVHANESS: Processional & Fugue Op 76/5 - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Kerry Stratton (Dorian DOR 93166)

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

BRAHMS: Second movement, Andante moderato, from Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - Vienna Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 429 403)

ALBÉNIZ arr Feola: Asturias; Castilla, from Spanish Songs Op 232 - Giuseppe Feola (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94047)

BRUCH: Ave Maria Op 61 - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

7:00 CHAPI: The Drummer of the Grenadiers, Prelude - Madrid Community Orch/Miguel Roa (Naxos 8.555957)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five English Folksongs, The dark-eyed sailor; The springtime of the year; Just as the tide was flowing; The lover's ghost; Wassail song - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9425)

DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

FLETCHER: Festival Toccata - Jeremy Woodside (organ of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (ChristChurch Cathedral)

G WILLIAMS: Carillons for oboe & orchestra - Anthony Camden (ob), London SO/Charles Groves (Lyrita SRCD 323)

8:00 VERDI ed Spada: Aida, Sinfonia - Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

CPE BACH: Rondo in A Wq58/1 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

FOULDS: La Belle Pierrette, Intermezzo impromptu - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7260)

TELEMANN: Sonata in D, from The Constant Music Master - Passacaglia (Linn CKD 170)

DEBUSSY orch Busser: Petite Suite - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

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

SCHUBERT: Overture in D D556 - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570329)

BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Op 56 - David Oistrakh (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (pno), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 5 66902)

TCHAIKOVSKY: None but the lonely heart Op 6/6 - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Ernest Lush (pno) (rec 1955) (Kiwi CD SLC 248)

BOCCHERINI: Fourth movement, Fandango, from Guitar Quintet in D G448 - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (percussion), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

BACH: Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 - Dinu Lipatti (pno) (rec 1950) (Philips 456 892)

ARAUXO: Glosas on the plainsong of the Immaculate Conception - Jeremy West (cornetto), Timothy Roberts (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 66977)

MOZART: Violin Sonata No 1 in C K6 - Rachel Podger (vln), Gary Cooper (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 21804)

A SCARLATTI: Toccata da Cimbalo - Rosalind Halton (hpschd) (ABC Classics 461 687)

ADDINSELL reconstr Lane: The Black Rose, Suite - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10046)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

Three programmes in which guest host Nick Tipping gives his perspective on the jazz scene (1) (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

Nagez Rameurs - Genticorum

Canadian trio Genticorum performs traditional Québécois music. Their fourth album, Nagez Rameurs ('Row, boys!'), is a collection of songs and tunes based around the music of the loggers and fur traders who travelled and worked Canada's wild rivers in the 18th and 19th centuries (Roues et Archets RA015)

Cameron Carpenter (org), NZSO National Youth Orch/James Judd

HAY: An Atlas of Unfixed Stars; BARBER: Toccata Festiva Op 36; RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

SCHUMANN: Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor Op 121 - Gidon Kremer (vln), Martha Argerich (pno) (EMI 6 93399)

PÄRT arr Kremer: Spiegel im Spiegel - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

HEIDRICH: Happy Birthday Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

NZ performers and composers

RÓZSA: Vintner's Daughter, excerpts - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7601)

IRELAND: Fantasy-Sonata in Eb - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)

HALLIDAY: Journey; GAVIN: Oceanscape - Duncan Haynes (cello), Sarah Gregory (vln), Gitbox (Rattle RAT D005)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102 - Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Naxos 8.553126)

STANFORD: From the red rose; WOOD: Roses of Picardy; MUSTO: Triolet; The Rose family; BARAB: One perfect rose; BERNERS: Red roses & red noses; STANLEY/ALLEN: Cabbages, Cabeans & Carrots - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66937)

CW ORR: Song Cycle, from A Shropshire Lad - Paul Whelan (bar), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2023)

R CLARKE: The tiger; Tears; God made a tree; Come, oh come, my life's delight; Greeting; The donkey - Patricia Wright (sop), Kathron Sturrock (pno) (Guild GMCD 7208)

TRAD arr Grainger: Shallow Brown - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

Pietari Inkinen, Anna van der Zee, Pam Jiang, Donald Armstrong (vlns), Andrew Thomson, Peter Barber (vlas), Andrew Joyce (cello), Hiroshi Ikematsu (dbass), members of the NZSO/Peter Walls

TAKEMITSU: Requiem; MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

B MARCELLO: Keyboard Sonata No 5 in D minor - Andrea Bacchetti (pno) (RCA 88697 81466)

VIVALDI arr Tittel: Concerto Grosso in A minor RV522 - Berlin Philharmonic Violins/Laurentius Dinca (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 308 1709)

ELGAR: Harmony Music No 5 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6553)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 48 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Decca 478 2182)

MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth from Nature Trilogy - Vienna Radio SO/Johannes Wildner (CPO 777 320)

11:00 PEZEL: Sonata-Chaconne in Bb - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 453 418)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 123 - Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67095)

Disc 1

DVORÁK: Concert Overtures, In Nature's Realm; Carnival; Othello; Symphonic Variations Op 78; Scherzo Capriccioso - Royal Phil/John Farrer (ASV CD DCA 794)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

MEDTNER: Piano Concertos, No 2 in C minor Op 50; No 3 in E minor Op 60, Ballade - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), London Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9038)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Violin Partita in D minor BWV1004 with chorales, Auf meinen lieben Gott; Den Tod…; Allemanda; Christ lag in Todesbanden; Corrente; Den Tod niemand zwingen kuunt; Sarabanda; Wo sol lich fliehen hin; Giga; Den Tod…; Ciaccona; Christ lag in Todesbanden; Dein Will gescheh'; Befiehl Du Deine Wege; Jesu meine Freude; Auf meinen lieben Gott; Jesu Deine Passion; In meines Herzens Grunde; Nun lob', mein Seel', den Herren; Den Tod…; Ciaccona for solo violin and four voices after Helga Thoene's analysis; Den Tod… - Hilliard Ensemble, Christoph Poppen (baroque vln) (ECM 1765)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

LISZT: Divertissement on the cavatina I tuoi frequenti palpiti from Pacini's Niobe; THALBERG: Fantasy on themes from Rossini's Moses; WEBER: Concert Piece in F minor Op 79; THALBERG: Fantasia on God Save the Queen; LISZT: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, from Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses - Steven Mayer (pno) (ASV CD DCA 783)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

Fantasias, Arias and Toccatas by MUDARRA, MILAN, MACQUE, DELL'APRA, FRESCOBALDI and MONTEVERDI - Andrew Lawrence-King (baroque harps) (Hyperion CDA 66518)

PALESTRINA: Tota pulchra es, amica mea; Vulnerasto cor meum, soror mea; Sicut ilium inter spinas, from Song of Songs - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16091)

VIERNE: Triptyque Op 58 - Robert Sharpe (organ of Truro Cathedral) (Regent REGCD 263)

RHEINBERGER: Three Sacred Songs Op 69 - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)

LISZT: Hymne de l'enfant à son réveil, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67445)

G JACKSON: Cecilia Virgo - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67708)

PÄRT: Psalom - Franz Joseph Quartet (ATMA ACD 2 2310)

ANON arr Lundgren: Vinea Mea; LASSUS arr Lundgren: Carmina chromatico, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum; ANON arr Lundgren: Da pacem Domine - Jan Lundgren (synth, pno), Lars Danielsson (cello, dbass), Gustaf Sjökvist Chamber Choir (ACT 9457)

ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G - 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)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Gremin's aria, from Eugene Onegin - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), New Zealand SO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D899/3 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 245)

FOOTE: Air, from Air & Gavotte - Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay (dir) (Capriccio 10 505)

STRAUSS: Morgen Op 27/4 - Renée Fleming (sop), Paul Willey (vln), Osian Ellis (harp), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 458 858)

FOERSTER: Erinnerung - Jana Bousková (harp), Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)

MEDINS: Aria - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

LILBURN: Canzona No 2, from Four Canzonas - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi SLD 99)

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

PACHELBEL: Canon in D - Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (Erato ECD 55018)

The life & music of AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991) presented by Robert Johnson (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Inci's Book Op 10 - Zeynep Üçbasaran (pno) (Naxos 8.570746)

Suite Op 14 - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Ari Rasilainen (CPO 777 043)

Bridging the Ages

Six programmes from the 2007 three-week California summer music festival

(1) HANDEL: Organ Concerto in D minor HWV304 - Kenneth Cooper (hpschd), Erin Keefe, Philip Setzer (vlns), Roberto Díaz (vla), David Finckel (cello), Daxun Zhang (dbass)

RAVEL arr Jones: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Carol Wincenc (fl), William Bennett (ob), Carey Bell (cl), William Vermeulen (horn), Dennis Godburn (bsn)

BACH: Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug - Christòphere Nomura (bar), William Bennett (ob), Philip Setzer, Erin Keefe (vlns), Paul Neubauer (vla), Colin Carr (cello), Daxun Zhang (dbass), Kenneth Cooper (hpschd)

SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals - Wu Han, Inon Barnatan (pno duo), Carol Wincenc (fl), Carey Bell (cl), Ian & Joseph Swensen (vlns), Masao Kawasaki (vla), Ralph Kirshbaum (cello), Daxun Zhang (dbass), Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh (percussion) (Music@Menlo Live)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Anner Bylsma (cello), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir) (DHM RD 77757)

DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque - John Chen (pno) (ABC 476 6834)

Peter Mechen reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Pianist Sviatoslav Richter

CHOPIN: Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20 (rec 1977) (RegisC 1199)

DVOŘÁK: Piano Concerto in G minor Op 33 - with Prague SO/Václav Smetácek (rec 1966-68) (Praga PR 256 001)

PROKOFIEV: Waltz, from War & Peace (rec 1979) (Melody MEL CD 10 01677)

Andreas Scholl

The star counter-tenor talks with Matthew Crawford (Media Maker)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(19) MASSENET: Manon, an opera in five acts

The passionate and wilful Manon, torn between her desire for a life of luxury and her love for the young nobleman Des Grieux, ends up with neither, dying a tragic death

Manon Lescaut............. Anna Netrebko

Des Grieux.................... Piotr Beczala

Lescaut......................... Paulo Szot

Comte des Grieux......... David Pittsinger

Guillot Morfontaine........ Christophe Mortagne

de Brétigny.................... Bradley Garvin

Pousette........................ Anne-Carolyn Bird

Javotte.......................... Jennifer Black

Rosette......................... Ginger Costa-Jackson

Innkeeper...................... Philip Cokorinos

Guards.......................... Alexander Lewis, David Crawford

Maid............................. Kathryn Day

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

The birth of New Zealand popular music, written and presented by Chris Bourke

Three programmes

(1) Heartland hootenanny: regional talent, family friendly pop, folk nationalists and country ramblers (RNZ)

Jason Bae (pno)

BACH: Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor BWV903; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 6 in F Op 10/2; VINE: Piano Sonata No 1; TCHAIKOVSKY: Lullaby Op 16/1; MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9; CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

VIVALDI: Vedrò con mio diletto, from Il Giustino RV717; TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D115 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 476 434)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 1 in D D82 - Berlin Phil/Karl Böhm (DG 419 318)

MENDELSSOHN: Psalm 95, Kommt, lasst uns anbeten - Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Deutsche Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Carus SACD 83.217)

11:00 TOCH: String Quartet No 7 in G Op 15 - Buchberger Quartet (CPO 999 775)

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Curtis Macomber (vln), Derek Han (pno) (Bridge 9258)

Disc 1

D'INDY: Saugefleurie Op 21; Souvenirs Op 62; Symphony No 3; De Bello Gallico - Strasbourg Phil/Theodor Guschlbauer (Auvidis Valois V 4686)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

CPE BACH: Flute Sonatas, in E minor Wq124; in G Wq86; in A minor Wq132; in C Wq87; in D Wq129; Excerpts from 12 Little Pieces Wq82 - Nancy Hadden, Elizabeth Walker (fls), Lucy Carolyn (hpschd/clavichord), Erin Headley (vla da gamba) (ASV CD GAU 161)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

RHEINBERGER: Mass in Eb, Cantus Missae; Canzonetta Op 167/3; Ave Regina Caelorum Op 140/4; Wie Lieblich Sind Deine Wohnungen Op 35; Ich Liebe, Weil Erhoret Der Herr Op 40/1; Ave Maris Stella Op 171/4a; Intermezzo Op 167/7; Anima Nostra Op 133/1; Meditabor Op 133/2; Laudate Dominum Op 133/3; Requiem in D minor Op 194 - Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge/Geoffrey Webber, Christopher Monks (org), Helen Cole (harp) (ASV CD DCA 989)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

PSATHAS: Waiting for the Aeroplane; BODY: Five Melodies; DADSON: Sisters Dance; WHITEHEAD: Lullaby for Matthew; LILBURN: Sonatina No 2; POYNTON: Nga Iwi E; LOCKWOOD: Red Mesa - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D 006)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

COATES: The Merrymakers; London Suite; The Three Elizabeths; Calling All Workers; The Green Hills O'Sommerset; The Jester at the Wedding; Stonecracker John; The Dam Busters - BBC Concert Orch/Adrian Boult (BBC Radio Classics BBCRD 9106)

6:00 ABEL: Symphony in F Op 7/4 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

PAGANINI: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Irina Ryumina (pno) (BIS CD 999)

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

RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole - Vladimir & Vovka Ashkenazy (pno duo) (Decca 478 1090)

MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

7:00 IRELAND: A London Overture - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr Grafe: Lensky's aria, from Eugene Onegin - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

DEBUSSY: La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

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

ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - RCA Victor SO/Leopold Stokowski (RCA 09026 61503)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Second movement, Adagio affetuoso, from Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 - Laura Buruiana (cello), Matei Varga (pno) (Coviello 51204)

OFFENBACH: Valse de rayons, from Le Papillon - London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 411 956)

SARASATE: Jota de Pablo Op 52 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572216)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Neapolitan Song Op 63 - Russian Orch/Carlo Ponti (PentaTone PTC 5186 378)

WAGNER trans Moszkowski: Venusberg music, from Tannhäuser - Christof Keymer (pno) (Berlin Classics 1640 BC)

SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991)

Violin Sonata Op 20 - Tim Vogler (vln), Jascha Nemtsov (pno) (Profil PH 09001)

Piano Concerto No 1 Op 34 - Gülsin Onay (pno), Bilkent SO/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 289)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 31111)

REGER: Serenade in G Op 141a for flute, violin & viola - Oxalys (Fuga Libera FUG 553)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Op 40 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), London SO/Antonio Pappano (EMI 6 40516)

SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Raimo Laukka (bar), Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 918)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

WOLF-FERRARI: Overture & Intermezzo, from Doctor Love - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

PORTER: The physician - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Champs Hill Records CHRCD 003)

MONTGOMERY arr Sutherland: Carry On Doctor/Doctor Again, Suite - City of Prague SO/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2119)

TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in E minor, from Tafelmusik - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2042.45)

HAYDN: Organ Concerto in C HobXVIII/10 - Ton Koopman (org/dir), Amsterdam Baroque Orch (Philips 416 452)

LISZT: Nuages gris - Idil Biret (pno) (IBA 8.571281)

MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer - Thomas Hampson (bar), San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media 821936 0036)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 17 in Bb K570 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1986) (Philips 422 117)

Piano Concerto No 25 in C K503 - Friedrich Gulda (pno), Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (rel 1976) (DG 419 479)

NZ performers and composers

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

BALFE: When other lips, from The Bohemian Girl - Patrick Power (ten), Ireland National SO/Richard Bonynge (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

VANHAL: Flute Quartet in G Op 7/3 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Janaki String Trio (Naxos 8.570234)

THOMSON: Symphony No 2 in C - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Walter Susskind (Kiwi SLD 66)

WILLIAMS: Schindler's List theme - Tasmin Little (vln), New World Phil/Iain Sutherland (EMI 5 65808)

SCHUMANN: Träumerei, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - Gordon Fergus-Thompson (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2066)

FALLA trans Maréchal/Liobet: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Màrquez (gtr) (Naïve V 5182)

WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 420 946)

VERDI: La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 467 620)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance; Folk Feast, from The Gadfly - Joakim Svenheden (vln), London Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 56591)

KETÈLBEY: In the Mystic Land of Egypt - New Symphony Orch of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)

BIBER: The Presentation, from The Mystery Sonatas - John Holloway (vln), Tragicomedia (Virgin VCD 7 90838)

ACHRON: Fragment mystique - David Geringas (cello), Jascha Nemtsov (pno) (Hänssler CD 93.122)

SATIE: Pages mystiques - Olof Höjer (pno) (Swedish Society SCD 1071)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Antiphon, from Five Mystical Songs - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge, English CO/David Willcocks (EMI 2 28944)

F COUPERIN arr Allen: Les Barricades mystérieuses - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)

GELINEK: Air des mystères d'Isis, after The Magic Flute - Cyprien Katsaris (pno) (Sony SK 52551)

SOUSA: Nobles of the mystic shrine - Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Stephen Gage (Naxos 8.570946)

The life & music of AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991) presented by Robert Johnson (RNZ)

Symphony No 1 Op 29 - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Ari Rasilainen (CPO 999 819)

Xiao Ma (countertenor), Greg Squire, Anne Loeser (baroque vlns), Robert Oliver (vla da gamba), Erin Helyard (hpschd)

VIVALDI: Verses 1 & 9, from Nisi Dominus in G minor RV608; Sposa son disprezzata, from Bajazet; Gloria Patri, from Domine ad adjuvandum me festina RV593; Agitata da due venti, from Griselda RV718; BROSCHI: Son qual nave ch'agitata; HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes; Lascia ch'io pianga, from Rinaldo; Vivi, tiranno, from Rodelinda (recorded in St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ)

BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 4 57815)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Stéphane Rancourt (ob), Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7529)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Richard Savino (gtr), Artaria Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7069)

XUA YAN-JU arr Chu Wang-Xua, Hsu Zuao-Ji: The Moon's Reflection Over the Second Spring - Eileen Huang (pno), China Central Traditional Orch/Hu Bing Xu (ASV CD DCA 1031)

HOLBROOKE: Three Blind Mice Op 37/1, Symphonic Variations on an old English Air - Brandenburg State Orch/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 442)

11:00 RESPIGHI: Five Pieces, Romanza; Aubade; Madrigale; Berceuse; Humoresque - Marco Rogliano (vln), Maurizio Paciariello (pno) (Tactus TC 871890)

PILATI: Piano Quintet in D - Circolo Artistico Ensemble (Naxos 8.572628)

Disc 1

STRAUSS: Four Symphonic Interludes, from Intermezzo; String Sextet, from Capriccio; Die schweigsame Frau, Potpourri; Guntram, Prelude; Die Frau ohne Schatten, Symphonic Fantasy Op 65 - Rotterdam Phil/Jeffrey Tate (EMI 7 54581)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

WALTON: Viola Concerto; Sonata for string orchestra; Variations on a theme by Hindemith - Nobuko Imai (vla), London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9106)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

G GABRIELI: Dulcis Jesu; Sonata pian e forte; Jubilate Deo; Sonata; O Jesu mi dulcissime; Canzon; Hic est filius Dei; Sonata con tre violini; Sonata; Miserere mei Deus, Gloria patri; Canzon in echo duodecimi toni; Audite principes - Taverner Consort & Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54265)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

MERTZ: Fantasy on themes from Verdi's Rigoletto; Fantasy on themes from Mozart's Don Giovanni; GOUNOD arr Hellweg: Waltzes from Faust; TÁRREGA: Fantasy on themes from Arrieta's Marina; ARCAS: Fantasy on themes from Verdi's Il Trovatore; FERRER: Fantasy on the Quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto; GIULIANI: La Rossiniana - Pepe Romero (gtr), Wilhelm Hellweg (fpno) (Philips 446 090)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

RAMEAU: Les Paladins Suite - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt (Philips 432 968)

6:00 BALAKIREV: Overture on Russian Themes - Tasmanian SO/Shalom Ronly-Riklis (ABC Classics 464 194)

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

DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (CBS MK 42206)

PALESTRINA: Ave Regina caelorum - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16091)

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

7:00 WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - Vienna Phil/Otto Klemperer (Testament SBT8 1365)

J STRAUSS II: Du und Du Waltz - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5153)

RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (EMI 6 79019)

WIENIAWSKI: Grand duo polonais Op 8 - Piotr Janowski (vln), Wolfgang Plagge (pno) (2L 30)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GÓRECKI: Second movement, Lento e largo, from Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Dawn Upshaw (sop), London Sinfonietta/David Zinman (Nonesuch 7559 79282)

RODRIGO: Sones en la Giralda - Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (PentaTone PTC 5186 141)

TRAD arr Mizzi: Saints & Fireworks - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Spearhead Music SM 200)

DAVIES: March Past of the Royal Air Force - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2149)

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

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

AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991)

Yunus Emre - Müfide Özgüç (sop), Cemaliye Kiyici (mezzo), Pekin Kirgiz (ten), Bülent Atesoglu (bass), Ankara State Opera Chorus, Ankara State Opera & Ballet Orch/Hikmet Simsek (Ankara State Opera A 91-0001)

STENHAMMAR: Serenade in F Op 31 - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Musica Sveciae MSCD 626)

HOLST: Seven Scottish Airs - Michael Freyhan (pno), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 340 220)

ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7038)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 4 in C Op 112 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

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

FAURÉ: Le Secret Op 23/3 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66320)

HESFORD: Ferrabosco's Secret - Alfia Nakipbekova (cello), James Hesford (cello/harm), Marc Layton Bennett (perc) (WCM)

J GADE: Douces Secrets, Slow Waltz - Odense SO/Matthias Aeschbacher (Dacapo 6.220509)

KIENZL: Die verschwiegene nachtigall - Christiane Libor (sop), Stacey Bartsch (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10666)

WOLF-FERRARI: Susanna's Secret, Overture - Royal Phil/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 861)

SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 2 in C Op 58 - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67074)

GOODALL: The Seasons, Summer, Cornflower sky; Racing green; End of the pier; Dippers - Tippett Quartet, Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

MOZART: Rondo in D K382 - Alfred Brendel (pno), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 442 269)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BEETHOVEN: String Quartets, in Eb Op 74, Harp; in F minor Op 95, Serioso - Weller Quartet (Decca 475 6796)

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: Festival Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

BACH: Fantasia & Fugue in A minor BWV904 - James Tibbles (hpschd) (Atoll ACD 509)

J RITCHIE: Canary Wine - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

LISZT: My songs are poisoned; Sound softly, my song; My child, if I were king - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

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

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in C Op 46/1 - Israel Phil/István Kertész (Decca 425 087)

CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 63 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar CD TRL 069)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E RV265, from L'Estro Armonico - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (Virgin VMD 5 45315)

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

PUCCINI: Non piangere, Liù, from Turandot - Marc Hervieux (ten), Métropolitain Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (ATMA ACD 2 2618)

GIBBONS: Fantasia in A minor - John Wells (organ of Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland) (RNZ)

ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20 - English CO/Paul Goodwin (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7258)

KAPUSTIN: 24 Preludes in Jazz Style, excerpts - John Salmon (pno) (Naxos 8.570532)

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

DUARTE: Un Petit Jazz - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions CM 2)

H BLAKE: Jazz Dances Op 520a, Parade; Slow Ragtime; Jump; Medium Rock; Folk Ballad; Boogie; Jazz Waltz; Cha-cha; Galop - Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Howard Blake (pno) (Naxos 8.572083)

WHITE: Puffin' Billy - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

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9:00 Live! At the Concertgebouw

MACMILLAN: Tryst; OLIVERO: Neharo't neharo't; BARTÓK: Music for strings, percussion & celesta - Netherlands Radio Chamber Phil/James MacMillan

TORKE: Ash for orchestra - Rotterdam Phil/James MacMillan

BERIO: Folk Songs for voice & orchestra - Jard van Nes (mezzo), RCO/Riccardo Chailly (Radio Netherlands)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

BAX: Violin Concerto; Legend; Romantic Overture; Golden Eagle, Incidental music - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9003)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

CHOPIN: Mazurkas, Opp 41; 50; 56; 59; 63; 67; 68; Mazurka in A minor, 'à Emile Gaillard'; Mazurka in A minor, 'Notre temps' - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 417 584)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

FINZI: Requiem da Camera; BRITTEN: Deus in adjutorium meum; Chorale on an old French carol; Cantata misericordium Op 69; HOLST: Two Psalms, Nos 86 & 148 - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Britten Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8997)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata; String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters; DVORÁK: Cypresses for string quartet - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 749)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

DEBUSSY: Rêverie; Arabesque No 1; Claire de lune, from Suite Bergamasque; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 42/4; BACH: Wachet Auf!; Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring; GLINKA: The Lark; GODOWSKY: Alt Wien; SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan; SCHUMANN: Arabesque in C Op 18; Träumerei Op 15/7; BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2; GRIEG: Butterfly Op 43/1; Nocturne Op 54/4; RAVEL: Forlane; Pavane pour une infante défunte - Gordon Fergus-Thompson (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2066)

6:00 CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/12 - New Dutch Academy CO/Simon Murphy (Pentatone PTC 5186 031)

IBERT: Entr'acte - John Anderson (ob), Simon Wynberg (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 6581)

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

ONSLOW: Air écossais varié Op 5 - Laurent Martin (pno) (Ligia LIDI 010 3134)

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

GRIEG arr Freyhan: Ich liebe dich Op 5/3; To Spring Op 43/6 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

7:00 HOWELLS: Paradise Rondel - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9410)

WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

DVORÁK: Romance, from Czech Suite - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 4058)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 - Bernd Glemser (pno) (Oehms OC 758)

FARQUHAR: Tango, from Ring Round the Moon - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

PARRY: I was glad - Wells Cathedral Choir/Malcolm Archer, Rupert Gough (org) (Cantoris CRCD 6070)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Siciliano, from Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031 - Lara St John (vln), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) (Ancalagon ANC 139)

CHABRIER: Habanera - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 447 751)

WEBER: Clarinet Concertino in Eb Op 26 - Michael Collins (cl/dir), City of London Sinfonia (Chandos CHAN 10702)

OFFENBACH: Tyrol-Ländler - Vienna Ensemble (Koch 3-6525)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 3 in Bb K281 - Martino Tirimo (pno) (RegisC 1255)

HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from Planets Suite Op 32 - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991)

String Quartet No 2 Op 35 - Quatuor Danel (CPO 999 923)

Symphony No 3 Op 39 - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Ari Rasilainen (CPO 999 968)

RAMEAU: Suite in G - Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8379.81)

RODRIGO: Concierto serenata - Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 135 SACD)

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Curtis Macomber (vln), Derek Han (pno) (Bridge 9258)

GOUVY: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 30 - German Radio Phil/Jacques Mercier (CPO 777 379)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

BRITTEN: Telegrams - Choir of King Edward's School, Birmingham, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Martyn Brabbins (NMC D 112)

KAPRALOVA: Letter - Dana Buresová (sop), Timothy Cheek (pno) (Supraphon SU 3752-2 231)

IANNI: Love Letters Op 62 - David Ianni (pno) (Oehms OC 790)

CORP: Guernsey Postcards - Royal Liverpool Phil/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7233)

DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune - Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, English String Orch/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

MOZART: String Quartet No 15 in D minor K421 - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 0 70922)

BERNSTEIN: Divertimento - Israel Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 415 966)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HAYDN: Te Deum in C HobXXIIIc/2 - English Concert & Choir/Trevor Pinnock (rec 1987) (Archiv 423 097)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vln), Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (rec 2008) (Naïve V 5174)

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring - San Francisco SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (rec 1996) (RCA 09026 68898)

NZ performers and composers

FISHER: Pounamu - Elise Bradley (contralto), Richard Nunns (koauau), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

E ALBULESCU: Ode to the 900 - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Pryde 22/100)

YORK: Pacific Coast Highway - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Act 2 - New Zealand SO/Patrick Flynn (RNZB)

HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

MARTUCCI: Novelletta Op 82/2 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570932)

ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op 12 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Edward Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10703)

MARQUEZ: Dance No 2 - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

BARBER trans Morris: Four Songs Op 13, A nun takes the veil; Secrets of the old; Sure on this shining night; Nocturne - Craig Morris (tpt), Valentina Lisitsa (pno) (Naxos 8.572506)

BIZET arr Guiraud: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5130)

GISMONTI trans Jervis: Palhaço - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10512)

HALVORSEN: Air norvégien - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10614)

BENDA: Symphony No 8 in D - Prague CO/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.553409)

SCHUBERT arr Forget: Gute Nacht; Der Lindenbaum; Täuschung; Die Nebensonnen; Der Leiermann, from Winterreise D911 - Christoph Prégardien (ten), Joseph Petric (accordion), Pentaèdre (ATMA ACD 2 2546)

KLENGEL: Hymn for twelve cellos Op 57 - Cellists of the Berlin Phil (Allegria 221085 205)

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

Après le déluge … Boiled Ham

Simon Romanos and psycho-analyst Dr Emanuel E Garcia look at the circumstances of the première of Rachmaninov's First Symphony (RNZ)

Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Australian CO

MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor; PROKOFIEV arr Swensen: Five Melodies Op 35b; SAXTON: Birthday Piece forB; BENNETT: Songs before Sleep; BEETHOVEN orch Tognetti: An die ferne Geliebte Op 98; MENDELSSOHN arr Tognetti: String Quartet No 3 in D Op 44/1 (recorded in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall by ABC)

RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit - Anna Vinnitskaya (pno) (Naïve V 5284)

FINZI: Clarinet Concerto Op 31 - Sarah Williamson (cl), Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Somm SOMMCD 244)

RESPIGHI rev di Vittorio: Suite for strings - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.572332)

11:00 REINECKE: Wind Octet in Bb Op 216 - members of Boston SO (Naxos 8.570777)

GLAZUNOV: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 10 - Utrecht String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1237)

Disc 1

GOODWIN: Theme from 633 Squadron; Drake 400 Suite; Puppet Serenade; New Zealand Suite; Arabian Celebration; Venus Waltz; Prisoners of War March; Minuet in Blue; Theme from The Trap; Girl with a Dream; Theme from Lancelot & Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BRAHMS: Violin Sonatas, No 1 in G Op 78; No 2 in A Op 100; No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (EMI CDC 747 403)

2:10 approx - Disc 3

PARRY: The Soul's Ransom; The Lotus Eaters - Della Jones (sop), David Wilson-Johnson (bar), London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 8990)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

DEBUSSY: Iberia; Nocturnes; RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole - French National Radio Orch, London SO/Leopold Stokowski (EMI CDC 7 47423)

4:35 approx - Disc 5

CHOPIN: Prelude No 25 in C# minor; Prelude in Ab; Impromptus, in Ab; F# and Gb; Fantaisie-Impromptu in C# minor; Barcarolle in F#; Nocturnes, in C# minor; in F minor; in Eb; Waltzes, in Eb, Ab and E; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise - Peter Frankl (pno) (ASV CD DCA 781)

6:00 CPE BACH: String Symphony in B minor Wq182/5 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (hpschd/dir) (Archiv 415 300)

RUTTER: Five traditional songs, The girl I left behind me; O waly, waly; The British Grenadiers; Golden slumbers; Dashing away with the smoothing iron - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt (Bayer BR 100 334)

JOPLIN arr Kunzel: The Entertainer; Solace; Maple Leaf Rag - William Tritt, Keith Lockhart (pnos), Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80112)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

BRIDGE: Two poems - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

7:00 SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - New Symphony Orch of London/Raymond Agoult (Decca 425 739)

WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Edo de Waart (Philips 475 7825)

PÄRT: For Alina - Alexander Malter (pno) (ECM 1591)

RUFFO: La Gamba in Basso, e Soprano - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (vla da gamba/dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9844)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 4 Op 22 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SCHUBERT arr Hurst: Ave Maria D839 - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

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

SOUSA trans anon: Liberty Bell - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

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

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

AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991)

Ten Sketches on Aksak Rhythms Op 58 - Zeynep Üçbasaran (pno) (Naxos 8.570746)

Viola Concerto Op 59 - Mirjam Tschopp (vla), Bilkent SO/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 290)

LUIGINI: Ballet Egyptien - London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 864)

MENDELSSOHN: The First Walpurgis Night - Christine Cairne (mezzo), Jon Garrison (ten), Tom Krause (bar), Jeffrey Wells (bbar), Cleveland Orch Chorus, Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi (Telarc CD 80184)

LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb - Denis Matsuev (pno), Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (RCA 88697 98945)

HAYDN: Symphony No 90 in C - Heidelberg SO/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.629)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

TOSCANINI: Meditation, My heart weeps with great sadness - Kristina Zelinska (solo vln), Cindy Yan, Miyo Yoon (vlns), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Paul Mitchell (cello) (RNZ)

DOWLAND: I saw my lady weepe - Anna Maria Wierod (sop), Pantagruel (Carpe Diem CD 16282)

TAVENER: Tears of the Angels - Clio Gould (vln), Scottish Ensemble (Linn CKD 085)

MOZART: Concert aria, Non so d'onde viene K294 - Rita Streich (sop), Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Bernhard Paumgartner (rec 1961) (DG 474 738)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Trio No 1 in F Op 18 - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67538)

BRITTEN: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Michael Thompson (horn), Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8657)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 - Leningrad Phil/Evgeny Mravinsky (rec 1960) (DG 419 745)

Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (rec 1978) (EMI CDC 7 47106)

NZ performers and composers

WALTERS: Poésies du soir, L'Idéal (The Ideal); Promenade sur léau (Promenade on the water); Nuit d'été (Summer Night) - Wendy Dawn Thompson (mezzo), London Concertante/Gregory Rose (Toccata Classics TOCC 0090)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 3 in Ab Op 47 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar CD TRL 069)

HILL: String Quartet No 8 in A - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

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

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in Bb RV362, Hunt - Christopher Hirons (vln), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 475 7693)

GERSHWIN arr Grofé: Summertime, from Porgy & Bess - Al Gallodoro (alto sax), Lincoln Mayorga (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

GOTTSCHALK: The dying poet - Alan Marks (pno) (Nimbus NI 7045/6)

ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Philharmonia/Robert Irving (EMI 5 66120)

BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Ewa Wolak (contralto), men of Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572694)

FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 143)

WALTON: Siesta - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67794)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Rest - King's Singers (EMI CDC 7 49765)

HOLLINS: Evening Rest - Timothy Byram-Wigfield (organ of Caird Hall, Dundee) (Delphian DCD 34044)

STEVENSON: Come, rest in this bosom - Julia Gooding (sop), Timothy Roberts (square pno) (Hyperion CDA 66774)

RACHMANINOV arr Welsh: Let me rest here alone Op 26/9 - Moray Welsh (cello), Martin Roscoe (pno) (Black Box BBM 1044)

TICHELI: There will be rest - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5045)

TANEYEV: Repose (Elegy) in E - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0042)

PUCCINI: Preludio Sinfonico in A - Métropolitain Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (ATMA ACD 2 2618)

Stuart Skelton

The Australian heldentenor is in hot demand around the world for some of the most challenging roles in opera. He talks with Christine Argyle (RNZ)

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Visitors from Abroad

Andreas Boyde (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Giordano Bellincampi

SMITH arr Stravinsky: The Star-Spangled Banner; BLOCH: Hiver-Printemps, Two Poems; RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G

(Interval)

DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, from the New World (RNZ)

BACH: Violin Sonata No 2 in A BWV1015 - Elizabeth Blumenstock (vln), John Butt (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7364.65)

BOTTESINI: Elégie No 1 in D - Thomas Martin (dbass), London SO/Franco Petracchi (Naxos 8.570398)

SIBELIUS: En Saga Op 9 - Moscow Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Brilliant Classics 9212)

11:00 RIES: Flute Quartet in C Op 145/1 - Oxalys (Fuga Libera FUG 576)

C SCOTT: Piano Trio No 1 - Gould Piano Trio (Chandos CHAN 10575)

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor, Unfinished; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica - BBC Phil/Stephen Kovacevich, Günther Herbig (BBC Music MM 136)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor; String Quintet in E Op 1 - Mannheim String Quartet, Joachim Griesheimer (cello) (CPO 999 352)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

MUSSORGSKY: Songs & Dances of Death; The Nursery; The Puppet-Show; Forgotten; The Seminarist; Darling Savishna; The He-Goat, A Wordly Story; Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51229)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

G GABRIELLI: Canzona noni toni; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3; MANFREDINI: Concerto in G minor Op 3/10; ALBINONI: Concerto in A minor Op 5/5; TORELLI: Concerto musicale in D minor Op 6/10; LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 1/9; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 436 224)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GINASTERA: Piezas Infantiles; Milonga, from Dos Canciones Op 3; Tres Piezas Op 6; Malambo Op 7; Suite de Criollas Op 15; Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos Op 19; Piano Sonata No 2 Op 53; Toccata; Piano Sonata No 3 Op 55 - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 880)

6:00 M HAYDN: Symphony No 1 in C - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 101)

VIVALDI arr Pujol: Trio Sonata in C RV82 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)

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

VERDI: Laudi alla Vergine Maria, from Four Sacred Pieces - Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson (TreeHouse T 0017)

GRAINGER: English Dance, A Tally of English Energy - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

7:00 BEETHOVEN: Name-Day Overture Op 115 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 427 256)

GLUCK arr Kreisler: Melody, from Orpheus & Euridice - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

ROUSE: Anhran, from Flute Concerto - Carol Wincenc (fl), Houston Symphony/Christoph Eschenbach (Telarc CD 80503)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Barcarolle, from The Seasons - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

BELLINI: Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Guy Touvron (tpt), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (RCA 09026 61815)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: DRING: Second movement, Andante semplice, from Trio for flute, oboe & piano - Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7181)

HERBERT: March of the Toys, from Babes in Toyland - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 66710)

GOUNOD: Soldiers' chorus, from Faust - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 266)

PARRY: Elegy for Brahms - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (BBC Music BBC MM 333)

CHOPIN: Etude in C minor Op 25/12 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Philharmonia/Rudolf Barshai (Alto ALC 1086)

AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN (1907-1991)

Sonatina Op 15 - Zeynep Üçbasaran (pno) (Naxos 8.570746)

String Quartet No 4 Op 77 (unfinished) - Quatuor Danel (CPO 999 923)

Cello Concerto Op 74 - Tim Hugh (cello), Bilkent SO/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 290)

FASCH: Overture in A minor FWV K/a1 - Tempesta di Mare/Emlyn Ngai (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0783)

MOZART: Divertimento in D K334 - Scottish CO Ensemble/Alexander Janiczek (dir) (Linn CKD 376)

GLAZUNOV: Two Impromptus - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66866)

Symphony No 1 in E Op 5, Slavyanskaya - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (Warner 2564 68904)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

FAURÉ: Dolly Suite - Piano Duo, Anna & Ines Walachowski (Oehms OC 746)

OFFENBACH: Doll Song, Les oiseaux dans la charmille, from The Tales of Hoffmann - Joan Sutherland (sop), Swiss Romande Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 866)

POLDINI arr Kreisler: Dancing Doll - Midori (vln), Robert McDonald (pno) (Sony SK 89700)

BLACK arr Mühling: Paper Doll - Die Singphoniker (CPO 999 470)

BARTÓK: Mikrokosmos Book 1, Nos 1-23 - Georges Solchany (pno) (EMI 6 95570)

BACH: Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not, from Cantata No 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - Kathleen Battle (sop), Stephen Taylor (ob), Anthony Newman (org) (Sony SK 62035)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - Herman Krebbers (vln), Concertgebouw Orch/Kirill Kondrashin (Philips 475 7570)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 4 in C minor Op 44 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (rec 2000) (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

BERLIOZ: Tristia, Méditation religieuse; La Mort d'Ophélie; Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d'Hamlet - Cleveland Chorus & Orch/Pierre Boulez (rec 1996) (DG 453 432)

DEBUSSY: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (rec 2008) (Chandos CHAN 10467)

NZ performers and composers

WEBER: Abu Hassan, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

A RITCHIE: Flute Concerto Op 56 - Alexa Still (fl), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes (Atoll ACD 129)

ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - NZSO National Youth Orch 2004/Alasdair Neale (National Youth Orch)

LANGFORD: First Suite of Dances - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10115)

GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen Op 65/6 - Katya Apekisheva (pno) (Quartz QTZ 2061)

PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Marc Hervieux (ten), Métropolitain Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (ATMA ACD 2 2618)

TELEMANN: Flute Sonata in D - Karl Kaiser (fl), members of Camerata Cologne (DHM 05472 77361)

RAVEL: Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs - Basque National Orch/Gilbert Varga (Claves CD 50-2101)

GRISON: Toccata in F - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1031)

D'ALBERT: Esther, Overture - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67387)

ALBÉNIZ: Yvonne en visite! - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1953)

GUNNING: Rebecca - Julia Bradshaw (cello), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10625)

TRAD arr Johnson: Annie Laurie - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2005/2006/Elise Bradley, Ruth Eckford (pno) (NZSSC)

PROKOFIEV: Juliet as a young girl, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Conifer 75605 51343)

MORAVEC: Nancye's Song - Marya Martin (fl), Colette Valentine (pno) (Naxos 8.559629)

FOSTER arr Ash: Jeannie with the light brown hair - Matthew Trusler (vln), Düsseldorf SO/Yasuo Shinozaki (Orchid Classics ORC 100005)

F COUPERIN: Soeur Monique, from Ordre No 18 in F minor-major - Gillian Weir (hpschd) (Tartar TRL 046)

GERMAN: Nell Gwyn, Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223419)

The Critic's Chair

Peter Mechen reviews recent releases (RNZ)

Zukerman Chamber Players: Pinchas Zukerman, Jessica Linnebach (vlns), Jethro Marks, Ashan Pillai (vlas), Amanda Forsyth (cello)

KODÁLY: Duo for violin & cello Op 7; MENDELSSOHN: String Quintet No 2 in Bb Op 87; BRAHMS: String Quintet No 2 in G Op 111 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

ELGAR: Romance Op 62 - Preman Tilson (bsn), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

FINZI: Romance in Eb Op 11 - Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Somm SOMMCD 244)

CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 1 - Netania Davrath (sop), orch accompaniment/Pierre de la Roche (Vanguard 08 8002/72)

SCHUMANN: Fairy-tale Scenes Op 113 - Paul Coletti (vla), Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66946)

MALIPIERO: Sinfonia del mare - Moscow SO/Antonio de Almeida (Naxos 8.570878)

11:00 SCHUBERT: Moments Musicaux, No 5 in F minor; No 6 in Ab - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 456 712)

TANEYEV: String Quartet No 4 in A minor Op 11 - Carpe Diem String Quartet (Naxos 8.572421)

J GADE arr anon: Jealousy - Andreas Blau (fl), Hendrik Heilmann (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 308 1659)