Schedules for 26 Jul - 01 Aug, 2014

British Choral Tradition

In six programmes Brian Kay highlights the great choirs, conductors and composers who are central to the British Choral Tradition

(6) Choral Composers (RNZ)

1:00 approx - Disc 1

LISZT: Hungaria S103; Hamlet S104; Battle of the Huns S105; Die Ideale S106 - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10490)

2:20 approx - Disc 2

MOONDOG: Blast Off; New York; Paris; Bumbo; Heath on the Heather; Torisa; Shakespeare City; Frankanon; You Have To Have Hope; A Sax; Reedroy; The Cosmicode - Moondog Big Band, London Brass, London Saxophonic (Roof Music RD 2633272)

3:10 approx - Disc 4

D'HERVELOIS: Suite No 2 in G; VISÉE: Passacaille; Anne-Danican PHILIDOR: Recorder Sonata in D minor; DIEUPART: Suite No 1 in A; VISÉE: Theorbo Suite in D minor; F COUPERIN: Le Rossignol en amour; DIEUPART: Suite No 6 in F minor; F COUPERIN: Le Rossignole Vainqueur; Double de Rossignole - Pamela Thorby (recorders), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute/theorbo), Elizabeth Kenny (gtr) (Linn CKD 341)

4:35 approx - Disc 5

ROSS: Marching Strings; HOPE: Jaunting car, from The Ring of Kerry; DUNCAN: High Heels; CURZON: Dance of an ostracised imp; FOULDS: Keltic Lament, from A Keltic Suite Op 29; WILLIAMS: Rhythm on Rails; COATES: By the sleepy lagoon; BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba; KETÈLBEY: In a monastery garden; WILLIAMS: A quiet stroll; FLETCHER: Demoiselle chic, from Parisian Sketches No 1; BEAVER: Cavalcade of Youth; BAYCO: Elizabethan Masque; GARDINER: Shepherd Fennel Dance; ANCLIFFE: Thrills; ROSSE: The doge's march, from The Merchant of Venice; COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Petite Suite de Concert Op 77 - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

6:00 ELGAR: Dream Children Op 43 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 4509 92374)

BORODIN arr Rimsky-Korsakov: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - St Petersburg Camerata (Newton 880 2097)

SIBELIUS: Pohjola's Daughter - Moscow Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Brilliant Classics 9212)

SOR: Fantasy in D on a favourite Scottish Air Op 40, Variations on Ye banks & braes - Göran Söllscher (gtr) (DG 419 247)

POULENC: French Suite after Claude Gervaise - Anima Eterna Brugge/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 110 403)

7:00 SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

GRAINGER: Green Bushes, Passacaglia on an English folksong - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)

TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 55 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - New London Chamber Ensemble & Guests (Meridian CDE 84580)

TELEMANN: Concerto in D for trumpet & two oboes - John Wallace (tpt), Paul Arden-Taylor, Anna Evans (obs), English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5189)

8:00 HOLST: Lyric Movement for viola - Cecil Aronowitz (vla), English CO/Imogen Holst (Lyrita SRCD 223)

KREISLER: Caprice viennois; Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)

SCHMELZER: Balletto a cavallo - Armonico Tributo Austria/Lorenz Duftschmid (Arcana A 339)

GAUBERT: Divertissement Grec - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

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

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

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Clara Haskil (pno), Boston SO/Charles Munch (rec 1956) (Music & Arts CD 1096)

SCHUBERT: Die Forelle D550; Sei mir gegrüsst! D741; Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2006)

FARNON arr Terracini: Jumping Bean - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

HASSELMANS: La Source - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66038)

STAINER: The Crucifixion, A meditation on the sacred passion of the holy Redeemer - Andrew Kennedy (ten), Neal Davies (bass), Darius Battiwalla (org), Huddersfield Choral Society/Joseph Cullen (Signum SIGCD 176)

(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

(7) Chick Corea

Boundless creative spirit and master pianist Chick Corea spins from jazz to classical to the avant-garde. Musicians of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra expand the Corea songbook with their own arrangements. Chick joins them on acoustic piano for Matrix, Crystal Silence and Tones for Joan's Bones (Murray Street Productions)

Indigenous music from around the world

Scottish sounds

In her latest album, Gach sgeul - Every story, Scots Gaelic singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis presents a selection of traditional songs. We'll also hear from the innovative folk trio, Lau (Machair 930925; Reveal 242868)

Cameron Carpenter (org), 2011 NZSO National Youth Orch/James Judd

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

The Lea-Rig; Morag; Sleep'st thou, or wak'st thou (Deil tak' the wars); Mary's Dream; The night her silent sable wore (She rose, and let me in), from Scottish Airs - Werner Güra (ten), Christoph Berner (fpno), Julia Schröder (vln), Roel Dieltiens (cello) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2144)

Variations in F minor HobXVII/6 - Gottlieb Wallisch (pno) (Linn CKD 464)

Sinfonia, L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

NZ performers and composers

FARQUHAR: Suite for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

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

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

KLEINSINGER: Tubby the Tuba - Timothy Jones (tuba), Emma Ayres (narrator), Tasmanian SO/Marc Taddei (ABC Classics 476 4134)

GRANADOS: Intermezzo; Tonadilla, La Maja de Goya, from Goyescas - William Feasley (gtr) (Sonora SO/22587 CD)

RESPIGHI: Three Botticelli Pictures - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.573168)

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Lexus Song Quest Final 2014

Six young singers compete for New Zealand's leading singing prize: Isabella Moore (sop), Bianca Andrew (mezzo), Oliver Sewell (ten), Edward Laurenson, Christian Thurston and Benson Wilson (bars) perform before the judge, visiting English soprano Kathryn Harries, with Terence Dennis (pno) and the New Zealand SO/Emmanuel Joel-Hornak

The evening begins with a selection of lieder and art song accompanied on the piano and in the second half the competitors sing their chosen aria with the orchestra

SCHUBERT: Die Liebe Farbe – Oliver Sewell

STRAUSS: Mein Herz is Stumm – Edward Laurenson

RACHMANINOV: Spring Waters – Isabella Moore

RACHMANINOV: When Yesterday We Met – Christian Thurston

HOWELLS: King David – Benson Wilson

MOORE: Sexy Lady – Bianca Andrew

(interval)

MOZART: Vedrò mentr'io sospiro, from The Marriage of Figaro - Edward Laurenson

Come scoglio, from Così fan tutte - Isabella Moore

KORNGOLD: Tanzlied des Pierrot, from Die tote Stadt - Benson Wilson

MEYERBEER: Une dame noble et sage, from Les Huguenots - Bianca Andrew

DONIZETTI: Ah! mes amis, from The Daughter of the Regiment - Oliver Sewell

GOUNOD: Avant de quitter ces lieux, from Faust - Christian Thurston

VERDI: Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima, from A Masked Ball - Edward Laurenson

MASSENET: Pleurez! Pleurez, mes yeux, from Le Cid - Isabella Moore

MENDELSSOHN: It is enough, from Elijah - Benson Wilson

MOZART: Non so più, from The Marriage of Figaro - Bianca Andrew

DONIZETTI: Una furtive lagrima, from L'Elisir d'Amore - Oliver Sewell

VERDI: O Carlo, ascolta, from Don Carlo - Christian Thurston

GOUNOD: Ballet Music (RNZ)

DVORÁK: Miniatures Op 75 - members of Vienna String Sextet (EMI CDC 5 55272)

11:00 BACH: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello) (Channel Classics CCS 12298)

RIES: Flute Quartet in A Op 145/3 - Oxalys (Fuga Libera FUG 576)

Disc 1

SMETANA: The Moldau; Vysehrad; DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66; LISZT: Les Préludes; Hungarian Rhapsody No 4 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 220)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

STENHAMMAR: Piano Sonata No 1 in C; Fantasie in A minor; Piano Sonata No 2 in C minor; Piano Sonata No 3 in Ab; Piano Sonata No 4 in G minor - Lucia Negro (pno) (BIS CD 634)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Magnificat in D BWV243; Cantata No 21, Ich hatte viel Bekummernis - Greta de Reyghere (sop), René Jacobs (countertenor), Christoph Prégardien (ten), Peter Lika (bass), Netherlands Chamber Choir, La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken (Virgin VC 7 90779)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

LILBURN: Symphonies, Nos 1-3 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

CPE BACH: Symphonies, in G Wq182/1; in Bb Wq182/2; in C Wq182/3; in A Wq182/4; in B minor Wq182/5; in E Wq182/6 - Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Cappriccio 10 106)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O speculum columbe; O vos imitatores - Lydia Brotherton (sop), Norbert Rodenkirchen (fl), Sequentia/Benjamin Bagby (DHM 88765 46864)

MENDELSSOHN: Hear My Prayer - Rachel Bennett (sop), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Mark Williams (org) (Chandos CHAN 10363)

G IVES: Missa brevis - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/Bill Ives, Jonathan Hardy (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7420)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Valiant-for-truth - Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 5083)

LUKAS: Requiem Aeternam - 1999 New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2029)

ELGAR: Great is the Lord Op 67 - Stephen Roberts (bar), London Symphony Chorus, Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47658)

BACH: Cantata No 170, Contented rest, beloved heart's desire - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2016)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 110624)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Isaac Stern (vln/dir), Franz Liszt CO (Sony SK 62693)

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

MACDOWELL: To a wild rose, from Woodland Sketches - Joseph Cooper (pno) (London 443 333)

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

MURCIA/COLL arr Pluhar: Romanesca - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

PREISNER: Love, from Requiem for my friend - Dorota Slezak (vocalist), Jerzy Glowczewski (sax), Warsaw Sinfonia/Jacek Kaspszyk (Erato 3984 24146)

RHEINBERGER arr Cullen: Cantilena, from Organ Sonata No 11 in D minor - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

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

A look at the life and music of New Zealand-born composer, ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939), marking her 75th birthday on Tuesday 29 July. Presented by Elizabeth Kerr (RNZ) (R Mon 7.00pm)

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

(6) Piano and Strings

MOZART: Piano Trio No 3 in Bb K502 - Anne-Marie McDermott (pno), Ida Kavafian (vln), Peter Wiley (cello)

SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - Jennifer Gilbert, Daniel Hope, Kathleen Brauer, Benjamin Beilman, Harvey de Souza, LP How (vlns), Carla Maria Rodrigues, Lily Francis (vlas), Joseph Johnson, Nicholas Canellakis (cellos), Kristen Bruya, Mark Tatum (dbasses) (WFMT)

MYASKOVSKY: Links Op 65 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno), German SO, Berlin/Kent Nagano (Naïve AM 210)

Erica Challis reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

RÓZSA: Theme, Variations & Finale - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (rec 1943) (New York Philharmonic 1905 41196)

TRAD: The drunken sailor; Rio Grande; Shenandoah; A'rovin' - Oscar Natzka (bass), The Commodores, pno & org accompaniment (rec 1948) (Atoll ACD 500)

MILHAUD: La Cheminée du roi René Op 205 - Dennis Brain Wind Quintet (rec 1955) (BBC Legends BBCL 4066)

DELIUS: Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (rec 1956) (BBC Legends BBCL 4113)

Lola Johnson

It was a tremendous programme which would have taxed the capabilities of the world's foremost pianist, but Lola Johnson sailed through it with an ease that amounted to nonchalance (Wairarapa Times Age, 1957)

The Wanganui-born pianist Lola Johnson was known from a young age for her glittering technique and innate musicality. Fifty-five years after recording the country's first classical piano LP, the distinguished New Zealander is still performing and teaching. Since her marriage at the age of 40 she's also been known as Lola Austin. She talks with Peter Mechen (RNZ)

New Zealand School of Music Jazz Festival 2013

Deanne Kreig (vocalist), Clay Jenkins (tpt), Bruce Forman (gtr), Rakalam Bob Moses (drums), NZ School of Music Ensemble, NZ School of Music Big Band/Rodger Fox

PARKER: Yard Bird Suite; CAHN: Teach me tonight; NEWLEY: A wonderful day; WONDER: Superstition; MOSES: The river; Wellington, you needn't; JENKINS arr Taylor: Work first (recorded in the St James Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

WARLOCK: An Old Song - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

SINDING: Suite in A minor in the Old Style Op 10 - Daniel Röhn (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Claves CD 50-2507)

SALZEDO: Variations on a theme in the old style - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

FARKAS: Old Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century - Phoebus Quintet (Toccata Classics TOCC 0019)

GÓRECKI: Three Pieces in Old Style - Polish National Radio SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.550822)

Ten programmes

(8) With William Dart (RNZ)

Euroradio Opera Season

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

PURCELL: The Indian Queen, a semi-opera in five acts

This new version of the work by Peter Sellars incorporates songs and anthems by Purcell with texts by Katherine Philips, George Herbert and others

Doña Luisa, the Indian Queen... Julia Bullock

Doña Isabel................................ Nadine Koutcher

Ixbalanque................................. Christophe Dumaux

Mayan hero................................ Vince Yi

Don Pedrarias............................ Markus Brutscher

Don Pedro de Alvarado............. Noah Stewart

Mayan Priest............................. Luthando Qave

Leonor....................................... Maritxell Carrero

Mayan gods............................... Burr Johnson

................................................... Takemi Kitamura

................................................... Caitlin Scranton

................................................... Paul Singh

Tecún Umán.............................. Christopher Williams

Leonor (as girl)......................... Celine Peña

MusicAeterna (Perm Opera Chorus & Orch)/Theodor Currentzis (recorded in Teatro Real, Madrid, by Spanish Radio)

FARR: Queen of Demons - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

SCHUMANN: Carnival Jest from Vienna Op 26 - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 322)

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 119 - Luigi Piovano (cello), Chieti Marrucino Opera Orch/Piero Bellugi (Eloquentia EL 1024)

HAYDN: Symphony No 38 in C, Echo - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 910)

11:00 STANFORD: Five Characteristic Pieces Op 93 - Alberto Bologni (vln), Christopher Howell (pno) (Sheva SH 100)

WEBER: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 34 - Charles Neidich (cl), L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 57968)

Disc 1

NIELSEN: Concerto for violin & orchestra Op 33; Concerto for flute & orchestra; Concerto for clarinet & orchestra Op 57 - Dong-Suk Kang (vln), Patrick Gallois (fl), Olle Schill (cl), Gothenburg SO/Myung-Whun Chung (BIS CD 616)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

SCHUBERT: Quartet for flute, guitar, viola and cello; KREUTZER: Grand Trio for flute, clarinet and guitar Op 16; BEETHOVEN: Serenade for flute, clarinet and guitar Op 8 - Johann Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Robert Alemany (cl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Ronald Thomas (cello) (Koch 3 7404 2H1)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

MORALES: Missa Mille Regretz - Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh (Archiv 449 143)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

IRELAND: In Those Days; London Pieces; Leaves from a Child's Sketchbook; The Darkened Valley; Two Pieces; Equinox Sonatina; Prelude in Eb; Ballade; Greenways - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9140)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trios, in C Op 1/1; in A Op 1/2; in F Op 1/3; in C minor Op 4/3 - New Zealand SO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553213)

6:00 CANNABICH: Symphony No 50 in D minor - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu MANU CD 5006)

HAHN arr Hazell: A Chloris - Albrecht Mayer (cor anglais), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

PÄRT: Fratres - Moray Welsh, Alastair Blayden, Michael Stirling (cellos) (Sony SK 61753)

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)

7:00 SULLIVAN: The Gondoliers, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

PABST: Paraphrase on Sleeping Beauty after Tchaikovsky - Earl Wild (pno) (Sony SK 62036)

HOLST: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from The Planets - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony SMK 63087)

CORELLI: Trio Sonata in A Op 4/3 - Stravaganza (Aparté AP 073)

BRAHMS orch Parlow: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D; No 11 in D minor; No 16 in F minor - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572770)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G Op 32/5 - John Ogdon (pno) (Philips 456 916)

GRAINGER: Father & Daughter - Monteverdi Choir, English Country Gardiner Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 446 657)

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

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

BOTTESINI: Fantasia on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (Naxos 8.570399)

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

ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939)

The Glass World, excerpts - recorded glass sounds realised & edited by composer (EM Records EM 1064 CD)

Red Mesa - Dan Poynton (pno) (Rattle RAT D006)

The Angle of Repose - Stephen Wells (bar), Simone Madden-Grey (alto fl/khaen) (SOUNZfine Vol 5)

Dusk - Hydrothermal vent & bat recordings engineered by composer, William Winant (tam tam) (Recital Seven 2014)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 1 in D minor Op 43 - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9587)

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 - Andrew Manze (vln), English Concert (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7385)

BEETHOVEN: Flute Sonata in Bb - Juliette Hurel (fl), Hélène Couvert (pno) (Naïve V 5342)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1786)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

KARG-ELERT: Sinfonische Kanzone Op 114 - Thies Roorda (fl), Nata Tsvereli (pno) (Naxos 8.573269)

ROSSINI: Quatre mendicants, from Péchés de vieillesse Vol 4 - Alessandro Marangoni (pno) (Naxos 8.573107)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 7 in C Op 105 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 477 5688)

HANDEL: Leave me, loathsome light, from Semele - Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67842)

BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Paris SO/George Enescu (rec 1936) (EMI CDH 7 61018)

SEARLE: Two Practical Cats - Patrick Mason (narrator), Susan Palma-Nidel (fl/piccolo), David Starobin (gtr), Timothy Eddy (cello) (Bridge 9292)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BARBER: Piano Concerto Op 38 - John Browning (pno), Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (rec 1990) (RCA 74321 98704)

BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms - Derek Ragin (countertenor), Donna Carter (sop), Victoria Blakeney (mezzo), Rob Lund (ten), Wayne Baughman (bass), Atlanta Sym Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (rec 1988) (Telarc CD 80181)

NZ performers and composers

HAYDN: Trio in F for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/17 - Classical Chrome (Concordance CCD 04)

J RITCHIE: Let the pealing organ blow - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

JANÁCEK arr Breiner: The Makropulos Affair, Suite - Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570556)

SUPPÉ: Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 414 408)

YRADIER trans Tárrega: La Paloma - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 432 102)

BRIDGE: There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook - Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (Conifer 75605 51327)

GERSHWIN arr Goldstein: I loves you Porgy, from Porgy & Bess - Joshua Bell (vln), Chris Botti (tpt), instrumental ensemble (Sony 88697 55436)

GLINKA orch Shebalin: Symphony on Two Russian Themes - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Chant du Monde LDC 278 819)

6:00 MOURANT: The pied piper - George Macdonald (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Steuart Bedford (Sanctuary CD RSN 3046)

LANCHBERY: The Tale of Two Bad Mice, from Tales of Beatrix Potter - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/John Lanchbery (EMI 5 72813)

COPLAND: The cat and the mouse - Varda Nishry (pno) (Decca 425 505)

LANCHBERY: Mrs Tiggy-Winkle's Laundry, from Tales of Beatrix Potter - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/John Lanchbery (EMI 5 72813)

NAKAMURA: A Symphonic Suite, from Sonic The Hedgehog - Tim Weller (drums), Tom Cawley (pno), London Phil/Andrew Skeet (X5 Music Group X5CD 118)

LANCHBERY: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, from Tales of Beatrix Potter - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/John Lanchbery (EMI 5 72813)

JANÁCEK: The wild duck - Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2097)

LANCHBERY: The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, from Tales of Beatrix Potter - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/John Lanchbery (EMI 5 72813)

A look at the life and music of New Zealand-born composer, ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939), marking her 75th birthday on Tuesday 29 July. Presented by Elizabeth Kerr (RNZ)

HANDEL: Saul, Dramatic Oratorio in three acts - Lynne Dawson, Donna Brown, Ruth Holton (sops), Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), John Mark Ainsley, Neil Mackie, Philip Salmon, Philip Slane (tens), Alastair Miles, Richard Savage, Simon Oberst (basses), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 475 8256)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - London Phil/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 61350)

11:00 CRAS: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio - Linos Harp Quintet (Hänssler CD 93.175)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 3 in D Op 44/1 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

Disc 1

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27; Vocalise in E minor Op 34/14 - Philharmonia/Jacek Kaspszyk (Collins 10542)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

MEDTNER: Sonata Reminiscenza in A minor Op 38/1; Russian Fairy Tale Op 42/1; Dancing Fairy Tale Op 48/1; Organ Grinder Op 54/3; Fairy Tales, in F minor Op 26/3; in D minor Op 51/1; Funeral March Op 31/2; Fairy Tale in G# minor Op 31/3 - Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9050)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

STANFORD: For lo I raise up; HARRIS: Bring us O Lord God; HARVEY: The tree; PURCELL: Hear my prayer O Lord; BOYCE: O where shall wisdom be found; TAVENER: Hymn to the mother of God; WALTON: Jubilate Deo; HAYDN: Insanae et Vanae Curae; NAYLOR: Vox Dicentis, Clama; BLOW: Salvator Mundi; WOOD: Great Lord of Lords; BALFOUR GARDINER: Evening Hymn; FINZI: God is gone up Op 27 - Choir of Norwich Cathedral/Michael Nicholas, Neil Taylor (org) (Priory PRCD 351)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SCHARWENKA: Piano Concertos, No 2 in C minor Op 56; No 3 in C# minor Op 80 - Seta Tanyel (pno), Hanover Radio Phil/Tadeuz Strugala (Hyperion CDA 67365)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

LEASK: Aatidahlge; BACH arr Koonce: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV998; MERTZ: Hungarian Fantasy; KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz; DOMENICONI: Variations on an Anatolian Folksong; PIAZZOLLA: Tanguango (arr Roskilly); Milonga del angel (arr Benitez); Verano Porteña; Primavera Porteña - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5004)

6:00 VERDI: Sicilian Vespers, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

SARASATE: Barcarolle vénitienne Op 46 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572275)

BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in F BuxWV265 - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0784)

JANÁCEK: Fairy-tale - Steven Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (pno) (RCA 09026 68437)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Jacob: English Folk Song Suite - London SO/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

7:00 GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9653)

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

BRIDGE: Phantasie Piano Quartet in F# minor - London Bridge Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7205)

ROPARTZ: Piece in Eb minor - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

LÉHAR: Sirens of the Ball, Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Trio & Finale from Act 3

Marschallin...................... Renée Fleming

Octavian........................... Susan Graham

Sophie.............................. Barbara Bonney

Faninal............................. Walter Berry

Vienna Phil/Christoph Eschenbach (Decca 466 314)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in Db S244 - Romain Hervé (pno) (Calliope CAL 9349)

SCHUBERT arr Birchall: Liebesbotschaft; Ständchen; Aufenthalt, from Schwanengesang D957 - Cellophony (Edition Classics EDN 1047)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Russian State SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.555949)

FASCH: Concerto Grosso in D FWV L/D8 - Tempesta di Mare/Emlyn Ngai (dir) (Chandos CHAN 0791)

ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939)

Ear-Walking Woman - Cagean piano preparations, engineered, edited & mastered by Lois Svard (Recital Seven 2014)

Monkey Trips (an improvised work) - Lontano/Odaline de la Martinez (Lorelt LNT 116)

In Our Name - Thomas Buckner (bar), Theodore Mook (cello), Bill Hart, Bruce Odland (narrators) (New World Records 80729)

RAVEL: Mother Goose - London SO/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

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

BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 - Fabio di Càsola (cl), Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (pno), Ophélie Gaillard (cello) (Aparté AP 053)

MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music - Swiss Romande Orch/Armin Jordan (Erato 4509 91734)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

PUJOL: Sonatina - Anton Baranov (gtr) (Naxos 8.573306)

PFITZNER: Cello Concerto in G Op 42 - Alban Gerhardt (cello), Berlin Radio SO/Sebastian Weigle (Hyperion CDA 67906)

ROSSINI: William Tell, Overture - National Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 400 049)

ANDERSON: Forgotten dreams - Barbara Lieberman (pno), Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

FRANCK: Fantasy in A, from Three Pieces for Organ - Carlo Curley (organ at Girard College Chapel, Philadelphia) (Argo 436 260)

ANON arr Morini: La bella noeva; La canzone del Guarracino; GRANDI arr Morini: O quam tu pulchra es - Marco Beasley (ten), Accordone (Alpha 508)

PALESTRINA: Ricercar del secondo tuono; FRESCOBALDI: Canzon Prima - Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Oiseau-Lyre 414 277)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MOZART: Symphony No 21 in A K134 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (rec 1989) (Erato 2292 45544)

Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 - Clifford Curzon (pno), English CO/Benjamin Britten (rec 1970) (Decca 417 288)

NZ performers and composers

BODY: Five Lullabies - Tudor Consort/Simon Ravens (RNZ)

WARLOCK: Six Italian Dance Tunes, Zorzi; La gamba; Paduana del Re; La Manfrolina; La Forze d'Hercole; El Saltarello - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Chopin Op 22 - Elen Rapoport (pno) (Private)

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 4 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

SMETANA: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Jean-Marc Fessard (cl), Eliane Reyes (pno) (Naxos 8.572278)

PAGANINI arr Sedlar: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Nemanja Radulovic (vln), Laure Favre-Kahn (pno), The Devil's Trills (DG 481 065)

CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

ALBÉNIZ arr Russell: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80576)

LIADOV: Polonaise in C Op 49, In memory of Pushkin - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)

6:00 OFFENBACH arr Bonynge: Le Papillon, Suite - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

GUNNING: Five Little Pigs - Yuri Torchinsky (vln), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10625)

MYERS arr Field: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

SVENDSEN: Last year I was tending the goats - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Sony SK 60681)

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

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 Morag Atchison (sop), Kate Spence (mezzo), Thomas Atkins (ten), Moses Mackay (bass), NZSO National Youth Orch, NZ Youth Choir/Wyn Davies

TAYLOR: Feel; TIPPETT: A Child Of Our Time (recorded at the CBS Canterbury Arena, Christchurch, by RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphony No 25 in G minor; VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in F RV487; MOZART: Rondo in Eb for horn K371; MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor; WOLF: Italian Serenade; J STRAUSS II: Blue Danube Waltz; Emperor Waltz - Matthew Wilkie (bsn), Jonathan Williams (horn), Douglas Boyd (ob), Diemut Poppen (vla), CO of Europe/Alexander Schneider (ASV CD COE 810)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

WALTON: Violin Concerto; Sonata for violin & orchestra; Two Pieces for violin & orchestra - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9073)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

MACHAUT: La Messe de Nostre Dame; Songs from Le Voir Dit, Ballade 32, Plourez dames; Ballade 33, Nes qu'on porroit; Rondeau 4, Sans cuer dolens; Lai 13, Le lay de bonne esperance; Rondeau 18, Puis qu'en oubli; Rondeau 17, Dis et sept cinq - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.553833)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

FOLEY: Oiseaux Excentriques; LOUIE: Music for piano; SOUTHAM: Rivers, excerpts; SMITH: Zart; HÉTU: Petite Suite - Louise Bessette (pno) (CBC MVCD 1064)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

DUKAS: La Péri, Fanfare; La Péri; Symphony in C; The Sorcerer's Apprentice -Netherlands Radio Phil/Jean Fournet (Denon CO 75284)

6:00 VANHAL: Sinfonia in C (Bryan C3) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

GERSHWIN arr Cohn: Preludes for piano - Julien Hervé (cl), Jean-Hisanori Sugitani (pno) (Naxos 8.573032)

PAGANINI: I Palpiti, from Rossini's Tancredi Op 13 - Ivan Pochekin (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570487)

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - David James (pno) (RNZ)

WAGNER arr Stokowski: Magic Fire Music, from Die Walküre - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.570293)

7:00 GLINKA: Summer Night in Madrid, Spanish Overture No 2 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Eldar Nebolsin (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572335)

RAVEL arr Wood: Boléro - Bruce McKinnon (perc), Saxcess (Private)

SULLIVAN: The Lost Chord - Douglas Mews (organ of the Wellington Town Hall) (Private)

BEETHOVEN: Third movement, Scherzo, from Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 459 064)

8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ: En Prière - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

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

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

SAINT-GEORGES: String Quartet in D G007 - Quatuor Antarès (Integral INT 221.125)

K JENKINS: La Folia - Neil Percy (marimba), London SO/Karl Jenkins (EMI 5 00235)

PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org), Bournemouth SO/David Hill (Argo 430 836)

ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939)

Thousand Year Dreaming - Annea Lockwood (vocalist), Art Baron (shell/tbn/didj), Libby Van Cleve (ob/cor angl), Jon Gison (didj), JD Parran (cl) (Pogus P21045)

Fridingen to Ulm, from A Sound Map of the Danube, an aural tracing of the Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea (Lovely Music LCD 2083)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1959)

POULENC: Concerto in D minor for two pianos - François-René Duchâble, Jean-Philippe Collard (pno duo), Rotterdam Phil/James Conlon (Erato ECD 88140)

VERDI: Four Sacred Pieces - Donika Mataj (sop), St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (Warner 9 84524)

MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 5, Neapolitan Scenes - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

CATALANI: Hero and Leander - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

KREISLER: La Chasse, in the style of Cartier; Caprice viennois Op 2; Allegretto in the style of Boccherini - Jack Liebeck (vln), Katya Apekisheva (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68040)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 4 in A minor Op 63 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572227)

RUBINSTEIN: Kamennoi-Ostrov Op 10/8, Moderato - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos 8.223846)

GERSHWIN arr anon: Bess, you is my woman now, from Porgy & Bess - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Vera Nakariakova (pno) (Teldec 0630 15687)

MOZART: Non più di fiori, from La Clemenza di Tito - Lucia Popp (sop), Zürich Opera House Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509 97507)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BACH trans Podger: Partita in A minor BWV1013 - Rachel Podger (vln) (rec 2013) (Channel Classics CCS SA 35513)

FLORENTIA: Astio non mori mai; Per la ver'onestà; ANON: Quando i oselli canta; Constantia; FLORENTIA: Quando la stella - Gothic Voices/Christopher Page (dir) (rec 1987) (Hyperion CDA 66286)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 50/1 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

NZ performers and composers

MEYERBEER: Overture; Orgie (Drinking Song, Act 1); Entr'actes, to Act 2; to Act 5; Ballet, from Les Huguenots - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

GRENFELL: Dancing at the Camerata - NZ Chamber Brass (Private)

PSATHAS: Jettatura - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Atoll ACD 202)

PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes - National SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68801)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in C Op 48 - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

RODRIGUEZ arr Goss: La cumparsita - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 479 0063)

MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Kremerata Musica (DG 447 112)

DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (Sanctuary CD RSN 3046)

6:00 ARÁMBARRI: South Wind - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557275)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 62/1, May breezes - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 421 119)

HANDEL: Hear me ye winds and waves, from Scipio - Oscar Natzka (bass), H Robinson Cleaver (org) (rec 1939) (Atoll ACD 400)

MAYERL: The Harp of the Winds - Susan Tomes (pno) (Virgin VC 7 90745)

LANNER arr Pek: Whirlwind Galop - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

STANFORD: The Song of the Sou'Wester, from Songs of the Fleet - Gerald Finley (bar), BBC National Chorus and Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5043)

FARNON: The wind, from Captain Horatio Hornblower RN, Suite - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7173)

TURGES: From stormy Windes - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Collins 13142)

R KING: Summer Breezes - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 0125)

DAVIS: The Wind - London Phil/Carl Davis (Virgin VC 7 90785)

John Amis Composer Portraits

We pay tribute to the BBC broadcasting personality who died last year, aged 91, with this series made in 1981 and recently re-mastered. Known to many through the My Music panel game, John Amis visited this country several times and recorded programmes for Radio New Zealand on two occasions. His experience working with and interviewing hundreds of musicians and composers made him a witty contributor, admired for his phenomenal musical knowledge and his ability to drop into the programme an appropriate and often hilarious personal anecdote whenever called upon. While the spoken content is contemporary to the 1980s, Amis's personal associations with each of the composers make his comments still very relevant thirty years later.

Five programmes

(2) Igor Stravinsky

Considered the world's greatest living composer at the time, Stravinsky came to New Zealand a little over 50 years ago and conducted our National Orchestra in two memorable performances, including music from The Firebird (RNZ)

A Journey to Silence

Three programmes

(1) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Estonian National SO/Daniel Reuss

TÜÜR: Awakening; SCHOENBERG: Transfigured Night Op 4 (recorded in the Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn, by Estonian Radio)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons - Kati Debretzeni (vln/dir), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment (Signum SIGCD 377)

FALLA arr Katona Twins: El amor Brujo - Juanita Lascarro (sop), David Garcia Mir (percussion), Peter & Zoltán Katona (gtrs) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28809)

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

CHABRIER: Suite Pastorale - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

11:00 KABALEVSKY: Cello Sonata in Bb Op 71 - Camille Thomas (cello), Beatrice Berrut (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 712)

DAVID: Piano Trio No 2 in D minor - Ilona Prunyi (pno), Eszter Perényi (vln), Tibor Párkányi (cello) (Marco Polo 8.223492)

Disc 1

HANSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 33; The Lament for Beowulf Op 25; Symphony No 5 Op 43, Sinfonia Sacra - Seattle Chorale & SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3709)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

GARDNER: Petite Suite Op 245; McCABE: Domestic Life; LAWSON: Song of the Lesser Twayblade; LEIGHTON: Concerto Op 88; LANE: Suite Champêtre; MELLERS: Aubade; MILFORD: Two Pipe Tunes; KAY: Mr Pitfield's Pavane; DODGSON: Concerto Chacony - John Turner (rec), Keith Elcombe (hpschd), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G; Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Haines (sop), Nina Stoddart (contralto), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BACH: Keyboard Concertos, No 1 in D minor BWV1052; No 5 in F minor BWV1056; Concerto for two harpsichords & strings BWV1060; Concerto in C for three harpsichords & strings BWV1064; Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords & strings BWV1065 - Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, Philip Ledger, Blandine Verlet (hpschds), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 497)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op 12; Op 38; Op 43; Op 47 - Gerard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 6 in Eb - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

DVORÁK arr Poltéra: Song to the moon, from Rusalka - Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS SACD 1947)

M HAYDN: Romance for horn & string quartet MH806 - Jasper de Waal (horn), Concertgebouw CO/Henk Rubingh (Channel Classics CCS SA 30210)

SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Trio Latitude 41 (Eloquentia EL 1129)

STANFORD: The blue bird Op 119/3 - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Decca 473 168)

GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

7:00 KHACHATURIAN: Awakening & Dance of Ayesha, from Gayaneh - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

ERNST: Rondo Papageno Op 20 - Sherban Lupu (vln), Ian Hobson (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0118)

O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

PAGANINI: Polacca in F - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D S359/6, Carnival in Pest - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

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

JC BACH: Symphony in Eb Op 6/2 - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Stephan Mai (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1803)

HINDEMITH: Kleine Kammermusik Op 24/2 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 433 816)

WALTON: Façade Suite No 1 - London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9148)

ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939)

World Rhythms - tape & gong (New World Records 80653)

Lake Tear of the Clouds, Mt Marcy; Stuyvesant, with tugboat & train; Great Kills Beach, Staten Island, from A Sound Map of the Hudson River, an aural journey from the source of the river to the Atlantic Ocean (Lovely Music LCD 2081)

Duende, a colloboration with Thomas Buckner - Thomas Buckner (bar), tape (Lovely Music LCD 2082)

To mark the anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth we are broadcasting a sonnet, read by a New Zealander, each morning at 10.00am for the 154 days left in this year

Sonnet No 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase

Read by Charles Pierard (RNZ)

ANDERSON: Irish Suite, The Irish Washerwoman; The Minstrel Boy; The Rakes of Mallow; The wearing of the Green; The Last Rose of Summer; The Girl I left behind me - BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559381)

LITOLFF: Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor Op 102 - Peter Donohoe (pno), Bournemouth SO/Andrew Litton (Hyperion CDA 66889)

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 2 in A Op 68 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 463 284)

KORNGOLD: Sursum Corda Op 13 - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9317)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

PURCELL: My heart is inditing - Voces8, Les Inventions/Patrick Ayrton, Barnaby Smith (dirs) (Signum SIGCD 375)

DOWLAND arr Denoth: Preludium; Lachrimae; The Frog Galliard; My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; A Coy Joy - Christoph Denoth (gtr) (Signum SIGCD 901)

HAYDN: Symphony No 83 in G minor, The Hen - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 677)

HEBERLE: Concerto in G for recorder & string orch - Maurice Steger (rec), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

CORELLI: Trio Sonata in C Op 1/7, Church Sonata - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)

K JENKINS: Lament, from Stabat Mater - Jurgita Adamonyte (mezzo), Royal Liverpool Phil/Karl Jenkins (EMI 5 00283)

GÁL: Biedermeiertänze Op 66 for mandolin orchestra - Baden Orch of Plucked Instruments/Volker Gerland (Antes BMCD 31.9171)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MOZART: Fantasia in D minor K397; DEBUSSY: Etudes - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1983/89) (Philips 422 117; 456 982)

NZ performers and composers

J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in C minor Op 4/3 - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)

BRITTEN: Five Flower Songs Op 47 - Voices16/Karen Grylls (Atoll ACD 213)

FARR: Ruaumoko - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2042)

REYNOLDS: Festival March - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

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

COATES: Covent Garden, from London Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Warner 2564 62020)

E MARTIN: Hasta Alicia Baila - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)

KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10052)

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80551)

A THOMAS: The shepherd's dream - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)

ABE: Dream of the cherry blossoms - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

NIELSEN: Saga Dream - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1839/40)

TRAD arr Beethoven: The dream, from 26 Welsh Songs WoO155 - Catrin Wyn Davies (sop), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Marieke Blankestijn (vln), Ursula Smith (cello), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 453 786)

SQUIRE: Dream Bird - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

LUMBYE: The Dream after the Ball - Tivoli SO/Giordano Bellincampi (Marco Polo 8.223744)

Germans in Maoriland?

Two programmes

(2) Classical Musicians

With around 10,000 Germans settling in New Zealand between the early 1840s and the start of World War I, Germans formed the second largest immigrant group after the British. Reading this fact can't help make us wonder whether some of these Germans might have played an important role in New Zealand's early musical history, as they did in England at the same time. Musicologist Samantha Owens sets about investigating (RNZ)

Chloë Hanslip (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude; CORIGLIANO: Violin Concerto, The Red Violin; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

G COOKE: Gothic Prelude; Bargain Basement, Suite of Seven Pieces - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

HAYDN/HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D - Barthold Kuijken (fl), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Sony SK 48045)

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

11:00 HOFFSTETTER: String Quartet in E Op 3/1 - Kodály Quartet (Naxos 8.555703)

BRUCH: Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola & piano Op 83 - Jean-Luc Votano (cl), Arnaud Thorette (vla), Johan Farjot (pno) (Cypres CYP 7611)

Disc 1

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faun; La fille aux cheveux de lin; Fêtes, from Nocturnes; La Cathédral engloutie, from Préludes Book 1; Clair de Lune, from Suite Bergamasque; Golliwogg's cakewalk, from Children's Corner; Rêverie; Le Matin d'un jour de fêtes from Iberia; Arabesque No 1; Prélude to The Council of the False Gods; String Quartet in G minor Op 10, Scherzo; La Mer - Various artists (Sony MLK 64065)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BARBER: Canzone; COPLAND: Vocalise; BURTON: Sonatina; PORTER: Blues Lontains; COPLAND: Duo for flute & piano; ROCHBERG: Between Two Worlds; Five Images for flute & piano; MUCZYNSKI: Flute Sonata; BLOCH: Last Two Poems (Maybe…) - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah; MOZART: Laudate Dominum, from Vesperae solennes de confessore K339; MENDELSSOHN: Thanks be to God, from Elijah; GLUCK: Che faro senza Euridice, from Orpheus & Euridice; PUCCINI: Humming Chorus, from Madama Butterfly; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Song of Thanksgiving; HANDEL: Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest; SCHUBERT arr Hazell: Ave Maria; CANTELOUBE: Bailero, from Chants d'Auvergne; MOZART: Ave verum corpus K618; COPLAND: Simple gifts, from Old American Songs; I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs; HALL arr Hazell: Jenny Rebecca; BERNSTEIN arr Cullen: Somewhere, from West Side Story - Frederica von Stade (sop), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake Childrens Chorus, Utah SO/Joseph Silverstein (London 436 284)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

GLAZUNOV: The Seasons; Scenes de Ballet Op 52 - Czech Radio SO Bratislava/Ondrej Lenard (Marco Polo 8.223136)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in D minor RV406; Cello Sonata No 7 in A minor RV44; Cello Concerto in C minor RV402; Cello Sonata No 8 in Eb RV39; Cello Sonata No 9 in G minor RV42; Cello Concerto in G RV414 - Christophe Coin (cello), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'oiseau-Lyre 433 052)

6:00 VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - L'Estravagante (Naïve OP 30535)

BERLIOZ: Royal Hunt & Storm, from The Trojans - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (Sony SM3K 64103)

COPLAND: Our Town - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 61699)

KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Pugnani; Syncopation; Schön Rosmarin - Jack Liebeck (vln), Katya Apekisheva (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68040)

GLINKA: A Life for the Tsar, Overture - Sofia Festival Orch/Emil Tchakarov (Sony S3K 46487)

7:00 MONCAYO: Huapango - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

SCHUMANN: First movement, Andante espressivo, from String Quartet in A Op 41/3 - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10692)

WALDTEUFEL: Très jolie Waltz - Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223441)

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

PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - John Wallace (tpt), Philharmonia/Christopher Warren-Green (Nimbus NI 1757)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GRANADOS trans Márquez/Gastinel: El mirar de la maja, from Tonadillas in the old style - Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Márquez (gtr) (Naïve V 5182)

BRIDGE: Summer - BBC National Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10112)

SAINT-SAËNS: Tarantella in A minor Op 6 - members of Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

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

LISZT: Fantasy on Themes from Wagner's Rienzi - David Allen Wehr (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4199)

HUMMEL ed Stein: Variations & Coda on O du lieber Augustin - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10374)

ANNEA LOCKWOOD (b1939)

Floating World, Part 3, field recordings of personal & spiritual significance by various composers - realised & edited by Annea Lockwood (Pogus P21045)

Jitterbug - David Behrman (zither/etc), John King (elec gtr/vla), Willima Winant (perc), tape (New World Records 80729-2)

Buoyant, interplay of recorded sounds from a lake edge and gangplanks on the Hudson River - tape (Recital Seven 2014)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne (RNZ)

ROUSSEL: The Spider's Feast - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Naxos 8.572243)

TANEYEV: String Quartet No 5 in A Op 13 - Carpe Diem String Quartet (Naxos 8.573010)

GADE: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 6 - Dora Bratchkova (vln), Andreas Meyer-Hermann (pno) (CPO 999 644)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0037)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

FRANCK: Chorale No 3 in A minor - Greg Morris (organ of the Temple Church, London) (Signum SIGCD 379)

KARG-ELERT: Impressions exotiques Op 134 - Thies Roorda (fl), Nata Tsvereli (pno) (Naxos 8.573269)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in Bb Kk16; in F Kk17 - Scott Ross (hpschd) (Erato ECD 75401)

BARBARA arr Ekdahl: Quel joli temps (septembre) - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Carl Bagge (pno) (Naïve V 5343)

BACH: First movement, Prelude, from Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Steven Isserlis (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67541/2)

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

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Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 2 in C minor, Resurrection - Arleen Augér (sop), Janet Baker (mezzo), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orch/Simon Rattle (rec 1986) (EMI CDS 7 47962)

NZ performers and composers

HILL: String Quartet No 2 in G minor, A Maori Legend in Four Scenes - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

WIENIAWSKI arr Birchall: Scherzo-Tarantelle in G minor Op 16 - Cellophony (Edition Classics EDN 1047)

GLUCK: Menuet & Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Emmanuel Pahud, Juliette Hurel (fls), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 4 57814)

CHOPIN: Impromptu No 3 in Gb Op 51 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10813)

ALBINONI: Second movement, Larghetto, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

MUSSORGSKY orch Rimsky-Korsakov: Dawn on the Moscow River, Prelude from Khovanshchina, Act 1 - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60705)

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

CARULLI: Duo in A on Themes of Rossini Op 233 - Franz Halász (gtr), Débora Halász (pno) (Naxos 8.570587)

FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1271)

6:00 MOMPOU: When her lover left - Marta Mathéu (sop), Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.573099)

TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: The lover's ghost, from Five English Folksongs - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

CACCINI: Amarilli, mia bella - Siobhán Stagg (sop), Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)

HANDEL: Love sounds th'alarm, from Acis & Galatea - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

RODRIGO trans Rodrigo: En Aranjuez, con tu amor - Ana Maria Martinez (sop), Albert Guinovart (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9172)

KRIEGER: Sonatas, No 7 in B minor; No 8 in C - Parnassi musici, Members of the Bavarian CO/Bad Brückenau (CPO 777 294)

WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Jaakko Luoma (bsn), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)

The Critic's Chair

Erica Challis reviews recent releases (RNZ)

It Takes Two to Trio

Stephen de Pledge (pno), Dmitri Atanassov (vln), Martin Rummel (cello)

HENZE: Serenade for solo cello; KODÁLY: Duo for violin & cello Op 7; BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 1 in B Op 8 (recorded in the Auckland University Music Theatre by RNZ)

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

SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 126 - Truls Mørk (cello), Oslo Phil/Vasily Petrenko (Ondine ODE 1218)

RESPIGHI: The Birds - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.573168)

MARAIS: Suite in G - Jonathan Dunford, Sylvia Abramovitz (vle da gamba), Benjamin Perrot (theorbo), Laurent Stewart (hpschd) (Accord 472 254)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 3 in D D200 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2154)

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

ROSSINI: Quatre hors d'oeuvres, from Péchés de vieillesse Vol 4 - Alessandro Marangoni (pno) (Naxos 8.573107)