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Saturday 23 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, Overture; Piano Sonata No 11 in A K331; Rondo, from Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Second movement, from Clarinet Concerto in A K622; Second movement, from Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488; Second movement, from Violin Concerto in D K218; Rondo, from Horn Concerto in Eb K495; Molto allegro, from Symphony No 40 in G minor K550; Andante, from Piano Concerto in C K467; Third movement, from Violin Concerto in A K219; Third movement, from Flute Concerto in A K219 - Alfred Brendel, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (pnos), Jack Brymer (cl), Alan Civil (horn), Henryk Szeryng (vln), Claude Monteux (fl), BBC SO/Colin Davis, ASMF/Neville Marriner, New Philharmonia/Alexander Gibson, London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 422 269)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

TCHAIKOVSKY: 16 Children's Songs Op 54; Last night Op 60/1; I'll tell you nothing Op 60/2; O, If only you knew Op 60/3; Simple words Op 60/5; Behind the window in the shadow Op 60/10; Why did I dream of you? Op 28/3 - Ilya Levinsky (ten), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51268)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C Op 15; No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Claudio Arrau (pno), Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 066)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810, Death & the Maiden; DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American; BORODIN: Notturno, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Quartetto Italiano (Philips 420 876)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring RV269; Summer RV315; Autumn RV293; Winter RV297; Concerto in D minor for two oboes RV535; Bassoon Concerto in A minor RV498; Recorder Concerto in C RV443 - Alan Loveday (vln), Neil Black, Celia Nicklin (obs), Martin Gatt (bsn), William Bennett (piccolo), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 JC HERTEL: Sinfonia No 3 in D - Württemberg CO, Heilbronn/Wolfgang Bauer (tpt/dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1499)

RAFF: Duo on themes from Wagner's Lohengrin Op 63/3 - Livia Sohn (vln), Benjamin Loeb (pno) (Naxos 8.570202)

GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - NZSO CO (RNZ)

HANDEL: Trio Sonata in Bb Op 2/3 - Farran Scott, Rachel Harris (vlns), Tatty Theo (cello), Carolyn Gibley (hpschd), Brook Street Band (Avie AV 2282)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Paean to the wilderness; Wedding procession and Tartar invasion; Battle of Kershenets, from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 320)

7:00 MOZART: Rondo in A minor K511 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 422 117)

DELIUS: A Song of Summer - London SO/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47984)

CARULLI: Serenade in A Op 96 - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1710)

RAVEL arr Samazeuilh: Menuet antique - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner (RCA 09026 68999)

8:00 NIELSEN: Helios Overture - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)

PIAZZOLLA: Summer, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Versus Ensemble (Naxos 8.570523)

RACHMANINOV: Second movement, Adagio sostenuto, from Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Alexander Lubiantsev (pno), Sydney SO/János Fürst (ABC 476 272)

HALVORSEN arr Cello Duello: Passacaglia after Handel - Cello Duello (Solo Musica SM 146)

BENDA: Symphony No 11 in F - Prague CO/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.553409)

9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

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

10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 24: Mine eye hath played the painter

Read by Frank Whitten (RNZ)

10:02 AM. Your Choice

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 44 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in Ab Op 113 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 9558)

BACH: Ach Golgotha, from St Matthew Passion - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Vienna SO/Herbert von Karajan (rec 1950) (Tahra TAH 462)

RIDOUT: Jesus receives the cross; Jesus is laid in the sepulchre, from The Fourteen Stations of the Cross - Robert Crowley (organ of Canterbury Cathedral) (Lammas LAMM 161D)

BÖHME: Brass Sextet in Eb minor Op 30 - Center City Brass Quintet, Jack Sutte (tpt) (Chandos CHAN 10140)

BELLINI: Come per me sereno, from La Sonnambula - Joan Sutherland (sop), Royal Opera House Orch, Covent Garden/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

VIVALDI: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Krzysztof Meisinger (gtr), Capella Bydgostiensis CO/Waldemara Kosmieja (dir) (Dux DUX 0680)

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

Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

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

(11) Fresh Sounds, Ted Nash & Victor Goines

JALC Orchestra members Ted Nash and Victor Goines present two newly commissioned works. Nash's Presidential Suite reflects on leadership and oratory with help from The Wire and Treme. Goines presents Crescent City, a musical journey through his hometown, New Orleans, joined by a lifelong friend Branford Marsalis (Murray Street Productions)

2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

Tales from the Forbidden City - a five-part series documenting this collaborative NZ-Chinese musical project

Last year, China's renowned ensemble the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra joined with the New Zealand String Quartet to commission seven New Zealand and Chinese composers to write music for their ensembles. Radio NZ Concert's Kate Mead visited the project's headquarters in Beijing and spoke with the musicians and composers about their lives, their instruments, their music and the successes and challenges of this innovative project.

Throughout August in Global Sounds we'll hear the music and voices of the musicians involved in the project.

(4) This week we hear from ruan player Wei Wei, and huqin player Zhang Zunlian. Composers Dylan Lardelli and Gao Ping talk about their compositions (RNZ)

3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

NZTrio

TURINA: Piano Trio No 2 in B minor Op 76; KERRY: Im Winde; A TAYLOR: burlesques mécaniques; DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky (recorded in Q Theatre Loft, Auckland by RNZ)

4:25 PM. Performing with German Orchestras

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

STRAUSS: Cäcilie; Morgen!; Ruhe, meine Seele, from Four Songs Op 27; orch Hegel: Zueignung Op 10/1 - Jessye Norman (sop), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 411 052)

SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), Berlin Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 57486)

CZERNY: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 780 - Brandenburg State Orch, Frankfurt/Nikos Athinäos (Christophorus CHE 0152)

6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

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

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E minor Op 59/2, Razumovsky - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 402)

7:00 PM. Vocalied

DEBUSSY: Fêtes galantes, Set 1, En sourdine; Fantoches; Clair de lune - Lorna Anderson (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67883)

Fêtes galantes, Set 2, Les ingénus; Le faune; Colloque sentimental - Christopher Maltman (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67357)

Proses Lyriques, De rêve; De grève; De fleurs; De soir - Lisa Milne (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67883)

Nuit d'étoiles; Fleur des blés; Voici que le printemps; Mandoline; Trois Mélodies, La mer est plus belle que les cathédrales; Le son du cor s'afflige vers les boi; L'échelonnement des haies - Christopher Maltman (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67357)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(19) BBC Scottish SO/Donald Runnicles

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; MAHLER: Symphony No 9 in D (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall by the BBC)

10:00 PM. Day's End

BRIDGE: Violin Sonata in Eb - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68003)

SPARKE arr Frey: Pantomime - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

11:00 HAYDN: String Quartet in F Op 77/2 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV GLD 4010)

ENESCU: Suite No 2 in D Op 10 - Matei Varga (pno) (Naxos 8.572120)

Sunday 24 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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; Stücklein 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; BELLINI: 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 AM. Sanctuary

ANON: Song of the Sibyl - Gisela Bellsolà (contralto), Obsidienne/Emmanuel Bonnardot (Opus 111 OPS 30-130)

TSABROPOULOS: Three pieces after Byzantine hymns - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888)

GOWERS: Veni, Sancte Spiritus - Guildford Cathedral Choir, Guildford Camerata/Stephen Farr, David Davies (org) (Lammas LAMM 196D)

FAURÉ/MESSAGER: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville - women of Lausanne Vocal Ensemble, Sinfonia Varsovia/Michel Corboz, Marcelo Giannini (org) (Mirare MIR 028)

BACH: Komm, Jesu, komm BWV229 - Berlin Vocalconsort/Marcus Creed (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2079)

LOCKLAIR: The Peace may be exchanged; 'Hallelujah', has been restored, from Rubrics - Thomas Trotter (organ at Symphony Hall, Birmingham) (Birmingham Symphony Hall SHCD 3)

WILLAN: In the heavenly kingdom B380 - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison, Matthew Larkin (org) (Naxos 8.557734)

7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

8:00 AM. Grace Notes

SCHARWENKA: Andante religioso Op 46a - Poznan Phil/Lukasz Borowicz (Naxos 8.572637)

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

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

BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NIM 5062)

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

TRAD: The Gentle Swan, from Irish Folk Song Society Journal, 1905 - Ensemble Galilei (ABC 472 610)

SANDSTRÖM: Song to Lotta - Stefan Schulz (bass tbn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (BIS CD 1824)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr J Harnoy: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Ofra Harnoy (cello), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (RCA RD 60758)

9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

Celeste Oram takes a look at the life and music of American composer, JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953) (RNZ) (R Mon 7.00pm)

10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars

Read by Tainui Tukiwaho (RNZ)

10:02 AM. Music@Menlo

Through Brahms

Seven programmes from the 2011 three-week California summer music festival

(3) BACH: Trio Sonata in C minor BWV1039 - Sooyun Kim (fl), Alessio Bax (hpschd), Arnaud Sussmann (vln), Laurence Lesser (cello)

KREISLER: La gitana; WIENIAWSKI: Mazurka, Village Fiddler Op 19/2 - Elmar Oliveira (vln), Wu Han (pno)

SCHULENBURG: Puszta-Märchen, Gypsy Romance & Czardas; VALDEZ: Gypsy Serenade; ANON: The Canary - Paul Neubauer (cello), Wu Han (pno)

BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 - Jon Kimura Parker (pno), Elmar Oliveira (vln), David Finckel (cello) (Music@Menlo 2011/3)

11:10 AM. The Works

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 320)

Noon The Critic's Choice

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

BACH arr Rowland-Jones: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 - Maxim Rysanov (vla) (BIS SACD 2033)

SUK: Love Song Op 7/1; POULENC: Improvisation No 15 in C minor, Hommage à Edith Piaf; GERSHWIN: Six Pieces from George Gershwin's Songbook, The man I love; O lady be good; That certain feeling; 'S wonderful; Do it again; Strike up the band - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Anna Polonsky (pno) (Decca 478 5705)

1:00 PM. Vintage Years

Pianist Moura Lympany

RACHMANINOV: Preludes Op 32 (rec 1951) (Testament SBT 1349)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Philharmonia/Walter Susskind (rec 1958) (Olympia OCD 190)

2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Composers on Camera

Thomas Goss guides us through the complex and fascinating world of composer films, and how they either improve or impede our understanding of concert music

Five programmes

(4) Composer as Lover. An exploration of how the subject of romance is elevated to philosophical and artistic heights when merged with the identity of a great composer (RNZ)

3:00 PM. Young New Zealand

2014 NZCT Chamber Music Contest National Finals, compèred by Kate Mead

From nearly 2000 students from around the country who entered the competition, six ensembles competed in the final in Christchurch on Saturday 2 August, for a range of prizes

SCHUBERT: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Piano Trio No 1 in Bb D898 - Exaudio (Auckland)

SCHMITT: Pour Presque tous les temps - Schmitten (Auckland)

BRAHMS: Second movement, Scherzo, from Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Eklamoré (Christchurch)

RAVEL: First & Second movements, Modéré; Pantoum, Assez vif, from Piano Trio in A minor - L'arc en ciel (Christchurch/Auckland)

CHAMBERS: Crossroads Songs - Kalim (Christchurch)

SAINT-SAËNS: First movement, Allegro non troppo, from Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 92 - Trio Emporté (Christchurch)

SHATFORD: Frost and Fire – Isaac Shatford & Grace Stainhope (vlns), Caroline Norman (vla), Lavinnia Rae (cello) (Christchurch)

YOUENS: Kiwi in Appalachia – Appalachian Octet (Auckland) (recorded in the Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret’s College, Christchurch by RNZ)

5:00 PM. The Shed, A Whole New World of Music

Four programmes from the award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles who presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet

(2) (MCM) (R Fri 7.00pm)

6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Euroradio Opera Season

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

MARTINU: Mirandolina, an opera in three acts

Mirandolina.......................... Katerina Knezíková

Ortensia................................ Eva Drizgová-Jirusová

Dejanira................................ Anna Nitrová

Conte d'Albafliorita.............. Josef Moravec

Cavaliere di Ripafratta......... Jan Willem Bajlet

Marchese di Forlimpopoli.... Martin Gurbal

Fabrizio................................. Ales Briscein

Servant.................................. Ondrej Koplik

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Orch/Marko Ivanovic (recorded in the Moravian-Silesian Theatre, Ostrava by Czech Radio)

8:00 PM. Playing on Period Instruments

TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in Bb TWV55/B10 - Zefiro/Alfredo Bernardini (dir) (Arcana A 371)

TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D100 - Carlo Lazari (vln), L'Arte dell'Arco/Giovanni Guglielmo (vln/dir) (Dynamic CDS 591/1-2)

9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

LISZT: Festklänge - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.557846)

PSATHAS: Jettatura - Stephen Gosling (pno) (Trust MMT 2047)

LITHGOW: Invercargill March - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

OSWIN: Three Gallipoli Settings, Gallipoli Peninsula; The last to leave; Spirit of ANZAC - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2011-12/Andrew Withington (NZSSC)

FARQUHAR: Concertino for piano & strings - Thomas Hecht (pno), NZSO CO (RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

FRY: Overture to Macbeth - Royal Scottish National Orch/Tony Rowe (Naxos 8.559057)

BRUCH: Concerto in E minor for clarinet & viola Op 88 - Jean-Luc Votano (cl), Arnaud Thorette (vla), Liège Phil, Wallonia/Pascal Rophé (Cypres CYP 7611)

HAYDN: Symphony No 85 in Bb, La Reine - Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (DHM 82876 60602)

11:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 - Artemis Quartet (Erato 0825 646366903)

MOZART arr Hummel: Concerto in Eb for two pianos K365 - Fumiko Shiraga (pno), Peter Clemente (vln), Tibor Bényi (cello), Henrik Wiese (fl) (BIS CD 9043)

Monday 25 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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 kunnt; Sarabanda; Wo soll ich 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 Poétiques 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)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066, Overture - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)

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

CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Arleen Augér (sop), English CO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Virgin Classics 7 90714)

MEDTNER: Fairy-tales Op 20 - Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67491/2)

REGONDI: Fête villageoise Op 20 - Alberto Mesirca (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94841)

REICHENAUER: Oboe Concerto in F - Geoffrey Coates (ob), Charivari Agréable/Kah-Ming Ng (dir) (Signum SIGCD 249)

7:00 DI VITTORIO: Overtura Respighiana - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.572333)

ZEMLINSKY: Humoreske - Les Vents Français (Warner 2564 63484)

SAINT-SAËNS: Rhapsody of the Auvergne - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

TALLIS: Spem in alium - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell CDGIM 207)

BERNSTEIN arr Penaforte: Somewhere, from West Side Story Suite - Eroica Trio (EMI 5 07351)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 2 in F Op 38 - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (RCA 09026 63259)

DONIZETTI trans Stees: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'Elisir d'Amore - Barrick Stees (bsn), Sylvia Norris (harp) (Claves CD 50-9815)

PERGOLESI: Sinfonia in F - Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer (Hyperion CDA 67230)

SCHUMANN: Adagio & Allegro in Ab Op 70 - Torleif Thedéen (cello), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 1076)

GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9861)

9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953)

In the White Silence, excerpts - The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble/Tim Weiss (New World Records 80600)

The Farthest Place - Amy Knowles (vibraphone/marimba), Bryan Pezzone (pno), Robin Lorentz (vln), Barry Newton (dbass) (Cold Blue CB 0010)

The Place Where You Go To Listen; The Circle of Winds; Drums of Fire, Drums of Stone, from Earth and the Great Weather - John Luther Adams (perc/dir), Robin Lorentz (vln/perc), Ron Lawrence (vla), Michael Finckel (cello), Robert Black (dbass/perc), Amy Knowles (perc) (New World 80459)

10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

Read by Eva Radich (RNZ)

10:02 AM. BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(20) London Winds/Michael Collins (cl/dir)

MOZART: Serenade No 12 in C minor K388; STRAUSS: Suite in Bb for winds Op 4 (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

11:00 AM. The Works

RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G - Martha Argerich (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 419 062)

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

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Recent Releases

RAMEAU: La Dauphine; Les petits marteaux; Giga, from Pygmalion - Stephen Gutman (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0052)

TELEMANN: Bassoon Sonata in F minor TWV41/f1 - Peter Whelan (bsn), Ensemble Marsyas (Linn CKD 435)

CPE BACH: Symphony in C Wq174 - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94777)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

VERDI: Triumphal Scene, Gloria all'Egitto, from Aida - Chicago Sym Chorus & Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 430 226)

KARAINDROU: Ulysses' Theme, Litany, from Ulysses' Gaze - Kim Kashkashian (vla), Andreas Tsekouras (accordion), string orch/Lefteris Chalkiadakis (ECM 1570)

BELLINI: Ah! per sempre io ti perdei, from I Puritani - Piero Cappuccilli (bar), Renato Cazzaniga (ten), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 443 380)

THALBERG: Piano Concerto in F minor Op 5 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Tasmanian SO (Hyperion CDA 67915)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HEINICHEN: Concerto in F, from Dresden Concerti S233 - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (rec 1992) (Archiv 437 549)

HAYDN: String Quartet in F minor Op 50/5 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

FAYRFAX: Magnificat Regali - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (rec 1990) (Collins 13142)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/1 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (rec 1987) (Archiv 423 626)

4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms - Stephen Rowley (countertenor), Auckland Cathedral Singers/James Tibbles, Matthew Harris (org), Rebecca Harris (harp), Jennifer Raven (percussion) (Corellia COR 1007)

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

HINDEMITH: Cello Sonata in A minor Op 11/3 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (pno) (RNZ)

KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

ABREU arr Silvetti: Tico-Tico no Fubá - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Robert Kassinger (dbass), Cyro Baptista (perc) (Teldec 3984 21482)

VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 - Patricia Petibon (sop), Spanish National Orch/Josep Pons (DG 477 9447)

ELGAR: Spanish Lady Suite - Munich SO/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 334)

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

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 307)

JC BACH: La calamita de cuori, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

6:00 HANDEL: Rinaldo, Overture - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Artworks AW 029)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Prelude & Fugue in A minor - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

FOERSTER: Allegro giocoso - Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)

KREISLER arr Terracini: Caprice viennois Op 2 - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

COPLAND: Letter from Home - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559240)

GALEAZZI arr Pluhar: Voglio una casa - Lucilla Galeazzi (sop), Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

HEMLANGTAN: Longing for home Op 117 - Lars Roos (pno) (Philips 412 998)

PAULUS: The Road Home - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7518)

MEYER/MARSHALL: Short trip home - Joshua Bell (vln), Edgar Meyer (dbass), Sam Bush (mandolin), Mike Marshall (gtr) (Sony SK 60864)

7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

Celeste Oram takes a look at the life and music of American composer, JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953) (RNZ)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(21) James Crabb (accordion), BBC SO/Martyn Brabbins

GURNEY: War Elegy; BEAMISH: The Singing; WALTON: Symphony No 1 in Bb minor (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

10:00 PM. Day's End

BRYARS: Laude novella; Ave regina gloriosa; Ave donna santissima; Venite a laudare (Lauda 2, 7, 3, 1) - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1869)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Concerto in G for two guitars - Lorenzo Micheli, Massimo Felici (gtrs), Abruzzo Regional SO/Michael Summers (Brilliant Classics 7615)

11:00 KOEHNE: To His Servant Bach, God Grants a Final Glimpse, The Morning Star - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC 476 6502)

A Closed World of Fine Feelings & Grand Design - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Naxos 8.570949)

KORNGOLD: String Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 26 - Flesch Quartet (ASV CD DCA 1035)

SAINT-SAËNS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 167 - Richard Hosford (cl), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

Tuesday 26 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 SIBELIUS: The Oceanides - Moscow Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Brilliant Classics 9212)

KREISLER: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud; Polichinelle - Jack Liebeck (vln), Katya Apekisheva (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68040)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

FALLA arr Kochanski: Popular Spanish Suite - Timora Rosler (cello), Klára Würtz (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9157)

WEBER: Peter Schmoll, Overture - Philharmonia/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9066)

7:00 HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 1, Pacific 231 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Thierry Fischer (Orfeo C 849 121)

FAURÉ arr Rysanov: Elegy Op 24 - Maxim Rysanov (vla), Ashley Wass (pno) (BIS SACD 1773)

MUSSORGSKY: Dawn on the Moscow River, Prelude from Khovanshchina, Act 1 - Berlin Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (Testament SBT2 1439)

SCHUBERT arr anon: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Mark Walton (cl), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)

WALDTEUFEL: Gaîté, Waltz - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223684)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - Louisa Keily (sop), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51521)

MOERAN: Rhapsody No 2 in E - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573106)

COPLAND arr Cassidy/Thomas: Hoe Down, from Rodeo - Brodsky Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10801)

TURINA: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

KROLL arr/orch Kennedy/Lenehan/Messiter: Banjo & Fiddle - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

GOUNOD: Waltz, from Faust - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953)

Songbirdsongs - Callithumpian Consort/Stephen Drury (Mode 240)

Among Red Mountains - Stephen Drury (pno) (Cold Blue CB 0026)

10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 27: Weary with toil, I haste to my bed

Read by Warwick Broadhead (RNZ)

10:02 AM. BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(22) Matthew Trusler (vln), BBC National Orch of Wales/Mark Wigglesworth

WAGNER: Das Liebesverbot, Overture; M MATHIAS: Violin Concerto; ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall by the BBC)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Recent Releases

HINDEMITH: Viola Sonata in F Op 11/4 - Luca Sanzò (vla), Maurizio Paciariello (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94782)

MERTZ: Bardic Sounds, Book 10, Romanze; Scherzo; Sehnsucht - Graziano Salvoni (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94473)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

ANDERSON: The Waltzing Cat; The Typewriter; Clarinet Candy - John Cassica (typewriter), Richard O'Donnell (bell), George Silfies, Robert Coleman, Tina Ward, James Meyer (cls), Saint Louis Symphony/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

GOUNOD: Concerto in Eb for pedal piano - Richard Prosseda (pedal pno), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67975)

VIVALDI: Gloria in D RV589 - Carolyn Sampson, Joanne Lunn (sops), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 66849)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Pianist Emil Gilels in Historic Russian Archives recordings

CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58;

LISZT: Piano Sonata in B minor - Emil Gilels (pno) (rec 1977/1965) (Brilliant Classics 92615)

4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

A RITCHIE: Double Concerto for bass clarinet & cello Op 93 - Andrew Uren (bass cl), Katherine Hebley (cello), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes (Atoll ACD 129)

GUILMANT: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 42 - Paul Tarling (organ of Auckland Town Hall), Auckland Youth Orch/Antun Poljanich (Atoll ACD 117)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

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

TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas d'action, from Swan Lake - Mincho Minchev (vln), Francisco Gabarro (cello), National Phil/Richard Bonynge (London 443 332)

GRIEG: Homage March, from Sigurd Jorsalfar - Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow (pno duet) (Divine Art DDA 25042)

GRANADOS arr Cassadó: Intermezzo, from Goyescas - Mischa Maisky (cello), Lily Maisky (pno) (DG 477 8100)

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

6:00 VINTER: James Cook, Circumnavigator - Auckland Brass/Nigel Weeks (Kiwi CD SLC 247)

STANFORD: Sailing at dawn, from Songs of the Fleet - Gerald Finley (bar), BBC National Chorus and Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5043)

BINGE: Sailing By - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66968)

BIZET: Marine - Setrak Setrakian (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 190 5223/24)

Josef STRAUSS: Sailors' Polka Op 52 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

TRAD arr Savall: El mariner - Arianna Savall (sop/harp), Pedro Estevan (palos de agua) (Alia Vox AV 9833)

GRAINGER: Sailor's Song - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1767)

PARRY: Never weatherbeaten sail - Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott (Hyperion CDA 67087)

SPARKE: Endeavour - Gothenburg Brass Band/Bengt Eklund (Intimmusic IMCD 4)

7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

Ryan Smith hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(23) BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84; DEAN: Electric Preludes - Francesco D'Orazio (electric vln)

STRAVINSKY: Oedipus Rex

Narrator............................ Rory Kinnear

Oedipus............................ Allan Clayton

Jocasta.............................. Hilary Summers

Creon................................ Juha Uusitalo

Tiresias............................. Brindley Sherratt

Messenger........................ Duncan Rock

Shepherd.......................... Samuel Boden

Men of the BBC Singers & BBC Sym Chorus, BBC SO/Sakari Oramo (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Wednesday 27 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 JC HERTEL: Sinfonia No 1 in D - Württemberg CO, Heilbronn/Wolfgang Bauer (tpt/dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1499)

CHOPIN trans Liszt: The maiden's wish, from Polish Songs Op 74 - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

TELEMANN: Concerto in E minor for flute & violin - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Rachel Brown (fl), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0519)

SCHUBERT trans anon for cello: Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen D343; Die Forelle D550; Der Doppelgänger D957/13 - Anne Gastinel (cello), Claire Désert (pno) (Naïve V 5021)

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Alan Stringer (tpt), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 458 194)

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

STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - Cecil Aronowitz (vla), William Pleeth (cello), Amadeus Quartet (BBC Legends BBCL 4061)

DEBUSSY: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Music & Arts CDR 0896 D)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV trans Mercz: Song of India, from Sadko - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

GERMAN: The Tempter, Incidental music - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7285)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BEETHOVEN arr Berger: Sonatina in C minor for mandolin & piano WoO43a - Julius Berger (cello), José Gallardo (pno) (Challenge Classics CC 72504)

ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Royal Phil/Evelino Pidò (Tring International TRP 066)

VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in A minor RV463 - Pier Luigi Fabretti (ob), L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (dir) (Brilliant Classics 94654)

BRAHMS arr Joachim: Hungarian Dances, Vol 1 Book 2 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67663)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953)

Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing - Apollo CO/JoAnn Falletta (New World 80500)

10:10 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 28: How can I then return in happy plight

Read by Geraldine Brophy (RNZ)

10:12 AM. BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(24) Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), Lapland CO/John Storgårds

CPE BACH: String Symphony in B minor Wq182/5; BIRTWISTLE: Endless Parade; HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été; MAXWELL DAVIES: Sinfonia; SIBELIUS: Rakastava Op 14 (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Recent Releases

DELIUS: On the Mountains - Bergen Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5131)

SCRIABIN: Prelude in B Op 16/1; Prelude in Bb Op 11/21; Guirlandes Op 73/1; Prelude in Db Op 31/1; Prelude in G Op 39/3; Prelude in E Op 15/4 - Ivan Ilic (pno) (Heresy HERESY 015)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

CARR: The End of the Golden Weather - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

JOLIVET: Concertino for trumpet, piano & strings - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno), Lausanne CO/Jesús López-Cobos (Teldec 4509 90846)

FAURÉ: Dolly Suite - Eric Le Sage, Alexandre Tharaud (pno duet) (Alpha 603)

GERSHWIN arr Harris: The man I love, from Lady, be Good - Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane Grappelli (vlns), Pierre Michelot (dbass), Ronnie Verrell (drums), Laurie Holloway (pno), orchestral ensemble (EMI CDM 7 69218)

RUBINSTEIN: Kamennoi-Ostrov Op 10/16, Allegro - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos 8.223847)

GRÉTRY: String Quartet in F Op 3/3 - Haydn Quartet (Koch Schwann 310 158)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BAX: Symphony No 1 in Eb - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (rec 2003) (Chandos CHAN 10122)

I HOLST: Sonata for violin & cello - Simon Hewitt Jones (pno), Oliver Coates (cello) (rec 2007) (Court Lane Music CLM 37601)

4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

MEYERBEER: Overture; Coronation March (Act 4), from The Prophet - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

MOZART: O Isis & Osiris, from The Magic Flute - Inia Te Wiata (bass), London Theatre Orch/Vilem Tausky (Atoll ACD 507)

BELLINI: Casta diva, from Norma - Malvina Major (sop), Members of the NZ National Youth Choir, New Zealand SO/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 230)

PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turandot - Sol3 Mio, Liverpool Phil/Nick Ingman (Decca 375 7602)

VERDI: Addio del passato, from La Traviata - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Myung-Whun Chung (EMI 5 57231)

WAGNER: Selig, wie die Sonne/Finale of Act III, from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - Donald McIntyre (bbar), Christopher Doig (ten), Nicola Ferner-Waite (sop), Marion Olsen (mezzo), Richard Greager (ten), Conal Coad (bass), Chelsea Opera Group Chorus & Orch/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLC 217)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

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

SCHUMANN trans Liszt: Widmung - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

H WOOD: Montmartre, from Paris Suite - Southern Festival Orch/Robin White (Flyback FBCD 2005)

MENDELSSOHN: On wings of song Op 34/2; Schilflied Op 71/4; Assai tranquillo; Song without Words in D Op 109 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Jonathan Gilad (pno) (Orfeo C 750 101 A)

CHABRIER: Lamento - Alexandre Emard (cor anglais), Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

6:00 WAGENSEIL arr Bryan: Trombone Concerto in Eb - Michael Bertoncello (tbn), Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Arte Nova 82876 58424)

NYMAN: The heart asks pleasure first, from The Piano - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57022)

LANE: Celebration Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2140)

PURCELL: Ground, from Celebrate the festival - Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7428)

GOODWIN: Arabian Celebration - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

KALKBRENNER: Fantasia on Beethoven's Celebrated Waltz - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)

CRESTON: Celebration Overture Op 61 - United States Marine Band/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.573121)

7:00 PM. Appointment

Inaugural Lilburn Lecture

Last November, composer, author and critic Dr Philip Norman delivered the inaugural Lilburn Lecture hosted by the Lilburn Trust and the Alexander Turnbull Library. Entitled Plato's Cave: Realities of Composing in New Zealand, the lecture also includes a live performance of Norman's work, Plato's Cave, by guest artists Reuben Chin (sax), Peter Barber (vla) and Jian Liu (pno) (recorded in the Hunter Council Chamber, Wellington by RNZ)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(25) Alexandre Tharaud (pno), BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena

BIRTWISTLE: Night's Black Bird; RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the left hand; MAHLER: Symphony No 5 in C# minor (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

10:00 PM. Day's End

SCHUBERT arr Boehm: Gute Nacht D911/1; Der Lindenbaum D911/5; Das Fischermädchen D957/10; Ständchen D957/4; Am Meer D957/12; Die Taubenpost D957/14 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.570754)

ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20 - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas (Chandos CHAN 6526)

11:00 RHEINBERGER: Horn Sonata in Eb Op 178 - Felix Klieser (horn), Christof Keymer (pno) (Berlin Classics 030 0530 BC)

DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - Lindsay String Quartet, Patrick Ireland (vla) (ASV CD DCS 446)

Thursday 28 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 DUFF: Meath Pastoral - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 38/2; Op 19/3, Hunter's Song - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in A G475 - Enrico Bronzi (cello/dir), Verona Accademia i Filarmonici (Brilliant Classics 92618)

VILLETTE: Three motets, O quam amabilis es; Jesu, dulcis memoria; Panis angelicus - BBC Singers/Stephen Jackson (BBC Music MM 85)

IBERT: Cinq pièces en trio - Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1104)

ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - Prague SO/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570934)

7:00 LOEILLET trans Godowsky: Gigue - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223795)

DONIZETTI arr Lenczés: Oboe Concertino in F - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 457 654)

THOMAS: Fantasia on David of the White Rock - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

WAGNER: In fernem land, from Lohengrin - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (Decca 478 1463)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

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

FARR: Three Etudes, From Duggan; For Jeremy Fitzsimons; For Suzanne Warner - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

FRANCOEUR: Cello Sonata in E - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Delos DE 3326)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Running Set - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10001)

9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953)

The Light That Fills The World - Marty Walker (bass cl), Amy Knowles (vibraphone/marimba), Bryan Pezzone (pno), Nathaniel Reichman (keyboard), Robin Lorentz (vln), Barry Newton (dbass) (Cold Blue CB 0010)

Red Arc/Blue Veil - Stephen Drury (pno), Scott Deal (vibraphone/crotales) (Cold Blue CB 0026)

In the rain - electro-acoustic soundscape (Cold Blue CB 0032)

Dark Waves - Stephen Drury, Yukiko Takagi (pno duo) (Cold Blue CB 0026)

10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne (RNZ)

10:02 AM. BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(26) Joshua Bell (vln/dir), John Hurt (narrator), Trinity Boys' Choir, London Phil Choir, ASMF/Neville Marriner

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21; BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26; WALTON arr Palmer: Henry V, A Shakespeare Scenario (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Recent Releases

BRUGGE: Six Pieces for Strings - Salzburg Chamber Soloists/Lavard Skou-Larsen (vln/dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 924 1856)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Little Piano Book, Valse lente; Nocturne; Canon; Two-Part Invention in F; Two-Part Invention in Eb; Two-Part Invention in G - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

TRAD arr Brügge: Scarborough Fair - Salzburg Chamber Soloists/Lavard Skou-Larsen (vln/dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 924 1856)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

WEBER: Symphony No 1 in C Op 19 - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (EMI CDC 5 55348)

CHAMINADE: Flute Concertino Op 107 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

SCHUBERT: Auf dem Strom D943 - Peter Pears (ten), Dennis Brain (horn), Noel Mewton-Wood (pno) (rec 1953) (BBC Legends BBCL 4066)

CORELLI: Trio Sonatas, in D minor Op 1/11; in D Op 1/12, Church Sonatas - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Act 3 - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 413)

4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Mark Walton (cl), Simon Ballard (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 003)

DVORÁK: The Wood Dove Op 110 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

STATHAM: Suite for flute & string quartet - Adrianna Lis (fl), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

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

HANDEL: O ruddier than the cherry, from Acis & Galatea - Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67842)

SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Dénes Várjon (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67661)

STANFORD: The blue bird Op 119/3 - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (dir) (Collegium COLCD 104)

SOROZABAL: Two Basque sketches - Basque National Orch/Cristian Mandeal (Claves CD 50-2205)

KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro - Gilles Apap (vln/dir), Sinfonia Varsovia (Apapaziz Productions GKJ 00103)

6:00 C CHAMPAGNE: Danse villageoise - Quebec Conservatory of Music/Jacques Lacombe (Bell CD 1993)

MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 4 in B - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

TSABROPOULOS: Chant - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888)

MALIBRAN orch anon: Rataplan - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Benjamin Forster (drum), La Scintilla Orch/Adam Fischer (Decca 475 9077)

BIZET: Minuet & Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Slovak Phil/Anthony Bramall (Naxos 8.558058)

BAINES: Seven Preludes - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 012/013)

GERSHWIN arr Anderson: Girl Crazy, Suite - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 404)

7:00 PM. Appointment

Willie Manson, the songs and stories of a lost composer

Peter Downes tells the story of a talented young New Zealander killed in action on the Somme in 1916 (RNZ)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Christine Brewer (sop), Auckland Philharmonia/Leo Hussain

MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter; BEETHOVEN: Ah! Perfido Op 65

(Interval)

MARX: Songs, Selige Nacht; Marienlied; Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht; Hat dich die Liebe berürht; Waldseligkeit; Der bescheidene Schäfer; MAHLER: First movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 10 in F# minor (RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

BACH: Cello Suite No 4 in Eb BWV1010 - Janos Starker (cello) (RCA 09026 61436)

PEDROLLO: Concertino for oboe & string orchestra - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

11:00 FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121 - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

SILVESTROV: Diptychon - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

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

Friday 29 August 2014

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 VIVALDI: Sinfonia for strings and continuo RV116 - Paraguay Barroco/Alexandre Chauffaud (dir) (K617 K617 241)

PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Portrait of Madame Butterfly - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

SARASATE: Fantasy on Mozart's Don Giovanni Op 51 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572276)

STÖLZEL arr anon: Bist du bei mir, from the Anna Magdalena Notebook - Gábor Boldoczki (tpt), Soma Dinyés (org) (Sony 88697 72418)

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

7:00 J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus, Overture - Danish National SO/Sergiu Celibidache (IMG Artists 5 62872)

DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 416 698)

BACH arr Hess: Jesu, joy of man's desiring - Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Sony 88697 72728)

ALBÉNIZ: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Tsiboulski APT-CD 101)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: OFFENBACH: Barcarolle, from The Tales of Hoffmann - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

SPRATLEY: Recorder Concertino Op 26, A gallery of cats - John Turner (recorder), Manchester Sinfonia/Philip Spratley (Toccata Classics TOCC 0088)

PONCE arr Heifetz: Estrellita - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

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

MAYERL: Marigold - Andrew Ball (pno), Slovak Radio SO/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

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

9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS (b1953)

The Place We Began - electro-acoustic soundscape (Cold Blue CB 0032)

...and bells remembered... - Callithumpian Consort/Stephen Drury (Cold Blue CB 0035)

Four Thousand Holes - Stephen Drury (pno), Scott Deal (perc), John Luther Adams (electronics) (Cold Blue CB 0035)

10:00 AM. William Shakespeare 450

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Read by Noelle McCarthy (RNZ)

10:02 AM. BBC Proms 2014

Sixty-six programmes

(27) Alice Coote (mezzo), Hallé Orch/Mark Elder

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture; ELGAR: Sea Pictures Op 37; GRIME: Near Midnight; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Noon Upbeat

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

1:30 PM. Recent Releases

MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words Op 30, No 1 in Eb; No 2 in Bb; No 3 in E; No 4 in B minor; No 5 in D; No 6 in F# minor - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68059)

VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV450 - Pier Luigi Fabretti (ob), L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (dir) (Brilliant Classics 94654)

2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

CHAULIAC/TRENET arr Ekdahl: Douce France - Anne Sophie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno), Bengan Janson (accordion), Mats Bergström (gtr), Per Ekdahl (drums/vibraphone), Olle Linder (dbass) (Naïve V 5343)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in C minor Kk22 - Scott Ross (hpschd) (Erato ECD 75401)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Yundi Li (pno), Berlin Phil/Daniel Harding (DG 481 0710)

VERDI: Ernani! Ernani, involami, from Ernani - Leontyne Price (sop), RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & Orch/Thomas Schippers (RCA RCD 1-7016)

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

3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in G minor Op 79/2 - Murray Perahia (pno) (rec 2010) (Sony 88697 79469)

WAGNER orch Mottl: Wesendonck Lieder - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), German Opera Orch, Berlin/Donald Runnicles (rec 2012) (Decca 478 5189)

BRAHMS: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - Murray Perahia (pno) (rec 2010) (Sony 88697 79469)

4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

BODY: Three Transcriptions, Long-ge; Ramandriana; Ratshenitsa - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT D009)

STRAUSS: Don Quixote - Richard Harwood (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Marko Letonja (RNZ)

5:00 PM. Cadenza

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

SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Royal Phil/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 552)

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

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)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 2 in D - Orpheus CO (DG 435 390)

6:00 Josef STRAUSS: Music of the Spheres, Waltz Op 235 - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 444 614)

RUTTER: What sweeter music - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56605)

HUME: The passion of musick, from Poeticall Musicke - Pascale Boquet (lute/theorbo), Consort de La Belle Feuille/Nima Ben David (bviol/dir) (Alpha 061)

LIADOV: A Musical Snuffbox - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

SCHUBERT: An die Musik D547 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47861)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - 16 soloists, London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

SÖDERMAN: Swedish Festival Music - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

7:00 PM. Appointment

The Shed

Four programmes from the award-winning former BBC broadcaster Mark Coles who presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet

(2) (MCM)

8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

Haydn's Oratorio The Creation

With Allan Badley (RNZ)

8:20 PM. Music Alive

From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Madeleine Pierard (sop), Robin Tritschler (ten), Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/Nicholas McGegan

HAYDN: The Creation (RNZ)

11:00 PM. Day's End

STANFORD: Cello Sonata No 2 in D minor Op 39 - Alison Moncrieff Kelly (cello), Christopher Howell (pno) (Meridian CDE 84482)

ONSLOW: Wind Quintet in F Op 81/3 - Stalder Quintet (Jecklin-Disco 554)

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