Schedules for 1 - 7 November, 2014

Disc 1

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Overture; Sadko Op 5; Piano Concerto in C# minor Op 30; Symphony No 3 in C - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), Bergen Phil/Dmitri Kitajenko (Chandos CHAN 9229)

1:20 approx - Disc 2

MOZART: Concerto in Bb for bassoon & orchestra K191; HUMMEL: Concerto in F for bassoon & orchestra; JOLIVET: Concerto for bassoon, harp, piano & string orchestra; FRANÇAIX: Divertissement for bassoon & string quartet - Dag Jensen (bsn), Cologne Radio SO/Werner Andreas Albert (Cappriccio 10579)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

GLICK: Sing unto the Lord a New Song; HOLMAN: Night Music; SOMERS: Trois Chansons de la Nouvelle-France; COULTHARD: Quebec May - Elmer Iseler Singers, CBC Vancouver Orch/Elmer Iseler (CBC SMCD 5115)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

COATES: Calling All Workers; TOYE: The Haunted Ballroom; COLLINS: Vanity Fair; FARNON: Jumping Bean; BAYNES: Destiny; CURZON: The Boulevardier; LUTZ: Pas de quatre; BINGE: The Watermill; Elizabethan Serenade; WILLIAMS: The Devil's Galop; The Old Clockmaker; GIBBS: Dusk; WHITE: Puffin' Billy; KETÈLBEY: Bells Across the Meadows; JOYCE: Dreaming; ELLIS: Coronation Scot; Ancliffe: Nights of Gladness - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

6:00 CPE BACH: Keyboard Concerto in G Wq43/5 - Miklós Spányi (hpschd/dir), Concerto Armonico Budapest (BIS CD 1957)

VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Frank Bungarten (gtr) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 905 1629)

GRAINGER: Harvest Hymn - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

METCALF: Septet for harp, flute, clarinet & strings - Eleanor Turner (harp), Philippa Davies (fl), David Campbell (cl), Solstice Quartet (Signum SIGCD 203)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

7:00 RIES: Introduction & Variations Brillantes Op 170 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570440)

ROSSINI: Andante & Variations on Di tanti palpiti from Tancredi - Heinz Holliger (ob), Ursula Holliger (harp) (Philips 426 288)

GERMAN: The willow song - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7156)

ALBINONI arr Red Priest: Adagio in G minor - Red Priest (Red Priest RP 004)

DELIUS: In a Summer Garden - Hallé Orch/Vernon Handley (EMI CD CFP 4568)

8:00 VERDI: Nabucco, Overture - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 3559)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 58 in C HobXVI/48 - Geoffrey Lancaster (fpno) (ABC Classics 465 702)

J STRAUSS II: Ballet Music, from Die Fledermaus - Bratislava City Chorus, Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

SAINT-SAËNS: Chant Saphique Op 91; Gavotte Op post - Luigi Piovano (cello), Luisa Prayer (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0401)

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

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

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none

Read by Michael Neill (RNZ)

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

BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - Janet Baker (mezzo), men's voices of the John Alldis Choir, London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI 5 62791)

DEBUSSY arr Terracini: Le Petit nègre - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

SCHUBERT: German Dances D783 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 422 229)

DOMENICONI: Koyunbaba - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

BEETHOVEN: Clarinet Trio in Bb Op 11 - Nash Ensemble (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0001)

ALWYN: Prelude & Derrybeg Fair, from The Fairy Fiddler - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7270)

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This week's best-selling CDs

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

(8) Classic Albums 2000-2004 (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

The Rough Guide to Indian Classical Music

A little taster from the vast smorgasbord of sounds that make up Indian classical music, performed by some of the country's finest musicians (World Music Network 331318)

Kerikeri International Piano Competition 2012

Eight programmes

(5) BENDA: Keyboard Sonata No 3 in D minor; CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 68; SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude & Fugue No 15 in Db, from 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87 - Vatche Jambazian (pno)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein - Tina Kim (pno)

BACH: Prelude & Fugue in Bb minor BWV867; MOZART: Piano Sonata No 8 in A minor K310; CHOPIN: Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20 - Anna Maksymova (pno)

LISZT: Transcendental Study No 10, Appassionata; CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52; LIEBERMANN: Gargoyles Op 29 - Bo An Lu (pno) (recorded in the Turner Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ)

SEREBRIER: Tango in Blue; PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion; SATIE orch Serebrier: Tango perpétuel, from Sports et divertissements; MATOS RODRIGUEZ orch Damario: La cumparsita - Enrique Tellería (bandoneón), Barcelona SO/José Serebrier (BIS CD 1175)

DVORÁK: Symphony No 6 in D Op 60 - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Warner 2564 65775)

NZ performers and composers

KREISLER arr Walton: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Gaetano Pugnani - Mark Walton (cl), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

FARR: Tawhirimatea - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

PONCE: Three Popular Mexican Songs - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private)

NEWMAN: Dragonwyck - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

VANHAL: Flute Quartet in C Op 7/6 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Janaki String Trio (Naxos 8.570234)

FAURÉ: Poème d'un jour Op 21 - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67335)

La chanson d'Eve Op 95 - Jennifer Smith (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67336)

La Bonne Chanson Op 61 - Ian Bostridge (ten), Julius Drake (pno), Leon Bosch (dbass), Belcea Quartet (EMI 5 57609)

Cathedral of Sound

New Zealand SO/Simone Young

MOZART: Symphony No 36 in C K425, Linz; BRUCKNER: Symphony No 5 in Bb (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

KROMMER: Wind Partita in Eb Op 45/1 - Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble (Naxos 8.553868)

HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in C Op 34a - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 10216)

11:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 4 in E minor Op 44/2 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 5370)

REICHA: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 89 - Charles Neidich (cl), L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 57968)

Disc 1

HENSELT: Piano Concerto in F minor Op 16; Variations de concert Op 11 on Meyerbeer's Quand je quittai la Normandie, from Robert le Diable; ALKAN: Concerto da camera in C# minor Op 10/2; Concerto da camera in A minor Op 10/1 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66717)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

MOMPOU: Canciones y Danzas Nos 1-12 & 14; Fêtes Lointaines No 1-6; Charmes Nos 1-6 - Pierre Huybregts (pno) (Centaur CRC 2055)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

HANDEL: Arias from Serse; Rodelinda; Ottone; Giulio Cesare; Jephtha; Theodora; Samson & Hercules - Maureen Forrester (contralto), Vienna Radio SO/Brian Priestman, Vienna State Opera Orch/Robert Zeller, English CO/Johanne Somary, I Solisti di Zagreb/Antonio Janigro (CBC PSCD 2002)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

C SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in F minor; MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio in G minor Op 11; FARRENC: Clarinet Trio in Eb Op 44: GRANDVAL: Deux pièces - Diane Ambache (pno), Sophie Langdon (vln), Susan Dorey, Naomi Butterworth (cellos), Joan Enric Lluna (cl), Jeremy Polmear (ob), Ambache CO/Diane Ambache (BBC MUSIC MM 45)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BECK: Sinfonias, in G minor Op 1/1; in F Op 1/2; in A Op 1/3; in Eb Op 1/4; in G Op 1/5; in C Op 1/6 - New Zealand SO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

GUERRERO: Vespers for All Saints - Chapelle du Roi/Alistair Dixon (Signum SIGCD 017)

SILVESTROV: Hymn 2001 - Valentin Silvestrov (pno) (ECM 1776)

BACH: Jesu, joy of man's desiring - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/George Guest, Peter White (org) (Decca 425 847)

CLAUSEN: Set me as a seal; Prayer; All that hath life and breath - Sarah Tannehill (sop), Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5105)

HANDEL: Chandos Anthem No 6, As pants the hart - Eleanor Meynell, Elizabeth Poole (sops), Daniel Auchincloss (ten), BBC Singers, Orch of The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (BBC Music BBC MM 301)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

GRIEG: Shepherd boy, from Lyric Suite Op 54 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)

MORALES: Parce mihi Domine - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525)

RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

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

DELIBES arr Bates: Flower Duet, from Lakmé - Mady Mesplé (sop), Danielle Millet (mezzo), National Opera Orch/Alain Lombard (EMI 7 94431)

RACHMANINOV arr Potts: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

DELIUS arr Fenby: La Calinda, from Koanga - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

Robert Johnson looks at the piano and chamber music of ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) (R Monday 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Abegg Variations Op 1 - Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 169)

Three Romances Op 94 - Ingo Goritzki (ob), Kalle Randalu (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1649)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame

Read by Raymond Hawthorne (RNZ)

Four programmes

Writer, scholar, Professor Emeritus of English at Waikato University and broadcaster Marshall Walker, who passed away earlier this year, talked to Tim Dodd and introduced the music he loved (1) (RNZ)

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

GRETCHANINOV: Creed; KASTALSKY: A Mercy of Peace - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7526)

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

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 479 2437)

Russian pianist Emil Gilels

RAMEAU: La villageoise; Le rappel des oiseaux, from Suite in E minor (rec 1951) (Naxos 8.111350)

CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - with USSR State SO/Kyrill Kondrashin (rec 1952) (Brilliant Classics 92615)

RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (rec 1950) (Naxos 8.111350)

HAYDN: Piano Trio in D HobXV/16 - with Leonid Kogan (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) (rec 1951) (DG 477 7476)

MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from Three Fantasies or Caprices Op 16 - (rec 1940) (Naxos 8.111350)

Larry Pruden (1925-1982)

Peter Mechen looks at the life and work of Taranaki born composer Larry Pruden, talks to those who knew him and learns about the collected edition of Pruden's works being published by Promethean Editions (RNZ)

The Big Sing 2014

Nine programmes

(3) SUTCLIFFE: This is the day; MEWS: A sound came from heaven; TRAD English arr Chilcott: Greensleeves - Collegium/Robert Aburn, Nicholas Sutcliffe (org) (Christ's & St Margaret's Colleges, Christchurch)

KOSCÁR: Salve Regina; KARAI: Sárközi Karikázó - Stella Nova/Rebecca Monopoli (Nelson College for Girls)

BALDWIN: Mary; MCGLYNN: Dúlamán; POULENC: O mes très chers frères, from Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise - Menasing/Lachlan Craig, Stuart Saunders (pno) (St Kentigern College, Auckland)

HAMILTON/TUWHARE: Rain; RAMSAY/HERBERT: Let all the world in every corner sing; HOPKINS/ROSENTHAL: Dear John, Dear John - Saints Alive/Megan Flint, Francesca Orchard-Hall (ob), Elizabeth Lau (pno) (St Cuthbert's College, Auckland)

MENDELSSOHN: Frohlocket, ihr Völker auf Erden; CHILDS: The moon is distant from the sea; KODÁLY: Túrót eszik a cigány - Choralation/Rowan Johnston, Gemma Lee (pno) (Westlake Girls' & Boys' High Schools, Auckland)

SCHUBERT: Psalm 23 D706; J RITCHIE: Slow, slow, fresh fount, from Canary Wine; SEIBER trans Lloyd: Three Hungarian folk songs - Euphony/David Squire, Sheryl Clarke (pno) (Kristin School, Auckland) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

Flute Quartet No 1 in D K285 - Ensemble Pyramide (Brilliant Classics 94929)

Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271, Jeunehomme - Alexandre Tharaud (pno), Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie (Erato 0825 646262687)

Ten programmes

(8) With William Dart (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Euroradio Opera Season

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

VERDI: I Due Foscari, an opera in three acts

Francesco Foscari............. Plácido Domingo

Jacopo Foscari.................. Arturo Chacon

Lucrezia Contarini............ Davinia Rodriguez

Jacopo Loredano.............. Roberto Tagliavini

Barbarigo.......................... Andrew Owens

Pisana............................... Gaia Petrone

Attendant......................... Ioan Hotea

Servant............................. Marcell Attila Krokovay

Arnold Schoenberg Chorus, ORF Radio SO/James Conlon (recorded in the Theater an der Wien, Vienna by Austrian Radio)

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

STERNDALE BENNETT: Parisina, Overture - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 206)

JOACHIM: Third movement, Andante cantabile, from Hebrew Melodies, Impressions of Byron's poems - Sarah-Jane Bradley (vla), Anthony Hewitt (pno) (Naxos 8.572533)

BESSER: Mr Darwin's Dances, excerpts - Jonathan Besser (pno), Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin (gtr), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (accordion), Peter Scott (dbass), Yair Katz (percussion) (Atoll ACD 409)

HILL arr Vidulich: Viola Concerto 1910 - Donald Maurice (vla), Massey CO (Hill Records 002)

BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 41 - Alexa Still (fl), Rae de Lisle (pno) (RNZ)

HALVORSEN: Suite ancienne - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10614)

RIES: Piano Concerto in Ab Op 151, Gruss an den Rhein - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557638)

11:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Quintet in D for violin, cello, clarinet, horn & piano - London Soloists Ensemble (Naxos 8.573191)

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

WHITACRE: Sleep - Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

Disc 1

DVORÁK: Legends Op 59; JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta - Bamberg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 436)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15; TCHAIKOVSKY: Album for the Young; DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.550885)

2:10 approx - Disc 3

VIVALDI: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630; Concerto in D minor RV128; All'ombra di sospetto RV678; Cello Sonata in Bb RV45; Lungi dal vago volto RV680; Concerto in G for flute & strings RV436; Longe mala, umbrae, terrores RV629 - Patrice Michaels Bedi (sop), Chicago Baroque Ensemble (Cedille CDR 90000 025)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

JENKINS: The bell Pavan; Fantasies, Nos 4-7; In Nomine No 1; Fantasies, Nos 1-3; Pavan No 2; Fantasies, Nos 8-9; No 11; No 10; In Nomine No 2 - Hesperion XX (Astrée Auvidis E 8724)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, excerpts; Gayaneh, excerpts; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts - Vienna Phil/Aram Khachaturian, Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 417 737)

6:00 GRÉTRY ed Beecham: Zémire et Azor, Suite - Brittany Orch/Stefan Sanderling (ASV CD DCA 1095)

ELGAR arr Brewer: Chanson de Nuit Op 15/1; Chanson de matin Op 15/2 - Carlo Curley (organ of Church of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol) (Argo 433 450)

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

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)

FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80149)

7:00 OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

BEETHOVEN: Second movement, Adagio un poco mosso, from Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Elen Rapoport (pno), Christchurch SO/William Southgate (Private)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67849)

WOLF: Italian Serenade - Alfama Quartet (Fuga Libera FUG 582)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 1 Op 10, Nos 2 & 4 - Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Goetzel (Onyx 4124)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SATIE arr/orch Kennedy: Gymnopédie No 2 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), David Heath (fls), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

J RITCHIE: Papanui Road - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2040)

CLARKE arr Radcliffe: Trumpet Voluntary - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Guild GMCD 7304)

SCHUBERT trans Wispelwey: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS 9696)

BACH: Agnus Dei, from Mass in B minor - Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Teldec 0630 10788)

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

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Piano and Chamber Music

Papillons Op 2 - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 2122/23)

String Quartet in F Op 41/2 - Quatuor Ysaÿe (Aeon AECD 0418)

Andante & Variations in Bb Op 46 - Martha Argerich, Gabriela Montero (pno duo) (EMI 5 18333)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness

Read by Cameron Rhodes (RNZ)

WALTON: Symphony No 1 in Bb minor - BBC SO/Edward Gardner (Chandos CHSA 5136)

RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Milos Karadaglic (gtr), London Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 481 0652)

FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques - Nicolai Gedda (ten), Alix Bourbon Vocal Ensemble, Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 97722)

MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 6, Scènes de féerie - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

FIBICH: The Tempest Op 46 - Czech National SO/Marek Stilec (Naxos 8.573197)

SUK: Four Pieces for violin & piano - Jennifer Pike (vln), Tom Poster (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10827)

J STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz - Johann Strauss Orch of Vienna/Willi Boskovsky (EMI 5 65052)

HARTY: Piano Concerto in B minor - Peter Donohoe (pno), Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

BANTOCK: Song to the seals - Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton (Meridian CDE 84570)

GLASS: The Windcatcher - Philip Glass Ensemble Woodwinds (Orange Mountain Music 0006)

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Classic performances from the back catalogue

BOLCOM: Introduction; The Ecchoing Green, from Songs of Innocence, Part 1 - Thomas Young (ten), University of Michigan Combined Choruses, Michigan State University Children's Choir, University of Michigan SO & Contemporary Directions Ensemble/Leonard Slatkin (rec 2004) (Naxos 8.559216-18)

PREVIN: Violin Sonata, Vineyard - Gil Shaham (vln), André Previn (pno) (rec 1996) (DG 453 470)

HERRMANN: The streets; The forest; The beach; The dream; Farewell & The Tower, from Vertigo - Royal Scottish National Orch/Muir Matheson (Varese Sarabande 657 592)

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: Piano Sonata (1949) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

GLUCK: Che farò senza Euridice? from Orpheus & Euridice - Keith Lewis (ten), NZSO CO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2022)

ROSSINI: La promessa; L'invito, from Soirées musicales - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno) (Atoll A 9803)

HAYES: Walking in the Spirit - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1997-1998/Roger Stevenson (Private)

HAYDN: Trio in D for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/16 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), Christopher Hinterhuber (pno) (Naxos 8.572667)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Overture on Russian Themes Op 28 - Philharmonia/Yondani Butt (ASV CD DCA 1025)

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Frank de Bruine (ob), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 458 129)

GRANADOS arr Cassadó: Intermezzo, from Goyescas - Devich Trio (Challenge Classics CC 72322)

MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness - Peter Maxwell Davies (pno) (Naxos 8.572408)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 72/8 - Royal Phil/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 749)

6:00 ARENSKY: The dream on the Volga, Overture - USSR SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya MEL CD 10 00149)

EINAUDI: Passagio - Daniel Hope (vln), Jacques Ammon (pno) (DG 479 0571)

WARLOCK: Passing by - Benjamin Luxon (bar), David Willison (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8643)

RANJBARAN: Seven Passages - London SO/JoAnn Falletta (Delos DE 3336)

ADOLPHSON: So we pass away - Stockholm Cathedral Choir/Gustaf Sjökvist (Phono Suecia PSCD 161)

GLASS: Morning passages, from The Hours - Michael Riesman (pno), Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), studio orch/Nick Ingman (Nonesuch 79693)

QUILTER: Passing dreams Op 10/2 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Collins 15122)

SURMAN: Winding Passages - John Surman (sax), Chris Laurence (dbass), Trans4mation (ECM 1702 (543 033)

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

Robert Johnson looks at the piano and chamber music of ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) (RNZ)

Nachtstücke Op 23 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Decca 436 456)

Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Martin Fröst (cl), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 944)

Amanda Atlas (sop), Bianca Andrew (mezzo), Jubilate Singers, Consortia, Christchurch City Choir, Melbourne Youth Orch, Christchurch SO/Tom Woods

MAHLER: Symphony No 2 in C minor, Resurrection (recorded in the New Zealand Air Force Museum, Wigram, Christchurch by RNZ)

BOZZA: Image Op 38 - Carol Hohauser (fl) (Private)

DEBUSSY: Images, Book 2 - Paris Tsenikoglou (pno) (Oehms OC 864)

ODERMATT: Summer, from Three Images Op 18 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

MARAIS: Les folies d'Espagne - members of Purcell Quartet, William Hunt (vla da gamba) (Hyperion CDA 67035)

HUMMEL: Bassoon Concerto in F - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Opera North Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch (Chandos CHAN 10477)

HINDEMITH: Five Pieces Op 44/4 - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572763)

11:00 DANZI: Flute Quartet in D Op 56/1 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Ardinghello Ensemble (MDG 605 1791)

FARRENC: Piano Quintet No 2 in E - Quintetto Bottesini (Brilliant Classics 94815)

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphonies, No 40 in G minor; No 38 in D, Prague - English CO/Benjamin Britten (Decca 430 494)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BELLA: Sonata in Bb minor; Piece in C minor for piano; Variations on In Pressburg by the Danube Op 9; Variations on A swarm, a swarm is flying Op 21; Sonatina in E minor; Four Little Pieces - Daniela Ruso (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223644)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

RACHMANINOV: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Natalia Kornieva (sop), Alexander Ranne (ten), Sergey Tsipcalo (bar), St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (Philips 442 776)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BOËLY: Quartet in A Op 27/1; Quartet in G Op 29/3; Trio in D Op 5/1 - Edouard Popo (vln), Trio à Cordes de Paris (Chante Du Monde LCD 278 821)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

MAYERL: Marigold; A lily pond; Four Aces Suite; From a Spanish lattice; Minuet by candlelight; Aquarium Suite; Autumn crocus; Bats in the Belfrey; Pastoral Sketches; Fireside fusiliers; Parade of the sandwich-board men; Waltz for a lonely heart; Busybody - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

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

CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 17 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

TRAD arr Grainger: My dark-haired maid - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 446 657)

BAZZINI: Deux morceaux de salon Op 12, Le départ; Le retour - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Caspar Frantz (pno) (Naxos 8.570800)

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

7:00 FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Spanish Dance - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Praga PRD 350 064)

PIAZZOLLA: Milonga del ángel - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - János Starker (cello), London SO/Antal Dorati (Philips 420 873)

CHARLTON: Figure Eight - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)

MOZART: Symphony No 32 in G K318 - Bavarian Radio SO/Colin Davis (BR Media 900 710)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RACHMANINOV: Ave Maria, from Vespers Op 37 - Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic Choir/Antony Walker (ABC 465 684)

LARSSON: Lyric Fantasy Op 54 - Helsingborg SO/Andrew Manze (CPO 777 671)

HAYDN: Piano Trio in Eb HobXV/10 - Bartolozzi Trio (Naxos 8.573128)

SARASATE arr Dokshizer: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 4509 94554)

WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

TCHAIKOVSKY: First movement, Pezzo in forma de Sonatina, from Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7394)

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Piano and Chamber Music

Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 22 - Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7503)

Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 - Maria João Pires (pno), Augustin Dumay, Renaud Capuçon (vlns), Gérard Caussé (vla), Jian Wang (cello) (DG 463 179)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 97: How like a winter hath my absence been

Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne (RNZ)

DEBUSSY orch Debussy/Caplet: La Boîte à joujoux - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572568)

RESPIGHI: Six Pieces - Fabio Paggioro (vln), Massimiliano Ferrati (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94445)

FASCH: Bassoon Sonata in C - Epoca Barocca (CPO 777 204)

DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Hyperion CDA 67917)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

ALBÉNIZ: Suite ancienne No 3 - Rubén Ramiro (pno) (Naxos 8.573294)

MONTSALVATGE: Bric à brac - Barcelona SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Naxos 8.573077)

ALBÉNIZ: Serenata árabe - Rubén Ramiro (pno) (Naxos 8.573294)

TRAD arr Hughes: Cwm Rhondda - Morriston Orpheus Choir & Orch/Alwyn Humphreys (Discurio CD MML 11)

WAXMAN: Rhapsody for piano & orchestra, from the film, The Paradine Case - David Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

ANDERSON: Balladette - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 4 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

PANUFNIK: Concerto in Modo Antico - Igor Cecocho (tpt), Polish CO/Mariusz Smolij (Naxos 8.570032)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

LIADOV: Kikimora Op 63; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Dubinushka; STRAVINSKY: Scherzo à la Russe; Pulcinella Suite - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (rec 1954/57/64/56) (Decca 475 8140)

BRAHMS: Five Songs Op 104, Nachtwache 1 & 2; Letztes Glück; Verlorne Jugend; Im Herbst - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 475 7558)

NZ performers and composers

BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 4 in C Op 102/1 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

K YOUNG: The Enchanted Dance Hall - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Private)

GAVIN: Continental Divide - Nigel Gavin, Kim Halliday, Jonathan Pease (gtrs), Wes Prince (pno), Kelvin Roy (tbn), Nihat Orerel (percussion) (Rattle RAT D003)

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

GRIEG: Anitra's Dance, from Peer Gynt - Royal Phil/Mark Ermler (Tring International TRP 996)

NYMAN arr Jervis: The heart asks pleasure first, from The Piano - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - António Meneses (cello), Celina Szrvinsk (pno) (Avie AV 2162)

WAGNER arr Moinet: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Céline Moinet (cor anglais), Sarah Christ (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2175)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves, from Sir John in Love - William Bennett (fl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 848)

ANON: Folias criollas - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (vla da gamba/dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9844)

PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten for string orchestra & bell - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt (EMI CD EMX 2221)

SIBELIUS: Finlandia - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572705)

6:00 BRIDGE: Three Idylls - Eberle Quartet (Naim CD 019)

BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 391)

I CLARKE: Orange Dawn - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Koch KIC CD 7658)

TRAD arr Leon: Black is the colour - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

K JENKINS: Canción plateada, from Adiemus Colores - Karl Jenkins (pno) (DG 479 1067)

GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue - Siegfried Stöckigt (pno), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (DG 423 771)

Ryan Smith hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

7:00 Resound 2014

Eight programmes introduced by Kenneth Young

(1) Landscape Preludes

WHITEHEAD: Arapatiki; HARRIS: A Landscape with too few lovers; CRESSWELL: Chiaroscuro; FARR: A Horizon from Owhiro Bay; LARDELLI: Reign; DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: This Liquid Drift of Light; HOLLOWAY: Terrain Vague; BODY: The Street Where I Live; PSATHAS: Sleeper; NORRIS: Machine Noises; MCLEOD: Tone Clock Piece XVIII, Landscape Prelude; KELLY: Goodnight Kiwi - Stephen de Pledge (pno) (recorded 27 February 2008 by RNZ)

8:00 Auckland CO's Jazz Symphony concert from 2013

MARTINU: La Revue de Cuisine; CRUMB: Eleven Echoes of Autumn; ANTHEIL arr Phibbs: A Jazz Symphony; VINE: Threnody, from Five Bagatelles (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

10:00 Brian Eno: Eno Now (Prog 6 of 6)

Thomas Goss looks at Eno’s film scores, along with his most recent projects as producer, collaborator, and solo artist. (RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; Horn Concertos in D HobVIId/3; in D HobVIId/4; Cello Concerto in C HobVIIb/1 - Håkan Hardenburger (tpt), Hermann Baumann (horn), Heinrich Schiff (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner, Iona Brown (Philips 432 060)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

JANÁCEK: On an Overgrown Path; SMETANA: Trois Polkas de Salon Op 7; Trois Polkas Poétique Op 8; Souvenirs de Bohème en forme de Polkas - Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 4206)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUMANN: Leiderkreis Op 39; Aus Den Östlichen Rosen; Die Soldatenbraut; Der Nussbaum; Widmung; Frauenliebe und Leben Op 42; Mignon; Meine Rose; Requiem - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (IMP MCD 22)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece No 2 in D minor Op 114; Rondo Capriccioso Op 14; Songs without Words, in F# minor Op 67/2; in A Op 62/6; in F Op 53/4; in C Op 67/4; Clarinet Sonata in Eb; Songs without Words, Venetian Gondola Song in A minor Op 62/5; Venetian Gondola Song in A (1842); 17 Variations Serieuses Op 54; Concert Piece No 1 in F minor Op 113 - Alan Hacker (cl), Lesley Schatzberger (basset horn), Richard Burnett (pno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 38)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

NIELSEN: Helios Overture; Symphonic Rhapsody; Saga-drøm Op 39; An Evening at Giske; Paraphrase on Nearer my God to thee; Bohemian-Danish folk tune; Rhapsody Overture, An imaginary journey to the Foeroe Islands; Pan & Syrinx - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

6:00 BACH: Sixth movement: Gigue, from Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - Steven Isserlis (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67541/2)

MOERAN: Lonely Waters - Rebekah Coffey (sop), Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573034)

CHAMINADE: Sérénade espagnole Op 150; Rondeau Op 97; Capriccio Op 18 - Nils-Erik Sparf (vln), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 471 331)

DEBUSSY: Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder! - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

J STRAUSS II/Josef STRAUSS: Pizzicato Polka - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

CHOPIN: Polonaise in Ab Op 53, Heroic - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

ODERMATT: Summer, from Three Images Op 18 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

7:00 COPLAND arr Cassidy/Thomas: Hoe Down, from Rodeo - Brodsky Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10801)

VIVALDI arr anon: Guitar Concerto in A - Eduardo Fernández (gtr), English CO/George Malcolm (Decca 417 617)

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

JOPLIN: Heliotrope Bouquet - Alexander Peskanov (pno) (Naxos 8.559114)

ROSSINI: Serenata in Eb - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 27708)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Third movement, Waltz, from Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 8022)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SCHUBERT: Second movement, Andante con moto, from Piano Trio No 2 in Eb D929 - Borodin Trio (Chandos CHAN 8324)

STRAVINSKY: Tango - Orpheus CO (Brilliant Classics 9089)

DAMASE: Sicilienne variée - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Cantico Op 19 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.555856)

GOUNOD: Concertino for flute & chamber orchestra - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1359)

ANON arr Lislevand: Tourdion - Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman (sops), period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088)

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Piano and Chamber Music

Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47 - Thomas Rajna (pno), members of Alberni String Quartet (CRD 3324)

Toccata in C Op 7 - Michael Endres (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 84386)

Five Pieces in Folk Style Op 102 - Torleif Thedéen (cello), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 1076)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 98: From you have I been absent in the spring

Read by Paul Barrett (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7394)

HAYDN: Violin Concerto in G HobVIIa/4 - Aisslinn Nosky (vln), Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16113)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 6 in E minor - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73127)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

CAVALLINI: Capriccios for clarinet, in A minor Op 3/5; in E major-minor Op 4/4; in F Op 4/6 - Nicola Bulfone (cl) (Naxos 8.573133)

MARTUCCI: Two Romances Op 72; Romanza - Roberto Trainini (cello), Massimiliano Ferrati (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94816)

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

BRAHMS: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, from A German Requiem - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro 16073)

DEBUSSY: La Puerta del Vino; Général Lavine, eccentric; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune, from Preludes, Book 2 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (pno) (Philips 456 901)

BOULEZ: Sonatine for flute & piano - Patrick Gallois (fl), Lydia Wong (pno) (Naxos 8.557328)

MCLEOD: Peaks of Cloud - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Waiteata WTA 012)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Ginette Neveu (vln), Philharmonia/Walter Susskind (rec 1945) (EMI CDH 7 61011)

GRIEG: Arietta; Waltz; Norwegian Melody; Folk Melody, from Lyric Pieces Book 1; Gade; Illusion; Homesickness, from Lyric Pieces Book 6 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (rec 2001) (EMI 5 57296)

NZ performers and composers

PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5 - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1523)

BACH: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

BRITTEN: Five Flower Songs Op 47 - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1516)

SAINT-SAËNS trans Ysaÿe: Caprice in the form of a waltz - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Trust TRI 3003)

MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in A Op 2/4 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Kremerata Baltica (Nonesuch 79568)

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

RR BENNETT: Little Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2113)

FAURÉ: Valse Caprice No 1 in A Op 30 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67875)

TRAD Scottish arr Rutter: Oh can ye sew cushions? Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 502)

DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - Paul Meyer (cl), Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572675)

6:00 HANDEL arr Howarth: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Overture - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Elgar Howarth (Decca 458 194)

TRAD arr Rozankovic: Le Reel du diable - Angèle Dubeau (vln), La Pietà (Analekta AN 2 8723)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Berlin Radio SO/Steven Sloane (Capriccio 71 096)

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

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

WAGNER: Magic Fire Music, from Die Walküre - Hans Hotter (bbar), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 313)

PUCCINI: Scherzo in A minor; Minuet No 1 in A - Quartetto Puccini (ASV CD DCA 909)

GOLDSMITH: Fireworks - London SO/Jerry Goldsmith (Telarc CD 80560)

Chris Watson

Kenneth Young talks with the New Zealand composer, former Mozart Fellow and manager of the Resound Project (RNZ)

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Series

Eight programmes

(5) Inon Barnatan (pno), Milwaukee SO/Edo de Waart

SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Op 115; MACMILLAN: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15;

Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56a (WFMT)

GLASS: Violin Sonata No 1 - Andrea Cortesi (vln), Marco Venturi (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94814)

WAGNER: In fernem land, from Lohengrin - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Markus Brück (bbar), German Opera Chorus & Orch, Berlin/Donald Runnicles (Decca 478 5189)

KARLOWICZ: Serenade in C Op 2 - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572274)

11:00 WIDOR: Suite Op 34 - Catherine Bowie (fl), Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)

IBERT: Six harp pieces, Matin sur l'eau; Scherzetto; En barque, le soir; Ballade; Reflets dans l'eau; Fantaisie - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28908)

Disc 1

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 8 in D; String Symphony No 11 in F - Nieuw Sinfonietta, Amsterdam/Lev Markiz (BIS CD 748)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

DUSSEK: Piano Concertos, in G minor Op 49; in Bb Op 22; Tableau, Marie Antoinette Op 23 - Andreas Staier (fpno), Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 444)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

Laudate Dominum

Works for chorus and orchestra by Handel, Dvorák, Haydn, Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Honegger, Mozart, Glick - Judith Young (sop), Carolynne Godin, Olena Jatsyshyn (mezzos), Mark DuBois, Robert Missen (tens), Glyn Evans, Nelson Lohnes (bars), Anton Kuerti (pno), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

TAFFANEL: Andante Pastorale & Scherzettino; WIDOR: Suite for flute & piano Op 34; BOZZA: Three Impressions for flute & piano; CAPLET: Reverie & Petite Valse for flute & piano; JOLIVET: Chant de Linos; DEBUSSY: Syrinx; FERROUD: Three Pieces; JOLIVET: Five Incantations for flute solo - Robert Aitken (fl), Robin McCabe (pno) (BIS CD 184)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

J STRAUSS II orch Fischer: March Op 456, Zivio!; J STRAUSS II: Waltz Op 36, Architecten-Ball-Tänze; Jäger-Polka française Op 229; Waltz Op 234, Accelerationen; J STRAUSS II orch Kulling: Quadrille Op 10, Der Liebesbrunnen; J STRAUSS II: Polka française Op 302, Die Zeitlose; Waltz Op 334, Königslieder; Polka schnell Op 348, Im Sturmschritt!; J STRAUSS II orch Babinski: Quadrille Op 59, Der Blitz; Waltz Op 471, Heut' ist heut'; J STRAUSS II: Polka mazurka Op 420, Die Wahrsagerin - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223235)

6:00 J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in C minor Op 4/3 - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)

MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (Sony SK 87287)

BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 - Oscar Shumsky (vln), Scottish CO (Nimbus NI 1757)

CHOPIN: Etude in Ab Op 25/1, Aeolian Harp - Jan Lisiecki (pno) (DG 479 1039)

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

7:00 NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Ilya Kaler (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557690)

GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in G minor Op 79/2 - Stephen de Pledge (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 030)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Et incarnatus est, from Mass No 18 in C minor K427, Great - Sylvia McNair (sop), Lisa Beznosiuk (fl), Anthony Robson (ob), Alastair Mitchell (bsn), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 420 210)

BARTÓK: Hungarian Sketches Sz97 - Chicago SO/Pierre Boulez (DG 445 825)

BORODIN: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 1143)

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

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

CHABRIER: España - New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (Private)

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Piano and Chamber Music

Adagio & Allegro in Ab Op 70 - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 433 695)

Fairy-tale Scenes Op 132 - Peter Schmidl (cl), Heinrich Koll (vla), Madoka Inui (pno) (Naxos 8.557606)

Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 0 94180)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 99: The forward violet thus did I chide

Read by Elizabeth McRae (RNZ)

STRAVINSKY: Apollon musagète - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 7 23611)

LALO: Cello Concerto in D minor - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Flanders SO/Seikyo Kim (Onyx 4107)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Elégiaque - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay (vln), Mats Lidström (cello) (Decca 478 5346)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Cotswold Romance - Rosa Mannion (sop), Thomas Randle (ten), London Phil Choir, London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9646)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

PURCELL: Sonata No 1 in B minor in four parts - King's Consort/Robert King (chamber org/hpschd) (Vivat 106)

HANDEL: Sono liete, fortunate - Roberta Invernizzi (sop), Marina de Liso (mezzo), La Risonanza (Glossa GCD 921516)

PURCELL: Sonata No 2 in Eb in four parts - King's Consort/Robert King (chamber org/hpschd) (Vivat 106)

HANDEL: A mirarvi io son intento - Roberta Invernizzi (sop), Marina de Liso (mezzo), La Risonanza (Glossa GCD 921516)

MUSSORGSKY arr Stokowski: A Night on Bare Mountain - Philadelphia Orch/Leopold Stokowski (rec 1940) (Pearl GEMM CD 9488)

CORELLI: Trio Sonata in A minor Op 3/10 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 414)

GOODALL: Love divine, all loves excelling - Choir of Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, London Musici/Stephen Darlington (EMI 2 15047)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 20 in G Op 49/2 - Mari Kodama (pno) (PentaTone PTC 5186 304)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Seven Romances on verses by Alexander Blok Op 127 - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), Ulf Hoelscher (vln), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Vasso Devetzi (pno) (EMI 5 62829)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

KORNGOLD: Symphony in F# Op 40 - Philadelphia Orch/Franz Welser-Möst (rec 1995) (EMI CDC 5 56169)

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: Four Canzonas - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

J RITCHIE: Snow Goose - Alexa Still (fl), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7345)

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

BABAJANIAN: Second movement, Andante, from Piano Trio in F# minor - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 209)

SCHEIDT arr Thomas: Fantasia super Io, San Ferito - Christchurch Youth Recorder Ensemble/Neville Forsythe (Private)

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

HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI 5 62621)

GODARD arr Terracini: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Eb D899/2 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (Onyx 4110)

VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - Il Giardino Armonico (Teldec 4509 91852)

BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 527)

6:00 ANDERSON: The Phantom Regiment - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

G COOKE: Gothic Prelude - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

WIDOR: Second movement, Andante sostenuto, from Symphony No 9 in C minor Op 70, Gothic - Robert Delcamp (organ of St Cecilia Catholic Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska, USA) (Naxos 8.570310)

GETTY: Annabel Lee - men of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (PentaTone PTC 5186 040)

KETÈLBEY: Phantom Melody - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)

LLOYD WEBBER: Music of the night, from Phantom of the Opera - Katherine Jenkins (mezzo), Prague Symphonia/Anthony Ingliss (Universal 270 9882)

BRIAN: First movement, Allegro assai, from Symphony No 1 in D minor, Gothic, Part 1 - BBC Welsh National Orch, BBC Concert Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67971/2)

John Ritchie (1921-2014)

Distinguished New Zealand composer John Ritchie passed away recently at the age of 93. In this programme Philip Norman talked with John Ritchie about his life in music (RNZ)

Direct from the Auckland Town Hall

Romantic Bruckner

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 19

(Interval)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 4 in Eb, Romantic (RNZ)

TARTINI: Violin Sonata in G minor, Devil's Trill - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Catherine Rimmer (cello), Thomas Dunford (lute), Christian Curnyn (hpschd/dir) (Decca 476 434)

BRUCH arr M Nakariakov: Canzone - Sergei Nakariakov (flugelhorn), Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Teldec 8573 80651)

WAGNER: Forest Murmurs, from Siegfried - National SO, Washington DC/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 775)

11:00 FRANÇAIX: String Trio in C - Lendvai String Trio (Stone Records 780079)

JUON: Sextet in C minor Op 22 - Oliver Triendl (pno), Thomas Grossenbacher (cello), Carmina Quartet (CPO 777 507)

Disc 1

BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor; BRAHMS orch Rubbra: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8825)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

CORIGLIANO: Sonata for violin & piano; PÄRT: Fratres; MORAVEC: Sonata for violin & piano; GLINSKY: Toccata-Scherzo; MESSIAEN: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus - Maria Bachmann (vln), Jon Klibonoff (pno) (Catalyst 09026 61824)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

FINZI: God is gone up Op 27/2; Welcome sweet & sacred feast Op 27/3; Three Short Elegies Op 5; Thou didst delight my eyes Op 32; My lovely one Op 27/1; Let us now praise famous men Op 35; Seven Partsongs Op 17; Magnificat Op 36; White-flowering days Op 37; All this night Op 33; Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer, Harry Bicket (org) (Chandos CHAN 8936)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17; PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 Op 28; SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 9 Op 68; RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 39 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2028)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BIZET: Overture in A; Scènes bohémiennes, La Jolie Fille de Perth; Symphony in C; Dramatic Overture, Patrie - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

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

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67015)

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

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

GRIEG: Ave maris stella - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5085)

HALVORSEN: Sarabande con variazioni on a theme of Handel - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Yuri Zhislin (vla) (Naxos 8.572522)

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

7:00 MENDELSSOHN arr Hupka: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Fourteen Berlin Flutists (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 908 1393)

CPE BACH: Symphony in Eb Wq183/2 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Erato 2292 45361)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in C minor D899/1 - Jura Margulis (pno) (Oehms OC 435)

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

GARDINER: Overture to a Comedy - BBC National Orch of Wales/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10797)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RODRIGO: Second movement, Larghetto, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Narciso Yepes (gtr), Spanish Radio & Television SO/Odón Alonso (DG 423 784)

GERSHWIN arr Cohn: Preludes for piano - Michael Collins (cl), Piers Lane (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10615)

BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Jerry Hadley (ten), Thomas Hampson (bar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Carlo Rizzi (Erato 3984 26499)

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

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

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Artists' Carnival - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10766)

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Piano and Chamber Music

Märchenbilder Op 113 - Paul Neubauer (vla), Juho Pohjonen (pno) (BBC Music BBCMM 369)

Variations in Eb on an original theme WoO24, Geistervariationen - Dina Ugorskaja (pno) (Avi 8553217)

Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Lars Vogt (pno) (Ondine ODE 1205)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long

Read by Stuart Devenie (RNZ)

CASELLA: Suite in C Op 13 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573004)

MOZART: String Quintet No 1 in Bb K174 - Chilingirian Quartet, Yuko Inoue (vla) (CRD 3521)

CHAUSSON: Symphony in Bb Op 20 - Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 078)

BRITTEN: Diversions for piano left hand & orch - Steven Osborne (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67625)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

RUBINSTEIN: Three Characteristic Pieces Op 9 - Sara Bartolucci, Rodolfo Alessandrini (pno duet) (Brilliant Classics 95016)

SIBELIUS: The Tempest, Suite No 2 - ScottishCO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 540)

BEETHOVEN: First movement, Andante & Allegro vivace, from Cello Sonata No 4 in C Op 102/1 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67755)

LEGRAND arr Bagge: Je vivrai sans toi - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Carl Bagge (pno) (Naïve V 5343)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in C minor Kk37 - Scott Ross (hpschd) (Erato ECD 75404)

HOPE: Concerto for recorder, strings, harp & percussion, Birthday Concerto - John Turner (recorder), Richard Howarth (vln), Eira Lynn Jones (harp), Janet Fulton (percussion), Camerata Ensemble/Philip McKenzie (Dutton CDLX 7154)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana - Scottish CO/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/6 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (rec 1988) (Archiv 423 626)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 55/3 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

DUNSTABLE: Descendi in ortum meum; Ave maris stella; Gloria in canon; Speciosa facta es; Sub tuam protectionem - Orlando Consort (rec 1995) (Metronome MET CD 1009)

NZ performers and composers

SAINT-SAËNS: Prélude, from Le Déluge - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 570)

FRANCK: Chorale No 3 in A minor - Gillian Weir (organ of Århus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

PROKOFIEV: Ballade in C minor Op 15 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1517)

PSATHAS: Corybas - New Zealand Chamber Soloists (Atoll ACD 542)

BECK: Sinfonia in A Op 1/3 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

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

JOPLIN: Maple Leaf Rag - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler (DG 423 771)

ANON: Masque Dances - Alison Melville (recorder), Margaret Gay (cello), Peter Lehman (theorbo), Valerie Weeks (hpschd) (EBS EBS 6016)

FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16 - Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian (vln), Brittany Orch/Moshe Atzmon (Timpany 1C 1172)

PUCCINI: Intermezzo, from Manon Lescaut - Florence May Festival Orch/Seiji Ozawa (Philips 456 586)

MONTI arr Lenehan: Czárdás - Nicola Benedetti, Tamás András (vlns), Thomas Carroll (cello), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Petr Limonov (pno) (Decca 478 5338)

CURTIS: At Twilight - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2055)

SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Adele Anthony (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (Canary Classics CC 07)

HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from The Planets - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony SMK 63087)

6:00 KORNGOLD: Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen, from Die tote Stadt - Matthias Goerne (bar), Women's voices of the Swedish Radio Choir, Swedish Radio SO/Manfred Honeck (Decca 467 263)

ROSSINI: Languir per una bella, from The Italian Girl in Algiers - Juan Diego Flórez (ten), Giuseppe Verdi Orch, Milan/Carlo Rizzi (Decca 475 550)

GLUCK: O del mio dolce ardor; Le belle immagini d'un dolce amore, from Paris & Helen - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Prague Phil/Michel Swierczewski (DG 471 334)

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

GAL: Improvisation, Variations & Finale on a theme by Mozart Op 60b - Edinburgh Quartet (Meridian CDE 84530)

New Horizons

Ten programmes

(8) With William Dart (RNZ)

Viva Voce/John Rosser

COURAGE arr M Rosser: Where no man has gone before; WEELKES: Thule, the period of cosmography; The Andalusian merchant; PEARSALL: Sir Patrick Spens; TALBOT: Roncesvalles, from Path of Miracles; TRAD arr Shaw: If I got my ticket, can I ride?; TRAD arr Hart: Deep River; BACH arr Nystedt/Rosser: Fantasia on Komm, süsser Tod; WHITACRE: Leonardo dreams of his flying machine; HAMILTON: Song for a Young Country; TRAD arr Blackwell: Steal away (recorded in St Michael's Church, Remuera, Auckland by RNZ)

SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux D780/2 - Jura Margulis (pno) (Oehms OC 435)

Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (RCA Red Seal 87254 63362)

GERSHWIN arr Heifetz: It ain't necessarily so; Bess, you is my woman now; Tempo di Blues, from Porgy & Bess - Friedemann Eichhorn (vln), Andreas Frölich (pno) (Oehms OC 861)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Suite - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572693)

DOHNÁNYI: Concert Piece in D Op 12 - János Starker (cello), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572749)

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

FIBICH: String Quartet No 2 in G Op 8 - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3470)