Schedules for 27 Dec 2014 - 02 Jan 2015

Disc 1

KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2; GLAZUNOV: Chant du Menstrel for cello and orchestra; KHACHATURIAN: Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8579)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonatas Op 5 Nos 1-6 - Ilio Barontini (hpschd), Marco Fornaciari (vln) (Florentia Musicae FLO 69001)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Arias & Choruses from the Christmas Oratorio - Nancy Argenta, Katie Pringle (sops), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Hans Peter Blochwitz (ten), Olaf Bär (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 653)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

IRELAND: A sea idyll; On a birthday morning; Soliloquy; Two pieces, April; Bergomask; Spring will not wait; Two pieces, February's child; Aubade; Ballade of London nights; Month's mind; Three pastels, A Grecian lad; The boy bishop; Puck's birthday; Columbine; Sarnia - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9250)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

MADETOJA: Comedy Overture; Symphony No 3 in A; Okon Fuoko Suite No 1; Ostrobothnians Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9036)

6:00 FRANCHOMME: Variations on Russian & Scottish Themes - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

SVENDSEN: Andante funèbre - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

G GABRIELI: Audite principes - Taverner Consort, Choir & Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54265)

WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1 - South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.062)

PURCELL: Abdelazer, incidental music - Theatre of Early Music (Analekta AN 2 9948)

7:00 SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Op 115 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Walter Weller (BBC Music BBC MM 216)

CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - Rémy Baudet (vln), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Mike Fentross (theorbo/gtr), Pieter-Jan Belder (hpschd) (Brilliant Classics 92403)

GRIEG arr Haaland: Butterfly; Erotikon; To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Fredrik Fors (cl), Sveinung Bjelland (pno) (2L 55)

ELGAR: Dream Children Op 43 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

RACHMANINOV: Dances from Aleko - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60670)

8:00 JANÁCEK: The Fiddler's Child - Petr Zdvihal (vln), Prague Radio SO/Tomás Netopil (Supraphon SU 4131)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDZ 7 62526)

ROUSSEL: Sonatine Op 16 - Jean-Pierre Armengaud (pno) (Naxos 8.573093)

GUBITSCH: Traversuras - François Salque (cello), Vincent Peirani (accordion), Tomás Gubitsch (gtr) (Zig Zag ZZT 322)

GERSHWIN orch Rose: Strike Up The Band, Overture - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559750)

RESPIGHI: Belkis, Queen of Sheba - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8405)

BOCCHERINI: Piano Quintet No 1 in E minor - Patrick Cohen (fpno), Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidis Astrée E 8518)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might

Read by Donogh Rees (RNZ)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)

SCHÜTZ: Ich ruf zu Dir Herr Jesu Christ SWV326; Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr SWV327 - Stefan Beckerbauer, Philipp Cieslewicz, Stefan Zwanzger (trebles), Andreas Schulist, Carsten Müller (tens), Christian Immler (bass), Max Engel (cello), Roman Summereder (org)/Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (Capriccio 10 418)

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 - Michael Collins (cl/dir), Swedish CO (Chandos CHAN 10756)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 18 in Eb Op 31/3 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)

HEENAN: A Maori Suite - Donna Awatere, Laurette Gibb (sops), Girls' Youth Choir, New Zealand Youth Orchestra/Juan Matteucci (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

The Boswell Sisters

Steve Danby takes a look at the close harmony singing sisters from New Orleans that came to prominence in the 1930s (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

Kiriké - Kassé Mady

Malian singer Kassé Mady is the centrepiece of this recent release on the NoFormat label. The album's curated by French cellist Vincent Segal who sometimes adds his cello to the subtle accompaniment of traditional African instruments: ngoni, balafon and kora (No Format 630118)

Piers Lane (pno), Goldner String Quartet

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13; FARR: Te Tai-O-Rehua; FRANCK: Piano Quintet in F minor (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - London SO/Valery Gergiev (LSO Live LSO 0757)

MEWS: Tango Fantastique - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

SAURET: Scherzo fantastique Op 9 - Michi Wiancko (vln), Dina Vainshtein (pno) (Naxos 8.572366)

NZ performers and composers

SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

J RITCHIE: Partita for brass quintet - NZ Chamber Brass (Private)

WAGNER: Arrival at the Black Swans - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

MAREK: Sinfonietta - Philharmonia/Gary Brain (Koch Schwann 3-6440)

RAVEL: Sheherazade - Renée Fleming (sop), Radio France Phil/Alan Gilbert (Decca 478 3500)

Three poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Sigh; Vain petition; Risen from the springing croup; Histoires naturelles, The peacock; The grasshopper; The swan; The kingfisher; The guinea hen; Sur l'herbe; Les grands vents venus d'Outre-mer; Rêves - François Le Roux (bar), Michel Moraguès, Patrice Kirchhof (fls), Antoine Marguier, Michel Westphal (cls), Castagneri Quartet/Tommaso Placidi (dir) (Le Chant du Mond LDC 278 1131)

With Erica Challis

Nielsen's Symphony No 5 Op 50 (RNZ)

Bold Worlds

Colin Currie (percussion), New Zealand SO/Osmo Vänskä

PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten; AHO: Sieidi, Concerto for percussion & orchestra; NIELSEN: Symphony No 5 Op 50 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony in C minor Op 110a - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (vln/dir) (Channel Classics CCS SA 34313)

PIAZZOLLA: Contrabajissimo - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

DEBUSSY: Ibéria, from Images for Orchestra - Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 480 6630)

11:00 MEDTNER: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor Op 21 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Igor Tchetuev (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67963)

ONSLOW: String Quintet in G Op 35 - Momento Musicale Quintet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1253)

Disc 1

JOSEPHS: Fanfare; GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor; DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor - Margaret Fingerhut (pno), London SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 379)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

LISZT: Legend No 2, St Francis de Paul marchand sur les flots; Piano Sonata in B minor; Grande Etude de Paganini No 3, La Campanella; Nuages Gris; Romance Oubliée; La Lugubre Gondola 2; En Rêve; Valse de l'Opera Faust - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1446)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

PEÑALOSA: Missa Ave Maria Peregrina; Sacris Solemnis; Missa Nunea fue pena mayor - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 66629)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

MAHLER: Symphony No 7 in B minor - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 447 756)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

HANDEL: Water Music HWV348-350; Il pastor fido HWV8c, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (Sony SK 68257)

FINZI: A Lullaby; CAMPKIN: Sleep, Holy Babe; TRAD ed Shorter: Sing Lullaby - Blossom Street/Hilary Campbell (Naxos 8.572868)

A SCARLATTI: Messa per il Santissimo Natale - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30461)

TRAD: Cas radosti, veslosti; TRAD: Svatou dobu jiz tu máme; TRAD: Bog sie rodzi - Bambini di Praga (Supraphon SU 4067)

PRAETORIUS: In dulci jubilo - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51256)

HAMILTON: A Child comes forth - Key Cygnetures/Elise Bradley, Helen Webby (harp), Rowan Johnston (percussion) (RNZ)

WILLAN: Gloria Deo per immensa saecula - Choir of St John's, Elora/Noel Edison (Naxos 8.557037)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Plácido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

SATIE arr Williams: Gnossiennes Nos 1-2 - John Williams (gtr) (Sony SK 60586)

ELGAR: Chanson de matin Op 15/2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)

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

HANDEL: Minuet, from Berenice - English CO/Raymond Leppard (Sony MLK 64066)

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

BACH: Cantata No 152, Tread thou the path of faith - Suzie Leblanc (sop), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Theatre of Early Music/Daniel Taylor (ATMA ACD 2 2279)

RUTTER: Mary's lullaby; LEIGHTON JONES: Jesus Christ the apple tree; That Lord that lay in assë stall - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir), Jonathan Bradley (org), Marshall McGuire (harp) (ABC Classics ABC 476 6349)

LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 657)

GAUNTLETT arr Mann/O'Donnell: Once in royal David's city - Lisette Wesseling (sop), Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Brass Ensemble/Michael Fulcher, Thomas Gaynor (org) (Raven OAR 924)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is

Read by Michael Neill (RNZ)

Thirteen programmes

For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolina's historic theatres, churches, and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers

(4) RAVEL: La Valse - Pedja Muzijevic, Pavel Kolesnikov (pno duo)

BARTÓK: Duos for two violins, excerpts - Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn (vlns)

BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Christopher Costanza (cello), Livia Sohn (vln)

CONNESSON: Sextet - James Austin Smith (ob), Todd Palmer (cl), Livia Sohn (vln), Hsin-Yun Huang (vla), Anthony Manzo (dbass), Pedja Muzijevic (pno) (recorded at Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina by ETV Radio and provided by WFMT)

RESPIGHI: Prelude, Chorale & Fugue - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10388)

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

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

MENDELSSOHN: Ruy Blas, Overture - City of Birmingham SO/Edward Gardner (Chandos CHSA 5139)

HAYDN: Keyboard Concerto in F HobXVIII/3 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno), Manchester Camerata/Gábor Takács-Nagy (Chandos CHAN 10808)

SCHUBERT: An den Mond in einer Herbsnacht D614; Hoffnung D295; Tiefes Leid D876; Abschied D475 - Christian Gerhaher (bar), Gerold Huber (pno) (Sony 88883 71217)

The Hollywood String Quartet

HUMMEL: String Quartet in G Op 30/2 (rec 1955) (Testament SBT 1085)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57 - Victor Aller (pno) (rec 1952) (Testament SBT 1077)

HOFFMAN/LIVINGSTON/LAMPL arr Riddle: Close to you; DENNIS/ADAIR arr Riddle: Everything happens to me - Frank Sinatra (vocalist), Hollywood String Quartet, members of the Nelson Riddle Orchestra/Nelson Riddle (Capitol CDP 613253)

Twang!!

Lionel Bart shot an arrow into the air with his 1965 musical Twang!! The show was based on the story of Robin Hood and has gone down in history as one of the greatest flops ever. Elric Hooper and Des Wilson tell the tale (RNZ)

Nine programmes

(1) Alexander Tchaikovsky (pno), All-Russian Youth SO/Claudio Vandelli, Yuri Bashmet (dir/vla)

FISCHER: Festival Hymn; MUSSORGSKY: Dawn on the Moscow River, Prelude from Khovanshchina, Act 1; A TCHAIKOVSKY: Viola Concerto No 2 with solo piano Op 53, Etudes in Simple Colours; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 (recorded in the Philharmonie, Berlin by German Radio)

ANON: Aria della Monicha; ORTIZ: Pass'emezzo antico; Pass'emezzo modern; CORKINE: The Punckes delight a ground - Paolo Pandolfo (vla da gamba) (Glossa GCDP 30403)

CPE BACH: Sonata in A minor for solo flute Wq132 - Juliette Hurel (fl) (Zig Zag ZZT 070 301)

Nine 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 (1) (MCM)

SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, an opera in three acts

Marenka........................... Dana Buresová

Jenik................................. Tomás Juhás

Kecal................................ Jozef Benci

Vasek................................ Ales Vorácek

Micha............................... Gustáv Belácek

Háta.................................. Lucie Hilscherová

Krusina............................. Svatopluk Sem

Ludmilla........................... Stanislava Jirku

Ringmaster....................... Jaroslav Brezina

Esmeralda........................ Katerina Kneziková

Indian............................... Ondrej Mráz

First child......................... Maxim Dusek

Second child..................... Babette Rust

BBC Singers, BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2119-20)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar's Bride, Overture - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572788)

WAGNER trans Liszt: Elsa's Bridal Procession, from Lohengrin - Andrew von Oeyen (pno) (Delos DE 3412)

PARRY: Bridal March, from The Birds - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 220)

A RITCHIE: The Blue Sonata Op 90 - David Chickering (cello), Richard Mapp (pno) (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 113)

BIZET: Symphony in C - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553027)

DEVIENNE: Bassoon Quartet in G minor Op 73/3 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), Thomas Zehetmair (vln), Tabea Zimmermann (vla), Christoph Henkel (cello) (Claves CD 50-8714)

SCHUMANN: Intermezzi Op 4 - Herbert Schuch (pno) (Oehms OC 754)

P SCHARWENKA: Liebesnacht - Gävle SO/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1071)

11:00 BRAHMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51 - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2152)

HUMMEL: Grande Serenade in C Op 66 - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1344)

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphonies, No 5 in Bb, No 8 in B minor (completed Newbould); Entr'acte Music No 1; Ballet Music No 2, from Rosamunde - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Mackerras (Virgin 7 59273)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Concerto in A minor for keyboard, flute & violin BWV1044, Triple Concerto; Keyboard Concerto in D BWV1054; Concerto in F for keyboard and 2 recorders BWV1057; Keyboard Concerto in G minor BWV1058 - Gabriel Tacchino, Bruno Rigutto, Jean-Philippe Collard, Michael Beroff (pnos), Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Philippe Bernold, Emmanuelle Reville (fls), Paris Orch Ensemble/Jean-Pierre Wallez (EMI CDC 5 55059)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BRUCKNER: Te Deum; Mass in D minor - Joan Rodgers (sop), Catherine Wyn-Davies (contralto), Keith Lewis (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66650)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

FANTINI: Trumpet Sonatas, No 1, del Colloreto; No 3, del Niccolini; No 8, del Nero; TARTINI: Concerto in D; FRANÇAIX: Sonatine; ARBAN: Fantasy & Variations on Acteon; ENESCU: Legend; HÖHNE: Slavonic Fantasy; GOEDICKE: Concert Etude; EBEN: Chagall Windows - John Wallace (tpt/cornet), Meyrick Alexander (bsn), Simon Wright (pno/hpschd/org) (EMI CDC 5 55086)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus, Overture; TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from The Sleeping Beauty; Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker; GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1; BRAHMS: Tragic Overture; STRAUSS: Dance of the Seven Veils, from Salome; Don Juan - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 417 788)

6:00 HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 444 543)

LISZT: Les Sabéennes - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67424)

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

DEBUSSY: Cortège & Air de Danse, from L'Enfant prodigue - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572297)

MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 2 in G - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

SMYTHE: Moto Mojo - Helen Webby (harp) (Ode CD MANU 5144)

COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2, The little horses; Zion's walls; The golden willow tree; At the river; Ching-a-ring Chaw - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 42140)

7:00 SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572704)

ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

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

BANTOCK: Two Scottish Poems, Song to the seals; My luve is like a red, red rose - Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton (Meridian CDE 84570)

FRANÇAIX: L'Heure du Berger - Frank-Immo Zichner (pno), Berlin Chamber Ensemble (MDG 603 0557)

HANSON: Maypole Dances, from Merry Mount Suite - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68786)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BIZET: Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - London SO/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 464)

D SCARLATTI: Mandolin Sonata in D minor Kk77 - Artemandoline (Brilliant Classics 94477)

L MOZART: Symphony in F - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553347)

GJEILO: Ubi caritas - Phoenix Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5100)

RACHMANINOV: Mélodie in E Op 3/3 - Irish National SO/Alexander Anissimov (Naxos 8.550808)

CHOPIN: Scherzo No 3 in C# minor Op 39 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Decca 478 3206)

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

BIEBL: Ave Maria - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics 472 310)

PURCELL: Behold, I bring you glad tidings - Matthew White (countertenor), Julian Podger (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire (Eufoda 1329)

TRAD arr Miolin: Lulajze, Jezuniu; MIOLIN: Azure Christmas - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS SACD 2026)

BARBER: Die Natali - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559133)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn

Read by Paul Barrett (RNZ)

MOZART: Symphony No 38 in D K504, Prague - Dresden State Opera Orch/Bernard Haitink (Profil PH 07057)

BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été - Sheila Armstrong (sop), Josephine Veasey (mezzo), Frank Patterson (ten), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), London SO/Colin Davis (Philips 438 307)

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

HORNEMAN: Kalanus, Suite - Danish National SO/Johannes Gustavsson (Dacapo 6.220564)

Lancashire Lad

Four programmes in which Indra Hughes promises some surprising twists and turns with an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal music from Bach to Tormé

(1) Introduction to Huia (RNZ)

COATES: Halcyon Days, from The Three Elizabeths Suite - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (BBC Music MM 347)

AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Augustine Op 4/3 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

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

SAINT-SAËNS trans Lemare/Liszt/Gaynor: Danse macabre - Thomas Gaynor (organ of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul) (Organism ORG 016)

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

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 8 in Eb, Symphony of a Thousand - Elizabeth Connell, Edith Wiens, Felicity Lott (sops), Trudeliese Schmidt, Nadine Denize (contraltos), Richard Versalle (ten), Jorma Hynninen (bar), Hans Sotin (bass), David Hill (org), Tiffin School Boys' Choir, London Phil Choir & Orch/Klaus Tennstedt (rec 1986) (EMI 3 61572)

NZ performers and composers

K YOUNG: Five Piano Pieces, Questions; Dancing alone; Remnants; A time & place there was (in memory of Douglas Lilburn); Catharsis - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 47014)

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

MOERAN: Two Pieces - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 012/013)

IBERT: Entr'acte - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

CATALANI: Andantino - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573072)

KREISLER: Marche miniature viennoise - Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Aude Capuçon (pno) (Virgin Classics 3 32626)

BRITTEN after Rossini: Soirées musicales - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - London Phil/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)

ALAIN: Litanies - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

MAXWELL DAVIES arr Eriksson: Farewell to Stromness - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

BACH arr Hess: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, from Cantata No 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67309)

VERDI: Fire Chorus, Fuoco di gioia, from Otello - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

ANON: Istampita chominciamenti di gioia - Hesperus (Dorian DIS 80155)

DEBUSSY orch Molinari: L'Isle joyeuse - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

JL BACH: Motet, Das ist meine Freude - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Rickman Godlee (cello), Martin Peck (dbass), Christopher Allsop (org) (Conifer 75605 51306)

SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 0069)

LILBURN: A Christmas Offering - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2068-69)

NURMI: In Bethlehem tonight; TOURNIER: Six Noëls; TRAD arr Loman: Il est né le divin enfant - Monica Whicher (sop), Judy Loman (harp) (Naxos 8.572510)

STRADELLA: Trumpet Sonata in D - Jürgen Schuster (tpt), Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.551077)

JACKSON: Evening Service in Bb Op 149 - Exon Singers/Matthew Owens, David Bednall (org) (Delphian DCD 34035)

Dreams Lie Deeper

Dave Dobbyn (gtr/vocalist), Ross Burge (drums), Mark Vanilau (pno), Jonathan Barus (dbass), Christopher Clark (tpt), Wellington Young Voices, Lyrica, Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Wellington Brass Band/Mark Dorrell, Christopher Clark

HARRIS: If Blood be the Price, recalling the 1912 Waihi Miners' Strike; DOBBYN: This Love, In memory of the Pike River miners; MCCARTHY: 17 Days, A tribute to the Chilean miners rescued in the 2010 disaster (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

arr Kreisler: Negro Spiritual Melody - Fritz Kreisler (vln), Carl Lamson (pno) (rec 1925) (Biddulph LAB 068/69)

American Suite in A Op 98b - Lucerne SO/James Gaffigan (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902188)

IRELAND: Decorations, The island spell; Moon-glade; The scarlet ceremonies - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 074)

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

STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Larry Combs (cl), David McGill (bsn), Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (Teldec 3984 23913)

11:00 SCHUMANN: Five Pieces in Folk Style Op 102 - Torleif Thedéen (cello), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 1076)

ARENSKY: String Quartet No 1 in G Op 11 - Ying Quartet (Sono Luminus DSL 92143)

FARR: Taheke - Bridget Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 709)

Disc 1

BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture; FRANCK: Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 382)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BLISS: Introduction & Allegro; Concerto for cello & orchestra; Meditations on a Theme by John Blow - Robert Cohen (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Argo 443 170)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

Choruses & Lieder by Boulanger, Hensel, C Schumann - Christine Friedek (sop), Regine Böhm, Mitsuko Shirai (mezzos), Bernhard Gärtner (ten), Hartmut Höll, Sabine Eberspächer (pnos), Heidelberg Madrigal Choir/Gerald Kegelman (Bayar BR 100 041 CD)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerti, No 3 in Bb; No 11 in Eb; J STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto in Bb; C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto No 10 in Bb - Sabine Meyer (cl), ASMF/Iona Brown (EMI CDC 7 54842)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

BACH: Partitas, No 5 in G BWV829; No 3 in A minor BWV827; No 6 in E minor BWV830 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (Archiv 415 493)

6:00 LARSSON: The Winter's Tale, Four Vignettes - Helsingborg SO/Andrew Manze (CPO 777 671)

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

LISZT arr Kreisler: La Campanella, Transcendental Study No 3 in G# minor after Paganini - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Irina Ryumina (pno) (BIS CD 999)

VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 - Odense SO/Jan Wagner (Bridge 9129)

MARTUCCI: Andante Op 69/2 - Andrea Noferini (cello), Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

7:00 GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Grande Tarentelle Op 67 - Reid Nibley (pno), Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel (Vanguard Classics 08 4051 71)

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

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

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

FASCH: Quartet in D minor FWVN/D2 - Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Ensemble Marsyas (Linn CKD 467)

8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: Allerseelen - Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Japan Phil/Shigeo Genda (BIS CD 949)

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)

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

HANDEL: Trio Sonata in G minor Op 2/6 - Farran Scott, Rachel Harris (vlns), Tatty Theo (cello), Carolyn Gibley (hpschd), Brook Street Band (Avie AV 2282)

FOULDS: April, England Op 48/1, Impressions of Time & Place No 1 - CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Warner 2564 62999)

GOSS/WILLCOCKS: See amid the winter's snow; DARKE: In the bleak midwinter; TRAD/SHAW: Coventry Carol; TRAD/WOOD: Shepherds, in the field abiding; JOUBERT: Torches - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks, Simon Preston (org) (Decca 425 499)

KORNGOLD: The Snowman, excerpts - Peter Manning (vln), BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9631)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the snowflakes, from The Nutcracker - Finchley Children's Music Group, National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 460 400)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 153: Cupid laid his brand, and fell asleep

Read by Elizabeth McRae (RNZ)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C minor Op 17/4 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Musicales Actes Sud ASM 15)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840, Relique - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

GOLDMARK: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor - Joshua Bell (vln), Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony SK 65949)

Lancashire Lad

Four programmes in which Indra Hughes promises some surprising twists and turns with an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal music from Bach to Tormé

(2) 300 Years to the Day (RNZ)

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

MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165 - Emma Kirkby (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 443 200)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - John Williams (gtr) (CBS MK 44794)

BACH: Cello Suite No 3 in C BWV1009 - Nina Kotova (cello) (Warner 2564 639411)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (rec 1967) (DG 415 062)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini - New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (rec 1969) (EMI 5 65053)

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Wellington Orpheus Choir, New Zealand SO/Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2007)

CARR: Aubade - Alan Vivian (cl), Sydney SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

CHOPIN: Impromptu No 1 in Ab Op 29 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10813)

BRAHMS arr Rysanov: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor - Maxim Rysanov (vla), Evelyn Chang (pno) (Avie AV 2111)

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

GERSHWIN orch Grofé: The man I love, from Lady, Be Good! - Harmonie Ensemble, New York/Steven Richman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7492)

MENDELSSOHN arr Hermann: Song without Words in D Op 109 - Thomas Albertus Irnberger (vln), Edoardo Torbianelli (pno) (Gramola 98942)

DVORÁK arr Lutz: Humoresque in Gb Op 101/7 - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Indianapolis SO/Krzysztof Urbanski (Telarc TEL 34030)

6:00 GLAZUNOV: Spanish Serenade Op 20 - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Analekta AN 2 9897)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Prelude & Fugue No 11 in B, from 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 466 066)

CHATMAN: Elves' Bells - Vancouver Chamber Choir/Jon Washburn (Canadian Music Centre CMC CD 13608)

BOHME: La Napolitaine Op 25, Tarantelle - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

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

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

RIDOUT: Ferdinand the Bull - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Héctor Elizondo (narrator) (Cedille CDR 90000 124)

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

Ryan Smith hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 Voice of the Whale

Adrianna Lis (fl), Katherine Austin (pno), James Tennant (cello), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes

MESSIAEN: Le merle noir; CRUMB: Vox Balaenae; VAN DER AA: Mask; SCHOLES: Raga Machine; ADAMS: Fearful Symmetries (recorded in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

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

1:10 approx - Disc 2

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

2:15 approx - Disc 3

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

3:25 approx - Disc 4

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

4:40 approx - Disc 5

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

6:00 J STAMITZ: Symphony in Bb, No 3 of Three Mannheim Symphonies - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553194)

RUBINSTEIN arr Linden: Melody in F Op 3/1 - Anthony Leroy (cello), Sandra Moubarak (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 020 402)

CORELLI arr Barbirolli: Oboe Concerto - Brynjar Hoff (ob), English CO/Ian Watson (Simax PSC 1049)

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

BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 2 - Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Signum SIGCD 193)

7:00 ZIEHRER: Melodies of Austria, Waltz Op 373 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223814)

MARTIN Y COL: Variations on La Folia - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (castanets) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

SIBELIUS: Väinö's Song - Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 5 45561)

VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Göran Söllscher (gtr) (DG 459 138)

Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRIDGE: Lament - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

SCHUMANN trans Morris: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Craig Morris (tpt), Valentina Lisitsa (pno) (Naxos 8.572506)

WALDTEUFEL: Ma Voisine, Polka - Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223441)

GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno) (Avie AV 2131)

LISZT arr Liszt/Doppler: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D S359/6 - Vienna Academy Orch/Martin Haselböck (CPO 777 797)

BOWATER: New Year Fanfare - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Atoll/Move MD 3327)

NIETZSCHE: Eine Sylvesternacht - Nicholas Eanet (vln), John Bell Young (pno) (Newport Classic NPD 85535)

IRELAND: Four Unaccompanied Carols, Adam lay ybounden; New Prince, New Pomp; The Holy Boy; A New Year Carol - Lincoln Cathedral Choir/Aric Prentice (Naxos 8.573014)

WAXMAN: Auld Lang Syne Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Ula Ulijona (vla), Marta Sudraba (cello), Louis Lortie (pno) (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

CURTIS: Ring in the New - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2035)

The 154 Sonnets

Sonnet No 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep

Read by Michael Hurst (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Sextet in Eb Op 81b - Nash Ensemble (ASV GLD 4002)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 29 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

REICHA: Three Pieces for cor anglais & wind quartet - Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1802)

MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 - Isaac Stern (vln), Pinchas Zukerman (vla), New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (CBS CD 36692)

TOMLINSON: Fantasia on Auld Lang Syne - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

Lancashire Lad

Four programmes in which Indra Hughes promises some surprising twists and turns with an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal music from Bach to Tormé

(3) The Lancashire Connection (RNZ)

WEBER: Piano Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 32 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDA 66729)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Dona nobis pacem - Judith Howarth (sop), Thomas Allen (bar), Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDS 44322)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 58 in C HobXVI/48 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (rec 1982) (Philips 416 643)

String Quartet in D Op 71/2 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

Keyboard Concerto in D HobXVIII/11 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Norwegian CO (rec 1998) (EMI CDC 5 56960)

NZ performers and composers

WAGNER: Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - NZSO National Youth Orch 2003/Lutz Köhler (National Youth Orch 2003)

BUCHANAN: Flute Song for the Birds - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

TRAD arr Rutter: Black Sheep; MALOTTE arr Stevenson: The Lord's Prayer; TRAD arr Hayes: Go down Moses - Jayne Tankersley, Campbell Packer (vocalists), New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1991-1992/Roger Stevenson, with piano accompaniment (Private)

BURCH: Concertino - Edward Allen (horn), New Zealand SO/Michael Vinten (RNZ)

RESER arr Vappie: Suite for banjo & orchestra - Don Vappie (banjo), Hot Springs Music Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559647)

CHOPIN: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Heinz Holliger (ob), Ursula Holliger (harp) (Philips 426 288)

RACHMANINOV: Scherzo in D minor - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60670)

FRANÇAIX: Quintet for flute, string trio & harp - Lorna McGhee (fl), Kanako Ito (vln), Ashan Pillai (vla), Martin Storey (cello), Alison Nicholls (harp) (ASV CD DCA 1090)

J STRAUSS II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube - Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim (Sony 88883 792272)

6:00 FINZI: New Year Music - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49912)

KAPRALOVA: Waving farewell Op 14 - Dana Buresová (sop), Timothy Cheek (pno) (Supraphon SU 3752-2 231)

HAYDN: Fifth movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 45 in F# minor, Farewell - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 040 203)

G JENKINS arr Terracini: Goodbye - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

CHOPIN: Waltzes, in Ab Op 69/1, L'Adieu; in Eb Op 18, Grande valse brillante; in E minor Op posth - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 15998)

ELGAR: The Angel's Farewell, from The Dream of Gerontius - Alice Coote (mezzo), Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7521)

In Memoriam

BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor; No 6 in D - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (RNZ)

VERDI: La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto - Carlo Bergonzi (ten), La Scala Orch, Milan/Rafael Kubelík (Decca 467 023)

PUCCINI: Si, Mi chiamano Mimi, from La Bohème - Licia Albanese (sop), La Scala Theatre Orch/Umberto Berrettoni (rec 1938) (EMI CHS 7 63335)

PURCELL: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Philips 446 081)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Pretty Bess, from Five Tudor Portraits - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9593)

J RITCHIE: Turkey in the Straw - Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi SLD 2)

SCULTHORPE: Maranoa Lullaby - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Brodsky Quartet (Challenge CC 72007)

VERDI: Va Pensiero, from Nabucco - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Julius Rudel (Decca 425 431)

HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Maureen Forrester (contralto), Vienna Radio Orch/Brian Priestman (CBC PSCD 2002)

MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - London SO/Claudio Abbado (RCA 09026 61354)

SEEGER arr Duarte: Where have all the flowers gone? from Joan Baez Suite Op 144 - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (Sony 88697 45456)

A Strange Day's Night, Auckland Town Hall, June 2014

To mark the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' visit to New Zealand, local artists perform covers of their hits.

A concert organised by the Play It Strange Trust

LENNON/MCCARTNEY: Medley, I wanna hold your hand/Drive my car/Norwegian wood/Across the universe/All you need is love/Give peace a chance - Rezonation Choir (St Cuthbert's)

Let it be - Grace Brebner

HARRISON: Here comes the sun - The Backbeats

LENNON/MCCARTNEY: Norwegian wood - Waves

For no one; Come together - Fletcher Mills

Ticket to ride - Jed Town

HARRISON: Taxman - Jason Kerrison

Within you without you - Geoffrey Chunn & Friends

LENNON/MCCARTNEY: Don't let me down; HARRISON: While my guitar gently weeps - Eddie Rayner

LENNON/MCCARTNEY: Why don't we do it in the road - Fiona McDonald

HARRISON: Something; LENNON/MCCARTNEY: You're gonna lose that girl - Tim Finn (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

LISZT: Grand galop chromatique - Lang Lang (pno) (Sony 88697 89140)

BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Hideko Udagawa (vln), London SO/Charles Mackerras (Nimbus NI 6270)

PARRY: Nonet in Bb - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66291)

PROKOFIEV: The Love for Three Oranges, Suite - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (RCA 82876 50475)

STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No 1 in Eb - Zdenek Tylsar (horn), Prague SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3892)

11:00 PROKOFIEV: Overture; Waltz for the New Year's Eve Ball; Waltz "Since we met", from War and Peace - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (BBC Music BBC MM 228)

SCHUBERT: Quartet for guitar, flute, viola & cello D96 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Ronald Thomas (cello) (Koch International 3-7404)

TRAD arr Meyer/Thile: The Wassail Song/All through the night; TRAD: Improvisation on Dona Nobis Pacem/Auld Lang Syne - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass), Chris Botti (tpt) (Sony 88697 34390)

Disc 1

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

1:05 approx - Disc 2

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

2:15 approx - Disc 3

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

3:30 approx - Disc 4

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

4:40 approx - Disc 5

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

6:00 BACH: Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (hpschd/dir) (Onyx 4114)

MONTERO: Continuum - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)

TRAD arr Fuglseth: Lova Line - Trio Mediaeval, Birger Mistereggen (jew's harp/perc) (ECM 2003)

FINZI: New Year Music - Bournemouth SO/David Hill (Naxos 8.570417)

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

BOYCE: Ode for the New Year, Overture - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)

7:00 KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro - Gilles Apap (vln/dir), Sinfonia Varsovia (Apapaziz Productions GKJ 00103)

MULET: Carillon-Sortie in D - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

ALBÉNIZ: Minuetto; Gavotta, from Suite ancienne No 3 - Rubén Ramiro (pno) (Naxos 8.573294)

KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Kjell Lysell, Ulf Forsberg (vlns), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 459 631)

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

We invited you to vote for your current favourite works and the result’s our annual listeners’ poll, a whole day of music presented as a countdown to the most popular work. In the British version of Settling the Score, The Hall of Fame, run by Classic FM, only four works have ever held the Number One position. Can the same be said of New Zealand voting patterns? Find out during the day how often works have appeared, and at what previous positions.

Benjamin Schmid (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Paul McCreesh

MOZART: Adagio & Fugue in C minor K546; Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216; ELGAR: Symphony No 2 in Eb Op 63 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

TRAD: No 20; HEDIN: Skär; TRAD: Barockfavoriten - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21733)

COSTE: Scherzo & Pastorale Op 10 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

BARBER: Canzonetta for oboe & strings - Stéphane Rancourt (ob), Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559135)

CARPENTER: Adventures in a Perambulator - National SO of Ukraine/John McLaughlin Williams (Naxos 8.559065)

11:00 DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

BACH: French Suite No 5 in G BWV816 - Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Telarc CD 80715)

RR BENNETT: A good-night; W HARRIS: Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (DG 477 6605)

An Englishman Abroad

Brian Kay's 10-part musical entertainment

(1) Shepherds and Hunters

Shepherds and hunters, particularly those for whom love is in the air, have inspired composers for many generations - so much so that the difficulty has been knowing which to leave out! What's in includes works by Schubert, Poulenc and Vaughan Williams (RNZ)

1:00 approx - Disc 1

BRANCO: Symphony No. 2; After a reading of Guerra Junqueiro, Fantasy; Artificial Paradises - RTÉ National Symphony Orch/Álvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.572059)

2:10 approx - Disc 2

MOZART: Divertimento in Eb K563; Three-part Adagio & Fugue No 6 in F minor; Three-part Adagio & Fugue No 4 in F; Three-part Adagio & Fugues, No 5 in Eb, No 3 in F, No 1 in D minor, No 2 in G minor - TrioFenix (Fuga Libera FUG 569)

3:35 approx - Disc 3

Te Roopu Rangatahi - Waiata o Aotea Roa

Choral Works by BODY, WELLS, MEWS, HAMILTON, GRIFFITHS, POULENC, BRAHMS - New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)

4:45 approx - Disc 4

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Books 8-10, Moods Op 73 - Daniel Propper (pno) (Skarbo DSK 10860)

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

HUBAY: Czárdás Scene No 12, My little turtle dove Op 83 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)

WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (LPO 0003)

TURINA: The Bullfighter's Prayer Op 34 - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 295)

GOUNOD: Fantasy on the Russian National Hymn - Richard Prosseda (pedal pno), Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67975)

7:00 CIMAROSA: Giannina e Bernardone, Overture - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570279)

TELEMANN: Concerto in D for two flutes & bassoon TWV53/D1 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Michael Schneider (fl/dir), Marita Schaar (bsn), Frankfurt La Stagione (CPO 777 402)

BIZET arr Loeb: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Livia Sohn (vln), Geoff Nuttall (vla), Benjamin Loeb (pno) (Naxos 8.570202)

FALLA arr Pekkera; Spanish Dance; FALLA arr Piatigorsky: Ritual Fire Dance - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bernd Glemser (pno) (Naxos 8.550785)

ARENSKY: Symphonic Scherzo - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570526)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Decca 417 599)

PAGANINI: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)

BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 17582)

KUFFNER: Introduction, Theme & Variations - Kálmán Berkes (cl), Auer Quartet (Naxos 8.553122)

PURCELL arr Stokowski: Suite of Five Pieces, Trumpet tune; Echo; Hornpipe; When I am laid in earth; Largo & Allegro - Brussels Phil/Richard Egarr (Glossa GCDSA 922209)

PROKOFIEV: Peter & the Wolf - Joanna Lumley (narrator), English Northern Philharmonia/Stephen Barlow (Sanctuary CD RSN 3041)

CHOPIN: Ballades, No 1 in G minor Op 23; No 2 in F Op 38; No 3 in Ab Op 47; No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (RCA 09026 63259)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1683)

WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

WALTON: Viola Concerto - Roberto Díaz (vla), New Haven SO/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 6290)

CPE BACH: Magnificat Wq215 - Elisabeth Scholl (sop), Ruth Sandhoff (contralto), Andreas Karasiak (ten), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Dresden Chamber Choir, Frankfurt La Stagione/Michael Schneider (Capriccio 67 003)

Lancashire Lad

Four programmes in which Indra Hughes promises some surprising twists and turns with an eclectic mix of instrumental and vocal music from Bach to Tormé

(4) Wayfaring Stranger (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 7 in Bb Op 97, Archduke - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 412 891)

VIVALDI: Agitata da due venti, from Griselda - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Decca 455 981)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in F minor Kk50; in Eb Kk51 - Scott Ross (hpschd) (Erato ECD 75404)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 99 - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (rec 1989) (Chandos CHAN 8820)

WEBERN: Slow movement - Carmina Quartet (rec 1991) (Denon CO 79462)

NZ performers and composers

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

KORNGOLD: Glück, das mir verblieb, from Die tote Stadt - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Julius Rudel (EMI 2 64192)

HAMILTON: Song of a Drifter - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1999-2000/David Hamilton (Private)

LIEBERMANN: Sonata for flute & harp Op 56 - Alexa Still (fl), Victoria Drake (harp) (Koch 3-7549)

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

BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture - Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 427 806)

GLAZUNOV: Albumblatt - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Kathryn Stott (pno) (EMI 4 16471)

HANSON: Serenade - Judith Mendenhall (fl), Susan Jolles (harp), New York Chamber Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3105)

RR BENNETT: Suite française - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2131)

LISZT: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Tristan Pfaff (pno) (Aparté AP 019)

BECK: Sinfonia in C Op 1/6 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from Eugene Onegin - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80541)

6:00 CHABRIER: Joyeuse Marche - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba; PIERNÉ: Canzonetta Op 19 - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

J STRAUSS II: Vienna Bon-Bons - Vienna Opera Orch/Peter Falk (Bridge 100 029)

FAURÉ arr Setchell: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande; LEFEBURE-WELY: Sortie in Bb - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie (Atma ACD 2 2600)

GANNE: Marche Lorraine - Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Peter Parkes (Chandos CHAN 4542)

THOMAS: Mignon, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

2014 Gramophone Awards

Nine programmes

Recording of the Year & Best Orchestral Recording

BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68; Liebeslieder Waltzes Op 52 Nos 1, 2, 4, 6, 5; Op 65/9; Op 52 Nos 11, 8, 9 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 5344)

Testimonies

Cavaleri Quartet

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F minor Op 95, Serioso; SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110; REICH: Different Trains (recorded in the Concert Chamber, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato, Hamilton, by RNZ)

BACH: Cantata No 146, Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal - Caroline Weynants (sop), Damien Guillon (countertenor), Marcus Ullmann (ten), Il Gardellino/Marcel Ponseele (Passacaille PAS 987)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 11 in A K331 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 422 116)

NYMAN: Trysting Fields - Daniil Grishin (vla), Kremerata Baltica CO/Gidon Kremer (dir/vln) (Nonesuch 287228)

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

11:00 DUFAY: Missa L'Homme armé - Cantica Symphonia/Giuseppe Maletto (Glossa GCD P31907)

ANON: Danza de las espadas; ALFONSO X EL SABIO: Ductia; Rotundellus; Saltarello - Driss El Maloumi (oud), Jordi Savall (rebab/vielle/dir), Pedro Estevan (rig-gunga/darbouka/pandereta), Dimitris Psonis (santur/saz), Hesperion XXI (Alia Vox AVSA 9848)