Schedules for 28 Feb - 06 Mar, 2015

Disc 1

RESPIGHI: The Birds; Ancient Airs & Dances, Suites 1 & 3; Three Botticelli Pictures - Orpheus Chamber Orch (DG 437 533)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SWEELINCK: Toccata; Psalm 140; Hexachord Fantasia; Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein; Echo Fantasia; Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr; Fantasia 'met bindingen'; Mein junges Leben hat ein End; Toccata; Erbarm dich mein o Herre Gott; Toccata; Psalm 116; Fantasia - Robert Woolley (organ of the Pieterskerk, Leiden) (Chandos CHAN 0701)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

BRAHMS: A German Requiem - Felicity Lott (sop), David Wilson-Johnson (bar), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8942)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Trios, in F Op 18/1; in E minor Op 92/2 - Joachim Trio (Naxos 8.550935)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

Live from Budapest

Gypsy arrangements of traditional & popular tunes - Roby Lakatos (vln) & Lakatos Ensemble (DG 459 642)

6:00 SCHUBERT: Piano Trio movement in Bb D28 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 412 620)

RODRIGO: Second movement, Larghetto, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Julian Bream (gtr), Michael Winfield (cor anglais), Monteverdi Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (RCA GD 86525)

ANON: Les Gentils Airs - Peter Whelan (bsn), Ensemble Marsyas (Linn CKD 435)

DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Pavel Sporcl (vln), Petr Jiríkovsky (pno) (Supraphon SU 3860)

MAHLER: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from Symphony No 5 in C# minor - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

7:00 WAGNER: Rienzi, Overture - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5097)

GLAZUNOV: Bacchanal; Petit Adagio, from The Seasons, Autumn - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 6511)

HANDEL: Recorder Sonata in G minor HWV360 - Ensemble Fitzwilliam (Zig-Zag ZZT 030 201)

SARASATE: Scottish Airs Op 34 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Markus Hadulla (pno) (Naxos 8.570893)

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

8:00 GERSHWIN arr Stoltzman: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Artist's Carnival - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romances for horn & piano Op 36; Op 67 - Felix Klieser (horn), Christof Keymer (pno) (Berlin Classics 030 0530 BC)

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

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

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

STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms - Ghent Collegium Vocale, Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (PentaTone PTC 5186 349)

YIN/CHU/SHENG/LIU arr Gang/ed Jie: Yellow River Piano Concerto - Chen Jie (pno), New Zealand SO/Carolyn Kuan (Naxos 8.570607)

BACH: Jauchzet dem Herrn - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51306)

BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Julia Florida; Waltz Op 8/4 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

GALWAY: Psalm of the Seafarers - St Paul's Choir, Dunedin/Raymond White (South Pacific SPR 4)

WEBER transcribed Weber/Müller: Flute Sonata in Ab - Philippe Bernold (fl), Laurent Cabasso (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1535)

GESUALDO: Baci soavi e cari, from Madrigals Book 1 - Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara/Sergio Vartolo (hpschd/dir), Loredana Gintoli (harp) (Brilliant Classics 92635)

F COUPERIN arr Beach: Suite, Pirates of the Baroque - Howard Beach (bar), Red Priest (Red Priest RP 004)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

Dave Brubeck

Six programmes in which Norman Meehan looks at the life and music of the American jazz pianist whose remarkable musical career spanned more than six decades

(6) Norm Meehan looks at Dave Brubeck's writing for non-jazz ensembles (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

2013 Wallace National Piano Competition

Eight programmes

(5) HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50; KAPUSTIN: Concert Etude Op 40/8; BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 17 in Ab BWV862, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1; HOLMES: Nocturne; LISZT: Transcendental Study No 12, Chasse-neige - Kent Isomura (pno)

LILBURN: Piano Sonatina No 1 - Andrew Adkins (pno) MENDELSSOHN: Variations sérieuses in D minor Op 54; YOUNG: Elusive Dream; CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Jane Nayoung Koo (pno) (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 410 873)

BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Heinz Wallberg (Philips 475 7825)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17 - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902096)

CPE BACH: Freye Fantasy in F# minor Wq80 - Leila Schayegh (baroque vln), Jörg Halubek (tangent pno) (Pan Classics PC 10305)

NZ performers and composers

KRAUS: Olympie VB33 -New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570334)

NORMAN: Inception to Infinity - Matthew Marshall (gtr), Orchestra Wellington/Kenneth Young (Private)

J RITCHIE: Suite No 2 for string orchestra, Aquarius - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

PETERSON-BERGER: Three Marit's songs, Yearning is my portion; Hymn to the moon at Lammastide; Selinda and Leander - Gunnel Bohman (sop), Thomas Lander (bar), Anders Kilström (pno)

Gullebarn's Lullabies No 5, High up on the fern thicket of the slope - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Swedish Radio SO/Siegfried Köhler (Musica Sveciae MSCD 908)

Return - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 449 189)

WEILL: Beat! Beat! Drums!; Dirge for two veterans - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Sony 88697 94424)

Three Songs, The Sailors' Tango; Pirate Jenny; The Bilbao-Song - Christiane Oelze (sop), Eric Schneider (pno) (Capriccio 71 062)

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Freddy Kempf (pno/dir), New Zealand SO

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15;

Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19

(interval)

Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 (RNZ)

GLINKA: Divertimento Brillante on themes from Bellini's La Sonnambula - Russian National SO Soloists: Leonid Ogrinchuk (pno), Alexi Bruni, Mikhail Moshkunov (vlns), Andrei Kevorkov (vla), Erik Pozdeev (cello), Rusteem Gabdulin (dbass) (RegisC 1288)

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

11:00 BALAKIREV: Tamara - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (BBC Music BBC MM 276)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Eros Roselli (gtr), La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 92892)

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D 759, Unfinished; arr Joachim: Grand Duo in C D812 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 655)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BABIN: Hillandale Waltzes; Thème; Valse élégante; Valse passionée; Valse sombre; Valse volante; Valse triste; Valse de bonne humeur; Valse brillante et joyeuse; Valse oublié; CARDEW: Scherzo; RICHARDSON: Roundelay; SEIBER: Andantino Pastorale; BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Bellison: Introduction and Hymn to the Sun; RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14; PIERNÉ: Canzonetta Op 19; SCHMITT: Andantino Op 30/1; DUKAS: Alla Gitana; SATIE: Trois Gymnopédies; MESSAGER: Solo de Concours; RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

ZELENKA: Missa Dei Filii; Litaniae Lauretanae - Nancy Argenta (sop), Michael Chance (countertenor), Christoph Pregardien (ten), Gordon Jones (bass), Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Tafelmusik Baroque Orch/Frieder Bernius (DHM RD 77922)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BEACH: Piano Quintet in F# Op 67; CLARKE: Piano Trio; Viola Sonata - Martin Roscoe (pno), Endellion Quartet (ASV CD DCA 932)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

FIALA: Oboe Concerto in Bb; KROMMER: Oboe Concerto in F Op 37; KALLIWODA: Oboe Concertino in F Op 110; MARTINU: Oboe Concerto - Ingo Goritzki (ob), Polish Chamber Phil/Wojciech Rahski (Claves CD 50-9018)

GIBBONS: Drop, drop, slow tears - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (Signum SIGCD 281)

BITTOVA: Oboe - Bart Schneemann (ob), Daniel Raiskin (vla) (Channel Classics CCS 18598)

PÄRT: I am the True Vine - Theatre of Voices, Pro Arte Singers/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7242)

FASCH: Cantata, Du sollst Gott - Maria Zádori (sop), Lena Susanne Norin (contralto), Hans Jörg Mammel (ten), Klaus Mertens (bass), Rhineland Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert/Hermann Max (CPO 999 594)

VICTORIA: Lamentations for Holy Saturday, excerpt - Nordic Voices (Chandos CHAN 0763)

SCELSI: Alleluja, from Three Latin Prayers - Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) (ECM 1963)

RACHMANINOV arr Vale: Mass in Bb - Choir of All Saints, Margaret Street/Paul Brough (Priory PRCD 860)

GOODALL: Drop, drop, slow tears, from Eternal light, a requiem - Natasha Marsh (sop), Choir of Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, London Musici/Stephen Darlington (EMI 2 15047)

G IVES: In pace; Lullaby; A song of divine love - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/Bill Ives, Richard Pinel (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7420)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

WAGNER: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 417 752)

KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesfreud - Jorge Bolet (pno) (Philips 456 724)

SCHMIDT: Notre Dame, Act 1, Interlude - Malmö SO/Vassily Sinaisky (Naxos 8.570828)

BAERMANN: Adagio in Db - Alfred Boskovsky (cl), members of the Vienna Octet (London 440 084)

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

TCHAIKOVSKY: Third movement, Preghiera, from Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (London 440 366)

FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79 - Peter Lloyd (fl), Rebecca Holt (pno) (IMP PCD 991)

TALLIS: Sing & Glorify - The Sixteen, Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (Coro CORSACD 16016)

The first two weeks of Composer of the Week for 2015 are devoted to DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001), marking the 100th anniversary of his birth later this year

(1) Lilburn's life and music from 1936-1949 presented by Philip Norman (R Mon 7pm) (RNZ)

Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

A Musical Offering - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2054)

KODÁLY: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (Peacock Variations) - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 322)

STRAUSS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 8 - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Garry Walker (Hyperion CDA 68044)

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

(13) SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57 - Anne Marie McDermot (pno), St Lawrence String Quartet

SCHUBERT: Fantasy in C D934 - Livia Sohn (vln), Pedja Muzijevic (pno) (recorded at Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina by ETV Radio and provided by WFMT)

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Pip Eastop (natural horn), Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (Hyperion CDA 68097)

String Quartet No 14 in G K387 - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902186)

MAGNARD: Le Rhin allemande; BUTTERWORTH: On the idle hill of summer, from A Shropshire Lad - Robin Tritschler (ten), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Signum SIGCD 401)

Conductor Erich Leinsdorf

MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 - Royal Phil (rec 1955) (DG 477 5847)

SCHARWENKA: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 32 - Earl Wild (pno), Boston SO (rec 1969) (Ivory Classics 77003)

KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Carol Neblett (sop), René Kollo (ten), Munich Radio Orch (rec 1975) (RCA GD 87767)

Brilliant Brass

Five programmes from Series 3, presented by David Bremner

(4) Today's programme features Superbrass, cornet virtuoso Richard Marshall and Kiwi composer John Psathas (RNZ)

2014 National Concerto Competition

Christchurch Symphony/Hamish McKeich

MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture

WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Nathaniel Smorti (cl)

SZYMANOWSKI: Violin Concerto No 1 Op 35 - Arna Morton (vln)

WALTON: Cello Concerto - Matthias Balzat (cello)

(recorded in the Aurora Centre, Christchurch by RNZ)

GURDJIEFF arr Lechner/Couturier: Sayyid chant and dance no 3/Hymn no 7; MOMPOU arr Lechner/Couturier: Canción y Danza 6 - Anja Lechner (cello), François Couturier (pno) (ECM 2367)

VINTER: Song & Dance - Verity Butler (cl), Gavin Sutherland (pno) (Campion CAMEO 2022)

Ten programmes

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

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(9) OFFENBACH: The Tales of Hoffmann, an opera fantastique, with a prologue, three acts and an epilogue, based on three short stories by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. In the opera, Hoffmann tells his friends about his three past loves, Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta

Hoffmann.................... Vittorio Grigolo

Olympia....................... Erin Morley

Antonia & Stella.......... Hibla Gerzmava

Giulietta....................... Christine Rice

Lindor/Coppélius/

Miracle/Dapertutto...... Thomas Hampson

Andrès/Cochenille/

Frantz/Pitchinaccio...... Tony Stevenson

Crespel/Luther............. David Pittsinger Hermann/Schlémil David Crawford Nathanaël/Spalanzani Dennis Petersen

Nicklausse/The Muse... Kate Lindsey

Antonia's mother......... Olesya Petrova

La Harpe...................... Seth Malkin

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Yves Abel (EBU)

CIMAROSA: Concerto in G for two flutes - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Alex Klein (ob), Czech National SO/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 080)

MILHAUD: Le train bleu - German Radio Phil/Robert Reimer (Hänssler CD 93.296)

11:00 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 12 in Ab Op 26 - Glenn Gould (pno) (Sony 88697 14855)

CHERUBINI: String Quartet No 2 in C - Hausmusik (CPO 999 949)

Disc 1

BANTOCK: Celtic Symphony; The Witch of Atlas; The Sea Reivers; A Hebridean Symphony - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66450)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

HUMMEL: Piano Septet No 1 in D minor Op 74; Piano Septet No 2 in C Op 114, Septet Militaire - Capricorn (Hyperion CDA 66396)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

STRAUSS: Arias from Guntram; Feuersnot; Die Frau ohne Schatten; Intermezzo; Die Liebe der Danae; Daphne; Die schweigsame Frau; Der Rosenkavalier - Ben Heppner (ten), Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5142)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

TARTINI: Violin Sonatas, in G minor Op 1/10, Didone abbandonata; in C minor Op 1/8; in F Op 1/2; Pastorale in A; Violin Sonatas, in F Op 1/12; in G minor, Devil's Trill - Locatelli Trio (Hyperion CDA 66430)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

HOLST: A Winter Idyll; Elegy in Memoriam William Morris, from Symphony in F Op 8; Indra Op 13; A Song of the Night Op 19/1; Sita, Interlude; Invocation Op 19/2; The Lure, Ballet Music; Dances, from Morning of the Year - Lorraine McAslan (vln), Alexander Baillie (cello), London Phil, London SO/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

6:00 BACH arr Balsom: First movement, Allegro, from Trio Sonata No 5 BWV529 - Alison Balsom (tpt), Alina Ibragimova (vln), Alistair Ross (hpschd), Mark Caudle (vla da gamba) (EMI 5 58047)

DVORÁK: Second movement, Waltz, from Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

DEBUSSY: Valse romantique - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 247)

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

MENDELSSOHN: He, watching over Israel, from Elijah - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Roy Thomson Hall Orch/Elmer Iseler (CBC SMCD 5054)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

BRAHMS arr Bailey: Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor - Zuill Bailey (cello), Awadagin Pratt (pno) (Telarc TEL 32664)

LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 1/7 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1889)

7:00 GLINKA: Overture in D - Musica Viva CO/Alexander Rudin (Fuga Libera FUG 571)

HANDEL: Chaconne in G HWV435 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

ZARZYCKI: Mazurka in G minor Op 26 - Eugene Ugorski (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Michal Dworzynski (Hyperion CDA 67990)

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

WEILL: Second & seventh movements, Moritat of Mack the Knife; Cannon Song, from The Threepenny Opera, Suite for Brass - tenThing/Tine Thing Helseth (dir/tpt) (EMI 0 88326)

ARNOLD: Four Cornish Dances - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Third movement, Adagio ma non tanto, from Violin Sonata No 3 in E BWV1016 - Lara St John (vln), Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp) (Ancalagon ANC 139)

WESTLAKE: Penguin ballet, from Antarctica - Tasmanian SO/David Porcelijn (ABC 462 017)

ELGAR: There is sweet music - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

CIMAROSA: Overture, La donna sempre al suo peggior s'appiglia - Toronto Chamber Orchestra/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570279)

BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Alain Planès (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2163)

PETIT: Tarentelle - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1348)

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

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

DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001)

Forest - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

Piano Sonata in F# minor - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2067)

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

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

BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Danish Horn Trio (Chandos CHAN 9964)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Glossa GCDSA 921116)

DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), London Phil/Daniel Barenboim (EMI CDC 7 47168)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso in B minor RV580 - Richard Tognetti (vln/dir), Australian CO (BIS SACD 2103)

PACHELBEL: Chorale Variations, Herzlich tut mich - Paul Rosoman (organ of Old St Paul's, Wellington) (Prestant Records PRE 002)

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Berlin State Orch/Andris Nelsons (DG 477 9520)

LOCKE: Jesu auctor clementie - Oliver Johnston (treble), Philip Cave (ten), Henry Wickham (bass), Choir of New College, Oxford, Parley of Instruments/Edward Higginbottom (Hyperion CDA 66373)

BODY: Second & third movements, Chedo; Samy Faly, from African Strings - Norio Sato, Kei Koh (gtrs) (Rattle RAT D009)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 29 in Bb Op 106, Hammerklavier - Igor Levit (pno) (rec 2013) (Sony 88883 70387)

SCHUBERT orch anon: An Silvia D891; orch Reger: Im Abendrot D799; Nacht und Träume D827 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (rec 2002) (DG 471 586)

NZ performers and composers

BOWEN: Flute Sonata Op 120 - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: A Chaos of Delight III - Madeleine Pierard (sop), women of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 - Barry Douglas (pno), New Zealand SO/Matthias Bamert (Private)

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

BOWEN: Miniatures Op 44 - Joop Celis (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10506)

SIBELIUS: Suite champêtre Op 98b - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7716/7)

GERSHWIN arr Terracini: Promenade: Walking the dog, from Shall We Dance? - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - James Kreger (cello), Gerald Robbins (pno) (Koch Discover DICD 920 586)

K JENKINS: Agnus Dei, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

GRIFFES: The White Peacock Op 7/1 - Buffalo PO/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559164)

6:00 HANDEL: Atalanta, Overture - Alison Balsom (tpt), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (hpschd/dir) (EMI 4 40329)

MOSZKOWSKI: Caprice Espagnol Op 37 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Private)

J THOMAS: David of the White Rock - Sebastien Lipman (harp) (Naxos 8.570372)

PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turnadot - Plácido Domingo (ten), Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 5 57580)

MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Placido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

VERDI: Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima, from Un ballo in maschera - Plácido Domingo (bar), Valencia State Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Sony 88883 733122)

DEMERSSEMAN/BERTHELEMY orch Dodgson: Duo Brillante, on themes from William Tell - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Pierre Pierlot (ob), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

DOMINGO JR arr Mercurio: Ave Maria - Plácido Domingo (ten), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Marcello Viotti (DG 471 575)

The first two weeks of Composer of the Week for 2015 are devoted to DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001), marking the 100th anniversary of his birth later this year

(1) Lilburn's life and music from 1936-1949 presented by Philip Norman (RNZ)

Aotearoa Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

Landfall in Unknown Seas - Allen Curnow (narr), Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

Wallace National Piano Festival 2014

Three programmes

(3) Jason Bae (pno)

BACH: Partita No 6 in E minor BWV830; RACHMANINOV: Moments Musicaux Op 16; HOLMES: Nocturne; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58; RODGERS arr Hough: My favourite things, from The Sound of Music; CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

FOOTE: Serenade for Strings Op 25 - London Octave/Kypros Markou (Dutton CDLX 7238)

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

STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Nicholas Cox (cl), Alan Pendlebury (bsn), Royal Liverpool Phil/Gerard Schwarz (Avie AV 2071)

11:00 PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No 2 in D Op 94a - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Atoll ACD 513)

BEACH: Theme & Variations - Emily Beynon (fl), Henk Rubingh, Marijn Mijnders (vlns), Roland Krämer (vla), Daniël Esser (cello) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26408)

KOMITAS arr Lechner/Couturier: Chinar es, Armenian folksong - Anja Lechner (cello), François Couturier (pno) (ECM 2367)

Disc 1

MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suites, No 1; No 2, Scene Hongroises; No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

3:20 approx - Disc 4

Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

4:35 approx - Disc 5

Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

6:00 BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Phil/Andrea Licata (Tring International TRP 046)

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

WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1 - Het Collectief/Reinbert de Leeuw (Zig Zag ZZT 345)

GRANADOS arr Miolin: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Third movement, Allegro vivacissimo, from Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 478 5338)

7:00 SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Overture - RCA Victor SO/Leopold Stokowski (RCA 09026 61503)

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

WOLF: Italian Serenade - Ana Bela Chaves (vla), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Erato 2292 45416)

ANDERSEN: Humorous variations on a Swedish tune Op 26 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (piccolo), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 6 in Eb - Concerto Cologne (Teldec 4509 98435)

8:00 Beauty Spot: LA RUE: O salutaris hostia - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525 (445 369))

SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 - CBSO/Mark Elder (Signum SIGCD 051)

CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Mirare MIR 096)

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

WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (RN Music MCCM 97033)

DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001)

Concert Overture in D - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

Violin Sonata in Eb - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

Prelude & Fugue in G minor, Antipodes - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

HAYDN: String Quartet in G minor Op 20/3 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

BRITTEN: Symphony for cello & orchestra Op 68 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Baltimore SO/David Zinman (CBS MK 44900)

GLAZUNOV: Saxophone Quartet in Bb - Habanera Saxophone Quartet (Alpha 041)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 4 in C minor D417, Tragic - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2154)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silence & Music; ELGAR: There is sweet music; BLISS: Sing, mortals! - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough, Matthew Searles (org) (Hyperion CDA 68047)

ALBINONI arr Giazotto: Adagio in G minor - Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), Simon Preston (org) (Philips 434 074)

Shakespeare Sonnets, No 28: How can I then return in happy plight - read by Geraldine Brophy

No 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought - read by Noelle McCarthy

No 32: If thou survive my well contented day - read by Paul Barrett (RNZ)

CHAMINADE: Flute Concertino Op 107 - James Galway (fl), Philip Moll (pno) (RCA 09026 68882)

SARASATE arr Francescatti: Caprice Basque Op 24 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDM 7 63533)

MORANÇON: Music for organ & strings - Hervé Desarbre (organ of Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce, Paris), Stringendo/Jean Thorel (Mandala MAN 5049)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral - Maria Stader (sop), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Murray Dickie (ten), Otto Wiener (bass), Stuttgart Radio SO/Carl Schuricht (rec 1961) (Hänssler CD 93.142)

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: Two Unpublished Pieces for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

JCF BACH: Flute Sonata in D minor - Sally Tibbles (fl), James Tibbles (fpno) (Atoll ACD 204)

LISZT: The Funeral Triumph of Tasso, from Three Funeral Odes - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.557847)

RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572887)

GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Gala Cakewalk, Finale, from Cakewalk Ballet - Louisville Orch/Akira Endo (Albany TROY 016)

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

ORTIZ: Romanesca - Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9820)

ROSSINI: Andante & Variations on Di tanti palpiti, from Tancredi - Alessandro Baccini (ob), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

COATES: Knightsbridge, from London Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Naxos 8.553596)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Last Spring; The Wounded Heart, from Elegiac Melodies Op 34 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

6:00 ANDERSON: The Waltzing Cat - Saint Louis Symphony/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

ROSSINI: Duetto buffo di due gatti - Victoria de los Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sops), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49238)

SULLIVAN: With cat-like tread, from The Pirates of Penzance

Samuel......................... George Cook

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Chorus, Royal Phil/Isidore Godfrey (Decca 433 868)

COPLAND: I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs - Marilyn Horne (mezzo), New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (New York Philharmonic NYP 9712)

HELY-HUTCHINSON: The owl and the pussy-cat - Roderick Williams (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Just Accord JUSCO 003)

D SCARLATTI: The cat's fugue - Varda Nishry (pno) (Decca 425 505)

HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5117)

BRIDGE: Miniatures for Piano Trio, Set 2 - Jack Liebeck (vln), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570792)

BRUCH: Swedish Dances Op 63 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 420 932)

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11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

VERDI: Preludes, Overtures & Ballet Music from, Oberto; Un giorno de regno; Nabucco; Ernani; I due Foscari; Giovanna d'Arco; Alzira; Attila; Macbeth; I masnadieri; Il corsaro; La battaglia di Legnano - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Chandos CHAN 9510)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb; SPOHR: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C minor; CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Bb - Emma Johnson (cl), English CO/Gerard Schwarz (ASV CD DCA 659)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

MARTUCCI: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor; La Canzone Dei Ricordi - Rachel Yakar (sop), Francesco Caramiello (pno), Philharmonia/Francesco D'Avalos (ASV CD DCA 690)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SCHUBERT: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor; Sonatina in G minor D408; Fantasy in C D934 - Robert Stallman (fl), Erika Nickrenz (pno) (ASV CD DCA 742)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

KETÈLBEY: In a Monastery Garden; The Adventurers, Overture; Chal Romano; Suite Romantique; Caprice Pianistique; The Clock and the Dresden Figures; Cockney Suite No 5, Bank Holiday; Cockney Suite No 3, At the Palais de Danse; In the Moonlight; Wedgwood Blue; Bells across the Meadows; The Phantom Melody; In a Persian Market - Slovak Phil Male Chorus, Czecho-Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)

6:00 JC BACH: Symphony in Bb Op 18/2 - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 752)

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

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

BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in A Op 45/4 - Sarah Francis (ob), Allegri String Quartet (Decca 433 173)

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

7:00 ROSSINI: Armida, Overture - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.572735)

GRANADOS: Spanish Dance No 5, Andaluza - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Tsiboulski APT-CD 101)

BOWERMAN: Fantasy on a Fugue of Elgar - Laura Samuel (vln), Anna Stokes (fl), Emily Pailthorpe (ob), London Serenata/Krzystof Chorzelski (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1362)

LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - Turin RAI Orch/Peter Maag (Arts Archives 43041)

8:00 Beauty Spot: DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

SAINT-SAËNS: Africa, Fantasy Op 89 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

PIAZZOLLA: Libertango - Ladislav Horák (accordion), Petr Nouzovsky (cello) (Supraphon SU 4161)

TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Scottish CO/Jahja Ling (Telarc CD 80227)

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

DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001)

Othello, incidental music for a production by Ngaio Marsh, Christchurch 1944 - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno), Cameron Rhodes (speaker) (Atoll ACD 941)

String Trio (1945) - Martin Riseley (vln), Donald Maurice (vla), Inbal Megiddo (cello) (Atoll ACD 142)

Three Songs for voice & piano - Tracey Chadwell (sop), Pamela Lidiard (pno) (BMS 421)

Diversions for Strings - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC 25088)

RACHMANINOV: Suite No 1 in G minor for two pianos Op 5, Fantaisie-tableaux - Peter Donohoe, Martin Roscoe (pno duo) (Naxos 8.557062)

NIELSEN: Aladdin Suite - San Francisco Symphony Chorus & Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (Decca 425 857)

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

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

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - London Mozart Players/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.573426)

MARTINU: Cello Sonata No 3 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (pno) (BIS SACD 2042)

GRETRY ed Almeida: Le Magnifique, Overture - Britanny Orch/Stefan Sanderling (ASV CD DCA 1095)

BACH: Cantata No 199, My heart is bathed in blood - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 463 591)

English Suite No 2 in A minor BWV807 - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 421 640)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

AURIC arr Lane: Prelude; The Siege of Burgundy; Finale, from Passport to Pimlico - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (rec 1997) (Silvascreen FILMCD 177)

DI CAPUA: O sole mio - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Gian Carlo Chiaramello

CANNIO: O surdato 'nnammurato - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Teatro Comunale Chorus & Orch, Bologna/Anton Guadagno (rel 1979) (Decca 410 015)

CARY: Main titles; Mrs Wilborce meets the Professor; Plots & preparations; The robbery; Disasters & discoveries; Demise of the gang; The triumph of Mrs Wilberforce, from The Ladykillers - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (rec 1997) (Silvascreen FILMCD 177)

GAMBARDELLA: O marenariello - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Teatro Comunale Chorus & Orch, Bologna/Anton Guadagno

TOSTI: Marechiare - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), National Phil/Gian Carlo Chiaramello (rel 1979) (Decca 410 015)

RAWSTHORNE: Prelude & Nocturne, from The Cruel Sea - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (rec 1997) (Silvascreen FILMCD 177)

DENZA: Funiculì-Funiculà - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Teatro Comunale Chorus & Orch, Bologna/Anton Guadagno (rel 1979) (Decca 410 015)

IRELAND: The stampede for water, from The Overlanders - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (rec 1997) (Silvascreen FILMCD 177)

NZ performers and composers

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 4 in Eb K282 - Henry Wong Doe (pno) (Private Recording 2003A)

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

STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

WEBER: Oberon, Overture - Israel Phil/Daniel Barenboim (RCA 09026 68768)

J HARRISON: Bredon Hill - Lorraine McAslan (vln), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 317)

BERNSTEIN arr Friend: Somewhere, from West Side Story - Lisa Friend (fl), Martin Radford (cello), Mark Kinkaid (pno) (Signum SIGCD 199)

GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Sydney Philharmonia Motet Choir/Antony Walker (ABC 465 684)

J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods Op 325 - Vienna Phil/Daniel Barenboim (Sony 88883 792272)

6:00 STILL ed Alexa Still: Here's One - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch 3-7192)

CARSE: Two Sketches - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

MAURER: Three pieces - Center City Brass Quintet (Collins Classics 14892)

VIVALDI arr Red Priest: Four Seasons, Autumn - Red Priest (Dorian DOR 90317)

SCHUMANN: Gesänge der Frühe Op 133 - Michael Endres (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 84386)

WARLOCK: Six English Tunes, The witch; Daphne; Strawberry leaves; Tickle my toe; Sweet youth; A toy - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

Beethoven's Piano Concertos

As an introduction to the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's upcoming complete cycle, Indra Hughes presents an overview of Beethoven's five Piano Concertos - as well as a little-known piano concerto that Beethoven wrote when he was just 13 years old (RNZ)

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Auckland Arts Festival 2015

Water and Light

Katie Zagórski (fl), Patricia Wright (sop), Graduate Choir, Choir of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland Philharmonia/Kenneth Young

MUSSORGSKY: Dawn on the Moscow River, Prelude from Khovanshchina, Act 1

MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)

TAKEMITSU: I Hear the Water Dreaming

(interval)

YOUNG: In Paradisum (Into Paradise) (RNZ)

RODRIGO: Elogio de la guitarra - Charles Ramirez (gtr) (Signum SIGCD 244)

BRAHMS: 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)

11:00 COOKE: Clarinet Sonata in Bb - Andrew Simon (cl), Warren Lee (pno) (Naxos 8.573022)

JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata - Talich String Quartet (Calliope CAL 9699)

WITT: Quartet in Eb for horn, violin, viola & cello - Consortium Classicum (CPO 777 486)

Disc 1

HEENAN: Jack Winter's Dream: Nine Portraits for Orchestra; Webfoot Charlie's Shanty; Three Sea Songs; A Maori Suite; War and Peace, Suite for Orchestra - Donald Munro (bar), Donna Awatere, Laurette Gibb (sops), New Zealand Youth Choir & Orch, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Juan Matteucci, Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SOLER: Fandango; BOCCHERINI: Minuet; ANON: My Lady Carey's Dompe; GLUCK: Musette; PHILIPS: Galliard; COUPERIN: L'Arlequine; FARNABY: Tower Hill; PURCELL: Sailor's Song; A New Ground; A New Scotch Tune in G; D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in A minor; in D minor; in A; ANON: Coranto; MOZART: Rondo alla turca; ANON: Scottish Gigue; EXAUDET: Gavotte; ANGLES: Aria; SOLER: Sonatas, No 10 in B minor; No 117 in D minor; No 90 in F#; CABANILLES: Batalla Imperial - Jonathan Woods (hpschd) (Allegro PDC 1086)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

DEBUSSY: Ariettes oubliées; BIZET: La coccinelle; Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe; Pastel; Vous ne priez pas; MESSIAEN: Trois mélodies; FAURÉ: Rêve d'amour; Au bord de l'eau; Notre amour; POULENC: Bluet; Banalités; Hôtel; Voyage à Paris; Métamorphoses - Sylvia McNair (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Philips 446 656)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

PROKOFIEV: Sonatas, No 1 in F minor Op 1; No 2 in D minor Op 14; No 3 in A minor Op 28; Sonatinas, in E minor Op 54/1; in G Op 54/2; Visions Fugitives Op 22 - John Lill (pno) (ASV CD DCA 753)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

ELGAR: Serenade in E minor for strings Op 20; MOZART: Serenade No 6 in D K239; DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Soloists of Australia/Ronald Thomas; London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

6:00 CUNNINGHAM: The gentle light that wakes me - Nicola Benedetti, Aly Bain (vlns), Phil Cunningham (pno) (Decca 478 6690)

PACHELBEL: Canon in D - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CMS 5 66650)

HAMELIN: Etude No 7 in Eb minor, after Tchaikovsky (for the left hand alone), from 12 Etudes in all the minor keys - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

HANSON: Serenade - Alexa Still (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp), NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7063)

GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 5/10 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 040 301)

CHAUSSON: Andante & Allegro - Paul Meyer (cl), Eric Le Sage (pno) (Denon CO 79282)

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

7:00 BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 415 066)

CHAUSSON: Two Duos Op 11, La nuit; Le réveil - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 5 74206)

GERSHWIN arr Brahn: I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Joshua Bell (vln), London SO/John Williams (Sony SK 60659)

PAINE: Alberton Duet, from Alberton - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Bruce Paine BNP DVD 001)

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

TRAD arr Pohjola: A mighty fortress is our God - Jukka Perko (sax), Virtuosi di Kuhmo CO/John Storgårds (EMI 7243 594552 8)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Deh, vieni alla finestra, from Don Giovanni - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 445 866)

FAURÉ: Second movement, Scherzo (Allegro vivo), from Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Domus (Hyperion CDA 66166)

HAWES: Rain - English CO/Patrick Hawes (Black Box BBM 1081)

HOROVITZ: Diversions on a Familiar Theme (Schumann's Merry Peasant, from the Album for the Young Op 68) - Andrew Simon (cl), Warren Lee (pno) (Naxos 8.573022)

KOMITAS arr Aslamazian: Dear Shogher; The sky clouded over; Allegro, from Ten Armenian Folk Songs & Dances - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 10094)

A RITCHIE: Down in the Brunner Mine - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Berlin SO/Kurt Sanderling (Brilliant Classics 6328)

DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001)

Festival Overture - Orchestra Wellington/Kenneth Young (Vector Wgtn Orch VWO 001)

Chaconne - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

SPOHR: Symphony No 4 in F Op 86, The Consecration of Sounds - Hanover Radio Phil/Howard Griffiths (CPO 777 745)

KHAN: Serenade in A minor - Hohenstaufen Ensemble (Hänssler CD 98.010)

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

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Agustin Anievas (pno), New Philharmonia Orch/Moshe Atzmon (EMI 5 00871)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

BYRD: Infelix ego - Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe (PHI LPH 014)

CPE BACH: Trio Sonata in A Wq146 - Helianthus Ensemble (Brilliant Classics 94884)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello/dir), ASMF (EMI CDC 7 49305)

GOUNOD: Sanctus, from St Cecilia Mass - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, English CO/Barry Rose (Philips 412 629)

HOVHANESS: Spirit of Trees, Sonata for harp & guitar - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), David Leisner (gtr) (Telarc CD 80530)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PROKOFIEV: Cinderella, Act 2 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 445 830)

Piano Sonata No 3 in A minor Op 28; Suggestion diabolique Op 4/4 - Alexis Weissenberg (pno) (Philips 456 988)

NZ performers and composers

BODY: Rainforest - Bridget Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 709)

WALTON arr Morrell: Spitfire Prelude - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition - Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier (RNZ)

RAMEAU: Les Sauvages, from Les Indes galantes - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 475 7780)

MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Wind players of ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 726)

HUMPERDINCK: Humoresque in E - Bamberg Sinfonia/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-1197)

SCHUMANN arr Liszt: Widmung - Yundi Li (pno) (DG 471 585)

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

PUCCINI: String Quartet in D - Quartetto Puccini (ASV CD DCA 909)

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

6:00 ALWYN: Harvest Home - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570359)

GRIEG: In Autumn, Overture - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 427 321)

CHAMINADE orch Uy: Automne - Michael Guttman (vln), Royal Phil/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 855)

GOODALL: Russet fall; Charcoal burning; Cider harvest; Poppies, from The Seasons, Autumn - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

JOYCE: Dream of Autumn - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223694)

MERCER arr Rutherford: Autumn leaves - Imogen Thirlwall (mezzo), New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2005/2006/Elise Bradley, Ruth Eckford (pno), Hannah Darroch (sax), Robert Wiremu (dbass), Rowan Johnston (perc) (Private)

Jeremy Woodside

The Christchurch organist, now working in the UK, is in conversation with Margaret Ogilvie (RNZ)

Songs from Vienna

Christine Brewer (sop), Auckland Philharmonia/Leo Hussain

MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter; BEETHOVEN: Ah! Perfido Op 65; MARX: Song selection, Selige Nacht; Marienlied; Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht; Hat dich die Liebe berürht; Waldseligkeit; Der bescheidene Schäfer; MAHLER: First movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 10 in F# minor (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

BACH: Prelude & Fugue in E minor BWV548, The Wedge - Anton Heiller (organ at St Mary's Church, Hälsingborg, Sweden) (Vanguard VCD 72014)

DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Claire Jones (harp), English CO/Paul Watkins (Signum SIGCD 216)

MARX: Quartetto in modo antico - Thomas Christian Ensemble (CPO 777 066)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Chamber Concerto for oboe & string orch Op 146 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

11:00 HERRMANN: Clarinet Quintet, Souvenirs de Voyage - Julian Bliss (cl), Tippett Quartet (Signum SIGCD 234)

BRYARS: Tre laude dolce - Matthew Barley (cello) (Signum SIGCD 318)

PAULUS: The Day is Done - Vox Humana/David Childs (Naxos 8.572511)

An Englishman Abroad

Share a light musical selection with Brian Kay in this 10-part series

(10) Friends pictured within

Our Englishman abroad celebrates a lifetime of friendships and connections with musical luminaries such as John Eliot Gardiner, Richard Hickox and Andrew Davis

1:00 approx - Disc 1

FINZI: A Severn Rhapsody; New Year Music; Love's Labours Lost, Three Soliloquies; Romance in Eb Op 11; Prelude in F minor; The Fall of the Leaf; Introit in F; Eclogue Op 10; Grand Fantasia & Toccata Op 38 - Peter Katin (pno), New Philharmonia/Vernon Handley; London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 239)

2:20 approx - Disc 2

Southern Voices

Opera arias performed by Frances Alda, Rosina Buckman, Malvina Major, Kiri Te Kanawa (sops), Heather Begg, Patricia Payne (mezzos), Peter Baillie, Anson Austin, Richard Greager, Patrick Power, Keith Lewis (tens), Brian Drake, Barry Mora, Denis Dowling, Bryan Drake (bars), Donald McIntyre, Rodney Macann (bbars), Noel Mangin, Oscar Natzka, Inia Te Wiata (basses) (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

3:30 approx - Disc 3

BRAHMS: Lerchengesang Op 70/2; Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38; Feldeinsamkeit Op 86/2; Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op 105/1; Sapphische Ode Op 94/4; Liebestreu Op 3/1; Scherzo, from FAE Sonata in A minor; Minnelied III Op 71/5; Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99; Wiegenlied Op 49/15 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Awadagin Pratt (pno) (Telarc TEL 32664)

4:45 approx - Disc 4

DEBUSSY: La Boîte à joujoux; Six Epigraphes antiques; Pagodas & La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes; L'Isle Joyeuse; Le triomphe de Bacchus - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572568)

6:00 BRIDGE: Two poems, The open air; The story of my heart - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

PAGANINI arr Kreisler: Third movement, La campanella, from Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 7 - Ning Feng (vln), Thomas Hoppe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80807)

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

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 214)

HOPE: Four French Dances - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

7:00 WEBER: Clarinet Concertino in Eb Op 26 - Janet Hilton (cl), CBSO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8305)

SARASATE arr A Labrie: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Similia (Analekta AN 2 9819)

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

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

SOUSA arr Bourgeois: People Who Live in Glass Houses, Ballet Suite - Royal Norwegian Navy Band/Keith Brion (Naxos 8.559397)

8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ: Morceau de concours - Jaime Martin (fl), Alison Nicholls (harp) (Hyperion CDA 67725)

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

CHOPIN: Variations on Non più mesta, from Rossini's La Cenerentola - Emily Beynon (fl), Philip Moore (pno) (Naxos 8.572585)

ZIEHRER: This kiss to all the world, Waltz Op 442 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223814)

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

DELIUS: Idylle de printemps - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7528)

DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001)

String Quartet in E minor - Martin Riseley, Jun He (vlns), Donald Maurice (vla), Inbal Megiddo (cello) (Atoll ACD 142)

Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 2 in F minor Op 73 - Leonore Piano Trio (Hyperion CDA 68015)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 44 - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Dietrich Henschel (bar), Fritz Schwinghammer (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1875)

NIELSEN: Symphony No 1 in G minor Op 7 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0715)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

CACCINI: Dolcissimo suspiro; Dalla porta d'Oriente; Torna, deh torna - Roberta Invernizzi (sop), Craig Marchitelli (theorbo) (Glossa GCD 922902)

WF BACH: Overture-Suite in G minor - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

BOYCE: Symphony No 2 in A - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 419 631)

MASCAGNI: Easter Hymn, from Cavalleria Rusticana - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Julius Rudel (Decca 458 867)

SCHUBERT: Moments musicaux D780 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 422 076)

HANDEL: They shall receive a glorious kingdom, from The Ways of Zion Do Mourn HWV264 - Tim Mead (countertenor), Sean Clayton (ten), Lisandro Abadie (bar), Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Les Arts Florissants AF 004)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in F minor K69; in Bb K70; in G K71; in C K72 - Scott Ross (hpschd) (Erato ECD 75404)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

DUFAY: Rite majorem Jacobum canamus; Balsamus et munda cera - Binchois Consort/Andrew Kirkman (rec 1997) (Hyperion CDA 66997)

HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 76/5 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

MOZART: Symphony No 19 in Eb K132 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (rec 1979) (Oiseau-Lyre 417 592)

NZ performers and composers

LISZT: Hymne à Sainte Cécile - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)

HAMILTON: Three Songs from Othello - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Ode CD ODE 1308)

MENDELSSOHN: Fugue in Eb Op 81/4 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570002)

MCLEOD: The Emperor & the Nightingale - Helen Medlyn (narrator), Kirstin Eade (fl), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572671)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in G minor Op 46/8 - Israel Phil/István Kertész (Decca 425 087)

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

ALBENIZ: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 477 9338)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CD EMX 2169)

TRAD: Improvisations on Four English Folksongs, O Waly Waly; I will give my love an apple; The three ravens; Barbara Allen - Rachael Beesley (vln), Anthea Cottee (cello), Paul Dyer (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 428)

ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - West-Eastern Divan Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Warner Classics 2564 62791)

KREISLER: Caprice viennois Op 2 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

PURCELL ed Britten: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - English CO/Benjamin Britten (London 425 160)

6:00 GLIÈRE: Russian Sailor's Dance, from The Red Poppy - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Chandos CHAN 9160)

H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs - Leeds Festival Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.553981)

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

BESSER: Wellington Harbour - Andrew Pask (bass cl), Jonathan Besser (pno) (Besser Music 1995a)

BLOCH: Poems of the Sea - London SO/Dalia Atlas (Naxos 8.573241)

New Horizons

Ten programmes

(1) With William Dart (RNZ)

WOMAD Taranaki 2014

Thirteen programmes

(6) Femi Kuti and La Chiva Gantiva

Featuring Afrobeat from Nigerian musician Femi Kuti, eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti, and also Latin rhythms from La Chiva Gantiva, a group from Brussels who are ex-pat Colombians (RNZ)

BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons (BR Klassik 900121)

MILHAUD: Fantaisie pastorale Op 188 - Michael Korstick (pno), South West German Radio Orch/Alun Francis (CPO 777 162)

AFANASSIEV: String Quartet, Volga - Leipzig String Quartet (MDG 307 1758)

BRAHMS: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3868)

11:00 GÁL: Divertimento for mandolin & harp Op 80 - Sonja Wiedemer (mandolin), Petra van der Heide (harp) (Antes BMCD 31.9171)

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