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Saturday 30 July 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Two Great Romantics

The rivalry between Tchaikovsky and Brahms was legendary, and it went beyond mere distaste for each other's musical direction. Thomas Goss tells the story of the relationship between two of the giants of 19th century music.

1:00 approx - Disc 1

BRIDGE: Suite for String Orchestra; DELIUS: Sonata for String Orchestra; BRIDGE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

2:10 approx - Disc 2

WAGNER: In fernem Land and Mein lieber Schwan!, from Lohengrin; MOZART: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön; Die Weisheitslehre dieser Knaben, from The Magic Flute; SCHUBERT: In tiefbewegter Brust, from Fierrabras, Schon wenn es beginnt zu tagen, from Alfonso & Estrella; BEETHOVEN: Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!, from Fidelio; WAGNER: Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond, from Die Walküre; Amfortas! Die Wunde! and Nur eine Waffe taugt, from Parsifal - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Mahler CO, Claudio Abbado (Decca 478 1463)

3:20 approx - Disc 3

MENDELSSOHN: Preludes & Fugues, in E minor Op 35/1; in D Op 35/2; in B minor Op 35/3; in Ab Op 35/4; in F minor Op 35/5; in Bb Op 35/6; Overture, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; Andante & Variations in Bb Op 83a; Andante & Allegro brillant in A Op 92 - Mi-Joo Lee (pno), Klaus Hellwig (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 904 1653)

4:35 approx - Disc 4

MARAIS: Suite in D; Suite in G; Suite in D for Robert Visée; Suite in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 5 66650)

SAMMONS: The Faithful Bird - Paul Barritt (vln), Catherine Edwards (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67096)

WF BACH: Sinfonia in F F88 - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

BRAHMS: Nänie Op 82 - Bavarian Radio Chorus & SO/Colin Davis (RCA 09206 61201)

VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.553987)

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

7:00 MENDELSSOHN: Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage, Overture - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)

SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals - Natalie Clein (cello), Julia Lynch, Judith Keaney (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 68002)

ELGAR: Salut d'Amour Op 12 - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

THEODORAKIS arr Bessas: The fire inside, from Zorba the Greek - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

RAMEAU: Air tendre pour les Muses, from Le temple de la gloire - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

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

M HAYDN: Divertimento in G - German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 513)

8:00 SULLIVAN: Imperial March - BBC Concert Orch/Owain Arwel Hughes (CPO 999 171)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen, from Mozart's The Magic Flute - Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (pno) (Warner 2564 61346)

CAMILLERI: Il-Weghda, Intermezzo - Godfrey Mifsud (cl), Bournemouth SO/Brian Schembri (Diversions DDV 24126)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448 (4) - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (perc), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus, Overture - Berlin Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 3984 24489)

9:00 AM. The Works

DEBUSSY: La Mer - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 439 896)

String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Belcea Quartet (EMI 5 74020)

10:00 AM. Your Choice

HAYDN: Symphony No 99 in Eb - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0702)

SCHUBERT: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Nicolas Deletaille (arpeggione), Paul Badura-Skoda (fpno) (Fuga Libera FUG 529)

MOZART: Voi che sapete, from The Marriage of Figaro - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Berlin Phil/Daniel Barenboim (Warner 2564 696896)

ADDINSELL arr Douglas: Warsaw Concerto - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10046)

KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)

HOVHANESS: Symphony No 50, Mount St Helens - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3137)

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

Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

1:00 PM. Best of Upbeat

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

2:00 PM. Global Sounds

Indigenous music from around the world

3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

Bold as Brass

John Foster (tpt), Woolston Brass, Christchurch SO/Kenneth Young

SIBELIUS: Finlandia; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus; HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; YOUNG: Symphony No 3 (world première & broadcast) (recorded in the New Zealand Airforce Museum, Wigram by RNZ)

4:25 PM. Early Evening Classics

RODRIGO: Concierto madrigal - Amadeus Guitar Duo: Dale Kavanagh & Thomas Kirchhoff, Internationale Phil/Horst-Hans Bäcker (Hänssler CD 98.598)

5:00 PM. The New Jazz Archive

Hosted by long-time jazz composer and musician, Jeff Haas, The New Jazz Archive is a series exploring the stories and sounds of jazz's place in American life.

This week, it's the brilliant and tumultuous life of Chet Baker. Chet Baker's James Dean-like good looks and emotional trumpet playing represented everything that was cool about "cool jazz." But his life was the opposite of that in almost every way. Biographer James Gavin talks about Chet's life and music - from his unlikely breakthrough as one of the most popular trumpeters of the 1950s to the drug addiction which nearly unravelled his career. And we'll explore Chet's surprising, controversial work as a jazz vocalist and trace his role in bringing new life to one of jazz's most treasured standards. (American Public Radio)

6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

CARR: Aubade - Alan Vivian (cl), Sydney SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi SLD 76)

BODY: Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 118)

BORNE: Fantaisie Brillante on Bizet's Carmen - Alexa Still (fl), Rae de Lisle (pno) (RNZ)

RR BENNETT: Songs before sleep - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

7:00 PM. Evening Classics

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

7:30 PM. Music Alive

Mozart & Strauss

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Samuel Jacobs (horn), New Zealand SO/Edo de Waart

ESCHER: Musique pour l'esprit en deuil; MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495

(interval)

STRAUSS: Symphonia Domestica Op 53 (RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

DITTERSDORF: Symphony in D, Il Combattimento delle passioni umani -Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

STANFORD: Piano Quartet No 1 in F Op 15 - David Adams (vla), Gould Piano Trio (Naxos 8.573388)

BRUCH: Concerto in E minor for clarinet & viola Op 88 - Ludmila Peterková (cl), Alexander Besa (vla), Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3554)

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 2 in A Op 68 - Takács Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67987)

Sunday 31 July 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor, Unfinished; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb, Eroica - BBC Phil/Stephen Kovacevich, Günther Herbig (BBC Music MM 136)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SMYTH: String Quartet in E minor; String Quintet in E Op 1 - Mannheim String Quartet, Joachim Griesheimer (cello) (CPO 999 352)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

MUSSORGSKY: Songs & Dances of Death; The Nursery; The Puppet-Show; Forgotten; The Seminarist; Darling Savishna; The He-Goat, A Wordly Story; Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea - Sergei Leiferkus (bar), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605 51229)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

G GABRIELLI: Canzona noni toni; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8; GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3; MANFREDINI: Concerto in G minor Op 3/10; ALBINONI: Concerto in A minor Op 5/5; TORELLI: Concerto musicale in D minor Op 6/10; LOCATELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 1/9; CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/7 - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 436 224)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GINASTERA: Piezas Infantiles; Milonga, from Dos Canciones Op 3; Tres Piezas Op 6; Malambo Op 7; Suite de Criollas Op 15; Rondo Sobre Temas Infantiles Argentinos Op 19; Piano Sonata No 2 Op 53; Toccata; Piano Sonata No 3 Op 55 - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 880)

6:00 AM. Sanctuary

PEROTIN: Beata viscera - Rebecca Hickey (sop) (Naxos 8.557340)

ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

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

TSABROPOULOS: Three pieces after Byzantine hymns - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888 (981 9613))

FAURÉ/MESSAGER: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville - Choeur de la Chapelle Royale, Petits Chanteurs de St-Louis, Ensemble Musique Oblique/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1292)

AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Ambrose Op 4/2 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

BENJAMIN: Five Negro Spirituals - members of the Locrian Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7110)

K JENKINS: Ave verum corpus - Bryn Terfel (bar), Simon Keenlyside (bar), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (DG 477 5563)

7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

8:00 AM. Grace Notes

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

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

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

CANTELOUBE: Pastourelle, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 443 334)

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

BRAHMS arr Heifetz/Reynolds: Contemplation - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London SO/Daniel Harding (DG 987 0577)

FALVO arr Morini: Dicitencello vuje - Marco Beasley (ten), Guido Morini (pno) (NBE Live NBECD 010)

BARBER: Adagio for Strings - New Zealand SO/ÁJames Sedares (Universal 399 878)

9:00 AM. The Works

NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 - Mari Kodama (pno), Berlin Deutsches SO/Kent Nagano (Analekta AN 2 9955)

JANÁČEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2178)

HOVHANESS: Symphony No 22, City of Light - Seattle Symphony/Alan Hovhaness (Naxos 8.559158)

11:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

Hosted by Elliott Forrest, with commentary by the Chamber Music Society's Artistic Director, David Finckel, recorded in New York City

American Winds

NORMAN: Light Screens - Tara Helen O'Connor (fl), Kristin Lee (vln), Richard O'Neill (vla), Mihai Maric (cello)

BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata - David Shifrin (cl), Anne-Marie McDermott (pno)

COPLAND: Sextet for clarinet, piano & string quartet - David Shifrin (cl), Anne-Marie McDermott (pno), Amphion String Quartet (WFMT)

Noon The Critic's Choice

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

HAYDN: The Creation, Part 1 - Sara Tynan (sop), Jeremy Ovenden (ten), Matthew Brook (bbar), Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16135)

BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565 - Masaaki Suzuki (organ of Martin's Church, Groningen, Netherlands) (BIS SACD 2111)

1:00 PM. Vintage Years

Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony

RAVEL: La Valse (rec 1941) (RCA 09026 61895)

CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - with Jascha Heifetz (vln) (rec 1945) (Testament SBT 1216)

IBERT: Escales (rec 1946) (RCA 09026 61895)

BRAHMS: Alto Rhapsody Op 53 - with Marian Anderson (mezzo), San Francisco Chorus (rec 1945) (RCA 7911-2-RG)

2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Celluloid Circus

While movie lovers around the country are enjoying the 2016 NZ Film Festival, Wayne Brittenden delves into the heyday of the New Zealand picture theatre - an integral part of Kiwi cultural life between 1925-1970 (RNZ)

3:00 PM. Sunday Concert

Wallace Piano Festival 2016

Four programmes

(1) Boris Giltburg (pno)

RACHMANINOV: Études-tableaux Op 33; SHOSTAKOVICH arr Giltburg: String Quartet No 8 in C minor

SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 4 in F sharp Op 30

PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 8 in Bb Op 84 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

4:45 PM. An Afternoon Serenade

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

5:00 PM. New Horizons

William Dart hosts a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, following a personal trail to explore where his ears, gaze and nose guide him (RNZ)

5:30 PM. Early Evening Classics

MOZART: Concerto in Eb for two pianos K365 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), English Chamber Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim (pno/dir) (Decca 421 036)

6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Four operas from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

(4) MASSENET: Werther, an opera in four acts

Werther............................Vittorio Grigolo

Charlotte.......................... Joyce DiDonato

Sophie.............................. Heather Engebretson

Albert............................... David Bizic

The Bailli......................... Jonathan Summers

Schmidt............................ François Piolino

Johann.............................. Yuriy Yurchuk

Kathchen.......................... Emily Edmonds

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Antonio Pappano (BBC)

9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

NZ composers and performers

FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op 18 - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Peter Scholes (cl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

A RITCHIE: Music for Tristan - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World (2) - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quartet in Bb Op 41 - Avos Piano Quartet (Brilliant Classics 94652)

HANDEL: Chandos Anthem No 10, The Lord is my light - Elizabeth Poole (sop), Andrew Murgatroyd (ten), BBC Singers, Orch of The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (BBC Music BBC MM 301)

SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C D956 - Artemis Quartet, Truls Mörk (cello) (Virgin 5 02113)

Monday 1 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

FARQUHAR: String Quartet; Magpies and Other Birds; Suite for Guitar; In Despite of Death; Echoes and Reflections - John Mills (gtr), David Griffiths (bar), Terence Dennis (pno), New Zealand String Quartet, New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

LECLAIR: Overture No 1 in G; Sonata No 1 in B minor; Overture No 2 in D; Sonata No 2 in A; Overture No 3 in D; Sonata No 3 in G minor - Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0542)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

PALIASHVILI: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Cantus Sacred Music Ensemble/Ludmila Arshavskaya (Olympia OCD 483)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

DVORÁK: Piano Trios, in F minor Op 65; in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Emanuel Ax (pno), Young Uck Kim (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (CBS MK 44527)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

CHOPIN arr Godowsky: Etudes, No 7; 8; 19 and 31 for the left hand, No 45; SCHUBERT arr Godowsky: Good Night; Litany; Music for Rosamunde; STRAUSS arr Godowsky: Serenade; ALBÉNIZ arr Godowsky: Tango; LOEILLES arr Godowsky: Gigue from Renaissance; GODOWSKY: Passacaglia; Prelude & Fugue on BACH for left hand; Etude Macabre; Puppet Shadow Plays; The Gardens of Buitenzorg, from Suite Java - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Musica Viva MVCD 1026)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 RESPIGHI ed di Vittorio: Serenata - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.573168)

BRAHMS arr Koncz: Two Waltzes - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Leonidas Kavakos, Christoph Koncz (vlns), Antoine Tamestit (vla), Stephan Koncz (cello) (DG 481 1409)

GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3 - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)

ERNST: Romances Op 15 - Thomas Christian (vln), Evgeny Sinayskiy (pno) (CPO 777 894)

GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34 - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)

LECUONA arr Grandjany: Malagueña, from Andalucia, Spanish Suite - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

ADDINSELL arr Isaacs: The Passionate Friends, Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)

7:00 EMMANUEL: Ouverture pour un conte gai - Slovenian Phil/Emmanuel Villaume (Timpani 1C 1189)

LISZT: Die Lorelei - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Decca 425 820)

RAFF: Cavatina, from Pieces Op 85 - Yuko Nishino (vln), Philharmonia/Yondani Butt (ASV CD DCA 1000)

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

BERNSTEIN: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs - Michael Collins (cl), Peter Donohoe (pno), London Sinfonietta/Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 7 47991)

BALAKIREV arr Lyapunov: Islamey - Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Goetzel (Onyx 4124)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BEETHOVEN: Mir ist so wunderbar, from Fidelio - Hildegard Behrens, Sonia Ghazarian (sops), David Kuebler (ten), Hans Sotin (bass), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 448 060)

PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany - NZSO CO (RNZ)

ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Vega Wind Quintet (LDR LDRC 1002)

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

MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Lydia Artymiw (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8326)

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

9:00 LEIGH: Agincourt, Overture - New Philharmonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 289)

JT EICHNER: Harp Concerto in D Op 5/2 - Silke Aichhorn (harp), Kurpfalz CO/Stefan Fraas (CPO 777 835)

RÓZSA: Ben Hur, Suite for Orchestra - BBC/Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10806)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

FRANCK: String Quartet in D - Dante Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67664)

SCHUMANN: Humoreske in Bb Op 20 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10841)

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

12:00 FALLA: El amor brujo - Nancy Fabiola Herrera (mezzo), Mexico State SO/Enrique Bátiz (RegisC 1271)

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

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

KLECZYNSKI: String Trio in G Op 4/2 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

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

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572227)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

GINASTERA: Overture to the Creole "Faust" Op 9 - Granada City Orch/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1808)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

CHOPIN: Polonaises Op 26, No 1 in C# minor; No 2 in Eb minor - Rafal Blechacz (pno) (DG 479 0928)

K JENKINS: Euphonium Concerto - David Childs (euphonium), BBC National Orch of Wales/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10830)

MORTIMER: Three Brazilian Sketches - I Salonisti (Decca 425 228)

VERDI: Ah, fors'è lui, from La Traviata - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Frank Lopardo (ten), Royal Opera House Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 458 274)

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

BRIAN: Festal Dance - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7314)

MOSCHELES: Fantasy, Variations & Finale Op 46 - Nash Ensemble (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0007)

5:00 ENESCU: Overture on popular Romanian themes Op 32 - Tampere Phil/Hannu Lintu (Ondine ODE 1197)

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

BEAVER: Cavalcade of Youth - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Prelude & Fugues, No 1 in G minor; No 2 in D, from The Well-Tempered Guitars Op 199 - Andrea Pace, Cristiano Poli Cappelli (gtrs) (Brilliant Classics 94833)

SARASATE arr Bryan/orch Hazell: Gypsy Airs Op 20 - Katherine Bryan (fl), Royal Scottish National Orch/Jac van Steen (Linn CKD 520)

6:00 GLASS: Primacy of Number - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), members of Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (Sony SK 87709)

BLISS: Bliss (A One Step) - Stephen de Pledge (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1128)

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

FRANCK: Panis angelicus, from Mass for three voices - Bryn Terfel (bar), Aled Jones (ten), London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 477 5563)

NYMAN: Trysting fields, from Drowning by Numbers - Daniel Hope (vln), Juan Lucas Aisemberg (vla), Berlin CO/Simon Halsey (DG 479 0571)

COATES: Fourth movement, Rhythm (20th Century), from Four Centuries Suite - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 213)

AURIC: Five bagatelles - Philippe Corre, Edouard Exerjean (pno duet) (Pierre Verany PV 786091)

ALBINONI: Concerto No 4 in G in six parts Op 2/8 - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2106)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Over the next seven weeks we bring you a selection of concerts from this year's BBC Proms

Lucy Crowe (sop), Paula Murrihy (mezzo), Robin Tritschler (ten), Roderick Williams (bar), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Stephen Cleobury

MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165; HAYDN: Mass No 10 in C, Missa in tempore belli (Paukenmesse); FAURÉ: Pavane; Cantique de Jean Racine; Requiem Op 48 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:30 PM. Classic Shostakovich

Piano Trio No 1 in C minor Op 8 - Smetana Trio (Supraphon SU 4145)

Ballet Suite No 1 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8730)

10:00 PM. Day's End

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in A minor D385 - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (fpno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7445)

RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Barcelona SO/Eiji Oue (EMI 6 98361)

STRAUSS: Death & Transfiguration Op 24 - Atlanta SO/Donald Runnicles (Telarc CD 80661)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 6 in Eb Op 70/2 - Borodin Trio (Brilliant Classics 93901)

Tuesday 2 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

ROSSINI: Overtures, William Tell; Il Signor Bruschino; Bianca e Falliero; Barber of Seville; Armida; Semiramide; Línganno Felice; Matilde di Shabran; Demetrio e Polibio; La Gazza Ladra - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 218)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

CARULLI: Guitar Concerto in E minor Op 140, Petit Concerto de Société; MOZART arr Romero: Adagio in E K261; MOLINO: Guitar Concerto in E minor; MOZART arr Romero: Rondo in C K373; CARULLI: Guitar Concerto in A Op 8a - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF/Iona Brown (Philips 426 263)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music; Five Mystical Songs; Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Flos Campi - Thomas Allen (bar), Nobuko Imai (vla), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66420)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

MACDOWELL: Concert Etude; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Aprés un rêve; GOTTSCHALK: Manchega; BEACH: Scottish Legend; Tyrolean Valse-Fantasia; Fireflies; GOTTSCHALK: The Union; BEACH: A Hermit Thrush at Eve; MACDOWELL: Hexentanz; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Nell; DOWLAND arr Grainger: Now, O noe, I needs must part; CARRENO: Corbeille de fleurs; GOTTSCHALK: Home sweet home; Souvenir de Porto Rico; GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry; GERSHWIN arr Grainger: The man I love; GERSHWIN trans Wodehouse: Clap yo' hands - Alan Feinberg (pno) (Argo 436 121)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

BYRD: early works for voices, viols & virginals - Sophie Yates (virginals), Fretwork, I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth (Chandos CHAN 0578)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 CIMAROSA: Il Matrimonio Segreto, Overture - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel (Naxos 8.573418)

BACH: Violin Concerto in G minor BWV1056 - Rachel Podger (vln/dir), Brecon Baroque (Channel Classics CCS SA 30910)

WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in A minor Op 95 - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

COATES: Miniature Suite - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9869)

7:00 M HAYDN: Symphony No 9 in D - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

TRAD arr J Gould: Oh can ye sew cushions? - Helen Callus (vla), Robert McDonald (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1130)

BRAHMS: Third movement. Poco allegretto, from Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

WEBER: Rondo Brillante in Eb, La Gaité - Hamish Milne (pno) (CRD 3485)

DRDLA arr Bryan/orch Hazell: Serenade No 1 - Katherine Bryan (fl), Royal Scottish National Orch/Jac van Steen (Linn CKD 520)

MERTZ: Barcarole - Johannes Möller, Laura Fraticelli (gtrs) (Naxos 8.573055)

J STRAUSS II: Roses from the South - Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)

8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD arr Small: Tros y Garreg - Buzz Newton (euphonium), Wellington Brass Band/David Bremner (Rata RT 028)

ROSSINI orch/arr Respighi: Galop, from La Boutique fantasque - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 455 983)

BARTÓK arr Székely: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Florent Boffard (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1702)

HOLST: Brook Green Suite - English Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.570339)

HUMMEL: Third movement, Rondo, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 420 203)

SMETANA: Characteristic Pieces Op 3 - Roberto Plano (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94788)

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Bergen Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5118)

9:00 PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No 2 in D Op 94a - Alina Ibragimova (vln), Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67514)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 1 in D D82 - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (RCA Red Seal 86978 71472)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

REINECKE: Trio in Bb for clarinet, horn & piano Op 274 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1295)

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

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 39 - James Gilchrist (ten), Anna Tilbrook (pno) (Linn CKD 474)

ATTERBERG: Symphony No 1 in B minor Op 3 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5154)

12:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Overture on Russian Themes Op 28 - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553858)

HOROVITZ: Concerto for euphonium & chamber orchestra - David Childs (euphonium), BBC National Orch of Wales/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10830)

GRAENER: Divertimento Op 67 - Munich Radio Orch/Alun Francis (CPO 777 697)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

KOZELUCH: Piano Sonata in F Op 1/1 - Kemp English (fpno) (Grand Piano GP 642)

MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in Bb Op 2/1 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

LILBURN: Phantasy for String Quartet - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.573079)

CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 1 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

MOZART: La Clemenza di Tito, Overture - Scottish CO/Christian Baldini (Linn CKD 460)

HUBAY: Czárdás Scene No 10, Memoirs from Szalatna Op 69 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)

VIVALDI arr Romero: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Pepe Romero (gtr), I Musici (Philips 475 6360)

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

DVORÁK: The Water Goblin Op 107 - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras (Supraphon SU 4012)

KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29 - Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5003/04)

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

GLINKA: Divertimento Brillante on themes from Bellini's La Sonnambula - Russian National SO Soloists (RegisC 1288)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Sleeping Beauty, excerpts - Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (Avie AV 2139)

5:00 DAVIES: March Past of the Royal Air Force - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2149)

STRAYHORN: Take the "A" train - André Previn (pno), David Finck (dbass) (DG 463 456)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Toward the Unknown Region - Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDS 44322)

CHOPIN: Introduction & Polonaise brillante in C Op 3 - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Martha Argerich (pno) (DG 419 860)

DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 064)

6:00 WOLF-FERRARI: Overture & Intermezzo, from Susanna's Secret - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

FAURÉ: Le Secret Op 23/3 - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66320)

KHACHATURIAN: Secret Mission - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 966)

SCHUMANN: Es ist verraten - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell, Christina Bevan (pno) (Atoll ACD 407)

COWARD arr Tunick: I'll follow my secret heart, from Conversation Piece - Ben Heppner (ten), London Phil/Jonathan Tunick (RCA 09026 63508)

J GADE: Douces Secrets, Slow Waltz - Odense SO/Matthias Aeschbacher (Dacapo 6.220509)

SATIE: Musiques intimes et secrètes - Bojan Gorisek (pno) (LTM LTMCD 2501)

Josef STRAUSS: Dynamids - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Behzod Abduraimov (pno), Alexei Pretrenko (reciter), Munich Phil/Valery Gergiev

RAVEL: Boléro; RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; USTVOLSKAYA: Symphony No 3, Jesus Messiah, save us!; STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:30 PM. Evening Classics

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Bb Op 18/6 - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI 7 54592)

10:00 PM. Day's End

TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in D TWV55/D15 - Arte Dei Suonatori/Martin Gester (dir) (BIS 1979 SACD)

SPOHR: Piano Sonata in Ab Op 125 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67947)

MERCADANTE: Flute Concerto in E minor - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä (Naxos 8.572731)

TANEYEV: String Quartet No 2 in C Op 5 - Carpe Diem String Quartet (Naxos 8.572421)

Wednesday 3 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

THOMSON: Symphonies, No 2 in C; No 3; Pilgrims and Pioneers; Symphony on a Hymn Tune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

ARNOLD: Quintet; EWALD: Quintet No 1 in Bb minor; BOZZA: Sonatine; MAURER: Three Pieces; DAHL: Music for Brass Instruments; CALVET: Suite from the Monteregian Hills - Center City Brass Quintet (Collins 14892)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

BOYCE: David's Lamentation Over Saul and Jonathon; Ode on St Cecilia's Day, The Charms of Harmony Displayed - Patrick Burrows (treble), William Purefoy, Andrew Watts (countertenors), Richard Edgar-Wilson (ten), Michael George (bass), Choir of New College, Oxford, Hanover Band/Graham Lea-Cox (ASV CD GAU 208)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

STENHAMMAR: Serenade in F; Symphony No 2 in G minor - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 445 857)

5:00 approx - Disc 5

SOR: Grande Sonate Op 22; Divertissement Op 23; Eight Small Pieces Op 24; Grande Sonate Op 25 - Adam Holzman (gtr) (Naxos 8.553340)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 DELIUS: Spring morning, from Three Small Tone Poems - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

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

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Fantasia on Serbian Themes - Malaysian Phil/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1477)

TAVENER: Song for Athene - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London Phil/Andrew Litton (DG 476 6198)

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

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D Op 7/6 - Norrköping Gordon Hunt (ob/dir) Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

7:00 MONCAYO: Huapango - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

BARRIOS MANGORE: Un sueño en la floresta - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 479 0063)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - London Phil/Vladimir Jurowski (LPO 0058)

PAGANINI arr Silva: Variations on a theme by Rossini - Pierre Fournier (cello), Lamar Crowson (pno) (DG 477 5939)

SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - Luben Yordanoff (vln), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (DG 415 847)

8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: Nessun dorma, from Turandot - Salvatore Licitra (ten), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony 88697 989602)

LOCATELLI: Introduction in F Op 4/2 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Challenge CC 72134)

SCHUBERT: String Trio in Bb D471 - members of the NZ String Quartet (RNZ)

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

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

ABEL: Symphony in F Op 7/4 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

9:00 SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

STRAVINSKY arr Pienaar: Pulcinella Suite - Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (tpt), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (pno) (Linn CKD 448)

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Murray Perahia (pno), ASMF/Neville Marriner (CBS MK 42401)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

HOLST ed Matthews: A Winter Idyll - London Phil/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

MAHLER arr Berio: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, excerpts - Dagmar Pecková (mezzo), Prague Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 4171)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 - Michael Collins (cl), Michael McHale (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10844)

ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Signum SIGCD 399)

SCHUMANN: Spanish Love Songs Op 74 - Mitsuko Shirai (sop), Marjana Lipovsek (contralto), Josef Protschka (tenor), Matthias Hölle (bass), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (Capriccio 67 209)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Jacob Lateiner (pno), Jascha Heifetz (vln), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) (RCA 09026 61764)

12:00 CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 9 - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (RNZ)

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

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs, Part 1 - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 36 - Jason Bae (pno) (Austria Gramophone AG 0003)

POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani - Gillian Weir (organ of Royal Festival Hall, London), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Virgin 5 22045)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Overture - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

ROSSINI: Largo al factotum, from The Barber of Seville - Simon Keenlyside (bar), Munich Radio Orchestra/Ulf Schirmer (Sony 828768 84822)

WHITACRE: The seal lullaby - Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus/Eric Whitacre, Christopher Glynn (pno) (Decca 274 3209)

ROTA: Bassoon Concerto - Christopher Millard (bsn), CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5185)

BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte Op 98 - Christian Gerhaher (bar), Gerold Huber (pno) (Sony 88691 93543)

GORECKI: Three Pieces in Old Style - NZSO CO (RNZ)

BACH: Cello Suite No 5 in C minor BWV1011 - Nina Kotova (cello) (Warner 2564 639411)

HINDEMITH: Concert Music for strings & brass Op 50 - New Philharmonia Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini (BBC Legends BBCL 4194)

5:00 MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture - Mostly Mozart Festival Orch/Antonia Brico (Sony SBK 62830)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Kuss Quartet (Onyx 4090)

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

ARBAN: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 9031 77705)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus & Euridice - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Georg Solti (Decca 421 329)

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

6:00 VIVALDI arr Red Priest: Four Seasons, Winter - Red Priest (Dorian DOR 90317)

MONTEVERDI: Luci serene e chiare, from Madrigals, Book 4 - Anna Crookes, Carys Lane (sops), Clare Wilkinson (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (ten), Giles Underwood (bbar)/Robert Hollingworth (Chandos CHAN 0730)

KREEK: Three Folksongs - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7485)

BRUCH: Third movement, Finale, Allegro energico, from Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Sarah Chang (vln), Dresden Phil/Kurt Masur (EMI 9 67004)

GROVLEZ: Sicilienne et Allegro giocoso - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

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

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Tamara Wilson (sop), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Peter Hoare (ten), James Creswell (bass), BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Mark Wigglesworth

WAGNER: Die Walküre, final scene

TIPPETT: A Child of Our Time

(recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:15 PM. Evening Classics

SCRIABIN: Eight Etudes Op 42 - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.571302)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 1 Op 10 - Ukraine National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.553405)

10:00 PM. Day's End

RAVEL: Violin Sonata in G - Krysia Osostowicz (vln), Simon Crawford-Phillips (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67759)

MOZART: Symphony No 29 in A K201 - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Linn CKD 350)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 20/2 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 622)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45607)

Thursday 4 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies, No 3 in A minor, Scottish; No 4 in A, Italian - Philharmonia/Tamás Vásáry (Collins 10182)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

HUMMEL: Rondo brilliant in Eb Op 120, La Galante; Variations in F on a theme by Gluck Op 57; Una fantasia piccola Op 107, La contemplazione; Rondo in Eb Op 11; Tyrolienne variée; BEETHOVEN: Six variations in F on a Swiss song Wo064; Variations in C on God Save the King Wo078; Variations on a Russian Air Op 107; Rondo Wo064; Allegretto in C minor - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

GIBBONS: Hosanna to the Son of David; O Lord, I lift my heart; O all true, faithful hears; Deliver us, O Lord; This is the record of John; Lift up your heads; See, see the Word is incarnate; Almighty & everlasting God; Praise the Lord, O my soul; O clap your hands; Glorious & powerful God; O Lord, in thee is all my trust; O Lord, how do my woes; Out of the deep; Behold, thou has made my days; O Lord, in thy wrath; Blessed are all they that fear; I am the resurrection - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Fretwork/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605-51231)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

ARENSKY: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 54; GLAZUNOV: Concerto ballata Op 108; Piano Concerto in F minor Op 22 - Alexander Trostiansky (vln), Yegor Dyachkov (cello), Maneli Pirzadeh (pno), Sherbrooke SO, I Musicide Montreal/Yuri Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9528)

4:40 approx -Disc 5

Scottish traditional music for lute, mandour, cittern, guitar - Rob MacKillop (Greentrax CDTRAX 155)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 1 in Bb - Lajos Lencsés (ob), La Follia Instrumental Ensemble/Christophe Poiget (dir) (Hänssler CD 98.217)

TRAD arr Fuglseth: Lova Line - Trio Mediaeval, Birger Mistereggen (jew's harp/perc) (ECM 2003 (476 6179))

TRAD arr Idenstam: Serra - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

SCHUBERT arr Webern: German Dances D790 - Berlin Radio SO/Matthias Bamert (Musica Mundi 311 135)

HALVORSEN: Air norvégien - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10614)

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

RAMEAU trans anon: The Hen from Pièces de clavecin - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

7:00 DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 46/2 - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1325)

BELLINI: Vaga luna che inargenti - Ruth Ann Swenson (sop), Warren Jones (pno) (MI 5 56158)

HAYDN: Acide & Galatea, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

STANLEY: Trumpet Voluntary - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Anthony Newman (Sony SK 60804)

IRELAND: Decorations - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553889)

GERMAN: Three Dances, from Henry VIII - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GRIEG: arr Reger Ich liebe dich Op 5/3 - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

VILLA-LOBOS: Serenade Impressions - Eduardo Monteiro (pno) (Meridian CDE 84551)

PROKOFIEV: Dance of the five couples, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

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

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

BACH arr Tchiki: First movement, Prelude, from English Suite No 2 in A minor BWV807 - Colin Currie, Sam Walton (marimbas), (EMI CDZ 5 72267)

CIMAROSA arr Benjamin: Concerto in C for oboe & strings - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

9:00 GOODALL: The Seasons, Winter - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

LEHÁR: Concertino in Bb minor for violin & orchestra - Latica Honda-Rosenberg (vln), North German Radio Phil/Klauspeter Seibel (CPO 999 423)

M HAYDN: Symphony No 7 in E - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

10:00 BBC Proms 2016

Paul Lewis (pno), Bjorg Lewis (cello), Vertavo Quartet

DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor; DUTILLEUX: String Quartet, Ainsi la nuit; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 12 in A K414 (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

11:00 CHILDS: Salve Regina - Amanda Barclay (sop), Voices16/Karen Grylls (Atoll ACD 213)

CHEN/HE: Butterfly Lovers Concerto - Takako Nishizaki (vln), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557348)

HILL: Symphony No 10 in C, Short - Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.223538)

12:00 KATS-CHERNIN: Butterflying - Nicola Sweeney (vln), Sarah Nicolls (pno) (Signum SIGCD 058)

FRANCAIX: L'Horloge de flore - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Radio SO/Uri Segal (CPO 999 779)

REINECKE: Symphony No 1 in A Op 79 - Rhenish Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223117)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 51 in Eb HobXVI/38 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

WALSH: I will hearken; Eternal Spirit; Behold, let us love - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Stewart, Richard Apperley (org) (Organism ORG 017)

K YOUNG: Reverie - Buzz Newton (euphonium), Wellington Brass Band/David Bremner (Rata RT 028)

PRINCESS TE RANGI PAI arr Graham: Hine e Hine - Buzz Newton (euphonium), Wellington Brass Band/David Bremner (Rata RT 028)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

F COUPERIN arr Bazelaire: Pièces en concert - Lynn Harrell (cello), Angeli Ensemble (Azica ACD 71265)

HAYDN: String Quartet in G Op 77/1 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 4 in C minor Op 44 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

Shakespeare 400: Henry IV Part 2

5:00 C CHAMPAGNE: Danse villageoise - Quebec Conservatory of Music/Jacques Lacombe (Bell CD 1993)

GLIÈRE: Impromptu - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3157)

D GERMAN: Festive Trumpet Tune - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1031)

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

DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano - Ivan Moravec (pno) (Philips 456 910)

ROSSINI: An Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 445 552)

6:00 BACH arr Fischer: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Ryo Terakado (vln), Marcel Ponseele (ob), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS CD 961)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D899/4 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66781)

DELIUS: Marche Caprice - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

DONIZETTI: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'Amore - Plácido Domingo (ten), Los Angeles Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 415 366)

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

ELGAR: Romance Op 62 - Preman Tilson (bsn), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

LEHÁR: Gold & Silver Waltz - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80547)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

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

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 19; BRUCKNER: Symphony No 4 in Eb, Romantic (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

8:35 PM. Evening Classics

VARDAPET: Seven Folk Dances - Lusine Khachatryan (pno) (Naïve V 5414)

HUMMEL trans M Nakariakov: Bassoon Concerto in F - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Lithuanian CO/Saulius Sondeckis (Teldec 0927 45313)

RUTTER: Five traditional songs - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt (Bayer BR 100 334)

EWAZEN: Sinfonia for strings - International Sejong Soloists/Hyo Kang (dir) (Albany TROY 577)

10:00 PM. Day's End

GRIEG: Old Norwegian Romance with Variations - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1591)

PELECIS: Nevertheless - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Vadim Sacharov (pno), German CO (Teldec 0630 14654)

MESSNER: Salzburg Suite Op 51 - Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 734)

RHEINBERGER: Three Sacred Songs Op 69 - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)

ALBÉNIZ: Dreams - Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1513)

Friday 5 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

J STRAUSS II: Voices of Spring Waltz; Thunder & Lightning Polka; SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela; ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1; SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso; BARBER: Adagio; MUSSORGSKY: Night on the Bare Mountain; RAVEL: Boléro - Christine Pendrill (cor anglais), Stephanie Chase (vln), Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 380)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

RENAUD: Toccata in D minor; HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 K467, Andante; ARNDT: Nola; DUBOIS: Fiat Lux; SETCHELL: Trumpet Tune, Scherzo and Toccata on Joy to the World, from Three Piece Suite; WATSON: Happy Birthday, Herr Bach; NALLE: Alles was du bist; SOUSA: Washington Post March; FAURÉ: Berceuse and Sicilienne, from Pelléas and Méllisande; VERDI: Grand March, from Aida; DAQUIN: The Cuckoo; SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan; BOVET: Fugue on The Pink Panther; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumble Bee; MOURET: Rondeau; CAMPRA: Rigaudon; GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette; BOVET: Totentanz, from Three Préludes Hambourgeois - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUMANN: Violin Sonatas, No 1 in A minor Op 105; No 2 in D minor Op 121; No 3 in A minor - Robert Zimansky (vln), Christophe Keller (pno) (Accord 220 532)

3:15 approx - Disc 4

SCHÜTZ: Motets and Psalms for Double Chorus - Regensburg Domspatzen, Hamburger Blaserkreis, Ulsamer - Collegium & instrumentalists/Hanns-Martin Schneidt (Archiv 415 297)

4:15 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D RV230; Violin Concerto in A minor RV356; Concerto in G for two mandolins RV532; Trio in C for guitar, violin & continuo RV82; Concerto in D minor for viola d'amore, guitar, strings & continuo RV540; Violin Concerto in A RV345; Guitar Concerto in D RV93 - John Williams, Benjamin Verdery (gtrs), Norbert Blum (vla d'amore), Franz Liszt CO/Janos Rolla (Sony Classic SK 46556)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 TRAD arr Savall: El mariner - Arianna Savall (sop/harp), Pedro Estevan (palos de agua) (Alia Vox AV 9833)

RAVEL: Menuet antique - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

SCHNITTKE arr Shafran: Suite in the Old Style - Leonid Gorokhov (cello), Bobby Chen (pno) (Cello Classics CC 1002)

M HAYDN: Bassoon Concertino in Bb - Makiko Kurabayashi (bsn), Salzburg Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777 538)

MOSZKOWSKI: Trois Morceaux Op 86 - Seta Tanyel (pno) (Collins Classics 15192)

WAGNER: Pilgrims' Chorus & Final Chorus of Younger - Pilgrims, from Tannhäuser - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

7:00 GRANADOS arr Wood: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)

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

CLEMENTI: Minuetto Pastorale - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573273)

VORÍSEK: Rondo Op 11 - Kocian Quartet (Praga PRD 250 204)

ALBINONI arr anon: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - Alison Balsom (tpt), Scottish Ensemble (EMI 4 56094)

ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Philharmonia/Robert Irving (EMI 5 66120)

8:00 Beauty Spot: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 49th Parallel, Prelude - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49770)

CHOPIN: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Virgin 4 57845)

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 (2) - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

KOFRON: Sonatina for horn and piano - Premysl Vojta (hn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (Supraphon SU 4125)

HANDEL: Where'er you walk, from Semele - Mark Padmore (ten), English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7422)

TRAD arr Campbell: Loch Lomond - Nicola Benedetti (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Rory Macdonald (Decca 478 6690)

SVENDSEN: Polonaise No 2 in D Op 28 - Danish National Radio SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 9932)

WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Guild GMCD 7304)

9:00 BIZET: Overture in A - RTE National SO/Jean-Luc Tingaud (Naxos 8.573344)

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 1 in Bb K207 - Vilde Frang (vln), Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Warner 2564 627677)

GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 - Malmö SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570236)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

BRETON: Andalusian Scenes - Madrid Community Orch/Miguel Roa (Naxos 8.572076)

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

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Scenes from Childhood Op 15 Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1449)

BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Renaud Capuçon (vln), Vienna Phil/Daniel Harding (Virgin Classics 3 39625)

12:00 LOCKE: Suite in E minor, from Tripla Concordia - Wayward Sisters (Naxos 8.573020)

CLEMENTI: Piano Concerto in C - Bruno Canino (pno), Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573273)

BRIAN: Symphony No 19 in E minor - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7314)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84 - Christchurch SO/William Southgate (Chch Symph Trust CHCH 004)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Mtzyri - Claudia Barainsky (sop), Bamberg SO/Gary Brain (Conifer 75605 51317)

PSATHAS: View from Olympus - Pedro Carneiro (perc), Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man - BBC Phil/John Wilson (Chandos CHSA 5164)

HANDEL: Where shall I fly?, from Hercules - Alice Coote (mezzo), English Concert/Harry Bicket (Hyperion CDA 67979)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Phantasy Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67313)

FIELD arr Lane: Concertino for flute & chamber orchestra - Jennifer Stinton (fl), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7151)

BYRD: O quam gloriosum - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (EMI 5 86048)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Avie AV 2119)

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

SAINT-SAËNS arr Gerhardt: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, from Samson & Delilah - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (BMG 74321 84112)

GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wine, Women & Song - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (Nimbus NI 1748)

BAX: Tintagel - BBC Concert Orch/Vernon Handley (BBC MM 382)

5:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from Eugene Onegin - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80541)

C SCHUMANN: Scherzo in C minor - Micaela Gelius (pno) (Arte Nova 74321 72106)

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

BRAHMS: Geistliches Lied Op 30 - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2011-12/Andrew Withington, Grant Bartley (org) (NZSSC 2012)

JEFFES: Nothing Really Blue - Penguin Cafe Orchestra (Penguin Cafe DPC 098)

YORK: Evening Dance - Slava Grigoryan, Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs) (ABC 472 824)

FAURÉ orch Gaubert: Romance in Bb Op 28 - Chantal Juillet (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 458 143)

MÁRQUEZ: Dance No 2 - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)

6:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Song of India, from Sadko - London SO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Resonance CD RSN 3020)

W LLOYD WEBBER: Air & Variations - John Bradbury (cl), James Cryer (pno) (Naxos 8.570539)

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

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

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

DOMPIERRE orch Baril: Les Beautés du diable - Angèle Dubeau (vln), Thérèse Motard (cello), La Pietà (Analekta AN 2 8723)

PROKOFIEV: Suggestion diabolique Op 4/4 - Behzod Abduraimov (pno) (Decca 478 3301)

SCHUBERT orch Reger: Gruppe aus dem Tartarus D583 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 586)

LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67856)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Miah Persson (sop), Anna Stéphany (mezzo), John Daszak (ten), Christopher Purves (bass), London Phil Chorus & Orch/Vladimir Jurowski

M LINDBERG: Two Episodes (BBC Commission with the London Phil, Helsinki Festival and Casa da Musica, Porto, World première); BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

8:35 PM. Evening Classics

AKUTAGAWA: Trinita Sinfonica - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555975)

9:00 PM. Sound Lounge

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