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Saturday 20 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

May I Heave the Envelope Please

A caper through the history of "music which the Oscars should have loved, but didn't". Presented by Steve Danby (RNZ)

1.00 approx - 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)

2.15 approx - Disc 2

LISZT: Fantasia & Fugue on the theme B-A-C-H; Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude; Venice & Naples; Piano Sonata in B minor S178 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67760)

3.35 approx - Disc 3

PÄRT: Summa; Seven Magnificat Antiphons - Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse; Fratres - Tasmin Little (vln), Martin Roscoe (pno); Festina lente - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt; Spiegel im Spiegel - Tasmin Little (vln), Martin Roscoe (pno); Magnificat, Beatitudes- Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury; Summa, Fratres, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (EMI 5 85914)

4.50 approx - Disc 4

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring; PIAZZOLLA: Verano porteño; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer; PIAZZOLLA: Otoño porteño; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn; PIAZZOLLA: Invierno porteño; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter; PIAZZOLLA: Primavera porteña - Jonathan Morton (vln/dir), Scottish Ensemble (Signum SIGCD 231)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 FASCH: Concerto Grosso in D FWV L/D8 - Tempesta di Mare/Gwyn Roberts, Richard Stone (dirs) (Chandos CHAN 0791)

GUASTAVINO: El Ceibo; Bailecito - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Third movement, Romanza, from Symphony No 5 in D - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

PAGANINI: Le Streghe, Variations on a theme from Sussmayr's Il noce di Benvenuto - Eugene Fodor (vln), Kiyoshi Tomagawa (pno) (Clarity CCD 1017)

ZIPOLI arr Hunt: Elevazione - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Niklass Veltman (cello), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

7:00 SALIERI: La grotta di Trofonio, Overture - Mannheim Mozart Orch/Thomas Fey (Hänssler CD 98.554)

DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2012)

HÜE: Gigue and Nocturne - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

HAYDN: Second movement, Poco adagio e cantabile, from String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV DCS 236)

TCHAIKOVSKY: The Maid of Orléans, ballet music - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 845)

8:00 DANZI: Variations on a theme by Mozart, Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (dir) (Nimbus NI 5868)

G COOKE: Over the Hills - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

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

STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67574)

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

9:00 AM. The Works

RIES: Introduction & Rondeau brillant WoO54 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Bournemouth SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572088)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish - Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1972)

10:00 AM. Your Choice

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O ignis spiritus Paracliti - Susanne Norin (contralto), Sequentia/Barbara Thornton (dir) (DHM 05472 77320)

RODRIGO: Second movement, Adagio, from Concierto andaluz - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Delaware SO/David Amado (Telarc TEL 31754)

VIVALDI: Vedrò con mio diletto, from Il Giustino RV717 - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Ensemble Matheus/Jean-Christophe Spinosi (vln/dir) (Virgin 3 63414)

RESPIGHI: Berceuse - Sinfonia 21/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9415)

GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 82 - Julia Krasko (vln), Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9751)

HANDEL: I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah (1750 version) - Kerstin Avemo (sop), Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 80 1928.29)

SATIE: Gymnopédies - Bojan Gorisek (pno) (LTM LTMCD 2501)

BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Sol3 Mio, City of Prague Orch/Paul Bateman (Decca 375 7602)

GOUNOD: Symphony No 1 in D - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.557463)

(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

A Chamber Music New Zealand Concert

Brodsky Quartet

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz;

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 3 in F Op 73; BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in A minor Op 132; ELGAR: Chanson de Nuit Op 15/1 (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

5:00 PM. Inside Out

Join Nick Tipping for a two-hour journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way (RNZ)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

7:00 Curtain Raiser

Peter Walls introduces Mozart's Requiem in D minor K626 (RNZ)

7:30 Orchestra Wellington

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Andrew Simon (cl), Emma Fraser (soprano), Elisabeth Harris (alto), Henry Choo (tenor), James Clayton (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei

MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus K618;

Clarinet Concerto in A K622

(interval)

Requiem in D minor K626 (RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

VANHAL: Symphony in C (Bryan C1) - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570280)

PFITZNER: Cello Concerto in A minor Op posth - Alban Gerhardt (cello), Berlin Radio SO/Sebastian Weigle (Hyperion CDA 67906)

BACH: Partita No 3 in A minor BWV827 - Igor Levit (pno) (Sony 88843 03682)

GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Norwegian CO/Terje Tønnesen (vln/dir) (Simax PSC 1264)

DUPONT: Poème - Marie-Catherine Girod (pno), Prazák Quartet (Mirare MIR 238)

Sunday 21 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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

4:40 approx - Disc 5

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

6:00 AM. Sanctuary

POULENC: Agnus Dei, from Mass in G - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (75605-51521)

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

FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Richard Pearce (org) (Conifer 75605 51521)

DUBRA: Missa de Spiritu Sancto - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough, Alexander Norman (org) (Hyperion CDA 67799)

BRAHMS: Ave Maria Op 12 - Tenebrae/Nigel Short, Alexander Mason (org) (Signum SIGCD 430)

ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (BBC Music BBC MM 292)

AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St Matthew Op 4/5 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

PURCELL: O sing unto the Lord - Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (ten), Neal Davies (bass), Choir of St John's College Cambridge & St John's Sinfonia/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHAN 0790)

GJEILO: The Ground - Phoenix Chorale, Ola Gjeilo (pno), Harrington String Quartet/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5100)

7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

8:00 AM. Grace Notes

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

MOZART: Second movement, Andantino, from Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 - Emily Beynon (fl), Catherine Beynon (harp), BBC National Orch of Wales/Thierry Fischer (BBC Music MM 354)

BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 268)

CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana, from La Wally - Alessandra Marc (sop), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Delos DE 3108)

GINASTERA arr Mondvay: Milonga - I Salonisti (Decca 425 228)

HANDEL: Waft her, angels, through the skies, from Jephtha - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 444 543)

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

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

9:00 AM. The Works

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

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Louis Schwizgebel (pno), BBC SO/Martyn Brabbins (Aparté AP 112)

10:00 AM. BBC Proms 2016

Tai Murray (vln), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Thomas Søndergård

BARTÓK: Dance Suite;

HAYES: Violin Concerto (BBC commission & world première);

DVORÁK: Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70 (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

Noon The Critic's Choice

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

FAURÉ: Ballade in F# Op 19 - Yuja Wang (pno) (DG 479 4954)

BEETHOVEN: String Quintet in C Op 29 - Lawrence Dutton (vla), Quartetto Di Cremona (Audite 92.684 SACD)

1:00 PM. Vintage Years

Spanish conductor, Ataúlfo Argenta

LISZT: Les Préludes - with Swiss Romande Orch (rec 1955) (Decca 475 7747)

FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain - with Gonzalo Soriano (pno), French National Radio Orch (rec 1957) (Medici Arts MM 025)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio Espagnol Op 34 - with London SO (rec 1957) (Decca 475 7747)

2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Art, Life, Music

Charlotte Wilson visits prominent NZ artists in their studios to ask about the role of music in their life and work

(2) Sharon Murdoch is the first woman to have a regular political cartooning spot in the country, and is also the brains behind Munro, the crossword cat (RNZ)

2:25 PM. An Afternoon Classic

BLISS: A Colour Symphony - BBC Welsh National Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10380)

3:00 PM. Sunday Concert

Wallace International Piano Festival 2016

Four programmes

(3) Delvan Lin, who in 2015 became the youngest winner of the Wallace National Piano Competition

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein;

ALBÉNIZ: Evocación; El Puerto; Fête-dieu à Seville, from Iberia Book 1;

CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantasy in A Flat Op 61 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

4:10 PM. Classic Tchaikovsky

Romeo & Juliet, Fantasy Overture, original 1869 version - Russian National Orch/Vladimir Jurowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 330)

Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)

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 Classic

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

6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Opera in New Zealand

Three programmes

(2) PUCCINI: Turandot, an opera in three acts

Turandot...................... Tiziana Caruso

Calàf............................ Thiago Arancam

Liù............................... Nadja Steffanoff

Timur........................... Rúni Brattaberg

Ping.............................. Andrew Moran

Pang............................. Robert McFarlane

Pong............................. Richard Greager

Emperor Altoum.......... Christopher Lincoln Bogg

Mandarin..................... Warwick Fyfe

Freemasons NZ Opera Chorus, Auckland, Viva Voce, Children's Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

8:20 PM. Evening Classics

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 131 - Nicolas Chumachenko (vln), Kalle Randalu (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1649)

BOIELDIEU: Harp Concerto in C - Marisa Robles (harp), ASMF/Iona Brown (Decca 425 723)

9:00 PM. From the New Zealand Collection

DEBUSSY: Les collines d'Anacapri; La cathédral engloutie; Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest, from Preludes, Book 1 - David James (pno) (RNZ)

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 10 in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

MADDEN/SETCHELL: Three Meditations, Set me as a seal; A blessing; Deep peace - Jan-Maree Baughan (sop), Jubilate Singers/Grant Hutchinson (dir), Jeremy Woodside (org) (Jubilate)

10:00 PM. Day's End

SCHUBERT orch Davidson: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Patricia Pollett (vla), Queensland Phil/Werner Andreas Albert (Tall Poppies TP 084)

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor - Juho Pohjonen (pno), Erin Keefe (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Narek Hakhnazaryan (cello) (BBC Music BBCMM 369)

VANHAL: Symphony in E minor (Bryan e3) - Toronto CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570280)

REICHA: Octet in Eb Op 96 - Consortium Classicum/Dieter Klöcker (cl/dir) (CPO 999 742)

Monday 22 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

LILBURN: Overture: Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins; Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

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 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 HAYDN: Lo speziale, Overture - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

FAURÉ: Berceuse, from Dolly Suite - Malin Broman (vln), Simon Crawford-Phillips (pno) (Naxos 8.573223)

MOZART: Adagio cantabile & Fugue in Eb; Adagio & Fugue in E K405/3, after JS Bach - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2159)

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

VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 459 146)

BEETHOVEN arr Berger: Andante & variations in D for mandolin & piano WoO44b - Julius Berger (cello), José Gallardo (pno) (Challenge Classics CC 72504)

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

7:00 BAX: Morning Song, Maytime in Sussex - Ashley Wass (pno), Bournemouth SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.572597)

LOCATELLI: Violin Sonata in D Op 8/2 - Locatelli Trio (Hyperion CDD 22057)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin - Moscow Bolshoi Theatre Orch/Alexander Vedernikov (PentaTone PTC 5186 091)

DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 446)

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 9/11 - Stefan Schilli (ob), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RODRIGO: En Aranjuez, con tu amor - Ana Maria Martinez (sop), Albert Guinovart (pno) (Brilliant Classics 9172)

SARASATE: L'Esprit follet Op 48 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572276)

SCRIABIN: Mazurka in E Op 3/4 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Decca 478 5334)

TRAD arr Grainger: Scotch Strathspey & Reel - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9554)

VIVALDI: Recorder Concerto in C RV443 - Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (Arcana A 334)

WAGNER: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (Teldec 4509 99595)

9:00 BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in D G313 - Luigi Puxeddu (cello), I Virtuosi della Rotonda (Brilliant 94961)

KAJANUS: Sinfonietta in Bb Op 16 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1223)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

MOZART: Divertimento in D K334 - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), André Cazalet, Jean-Michel Vinit (horns), Trio Pasquier (Sony SK 47230)

SCHUMANN: Carnival Jest from Vienna Op 26 - Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 154)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 9 in D minor (unfinished) - Bern SO/Mario Venzago (CPO 777 787)

12:00 STENHAMMAR ed Lysell: Prelude & Bourrée - Gävle SO/Hannu Koivula (Naxos 8.572186)

LISZT: Piano Concerto in E minor, Malédiction - Alexandre Kantorow (pno), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 2100)

GOUNOD: Faust, ballet music - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 462 125)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

A RITCHIE: Symphony No 3 Op 150 - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (Atoll ACD 741)

WHITACRE: Cloudburst - Kelly Kim (speaker), Claudia Lewis (sop), Oliver Fetherston (bass), Brent Stewart (perc), NZ Secondary Students Choir 2013-14/Andrew Withington (Private)

BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 119 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

BERWALD: Concert Piece for bassoon & orchestra - Patrik Håkansson (bsn), Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

POULENC: Improvisation No 15 in C minor, Hommage à Edith Piaf - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

CPE BACH: String Symphony in B minor Wq182/5 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (hpschd/dir) (Archiv 415 300)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Nicholas Daniel (ob/dir), Britten Sinfonia (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7573)

GRANADOS arr Miolin: Zambra, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

PELÉCIS: Concertino bianco for piano & chamber orchestra - Alexei Lubimov (pno), Bremen German Chamber Phil/Heinrich Schiff (Erato 0630 12709)

PARISH-ALVARS: Grand Fantasy Op 57 - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 060 901)

5:00 RUBINSTEIN: Overture, Dmitry Donskoy - George Enescu Phil/Horia Andreescu (Naxos 8.557005)

SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 43 - Luigi Piovano (cello), Luisa Prayer (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0401)

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

HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 3 in G minor - Annette Berryman (ob), La Ricordanza (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 505 1381)

HOLST: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from The Planets - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555776)

TRAD arr Koncz: Dances from Transylvania - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Leonidas Kavakos, Christoph Koncz (vlns), Antoine Tamestit (vla), Stephan Koncz (cello), Ödön Rácz (dbass), Oszkár Ökrös (cimbalom), Predrag Tomic (accordion) (DG 481 1409)

6:00 PSATHAS: First movement, The Furies, from View from Olympus - Pedro Carneiro (perc), Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

J WILLIAMS: The Olympic Spirit; THEODORAKIS: Ode to Zeus, from Canto Olympico - Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 62622)

GLASS: The Olympian - Jeroen van Veen (pno) (Brilliant Classics 8551)

TORKE: Javelin - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Argo 452 101)

SATIE: Sports et divertissements - Joanna MacGregor (pno) (SoundCircus SC 902)

ANDERSON/VANGELIS orch Baker: Race to the End (Chariots of Fire) - Laura Wright (sop), Steven Baker (pno), Apollo Voices, City of Prague Phil/Richard Hein (Decca 476 4879)

STRAUSS: Olympic Hymn - Locke Brass Consort/James Stobart (Chandos CHAN 8419)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Steven Osborne (piano), BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena

GINASTERA: Ollantay;

BRITTEN: Piano Concerto in D Op 13;

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:30 PM. Evening Classic

WEBER: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 34 - Charles Neidich (cl), L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 57968)

10:00 PM. Day's End

GRAUPNER: Overture in F GWV450 - Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch (vla d'amore/dir), Petra Aminoff (transverse fl), Asko Heiskanen (chalumeau), Finnish Baroque Orch (Ondine ODE 1220)

GÁL: Piano Trio in E Op 18 - Karin Adam (vln), Christoph Stradner (cello), Doris Adam (pno) (Camerata CMCD 28149)

VANHAL: Double Bass Concerto in D - Chi-Chi Nwanoku (dbass), Swedish CO/Paul Goodwin (Hyperion CDA 67179)

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

DIABELLI: Guitar Sonata in C Op 29/3 - Anthony Glise (gtr) (Dorian DIS 80113)

Tuesday 23 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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; Overture, The Adventurers; 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 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - USSR Academy SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Chant du Monde LDC 278 782)

SVENDSEN: Romance in G Op 26 - Terje Tønnesen (vln/dir), Norwegian CO (Simax PSC 1264)

PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Baltic Sea Youth Phil/Kristjan Järvi (Naïve V 5407)

BAX: Elegiac Trio - Anna Noakes (fl), Yuko Inoue (vla), Gillian Tingay (harp) (Deux-Elles DXL 1090)

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

7:00 ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner (ABC 476 259)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in B Op 9/3 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10813)

HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA 09026 68999)

WOLF: Italian Serenade - NZ String Quartet (Naxos 8.557374)

STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier, second sequence - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MYERS arr Williams: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

HAYDN: First movement, Adagio-Vivace assai, from Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5176)

GLAZUNOV: Idyll - Christoph Ess (horn), Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 281)

SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Emanuel Brabec (cello), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)

PUCCINI arr Pritchard/Prior: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Rowan Prior (cello), Jonathan Pritchard (vln) (Ode CD Ode 1363)

SIBELIUS: Serenade No 2 in G minor Op 69b - Baiba Skride (vln), Tampere Phil/Santtu-Matias Rouvali (Orfeo C 896 152 A)

9:00 ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19, Midsummer Vigil - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Kathryn Stott (pno), Hermitage String Trio (Chandos CHAN 10582)

MOZART: Symphony No 4 in D K19 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80256)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

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

PURCELL: The Indian Queen, incidental music - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47664)

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

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840, Relique - Michael Endres (pno) (Capriccio 10 717)

VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concerto No 1 in E Op 10 - Vineta Sareika (vln), Liège Royal Phil/Patrick Davin (Fuga libera FUG 575)

12:00 VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in F RV458 - Pier Luigi Fabretti (ob), L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (dir) (Brilliant Classics 94654)

Settling the Score: Clarissa Dunn talks to Wallace Chapman

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

GORECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Psalms (2) - Dawn Upshaw (sop), London Sinfonietta (Nonesuch 7559 79282)

GADE: Novelettes Op 29 - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1665)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

A RITCHIE: Song; Tomahawk Sonnet; Lovesong - Duo Tapas: Rupa Maitra (vln), Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Ode CD MANU 5138)

R CLARKE: Phillis on the New Made Hay; The Tailor and his Mouse; I know my love; I know where I'm going; As I was goin' to Ballynure - Patricia Wright (sop), Jonathan Rees (vln), John Constable (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 055)

FARR: Kembang Suling - Alexa Still (fl), Gareth Farr (marimba) (Trust MMT 2020)

VANHAL: Sinfonia in A (Bryan A9) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

DELIUS: Dance Rhapsody No 2 - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (EMI CDS 7 47509)

TARTINI: Sonata No 13 in B minor for solo violin - Rachel Podger (vln) (Channel Classics CCS SA 35513)

MILHAUD: La Création du monde - New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (RCA 09026 68798)

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 10 in Ab Op 118 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 463 284)

GÓRECKI: Totus tuus - Nota Bene/Christine Argyle (Nota Bene NB 001)

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

BACH: Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 - Joshua Bell (vln/dir), ASMF (Sony 88843 08779)

5:00 VERDI: La Traviata, Preludes to Acts I & III - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 345)

RAVEL: Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit - Tom Poster (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 075)

PAGANINI: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

MENDELSSOHN: Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

GLINKA trans Balakirev: The Lark - Alexander Paley (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1746)

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

6:00 PIAZZOLLA: Adiós Nonino - Daniel Binelli (bandoneón), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 468 528)

BARBER: Summer Music - Les Vents Français: Emmanuel Pahud (fl), François Leleux (ob), Paul Meyer (cl), Gilbert Audin (bsn), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn) (Warner 2564 63484)

COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 1, The boatmen's song; The dodger; Long time ago; Simple gifts; I bought me a cat - Susan Chilcott (sop), Iain Burnside (pno) (Opus Arte OA CD 9016 D)

MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Rachel Gauk (gtr) (BIS CD 969)

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

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Kirill Gerstein (piano), BBC Scottish SO/Thomas Dausgaard

PROKOFIEV: Scythian Suite;

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor (original 1879 version);

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:15 PM. Evening Classics

GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor Op 45 - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Olga Sitkovetsky (pno) (Dynamic CDS 278)

RUTTER: Five Meditations - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

10:00 PM. Day's End

BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini Op 35 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 456 706)

HAYDN: String Quartet in F Op 77/2 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

MOZART arr Hummel: Symphony No 38 in D K504, Prague - Uwe Grodd (fl), Friedemann Eichhorn (vln), Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572841)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 2 in F Op 80 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 0 94180)

Wednesday 24 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

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: Sonata No 10 in B minor; Sonata No 117 in D minor; Sonata 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; Sonatina in E minor Op 54/1; Sonatina 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 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 BOYCE: Symphony No 7 in Bb - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 419 631)

KREISLER arr Dokshitser: Schön Rosmarin - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

OFFENBACH arr Grafe: Promptes à servir la pratique; O mon cher amant, from La Périchole - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Bernard Hofstötter (lute) (Brilliant Classics 95087)

DELERUE: A Little Romance, Suite - studio orchestra/Georges Delerue (Varese Sarabande VSD 5241)

MOZART: Rondo in Bb K269 - James Ehnes (vln/dir), Mozart Anniversary Orch (CBC SMCD 5238)

GRIEG: March of the Trolls; Notturno, from Lyric Pieces Book 5 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 57296)

SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music No 2 in G - Das Neue Orchester/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-192)

7:00 KRAUS: Azire, Ballet Music VB18 - New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570334)

SABICAS: Campiña Andaluza - Ramon Ruiz (gtr) (Signum SIGCD 405)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI 3 36403)

KARG-ELERT: Sinfonische Kanzone Op 114 - Thies Roorda (fl), Nata Tsvereli (pno) (Naxos 8.573269)

WEBER: Peter Schmoll, Overture - Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1760)

8:00 Beauty Spot: KORNGOLD: Ich ging zu ihm, from Das Wunder der Heliane - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

ATTERBERG: Prelude & Fugue - Camerata Nordica/Ulf Wallin (dir) (CPO 777 156)

MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93975)

FOULDS: Basque Serenade - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7307)

DEBUSSY: Scottish March - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572296)

WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - Simon Lindley (org), English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.555869)

9:00 FUX: Overture in Bb - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (dir) (Vanguard 99705)

JT EICHNER: Harp Concerto in G Op 5/1 - Silke Aichhorn (harp), Kurpfalz CO/Stefan Fraas (CPO 777 835)

STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op 28 - City of Birmingham SO/Andris Nelsons (Orfeo C 878 141 A)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No 1 in F# minor Op 11 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (Vanguard Classics 99034)

PROKOFIEV: Winter Bonfire Op 122 - Finchley Children's Music Group, New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Helios CDH55177)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Quintet in Bb for piano & winds - Eric Le Sage (pno), Les Vents Français (Warner 2564 623185)

NIELSEN: Symphony No 5 Op 50 - BBC Phil/John Storgårds (Chandos CHAN 10859)

12:00 BRAHMS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 11 - Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (DG 476 5786)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

BAINTON: An English Idyll - Paul Whelan (bar), BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Chandos CHAN 10019)

FRANCK: Violin Sonata in A - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

UTTING: Spirals - New Zealand SO/David Atherton (RNZ)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

FOULDS: Chinese Suite Op 95 - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7307)

FALLA arr Pekker: Spanish Dance, from La Vida breve - Mischa Maisky (cello), Lily Maisky (pno) (DG 477 8100)

RODRIGO: Tenth movement, Caccia a la española, Allegro vivace, from Concierto madrigal - Ricardo Gallén, Joaquín Clerch (gtrs), Asturias SO/Maximiano Valdés (Naxos 8.555842)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Bb Op 9/5 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Turkish Fragments Op 62 - Singapore SO/Choo Hoey (Naxos 8.573508)

SOR: Fantasy in D on a favourite Scottish Air Op 40, Ye banks & braes - Stefano Palamidessi (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 93960)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Tuba Concerto in F minor - John Fletcher (tuba), London SO/André Previn (RCA 6782-2-RG)

PUCCINI: Crisantemi - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1362)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Francesca da Rimini - CBSO/Andris Nelsons (Orfeo C 860 111)

5:00 GERSHWIN arr Robert R Bennett: Gershwin in Hollywood - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

BARTÓK trans Székely: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - James Ehnes (vln), Andrew Armstrong (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10752)

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

COPLAND: Two ballads - Eugene Drucker (vln), Diane Walsh (pno) (Bridge 9145)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Ballet Suite No 1 - Russian SO/Mark Gorenstein (Harmonia Mundi RUS 788164)

6:00 BECK: Overture, L'Isle déserte - Frankfurt La Stagione/Michael Schneider (CPO 777 033)

GRAINGER: Faeroe Island Dance - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

FOULDS: Isles of Greece Op 48/2 - IBBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7252)

RACHMANINOV trans Wild: The Little Island - John McArthur (pno) (Boston & Blue Street BAB 10977)

PURCELL: Fairest isle, from King Arthur - Sara Macliver (sop), Australian Brandenburg Orch/Paul Dyer (hpschd/dir) (ABC Classics 465 428)

ADDINSELL: The Isle of Apples - BBC Concert Orch/Kenneth Alwyn (Marco Polo 8.223732)

HUBICKI: From the isles of the sea - Daniel Pailthorpe (fl), James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10322)

ALWYN: The Magic Island - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570144)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

Louise Dearman, Matthew Ford, Julian Ovenden (vocals), Maida Vale Singers, John Wilson Orchestra/John Wilson

John Wilson and his orchestra pay tribute to George and Ira Gershwin, one of America's most celebrated song-writing duos, with favourites including Embraceable You, Love Walked In, Fascinatin' Rhythm and the ballet music from the 1951 film An American in Paris (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:20 PM. Spanish Classics

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

TURINA: Piano Trio No 1 Op 35 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67889)

10:00 PM. Day's End

RAMEAU: Naïs, Suite - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Glossa GCD C 81106)

PLEYEL: Sinfonia Concertante No 5 in F - Dagmar Becker (fl), Wolfgang Meyer (cl), Bruno Schneider (horn), Rainer Schottstädt (bsn), Württemberg CO, Heilbronn/Jörg Faerber (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 321 0396)

ROUSSEL: Le marchand de sable qui passe - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Naxos 8.570323)

MAGNARD: Violin Sonata in G Op 13 - Geneviève Laurenceau (vln), Oliver Triendl (pno) (CPO 777 765)

Thursday 25 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

TUBIN: Symphony No 1 in C minor; Concerto for Balalaika & Orchestra; Music for Strings - Swedish Radio Orch/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 351)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos, No 1 in C Op 15; No 2 in Bb Op 19 - Diedre Irons (pno), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2050)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

DVORÁK: Mass in D Op 86; Te Deum Op 103 - Marina Meshcheriakova (sop), Sergei Miasnikov (bass), Russian State Cappella & SO/Valery Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9505)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Menuet antique; Menuet sur le nom de Haydn; A la manière…Borodin; A la manière…Chabrier; Prélude; Miroirs; Sonatine - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8647)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40; Introduction & Allegro for Strings Op 47; Serenade for Strings Op 20; Enigma Variations Op 36 - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

6:00 CHERUBINI: Anacréon, Overture - Cologne Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 05007)

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

SIBELIUS: Ballade, from Karelia Suite - Baltic Sea Youth Phil/Kristjan Järvi (Naïve V 5407)

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

BENOIT: Derde Fantasie - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

SARASATE: Barcarolle vénitienne Op 46 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572275)

7:00 MOZART: Symphony No 10 in G K74 - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80273)

TAFFANEL: Andante pastorale & Scherzettino - James Galway (fl), Philip Moll (pno) (RCA 09026 68882)

GRAINGER: English Dance - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

HAYDN: Divertimento No 4 in C - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

GERMAN: Nell Gwyn, Suite - Southern Festival Orch/Robin White (Flyback FBCD 2005)

8:00 Beauty Spot: KHAPANTSI: In praise of the beauty of a rose - Armenuhi Seiranian (sop), Naira Kajoyan (fl), Sharakan/Grigor Danielian (Celestial Harmonies 13116)

PUCCINI: Intermezzo, from Manon Lescaut - Graz Phil/Lodovico Zocche (CPO 777 953)

BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 1 in C BWV846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67301/2)

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

SCHUMANN arr P Bruns: Abendlied Op 85/12 - Peter Bruns (cello), Leipzig Mendelssohn CO/Jürgen Bruns (Hänssler CD 98.594)

DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - François Petit (cl), Carole Carniel (pno) (Ligia LIDI 030 2216-10)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 3 Op 21 - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10711)

9:00 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G Op 18/2 - Minetti Quartet (Hänssler CD 98.029)

CAPLET: Quintet for piano & winds - Eric Le Sage (pno), Les Vents Français (Warner 2564 623185)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

BBC Proms 2016

Fretwork and Stile Antico

MORLEY: It was a lover and his lass; BYRD: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth; Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?; WATKINS: The Phoenix and the Turtle;

BYRD: Fantasia a 5; TOMKINS: Be strong and of a good courage; RAMSEY: Sleep, fleshly birth; BYRD: Browning a 5, The leaves be green; JOHNSON: Full fathom five; MUHLY: Gentle sleep; GIBBONS: In nomine No 1; WILBYE: Draw on, sweet night (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

11:10 The Works

OFFENBACH arr Rosenthal: Gaîté parisienne - Monte Carlo Phil/Manuel Rosenthal (Naxos 8.554005)

12:00 WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

MOLIQUE: Flute Concerto in D minor - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Czech National SO/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 080)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Chandos CHAN 8460)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

HONEGGER: Symphony No 3, Liturgique - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

BROUWER: Variations on a theme of Django Reinhardt - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

GOFFIN: Rhapsody in Brass - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

RAFF: Dame Kobold, Overture Op 154 - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5135)

DVORÁK: Silent Woods, from From the Bohemian Forest Op 68 - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), NDR SO/Michael Sanderling (Orfeo C 855 141 A)

CLEMENTI: The Black Joke with 21 Variations WO2 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67850)

CAMILLERI: Malta Suite - Malta Phil/Miran Vaupotic (Naxos 8.573373)

ROTA: Toccata for bassoon & piano - Michael Sweeney (bsn), Mary Kenedi (pno) (Naxos 8.572778)

Shakespeare 400

David Morriss takes a musical voyage through the plays

Much Ado About Nothing

BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture - Boston SO/Charles Munch (RCA 09026 68999)

ARNE: Sigh no more, ladies, from Much Ado About Nothing -Richard Morton (ten), Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66237)

QUILTER: Sigh no more, ladies, from four Shakespeare Songs Op 30 - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66878)

KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - Gil Shaham (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 439 886)

TÁRREGA: Arab Caprice - Craig Ogden (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9743)

LISZT: Piano Concerto No 2 in A - Nelson Freire (pno), Bavarian Radio SO/Eleazar de Carvalho (Decca 478 6772)

5:00 COPLAND: Hoe-down, from Rodeo - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova 74321 37854)

SCHUBERT: Rondo brillant in B minor D895 - Alina Ibragimova (vln), Cédric Tiberghien (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67912)

J STRAUSS II: Czárdás, from Knight Pásmán - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223245)

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

MUSSORGSKY: A Night on Bare Mountain - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Onyx 4074)

6:00 PRUDEN: Looking for a lost guinea-pig at daybreak - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Kiwi SLD 78)

WRIGHT: Searching - Maxwell Spiers (cor anglais), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7240)

BEETHOVEN: Rondo a capriccio in G Op 129 - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Mirare MIR 9972)

GOSSEC: Symphony in D Op 13/3, The Hunt - Concerto Cologne/Werner Ehrhardt (dir) (Capriccio 67 073)

MENDLESSOHN: Hunting Song, from Songs without Words Op 19 - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

COWARD: Someday I'll find you, from Private Lives - Sophie Daneman (sop), Ian Bostridge (ten), Jeffrey Tate (pno) (EMI 5 57374)

GRAINGER: The lost lady found, from A Lincolnshire Posy - Penelope Thwaites, John Lavender (pno duet) (Pearl SHE CD 9611)

7:00 PM. Evening Classics

GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 55 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 286)

7:35 PM. Curtain Raiser

Indra Hughes introduces Bach's Magnificat in D (RNZ)

8:00 PM. Music Alive

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Direct from the Auckland Town Hall

Sara Macliver, Taryn Fiebig (sops), Helen Charlston (mezzo), Andrew Goodwin (ten), Christopher Richardson (bass), University of Auckland Chamber Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Stephen Layton

BACH: Cantata No 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen!;

PÄRT: Berliner Messe

(interval)

PÄRT: Collage sur B-A-C-H;

BACH: Magnificat in D (RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

SCHOENBERG: Transfigured Night Op 4 - Bern Camerata/Thomas Zehetmair (vln/dir) (ECM 1714 (465 778))

STRAUSS: Sonatina No 1 in F for winds - London Winds/Michael Collins (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66731)

LILBURN: Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

Friday 26 August 2016

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1

LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy; Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb; Piano Concerto No 2 in A; Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Op 1 - Midori Seiler (vln) (CBS MK 44944)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Die Nacht; Die Nachtigall; Wehmut; Der Gondelfahrer; Mondenschein; Nachthelle; Das Dorfchen; Die Einsiedelei; Sehnsucht; Grab und Mond; Frühlingsgesang; Liebe; Widerspruch; An den Frühling; La pastorella; Ständchen; Der Entfernten - Karl Dent, Richard Clement (tens), Martha Hart (mezzo), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Mary Akerman (gtr), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

ELLER: Elegia for harp & strings; Five Pieces for string orchestra; Tone Poem, Dawn; RAID: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Eluned Pierce (harp), John Digney (ob), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

WALTON: Façade, Long Steel Grass; STEVENS: Symphony of Liberation, Resistance; FRANKEL: First movement, from Symphony No 5; SEARLE: First movement, from Symphony No 2; FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair; WALTON: Old Sir Faulk, from Façade; Touch her soft lips & part, from Henry V; Gloria, from Christopher Columbus; ALWYN: First movement, from Lyra Angelica; Prelude to Odd Man Out; BLISS: Pastoral, The Pigeon Song, Lie strewn the white flocks; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; LEIGHTON: Adagio molto, Third movement, from Symphony No 3 - Susana Walton (narrator), Della Jones (mezzo), Arthur Davies, Neil Mackie (tens), Michael Davis (vln), Rachel Masters (harp), Westminster Singers, London SO, Royal Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 7008)

6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

MOZART: First movement, Allegro, from Divertimento in F K247 - Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist (Naxos 8.557023)

ABEL: Flute Sonata in E minor - Wilbert Hazelzet (transverse fl), Jacques Ogg (hpschd), Jaap ter Linden (cello) (Glossa GCDC 80802)

BIBER: Battalia in D - Baroque Band/Garry Clarke (dir) (Cedille CDR 90000 116)

CASTELLO: Violin Sonata No 2 - Irish Baroque Orch Chamber Soloists/Monica Huggett (dir) (Avie AV 2202)

NADERMAN: Harp Sonatina No 6 in D minor - Masumi Nagasawa (harp) (Etcetera KTC 1341)

BERLIOZ: Second movement, A Ball, from Symphonie fantastique - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572886)

7:00 SMETANA: Prague Carnival - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10413)

DVORÁK: Polonaise in A Op posth - Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS SACD 1947)

LIADOV: Kikimora Op 63 - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Artek AR 0056)

SPOHR arr Wojciechowski: Adagio in F, from Sonata Concertante Op 115 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Edward Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10703)

DELIUS ed Beecham: Légende for violin and orchestra - Tasmin Little (vln), BBC Phil/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHAN 10796)

8:00 Beauty Spot: DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

SUPPÉ: Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna, Overture - Franz Bartolomey (cello), Peter Schmidl (cl), Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

SARASATE: Romance & Gavotte after Mignon - Volker Reinhold (vln), Ralph Zedler (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm 903 1909)

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

J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle/Michael Tomaschek (Koch International 324 073)

9:00 AM. The Works

BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Richard Goode (pno) (RCA 60036 2 RG)

KAHN: Piano Trio No 2 in Eb Op 33 - Hyperion Trio (CPO 777 791)

10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

CHABRIER: Three movements from L'Étoile - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 4 in D Op 83 - Carducci Quartet (Signum SIGCD 418)

CHAUSSON: Seven Melodies - Véronique Gens (sop), Susan Manoff (pno) (Alpha ALPHA 215)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Suite - Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 448 704)

DOHNÁNYI: Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor - Gottlieb Wallisch (pno), Enso Quartet (Naxos 8.570572)

12:00 BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Isaac Stern (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (CBS MK 42256)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 - Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (Pentatone PTC 51486 312)

1:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ performers and composers

LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

STRAUSS: Muttertändelai Op 43/2; Meinem Kinde Op 37/3; Wiegenlied Op 41/1; Jung Hexenlied Op 39/2 - Patricia Wright (sop), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (RNZ)

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

MERK: Fantasy on Donizetti's Dom Sébastien Op 26/4 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with David Morriss

HEDGES: Four Miniature Dances - RTE Sinfonietta/Anthony Hedges (Marco Polo 8.223886)

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

PURCELL realized Britten: Four songs from Orpheus Britannicus - Jon Vickers (ten), Richard Woitach (pno) (CBC PSCD 2024)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 76/6 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

SCHUBERT: Impromptus D935 - András Schiff (fpno) (ECM 2425/26)

MOZART: Symphony No 36 in C K425, Linz - London SO/John Barbirolli (BBC Legends BBCL 4055)

5:00 SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - New Symphony Orch of London/Raymond Agoult (Decca 425 739)

GADE: Piano Trio in Bb - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1665)

WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDC 7 47255)

RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (pno) (Onyx 4116)

CORELLI: Violin Sonata in F Op 5/10 - Michala Petri (rec), Mahan Esfahani (hpschd) (Our Recordings 6.220610)

COPLAND: Cuban Dance - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559758)

6:00 BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture - Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 427 806)

BRITTEN: Cabaret Songs - Ann Murray (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Avie AV 2077)

AURIC: Where is your heart? - Ransom Wilson (fl), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Etcetera KTC 1073)

JOBIM arr Mower: The girl from Ipanema - James Galway, Mike Mower (flutes), Neil Angilley (pno), Laurence Cottle (dbass), Ian Thomas (drums), Bosco De Oliveira (congas), Davida Battista (timbales), Dave Pattman (guiro/bongos/cowbell) (RCA 09026 63422)

BOLCOM: Cabaret Songs - Measha Brueggergosman (sop), BBC SO/David Robertson (DG 477 6589)

7:00 PM. Music Alive

BBC Proms 2016

David Bowie Prom

Marc Almond, Paul Buchanan, John Cale, Anna Calvi, Laura Mvula, Conor O'Brien, Amanda Palmer (singers), Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor), s t a r g a z e /André de Ridder

A Berlin-based, genre-defying musicians' collective and collaborators re-imagine the Bowie catalogue with fresh settings of classic works (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

9:00 PM. Sound Lounge

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11:00 New Music Dreams

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