Schedules for 23 - 29 September, 2017

Disc 1

STILL: Symphony No 2 in G minor, Song of a New Race; DAWSON: Negro Folk Symphony; ELLINGTON: Harlem - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9226)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

PAGANINI trans Kraft: Grand Sonata; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Capriccio diabolico Op 85; PONCE: Sonata romantica; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata in D Op 77 - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9033)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

HANDEL: Clori, mia bella Clori; Armida Abbandonata; Delirio Amoroso - Ann Murray (sop), Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (Collins 15032)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

PONCHIELLI: Capriccio; HÜE: Petite Piece; PALADILHE: Solo for oboe; KALLIWODA: Le Morceau de Salon Op 228; PASCULLI: Concerto Sopra Motivi Dell'Opera La Favorita di Donizetti; DONIZETTI: Solo for oboe; FAURÉ: Piece; SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94; FRANCK: Piece No 5; SINIGAGLIA: 12 Variations on a Theme by Schubert Op 19 - John Anderson (ob), Gordon Back (pno) (ASV CD WHL 2100)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel Suite; The Tale of the Tsar Saltan Suite; The Flight of the Bumble-Bee, from Tsar Saltan; Christmas Eve Suite - Yuri Boghosian (vln), Digran Gevorgian (fl), Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 772)

HANDEL: Trio Sonata in F Op 2/4 - London Baroque (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1379)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 19 in F K459 (1) - Hélène Grimaud (pno), Bavarian Radio CO/Radoslaw Szulc (DG 477 9455)

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

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

CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 59 (3) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 (3) - Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons (BR MEDIA 900 105)

7.00

BACH arr Avital: Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor BWV1052 (1) - Avi Avital (mandolin), Ophira Zakai (theorbo), Ira Givol (cello) (DG 479 0092)

SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No 1 in Bb D898 (2) - Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (EMI 4 76871)

ALBÉNIZ: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - René Bartoli (gtr) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMA 19 0928)

G GABRIELI ed Jones: Canzon IV in 6 parts - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/Stephen Cleobury (ARGO 417 468)

WAGENSEIL: Trombone Concerto in Eb - Jörgen van Rijen (tbn), Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (dir) (CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 26708)

ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian (3) - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)

8.00

LARSSON: Pastoral Suite (3) - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (NAXOS 8.553115)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C minor Op 18/4 (4) - Artemis Quartet (Virgin 3 80268)

VIVALDI: Concerto in F for multiple instruments RV569 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30283)

BRUCKNER: Os justi - Voces8 (Signum Classics SIGCD 283)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances Op 72 (4) - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)

BERNSTEIN: Make Our Garden Grow, from Candide - Joshua Bell (vln), Philharmonia Orchestra/David Zinman (Sony SK 89358)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 (4) - Emanuel Ax (pno), Boston SO/Bernard Haitink (SONY SK 63229)

Major pieces, familiar and unfamiliar

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

VERDI arr Turovsky: String Quartet in E minor - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9662)

DEBUSSY: Images, Book 2 - Zoltán Kocsis (pno) (Philips 422 404)

HAYDN: Symphony No 89 in F (4) - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

RUSSELL: How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera - Anna Russell (Sony MDK 47252)

DORÁTI: Five Pieces for Oboe - Eric Speller (ob) (Ambroisie AMB 9933)

PURCELL: Hush, no more, from The Fairy Queen - Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (ARCHIV 419 221)

NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 421 170)

PROKOFIEV: Concertino in G minor Op 132 (3) - Steven Isserlis (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Gàbor Takàcs-Nagy (BIS SACD 1782)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1656)

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This week's best-selling CDs

This composer and lyricist committed himself whilst still a teenager to an art form that might have stagnated had it not been for his unique creativity, and his restless determination never to repeat himself. Rachel Hyde looks at Sondheim's life and work and in particular his five Broadway musicals of the 1970's (RNZ)

MOROSS: Concerto for flute with string orchestra - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Koch International 1996842)

Trevor Reekie hosts a programme of trans-global music, fusion and folk roots (RNZ)

A Chamber Music New Zealand concert

Winner of the 2015 Michael Hill International Violin Competition Suyeon Kang performs with distinguished New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge

MOZART: Violin Sonata No 28 in Eb K380; RAVEL: Sonata No 1 in A minor, Posthume; SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408; YOUNG: Gone; STRAVINSKY: Divertimento (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

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

Carol Hirschfeld and Clarissa Dunn host 2016's Settling the Score Live! where the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and soloists, with Matthew Coorey conducting, perform a collection of top works and the final five countdown, as voted for by RNZ Concert listeners (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde (4) - New Zealand String Quartet (RNZ)

BODY: African Strings (2) - Norio Sato, Kei Koh (gtrs) (RATTLE RAT D009)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Murray Khouri (cl), John McCabe (pno) (CONTINUUM CCD 1027)

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

CANNABICH: Symphony No 51 in D - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.55434)

GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Rachel Masters (harp), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9094)

SHENG: Black Swan (after Brahms) - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559679)

HUME: Touch me sweetly,The Virgins Muse (2) - Marianne Muller, Liam Fennelly, Pau Marcos (violas da gamba) (ZIG ZAG ZZT 100 501)

ROBINOVITCH: Rodas Recordada - Sefarad (MARQUIS 81389)

GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, excerpts - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)

FUCHS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 9 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished; Incidental music to Rosamunde D797 - Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 715)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

HINDEMITH: Sonata; CAPLET: Divertissements; TAILLEFERRE: Sonata for harp; ÖZDIL: Aganta, Burina, Burinata for harp; FAURÉ: Impromptu; BRITTEN: Suite for harp Op 83 - Godelieve Schrama (harp) (Canal Grande CG 9530)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

STENHAMMAR: Seven Poems from Thoughts of Solitude Op 7; Five Songs to texts by J.L. Runeberg Op 8; Four Swedish Songs Op 16; Five Songs of Bo Bergman Op 20; Songs & Moods Op 26; Late Harvest - Peter Mattei (bar), Bengt-Ake Lundin (pno) (BIS CD 654)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas; PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany; HEENAN: Cindy; Three Maori Songs; RITCHIE: Concerto for Clarinet & Strings; FARQUHAR: Ring Around the Moon - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BRAHMS: Theme and variations for piano; Presto Studies, Nos 3 & 4; Chaconne Study No 5, from Five Studies for Piano; Hungarian Dances; Gavotte; Impromptu; Etude Study No 1; Rondo Study No 2, from Five Studies for Piano - Georg Friedrich Schenck (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1172)

HANDEL: Pastoral Symphony, from Messiah - Sinfonia Australis/Guy Noble (ABC Classics 472 044)

ALLEGRI ed Rutter: Miserere mei, Deus - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5085)

DURUFLÉ: Messe Cum jubilo - Thomas Herford (bar), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Mark Williams (org) (Chandos CHAN 10357)

COOMAN: A cosmic prayer; Prayer of Julian of Norwich - Choir of Royal Holloway, London/Rupert Gough, Samuel Rathbone (org) (NAXOS 8.559361)

BACH: Cantata No 99, Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan - Malin Hartelius (sop), William Towers (countertenor), James Gilchrist (ten), Peter Harvey (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 104)

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

A LLOYD WEBBER: Pie Jesu, from Requiem - Jane Sheldon, Sara Macliver (sops), Cantillation, Sinfonia/David Stanhope (ABC 472 597)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns, presented by Robyn Jaquiery (RNZ)

WHITACRE: Sleep - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA67543)

FAURÉ arr Busser/Hazell: Après un rêve - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

PARADIS: Sicilienne in Eb - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)

MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden - Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best, John Scott (org) (HYPERION CDA 66359)

BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - Royal Liverpool Phil/Grant Llewellyn (ARGO 436 401)

MASCAGNI arr I Salonisti: Cavalleria rusticana, Intermezzo - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

TRAD: The Gentle Swan - Ensemble Galilei (ABC 472 610)

STILL ed Alexa Still: Here's One - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (KOCH 1932925)

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in Bb Op 7/3 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (SIMAX PSC 1292)

RESPIGHI: Rossiniana - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS 8.557711)

HUMMEL ed Beyer: Potpourri in G minor Op 94 - James Ehnes (vla), London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10255)

Piano Trios of French and Spanish Influence

TURINA: Piano Trio No 1 in D Op 35 - Orion Weiss (piano), Bella Hristova (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello)

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - Inon Barnatan (piano), Jessica Lee (violin), Jakob Koranyi (cello) (WFMT)

MOZART: Bassoon Concerto in Bb K191 - Valeri Popov (bsn), Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9656)

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 - Emerson Quartet (DG 445 551)

DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - BBC Scottish SO/Michal Dworzynski (BBC Music BBC MM 348)

SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129 - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Freiburg Baroque Orch (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902197)

Fantasy in C Op 17 - Piotr Anderszewski (pno) (Warner 190295888558)

Recordings from 1935

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - Boston SO/Serge Koussevitzky (Naxos 8.11017)

SZYMANOWSKI: Nocturne & Tarantella Op 28 - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Marcel Gazelle (pno) (EMI 5 65962)

The Wagner Tuba

The instrument has origins in ancient Nordic culture, was developed by Wagner for his epic operas and has since been used in some surprising contexts. Erica Challis offers an illustrated guided tour (RNZ)

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)

In New Horizons today, William Dart celebrates the 80th birthday of one of his favourite singers, Karin Krog, with a special hour-long edition (RNZ)

BERLIOZ: The Damnation of Faust

Based loosely on Goethe's re-telling of the Faust legend, this is the story of a man offered knowledge and love, but at the cost of his own soul. It's a powerful myth in Western culture, and has inspired countless musicians, writers and artists.

Faust................................. Andrew Staples

Méphistophélès................. Eric Owens

Marguerite........................ Alisa Kolosova

Brander............................. James Clayton

Freemasons NZ Opera Chorus, Wellington, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

RAVEL: Sonatine - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)

J RITCHIE: Concertino in A for clarinet & strings - Marina Sturm (cl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (TRUST MMT 2040)

LILBURN: A Birthday Offering - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (KIWI CD SLD 100)

PROKOFIEV: Sonata in C for two violins Op 56 - Natalia Lomeiko, Yuri Zhislin (vlns) (Atoll ACD 513)

MOZART: Divertimento in Eb for wind K252 - Berlin Phil Wind Players (Orfeo C 152 861)

RR BENNETT: Reflections on a 16th-Century Tune - Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in B Op 9/3 - Israela Margalit (pno) (QUARTZ QTZ 2022)

BIBER: Violin Sonata in D - Anton Steck (vln), Christian Rieger (hpschd), Lee Santana (arch lute/chitarrone), Hille Perl (vla da gamba) (CPO 777 124)

DEBUSSY orch Caplet: Children's Corner - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

NIELSEN: String Quintet in G - ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9258)

FARR: Taheke (2) - Bridget Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (hrp) (Atoll ACD 709)

LAURIDSEN: Nocturnes - Polyphony/Stephen Layton, Morten Lauridsen (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67580)

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphonies, No 2 in Bb D125; No 6 in C D589, Little - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509-91184)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

WIDOR: Symphonie No 5 Op 42/1, Toccata; FRANCK: Prélude, fugue et variation Op 18; MESSIAEN: Transports de joie; VIERNE: Berceuse Op 31/19; ALAIN: Litanies; DURUFLÉ: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d' Alain Op 7; Prélude; Fugue; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie in Eb; FRANCK: Choral No 3 in A minor; LANGLAIS: Prélude modal; VIERNE: Symphonie No 1 Op 14, Finale - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

Great Opera Quintets & Sextets

Quintets & Sextets from Cosi fan tutte, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Lakmé, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, Anna Bolena, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Le nozze di Figaro, Macbeth & Lucia di Lamermoor - Various artists (Decca 448 061)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

BEETHOVEN: String Quartets, in E minor Op 59 No 2, Razumovsky; in Eb Op 74, Harp - Borodin Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10191)

5:00 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Bassoon Concertos, in F RV485; in Bb RV503; in Eb RV483; in A minor RV497; in C RV473; in G RV492 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (Philips 416 355)

DELIUS: Irmelin, Prelude - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)

FOULDS: Music-Pictures Group 6 Op 81, Gaelic Melodies - Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS CD 933)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2 in D Op 36 (2) - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Mariss Jansons (RCO LIVE RCO 05002)

GLAZUNOV: Concert Waltz No 2 in F Op 51 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9658)

LILBURN: Bagatelle No 1 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 (1) - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Lithuanian CO (BIS SACD 2007)

7.00

HAYDN: Keyboard Concerto in G HobXVIII/4 (1) - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Norwegian CO (EMI CDC 5 56960)

DUMANOIR: Suite in F, Overture - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (AUVIDIS FONTALIS ES 9903)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (3) - London Phil/Marin Alsop (NAXOS 8.557429)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D BWV1050 (3) - The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 492)

DALZA arr Lislevand: Saltarello; Piva - period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))

ALBÉNIZ: Evocación, from Iberia Book 1 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (PRIVATE)

BERNSTEIN arr Brohn: Lonely Town, from On the Town - Joshua Bell (vln), Philharmonia Orchestra/David Zinman (Sony SK 89358)

RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G (1) - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 448)

8.00

PUCCINI: Minuet No 2 in A - Berlin Radio SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 410 007)

VIVALDI arr Behrend: Lute Concerto in D RV93 (2) - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)

LALO: Symphonie espagnole (5) - Shlomo Mintz (vln), Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94070)

CHABRIER: Five Posthumous Pieces (2) - Emmanuel Strosser (pno) (MIRARE MIR 116)

RHEINBERGER: Abendlied - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1516)

DVORÁK: Bagatelles Op 47 (4) - Quartetto Gelato (Linus 70055)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 6/11 - Rémy Baudet, Sayuri Yamagata (vlns), Richte van der Meer (cello), Hank Heyink (archlute), Musica Amphion/Pieter-Jan Belder (dir) (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92403)

KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon, Overture - Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer (CBC SMCD 5069)

9.00

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 6 in D minor Op 104 (3) - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (NAXOS 8.572705)

HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 1 in Bb - David Reichenberg (ob), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 415 291)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op 42 - James Ehnes (vln), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (ONYX 4076)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno), CBSO/Simon Rattle (Philips 456 787)

WHITACRE: I thank you God for most this amazing day - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA67543)

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 4 - English String Orch/William Boughton (NIMBUS NI 7067/8)

MOZART: Come scoglio, from Così fan tutte - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 448 300)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 2 in G Op 1/2 - Storioni Trio (PENTATONE PTC 5186 071)

TRAD arr Dawson: Ain'-a that good news! - 1999 New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2029)

FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Vienna Philharmonic/James Levine (DG 447 070)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1656)

12.00

GERSHWIN trans Heifetz: Preludes for piano (1) - Joshua Bell (vln), John Williams (pno)/John Williams (Sony SK 60659)

GORB: Awayday - University of Georgia Wind Ensemble/John Lynch (Naxos 8.572231)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 423 090)

HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI 5 65041)

BRAHMS: An die Nachtigall Op 46/4 - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 2191)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

J STAMITZ: Symphony in Eb - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (NAXOS 8.553194)

LISZT: Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland, excerpts - David James (pno) (RNZ)

CARR: Mardi Gras Overture - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (KIWI CD SLD 101)

BARTÓK arr Farquhar: For Children, excerpts - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.573765)

TALLIS: Lamentations for Maundy Thursday - Tudor Consort/Alastair Carey (Private)

BIBER arr Leppard: Sonata in A for eight trumpets - Wynton Marsalis (tpts), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 42478)

ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), London SO/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47329)

LOCKE: Suite No 3 in F - Phantasm (GMN GMNC 0109)

MOZART: Konstanze! dich wiederzusehen, from Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Fritz Wunderlich (ten), Bavarian State Opera Orch/Eugen Jochum (DG 423 868)

4.00

RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez (2) - Turibio Santos (gtr), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Claudio Scimone (Warner 8573 80438)

SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 4 in F# Op 30 - Halida Dinova (pno) (DOREMI DDR 71133)

MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum - Núria Rial (sop), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

TAUSIG: The Ghost Ship Op 1 - Rian de Waal (pno) (ETCETERA KTC 1016)

SULLIVAN: I'm called the captain of the Pinafore, from HMS Pinafore - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Chorus, New London SO/Isidore Godfrey (Decca 433 868)

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet Suite No 2 (6) - Minneapolis SO/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (MERCURY 432 004)

5.00

TCHAIKOVSKY: Hopak, from Mazeppa - Cincinnati SO/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80640)

PIAZZOLLA arr Milone: Libertango - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

LÓPEZ-QUIROGA arr Trepat: Francisco Alegre - Rafael Aguirre Miñarro (gtr) (Naxos 8.572916)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar's Bride, Overture - Kirov Orch, St Petersburg/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 618)

DIENES: Ave verum corpus - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (ATOLL ACD 105)

CALDARA: Chiacona Op 2/12 - Four Nations Ensemble (GAUDEAMUS CD GAU 347)

HAYDN: Symphony No 90 in C (3) - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 27 in E minor Op 90 - Jonathan Biss (pno) (EMI 3 94422)

6.00

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

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/1 - Concerto Copenhagen/Lars Ulrik Mortensen (CPO 777 488)

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

MIŠKINIS: Time is endless - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (HYPERION CDA 67818)

SQUIRE: Dream Bird - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (MASTER PERFORMERS MP 010)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Rhapsody No 3 in Ab minor Op 45 - Detroit SO/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 087)

Music for a While

L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar

Drawing inspiration from Henry Purcell's famous secular and sacred songs, hymns and dances, the jazz ensemble L'Arpeggiata takes us back to seventeenth-century London with a programme that fuses the theatre and court music of the time with the sophisticated improvisatory arts of jazz (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

RACHMANINOV: Fantasy Pieces Op 3 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 475 6198)

MOZART: Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Julie Palloc (harp), Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas (BIS SACD 1539)

RAK: Remembering Prague - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE)

ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Tallinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 1745)

GLINKA: Dance for oboe & cello with orchestra - Anatoly Lyubimov (ob), Fedor Luzhanov (cello), Moscow Radio SO/Boris Demchenko (REGISC 1242)

SINDING: Rustle of Spring - Christian Ihle Hadland (pno) (NAXOS 8.572255)

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

RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - John Williams (gtr), Philharmonia/Louis Frémaux (CBS M2K 44791)

J STAMITZ: Symphony in G - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (NAXOS 8.553194)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/1 - John O'Conor (pno) (TELARC CD 80337)

STRAUSS: Dance Suite - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 446 696)

GIBBONS: O all true faithful hearts - The Sixteen, Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (CORO CORSACD 16016)

BACH arr Yang: Prelude No 1 in C BWV846, - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 6 79018)

GYROWETZ: Divertissement in A Op 50 - Eckart Haupt (fl), Arkadi Zenziper (pno), Götz Teutsch (cello) (Capriccio 10 398)

Disc 1

SHOSTAKOVICH: Suites, from the Gadfly Op 97; from Five Days Five Nights Op 111 - Ukraine National SO/Theodore Kuchar (Naxos 8.553299)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

SATIE: Gnossiennes, Nos 1-3; Embryons desséchés; Avant-dernières pensées; Pièces froides; Sonatine bureaucratique; Gymnopédies, Nos 1-3; Véritanles préludes flasques; Gnossiennes, Nos 4-6; Les trios calses distinguées du précieux dégoùte; Sarabande No 3 - Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 317)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

FAYRFAX: Kyrie, Obis factor; Missa O Quam Glorifica; Hymnus, O Quam Glorifica; Ave Dei patris filia; Sumwhat musyng; That was my Joy; To complayne me, alas - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (ASV CD GAU 142)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

W F BACH: Sonatas, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in G; No 3 in Eb; No 4 in F; No 5 in Eb; No 6 in F minor - Penelope Evison, Pierre Séchet (transverse flutes) (Stil 1908 SAN 80)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

AUBERT: Offrande; Six Symphonic Tableaux, Cinema; Symphonic Tableaux, Dryade; Five Children's Pieces, Feuille d'Images; Tombeau de Chateaubriand - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam (Marco Polo 8.223531)

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

COPLAND: Letter from Home - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS 8.55924)

DVORÁK: String Sextet in A Op 48 (2) - Panocha Quartet, Josef Kluson (vla), Michal Kanka (cello) (SUPRAPHON SU 3921)

GIGOUT: Scherzo, from Ten Pieces - Gillian Weir (org) (KOSS KC 1013)

TORELLI: Trumpet Concerto in D - Alison Balsom (tpt), Bremen German Chamber Phil (EMI 2 16213)

BACH arr Yang: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 (2) - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Elias String Quartet (EMI 6 79018)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17 (2) - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56414)

7.00

MOZART: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds K452 (3) - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Hansjörg Schellenberger (ob), Larry Combs (cl), Dale Clevenger (horn), Daniele Damiano (bsn) (ERATO 4509 96359)

HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks, La Réjouissance - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (AUVIDIS FONTALIS ES 9903)

GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9549)

MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Suite (1) - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (VIRGIN 3 91372)

GRUNFELD: Soirée de Vienne Op 56 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

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

MALATS arr Tárrega: Spanish Serenade - Kyuhee Park (gtr) (Naxos 8.573225)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44 (3) - Mikhail Pletnev (pno), Philharmonia/Vladimir Fedoseyev (Virgin VC 7 91202)

8.00

FINZI arr Ashmore: Five Bagatelles Op 23 (1) - Robert Plane (cl), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 (3) - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (KIWI CD SLC 215)

TARTINI: Violin Concerto in Bb D117 (4) - Adrian Chandler (vln/dir), La Serenissima (AVIE AV 2154)

BEETHOVEN: Fidelio, Overture - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 349)

LISZT: Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este - François-René Duchâble (pno) (VIRGIN 3 63278)

RICHTER: Flute Concerto in E minor (3) - Barthold Kuijken (fl), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (SONY SK 48045)

DEBUSSY: La Mer (3) - French National Orch/Daniele Gatti (Sony 88697 97400)

9.00

TELEMANN: Conclusion in D, from Tafelmusik - Orch of the Golden Age (NAXOS 8.553731)

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Katia & Marielle Labèque (pno duet) (KML 1111)

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (SIMAX PSC 1292)

SIBELIUS: Romance Op 78/2 - Joshua Bell (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Decca 417 891)

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

RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45 (1) - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 598)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

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

BACH: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Allan Vogel (ob), Hilary Hahn (vln), Los Angeles CO/Jeffrey Kahane (DG 474 199)

TRAD arr Poster/Balsom: Nobody Knows - Alison Balsom (tpt), BBC Scottish SO/Lawrence Renes (EMI 6 78590)

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 40 - Murray Perahia (pno), ASMF/Neville Marriner (CBS MK 42401)

IBERT: Scherzetto - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (MASTER PERFORMERS MP 010)

STOLZEL: Bist du bei mir - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Barry Rose (Philips 412 629)

STRAVINSKY arr Stravinsky/Dushkin: Chanson russe - Anthony Marwood (vln), Thomas Adès (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67723)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 - Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 142)

12.00

JOPLIN: Elite Syncopations - Heinrich Schiff (cello), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Philips 420 945)

GERSHWIN: Bess you is my woman now, from Porgy & Bess - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Isabelle Lucas (sop), London Studio Orch/unknown conductor (COLUMBIA 475 545)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (CAPRICCIO 60 008)

CHEN/HE trans Xuefei Yang: Falling in love, from Butterfly Lovers - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 2 06322)

SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129 - Heinrich Schiff (cello), Berlin Phil/Bernard Haitink (Philips 422 414)

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HUMMEL: Rondo brillant in F Op 127, Le retour à Londres - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Gävle SO/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.557845)

PAINE: Dream Weaving - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.573765)

LILBURN: Violin Sonata (1950) - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (ATOLL ACD 941)

WEBER: Peter Schmoll, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (NAXOS 8.570296)

WALTON arr Duthoit: Crown Imperial - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Janet Gibbs (org)/Graham Hanify (KIWI CD SLC 216)

DOHNÁNYI: Capriccio in F minor - Stephen Hough (pno) (Virgin VC 7 90732)

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 13 - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.573234)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O viridissima virga - Andrew Parrott, Kevin Breen, Howard Milner (tens), Doreen Muskett (symphony)/Christopher Page (dir) (HYPERION CDA 66039)

4.00

RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (2) - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 471 614)

MOZART: Et incarnatus est, from Mass in C minor K427 - Arleen Augér (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 440 414)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 20 in A D959 (4) - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 579)

BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 (1) - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (TELARC CD 80740)

PURCELL: Scotch tune, from Amphitryon - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.570149)

ARNOLD arr Farr: Four Scottish Dances - Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Elgar Howarth (CONIFER CDCF 222)

5.00

HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from The Planets Suite - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (HYPERION CDA 67270)

TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in Eb (2) - Douglas Boyd (ob), Richard Lester (cello), Roderick Elms (hpschd), Harold Lester (org) (ASV CD DCA 656)

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American (4) - Tokyo String Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7429)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian (3) - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

PICKER: Old & Lost Rivers - London SO/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)

RZEWSKI: Down by the riverside - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67077)

BRAHMS: String Sextet No 2 in G Op 36 (4) - Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin (vlns), Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree (vlas), Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson (cellos) (SONY S2K 45820)

SIBELIUS: Pan & Echo Op 53 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (NAXOS 8.570763)

6.00

BACH arr Tarkmann: Concerto for oboe d'amore, strings & continuo (3) - Albrecht Mayer (ob d'amore), English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)

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

NIELSEN: Serenata in vano - New London Chamber Ensemble & Guests (MERIDIAN CDE 84580)

STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9131)

GUBAIDULINA: Allegro rustico - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7658)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - James Ehnes (vln), Sydney SO/Vladimir Ashkenazy (ONYX 4076)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 423 090)

VIVALDI arr Malipiero: Concerto in G for two mandolins RV532 - Slava & Leonard Grigoryans (gtrs), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Imani Winds

Tradition and the Innovative

COLEMAN: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Russell: Selections from Scheherazade; PIAZZOLLA arr Scott: Contrabajissimo

(interval)

Natalie HUNT: Snapshots (CMNZ commission); D'RIVERA: A Farewell Mambo; SHAHEEN arr Scott: Dance Mediterranea (RNZ)

HAYDN: Symphony No 8 in G, Le Soir - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 296 1767)

LISZT arr Horowitz: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 5976)

FASCH: Concerto in C minor FWV L/c2 - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)

TRAD arr Oliver: Choice Ayres - Robert Oliver (ten), Milton Parker (gtr) (Kiwi SLD 47)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (SIGNUM SIGCD 175)

WEBER: Variations on a theme from Silvana - Mark Walton (cl), Simon Ballard (pno) (CHALUMEAU EBY 003)

TAVENER: Svyati - Tim Hugh (cello), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson (NAXOS 8.555256)

BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 - Wanderer Trio (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1915.16)

Disc 1

Night Music 3

Works by Fauré, Tchaikovsky, Marcello, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Haydn, Corelli, Mozart, Albinoni - Various Artists (Naxos 8.551123)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

DAVID: Piano Trios, No 3 in C minor; No 2 in D minor - Ilona Prunyi (pno), Eszter Perényi (vln), Tibor Párkányi (cello) (Marco Polo 8.223492)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

Stairway to Heaven

Choral Works by Bach, Fauré, Messiaen, Poulenc, Stanford, Allegri, Mozart, Burgon, Schubert, Lassus, Victoria, Purcell, Barber - Choir of Trinity College/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605-51521)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein; No 27 in E minor Op 90; No 14 in C# minor Op 27/2, Moonlight; No 13 in Eb Op 27/1 - Michael Houstoun (Trust MMT 2001/3)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

GRAINGER: Rustic Dance; Eastern Intermezzo; Colonial Song; Gay but Wistful; The Gum-sucker's March; LILBURN: Diversions for strings; DREYFUS: Serenade for small orchestra; BENJAMIN: North American Square Dance; COULTHARD: Excursion Ballet Suite - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC 2 5088)

DI VITTORIO: Overtura Respighiana - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (NAXOS 8.572333)

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Lang Lang (pno) (SONY 88697 89140)

CHEN GANG arr Yi-Wen Jiang: Miao Mountain Morning - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

CHOPIN: Mazurka in C# Minor Op 50/3 - Leon Fleisher (pno) (VANGUARD ATM CD 1551)

YSAŸE: Caprice d'après l'Etude en forme de valse - Philippe Graffin (vln), Pascal Devoyon (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67285)

BEETHOVEN: Clarinet Trio in Bb Op 11 (1) - Peter Schmidl (cl), Friedrich Dolezal (cello), Erich Binder (pno) (Decca 414 576)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 (3) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 654)

7.00

FASCH: Concerto in D FWV L/D3 (1) - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian (2) - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Chandos CHAN 8460)

BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 118 (3) - John Chen (pno) (RNZ)

STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon (3) - Joy Farrall (cl), Julie Andrews (bsn), Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (EMI CD EMX 2238)

HAYDN: Symphony No 88 in G (4) - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

PUCCINI: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Bohème - Renée Fleming (sop), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (Decca 467 049)

FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2021)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 1 in Bb Op 21 (1) - Smetana Trio (SUPRAPHON SU 3927)

8.00

POULENC: Valse, from Album des Six - French National Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 937)

MOZART: Concerto in C for flute & harp K299 (2) - Irena Grafenauer (fl), Maria Graf (harp), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 051)

SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 22 (4) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67166)

HANDEL: Suite from Il Pastor Fido (11) - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (SONY SK 68257)

ROSSINI: Il signor Bruschino, Overture - National Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 400 049)

GERSHWIN arr Heifetz: My man's gone now, from Porgy & Bess - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 471 500)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish (4) - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)

9.00

LECLAIR: Violin Concerto in F Op 10/4 (3) - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0589)

RUTTER: Suite Antique - Christopher D Lewis (hpschd), John McMurtery (fl), West Side CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.573146)

BACH: Gott versorget alles Leben, from Cantata No 187 - Ursula Langmayr (sop), Alison Dunlop (ob), Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (org) (Atoll ACD 916)

BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in C G298 (1) - Europa Galante (VIRGIN 5 45421)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80289)

RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Kathryn Stott (pno) (EMI 4 16471)

DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66 - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92779)

STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in Eb Op 18 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 427 617)

WAGNER: In fernem land, from Lohengrin - Simon O'Neill (ten), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

MOZART: Piano Trio No 1 in G K496 (1) - Florestan Trio (HYPERION CDA 67609)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 717)

12.00

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/4 - Inon Barnatan (pno) (Bridge 9197)

RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 410 145)

CAZZATI/MEALLI: Passacaglia - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (virgin 6 94577)

BELLINI: Ah! Non credea mirarti, from La Sonnambula - Malvina Major (sop), Gerald Gover (pno) (EMI 5 56724)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 492)

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NZ performers and composers

RÓZSA: Legend & Epilogue, from El Cid - New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand SO/James Sedares, Tamra Saylor Fine (org) (KOCH 1986981)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K457 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs (1) - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2021)

SHEPHERD: Prelude & Toccata - Carol Hohauser (fl), Karen Spiegel-Neumann (pno) (RNZ)

DAVERNE: Gem of the Kaipara - Kevin Friedrich (accordion), Moravian Phil/Petr Pololáník (EMI 557 9042)

FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques (3) - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9416)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 - Friedrich Gulda (pno), Vienna Phil/Horst Stein (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93653)

WAGNER: Venusberg Music & Bacchanale, from Tannhäuser - Vienna Symphony/Wolfgang Sawallisch (Philips 422 480)

4.00

HANDEL: Golden columns, fair and bright, from Solomon - Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 412 612)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 9 - Fou Ts'ong (pno) (SONY SB2K 53249)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 (4) - English CO/Benjamin Britten (BBC MUSIC BBCB 8002)

SCRIABIN: Pieces Op 57 (2) - Glenn Gould (pno) (Philips 456 808)

LODGE: Hinterland - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2037)

BOYCE: Symphony No 8 in D - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (NAXOS 8.557278)

5.00

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

HAYDN/HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D (3) - Barthold Kuijken (fl), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (SONY SK 48045)

RESPIGHI arr Grandjany: Sicilienne - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)

STRAUSS: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (9) - Kathryn Stott (pno), Kenneth Sillito (vln), Stephen Orton (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 446 696)

DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Leon Fleisher (pno) (VANGUARD ATM CD 1551)

HAWES: Rain - English CO/Patrick Hawes (BLACK BOX BBM 1081)

FINZI: My spirit sang all day Op 17/3 - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (ATOLL ACD 105)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 492)

6.00

F MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb (4) - Quatuor Ebène (EMI 4 64546)

MARAIS: March, air & tambourin pour les Matelots - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (AUVIDIS FONTALIS ES 9903)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on a theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 42121)

MOZART: Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen - Dorothea Röschmann (sop), Matthias Goerne (bar), Swedish Radio SO/Manfred Honeck (Decca 467 263)

MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

BAGUER: Symphony No 16 in G - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9456)

Daniil Trifonov (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; PROKOFIEV: Scythian Suite;

SCRIABIN: Poem of Ecstasy (KUSC)

POULENC: Flute Sonata - Guy Eshed (fl), Tim Horton (pno) (NIMBUS NI 6121)

BACH arr Yang: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 (2) - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 6 79018)

SCHUMANN: Lied der Suleika - Barbara Bonney (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 452 898)

STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30 - Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 1041)

SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Sarah Chang (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDC 5 55026)

HAMILTON: Poem about the Sun Slinking Off - Viva Voce/John Rosser (ODE CD ODE 1308)

HUMMEL: Piano Trio No 1 in Eb Op 12 - Micaela Comberti (vln), Pal Banda (cello), Susan Alexander-Max (pno) (ASV CD GAU 210)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto in D HobVIIb/4 - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (VIRGIN 5 45560)

PALESTRINA: Senex puerum portabat - English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Musica Contexta/Simon Ravens (Chandos CHAN 0779)

MESSIAEN: Theme & Variations - Matthew Trusler (vln), Stephen De Pledge (pno) (BLACK BOX BBM 1090)

JONGEN: Waltz - Rachel Talitman (harp) (CLASSIC TALENT DOM 2910 74)

BRAHMS: String Quintet No 1 in F Op 88 - Nash Ensemble, Philip Dukes (vla) (ONYX 4043)

Disc 1

BOCCHERINI: Symphonies, in D G503; in A G508; in C G515 - London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10604)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

PSATHAS: Island Songs; KELLY: Sono; NORRIS: Dirty pixels; GRENFELL: A Feather of Blue; AXTENS: For Violin, Violoncello and Piano; FARR: Ahi - New Zealand Trio (Trust MMT 2066)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater; Flute Concerto in G; Sinfonia in F; Salve Regina in C minor - Elin Manahan Thomas (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Ashley Solomon (fl), Jennifer Morsches (cello), Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS SA 29810)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15; Davidsbündlertänze Op 6; Piano Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 22 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67780)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings Op 48; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11; Elegy; Scherzo in C minor Op 42/2 - Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9116)

BOYCE: Symphony No 1 in Bb - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (NAXOS 8.557278)

BACH: Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031 (3) - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Terence Charlston (hpschd) (BIS CD 1689)

LISZT: Der Lindenbaum, from Die Winterreise - Jorge Bolet (pno) (Decca 414 575)

SCHUBERT: Ave Maria D839 - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (BEN BAKER BBCD 01)

TALBOT: The Flower Garden Part 2, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Royal Phil/Christopher Austin (Signum SIGCD 327)

GLAZUNOV: String Quartet No 3 in G Op 26, Slavonic (1) - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 281)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 17 in G K453 (3) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno/dir), Padua & Venice Orch (OCTAVIA OVCL 00170)

7.00

DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 (2) - Simon Rowland-Jones (vla), Chilingirian Quartet (Chandos CHAN 9046)

FRANCESCO DA MILANO arr Lislevand: Canon, La Spagna - period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))

OFFENBACH: Barcarolle, from The Tales of Hoffmann - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066, Overture - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (AUVIDIS FONTALIS ES 9903)

BEETHOVEN: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 16 (3) - Stephen Hough (pno), Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS CD 1552)

ALBÉNIZ arr Xuefei Yang: España Op 165 (3) - Xuefei Yang (gtr) (EMI 6 98361)

RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 2 (2) - Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 419 868)

BRAHMS: Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 (4) - Günther Högner (horn), Erich Binder (vln), András Schiff (pno) (Decca 410 114)

8.00

LIADOV orch Liadov: A Musical Snuffbox - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8804)

RHEINBERGER arr Cullen: Cantilena, from Organ Sonata No 11 in D minor - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 62 in Eb HobXVI/52 (1) - Angela Hewitt (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67736)

CHABRIER: Scherzo-Valse, Suite pastorale - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

TOMLINSON: Lakeside Idyll - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (DUTTON CDLX 7170)

TRAD orch Grainger: Ye banks and braes o' Bonnie Doon - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9839)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique (3) - Phildelphia Orch/Christoph Eschenbach (ONDINE ODE 1131-5)

9.00

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1 in Bb Op 38, Spring (4) - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (ARCHIV 457 591)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - ASMF/Neville Marriner (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99986)

GIBBONS: The Silver Swan - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (COLLEGIUM CSCD 502)

MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20 (1) - Daniel Hope (vln), members of CO of Europe (DG 477 6634)

KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)

GRIEG orch Debussy: Anitra's Dance, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 Op 46 - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (TELARC SACD 60655)

VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for strings RV152 - Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (dir) (ARCHIV 474 5092)

From the Adam Chamber Music Festival 2015

Joie de Vivre

Phillip Ying (vla), Kathryn Stott (pno), Song Company, New Zealand String Quartet

MARAIS: Five Old French Dances; FAURÉ: Après un rêve; RAVEL: Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis; DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor; FRANCK: Piano Quintet in F minor (recorded in Old St John's Church, Nelson by RNZ)

BACH arr Red Priest: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 (1) - Red Priest (RED PRIEST RP 007)

STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite - CO of Europe/Alexander Janiczek (dir) (LINN CKD 330)

12.00

KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (Warner 8573 80438)

BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Keller Quartet (ECM 2197)

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 (1) - Kari Kriikku (basset cl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/John Storgårds (ONDINE ODE 1056)

BUTTERWORTH: Is my team ploughing? from Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Iain Burnside (pno) (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 298)

SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - London SO/Colin Davis (RCA 09026 68770)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

C STAMITZ: Duo in D for violin & cello Op 19 - members of Tres Cordes String Trio (ODE CD MANU 5122)

HUMMEL: Te Deum in D - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.557193)

A RITCHIE: Flute Concerto Op 56 (3) - Alexa Still (fl), Auckland CO/Peter Scholes (ATOLL ACD 129)

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in D D384 - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

ROTT: A Prelude to Julius Caesar - Munich Radio Orch/Sebastian Weigle (ARTE NOVA 82876 57748)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nathan Milstein (vln), Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 419 067)

PSATHAS: Waiting for the Aeroplane - Dan Poynton (pno) (RATTLE RAT D006)

4.00

HANDEL: Father of Heaven, from Judas Maccabaeus - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Phil/Adrian Boult (Decca 414 623)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Royal Phil/Leopold Stokowski (NEWTON 880 2025)

BACH: Partita No 6 in E minor BWV830 (2) - David Fray (pno) (Virgin 0 70944)

VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two cellos RV531 - Christina Mahler, Allen Whear (cellos), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (ANALEKTA AN 2 9811)

MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K297b (1) - Kinan Azmeh (cl), Mohamed Saleh (ob), Mor Biron (bsn), Sharon Polyak (horn), West-Eastern Divan Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Warner 2564 62791)

5.00

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

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 21 in Bb D960 (4) - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Decca 478 2116)

HAYDN: Symphony No 72 in D (4) - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer (NIMBUS NI 5652/5)

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)

KATS-CHERNIN: Calliope Dreaming - Haydn Trio Eisenstadt (Capriccio 7020)

GRAINGER: A Lincolnshire Posy (6) - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9549)

MÁRQUEZ: Conga del fuego nuevo - Simón Bolìvar SO/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 0069)

6.00

VIOTTI: Violin Concerto No 22 in A minor (3) - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln), Brandenburg Orch/Roy Goodman (HYPERION CDA 66840)

SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy in A Op 124 - Skaila Kanga (harp), Kenneth Sillito (vln) (Chandos CHAN 8621)

FOOTE: Suite in E Op 63 (2) - London Octave/Kypros Markou (DUTTON CDLX 7238)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 2 in F Op 38 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (DG 423 090)

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

GERSHWIN orch Rose: Strike Up The Band, Overture - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.55975)

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in F Op 3/4 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (dir) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7415)

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 8 in E - Prague String Quartet (DG 429 193)

DANKWORTH: Picture of Jeannie - Emma Johnson (cl), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.57224)

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

German Masters

David Fray (piano), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Douglas Boyd

MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture; SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54

(interval)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 4 in B flat Op 60 (RNZ)

J STAMITZ: Symphony in Bb - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (NAXOS 8.553194)

BACH arr Safri Duo/Mortensen: English Suite No 4 in F BWV809 (1) - Safri Duo (Chandos CHAN 9339)

DONIZETTI: Oboe Concertino in F - Günther Passin (ob), RIAS Sinfonietta/Jirí Stárek (Koch Schwann 311 121)

RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite - BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 300)

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

PARISOTTI: Se tu m'ami - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), György Fischer (pno) (Decca 436 267)

A SCARLATTI: Già il sole dal Gange,Son tutta duolo - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), György Fischer (pno) (Decca 436 267)

WARLOCK: Six Italian Dance Tunes - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ARTE NOVA ANO 378 680)

ALBÉNIZ: Almería, from Iberia Book 2 - Hervé Billaut (pno) (LYRINX LYR 2217)

MENDELSSOHN: Pieces for String Quartet Op 81 - Melos Quartet (DG 415 883)

Disc 1

Soundtrack by Michael Nyman from the film The Piano

NYMAN: To the edge of the earth; Big my secret; A wild and distant shore; The heart asks pleasure first; Here to there; The promise; A bed of ferns; The fling; The scent of love; Deep into the forest; The mood that passes through you; Lost and found; The embrace; Little impulse; The sacrifice; I clipped your wing; The wounded; All imperfect things; Dreams of a journey - Michael Nyman (pno), Michael Nyman Band (Venture 7 88274)

1:00 approx - Disc 2

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 3

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 4

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, Klaus Hellwig (pnos) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 904 1653)

4:35 approx - Disc 5

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

HANDEL: Organ Concerto in Bb Op 7/6 - Simon Preston (org), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 413 468)

WAGNER transcr Liszt: Am stillen Herd - Leslie Howard (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67101/2)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in Eb Op 67 - Steven Isserlis (cello), North German Radio SO/Christoph Eschenbach (RCA 09026 63518)

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 (4) - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9484)

HAYDN: Symphony No 92 in G, Oxford (3) - Freiburg Baroque Orch/René Jacobs (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1849)

SCHNITTKE: Pantomime, from Suite in the Old Style - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

SCHUMANN arr Mahler: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish (2) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 0037)

7.00

GUANG orch Suzuki: Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon - Hong Kong Phil/Kenneth Jean (MARCO POLO 8.223911)

SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout (3) - Schubert Ensemble (ASV GLD 4000)

TELEMANN: Concerto in A for flute, violin & cello (3) - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Georg Faust (cello), Berlin Baroque Soloists (EMI 5 57397)

CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 (4) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

GOODWIN: Theme from Lancelot and Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (MARCO POLO 8.223518)

CPE BACH: Cello Concerto in A Wq172 (1) - Jan Vogler (cello), Munich CO/Reinhard Goebel (SONY 88697 11997)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (2) - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 717)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 44 (3) - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

8.00

ELGAR: In Haven (Capri), from Sea Pictures - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

BORODIN arr anon: String Quartet No 2 in D (3) - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in F minor Op 113 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Wolfgang Meyer (basset horn), ASMF/Kenneth Sillito (EMI 5 57359)

GERSHWIN arr Heifetz: Bess, you is my woman now, from Porgy & Bess - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 471 500)

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

GRIEG: Holberg Suite (5) - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 (3) - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS SACD 1431)

ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 051)

9.00

GOLDMARK: Rustic Wedding Symphony (5) - Los Angeles Phil/Jesús López-Cobos (Decca 476 8743)

FAURÉ: Pavane - Montreal Symphony Chorus & Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 448 687)

PAINE: New Zealand Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE)

LECLAIR: Violin Concerto in D Op 10/3 - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0589)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor Op 40 (1) - Simon Trpceski (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (AVIE AV 2191)

RAVEL: Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62746)

DEBUSSY: L'isle joyeuse - Cécile Ousset (pno) (BERLIN CLASSICS 1345 BC)

TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in Bb, from Tafelmusik - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (ARCHIV 427 619)

PROKOFIEV: Andante in G minor - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tatyana Lazareva (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10045)

MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9846)

PUCCINI: In quelle trine morbide, from Manon Lescaut - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Anton Coppola (EMI 5 57955)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Alban Berg Quartet (EMI 5 56759)

12.00

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

DU MINGXIN arr Wu Zuqiang: Straw Hat Dance, from The Mermaid Suite - Lang Lang (pno) (Deutsche Grammophon DG 477 6229)

SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy Op 25 - Joshua Bell (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Decca 417 891)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Don Juan's Serenade Op 38/1 - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

BIZET: L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 6693)

Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

NZ performers and composers

A RITCHIE: Symphony No 3, Op 150 (1) - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (ATOLL ACD 741)

FONTANA: Sonata No 2 - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)

GÁL: Clarinet Sonata Op 84 - Murray Khouri (cl), John McCabe (pno) (CONTINUUM CCD 1027)

CARR: Nightmusic, Scherzo for orchestra - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (KIWI CD SLD 101)

BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle No 25 in A minor, Für Elise - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 456 031)

STRAUSS: Metamorphosen - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 888)

DEBUSSY: Images, Book 1 - Zoltán Kocsis (pno) (Philips 422 404)

4.00

BELLINI: Casta diva, from Norma - Maria Callas (sop), La Scala Chorus & Orch, Milan/Tullio Serafin (EMI 5 57062)

GEMINIANI: The Enchanted Forest (15) - Janet See, Barbara Kallaur (fls), Elizabeth Wilcock, Stanley Ritchie (vlns), Susie Napper (cello), Patrick Wedd (hpschd), CBC Vancouver Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (CBC RECORDS SMCD 5163)

SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Der Lindenbaum, from Winterreise - Niu Niu (pno) (EMI 7 25332)

FINZI compltd Ferguson: The Fall of the Leaf - Bournemouth SO/David Hill (NAXOS 8.570417)

WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (BEN BAKER BBCD 01)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F BWV1046 - European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (AVIE AV 2119)

5.00

MERULA: Ciaccona - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (virgin 6 94577)

FRANCAIX: Concertino for piano & orchestra - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 448)

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

VERDI arr Fernie: Grand March, from Aida - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)

HOVHANESS: Alleluia & Fugue Op 40b - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (TELARC CD 80503)

LISZT: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Anne Queffélec (pno) (ERATO 4509 94692)

OOSTEN: Harp Concerto (3) - Godelieve Schrama (harp), Netherlands Radio CO/Micha Hamel (NM CLASSICS 92077)

SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 (3) - Martha Argerich (pno), Dora Schwarzberg, Renaud Capuçon (vlns), Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg (vla), Mark Drobinsky (cello) (EMI 4 76871)

6.00

TRAD: Hinemoa - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2016)

TRAD arr Idenstam: Spel Jocke - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (CAPRICE CAP 21807)

MOZART: Symphony No 37 in G K444 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 761)

MORLEY: My bonny lass - Canadian Brass (CBS MK 45792)

MERK: Fantasy on Donizetti's Torquato Tasso Op 26/3 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

GROFÉ: Mississippi Suite - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (NAXOS 8.559007)

7:00 Curtain Raiser

An introduction to Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time presented by Roger Smith (RNZ)

7:20 A Chamber Music New Zealand concert

Julian Bliss (clarinet), NZTrio

BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114;

Ross HARRIS: There may be light (CMNZ commission); MESSIAEN: Quartet for the End of Time (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

Charlotte Wilson presents a weekly forum for contemporary music

11:00 New Music Dreams

Come along for a mesmerising ride as Ryan Smith explores ambient and drone music - handpicked from the very latest, to 20th century seminal masterpieces and everything in between