TELEMANN: Concerto in A for two violins; Concerto in D for four violins; Concerto in A minor for recorder, viola da gamba & strings; Concerto in G minor for recorder & strings; Concerto in C for four violins; Concerto in E minor for recorder, flute & strings - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (DG 439 444)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

GERSHWIN: Strike Up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No 1; Piano Concerto in F, Allegro Agitata; An American in Paris; Prelude No 3; Medley from Porgy & Bess; Fascinating Rhythm; Lullaby; Promenade; Cuban Overture - Sarah Vaughn (vocalist), André Previn (pno), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 64060)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BACH: Christmas Oratorio Parts 1-3 - Monika Frimmer (sop), Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Gerd Turk (ten), Peter Kooij (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS CD 941/2)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27, Moonlight; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (CBS MK 34509)

4:35 approx - Disc 5

COATES: Sweet Seventeen; Summer Afternoon; Impressions of a Princess; Salute the Soldier; Two Light Syncopated Pieces, Moon Magic; Rose of Samarkand; For Your Delight; The Unknown Singers; I Sing to You; Coquette; Over to You; Idyll; Under the Stars; By the Tamarisk; Mirage; Last Love; The Greenland - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

GIORGINAKIS: Therismos, from Greek Memories - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

LISZT arr Janácek: Mass in Bb - Christ Church Cathedral Choir/Stephen Darlington, Clive Driskill-Smith (org) (Griffin GCCD 4042)

KREBS: Chorale Prelude, Herr Jesu Christ - Neil Black (ob), Peter Hurford (org) (Argo 430 208)

TRAD: Veni creator spiritus - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16077)

MEWS: A sound came from heaven - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 407)

RUTTER: Come down, O love divine - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67259)

WF BACH: Sinfonia & Cantata, Dies ist der Tag - Barbara Schlick (sop), Claudia Schubert (contralto), Wilfried Jochens (ten), Stephan Schreckenberger (bass), Rhineland Kantorei, Kleine Konzert/Herman Max (Capriccio 10 426)

DURUFLÉ: Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié - Hans Fagius (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark) (BIS CD 1304)

ANON arr Vartabed/orch Shoujounian: You are a profound mystery - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

WHITEHEAD: Lullaby for Matthew - David Guerin (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

GLAZUNOV: Chant du Ménestrel - Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Phil/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5153)

GLUCK: Che farò senza Euridice? from Orpheus & Euridice - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Decca 466 196)

GAUTIER DE COINCY: Douce Dame - Ian Harrison (cornetto), Harp Consort/Andrew Lawrence-King (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7317)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Second movement, Andantino semplice, from Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), London SO/Lorin Maazel (Decca 466 462)

MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Amadeus Wind Ensemble (Naxos 8.551135)

RESPIGHI: Pastorale in A, after a Tartini Violin Sonata - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

Prussian Quartet No 8 in F - Pleyel Quartet, Cologne (CPO 777 315)

Six programmes from the 2007 three-week California summer music festival

(3) SCHNITTKE: Moz-Art (based on Mozart sketches K416d) - Ian Swensen, Joseph Swensen (vlns)

RAVEL: Violin Sonata in G - Ian Swensen (vln), Gilbert Kalish (pno)

BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Ian Swensen (vln), Paul Neubauer (vla), Colin Carr (cello) (Music@Menlo Live 2007/3)

GROFÉ: Grand Canyon Suite - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80086)

CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - Jascha Heifetz (vln), RCA Victor SO/Izler Solomon (rec 1952) (IDIS 6546)

DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 1 - Alfred Cortot (pno) (rec 1949) (Appian APR 5572)

SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Jascha Heifetz (vln), RCA Victor SO/William Steinberg (rec 1951) (IDIS 6546)

Elric Hooper and Des Wilson discuss Richard Strauss's last opera (RNZ)

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

(21) WAGNER: Siegfried, an opera in three acts

The third music drama of "The Ring of the Nibelung" cycle traces the first adventures of the hero Siegfried and culminates with his discovery of love

Siegfried........................ Jay Hunter Morris

Mime............................ Gerhard Siegel

The Wanderer............... Bryn Terfel

Alberich........................ Eric Owens

Fafner........................... Hans-Peter König

Woodbird..................... Erin Morley

Erda.............................. Patricia Bardon

Brünnhilde..................... Deborah Voigt

Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

Three programmes

(3) Christchurch After Hours: a celebration of the city's vibrant music scene in the 1950s and early 1960s (RNZ)

BRAHMS/DIETRICH/SCHUMANN: FAE Sonata in A minor - Isabelle van Keulen (vln), Ronald Brautigam (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-6554)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 - Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann (Sony 88697 92717)

11:00 LISZT: Duo Sonata for violin & piano - Ingolf Turban (vln), Lukas Maria Kuen (pno) (Oehms Classics OC 415)

HUMMEL: Clarinet Quartet in Eb - Fabrizio Meloni (cl), Andrea Pecolo (vln), Luca Ranieri (vla), Mario Finotti (cello) (Naxos 8.554280)

MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan; WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D; No 20 in E minor; No 21 in E minor - Quebec Conservatoire Orch/Franz-Paul Decker (Bell BELL-CD 1991)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

ROSSINI: Waltz in Eb; Thème; Allegretto; Scherzo in A minor; Un Rien; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, Morceau réservés; Péchés de vieillesse, Book 9 - Marco Sollini (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10190)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

LILBURN: Drysdale Overture; A Song of Islands, Suite for Orchestra; A Birthday Offering; Prodigal Country - David Griffiths (bar), Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/John Hopkins, Charles Groves (Kiwi CD SLD 100)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

FUCHS: Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor; Fantasiestücke Op 78; Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb - Nancy Green (cello), Caroline Palmer (pno) (Biddulph LAW 005)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

ELGAR: In the South Op 50; Froissart Op 19; Variations on an original theme, Enigma Op 36 - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (Conifer CDCF 187)

FARRENC: Valse brillante Op 48 - Konstanze Eickhorst (pno) (CPO 999 879)

HOLZBAUER: Symphony in A Op 2/4 - Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (dir) (CPO 999 585)

TRAD arr Bairstow: The oak and the ash - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium COLCD 104)

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

KREISLER: Siciliano & Rigaudon in the style of Francoeur - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)

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

7:00 COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man - London SO/Aaron Copland (CBS MK 42430)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Scherzo - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67381/2)

REICHENAUER: Bassoon Concerto in G minor - Sergio Azzolini (bsn), Collegium 1704/Václav Luks (dir) (Supraphon SU 4035)

BAX: Morning Song, Maytime in Sussex - Margaret Fingerhut (pno), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8516)

SOR: Fantasy in A Op 4 - Stefano Palamidessi (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 93960)

GERSHWIN: Mexican dance - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80445)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MOZART: Second movement, Larghetto, from Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Sharon Kam (basset cl), Isabelle van Keulen, Ulrike-Anima Mathé (vlns), Volker Jacobsen (vla), Gustav Rivinius (cello) (Berlin Classics 001667)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 72/8 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

CHABRIER cpted Le Boucher: Bourrée fantasque - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

CARSE: Two Sketches, A Northern Song; A Northern Dance - Northern Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.555070)

STANFORD: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Op 123 - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell, John Wells (org) (Atoll ACD 105)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in C Op 48 - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (RCA 09026 68844)

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)

Sonata in G minor for piano duet - Wolfgang Brunner, Leonore von Stauss (fpno duet) (Profil PH 06025)

Symphony in F Ben140 - Vienna Concilium Musicum/Paul Angerer (Cavalli CCD 414)

CRUSELL: Clarinet Concerto No 3 in Bb Op 11 - Martin Fröst (cl), Gothenburg SO/Okko Kamu (BIS SACD 1723)

BACH: English Suite No 2 in A minor BWV807 - András Schiff (pno) (Philips 456 925)

FARRENC: Symphony No 2 in D Op 35 - North German Radio Phil/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 820)

GOOSSENS: Lyric Poem Op 35 - Robert Gibbs (vln), Gusztáv Fenyo (pno) (Naxos 8.572860)

CORP: Four Elizabethan Lyrics, The owl is abroad; Golden slumbers; Elegy for himself; When daffodils begin to peer - Voces Cantabiles/Ronald Corp, Alexander Wells (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7171)

G WALKER: Lyric for Strings - Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 061)

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

DUPRE: Nigra sum (Antiphon III), from 15 Versets sur les Vêpres de la Vierge Op 18 - Michael Murray (organ of St Sulpice, Paris) (Telarc CD 80516)

TELEMANN: Quartet in G, from Tafelmusik - members of Freiburg Baroque Orch (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2042.45)

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

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

HANDEL: Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430, Harmonious Blacksmith, from Set I - Murray Perahia (pno) (rec 1997) (Sony SK 62785)

PORPORA: Parto, ti lascio, o cara, from Germanico in Germania; Usignolo sventurato, from Siface - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (rec 2009) (Decca 478 1521)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vln), Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (rec 2008) (Naïve V 5174)

SCHUMANN: Overture, Scherzo & Finale Op 52 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (rec 1997) (Archiv 289 457 591)

VERDI arr Genin/Guiot: Fantasy on La Traviata - Patrick Gallois (fl), Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

RAVEL: Tzigane - Martin Riseley (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (Rattle RAT D032)

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

BESSER: Waltz For; Klez - Isidor Saslav (vln), Besser Ensemble (Besser Music)

CANNABICH: Symphony No 48 in Bb - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

TRAD arr Russell: Three Celtic Pieces, Spatter the dew; Neil Gow's lament for the death of his second wife; The bucks of Oranmore - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in D minor RV454 - Anthony Robson (ob), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment (Linn CKD 151)

IRELAND: London Pieces, Chelsea Reach; Ragamuffin; Soho forenoons - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 074)

WAGENAAR: The Philosophical Princess, Overture - Netherlands Radio SO/Eri Klas (Etcetera KTC 1326)

DIENES: Ave verum corpus; FINZI: My spirit sang all day Op 17/3 - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

FRANÇAIX: Concertino for piano & orchestra - Claude Françaix (pno), London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 434 335)

DUFF: Irish Suite for Strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

IBERT: Reflets dans l'eau - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80488)

J STRAUSS I: Muses Quadrille Op 174 - Slovak Sinfonietta of Zilina/Ernst Märzendorfer (Marco Polo 8.225338)

TURINA: Euterpe, from Las musas de Andalucía Op 93 - Eva León (vln), Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.570402)

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

SCHUBERT: Der Musensohn D764 - Matthias Goerne (bar), Andreas Haefliger (pno) (Decca 452 917)

HORNEMAN: The Contest with the Muses, Suite - Danish National SO/Johannes Gustavsson (Dacapo 6.220564)

Symphony in G Ben130 - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572550)

STENHAMMAR: Flickan Knyter I Johannenatten; I Lönnens Skymning; Gammal Nederländare; GRIEG: Våren; Lauf der Welt; SIBELIUS: Under Strandens Granar Op 13/1; Vilse Op 17/4; Romance in A Op 24/2 (pno solo); SCHUBERT: An Sylvia D891; Gretchen am Spinnrade D118; LISZT: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Die Drei Ziguener; GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand (pno solo); The spring of time; The merry king; The British waterside; KORNGOLD: O mistress mine; Good man devil; Glückwunsch; SCHULHOFF: No 3, from Hot Music, 10 Syncopated Studies (pno solo); WEILL: One life to live, from Lady in the Dark; Speak low; I'm a stranger here myself, from One Touch of Venus; GRIEG: I love you; ANDERSSON: Light as a summer butterfly (recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: Pieces for String Quartet Op 81 - Talich Quartet (Calliope CAL 9313)

RR BENNETT: Seven Country Dances, A new Dance; Lady Day; The Ladies' misfortune; Enfield Common; The Czar of Muscovy; The mulberry garden; Nobody's jig - Amy Dickson (soprano sax), Royal Scottish National Orch/George Vass (Dutton CDLX 7277)

11:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Quintet in C minor - Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10465)

JOSÉ: Guitar Sonata - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572390)

ARNOLD: Symphony No 6 Op 95; Fantasy on a Theme of John Field for piano & orchestra Op 116; Concert Suite, Sweeney Todd Op 68a; Tam O'Shanter, Overture - John Lill (pno), Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Conifer CDCF 224)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

CHOPIN: Piano Sonatas, No 1 in C minor Op 4; No 2 in Bb minor Op 35; No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Arabesque Z6628)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

STRAUSS: The Donkey's Shadow, a Singspiel based on Christoph Martin Wieland's novel Die Abderiten - Peter Ustinov (narrator), Berlin Radio Choir & Orch/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-6548)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

M HAYDN: Symphonies, No 18 in C; No 25 in G; Divertimento in G - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 155)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

RESPIGHI: Chaconne for violin, organ & strings; Concerto All'Antica for violin & orchestra; Pastorale for violin & strings; Concerto a cinque for oboe, trumpet, violin, double bass, piano & strings - Ingolf Turban (vln), English CO/Marcello Viotti (Claves CD 50-9017)

HAYDN: Second movement, Poco adagio e cantabile, from String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1362)

MOURET: Rondo, from Suites de Symphonies - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Anthony Newman (Sony SK 60804)

GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 2 - Thomas Rajna (pno) (CRD 3321)

J STRAUSS II arr Schoenberg: Roses from the South - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

7:00 SUPPÉ: The Beautiful Galatea, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Teldec 8.43240)

GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Susan Milan (fl), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8840)

ALBÉNIZ: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Private Recording 837 001)

SCHOLEFIELD: The Day Thou Gavest - Band of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Manu CD MANU 1286)

ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 2 Op 24, Uppsala-rapsodi - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (Brilliant Classics 8974)

8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD arr Leon: She moved through the fair - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp) (Decca 468 499)

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

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

BACH: Allegro, from Flute Sonata in C BWV1033; Siciliano, from Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031; CPE BACH: Rondo in G, from Flute Sonata in G Wq133 - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

SATIE arr/orch Kennedy: Gymnopédie No 2 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), David Heath (fls), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

WALTON: Façade Suite No 1 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

Piano Trio in E minor Ben435 - Trio 1790 (CPO 777 544)

Violin Concerto in D Ben103/103A - David Perry (vln), Baltimore CO/Markand Thakar (Naxos 8.570320)

BORODIN: String Sextet in D minor - Nash Ensemble (Onyx 4067)

TELEMANN: Oboe d'amore Concerto in G TWVG3 - Paul Goodwin (ob d'amore), King's Consort/Robert King (hpschd/dir) (Hyperion CDA 66267)

KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Suite No 2 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 949)

BACH trans Rachmaninov: Prelude; Gavotte en rondeau; Gigue, from Violin Partita No 3 in E BWV1006 - Howard Shelley (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66486)

BACH trans Perroy: Concerto in D BWV972 after Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in D Op 3/9 - Judicaël Perroy (gtr) (Naxos 8.572427)

Simon Boccanegra........ Leo Nucci

Amelia.......................... Kiri Te Kanawa

Pietro............................ Carlo Colombara

Paolo............................ Paolo Coni

Gabriele........................ Giacomo Aragali

Fiesco........................... Paata Burchaladze

Chorus & Orch of La Scala, Milan/Georg Solti (Decca 425 628)

LILBURN: Canzona No 1, from Four Canzonas - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

BELLINI: Sovra il sen la man min posa; Ah! constante nel tuo, nel mio seno, from La Sonnambula - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Juan Diego Flórez (ten), Chorus of the Opernhaus Zurich, Orchestra La Scintilla/Alessandro de Marchi (Decca 478 1084)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Berlin Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (Testament SBT2 1439)

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

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 18 in Eb Op 31/3 - Clara Haskil (pno) (rec 1960) (Philips 420 088)

MOZART: Serenade No 12 in C minor K388 - members of Vienna Phil/Otto Klemperer (rec 1968) (Testament SBT8 1365)

MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise - New Zealand SO/James Judd (RNZ)

ROUSSEL: Joueurs de flûte Op 27 - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

DONIZETTI: Il pallor funesto, from Lucia di Lammermoor - Malvina Major (sop), Roger Creagh (bar), Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 227)

ALTSCHULER rev Hayroudinoff: Melody in D on a theme by Rachmaninov - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10095)

TRAD arr Wilby: The Farmer's Boy; Marianne, from Three North Country Folksongs - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1993-1994/Roger Stevenson (Private Recording)

RIES: Introduction & Variations Brillantes Op 170 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570440)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Hymn to the Sun, from The Golden Cockerel - Nina Kotova (cello), Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Philips 462 612)

RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in G minor Op 23/5; in G# minor Op 32/12 - Denis Matsuev (pno) (RCA 88697 15591)

ANON: Folia, Rodrigo Martinez - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Michael Behringer (org), Pedro Estevan (drum), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (bells) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

BIZET: Carmen Suite No 1 - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 427 025)

GIORDANI: Caro mio ben - Peter Schreier (ten), Berlin Radio Orch/Robert Hanell (Berlin Classics 030 0222BC)

TCHAIKOVSKY/LENNON/MCCARTNEY arr Wilkinson: Beatlecracker Suite - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2142)

WHITACRE: The Panther, from Animal Crackers Vol 1 - Choralation/Rowan Johnston, Sheryl Clarke (pno) (Westlake Music WCH 001)

CONFREY: Wise Cracker Suite - Eteri Andjaparidze (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223826)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Closing Waltz, Grand Finale, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

LEONCAVALLO: Vesti la giubba, from I Pagliacci - Marc Hervieux (ten), Métropolitain Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (ATMA ACD 2 2618)

DEBUSSY: Syrinx - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2039)

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

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances, in E minor Op 72/2; in Ab Op 46/3 - Cleveland Orch/George Szell (EMI CDC 7 47618)

8:00 Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea

DAESEONG KIM: Huimun; KYUNGSUN SUH: Poem; LARDELLI: Sent into Silence; ELMSLY: Beyond Ten Octaves; BELLON: One Thread; BONU KOO: Divertimento (recorded at St Andrew's on the Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical; Lieutenant Kijé Op 60; Symphony No 7 in C# minor Op 131 - London SO/André Previn (EMI 747 855)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

DVORÁK: Piano Quintets, in A Op 81; in Eb Op 87 - Menahem Pressler (pno), Emerson String Quartet (DG 439 868)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

OCKEGHEM: Requiem; DESPREZ: Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales - Pro Cantione Antiqua, Hamburg Old Music Wind Ensemble/Bruno Turner (Archiv 415 293)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals; Polonaise Op 77; Caprice arabe Op 96; Scherzo Op 87; Variations on a theme by Beethoven Op 35; Danse macabre Op 44 - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pnos), Concentus Bestiales/Julian Reynolds (Globe GLO 5152)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

SOLER: Three Sonatas; REVUELTAS: Sensemayá; DIMAS: Sones de Mariachi; PONCE: Estrellita; HALFFTER: Obertura Festiva; REVUELTAS: Janitzio; HALFFTER: Tripartita; REVUELTAS: Ocho por Radio; VILLANUEVA: Vals Poetico; BUXTEHUDE orch Chávez: Chaconne in E minor - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD CDA 894)

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), Paul Crossley (pno) (Philips 475 7825)

LILBURN: Allegro for Strings - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Koch International 3-7260)

MOMPOU: Songs & Dances No 5 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Newton 880 2096)

BANTOCK: The Pierrot of the Minute - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 67395)

7:00 BLACK: Overture to a Costume Comedy - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2133)

VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV447 - Alfredo Bernardini (ob/dir), Zefiro (Naïve OP 30478)

HANDEL: Coronation Anthem No 1, Zadok the Priest - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English CO/David Willcocks (Decca 444 543)

SEVERAC: Les naïades et le faun indiscret - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.572428)

BERLIOZ: Second movement, A Ball, from Symphonie fantastique - Czecho-Slovak RSO/Pinchas Steinberg (Naxos 8.555319/20)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 55 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

BIGAGLIA: Sonata in A minor - Frans Brüggen (rec), Anner Bylsma (cello), Gustav Leonhardt (hpschd) (Teldec 4509 93669)

TRAD arr Bridge: Cherry Ripe - NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

LEFEBURE-WELY: Sortie in Eb - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

GRIEG: In Autumn, Overture - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1191)

String Quartet in G minor Op 2/3 - Enso Quartet (Naxos 8.557496)

arr Brunner: Ecossaises - Wolfgang Brunner, Leonore von Stauss (fpno duo) (Profil PH 06025)

ed Rampal: Flute Concerto in C Ben106 - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia (Naxos 8.572550)

RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - Charles Ramirez (gtr), CO of Europe/Douglas Boyd (Signum SIGCD 244)

STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Hill Records 001)

SCHMITT: The Tragedy of Salomé - Montreal Metropolitan Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (ATMA ACD 2 2647)

GOUNOD: The arrow and the song - Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66801/2)

LAMOND: Sword Dance, from Love in the Scottish Highlands - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67387)

A RITCHIE: Tomahawk Sonnet - Duo Tapas (Ode MANU 5138)

KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - BBC SO/Thomas Beecham (BBC Legends BBCL 4154)

BRAHMS: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, from A German Requiem - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro 16073)

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

GIBBONS: O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not; Hosanna to the Son of David - Phantasm (rec 2003) (Avie AV 0032)

BACH: English Suite No 1 in A BWV806 - Murray Perahia (pno) (rec 1997) (Sony SK 60276)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird - Jerusalem Quartet (rec 2008) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2030)

FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No 2 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

MEWS: Variations on Salutis Humanae Sator - Douglas Mews (organ of the Katharinenkirche, Braunschweig) (Douglas Mews DCM 001)

GRANADOS: The maiden & the nightingale, from Goyescas - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Decca 425 820)

NEWMAN: David & Bathsheba - New Zealand SO/Richard Kaufman (Koch 3-7376)

LISZT: Im Rhein; Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Ihr Auge; Was Liebe sei?; Kling leise, mein Lied; Einst - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in G Op 2/3 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

ECCLES: Suite - Mark Bennett (tpt), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55258)

RAVEL arr Nicholls: Second movement, Mouvement de menuet, from Sonatine - Alison Nicholls (harp) (Alison Nicholls ARN 001)

BIZET: The Fair Maid of Perth, Suite - Melbourne SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 456 669)

ABREU arr Silvetti: Tico-Tico no Fubá - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Robert Kassinger (dbass), Cyro Baptista (perc) (Teldec 3984 21482)

LIADOV: Baba-Yaga Op 56 - BBC SO/Alexander Titov (BBC Music BBC MM 256)

YAMADA arr Yashiro: Red Dragonfly - Sonoko Numata (vln), Akemi Tadenuma (pno) (Camerata 30CM-409)

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

YIN/CHU/SHENG/LIU: Fourth movement, Defend the Yellow River, from Yellow River Piano Concerto - Yin Chengzong (pno), Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Adrian Leaper (Naxos 8.554499)

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

STANFORD: The Blue Bird Op 119/3 - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Decca 473 168)

J STRAUSS II arr Schönherr: Ballet Music, from Indigo & the Forty Thieves - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

BRIDGE: A Dead Violet - Gerald Finley (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67181/2)

QUILTER: Where the Rainbow Ends, Suite - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

Three programmes

In March 2011, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra held their inaugural Conductor Workshops. Over three days, NZSO Music Director Pietari Inkinen tutored five emerging conductors: Raymond Chan, Kerry Jago, Brent Stewart, Nicholas Hancox and Justus Rozemond. Robbie Ellis followed their journeys across the sessions

(2) Day Two in the Ilott Theatre: chamber ensemble (RNZ)

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 8782)

BEETHOVEN arr Tognetti: Violin Sonata No 9 in A Op 47, Kreuzter; JANÁCEK arr Tognetti: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata (recorded in the Adelaide Town Hall by ABC)

WITT: Symphony in C, Jena - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572089)

11:00 RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 3 - I Musici (Fonè SACD 063)

FIBICH: Quintet in D for piano, clarinet, horn, violin & cello Op 42 - Marián Lapsansky (pno), Ludmila Peterková (cl), Vladimíra Klánská (horn), Jirí Panocha (vln), Jaroslav Kulhan (cello) (Supraphon SU 3487-2 131)

MENDELSSOHN: Overtures, The Hebrides, Fingal's Cave; A Midsummer Night's Dream; SUPPÉ: Overtures, The Light Cavalry; Poet & Peasant; BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture; GERSHWIN: Cuban Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 430 741)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

MARTINU: Sinfonietta Giocosa; Toccata e Due Canzoni; Sinfonietta La Jolla - Julian Jacobson (pno), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Tamás Vásáry (Chandos CHAN 8859)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

TCHAIKOVSKY: 16 Childrens' Songs Op 54; Last night Op 60/1; I'll tell you nothing Op 60/2; O, if only you knew Op 60/3; Simple words Op 60/5; Behind the window in the shadow Op 60/10; Why did I dream of you? Op 28/3 - Ilya Levinskt (ten), Semion Skigin (pno) (Conifer 75605-51268)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

VIVALDI: First movement, from Four Seasons, Spring; MASSENET: Méditation, from Thaïs; SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; DEBUSSY: La Fille aux cheveux de lin; BACH: Fourth movement, from Violin Sonata No 3 in C BWV1005; KREISLER: Praeludium and Allegro; BACH: Es ist genug, so nimm, Herr; Cantata, O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort; TRAD: Danny Boy; Scarborough Fair; KENNEDY: Melody in the Wind; MONTI: Csárdás; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Nigel Kennedy, Jonathon Gandelsman (vlns), English CO, London Voices, City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle, John Lenehan (pno), Robert Brophy (vla), Reinhard Armleder (cello), Kroke (EMI 5 57330)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

LLOYD: Piano Concerto No 4; The Lily-Leaf & the Grasshopper; The Transformation of that Naked Ape - Kathryn Stott (pno), London SO/George Lloyd (Albany AR 004)

LISZT: Au bord d'une source, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - Jorge Bolet (pno) (Decca 410 160)

GOLLAND arr Frey: Peace - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

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

SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - members of Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

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

7:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Ilya Kaler (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557690)

BOCCHERINI arr McFerrin: Third movement, Minuet, from String Quintet in E G275 - Bobby McFerrin (vocal), St Paul CO/Bobby McFerrin (Sony SK 64600)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

CPE BACH: La Capricieuse in D minor - Luca Pianca (lute) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7063)

HAMILTON: Three Spirituals - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - World Orch for Peace/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 6937)

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

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

MARTINU: Sonatina in G - Bohuslav Matousek (vln), Petr Adamec (pno) (Supraphon SU 3950)

NOVAK: Country Musicians, from Slovak Suite - Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 4058)

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

J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

GRISON: Toccata in F - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 603)

Flute Quartet in B - Moscow Concertino (Profil PH 07067)

Piano Trio in A Ben448 - Trio 1790 (CPO 777 544)

Sinfonia Concertante in Bb, for two clarinets & orchestra - Dieter Klöcker, Sandra Arnold (cls), South West German CO/Sebastian Tewinkel (CPO 777 241)

HOLST: The Morning of the Year, A Choral Ballet - Joyful Company of Singers, BBC Welsh National Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5069)

HERZOGENBERG: Trio in D for oboe, horn & piano Op 61 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 478 3564)

IRGENS-JENSEN: Passacaglia - Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572312)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 476 409)

MCCABE: Domestic Life - John Turner (recorder), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2143)

JOPLIN: The Strenuous Life - Alexander Peskanov (pno) (Naxos 8.559114)

SUK: Towards a New Life, Festival March Op 20 - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0624)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 415 066)

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

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 2 in A Op 100 - Berl Senofsky (vln), Gary Graffman (pno) (rec 1975) (Bridge 9118)

MUSSORGSKY orch Shostakovich: Songs & Dances of Death - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), London Phil/Mstislav Rostropovich (rec 1976) (EMI 5 62653)

CHABRIER: España - New Zealand SO/Christian Gansch (NZSO)

FROM SCRATCH: 7,8,9, from Gung Ho 1,2,3D - From Scratch/Philip Dadson (Flying Nun FN 085)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

PSATHAS: Spike - Brian Resnick (perc), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Rattle RAT D008)

J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in F Op 1/3 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)

PARADIS: Sicilienne in Eb - Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 5 55529)

HELSTED/PAULLI: Pas de deux, from The Flower Festival in Genzano - Aalborg SO/Peter Ernst Lassen (Danacord DACOCD 631-639)

PAINE: Finchdean - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private Recording BNP CD 04)

MOZART: Symphony No 32 in G K318 - Bavarian Radio SO/Colin Davis (BR Media 900 710)

ALWYN: Suite for oboe & harp - Sarah Francis (ob), Lucy Wakeford (harp) (Naxos 8.572425)

FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean Racine - Accentus, members of French National Orch/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 5137)

SILVESTROV: Second movement, Andantino, from Post scriptum - Cornelius Dufallo (vln), Jenny Lin (pno) (Koch KICCD 7740)

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

SUPPÉ: Tyrolean Dance and Frischka - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223864)

N RAWSTHORNE: Line Dance, from Dance Suite - Christopher Herrick (organ of Berne Cathedral, Switzerland) (Hyperion CDA 67228)

KOCH: Rumba Flamenca - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

STRAVINSKY: Tango - Orpheus CO (Brilliant Classics 9089)

O'CONNOR arr Meyer: Appalachia Waltz - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

RAVEL: Boléro - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

It's a hundred years today since the countertenor Alfred Deller was born. To celebrate, we look at the life and views of this statuesque, six foot two, family man who shocked, mesmerised, inspired and educated generations of audiences with a voice and choice of music that, for many, was a very new experience (RNZ)

Three programmes

(1) John Chen (pno), Dimitri Atanassov (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Jayce Ogren

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048; SCHNITTKE: Concerto Grosso No 6; BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in Bb BWV1051; BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

SCHUBERT trans Maisky: Die Forelle; Der Müller und der Bach from Die schöne Müllerin; Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 449 817)

COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto - Sarah Williamson (cl), Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Somm SOMMCD 244)

ELLER: Lyrical Suite - Tallinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 1745)

11:00 SVENDSEN: String Quintet in C Op 5 - Oslo String Quartet, Henning Kraggerud (vla) (CPO 999 858)

ALBÉNIZ: Six Mazurkas de salón Op 66 - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1953)

WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; Music for Children, Galop finale - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs - Elizabeth Söderström (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 436 204)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

TUBIN: Double bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

MAHLER: Piano Quartet movement - Idil Biret (pno), London String Quartet (IBA 8.571278)

PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)

RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in C# minor Op 3/2; in G minor Op 23/5; in G Op 32/5; in G# minor Op 32/12 - John Ogdon (pno) (Philips 456 916)

BRAHMS orch Parlow: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D - Stuttgart Radio SO/Georges Prêtre (Forlane 16770)

7:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 1754)

WALTON: Coronation March, Crown Imperial - Simon Lindley (org), English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.555869)

MENDELSSOHN: Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80318)

GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)

J STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz - London Phil/Franz Welser-Möst (EMI 5 20974)

8:00 Beauty Spot: TANEYEV: Adagio in C - Novosibirsk Academic SO/Thomas Sanderling (Naxos 8.570584)

MOSCHELES: Anticipations of Scotland, A Grand Fantasia Op 75 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Tasmanian SO (Hyperion CDA 67276)

MORRICONE arr Marchione: Gabriel's Oboe, from The Mission - Adriano Del Sal (gtr) (Naxos 8.572657)

TRAD arr anon: The Minstrel Boy; MOLLOY arr Rowley: The Kerry Dance - Choir of New College, Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Erato 0630 19065)

BEETHOVEN: Rondo a capriccio in G Op 129, Rage over a lost penny - Wilhelm Kempff (pno) (DG 429 072)

WEINBERGER: Polka & Fugue, from Schwanda the Bagpiper - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

Sinfonia Concertante in D - Evgeny Bushkov (vln/dir), Viktor Kozodov (cello), Moscow Concertino (Profil PH 07067)

Allegro moderato; Adagio-Presto - Wolfgang Brunner (fpno) (Profil PH 06025)

Symphony in G Ben156 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9525)

DOHNÁNYI: Variations on a Nursery Song Op 25 - Eldar Nebolsin (pno), Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.572303)

RIES: Flute Quartet in A Op 145/3 - Oxalys (Fuga Libera FUG 576)

FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques Op 112 - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 449 186)

PUCCINI: Signore ascolta, from Turandot - Inessa Galante (sop), Latvian Opera Orch/Alexander Vilumanis (CampionCD 1338)

MORETTI: Sonata del signor Mozart ridotta per organo dal signor Moretti; Sonata VI per l'offertorio - Silvano Rodi (organ of the church of St Marie-Madeleine de Contes) (Ligia LIDI 010 4223-11)

NIEDERMEYER attr Stradella: Pietà, Signore - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), London Phil/Ion Marin (Decca 466 102)

GALUPPI: Keyboard Sonata in G, Del Signor Buranello - Andrea Bacchetti (pno) (RCA 88697 36793)

BACH: Second movement, Air, from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

CLARKE arr Setchell: Prince of Denmark's March - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Legend, Christ in his garden - Rodolfus Choir/Ralph Allwood (BBC Music BBC MM 326)

KOMITAS arr Aslamazian: Ten Armenian Folk Songs & Dances - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 10094)

MURRAY arr Lee: I'll walk beside you - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

BARTÓK: Mikrokosmos Book 1, Nos 24-36 - Georges Solchany (pno) (EMI 6 95570)

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

BRITTEN: Ballad of Heroes Op 14 - Martyn Hill (ten), London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (rec 1991) (Chandos CHAN 8983/4)

Piano Concerto in D Op 13 - Steven Osborne (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (rec 2007) (Hyperion CDA 67625)

WEBER orch Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

HARTY: In Ireland - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - NZSO National Youth Orch 2004/Alasdair Neale (National Youth Orch)

SCHUBERT arr Denisov: Suite of Waltzes from D145 - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

A RITCHIE: Spring; What I would take out of the world; Two-word poem, from Then I Understood - 2001-2002 NZ Secondary Students' Choir/Elise Bradley, Sheryl Clarke (pno) (NZSSC)

CANNABICH: Symphony No 52 in E - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

TARTINI: Violin Sonata in G minor Op 2/1, Devil's Trill - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Catherine Rimmer (cello), Thomas Dunford (lute), Christian Curnyn (hpschd/dir) (Decca 476 434)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in Db S244 - Martha Argerich (pno) (DG 447 430)

PÄRT: Fratres - Moray Welsh, Alastair Blayden, Michael Stirling (cellos) (Sony SK 61753)

SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.553596)

LEONCAVALLO: Prologue, Si può? from I Pagliacci - José Cura (ten/dir), Philharmonia (Erato 3984 27317)

HANDEL: Concerto No 3 in F for two wind choirs - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (dir) (L'Oiseau-Lyre 411 721)

PREVIN: I want magic! from A Streetcar Named Desire - Renée Fleming (sop), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (Decca 460 567)

MORISSETTE/BALLARD arr Barley: All I really want - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Steve Smith (gtr) (Philips 464 184)

KERN: I want to be there, from Dear Sir - George Dvorsky (ten), Rebecca Luker (vocalist), London Sinfonietta/John McGlinn (EMI 7 54883)

WOLF/HERRON/SINATRA: I'm a fool to want you - Baptiste Trotignon Trio (Naïve Y 225 099)

TRAD arr Parker: I Want Two Wings - Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Nimbus NI 5568)

SPOLIANSKY arr Florin: Voice in the night, from Wanted for Murder - Roderick Elms (pno), BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10543)

CACCINI: Love, what do you want, love what are you doing? - Marco Beasley (ten), Accordone/Guido Morini (dir) (Cypres CYP 1645)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Berlin Radio SO/Steven Sloane (Capriccio 71 096)

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (RNZ)

HIGDON: Piano Trio; BAILEY: So Many Rivers; TURINA: Piano Trio No 1 in D Op 35; GREENBAUM: The Year Without a Summer; SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 2 in F Op 80 (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

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

RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez - Sharon Isbin (gtr), Lausanne CO/Lawrence Foster (Virgin VC 7 91192)

BRIDGE: The Sea - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

11:00 BRUCH: String Quintet in A minor Op posth - Vadim Gluzman, Sandis Steinbergs (vlns), Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava (vlas), Reinis Birznieks (cello) (BIS SACD 1852)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Guarneri Trio (Praga PRD 250 259.60)

STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30; Death & Transfiguration; Don Juan Op 20 - Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 438 300)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

ANON: Lamento di Tristano; Trotto; Salterello; ATTAINGNANT: Basse danses, La Brosse; La Gatta; La Magdalena; DALZA: Calata ala Ronde; NEUSIDLER: Der Judentanz; Welscher Tanz Wascha mesa; SUSATO: Ronde; GERVAISE: Branle de Bourgogne; Branle de Champagne; Palese; Passamezzo d'Italye - Konrad Ragossnig (lute), Ulsamer Collegium (Archiv 415 294)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

GRIFFITHS: Lie Deep, My Love; FISHER: Pounamu; McCALLUM: The moon's glow once lit; HAMILTON: Veni, Sancte Spiritus; WHITEHEAD: Taiohi Taiao; HAMILTON: Lux Aeterna; A RITCHIE: Widow's songs; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III; CHILDS: O Magnum Mysterium - Voices New Zealand/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 1, Kreutzer Sonata; String Quartet No 2, Intimate letters; On an overgrown path - Talich Quartet, Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 9699)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

ROSSINI: Péchés de Vieillesse - Jeffrey Swan (pno) (Akademia CDAK 103)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in B minor Kk27 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

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

MOLINO: Trio in G for flute, viola & guitar Op 4/1 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Petra Müllejans (vla), Sonja Prunnbauer (gtr), Sérénade à trois (CPO 777 448)

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

7:00 WALTON: Façade Suite No 2 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

MUDARRA: Fantasia - Arianna Savall (harp) (Alia Vox AVSA 9844)

A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Andrea Mion (ob), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Naïve OP 30301)

MONIUSZKO: Six Contredanse Figuras - Piano Duo Anna & Ines Walachowski (Oehms OC 746)

BENJAMIN: North American Square Dance Suite - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 314)

8:00 DUKAS: Goetz von Berlichingen, Overture - Württemberg Phil/Fabrice Bollon (Sterling CDS 1074)

CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - Manfredo Kraemer (vln), Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (vla da gamba/dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9844)

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

ALKAN: Le chemin de fer - Idil Biret (pno) (IBA 8.571288)

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

HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in A - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 10374)

SCHOBERT: Sonata in F Op 16/4 for harpsichord, violin & cello - Four Nations Ensemble (ASV CD GAU 156)

ELGAR arr Cameron: Lux aeterna - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 0039)

CORP: Guernsey Postcards - Royal Liverpool Phil/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7233)

BASSANO: Divisions on Susanna un jour - Jeremy West (cornetto), Frances Kelly (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66977)

JOPLIN: The Easy Winners - Alexander Peskanov (pno) (Naxos 8.559114)

L BOULANGER: Faust et Hélène - Lynne Dawson (sop), Bonaventura Bottone (ten), Jason Howard (bass), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9745)

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

(1) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

How hybrid? Global music mixes

A six-part series presented by ethnomusicologist Megan Collins

(1) How is globalisation influencing the way we think about music and ourselves? Megan Collins re-contextualises five portable instruments, the violin, guitar, hammered dulcimer, ukulele and accordion, to explore how they have made their way around the world and developed into locally meaningful tools of expression (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN arr anon: Septet in Eb Op 20; RIMMER: Hammerheads (2008); HOLMES: A Tedious Brief Scene, Bottom Dance; HAMILTON: Tui; FARR: Fields 1 (recorded in the Music Theatre, Auckland School of Music by RNZ)

Horn Concerto No 1 in D HobVIId/3 - Jasper de Waal (horn), Concertgebouw CO/Henk Rubingh (Channel Classics CCS SA 30210)

Mass No 9 in Bb, Heiligmesse - Joanne Lunn (sop), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Topi Lehtipuu (ten), Brindley Sherratt (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 470 819)

Keyboard Sonata No 38 in F HobXVI/23 - Joanna Leach (pno) (Athene ATHCD 22)

WEBER: Ruler of the Spirits, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

EWAZEN: Concerto for flute & chamber orchestra - Marya Martin (fl), Czech Phil/Paul Polivnick (Albany TROY 477)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb (1823) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570003)

KAPSBERGER arr Lislevand: Arpeggiata addio; NARVAEZ arr Lislevand: Passacaglia cantus firmus; FRESCOBALDI arr Lislevand: Passacaglia cantata; PICCINNI arr Lislevand: Toccata cromatica - Rolf Lislevand (archlute/baroque gtr/theorbo), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Björn Kjellemyr (colascione/dbass), Guido Morini (org/clavichord), Arianna Savall (sop), Marco Ambrosini (vla d'amore), Thor-Harald Johnsen (chitarra), Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 1922)

M LAMBERT: Sombres déserts; Vos mespris chaque jour; Laisse-moy soupirer - René Jacobs (countertenor), Konrad Junghänel (theorbo/lute), Wieland Kimura, Dirk Verelst (vlns) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1079)

PALOMO: Una primavera andaluza - María Bayo (sop), Seville Royal SO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (Naxos 8.557135)

RAUTAVAARA: Cantus Arcticus; SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54; TOAN: Island of Wine; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral (recorded in Christchurch Town Hall by RNZ)

LILBURN: Violin Sonata (1950) - Martin Riseley (vln), Jian Liu (pno) (Atoll ACD 142)

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

11:00 COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Quintet in A - Harold Wright (cl), Hawthorne String Quartet (Koch International 3-7056)

DEBUSSY arr Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Suite bergamasque - Amsterdam Guitar Trio (Newton 880 2093)

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

BOCCHERINI: Piano Quintets, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in F; No 5 in D - Patrick Cohen (fpno), Quatuor Mosaïques (Astrée Auvidis E 8518)

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)

PARSONS ed Steinitz: Ave Maria - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5085)

ANON: Ubi caritas - Matthew Barley (cello) (Black Box BBM 1068)

SANCHO (attrib): Mass in G - Chanticleer/Joseph H Jennings (dir) (Warner Classics & Jazz R2 512746)

LISZT: Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 3 - Ingolf Turban, Barbara Turban (vlns), Martin-Albrecht Rohde (vla), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) (Oehms Classics OC 415)

RHEINBERGER: Four Elegiac Songs Op 128 - Lydia Teuscher (sop), Annette Markert (contralto), Kay Johannsen (org) (Carus 83.431)

WILLS: The praises of the Trinity; HALSEY: O lux beata Trinitas; BYRD: Te Deum, from The Great Service; LEIGHTON JONES: O lux beata Trinitas - Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne/Michael Leighton Jones (dir) (ABC Classics ABC 476 294)

BACH: Cantata No 129 written for Trinity Sunday, Give honour to the Lord - Ruth Holton (sop), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 138)

BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)

HANDEL: Air, from Water Music Suite No 1 in F - Berlin Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI 5 66967)

MONTEVERDI: Vago augelletto, from the 8th book of Madrigals, Venice 1638 - Zsuzsanna Toth, Lauren Armishaw (sops), Cyril Auvity, Jan van Elsacker (tens), Nicolas Achten (bar), Joao Fernandes (bass), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (dir) (Virgin 2 36140)

FAURÉ arr Albert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

DVORÁK: Waltz No 1, from Two Waltzes Op 54 - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 241)

PIAZZOLLA: Milonga del ángel - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

ELGAR: Sérénade Lyrique - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

A programme to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, presented by William Dart (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

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

On Craig Ddu - Elysian Singers of London/Matthew Greenall (Continuum CCD 1054)

A Song of Summer - Philharmonia/Owain Arwel Hughes (ASV CDQS 6114)

Six programmes from the 2007 three-week California summer music festival

(4) BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango - Jason Vieaux (gtr), Escher String Quartet

BOTTESINI: Gran Duo Concertante - Erin Keefe (vln), Daxun Zhang (dbass), Escher String Quartet

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13 - Escher String Quartet (Music@Menlo Live 2007/5)

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

C SILVESTRI: Three pieces for strings Op 4/2 - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1967) (Nimbus NI 6124)

BACH: Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 - Dinu Lipatti (pno) (rec 1950) (Philips 456 892)

ENESCU: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1963) (Nimbus NI 6124)

Thomas Goss looks at the relationship of Franz Schubert with his publishers, particularly Anton Diabelli, revealing not only their systematic exploitation, but also that Schubert's prolific musical outpourings may have been a form of response (RNZ)

SCHUBERT: Credo & Sanctus, from Mass No 6 in Eb D950 - Soile Isokoski (sop), Martina Borst (contralto), Christoph Prégardien, Peter Grönlund (tens), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Stuttgart Chamber Choir, Bremen German Chamber Phil/Frieder Bernius (Berlin Classics 1530 BC)

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

(22) WAGNER: Die Walküre, an opera in three acts

The Valkyrie Brünnhilde sacrifices her divinity to human emotions as the gods of Valhalla move closer to destruction in part two of the epic Ring of the Nibelung

Siegmund...................... Frank van Aken

Sieglinde....................... Eva-Maria Westbroek

Hunding........................ Hans-Peter König

Wotan........................... Bryn Terfel

Fricka........................... Stephanie Blythe

Brünnhilde..................... Katarina Dalayman

Gerhilde........................ Kelly Cae Hogan

Ortlinde......................... Wendy Bryn Harmer

Waltraute...................... Marjorie Elinor Dix

Schwertleite.................. Mary Phillips

Helmwige...................... Molly Fillmore

Siegrune........................ Eve Gigliotti

Grimgerde..................... Mary Ann McCormick

Rossweisse................... Lindsay Ammann

Metropolitan Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

(1) With William Dart (RNZ)

FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Idil Biret (pno), Bilkent SO/Alain Pâris (Alpha 104)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Idil Biret (pno) (IBA 8.571281)

BOWEN: Rhapsody for cello & orchestra Op 74 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7263)

WEBERN: Im Sommerwind - Chicago SO/Bernard Haitink (Chicago SO CSOR 901 1002)

11:00 ELGAR: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 82 - Jonathan Crow (vln), Paul Stewart (pno) (ATMA ACD 2 2534)

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

AUBERT: Concert de Simphonies, Suite No 5 in F; Concertos for four violins, cello & continuo, in G minor Op 17/6; in D Op 17/1; in E minor Op 26/4, Le Carillon; Concert de Simphonies, Suite No 2 in D - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0577)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

MOZART: Flute Quartet in D K285; BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 25; SCHUBERT: String Trio in Bb D471; HOFFMEISTER: Quartet in A after Piano Sonata in A K331 by Mozart - Israel Flute Ensemble (CDI 18809)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

VIVALDI: Introduzione al Dixit RV636; Dixit Dominus RV594; Magnificat RV611; Beatus vir RV598 - Margaret Marshall, Felicity Lott, Sally Burgess (sops), Susan Daniel, Ann Murray (mezzos), Linda Finnie, Anne Collins (contraltos), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Robert Holl (bass), John Alldis Choir, English CO/Vittorio Negri (Philips 420 649)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

BRAHMS: Violin Sonatas, No 1 in G Op 78; No 2 in A Op 100; No 3 in D minor Op 108; Scherzo, from FAE Sonata for violin & piano - Vasko Vassilev (vln), Pamela Tan-Nicholson (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMN 91 1576)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

LANE: London Salute; Diversions on a Theme of Paganini; Cotswold Dances; Divertissement for clarinet, harp and strings; Three Christmas Pictures; A Maritime Overture; Three Nautical Miniatures for strings; Prestbury Park - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225185)

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

ELGAR arr Barfoed: Sospiri Op 70 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Danish National SO/Mario Venzago (RCA 88697 63081)

CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Martha Argerich (pno) (DG 447 430)

KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

7:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - London Phil/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)

VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522 - Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir), Bernhard Forck (vln), Berlin Baroque Soloists (Avi 855 3060)

BUSONI: Sonatina No 6, Chamber Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Wolf Harden (pno) (Naxos 8.572422)

GRANADOS: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2103)

KHACHATURIAN: Awakening & Dance of Ayesha, from Gayaneh - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

A MARCELLO: Second movement, Adagio, from Oboe Concerto in D minor - József Kiss (ob), Ferenc Erkel CO (Naxos 8.550556)

MOSZKOWSKI: Barcarolle - Seta Tanyel (pno) (Collins Classics 15192)

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

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

LAMBERT: Music for Orchestra - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 215)

Florida Suite - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 8413)

Sonata in One Movement for cello & piano - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (Philips 454 458)

SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto in F# minor Op 20 - Oleg Marshev (pno), South Jutland SO/Vladimir Ziva (Danacord DACOCD 660)

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

BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - Saarbrücken Radio Phil/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (Oehms OC 408)

PALESTRINA: Jubilate Deo - Canadian Brass & Berlin Philharmonic Brass (CBS MK 39035)

J STRAUSS II: Emperor Franz Josef Jubilee March - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

MATHIAS: Jubilate Op 67/2 - Richard Lea (organ of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral) (Priory PRCD 870)

MARTELLI: Jubilee march - Neil Thomson and his orch (Dutton CDLX 7147)

MOZART: Alleluia, from Exsultate, jubilate - Joan Sutherland (sop), National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 201)

RAFF: Jubilee Overture - Philharmonia Hungarica/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 289)

VICTORIA: Nigra sum sed formosa - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro CORSACD 16033)

TELEMANN: Violin Sonata in A, from Tafelmusik - Petra Müllejans (vln), Stefan Mühleisen (cello), Michael Behringer (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2042.45)

GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 - Richard Farrell (pno), Hallé Orch/George Weldon (rec 1956) (EMI CDM 7 63778)

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

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 - CO of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (rec 1990) (Teldec 2292 46452)

SCHUMANN: Humoreske in Bb Op 20 - Piotr Anderszewski (pno) (rec 2010) (Virgin Classics 9 486252)

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

BACH: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen, from Cantata No 82, Slumber, my weary eyes - Rodney Macann (bass), Alastair Ross (org) (Kiwi CD SLD 82)

FARQUHAR: Concertino for piano & strings - Thomas Hecht (pno), NZSO CO (RNZ)

GERSHWIN arr Bennett: Porgy & Bess, A Symphonic Picture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Alastair Ross (org), Simon Standage (vln), Richard Hickox Orch/Richard Hickox (Decca 425 854)

SCHUBERT trans Hope: Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774 - Daniel Hope (vln), Sebastian Knauer (pno) (DG 477 9301)

GRIEG: Shepherd Boy; March of the Dwarfs; Notturno; Scherzo, from Lyric Pieces Book 5 - Håkon Austbö (pno) (RegisC 1071)

DEBUSSY: Rêverie - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 391)

A programme to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, presented by William Dart (RNZ)

Summer Night on the River, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

Seven Songs from the Norwegian, Twilight fancies; Young Venevil; Hidden love; The minstrel; The bird's story; Cradle song; The homeward way - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Piers Lane (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67594)

Olivier Latry (org), Vesa-Matti Leppänen (vln), New Zealand SO/Rossen Milanov

DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; POULENC: Concerto for organ, strings & timpani; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall on Fri June 1 by RNZ)

HUMMEL: Te Deum in D - Chorus Alea, Bratislava Solamente Naturali/Didier Talpain (Brilliant Classics 94115)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Argo 414 596)

11:00 DAVID: Schubertiade - Verdehr Trio (Crystal CD 742)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 3 in F minor Op 65 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 426 095)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings; Elegie; Suite No 4 in G, Mozartiana; Sleeping Beauty (orch Stravinsky), excerpts; String Quartet No 1 in D (orch Serebrier), Andante Cantabile - John Doig (vln), Scottish Chamber Orch/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

MOLTER: Sonata in F for two wind bands; Cello Concerto in C; Overture in C minor; Sinfonia in F; Oboe Concerto in C minor; Sinfonia in F - Roman Storojenko (cello), Voichita Popa (ob), Josef Bock (hpschd), Europa Symphony/Wolfgang Gröhs (Arte Nova 74321 40741)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

STANFORD: Stabat Mater Op 96; Bible Songs Op 113; Te Deum laudamus - Ingrid Attrot (sop), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo), Nigel Robson (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9548)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

LILBURN: Three Sea Changes; Sonatina No 2; Prelude (1951); From the Port Hills; Sonata (1956); Nine Short Pieces; Adagio Sostenuto; Two Preludes (1951); Sonata (1949) - Margaret Nielson (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

BACH: Suite in E BWV1006a; Prelude in C minor BWV999; Fugue in G minor BWV1000; Suite in G minor BWV995 - Nigel North (baroque lute) (Amon Ra CD SAR 23)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1990)

MOZART: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 - Teunis van der Zwart (horn), Orch of the Eighteenth Century/Frans Brüggen (Glossa GCD 921 110)

ALBÉNIZ: Granada, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc TEL 32712)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - Singers from Opera Rochester, Rochester Phil/Christopher Seaman (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7567)

7:00 SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)

DEBUSSY: Danse, Tarentelle styrienne - David Allen Wehr (pno) (Connoisseur Society CD 4219)

GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 5/4, after Corelli's Violin Sonata in F Op 5/4 - Maurice Steger (recorder), English Concert/Laurence Cummings (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7523)

KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

BALFE arr anon: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, from The Bohemian Girl - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Catrin Finch (harp) (EMI 3 59488)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Entr'acte & Waltz, from Eugene Onegin - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS SACD 1468)

8:00 Beauty Spot: POULENC: Ave Maria, from Les Dialogues des Carmelites - Dinah Wright (sop), Louisa Pilkington (mezzo), Graham Hollobon (org), Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson (TreeHouse T 0017)

J STRAUSS II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

JOPLIN: Maple Leaf Rag - Alexander Peskanov (pno) (Naxos 8.559114)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Liza Ferschtman (vln), Netherlands SO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Challenge CC 72384)

ELGAR: Harmony Music No 2 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6554)

WEBER: Der Freischütz, Overture - Philharmonia/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9066)

A Mass of Life - Joan Rodgers (sop), Jean Rigby (mezzo), Nigel Robson (ten), Peter Coleman-Wright (bar), Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9515)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 1 in F minor Op 10 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (Naxos 8.572396)

STATHAM: Landscape No 1 - Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

EISLER: Finnish landscape - Matthias Goerne (bar), Eric Schneider (pno) (Decca 460 582)

GILARDINO: Ligurian landscape, from Studies of Virtuosity & Transcendence - Cristiano Porqueddu (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 9208)

ARENSKY: Morceaux Op 42 - Anthony Goldstone (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25085)

RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Arcanto Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2067)

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

WAGNER: Wesendonck Lieder - Régine Crespin (sop), French National Radio Orch/Georges Prêtre (rec 1961) (EMI 5 58031)

BERLIOZ: D'amour l'ardente flamme, from La Damnation de Faust - Régine Crespin (sop), Paris Opera Orch/Otto Ackermann (rec 1958) (EMI 5 58031)

MAHLER: Rückert-Lieder - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Daniel Barenboim (pno) (rec 1978) (EMI 4 76780)

MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 7, Scènes alsaciennes - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

RIES: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 132, Abschieds-Concert von England - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570440)

CHOPIN: Waltzes Op 64 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Onyx 4078)

VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in D minor RV431a, Il Gran Mogol - Ashley Solomon (fl), Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS SA 32311)

FILTSCH: Allegretto con variazioni - Voytek Proniewicz (vln), Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman (pno) (Naxos 8.572460)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - BBC Welsh National Orch/Lesley Hatfield (dir) (BBC Music BBC MM 250)

BRIDGE: The hour glass - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 056)

ROSLAVETS: In the hours of the New Moon - BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67484)

A RITCHIE: As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

CHOPIN: Waltz in Db Op 64/1, Minute - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 466 357)

HUPFELD arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

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

PROKOFIEV: Waltz & Clock Scene, from Cinderella - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

8:00 Maja Ratkje in concert

Ratkje is active as a singer/voice user and electronics player as well as studio engineer, as a soloist and in groups such as SPUNK & Agrare (Czech Radio)

9:30 International Rostrum of Composers 2011

Five programmes

(1) PATERAS: Flesh & Ghost, excerpt - Speak Percussion (ABC)

SERKSNYTE: Midsummer Song - Kremerata Baltica Orch/Gidon Kremer (Lithuanian Radio)

ROSING-SCHOW: Chimere - Andreas Brantelid (cello), Danish National SO/Thomas Søndergård (Danish Radio)

11:00 New Music Dreams

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

1:10 approx - Disc 2

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

2:25 approx - Disc 3

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

3:40 approx - Disc 4

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

4:50 approx - Disc 5

Live from Budapest

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

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in D Kk491 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

SPOHR: Potpourri in F on themes from Winter's opera Das unterbrochene Opferfest - Michael Collins (cl), Swedish CO/Robin O'Neill (Hyperion CDA 67509)

JANÁCEK: Ave Maria - Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2097)

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

WALDTEUFEL: Departed Joy, Waltz Op 198 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223686)

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

BRITTEN: Hymn to St Cecilia Op 27 - Carys Lane, Belinda Yates (sops), Kathryn Cook (contralto), Andrew Carwood (ten), Matthew Brook (bass), Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9511)

HANDEL arr Tarkmann: Air & Variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith, from Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Guilhaume Santana (bsn), Monika Razynska (hpschd) (DG 476 5681)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)

BRUCH: Romance in F Op 85 - Gérard Caussé (vla), Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano (Erato 2292 45483)

STERNDALE BENNETT: The May Queen, Overture - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 206)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Largo ma non tanto, from Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), Andrew Thomson (vln), NZSO CO (RNZ)

BELLINATI: Jongo - Eden Stell Guitar Duo (Hänssler CD 98.211)

IRELAND orch Bridgewater: Two Salon Pieces, Menuetto-Impromptu; Villanella - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7215)

TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: The lover's ghost, from Five English Folksongs - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarentelle in G minor Op 16 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

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

Violin Sonata No 2 - Susanne Stanzeleit (vln), Gusztáv Fenyo (pno) (Naxos 8.572261)

Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (EMI CDS 7 47509)

Piano Concerto in C minor (original version, 1904) - Piers Lane (pno), Ulster Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67296)

SIBELIUS: Scènes historiques, Suite No 1 Op 25 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)

FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121 - Dante Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67664)

KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - James Ehnes (vln), Vancouver SO/Bramwell Tovey (Onyx 4016)

JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta Op 60 - BBC Phil/Charles Mackerras (BBC Music BBC MM 302)

RODRIGO: Ballad of the Knight Commander of Ocaña - Raquel Lojendio (sop), Asturias SO/Maximiano Valdés (Naxos 8.555845)

GRAINGER: Knight & Shepherd's Daughter - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 1767)

BEETHOVEN: Ritterballett Wo01 - Berlin State Orch/Günther Herbig (Berlin Classics 0300307 BC)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 - Thea King (cl), Gabrieli String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66107)

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

MOZART: Symphony No 18 in F K130 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (rel 1979) (Oiseau-Lyre 417 592)

SCHUBERT orch Reger: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Im Abendrot D799; SCHUBERT orch Berlioz: Erlkönig D328 - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 471 586)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 31 in Ab HobXVI/46 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (rec 2000) (Sony SK 89363)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 12 in G minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

PSATHAS: Jettatura - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

VIVALDI: Cello Sonata No 5 in E minor RV40 - Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd) (Musicaphon M 56917)

BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem Op 20 - New Zealand SO/Myer Fredman (Naxos 8.553107)

HÖHNE arr Graham: Slavonic Fantasy - Evelyn Glennie (xylophone), Black Dyke Band/James Watson (RCA 09026 63234)

NIELSEN: Humoresque Bagatelles, Good Morning!; Spinning Top; A little slow waltz; Jumping Jack; Doll's March; Musical Clock - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI 5 74789)

SIBELIUS: Andante festivo - Tempera Quartet (BIS CD 1466)

SHEPPARD: In manus tuas - Gabrieli Consort/Paul McCreesh (Signum SIGCD 281)

FIORENZA: Concerto in D - Marco Testori (cello), Dolce & Tempesta/Stefano Demicheli (dir) (Fuga Libera FUG 549)

KODÁLY: Intermezzo for string trio - Berlin Philharmonic String Trio (Arte Nova 74321 54845)

OFFENBACH: Overture; Ballet; Grande Valse, from Les Fées du Rhin - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 6403)

SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - José van Dam (bar), Jean-Philippe Collard (pno) (EMI CDC 7 54818)

BEETHOVEN: Creatures of Prometheus, Finale - Helsingborg SO/Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7470)

SCHUMANN: Variations in Eb on an original theme WoO24, Geistervariationen - Andreas Boyde (pno) (Athene ATH CD 23)

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

ALAIN: Litanies - Marie-Claire Alain (organ of Saint-Christophe, Belfort, France) (Erato 0630 15343)

COPLAND: Simple gifts, from Appalachian Spring - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 64059)

Three programmes

In March 2011, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra held their inaugural Conductor Workshops. Over three days, NZSO Music Director Pietari Inkinen tutored five emerging conductors: Raymond Chan, Kerry Jago, Brent Stewart, Nicholas Hancox and Justus Rozemond. Robbie Ellis followed their journeys across the sessions and then caught up with them a few months later

(3) Day Three at the Michael Fowler Centre: full orchestra (RNZ)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler SACD 93.267)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; TRAD arr Birgisson: Icelandic folk song; DEBUSSY: Bruyère, from Preludes; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 5 in D minor Op 47 (recorded in the Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavík by Iceland Radio)

DEMACHI: Sinfonia in F, Le campane di Roma - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 3 63430)

ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

11:00 REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Yossi Arnheim (fl), Daniel Gortler (pno) (Meridian CDE 84320)

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 - Kuss Quartet (Onyx 4090)

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

1:10 approx - Disc 2

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

2:20 approx - Disc 3

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

3:35 approx - Disc 4

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

4:45 approx - Disc 5

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

SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)

DELIBES arr Grafe: Les filles de Cadix - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

PAGANINI: Polacca in F - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

7:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: May Night, Overture - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572788)

HANDEL: Mr Handel's Water Piece - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection, English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

SCRIABIN: Etude in C# minor Op 2/1 - Alexander Gavrylyuk (pno) (Piano Classics PCL 0037)

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

MOERAN: Rhapsody No 2 in E - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 248)

8:00 Beauty Spot: L BOULANGER: Les Sirènes - Amanda Pitt (sop), Andrew Ball (pno), New London Chamber Choir/James Wood (Hyperion CDA 66726)

RÓZSA: Road to Asturias, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7340)

POENITZ: Italienische Romanze Op 27 - Laura Vinciguerra (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9179)

MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Stephen Coombs, Artur Pizarro (pno duo) (Hyperion CDA 67014)

VERDI ed Pedretti: Capriccio for bassoon & orchestra - Andrea Magnani (bsn), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

COPLAND: El Salón México - New Philharmonia/Aaron Copland (Sony MLK 64059)

Three Piano Preludes; Polka, Zum Carnival - Eric Parkin (pno) (Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2041)

The March of Spring, from North Country Sketches - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7528)

Requiem - Rebecca Evans (sop), Peter Coleman-Wright (bar), Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9515)

D'INDY: Symphony on a French Mountain Air - Martin Helmchen (pno), Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 357)

MARAIS: Les folies d'Espagne - members of Purcell Quartet, William Hunt (vla da gamba) (Hyperion CDA 67035)

IRELAND orch Yates: Sarnia, an island sequence - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7281)

ARENSKY: Fantasia on Russian Folksongs Op 48, Ryabinin Fantasia - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570526)

KREEK: Three Folksongs, Sing, sing, sickles; Sleep, little Matsik; Why are you chirping, little bird? - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7485)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quartet in Bb Op 41 - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 943 1519)

BIZET: Seguidilla, from Carmen; LEHÁR: Hör'ich Zymbalkläne, from Zigeunerliebe - Elina Garanca (mezzo), Roberto Alagna (ten), Alessandro Milani (vln), RAI National Orch/Karel Mark Chichon (DG 477 8776)

SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (EMI 7 94431)

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

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Artur Rubinstein (pno), Symphony of the Air/Alfred Wallenstein (rec 1958) (RCA RD 85612)

Impromptus, No 1 in Ab Op 29; No 2 in F# Op 36; No 3 in Gb Op 51; No 4 in C# minor Op 66 - Nikita Magaloff (pno) (rec 1974) (Philips 422 483)

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

CPE BACH: Quartet in A minor Wq93 - Extempore (Atoll ACD 204)

LISZT: Legend No 2, St Francis of Paola walking on the water - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1446)

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

ANON arr Ashmore: Greensleeves - Richard Stolzman (cl), Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter (dir) (RCA RD 60437)

MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 19/6, Venetian Gondola Song; Op 30/4; Op 30/6, Venetian Gondola Song - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 466 425)

PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - London Baroque (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1539)

MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 1501)

CILEA: E la solita storia del pastore, from L'Arlesiana - Marc Hervieux (ten), Métropolitain Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (ATMA ACD 2 2618)

VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 - Maurice André (tpts), English CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 415 980)

SARASATE: Zapateado Op 23/2 - Alfredo Campoli (vln), Daphne Ibbott (pno) (Decca 433 220)

BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Villancico de Navidad - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 01CD)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Turkish March Op 55 - Ukraine National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.553405)

BURGMÜLLER: Rondo alla Turca - Lars Roos (pno) (Philips 420 817)

BEETHOVEN: Turkish March, from The Ruins of Athens Op 113 - London SO/Stanley Black (Sony MLK 66710)

ARDITI: Inno Turco - Dagmar Williams (sop), Stepánka Pychová (contralto), Petr Klíma (ten), Miroslav Vácha (bass), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Prague SO/Emre Araci (Brilliant Classics 93613)

DOMENICONI: Snow in Istanbul - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Archer ARR 31926)

MOZART arr anon: Third movement, Rondo alla turca, from Piano Sonata No 11 in A K331 - tenThing/Tine Thing Helseth (dir/tpt) (EMI 0 88326)

LULLY: March for the Turkish Ceremony - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9810)

JACOB arr Hugo: Turkish Visier - Tomás Král (bass), Capella Regia Praha/Robert Hope (Supraphon SU 3971)

TUZUN: Anatolian Candle Dance - Moscow Radio & TV SO/Hikmet Simsek (Turkish Ministry 9713662 (SD 06)

David Morriss talks with the ensemble's current leader Antonio Anselmi (RNZ)

Three programmes

(2) Rebecca Ryan (sop), John Wells (org), Graduate Choir, Auckland Philharmonia/Jayce Ogren

BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565; BEETHOVEN arr Weingartner: Grosse Fuge in Bb Op 133; VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 5; BACH orch Elgar: Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV537; BARBER: Mutations from Bach; WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1; BACH: Opening chorus, from Cantata No 133, Ich freue mich in dir; BACH arr Swingle: Fugue in G minor BWV578; PÄRT: If Bach had kept bees; BACH orch Stokowski: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Philip Walsh

BYRD: Introit, Sacerdates domini; Responses, First & Second Sets; S WESLEY: Psalm 43; TOMKINS: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis; TALLIS: Anthem, Verily, verily (recorded in the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

RUTTER: Suite Antique - Duke Dobing (fl), Wayne Marshall (hpschd), City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 516)

GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (BIS SACD 1877)

11:00 STENHAMMAR: Violin Sonata in A minor Op 19 - Tale Olsson (vln), Lucia Negro (pno) (BIS BIS CD 764)

BRAHMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51 - Fine Arts Quartet (Music & Arts CD 1154

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)

MACDOWELL trans Hartmann: To a wild rose Op 51/1 - Solomia Soroka (vln), Arthur Greene (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0089)

MATTHESON: Ground upon the Sarabanda theme of the 7th Sonata, after Corelli's Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/7 - Maurice Steger (recorder), English Concert/Laurence Cummings (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7523)

SEVERAC: Baigneuses au soleil - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.572428)

DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp), Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572675)

DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

7:00 VERDI: La Traviata, Prelude to Act III - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 457 627)

RAVEL: Ondine, from Gaspard de la nuit - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno) (Warner 2564 62160)

VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in D RV428, Il gardellino - Janet See (fl), Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 5193)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Old French Song; Mama; The Hobby Horse; March of the Wooden Soldiers; The Sick Doll; The Doll's Funeral; The Witch; Sweet Dreams; Kamarinskaya, from Album for the Young Op 39 - Kuss Quartet (Onyx 4090)

LUMBYE: Queen Louise's Waltz - Odense SO/Peter Guth (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9089)

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

BIZET: L'Arlésienne - Lyon Opera Chorus, Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5130)

LILBURN: Nos 14-17, from Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 67/4, Spinning Song, or Bee's Wedding; Andante & Rondo Capriccioso in E Op 14 - Josef Hofmann (pno) (Nimbus NI 8819)

SAINT-SAËNS: Allegro Appassionato Op 43 - Johannes Moser (cello), Stuttgart Radio SO/Fabrice Bollon (Hänssler CD 93.222)

HANDEL arr Tracey: Second movement, Alla Hornpipe, from Water Music Suite No 2 in D - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral) (EMI CDB 7 62813)

SMETANA: Skocná, from The Bartered Bride - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

Légende for violin & orchestra - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Concert Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Dutton CDLX 7226)

Paris, Song of a Great City - Royal Phil/Norman Del Mar (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9108)

Songs of Farewell - Ambrosian Singers, Royal Phil/Eric Fenby (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9008/9)

BACH: Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030 - Daniel Pailthorpe (fl), Julian Milford (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 031)

ALBRECHTSBERGER: Concerto in E for jew's harp & mandora - Fritz Mayr (jew's harp), Dieter Kirsch (mandora), Munich CO/Hans Stadlmair (Orfeo C 035 821 A)

MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C# minor Op 11 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

HUME: Captaine Humes Pavan - Marianne Muller (viola da gamba) (Zig Zag ZZT 100 501)

BANTOCK: Captain Harry Morgan - Oscar Natzka (bass), Hubert Greenslade (pno) (rec 1948) (Atoll ACD 500)

SOUSA: El capitán - Incredible Columbia All-Star Band/Gunther Schuller (Sony MLK 66710)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Ave, generosa - Margaret Philpot (contralto) (Hyperion CDA 66039)

CHOPIN: Etude in C minor Op 10/12, Revolutionary - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 61885)

MOZART: Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio K418 - Kathleen Battle (sop), Royal Phil/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47355)

SCHUBERT: Three Piano Pieces D946 - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2115.16)

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

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Enrico Onofri (vln), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (dir) (rec 1993) (Teldec 4509 96158)

PURCELL: Sound the trumpet; Strike the viol, from Come ye sons of art away, Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694 - Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux (countertenors), Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari (rec 2010) (Decca 478 226)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in C Op 6/10 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 423 626)

PANDOLFI: Violin Sonata Op 3/5, La Clemente - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (rec 1999) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7241)

MONTEVERDI: Piagn' e sospira - Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (rec 1993) (Opus 111 OPS 3081)

RAMEAU: Les Surprises de l'Amour, Overture - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (rec 1996) (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2001)

A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Atoll ACD 202)

LISZT arr Oistrach: Valse-Caprice No 6, from Soirées de Vienne after Schubert - Ingolf Turban (vln), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), Lukas Maria Kuen (pno) (Oehms Classics OC 415)

GODARD arr Pierre: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (harp), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

J STRAUSS II: Artists' Life Waltz - Vienna Ensemble (Koch Schwann 3-6564)

RODRIGO: Second movement, Adagio, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Alexandre Lagoya (gtr), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (ABC Classics 446 631)

STRAUSS: Ständchen in G; Festmarsch in D; Concertante in C - Amelia Piano Trio, Max Mandel (vla) (Naxos 8.570896)

WALTON arr Morrell: Spitfire Prelude - Jeremy Woodside (organ of ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch) (ChristChurch Cathedral)

SUPPÉ: Sweetheart, Overture - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223863)

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

MOLLOY: Love's Old Sweet Song - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

HANDEL: Sweet bird, from L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Kathleen Battle (sop), Paul Davies (fl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 49179)

GIACCO: The Lair of Sweet Caterpillar Blossoms - Marshall McGuire (harp) (ABC Classics 456 696)

CHATMAN: How sweet & fair; Go, lovely rose; To Daffodils - Jeanette Jonquil (cl), Vancouver Chamber Choir/Jon Washburn (Canadian Music Centre CMC CD 13608)

COATES: Sweet Seventeen - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2107)

J RITCHIE: Sweet & Sour - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

STATHAM: Such sweet sorrow - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

TRAD: Spiritual, Swing low, sweet chariot - Willard White (bass) (Chandos CHAN 8960)

Murray Khouri reviews recent releases (RNZ)

HAYDN: String Quartet in A Op 20/6; BRITTEN: String Quartet No 2 in C Op 36; CHOPIN: Nocturne in G Op 37/2; Ballade No 4 in F minor; SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

SATIE arr Hackett/Hackett: Gnossiennes Nos 1-3 - John Hackett (fl), Steve Hackett (gtr) (Camino CAMCD 20)

LIADOV: Eight Russian Folksongs Op 58 - Slovak Phil/Kenneth Jean (Naxos 8.550328)

11:00 ROTA: Nonetto - Kremerata Musica (BIS CD 870)

LENORMAND: Piano Trio in G minor Op 30 - Trio Chausson (Mirare MIR 163)

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)