Wednesday 12 December 2007 Rāapa 12 Hakihea 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  LAMBERT: Horoscope; WALTON: Façade; BLISS: Checkmate - English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66436)

  1:15 (approx) - Disc 2

  CPE BACH: Concerto in D minor for flute & orchestra WQ22; Concerto in A minor for flute & orchestra WQ166; Concerto in A for flute & orchestra WQ168 - Eckart Haupt (fl), CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Capriccio 10 104)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden; Kyrie eleison; Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe; Ave Maria Op 23/2; Mitten wir im Leben sind Op 23/3; Heilig, heilig ist Gott, der Herr Zebaoth; Six Anthems for Different Times of the Year Op 79; Three Psalms Op 78, Warum toben die Heiden; Richte mich, Gott, und fuhre meine Sache; Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?; Hor mein Bitten, Herr, neige dich zu mir - Anne Dawson (sop), Rogers Covey-Crump (ten), John Scott (org), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66359)

  3:40 (approx) - Disc 4

  DEBUSSY: Sonata for cello & piano; DOHNÁNYI: Sonata in Bb minor for cello & piano Op 8; BRIDGE: Two Short Pieces; Sonata in D for cello & piano - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 796)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  ROSSINI: William Tell Overture - Rome Opera Orch/Tullio Serafin; BIZET: Carmen Overture - Haag Residential Orch/Willem van Otterloo; REZNICEK: Donna Diana Overture - Bamberg SO/Ferdinand Leitner; WEBER: Freischutz Overture - Bavarian Radio SO/Rafael Kubelik; ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie Overture - Rome Opera Orch/Tullio Serafin; VERDI: The Force of Destiny Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Hans Lowlein; ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder Overture - Rome Opera Orch/Tullio Serafin; MOZART: The Magic Flute Overture - Berlin Phil/Karl Bohm; NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture - Berlin State Orch/Bernhard Klee (DG 423 781)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/1 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 423 626)

  ALBÉNIZ: Seville, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Cheryl Grice-Watterson (gtr) (Private recording)

  GRIEG: Arabian Dance, from Peer Gynt Suite No 2 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 423 208)

  TARTINI: Violin Sonata in G minor, The Devil's Trill - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Janet Goodman Guggenheim (pno) (EMI CDC 7 54108)

  CARSE: The Winton Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.557753)

  7:00 SWEELINCK: Gaude et laetare, Jerusalem - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker, Matthew Martin (org) (Hyperion CDA 67522)

  RACHMANINOV: Scherzo in D minor - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc CD 80670)

  GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Grande Tarantelle Op 67 - Reid Nibley (pno), Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel (Vanguard Classics 08 4051 71)

  GLINKA: Kamarinskaya - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

  MARTINU: Czech Rhapsody - Pavel Sporcl (vln), Petr Jiríkovsky (pno) (Supraphon SU 3621-2 131)

  OFFENBACH arr Haensch: La Belle Hélène, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH: Second movement, Siciliano, from Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031 - Aurèle Nicolet (fl), Karl Richter (hpschd) (ABC Classics 465 680)

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - German SO, Berlin/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 466 098)

  TRAD arr Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry - Jonathan Scott (harmonium), BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9839)

  BRAHMS orch Parlow: Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)

  PAINE: Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn - Christopher Herrick (organ of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre) (Hyperion CDA 66978)

  ARNOLD: The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Suite from the film music - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9100)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  FRYDERYK CHOPIN (1810-1849)

  Mazurkas Op 59 - Michael Houstoun (pno)

  Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 - Olga Kern (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7402)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  BRITTEN after Rossini: Matinées musicales - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

  HANDEL: Dixit Dominus - Angela Kazimierczuk, Gill Ross, Donna Deam, Katherine Fugue (sops), Charles Humphries, Richard Wyn Roberts (countertenors), Rory O'Connor, Robert Burt (tens), Julian Clarkson (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 462 597)

  C SCOTT: Violin Concerto - Olivier Charlier (vln), BBC Phil/Martyn Brabbins (Chandos CHAN 10407)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 3 in D Op 29, Polish - Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (EMI CDC 7 47868)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  CURTIS: Little Dance Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion Cameo 2035)

  LEONCAVALLO: Vesti la giubba, from I Pagliacci - José Cura (ten), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 467 620)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F# minor Op 1 - Moura Lympany (pno), Philharmonia/Nicolai Malko (rec 1955) (Olympia OCD 190)

  MERULA: Now it's time to slumber; PÄRT: Christmas Lullaby - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9826)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BACH: Goldberg Variations BWV988 - Maria Tipo (pno) (rec 1986) (EMI 3 81745)

• 4:10 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  PSATHAS: Century fanfare, Luminous - Auckland Philharmonia/Edvard Tchivzhel (Atoll ACD 100)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 8 in Eb WoO38 - Canterbury Trio (RNZ)

  ELGAR: Wand of Youth Suite No 1 Op 1a - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Grant Llewellyn (Argo 436 401)

  ALBINONI: Second movement, Adagio, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

  KREISLER: Caprice viennois Op 2 - David Galoustov (vln), Julien Gernay (pno) (Lyrinx LYR 2207)

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

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

  WAGNER: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Montserrat Caballé (sop), New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (Sony MLK 64061)

  ZIEHRER: Crazy Girl, Overture - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.225332)

  DONIZETTI: Sonata in C, One of the Craziest, So Far - Larissa Kondratjewa, Reinhard Schmiedel (pno duet) (CPO 999 163)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Frenzied nights Op 60/6 - Galina Vishnevskaya (sop), Mstislav Rostropovich (pno) (Erato 2292 45643)

  SUPPÉ: Mad Excursion into Happiness, Overture - Royal Phil/Gustav Kuhn (Eurodisc RD 69226)

  LEISNER: Dances in the Madhouse - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)

  MAYERL: Stranger in a cup of tea; You're not too bad yourself, from Crazy Days - Eric Parkin (pno) (Priory PRCD 467)

  THOMAS: Mad scene, A vos jeux, mes amis, from Hamlet - Joan Sutherland (sop), Chorus & Orch of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

  GERSHWIN arr Anderson: Girl Crazy, Suite - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 426 404)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  2007 Gramophone Awards

  Lifetime Achievement Award

  Montserrat Caballé

  The most famous weapon in her vocal armoury is her immaculately controlled pianissimo - that big voice could be fined down to a sliver, poised, perfectly even and tender (Gramophone)

  Roger Flury and Des Wilson look at the life and music of the Spanish soprano, winner of the Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Lenneke Ruiten (sop), Uta Christina Georg (contralto), Daniel Behle (ten), Johannes Martin Kränzle (bar), Peter Dicke (org), WDR Radio Chorus & Orch/Helmuth Froschauer

  RANDHARTINGER: Cantate Domino; EYBLER: Omnes de Saba venient; EYBLER: Terra tremuit; M HAYDN: Alleluja. In die resurrectionis; MOZART: Regina coeli in C K276; SCHUBERT: Auguste jam coelestium in G D488; SALIERI: Veni Sancte Spiritus; MOZART: Ave verum corpus K618; FUX: Sit nomen Domini, from Laudate pueri; SALIERI: De profundis clamavit; HERBECK: Pueri Concinite; BRUCKNER: Te Deum (recorded in the Basilica of St Severin, Cologne by WDR)

• 9:20 PM. Gian Francesco Malipiero

  String Quartet No 1, Rispetti e strambotti - Orpheus String Quartet (Brilliant Classics 8550)

  Piano Concerto No 3 - Sandro Ivo Bartoli (pno), Saarbrücken Radio SO/Michele Carulli (CPO 777 287)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SCHUMANN: Nachtstücke Op 23 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Decca 436 456)

  SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela, from Lemminkäinen Legends Op 22 - Patrick McFarland (cor anglais), Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80443)

  HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (Virgin 3 91334)

  11:00 CRUSELL: Clarinet Quartet No 2 in C minor Op 4 - Thea King (cl), members of Allegri String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66077)

  SPOHR: Septet in A minor Op 147 - Ensemble 360 (ASV GLD 4026)

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