Saturday 22 December 2007 Rāhoroi 22 Hakihea 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  MOZART: Symphonies, No 40 in G minor; No 38 in D, Prague - English CO/Benjamin Britten (Decca 430 494)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  BELLA: Sonata in Bb minor; Piece in C minor for piano; Variations on In Pressburg by the Danube Op 9; Variations on A swarm, a swarm is flying Op 21; Sonatina in E minor; Four Little Pieces - Daniela Ruso (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223644)

  2:25 (approx) - Disc 3

  RACHMANINOV: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Natalia Kornieva (sop), Alexander Ranne (ten), Sergey Tsipcalo (bar), St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (Philips 442 776)

  3:35 (approx) - Disc 4

  BOËLY: Quartet in A Op 27/1; Quartet in G Op 29/3; Trio in D Op 5/1 - Edouard Popo (vln), Trio à Cordes de Paris (Chante Du Monde LCD 278 821)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  MAYERL: Marigold; A Lily Pond; Four Aces Suite; From A Spanish Lattice; Minuet by Candlelight; Aquarium Suite; Autumn Crocus; Bats in the Belfrey; Pastoral Sketches; Fireside Fusiliers; Parade of the Sandwich-Board Men; Waltz for a Lonely Heart; Busybody - Slovak Radio SO, Braislava/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 J STAMITZ: Symphony in D Op 4/2 - Sinfonia Pastorale Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.554447)

  CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Wibi Soerjadi (pno) (Philips 462 224)

  ANON: Greensleeves to a ground - Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9820)

  VIVALDI: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Olivier Chassain (gtr), La Follia/Christophe Poiget (dir) (Calliope CAL 9273)

  HEDGES: A Cleveland Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2137)

  7:00 J WILLIAMS: Summon the Heroes - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 62622)

  BRUCH: Romance in A minor Op 42 - Aaron Rosand (vln), North German Radio Phil/Christoph Wyneken (Vox VXP 7906)

  GRAINGER: To a Nordic Princess - Danish National Radio SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9721)

  MOZART: Flute Quartet No 1 in D K285 - Lisa Beznosiuk (fl), Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln), Tom Dunn (vla), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) (Avie AV 2108)

  RAVEL: Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs - Basque National Orch/Gilbert Varga (Claves CD 50-2101)

  8:00 CHABRIER: España - Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 423 698)

  SCHUMANN: Des Abends, from Fantasy Pieces Op 12 - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (Philips 456 967)

  JACOB: Suite for bassoon & string quartet - Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1104)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Piano Concerto in C# minor Op 30 - Malcolm Binns (pno), English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 66640)

  GLAZUNOV: Stenka Razin - London SO/Yondani Butt (ASV CDQS 6119)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

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

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  BERLIOZ: The Childhood of Christ, Part 2, The flight into Egypt - Paul Agnew (ten), Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 1632.33) (Part Three next Saturday 10.00am)

  SCHNITTKE: Concerto for piano & strings - Joanna MacGregor (pno/dir), Britten Sinfonia (SoundCircus SC 008)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Thomas Allen (bar), Corydon Singers, English CO/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66420)

  ABEL: Flute Concerto in E minor Op 6/2 - Edward Beckett (fl/dir), ASMF (ASV CD DCA 1178)

  RUTTER: Brother Heinrich's Christmas - Brian Kay (narrator), Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (Collegium COL CD 115)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 2 in C Op 58 - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67074)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Four programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (3) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Folk Music Christmas, Part 2

  The second of two programmes celebrating the festive season with music, songs and carols from all over Europe (EBU)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

  Thirteen programmes hosted by Kerry Frumkin, recorded in Santa Fe

  (2) NEIKRUG: Tango a Lafitte, from Three Wine Pieces - Cho Liang Lin (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno)

  BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 - Tara Helen O'Connor, Bart Fuller (fls), Giora Schmidt, LP How, Kathleen Brewer (vlns), Julianne Lee (vla), Nicholas Canellakis (cl), Marji Danilow (dbass), Kathleen McIntosh (hpschd)

  MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Todd Levy (cl), Miami String Quartet: Ivan Chan, Cathy Meng Robinson (vlns), Chauncey Patterson (vla), Keith Robinson (cello) (WFMT)

• 4:05 PM. Wellington Orchestra & its 2008 Guests

  NORMAN: The flight & the Stars; Cold & Darkness; Warmth & Light; The Sun King; The Journey Continues; The Lost Boys, from Peter Pan - Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (RNZB)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30 - John Chen (pno), Sydney Symphony/János Fürst (ABC Classics 476 272)

  C W ORR: Song Cycle, from A Shropshire Lad - Paul Whelan (bar), David Harper (pno) (Trust MMT 2023)

  PLATT: Meditation for Jack Speirs - Donald Maurice (vla) (Hill Records 002)

  FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi - NZTrio (Trust MMT 2066)

• 6:00 PM. Made in

  NZ musicians and composers

  HOLST: A Fugal Overture - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

  SCHUBERT: Quartet for guitar, flute, viola & cello D96 - JoAnn Falletta (gtr), Alexa Still (fl), Paul Neubauer (vla), Ronald Thomas (cello) (Koch International 3-7404)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Golden Age Suite from the ballet - New Zealand SO/Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Naxos 8.553126)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  TURINA: Poem in the form of songs, Never forget; Song; Two fears; Crazed for love; MONTSALVATGE: Five Negro Songs - Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (Eloquentia EL 0608)

  FINZI: Till Earth Outwears - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Iain Burnside (pno) (Naxos 8.570414)

  BRAHMS: My thoughts are with you Op 95/2; Like melodies Op 105/1; Sapphic Ode Op 94/4; Solitude in the meadow Op 86/2; Nightingale Op 97/1; Despair Op 72/4 - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1926)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Katherine Wiles (sop), Carmel Carroll (mezzo), Brendon Mercer (ten), James Harrison (bass), Auckland Choral, Pipers Sinfonia/Peter Watts

  HANDEL: Messiah (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall on Mon 17 & Tues 18 December by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ABEL: Symphony in C Op 7/5 - Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd (dir) (Chandos CHAN 8648)

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

  HAYDN: String Quartet in B minor Op 33/1 - Weller Quartet (Decca 475 6796)

  11:00 TAFFANEL: Andante pastorale & Scherzettino - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

  BEETHOVEN arr Ries: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Mozart Piano Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 643 1454)

Next day - Sun 23

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