Thursday 27 December 2007 Rāpare 27 Hakihea 2007

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs, Part 1; KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from Spartacus; MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides Overture; OFFENBACH: Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann; WOOD: Fanstasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship, from Scheherazade; LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture; WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  NIELSEN: Violin Concerto Op 33; Flute Concerto; Clarinet Concerto Op 57 - Kim Sjogren (vln), Toke Lund Christiansen (fl), Niels Thomsen (cl), Danish National Radio SO/Michael Schønwandt (Chandos CHAN 8894)

  2:30 (approx) - Disc 3

  RESPIGHI: L'adorazione dei Magi; BRITTEN: A Boy was Born; HONEGGER: Une catante de Noël - various artists (BBC MM 236)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  LIAPUNOV: 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante Op 11: Lullaby; Dance of the ghosts; Pealing of bells; Terek; Summer night; Storm; Idyll; Epic song; Aeolian harps; Lesginka; Dance of the Elves; Elegy in memory of Franz Liszt - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223491)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Symphony for cello & orchestra; Four Sea-Interludes from Peter Grimes; PÄRT: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten - Truls Mørk (cello), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 5 in Bb - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  RAVEL: Jeux d'eau - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  STRAUSS: String Sextet, from Capriccio - Walter Küssner (vla), Dietmar Schwalke (cello), Brandis Quartet (Nimbus NI 5614)

  ROSETTI: Bassoon Concerto in F (Murray C75) - Eckart Hübner (bsn/dir), Neuss German Chamber Academy (CPO 999 936)

  BERLIOZ: Will-o-the-wisp, from The Damnation of Faust - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (EMI CDM 7 63412)

  7:00 LEIGHTON: Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child - Elizabeth Barber, Ruth Cunningham (sops), Emilie Williams (contralto), New York Polyphony (Avie AV 2141)

  SATIE orch Milhaud: Jack-in-the-Box - London Festival Players/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 421 395)

  GRIEG: To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)

  PROKOFIEV: Ballade in C minor Op 15 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tatyana Lazareva (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10045)

  MOZART: Adagio in E K261 - Jan Talich (vln/dir), Talich CO (Calliope CAL 9365)

  DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Warner Classics 2564 61956)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GLINKA trans Balakirev: The Lark - Alexander Paley (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1746)

  GOODWIN: Puppet Serenade - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

  ANON arr Rieu: Greensleeves - André Rieu (vln/dir) & his Orch (Universal 589 306)

  MERLIN: Suite del Recuerdo - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 02 CD)

  BUSONI: Concertino for clarinet & small orchestra Op 48 - John Bradbury (cl), BBC Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9920)

  ENESCU: Rumanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1325)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  RUTTER: Gloria - Cindy Winegar, Sharron Lindsay (sops), Rita Felt (mezzo), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Canadian Brass/Craig Jessop, John Longhurst (org) (BWE Classics BWE 0196)

  BARBER: Die Natali - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559133)

  TRAD arr Elgar: The holly & the ivy - City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & Orch/Sakari Oramo (CBSO CD 003)

  STÖLZEL: Cantata for the 3rd day of Christmas (St John's Day), Herr, du weissest alle Dinge - Lemgo Ute Schulze (sop), Schirin Partowi (contralto), Andreas Post (ten), Klaus Mertens (bass), Chamber Choir of St Mary's Choral Society, Handel's Company/Rainer Johannes Homberg (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 905 1369)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Mariss Jansons (RCO Live RCO 05004)

  WEBER: Concertino for horn & orchestra - Peter Damm (horn), Dresden State Orch/Siegfried Kurz (Ars Vivendi 210 0219)

  CHAUSSON: Piano Trio in G minor Op 3 - Trio Chausson (Mirare MIR 049)

  BIZET arr Serebrier: Carmen Symphony - Barcelona SO & National Orch of Catalonia/José Serebrier (BIS CD 1305)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Edward Elgar: An Elusive Duality

  Two programmes in which Jon Tolansky marks the 150th anniversary of Elgar's birth with a profile of the life and music of a deeply complex and contradictory man and artist, with unique personal recollections from musicians who knew him and performed with him (1) (ABC) (Programme Two 12:00 midday tomorrow)

  ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55 - BBC SO/Adrian Boult (BBC Music BBC MM 269)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  TOCH: String Quartet No 13 Op 74 - Buchberger Quartet (CPO 999 687)

  TRAD arr Greatorex: Adeste fideles - Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54529)

  MOZART: Symphony No 39 in Eb K543 - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 030 501)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  IRELAND: Satyricon, Overture; Legend; Piano Concerto in Eb - Eric Parkin (pno), London Phil/Adrian Boult (first rel 1966/68) (Lyrita SRCD 241)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  J RITCHIE: Papanui Road, Overture - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2040)

  BESSER/PROSSER: Travelling Music - Besser Ensemble; BESSER: Migration Music - Isidor Saslav (vln), Zestniks (Besser Music)

  HAYES: Walking in the Spirit - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1997-1998/Roger Stevenson (NZSSC)

  HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 1, Pacific 231 - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Ernst Buscagne (bar), Tom McGrath (pno) (Genuin GMP 020202)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  LILBURN: Festival Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El amor brujo - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Thomas Labé (pno) (Dorian DOR 90251)

  TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - David Russell (gtr) (Telarc CD 80576)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr Jacob: English Folk Song Suite - London SO/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47218)

  VERDI: Ritorna Vincitor! from Aida - Rita Hunter (sop), Tasmanian SO/Dobbs Franks (ABC Classics 442 368)

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

  HERBERT: Romany Life, from The Fortune Teller - Marilyn Hill Smith (sop), Chandos Singers, Chandos Concert Orch/Stuart Barry (Chandos CHAN 8759)

  BALAKIREV: Fantasy on Glinka's A Life for the Tsar - Nicholas Walker (pno) (ASV CD DCA 940)

  ARANES: To the good life - Montserrat Figueras (sop), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9834)

  BLOCH: Prayer, from From Jewish Life - Nina Kotova (cello), Russian Philharmonia/Constantine Orbelian (Delos DE 3305)

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

  ZIEHRER: Military life, from The Tourist Guide - Peter Morrison (bar), Chandos Concert Orch/Stuart Barry (Chandos CHAN 8561)

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

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Concerto According to Manny

  This series follows CBC's previous 10 programmes in which Pinchas Zukerman explored the great violin concertos

  Seated at the piano, Emanuel Ax talks with Eric Friesen about ten major piano concertos

  (1) Mozart's Piano Concerto No 9 in Eb K271 (CBC) www.cbc.ca/pianoconcertos

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Robert Clarke, Timothy Constable, Gary France, Leonard Sakofsky, Bruce McKinnon (percussionists), Auckland Philharmonia/Giancarlo Guerrero

  FARR: Rangitoto; TAKEMITSU: From Me Flows What You Call Time

  (Interval interview: John Ballard talks with conductor Giancarlo Guerrrero)

  ADAMS: Harmonielehre (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HUMMEL: Piano Trio No 4 in G Op 65 - Voces Intimae (Warner 2564 62596)

  HANDEL: Organ Concerto in G minor Op 4/1 - Matthew Halls (organ of the Dutch Bach Society), Sonnerie/Monica Huggett (dir) (Avie AV 2055)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 8 in G, Le Soir - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer (Brilliant Classics 93105)

  11:00 TURINA: Romantic Sonata on a Spanish theme Op 3 - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.557438)

  BRAHMS: String Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 51 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 6458)

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