Tuesday 3 June 2008 Rātū 3 Pipiri 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  DVORÁK: Legends Op 59; JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta - Bamberg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 436)

  1:05 (approx) - Disc 2

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15; TCHAIKOVSKY: Album for the Young; DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.550885)

  2:10 (approx) - Disc 3

  VIVALDI: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630; Concerto in D minor RV128; All'ombra di sospetto RV678; Cello Sonata in Bb RV45; Lungi dal vago volto RV680; Concerto in G for flute & strings RV436; Longe mala, umbrae, terrores RV629 - Patrice Michaels Bedi (sop), Chicago Baroque Ensemble (Cedille CDR 90000 025)

  3:30 (approx) - Disc 4

  JENKINS: The bell Pavan; Fantasies, Nos 4-7; In Nomine No 1; Fantasies, Nos 1-3; Pavan No 2; Fantasies, Nos 8-9; No 11; No 10; In Nomine No 2 - Hesperion XX (Astree Auvidis E 8724)

  4:45 (approx) - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, excerpts; Gayaneh, excerpts; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts - Vienna Phil/Aram Khachaturian, Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 417 737)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SMETANA: Vysehrad, from Má Vlast - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington (Virgin VC 5 45301)

  KROMMER: Wind Sextet in Eb, Sestetto Pastorale - Consortium Classicum (Claves CD 50-9004)

  GIBBONS: Ah Dear Heart; DOWLAND: Frog Galliard - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)

  RACHMANINOV: Romance, from Salon Pieces Op 6 - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Marina Gusak-Grin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8500)

  HOFMANN: Symphony in D Bradley D4 - Northern CO/Nicholas Ward (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553866)

  7:00 BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 2 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (Simax PSC 1184)

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

  FIELD: Scottish Rondo H23 - Míceál O'Rourke (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9315)

  COPLAND: The promise of living, from The Tender Land - Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony MLK 64059)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G RV310, from L'Estro Armonico - Roberto Michelucci (vln/dir), I Musici (Philips 446 169)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CILEA: Io son l'umile ancella, from Adriana Lecouvreur - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Myung-Whun Chung (EMI CDC 7 54062)

  TCHAIKOVSKY trans Kreisler: Chant san paroles; Scherzo, from Souvenir de Hapsal - Nicolas Koeckert (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Naxos 8.557388)

  BANTOCK: Russian Scenes - London Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Lyrita SRCD 214)

  D SCARLATTI arr Bryan: Oboe Concerto No 1 in G - Brynjar Hoff (ob), English CO/Ian Watson (Simax PSC 1049)

  LEHÁR: The Merry Widow, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  French Song

  FRANCK: La Procession - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Bath Festival Orch/Yehudi Menuhin (Testament SBT 1088)

  MASSENET: Four Songs, Elegy; Death of the Cicada; Cradle Song; The Hands - José van Dam (bar), Jean-Philippe Collard (pno), Guy Rogué (cello) (EMI CDC 7 54818)

  DUPARC: Chanson triste; Au pays où se fait la guerre - Sine Bundgaard (sop), Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Matthias Pintscher (EMI 5 86500)

  CHAUSSON: Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19 - Susan Graham (sop), BBC SO/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Warner 2564 61938)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  TELEMANN: Overture in G, Burlesque de Don Quixotte - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0700)

  PARRY: Songs of Farewell - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (dir) (Conifer CDCF 155)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 1 in G Op 78 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (RCA 88697 061062)

  GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 55 - Belgium National Orch/Walter Weller (Fuga Libera FUG 521)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  HUMMEL: Mandolin Concerto in G - Kristian Harris (mandolin), State CO of Zilina, Slovakia/Jan Valta (Point Classics 267 2032)

  CHAMBONNIERES: Pavane - Carole Cerasi (virginals) (Metronome MET CD 1051)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 18 in Bb K456 - Daniel Barenboim (pno/dir), English CO (EMI CZS 7 62825)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Septet in Eb Op 20 - members of the New Vienna Octet (rec 1977) (Decca 414 576)

  BACH: Allemande, from Lute Suite No 1 BWV996; Sarabande & Gigue, from Lute Suite No 2 BWV997 - Andrés Segovia (gtr) (rec 1968) (MCA MCAD 42068)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  FRANCK: Prelude, Fugue & Variation Op 18 - Gillian Weir (organ of Århus Cathedral, Denmark) (Collins Classics 70442)

  WHITEHEAD: Missa Brevis, excerpts - Auckland Dorian Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi SLD 56)

  HERRMANN: Concerto Macabre, from the film Hangover Square - David Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 4 in E minor Op 44/2 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Vienna Phil/André Previn (Philips 420 161)

  BRUCKNER: Ave Maria - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67629)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in D Op 3/6 - ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Brilliant Classics 99986)

  PUCCINI: In quelle trine morbide, from Manon Lescaut - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/John Pritchard (Sony SMK 48094)

  GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Heinrich Schiff (cello), André Previn (pno) (Philips 434 914)

  F-AD PHILIDOR: Le sorcier, Overture - Prague CO/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.557593-94)

  DEBUSSY: Jardins sous la pluie, from Estampes - Cécile Ousset (pno) (Berlin Classics 1345 BC)

  TRAD arr Meyer/O'Connor: Chief Sitting in the Rain - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  ELGAR: As torrents in Summer, from King Olaf - Hallé Choir/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7512)

  The shower - Holst Singers/Hilary Davan Wetton (Unicorn Kanchana DKP CD 9116)

  WALDTEUFEL: Raining Diamonds, Waltz - Czecho-Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223441)

  KOCH: Spring night's rain - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 449 189)

  HAWES: Rain - English CO/Patrick Hawes (Black Box BBM 1081)

  CHOPIN: Prelude in Db Op 28/15, Raindrop - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 417 751)

  QUILTER: Where the Rainbow Ends - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223444)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  8:00 175 East/Hamish McKeich

  JOHNSON: clutch; GOVES: swerving with the weave; JOHNSON: Ausschnitte; HOPKINS: Pendant; BARRETT: Trawl; RICKETSON: Trace Elements; BARRETT: lost; HOLLOWAY: Here we are for a moment (recorded in Hopetoun Alpha, Auckland by RNZ)

  9:30 Frank Zappa, The Radio Is Broken

  Five programmes in which Jim Gardner traces a personal path through the vast output and thirty-five year career of composer and guitarist Frank Zappa

  (1) The Project/Object

  Jim Gardner looks at Zappa's early work and influences and teases out the threads running through the composer's oeuvre (The Project/Object) which will be examined more closely in the rest of the series (RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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