Saturday 4 September 2010 Rāhoroi 4 Mahuru 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  NIELSEN: Symphony No 3, Sinfonia Espansiva; Symphony No 5 - Catherine Bott (sop), Stephen Roberts (bar), Royal Scottish Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9067)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9; Symphonic Etudes Op 13; Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Alfred Cortot (pno), Jacques Thibaud (vln), Pablo Casals (cello) (Biddulph LHW 004)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  FAURÉ: Requiem; DURUFLÉ: Four Motets, Ubi caritas; Tota pulchra es; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo; Messe Cum jubilo; MESSIAEN: O sacrum convivium - Camilla Otaki (sop), Mark Griffiths (bar), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, London Musici/Richard Marlow, Briony Shaw (vln), Richard Pearce (org) (Conifer CDCF 176)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  REINCKEN: Sonata in A minor; BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in Bb; ROSENMÜLLER: Sonata in E minor; WESTHOFF: Sonata in A; PACHELBEL: Suite in G; Canon & Gigue in D - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 437 089)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies, No 7 in D minor; No 8 in D; No 9 in C minor - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - Camerata Wales/Owain Arwel Hughes (BIS CD 1589)

  FAURÉ: Nocturne No 4 in Eb Op 36 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

  YSAŸE orch Wilson: Mazurka Op 10/2 - Hideko Udagawa (vln), Philharmonia/Martyn Brabbins (Signum SIGCD 224)

  CORELLI trans Billington: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto - James Tibbles (organ of Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland) (Atoll ACD 406)

  HARTY: Fantasy Scenes, from An Eastern Romance - Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.557731)

  7:00 OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Vienna Phil/Rudolf Kempe (Testament SBT 1127)

  GERSHWIN: Promenade: Walking the dog, from Shall We Dance? - David Fuest (cl), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67067)

  DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10443)

  DOPPLER arr Labrie: Fantaisie pastorale hongroise Op 26 - Similia (Analekta AN 2 9819)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso - strings of New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

  8:00 CAMILLERI: Knights of Malta, Suite - Bournemouth SO/Brian Schembri (Diversions DDV 24126)

  BOCCHERINI: Oboe Quintet in G G431 - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Parisii Quartet (Capriccio 10 454)

  GROFÉ: Sand storm, from Death Valley Suite - Bournemouth SO/William Stromberg (Naxos 8.559017)

  BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - János Starker (cello), London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 432 001)

  BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture & entr'acte - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (Sony SM3K 64103)

• 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

  GERMAN: Three Dances, from Henry VIII - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

  GRAF: Cello Concerto in D - Jan Vogler (cello), Munich CO/Reinhard Goebel (Sony 88697 11997)

  STRAUSS: Breit' uber meine Haupt Op 19/2 - Sumi Jo (sop), James Conlon (pno) (Erato 8573 85772)

  MACDOWELL: To a wild rose, from Woodland Sketches - Joseph Cooper (pno) (London 443 333)

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in F HWV370 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7465.66)

  HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Lausanne CO/Jesús López-Cobos (Teldec 4509 90846)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Eb D899/2 - Lili Kraus (pno) (Vanguard OVC 8200)

  MASCAGNI: Easter Hymn, from Cavalleria Rusticana - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Julius Rudel (Decca 458 867)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Lise de la Salle (pno), Dresden State Opera Orch/Fabio Luisi (Naïve V 5215)

  (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

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

  (1) Recent releases & reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  A breath of fresh air from Finland: music for aerophones

  Jarruta- Sväng

  'Harmonica ensemble' may not immediately inspire thoughts of high art or serious music-making, says Finnish quartet Sväng, but it's amazing how expressive and versatile this tiny instrument can be (Aito Records AICD013)

  Polku- Markku Lepistö

  A selection of original tunes from folk accordionist Markku Lepistö and friends (Aito Records AICD008)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  The New York Philharmonic This Week

  Actor Alec Baldwin, winner of Emmy & Tony awards and an Oscar nomination, hosts a series of concerts from the New York Phil under its new music director Alan Gilbert

  Yefim Bronfman (pno), New York Phil/Alan Gilbert

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 26; RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 (recorded in Avery Fisher Hall, New York by WFMT)

• 4:40 PM. Music from 1979

  RZEWSKI: Down by the riverside, from Four North American Ballads - Lara Downes (pno) (Postcards 77 2002)

  MOODY: Suite in the French Style - Tommy Reilly (harm), Skaila Kanga (hp) (Chandos CHAN 8802)

  HAILSTORK: Epitaph for a man who dreamed, In memoriam Dr Martin Luther King Jr - Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman (Cedille CDR 90000 061)

  TORMIS: Songs of the Ancient Sea - Mati Turi (ten), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Tonu Kaljuste (ECM 1687)

  PIAZZOLLA: Concerto for bandoneón, strings & percussion - Pablo Mainetti (bandoneón), Teatre Lliure CO, Barcelona/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1595)

  CARR: Sinfonietta - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1077)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  JANÁCEK: Violin Sonata - Justine Cormack (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 101)

  BLAKE: Angel at Ahipara - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  MENDELSSOHN: Second movement, Adagio, from Organ Sonata in F minor Op 65/1 - Peter Averi (organ of the Tabernacle in Temple Square, Salt Lake City) (Kiwi CD SLC 251)

  RÓZSA: Vintner's Daughter - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7244)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  The Lied before Schubert

  ANNA AMALIA: Auf dem Land und in der Stadt; REICHARDT: Beherzigung; ZELTER: Gleich und Gleich; BEETHOVEN: Mailied Op 52/4; Neue Liebe, neues Leben Op 75/2 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Karl Engel (pno) (Orfeo C 389 951 B)

  MOZART: Ridente la calma K152; Oiseaux, si tous les ans K307; Dans un bois solitaire K308; Die kleine Spinnerin K531; Als Luise die Briefe K520; Abendempfindung K523 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sop), Walter Gieseking (pno) (rec 1955) (EMI CDH 7 63702)

  BEETHOVEN: Lied aus der Ferne WoO137; Wonne der Wehmut Op 83/1; Sehnsucht Op 83/2; An die Hoffnung Op 94 - Peter Schreier (ten), András Schiff (pno) (Decca 444 817)

  WEBER: Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden Op 30/6; Ich denke dein Op 66/3; Serenade; Romanze, Sie war so hold - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Hartmut Höll (pno) (Brilliant Classics 92439)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Thomas Trotter (organ of the Auckland Town Hall)

  HOLLINS: Concert Overture in C minor; BAIRSTOW: Organ Sonata in Eb; WAMMES: Miroir; BACH: Prelude & Fugue in G BWV541; COATES arr Trotter: Youth of Britain March; FESTING arr Thalben-Ball: Largo, Allegro, Aria and Variations; THALBEN-BALL: Variations on a Theme of Paganini for pedals; WAGNER arr Lemare: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser; Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre; DRING: Caribbean Dance (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall, for the inauguration of the restored organ, by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. A Work for Wittgenstein

  F SCHMIDT: Concertante Variations on a theme of Beethoven for piano (left hand) & orchestra - Markus Becker (pno), North German Radio Phil/Eiji Oue (CPO 777 338)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WEINBERG: String Trio Op 48 - Beethoven String Trio (Praga PRD 250 253)

  RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre - David Russell (gtr), Naples Phil/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80459)

  SCHUMANN: Symphony in G minor WoO 29, Zwickau - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 289 457 591)

  11:00 ONSLOW: Duo for piano & violin Op 29 - Sandrine Cantoreggi (vln), Laurent Martin (pno) (Ligia LIDI 010 3178-07)

  SMETANA: String Quartet No 1 in E minor, From my life - Takács Quartet (Decca 452 239)

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