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Saturday 24 February 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 15 - Fou Ts'ong (pno) (SONY SB2K 53249)

FUCHS: Serenade No 2 in C Op 14 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (NAXOS 8.572222)

TCHAIKOVSKY: I bless you, forests Op 47/5 - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Rachel Masters (harp), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9094)

1:00 approx

DVORÁK: Violin Sonatina in G Op 100 - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

STENHAMMAR: Serenade in F Op 31 - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (MUSICA SVECIAE MSCD 626)

DEBUSSY: Masques - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10443)

2:00 approx

BRAHMS: String Quintet No 2 in G Op 111 - Nash Ensemble, Philip Dukes (vla) (ONYX 4043)

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

PIAZZOLLA arr Bragato: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Gryphon Trio (Analekta AN 2 9857)

3:00 approx

STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony Op 64 - Pittsburgh SO/Marek Janowski (PENTATONE PTC 5186 339)

BUDOS: The Passing of a Black Star - New Zealand Guitar Quartet (Rattle RAT D071 2017)

4:00 approx

SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 479 0090)

GOLDMARK: Rustic Wedding Symphony - Los Angeles Phil/Jesús López-Cobos (Decca 476 8743)

BESSER arr Besser/Prosser: Wellington Harbour - Jonathan Besser (pno), Christopher Prosser (vln) (KIWI CD SLD 114)

5:00 approx

FIELD: Piano Sonata in Eb Op 1/1 - John O'Conor (pno) (TELARC CD 80290)

BEETHOVEN: Octet in Eb Op 103 (1) - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble (EMI CDC 5 56817)

MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80551)

BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 (2) - Turnovsky Trio (TRUST MMT 2007)

BOYCE: Symphony No 7 in Bb - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (NAXOS 8.557278)

JL BACH: Das ist meine Freude - Auckland Dorian Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1516)

BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 (3) - Janine Jansen (vln/dir) & Friends (vln/dir) (Decca 478 5362)

CHABRIER: Feuillet d'album - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

6:00 AM. Summer Classics

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)

STRAUSS: Serenade in Eb for winds Op 7 - Alexei Ogrintchouk, Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Andris Nelsons (BIS BIS-2163)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great (3) - Vienna Phil/István Kertész (Decca 430 773)

LISZT: Concert Study No 1 in Db, Waldesrauschen - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 464 713)

FAURÉ: Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés, from L'Horizon chimérique Op 118 - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (EMI 5 75203)

MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80551)

7.00

GRIEG: Holberg Suite (5) - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)

GRANADOS: Spanish Dance No 5 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Philips 456 883)

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (ZIG ZAG ZZT 060 901)

MOZART: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds K452 (1) - Michael Houstoun (pno), Gordon Hunt (ob), Gordon Richards (cl), (Atoll ACD 883)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana (4) - Scottish CO/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)

GERSHWIN arr Brohn: I Got Rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Joshua Bell (vln), London SO/John Williams (Sony SK 60659)

8.00

DVORÁK: Bagatelles Op 47 (5) - Quartetto Gelato (Linus 70055)

CHOPIN: Preludes Op 28 (15) - Rafal Blechacz (pno) (DG 477 6592)

LILBURN: Drysdale Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2037)

CANTELOUBE arr Armenian: Baïlèro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Karina Gauvin (sop), Canadian Chamber Ensemble/Raffi Armenian (CBC Records SMCD 5224)

SONDHEIM arr Silberschlag/McKinley: Not while I'm around, from Sweeney Todd - Jeffrey Silberschlag (tpt), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559719)

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 (3) - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 598)

9:00 The Works

ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (CONTINUUM NZSO 100)

MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - Sergio Tiempo (pno) (EMI 5 58018)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (HYPERION CDS 44301/5)

RAK: Cry of the Guitar - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP 02 CD)

ANON arr Guy Jansen: Pokarekare ana - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), 1982 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Guy Jansen (KIWI CD TRL 025)

BACH: Flute Sonata in C BWV1033 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen (SIGNUM SIGCD 193)

DEBUSSY orch Hazell: La fille aux cheveux de lin - Albrecht Mayer (ob), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor Op 75 - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 157)

Noon Classical Chart

This week's best-selling CDs

1:00 PM. Paul Wittgenstein

Elric Hooper and Des Wilson look into the life and times of the WWI veteran, one-armed pianist, remembered for the great works written for him by several major 20th century composers including Ravel, Prokofiev and Strauss (RNZ)

2:00 PM. Worlds of Music

Trevor Reekie hosts a programme of trans-global music, fusion and folk roots (RNZ)

3:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

Kerikeri International Piano Competition 2016

Two programmes featuring the finalists of the biennial competition.

(1) Today we hear Yi-Yang Chen and Dong Yi Lee

CHOPIN: Mazurka in A minor Op 17/4; Ballade No 3 in Ab Op 47; RACHMANINOV: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - Yi-Yang Chen (piano)

FRANCK: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue; PROKOFIEV: Third movement, Precipitato, from Piano Sonata No 7 in Bb Op 83 - Dong Yi Lee (recorded in the Turner Centre, Kerikeri by RNZ) (Programme 2 next Saturday at 3pm)

4:00 PM. Afternoon Classics

HAYDN: Symphony No 91 in Eb - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - Members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 425 537)

ALWYN arr Lane: March, from The Way Ahead - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10349)

5:00 PM. Inside Out with Nick Tipping

Join Nick Tipping for a two-hour journey through the jazz spectrum playing favourites, standards and new releases along the way (RNZ)

7:00 PM. Music Alive with Clarissa Dunn

7:00 Christchurch Symphony Orchestra celebrates 60 years

7:30 Direct from Air Force Museum, Wigram

Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Christchurch Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Northey

John YOUNG: Spirit (première);

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26;

(interval)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica

(RNZ)

10:00 PM. Day's End

VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in G RV435 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (dir) (EMI 3 47212)

BRITTEN: Simple Symphony Op 4 - Orpheus CO (DG 423 624)

PHILIPS: O Maria Mater - Tudor Consort/Peter Walls (NAXOS 8.555056)

MOZART: String Quartet No 22 in Bb K589, Prussian - Hagen Quartet (DG 423 108)

FRANCISQUE: Three Lute Dances - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)

BRIDGE: Summer - New Zealand SO (Naxos 8.557167)

REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno) (Avie AV 2131)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in G G450 - Kazuhito Yamashita (gtr), Tokyo String Quartet (RCA RD 60421)

Sunday 25 February 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

MENDELSSOHN: Variations concertantes in D Op 17 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (DELOS DE 3326)

GLICK: Sing unto the Lord a new song - Elmer Iseler Singers, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Miranda Brown (harp)/Elmer Iseler (CBC SMCD 5115)

BULL: In nomine No 5 - John Wells (org) (RNZ UB14)

STRAUSS: Dance Suite - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 446 696)

1:00 approx

CPE BACH: Oboe Sonata in C minor - Douglas Boyd (ob), Harold Lester (hpschd) (ASV CD DCA 656)

BORODIN: Symphony No 2 in B minor - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9386)

BRAHMS: Nachtigallen schwingen Op 6/6,Salome Op 69/8,Nachtigall Op 97/1,Dort in den Weiden (German Folksong No 31),In stiller Nacht (German Folksong No 42) - Anna Leese (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 2 07639)

2:00 approx

FIELD: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb H32 (1) - John O'Conor (pno), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80370)

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 7 in A minor - Prague String Quartet (DG 429 193)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 3 in Bb K281 - John Chen (pno) (RNZ)

3:00 approx

AVISON: Concerto Grosso No 6 in D - Café Zimmermann (Alpha 31)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45607)

CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 33 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

4:00 approx

DEBUSSY: Images for Orchestra - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Chandos CHSA 5102)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in Eb WoO36/1 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (NAXOS 8.570998)

5:00 approx

CANNABICH: Symphony No 50 in D minor - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (NAXOS 8.55434)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 39 in D HobXVI/24 - Alain Planès (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1762)

GOUNOD: Sanctus, from St Cecilia Mass - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, English CO/Barry Rose (Philips 412 629)

RUTTER: Suite Antique - Duke Dobing (fl), Wayne Marshall (hpschd), City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter (COLLEGIUM CSCD 516)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 476 434)

WALTON: What God hath done, is rightly done, from The Wise Virgins Suite - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8871)

BEN-HAIM: Berceuse sfaradite - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67571)

6:00 AM. Sanctuary

BACH: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 - Flemish Radio Choir/Bo Holten, Bart Naessens (org), Elise Christiaens (violone) (GLOSSA GCDSA 922 205)

WILLAN: Three liturgical motets - Phoenix Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5066)

BRYARS: Tre laude dolce (2) - Matthew Barley (cello) (Signum SIGCD 318)

WHITACRE: Hope, faith, life, love - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA67543)

TYE: Peccavimus cum patribus nostris - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16056)

HANDEL: Dixit Dominus HWV232 - Hillevi Martinpelto (sop), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Stockholm Bach Choir, Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Anders Öhrwall (BIS CD 1235)

7:30 AM. Hymns on Sunday

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns, presented by Robyn Jaquiery (RNZ)

8:00 AM. Grace Notes

CACCINI arr Cullen: Ave Maria - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Lang Lang (pno) (SONY 88697 89140)

DOWLAND arr Bergeron, Dagher, Slattery: Come again, Sweet Love - Michael Slattery (ten), La Nef (Atma ACD2 2650)

BRIDGE: Lament - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

VIOTTI: Harp Sonata in Bb (2) - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (DG 415 893)

WHITACRE: Water night - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA67543)

BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - Royal Liverpool Phil/Grant Llewellyn (Argo 436 401)

FRAHM arr Badzura: Ambre - Daniel Hope (vln), Jacques Ammon (pno), Christoph Anacker (dbass), Jane Berthe (harp), Kaiser Quartett (DG 479 6922)

HANDEL: Ombra mai fu, from Xerxes - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0650)

9:00 AM. The Works

ALBINONI: Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Stefan Schilli (ob), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92791)

HAYDN: Symphony No 90 in C - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

BEETHOVEN: Romance No 2 in F Op 50 - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

10:00 AM. Chamber Music at Lincoln Center

SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C D956 - Miro Quartet, Paul Watkins (cello) (WFMT)

11:00 AM. The Works

GOLLAND arr Frey: Peace - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (NAXOS 8.570538)

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Decca 440 496)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam (ONDINE ODE 1035)

Noon The Critic's Choice

BEETHOVEN: Horn Sonata in F Op 17 (1) - Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Alasdair Beatson (piano) (BIS 2228)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 - James Ehnes (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Manze (Onyx ONYX4167)

1:00 PM. Vintage Years

Classic recordings from the mono era

SCHUBERT: Violin Sonatina in A minor D385 - Johanna Martzy (vln), Jean Antonietti (pno) (TESTAMENT SBT 1468)

MOZART: Dalla sua pace, from Don Giovanni - Richard Tauber (ten), unknown orch & conductor (NIMBUS NI 1446)

PAGANINI arr Kreisler: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Yehudi Menuhin (vln) (EMI 5 65959)

RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - William Kapell (pno), Dallas SO/Antal Dorati (Philips 456 853)

2:00 PM. The Sunday Feature

Art, Life, Music

Charlotte Wilson talks to contemporary visual artists, in their studios, about the place of music in their lives, their inspiration, and their drive to do what they do

(4) Dunedin painter Kim Pieters, winner of the National Contemporary Art award 2017, on working at the limit of language, the mysteries of abstraction, and music for the hours of the day (RNZ)

TERZI: Petit Jacquet, ORTIZ: Quinta pars - Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Anna Maria Friman (sops), period instrument ensemble ECM (2088 (476 3317))

RR BENNETT: Reflections on a 16th-Century Tune - Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

3:00 PM. Afternoon Concert

Tudor Consort/Simon Ravens

RAVENS: Outwitted I and II; ANON: Gloria tibi trinitas; TAVERNER: Missa Gloria tibi trinitas; In nomine; SHEPPARD: Adesto Sancta I and II; Libera Nos I and II; JOHNSON: In Nomine (recorded in Wellington Cathedral of St Paul by RNZ)

4:25 PM. Afternoon Classics

DEBUSSY orch Stokowski: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Atma SACD 2 2377)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Nikolai Lugansky (pno), Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Lazarev (Warner 2564 61551)

WOLF: Italian Serenade - Brodsky Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10761)

5:00 PM. New Horizons

William Dart hosts a half-hour of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, following a personal trail to explore where his ears, gaze and nose guide him (RNZ)

5:30 PM. Early Evening Classics

JOPLIN arr Crespo: Pineapple Rag - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)

MOROSS: Concerto for flute with string orchestra - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Koch International 1996842)

6:00 PM. Opera on Sunday

Metropolitan Opera 2018 Season

MASSENET: Thaïs

Thaïs is an Egyptian courtesan and priestess of Venus whom the Christian monk Athanaël seeks to reform. The opera explores the power of feminine allure and the desperation of male obsession

Thaïs............................ Ailyn Pérez

Nicias........................... Jean-François Borras

Athanaël...................... Gerald Finley

Palémon....................... David Pittsinger

Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Emmanuel Villaume (EBU)

9:10 Summer Evenings

RAVEL: Sonatine - Martha Argerich (pno) (Philips 456 700)

DVORÁK: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 - Prague Radio SO/Vladimír Válek (SUPRAPHON SU 3802)

10:00 PM. Day's End

CHOPIN: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65 - Alexander Kniazev (cello), Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (warner 2564 63946)

K YOUNG: Three Sad Waltzes - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

MOZETICH: Affairs of the Heart - Juliette Kang (vln), CBC Vancouver Orchestra/Mario Bernardi (CBC Records 5200)

HANDEL: Solomon - Overture - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 432 193)

CPE BACH: Keyboard Concerto in G Wq43/5 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd/dir), English Concert (CRD 3311)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in G Op 18/2 - Tokyo String Quartet (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7436.37)

DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC SMCD 5134)

Monday 26 February 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

BACH: Preludes & Fugues, Nos 2 & 4 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 7978)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E minor RV281 - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (OPUS 111 OPS 10-009)

BENDA: Sonata in F - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)

HAYDN: Symphony No 98 in Bb - Orch of the 18th Century/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

1:00 approx

TOSCANINI: L'anima ed il sorriso di Margherita - Patrick Power (ten), David Vine (pno) (RNZ)

STRAUSS: Don Quixote - Lynn Harrell (cello), David Greenlees (vla), Royal Liverpool Phil/Gerard Schwarz (RLPO LIVE RLCD 403)

DRING: Trio for flute, oboe & piano - Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (DUTTON CDLX 7181)

2:00 approx

SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre - Peter Schaffer (vln), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 435 351)

RACHMANINOV: Morceaux de Salon Op 2 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10095)

3:00 approx

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 1 in F - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 416 447)

FAURÉ: Nocturne No 6 in Db Op 63 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ UB65)

NORMAN: Peter Pan, excerpts - Orchestra Wellington/Kenneth Young (RNZB 1999A)

4:00 approx

BACH: Inventions in three parts BWV787-BWV801 - Janine Jansen (vln), Maxim Rysanov (vla), Torleif Thedéen (cello) (Decca 475 9081)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 11 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 4797337)

5:00 approx

BAX: Tintagel - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 63)

FA SCHUBERT: The bee - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (BEN BAKER BBCD 01)

GRIEG: Norwegian Folksongs Op 66, excerpts - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 208)

A STAMITZ: Viola Concerto in Bb (1) - Jan Peruska (vla), Prague Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (SUPRAPHON SU 3929)

J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

HU-WEI HUANG YI-WEN JIANG: Pictures from Bashu (Six Sichuan folk songs) - Eugenia Zukerman (fl), Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

ROSSINI: Ouf! Les petits pois. fropm Sins of Old Age, Book 5 - Jeffrey Swann (pno) (Akademia CDAK 103)

PARADIS: Sicilienne in Eb - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)

6:00 AM. Daybreak

The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan

BOYCE: Symphony No 3 in C - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (NAXOS 8.557278)

THUILLE: Sextet in Bb for piano & winds Op 6 (1) - Hexagon Ensemble (ETCETERA KTC 1295)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 6 in Bb K238 (1) - Angela Hewitt (pno), Orchestra da Camera di Mantova/Carlo Fabiono (dir) (HYPERION CDA 67840)

SOMERVELL: Young love lies sleeping - Anna Leese (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 2 07639)

GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)

BEETHOVEN: Clarinet Trio in Bb Op 11 (3) - Peter Schmidl (cl), Friedrich Dolezal (cello), Erich Binder (pno (Decca 414 576)

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

7.00

BACH reconst Bernardini: Overture in Bb, from Cantata 194, Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest - Zefiro Baroque Orchestra/Alfredo Bernardini (Arcana A 400)

RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 2 (3) - Lausanne CO/Jesús López-Cobos (TELARC CD 80309)

BARBER: Violin Concerto Op 14 (1) - Joshua Bell (vln), Baltimore SO/David Zinman (Decca 452 851)

MONTERO/PACHELBEL: Improvisation on Pachelbel's Canon - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)

DERING: Pavan - Canadian Brass (CBS MK 45792)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas in B minor Kk27,in A Kk212 (2) - Murray Perahia (pno) (Philips 456 922)

DVORÁK: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American (2) - Simón Bolívar String Quartet (DG 479 0429)

ADDISON: Strange Invaders - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

8.00

RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé, Suite No 2 (1) - Camerata Singers, New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (SONY MLK 64067)

SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)

KREISLER: Liebesleid - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 471 500)

GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 1 in E Op 5, Slavyanskaya (2) - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93565)

ALBENIZ orch Arbós/Surinach: Eritaña, from Iberia Book 4 - Cincinnati SO/Jésus López-Cobos (TELARC 2CD 80470)

M ALBENIZ: Keyboard Sonata in D - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 417 639)

IVES: Symphony No 1 (2) - Chicago SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (SONY SK 44939)

HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from The Planets Suite - London SO/Richard Hickox (REGISC 1200)

9:00 AM. The Works

Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - BBC Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7025)

PÄRT: Fratres - Manuel Barrueco (gtr), Galicia SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (KOCH KIC CD 7597)

MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Rudolf Buchbinder (pno), Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (teldec 8573 80212)

POULENC: Flute Sonata - Carol Hohauser (fl), Bruce Greenfield (pno) (RNZ)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 44 - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

CHOPIN: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7218)

SCHUBERT: String Trio in Bb D471 - members of the NZ String Quartet, (fragment) (RNZ UA50)

FRANCK: Symphony in D minor Op 48 - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9875)

ZIPOLI arr Hunt: Elevazione - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Niklass Veltman (cello), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

Noon Upbeat

Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss

PROKOFIEV: The Battle on the Ice, from Alexander Nevsky, excerpt - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (RCA 09026 61926)

GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 (2) - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner (Chandos  CHSA5190)

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63 - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 479 8529)

RACHMANINOV: Movements 1 and 2, String Quartet No 1 (unfinished) - Orava Quartet (DG )

2.00

SUK: Toward A New Life - Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams (Sony SK 62622)

ROUSSEL: Deux Poèmes de Ronsard Op 26 (2) - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Sharon Bezaly (fl) (BIS SACD 1639)

CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Pavel Kolesnikov (pno) (Honens 2012 03)

RAVEL: Boléro - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 410 010)

3:00 PM. Classical Connection

Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 (3) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 349)

MOZART: Violin Sonata No 24 in F K376 (1) - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 477 5801)

GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

TRAD arr Erb: Shenandoah - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 (1) - Bavarian Radio CO (Arts 47633)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 32 (2) - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 416 441)

DEBUSSY: Nocturnes (2) - women's voices of the Philharmonia Choir, Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62746)

BACH arr Yang: Violin Concerto in E BWV1042 (1) - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Elias String Quartet (EMI 6 79018)

4.00

DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments Op 44 (1) - CO of Europe/Alexander Schneider (asv CD COE 801)

HANSON: Rhythmic Variations on two Ancient Hymns - Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.559072)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in C Kk513 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68184)

DAVERNE: Gem of the Kaipara - Kevin Friedrich (accordion), Moravian Phil/Petr Pololáník (EMI 557 9042)

ALBENIZ arr Aguirre: Triana, from Iberia Book 2 - Rafael Aguirre Miñarro (gtr) (Naxos 8.572916)

HANDEL: Concerto a due cori No 2 in F HWV333 (5 & 6) - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 432 193)

BORODIN: String Quartet No 2 in D (1) - Takács Quartet (Decca 452 239)

BRAHMS: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 (5) - London SO/Bernard Haitink (LSO LIVE LSO 0056)

7.00

PROKOFIEV: Dance of the five couples, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (BERLIN PHILHARMONIC 6003)

FAURÉ: Barcarolle No 1 in A minor Op 26 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D075)

SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 1 in Eb Op 2 (2) - Frankfurt Radio SO/Eliahu Inbal (PentaTone PTC 5186 157)

MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (4) - Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist (NAXOS 8.557023)

QI LUI: Red Flowers in Bloom - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

GERSHWIN arr Grainger: The Man I Love,Love Walked In - Piers Lane (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67279)

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture Op 21 - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572886)

6.00

BRAHMS orch Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 3 in F - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 12 in F K332 (1) - Lars Vogt (pno) (EMI 3 36080)

MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ UB22)

KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 (4) - Gil Shaham (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 439 886)

6:30 PM. Exploring Music

with Bill McGlaughlin (WFMT)

7:30 PM. Music Alive

Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition

Three programmes

(2) Semi-finals, Day 2

Violinists Kunwha Lee, Benjamin Baker and Luke Hsu each play a quintet with Justine Cormack (violin), Julia Joyce and Gillian Ansell (violas), Ashley Brown (cello)

MOZART: String Quintet in C K515;

MOZART: String Quintet in G minor K516;

MOZART: String Quintet in G minor K516

(recorded in Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

(Grand Final next Monday at 7pm)

J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (TRUST MMT 2040)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 75 - Stephen Hough (pno), Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä (HYPERION CDA 67711/2)

STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30 - Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 1041)

STATHAM: Pastorale - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

10:00 PM. Day's End

REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80116)

RAVEL: Une barque sur l'océan, from Miroirs - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno) (DG 477 8770)

CACCINI: Amarilli, mia bella - Siobhán Stagg (sop), Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)

11.00

SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47 - Menahem Pressler (pno), members of the Emerson String Quartet (DG 445 848)

GRIFFITHS: Te Deum - Matthew Harris (org), Auckland Cathedral Singers/James Tibbles (CORELLIA COR 1007)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending - Iona Brown (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 518)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

BRAHMS: Rhapsody in B minor Op 79/1 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Philips 456 922)

GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 2 - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Oslo Phil Chorus & Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen (SONY MLK 64064)

CHOPIN: Polonaise in C minor Op 40/2 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 5 in D minor, Reformation - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMM 902325)

1:00 approx

WAGNER transcr Liszt: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Lang Lang (pno) (SONY 88697 89140)

MOZART: Serenade No 7 in D K250, Haffner - Rudolf Koeckert (vln), Bavarian Radio SO/Rafael Kubelík (DG 477 5838)

2:00 approx

WEBER orch Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 070)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 7 in Eb D568 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 470 164)

SPOHR: Violin Concerto No 8 in A minor Op 47 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Eiji Oue (DG 477 6232)

3:00 approx

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 19 in G minor Op 49/1 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 426 256)

STRAUSS: Aus Italien, Symphonic Fantasy Op 16 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8744)

FARR: Tangaroa - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

4:00 approx

LISZT: Héroïde funèbre - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (NAXOS 8.557847)

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

LILBURN: Bagatelle No 4, From the Port Hills - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

5:00 approx

HANDEL: Concerto a due cori No 1 in Bb HWV332 - English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 949)

DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque (2) - John Chen (pno) (RNZ)

GRIEG: Norwegian Dance Op 63/1 - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)

HAYDN: Trio in F for keyboard, flute & cello HobXV/17 (2) - Uwe Grodd (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), Christopher Hinterhuber (pno) (Naxos )

TELEMANN: Concerto in Bb for three oboes & three violins - Anthony Robson, Richard Earle, Cherry Forbes (oboes), Simon Standage (vln/dir), Micaela Comberti, Catherine Weiss (vlns), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0580)

MOZART: Symphony No 29 in A K201 (1) - European Master Orch/Eugene Sarbu (Auvidis AV 6107)

BACH arr Hess: Jesu, joy of man's desiring - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)

SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 3 - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (TELARC SACD 60655)

6:00 AM. Daybreak

The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan

VIVALDI: Concerto in F for multiple instruments RV569 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30283)

HOVHANESS: Alleluia & Fugue Op 40b - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (TELARC CD 80503)

BEETHOVEN: Twelve Contradanses WoO14 - Orch of St Luke's/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 44516)

PUCCINI arr MIKHASHOFF: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

BRAHMS arr Geringas: Minnelied Op 71/5 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (pno) (RNZ UB56)

HAYDN: Symphony No 102 in Bb (4) - Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 421)

BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (REGISC 1215)

7.00

CHABRIER: Aubade - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

R HARVEY: Concerto Antico (4) - John Williams (gtr), London SO/Paul Daniel (Sony SK 68337)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D BWV1050 (1) - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Christine Schornsheim (hpschd), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (EMI 5 57111)

HANDEL: Lascia ch'io pianga, from Rinaldo - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Philips 434 992)

BORODIN: Symphony No 1 in Eb (2) - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 435 757)

DEBUSSY orch Büsser: Petite Suite (3) - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 8756)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Act 1, Scene 2 - New Zealand SO/Patrick Flynn (RNZB 1996A)

GROFE: Sunrise, from Grand Canyon Suite - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (NAXOS 8.559007)

8.00

STRAUSS: Morgen Op 27/4 - Arleen Augér (sop), Irwin Gage (pno) (CBS MK 42447)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (3) - Christchurch SO/William Southgate (CHCH SYMPH TRUST CHCH 004)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D899/3 - Maria João Pires (pno) (DG 457550)

MOZART: Symphony No 28 in C K200 (1) - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80165)

DUMANOIR: Suite in F, Overture - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)

SAVALL: L'Amor - Arianna Savall (Alia Vox AV 9833)

VIVALDI: Vedrò con mio diletto, from Il Giustino RV717 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 476 434)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (3) - London SO/Bernard Haitink (LSO LIVE LSO 0578)

9:00 AM. The Works

Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces

PAGANINI arr Hunsberger: Moto perpetuo in C Op 11 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger (SONY SK 60804)

FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances Op 45 - Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 598)

HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Vienna Phil/Valery Gergiev (RCA 88697 10336)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 10 in G Op 14/2 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Philips 464 710)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (Chandos CHAN 8303)

CHILDS: Salve Regina - Madeleine Pierard (sop), New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)

MOZART arr Romero: Rondo in C K373 - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF/Iona Brown (Philips 426 263)

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VALENTE: Gallarda Napolitana - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9820)

ANON arr Rive: Colne - NZ Community Trust Woolston Brass Band/David Gallaher (Private 930)

SANZ: Son - Hespèrion XXI, Tembembe Ensamble Continu/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA 9876)

M RICHTER: Mercy - Hilary Hahn (vln), Cory Smythe (pno) (DG 479 8295)

DEBUSSY: Sonata for flute, viola & harp - Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Gerard Causse (viola) (Erato 9029577396)

SCHNITTKE: Suite in the Old Style - Ulf Wallin (vln), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Ralf Gothóni (BIS CD 1437)

MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture - Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (RCA 74321 56698)

2.00

THOMPSON: Alleluia - Handel & Haydn Society Chorus/Grant Llewellyn (Avie AV 0039)

BERLIOZ: Harold in Italy - Antoine Tamestit (vla), New Zealand SO/James Judd (RNZ )

3:00 PM. Classical Connection

Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B

STRAVINSKY: Scherzo à la Russe - Budapest Festival Orch/Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 32112)

KREISLER: Caprice viennois Op 2 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 471 500)

GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 7 in F Op 77, Pastoral (1) - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (WARNER 2564 63236)

SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Decca 473 902)

PIAZZOLLA orch Bacalov: Adiós Nonino - Luis Bacalov (pno), Héctor Ulises Passarella (bandoneón), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 463 471)

DOMENICONI: Koyunbaba (1) - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (WAIATA 9501)

DALZA arr Lislevand: Saltarello; Piva - period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ecm 2088 (476 3317))

KABALEVSKY: Colas Breugnon, Overture - Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer (CBC SMCD 5069)

4.00

FIELD: Piano Sonata in A Op 1/2 (1) - John O'Conor (pno) (TELARC CD 80290)

BACH: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 (2) - Ramón Ortega Quero (ob), Janine Jansen & Friends/Janine Jansen (vln/dir) (Decca 478 5362)

TRAD: Klezmer Dances, Suite - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Sony SK 60274)

PUTS arr Spede: Millennium Canons - University of Georgia Wind Ensemble/John Lynch (Naxos 8.572231)

CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Ingrid Fliter (pno) (EMI 5 14899)

SARASATE orch Hohn: Romanza andaluza Op 22/1 - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

A RITCHIE: A Bugle will do (excerpt) - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (Atoll ACD 741)

5.00

GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9584)

BODY: Samy Faly, from African Strings - Norio Sato (gtr), Kei Koh (gtr) (RATTLE RAT D009)

WHITACRE: Equus - London SO/Eric Whitacre (Decca 279 6323)

DEBUSSY: La Mer (1) - French National Orch/Daniele Gatti (Sony 88697 97400)

PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CD EMX 2169)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Song of India, from Sadko - Aida Garifullina (sop), ORF Radio SO, Vienna/Cornelius Meister (Decca 478 8305)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir de Florence (4) - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (leader) (CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 21504)

6.00

BOELLMANN: Piano Quartet in F minor Op 10 (2) - Trio Parnassus, Gérard Caussé (vla), Trio Parnassus: Yamei Yu (v (MDG 303 1755)

ELGAR: May Song - New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.557577)

BRAHMS: Piano Pieces Op 118 (5) - Lang Lang (pno) (TELARC CD 80524)

LE JEUNE: Un gentil amoureux - King's Singers, Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley (EMI 5 69555)

DUSSEK: Sinfonia in G (1) - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.572683)

6:30 PM. Exploring Music

with Bill McGlaughlin (WFMT)

7:30 PM. Music Alive

Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

Pianomania

New Zealand SO/Freddy Kempf (piano and director)

HANDEL: Keyboard Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 4/1;

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 (2);

CHOPIN: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante Op 22;

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor (3);

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor (2);

GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue

(recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

BACH: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Alina Ibragimova (vln) (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 284)

DVORÁK: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 87 - Gilbert Kalish (pno), Jorja Fleezanis (vln), Geraldine Walter (vla), Colin Carr (cello) (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 281)

HOLMES: Recitative II - Tim Deighton (vla), Dan Armstrong (perc) (Atoll ACD 202)

10:00 PM. Day's End

HAYDN: Symphony No 92 in G, Oxford - Freiburg Baroque Orch/ René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1849)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D935/2 - Maria Joao Pires (pno) (DG 457 550)

HAMILTON: The Moon is Silently Singing - Greg Hill (horn), Peter Sharman (horn), 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1412)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso in B minor Op 62 - Johannes Moser (cello), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Andrew Manze (Pentatone PTC5186570)

RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 1 - Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 419 868)

HILL: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids (2) - Dominion Quartet (NAXOS 8.572097)

BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

Wednesday 28 February 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

DVORÁK arr Kreisler: Slavonic Dances, excerpts - Pavel Sporcl (vln), Petr Jiríkovsky (pno) (SUPRAPHON SU 3884)

SAINT-SAËNS: Phaéton - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (SONY SK 53979)

MERK: Fantasy on Verdi's Ernani Op 31 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture & Venusberg Music - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (LPO 3)

1:00 approx

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 37 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67371/2)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 - Sharon Kam (cl), Jerusalem Quartet (Naxos 8.573454)

ELGAR: Coronation March Op 65 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.557273)

2:00 approx

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Sonata in E Op 6 - Murray Perahia (pno) (CBS MK 37838)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta FL 2 3134)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 54 in G HobXVI/40 - Kemp English (fpno) (MANU CD MANU 5001)

3:00 approx

HANDEL: Trio Sonata in F Op 2/4 - London Baroque (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1379)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique - Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 142)

4:00 approx

DUBOIS: Adoratio & Vox Angelica - Paul Rosoman (org) (ORGANISM ORG 002)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sinfonia Antartica - Norma Burrowes (sop), London Phil Choir & Orch/Adrian Boult (EMI CDC 7 47216)

BESSER: Summer Riffs - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music 1995a)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 8 in Eb Wo038 - Trio Wanderer (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 2100)

MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer - Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Berlin Deutsches SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 425 790)

PIAZZOLLA arr Bardesio: Libertango - José Fernández Bardesio (gtr) (Profil PH 11002)

DVORÁK: String Sextet in A Op 48 (4) - Panocha Quartet, Josef Kluson (vla), Michal Kanka (cello) (SUPRAPHON SU 3921)

BOCCHERINI: Flute Quintet in Bb G442 (3) - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Régis Pasquier (vln), Bruno Pasquier (vla), Roland Pidoux, Mathilde Sternat (cellos) (SONY SK 62679)

AVISON: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/4 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (naxos 8.557905-06)

HOLMES: Thus Bonny-Boots - Canadian Brass (CBS MK 45792)

FAURÉ arr Hazell: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Albrecht Mayer (ob d'amore), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)

6:00 AM. Daybreak

The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan

MOZART: Ballet Music from Idomeneo - Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman (Atoll ACD 883)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in A Kk429 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68184)

ANON arr Ashmore: Greensleeves - Richard Stolzman (cl), Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter (dir) (RCA RD 60437)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 2 in D HobVIIb/2 (3) - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Virgin 5 45560)

STRAUSS arr Grainger: Ramble on the Last Love Duet in Rosenkavalier - Janine Sowden (pno) (ASV CD WHL 2117)

CARDILLO: Core 'ngrato - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Bologna Theatre Orch/Giancarlo Chiaramello (Decca 417117)

GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 55 (4) - Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier (warner 2564 61434)

7.00

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 3 in C Op 2/3 (4) - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ UA44)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish (1) - Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo (SONY 88697 64687)

GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry - ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 9346)

VALLET: Gaillarde, from Le secret des muses - Eugène Ferré (lute), Jérôme Blum (lute), Brian Feehan (lute), Pascal Monteilhet (lute) (Auvidis Tempo A 6259)

RODRIGO: Fantasia para un gentilhombre (4) - Craig Ogden (gtr), BBC Phil/Sachio Fujioka (Chandos CHAN 9604)

MOZART: Flute Concerto No 1 in G K313 (1) - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Ostrobothnian CO/Juha Kangas (BIS SACD 1539)

GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor Op 45 (2) - Joshua Bell (vln), Sergei Rachmaninov (pno) (SONY 88697 55436)

ALFVEN: Skogen sover Op 28/6 - Susanna Andersson (sop), Helsingborg SO/Tecwyn Evans (Orlando Records OR 0029)

8.00

FARR: Waipoua - Mary Scott (cl), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2021)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No 2 in F Op 102 (1) - Cristina Ortiz (pno), Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 425 793)

LEGRENZI: Lumi, potete piangere - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Nuria Rial (sop), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

DEBUSSY: Le matin d'un jour de fête, from Ibéria - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (SONY MLK 64065)

AI-MING LU: Young Soldier's Joy - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (HYPERION CDA 66868)

BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 (1) - Boris Pergamenschikow (cello), Lars Vogt (pno) (EMI 5 57526)

BACALOV: Il Postino arr. Redford/Bell - Joshua Bell (vln), instrumental ensemble (Sony 88697 55436)

HANDEL: Let the bright seraphim, from Samson - Joan Sutherland (sop), Harry Dilley (tpt), Royal Opera House Orch, Covent Garden/Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (Decca 414 450)

9:00 AM. The Works

Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces

J STRAUSS II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

BACH: Ich will auf den Herren schauen, from Cantata No 93, Wer nur den lieben Gott - Ursula Langmayr (sop), Alison Dunlop (ob), Martin Rummel (cello) (Atoll ACD 916)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), Berlin Phil/Antonio Pappano (EMI 4 74813)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Orpheus CO (DG 419 191)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Murray Khouri (cl), John McCabe (pno) (CONTINUUM CCD 1027)

CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25 - Arabella Steinbacher (vln), Lisbon Gulbenkian Orch/Lawrence Foster (Pentatone PTC 5186 503)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral - Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä (BIS SACD 1716)

TAVENER: Song for Athene - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (UNIVERSAL 476 3160)

DEBUSSY: Rêverie - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

Noon Upbeat

Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss

RACHMANINOV: We praise thee, from Vespers Op 37 - Cantores Minores Ensemble (Proprius PRCD 2022)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F Op 59/1, Razumovsky (1) - Takács Quartet (Decca 470 847)

MOZART: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2230-31)

TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - Cincinnati SO/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80640)

KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Kjell Lysell (vln), Ulf Forsberg (vln), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 459 631)

ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)

BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 (1) - Gavriel Lipkind (cello) (BERLIN CLASSICS 1613 GLP)

HANDEL: I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 425 016)

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 (2) - Martin Fröst (basset cl), Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Peter Oundjian (BIS SACD 1263)

2.00

ROSSINI: Otello, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 893)

FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi (1) - Ogen Trio (Atoll ACD 108)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Winter - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)

COPLAND: Appalachian Spring - Atlanta SO/Robert Spano (TELARC CD 80596)

3:00 PM. Classical Connection

Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B

RUTTER: Gloria (1) - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Wallace Collection/Timothy Brown (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 9087)

POULENC: Sinfonietta (3) - French National Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 665)

FAURÉ: Valse Caprice No 1 in A Op 30 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D075)

BOYCE: Symphony No 4 in F - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (NAXOS 8.557278)

PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel - Anne Akiko Meyers (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7762)

DVORÁK: American Suite in A Op 98b (3) - Royal Phil/Antal Dorati (Decca 430 702)

PROKOFIEV trans Kennan: Flute Sonata in D Op 94 (4) - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Warsaw Phil/Lawrence Leighton Smith (RCA 09026 63836)

4.00

MOZART: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb K493 (1) - Fauré Quartet (DG 477 5885)

MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso - Gil Shaham (vln), Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 454 647)

BACH arr Lopes: Partita No 4 in D BWV828 (7) - Camerata Brazil/Henrique Cazes (dir) (EMI 5 56939)

PSATHAS: Aria, from Three Psalms - Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 051)

SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout (3) - Schubert Ensemble (ASV GLD 4000)

O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

FALLA: La Vida Breve, Interlude & Dance - London SO/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8457)

5.00

WALTON: Crown Imperial - Royal Phil/André Previn (TELARC CD 80125)

WAGENSEIL: Trombone Concerto in Eb (2) - Jörgen van Rijen (tbn), Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (dir) (CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 26708)

BIZET orch Debussy: Danse Bohème, from Carmen Suite for orchestra No 2 - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (TELARC SACD 60655)

DIENES: Ave verum corpus - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

MARX: Quartetto in modo classico (2) - Thomas Christian Ensemble (CPO 777 066)

RACHMANINOV: Moments Musicaux Op 16 (6) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 475 6198)

BERNSTEIN arr Brohn: Lonely Town, from On the Town - Joshua Bell (vln), Philharmonia Orchestra/David Zinman (Sony SK 89358)

DUKE orch Tunick: Autumn in New York - Dawn Upshaw (sop), unnamed orch/Eric Stern (NONESUCH 7559 79531)

COPLAND: Prairie Journal - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS 8.55924)

6.00

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV1047 (1) - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)

DVORÁK: Czech Suite Op 39 (2) - Detroit SO/Antal Dorati (Decca 414 370)

BELLINI arr MIKHASHOFF: Casta diva, from Norma - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

FLOTOW: Ach so fromm, from Martha - Rolando Villazón (ten), Munich Radio Orch/Michel Plasson (Virgin 3 44701)

6:30 PM. Exploring Music

with Bill McGlaughlin (WFMT)

7:30 PM. Music Alive

Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

Berlin Philharmonic in Baden-Baden

Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle, Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim

DVORÁK: Three Slavonic Dances Op 72;

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 (3);

DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53;

BRAHMS arr Schoenberg: String Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 (1);

BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra

(recorded in Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden for Deutsche Welle)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Bb D935/3 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Avie AV 2157)

PAINE: Sea Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP CD 04)

10:00 PM. Day's End

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/1 - ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 99986)

BACH arr Petri: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208 - Leon Fleisher (pno) (VANGUARD ATM CD 1551)

BARRA: Tibi Laus, Tibi Gloria - Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin/Mark Duley, Andrew Johnstone (org) (PRIORY PRCD 639)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 704)

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - Mie Kobayashi (vln), Yoko Hasegawa (cello), Pascal Rogé (pno) (ONYX 4008)

CARR: Aubade - Alan Vivian (cl), Sydney SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi SLD 76)

FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 475 8140)

Thursday 1 March 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 27 - Maria Joao Pires (pno) (DG 477 6607)

BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 3 - Cleveland Orch/Christoph von Dohnányi (TELARC CD 80145)

F STRAUSS: Nocturno Op 7 - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 6 in D minor Op 104 - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 421 069)

1:00 approx

MOZART: Variations in G on Unser dummer Pöbel meint K455 - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ UA42)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 4 in C minor D417, Tragic - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)

BARTOK arr Farquhar: For Children, excerpts - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.573765)

2:00 approx

MERK: Valse brillante Op 6 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 100 - London SO/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 7655)

MAUNDER: Under the Surface - Peter Maunder (tbn), Helen Webby (harp) (Atoll ACD 115)

3:00 approx

BRAHMS: Five Lieder - Ernst Buscagne (bar), Tom McGrath (pno) (GENUIN GMP 020202)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 5 in D - Atlanta SO/Robert Spano (TELARC CD 80676)

4:00 approx

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 1 in Eb Op 12 - New Zealand String Quartet (NAXOS 8.570001)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 4 in Eb Op 7 - Jonathan Biss (pno) (Onyx 4094)

HILL: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, Allies (3) - Dominion Quartet (NAXOS 8.572446)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/8 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 411)

BACH: Flute Sonata in E BWV1035 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

HANDEL: Organ Concerto in F Op 4/5 - Simon Preston (org), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 413 465)

CAPIROLA arr Lislevand: Ricercata prima - Linn Andrea Fuglseth (sop), period instrument ensemble/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))

DEBUSSY orch Busser: La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Atma SACD 2 2377)

SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2 - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)

6:00 AM. Daybreak

The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan

BOYCE: Symphony No 2 in A - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 419 631)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 83 (3) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno), Dallas SO/Andrew Litton (HYPERION CDA 67550)

CALDARA: Chiacona Op 2/12 - Four Nations Ensemble (GAUDEAMUS CD GAU 347)

MOZART: Trio in Eb K498, Kegelstatt (3) - Charles Neidich (cl), Jürgen Kussmaul (vla), Robert Levin (fpno) (SONY SK 53366)

ELGAR: Chanson de matin Op 15/2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (NAXOS 8.557577)

JONES/JOSHUA/HARPER: We'll keep a welcome in the hillside - Harry Secombe (ten) (Castle 896641)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little (4) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 654)

7.00

HAYDN: Symphony No 104 in D, London (4) - Orch of the 18th Century/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Quintet in Bb for piano & winds (1) - Nash Ensemble (CRD 3409)

EDWARDS: Intermezzo quasi cadenza, from Maninyas - Dene Olding (vln), Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC Classics 465 086)

BACH: Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 (1) - Penelope Evison (fl), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 249)

ALBENIZ: Tango, from España Op 165 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 433 926)

BONONCINI: Per la gloria d'adorarvi, from Griselda - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Bologna Theatre Orch/Richard Bonynge (ABC Classics 472 610)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian (1) - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

8.00

KORNGOLD arr Thibaudet/Kerber: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 (3) - London SO/Bernard Haitink (LSO LIVE LSO 0045)

FASCH: Concerto in D for trumpet & two oboes FWV L/D1 - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)

PUCCINI: Minuet No 3 in A - Berlin Radio SO/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 410 007)

CHOPIN: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Pascal Rogé (pno) (Onyx 4057)

GINASTERA arr Thomas-Mifune: Milonga - Gryphon Trio (Analekta AN 2 9857)

TRAD arr Poster/Balsom: Nobody Knows - Alison Balsom (tpt), BBC Scottish SO/Lawrence Renes (EMI 6 78590)

MOZART: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter (4) - Tafelmusik Orch/Bruno Weil (DHM 82876 89504)

9:00 AM. The Works

  EditNick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces

ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Doric String Quartet, BBC SO / Edward Gardner (Chandos CHSA5181)

FINZI: Who is Sylvia?, from Let us garlands bring - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), BBC SO/Jac van Steen (BBC MUSIC BBC MM 298)

LISZT arr Horowitz: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C# minor S244 - Lang Lang (pno) (DG 477 5976)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished - Berlin Phil/Karl Böhm (DG 419 318)

HAYDN: Divertimento No 4 in C - Tres Cordes String Trio (ODE CD MANU 5122)

STRAUSS: Cello Sonata in F Op 6 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (pno) (RCA 74321 75398)

GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue - Anne-Marie McDermott (pno), Dallas SO/Justin Brown (Bridge 9252)

BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (NAXOS 8.559088)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (PENTATONE PTC 5186 384)

DOWLAND arr Bergeron, Dagher, Slattery: Behold a wonder here - Michael Slattery (ten), La Nef (Atma ACD2 2650)

Noon Upbeat

Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss

KOSMA arr Barker/Balsom: Autumn Leaves - Alison Balsom (tpt), Guy Barker Orch/Guy Barker (Warner 2564 632789)

MOZART: Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni - Anna Netrebko (sop), Thomas Quasthoff (bar), Dresden State Orch/Sebastian Weigle (DG 477 6297)

BELLINI: Overture, Norma - Met Opera Orch ( )

GRIEG: In Autumn, Overture - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9028)

STRAUSS: Four Last Songs (2) - Soile Isokoski (sop), Berlin Radio SO/Marek Janowski (ONDINE ODE 982)

THOMAS: Fantasia on David of the White Rock - Susan Drake (harp) (HYPERION CDA 66340)

K JENKINS: Better is peace than always war, from The Armed Man - National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil (Virgin 8 11015)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Movements 2 and 4, String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 - Orava Quartet (DG)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Movements 2 and 3, String Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110 - Orava Quartet (DG)

2.00

G WILLIAMS: Penillion - Ray Allan (tpt), Royal Phil/Charles Groves (Lyrita SRCD 323)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 29 in Bb Op 106, Hammerklavier - Murray Perahia (piano) (DG 4798353)

3:00 PM. Classical Connection

Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B

WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - New York Phil/Zubin Mehta (SONY MLK 64061)

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - French National Orch/Daniele Gatti (Sony 88697 97400)

BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 (4) - Nash Ensemble (ONYX 4045)

HAYDN: Sinfonia Concertante in Bb HobI/105 (3) - István Engl (ob), Lászlo Baranyai (bsn), Igor Ozim (vln), Zóltan/Antal Dorati (Decca 425 935)

FIELD: Nocturne No 13 in D minor H59 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)

BOYCE: Symphony No 1 in Bb - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 419 631)

MAXWELL DAVIES arr Eriksson: Farewell to Stromness - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC Classics 476 701)

4.00

RAVEL: String Quartet in F (2) - Emerson String Quartet (DG 427 320)

RACHMANINOV arr Hazell: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

HANDEL: Concerto in F HWV331 - English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 949)

DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Welsh National Opera Orch/Charles Mackerras (Argo 433 704)

ORTIZ: Passamezzo antico - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)

C SCHUMANN: Piano Trio in G minor Op 17 (4) - Dartington Piano Trio (HYPERION CDA 66331)

KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Bolshoi SO/Alexander Lazarev (warner 8573 80438)

SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5110)

5.00

KANENGISER, YORK: African Suite - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Sony SK 60274)

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049 (3) - Duilio Galfetti (vln), Maurice Steger, Stefano Bet (recorders), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Arts 47715)

BRAHMS orch Juon: Hungarian Dance No 4 in F# minor - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein (3) - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (DG 435 472)

METCALFE: Silent Westway, Ochre Orange Freeway, As She (1) - Tom Kerstens (gtr), Tom Kerstens' G Plus ensemble (REAL WORLD CDRW 175)

TRAD: Cossack Lullaby - Aida Garifullina (sop), ORF Radio SO, Vienna/Cornelius Meister (Decca 478 8305)

BORODIN: Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Royal Phil/Ole Schmidt (REGISC 1215)

6.00

FAURÉ orch Rabaud: Dolly Suite (4) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 517)

BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été (1) - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Berlin Deutsches SO/Kent Nagano (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1932)

POULENC: Three Novelettes (1) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D075)

KERNIS: Air - Truls Mørk (cello), Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Virgin 5 45464)

6:30 PM. Exploring Music

with Bill McGlaughlin (WFMT)

7:30 PM. Music Alive

Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

7:30 Curtain Raiser

Peter Watts introduces Shostakovich's Symphony No 10 (RNZ)

7:50 Defiance

Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt (cello), Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra/Andrew Gourlay

MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes oubliées;

SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33;

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 10 in E minor Op 93

(recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20 (1) - James Ehnes (vln), members of Seattle Chamber Music Society (ONYX 4060)

FARR: Queen of Demons - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2021)

10:00 PM. Day's End

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G RV310 - Adrian Chandler (vln/dir), La Serenissima (Avie AV 2106)

PORTER: In the Still of the Night - Peter Maunder (tbn), Helen Webby (harp) (Atoll ACD 115)

DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 - Menahem Pressler (pno), Emerson Quartet (DG 439 868)

ADDISON arr Shaples: The Maggie, Song of the Maggie - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 4 in D minor Op 120 - Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo (SONY 88697 64687)

KAIHAU/SCOTT arr Maskell: Po Atarau, Now is the Hour - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

BACH: Violin Sonata No 3 in E BWV1016 - Janine Jansen (vln), Jan Jansen (hpschd) (Decca 478 5362)

Friday 2 March 2018

12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

HANDEL: Concerto in F HWV335a - English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 949)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 18 in D K576 - Michael Endres (pno) (OEHMS OC 253)

HAYDN: Symphony No 8 in G, Le Soir - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 296 1767)

TELEMANN: Fantasy No 6 in E minor for solo violin - Lara Hall (vln) (Atoll ACD 341)

1:00 approx

K YOUNG: Virgen de la Esperanza - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (TRUST MMT 2027)

BRAHMS, FAURE arr Grainger: Cradle Song, Après un rêve, Nell - Piers Lane (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67279)

NIELSEN: Symphony No 4 Op 29, The Inextinguishable - Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (CBS MK 42093)

2:00 approx

BEETHOVEN: Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen - Adrian Brendel (cello), Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 475 379)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No 2 in C Op 53 - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9454)

R FUCHS: In a strange land,Swallows,The Kaddish - Richard Greager (ten), Richard Mapp (pno) (Rollover Productions 2010A)

3:00 approx

FRANCK: Les Eolides - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9875)

DEBUSSY: Preludes, Book 2 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (pno) (DG 427 391)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (HYPERION CDA 66561/3)

4:00 approx

SCHUBERT arr Günther: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Edward Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10703)

A GRIFFITHS: Naseby - Jessica Wells (contralto), Albert Mataafa (ten), New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)

RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Lynn Harrell (cello), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 414 340)

GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Estonian National SO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin 3 44722)

LILBURN: Two Preludes (1951) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2 - Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (CBS MK 42140)

J STRAUSS II: Wine, Women & Song - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)

STRAUSS: Suite in Bb for winds Op 4 (2) - Royal Liverpool PO/Gerard Schwarz (RLPO LIVE RLCD 401 P)

MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 (3) - Jonathan Williams (horn), CO of Europe/Alexander Schneider (COE RECORDS CD COE 805)

ROSSI: Voglio morire - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

GIBBONS: The Silver Swan - Canadian Brass (CBS MK 45792)

6:00 AM. Daybreak

The perfect overture to your day, with Cynthia Morahan

HANDEL reconstructed Holman: Almira Suite - Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (dir) (HYPERION CDA 67053)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 13 in A D664 (1) - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 470 265)

HAYDN: Symphony No 6 in D, Le Matin (1) - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans (dir) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 296 1767)

BACH: Ei! wie schmeckt der Coffee süsse, from Coffee Cantata BWV211 - Ursula Langmayr (sop), Alison Dunlop (ob), Martin Rummel (cello) (Atoll ACD 916)

WOLF-FERRARI: Overture & Intermezzo, from Susanna's Secret - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr Lascae: Souvenir d'un lieu cher (3) - Janine Jansen (vln), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Decca 478 0651)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 in Bb Op 19 (3) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno), Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (Decca 411 901)

7.00

BIZET: Symphony in C (4) - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI CDM 7 69643)

JEANJEAN: Clair Matin - Julian Bliss (cl), Julien Quentin (pno) (EMI 5 85639)

BRAHMS: Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op 105/1 - Boris Pergamenschikow (cello), Lars Vogt (pno) (EMI 5 57526)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Piero Toso (vln), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (ERATO ECD 55018)

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 (2) - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)

RAVEL: Jeux d'eau - Martha Argerich (pno) (DG 447 430)

KORNGOLD: The Prince & the Pauper (9) - London SO/André Previn (DG 471 347)

8.00

STRAUSS: Song of the priestess of Apollo - Karita Mattila (sop), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 445 182)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from Sleeping Beauty - Cleveland Orch/Louis Lane (SONY MLK 64055)

BUTTERWORTH: Banks of Green Willow - English CO/Jeffrey Tate (EMI CDC 7 47945)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 (3) - Michael Houstoun (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman (Atoll ACD 883)

NYMAN: In Re Don Giovanni - Lyric Quartet (Black Box BBM 1020)

ANON: Jota - Hesperion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9834)

ALBENIZ: El Puerto, from Iberia Book 1 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (HYPERION CDA 67476/7)

GERSHWIN orch Rose: Girl Crazy, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9325)

9:00 AM. The Works

Nick Tipping offers a full menu of masterpieces

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (REFERENCE RECORDINGS-80 CD)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez - Sharon Isbin (gtr), New York Phil/José Serebrier (WARNER 2564 60296)

TRAD arr Rutter: Afton Water - Claire Caldwell (pno), Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

SAINT-SAËNS arr Ma: Havanaise - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (SONY SK 87287)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA28)

DI VITTORIO: Overtura Respighiana - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (NAXOS 8.572333)

BACH arr Moriarty: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - New Zealand Guitar Quartet (Rattle RAT D071 2017)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Murray Perahia (pno), Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (CBS MK 42330)

SCHUBERT: An die Musik D547 - Fritz Wunderlich (ten), Hubert Giesen (pno) (DG 459 064)

Noon Upbeat

Keeping you in tune with music and the arts, with David Morriss

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F# minor, excerpt - Bradley Wood (pno), CSO/Gemma New (RNZ)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Santiago Cañón Valencia (cello), Brussels Phil/Stéphane Denève (2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition)

FRANCHI: Suite for flute & harp - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (MANU CD MANU 2050)

BRITTEN after Rossini: Soirées musicales - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (London 425 659)

ADAM: Giselle, excerpt - London SO/Michael Tilson Thomas (Sony SK42450)

FARR: Three Etudes (1) From Duggan - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)

2.00

DEBUSSY: Images oubliées - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D075)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - Boston SO/Andris Nelsons (BSO Classics 1701/03)

PHILIDOR: Musiques pour le mariage du Roy Louis XIII (2) - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9824)

3:00 PM. Classical Connection

Rick Young presents afternoon music to get you from A to B

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 - London Phil/Adrian Boult (EMI CDM 7 64015)

BEETHOVEN arr anon: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique (2) - Albion Ensemble (SOMM SOMMCD 070)

BACH arr Gwilt: Trio Sonata in C BWV529 (1) - London Baroque (BIS CD 1345)

SIBELIUS: Finlandia - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (REFERENCE RECORDINGS-80 CD)

HOVHANESS: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain (3) - London SO/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/12 - Rémy Baudet (vln), Sayuri Yamagata (vln), Richte van der Meer (cello), Hank Heyink (archlute), Musica Amphion/Pieter-Jan Belder (dir) (BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92403)

PART: Summa - Franz Joseph Quartet (Atma ACD 2 2310)

A RITCHIE: I lie, I watch the ceiling, from As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (VIVA VOCE ACD 901)

4.00

BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 (4) - Sydney SO/Edo de Waart (ABC Classics 454 515)

DVORÁK arr Kreisler: Slavonic Dance Op 72 No. 8 in A flat major - Pavel Sporcl (vln), Petr Jiríkovsky (pno) (SUPRAPHON SU 3884)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 53 in E minor HobXVI/34 (3) - Alain Planès (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1762)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Shauna Rolston (cello), Calgary Phil/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5153)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango (4) - Giangiacomo Pinardi (gtr), Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45607)

DEBUSSY: Arabesques Nos 1 & 2 - François Chaplin (pno) (PIERRE VERANY PV 702 101)

DAVERNE: Concert Overture, For the Academy - Moravian Phil/Petr Pololáník (EMI 557 9042)

5.00

PROKOFIEV: Juliet as a young girl, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (CONIFER 75605 51343)

CHENG-QIAN XUE: Caprice - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)

RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (3) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 517)

DVORÁK: Nocturne in B for strings Op 40 - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

MOZART: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds K452 (3) - Michael Houstoun (pno), Gordon Hunt (ob), Gordon Richards (cl), (Atoll ACD 883)

CHABRIER: Bourrée fantasque - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

GERSHWIN/DONALDSON arr Ryden: Rialto Ripples - Stefano Bollani (pno), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 2739)

RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 434 127)

6.00

KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin - Gil Shaham (vln), Orpheus CO (DG 449 923)

CANTELOUBE arr Armenian: Uno jionto postouro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Karina Gauvin (sop), Canadian Chamber Ensemble/Raffi Armenian (CBC Records SMCD 5224)

SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Augustin Dumay (vln), Frédéric Lodéon (cello), Jean-Philippe Collard (pno) (EMI 3 65295)

HAYDN: Symphony No 89 in F (4) - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)

6:30 PM. Exploring Music

with Bill McGlaughlin (WFMT)

7:30 PM. Music Alive

Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house

Spiral

NZTrio - Natalie Lin (violin), Ashley Brown (cello), Sarah Watkins (piano)

BAX: Piano Trio in Bb;

Jenny McLEOD: Seascapes;

Samuel HOLLOWAY: Corpse and Mirror;

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in Eb Op 70/2

(recorded in Q Theatre Loft by RNZ)

ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - Philharmonia/Andrew Davis (SIGNUM SIGCD 168)

PSATHAS: Omnifenix - Joshua Redman (sax), Lance Philip (drums)/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

10:00 PM. Day's End

CHABRIER: Menuet, from Dix pièces pittoresques - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)

ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - National Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 400 049)

RAVEL: Pavane for a Dead Princess - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (EX Tartar TRL 020)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (Pentatone PTC 5186 382)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in C RV191 - Giuliano Carmignola (baroque vln), Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon (SONY SK 89362)

PSATHAS: Waiting for the Aeroplane - Dan Poynton (pno) (RATTLE RAT D006)

BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 - Sol Gabetta (cello), Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 479 0090)

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