Wednesday 16 April 2008 Rāapa 16 Paenga-whāwhā 2008

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  12:00 - Disc 1

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Cappriccio Italien Op 45; Romeo & Juliet Overture; PROKOVIEV: Romeo & Juliet Op 64; BERLIOZ: Romeo & Juliet Op 17 - Berlin Phil/Ferdinand Leitner; San Francisco SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 427 019)

  1:10 (approx) - Disc 2

  CORELLI: Concerto Grossi Op 6 Nos 1-6 - La Petit Band/Sigiswald Kuijken (EMI CDS 747919)

  2:15 (approx) - Disc 3

  Wings in the Night, Swedish Songs - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 449 189)

  3:25 (approx) - Disc 4

  SCHUBERT: String Quartets, D18; in C D32; in B D36; in C minor D103 - Melos Quartet (DG 419 879)

  4:40 (approx) - Disc 5

  BACH: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C BWV564; Fantasia in G BWV572; Trio Sonata No 1 in Eb BWV525; Passacaglia in C minor BWV582; MARCHAND: Deux Pièces d'Orgue; BULL: Dr Bull's My Selfe; Dr Bull's Jewell - Gillian Weir (organ of St Lawrence, Rotterdam; Great Organ of the Church of St Maximin, Thionville, France; Organ of Hexham Abbey) (ARGO 460 185)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 WOOD: Roses of Picardy - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223605)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in D minor for two violins & cello RV565, from L'Estro Armonico Op 3 - Federico Guglielmo, Carlo Lazari (vlns), Pietro Bosna (cello), L'Arte dell'Arco/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 0689)

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

  ERNST: Variations on The Last Rose of Summer - Midori (vln) (Sony SK 46742)

  BRIDGE: Rebus - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

  7:00 ARNOLD: Tam O'Shanter, Overture - English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.553981)

  MOZART: Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb K417 - Claire Briggs (horn), Royal Liverpool Phil/Stephen Kovacevich (EMI 3 82227)

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-80 CD)

  WALTON arr Morrell: Spitfire Prelude - Nigel Potts (organ of the Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, London) (Guild GMCD 7165)

  GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore; Irish tune from County Derry (Danny Boy); Shepherd's Hey - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick (ASV White Line CD WHL 2067)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CHOPIN: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 420 655)

  MONCAYO: Huapango - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

  FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Idil Biret (pno), Bilkent SO/Alain Pâris (Alpha 104)

  PACHELBEL: Canon in D - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Dejan Ivanovic (gtr) (Naxos 8.557038)

  MINKUS arr March: Pas de deux, from Don Quixote - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)

  Symphonic Music

  Oboe Concerto in A minor - Ruth Bolister (ob), Elgar CO/Stephen Bell (ASV CD DCA 1173)

  Symphony No 3, Pastoral - Margaret Price (sop), New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (EMI CDM 7 64018)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  HURLSTONE: Cello Sonata in D - Andrew Fuller (cello), Michael Dussek (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7102)

  RACHMANINOV: The Bells Op 35 - Tatiana Pavlovskaya (sop), Evgeny Akimov (ten), Vladimir Vaneev (bass), Lege Artis Chamber Choir, West German Radio Chorus & SO/Semyon Bychkov (Profil PH 07028)

  GODARD: Violin Concerto No 2 Op 131 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Kirk Trevor (Naxos 8.570554)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - National SO/Nicola Giuliani (Bel Air Music BAM 2033)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BLOOMFIELD: Behold the Narrows from the Hill - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

  KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Julius Rudel (EMI 5 56417)

  BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Op 56 - Gordon Nikolitch (vln), Tim Hugh (cello), Lars Vogt (pno), London SO/Bernard Haitink (LSO Live LSO 0578)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  FAURÉ: Piano Quintet No 2 in C minor Op 115 - Jean Hubeau (pno), Quatuor Via Nova (rec 1970) (Warner 2564 69986)

  Impromptus, No 1 in Eb Op 25; No 2 in F minor Op 31; No 3 in Ab Op 34; No 4 in Db Op 91; No 5 in F# minor Op 102 - Paul Crossley (pno) (rel 1987) (CRD 3423)

• 4:00 PM. Made in

  NZ musicians and composers

  BUXTEHUDE: Prelude & Fugue in F# minor BuxWV146 - Max Kenworthy (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Max Kenworthy)

  FARR: Mondo Rondo - String Quartet (Trust MMT 2019)

  HANDEL trans anon: Sonata for musical clock - Peter McAven (gtr) (Private recording)

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in D, Il Combattimento delle passioni umani - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  NICOLAI: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CD EMX 2169)

  PURCELL: Music for the funeral of Queen Mary - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

  DEBUSSY: L'isle joyeuse - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10443)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy Op 57 - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

  PRUDEN: Taranaki - SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

  STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Trio & Finale from Act 3 - Renée Fleming, Barbara Bonney (sops), Susan Graham (mezzo), Walter Berry (bbar), Vienna Phil/Christoph Eschenbach (Decca 466 314)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice on Danish & Russian Airs - Vovka Ashkenazy (pno), members of Reykjavik Wind Quintet (Chandos CHAN 10420)

  HUME: The King of Denmark's health - Tragicomedia/Stephen Stubbs (Hyperion CDA 66335)

  CLARKE arr Setchell: Prince of 's March - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

  SCHULTZ: Revisited - Academic Choir of Aarhus/Uffe Most (Danacord DACOCD 621)

  DOWLAND: The King of 's Galiard - Fretwork (Virgin VC 7 91117)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem - London SO/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8310)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Light Programme

  Six programmes in which Murray Khouri shares his passion for the wealth of British Light Music

  (3) 's light music heritage forms a treasure-house of music that may plumb no intellectual or emotional depths but which lifts the spirit through imaginative effects, delightful melodies and consummate craftsmanship (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Poets

  Six programmes devoted to musical settings of some of the world's greatest poets

  (2) Alexander Pushkin

  Urszula Kryger (mezzo), Jadwiga Rappé (contralto), Wojciech Maciejowski (ten), Jaroslaw Brek (bass), József Örmény, Mariusz Rutkowski (pnos)

  YAKOVLEV: Winter evening; ALABIEV: The singer; The elegy; I have endured all my desires; The tear; Should this life sometimes deceive me; VARLAMOV: Mary; GLINKA: Confession; The fire of longing burns in my heart; I am in here, Inezilla; The night zephyr; DARGOMIZHSKY: I loved you; What is my name to you?; Ladies and beauties; The miller; MUSSORGSKY: The little white grouse; RUBINSTEIN: Carefree bird; The storm cloud; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The poet; Antchar, the Upas tree; The prophet; GRETCHANINOV: The prisoner; RACHMANINOV: Arion; PROKOFIEV: Three Romances Op 73, Pine trees; With a blush; In your brightness; LUTOSLAWSKI: Snow slide; BRITTEN: My heart; Epigram; Lines written during a sleepless night, from The Poet's Echo Op 76; SHOSTAKOVICH: Stanza; The revival; MYCIELSKI: Freedom; SHOSTAKOVICH: The poet and the Czar; No, the drum beat, from Six Songs on Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva (Polish Radio)

• 9:40 PM. Bach Keyboard

  Toccata in D BWV912 - Andreas Staier (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1960)

  Chorale Prelude, O Lamm Gottes unschüldig BWV656 - Gillian Weir (organ of the Thomaskirche, Leipzig) (Priory PRCD 800)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  HOLST arr Jacob: A Moorside Suite - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 210)

  TELEMANN: Flute Sonata in D - Karl Kaiser (fl), members of Camerata Cologne (DHM 05472 77361)

  HAYDN: Violin Concerto in G HobVIIa/4 - Lukas Hagen (vln), Camerata Salzburg (Profil PH 07015)

  ELGAR: Dream Children Op 43 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

  11:00 ROSSINI arr Diabelli: The Thieving Magpie, excerpts - Johannes Tappert, Thomas Müller-Pering (gtrs) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1389)

  VERACINI: Sonata in G Op 2/3 - Locatelli Trio (Hyperion CDS 44241/3)

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