Schedule for Monday 25 October 2010

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12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

Disc 1
PLEYEL: Symphonies, in C Ben128; in F minor Ben138; in C minor Ben121 - Capella Istropolitana/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554696)
1:15 approx - Disc 2
HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 32 in G minor HobXVI/44; Keyboard Sonata No 31 in Ab HobXVI/46; Arietta & 12 Variations in Eb HobXVII/3; Keyboard Sonata No 33 in C minor HobXVI/20 - Geoffrey Lancaster (fpno) (ABC Classics 465 702)
2:30 approx - Disc 3
GILLES: Requiem; Motet Beatus quem elegisti - Véronique Gens (sop), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Hervé Lamy (tens), Peter Harvey, Jean-Louis Paya (basses), Le Concert Spirituel Choir & Orch/Hervé Niquet (Accord 465 924)
3:35 approx - Disc 4
GUSTAVSEN: Deep as love; Graceful touch; Melted matter; At a glance; Song of yearning; Turning point; Interlude; Where Breathing Starts; Going places; Your eyes; Graceful touch, variation; Song of yearning - Tord Gustavsen Trio (ECM 1834)
4:40 approx - Disc 5
VINTER: Entertainments; ELGAR: Sospiri; WARLOCK: Four Folksong Preludes; FOX: Countryside Suite; MARSHALL: Elegy; SCOTT: First Suite for Strings; WALTERS: Sinfonia Breve - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)
6:00 AM. Classic Morning

6:00 HERSCHEL: Symphony No 2 in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)
RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2; Lilacs Op 21/5 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)
VERDI arr Genin/Guiot: Fantasy on La Traviata - Patrick Gallois (fl), Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)
VILLA-LOBOS: Etudes Nos 1 & 5, from Twelve Etudes - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Ode CD MANU 5016)
CLIFFE: Cloud & Sunshine - Malmö Opera Orch/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1055)
7:00 BEETHOVEN: Fidelio, Overture - Bavarian Radio SO/Colin Davis (CBS MDK 44790)
SAINT-SAËNS: First movement, Part 2: Poco adagio, from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Martin Setchell (org), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)
GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano - Michel Legrand (pno) (Erato 4509 96386)
MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 4 in B - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)
ZIEHRER: New Century, New Life Op 498 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)
8:00 Beauty Spot: BACH arr anon: Second movement, Largo, from Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor BWV1056 - William Bennett (fl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (ABC Classics 465 680)
WAGNER: Parsifal, Prelude to Act 1 - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7517)
WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (CBC MVCD 1168)
GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand - Roger Woodward (pno) (Warner 9031 77472)
ALBINONI: Concerto in C minor Op 10/11 - Simon Standage (vln/dir), Catherine Martin (vln), Collegium Musicum 90 (Chandos CHAN 0769)
SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - National Youth Orch of Great Britain/Roger Norrington (BBC Music BBC MM 259)
9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

NINO ROTA (1911-1979) and ENNIO MORRICONE (b1928)
Introduced by William Dart
MORRICONE: Selections, from Once upon a time in the West (DejaVu retro R2VD 42-44)
Piano Study No 1; Rag in frantumi - Gilda Butta (pno) (Milan M2-36036)
ROTA: Piano Concerto No 2 in C - Massimo Palumbo (pno), I virtuosi Italiani/Marco Boni (Chandos CHAN 9681)
10:00 AM. The Works

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G minor Op 6/6 - Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7228/29)
BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonata in Bb Op 5/1 - Emilio Moreno (vln), Jacques Ogg (hpschd) (Glossa GCD C 80306)
CHOPIN: Nocturnes Op 9 - Bart van Oort (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94048)
MAHLER: Symphony No 7 in E minor - The Hague Residentie Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5079)
Noon Sonnets Unplugged

FARR: The Holy Fire of Love - Rima Te Wiata (actor), Kristian Lavercombe (actor), New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich
Actors Rima Te Wiata & Kristian Lavercombe engaged composer Gareth Farr to set sixteen of Shakespeare's sonnets to music, linked with dialogue from the plays. The resulting work for actors and orchestra traces a story in which William Shakespeare, a frustrated writer, is distracted, beguiled, betrayed and inspired by a Muse and a Mistress. Eva Radich interviews Te Wiata, Lavercombe and Farr, then we hear a complete performance of the work from the NZSO's Education Series (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)
1:15 PM. Gareth Farr in the 1990s

From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs Pt 1 - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)
Mondo Rondo - New Zealand String Quartet (Trust MMT 2019)
From Forgotten Forests - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Trust MMT 2020)
Queen of Demons - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)
2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

TRAD arr Tate: The lark in the clear air - Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66627)
KHACHATURIAN: Violin Concerto in D minor - David Oistrakh (vln), USSR Radio SO/Aram Khachaturian (Chant du Monde LDC 278 883)
ANON: Exsultet iam Angelica turba caelorum - Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge/Mary Berry (Herald HAVP CD 220)
(Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)
3:00 PM. CD Masters

Classic performances from the back catalogue
LISZT: Totentanz - Alfred Brendel (pno), London Phil/Bernard Haitink (rec 1972) (Philips 456 733)
STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring - Kirov Opera Orch/Valery Gergiev (rec 1999) (Philips 468 035)
4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

NZ musicians and composers
FINZI: Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1038)
HOLMES: Frond - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)
GAVIN: Autumnscape; In Vocation; Rajasthani Heart - Duncan Haynes (cello), Jim Langabeer (fl), Babu Chatterji (tabla), Gitbox (Rattle RAT D005)
WEBSTER arr Wells: Waikato March - John Wells (organ of Sacred Heart Basilica, Timaru) (Ribbonwood RCD 1005)
BECK: Sinfonia in F Op 1/2 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)
5:00 PM. Cadenza

ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Royal Phil/Evelino Pidò (Tring International TRP 066)
VIVALDI: Oboe Concerto in C RV447 - Frank de Bruine (ob), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (dir) (L'Oiseau-Lyre 433 674)
MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 53/1; Op 67/4, Spinning Song or Bee's Wedding - András Schiff (pno) (Decca 466 425)
GRANADOS arr Miolin: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Introduction, Waltz & Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin - La Scala Theatre Orch, Milan/Lovro von Matacic (Testament SBT 1330)
MCLEOD: The Skye Boat Song - Royal Scottish National Chorus & Orch/Alexander Gibson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)
ADDINSELL arr Isaacs: Prelude, from the film South Riding - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Kenneth Alwyn (ASV White Line CD WHL 2115)
RODGERS: Some enchanted evening, from South Pacific - Bryn Terfel (bar), English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (DG 449 163)
J STRAUSS II arr Schütt: Paraphrase on Roses from the South - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (EMI CDZ 5 69704)
TRAD: Blow the wind southerly - Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) (RegisC 1057)
ELGAR: In Moonlight, from In the South, Alassio - James Boyd (vla), Piers Lane (pno) (EMI CD EMX 2229)
GRIEG: Before a Southern Convent - Barbara Bonney (sop), Randi Stene (contralto), Gothenburg SO, Women's voices of the Gothenburg Symphony Chorus/Neeme Järvi (DG 437 519)
BUDOS: Southern Cross - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)
A RITCHIE/G GRIFFITHS: From the Southern Marches, The Old Identity - Iain Fraser (bar), Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private recording)
REYNOLDS: The Sirens of Southend - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)
7:00 PM. Composers of the Week

William Dart introduces the music of Italian composers NINO ROTA (1911-1979) and ENNIO MORRICONE (b1928), best known for providing scores for some of the most celebrated films of the last century. But not all of their music was intended for the silver screen (RNZ)
8:00 PM. Music Alive

Emma Sayers, Richard Mapp (pno duet)
BACH: Prelude & Fugue in Ab BWV886; SCHUBERT: Piano Piece in Eb D946/2; MOZART: Sonata in F for piano duet K497; SATIE: Three Pieces in the shape of a pear; YOUNG: Variations on a Prayer (première performance & broadcast); RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in F# minor; No 7 in A; No 8 in A minor (recorded in Expressions Theatre, Upper Hutt by RNZ)
10:00 PM. Day's End

ZEMLINSKY: String Quartet No 1 in A Op 4 - Artis Quartet (Nimbus NI 5563)
WEBER: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 - Jaakko Luoma (bsn), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Third movement, Romanza (Lento), from Symphony No 5 in D - Adelaide SO/Patrick Thomas (ABC Classics 472 984)
11:00 STRAUSS: Cello Sonata in F Op 6 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Pavel Gililov (pno) (DG 477 7465)
BUSONI: String Quartet in D minor Op 26 - Pellegrini Quartet (CPO 999 264)