Thursday 16 December 2010 Rāpare 16 Hakihea 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ROSSINI: Overtures, William Tell; Il Signor Bruschino; Bianca e Falliero; Barber of Seville; Armida; Semiramide; Línganno Felice; Matilde di Shabran; Demetrio e Polibio; La Gazza Ladra - La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 218)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  CARULLI: Guitar Concerto in E minor Op 140, Petit Concerto de Société; MOZART arr Romero: Adagio in E K261; MOLINO: Guitar Concerto in E minor; MOZART arr Romero: Rondo in C K373; CARULLI: Guitar Concerto in A Op 8a - Pepe Romero (gtr), ASMF/Iona Brown (Philips 426 263)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  The Frostbound Wood: Christmas Music by WARLOCK - Allegri Singers/Louis Halsey (Continuum CCD 1053)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  MACDOWELL: Concert Etude; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Aprés un rêve; GOTTSCHALK: Manchega; BEACH: Scottish Legend; Tyrolean Valse-Fantasia; Fireflies; GOTTSCHALK: The Union; BEACH: A Hermit Thrush at Eve; MACDOWELL: Hexentanz; FAURÉ arr Grainger: Nell; DOWLAND arr Grainger: Now, O noe, I needs must part; CARRENO: Corbeille de fleurs; GOTTSCHALK: Home sweet home; Souvenir de Porto Rico; GRAINGER: Irish Tune from County Derry; GERSHWIN arr Grainger: The man I love; GERSHWIN trans Wodehouse: Clap yo' hands - Alan Feinberg (pno) (Argo 436 121)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BYRD: early works for voices, viols & virginals - Sophie Yates (virginals), Fretwork, I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth (Chandos CHAN 0578)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 RICHTER: Symphony No 11 in G minor - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.570597)

  MOLINO: Trio for flute, viola & guitar Op 4/3 - Carlo Tamponi (fl), Raffaele Mallozzi (vla), Gianluigi Giglio (gtr) (Tactus TC 763801)

  MASSENET: The Last Sleep of the Virgin, from La Vierge - New SO of London/Raymond Agoult (Decca 473 862)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet in C minor D103, Quartettsatz - Maggini Quartet (Resonance CD RSN 3036)

  HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6/4 - Tafelmusik Baroque Orch/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9815)

  7:00 RUTTER: Shepherd's Pipe Carol - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 500)

  GLINKA: Overture in G minor - Musica Viva CO/Alexander Rudin (Fuga Libera FUG 571)

  TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in G minor - Passacaglia (Linn CKD 170)

  KÓDALY: Viennese Musical Clock, from Háry János - Hungarian State Orch/Mátyás Antal (Classic CD ISSUE 80)

  DUARTE: Musikones Op 107 - Antigoni Goni (gtr) (Naxos 8.554554)

  ELGAR: Coronation March Op 65 - Bournemouth SO/George Hurst (Naxos 8.553564)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

  HOVHANESS: Upon Enchanted Ground - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp), Frank Hendrickx (fl), Herwig Coryn (cello), Patrick De Smet (tam-tam) (Telarc CD 80530)

  LIADOV: Biryulki Op 2 - Olga Solovieva (pno) (Toccata Classics TOCC 0082)

  ADDISON: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Suite - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

  WELLS: Blow Me Eyes - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  RODRIGO: Castanets & tambourines - Castile & León SO/Max Bragado Darman (Naxos 8.555962)

• 9:00 AM. Composers of the Week

  500 YEARS

  Renaissance composers who were born or died c1510

  ORTIZ: Vespers for the Blessed Virgin Mary - Cantar Lontano/Marco Mencoboni (Alpha 108)

• 10:20 AM. The Works

  POULENC: Les Animaux modèles - Filarmonica '900 of the Turin Teatro Regio/Jan Latham-Koenig (Avie AV 2135)

  MERCADANTE: Clarinet Concerto in Bb - Thomas Friedli (cl), Southwest German CO, Pforzheim/Paul Angerer (dir) (Claves CD 50-813)

  OHZAWA: Symphony No 3, Symphony of the Founding of Japan - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557416)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Music with Double Bass

  KORNGOLD: Garden Scene, from Much Ado About Nothing Op 11 - Joel Quarrington (dbass), Andrew Burashko (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9931)

  ABERT arr Fritsche: Variations for doublebass & string orchestra - Renger Woelderink (dbass), Stuttgart CO/Michael Hofstetter (Hänssler CD 98.610)

  BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Solomon (pno) (rec 1945) (EMI CHS 5 65503)

  MONTEVERDI: Gloria for seven voices, from Selva morale e spirituale - Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1250)

  LISZT: Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Melodies S123 - Shura Cherkassky (pno), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 415 967)

  TRAD: The Prophecy of the Seeress I - Sequentia (DHM 05472 77381)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Josef Suk (vln), Rudolf Firkusny (pno) (rec 1992) (Supraphon SU 3857)

  SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), London SO/André Previn (rec 1970) (Decca 421 452)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  SPARKE: The Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

  R CLARKE: The cloths of heaven; Shy one; The seal man - Patricia Wright (sop), Kathron Sturrock (pno) (Guild GMCD 7208)

  CARR: The Snow Maiden Act 1 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

  DINICU arr Walton: Hora staccato; ITURRALDE: Pequeña Czarda; DRASKOCZY: Dances from Transylvania - Mark Walton (sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private recording)

  MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in Bb Op 2/1 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - Vienna Phil/Otto Klemperer (Testament SBT8 1365)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 53 in E minor HobXVI/34 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Chartreuse TB 6)

  HUMMEL ed Hogger/Shelley: Adagio & Rondo alla Polacca in A - James Ehnes (vln), London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10255)

  REGER: Scherzo in D minor, from 12 Pieces Op 65 - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

  GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66998)

  LA RUE: O salutaris hostia - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525)

  ARNELL: Classical Variations in C for strings Op 1 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7244)

  PALMER: Classical Suite - Judy Loman (harp) (Naxos 8.554347)

  L MOZART arr Lane: Classic Sleighride - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Naxos 8.570331)

  OBRADORS: Five Classical Spanish Songs, To love; O heart, why lie awake?; With love, O mother; From the softest hair; A tiny little bride - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Decca 425 820)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Chandos CHAN 9615)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  An Operatic Christmas

  William Dart looks at the contributions of some great, and not-so-great opera singers, to the seasonal music catalogue (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The Splendour of Tchaikovsky

  Three programmes

  (3) Alexey Yemtsov (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Marko Letonja

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23

  (Curtain Raiser: Heath Lees looks at Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6)

  Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MOLINO: Grand Trio Concertant in E minor/G Op 30 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Petra Müllejans (vla), Sonja Prunnbauer (gtr), Sérénade à trois (CPO 777 448)

  SCHOENBERG: Pelléas & Mélisande Op 5 - Chicago SO/Pierre Boulez (Erato 2292 45827)

  11:00 RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Pascal Rogé (pno) (Decca 440 836)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in B minor Op 33/1 - Festetics String Quartet (Arcana A 414)

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