Saturday 18 December 2010 Rāhoroi 18 Hakihea 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies, No 3 in A minor, Scottish; No 4 in A, Italian - Philharmonia/Tamás Vásáry (Collins 10182)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  HUMMEL: Rondo brilliant in Eb Op 120, La Galante; Variations in F on a theme by Gluck Op 57; Una fantasia piccola Op 107, La contemplazione; Rondo in Eb Op 11; Tyrolienne variée; BEETHOVEN: Six variations in F on a Swiss song Wo064; Variations in C on God Save the King Wo078; Variations on a Russian Air Op 107; Rondo Wo064; Allegretto in C minor - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  Once As I Remember

  The Story of Christmas in readings and music based on the Springhead Christmas Play including plainsong, motets by PALESTRINA, BASSANO, SWEELINCK, BYRD, DERING, WEELKES, TAVENER, GARDNER, ARMSTRONG, BÁRDOS, HOWELLS, SCHÜTZ, and traditional carols - Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 462 050)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  ARENSKY: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 54; GLAZUNOV: Concerto ballata Op 108; Piano Concerto in F minor Op 22 - Alexander Trostiansky (vln), Yegor Dyachkov (cello), Maneli Pirzadeh (pno), Sherbrooke SO, I Musicide Montreal/Yuri Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9528)

  4:40 approx -Disc 5

  Scottish traditional music for lute, mandour, cittern, guitar - Rob MacKillop (Greentrax CDTRAX 155)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BRITTEN after Rossini: Soirées musicales - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 410 139)

  CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 41 - Terence Dennis (pno) (RNZ)

  ROSSINI arr Demersseman/Berthélèmy/Gallois: Fantasy on William Tell - Patrick Gallois (fl), Malcolm Messiter (ob), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

  HANDEL: Trio Sonata in G minor Op 2/2 - London Baroque (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1379)

  KETÈLBEY: Chal Romano - Philharmonia/John Lanchbery (EMI 7 47806)

  7:00 VIVALDI: Arsilda, Queen of Pontus, Overture - Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli (CPO 999 740)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Evgeny Kissin (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 439 898)

  BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonata in C Op 5/2 - Emilio Moreno (vln), Jacques Ogg (hpschd) (Glossa GCD C 80306)

  GLAZUNOV: Grand Concert Waltz Op 41 - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66833)

  HOLST: Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Alto ALC 1013)

  8:00 RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 434 127)

  HERTEL: Concerto in Eb for trumpet & oboe - Wolfgang Bauer (tpt/dir), Württemberg CO, Heilbronn/Wolfgang Bauer (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1499)

  J STRAUSS II: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  PAGANINI arr Kreisler: 24 Caprices Op 1, No 13 in Bb; No 20 in D; No 24 in A minor - Philippe Quint (vln), Dmitriy Cogan (pno) (Naxos 8.570703)

  UTTING: Spirals - New Zealand SO/David Atherton (RNZ)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  PURCELL: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - Claire Debono (sop), Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (dir) (Virgin Classics 3 95144)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 20 in A D959 - Gerhard Oppitz (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.297)

  TRAD arr Tate: The lark in the clear air - Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66627)

  MARAIS: Tombeau pour Monsieur de St Colombe - Sophie Watillon (vla da gamba), Xavier Diaz (theorbo) (Alpha 036)

  MONTSALVATGE: Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito, from Cinco canciones negras - Elina Garanca (mezzo), RAI National Orch/Karel Mark Chichon (DG 477 8776)

  A Classical Kids Christmas

  The Christmas story in music and poetry, written by Susan Hammond - J Granik, R Manson, S Morgenstern (actors), Mary Bella, Michael Colvin (vocalists), High Park Choirs of Toronto, instrumental ensemble (Classical Kids 84354)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Thirteen programmes from this Peabody Award winning series

  Hosts Wendell Pierce and Wynton Marsalis offer backgrounds, interviews and insights to accompany spirited performances from jazz greats

  (6) Nursery Song Swing

  The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra try their hand at another book of classics - these standards include Chicken Rhythm, Three Blind Mice and Liza Jane. Wynton and the orchestra give a big band twist to children classics. Guest soloist 16-year-old Grace Kelly (alto sax), 17-year-old Carl Majeau (ten sax/cl) and 13-year-old Jonathan Russell (vln) join Wynton on stage (Murray Street Productions)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  An EBU Folk Music Christmas

  The first of two programmes celebrating the festive season with music, songs and carols from throughout Europe (EBU)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  New Zealand Secondary Schools' Choir 2009/Andrew Withington

  HAYDN: Achieved is the glorious work, from The Creation; MENDELSSOHN: Kyrie eleison und heilig, from Die Deutschen Liturgie; OSWIN: Sanctus; CHILDS: Salve Regina; PARRY: I was glad; ALFVÉN: Vall visa; Folkvisa, from Three Swedish Folksongs; HADAR: Erev Shel Shoshanim; MATHIAS: Blow, blow thou winter wind, from Shakespeare Songs; BRAHMS: Am Donaustrande; Wie des Abends schöne Röte; Sieh', wie ist nicht auszukommen; Schlosser auf, und mache Schlösser, from Liebeslieder Op 52; WEHI WHANAU: Kua Rongo; TRAD arr Oswin: Soon may the Wellerman come; Darling Johnny O; Rise out your bed, from New Zealand Folksongs; CHILDS: The moon is distant from the sea; PRINCESS TE RANGI PAI arr Cooper: Hine e Hine; WALLER/BROOKS: Ain't misbehavin'; GERSHWIN arr Hayes: I got rhythm; TRAD arr Chilcott: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen; TRAD arr Leu'u: Mauga e ole Atuolo; TOMOANA arr Mews: Pokarekare ana (recorded in Wellington Cathedral of the Sacred Heart by RNZ)

• 4:20 PM. Kreuzter, the Sonata and the Composer

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 9 in A Op 47, Kreutzer - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fpno) (Onyx 4050)

  KREUTZER: Violin Concerto No 18 in E minor - Axel Strauss (vln), San Francisco Conservatory Orch/Andrew Mogrelia (Naxos 8.570380)

• 5:30 PM. Three Legends

  DVORÁK: Legend in G minor Op 59/3 - Royal Phil/Thomas Beecham (EMI CDM 7 63412)

  IRELAND: Legend - Mark Bebbington (pno), Orch of the Swan/David Curtis (Somm SOMMCD 242)

  WIENIAWSKI: Legend - Ruggiero Ricci (vln), Joanna Gruenberg (pno) (RegisC 1249)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  LILBURN: Festival Overture - Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (Vector Wgtn Orch VWO 001)

  DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme - Mark Walton (sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

  BREINER: Songs & Dances from the Silk Road - Takako Nishizaki (vln), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557348)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  Sacred song

  TRAD: Roun'about de mountain; Lord, I just can't keep from cryin'; My soul's been anchored; City called heaven; Give me Jesus - Angela M Brown (sop), Tyron Cooper (gtr) (Albany TROY 721)

  WOLF: Now wander, Mary; Lead me, child, to Bethlehem; Ah, the child's eyes; In an old picture; Sleeping Christ child; The three holy kings - Peter Schreier (ten), Norman Shetler (pno) (Eurodisc 69013 2 RG)

  ARRIAGA: Agar in the desert - Violet Serena Noorduyn (sop), Brieuc Wathelet (treble), Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Fuge Libera FUG 515)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Heath Lees

  Barber's Violin Concerto (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Cho-Liang Lin (vln), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  BODY: Melodies for Orchestra; BARBER: Violin Concerto Op 14; WAGNER arr de Vlieger: Tristan & Isolde, an orchestral passion (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:10 PM. Day's End

  MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches Op 51 - Richard Saxel (pno) (Quartz QTZ 2076)

  ALBINONI arr Giazotto: Adagio in G minor - Alastair Ross (org), Simon Standage (vln), Richard Hickox Orch/Richard Hickox (Decca 425 854)

  MARX: Idyll, Concertino on the pastoral fourth from Nature Trilogy - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1137)

  11:00 BACH: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - Angela East (cello) (Red Priest RP 006)

  MOZART: String Quintet No 2 in C minor K406 - Éder Quartet, János Fehérvári (vla) (Naxos 8.553104)

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