Wednesday 22 December 2010 Rāapa 22 Hakihea 2010

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ELGAR: Imperial March Op 32; PARRY: Chorale Prelude on Eventide; WESLEY: Choral Song & Fugue; Air & Gavotte; ELGAR: Chanson de Nuit Op 15/1; Chanson de Matin Op 14/2; COCKER: Tuba Tune; WHITLOCK: Folk Tune from Five Short Pieces; LEMARE: Rondo Capriccio, a study in accents Op 64; ELGAR: Nimrod; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Prelude on Rhosymedre; ELGAR: Organ Sonata in G Op 28 - Carlo Curley (organ of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol) (Argo 433 450)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  REICHA: Wind Quintets, No 12 in C minor Op 91/6; No 24 in Bb Op 100/6; Andante No 1 in Eb for cor anglais - Albert Schweitzer Quintet (CPO 999 029)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  Follow That Star

  VARIOUS arr Gritton: Nine Christmas Songs; TRAD: Five Christmas Carols; TAVENER: Three Carols; TRAD: Five Christmas Carols; VARIOUS arr Blackwell: Three arrangements - Timothy Bennett (bar), Oxford Pro Musica Singers/Michael Smedley (Proudsound PROU CD 134)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Ode for St Cecilia's Day; Harp Concerto in Bb; VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring; PURCELL: Chacony in G minor; ALBINONI: Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D minor Op 9/2; VIVALDI: Concerto in C for Multiple Instruments RV558 - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 197)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  LISZT: Romance Oubliée S132; GRIEG: Cello Sonata Op 36; LISZT: Elégies, No 1 S130; No 2 S131; RUBINSTEIN: Cello Sonata No 1 Op 18; LISZT: Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth S382; La Lugubre Gondola S134 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (pno) (RCA 09026-68290)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (RN Music MCCM 97033)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Sonata in Bb, from Essercizii Musici - Sarah Francis (ob), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1240)

  RABAUD: English Suite No 3, from music for The Merchant of Venice - Rheinland-Pfalz Phil/Leif Segerstam (Marco Polo 8.223503)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Girollet: Verano porteño - Martínez Zárate Quartet (Mandala MAN 4891)

  PERGOLESI: Sinfonia in F - Natalia Pavlutskaya, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)

  7:00 NOSSLER: Tröstet mein Volk - RIAS Chamber Choir/Uwe Gronostay (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1794)

  BRAHMS orch Schmeling: Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (RNZ)

  ROSSINI arr Morandi: Tancredi, Overture - Federica Iannella, Giuliana Maccaroni (organs of the Church of the Assumption of Saint Mary, Caluso, Italy) (Tactus TC 791805)

  PURCELL arr Britten: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.557753)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Suite of Six Short Piano Pieces - John McCabe (pno) (BMS 103 CDH)

  LØVENSKJOLD: La Sylphide, Pas de deux from Act 2 - Aalborg SO/Peter Ernst Lassen (Danachord DACOCD 631-639)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Royal Flemish Phil/Daniele Callegari (Talent DOM 2929 95)

  FERGUSON: Meditation on Grant us Thy Peace; Scherzo - John Wells (organ of Baptist Church, Ponsonby, Auckland) (RNZ)

  SAINT-GEORGES: Symphony Concertante in G Op 13 - Jiri Zilak (vln), Jan Motlik (vla), Pilsen Radio SO/Frantisek Preisler jnr (Avenira AV 9988)

  GRAINGER: The Gum-Suckers March, from In a Nutshell - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

  TRAD arr Meyer/O'Connor: Chief Sitting in the Rain - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony SK 68460)

  SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Dances - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hodie - Janice Watson (sop), Peter Hoare (ten), Stephen Gadd (bar), St Catherine's School Middle Chamber Choir, Guildford Choral Society, Royal Phil/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.570439)

• 10:10 AM. The Works

  BERNSTEIN: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances - CBSO/Paavo Järvi (Virgin VC 5 45295)

  HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in Ab Op 113 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 9558)

  FOERSTER: String Quartet No 1 in E Op 15 - Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)

  WEBER: Symphony No 1 in C - Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. The Lower Strings

  FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557889)

  DANZI: Duo in F for viola & cello Op 9/3 - Eva Posvanecz (vla), Balázs Máté (cello) (Hungaroton HCD 32600)

  BOTTESINI: Capriccio di bravura - Massimo Giorgi (dbass), I Solisti Aquilani/Vittorio Antonellini (Koch Schwann 3-1424)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  GRUBER arr Willcocks: Silent Night - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/David Willcocks (dir) (EMI 763179)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 2/1 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011)

  RODRIGO: Invocation & Dance - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 01CD)

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O successores - Oxford Camerata/Jeremy Summerly (Naxos 8.557983)

  HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), National Phil/Raymond Leppard (CBS CD 37846)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 7 in C Op 60, Leningrad - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (rec 1995) (RCA 09026 62548)

• 4:25 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  HAMILTON: I have a dozen dragons; My gifts to keep; Christmas Cradle Song; The Angel's visit, from Noël - Opus 1998/David Hamilton (David Hamilton)

  HURLSTONE: Trio in G minor for clarinet, bassoon & piano - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Musson (bsn), Stephen Emmerson (pno) (Continuum CCD 1079)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BALAKIREV: Overture on Russian Themes - Tasmanian SO/Shalom Ronly-Riklis (ABC Classics 464 194)

  CHOPIN: Mazurka in A minor Op 68/2 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

  DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet, from Romeo & Juliet - Cleveland Orch/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80551)

  SOR: Three Little Divertissements Op 61 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  SIBELIUS: Serenade No 2 in G minor Op 69b - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557266)

  GRIEG: Piano Pieces Op 1 - Alasdair Beatson (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 086)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: God bless the Master, from Folksongs of the Four Seasons, Winter - women of City of London Choir, Bournemouth SO/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.572102)

  MARSHALL: Bless the Child - Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes (Atoll ACD 501)

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

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

  PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org) (Argo 430 836)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Joyce DiDonato - Artist of the Year, 2010 Gramophone Awards

  Jon Tolansky in conversation with the American mezzo (VIP)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Gabriela Eibenová (sop), Barbora Sojková (contralto), Jakob Huppmann (countertenor), Tomás Král (bar), Jaromiír Nosek (bass), Helena Kornfeld Zemanová (vln), Ensemble Inégal/Adam Viktoria

  BERTALI: Salve Regina; MAZAK: Sub tuum praesidium; ANON: Sonata in nine parts; CAPRICORNUS: O felix jucunditas; MAZAK: Ein Kind gebor'n zu Betlehem, Alleluja; CAPRICORNUS: Sonata in eight parts; PELIKAN: De Nativitate Domini nostri Jesu Christi; HUEBER: Stephanus plenus gratia; MONTEVERDI: Laetatus sum (recorded in Charles University, Refectory of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague by Czech Radio)

• 8:55 PM. Recent Bartók Concerto Releases

  Piano Concerto No 3 Sz119 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno), BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10610)

  Violin Concerto No 2 Sz112 - Arabella Steinbacher (vln), Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 350)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BACH: Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in Eb BWV998 - Stephen Stubbs (lute) (ATMA ACD 2 2238)

  PUNTO: Horn Concerto No 5 in F - Radek Baborák (horn), Prague CO (Supraphon SU 4017)

  WITT: Symphony No 6 in A minor, Turkish - Hamburg SO/Johannes Moesus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 329 1299)

  11:00 WIENIAWSKI: Fantasy on themes from Gounod's Faust Op 20 - Haik Kazazyan (vln), Andrey Shibko (pno) (Delos DE 3384)

  ONSLOW: Nonet in A minor Op 77 - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1480)

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