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Friday 31 December 2010 Rāmere 31 Hakihea 2010

  • 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

    Disc 1

    WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; Music for Children, Galop finale - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

    1:10 approx - Disc 2

    Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

    2:25 approx - Disc 3

    BACH: Arias & Choruses from the Christmas Oratorio - Nancy Argenta, Katie Pringle (sops), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Hans Peter Blochwitz (ten), Olaf Bär (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 653)

    3:40 approx - Disc 4

    BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

    4:45 approx - Disc 5

    TUBIN: Double Bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

  • 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

    6:00 RACHMANINOV arr Stokowski: Prelude in C# minor Op 3/2 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Eric Kunzel (Telarc CD 80338)

    ORFF arr anon: In trutina, from Carmina Burana - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

    MOZART: Ave verum corpus K618 - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

    BRITTEN: Phantasy Quartet Op 2 - François Leleux (ob), Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Lawrence Power (vla), Sebastian Klinger (cello) (Sony 88697 28585)

    RODRIGO: Sones en la Giralda - Kaori Muraji (gtr), Galicia SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Decca 478 0076)

    BRIDGE: Two poems, The open air; The story of my heart - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

    7:00 HENRY VIII: Grene growith the holy - Anonymous 4 (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7325)

    WEBER: Abu Hassan, Overture - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 070)

    VIOTTI: Serenade for flute & piano Op 23/5 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)

    BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonata in Bb Op 5/3 - Emilio Moreno (vln), Jacques Ogg (hpschd) (Glossa GCD C 80306)

    Josef STRAUSS: Flattergeister Waltz Op 62 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

    8:00 Beauty Spot: DVORÁK: Two Waltzes Op 54 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

    WELLS: Prelude & Fugue in A minor, from The Well-Tempered Piano - John Wells (pno) (RNZ)

    CANNABICH: Symphony No 52 in E - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

    FA SCHUBERT: The bee; BENDIX: The butterfly - Mark Walton (cl/sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

    ADDISON: Main Theme, from the film Murder, She Wrote - BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10418)

    BACH: Concerto in C minor for two keyboards BWV1062 - Güher & Süher Pekinel (pno duo), Zurich CO/Howard Griffiths (Warner 2564 61950)

  • 9:00 AM. Christmastide

    FINZI: New Year Music - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 454 438)

    BUXTEHUDE: Cantata, Das neugebor'ne Kindelein BuxWV13 - Emma Kirkby (sop), Michael Chance (countertenor), Charles Daniels (ten), Peter Harvey (bass), Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0723)

    INGALLS: The apple tree; TRAD arr Hillier: The cherry tree carol; A wassail, a wassail throughout all this town!; A New Year's gift - Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMX 297 7079)

    WAXMAN: Auld Lang Syne Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Ula Ulijona (vla), Marta Sudraba (cello), Louis Lortie (pno) (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

    ARÁMBARRI: Witches on New Year's Eve - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557275)

  • 10:00 AM. The Works

    From Russia with Love

    SHCHEDRIN: Not Love Alone, Suite - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya CD MEL 10 01623)

    ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)

    GLINKA: Three dances from A Life for the Tsar - Ilya Konovalov (vln), Vitaly Nazarov (ob), Alexander Rudin (cello), Musica Viva CO/Alexander Rudin (Fuga Libera FUG 571)

    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 1 - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya 74321 40065)

  • Noon Summer Sonic

    Fairytales in Words & Music

    Five programmes

    (5) TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake - Tony Scotland (narrator), Royal Opera House Orch, Covent Garden/Mark Ermler (BMG 75605 55030)

  • 1:25 PM. Lakes

    ER WARREN: The Crystal Lake - Royal Scottish National Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7235)

    VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The lake in the mountains - John McCabe (pno) (BMS 103 CDH)

    TOMLINSON: Lakeside Idyll - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7170)

    SULLIVAN: Chorus of Lake Spirits, from King Arthur - RTE Chamber Choir & Concert Orch/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.223635)

    LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc SACD 60657)

  • 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

    GARCIA DE ZESPEDES: Night gathers a pageant - La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XX1/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9834)

    LISZT: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude, from Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses S173 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

    FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Sara Macliver (sop), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), David Drury (org), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC Classics 472 045)

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  • 3:00 PM. CD Masters

    Classic performances from the back catalogue

    SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 - London SO/Colin Davis (rec 1994) (RCA 09026 68218)

  • 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

    NZ musicians and composers

    BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 1/3 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2007)

    FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

  • 5:00 PM. Cadenza

    WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1 - Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst (DG 477 8773)

    ANON: Sumer is icumen in - St George's Canzona/John Sothcott (ASV CDQS 6114)

    NEDBAL: Valse Triste - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Orfeo 180 891)

    ZABEL: Waltz Caprice Op 37 - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

    GERNSHEIM: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 78 - Alban Gerhardt (cello), Berlin Radio SO/Hannu Lintu (Hyperion CDA 67583)

    FRANÇAIX: Quartet for cor anglais, violin, viola & cello - Lajos Lencsés (cor anglais), members of Parisii Quartet (CPO 999 779)

    PITFIELD: Overture on North-Country Tunes - Prague City Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2144)

    BAX: Country-Tune - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.557592)

    QUILTER arr Tomlinson: Country Pieces - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223444)

    W LLOYD WEBBER: Mulberry Cottage; Frensham Pond, from Country Impressions - Jonathan Snowden (fl), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67008)

    GRAINGER: Country Gardens - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9554)

    TRAD arr Wilby: The Farmer's Boy; Marianne, from Three North Country Folksongs - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1993-1994/Roger Stevenson (Private Recording)

    J STRAUSS II: Town and Country Polka Op 322 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

    KREISLER: Caprice viennois; Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)

    BOYCE: Ode for the New Year, Overture - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)

  • 7:00 PM. Appointment

    2010 Gramophone Awards

    Recording of the Year

    BYRD: Venite, exsultemus Domino; Domine, non sum dignus; Visita quaesumus, Domine; Domine, salva nos; Haec dies; Gaudeamus omnes; Timete Dominum; Iustorum animae; Beati mundo corde; Deo gratias; Afflicti pro peccatis nostris; Cantate Domino; Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes; Infelix ego - Cardinall's Musick/Andrew Carwood (Hyperion CDA 67779)

  • 8:00 PM. Music Alive

    Red Hot Holiday Stomp

    Stomp in the holidays New Orleans style! Wycliffe Gordon leads us Down by the Riverside, on Just a Closer Walk with Thee and in The Battle Hymn of the Rebublic. Featured performers are Eric Reed (pno), Reginald Veal (dbass), Alvin Atkinson (drums) and Damien Sneed (org) with the Crescent City Gospel Choir/Wycliffe Gordon (WFMT)

  • 9:00 PM. Ringing in the New

    ARNELL: Overture, The New Age Op 2 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton CDLX 7161)

    SANDSTRÖM: A New Heaven & A New Earth - Eric Ericson Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson (Phono Suecia PSCD 139)

    SUK: Towards a New Life, Festival March Op 20 - Los Angeles Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0624)

    BAINTON: And I saw a new Heaven - Auckland Cathedral Singers/James Tibbles, Matthew Harris (org) (Corellia COR 1007)

    CURTIS: Ring in the New - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2035)

    HANDEL: O sing unto the lord a new song - Choir of the Chapel Royal, Musicians Extra-ordinary/Andrew Grant (Naxos 8.557935)

    ZIEHRER: New Century, New Life Op 498 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)

  • 10:00 PM. Day's End

    RAMEAU: Pièces de clavecin en concerts No 3 - Christophe Rousset (hpschd), Ryo Terakado (vln), Kaori Uemura (vla da gamba) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1418)

    CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: A midsummer night's dream Op 108 - West Australian SO/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.572500)

    REISSIGER: Piano Trio No 15 in G Op 164 - Trio Art Nouveau (Hungaroton HCD 32488)

    11:00 NIETZSCHE: Eine Sylvesternacht - Nicholas Eanet (vln), John Bell Young (pno) (Newport Classic NPD 85535)

    TOURNIER: Harp Sonatina Op 30 - Erica Goodman (harp) (BIS CD 319)

    HUMMEL: Grande Serenade in C Op 66 - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1344)

    CLEMENT SCOTT arr Farquhar: Now is the Hour - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

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