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Saturday 2 April 2011 Rāhoroi 2 Paenga-whāwhā 2011

  • 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

    Disc 1

    Night Music 3

    Works by Fauré, Tchaikovsky, B Marcello, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Haydn, Corelli, Mozart, Albinoni - Various Artists (Naxos 8.551123)

    1:15 approx - Disc 2

    DAVID: Piano Trios, No 3 in C minor; No 2 in D minor - Ilona Prunyi (pno), Eszter Perényi (vln), Tibor Párkányi (cello) (Marco Polo 8.223492)

    2:30 approx - Disc 3

    Stairway to Heaven

    Choral Works by Bach, Fauré, Messiaen, Poulenc, Stanford, Allegri, Mozart, Burgon, Schubert, Lassus, Victoria, Purcell, Barber - Choir of Trinity College/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605-51521)

    3:40 approx - Disc 4

    BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 21 in C Op 53, Waldstein; No 27 in E minor Op 90; No 14 in C# minor Op 27/2, Moonlight; No 13 in Eb Op 27/1 - Michael Houstoun (Trust MMT 2001/3)

    4:50 approx - Disc 5

    GRAINGER: Rustic Dance; Eastern Intermezzo; Colonial Song; Gay but Wistful; The Gum-sucker's March; LILBURN: Diversions for strings; DREYFUS: Serenade for small orchestra; BENJAMIN: North American Square Dance; COULTHARD: Excursion Ballet Suite - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC 2 5088)

  • 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

    6:00 PURCELL: Timon of Athens, Overture - Lautten Compagney/Wolfgang Katschner (dir) (Carus 83.435)

    SPOHR: Fantasia in C minor Op 35 - Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 446 064)

    J STRAUSS II: Wine, Women & Song - London SO/John Georgiadis (IMP PCD 902)

    DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Pavel Gililov (pno) (DG 477 7465)

    MCLEOD: The Skye Boat Song - Royal Scottish National Chorus & Orch/Alexander Gibson (ASV White Line CD WHL 2087)

    B TCHAIKOVSKY: The Murmuring Forest, Suite - Saratov Conservatory SO/Kirill Ershov (Naxos 8.570195)

    7:00 LEHÀR: Resignation, from Das Fürstenkind - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

    VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in D minor RV63, La Follia - Christopher Hogwood (hpschd), L'Arte dell'Arco (DHM 88697 30309)

    RAVEL: La Valse - London SO/Pierre Monteux (Decca 475 7798)

    VILLA-LOBOS: Twelve Etudes, Nos 1-6 - Frank Bungarten (gtr) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 905 1629)

    OFFENBACH arr Haensch: La Belle Hélène, Overture - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 425 083)

    8:00 ROSSINI arr Demersseman/Berthélèmy/Gallois: Fantasy on William Tell - Patrick Gallois (fl), Malcolm Messiter (ob), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

    KREISLER: Liebesfreud; Caprice viennois - Yossif Ivanov (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Naïve AM 136)

    CURTIS: A Festival Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2085)

    SAINT-SAËNS: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 - Christopher Millard (bsn), Stéphane Lemelin (pno) (Naxos 8.570964)

    LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor S359 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

  • 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

    BRUCH: Serenade Op 75 - Maxim Fedotov (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557395)

    BRITTEN: Canticle No 2, Abraham & Isaac - John Hahessy (alto), Peter Pears (ten), Benjamin Britten (pno) (London 425 716)

    GLAZUNOV: Elegy in G minor Op 44 - Felix Schwartz (vla), Wolfgang Kühnl (pno) (Glissando 779 017)

    KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Julius Rudel (EMI 5 56417)

    MURRILL: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis, from Evening Service in E - Choir of St George's Cathedral, Perth/Simon Lawford, Daniel Hyde (org) (ABC Classics 465 689)

    BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 - Bremen German Chamber Phil/Paavo Järvi (RCA 88697 21418)

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  • 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

    Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

    (5) Special Guest

    Twenty years ago Brian Smith was one of the first studio guests. Brian rejoins Phil Broadhurst with his selections and take on the current jazz scene (RNZ)

  • 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

    Indigenous music from around the world

    Traditional music from Norway

    White Night: impressions of Norwegian folk music

    Grete Pedersen conducts The Norwegian Soloists' Choir in a selection of folk music from Norway. The choir's joined by fiddle player Gjermund Larsen and folk singer Berit Opheim Versto (BIS SACD 1871)

    Rammeslag

    Daniel Sandén-Warg and Sigurd Brokke play music from the Setesdal region, on the hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle) and munnharpe (Jew's harp) (Etnisk Musikklub EM29)

  • 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

    2009 Chamber Music New Zealand Contest

    National Final

    Two programmes

    (1) GAO PING: First & Second movements, from Enchanted Hands - From Belljung

    SMETANA: First movement, Moderato assai, from Piano Trio in G minor Op 15; PSATHAS: Third movement, With extreme energy, from Island Songs - Psyrtos

    ARENSKY: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Piano Trio in D minor Op 32; FARR: Second movement, Scherzo, from Ahi - Apasionados

    GOLDSTEIN: Blow! - The Knight Quartet (recorded in the James Hay Theatre, Christchurch by RNZ)

  • 4:00 PM. Back to Bach

    BACH arr Schoenberg: Prelude & Fugue in Eb BWV552, St Anne - South West German Radio SO/Michael Gielen (Hänssler CD 93.058)

    arr Koopman: Erbarme dich, from St Matthew Passion - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Sony SK 60680)

    arr Markevitch: Trio Sonata in C BWV1037, from A Musical Offering - Hans van Loenen (fl), Rémy Baudet (vln), Jeroen Reuling (cello), Dirk Luijmes (hpschd), Arnhem Phil/Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Naxos 8.572158)

    arr Elms: Back to Bach, arrangements of the Sinfonias from Cantatas 29 & 156, & the Fugue in G BWV577 - Roderick Elms (pno), Royal Phil/Stephen Bell (Dutton CDLX 7175)

  • 5:00 PM. Forward to Fauré

    FAURÉ: Impromptu in Db Op 86 - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

    Piano Quartet No 2 in G minor Op 45 - Domus (Hyperion CDA 66166)

    Allegro symphonique - Le Mans SO/José-André Gendille (Skarbo DSK 3921)

  • 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

    NZ musicians and composers

    RUBINSTEIN: Three Pieces for cello & piano Op 11/2 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (pno) (RNZ)

    WAXMAN: Rhapsody for piano & orchestra, from the film, The Paradine Case - David Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

    HILL: Symphony No 4 in C minor, The Pursuit of Happiness - Melbourne SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.220345)

  • 7:00 PM. Vocalied

    WAGNER: Wesendonk Lieder - Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), Kevin Murphy (pno) (EMI CDZ 5 73163)

    MAHLER: Songs of a Wayfarer - Thomas Quasthoff (bbar), Vienna Phil/Pierre Boulez (DG 477 5329)

    BERG: Seven early songs - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 437 515)

  • 8:00 PM. Music Alive

    The Zukerman Experience

    Pinchas Zukerman (vln), New Zealand SO/James Judd ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61; Symphony No 2 in Eb Op 63 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

  • 10:00 PM. Day's End

    SNELL: Lyric Sonata - Skaila Kanga (harp), Karen Jones (fl), Judith Busbridge (vla) (Divine Art DDV 24130)

    RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 2 - Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 419 868)

    GRIEG orch Sitt: Norwegian Dances Op 35 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557854)

    11:00 MYASKOVSKY: String Quartet No 13 in A minor Op 86 - Kopelman Quartet (Nimbus NI 5827)

    SCHUMANN: Album Leaves Op 124 - Dénes Várjon (pno) (Naxos 8.550849)

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