Thursday 29 September 2011 Rāpare 29 Mahuru 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Cakewalk Ballet; PISTON: The Incredible Flutist - Louisville Orch/Akira Endo, Jorge Mester (Albany TROY 016)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  BEETHOVEN: Razumovsky Quartets Op 59/2 & 3 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 402)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  RODRIGO: Christmas carols and songs; Hymns of the Neophytes of Qumran; Music for the Salamancan Codex; Canticle of St Francis of Assisi - Raquel Lojendio, María Jesús Prieto, Victoria Marchante, Ada Allende (sops), David Rubiera (bar), Orch and Chorus of the Comunidad de Madrid/José Ramón Encinar (Naxos 8.557223)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  DEBUSSY: La boîte à joujoux; Etudes Vol 1 & 2 - Jörg Demus (pno) (Amadeo 423 277)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves; HOLST: St Paul's Suite Op 29/2; WARLOCK: Capriol Suite; BRITTEN: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Op 10 - Margaret Campbell, Collin Lilley (fls), Audrey Douglas (harp), English String Orch/William Broughton (Nimbus NI 5213)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 WALTON: Façade Suite No 2, Fanfare; Scotch Rhapsody; Country Dance; Noche Espagnola; Popular Song; Old Sir Faulk - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

  M ALBÉNIZ: Keyboard Sonata in D - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 417 639)

  VIVALDI ed John Walsh, London 1728: Violin Concerto in A minor RV357, La Stravaganza Op 4/1 - Fabio Biondi (vln/dir), Europa Galante (Virgin 5 19300)

  BRITTEN: Hymn to St Cecilia Op 27 - Girl Choristers & Lay Clerks of Winchester Cathedral/Sarah Baldock (Griffin GCCD 4049)

  HANDEL: Concerto No 3 in F for two wind choirs - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (dir) (L'Oiseau-Lyre 411 721)

  7:00 WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

  FOSTER arr Ash: Jeannie with the light brown hair - Matthew Trusler (vln), Düsseldorf SO/Yasuo Shinozaki (Orchid Classics ORC 100005)

  PONCE trans Ramos: Mexican Scherzo - John Williams (gtr) (Sony MLK 66704)

  SCHUMANN: Novelettes Op 21, excerpts, No 1 in F; No 2 in D - Harold Bauer (pno roll) (Nimbus NI 8817)

  STRAUSS arr anon: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier (second sequence) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Herbert Blomstedt (Decca 475 6550)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: KORNGOLD: Ich ging zu ihm, from Das Wunder der Heliane - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

  JANÁCEK: The Cunning Little Vixen, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 4058)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/1 - Andrea Lucchesini (pno) (Avie AV 2179)

  JOPLIN arr Perlman: The Easy Winners - Leila Josefowicz (vln), John Novacek (pno) (Philips 462 948)

  CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Alexis Weissenberg (pno), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (EMI 5 00906)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - South West German Radio Orch/Jirí Stárek (Hänssler CD 93.187)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  JOHN RITCHIE (b1921)

  Fourteen Christmas Cards - Jubilate Singers, Jubilate Chamber Orchestra/John Pattinson (Jubilate JUB 001)

  Turkey in the Straw - Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi SLD 2)

  Album Leaves - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  Missa in sanctissimi Pauli apostoli honorem - Jubilate Singers/John Pattinson (Jubilate JUB 001)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  PRAETORIUS: Dances from Terpsichore - Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow (EMI 5 69555)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 33 in C minor HobXVI/20 - Andrew Rangell (pno) (Bridge 9313)

  TARTINI: Violin Concerto in A D96 - Salvatore Accardo (vln), I Musici (PentaTone PTC 5186 137)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 470 643)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Off to the Hootenanny

  COPLAND: Hoedown, from Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

  BENJAMIN: North American Square Dance Suite for two pianos & orchestra - Joshua Pierce, Dorothy Jonas (pno duo), Slovak Radio SO/Kirk Trevor (Helicon KL 5129)

  McFERRIN: Hoedown! - Bobby McFerrin (vocal), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 48177)

  ADAMS: Hoe-down (Mad Cow) from Gnarly Buttons - Michael Collins (cl), London Sinfonietta/John Adams (Nonesuch 7559 79465)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  MEYER/BUSH/MARSHALL: Maybe So - Joshua Bell (vln), Edgar Meyer (dbass), Sam Bush (mandolin), Mike Marshall (gtr) (Sony 88697 55436)

  BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été - Véronique Gens (sop), Lyon National Opera Orch/Louis Langrée (Virgin 5 45422)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110 - Jerusalem String Quartet (BBC Music MM 95)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17, Little Russian; Capriccio Italien - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (rec 1985) (Chandos CHAN 8460)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  POULENC: Flute Sonata - Amanda Hollins (fl), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 902)

  FARR: Tawhirimatea - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

  BROUWER: Variations on a theme of Django Reinhardt - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 01CD)

  PSATHAS: View from Olympus - Pedro Carneiro (perc), Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  VERDI: A Masked Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Philips 411 469)

  LITOLFF: Second movement, Scherzo, from Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor Op 102 - Misha Dichter (pno), Philharmonia/Neville Marriner (Philips 411 123)

  PABST: Paraphrase on Sleeping Beauty, after Tchaikovsky - Earl Wild (pno) (Sony SK 62036)

  BANTOCK: Two Irish Folksongs, Arranmore; Emer's Lament for Cuchulain - Elysian Singers/Sam Laughton (Meridian CDE 84570)

  J STRAUSS II: Thunder & Lightning Polka; J STRAUSS II/Joseph STRAUSS: Pizzicato Polka; J STRAUSS II: Memories of Covent Garden - Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green (Black Box BBM 1059)

  CURTIS: Torna a Surriento - José Carreras (ten), English CO/Edoardo Müller (Philips 462 892)

  TOWER: Fanfare No 1 for the Uncommon Woman - Colorado SO/Marin Alsop (Koch International 3-7469)

  SMYTH: The March of the Women - Janis Hardy (mezzo), Plymouth Festival Chorus & Orch/Philip Brunelle (Virgin VC 7 91188)

  GERSHWIN: Bess, you is my woman now, from Porgy & Bess - Inia Te Wiata (bass), Isabelle Lucas (sop), London Studio Orch (Atoll ACD 507)

  SMETANA: The Peasant Woman - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

  PÄRT: The Woman with the Alabaster Box - Cantillation/Antony Walker (ABC Classics 465 824)

  SUPPÉ arr Waldenmaier: Florence has beautiful women, from Boccaccio - Raphaele Concert Orch/Peter Walden (Mozart MECD 1002)

  GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wine, Women & Song - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67626)

  SONDHEIM arr Tunick: Pretty woman, from Sweeney Todd - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Paul Gemignani (Decca 473 250)

  LEHÁR: Viennese Women, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Teldec 8.43240)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Words & Music

  Five programmes in which Brian Kay explores some favourite territory displaying the words and music in perfect combination

  (5) Flanders & Swann (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  BBC Proms 2011

  18 programmes

  (4) Maria João Pires (pno), Tonhalle Orch, Zurich/David Zinman

  HILLBORG: Cold Heat; MOZART: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (recorded in the Royal Albert Hall, London by the BBC)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  PURCELL: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary - Academy of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 3 44438)

  REINECKE: Romance in A minor Op 155 - Ingolf Turban (vln), Bern SO/Johannes Moesus (CPO 777 105)

  LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 5 in E minor - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 432 015)

  11:00 FRANCAIX: Quartet for cor anglais, violin, viola & cello - Lajos Lencsés (cor anglais), members of Parisii Quartet (CPO 999 779)

  DVORÁK: Cypresses - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 4048)

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