Thursday 29 December 2011 Rāpare 29 Hakihea 2011

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  LILBURN: Overture, Aotearoa; Allegro for Strings; Concert Overture in D; Introduction and Allegro; Four Canzonas; Diversions for Strings; Festival Overture - NZSO/John Hopkins, Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  Sing in Exultation

  GAUNTLETT: Once in royal David's city; GRUBER: Silent Night (Po Marie); TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: O little town of Bethlehem; HEAD: The little road to Bethlehem; ANON arr Praetorius: Est ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; MADDEN: I sing of a maiden; ADAM arr Rutter: O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël); DARKE: In the bleak mid-winter; BASQUE arr Willcocks: The infant King; ANON arr Willcocks: Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?; MACKY arr Hamilton: Te Harinui; RUTTER: Candlelight carol; TRAD arr Jacques: Good King Wenceslas; ANON: Ding dong! merrily on high; WADE arr Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful; GANNON/KENT arr Huff: I'll be home for Christmas; PIERPOINT: Jingle Bells; GARDNER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day; SWEELINCK: Hodie Christus natus est - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 PARRY: Elegy for Brahms - London Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 6610)

  BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (Philips 422 268)

  VIVALDI: Chamber Concerto in G, Alla rustica RV151 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Rudolf Baumgartner (Decca 443 768)

  FALLA trans Maréchal/Liobet: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Màrquez (gtr) (Naïve V 5182)

  ROSSINI: Variations in C for clarinet, string quartet & orchestra - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 27708)

  7:00 ASTON: Tidings, tidings that be true - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Fulcher, Richard Apperley (org) (Raven OAR 924)

  OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne, Overture - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI 5 65054)

  L BOULANGER: D'un Matin de Printemps - Christine Hankin (fl), Timothy Murray (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7193)

  SARASATE: Navarra Op 33 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572275)

  TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 84 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

  DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Danse, Tarentelle Styrienne - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (ATMA SACD 2 2377)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: KORNGOLD: Ich soll ihn niemals, from Die Kathrin - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

  PROKOFIEV: Folk Dance, from Romeo & Juliet - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8368)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 6 in F Op 10/2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2012)

  SAINT-SAËNS arr Setchell: Elephant, from Carnival of the Animals; LANGLAIS: Cats, from American Suite - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 603)

  A MARCELLO: Concerto No 1 in D, from La Cetra - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 0563)

  ADAM: If I were king, Overture - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 332)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  PIERNÉ: The Children at Bethlehem

  The Star........................ Jocelyne Chamonin

  The Holy Virgin............. Hanna Schaer

  Jeannette....................... Norah Amsellem

  Nicolas......................... Raphaëlle Hazard

  Lubin............................ Daphné Kupperstein

  The Donkey.................. Jean-Claude Orliac

  The Ox/Herdsman/

  A heavenly voice........... Jean-Marie Fremeau

  French Radio Philharmonic & Children's Choir/Michel Lasserre de Rozel, Paul-Emile Deiber (narrator), Georges Delvallee (org) (Erato 2292 45008)

• 10:05 AM. The Works

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C BWV1066 - Concerto Cologne/Werner Matzke (dir) (Berlin Classics 030 0061 BC)

  FARRENC: Nonet in Eb Op 38 - Philippe Bernold (fl), François Leleux (ob), Romain Guyot (cl), André Cazalet (horn), Gilbert Audin (bsn), Guillaume Sutre (vln), Miguel da Silva (vla), François Salque (cello), Vincent Pasquier (dbass) (Naïve V 5033)

  AURIC: La Pastorale - German Radio Phil/Christoph Poppen (Hänssler CD 93.265)

  COWEN: Concertstück - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67837)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Words and Music

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

  (4) Noel Coward (RNZ)

• 1:10 PM. London Pride

  WILLIAMSON: Travel Diaries, London - Antony Gray (pno) (ABC 472 902)

  GUNNING: Saxophone Concerto, On Hungerford Bridge - John Harle (sax), ASMF/Christopher Gunning (ASV CD WHL 2138)

  COATES: London Suite - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9869)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  JANÁCEK: Idyll for String Orchestra - Norwegian CO/Iona Brown (Chandos CHAN 9816)

  A RITCHIE: Brass Quintet - NZ Chamber Brass (Private Recording)

  MONTSALVATGE: Lullaby for a black baby, from Five Negro Songs - Elina Garanca (mezzo), RAI National Orch/Karel Mark Chichon (DG 477 8776)

  SKEMPTON: Lento - BBC SO/Mark Wigglesworth (NMC D 032)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  LISZT: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb - Lazar Berman (pno), Turin RAI Orch/Peter Maag (rec 1976) (Arts Archives 43041)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dances Op 72 - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (rec 1985) (Supraphon 11 0081)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  BODY: Three Transcriptions - New Zealand String Quartet (Rattle RAT D009)

  PONCE: Three Popular Mexican Songs - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private Recording)

  KRAUS: Violin Concerto in C VB151 - Takako Nishizaki (vln), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570334)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BIZET: Patrie, Overture - Melbourne SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 456 669)

  VIVALDI: Recorder Concerto in C RV443 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (pic), French National Orch/Jean-Pierre Rampal (Calliope CAL 3630)

  GRANADOS arr Zabaleta: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9059)

  CATALANI: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana - Maria Chiara (sop), National Phil/Kurt Herbert Adler (Decca 421 397)

  WAGNER arr Singer: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Prelude - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5143)

  J STRAUSS I: Radetzky March - Vienna Phil/Seiji Ozawa (Decca 473 168)

  SIBELIUS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 69a - Ida Haendel (vln), Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund (EMI 5 74200)

  WINKLER: Two Pieces Op 31, Méditation élégiaque; La toupie: scène d'enfant - Eliesha Nelson (vla), Glen Inanga (pno) (Sono Luminus DSL 92136)

  FRANCK: Chorale No 3 in A minor - Marcel Dupré (organ of St Thomas' Church, New York) (Mercury 434 311)

  J NOVACEK: Four Rags for two Jons, Schenectady; 4th Street Drag; Recuperation; Full Stride Ahead - Jon Manasse (cl), Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7508)

  CURTIS: Five Dances for String Orchestra, Waltz; Ecossaise; Minuet; Marching Polka; Bergamasque - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2055)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  In Memoriam

  Marking musicians on CD who have passed on this year

  (2) LISZT: Transcendental Study No 3 in G# minor after Paganini, La Campanella - Nikolai Petrov (pno) (Olympia OCD 144)

  VERDI: Forse la soglia attinse, from A Masked Ball - Salvatore Licitra (ten), Mary Plazas (sop), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony SK 89923)

  MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture - BBC Northern SO/Kurt Sanderling (BBC Legends BBCL 4248)

  LEONCAVALLO: Si può? from I Pagliacci - Ingvar Wixell (bar), National Phil/Giuseppe Patanè (Decca 421 870)

  WAGNER: Parsifal, excerpt from Act III Scene 1 - Donald McIntyre (bbar), Christopher Doig (ten), New Zealand SO/Heinz Wallberg (Manu CD MANU 1317)

  STRAUSS: September, from Four Last Songs - Sena Jurinac (sop), BBC SO/Malcolm Sargent (rec 1961 (BBC BBCL 4107)

  REICHARDT: Sleep my child - Montserrat Figueras (sop), Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9826)

  GARDNER: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day - Andrew MacMillan (org), Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Philip Walsh (Herald HAVPCD 224)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Kristian Winther (vln), Auckland Philharmonia/Brett Dean

  BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81; DEAN: Violin Concerto, The Lost Art of Letter Writing; HARRIS: Symphony No 4, To the Memory of Mahinarangi Tocker (première performance) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:35 PM. Relique

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840 - Michael Endres (pno) (Capriccio 10 717)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 2 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 444 995)

  STENHAMMAR: Serenade in F Op 31 - Gävle SO/Hannu Koivula (Naxos 8.572186)

  11:00 REICHA: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 89 - Charles Neidich (cl), L'Archibudelli (Sony SK 57968)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 20/2 - London Haydn Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67877)

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