Wednesday 7 March 2012 Rāapa 7 Poutū-te-rangi 2012

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 2 in Bb D125; Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509-91184)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphonie No 5 Op 42/1; FRANCK: Prélude, fugue et variation Op 18; MESSIAEN: Transports de joie; VIERNE: Berceuse Op 31/19; ALAIN: Litanies; DURUFLÉ: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d' Alain Op 7; Prélude; Fugue; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie in Eb; FRANCK: Choral No 3 in A minor; LANGLAIS: Prélude modal; VIERNE: Symphonie No 1 Op 14, Finale - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  Great Opera Quintets & Sextets

  Quintets & Sextets from Cosi fan tutte, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Lakmé, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, Anna Bolena, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Le nozze di Figaro, Macbeth & Lucia di Lamermoor - Various artists (Decca 448 061)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2, Razumovsky; String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp - Borodin Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10191)

  5:00 approx - Disc 5

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concertos, in F RV485; in Bb RV503; in Eb RV483; in A minor RV497; in C RV473; in G RV492 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (Philips 416 355)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 L MOZART: Symphony in F, Eisen F6 - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 144)

  PLATTI: Oboe Concerto in G minor - Albrecht Mayer (ob/dir), New Seasons Ensemble (Decca 478 0313)

  VERDI: Gloria all'Egitto, from Aida - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

  KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; RACHMANINOV: Melodie Op 3/3 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

  ALBÉNIZ orch Arbós: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80703)

  7:00 PROKOFIEV: Overture on Hebrew Themes - Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov (RCA RD 60370)

  SIBELIUS: Theme & Variations in C# minor - Tempera Quartet (BIS CD 1376)

  SARASATE orch Blech: Zortzico Op 39 - Gil Shaham (vln), Castile & León SO/Alejandro Posada (Canary Classics CC 07)

  LOVREGLIO: Fantasia on Verdi's La Traviata - Mark Walton (cl), Paul Bateman (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 001)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (Sony SK 53979)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: CHOPIN: Mazurka in F minor Op 68/4 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 466 357)

  CASTRO: Intermezzo, from Atzimba - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO arr Fung: Figaro after Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Yuli Turovsky (cello/dir), I Musici de Montréal (Chandos CHAN 9973)

  MUSSORGSKY arr Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on Bare Mountain - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60705)

  CORBETTA: Suite in G - William Carter (gtr) (Linn CKD 185)

  JC BACH: Sinfonia No 6 in Bb - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 0434)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)

  Rhapsody for alto saxophone & orchestra - Theodore Kerkezos (sax), London SO/Yuri Simonov (Onyx 4065)

  Pour le Piano - Roberta Rust (pno) (Centaur CRC 2867)

  DEBUSSY: La Mer - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 439 896)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  CHERUBINI: String Quartet No 1 in Eb - Hausmusik (CPO 999 949)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 101 in D, The Clock - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5176)

  GADE: Violin Sonata No 3 in Bb Op 59 - Christina Åstrand (vln), Per Salo (pno) (Dacapo 8.226066)

  KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto in Db - Boris Berezovsky (pno), Ural Phil/Dmitri Liss (Warner 2564 63074)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Some Quiet Time

  BARRY: The Day the Earth Fell Silent - English CO/John Barry (London 460 009)

  DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (CBS MK 42206)

  HANDEL: Silent Worship, from Ptolemy - Kenneth McKellar (ten), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Adrian Boult (Decca 425 851)

  PIGOVAT: Silent Music - Donald Maurice (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 114)

  REGER: Silence, from Three Six-part Choruses Op 39 - Consortium/Andrew-John Smith (Hyperion CDA 67762)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 22 in F Op 54 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2002)

  HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O Euchari - Emily van Evera (sop) (Hyperion CDA 66039)

  PUCCINI arr Pritchard/Prior: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Jonathan Pritchard (vln), Rowan Prior (cello) (Ode CD Ode 1363)

  MOZART: Ave verum corpus K618 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Silas Standage (org) (Conifer 75605 51521)

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue No 17 in Ab BWV862, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - John Wells (organ of St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland) (Ribbonwood RCD 1007)

  GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 459 146)

  HILL: String Quartet No 2 in G minor, A Maori Legend in Four Scenes - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished - Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado (rec 1988) (DG 423 655)

  GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 - Leon Fleisher (pno), Cleveland Orch/George Szell (rec 1960) (Sony SK 92751)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ musicians and composers

  RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Rustem Hayroudinoff (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10095)

  WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  LISZT: Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Ihr Auge; Was Liebe sei?; Kling leise, mein Lied - Keith Lewis (ten), David Harper (pno) (Trust TRI 3002)

  ROSSINI: La promessa; L'invito, from Soirées musicales - Patricia Wright (sop), David Vine (pno) (Atoll A 9803)

  MCLEOD: Three Celebrations - New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572671)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (BBC Legends BBCL 4039)

  FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo - Angèle Dubeau (vln), La Pietà (Analekta AN 2 8723)

  GLAZUNOV: Grand Concert Waltz Op 41 - Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66833)

  PAGANINI arr Cello Duello: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Cello Duello (Solo Musica SM 146)

  J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

  GULIYEV: Gaytagi, Dance for piano & orchestra - Farhad Badalbeyli (pno), Royal Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.572666)

  BADALBEYLI: Shusha - Joan Rodgers (sop), Royal Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.572666)

  AMIROV/NAZIROVA: Third movement, from Piano Concerto after Arabian themes - Farhad Badalbeyli (pno), Royal Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.572666)

  TANSMAN: Variations on a Theme of Scriabin - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572390)

  REVUELTAS: Sensemayá - Amsterdam Ebony Band/Werner Herbers (Channel Classics CCS SA 21104)

  BRAHMS: Five Songs Op 106 - Andreas Schmidt (bar), Helmut Deutsch (pno) (CPO 999 840)

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - Philippe Quint (vln), Mineria SO/Carlos Miguel Prieto (Naxos 8.570791)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Reith Lectures

  Five programmes

  (5) In the final Reith lecture for 2011, the former Director General of MI5, the British Security Service discusses policy priorities since 9/11. Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller reflects on the Arab Uprising, and argues that the West's support of authoritarian regimes did, to some extent, fuel the growth of Al-Qaeda. The lecture also considers when we should talk to "terrorists" (BBC)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Music for Film

  Four programmes

  (1) Lucie Fiser-Silkenová (sop), Josef Zednik (ten), Tatána Roskovcová, Petr Opava (vocalists), Jan Kalfus (org), Prague Philharmonic Chorus, Prague Radio SO/Stanislav Vavrínek

  FISER: Medley from the music to the films, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians; Granny; Watch out, you have a visit; Golden Eels; The Train of Childhood and Hope; Death of the Beautiful Deer; STERNWALD: The Distant Journey, medley; LISKA: Medley from the music to the films, There at the End of the Line; Smoke on the Potato Fields; The Cremator; Marketa; Death Goes by the Name of Engelchen; HAVELKA: Medley from the music to the films, Marecek, pass me the pen!; The Ear; You are a widower, Sir; The End of Agent W4C; When the cat comes (recorded in the Dvorák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague by Czech Radio)

• 9:20 PM. Frederick the Great's Band

  F BENDA: Violin Sonata No 23 in C minor - Hans-Joachim Berg (vln), Naoko Akutagawa (hpschd) (Naxos 8.572307)

  QUANTZ: Flute Concerto in E minor - Neil McLaren (fl), Cambridge Baroque Camerata/Jonathan Hellyer Jones (Saydisc CD SAR 52)

  CPE BACH: Symphony in G Wq183/4 - Salzburg Chamber Phil/Yoon K Lee (Naxos 8.553289)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BRIDGE: Enter Spring - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7528)

  TURINA: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

  STRAVINSKY: The Firebird, Suite - Bavarian Radio SO/Lorin Maazel (BR Media 900 706)

  11:00 DELIUS: Violin Sonata in B Op posth - Susanne Stanzeleit (vln), Gusztáv Fenyo (pno) (Naxos 8.572261)

  WEBER: Piano Sonata No 2 in Ab Op 39 - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 357)

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