Saturday 23 November 2013 Rāhoroi 23 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Six programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (2) Metamorphosis

  James Paisible's farewell to a queen becomes a New Orleans stomp, and two of the best-known transformations: Vaughan Williams on Tallis and Hindemith on Weber (RNZ)

  1.00 approx - Disc 1

  YOUNG: Symphony; Virgen de la Esperanza; Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

  2.20 approx - Disc 2

  Arias from operas by PUCCINI; MASCAGNI; CATALANI; LEONCAVALLO; ZANDONAI: CILEA; GIORDANO - Renée Fleming (sop), with various other singers, Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 1533)

  3.30 approx - Disc 3

  Hau by Japanese ambient minimalist duo Opitope

  DATE/HATAKEYAMA: A White Cloth Falling From The Snow Branches; Goat's Horn; A Far Room; A Quiet Morning Arriving To The Valley; Bird Standing On The Fall; Coral Sand's Backside; Mist On The Sea; A Place Under The Paired Sal Tree - Tomoyoshi Date (electric gtr/pno/electronics), Chihei Hatakeyama (electric and acoustic gtr/pno/bass gtr/vibraphone/electronics) (SPEKK 672901)

  4.35 approx - Disc 4

  RÖDE: 24 Caprices in the form of Etudes (1-12) - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln) (CPO 777 129)

  5.10 approx - Disc 5

  J NOVACEK: Four Rags for two Jons; D'RIVERA: The Cape Cod Files; BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata; GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano; I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Jon Manasse (cl), Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7508)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CHERUBINI: Medea, Overture - CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Claves CD 50-9513)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D899/4 - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2115.16)

  LEHÁR arr Stoltzman: Vilja's Song, from The Merry Widow - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Phantasy Quintet - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67313)

  FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 475 8140)

  7:00 BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture Op 62 - Cologne Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 04052)

  MOZART: Second movement, Larghetto, from Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216 - Jan Talich (vln/dir), Talich CO (Calliope CAL 9365)

  LISZT: Au bord d'une source, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - André Laplante (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9980)

  B ORR: A Carmen Fantasy - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557613)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

  8:00 J RITCHIE: Suite No 1 for string orchestra - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Trust MMT 2040)

  BARTON PINE: Introduction, Theme & Variations on God defend New Zealand - Rachel Barton Pine (vln) (Cacophony)

  SOUSA: The Washington Post - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Evgeny Kissin (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 439 898)

  VERDI: Sicilian Vespers, Overture - Royal Phil/Tullio Serafin (Medici Arts MM 008)

• 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

  MENDELSSOHN ed Hogwood: Hebrides Overture - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 1525)

  CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 4, Oï ayaï; Pour l'enfant; Chut, chut; Pastorale; Lou Coucut - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (EMI CDC 7 47970)

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerto in A RV497 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn/dir), I Musici (Philips 416 355)

  BACH: French Suite No 4 in Eb BWV815 - Joanna MacGregor (pno) (SoundCircus SC 901)

  CHARLTON: Three Sentimental Scenes - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions CM 2)

  RASBACH: Trees - Oscar Natzka (bass), orchestral accompaniment/Walter Goehr (rec 1940) (Atoll ACD 400)

  SIMPSON: Symphony No 10 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66510)

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• 1:00 PM. Jazz Profiles

  Eleven programmes in which Nancy Wilson hosts the Peabody Award winning series chronicling the people, places and events in jazz, with a focus on legends and musical themes

  (6) Carla Bley and her reinventions of the Big Band (NPR)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

  Béla Fleck (banjo) - Throw down your heart: Africa Sessions

  A few years back, American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck went on a journey to Africa to explore the roots of the banjo and record an album. Today in Global Sounds we hear the results of his travels, from studio sessions with established stars such as Malian singer Oumou Sangare to outdoor recordings of the giant marimba with the Muwewesu Xylophone Group from Uganda (Rounder 610634)

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Miranda Adams (vln), Robert Ashworth (vla), NZTrio

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 57; PSATHAS: Piano Quintet; BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 (recorded in the Auckland Museum Auditorium by RNZ)

• 4:40 PM. All at Sea

  BRIDGE: The Sea - BBC National Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10012)

  DELIUS: Sea Drift - Bryn Terfel (bar), Bournemouth Symphony Chorus & Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9214)

  PAINE: Sea Suite - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

  BLOCH: Poems of the Sea - London SO/Dalia Atlas (Naxos 8.573241)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  SATIE arr anon: Gymnopédies - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

  TCHEREPNIN: Songs & Dances Op 84 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9770)

  LILBURN: Symphony No 2 - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  PURCELL: Oh! Lead me to some peaceful gloom, from Bonduca; O Solitude; Hark! Hark! the echoing air, from The Fairy Queen - Sylvia McNair (sop), Crispian Steele Perkins (tpt), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Philips 446 081)

  If music be the food of love; Sound the trumpet; Strike the viol, from Come ye Sons of Art away, Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694 - Andreas Scholl, Christophe Dumaux (countertenors), Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari (Decca 478 226)

  Sweeter than roses, from Pausanias; Fairest isle, from King Arthur; She that would gain a faithful lover; Cupid, the slyest rogue alive; I attempt from love's sickness to fly, from The Indian Queen - Sylvia McNair (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Philips 446 081)

  Here the deities approve, from Welcome to all the Pleasures, Ode for St Cecilia's Day; Music for a while, from Oedipus; O solitude, my sweetest choice; Now that the sun hath veil'd his light - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Accademia Bizantina/Stefano Montanari (Decca 478 226)

  O, let me weep, from The Fairy Queen - Sylvia McNair (sop), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Philips 446 081)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Auckland Arts Festival 2013

  Five programmes

  Whaka-aria Mai

  (5) Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), Christie Cook, Catherine Raeburn (mezzos), Bonaventure Allan-Moetaua (ten), Kawiti Waetford (bar), Robert Wiremu (pno)

  OFFENBACH: Hoea rā; He pō koea, from The Tales of Hoffmann; Taumaru ana, from Lakmé; PUCCINI: Kei te matua aroha, from Gianni Schicchi; TRAD: Rimurimu; BIZET: Me he pipiwharauroa te aroha; Te whakamānawa, from Carmen; TRAD: Tahiti He pūru taitama; ANON: Rona, Takoto ana au; DVORÁK: E hine e, I te kōmata o te rangi, from Rusalka; BIZET: I te tuarongo, from The Pearl Fishers; MELBOURNE: E tū kahikatea; PRINCESS TE RANGI PAI: Hine e Hine; SIMON: E rere te awa tupua; WIREMU: He Tawhiti kē tō koutou haerenga; PUCCINI: Kia hiwa rā, from Turandot; DI CAPUA: Tō waiwaiā; GERSHWIN: Arohaina mai, from The Goldwyn Follies; TOMOANA: E pari rā; TRAD: Whakaaria mai (recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 9:05 PM. Recent Russian Releases

  GLAZUNOV: Mazurka-oberek in D - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Swiss-Italian Orch/Alexander Vedernikov (Hyperion CDA 67940)

  RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 1 in D minor Op 13 - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.573234)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  WILD: Improvisation on Someone to watch over me - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10626)

  KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)

  ELGAR: Introduction & Allegro Op 47 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.191)

  11:00 RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS SACD 1828)

  DOHNÁNYI: String Quartet No 1 in A Op 7 - Aviv Quartet (Naxos 8.572569)

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