Wednesday 11 December 2013 Rāapa 11 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  DVORÁK: Legends Op 59; JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta - Bamberg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 436)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15; TCHAIKOVSKY: Album for the Young; DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.550885)

  2:10 approx - Disc 3

  VIVALDI: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630; Concerto in D minor RV128; All'ombra di sospetto RV678; Cello Sonata in Bb RV45; Lungi dal vago volto RV680; Concerto in G for flute & strings RV436; Longe mala, umbrae, terrores RV629 - Patrice Michaels Bedi (sop), Chicago Baroque Ensemble (Cedille CDR 90000 025)

  3:30 approx - Disc 4

  JENKINS: The bell Pavan; Fantasies, Nos 4-7; In Nomine No 1; Fantasies, Nos 1-3; Pavan No 2; Fantasies, Nos 8-9; No 11; No 10; In Nomine No 2 - Hesperion XX (Astrée Auvidis E 8724)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, excerpts; Gayaneh, excerpts; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts - Vienna Phil/Aram Khachaturian, Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 417 737)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 KRAUS reconstr Boer: Pantomime in G - Swedish CO/Petter Sundkvist (Naxos 8.557498)

  TURINA: Gypsy Dances Op 55 - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

  BIZET arr Grafe: Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante; Près des remparts de Séville, from Carmen - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Jan Tawroszewicz (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  SVENDSEN: Polonaise No 2 in D Op 28 - Danish National Radio SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Chandos CHAN 9932)

  7:00 PEERSON: Blow out the trumpet in Sion - Choir of St Paul's Cathedral/John Scott, Andrew Lucas (organ) (Helios CDH 55463)

  NIELSEN: Helios Overture - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)

  BELLINI arr Smedvig: Second movement, Allegro, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb - Rolf Smedvig (tpt), Scottish CO/Jahja Ling (Telarc CD 80550)

  LISZT: Rhapsodie espagnole S254 - Polina Leschenko (pno) (EMI 5 62666)

  FALLA arr Dougherty: Pantomime, from El Amor Brujo - Sequeira Costa, Artur Pizarro (pno duo) (Collins 14662)

  SMETANA: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0624)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PAGANINI: Cantabile in D - Pekka Kuusisto (vln), Ismo Eskelinen (gtr) (Ondine ODE 1142)

  WAGNER: Prelude & Entry of the gods into Valhalla, from Das Rheingold - National SO, Washington/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 775)

  BACH arr Hess: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, from Cantata No 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67309)

  SCHUMANN trans Morris: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Craig Morris (tpt), Valentina Lisitsa (pno) (Naxos 8.572506)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Spring - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Closing Waltz, Grand Finale, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  MORTON GOULD (1913-1996)

  Lincoln Legend - Nashville SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559373-74)

  Soliloquy; Spring Song; Epilogue: The Sills of Evening, from Of Time & the River - New York Choral Society/John Daly Goodwin (Koch International 3-7380)

  Apple Waltzes - American SO/Morton Gould (RCA RCD1-5019)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - St Petersburg Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (Signum SIGCD 320)

  DVORÁK: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 - Kathryn Stott (pno), Skampa Quartet (Supraphon SU 3909)

  MOZART: Flute Concerto No 2 in D K314 - Jacques Zoon (fl), Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado (DG 477 9331)

  PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany - NZSO CO (RNZ)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Griffiths (Berlin Classics 0300426 BC)

  GRAINGER: Tribute to Foster - Jessica Aszodi (sop), Victoria Lambourn (mezzo), Ben Namdarian, Timothy Reynolds (tens), Nicholas Dinopoulos (bbar), Melbourne SO & Chorus/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5121)

  GOOSSENS: Two Nature Poems Op 25, Pastoral; Bacchanal - Melbourne SO/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5119)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  RACHMANINOV trans anon: How fair this spot Op 21/7; Oh no, I beg you, forsake me not Op 4/1 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt/flugelhorn), Vera Nakariakova (pno) (Teldec 0630 15687)

  A RITCHIE/GRIFFITHS: From the Southern Marches, Prelude; Act 1 introduction; Hai Willi Hi; Te Rauparaha's warning; Lament of Te Puoho's widow; A meeting of peoples - Deborah Wai Kapohe (sop), Jonathan Lemalu (bass), Iain Fraser (speaker), City of Dunedin Choir, Dunedin Sinfonia/Nicholas Braithwaite (Private)

  C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto No 11 in Eb - Sabine Meyer (cl), ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (EMI CDC 7 54842)

  BAX: Tintagel - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 231)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  LISZT: Valse-Caprice No 6; Petrarch Sonnet No 104 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (rec 1986) (DG 419 499)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Had I only known Op 47/1; The lights were being dimmed Op 63/5; Not a word, my friend Op 6/2; Can it be day? Op 47/6; Again, as before, alone Op 73/6 - Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (rec 2008) (Onyx 4034)

  BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No 1 Sz83 - Maurizio Pollini (pno), Chicago SO/Claudio Abbado (rec 1979) (DG 457 909)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  CARR: Seven Elizabethan Lyrics - Schola Polyphonica, New Zealand SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

  HURLSTONE: Trio in G minor for clarinet, bassoon & piano - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Musson (bsn), Stephen Emmerson (pno) (Continuum CCD 1079)

  PETIT: Concertino for organ, strings & percussion - Gillian Weir (organ of St Augustine's Chapel, Tonbridge School), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Linn CKD 178)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival, Overture - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 71467)

  GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

  CHOPIN: Polonaise in A Op 40/1, Military - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 421 032)

  SZYMANOWSKI: Caprice No 24, from Three Paganini Caprices Op 40 - Graf Mourja (vln), Natalia Gous (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1769)

  MONCAYO: Huapango - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

  6:00 BARNETT: The Mountain Sylph, Overture - Victorian Opera Orch/Richard Bonynge (Somm SOMMCD 0123)

  ROSSINI arr Liszt: La Pastorella dell'Alpi, from Soirées musicales - Jenö Jandó (pno) (Hungaroton HCD 12916)

  ANON arr Davis: Rise up Shepherd - King's Singers (NPR PT CD 0001)

  E HALFFTER: Dance of the Shepherdess, from Sonatina - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9059)

  CHILCOTT: The shepherd's carol - BBC Singers/Bob Chilcott (Signum SIGCD 100)

  DEBUSSY trans Prorvich: The little shepherd, from Children's Corner - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

  ROSSINI: La pastorella dell' Alpi, from Soirées musicales - Malvina Major (sop), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI 5 56724)

  A THOMAS: The shepherd's dream - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)

  FOSTER: While shepherds watched their flocks by night - Taverner Choir/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDC 7 54529)

  GALOS: Chant du Berger - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

  DOVE: Run, shepherds, run! - Wells Cathedral Choir, Wells Cathedral School Chapel Choir/Matthew Owens (Hyperion CDA 67768)

  GRAINGER: Shepherd's Hey! - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9549)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Tackling Tallis

  In October this year, the NZ Choral Federation engaged some of NZ's top choral singers to join the celebrated Tallis Scholars in performances of Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in alium. Christine Argyle spoke with the project director John Rosser, conductor Peter Phillips, and some of the singers to find out about the challenges and rewards of performing this complex work (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  The EBU Christmas Concerts

  Four programmes

  (2) Danú

  TRAD Irish: The Wexford Carol; Scartaglen slide; Hunters purse; Reconciliation; The Cameron Highlander; The Blachthorn stick; TRAD French: Angels we have heard on high; KAVANAGH: A Christmas Childhood; TRAD Irish: Peggy's nettles; Sully's jig; The mountain top; CLIFFORD: The Boys of Barr Na Sraide; TRAD Irish: The highest hill in Silgo Set; Polkas; HORN: Mrs Fogarty's Christmas Cake; TRAD Irish: Round the House Set; Apple in winter; The frost is all over; Coinnie N'Aingeal (The Candles of Angels); MCGUIRE: Sean McGuire's Reels; GRUBER: Oiche Chiuin (Silent Night); TRAD Irish: Bodhran Solo; The Contradiction Reel - Danú (recorded at Wait Chapel, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, America by USA Radio Minnesota)

• 9:35 PM. Emperor

  HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 76/3 - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 287)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ALBÉNIZ arr Feola: Sevilla; Granada; Cadiz, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Giuseppe Feola (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94047)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 22 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  IRELAND arr Ireland/Bush: A Downland Suite - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9376)

  11:00 FROLOV: Fantasy on Themes from Porgy & Bess - Haik Kazazyan (vln), Andrey Shibko (pno) (Delos DE 3384)

  TANEYEV: String Quartet No 7 in Eb - Carpe Diem String Quartet (Naxos 8.573010)

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