Friday 20 December 2013 Rāmere 20 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  DITTERSDORF: Sinfonias, No 4 in F, The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus; No 5 in A, Transformation of the Lycian Peasants to Frogs; No 6 in D, The Turning to Stone of Phineus and his Friends - Failoni Orch/Hanspeter Gmur (Naxos 8.553369)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  CHOPIN: Boléro Op 19; Mazurkas, No 20 in Db; No 25 in B minor; No 33 in B; No 34 in C; No 35 in C minor; in F minor Op posth 68/4; Ballade No 2 in F Op 38; Barcarolle in F# Op 60; Scherzo No 4 in E Op 54; Two Nocturnes Op 62 - Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS CD 673)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  COOK: Paean on 'Divinum Mysterium'; BINGHAM: Epiphany; HOWELLS; Here is the little door; WARLOCK: Bethlehem Down; BURGON: Nunc dimittis; RUTTER: Hymn to the Creator of Light - Robert Dixon, Timothy Lambourn (orgs), Rebecca Crawshaw (tpt), Olympia Hetherington, Emma Walton (sops), Frances Burn (contralto), Edward Leach (ten), Alexander Beetschen (bar), Matthew Smith (bass), Nico Bryan (treble), Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge/Mark Williams (dir) (Signum SIGCD 269)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No 9 in C, Razumovsky; String Quartet No 10 in Eb, Harp - Amadeus String Quartet (Decca 421 364)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  HEINICHEN: Concerto in F; DIEUPART: Concerto in A minor; FASCH: Concerto in D minor; PISENDEL: Sonata in C minor; HEINICHEN: Pastorale in A; QUANTZ: Concerto in G; VERACINI: Overture No 5 in B - Musica Antiqua, Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 447 644)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HEINICHEN: Concerto in G, from Dresden Concerti S217 - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 437 549)

  RUBINSTEIN: Two Melodies Op 3 - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos 8.570942)

  SCHUBERT arr Harris: Ave Maria D839 - Isaac Stern (vln), Columbia SO/Milton Katims (Sony SK 45816)

  TOURNIER: Suite for flute, harp & string trio Op 34 - Mirage Quintet (Naxos 8.570444)

  BERLIOZ: Hungarian March, from The Damnation of Faust - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  7:00 RUTTER: Nativity Carol - Polyphony, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67245)

  BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 193)

  HAYDN: Third movement, Finale, from Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (Simax PSC 1292)

  DEBUSSY trans Roelens: Clair de lune, from Suite Bergamasque - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Alexander Dedyukhin (pno) (EMI 5 72017)

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

  REYNOLDS: 1066 and All That, Suite & Ballet of the Roses - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Marco Polo 8.225184)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: BAERMANN attrib Wagner: Adagio in Db - Alfred Boskovsky (cl), members of the Vienna Octet (London 440 084)

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 1501)

  BRAHMS arr Joachim: Hungarian Dances, Vol 1 Book 2 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67663)

  WAGNER trans Liszt: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Niu Niu (pno) (EMI 7 25332)

  GLUCK: Menuet & Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Emmanuel Pahud, Juliette Hurel (fls), Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 4 57814)

  COATES: Covent Garden, from London Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Warner 2564 62020)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  GUSTAV HOLST (1874-1934)

  Christmas Day - Julia Doyle (sop), Lydia Challen (contralto), Julian Davies (ten), Simon Oberst (bar), City of London Choir, Bournemouth SO/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.572102)

  Toccata; Chrissemas Day in the Morning Op 46/1; O! I hae seen the roses blaw - York2 (pno duo) (Black Box BBM 1041)

  Lyric Movement for viola - Cecil Aronowitz (vla), English CO/Imogen Holst (Lyrita SRCD 223)

  Hammersmith Op 52 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9697)

  Brook Green Suite - English CO/Imogen Holst (Lyrita SRCD 223)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 17 in Bb K570 - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 253)

  BACH: Magnificat in D BWV243 - Nancy Argenta, Patrizia Kwella (sops), Charles Brett (countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), David Thomas (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 411 458)

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

  RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 44 - Detroit SO/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.573051)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  PLATTI: Cello Concerto in D - Sebastian Hess (cello), Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/Georg Kallweit (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 195 1996)

  SCHUMANN: Gesänge der Frühe Op 133 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Decca 478 5393)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Hyperion CDS 44301/5)

  HEAD: The little road to Bethlehem - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 308)

  YIN/CHU/SHENG/LIU: Yellow River Piano Concerto - Yundi Li (pno), China NCPA Concert Hall Orch/Chen Zuohuang (EMI 0 88658)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BORODIN: No sleep, no rest for my tormented soul, from Prince Igor - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (rec 1994) (DG 445 866)

  MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 9 in E minor Op 28 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (rel 2007) (Warner 2564 69689-8)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BODY: Rainforest - Bridget Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 709)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 3/3 - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)

  FAURÉ: Nocturne No 1 in Eb minor Op 33/1 - Richard Mapp (pno) (RNZ)

  MENDELSSOHN: Kyrie eleison; Heilig, heilig ist Gott der Herr Zebaoth - Auckland Dorian Choir/Peter Godfrey (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 109)

  MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 2, Hungarian Scenes - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  OFFENBACH arr Lehner: La Belle Hélène, Overture - Vienna SO/Bruno Weil (Sony SK 53288)

  DVORÁK: Romance in F minor Op 11 - Sarah Chang (vln), Berlin Phil/Plácido Domingo (EMI 5 57220)

  MARTIN Y COL: Variations on La Folia - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (castanets) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

  RAVEL: Jeux d'eau - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 307)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Character Dances, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

  6:00 ALWYN: Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570705)

  TRAD arr Childs: The seven joys of Mary - Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org) (TreeHouse T 0017)

  DEBUSSY: L'isle joyeuse - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  C ROBINSON: Make we joy - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha (Chandos CHSA 5096)

  BIBER: The Nativity, from The Five Joyful Mysteries - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7321.22)

  ANON arr Shoujounian: Joyous Light - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop) (CBC SMCD 5215)

  SETCHELL: Toccata on Joy to the World, from Three Piece Suite - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

  TRAD arr Cleobury: Joys Seven - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell, Robert Quinney (org) (Hyperion CDA 67716)

  COATES: Joyous Youth - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 9869)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Critic's Chair

  Dianne James looks at the recent release of the four Brahms Symphonies conducted by Riccardo Chailly (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno)

  STENHAMMAR: Flickan Knyter I Johannenatten; I Lönnens Skymning; Gammal Nederländare; GRIEG: Våren; Lauf der Welt; SIBELIUS: Under Strandens Granar Op 13/1; Vilse Op 17/4; Romance in A Op 24/2 (pno solo); SCHUBERT: An Sylvia D891; Gretchen am Spinnrade D118; LISZT: Es muss ein Wunderbares sein; Die Drei Ziguener; GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand (pno solo); The spring of time; The merry king; The British waterside; KORNGOLD: O mistress mine; Good man devil; Glückwunsch; SCHULHOFF: No 3, from Hot Music, 10 Syncopated Studies (pno solo); WEILL: One life to live, from Lady in the Dark; Speak low; I'm a stranger here myself, from One Touch of Venus; GRIEG: I love you; ANDERSSON: Light as a summer butterfly (recorded in the Auckland Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  CHOPIN: Variations in Bb on Là ci darem la mano Op 2 from Mozart's Don Giovanni - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (Nimbus NI 1748)

  GLIÈRE: Harp Concerto Op 74 - Osian Ellis (harp), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 430 006)

  WALTON: Music for Children - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

  11:00 DUSSEK: Trio in F for flute, cello & piano Op 65 - Clive Conway (fl), Christina Shillito (cello), Christine Croshaw (pno) (Meridian CDE 84383)

  BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Eros Roselli (gtr), La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 92892)

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