Tuesday 31 December 2013 Rātū 31 Hakihea 2013

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphonies, No 2 in Bb D125; 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; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie in Eb; FRANCK: Choral No 3 in A minor; LANGLAIS: Prélude modal; VIERNE: Finale, from Symphonie No 1 Op 14 - 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 Nuremberg, Le nozze di Figaro, Macbeth & Lucia di Lamermoor - Various artists (Decca 448 061)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartets, in E minor Op 59 No 2, Razumovsky; 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 GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - NZSO CO (RNZ)

  TALLIS: Spem in alium - Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell CDGIM 207)

  HUMMEL: La contemplazione Op 107/3 - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

  WOLF-FERRARI: The Little Square, Suite - Royal Phil/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 861)

  KREISLER: Caprice viennois; Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)

  7:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

  SOR: Fantasy in D on a favourite Scottish Air Op 40, Variations on Ye banks & braes - Göran Söllscher (gtr) (DG 419 247)

  HANSON: Serenade - Alexa Still (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp), NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7063)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1362)

  BAX: The Happy Forest - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: FAURÉ: Pie Jesu, from Requiem Op 48 - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), London Phil/Ion Marin (Decca 466 102)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: May Night, Overture - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553858)

  ALBÉNIZ: Rondeña, from Iberia Book 2 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 417 887)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in Ab Op 72/8 - Royal Phil/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 749)

  HANDEL: Violin Sonata in A HWV361 - Riccardo Minasi (vln), Marco Ceccato (cello), Giulia Nuti (hpschd), Luca Pianca (archlute) (DHM 88697 70531)

  GLAZUNOV: The Seasons, Autumn - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 6511)

• 9:00 AM. Christmastide

  FINZI: New Year Music - Bournemouth SO/David Hill (Naxos 8.570417)

  NIETZSCHE: Eine Sylvesternacht - Nicholas Eanet (vln), John Bell Young (pno) (Newport Classic NPD 85535)

  RR BENNETT: The Apple Tree; New Year Carol - BBC Singers/Paul Brough (Signum SIGCD 293)

  HAYDN: Fifth movement, Adagio, from Symphony No 45 in F# minor, Farewell - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 040 203)

  PROKOFIEV: In the Palace, from Cinderella; New Year's Eve Ball, from War & Peace; Happiness, from Cinderella, from Waltz Suite Op 110 - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8359)

• 10:00 AM. Morning Concert

  Donald Maurice (vla), Richard Mapp (pno), Douglas Lilburn (speaker)

  LILBURN: Suite for solo viola; LILBURN arr Maurice: Salutes to Seven Poets (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:50 AM. The Works

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 1 Op 10 - Ukraine National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.553405)

  BRAHMS: Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 421 074)

• Noon Summer Sonic

  Charlotte's Web

  Two programmes in which Charlotte Wilson talks to well-known New Zealanders about the place of music in their lives

  (2) Piera McArthur: painter, music-lover, and subject of a lifetime's retrospective at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery (RNZ)

• 1:05 PM. An Artist's Life

  SVENDSEN: Norwegian Artists' Carnival - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  GAUBERT: Trois Aquarelles, On a clear morning; Autumn evening; Serenade - Wiek Trio (Fuga Libera FUG 556)

  RESPIGHI: Second movement, L'Adorazione dei Magi, from Three Botticelli Pictures - Bonn Beethoven Orch/Stefan Blunier (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 937 16776)

  PAINE: Still life, from Alberton - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Bruce Paine BNP DVD 001)

  J STRAUSS II: Artist's Life Waltz - Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ELGAR: The shepherd's song - Konrad Jarnot (bar), Reinild Mees (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28610)

  MAXWELL DAVIES arr Eriksson: Farewell to Stromness - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

  YOUNG: Tambourine Noel - Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Jerold Ottley, John Longhurst (org) (Bonneville Classics BCD 9402)

  LLOYD: Piano Concerto No 1, Scapegoat - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Phil/George Lloyd (Albany TROY 037)

  BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin, Suite - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 430 352)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No 1 in Eb - Dennis Brain (horn), Philharmonia/Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec 1956) (EMI CDC 7 47834)

  Three Hymns Op 71, Hymn to Love; Return to the homeland; Love - Felicity Lott (sop), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9159)

  Horn Concerto No 2 in Eb - Dennis Brain (horn), Philharmonia/Wolfgang Sawallisch (rec 1956) (EMI CDC 7 47834)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  RAVEL: Tzigane - Martin Riseley (vln), Diedre Irons (pno) (Rattle RAT D032)

  BOYCE: Ode for the New Year, Overture - Philip Lloyd (tpt), Auckland Sinfonietta/Peter Scholes (PMI L 282)

  A RITCHIE: As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

  PSATHAS: View from Olympus - Pedro Carneiro (perc), Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Rattle RAT-DV 015)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - Dresden State Opera Orch/Otmar Suitner (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  BEETHOVEN: Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen, from The Magic Flute - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (pno) (CBS MK 42121)

  FALLA: Jota, from Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Nathan Milstein (vln) (BBC BBC MM 363)

  J STRAUSS I arr Winter: Radetzky March - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

  BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances Sz68 - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 454 430)

  ORTIZ: Romanesca - Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9820)

  GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Grande Tarentelle Op 67 - Reid Nibley (pno), Utah SO/Maurice Abravanel (Vanguard Classics 08 4051 71)

  6:00 DELIUS: Summer Evening - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5208)

  GERSHWIN: Summertime, from Porgy & Bess - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New York Choral Artists, New Princess Theater Orch/John McGlinn (EMI 5 57231)

  HOLST: Summer, from Two Eastern Pictures - Sioned Williams (harp), Holst Singers/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66705)

  VIVALDI: Third movement, Presto, from Four Seasons, Summer - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 478 5338)

  STEINER arr Russell: Theme from A Summer Place - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

  BARBER: Summer Music - Galliard Ensemble (BBC BBC MM 243)

  D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in A Kk537 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)

  SUK: Fantastic Scherzo Op 25 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHAN 8897)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  7:00 In Memoriam

  Marking musicians on CD who have passed on this year

  Two programmes

  (2) John Hopkins, Eric Ericson, Henri Dutilleux and John Tavener

  8:00 Nathan Haines and his Quartet

  Kevin Field (pno), Ben Turua (bass), Alain Koetsier (drums), with special guest John Bell (vibes) (recorded in the Sawmill in Leigh, Warkworth by RNZ)

  9:30 Equinox - The Committee

  Claire Scholes (mezzo), Sharon Baylis (vla), Tom Pierard (cello), Kevin Kim (recorders), Felicity Hanlon (ob/cor), Yvette Audain (cl/sax), Ben Hoadley (bsn)

  WILLIS: Paradise Restored; WEBSTER: Quicken; AUDAIN: Hazine (Treasure); BALLARD: Axis; KIM: Piricer; AUDAIN: scatter; HOLMES: The Fourth Station; KING: Temporal (recorded in The University of Auckland Clock Tower by RNZ)

  11:00 New Music Dreams

Next day - Wed 01

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