Monday 20 January 2014 Rāhina 20 Kohi-tātea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19; Symphony No 2 in D Op 11 - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

  1:05 approx - Disc 2

  SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in C; de BOISMORTIER: Concerto in B minor: TELEMANN: Concerto in E; de BOISMORTIER: Sonata No 6 in A minor; SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in D minor; TELEMANN: Concerto in F; de BOISMORTIER: Concerto in A minor; Sonata No 3 in E minor; SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in G - Sirena Recorder Quartet (BIS CD 1234)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  BODY: People look East; GRIFFITHS: Dormi Jesu; BYARS: An heavenly song; WHITEHEAD: Qui Natus Est; EASTGATE: Estas in Exilium; TREMAIN: Tenera Juventa; FARQUHAR: Three of a kind; J RITCHIE: Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace; RIVE: And is there care in heaven?; WELLS: Blow me eyes; TRAD arr Mews: Three Maori songs; MEWS: Ghosts, fire and water; FISHER: Pounamu; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey, Auckland University Singers/Karen Grylls (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

  3:15 approx - Disc 4

  DUSSEK: Sonatas, in G Op 51; in G Op 35/2; in Bb Op 39/3; Grand Sonata in Eb Op 75 - Fredrick Marvin (pno) (Dorian DIS 80138)

  4:30 approx - Disc 5

  WATTS: Metropolis; MORLEY: Rotten Row; LANE: London Salute; GUNNING: Concerto for saxophone and orchestra; TATE: London Fields, Suite; WOOD: London Landmarks; LEWIS: Festival of London March - John Harle (sax), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland, ASMF/Christopher Gunning, Paul Lewis (ASV CDD WHL 2138)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 SALIERI: Cesare in Farmacusa, Overture - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223381)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Little Train of Caipira, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 2 - António Meneses (cello), Celina Szrvinsk (pno) (Avie AV 2162)

  SCHUBERT: German Dances D90 - Lucerne Festival Strings/Achim Fiedler (Oehms OC 333)

  GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 26 in D minor, Lamentation - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Frans Brüggen (Philips 473 015)

  7:00 LEHÁR: Chinese Ballet Suite - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

  POLDINI arr Kreisler: Dancing Doll - Midori (vln), Robert McDonald (pno) (Sony SK 89700)

  MOZART: Divertimento in Bb K137 - Ensemble XXI Moscow/Lygia O'Riordan (Ensemblegram 1991A)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy Op 57 - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

  MOROSS: A Tall Story for Orchestra - New Zealand SO/JoAnn Falletta (Koch International 3-7367)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Leila Josefowicz (vln), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Philips 462 592)

  RIVERA: Vranjanski Cocek, Raven dance - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)

  LAMBERT: Mars and Venus - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Barry Wordsworth (Dutton CDLX 7149)

  CHOPIN: Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 - Oleg Marshev (pno) (Danacord DACOCD 677)

  PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org) (Argo 430 836)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 10 in E minor Op 93 - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 413 361)

• 10:00 AM. Morning Concert

  Remembering Lilburn

  Martin Riseley, Jun He (vlns), Donald Maurice (vla), Inbal Megiddo (cello)

  LILBURN: String Quartet in E minor; String Trio (1945); Violin Sonata (1950) (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:55 AM. More Works

  FRANÇAIX: Concerto for harpsichord & chamber orchestra - Christopher D Lewis (hpschd), West Side CO/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.573146)

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 7 in D minor Op 70 - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0014)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  BACH: Cantata No 173a, Durchlauchtster Leopold - Joanne Lunn (sop), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS 2041 SACD)

  Flute Sonata in C BWV1033 - Andrea Oliva (fl), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67897)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BALL: Resurgam - Black Dyke Mills Band/James Watson (Polyphonic QPRL 061 D)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral - Czech Phil/Wolfgang Sawallisch (Supraphon SU 4140)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  PUCCINI: Donde lieta usci, from La Bohème; CILEA: O mia cuna, fiorita di songni, from Gloria; GIORDANO: Nel suo amore rianimata, from Siberia; PUCCINI: Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso, from La rondine - Renée Fleming, Barbara Vignudelli (sops), Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Jonas Kaufmann (tens), Paolo Cautoruccio (bar), Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Marco Armiliato (rec 2008) (Decca 478 1533)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30 - Stephen Hough (pno), Dallas SO/Andrew Litton (rec 2004) (Hyperion CDA 67501/2)

• 4:00 PM. The Conductor

  The story of the writing of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony and its historic first performance in besieged Leningrad in 1942

  Written in 15 parts by Sarah Quigley and read by Peter Bland

  (11) Elias helps Nina Bronnikova, badly injured in an air raid. She won't be able to dance again. Nikolai attends Shostakovich's 35th birthday and hears some of the new symphony. Elias is jealous but stands up to the drunken oboist Alexander and earns the orchestra's applause (RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  HANDEL: Esther, Overture - James Tibbles (organ of Ponsonby Baptist Church, Auckland) (Atoll ACD 406)

  HEENAN: Three Sea Songs - Donald Munro (bar), National Orch/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD SLD 102)

  FARQUHAR: Prospero Dreaming - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

  RIES: Introduction & Variations Brillantes Op 170 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.570440)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BERNSTEIN: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs - Michael Collins (cl), Peter Donohoe (pno), London Sinfonietta/Simon Rattle (EMI CDC 7 47991)

  STRAUSS: Ständchen Op 17/2 - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Georg Solti (pno) (Decca 430 511)

  CPE BACH: Symphony in D Wq183/1 - English Concert/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7403)

  FALLA: Spanish Dance, from La Vida breve - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)

  GLINKA orch Shebalin: Symphony on Two Russian Themes - USSR SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Chant du Monde LDC 278 819)

  6:00 LEHÁR: Viennese Women, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Teldec 8.43240)

  GURDJIEFF trans Hartmann/Lechner/Tsabropoulos: Interlude 2; Assyrian women mourners - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888)

  RACHMANINOV: Women's dance, from Aleko - London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7 64530)

  GODOWSKY: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Wine, Women & Song by J Strauss II - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (Nimbus NI 1748)

  J STRAUSS II: In praise of women, Polka - Berlin Phil/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 3984 24489)

  DVORÁK: Five Choruses for women's voices, The slighted heart; The wild rose; Forsaken; Fly sweet songster; Omens - Prague Singers/Stanislav Mistr (Brilliant Classics 92883)

• 7:00 PM. Best of Composer of the Week 2013

  Eight programmes

  (3) RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)

  Critics accuse WAGNER of being a bombastic, long-winded, anti-Semitic and philandering money-grabber; in this programme, Heath Lees brings these matters into context (RNZ)

  Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - Christine Brewer (sop), Atlanta SO/Donald Runnicles (Telarc CD 80661)

  Rienzi, Overture - Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDC 5 56165)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  It Takes Two to Trio

  Stephen de Pledge (pno), Dmitri Atanassov (vln), Martin Rummel (cello)

  HENZE: Serenade for solo cello; KODÁLY: Duo for violin & cello Op 7; BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 1 in B Op 8 (recorded in the Auckland University Music Theatre by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. Playing with Huw

  MENDELSSOHN: Concerto in D minor for violin & piano - Tamsin Waley-Cohen (vln), Huw Watkins (pno), Orchestra of the Swan/Daniel Curtis (Signum SIGCD 342)

  BANTOCK: Hamabdil, Hebrew Melody - Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10741)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture Op 40, In London Town - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Teldec 9031 73279)

  Harmony Music No 5 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6553)

  Spanish Lady Suite - Munich SO/Douglas Bostock (Classico CLASS CD 334)

  11:00 HUMMEL: Clarinet Quartet in Eb - Fabrizio Meloni (cl), Andrea Pecolo (vln), Luca Ranieri (vla), Mario Finotti (cello) (Naxos 8.554280)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor - Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.555300)

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