Wednesday 22 January 2014 Rāapa 22 Kohi-tātea 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonie Concertanti Op 2, No 6 in C; No 1 in Bb; No 2 in E; No 5 in D; No 3 in G; No 4 in A - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  The Sidewalks of New York, Tin Pan Alley

  Arrangements of songs by Berlin, Blake, Cohan, Dresser, Handy, Joplin, Kern et al - Various artists, Uri Caine (pno) (Winter & Winter 910 038)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  MENDELSSOHN: Athalia Op 74 - Letizia Scherrer, Katalin Halmai (sops), Daniela Sindram (contralto), Ulrike Goetz, Rudolf Guckelsberger (speakers), Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart, Stuttgart Radio SO/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.486)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  LEIFS: Quartetto No 1 Op 21, Mors et vita; Quartet No 2 Op 36, Vita et mors; Quartetto No 3 Op 64, El Greco - Yggdrasil Quartet (BIS CD 691)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  BOCCHERINI: Concerto in A; Sonata No 7 in Bb G535; Sonata in D G17; Concerto in G G480; Sonata No 6 in A G4 - Les Basses Rénunies/Bruno Cocset (Alpha 084)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MYSLIVECEK: Symphony in A - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10203)

  RAVEL: Jeux d'eau - Diedre Irons (pno) (RNZ)

  ELGAR arr Milone: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Natalie Clein (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 01409)

  DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Tatjana Vassilieva (cello), Yumiko Urabe (pno) (Naxos 8.555762)

  SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 447 760)

  7:00 PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Philip Walsh (RNZ)

  GERSHWIN arr Berkowitz: Promenade: Walking the dog, from Shall We Dance? - John Fullam (cl), Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559750)

  LISZT: Waltz, from Gounod's Faust S407 - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1446)

  SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

  HUMMEL ed Stein: Variations & Coda on O du lieber Augustin - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10374)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: C STAMITZ: Second movement, Romance: Andantino, from Cello Concerto No 1 in G - Christian Benda (cello), Prague CO (Naxos 8.551140)

  J STRAUSS II: Where the lemon trees bloom, Waltz Op 364 - Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle/Michael Tomascheck (Koch International 324 073)

  CHOPIN: Scherzo No 2 in Bb minor Op 31 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Decca 478 3206)

  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)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - William Bennett (fl), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 425 848)

  PROKOFIEV: The knights' dance, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek (Virgin VC 7 59278)

• 9:00 AM. The Works

  CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in C Op 6/10 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 373 250)

  HAYDN: Mass No 11 in D minor, Nelson Mass - Mary Wilson (sop), Abigail Fischer (mezzo), Keith Jameson (ten), Kevin Deas (bbar), Boston Baroque/Martin Pearlman (Linn CKD 426)

• 10:00 AM. Morning Concert

  Diedre Irons (pno), Amici Ensemble

  MOZART: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor K478; DUTILLEUX: String Quartet, Ainsi la nuit; BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 11:40 AM. More Works

  FRANCK: Pièce Héroïque - Simon Johnson (org) (Hyperion CDA 68046)

  SUK: Towards a New Life, Festival March Op 20 - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0624)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  CIMAROSA: Artemisia, regina de Caria, Overture - Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.5727334)

  DIABELLI arr Bream: Guitar Sonata in A - Kyuhee Park (gtr) (Naxos 8.573255)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  RAVEL: Dawn, from Daphnis & Chloé - London Symphony Chorus & Orch/André Previn (EMI 7 94431)

  BRITTEN: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 15 - Mark Lubotsky (vln), English CO/Benjamin Britten (London 417 308)

  ARBAN: Fantaisie Brillante - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

  TELEMANN: Trio Sonata in D minor for treble recorder, violin and continuo - The Chandos Baroque Players: Rachel Beckett (rec), Alison Bury (vln), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Melvyn Tan (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 66195)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for string quartet - Orpheus CO (rec 1995-6) (Brilliant Classics 9089)

  MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder - Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (rec 2001) (SFS Media 821936 0003)

  BARTÓK: String Quartet No 3 Sz85 - Takács Quartet (rec 1996) (Decca 455 297)

• 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

  (13) Elias is asked to conduct Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony for the first public concert in Leningrad. His drunken ex oboist Alexander rescues him when he keels over. Elias's orchestra struggles and Nina Bronnikova comes to help Nikolai and Elias copy the scores. She offers to play piano. Nikolai is desperate for his daughter Sonya (RNZ)

• 4:15 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  WAGNER: Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

  GLUCK: Che farò senza Euridice? from Orpheus & Euridice - Keith Lewis (ten), NZSO CO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2022)

  J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies, Full fathom five; Tell me, where is fancy bred; Blow, blow thou Winter wind - John Mills (gtr) (RNZ)

  HOLST: Seven Scottish Airs - Michael Freyhan (pno), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 340 220)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No 2 - Philharmonia/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Signum SIGCD 193)

  GOUNOD arr Grafe: Ah! Je veux vivre, from Romeo & Juliet - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Peter Hurford (organ of the Sydney Opera House) (ABC Classics 425 013)

  ALBÉNIZ: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (RNZ)

  LILBURN: Allegro for Strings - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Koch International 3-7260)

  6:00 VARIOUS: Procession d'entrée à la Cathédrale: les Vêpres, from Fiesta Criolla - Ensemble Elyma, Ensemble Ars Longa of Havana, Vivaldi Choir/Gabriel Garrido (K617 K617 139)

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue in E minor BWV533, Cathedral - Michael Murray (organ of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, NY) (Telarc CD 80169)

  DEBUSSY trans Bauer: La cathédrale engloutie, from Preludes, Book 1 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

  HIGDON: Blue Cathedral - Atlanta SO/Robert Spano (Telarc CD 80596)

  BARRIOS MANGORÉ: The Cathedral - Cheryl Grice-Watterson (gtr) (Private)

  BEFFA: Cathédrales (improvisation) - Karol Beffa (pno) (Naive V 5339)

  NOWOWIEJSKI: Festive March, Entry into the Cathedral Op 8/3 - Rudolf Innig (organ of Bremen Cathedral) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 317 1591)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Brilliant Brass

  For summer we repeat this popular first series of Brilliant Brass, hosted by David Bremner

  Whether it's jazz, orchestral, solo or band music, brass-playing is in pretty good heart, both in NZ and around the world. Starry soloists, smooth ensembles and inspired composers are leading the way for thousands of people in the brass community

  (3) Today's programme features Swedish trumpet supremo Håkan Hardenberger, experimental Austrian septet Mnozil Brass and prolific British composer Philip Sparke (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  War & Peace

  Five programmes

  (3) Emanuela Galli (sop), Britta Schwarz (contralto), Christian Zenker (ten), Clemens Heidrich (bass), Vocal Concert Dresden, Dresden Instrumental Concert/Peter Kopp

  PAER: Missa, par ordre de l'empereur (Napoleon Mass); NAUMANN: Psalm 103; PAER: Leonora Overture (recorded in the Loschwitzer Kirche, Dresden by German Radio)

• 9:30 PM. A Pupil Arranging the Teacher

  MOZART arr Hummel: Concerto in Eb for two pianos K365 - Fumiko Shiraga (pno), Peter Clemente (vln), Tibor Bényi (cello), Henrik Wiese (fl) (BIS CD 9043)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SOR: Etude Op 6/12 - Cristiano Porqueddu (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 93960)

  SCHUBERT orch Davidson: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 - Patricia Pollett (vla), Queensland Phil/Werner Andreas Albert (Tall Poppies TP 084)

  PLEYEL: Symphony in F Ben140 - Vienna Concilium Musicum/Paul Angerer (Cavalli CCD 414)

  11:00 KUHLAU: Flute Sonata in G minor Op 83/3 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.555346)

  MENDELSSOHN: Octet in Eb Op 20 - Daniel Hope (vln) members of CO of Europe (DG 477 6634)

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