Friday 2 May 2014 Rāmere 2 Haratua 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HAYDN: Symphonies, No 22 in Eb, The Philosopher; No 23 in G; No 24 in D; No 25 in C - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66536)

  1:15 approx - Disc 2

  MOLIERO: Sonatinas, No 1 in A minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in G minor; No 4 in D; No 5 in A minor; Toccatas, in C# minor; in B minor; in C; Little Suite; Prelude & Fugue in C# minor; Children's Suite; Two Miniatures; Playera; The Fountain; Serenade in the Spanish Style; Concert Study; Pictures of the Plains; Joropo - Clara Rodriguez (pno) (ASV CD DCA 890)

  2:30 approx - Disc 3

  MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder; 5 Rückertlieder; Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen - Janet Baker (mezzo), Hallé Orch, New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 747 793)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  HANDEL: Sonatas, in G for two violins & basso continuo Op 5/4; in A for violin & basso continuo Op 1/3; in G minor for two violins & basso continuo; in B minor for flute, violin & basso continuo Op 2/1; in D for two violins & basso continuo Op 5/2; in Bb for two violins & basso continuo Op 2/3 - English Concert (Archiv 415 497)

  4:40 approx - Disc 5

  ARNOLD: The Bridge on the River Kwai; Whistle Down the Wind; The Sound Barrier; Hobson's Choice; The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9100)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

  VIVALDI: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Jakob Lindberg (lute), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 290)

  DVORÁK: Legend in G minor Op 59/3 - Nordic CO/Christian Lindberg (BIS CD 1708)

  SCHUBERT: Second movement, Andante con moto, from Piano Trio No 2 in Eb D929 - Gould Piano Trio (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0026)

  LARSSON: Pastoral Suite - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

  7:00 BRANDT orch M Sommerhalder: Concert Piece No 2 in Eb Op 12 - Giuliano Sommerhalder (cornet), Westphalia New Phil/Heiko Mathias Förster (Solo Musica SM 125)

  SARASATE: Zapateado Op 23/2 - Gil Shaham (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (Canary Classics CC 07)

  SEIXAS: Sinfonia in Bb - Algarve Orch/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.557207)

  BACH: Ricercar in six parts, from A Musical Offering - Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman (Challenge CC 72309)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - BBC Welsh National Orch/Lesley Hatfield (dir) (BBC Music BBC MM 250)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572296)

  RODRIGO: Tonadilla - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

  J STRAUSS II: Sylphs Polka Op 309 - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223239)

  JOPLIN arr Perlman: The Rag-Time Dance; Solace; Elite Syncopations - Itzhak Perlman (vln), André Previn (pno) (EMI CDC 7 47170)

  STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Dresden State Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli (DG 449 216)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

  Concerto Grosso for wind quartet & wind orch - Gail Gillespie (fl), Lisa Kadala (cl), Leslye Barrett (ob), Christopher McFarlane (bsn), United States Marine Band/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.570727)

  Dança da Natureza, from Floresta do Amazonas (adapted from the 1959 film, Green Mansions) - María Luisa Tamez (sop), National SO of Mexico/Enrique Diemecke (Sony CDEC 470 999)

  Harmonica Concerto - Gianluca Littera (harmonica), Gran Canaria Phil/Adrian Leaper (Arte Nova 74321 56356)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  GURNEY: Preludes, Nos 1 in F#; 2 in Db; 3 in A minor; 4 in Db; 5 in C minor; 6 in C; 7 in F#; 8 in F#; 9 in D - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 038)

  ROUSSEL: The Spider's Feast - Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Naxos 8.572243)

  MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate K165 - Barbara Hendricks (sop), ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI 6 31801)

  DOHNÁNYI: String Quartet No 1 in A Op 7 - Aviv Quartet (Naxos 8.572569)

  PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 1 in Db Op 10 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno), BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10802)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  WIDOR: Evenings in Alsace Op 52, On the road!; Stormy skies; Calm returns; Promenade sentimentale - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1794)

  C SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 22 - Jennifer Pike (vln), Tom Poster (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10762)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7501)

  HUMMEL: Piano Concerto in A S4/W24 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 9886)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  HEINICHEN: Concerto in G, from Dresden Concerti S214 - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (rec 1992) (Archiv 437 549)

  PURCELL arr Hogwood: Staircase Overture; If music be the food of love Z397C; Cebell; To arms, to arms, heroic prince, from The Libertine Destroyed; To arms; Tell me, some pitying angel Z196; Slow air - Sylvia McNair (sop), Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (rec 1994) (Philips 446 081)

  HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 20/1 - Angeles String Quartet (rec 1994-1999) (Philips 464 650)

• 4:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Victoria University Orch, Gamelan Padhang Moncar/Peter Walls (Manu CD MANU 1514)

  LISZT: Vallée d'Obermann, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 1, Switzerland - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.116)

  MOZART: Flute Concerto No 2 in D K314 - Catherine Bowie (fl), Auckland Philharmonia/Lionel Bringuier (RNZ)

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Serenade - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ingrid Wahlberg (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1426)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  BIZET: Patrie, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

  BARTÓK trans Székely: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Tasmin Little (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (BIS CD 1744)

  BERNSTEIN: On the Town, Three Dance Episodes - Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559177)

  M-A CHARPENTIER arr Held: Second Air de Trompette, from Two Triumphal Airs - Hannes, Wolfgang & Bernhard Läubin (tpts), Norbert Schmitt (timp), Simon Preston (org) (DG 419 245)

  WAGNER: Sailor's Chorus, Steuermann, lass die Wacht! from The Flying Dutchman - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

  BUSONI: Tanzwalzer Op 53 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.572922)

  6:00 BINGE: The Whispering Valley, Prelude - Silvia Cápová (pno), Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

  TRAD arr Beethoven: The Vale of Clwyd WoO155/19, from Irish & Welsh Songs - Lynne Dawson (sop), Alida Schat (vln), Jaap ter Linden (cello), Bart van Oort (fpno) (Berlin Classics 001639)

  GROFÉ: Sand storm, from Death Valley Suite - Bournemouth SO/William Stromberg (Naxos 8.559017)

  CAMILLERI: Il-Weghda, Intermezzo - Godfrey Mifsud (cl), Bournemouth SO/Brian Schembri (Diversions DDV 24126)

  RAVEL: La vallée des cloches, from Miroirs - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

  WIKANDER: King Lily of the valley - Swedish Radio Choir/Peter Dijkstra (Channel Classics CCS SA 32812)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  The Critic's Chair

  Cynthia Morahan reviews recent releases (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  New Zealand Festival 2014

  Five programmes

  (3) Spanish Music of the 17th Century

  Hopkinson Smith (baroque guitar)

  SANZ: Three Spanish Themes, Pavanas with Variations in the Spanish manner; Folías; Zarabanda; Europe in Miniature, The Neopolitan hussy; The Catalan beauty; The French wench; Lantururú; Canción; Tarantela; GUERAU: Canarios, from Poema Harmonico; SANTA CRUZ: Jácaras; SANZ: Preludio or Capricho Arpeado; Marizápalos; Jiga; Passacalles del Segundo tono; Canarios (recorded in the Wesley Church, Taranaki Street, Wellington by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Harp

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Op 74 - Moscow String Quartet (Finer Arts Records FA 9604)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in Bb, from Tafelmusik - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (dir) (Archiv 427 619)

  JACOB: Concertino for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

  LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  11:00 IRELAND: Sextet for clarinet, horn & string quartet - Robert Plane (cl), David Pyatt (horn), Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.570550)

  JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters - Jerusalem Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902178)

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