Tuesday 3 March 2015 Rātū 3 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  MASSENET: Herodiade, Ballet Music; Orchestral Suites, No 1; No 2, Scene Hongroises; No 3, Scenes Dramatiques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  LIU TIAN HUA: Idyllic Tune; TRAD: Weeping River of Sorrow; ZHOU WEI: Celebrating the harvest of grapes; LIU JIN WEN: Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge; LIU TIAN HUA: Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley; RENG TONG XIANG: A bunch of flowers; HUA YAN JUN: Moon reflected in the twin-spring lake; LIU WEN JIN: Ballad of North Henan province - Yu Hong Mei (erhu), Wulin (konghou), Lui Yin Xuan (yang qin), Chen Zhe (pno) (Channel of China CCS SA 80206)

  2:15 approx - Disc 3

  DELIUS: Seadrift; Appalachia - John Shirley-Quirk (bar), London SO, Royal Phil/Richard Hickox (London 425 156)

  3:20 approx - Disc 4

  Music by STANFORD, FAURÉ, SCHUMANN, DELIUS, HANDEL, BACH, GRIEG arr Grainger - Martin Jones (pno) (Nimbus NI 5255)

  4:35 approx - Disc 5

  Train music by LANNER, J STRAUSS I, HOYER, J STRAUSS II, MEYER, E STRAUSS, Josef STRAUSS, GRAHL & LUMBYE - Slovak State Phil/Mica Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Royal Phil/Andrea Licata (Tring International TRP 046)

  SCHUMANN: First movement, Andante espressivo, from String Quartet in A Op 41/3 - Doric String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10692)

  WEBERN: Passacaglia Op 1 - Het Collectief/Reinbert de Leeuw (Zig Zag ZZT 345)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Third movement, Allegro vivacissimo, from Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 478 5338)

  7:00 SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Overture - RCA Victor SO/Leopold Stokowski (RCA 09026 61503)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Tarantella in A minor Op 6 - members of Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

  WOLF: Italian Serenade - Ana Bela Chaves (vla), Paris Orch/Daniel Barenboim (Erato 2292 45416)

  ANDERSEN: Humorous variations on a Swedish tune Op 26 - Jean-Louis Beaumadier (piccolo), Laetitia Bougnol (pno) (Skarbo D SK 4052)

  MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 6 in Eb - Concerto Cologne (Teldec 4509 98435)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: LA RUE: O salutaris hostia - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525 (445 369))

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 1 - CBSO/Mark Elder (Signum SIGCD 051)

  CHOPIN: Barcarolle in F# Op 60 - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Mirare MIR 096)

  CORELLI: Trio Sonata in A Op 4/3 - Stravaganza (Aparté AP 073)

  WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (RN Music MCCM 97033)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  DOUGLAS LILBURN (1915-2001)

  Concert Overture in D - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

  Violin Sonata in Eb - Elizabeth Holowell (vln), Dean Sky-Lucas (pno) (Atoll ACD 941)

  Prelude & Fugue in G minor, Antipodes - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

• 10:00 AM. The Works

  HAYDN: String Quartet in G minor Op 20/3 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

  BRITTEN: Symphony for cello & orchestra Op 68 - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Baltimore SO/David Zinman (CBS MK 44900)

  GLAZUNOV: Saxophone Quartet in Bb - Habanera Saxophone Quartet (Alpha 041)

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 4 in C minor D417, Tragic - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2154)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  G COOKE: Bargain Basement, A Suite of Seven Pieces - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silence & Music; ELGAR: There is sweet music; BLISS: Sing, mortals! - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough, Matthew Searles (org) (Hyperion CDA 68047)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  ALBINONI arr Giazotto: Adagio in G minor - Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), Simon Preston (org) (Philips 434 074)

  Shakespeare Sonnets, No 28: How can I then return in happy plight - read by Geraldine Brophy

  No 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought - read by Noelle McCarthy

  No 32: If thou survive my well contented day - read by Paul Barrett (RNZ)

  CHAMINADE: Flute Concertino Op 107 - James Galway (fl), Philip Moll (pno) (RCA 09026 68882)

  SARASATE arr Francescatti: Caprice Basque Op 24 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDM 7 63533)

  MORANÇON: Music for organ & strings - Hervé Desarbre (organ of Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce, Paris), Stringendo/Jean Thorel (Mandala MAN 5049)

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

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral - Maria Stader (sop), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Murray Dickie (ten), Otto Wiener (bass), Stuttgart Radio SO/Carl Schuricht (rec 1961) (Hänssler CD 93.142)

• 4:15 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Two Unpublished Pieces for guitar - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

  JCF BACH: Flute Sonata in D minor - Sally Tibbles (fl), James Tibbles (fpno) (Atoll ACD 204)

  LISZT: The Funeral Triumph of Tasso, from Three Funeral Odes - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.557847)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572887)

  GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Gala Cakewalk, Finale, from Cakewalk Ballet - Louisville Orch/Akira Endo (Albany TROY 016)

  NYMAN: The heart asks pleasure first, from The Piano - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57022)

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

  ROSSINI: Andante & Variations on Di tanti palpiti, from Tancredi - Alessandro Baccini (ob), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

  COATES: Knightsbridge, from London Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Naxos 8.553596)

  GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Maria Meerovitch (pno) (Warner 2564 65958)

  GRIEG arr B Wallfisch: Last Spring; The Wounded Heart, from Elegiac Melodies Op 34 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Vernon Handley (Black Box BBM 1070)

  6:00 ANDERSON: The Waltzing Cat - Saint Louis Symphony/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

  ROSSINI: Duetto buffo di due gatti - Victoria de los Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sops), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49238)

  SULLIVAN: With cat-like tread, from The Pirates of Penzance

  Samuel......................... George Cook

  D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Chorus, Royal Phil/Isidore Godfrey (Decca 433 868)

  COPLAND: I bought me a cat, from Old American Songs - Marilyn Horne (mezzo), New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (New York Philharmonic NYP 9712)

  HELY-HUTCHINSON: The owl and the pussy-cat - Roderick Williams (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Just Accord JUSCO 003)

  D SCARLATTI: The cat's fugue - Varda Nishry (pno) (Decca 425 505)

  HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5117)

  BRIDGE: Miniatures for Piano Trio, Set 2 - Jack Liebeck (vln), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.570792)

  BRUCH: Swedish Dances Op 63 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 420 932)

• 7:00 PM. Sound Lounge

  Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

  11:00 New Music Dreams

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