Saturday 21 March 2015 Rāhoroi 21 Poutū-te-rangi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  The Stars are Comforting

  The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)

  Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made Beatrice Tinsley a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice also played her violin and wrote home to her family

  Twenty programmes, with letters edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien

  (1) Cambridge Music School and off to university in Christchurch; 1958-9 (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  MARSHALL: Hikurangi Sunrise; TCHAIKOVSKY: Puss in Boots and the White Cat, from Sleeping Beauty; DVORÁK: The Wood Dove Op 110; ELGAR: Elegy for strings Op 58; MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood; SAINT SAËNS: Aquarium, from The Carnival of the Animals; FALLA: Ritual Fire Dance, from El Amor Brujo; LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  2:15 approx - Disc 2

  German Baroque songs by NAUWACH; ALBERT; FISCHER; A KRIEGER; J P KRIEGER; HAMMERSCHMIDT; HAGEN; GÖRNER - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Markus Märkl (hpschd), Alix Verzier (cello), Karl-Ernst Schröder (lute), Pablo Valetti, Stephanie Pfister (vlns), Friederike Heumann, Juan Manuel Quintana (vla da gambas) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1505)

  3:25 approx - Disc 3

  GIAMPIERI: Variations on The Carnival of Venice; MESSAGER: Solo de concours; MILHAUD: Scaramouche; LOVREGLIO: Fantasia on Verdi's La Traviata; GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano; RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14; WEBER: Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op 48; MILTON: Carmen Fantasy Op 22 - Michael Collins (cl), Piers Lane (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10615)

  4:40 approx - Disc 4

  HEINICHEN: Concerto in F; DIEUPART: Concerto in A minor; FASCH: Concerto in D minor; PISENDEL: Sonata in C minor; HEINICHEN: Pastorale in A; QUANTZ: Concerto in G; VERACINI: Overture No 5 in B - Musica Antiqua, Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 447 644)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MOERAN: Rhapsody No 1 in F - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.573106)

  SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 - Trio Latitude 41 (Eloquentia EL 1129)

  HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA 09026 68999)

  ANON: Greensleeves to a ground - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9820)

  SARASATE: Fantasy on Mozart's Don Giovanni Op 51 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572276)

  7:00 BIZET: La Garde Montant; Danse Bohème, from Carmen Suite No 2 - Royal Phil/Mark Ermler (Tring International TRP 002)

  PIAZZOLLA: Libertango; Decarísimo; Oblivion - Trio Tangophoria (BIS SACD 2108)

  CIMAROSA: Oboe Concerto in C minor - Anthony Camden (ob), City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.553991)

  J STRAUSS II: Persian March - Vienna Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 417 747)

  TRAD arr Afshar: Gole Gandom; Dareneh Jaan; Leila Leila, from Five Popular Persian Ballads - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Summit DCD 236)

  KETÈLBEY: In a Persian Market - New Symphony Orch of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)

  8:00 ROSSINI: La Cenerentola, Overture - Royal Phil/Evelino Pidò (Tring International TRP 066)

  MILHAUD: Suite d'après Corrette - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6536)

  VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522, from L'Estro Armonico - Roberto Michelucci (vln/dir), Anna Maria Cotogni (vln), I Musici (Philips 446 169)

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

  WAGENSEIL: Symphony in D WV374 - Bern Camerata/Thomas Füri (dir) (Archiv 410 599)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Your Choice

  TARTINI: Sonata No 13 in B minor for solo violin - Rachel Podger (vln) (Channel Classics CCS SA 35513)

  SPOHR: Septet in A minor Op 147 - Ensemble 360 (ASV GLD 4026)

  BELLINI: Me chiami, o Norma, from Norma - Joan Sutherland (sop), Doris Soffel (mezzo), Swedish Radio Choir & SO/Richard Bonynge (Caprice CAP 21601)

  ALBENIZ arr Couch: Asturias, from Spanish Suite Op 47 - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

  ELGAR: Six Very Easy Pieces in First Position Op 22 - Kennedy (vln), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

  HEBERLE: Concertino - Hugo Reyne (csakan/dir), La Simphonie du Marais (Musiques Chabotterie 605007)

  BUCHANAN: Next time around; Awakening, from An Ocean Between Us - Rhona Fraser (sop), New Zealand Piano Quartet (RNZ)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 22 - Emmanuel Despax (pno), Orpheus Sinfonia/Thomas Carroll (Signum SIGCD 349)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (3) Recent Releases and Reissues (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2013 Wallace National Piano Competition

  Eight programmes

  (8) HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50; LISZT: Après une lecture du Dante, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 2, Italy; MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14; LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C# minor S244 - Sylvia Jiang (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Op 109; SCHUMANN: Abegg Variations Op 1; VINE: Five Bagatelles; LISZT: Tarantella, from Venice & Naples, supplement to Années de Pèlerinage, Year 2, Italy - Jane Nayoung Koo (pno) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber by RNZ)

• 4:45 PM. Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish SO

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 (Hyperion CDA 66815)

  GURNEY arr Finzi: Four Elizabethan Songs - with Christopher Maltman (bar) (Hyperion CDA 67065)

  MACCUNN: The ship o' the fiend (Hyperion CDA 66815)

  BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 58 - with Jack Liebeck (vln) (Hyperion CDA 68050)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No 2 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  BASSI ed Giampieri: Concert Fantasia, Variations on Caro nome from Verdi's Rigoletto - Mark Walton (cl), David Miller (pno) (AWMP CD 01)

  NORRIS: From the Lonely Margins of the Sea - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

  L MOZART: Sinfonia di caccia in G - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (Naxos 8.553347)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  BARTÓK: Five Songs Op 15 Sz61, My love; Summer; Night of desire; In vivid dream; In the valley - Julia Hamari (mezzo), Ilona Prunyi (pno) (Hungaroton HCD 31535)

  Eight Hungarian Folksongs Sz64, Black is the earth; My God, my God let the water flood; Wives, let me be one of your company; So much sorrow in my heart; If I climb the rocky mountains; They are mending the great forest highway; Up to now my work; Snow is melting - Polina Pasztircsák (sop), Aleksandra Sasha Kozlov (pno) (Nascor NS 07)

• 7:30 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, Wigram, Christchurch

  Sea to Sky

  Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Christchurch SO/Benjamin Northey LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture; WESTLAKE: Antarctica Suite, for guitar and orchestra

  (interval)

  SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 (RNZ)

• 9:30 PM. Vocalied

  BRETAN: Psalm of Mammon's Monk; Alone; So far above!; September with roses; On my new book; There was an old king; In Memoriam E; Ballad of a man from Zilah; Our house - Ludovic Konya (bar), Ferdinand Weiss (pno) (Nimbus NI 5640)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RESPIGHI: Violin Sonata in E minor, after Bach's Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023 - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

  MARX: Spring Music, from Nature Trilogy - Vienna Radio SO/Johannes Wildner (CPO 777 320)

  11:00 PIERNÉ: Cello Sonata in F# minor Op 46 - Mats Lidström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66979)

  RAFF: String Sextet in G minor Op 178 - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1181)

Next day - Sun 22

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