Wednesday 22 April 2015 Rāapa 22 Paenga-whāwhā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Overture; Sadko Op 5; Piano Concerto in C# minor Op 30; Symphony No 3 in C - Geoffrey Tozer (pno), Bergen Phil/Dmitri Kitajenko (Chandos CHAN 9229)

  1:20 approx - Disc 2

  MOZART: Concerto in Bb for bassoon & orchestra K191; HUMMEL: Concerto in F for bassoon & orchestra; JOLIVET: Concerto for bassoon, harp, piano & string orchestra; FRANÇAIX: Divertissement for bassoon & string quartet - Dag Jensen (bsn), Cologne Radio SO/Werner Andreas Albert (Cappriccio 10579)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  GLICK: Sing unto the Lord a New Song; HOLMAN: Night Music; SOMERS: Trois Chansons de la Nouvelle-France; COULTHARD: Quebec May - Elmer Iseler Singers, CBC Vancouver Orch/Elmer Iseler (CBC SMCD 5115)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces - Andrei Gavrilov (pno) (DG 437 522)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  COATES: Calling All Workers; TOYE: The Haunted Ballroom; COLLINS: Vanity Fair; FARNON: Jumping Bean; BAYNES: Destiny; CURZON: The Boulevardier; LUTZ: Pas de quatre; BINGE: The Watermill; Elizabethan Serenade; WILLIAMS: The Devil's Galop; The Old Clockmaker; GIBBS: Dusk; WHITE: Puffin' Billy; KETÈLBEY: Bells Across the Meadows; JOYCE: Dreaming; ELLIS: Coronation Scot; Ancliffe: Nights of Gladness - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Margaret Ogilvie

  6:00 GROFÉ: On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (Naxos 8.559007)

  RODRIGO: Invocation & Dance - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private)

  DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - Franklin Cohen (cl), Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 439 896)

  C SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 22 - Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Alice Sara Ott (pno) (DG 479 0086)

  C STAMITZ: Symphony in D minor Op 15/3 - L'arte del mondo/Werner Ehrhardt (CPO 777 526)

  7:00 ALBÉNIZ orch Arbós: El Corpus en Sevilla, from Iberia Book 1 - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80703)

  PIAZZOLLA: Le Grand Tango - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Igor Uriash (pno) (EMI CZS 5 72016)

  GLAZUNOV: Wedding March Op 21 - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553839)

  MOMPOU: Scenes of childhood - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)

  LIADOV: Polonaise in C Op 49, In memory of Pushkin - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80115)

  ALBINONI: Sonata in Bb in five parts Op 2/5 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

  FARR: From Forgotten Forests - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Trust MMT 2020)

  FRANÇAIX: Divertissement - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67036)

  MACCUNN: The Land of the Mountain & the Flood Op 3 - BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 66815)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  GIACINTO SCELSI (1905-1988)

  Quays - Luca Manghi (alto fl) (Atoll ACD 882)

  Four Pieces for Orchestra, each on a single note - Vienna Radio SO/Peter Rundel (Mode 176)

  9:25 The Works

  VERDI: Willow Song & Ave Maria, from Otello - Maria Luigia Borsi (sop), London SO/Yves Abel (Naxos 8.573412)

  BRIDGE: Two poems, The open air; The story of my heart - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 243)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  Bugle Stories

  Shelley Wilkinson talks about something close to her heart. We'll join her each day to look at different shiny or dull facets of a little copper and brass instrument, the standard army issue bugle

  Six programmes

  (3) In the hands of children

  Bugles and children are historically paired together. Today's bugle story moves from 19th-century bugle boys through to a 21st-century bugle girl (RNZ)

  MOZART: Piano Sonata No 9 in D K311 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 422 116)

  STANFORD: Clarinet Concerto Op 80 - Michael Collins (cl/dir), BBC SO (Chandos CHAN 10739)

  S GOSS: Carmen Fantasy - Tetra Guitar Quartet (Cadenza Music CAD CD 0460)

  STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - Pays de la Loire National Orch/Isaac Karabtchevsky (Calliope CAL 9383)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  WILLIAMSON: Piano Concerto No 1 in A - Piers Lane (pno), Tasmanian SO/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 68011)

  SCULTHORPE: Djilile; Riverina (Gundyarri Wagga Wagga) - Tamara-Anna Cislowska (pno) (ABC Classics 481 1181)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (DG 477 7346)

  GLASS: Glassworks, opening - Jeroen van Veen (pno) (Brilliant Classics 8551)

  BACH: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 - Pablo Casals (cello) (rec 1938) (EMI CHS 7 61027)

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

• 2:00 PM. Upbeat with Eva Radich

  Music news & current affairs (RNZ)

• 3:00 PM. Classic Afternoons with Nigel Collins

  CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  WAGNER: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (rec 1994) (DG 445 866)

  BRAHMS: Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34 - Maurizio Pollini (pno), Quartetto Italiano (rec 1979) (DG 419 673)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

  Second movement, Larghetto, from Organ Sonata in F minor Op 65/1 - Peter Averi (organ of the Tabernacle in Temple Square, Salt Lake City) (Kiwi CD SLC 251)

  NORMAN: Inception to Infinity - Matthew Marshall (gtr), Orchestra Wellington/Kenneth Young (Private)

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet Suite - Christchurch SO/William Southgate (Chch Symph Trust CHCH 004)

  5:00 REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Dresden Phil/Herbert Kegel (Berlin Classics 018 5772 BC)

  BOCCHERINI: Third movement, Minuet, from String Quintet in E G275 - I Musici (Philips 420 816)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Closing Waltz, Grand Finale, from The Nutcracker - Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev (Philips 462 114)

  FAURÉ: Berceuse in D Op 16; Morceau de lecture - Daishin Kashimoto (vln), Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 604)

  THEODORAKIS arr Bessas: The fire inside, from Zorba the Greek - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10723)

  BEETHOVEN arr Stokowski: First movement, Adagio sostenuto, from Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDC 5 55592)

  GRIEG: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, from Lyric Pieces - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 459 671)

  GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Karlheinz Zoeller (fl), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 419 406)

  6:00 ALFORD: Colonel Bogey - Band of the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Manu CD MANU 1286)

  KUHNAU: Biblical Sonata No 1, The combat between David & Goliath - Richard Apperley (organ of St Paul's Lutheran Church, Wellington) (Organism ORG 001)

  KERLL: Batalla Imperial - Hespèrion XX/Jordi Savall (vla da gamba/dir) (Alia Vox AV 9801)

  GOUNOD: Soldiers' chorus, from Faust - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 266)

  HURD: Memento for an Unknown Warrior - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Stewart (Organism ORG 017)

  DOWLAND: Battle Galliard - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (BIS CD 2055)

  GOODWIN: Battle of Britain Suite - BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10262)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Contrapuntal Mozart

  Mozart's music is strongly associated with a simpler form of architecture that abandons the intense polyphony of the preceding Baroque era. But as Thomas Goss reveals, deep in the DNA of Mozart's greatest works is a sense of emotion and conflict that comes directly from JS Bach (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Deutsche Welle Festival

  Thirteen programmes

  (3) Baiba Skride (vln), West German Radio SO, Cologne/Andris Nelsons

  STRAUSS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 8; Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30; Symphonia Domestica Op 53 (recorded in the Cologne Philharmonie by West German Radio/WFMT)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  MARAIS: Suite No 1 in C, from Pièces en trio - Purcell Quartet (Helios CDH 55235)

  DVORÁK: The Wood Dove Op 110 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 2 Op 24, Uppsala-rapsodi - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (Brilliant Classics 8974)

  GADE: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 6 - Dora Bratchkova (vln), Andreas Meyer-Hermann (pno) (CPO 999 644)

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (pno) (Artistled 19901)

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