Saturday 2 May 2015 Rāhoroi 2 Haratua 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

  (7) Cosmology in New York, motherhood, orchestra and mother's death; 1967-8 (RNZ)

  12:50 approx Disc 1

  REGER: Variations & Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op 132; Variations & Fugue on a theme of Hiller Op 100 - New Zealand SO/Franz-Paul Decker (Naxos 8.553079)

  2:05 approx - Disc 2

  VAN EECHAUTE: Pastorale; MORTELMANS: Saïdjah's lied; Intermezzo in A; RYELANDT: Nocturne; VAN EECHAUTE: Canzonetta; Berceuse; RYELANDT: Five Fantasy Pieces; BENOIT: Derde Fantasie; VAN EECHAUTE: Suite ancienne; DE GREEF: Coucher de Soleil; MORTELMANS: Nachtmijmering - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

  3:25 approx - Disc 3

  REBAY: Three Concert Pieces; BEETHOVEN arr Rebay: Dance No 4; REBAY: Little Variations; BEETHOVEN arr Rebay: Dance No 5; REBAY: Sonata in D minor for clarinet & guitar; BEETHOVEN arr Rebay: Dance No 7; REBAY: Sonata in A minor for clarinet & guitar; Sonatina in Bb for clarinet & guitar - Luigi Magistrelli (cl), Massimo Laura (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94171)

  4:45 approx - Disc 4

  CPE BACH: Symphonies, in G Wq182/1; in Bb Wq182/2; in C Wq182/3; in A Wq182/4; in B minor Wq182/5; in E Wq182/6 - Carl Philippe Emanuel Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Cappriccio 10 106)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CHERUBINI: Anacréon, Overture -

  ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CDC 7 54438)

  PUCCINI arr Kondonassis: Musetta's Waltz song, from La Bohème - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Aquarium, from Carnival of the Animals - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  BOCCHERINI: Flute Quintet in C G427 - Carlo Ipata (fl), Auser Musici (Hyperion CDA 67646)

  WEBER: Six Favourite Waltzes - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 357)

  VIVALDI: Concerto Grosso in B minor RV580 - Shlomo Mintz, Gil Shaham, Maxim Vengerov, Menahem Breuer (vlns), Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (RCA 09026 68768)

  7:00 HOWELLS: Puck's Minuet, from Two Pieces for small orchestra Op 20 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7317)

  GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)

  HAYDN: Concertino in D for horn & trombone - Johannes Hinterholzer (hn), Norbert Salvenmoser (tbn), Salzburg Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777 538)

  BODY: Three Transcriptions, Long Gi Yi (China); Ramandriana (Madagascar); Ratschenitsa (Bulgaria) - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 118)

  COPLAND: El Salón México - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (BBC Music BBC MM 98)

  8:00 HOLST: Brook Green Suite - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Alto ALC 1013)

  GLUCK arr Kreisler: Melody, from Orpheus & Euridice - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

  K JENKINS: La Folia - Neil Percy (marimba), London SO/Karl Jenkins (EMI 5 00235)

  TELEMANN: Flute Sonata in D - Karl Kaiser (fl), members of Camerata Cologne (DHM 05472 77361)

  DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66 - BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Warner 2564 63235)

• 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

  MOZART: Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Netherlands Wind Ensemble (NBE Live NBECD 017)

  STRAUSS orch Hegel: Zueignung Op 10/1 - Jessye Norman (sop), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 411 052)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in C K329 - Ian Watson (org), Classical Orch of The King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Wither's rocking hymn - Choir of Worcester Cathedral/Christopher Robinson (Chandos CHAN 6550)

  RUBINSTEIN: Romance in Eb Op 44/1; Nocturne in Eb Op 9/2; BALAKIREV: Melodie Espagnole in Db - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

  PORPORA: Alto Giove, from Polifemo - Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Academia Montis Regalis/Alessandro De Marchi (Naïve V 5369)

  GODARD arr Terracini: Berceuse, from Jocelyn - Murray Khouri (cl), Prague Metropolitan Orch/Paul Terracini (Continuum CCD 1080)

  HANDEL: Tune the soft melodious lute, from Jephtha - Christiane Oelze (sop), Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/Marcus Creed (Berlin Classics 018 4752)

  ROSSINI: Saltarello à l'italienne; Prélude moresque - Paolo Giacometti (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 12398)

  P TURNER: Passchendaele - Paul Turner (vocalist), Ceol Manawatu (CEOL 391926)

  GESUALDO: Mentre Madonna il lasso ... Ahi troppo saggia; Se da sì nobil mano ... Amor pace non chero, from Madrigals, Book 1 - Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara/Sergio Vartolo (hpschd/dir), Loredana Gintoli (harp) (Brilliant Classics 92635)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. Jazz on Concert

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

  (9) Jazz in NZ, Steve Garden talks about the Rattle Jazz label (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Janine Jansen (vln), New Zealand SO/Daniel Blendulf

  LIADOV: The Enchanted Lake; TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35; PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 100 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 5:15 PM. Flute & Harp

  FRANCAIX: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio - Mirage Quintet (Naxos 8.570444)

  BUCHANAN: Flute Song for the Birds; J RITCHIE: Sweet & Sour - Bridget Douglas (fl) (Trust MMT 2063-64)

  HASSELMANS: La Source; MARSHALL: Heartstrings - Claire Jones (harp), English CO/Stuart Morley (Classic FM 28947 65143)

  HARTY: In Ireland - Colin Fleming (fl), Denise Kelly (harp), Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 6583)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: Piano Sonata in A minor (1939) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

  FARR: Ruaumoko - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2042)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY

  VAQUEIRAS: Kalenda maya - Tobias Cole (countertenor), Renaissance Players/Winsome Evans (Walsingham Classics WAL 8004)

  SENFL: Im Maien - Charles Daniels (ten), Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7334)

  BYRD: This sweet & merry month of May - Clare Wilkinson (mezzo), Rose Consort of Viols (Deux-Elles DXL 1129)

  NICHOLSON: In a merry May morn; ANON: When May is in his prime - Connor Burrowes (treble), David Miller (lute/gtr), Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet (Channel Classics CCS 9196)

  BEETHOVEN: Maigesang - Stephan Genz (bar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67055)

  Es kehret der Maien, from An die ferne Geliebte Op 98 - James Gilchrist (ten), Anna Tilbrook (pno) (Orchid Classics ORC 100013)

  LACHNER: Im Mai Op 33/6; SCHUMANN: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, from Dichterliebe Op 48 - Mark Padmore (ten), Kristian Bezuidenhout (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7521)

  MENDELSSOHN: Andres Maienlied Op 8/8 - Barbara Bonney (sop), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Teldec 2292 44946)

  SODERMAN: In the lovely month of May; May Song - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (BIS SACD 1867)

  STRAUSS: The Sweet Month of May, from Five Songs Op 32 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bar), Wolfgang Sawallisch (pno) (DG 447 512)

  Frühling, from Four Last Songs - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 430 511)

  MEDTNER: May Song, from Nine Goethe Lieder Op 6 - Susan Gritton (sop), Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10093)

  MARX: Maienblüten - Angela Maria Blasi (sop), Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1164)

  FAURÉ: May Op 1/2 - Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, John Mark Ainsley (tens), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67334)

  TRAD arr Vaughan Williams: May Day Carol, from Eight Traditional English Carols - Derek Welton (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Albion ALBCD 013)

  IRELAND: English May, from Songs of a Wayfarer; The merry month of May - Benjamin Luxon (bar), Alan Rowlands (pno) (Lyrita SRCD 2261)

  QUILTER: O, the Month of May - Mark Stone (bar), Stephen Barlow (pno) (Stone Records 780307)

  BUSH: O, the Month of May - Simon Wallfisch (bar), Edward Rushton (pno) (Lyrita SRCD 343)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Doctor of Musical Arts Recital

  John Chen (pno)

  BARBER: Piano Sonata Op 26; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111; MENDELSSOHN: Seven Characteristic Pieces Op 7, No 3 in D, Kräftig und feurig; No 5 in A, Fuga, Ernst und mit steigender Lebhaftigkeit; HINDEMITH: Piano Sonata No 3 in Bb; BACH: Third movement, Courante, from Partita No 1 in Bb BWV825 (recorded in the Music Theatre, University of Auckland School of Music by RNZ)

• 9:25 PM. Written 200 Years Ago

  PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 6 - Sarah Chang (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDC 5 55026)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RÓZSA: Three Hungarian Sketches - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7191)

  CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Guitar Sonata in D Op 77, Homage to Boccherini - Irina Kulikova (gtr) (Naxos 8.572717)

  QUANTZ: Flute Concerto in C minor QV5:38 - Mary Oleskiewicz (fl), Concerto Armonico/Miklós Spányi (Naxos 8.573120)

  11:00 RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67114)

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 399)

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