Saturday 9 May 2015 Rāhoroi 9 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

  (8) Two children, chamber music, orchestra, and a little astrophysics; 1968 (RNZ)

  1:00 Disc 1

  BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding

  String Sextet No 2 in G Op 36 - Isabelle Faust, Julia-Maria Kretz (vlns), Stefan Fehlandt, Pauline Sachse (vlas), Christoph Richter, Xenia Jankovic (cellos) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2075)

  2:15 approx - Disc 2

  Frère Jacques: Round About Offenbach

  Various works by OFFENBACH arranged for clarinet and accordion - Gianluigi Trovesi (cls/piccolo), Gianni Coscia (accordion) (ECM 2217)

  3:30 approx - Disc 3

  TALLIS: Videte miraculum; TAVERNER: Audivi vocem de caelo; BYRD: Rorate caeli desuper; TALLIS: Missa puer natus est (Gloria); BYRD: Tollite portas; TALLIS: Missa puer natus est (Sanctus & Benedictus); BYRD: Ave Maria; TALLIS: Missa puer natus est (Agnus Dei); BYRD: Ecce virgo concipiet; WHITE: Magnificat; TRAD: Puer natus est nobis (chant); SHEPPARD: Verbum caro factum est - Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7517)

  4:50 approx - Disc 4

  GENISHTA: Nocturne; TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso Op 62; Solo from Sleeping Beauty; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Serenade; GLAZUNOV: Elegy in memorial of Franz Liszt Op 17; Spanish Serenade Op 20/2; RACHMANINOV: Prelude Op 2/1; Oriental Dance Op 2/2; ROSLAVETS: Dance of the white girls; MOSLOV: Legende Op 5; PROKOFIEV: Adagio from Cinderella Op 97; SHOSTAKOVICH: Moderato - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ingrid Wahlberg (pno) (Manu CD 1426)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in D Op 5/1 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 040 301)

  GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Private)

  JOYCE: Dreaming - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)

  BOCCHERINI: Fourth movement, Fandango, from Guitar Quintet in D G448 - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (perc), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

  PRAETORIUS arr Lane: Dances from Terpsichore - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2142)

  7:00 ELGAR: Elegy Op 58 - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Trust MMT 2059)

  BORODIN: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 1143)

  STRAUSS: Symphonic Interlude, Träumerei am Kamin, from Intermezzo Op 72 - Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC Classics 446 631)

  FALLA trans Maréchal/Llobet: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Anne Gastinel (cello), Pablo Màrquez (gtr) (Naïve V 5182)

  TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - Niklas Eklund (tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Edward Tarr (Naxos 8.554375)

  8:00 OFFENBACH arr Haensch: La Belle Hélène, Overture - BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 5 in Ab D557 - Michael Endres (pno) (Capriccio 10 553)

  DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Royal Phil/Douglas Bostock (Tring International TRP 074)

  J STRAUSS II arr I Salonisti: Vienna Blood Waltz - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches, Suite No 1 Op 10, Nos 2 & 4 - Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Goetzel (Onyx 4124)

• 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: Masonic Funeral Music in C minor K477 - New Zealand SO/Nicholas McGegan (Private)

  Piano Sonata No 10 in C K330 - Kemp English (fpno) (Manu CD MANU 5001)

  Church Sonata in G K274 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  DELL'ACQUA: Villanelle - Rita Streich (sop), RIAS SO, Berlin/Kurt Gaebel (rel 1955) (DG 457 729)

  RAFF: The Queen's Polka - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

  TRAD arr Keyte: Watts's Cradle Hymn - Emma Kirkby (sop), Michael Lees (countertenor), Tom Raskin (ten), Tom Finucane (gtr), Westminster Abbey Choir/Martin Neary (Sony 87771)

  HUMMEL arr Sedlak: Die Eselshaut, Suite - Albion Ensemble (Helios CDH 55037)

  RACHMANINOV: Prelude in Eb Op 23/6 - Byron Janis (pno) (Mercury 432 759)

  SMYTH: The March of the Women - Janis Hardy (mezzo), Plymouth Festival Chorus & Orch/Philip Brunelle (Virgin VC 7 91188)

  BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 - Janine Jansen (vln), Deutsche Chamber Phil/Paavo Järvi (Decca 478 1530)

  (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

  (10) Potpourri (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  2014 NZCT Chamber Music Contest National semi-final

  Three programmes compered by Kate Mead

  (1) BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro con brio, from Piano Trio No 3 in C minor - Lichnowsky (Hamilton)

  BRAHMS: Second movement, Scherzo, from Horn Trio in Eb Op 40 - Eklamoré (Christchurch)

  SUK: First & Third movements, Allegro; Vivace, from Piano Trio in C minor Op 2 - Suk Trio (Auckland)

  GOMELSKAYA: Movements 1, 2, 4 & 5, from Out of Gravitation - Vaha (Christchurch)

  RACHMANINOV: Piano Trio No 1 in G minor, Élégiaque - Elegiac Trio (Wellington)

  RAVEL: First & Second movements, Modéré; Pantoum, Assez vif, from Piano Trio in A minor - L'arc en ciel (Auckland) (recorded in the Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret's College, Christchurch by RNZ)

• 4:35 PM. What's in a Picture?

  RESPIGHI: Three Botticelli Pictures - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.573168)

  MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition - Michael Houstoun (pno) (HMV ASD 9009)

  WOYRSCH: Three Böcklin Fantasies - Oldenburg State Orch/Thomas Dorsch (CPO 777 923)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  FARQUHAR: Homage to Stravinsky - Concord Brass (Manu CD MANU 1550)

  STRAVINSKY: Duo Concertant - Max Rostal (vln), Colin Horsley (pno) (Symposium 1076)

  Pulcinella Suite - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  BRAHMS: Six Songs Op 86, Theresa; Alone in a meadow; Night wanderer; Across the heath; Drowned; Yearning for death; Two Songs for contralto, viola & piano Op 91, Longing eased; Sacred lullaby - Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Nicolò Eugelmi (vla), Michael McMahon (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9906)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: None but the lonely heart Op 6/6; Night Op 60/9; At bedtime Op 27/1; I opened the window Op 63/2; My genius, my angel, my friend; Not a word, O my friend Op 6/2; Why? Op 6/5; To forget so soon - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Ivari Ilja (pno) (Delos DE 3393)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Shakespeare in Music

  New Zealand SO/Alexander Shelley

  KORNGOLD: Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11; MENDELSSOHN: Overture; Scherzo; Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream Op 61; WALTON: Henry V Suite; STRAUSS: Macbeth Op 23 (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:20 PM. Émigré Poles

  TANSMAN: Sonate quasi una fantasia - Klaidi Sahatçi (vln), Giorgio Koukl (pno) (Naxos 8.573127)

  CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35 - Emil Gilels (pno) (Philips 456 799)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  BIZET: Overture in A - RTE National SO/Jean-Luc Tingaud (Naxos 8.573344)

  JC BACH: Violin Concerto in C - Anna McDonald (vln), Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (dir) (CPO 999 627)

  P SCHARWENKA: Liebesnacht - Gävle SO/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1071)

  11:00 GLINKA: Serenade on themes from Donizetti's Anna Bolena - Bolshoi Theatre Soloists/Alexander Lazarev (Brilliant Classics 94641)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 3 in F Op 73 - Valentin Berlinsky Quartet (Avie AV 2273)

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