Monday 11 May 2015 Rāhina 11 Haratua 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  SCHUBERT: Symphony No 2 in Bb D125; Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509-91184)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  WIDOR: Toccata from Symphony No 5 Op 42/1; FRANCK: Prélude, fugue et variation Op 18; MESSIAEN: Transports de joie; VIERNE: Berceuse Op 31/19; ALAIN: Litanies; DURUFLÉ: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain Op 7; Prélude; Fugue; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie in Eb; FRANCK: Choral No 3 in A minor; LANGLAIS: Prélude modal; VIERNE: Symphonie No 1 Op 14, Finale - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  Great Opera Quintets & Sextets

  Quintets & Sextets from Così fan tutte, Carmen, Die Zauberflöte, Lakmé, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola, Anna Bolena, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Le nozze di Figaro, Macbeth & Lucia di Lamermoor - Various artists (Decca 448 061)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2, Razumovsky; String Quartet in Eb Op 74, Harp - Borodin Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10191)

  5:00 approx - Disc 5

  VIVALDI: Bassoon Concertos, in F RV485; in Bb RV503; in Eb RV483; in A minor RV497; in C RV473; in G RV492 - Klaus Thunemann (bsn), I Musici (Philips 416 355)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 BRUCH: Second movement, Adagio, from Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Decca 478 5338)

  BRIDGE: Phantasie Piano Quartet in F# minor - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 68003)

  DOMENICONI: Koyunbaba - John Couch (gtr) (Private)

  MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80318)

  BERLIOZ: Second movement, A Ball, from Symphonie fantastique - Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.572886)

  7:00 GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - Bavarian State Orch/Wolfgang Sawallisch (EMI CDD 7 63893)

  GADE: Capriccio in A minor - Hideko Udagawa (vln), Philharmonia/Martyn Brabbins (Signum SIGCD 224)

  BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle No 25 in A minor, Für Elise; Andante maestoso in C, "Last Musical Thought" - Ronald Brautigam (fpno) (BIS SACD 1892)

  DEBUSSY: Second movement, Assez vif et bien rythmé, from String Quartet in G minor Op 10 - Brodsky Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10717)

  ANON: Folia, Rodrigo Martinez - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Arianna Savall (harp), Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Michael Behringer (org), Pedro Estevan (drum), Adela Gonzalez-Campa (bells) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

  GERSHWIN arr Schoenfeld: Variations on I Got Rhythm - Wayne Marshall (pno/dir), Aalborg SO (Virgin VC 5 61478)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: DELIUS: Two Aquarelles - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Tring International TRP 037)

  FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No 1 - Ulster Orch/Josep Caballé-Domenech (BBC Music BBC MM 255)

  BRAHMS: Second movement, Adagio affetuoso, from Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 - Laura Buruiana (cello), Matei Varga (pno) (Coviello 51204)

  GRIEG arr Baadsvik: Norwegian Dance Op 35/1 - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Musica Vitae/Björn Sagstad (BIS CD 1285)

  VILLA-LOBOS: Aria, from Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 - Odense SO/Jan Wagner (Bridge 9129)

  C STAMITZ arr Wilden-Hüsgen: Orchestral Quartet in C - Fidium Concentus/Dieter Kreidler (MDG 610 0562)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)

  Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522, from L'Estro Armonico - Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir), Geneviève Gilardeau (vln), Tafelmusik (Analekta AN 2 9835)

  Gloria in D RV589 - Carolyn Sampson, Joanne Lunn (sops), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Choir of the King's Consort, King's Consort/Robert King (Hyperion CDA 66849)

  Recorder Concerto in C RV444 - Dan Laurin (recorder), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (RegisC 2023)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Cynthia Morahan

  STRAVINSKY: Petrushka, Suite - Chicago SO/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 85974)

  ONSLOW: String Quartet No 28 in Eb Op 54 - Quatuor Diotima (Naïve V 5200)

  HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 62 in Eb HobXVI/52 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 416 643)

  FRANCK: Symphony in D minor Op 48 - Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1771)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  DONIZETTI arr Christ: Andante in F minor; SCHUBERT arr Moinet: Andante, from Die Zauberharfe; IBERT arr Moinet: Entr'acte - Céline Moinet (ob), Sarah Christ (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902 175)

  CZERNY: Variations on a Cavatina by Bellini, from the opera Il Pirata - Rosemary Tuck (pno), English CO/Richard Bonynge (Naxos 8.573254)

  NISLE: Octet in D - Consortium Classicum (CPO 777 266)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus - Alison Stamp (sop), Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips (dir) (Gimell 454 990)

  AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St John Op 4/8 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

  LULLY: Bois épais, from Amadis - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (BBC Legends BBCL 4117)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Little Piano Book - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

  WAGNER/RUSSELL: The Ring of the Nibelungs, an analysis - Anna Russell (comedienne/pno) (Sony MDK 47252)

  (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 David Morriss

  CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  BACH: Chorale Partita, Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen BWV770 - Peter Hurford (organ of the Abbey of Melk, Austria) (rec 1978) (Decca 421 617)

  HANDEL: Dixit Dominus HWV232 - Felicity Palmer, Margaret Marshall (sops), Charles Brett, John Angelo Messana (countertenors), Richard Morton, Alastair Thompson (tens), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Nicholas Kraemer (hpschd), Malcolm Hicks (org), Monteverdi Choir & Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (rec 1976) (Erato 2292 45136)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  MEYERBEER: Overture; Entr'actes to Acts 2 & 3, from Dinorah - New Zealand SO/Darrell Ang (Naxos 8.573195)

  LILBURN: Duos - Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman (vlns) (Naxos 8.573079)

  EWAZEN: Concerto for flute & chamber orchestra - Marya Martin (fl), Czech Phil/Paul Polivnick (Albany TROY 477)

  5:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5104)

  SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - Frank Braley (pno), Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gérard Caussé (vla), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Alois Posch (dbass) (Virgin 5 45563)

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

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Ilya Kaler (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557690)

  ARBAN: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 9031 77705)

  MONCAYO: Huapango - Royal Phil/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 871)

  6:00 LOCATELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 6/12 - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paul Nicholson (hpschd) (Hyperion CDA 66363)

  BRIDGE: A Sea Idyll - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 082)

  MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Rachel Gauk (gtr) (BIS CD 969)

  TRAD arr Bergeron: Le long de la mer jolie - Suzie Leblanc (sop), David Greenberg (vln), Chris Norman (fl), Chants d'Acadie (ATMA ACD 2 2330)

  GRAINGER: The Sea-Wife, from Nine Settings of Rudyard Kipling - Martyn Hill (ten), Penelope Thwaites (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9610)

  BLOCH: Poems of the Sea - London SO/Dalia Atlas (Naxos 8.573241)

• 7:00 PM. Composer of the Week

  A look at the life and music of ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) presented by Gregory Squire (RNZ)

  Cello Sonata No 9 in G minor RV42 - Marco Ceccato (cello), Accademia Ottoboni (Zig-Zag ZZT 338)

  Clarae stellae, scintillate RV625 - Sara Mingardo (contralto), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (dir) (Opus 111 OP 30367)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Bella Hristova (vln), Southern Sinfonia/Tecwyn Evans

  A RITCHIE: Violin Concerto (première performance & broadcast); SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (recorded in the Dunedin Town Hall by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. Forest Scenes

  SCHUMANN: Forest Scenes Op 82 - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 88697 56887)

  DVORÁK: Nos 4, 5, 8, 9 & 10, from Cypresses - Vogler Quartet (CPO 777 625-2)

  MASSENET: Sous les tilleuls, from Scènes alsaciennes - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (London 443 333)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RESPIGHI: Belkis, Queen of Sheba - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8405)

  IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: An evening in Georgia - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1246)

  MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Concentus Musicus, Vienna/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Sony 88837 20682)

  FAURÉ: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 13 - Tasmin Little (vln), Martin Roscoe (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10812)

  CHOPIN: Etudes Op 25 - Jan Lisiecki (pno) (DG 479 1039)

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