Saturday 30 May 2015 Rāhoroi 30 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

  (11) Research, conservation, travel, two papers at Amherst; 1971 (RNZ)

  12:55 approx - Disc 1

  SMETANA: Má Vlast - Prague Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 4032)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  KARAINDROU: Soundtrack from the film Ulysses' Gaze - Kim Kashkashian (vla), Vangelis Christopoulos (ob), Andreas Tsekouras (accordion), Socratis Anthis (tpt), Vangelis Skouras (hn), Christos Sfetsas (cello), Georgia Voulvi (vocalist), string orch/Lefteris Chalkiadakis (ECM 1570)

  3:10 approx - Disc 3

  HANDEL: Zadok the Priest; ELGAR: Lux aeterna - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

  GOSS: Praise, my soul, the king of heaven - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Thomas Williamson (org)

  TALLIS: Spem in alium - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

  GOSS: The Lord is my shepherd - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/David Willcocks

  HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, ASMF/David Willcocks

  RUTTER: Pie Jesu, from Requiem - Edward Saklatvala (treble), Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Come down, O love divine - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Thomas Williamson (org)

  TALLIS: O nata lux de lumine - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Oliver Brett (org)

  GARDINER: Evening Hymn - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/David Willcocks, James Lancelot (org)

  BYRD: Ave verum corpus - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

  MILLER: When I survey the wondrous cross - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Benjamin Bayl (org)

  STANFORD: Beati quorum via - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/David Willcocks

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Antiphon, from Five Mystical Songs - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge, English CO/David Willcocks

  BYRD: Iustorum animae - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/David Willcocks

  PURCELL: Come ye sons of art away, excerpt; HARRIS: Faire is the Heaven - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

  BAIRSTOW: Psalm 67, God be merciful unto us - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/David Willcocks (org/dir)

  PARSONS: Ave Maria - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury

  BOURGEOIS: All people that on earth do dwell - Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge; Wallace Collection/Stephen Cleobury, Benjamin Bayl (org) (EMI 2 28944)

  4:30 approx - Disc 4

  GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16; BRAHMS: Ballades Op 10; Waltzes Op 39 - Richard Farrell (pno), Hallé Orch/George Weldon (Atoll ACD 208)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VANHAL: Symphony in A (Bryan A4) - Esterhazy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554662)

  TRIEBENSEE: Variations on a theme of Haydn, from Symphony No 94, Surprise - Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank (obs), Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia (cor anglais) (Resonance CD RSN 3102)

  HILL: A Rêverie - Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann (Marco Polo 8.223538)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five English Folksongs, The dark-eyed sailor; The springtime of the year; Just as the tide was flowing; The lover's ghost; Wassail song - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9425)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Act 2, Part 2 - National Phil/Richard Bonynge (Decca 425 413)

  7:00 ADDINSELL: The Isle of Apples - BBC Concert Orch/Kenneth Alwyn (Marco Polo 8.223732)

  LILBURN: Bagatelle No 4, From the Port Hills - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)

  ALBINONI: Second movement, Larghetto, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

  DVORÁK: Miniatures Op 75 - Erich Höbarth, Peter Matzka (vlns), Thomas Riebl (vla) (EMI CDC 5 55272)

  ANDERSON: Forgotten dreams - Barbara Lieberman (pno), Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

  YAMADA: India (Spellbinding) - Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570552)

  8:00 ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Signum Classics SIG CD 201)

  WIENIAWSKI: Polonaise No 1 in D Op 4 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), Daniel Gortler (pno) (RCA 82876 50470)

  WF BACH: Sinfonia in F F67, Dissonant - CPE Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen (Brilliant Classics 94690)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Zambra, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Eldar Nebolsin (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572335)

• 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

  HAYDN: Symphony No 54 in G - Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer (Nimbus NI 5534)

  VIVALDI: Gloria in D RV589 - Anna Simboli, Alena Dantcheva (sops), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30485)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in Bb K212 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  PUCCINI: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Renée Fleming (sop), Mariinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev (Decca 475 8070)

  STATHAM: Suite for flute & string quartet - Adrianna Lis (fl), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

  SARIJEVSKY: Zajdi, Zajdi, jasno sonce; TRAD Bulgarian: Sborenka - Hesperion XXI and guest musicians/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9898)

  BEETHOVEN: Eroica Variations Op 35 - Emanuel Ax (pno) (Sony 88765 42086)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. New Jazz Archive

  Ten programmes of interviews with some of jazz's big musical thinkers, vibrant biographies and carefully-crafted playlists that represent the full gamut of jazz's rich history

  (3) Artie Shaw

  The life and music of swing anti-hero. Biographer Tom Nolan talks about Artie's reluctant rise to stardom during the 1930s and dissects his much publicized rivalry with Benny Goodman. And we'll take a look at Artie's abrupt, Shakespearean exit from the music business in the 1950s and explore what made Artie Shaw one of the most innovative and complex voices of the swing era (PRX)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  David Groves (narrator), Martin Riseley (vln), New Zealand School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young

  MENDELSSOHN: Overture; Nocturne; Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream Op 61; BODY: Meditations on Michelangelo for speaker, violin and strings; SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

• 4:30 PM. Some Musical Brilliance

  WEBER: Rondo Brillante in Eb, La Gaité - Hamish Milne (pno) (CRD 3485)

  HUMMEL: Grande Rondo Brilliante Op 126 - Eugenia Zukerman (fl), Anthony Newman (pno) (Newport Classic NCD 60044)

  FRANCK: Brilliant Variations on the Favourite Dance from Auber's Gustave III - Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno), New Belgium Radio & Television SO/Edgar Doneux (Koch 311 111)

  SPOHR: String Quartet No 18 in B minor Op 61, Quatuor brillant No 3 - Moscow Philharmonic Concertino String Quartet (Naxos 8.225352)

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

  RIES: Introduction & Rondeau brillant WoO54 - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), Bournemouth SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.572088)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  PACHELBEL: Canon in D - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

  NORMAN: Shipwreck - Jubilate Singers/Grant Hutchinson (dir), Alison Holden (pno) (Jubilate)

  FALLA: Nana; Asturiana, from Popular Spanish Suite - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

  FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  GLINKA: Russian Songs, The lark; I remember the wonderful moment; Boléro - Galina Gorchakova (sop), Larissa Gergieva (pno) (Philips 446 720)

  Fire in my veins; To a lyre; Do not tempt me; Tell me why - Elena Kelessidi (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Onyx 4031)

  Lullaby - Lina Mkrtchyan (contralto), Evgeny Talisman (pno) (Opus 111 OPS 30 227)

  Travel Song; Stanzas; Doubt - Vassily Savenko (bbar), Alexei Kropotov (cello), Alexander Blok (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67205)

  ELGAR: The shepherd's song Op 16/1; Pleading Op 48; Like to the damask rose; Is she not passing fair?; Speak, music Op 42/2; Rondel Op 16/3; Queen Mary's song - Felicity Lott (sop), Joseph Middleton (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 027)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  2014 Wellington Jazz Festival

  Five programmes

  (5) Bella Kalolo and The Soul Symphony

  Experience New Zealand soul at its best when Bella Kalolo takes the Wellington Jazz Festival stage with her all-star band The Soul Symphony. While her voice is often compared to American diva Aretha Franklin's, this New Zealand soul sister has established her own distinctive style, and performed with a huge array of artists, including Chaka Kahn, Mos Def, Fat Freddy's Drop, Dave Dobbyn and Aaradhna (recorded in the Wellington Opera House by RNZ)

• 9:15 PM. By the Rhine

  WAGNER: Abendlich strahlt, from Das Rheingold - Alice Coote (mezzo), Colin Lee (ten), John Tomlinson (bass), London Phil/David Parry (Chandos CHAN 3076)

  SCHUMANN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish - London SO/Yondani Butt (Nimbus NI 6163)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SAINT-SAËNS: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 167 - Richard Hosford (cl), Ian Brown (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

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

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Tugan Sokhiev (Naïve V 5252)

  11:00 ALWYN: Concerto Grosso No 2 in G - strings of the London Phil/William Alwyn (Lyrita SRCD 230)

  FRANÇAIX: Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano - Ensemble Blumina (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 903 1827)

  HOFFMANN: Harp Quintet in C minor AV24 - Isabelle Moretti (harp), Parisii Quartet (CPO 999 309)

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