Saturday 6 June 2015 Rāhoroi 6 Pipiri 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

  (12) Three months post in Pasadena, back to Dallas, Pasadena again, home to NZ for Christmas, new position in Maryland; 1972-3 (RNZ)

  12:55 - Disc 1

  MOZART: Bassoon Concerto in Bb K191; ROSSINI: Bassoon Concerto in Bb; KREUTZER: Fantasie for bassoon & orchestra; CRUSELL: Bassoon Concertino in Bb - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10613)

  2:00 approx - Disc 2

  Kurr by Icelandic ensemble Amiina

  ÁRSÆLSDÓTTIR/SIGFÚSDÓTTIR/ÓLAFSDÓTTIR/SUMARLIÐADÓTTIR: Sogg, Rugla, Glámur, Seoul, Lúpína, Hilli, Sexfaldur, Kolapot, Saga, Lóri, Bláfeldur, Boga - Hildur Ársælsdóttir, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (vlns), Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir (vla), Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir (cello), and various other instruments

  (Ever 11)

  2:50 approx - Disc 3

  HAMILTON: Caliban's Song; Three Songs from Othello; Carol of the Mother and Child; Lullaby Carol; Tydynges, tydynges; Transatlantic; Poem about the Sun Slinking Off; Didn't it rain?; From Age to Age Endure; Nunc Dimittis; Lux aeterna; Song for a Young Country - Maria Treadaway (sop), James Brown, Susan Smith (pnos), Viva Voce/John Rosser (Ode CD ODE 1308)

  3:55 approx - Disc 4

  KÓDALY: Cello Sonata Op 8, Sonatina for cello & piano, Epigrams, Romance lyrique, Adagio - Natalie Clein (cello), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67829)

  5:05 approx - Disc 5

  BACH: Flute Sonata in C BWV1033; Flute Sonata in Eb BWV1031; Flute Sonata in G minor BWV1020; Trio Sonata in G BWV1039 - Emmanuel Pahud, Silvia Careddu (fls), Jonathan Manson (cello), Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (EMI 2 17443)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  HANDEL: Alcina, Overture - English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 486)

  ELGAR: La Blonde - Innovation Chamber Ensemble/Barry Collett (Somm SOMMCD 252)

  LARSEN arr Larsen/Eriksson: Polonaise - Gjermund Larsen (fiddle), Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 1871)

  KELLY: Three Pieces for strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

  BENOIT: Derde Fantasie - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

  BRAHMS: How lovely are thy dwellings, from A German Requiem - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

  REICHENAUER: Oboe Concerto in F - Geoffrey Coates (ob), Charivari Agréable/Kah-Ming Ng (dir) (Signum SIGCD 249)

  7:00 DOBRZYNSKI: Second movement, Andante grazioso, from Symphony No 2 - Polish Radio SO/Lukasz Borowicz (Chandos CHAN 10778)

  SMYTHE: Moto Mojo - Helen Webby (harp) (Ode CD MANU 5144)

  WHITACRE: October - Youngstown State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble/Stephen Gage (Naxos 8.570946)

  DELIUS: Air & Dance - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2136)

  MOZART: Catalogue aria, Madamina, il catalogo è questo, from Don Giovanni - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 445 866)

  ELLER: Three Studies - Sten Lassmann (pno) (Toccata TOCC 0161)

  SATIE orch Milhaud: Jack-in-the-Box - London Festival Players/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 421 395)

  8:00 D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E Kk380 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (DG 419 499)

  BACH: Sinfonia, from Christmas Oratorio - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 457 357)

  MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso - Gil Shaham (vln), Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 454 647)

  FAURÉ: Second movement, Scherzo (Allegro vivo) from Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 - Domus (Hyperion CDA 66166)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite, Seventeen come Sunday; My bonny boy; Folk songs from Somerset - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

  CATTOLICA: Duo - Sergio Bosi (cl), Riccardo Bartoli (pno) (Naxos 8.572690)

  DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Michael Hill International Violin Competition Commissions

  Eight programmes researched and produced by Amber Read

  (1) GILLIAN WHITEHEAD: Bright Silence (RNZ)

• 10:15 AM. Your Choice

  FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Robert Chilcott (treble), John Carol Case (bar), John Wells (org), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, New Philharmonia/David Willcocks (EMI 3 79994)

  TRAD Serbian: Borin Cocek - Hespèrion XXI and guest musicians/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9898)

  HUGHES: Cwm Rhondda - Morriston Orpheus Choir & Orch/Alwyn Humphreys (Discurio CD MML 11)

  DUBERY: Cuarteto Ibérico (Los fantasmas de los tiempos pasados) - Cavaleri Quartet (Metier MSV 28548)

  NIEDERMEYER arr Whilds: Pietà, Signore - Vittorio Grigolo (ten), Orchestra Sinfonietta di Roma/Fabio Cerroni (Sony 88725 44082)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in D K245 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir), Ian Watson (org) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 4 in D Op 83 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 463 284)

  (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

  (4) John Coltrane

  The life and music of John Coltrane. We'll talk with our jazz historian and renowned Coltrane scholar Lewis Porter about Trane's early roots growing up in rural North Carolina, and get to know the softer side of John Coltrane the balladeer. And we'll explore John Coltrane's redemption story and his transformation from heroin addict to spiritual icon, and sit down for a conversation with Ravi Coltrane about how his father's music unexpectedly inspired him to carry on the family legacy (PRX)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  The Valkyrie

  WAGNER: Die Walküre, an opera in three acts

  Siegmund..................... Simon O'Neill

  Sieglinde...................... Edith Haller

  Brünnhilde................... Christine Goerke

  Wotan.......................... John Wegner

  Hunding....................... Jonathan Lemalu

  Fricka........................... Margaret Medlyn

  Gerhilde....................... Amanda Atlas

  Siegrune....................... Anna Pierard

  Waltraute..................... Sarah Castle

  Schwertleite................. Kate Spence

  Grimgerde................... Kristen Darragh

  Ortlinde....................... Lisa Harper-Brown

  Helmwige.................... Morag Atchinson

  Rossweisse................... Wendy Doyle

  New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

  (the broadcast includes two intervals, the first at 4:10 approx, will contain cast interviews and the second at 6:05 approx, during which Erica Challis looks at the background of the Wagner tuba)

• 8:30 PM. Byron's Closet Drama

  SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture Op 115 - BBC National Orch of Wales/Walter Weller (BBC Music BBC MM 216)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Manfred Symphony Op 58 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev, Norbert Gembaczka (org) (Pentatone PTC 5186387)

  FREITAS BRANCO: The Death of Manfred - RTE National SO/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.572370)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  KOEHNE: The Persistence of Memory - David Nuttall (ob), Jun Yi Ma (vln), Sue-Ellen Paulsen (cello), Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC 481 1480)

  HERRMANN: Clarinet Quintet, Souvenirs de Voyage - Julian Bliss (cl), Tippett Quartet (Signum SIGCD 234)

  LILBURN: A Song of Islands - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557697)

  11:00 RAFF: String Quartet No 4 in A minor Op 137 - Mannheim String Quartet (CPO 777 004)

  TURINA: Piano Trio No 1 Op 35 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67889)

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