Saturday 20 June 2015 Rāhoroi 20 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

  (14) Annie Cannon Prize in Astronomy, visit to sister in Huancayo, research at Cambridge, end of marriage, job offers, farewells; 1974 (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish; orch Voss: Opening sketch of "Scottish" Symphony; Piano Concerto No 3 in E minor; Hebrides Overture - Roberto Prosseda (pno), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 1525)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19; GRIEG: Cello Sonata in A minor Op 36 - Jamie Walton (cello), Daniel Grimwood (pno) (Signum SIGCD 172)

  3:05 approx - Disc 3

  VANHAL: Missa Pastoralis in G; Missa Solemnis in C - Mary Haines (sop), Nina Stoddart (contralto), Colin Ainsworth (ten), Steven Pitkanen (bass), Voices New Zealand, Aradia Ensemble/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.555080)

  4:15 approx - Disc 4

  GLASS: Violin Concerto No 2, The American Four Seasons - Robert McDuffie (vln), London Phil/Marin Alsop (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0072)

  4:55 Approx - Disc 5

  TOURNIER: Suite for flute, harp & string trio Op 34; SCHMITT: Suite en rocaille Op 84; PIERNÉ: Variations libres et finale Op 51; FRANÇAIX: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio; ROUSSEL: Serenade Op 30 - Mirage Quintet (Naxos 8.570444)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in G Op 3/3 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304980)

  PROKOFIEV arr Heifetz: Masks, from Romeo & Juliet - Gil Shaham (vln), Orli Shaham (pno) (Artemis ATM CD 1555)

  SAEVERUD: Small Bird Waltz Op 18/2 - Stavanger SO/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS CD 1032)

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

  HOLZBAUER: Symphony in A Op 2/4 - Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (dir) (CPO 999 585)

  CHOPIN: Impromptu No 1 in Ab Op 29 - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10813)

  WAGNER: Parsifal, Prelude to Act 1 - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 474 377)

  7:00 FERLENDIS: Oboe Concerto No 3 in C - Diego Dini Ciacci (ob/dir), Haydn Orch (CPO 777 368)

  MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - World Orch for Peace/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 6937)

  RUBINSTEIN: Kamennoi-Ostrov Op 10/17, Allegro non troppo - Joseph Banowetz (pno) (Naxos 8.223847)

  GOUNOD: Soldiers' chorus, from Faust - Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 422 266)

  DANZI ed Klug: Variations on a theme by Mozart - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557613)

  SIBELIUS trans Virtanen: Three Late Fragments - BBC Phil/John Storgårds (Chandos CHAN 10809)

  DVORÁK arr Schubert Ensemble: Songs my mother taught me Op 55/4 - Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10719)

  SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music No 2 in G - Das Neue Orchester/Christoph Spering (Opus 111 OPS 30-192)

  8:00 SULLIVAN: Ruddigore, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

  BRAHMS: Third movement, Allegretto grazioso, from Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 - Michael Collins (cl), Michael McHale (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10844)

  WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

  DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D minor - Jérôme Pernoo (cello), Elisabeth Rigollet (pno) (Calliope CAL 9837)

  BENJAMIN: Jamaican Rumba - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67400)

  IRELAND: Legend - Piers Lane (pno), Ulster Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67296)

• 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

  JOYCE: Bohemia - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223694)

  DUBERY: Night Songs, One night in December; Evening in April; June evening; An August midnight - Adrienne Murray (mezzo), Michael Cox (fl), David Dubery (pno) (Metier MSV 28548)

  WILD: Variations on an American theme, Doo-Dah Variations - Earl Wild (pno), Des Moines SO/Joseph Giunta (Chesky CD 98)

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

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue in B minor BWV544, from Musikalischer Parnassus - Paul Rosoman (organ of Old St Paul's, Wellington) (Prestant Records PRE 002)

  WATTS arr Norton: Jesus shall reign - St Michael's Singers, Coventry/Paul Leddington-Wright, David Poulter (org), Grant Kirkhope (tpt), Frank Mizen (tbn) (Kingsway KMCD 582)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in C K263 - Ian Watson (org), Classical Orch of The King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  GESUALDO: Tirsi morir volea ... Frenò Tirsi il desìo; Mentre mia stella miri, from Madrigals, Book 1 - Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara/Sergio Vartolo (hpschd/dir), Loredana Gintoli (harp) (Brilliant Classics 92635)

  BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'Oiseau-Lyre 425 696)

  (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

  (6) Chet Baker

  This week it's the brilliant and tumultuous life of Chet Baker. Biographer James Gavin talks about Chet's life and music, from his unlikely breakthrough as one of the most popular trumpeters of the 1950s to the drug addiction which nearly unraveled his career. And we'll explore Chet's surprising, controversial work as a jazz vocalist and trace his role in bringing new life to one of jazz's most treasured standards (PRX)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Pettman/Royal Overseas League Scholarship 2013

  Semi-final, Part 1 of 2

  ARENSKY: First movement, Allegro moderato, from Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32; PSATHAS: Helix Tarantismo - Akato Trio: Kent Isomura (pno), Shauno Isomura (vln), Jesbery Hartono (cello)

  BEN-HAIM: Canzona; SCHUMANN: First & Third Pieces, Zart und mit Ausdruck; Rasch und mit Feuer, from Three Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Duo Cecilia: Lucy Gijsbers (cello), Andrew Atkins (pno)

  HAYDN: First movement, Andante, from Piano Trio in G HobXV/25, Gypsy; LIEBERMANN: Second & Fourth movements, from Flute Trio No 1 Op 83 - Balaenae Trio: Lauren Grout (fl), Catherine Kwak (cello), Cherry Ngan (pno) (recorded in the Dr John Gallagher Concert Chamber, Performing Arts Centre, University of Waikato, Hamilton by RNZ)

• 3:50 PM. A Little Campanology

  DVORÁK: Symphony No 1 in C minor, The Bells of Zlonice - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Decca 478 6757)

  PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 7, La Campanella - Massimo Quarta (vln/dir), Orch of the Carlo Felice Theatre, Genoa (Dynamic CDS 260)

  A WILLIAMS: Poem of the Bells Op 60 - Valentín Surif (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223800)

  ALFVÉN: The Bells Op 13 - Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (bar), Gävle SO/Stefan Parkman (Sterling CDS 1036)

  DEMACHI: Sinfonia in F, Le campane di Roma - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 3 63430)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  LILBURN: String Trio (1945) - Helene Pohl (vln), Gillian Ansell (vla), Rolf Gjelsten (cello) (Naxos 8.573079)

  REBER: Remembrance - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5101)

  DITTERSDORF: Symphony in D, Il Combattimento delle passioni umani - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  GOUNOD: The worker; A lay of the early spring; My true love hath my heart; O happy home! Oh blessed flower!; The fountain mingles with the river; Maid of Athens; Beware!; The arrow and the song; Ilala (Stances à la mémoire de D Livingstone); If thou art sleeping, maiden - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66801/2)

  HAHN: Si mes vers avaient des ailes; Paysage; Rêverie; Offrande, Mai; Infidelité; Seule; Les Cygnes; Trois jours de vendange - Felicity Lott (sop), Stephen Varcoe (bar), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67141/2)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Opulence

  Eldar Nebolsin (pno), New Zealand SO/Michael Stern

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44; RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite; STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110 - Ehnes Quartet (Onyx 4121)

  BANTOCK: Hebridean Symphony - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Hyperion CDA 66450)

  11:00 EICHNER: Oboe Concerto in C - Kurt Meier (ob), Northern Sinfonia of London/Howard Griffiths (Pan 510 088)

  PEJACEVIC: Piano Trio in C Op 29 - Andrej Bielow (vln), Christian Poltéra (cello), Oliver Triendl (pno) (CPO 777 419)

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