Thursday 2 July 2015 Rāpare 2 Hōngoingoi 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  HANSON: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 33; The Lament for Beowulf Op 25; Symphony No 5 Op 43, Sinfonia Sacra - Seattle Chorale & SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3709)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  GARDNER: Petite Suite Op 245; McCABE: Domestic Life; LAWSON: Song of the Lesser Twayblade; LEIGHTON: Concerto Op 88; LANE: Suite Champêtre; MELLERS: Aubade; MILFORD: Two Pipe Tunes; KAY: Mr Pitfield's Pavane; DODGSON: Concerto Chacony - John Turner (rec), Keith Elcombe (hpschd), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV CD WHL 2143)

  2:20 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)

  3:35 approx - Disc 4

  BACH: Keyboard Concertos, No 1 in D minor BWV1052; No 5 in F minor BWV1056; Concerto for two harpsichords & strings BWV1060; Concerto in C for three harpsichords & strings BWV1064; Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords & strings BWV1065 - Raymond Leppard, Andrew Davis, Philip Ledger, Blandine Verlet (hpschds), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 497)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces, Op 12; Op 38; Op 43; Op 47 - Gerard Oppitz (pno) (RCA 09026 61568)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G BWV1048 - English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 138)

  R CLARKE: Lullaby - Philip Dukes (vla), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos 8.557934)

  BIZET: Adagietto, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 1 - London SO/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 464)

  RODRIGO: Sones en la Giralda - Kaori Muraji (gtr), Galicia SO/Victor Pablo Pérez (Decca 478 0076)

  TALLIS arr Kronos: Spem in alium - Kronos Quartet (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79242)

  BOUGHTON: Three Folk Dances - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67185)

  7:00 J STRAUSS II: Masked Festival Quadrille Op 92 - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223244)

  FAURÉ: Berceuse, from Dolly Suite - Malin Broman (vln), Simon Crawford-Phillips (pno) (Naxos 8.573223)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O clap your hands - Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, English String Orch/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 1754)

  PURCELL arr Britten: Chaconne in G minor Z730 - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.557753)

  SATIE arr Debussy/Veen: Gymnopédies Nos 3 & 1 - Sandra Mol, Jeroen van Veen (pno duet) (Brilliant Classics 9129)

  MASSENET arr Mouton: Mélodie-Elégie - Peter Dixon (cello), BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9765)

  MAGNANI: Divertimento No 1 - Sergio Bosi (cl), Riccardo Bartoli (pno) (Naxos 8.572890)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: GIBBONS: The silver swan - Hilliard Ensemble/Paul Hillier (dir) (EMI CDC 7 49197)

  COATES: The man about town - Sydney SO/John Lanchbery (ABC Classics 472 509)

  KARG-ELERT: Sinfonische Kanzone Op 114 - Thies Roorda (fl), Nata Tsvereli (pno) (Naxos 8.573269)

  FARRES arr Israel/Goss: Quizás, quizás, quizás - Milos Karadaglic (gtr), Studio Orch of the European Film Phil/Christoph Israel (DG 479 0063)

  ERNST: Adagio sentimentale, from Morceaux de Salon Op 13 - Thomas Christian Ensemble (CPO 777 894)

  FARQUHAR: Tango, from Ring Round the Moon - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

  SARASATE: Caprice Basque - Julia Fischer (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Decca 478 5950)

  ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie, Overture - Royal Phil/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

  9:00 Composers of the Week

  LES SIX: FRANCIS POULENC (1899-1963)

  Les Biches - French National Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 937)

  Le Bestiaire - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Forlane CD 16730)

  Concert champêtre - Pascal Rogé (hpschd), French National Orch/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 665)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Petite Suite de Concert - RTE Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223516)

  GRIEG: String Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 27 - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 5960)

  ELGAR: Sea Pictures Op 37 - Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Bournemouth SO/Simon Wright (Naxos 8.557710)

  BORODIN: Symphony No 1 in Eb - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Brilliant Classics 93348)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No 2 in C minor Op 66 - Sitkovetsky Trio (BIS SACD 2109)

  BELLINI: Qui la voce sua soave, from I Puritani - Diana Damrau (sop), Royal Theatre Orch, Turin/Gianandrea Noseda (Erato 0825 646166749)

  MOZART: Divertimento in Bb K240 - Scottish CO Wind Soloists (Linn CKD 479)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  WALTON arr Duthoit: Crown Imperial - Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Airforce/Graham Hanify, Janet Gibbs (organ of the Wellington Town Hall) (Kiwi CD SLC 216)

  SIBELIUS: Black roses Op 36/1 - Karita Mattila (sop), Ilmo Ranta (pno) (Classic CD ISSUE 71)

  RUSSO: Street Music, A Blues Concerto - Corky Siegel (harmonica/pno), San Francisco SO/Seiji Ozawa (DG 419 625)

  MAHLER: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, from Rückert Lieder - Janet Baker (mezzo), New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI CDC 7 47793)

  DELERUE: End title, from Her Alibi - studio orchestra/Georges Delerue (Varese Sarabande VSD 5241)

  (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

  HANDEL: Water Music - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/August Wenzinger (rec 1962) (DG 427 205)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2001)

  MARSHALL arr McNeff: L'Homme Armé Variations - Philharmonia à Vent Wind Orch/John Boyd (Klavier K 11150)

  RR BENNETT: The mouse & the bumblebee; Baby, baby, naughty baby; As I walked by myself, from Songs before Sleep - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (EMI 5 58076)

  LISZT: Battle of the Huns S105 - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.557846)

  5:00 JK PAINE: As You Like It, Overture - Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.559747)

  KHACHATURIAN: Gayaneh, excerpts - Peter-Lukas Graf (fl), Konrad Ragossnig (gtr) (Claves CD 50-2013)

  BIZET: Flower song, from Carmen - Vittorio Grigòlo (ten), RAI National SO/Evelino Pidò (Sony 88883 75658)

  HAMELIN: Etude No 8 in Bb minor, Erlkönig, from 12 Etudes in all the minor keys - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

  PAGANINI: I Palpiti, from Rossini's Tancredi Op 13 - Ivan Pochekin (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570487)

  6:00 SVOBODA: Overture of the Season Op 89 - Oregon SO/James DePreist (Albany Troy 604)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Barcarolle, from The Seasons - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

  ELMS: Four seasonal nocturnes - Martin Owen (horn), Royal Phil/Stephen Bell (Dutton CDLX 7175)

  PIAZZOLLA arr Toker/Dobal: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Gustavo Toker (bandoneón), Pablo Dobal (pno) (Vanguard Classics 99155)

  LANGFORD: A Song for all Seasons - William Stephenson (pno), BBC Concert Orch/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10115)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Disc of the Month

  June 2015 Gramophone Magazine & July 2015 BBC Music Magazine

  András Schiff (fpno)

  SCHUBERT: Hungarian Melody in B minor D817; Moments musicaux D780; SCHUBERT: Allegretto in C minor D915 (ECM 2425/26)

• 7:40 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Indra Hughes

  Debussy's La Mer (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  From the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

  Bridget Douglas (fl), NZSO National Youth Orch/José Luis Gomez

  DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; IBERT: Flute Concerto; Salina FISHER: Rainphase; DEBUSSY: La Mer (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quartet in Bb Op 41 - Avos Piano Quartet (Brilliant Classics 94652)

  BRAHMS: Serenade No 1 in D Op 11 - Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado (DG 476 5786)

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