Saturday 25 July 2015 Rāhoroi 25 Hōngoingoi 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

  (19) 11 year old daughter Terry comes to live with Beatrice, concerts, hospital, teaching, trip to Texas, visits from sister and father, trips to Maryland, Washington; 1979-80 (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  BRANCO: Symphony No. 2; After a reading of Guerra Junqueiro, Fantasy; Artificial Paradises - RTÉ National Symphony Orch/Álvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.572059)

  2:10 approx - Disc 2

  MOZART: Divertimento in Eb K563; Three-part Adagio & Fugue No 6 in F minor; Three-part Adagio & Fugue No 4 in F; Three-part Adagio & Fugues, No 5 in Eb, No 3 in F, No 1 in D minor, No 2 in G minor - TrioFenix (Fuga Libera FUG 569)

  3:35 approx - Disc 3

  Te Roopu Rangatahi - Waiata o Aotea Roa

  Choral Works by BODY, WELLS, MEWS, HAMILTON, GRIFFITHS, POULENC, BRAHMS - New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Manu CD MANU 1412)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  GRIEG: Lyric Pieces Books 8-10, Moods Op 73 - Daniel Propper (pno) (Skarbo DSK 10860)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/9 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 373 250)

  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)

  LASSUS: Two French Madrigals, Au feu, au feu, venez-moi secourir?; Paisible domaine - King's Singers (EMI CDC 7 49158)

  GRANADOS arr Miolin: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

  ALBINONI: Sonata in C in five parts Op 2/2 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

  J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Johann Strauss Orch/André Rieu (dir/vln) (Universal 753 31178)

  7:00 PONCHIELLI: Dance of the Hours, from La Gioconda - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CD EMX 2169)

  STRAVINSKY: Lullaby & Finale from The Firebird - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

  GRIEG arr Haaland: Butterfly; Erotikon; To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Fredrik Fors (cl), Sveinung Bjelland (pno) (2L 55)

  FRANÇAIX: Concertino for piano & orchestra - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 448)

  HUBAY: Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Livia Sohn (vln), Benjamin Loeb (pno) (Naxos 8.570202)

  THOMAS: Raymond, Overture - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 527)

  8:00 GERMAN: Merrie England Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223419)

  PROKOFIEV arr Borisovsky: Epilogue, Parting Scene & Death of Juliet, from Romeo & Juliet Op 64 - Matthew Jones, Rivka Golani (vlas), Michael Hampton (pno) (Naxos 8.572318)

  KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Pugnani; Syncopation; Schön Rosmarin - Jack Liebeck (vln), Katya Apekisheva (pno) (Hyperion CDA 68040)

  WALDTEUFEL: Acclamations Waltz - Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223684)

  CARULLI: Duo in A on Themes of Rossini Op 233 - Franz Halász (gtr), Débora Halász (pno) (Naxos 8.570587)

  TELEMANN: Concerto in D for three trumpets - John Wallace, John Miller, William Stokes (tpts), English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5189)

• 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: Dreaming - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223694)

  CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Op 21 - Martha Argerich (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (EMI 5 56798)

  HEAD: Bird-Song - Kathleen Battle (sop), Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), John Steele Ritter (pno) (Sony SK 53106)

  BALFE arr anon: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, from The Bohemian Girl - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Catrin Finch (harp) (EMI 3 59488)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir d'un lieu cher - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), Marina Gusak-Grin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8500)

  GESUALDO: Non mirar, non mirare; Questi leggiadri odorosetti fiori, from Madrigals, Book 1 - Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara/Sergio Vartolo, Loredana Gintoli (harp), (hpschd/dir) (Brilliant Classics 92635)

  BOELLMANN: Suite gothique - Kemp English (organ of the Dunedin Town Hall) (Ode CD MANU 5053)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in G K241 - King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  BACH: Ascension Oratorio - Barbara Schlick (sop), Catherine Patriasz (contralto), Christoph Prégardien (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Collegium Vocale Choir & Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1479)

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

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. The Art of Jazz

  Ten programmes giving Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

  (1) Recent releases from Keith Jarrett, Kenny Wheeler and Billy Childs (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  City Choir Dunedin, 150th Anniversary Concert

  James Burchell (treble), Helen Medlyn (mezzo), Peter Wigglesworth (ten), Martin Snell (bass), City Choir Dunedin, Southern Sinfonia/David Burchell

  BACH: Jauchzet, frohlocket, from Christmas Oratorio; HAYDN: And God said; Let the waters; Rolling in foaming billows; And the heavenly host; Awake the harp, from The Creation, the Third Day; FAURÉ: Libera me, from Requiem; ELGAR: Praise to the holiest in the height; The angel's farewell, from The Dream of Gerontius; MENDELSSOHN: Is not His word like a fire?; Woe unto them; O man of God, help thy people; Thanks be to God, from Elijah; MARSHALL: Into the garden, from What can be More Beautiful; A RITCHIE: The miner's right; The iron horse; Clearing the bush, from From the Southern Marches; BIZET: Habanera, L'amour est un oiseau rebelle, from Carmen; WAGNER: Entry of the guests; How many beautiful songs, from Tannhäuser; ROSSINI: Cum Sancto Spiritu; Agnus Dei, from Petite Messe Solennelle; HANDEL: Worthy is the Lamb, from Messiah (recorded in the Dunedin Town Hall by RNZ)

• 5:10 PM. A Suite of Suites

  WALTON: Façade Suite No 1 - London Phil/Jan Latham-Koenig (Chandos CHAN 9148)

  STILL: Folk Suite No 1 - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno), New Zealand String Quartet (Koch International 3-7192)

  NIELSEN: Little Suite for Strings - Norwegian CO/Terje Tønnesen (vln/dir) (Simax PSC 1264)

  G COOKE: Bargain Basement, A Suite of Seven Pieces - Duncan Honeybourne (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 022)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  CARR: Mardi Gras Overture - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

  COSMA: Concerto for euphonium - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand SO/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)

  MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  GRANADOS: Canciones Amatorias, Look, I'm just a girl, love, let me be!; Weep, O my heart, for you have good reason; Don't cry, bright eyes; Going to the pine grove; Find out for yourself my secret care; It was in the morning; O, you grace, you are so beautiful - María Bayo (sop), Juan Antonio Alvarez-Parejo (pno) (Claves CD 50-9205)

  HUGH WOOD: The Isles of Greece, Delos; Nemea; Ouzo unclouded; In the sea caves; The Isles of Greece - Roderick Williams (bar), Iain Burnside (pno)

  Wild Cyclamen, A dream of Frances Speedwell; Wild cyclamen; Beatrice & Dante; The garden; The leap; Not to sleep; The crab-tree; Bites & kisses; Horizon; The window sill; A lost jewel; Hedges freaked with snow - James Gilchrist (ten), Simon Lepper (pno) (NMC D 201)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is introduced by Rachel Hyde (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Bold Worlds

  Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Dima Slobodeniouk

  JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta Op 60; DEAN: Dramatis Personae; MUSSORGSKY arr Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  IRELAND ed Mackerras: The Overlanders, Suite - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 240)

  BOCCHERINI: Fourth movement, Fandango, from Guitar Quintet in D G448 - Rolf Lislevand (gtr), Luz Martin León Tello (castanets), David Mayoral (perc), members of Pulcinella (Ambroisie AM 126)

  RESPIGHI: The Birds - CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.573168)

  11:00 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C minor Op 18/4 - Minetti Quartet (Hänssler CD 98.029)

  SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 - Isabelle Faust (vln), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2196)

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