Saturday 15 August 2015 Rāhoroi 15 Here-turi-kōkā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Old Wine in New Bottles

  Six programmes in which Brian Kay savours old music which has been renewed or reinvented

  (2) Metamorphosis

  James Paisible's farewell to a queen becomes a New Orleans stomp, and two of the best-known transformations: Vaughan Williams on Tallis and Hindemith on Weber (RNZ)

  1:00 approx - Disc 1

  YOUNG: Symphony; Virgen de la Esperanza; Dance - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2027)

  2:20 approx - Disc 2

  Arias from operas by PUCCINI, MASCAGNI, CATALANI, LEONCAVALLO, ZANDONAI, CILEA & GIORDANO - Renée Fleming (sop), with various other singers, Giuseppe Verdi Chorus & Orch, Milan/Marco Armiliato (Decca 478 1533)

  3:30 approx - Disc 3

  Hau by Japanese ambient minimalist duo Opitope

  DATE/HATAKEYAMA: A White Cloth Falling From The Snow Branches; Goat's Horn; A Far Room; A Quiet Morning Arriving To The Valley; Bird Standing On The Fall; Coral Sand's Backside; Mist On The Sea; A Place Under The Paired Sal Tree - Tomoyoshi Date (electric gtr/pno/electronics), Chihei Hatakeyama (electric & acoustic gtr/pno/bass gtr/vibraphone/electronics) (Spekk 672901)

  4:35 approx - Disc 4

  RODE: 24 Caprices in the form of Etudes (1-12) - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln) (CPO 777 129)

  5:10 approx - Disc 5

  J NOVACEK: Four Rags for two Jons; D'RIVERA: The Cape Cod Files; BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata; GERSHWIN: Preludes for piano; I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Jon Manasse (cl), Jon Nakamatsu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7508)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 VIVALDI: Cello Concerto in B minor RV424 - Anner Bylsma (cello), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir) (Sony SK 62719)

  MORALES: Parce mihi Domine - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (ECM 1525)

  PÄRT: Fratres for violin, strings & percussion - Gidon Kremer (vln), German CO (Teldec 0630 14654)

  SATIE arr anon: Gymnopédies - Murray Khouri (cl), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1014)

  TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in E minor - Sarah Francis (ob/dir), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1118)

  7:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: May Night, Overture - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8327/9)

  ANDERSEN: Fantasy on Don Giovanni Op 45/5 - Kyle Dzapo (fl), Matthew Mazzoni (pno) (Naxos 8.572277)

  DELIUS: Idylle de printemps - Royal Scottish National Orch/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHAN 10742)

  BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Un sueño en la floresta - Kyuhee Park (gtr) (Naxos 8.573225)

  GADE: Novelette in A minor - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1665)

  STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner (RCA 09026 68999)

  8:00 FASCH: Quartet in D minor FWVN/D2 - Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn), Ensemble Marsyas (Linn CKD 467)

  MUSSORGSKY: Intermezzo Symphonique In Modo Classico - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (Sony SK 62034)

  BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - Han-Na Chang (cello), London SO/Mstislav Rostropovich (EMI CDC 5 56126)

  ANON: Greensleeves to a ground - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9820)

  GEMINIANI: Concerto Grosso in A Op 5/9 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 040 301)

• 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

  CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Kun Woo Paik (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Decca 475 169)

  HALÉVY: Rachel, quand du Seigneur, from La Juive - Vittorio Grigòlo (ten), RAI National SO/Evelino Pidò (Sony 88883 75658)

  PARISH ALVARS: Grand Fantasy Op 57 - Ieuan Jones (harp) (Claudio CR 4939)

  HEAD: Tewkesbury Road; The estuary; Limehouse Reach - Roderick Williams (bar), Christopher Glynn (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67899)

  FAURÉ: Romances sans paroles Op 17 - Kathryn Stott (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66911/4)

  K JENKINS: Save me from bloody men; Sanctus, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - National Youth Choir of Britain/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

  JOYCE: Song of the River - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223694)

  ONSLOW: String Quintet in C minor Op 38, de la balle - Musicale Quintet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1390)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, from Samson & Delilah - Maria Callas (sop), French Radio National Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 5 57062)

  MOZART: Church Sonata in F K244 - Ian Watson (org), King's Consort/Robert King (dir) (Hyperion CDH 55314)

  HANDEL: Rejoice greatly, from Messiah - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 417 449)

  XUA YAN-JU: The Moon's Reflection Over the Second Spring - Eileen Huang (pno), China Central Traditional Orch/Hu Bing Xu (ASV CD DCA 1031)

  (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

  (4) Stretching Out, lengthier tracks (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Tokyo String Quartet

  MOZART: String Quartet No 20 in D K499, Hoffmeister; BARTÓK: String Quartet No 6 Sz114; BRAHMS: String Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 51 (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

  
  Tokyo Quartet. Photo: Pete Checchia.

• 5:15 PM. Moog Music

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Romance in F minor Op 5 - Joseph Moog (pno) (Onyx 4126)

  MOSZKOWSKI: Piano Concerto in E Op 59 - Joseph Moog (pno), German Radio Phil, Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern/Nicholas Milton (Onyx 4144)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D Op 41 - Alexa Still (fl), Rae de Lisle (pno) (RNZ)

  GOFFIN: Rhapsody in Brass - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

  DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor - Justine Cormack (vln), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 101)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  PARRY: O Mistress mine; IRELAND: The Trellis; PARRY: My heart is like a singing bird; ELGAR: Speak, music Op 41/2; In Moonlight; QUILTER: Music, when soft voices die; Music & moonlight - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 024)

  BUTTERWORTH: Bredon Hill; O fair enough are sky and plain; When the lad for the longing sighs; On the idle hill of summer; With rue my heart is laden; I will make you brooches; I fear thy kisses; Requiescat, from Bredon Hill and other songs from A Shropshire Lad - Roderick Williams (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Naxos 8.572426)

  ELGAR: Pleading Op 48/1; Twilight Op 59/6; Under the greenwood tree; BRIDGE: Strew no more red roses; QUILTER: Love's Philosophy - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 024)

  TRAD arr Butterworth: Folk Songs from Sussex, Part 2, Yonder stands a lovely creature; A blacksmith courted me; Sowing the seeds of love; A lawyer he went out one day; Come my own one; The cuckoo - Roderick Williams (bar), Iain Burnside (pno) (Naxos 8.572426)

  IRELAND: When I am dead, my dearest; PARRY: Good-night - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 024)

• 8:00 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Matthew Crawford

  Holst's The Planets (RNZ)

• 8:20 PM. Music Alive

  Bridget Douglas (fl), Philip Green (cl), David Bremner (tbn), Leonard Sakofsky (percussion), Vesa-Matti Leppanen (vln), Julia Joyce (vla), Andrew Joyce (cello), Women of the Orpheus Choir of Wellington, New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: The glittering hosts of heaven; HOLST: The Planets (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  IBERT: Divertissement - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 527)

  PIAZZOLLA: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Sebastian See-Schierenberg (vln), Sophia Lisovskaya (pno) (Signum SIGCD 405)

  HAYDN: Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise - Collegium Musicum 90/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 0662)

  11:00 FIBICH: String Quartet No 1 in A - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3470-2 131)

  DVORÁK: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 - Lindsay String Quartet, Patrick Ireland (vla) (ASV CD DCS 446)

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