Thursday 20 August 2015 Rāpare 20 Here-turi-kōkā 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  WALTON: Portsmouth Point Overture; Capriccio Burlesco; The First Shoot; Scapino, A Comedy Overture; Granada, Prelude for orchestra; Prologo e Fantasia; Johannesburg Festival Overture; Music for Children; Music for Children, Galop finale - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8968)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  Miniatures by CHOPIN, GOTTSCHALK, LISZT, BACH, MENDELSSOHN, DEBUSSY, SCHUBERT, ALBÉNIZ, BEETHOVEN, GRIEG, MOZART - Various artists (Decca 436 854)

  2:25 approx - Disc 3

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Songs - Elizabeth Söderström (sop), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 436 204)

  3:40 approx - Disc 4

  BEETHOVEN: Symphonies, No 1 in C Op 21; No 2 in D Op 36 - Philharmonia/Kurt Sanderling (EMI CDM 7 69382)

  4:45 approx - Disc 5

  TUBIN: Double bass Concerto; Valse Triste; Ballade for violin & orchestra; Violin Concerto No 2; Estonian Dances Suite - Hakan Ehrén (dbass), Gustavo Garcia (vln), Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 337)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning with Rick Young

  6:00 RUTTER: Distant Land - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

  PAGANINI arr Grigoryan: Caprice No 24 in A minor, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)

  WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarentelle in G minor Op 16 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

  KUULA: Prelude & Fugue Op 10 - BBC Concert Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7272)

  CASSADO: Dance of the Green Devil - Maria Kliegel (cello), Raymund Havenith (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223403)

  BARBER: Mutations from Bach - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559135)

  M HAYDN: Bassoon Concertino in Bb - Makiko Kurabayashi (bsn), Salzburg Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777 538)

  ECCLES: Symphony for Mercury, from The Judgement of Paris - Parley of Instruments/Roy Goodman & Peter Holman (dirs) (Hyperion CDA 66108)

  7:00 ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - Cleveland Orch/George Szell (EMI 5 75962)

  W LLOYD WEBBER: Air & Variations - John Bradbury (cl), James Cryer (pno) (Naxos 8.570539)

  DELIUS: Spring morning, from Three Small Tone Poems - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

  SVENDSEN: Last year I was tending the goats - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

  CHOPIN trans Liszt: The maiden's wish, from Polish Songs Op 74 - Margaret Fingerhut (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10826)

  CHABRIER: España - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Maria Callas (sop), La Scala Orch, Milan/Victor de Sabata (EMI 5 57062)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas d'action, from Swan Lake - Mincho Minchev (vln), Francisco Gabarro (cello), National Phil/Richard Bonynge (London 443 332)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Tarantella in A minor Op 6 - Joanna G'froerer (fl), Kimball Sykes (cl), Stéphane Lemelin (pno) (Naxos 8.570964)

  MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 2 in G - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

  LORTZING: Tsar & Carpenter, Overture - Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel (Naxos 8.573418)

  ENESCU: Aria and Scherzino - Remus Azoitei (vln), Schubert Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 10790)

  BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1325)

  9:00 Composer of the Week

  FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) - Chamber Music

  Piano Trio No 1 in Bb D898 - Eisenstadt Haydn Trio (Capriccio 71 102),

  Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D965 (The Shepherd on the Rock) – Edith Wiens (sop), Joaquin Valdepeñas (cl), Rudolf Jansen (pno) (CBC MVCD 1053)

• 10:00 AM. Weekday Classics with Clarissa Dunn

  MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 3 in D Op 44/1 - Navarra Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 085)

  BALAKIREV: Tamara - BBC Welsh National Orch/Thierry Fischer (BBC Music BBC MM 332)

  MEDTNER: Violin Sonata No 1 in B minor Op 21 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Igor Tchetuev (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67963)

  SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1 in Bb Op 38, Spring - Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti (EMI 3 71497)

  12:00 Recent Releases

  HAYDN: Symphony No 46 in B - Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (Alpha 671)

  BOCCHERINI: Divertimento in F for flute & strings G463 - Manuel Granatiero (fl), Accademia Ottoboni (Zig Zag ZZT 360)

  GLUCK: Non so renare il pianto, from Demetrio - Valer Sabadus (countertenor), Armonia Attenea/George Petrou (Decca 478 8094)

  1:00 Afternoon Requests

  OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

  VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Janine Jansen (vln), instrumental ensemble (Decca 475 6293)

  DURUFLÉ: Pie Jesu, from Requiem - Felicity Palmer (sop), Rod McGrath (cello), London SO/Richard Hickox (Decca 448 687)

  SCHUBERT: Impromptu in F minor D935/1 - Andrea Lucchesini (pno) (Avie AV 2179)

  STRAUSS: Hymne Op 34/2 - Latvian Radio Choir, Accentus/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 5194)

  WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Philip Walsh (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington) (Trust MMT 2014)

  (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

  PURCELL realized Britten: Four songs from Orpheus Britannicus, Mad Bess; If music be the food of love; There's not a swain of the plain; Man is for woman made; HANDEL: Total eclipse, from Samson; DVORÁK: My song resounds; Silent woods; Songs my mother taught me; Garbed in flowing linen; The heights of Tatra, from Gypsy Melodies Op 55; BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte Op 98 - Jon Vickers (ten), Richard Woitach (pno) (rec 1974) (CBC PSCD 2024)

  VERDI: Celeste Aida, from Aida - Jon Vickers (ten), Rome Opera Orch/Georg Solti (rec 1962) (Decca 458 206)

  4:00 Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  GIULIANI: Gran Duetto Concertante in A Op 52 - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Mr M Productions)

  CARR: The Snow Maiden - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi SLD 55)

  GLINKA: Trio Pathétique in D minor - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)

  5:00 SMETANA: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

  GERSHWIN arr Heifetz: Bess, you is my woman now, from Porgy & Bess - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), André Previn (pno) (DG 471 500)

  MOZART: Third movement, Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita - Wind players of ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 726)

  ARBAN: Variations on The Carnival of Venice - Maurice André (alto flugelhorn), Wind Band of the Paris Guardians of the Peace/Claude Pichaureau (RCA 60025)

  HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Alexandra Koll (vln), Heinrich Koll (vla) (Naxos 8.557606)

  GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (BIS SACD 1877)

  6:00 HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philharmonia/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5117)

  TAFFANEL: Andante pastorale & Scherzettino - James Galway (fl), Philip Moll (pno) (RCA 09026 68882)

  BAX: The white peace - Patricia Wright (sop), Rosemary Barnes (pno) (Continuum CCD 1046)

  BRIDGE: Miniature Pastorals, Set 1 - Ashley Wass (pno) (Naxos 8.557842)

  PÄRT: Da Pacem Domine - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7401)

  TROWELL: Pastorale Op 15/5 - Martin Griffiths (cello), Chikako Komaki (pno) (Private)

  BUCHANAN: Century fanfare, Peace - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (SOUNZfine Vol 5)

  LARSSON: Pastoral for small orchestra - Helsingborg SO/Andrew Manze (CPO 777 671)

  BLACKFORD: Canticle of Peace, from Mirror of Perfection - Ying Huang (sop), Bo Skovhus (bar), Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ballard Lane School Choir, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Blackford (Sony SK 60285)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  American Polyphony

  Recording of the Month, August 2015, BBC Music Magazine

  THOMPSON: Alleluia; BARBER: Agnus Dei; BERNSTEIN: Missa Brevis; THOMPSON: Fare Well - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67929)

• 7:40 PM. Curtain Raiser

  With Margaret Ogilvie

  Ravel's Piano Concerto in G (RNZ)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from Auckland Town Hall

  Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Andrew Gourlay

  French Twist

  DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G

  (Interval)

  PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 6 in Eb minor Op 111 (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  F MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb - Cavaleri Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 085)

  BACH: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D BWV1069 - Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz (dirs) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2113.14)

  RÖNTGEN: Trio No 1 in D Op 76 - Lendvai String Trio (Champs Hill CHRCD 068)

  BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Jana Vonáskova-Nováková (vln), Irina Kondratenko (pno) (Supraphon SU 4170)

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