Saturday 12 September 2015 Rāhoroi 12 Mahuru 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  0:00 Old Wine in New Bottles

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

  (6) Last of the Vintage

  Grieg takes Mozart's Beginners' Sonata to a new level, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble puffs up Beethoven's Seventh and Orff rides the wheel of fortune (RNZ)

  1.00 approx Disc 1

  LISZT: Dante Symphony - Gillian Keith (sop), women of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda

  St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds; St Francis de Paule walking on the water - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10524)

  2.00 approx - Disc 2

  Helsinki by Finnish duo Lepisto & Lehti

  LEPISTO: Helsinki; LEHTI: Vainajalan Tango; LEPISTO: Lansiranta; LEHTI: Sarastus; LEPISTO: Caprice Diatonique; LEHTI: Eskolle; LEPISTO: Concerto Diatonique; LEHTI: Muistelo - Markku Lepisto (accordions), Pekka Lehti (dbass) (AITO 440125)

  2.40 approx - Disc 3

  TRAD: I am a poor wayfaring stranger; My love is like a red, red rose; Henry Martin; I will give my love an apple; She moved through the fair; Blow the wind southerly; Pretty Saro; Barbara Allen; The wraggle taggle gypsies O!; Black is the colour - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Edin Karamazov (lute), Stacey Shames (harp), Jon Pickow (dulcimer), Orpheus CO (Decca 468 499)

  3.45 approx - Disc 4

  THOMSON: Symphonies, No 2 in C; No 3; Pilgrims and Pioneers; Symphony on a Hymn Tune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Naxos 8.559022)

  4.50 approx - Disc 5

  HANDEL: Oboe Concertos, No 1 in Bb; No 2 in Bb; No 3 in G minor; Concerto grosso in G Op 3/3; Sonata a 5 in Bb; Concerto grosso in C, Alexander’s Feast; Overture in D; Hornpipe in D - Heinz Holliger, Neil Black, James Brown (obs), Kenneth Sillito, John Tunnell (vlns), Richard Adenay (fl), Kenneth Heath (cello), Leslie Pearson (org/hpschd), John Constable (hpschd), James Tyler (chitarrone), English CO/Raymond Leppard (Philips 426 082)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 BUTTERWORTH: Two English Idylls - Royal Liverpool Phil/John Wilson (Avie AV 2194)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly - Tasmin Little (vln), Piers Lane (pno) (EMI 5 66967)

  MOZART: Divertimento in Bb K137 - Ensemble XXI Moscow/Lygia O'Riordan (Ensemblegram 1991A)

  WITT: Quartet in Eb for horn, violin, viola & cello - Consortium Classicum (CPO 777 486)

  WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt (LPO 0003)

  7:00 HANDEL: Harp Concerto in Bb HWV294 - Charlotte Balzereit (harp), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92605)

  FIELD: Nocturne No 7 in C - Peter Donohoe (pno) (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7318)

  GRAINGER: Colonial Song, Up-Country Song - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9493)

  PONCHIELLI: Capriccio - Katsuya Watanabe (ob), David Johnson (pno) (Profil PH 10001)

  HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)

  8:00 SIBELIUS: Overture in A minor - Turku Phil/Leif Segerstam (Naxos 8.573299)

  VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA RD 70800)

  FALLA arr Lewin: Miller's Dance, from The Three-Cornered Hat - Milos Karadaglic (gtr) (DG 481 0652)

  HALVORSEN: Bergensiana, Rococo Variations on an Old Melody from Bergen - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10664)

  J STRAUSS II arr I Salonisti: Vienna Blood Waltz - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

  MENDELSSOHN: Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall), Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

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

  HEAD: Foxgloves; Had I a golden pound; A green cornfield - Ailish Tynan (sop), Christopher Glynn (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67899)

  BATH: Freedom, Brass Band Symphony No 1 - Cory Band/Robert Childs (Doyen DOY CD 201)

  SCHOENBERG: Violin Concerto Op 36 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (DG 477 7346)

  K JENKINS: Song of the Invocation, from Adiemus II - Miriam Stockley (vocal), Mary Carewe (vocalist), London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Venture 842 577)

  Nietzsche - written and presented by Barry Empson with Roberto Teichner and John Croft (RNZ)

  (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

  (8) Ballads and Burners (RNZ)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Lexus Song Quest 2014

  The Semi-Finals

  Four programmes

  (1) Rodney Macann introduces the twelve semi-finalists in NZ's premier singing competition. (RNZ)

• 4:05 PM. Jazzing It Up

  ANTHEIL: A Jazz Symphony - Oregon Symphony/Carlos Kalmar (Pentatone PTC 5186 481)

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

  PIAZZOLLA arr Bragato: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Zürcher Piano Trio (Claves CD 50-2106)

  WILD: Improvisation on Someone to watch over me, in the form of a theme and three variations on the song by George Gershwin - Xiayin Wang (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10626)

  LAMBERT: The Rio Grande - Sally Burgess (mezzo), Opera North Chorus, English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones, Jack Gibbons (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66565)

  SHOSTAKOVICH: Jazz Suite No 2 - Russian State SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.555949)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  PSATHAS: Spike - Brian Resnick (perc), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Rattle RAT D008)

  MUFFAT: Armonico tributo Sonata No 2 in G minor - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)

  ROUSSEL: Impromptu Op 21 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

  BARTÓK: Dance Suite Sz77 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  C SCHUMANN: Volkslied; Sie liebten sich beide; Warum willst du and're fragen; Mein Stern; Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage - Wolfgang Holzmair (bar), John Axelrod (pno) (Telarc TEL 34659)

  Six Songs from Jucunde Op 23, Why weep, dear blossom?; On a bright morning; Soft whispers; Upon a green hill; This is a day; O joy, O joy - Dorothea Craxton (sop), Hedayet Djeddikar (fpno) (Naxos 8.570747)

  SCHUMANN: Into the open Op 89/5; You are like a flower Op 25/24; The lotus flower Op 25/7; What means this lonely tear? Op 25/21; The poet's recovery Op 36/5; A message of love Op 36/6 - Matthias Goerne (bar), Eric Schneider (pno) (Decca 475 6012)

  C SCHUMANN: Das Veilchen; Der Wanderer; Der Wanderer in der Sägemühle; Walzer - Dorothea Craxton (sop), Hedayet Djeddikar (fpno) (Naxos 8.570747)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), New Zealand SO/James MacMillan

  CRESSWELL: The Clock Stops; MACMILLAN: Woman of the Apocalypse; The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre by RNZ)

• 10:05 PM. Day's End

  BEETHOVEN: Clarinet Trio in Bb Op 11 - Nash Ensemble (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0001)

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for string orchestra Op 48 - Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton (dir) (Linn CKD 472)

  11:00 DEBUSSY: Piano Trio in G - Trio Rouvier-Kantorow-Müller (Denon CO 72508)

  TÁRREGA: Gran Jota - Rovshan Mamedkuliev (gtr) (Naxos 8.573179)

  SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 6 in D D74 - Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 350 030)

  12.00 Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet Suites Nos 1-3 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 885)

  1.20 approx - Disc 2

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 6 in Bb K238; Concerto in F for three pianos & orchestra K242; Concerto in Eb for two pianos & orchestra K365 - Malcolm Bilson, Robert Levin, Melvyn Tan (fpnos), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 317)

  2.25 approx - Disc 3

  MOZART: Madamina, il catalolo è questo, from Don Giovanni;

  TCHAIKOVSKY: Gremin’s aria, from Eugene Onegin;

  ROSSINI: La Calunnia è un venticello; A un dottor della mia sorte, from The Barber of Seville;

  MOZART: La Vendetta; Non pùi andrai; Hai già vinta la causa!…; Vedrò, mentr’io sospiro, from The Marriage of Figaro;

  GOUNOD: Vous qui faites l’endormie, from Faust;

  BOÏTO: Son lo spirito che nega, from Mefistofele;

  MOZART: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja; Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from The Magic Flute;

  VERDI: Ehit! Paggio!…L’onore! Ladri!, from Falstaff;

  WAGNER: Die Frist ist um, from The Flying Dutchman - Jonathan Lemalu (bar), NZSO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

  3.30 approx - Disc 4

  TELEMANN: Suite in G, des Nations anciens et modernes; Concerto in D minor for two chalumeaux; Viola Concerto in G; Sonata for two chalumeaux; Suite in Bb, Volker Overture - Colin Lawson, Michael Harris (chalumeaux), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vla) (Chandos CHAN 0593)

  4.45 approx - Disc 5

  J STRAUSS II: Russian March; Slav Potpourri; Five Paragraphs from the Waltz Code; The Favourite, French Polka; Nikolai Quadrille on Russian Themes; Farewell to St Petersburg Waltz; The Imp, Polka-Mazurka; In the Russian Village; Romance, Sweet Tears; Niko Polka - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223234)

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