Schedules for 18 - 24 February, 2012

Disc 1

DVORÁK: Legends Op 59; JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta - Bamberg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 436)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen Op 15; TCHAIKOVSKY: Album for the Young; DEBUSSY: Children's Corner - Idil Biret (pno) (Naxos 8.550885)

2:10 approx - Disc 3

VIVALDI: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630; Concerto in D minor RV128; All'ombra di sospetto RV678; Cello Sonata in Bb RV45; Lungi dal vago volto RV680; Concerto in G for flute & strings RV436; Longe mala, umbrae, terrores RV629 - Patrice Michaels Bedi (sop), Chicago Baroque Ensemble (Cedille CDR 90000 025)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

JENKINS: The bell Pavan; Fantasies, Nos 4-7; In Nomine No 1; Fantasies, Nos 1-3; Pavan No 2; Fantasies, Nos 8-9; No 11; No 10; In Nomine No 2 - Hesperion XX (Astrée Auvidis E 8724)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, excerpts; Gayaneh, excerpts; PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, excerpts - Vienna Phil/Aram Khachaturian, Cleveland Orch/Lorin Maazel (Decca 417 737)

6:00 HAYDN: La vera costanza, Sinfonia - Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis (dir) (DHM 88697 32632)

VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in D RV428, Il gardellino - Henry Lebon (fl), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Jean-Baptiste Mari (Mandala MNE 5067)

PAGANINI: Sonata in E for violin & guitar Op 64/5 - Amiram Ganz (vln), Maria Isabel Siewers (gtr) (Challenge Classics CC 72118)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Groves (EMI CDZ 7 62526)

G GABRIELI arr Crees/Block: Sonata pian e forte; Canzon on the 12th tone; Canzon on the 7th tone - Chicago SO Brass/Mark Ridenour (Chicago SO CSOR 901 1103)

7:00 JC BACH: Symphony in E Op 18/5 - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 752)

ROUSSEL: Impromptu Op 21 - Katerina Englichová (harp) (Praga PRD 350 018)

SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédies Nos 3 & 1 - London Phil/Bernard Herrmann (Decca 425 014)

TELEMANN: Trio for flute, oboe & basso continuo - Karl Kaiser (fl), Hans-Peter Westermann (ob), members of Camerata Cologne (DHM 05472 77361)

GRAINGER: Dreamery - BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9584)

WAGNER: Pilgrims' Chorus & Final Chorus of Younger Pilgrims, from Tannhäuser, Act 3 - Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Silvio Varviso (Philips 422 410)

8:00 DVORÁK: In Nature's Realm, Overture - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes, in C# minor Op 27/1; in F Op 15/1 - Youra Guller (pno) (Tahra TAH 630)

REVUELTAS: Carminando - Amsterdam Ebony Band/Werner Herbers (Channel Classics CCS SA 21104)

MOZART arr anon: Three arias from The Magic Flute arr for oboe & violin - François Leleux (ob), Lisa Batiashvili (vln) (Sony 88697 28585)

ADDINSELL: Warsaw Concerto, from the film Dangerous Moonlight - Rawicz & Landauer (pno duo), Mantovani & his Orch (Decca 421 397)

A recap from the week's national and international music news, with Eva Radich (RNZ)

GEMINIANI: The Enchanted Forest - Orchestra Barocca Italiana/Ryo Terakado (dir) (Stradivarius STR 33630)

PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Salvatore Licitra (ten), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony SK 89923)

RACHMANINOV: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 - Natalie Clein (cello), Charles Owen (pno) (EMI 3 66938)

SCHUBERT: Gretchen am Spinnrade D118 - Irmgard Seefried (sop), Erik Werba (pno) (Adès 13.227)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Teldec 4509 90875)

COPLAND: Old American Songs, Set 2, The little horses; Zion's walls; The golden willow tree; At the river; Ching-a-ring chaw - St Charles Singers, Elgin SO/Robert Hanson (Naxos 8.559297)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

Nineteen live jazz concerts from the EBU

(18) HRT Jazz Orchestra, a portrait concert of American arranger, composer, big-band leader and Grammy award winner Maria Schneider (recorded in the Studio Bajsic, HRT, Zagreb by Croatian Radio)

Indigenous music from around the world

Wayside Courtesies - Pilgrims' Way

Wayside Courtesies is the debut album from Pilgrims' Way. The trio's from Stockport in northern England, describing their style as 'no-frills' contemporary folk - a reflection, they say, of their musical apprenticeship in the industrial North West (Fellside Recordings FECD239)

Kerikeri National Piano Competition 2010

Six programmes

(5) Selected performances from the final round

RAVEL: Jeux d'eau; SCRIABIN: Preludes Op 11, Nos 9, 10 & 14; VINE: Preludes for Anne Landa, Nos 7, 8 & 9; BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Appassionata - Brieley Cutting (pno)

BACH: Prelude & Fugue in F# minor, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2; MOZART: Piano Sonata No 9 in D K311; RAVEL: Sonatine - Lucy Zeng (pno) (recorded in The Centre, Kerikeri, by RNZ)

IRGENS-JENSEN: Passacaglia - Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572312)

FARRAR: Variations on an Old British Sea Song Op 25 - Howard Shelley (pno), Philharmonia/Alasdair Mitchell (Chandos CHAN 9586)

BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli (BBC Music BBCL 4013)

HANDEL: Chaconne in G HWV435 - Enno Voorhorst (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 9136)

BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Haydn Op 56a - London Phil/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.557430)

NZ musicians and composers

LILBURN: Festival Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum CCD 1076)

MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 - Lorraine McAslan (vln), Yuko Inoue (vla), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 650)

CARR: Nightmusic, Scherzo for orchestra - Queensland SO/Edwin Carr (Kiwi CD SLD 101)

GRIEG: With a water lily Op 25/4; One day, my thought Op 48/2; The forsaken nightingale Op 48/4; The time of roses Op 48/5; A dream Op 48/6; RACHMANINOV: Oh no, I beg you, do not leave Op 4/1; In the mysterious silence of the night Op 4/3; I was with her Op 14/4; All things pass away Op 26/15 - Rodion Pogossov (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (EMI 3 59635)

QUILTER: Fair house of joy Op 12/7; Autumn Evening Op 14/1; Dream Valley Op 20/1; Love's philosophy Op 3/1; ROREM: Early in the morning; Now sleeps the crimson petal; O you whom I often and silently come; Little elegy - Susan Bullock (sop), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Avie AV 2117)

RESPIGHI: Four Songs from Poema Paradisiaco by Gabriele d'Annunzio, A dream; The Naiad; The evening; About an old song - Leonardo de Lisi (ten), Reinild Mees (pno) (Channel Classics CCS 14998)

With Heath Lees

Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony (RNZ)

Simon Trpceski (pno), New Zealand SO/Pinchas Steinberg

MUSSORGSKY arr Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on Bare Mountain; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26

(Interval interview: Conductor Pinchas Steinberg talks with Upbeat's Eva Radich)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

SCHOBERT: Sonata in F Op 16/4 for harpsichord, violin & cello - Four Nations Ensemble (ASV CD GAU 156)

SAINT-SAËNS: Concert Piece in F minor Op 94 - Ben Jacks (horn), Queensland Orch/Barry Tuckwell (Melba MR 301 117)

11:00 MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 8 in D - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5142)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 - Benvenue Fortepiano Trio (Avie AV 2210)

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphonies, No 40 in G minor; No 38 in D, Prague - English CO/Benjamin Britten (Decca 430 494)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BELLA: Sonata in Bb minor; Piece in C minor for piano; Variations on In Pressburg by the Danube Op 9; Variations on A swarm, a swarm is flying Op 21; Sonatina in E minor; Four Little Pieces - Daniela Ruso (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223644)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

RACHMANINOV: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom - Natalia Kornieva (sop), Alexander Ranne (ten), Sergey Tsipcalo (bar), St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (Philips 442 776)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BOËLY: Quartet in A Op 27/1; Quartet in G Op 29/3; Trio in D Op 5/1 - Edouard Popo (vln), Trio à Cordes de Paris (Chante Du Monde LCD 278 821)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

MAYERL: Marigold; A lily pond; Four Aces Suite; From a Spanish lattice; Minuet by candlelight; Aquarium Suite; Autumn crocus; Bats in the Belfrey; Pastoral Sketches; Fireside fusiliers; Parade of the sandwich-board men; Waltz for a lonely heart; Busybody - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

ISAAC: O decus ecclesiae - Fretwork (Virgin VC 5 45217)

BUXTEHUDE: Cantata, Jubilate Domino BuxWV64 - Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Ensemble Guadagni (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0038)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G minor - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge/Timothy Brown (Naxos 8.572465)

VIERNE: Triptyque Op 58 - Robert Sharpe (organ of Truro Cathedral) (Regent REGCD 263)

LUTHER/SCHEIN/BACH: Wir gläuben all in einen Gott - Choir of the Netherlands Bach Society/Jos van Veldhoven, Leo van Doeselaar (org) (Channel Classics CCS 13498)

PÄRT: Two Slavonic psalms - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907401)

HOVHANESS: Psalm & Fugue Op 40a - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Kerry Stratton (Dorian DOR 93166)

GOODALL: Drop, drop, slow tears, from Eternal light, a requiem - Natasha Marsh (sop), Choir of Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford, London Musici/Stephen Darlington (EMI 2 15047)

GOODALL: The Seasons, Autumn - Bozidar Vukotic (cello), Tippett Quartet, Marianna Szymanowska (harp) (EMI 6 88626)

G IVES: Canterbury Te Deum - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Brass Ensemble/Bill Ives, Richard Pinel (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7420)

O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 040)

PELÉCIS: Flowering Jasmine - Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica CO/Gidon Kremer (dir/vln) (Nonesuch 287228)

WAGNER: Elsa's Dream, Einsam in trüben Tagen, from Lohengrin - Petra Maria Schnitzer (sop), Munich Radio Orch/Ulf Schirmer (Orfeo C 760 091 A)

RAMEAU: Entrée de Polymnie, from Les Boréades - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Dejan Ivanovic (gtr) (Naxos 8.557038)

SVENDSEN: Romance in G Op 26 - Vienna Bohème Quartet (Koch Schwann 3-6718)

RUBINSTEIN arr Traubas: Melody in F Op 3/1 - Vytautas Sondeckis (cello), Lithuanian CO/David Geringas (Naxos 8.554381)

HOWELLS: Three Piano Pieces Op 14 - Rhapsody; Jackanapes; Procession - Jeremy Filsell (pno) (Dal Segno DSPRCD 059)

SCHUMANN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish - Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo (Sony 88697 64687)

Being Mendelssohn

Six programmes from the 2009 three-week Californian summer music festival which marked the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth

(1) BACH: Contrapunctus I; IV; VII; XI & IX, from The Art of Fugue BWV1080 - St Lawrence String Quartet

Ricercar à 6, from The Musical Offering BWV1079 - Geoff Nuttall, Scott St John (vlns), Lesley Robertson, Arnaud Sussmann (vlas), Christopher Costanza (cello), Dennis Godburn (bsn), Scott Pingel (dbass)

MOZART: Adagio & Fugue in C minor K546 - St Lawrence String Quartet

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 13 in C minor - Geoff Nuttall, Kristin Lee, Arnaud Sussmann, Sean Lee (vlns), Lesley Robertson, On You Kim, Scott St John, Sunmi Chang (vlas), Christopher Costanza, Eric Han (cellos), Scott Pingel (dbass)

Sextet in D Op 110 - Wu Han (pno), Scott St John (vln), Lesley Robertson, Arnaud Sussmann (vlas), Christopher Costanza (cello), Scott Pingel (dbass) (Music@Menlo Live)

CHOPIN: Allegro de concert in A Op 46 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (NIFC NIFCCD 014)

PIERNÉ: Solo de concert Op 35 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

SAINT-SAËNS: Morceau de concert in G Op 62 - Philippe Graffin (vln), Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67294)

SPOHR: Grand Concert Overture in F WoO1 - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67616)

Nine programmes

(8) Bach Orchestral Suites

Orchestral Suites, No 3 in D BWV1068; No 2 in B minor BWV1067 - Karl Kaiser (fl), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Petra Müllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz (dirs) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2113.14)

IRELAND: Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor - Frederick Grinke (vln), John Ireland (pno) (rec 1945) (Dutton CDLX 7103)

ENESCU: Orchestral Suite No 2 in C - Bournemouth SO/Constantin Silvestri (rec 1966) (Nimbus NI 6124)

Music from Bamboo

Six programmes by Allan Thomas

(5) Ensembles and Bands (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

Twenty-three operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera House

(7) BELLINI: Norma, an opera in two acts

An archive performance from 4 April, 1970, of the opera written at the peak of the romantic Italian bel canto period. Set in Gaul during the Roman conquest, the druid priestess Norma has had two children, fathered secretly by the Roman proconsul Pollione. When he turns his attention to a young temple virgin, Adalgisa, Norma's anger has dire consequences for them all

Norma.......................... Joan Sutherland

Adalgisa........................ Marilyn Horne

Pollione......................... Carlo Bergonzi

Oroveso........................ Cesare Siepi

Clotilde......................... Carlotta Ordassy

Flavio............................ Rod MacWherter

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Richard Bonynge (EBU)

NZ musicians and composers

CANNABICH: Symphony No 49 in F - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

FARR: Ahi - Ogen Trio (Atoll ACD 108)

NORTH: Concerto for piano & orchestra - David Buechner (pno), John Taber (tpt), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

Grace Around the World

Two programmes

(1) American broadcaster Mark Abuzzahab presents an overview of the brief but full life of the late Jeff Buckley, who died tragically, aged 30, after recording only one universally acclaimed studio album - Grace. The programme contains archival interviews with his mother, his friends and colleagues and Buckley himself (Sony)

Four programmes

(3) Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (pno)

LISZT: Funérailles; St Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds; St Francis de Paule walking on the water; MESSIAEN: Le merle de roche, from Catalogue d'oiseaux; NEUBURGER: Trois Chants de Maldoror; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35; STRAVINSKY: Etude Op 7/4; BACH: Italian Concerto in F BWV971, excerpt (recorded in the Grünewald Hall, Concert Hall, Stockholm by Swedish Radio)

SCHUBERT: String Trio in Bb D471; KLECZYNSKI: String Trio in G Op 4/2 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

MALIPIERO: Gabrieliana - Swiss-Italian Orch/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570883)

CAPLET: Messe à trois voix - Calliope, Women's Choir/Régine Theodoresco (Calliope CAL 9374)

RR BENNETT: Reflections on a Scottish folk song - Paul Watkins (cello), Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

11:00 MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - George Pieterson (cl), Grumiaux Quartet (PentaTone PTC 5186 121)

PONCE: Sonata romántica, Hommage à Franz Schubert - Andrés Segovia (gtr) (DG 477 6050)

Disc 1

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1; Horn Concertos in D HobVIId/3; in D HobVIId/4; Cello Concerto in C HobVIIb/1 - Håkan Hardenburger (tpt), Hermann Baumann (horn), Heinrich Schiff (cello), ASMF/Neville Marriner, Iona Brown (Philips 432 060)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

JANÁCEK: On an Overgrown Path; SMETANA: Trois Polkas de Salon Op 7; Trois Polkas Poétique Op 8; Souvenirs de Bohème en forme de Polkas - Radoslav Kvapil (pno) (Calliope CAL 4206)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUMANN: Leiderkreis Op 39; Aus Den Östlichen Rosen; Die Soldatenbraut; Der Nussbaum; Widmung; Frauenliebe und Leben Op 42; Mignon; Meine Rose; Requiem - Felicity Lott (sop), Graham Johnson (pno) (IMP MCD 22)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece No 2 in D minor Op 114; Rondo Capriccioso Op 14; Songs without Words, in F# minor Op 67/2; in A Op 62/6; in F Op 53/4; in C Op 67/4; Clarinet Sonata in Eb; Songs without Words, Venetian Gondola Song in A minor Op 62/5; Venetian Gondola Song in A (1842); 17 Variations Serieuses Op 54; Concert Piece No 1 in F minor Op 113 - Alan Hacker (cl), Lesley Schatzberger (basset horn), Richard Burnett (pno) (Amon Ra CD SAR 38)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

NIELSEN: Helios Overture; Symphonic Rhapsody; Saga-drøm Op 39; An Evening at Giske; Paraphrase on Nearer my God to thee; Bohemian-Danish folk tune; Rhapsody Overture, An imaginary journey to the Foeroe Islands; Pan & Syrinx - Danish National Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9287)

6:00 WAGENSEIL: Symphony in A WV432 - Stuttgart CO/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 777 112)

BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Op 118/2 - Roger Woodward (pno) (ABC Classics 456 366)

BACH: Second movement, Largo ma non tanto, from Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - Donald Armstrong (vln/dir), Andrew Thomson (vln), NZSO CO (RNZ)

CHARLTON: Sonata for flute & guitar - Carol Hohauser (fl), Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private Recording)

BERLIOZ: March for the Entrance of the Queen & Ballet Music, from The Trojans - women's choir, London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0040)

7:00 WEBER: Euryanthe, Overture - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Nimbus NI 7062/3)

GERSHWIN: Variations on I Got Rhythm - William Tritt (pno), Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80445)

TRAD arr Christensen/McDunn: Londonderry Air - BonaNZa Trombone Quartet (Rata RT 011)

BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Tamás Vesmás (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1519)

BIZET arr Guiraud: L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Igor Markevitch (Philips 420 863)

8:00 Beauty Spot: PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

GODARD: Suite Op 116 - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in G minor Kk30, Cat's Fugue - Racha Arodaky (pno) (Zig Zag ZZT 060 202)

SOUSA: Liberty Bell - Incredible Columbia All-Star Band/Gunther Schuller (Sony MLK 66710)

FRANCHOMME: Fantasy on a Melody by Schubert - Roel Dieltiens (cello/dir), Ensemble Explorations (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1610)

SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, Dances - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10518)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Capriccio Italien - Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Chandos CHAN 8460)

SCHUMANN: Introduction & Allegro Op 134 - Michel Dalberto (pno), Vienna SO/Eliahu Inbal (Denon CO 75859)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 33/3, Bird - Borodin Quartet (Onyx 4069)

CHOPIN: Waltzes Op 34 - Terence Dennis (pno) (RNZ)

MAHLER: Symphony No 3 in D minor - Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), women of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls' Chorus, San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media 821936 0003)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet before parting, from 10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet Op 75 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Philips 456 715)

MARX: Ein Abschied, from Verklärtes Jahr - Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Anthony Spiri (pno) (CPO 777 466-2)

J THOMAS: The Minstrel's Adieu to his Native Land - Sebastien Lipman (harp) (Naxos 8.570372)

KARAINDROU: Depart & Eternity Theme, from Eternity & a Day - Vangelis Christopoulos (ob), Nikos Guinos (cl), Spyros Kazianis (bsn), Vangelis Skouras (hn), Aris Dimitriadis (mandolin), Renato Ripo (cello), string orch (ECM 1692)

J STRAUSS II arr Cohen: Farewell to America, Waltz - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)

DEBUSSY orch Ansermet: Six Epigraphes antiques - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572568)

ANON: Cockleshells; Another Division on a Ground by Mr PB; The Queen's Jigg - David Douglass (vln), Paul O'Dette (cittern/theorbo/bar gtr), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7186)

VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, Va pensiero, from Nabucco - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 459 146)

LILBURN: Landfall in Unknown Seas - Allen Curnow (narrator), Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (rec 1969) (Sony SMK 64109)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Preludes & Fugues, No 13 in F#; No 14 in Eb minor, from 24 Preludes & Fugues Op 87 - Tatiana Nikolayeva (pno) (rec 1990) (Hyperion CDA 66441-3)

NZ musicians and composers

GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - NZSO National Youth Orch 2005/Edwin Outwater (RNZ)

DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: A Chaos of Delight III - Madeleine Pierard (sop), women of Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2065)

PIGOVAT: The Holocaust Requiem - Donald Maurice (vla), Wellington Orch/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 114)

NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS 1839/40)

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

PAGANINI arr Kreisler: La Campanella, Transcendental Study No 3 in G# minor after Paganini - David Galoustov (vln), Julien Gernay (pno) (Lyrinx LYR 2207)

GRANADOS: Spanish Dances Op 37 Book 1 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Decca 414 557)

SCHUBERT arr Webern: German Dances D790 - Berlin Radio SO/Matthias Bamert (Musica Mundi 311 135)

MOZART: Dove sono, from The Marriage of Figaro - Lucia Popp (sop), Munich Radio Orch/Kurt Eichhorn (Acanta 43326)

A MARCELLO: Second movement, Adagio, from Oboe Concerto in D minor - József Kiss (ob), Ferenc Erkel CO (Naxos 8.550556)

ZIEHRER: The Stupid Heart, Overture - Slovak State Phil/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.225332)

SULLIVAN: My dearest heart - Thomas Allen (bar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67290)

V YOUNG arr Morley: My foolish heart, theme - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony SK 60773)

MAYERL: Waltz for a Lonely Heart - Slovak Radio SO/Gary Carpenter (Marco Polo 8.223514)

AURIC: Where is your heart?, main theme from the 1952 film Moulin Rouge - Ransom Wilson (fl), Christopher O'Riley (pno) (Etcetera KTC 1073)

ROMBERG: Deep in my heart, dear, from Student Prince - José Carreras (ten), London Musicians Orch/David Giménez (Erato 0630 17789)

KETÈLBEY: Sanctuary of the heart - New Symphony Orch of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)

TRAD arr R Clarke: I'll bid my heart be still - Philip Dukes (vla), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos 8.557934)

HOLST: The heart worships - Christopher Maltman (bar), Steuart Bedford (pno) (Collins Classics 15322)

SUPPÉ: Sweetheart, Overture - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223863)

Nine programmes

(8) BRETT DEAN (b1961)

An illustrated interview in which Matthew Crawford introduces the Australian composer and viola player's work (RNZ)

2011 Adam Chamber Music Festival

Thirteen programmes

(10) Metamorphosen

MOZART: Divertimento in Eb K563 - Hermitage String Trio

BISLEY: Unbound for string quartet - New Zealand String Quartet

STRAUSS arr Leopold: Metamorphosen for string septet - Douglas Beilman, Denis Goldfeld (vlns), Gillian Ansell, Alexander Zemtsov (vlas), Rolf Gjelsten, Leonid Gorokhov (cellos), Hiroshi Ikematsu (dbass) (recorded at Christ Church Cathedral, Nelson by RNZ)

Die Heinzelmännchen Op 14; An den Mond Op 18; Willkommen und Abschied Op 29/3 - Hans Christoph Begemann (baritone), North West German Phil/Otto Tausk (CPO 777 552)

DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments Op 44 - Nash Ensemble (CRD 3410)

TAVENER: Mahashakti - Ruth Plamer (vln), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (EMI 2 35134)

WAGNER: Good Friday Music, from Parsifal - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 452 625)

11:00 MACDOWELL: Suite in E minor for piano Op 10 - Sandra Carlock (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 043)

STENHAMMAR: String Quartet No 6 in D minor Op 35 - Zetterqvist String Quartet (Opus 3 CD 19702)

Disc 1

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 8 in D; String Symphony No 11 in F - Nieuw Sinfonietta, Amsterdam/Lev Markiz (BIS CD 748)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

DUSSEK: Piano Concertos, in G minor Op 49; in Bb Op 22; Tableau, Marie Antoinette Op 23 - Andreas Staier (fpno), Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 444)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

Laudate Dominum

Works for chorus and orchestra by Handel, Dvorák, Haydn, Fauré, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Honegger, Mozart, Glick - Judith Young (sop), Carolynne Godin, Olena Jatsyshyn (mezzos), Mark DuBois, Robert Missen (tens), Glyn Evans, Nelson Lohnes (bars), Anton Kuerti (pno), Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

TAFFANEL: Andante Pastorale & Scherzettino; WIDOR: Suite for flute & piano Op 34; BOZZA: Three Impressions for flute & piano; CAPLET: Reverie & Petite Valse for flute & piano; JOLIVET: Chant de Linos; DEBUSSY: Syrinx; FERROUD: Three Pieces; JOLIVET: Five Incantations for flute solo - Robert Aitken (fl), Robin McCabe (pno) (BIS CD 184)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

J STRAUSS II orch Fischer: March Op 456, Zivio!; J STRAUSS II: Waltz Op 36, Architecten-Ball-Tänze; Jäger-Polka française Op 229; Waltz Op 234, Accelerationen; J STRAUSS II orch Kulling: Quadrille Op 10, Der Liebesbrunnen; J STRAUSS II: Polka française Op 302, Die Zeitlose; Waltz Op 334, Königslieder; Polka schnell Op 348, Im Sturmschritt!; J STRAUSS II orch Babinski: Quadrille Op 59, Der Blitz; Waltz Op 471, Heut' ist heut'; J STRAUSS II: Polka mazurka Op 420, Die Wahrsagerin - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223235)

6:00 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.570794)

IRELAND: Pastoral - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.572598)

SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in C Op 48 - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

SCHUMANN arr Josef Strauss: Träumerei, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223562)

BOCCHERINI: String Trio in A Op 38/1 - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

GLAZUNOV: Poem Lyrique in Db Op 12 - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 93565)

7:00 BIZET: March, from Jeux d'enfants - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553596)

TELEMANN: Violin Sonata in A, from Tafelmusik - Petra Müllejans (vln), Stefan Mühleisen (cello), Michael Behringer (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2042.45)

ANDERSON: Serenata - Richard Hayman and his Orch (Naxos 8.559125)

CHOPIN: Mazurkas, in Bb Op 17/1; in C# minor Op 63/3 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

POULENC arr L Berkeley: Flute Sonata - Katherine Bryan (fl), Royal Scottish National Orch/Paul Daniel (Linn CKD 367)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MOMPOU orch Ros-Marbá: Damunt de tú nómes les flors, from El Combat del Somni - Victoria de los Angeles (sop), Lamoureux Concerts Orch/Antonio Ros-Marbá (EMI CMS 5 65061)

SCHUBERT arr Schoenberg: Ständchen, Horch! horch! die Lerch D889 - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

PIERNÉ: Impromptu-Caprice Op 9 - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

PROKOFIEV: Death of Tybalt, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Conifer 75605 51343)

BACH: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor BWV542 - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

GERSHWIN arr Stoltzman: Porgy & Bess, Suite - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Hamlet, Fantasy Overture - Dortmund Phil/Jac van Steen (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 601 1668)

RODRIGO: Concierto serenata - Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida (PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 135 SACD)

KORNGOLD: Piano Quintet in E Op 15 - Henri Sigfridsson (pno), Aron Quartet (CPO 777 436)

HAYDN: Symphony No 96 in D, Miracle - Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 736)

STRAUSS: Sonatina No 2 in Eb for winds, Happy Workshop - Ensemble Villa Musica (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 304 1172)

HERZOGENBERG: Violin Concerto in A WoO4 - Ulf Wallin (vln), German Radio Phil/Frank Beermann (CPO 777 280)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

MOSZKOWSKI: Anton Note-Squasher at the piano, Musical Parodies of Czerny, Clementi, Bach, Brahms, Weber, Chopin, Rubinstein & Liszt - Christof Keymer (pno) (Berlin Classics 1640 BC)

DOCKER: Tabarinage (Buffoonery) - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66968)

REIZENSTEIN trans Martin: Variations on The Lambeth Walk - Philip Martin (pno) (Continuum CCD 1007)

SIBELIUS: Serenade; The thought - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (BIS CD 757)

How Hybrid? Global Music Mixes

Megan Collins re-contextualises five portable instruments, the violin, guitar, hammered dulcimer, ukulele and accordion

(1) Introduction (RNZ) (Programme 2 next Tuesday)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture Op 62; Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 - Vienna Phil/Otto Klemperer (rec 1968) (Testament SBT8 1365)

NZ musicians and composers

FARR: Tabuh Pacific - Gareth Farr (gamelan gongs), New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2021)

HILL: Quintet for piano, strings & voices, Life - Bryony Williams, Amelia Berry (sops), Linden Loader, Annabelle Cheetham (mezzos), Richard Greager, Chris Berentson (tens), Daniel O'Connor, Keith Small (basses), Richard Mapp (pno), Dominion Quartet/Mark Dorrell (Naxos 8.572844)

ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - Mexican State SO/Enrique Bátiz (Brilliant Classics 93994)

SARASATE: Jota de Pablo Op 52 - Tianwa Yang (vln), Navarra SO/Ernest Martínez Izquierdo (Naxos 8.572216)

GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)

LUMBYE: Lily Polka, Dedicated to the Ladies - Odense SO/Peter Guth (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9089)

PAISIELLO: Piano Concerto No 5 in D - Francesco Nicolosi (pno), Campania CO/Luigi Piovano (Naxos 8.572065)

REBAY: Three Concert Pieces - Luigi Magistrelli (cl), Massimo Laura (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94171)

E BERNSTEIN: The Hallelujah Trail, film music - Arizona State University Concert Choir, Phoenix SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7222)

WILBY: A breathless Alleluia - Philip Wilby (org), Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.572166)

MOZART: Alleluia, from Exsultate, jubilate - Barbara Bonney (sop), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Decca 468 818)

ALKAN: Alleluia Op 25 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67218)

HOVHANESS: Alleluia & Fugue Op 40b - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80503)

HANDEL arr Drechsler: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Schwerin Brass Collegium/Hans-Joachim Drechsler (Berlin Classics 1655 BC)

REVUELTAS: El renacuajo paseador - Amsterdam Ebony Band/Werner Herbers (Channel Classics CCS SA 21104)

PRAETORIUS arr Williams: Dances from Terpsichore, excerpts - Craig Ogden (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 9674)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D, Carnival in Pest - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 432 015)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)

Three programmes

(3) Karlheinz Stockhausen is regarded as one of the archetypal composers of the 20th century. His music is seen as visionary by some and impenetrable by others.

In this three-part series Robin Maconie surveys Stockhausen's life and music, presenting a guide map through the mystical world of the composer (RNZ)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

BRAHMS orch Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor; BRAHMS orch Rubbra: Variations & Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24 - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8825)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

CORIGLIANO: Sonata for violin & piano; PÄRT: Fratres; MORAVEC: Sonata for violin & piano; GLINSKY: Toccata-Scherzo; MESSIAEN: Praise to the Immortality of Jesus - Maria Bachmann (vln), Jon Klibonoff (pno) (Catalyst 09026 61824)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

FINZI: God is gone up Op 27/2; Welcome sweet & sacred feast Op 27/3; Three Short Elegies Op 5; Thou didst delight my eyes Op 32; My lovely one Op 27/1; Let us now praise famous men Op 35; Seven Partsongs Op 17; Magnificat Op 36; White-flowering days Op 37; All this night Op 33; Lo, the full, final sacrifice Op 26 - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer, Harry Bicket (org) (Chandos CHAN 8936)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17; PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 3 Op 28; SCRIABIN: Piano Sonata No 9 Op 68; RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 39 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2028)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BIZET: Overture in A; Scene bohémiennes, La Jolie Fille de Perth; Symphony in C; Dramatic Overture, Patrie - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

6:00 PERGOLESI: Sinfonia in F - Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer (Hyperion CDA 67230)

NOCK: Red descending; Sho's cradle song; Promise; Cartwheels - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D016)

KELLY: Three Pieces for strings - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

WOODCOCK: Oboe Concerto in Eb - Neil Black (ob), Thames CO/Michael Dobson (CRD 3331)

VILLA-LOBOS: Etude No 1 in E minor; Prelude No 1 - René Bartoli (gtr) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 19 0928)

KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro - Gilles Apap (vln/dir), Sinfonia Varsovia (Apapaziz Productions GKJ 00103)

7:00 SCHREKER: Scherzo - Lucerne SO/John Axelrod (Nimbus NI 5808)

SCHUBERT: Psalm 23, The Lord is my Shepherd - Arnold Schoenberg Choir/Erwin Ortner, András Schiff (pno) (Teldec 0630 18024)

DVORÁK: Rondo in G minor Op 94 - Tomás Jamník (cello), Prague Radio SO/Tomás Netopil (Supraphon SU 4034)

HAYDN: Acide & Galatea, Sinfonia - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1818)

GADE: Piano Trio in Bb - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1665)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ALBÉNIZ: Evocación, from Iberia Book 1 - Andrew Rangell (pno) (Dorian DOR 93194)

GRIEG arr Baadsvik: Norwegian Dance Op 35/1 - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Musica Vitae/Björn Sagstad (BIS CD 1285)

DEBUSSY arr Kondonassis: Romantic Waltz - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

VERDI: Anvil Chorus, from Il Trovatore - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Carlo Franci (Decca 417 721)

HOLZBAUER: Symphony in A Op 2/4 - Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (dir) (CPO 999 585)

IBERT: Cinq pièces en trio - Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1104)

SIBELIUS: Suite for violin & strings Op 117, Country scenery; Evening in Spring; In the Summer - Pekka Kuusisto (vln/dir), Tapiola Sinfonietta (Ondine ODE 1074)

WEBER: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 74 - Fabio di Càsola (cl), Russian CO/Juri Gilbo (Sony 88697 37632)

CRAS: Journal de bord - Luxembourg Phil/Jean-François Antonioli (Timpani 2C 2037)

BACH: French Suite No 6 in E BWV817 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67121/2)

RR BENNETT: Missa brevis - Cambridge Singers/John Rutter (Collegium CSACD 901)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Netherlands SO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Challenge CC 72364)

SAINT-SAËNS: Suite for cello & piano Op 16 - Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1962)

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (Sony SMK 64109)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

SCHOLES: Memory, A rhapsody on themes written for Niki Caro's film Memory and Desire - New Zealand SO/Peter Scholes (SOUNZfine Vol 3)

TAVENER: Eternal Memory - Josephine Knight (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (EMI 2 35134)

DUBOIS: Remember - Laurent Martin (pno) (Ligia LIDI 030 2197-09)

J STRAUSS I: Souvenir de Carneval 1847, Quadrille - Slovak State Phil/Mika Eichenholz (Marco Polo 8.223470)

KREISLER arr Prior: Liebesleid - Rowan Prior (cello), Jonathan Pritchard (vln) (Ode CD Ode 1363)

MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 - Douglas Boyd (ob), CO of Europe/Paavo Berglund (ASV CD COE 808)

CAVALLI: Ardo, sospiro e piango, from La Calisto - Janet Baker (mezzo), London Phil/Raymond Leppard (Decca 440 413)

SMETANA: String Quartet No 1 in E minor, From my life - Smetana Quartet (Supraphon SU 4003 CD 1)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 1 in D, Titan - Chicago SO/Carlo Maria Giulini (rec 1971) (EMI 5 85974)

NZ musicians and composers

J RITCHIE: Papanui Road - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Trust MMT 2040)

SCHUMANN: Aufschwung, from Fantasy Pieces Op 12 - Maurice Till (pno) (Kiwi SLD 20)

WELLS: Organ Concerto - John Wells (organ of Christchurch Town Hall), Christchurch Symphony/Brian Law (Ribbonwood RCD 1009)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso - strings of New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)

HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - The Sixteen Orch/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16066)

JANÁCEK: La chevêche ne s'est pas envolée!, from On an overgrown path, Book 1 - Alain Planès (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMG 50 1508)

DELIUS: Idylle de Printemps - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7528)

BACH: Allemande, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor - Alison Balsom (tpt) (EMI 5 75683)

COPLAND: El Salón México - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (BBC Music BBC MM 98)

F COUPERIN: Les baricades mistérieuses - Enno Voorhorst (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 9136)

WHITACRE: Lux aurumque - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67543)

J WILLIAMS: Schindler's List theme - Janine Jansen (vln), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 475 011)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 53 in E minor HobXVI/34 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 416 643)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's The Magic Flute - Adrian Brendel (cello), Alfred Brendel (pno) (Philips 475 379)

LISZT: Totentanz - Alfred Brendel (pno), London Phil/Bernard Haitink (Philips 456 733)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D899/3 - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Decca 478 2116)

PACHELBEL: Canon in D - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CMS 5 66650)

May I Heave the Envelope Please

The Academy Awards are the most prestigious awards in the film industry. This year we're cleverly piggy-backing on their enormous publicity, by taking a look at some great and popular songs that never won an Oscar for best song ... they weren't even nominated. Steve Danby presents a light-hearted guide to the greatest songs Oscar overlooked, with special guests including Groucho Marx, Liza Minnelli, Elvis and The Beatles (RNZ)

2011 Adam Chamber Music Festival

Thirteen programmes

(11) Fairytales

SCHUMANN: Fairy-tale Scenes Op 132 - James Campbell (cl), Gillian Ansell (vla), Martin Roscoe (pno)

BRAHMS: Intermezzi Op 117 - Martin Roscoe (pno)

BRUCH: Pieces for clarinet, viola & piano Op 83 Nos 5, 2, 6 & 7 - James Campbell (cl), Gillian Ansell (vla), Martin Roscoe (pno) (recorded in Nelson School of Music by RNZ)

LILBURN: Four Canzonas - Wellington Orch/James Sedares (Vector Wgtn Orch VWO 001)

DURUFLÉ: Tota pulchra es; PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater; BRAHMS: Regina Coeli - Louisa Pilkington (mezzo), Dinah Wright (sop), Graham Hollobon (org), Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson (TreeHouse T 0017)

SCHUMANN: Nachtstück in F Op 23/4 - Maurice Till (pno) (Kiwi SLD 20)

J RITCHIE: Threnody - Woolston Brass/David Gallaher (Woolston Brass CDWB 3896340/01)

COOTS: For All We Know - Alexander Rapoport (tpt), Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL)

DVORÁK arr Setchell: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

TRAD arr Cashmore: O Waly Waly; TRAD arr Sargent: Little David play on your harp; TRAD arr Childs: Swing low, sweet chariot - Godley Singers/David Childs (TreeHouse T 9801)

ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - Christchurch Symphony/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

OFFENBACH: Suite for two cellos Op 54/2 - Cello Duello (Solo Musica SM 146)

BARBER: Canzonetta for oboe & strings - Stéphane Rancourt (ob), Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559135)

CARPENTER: Adventures in a Perambulator - National SO of Ukraine/John McLaughlin Williams (Naxos 8.559065)

11:00 FUCHS: Piano Trio No 2 in Bb Op 72 - Gould Piano Trio (Quartz QTZ 2028)

THIERIOT: String Sextet in D Op posth - Hamburg Chamber Players (Toccata Classics TOCC 0080)

Disc 1

SVENDSEN: Symphony No 1 in D Op 4; Symphony No 2 in Bb Op 15; Two Swedish Folk Tunes for string orchestra - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 347)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SCHUMANN: Papillons Op 2; MOZART: Piano Sonata in G K283; GERSHWIN: Three Preludes; RAVEL: Sonatine; CHOPIN: Nocturnes Nos 1 & 2 Op 27; Scherzo Op 31 - Diedre Irons (pno) (Trust MMT 2041)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

HENRY VIII: Complete Music - Sirinu (Chandos CHAN 0621)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

DOHNÁNYI: Piano Concerto, No 1 in E minor; Piano Concerto No 2 in B minor - Martin Roscoe (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Fedor Glushchenko (Hyperion CDA 66684)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

BUSONI: Verzweiflung und Ergebung Op 41; Nocturne Symphonique Op 43; Orchestral Suite Op 46; Divertimento for flute & orchestra Op 52; Sarabande and Cortège Op 51; Concerto for clarinet & small orchestra; Tanz-walzer for orchestra - Robert Wörle (ten), Jean Claude Gérard (fl), Ulf Rodenhäuser (cl), Berlin Radio SO/Gerd Albrecht (Capriccio 10479)

6:00 SALIERI: Sinfonia Veneziana in D - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9877)

THALBERG: Fantasy on God Save the Queen - Steven Mayer (pno) (ASV CD DCA 783)

CLARKE: Trumpet Aire and Symphony of flatt trumpets, from The Island Princess - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection, English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

SCHUBERT trans Wispelwey: Violin Sonatina in G minor D408 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (fpno) (Channel Classics CCS 9696)

SMETANA: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 11 0624)

7:00 BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture Op 80 - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDM 7 69651)

DEBUSSY arr/orch Kennedy: La fille aux cheveux de lin, from Preludes, Book 1 - Nigel Kennedy (vln/dir), English CO (EMI 5 56923)

VILLA-LOBOS: Chôros No 1 - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 475 6360)

MENDELSSOHN: War March of the Priests, from Athalia - James Tibbles (organ of Auckland Town Hall) (RNZ)

KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 10052)

8:00 Beauty Spot: VICTORIA: O magnum mysterium - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 66190)

BERLIOZ: Fourth movement, March to the Scaffold, from Symphonie fantastique - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

PAGANINI: Sonata in A for violin & guitar Op 64/6 - Amiram Ganz (vln), Maria Isabel Siewers (gtr) (Challenge Classics CC 72118)

WALTON arr Tracey: Crown Imperial - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral) (EMI CDB 7 62813)

DELIUS arr Fenby: Serenade, from Hassan - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), National Phil/Charles Gerhardt (RCA 74321 84112)

J STRAUSS II: Thunder & Lightning Polka; J STRAUSS II/Joseph STRAUSS: Pizzicato Polka; J STRAUSS II: Memories of Covent Garden (Waltz on English popular melodies) - Johann Strauss Orch/Christopher Warren-Green (Black Box BBM 1059)

SCHUMANN: Scenes from Goethe's Faust - Iwona Hossa, Christiane Libor (sops), Anna Lubanska, Ewa Marciniec (contraltos), Daniel Kirch (ten), Jaakko Kortekangas (bar), Andrew Gangestad (bass), Warsaw Boy's Choir, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572430-31)

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 8 in C minor Op 110 - Yggdrasil Quartet (BIS CD 913)

BACH: Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 - Pavel Sporcl (vlns), members of Prague Phil (Supraphon SU 3931)

FAURÉ: Masques & Bergamasques - Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (Decca 475 8140)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

KLEMPERER: Merry Waltz, from Das Ziel - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

IRELAND: Merry Andrew - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553889)

ANON: The Merry Wooing of Robin & Joan (Sellengers Round)

Robin............................ Douglas Woolton

Mother.......................... Thomas Padden

Joan Gromball............... Lucie Skeaping

The City Waites/Lucie Skeaping (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67754)

GRAINGER: The Merry King - Paul Janes (pno), BBC Phil/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9839)

ALPAERTS: Capriccio, Merriment - Flemish Radio Orch/Michel Tabachnik (Etcetera KTC 4025)

BRIDGE: Adagio in E - Tobias Frank (organ of the Benedictine Abbey, Schweiklberg, Lower Bavaria) (Profil PH 09011)

PEETERS: Second movement, Scherzo, from Suite modale Op 43 - Peter Hurford (organ of Ratzeburg Cathedral, Germany) (Decca 421 296)

TRAD Sephardic: Coma La Rosa - Carolina Moon (vocalist), Steve Haines (dbass), Ron Samsom (drums), Kevin Field (pno), backing group (Ode CD Manu 5109)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor - Michael Houstoun (pno), New Zealand SO/János Fürst (Trust MMT 2009)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 - Berlin SO/Kurt Sanderling (rec 1976) (Brilliant Classics 6328)

Luonnotar - Phyllis Bryn-Julson (sop), Scottish National Orch/Alexander Gibson (rec 1992) (Chandos CHAN 8395/96)

NZ musicians and composers

FARQUHAR: Prospero Dreaming - Gunter Herbig (gtr) (Naxos 8.572185)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, Act 1, Scene 1 - New Zealand SO/Patrick Flynn (RNZB)

ARNOLD: Flute Concerto No 1 Op 45 - Alexa Still (fl), NZSO CO/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7063)

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 475 8502)

SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Philippe Graffin (vln), BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion CDA 67074)

SCRIABIN: Etude in C# minor Op 2/1 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Gold CV-S 006G)

RAVEL arr Samazeuilh: Menuet antique - Bridget Douglas (fl), Rachel Thomson (pno) (Trust MMT 2039)

HALVORSEN: Entry March of the Boyars - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Sony SBK 63052)

MASSENET: Je suis encor tout étourdie, from Manon - Renée Fleming (sop), London Phil/Charles Mackerras (Decca 467 049)

BIZET: The Fair Maid of Perth, Suite - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 102)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in A minor RV356, from L'Estro Armonico - Elizabeth Wallfisch (vln), Tafelmusik Baroque Orch/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9835)

PIAZZOLLA: Danza criolla - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 468 528)

LAURO: Valse Criollo - John Williams (gtr) (rec 1958) (Decca 421 165)

RAMIREZ: Kyrie, from Missa Criolla - José Carreras (ten), Domingo Cura, Jorge Padin (perc), Arsenio Zambrano (charango), Lalo Gutierrez (gtr), Raúl Barboza (accordian), Grupo Huancara (Latin American folk instruments), Ariel Ramirez (pno/hpschd), Salvé de Laredo Choir, Bilbao Choral Society/José Luis Ocejo (Philips 462 892)

GOTTSCHALK: Ojos Criollos - Alan Marks, Nerine Barrett (pno duet) (Nimbus NI 7045/6)

BROUWER: Guajira Criolla - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Private recording BNP 01CD)

GARDEL/PERA/BATTISTELLA: Criollita de mis ensueños; STEFFOLANI/MAFFIA: Ventarrón; CADICAMO/AGUILAR: Al mundo le falta un tornillo - Carlos Gardel (bar), Pettorossi, Barbieri, Riverol & Vivas (gtrs) (Nimbus NI 7902)

GINASTERA orch Cohen: Suite de Danzas Criollas - Jerusalem SO/Gisèle Ben-Dor (Naxos 8.570999)

The King's Singers

Two programmes

(2) Tim Dodd talks with Brian Kay, the original bass in the all-male a cappella group formed in the mid-sixties by six friends at King's College, Cambridge and still going strong (RNZ)

Gala Opening

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

Alexander Gavrylyuk (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 16

(Interval)

RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; Roman Festivals (RNZ)

GLINKA: Variations on a theme of Mozart - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66038)

HOLST ed Matthews: A Song of the Night Op 19/1 - Lorraine McAslan (vln), London Phil/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor S359 - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 432 015)

11:00 JANÁCEK: String Quartet No 2, Intimate Letters - Hagen Quartet (Newton 880 2072)

BERWALD: Piano Trio in C - Kálmán Dráfi (pno), Jozsef Modrian (vln), György Kertész (cello) (Naxos 8.555002)

Disc 1

FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs, Part 1; KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus, Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia; MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides Overture; OFFENBACH: The Tales of Hoffmann, Barcarolle; WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship; LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture; WAGNER: The Flying Dutchman, Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

NIELSEN: Violin Concerto Op 33; Flute Concerto; Clarinet Concerto Op 57 - Kim Sjøgren (vln), Toke Lund Christiansen (fl), Niels Thomsen (cl), Danish National Radio SO/Michael Schønwandt (Chandos CHAN 8894)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

Hildegard von BINGEN: O Quam Mirabilis; O Ecclesia; O Clarissima Mater; O Tu Illustrata; MONK: Dawn; Quarry weave 1; Quarry Lullaby; Quarry weave 2; Farmer's Song; Astronaut Anthem; Nightfall - Musica Sacra/Richard Westenberg (Catalyst 09026 68329)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

LIAPUNOV: 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante Op 11; Lullaby; Dance of the ghosts; Pealing of bells; Terek; Summer night; Storm; Idyll; Epic song; Aeolian harps; Lesginka; Dance of the Elves; Elegy in memory of Franz Liszt - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223491)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Symphony for cello & orchestra; Four Sea-Interludes from Peter Grimes; PÄRT: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten - Truls Mørk (cello), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 420)

6:00 GOSSEC: Symphony in C minor Op 6/3 - Concerto Cologne/Andrea Keller (dir) (Capriccio 67 073)

KREISLER: Variations on a theme of Corelli in the style of Tartini - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Fleurs de Lys FL 2 3159)

ALBINONI: Concerto in C for two oboes Op 7/11 - Stefan Schilli, Giovanni Deangeli (obs), Stuttgart CO/Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics 92791)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 12 in C minor, Quartettsatz - Juilliard String Quartet (Testament SBT 1372)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin, excerpts - La Scala Orch, Milan/Lovro von Matacic (Testament SBT 1330)

7:00 BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (PentaTone PTC 5186 182)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, Shipwreck & Conclusion, from Scheherazade - Jaap van Zweden (vln), Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 443 703)

DEBUSSY: La plus que lente - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Anthony Ferner)

PARRY ed Benoliel: Concertstück in G minor - London Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 6610)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ELGAR: Sospiri Op 70 - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8380)

HOLST: Mars, Bringer of War, from Planets Suite - Royal Phil/Vernon Handley (Tring International TRP 996)

HOFFMEISTER: Double Bass Quartet No 3 in D - Norbert Duka (dbass), Ernö Sebestyén (vln), Helmut Nicolai (vla), Martin Ostertag (cello) (Naxos 8.572187)

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from Orpheus & Euridice - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (Sony MLK 66703)

SOR: Etude Op 6/11 - Cristiano Porqueddu (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 9205)

Josef STRAUSS: Village Swallows of Austria, Waltz Op 164 - Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber (Sony SK 48376)

PLEYEL: Symphony in D minor Ben147 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9525)

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Bb Op 130 - Cleveland Quartet (Telarc CD 80422)

MOZART: Mass No 18 in C minor K427, Great - Gillian Keith (sop), Tove Dahlberg (mezzo), Thomas Cooley (ten), Nathan Berg (bbar), Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16084)

ARENSKY: Forgotten Rhythms Op 28, Essais sur des rythmes oubliés - Anthony Goldstone (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25085)

VIEUXTEMPS: Violin Concerto No 6 in G Op 47 - Jolente de Maeyer (vln), Liège Royal Phil/Patrick Davin (Fuga libera FUG 575)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

BENJAMIN: Overture to an Italian Comedy - Sydney SO/Joseph Post (ABC Classics 442 374)

BUSONI: All'Italia! In modo Napolitano, from Seven Elegies - Sandro Bartoli (pno) (Brilliant Classics 94223)

CABANILLES: Corrente Italiana - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba/dir), Hespèrion XX (Alia Vox AV 9801)

VERDI: Giuriam d'Italia, from La battaglia de Legnano - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Carlo Franci (Decca 417 721)

RESPIGHI: Italiana, from Ancient Airs & Dances Suite No 3 - I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

GÓRECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Susan Gritton (sop), Royal Phil/Yuri Simonov (RegisC 1284)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/1 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (dir) (rec 2006) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7415)

PORPORA: Parto, ti lascio, o cara, from Germanico in Germania; In braccio a mille furie, from Semiramide riconosciuta - Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (rec 2009) (Decca 478 1521)

BACH: Cello Suite No 6 in D BWV1012 - Steven Isserlis (cello) (rec 2005) (Hyperion CDA 67541/2)

NZ musicians and composers

GRENFELL: ... serenades and skirmishing - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

TELEMANN: Concerto in E minor for flute & recorder TWV52/e1 - Clas Pehrsson (recorder), Penelope Evison (fl), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 1488/90)

HUMMEL: Rondo brillant in B minor Op 109 - John Khouri (fpno) (Music & Arts CD 1165)

NORMAN: The flight & the stars; Cold & darkness; Warmth & light; The Sun King; The journey continues; The Lost Boys, from Peter Pan - Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (RNZB)

REZNICEK: Donna Diana, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

CORRI: A French air with variations - Floraleda Sacchi (harp) (Tactus TC 772801)

GERSHWIN arr Villard: Piano Concerto in F, excerpt from second movement - Michel Lethiec (cl), Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.570939)

WAGNER trans Liszt: O du mein holder Abendstern, from Tannhäuser - Michel Dalberto (pno) (RCA 82876 60309)

WEISS: Lute Concerto in F - Richard Stone (lute/dir), Tempesta di Mare (Chandos CHAN 0707)

LALO: Scherzo in D minor - Royal Phil/Yondani Butt (ASV CD DCA 709)

BERLIOZ: L'Ile inconnue, from Les Nuits d'été - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Naïve V 5266)

WALTON: Façade Suite No 2, Fanfare; Scotch Rhapsody; Country Dance; Noche Espagnola; Popular Song; Old Sir Faulk - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

GERMAN: Intermezzo - Kenneth Smith (fl), Paul Rhodes (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25069)

KODÁLY: Dances of Marosszék - Budapest SO/György Lehel (Hungaroton HCD 12252)

J STRAUSS II arr Lakatos/Cséki: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Roby Lakatos (vln/dir), László Bóni (vln), Oszkár Németh (dbass), Ernest Bangó (gtr/cymbalon), Kálmán Cséki (pno) (DG 459 642)

PRYOR: A Cakewalk Contest; JOPLIN: The Favourite; JOHNSON: Shadow Time - Paragon Ragtime Orch/Rick Benjamin (Dorian DIS 80107)

DEBUSSY trans Prorvich: Golliwog's Cakewalk, from Children's Corner - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

GRAINGER: In Dahomey, Cakewalk Smasher - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66884)

GOTTSCHALK arr Kay: Gala Cakewalk, Finale, from Cakewalk Ballet - Louisville Orch/Akira Endo (Albany TROY 016)

2011 Gramophone Awards

Best Orchestral Recording

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 10 in E minor Op 93 - Royal Liverpool Phil/Vasily Petrenko (Naxos 8.572461)

New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Margaret Medlyn (sop), Stuart Skelton (ten), Daniel Sumegi (bbar), Martin Snell (bass), New Zealand Opera Chorus, New Zealand SO/Joana Carniero

STRAVINSKY: Oedipus Rex

(Interval)

Symphony of Psalms (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 2/1 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011)

CIMAROSA arr Benjamin: Concerto in C for oboe & strings - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

11:00 VIVALDI: Sonata in G for two flutes RV80; VIVALDI arr Rousseau: Le Printemps de Vivaldi - Mario Folena, Stefania Marusi (fls), ConSerto Musico (Brilliant Classics 93703)

ENESCU: Piano Quartet No 1 in D Op 16 - Tammuz Piano Quartet (CPO 777 506)