Schedules for 17 - 23 March, 2012

Disc 1

LILBURN: Symphonies, Nos 1-3 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555862)

1:20 approx - Disc 2

RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar & orchestra; Fantasia para un gentilhombre for guitar & orchestra; Concierto Serenata for harp & orchestra - Alexandre Lagoya (gtr), Catherine Michel (harp), Monte Carlo National Orch/Antonio de Almeida (Philips 420 714)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Seligkeit; Frulingsglaube D686; Das Lied in Grunen D917; Lachen und Weinen; Der Jungling an der Quelle; Auf Dem Wasser zu singen; Die junge Nonne; Romanze; Ariette der Claudine; Der Einsame; Nacht und Traume; Die Mutter Erde; Der Hirt auf dem Felsen; Lieberhaber in allen Gastalten; Fischerweise; Heidenroslein D257; An Silvia D891; An die Musik - Edith Wiens (sop), Joaquin Valdepenas (cl), Rudolf Jansen (pno) (CBC MVCD 1053)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SMETANA: Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Libor Pešek (RegisC 1099)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

HANDEL: Concerti Grossi Op 6, No 7 in Bb; No 6 in G minor; No 4 in A minor; No 9 in F; No 8 in C minor; No 12 in B minor - Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7229)

6:00 TELEMANN: Oboe Concerto in F minor TWV51/f1 - Sarah Francis (ob/dir), London Harpsichord Ensemble (RegisC 1118)

SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Der Lindenbaum, from Die Winterreise - Antti Siirala (pno) (Naxos 8.555997)

VICTORIA: O quam gloriosum - The Sixteen (Decca 475 8199)

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 2 in D - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Hyperion CDA 66561/3)

SCHUMANN: Three Romances Op 94 - Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), José Gallardo (pno) (Genuin GEN 10187)

MERTZ: Tarantella, from Bardic Sounds Op 13 - Marco Schmidt (gtr) (Private Recording CAS 0120)

GRIEG: Morning, from Peer Gynt Suite No 1 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Decca 473 862)

7:00 BARBER: Mutations from Bach - Royal Scottish National Orch/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559135)

C STAMITZ: Symphony in G Op 13/4 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9358)

HILDAGO arr Kah-Ming Ng: To hope, to feel, to die - Clara Sanabras (sop), Rodrigo del Pozo (ten), Charivari Agréable (Signum SIGCD 069)

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

YORK: Sunburst - Karin Schaupp (gtr) (Warner Classics 3984-23306)

CASELLA: Third movement, Capriccio, from Scarlattiana Op 44 - Sun Hee You (pno), Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.572416)

8:00 TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stravinsky: Bluebird pas de deux, from Sleeping Beauty - Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble/Robert Craft (Naxos 8.557532)

POULENC: Three Novelettes - Pascal Rogé (pno) (Decca 417 438)

MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Gidon Kremer (vln), Naoko Yoshino (harp) (Philips 456 016)

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 449 213)

HOLST arr McNeff: Capriccio - Philharmonia à Vent Wind Orch/John Boyd (Klavier K 11150)

SARASATE: Scottish Airs Op 34 - Rachel Barton Pine (vln), Scottish CO/Alexander Platt (Cedille CDR 90000 083)

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

WAGNER: Tristan & Isolde, Prelude - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Mark Elder (Sony SK 62032)

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

MAXWELL DAVIES arr Jackson: Farewell to Stromness - Caliban Quartet (BIS Northern Lights CD 5012)

ARAUXO: Tiento No 41 on the twelfth tone - Jeremy West (cornetto), Timothy Roberts (org) (Hyperion CDA 66977)

ABREU arr Silvetti: Tico-Tico no Fubá - Daniel Barenboim (pno), Robert Kassinger (dbass), Cyro Baptista (perc) (Teldec 3984 21482)

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor - Alastair Ross (org), Simon Standage (vln), Richard Hickox Orch/Richard Hickox (Decca 425 854)

BRAHMS: Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit, from A German Requiem - Gundula Janowitz (sop), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 427 252)

MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 - Isaac Stern (vln), Pinchas Zukerman (vla), English CO/Daniel Barenboim (Sony SM3K 46523)

LILBURN: Symphony No 2 - New Zealand SO/Ashley Heenan (Kiwi CD SLD 90)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

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

(3) Recent releases & reissues including the Miles Davis Quintet in Europe (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

Nowruz (Persian New Year) and St Patrick's Day

Two events celebrated in Global Sounds today: Nowruz or Persian New Year, and St Patrick's Day

In the 2010 release Ivresses, Iranian composer and tar lute player Ali Ghamsary has set verses by 11th century Persian scholar Omar Khayyam. They're performed by Iranian singer Alireza Ghorbani and Tunisian singer Dorsaf Hamdani

Then we celebrate St Patrick's Day with music from Uilleann piper John McSherry and fiddler Dónal O'Connor (Accords Croisés AC 142; Vertical Records VERTCD076)

Poles Apart

SMP Ensemble

BODY: Turtle Time; KILLIN: A Priori; EASTWOOD: Jericho: Walls Will Fall; MARGETIC: Hommage à W L;

MORTHENSON: Unisono; IVES: The Unanswered Question; ADAMS: "John Philip Sousa"; POULENC: Sonata for clarinet & bassoon; GÓRECKI: Piano Sonata No 1; ROBERTSHAWE/NOWICKI: Concertino 5b; SHORTIS: Tesknota (recorded in St Andrew's on The Terrace, Wellington by RNZ)

ROMAN: Drottningholm Music, Part 1, music composed for the celebration of the marriage of Princess Louisa Ulrika of Prussia & Crown Prince Adolf Frederick of Sweden - Lund Ensemble 1700/Göran Karlsson (dir) (CPO 777 589)

HANDEL: Eternal source of light divine, from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne - Edita Gruberova (sop), Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (CBS MK 39061)

ELGAR: Coronation March Op 65 - Bournemouth SO/George Hurst (Naxos 8.553564)

PURCELL: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary - John Wallace (tpt), Wallace Collection/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

ROMAN: Drottningholm Music, Part 2 - Lund Ensemble 1700/Göran Karlsson (dir) (CPO 777 589)

NZ musicians and composers

ROSSINI arr Taylor: William Tell, Overture, excerpt - BonaNZa Trombone Quartet (Rata RT 011)

POYNTON: Nga Iwi E - Dan Poynton (pno) (SOUNZfine Vol 3)

HILL: String Quartet No 11 in D minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572844)

GERSHWIN: An American in Paris - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559107)

MAHLER, Songs of Youth

Winterlied; Im Lenz - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66100)

Songs of a Wayfarer - Roland Hermann (bar), London Symphonica/Wyn Morris (IMP PCD 1035)

Serenade; Frühlingsmorgen; Ich ging mit Lust; Starke Einbildungskraft; Erinnerung; Selbstgefühl; Nicht wiedersehen!; Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen; Aus! Aus!; Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz'; Scheiden und Meiden; Phantasie; Ablösung im Sommer - Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66100)

Madeleine Pierard (sop), Sarah Castle (mezzo), Simon O'Neill (ten), Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Auckland Choral Society, New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

FARR: Kaitiaki; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral (recorded in Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

CHOPIN: Nocturnes, in F# Op 15/2; in E minor Op 72/1; in C# minor Op posth; LISZT: En rêve - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Decca 478 3206)

MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 - François Leleux (ob), Bavarian Radio SO/Colin Davis (BR Media 900 710)

GIBBS: Suite for strings - Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (vln/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67093)

FINZI: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges Op 17 - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson (Naxos 8.555792)

11:00 DVORÁK: Cypresses - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1472)

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

Disc 1

ELGAR: The Wand of Youth, Suites 1 & 2; Dream Children Op 43; Nursery Suite - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonatas, in C minor D958; in Bb D960 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 432 307)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

STRAUSS: Ewig einsam, from Guntram; Love Scene, from Feurersnot; Falke, Falke, du wiedergefundener, from Die Frau ohne Schatten; Träumerei am Kamin, from Intermezzo; In Syriens Glut…, from Die Liebe der Danae; Was erblicke ich?, from Daphne; Die schweigsame Frau, Potpourri; Di rigori armato il seno, from Der Rosenkavalier; Fröhlicher Beschluss, from Intermezzo - Ben Heppner (ten), Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5142)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

Greatest Hits: Brass

Works for brass ensemble by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Pachelbel, Desprez, Brade, Bach, Campra, Mozart, Friederich, Copland, Janácek, Dukas, Kodály, Mussorgsky - Various brass ensembles (Sony MLK 66708)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

KETÈLBEY: In a Persian Market; Wedgewood Blue; Chal Romano; In a Monastery Garden; The Clock and the Dresden Figures; Bells Across the Meadows Suite, In Holiday Mood; A Musical Jig-Saw; A Birthday Greeting; Algerian Scene; Cockney Suite, Bank Holiday, 'appy 'ampstead; Sunbeams and Butterflies; Knights of the King; Cockney Suite, At the Palais de Danse; In a Camp of the Ancient Britons, Fantasy - Peter Dawson, Raymond Newell (bars), Albert Sandler (vln); Albert Ketèlbey (pno), various ensembles (Pearl GEMM CD 9968)

MOULU: In pace - Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice (Hyperion CDA 67761)

GIBBONS: O clap your hands - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51231)

Fantasias in six parts, Nos 1, 2 & 4 - Phantasm (Avie AV 0032)

DUBRA: Ubi caritas; Ave Maria - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67799)

SCHUBERT trans Maisky: Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 449 817)

PURCELL: My song shall be alway - Stephen Varcoe (bass), Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense/Patrick Peire (Eufoda 1329)

AUFSCHNAITER: Sonata St John Op 4/8 - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Arcana A 313)

GOUNOD: St Cecilia Mass - Barbara Hendricks (sop), Laurence Dale (ten), Jean-Philippe Lafont (bar), Jean-Louis Gil (org), Radio France Choir & New Phil/Georges Prêtre (EMI CDC 7 47094)

TRAD arr Dragon: Shenandoah - Virginia Symphony/JoAnn Falletta (Albany TROY 589)

GRAINGER: My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone - Moray Welsh (cello), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Kenneth Montgomery (Chandos CHAN 6542)

POULENC: Ave Maria, from Les Dialogues des Carmelites - Dinah Wright (sop), Louisa Pilkington (mezzo), Cecilian Singers/Nan Anderson, Graham Hollobon (org) (TreeHouse T 0017)

CHOPIN: Etude in Ab Op 25/1, Aeolian Harp - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 61885)

HAWES: Fair Albion - Prague SO/Patrick Hawes (Signum SIGCD 178)

SUNG: Dance of the White Lotus Under the Silver Moon - Susan Glaser (fl), Emily Mitchell (harp) (Koch International 3-7497)

CANTELOUBE: Pastourelle, from Songs of the Auvergne - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), English CO/Jeffrey Tate (Decca 443 334)

EDWARDS: Cadenza - Chorale, from Maninyas - Dene Olding (vln), Sydney SO/Stuart Challender (ABC 472 610)

FOOTE: Air, from Air & Gavotte - Budapest Strings/Károly Botvay (dir) (Capriccio 10 505)

A look at the life and music of PHILIP GLASS (b1937) who celebrated his 75th birthday on 31 January this year, presented by Matthew Crawford (R Mon 7.00pm) (Media Maker)

Being Mendelssohn

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

(5) MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words, Op 19/6, Venetian Gondola Song; Op 85/2; Op 67/4, Spinning Song - Gilbert Kalish (pno)

SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63 - Jeffrey Kahane (pno), Joseph Swensen (vln), Paul Watkins (cello)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quintet No 1 in A Op 18 - Scott St John, Geoff Nuttall (vlns), Lesley Robertson, Masumi Per Rostad (vlas), Brandon Vamos (cello) (Music@Menlo Live 2009/5)

Youth Symphony - Sydney Symphony/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Exton EXCL 00018)

Six Moments Musicaux Op 16 - Alexander Gavrylyuk (pno) (Piano Classics PCL 0037)

Dianne James reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Pianist Youra Guller

SCHUMANN: Etudes Symphoniques Op 13 (rec 1962) (Tahra TAH 650)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - with Swiss Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet (rec 1958) (Tahra TAH 650)

Lautten Compagney

David Morriss talks with Wolfgang Katschner and Mark Nordstrand of the Berlin based baroque orchestra Lautten Compagney (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(11) WAGNER: Götterdämmerung, an opera in three acts

The thread of fate breaks in the final instalment of The Ring of the Nibelung cycle which ultimately brings about the twilight of the gods and the end of the world by fire

Siegfried........................ Jay Hunter Morris

Brünnhilde..................... Deborah Voigt

Gunther......................... Iain Paterson

Gutrune......................... Wendy Bryn Harmer

Hagen........................... Hans-Peter König

Alberich........................ Eric Owens

Waltraute...................... Waltraud Meier

First Norn..................... Maria Radner

Second Norn................ Elizabeth Bishop

Third Norn.................... Heidi Melton

Woglinde...................... Erin Morley

Wellgunde..................... Jennifer Johnson Cano

Flosshilde...................... Tamara Mumford

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Fabio Luisi (EBU)

Gisborne Music Competition 2011

Four programmes

(2) Performances from the semi-final round

CHAUSSON: Poème Op 25; BRAHMS: First movement, Allegro, from Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 - Blythe Press (vln), Richard Mapp (pno)

DUTILLEUX: Flute Sonatina - Wing Hang Hui (fl), Wing Chung Hui (pno)

IBERT: Third movement, Allegro scherzando, from Flute Concerto - Wing Hang Hui (fl), Richard Mapp (pno)

SHOSTAKOVICH: First & Second movements, Allegretto; Moderato, from Cello Concerto No 1 in Eb Op 107 - Christopher Mui (cello), Rosemary Barnes (pno)

BACH: Second movement, Fugue, from Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor BWV1001 - Kate Oswin (vln) (recorded in the Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

STILL: Symphony No 3, Sunday Symphony - Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter (Naxos 8.559676)

DEBUSSY: Rêverie - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/James Judd (Philips 462 588)

MOSZKOWSKI: Barcarolle - Seta Tanyel (pno) (Collins Classics 15192)

11:00 HAYDN: Divertimento in F HobII/16 - Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta/Manfred Huss (BIS CD 1806/08)

MOZART arr Triebensee: Don Giovanni arr for eight wind & double bass - members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Hans Krul (dbass) (Philips 422 545)

Disc 1

MENDELSSOHN: String Symphonies, No 9 in C; No 11 in F; No 12 in G minor - English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5143)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, in F minor Op 2/1; in A Op 2/2; in C Op 2/3 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2011-3)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

Vepres à la Vierge en Chine

Choral Vespers service from China - Shi Kelong (chant), Cyrille Gerstenhaber (sop), Christophe Laporte (countertenor), Benoit Porcherot, Howard Shelton (tens), Ronan Nédélec (bar), Choir of the North, Beijing, XVIII-21 Musique des Lumières/Jean-Christophe Frisch (K617 155)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

ELGAR: String Quartet in E minor Op 83; BRIDGE: Three Idylls; WALTON: String Quartet in A minor - Coull Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66718)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

BACH: Brandenburg Concertos, No 5 in D BWV1050; No 6 in Bb BWV1051; Concerto in A for oboe d'amore BWV1055; Concerto in D minor for violin & oboe BWV1060 - Munich Bach Orch/Karl Richter (Archiv 427 143)

6:00 TCHAIKOVSKY: Miniature Overture, from The Nutcracker - Paris Orch/Seiji Ozawa (PentaTone PTC 5186 107)

FAURÉ: Nocturne - Dawn Harms (vla), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)

SIBELIUS: Pohjola's Daughter - Boston SO/Colin Davis (PentaTone PTC 5186 164)

A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - John Abberger (ob), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

HOLST ed Matthews/I Holst: Dances, from The Morning of the Year - London SO/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

7:00 HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 2 in D - Consort of London/Robert Haydon Clark (Brilliant Classics 93779)

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 54 in G HobXVI/40 - Kemp English (fpno) (Manu CD MANU 5001)

FAMPAS: Corfu - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

MOZART: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 - Miroslav Stefek (horn), Czech Phil/Karel Ancerl (Supraphon SU 3698-2 001)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RODRIGO: Second movement, Adagio, from Concierto de Aranjuez - Narciso Yepes (gtr), Spanish Radio & Television SO/Odón Alonso (DG 423 784)

BRIDGE: Three Idylls - Eberle Quartet (Naim CD 019)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune - Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, English String Orch/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

CHOPIN: Rondo in C Op 73 - Simon Crawford-Phillips, Philip Moore (pno duo) (Naxos 8.572585)

LEHÁR: Sirens of the Ball, Waltz - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 463 185)

PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

Songs & Opera

I enjoyed the laughter; The light came through the window, from Book of Longing, a Song Cycle based on the poetry & images of Leonard Cohen - Tim Fain (vln), Leonard Cohen (reader), Dominique Plaisant (sop), Philip Glass Ensemble (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0043)

Song No 5, from Hydrogen Jukebox - Philip Glass Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble/Martin Goldray (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79286)

Knee Plays 3 & 5, from Einstein on the Beach - A Cappella Chorus, Samuel M Johnson (vocalist), Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton (sops), Paul Zukovsky (vln), Philip Glass (elec org), Women's Chorus/Michael Riesman (Sony SM3K 62960)

Funeral of Amenhotep III; Window of Appearances, from Akhnaten - Paul Esswood (countertenor), Milagro Vargas (contralto), Melinda Liebermann (sop), Stuttgart State Opera Orch & Chorus/Dennis Russell Davies (Sony SM3K 62960)

Evening Song, from Satyagraha - Douglas Perry (ten), New York City Opera Orch/Christopher Keene (Sony SM3K 62960)

RAVEL: Miroirs - John Chen (pno) (ABC 476 6834)

HOVHANESS: Meditation on Orpheus - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3168)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 5 in Eb Op 44/3 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570002)

HOLBROOKE: Aucassin & Nicolette Op 115 - Royal Scottish National Orch/George Vass (Dutton CDLX 7277)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

HANSON: Elegy in memory of Serge Koussevitzky - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwartz (Naxos 8.559703)

TRAD: In Memory of Baldr - Elizabeth Gaver (fiddle) (DHM 05472 77381)

TAVENER: In Memory of Two Cats - Ralph van Raat (pno) (Naxos 8.570442)

PÄRT: Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten - Britten Sinfonia/Joanna MacGregor (SoundCircus SC 008)

WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1 - Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst (DG 477 8773)

VIVALDI arr Behrend: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC 476 5948)

PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org) (Argo 430 836)

BRITTEN: Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 391)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PROKOFIEV: Piano Sonata No 6 in A Op 82 - Simon Trpceski (pno) (rec 2001) (EMI 5 75202)

SHOSTAKOVICH: String Quartet No 6 in G Op 101 - Emerson String Quartet (rec 1998) (DG 463 284)

NZ musicians and composers

WEBER: Oberon, Overture - New Zealand SO/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)

LILBURN: Piano Sonata in A minor (1939) - Dan Poynton (pno) (Trust MMT 2053)

A RITCHIE: Viola Concerto - Tim Deighton (vla), Penn's Woods Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Atoll ACD 202)

RACHMANINOV: Preludes, in C# minor Op 3/2; in G minor Op 23/5; in G Op 32/5; in G# minor Op 32/12 - John Ogdon (pno) (Philips 456 916)

ELGAR: Original finale, from Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7501)

VIERNE: Berceuse Op 31/19, from 24 Pièces en stile libre - Eugene Lavery (organ of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland) (Holy Trinity Cathedral)

CHARLTON: Partial Eclipse - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)

PRUDEN: Taranaki - New Zealand SO/Walter Susskind (Kiwi SLD 66)

PERGOLESI: Sinfonia in F - Natalia Pavlutskaya (cello), Alexander Ivashkin (cello) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)

Josef STRAUSS: Artist's Greeting Polka - Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti (EMI CMS 5 67323)

LISZT: Artist's Festive Procession S520 for the Schiller centenary - Leslie Howard (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66811/2)

BACH: Contrapunctus 4, from The Art of Fugue - Cologne Flautando (Carus 83.360)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Artist's Carnival - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

HOTTETERRE: Prelude in G minor, from The Art of Preluding - Laurence Pottier (rec), Philippe Pierlot (vla da gamba), Yasuko Uyama-Bouvard (hpschd) (Naxos 8.553708)

HERBERT: Art is calling for me, from The Enchantress - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Stephen Barlow (Decca 465 145)

NIELSEN: At the bier of a young artist - Emerson String Quartet (DG 477 5960)

PURCELL: Come ye sons of art away, from Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1694 - Academy of Ancient Music Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI 2 28944)

BEETHOVEN: Third movement, Scherzo, Allegro vivace, from Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Royal Flemish Phil/Philippe Herreweghe (PentaTone PTC 5186 313)

VEJVANOVSKY: Sonata Venatoria; Sonata in six parts; Sonata in five parts - Ars Antiqua Austria/Gunar Letzbor (dir) (Symphonia SY 96151)

A look at the life and music of PHILIP GLASS (b1937) who celebrated his 75th birthday on 31 January this year, presented by Matthew Crawford (Media Maker)

Aroha String Quartet

SZYMANOWSKI: String Quartet No 2 Op 56; SCHNITTKE: String Quartet No 1; SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde; TRAD Chinese: The Whitehaired Girl (recorded in St Andrew's Church at Rangi Ruru College, Christchurch by RNZ)

Little Summer Memories - Berit Johansen Tange (pno) (Dacapo 6.220565)

Symphony No 5, Steppe Landscape (Summer Legend Drama) - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.200001)

BRAHMS: Four Songs for women's chorus, 2 horns & harp, Harp notes ring forth; Song of Shakespeare; The gardener; Song from Fingal - Dave Everson, Steve Multer (horns), Erik C Nielsen (harp), Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Nimbus NI 5524)

Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 - Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3868)

Four Quartets Op 92, Oh beautiful night; Late autumn; Evening song; Why? - Cynthia Siebert (pno), Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Nimbus NI 5524)

11:00 TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in Bb, from Tafelmusik - Camerata of the 18th Century/Konrad Hünteler (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 311 0580)

JONGEN: Rhapsody Op 70 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1259)

KODÁLY ed Ginzburg: Sonatina for cello & piano - Natalie Clein (cello), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67829)

Disc 1

REGER: Variations and Fugue on a theme of Beethoven; A Ballet Suite; Four Böcklin Tone Pictures - Norrköping SO/Leif Segerstam (BIS CD 601)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

VIVALDI: Concertos for violin & orchestra Op 11, No 1 in D; No 2 in E minor; No 3 in A; No 4 in G; No 5 in C minor; No 6 in G minor - Stanley Ritchie (vln), Frank De Bruine (ob), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Oiseau-Lyre 463 172)

2:35 approx - Disc 3

SCHUMANN: Spanische Liebeslieder Op 138; Piano Quartet in Eb Op 47; Andante & Variations for two pianos, two cellos & horn - Kathleen Battle (sop), D'Anna Fortunato (contralto), John Aler (ten), Dominic Cossa (bar), Charles Wadsworth, Richard Goode (pnos), Jaime Laredo (vln), Walter Trampler (vla), Leslie Parnas, Laurence Lesser (cellos), John Barrows (horn) (ASV CD AMM 155R)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

IRELAND: Decorations; The Almond Tree; Preludes; Rhapsody; The Towing-Path; Merry Andrew; Summer Evening; Piano Sonata in E minor - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9056)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

BACH arr various: Air, from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068; Beloved Jesu, We are Here; Christmas Oratorio, Sinfonia; Siciliano, from Oboe Concerto in F BWV1053; Prelude in Eb minor BWV853; Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, from Cantata No 147; Sarabande, Minuet and Badinerie, from Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067; First movement, Allegro, from Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G BWV1049; Sleepers Awake, from Cantata No 140; Sanctify Us by Thy Goodness, from Cantata No 22; Second movement, Adagio, from Concerto in C minor for oboe and violin BWV1060; Second movement, Andante, from Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058; Second movement, Largo ma non troppo, from Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043; Prelude in C BWV846; Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata No 208 - Various artists (London 440 082)

6:00 BACH trans Stokowski: Arioso, Largo, from Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV1056 - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.572050)

HEAD: By the River in Spring - Celia Redgate (fl), Michael Dussek (pno) (Divine Art DDA 25061)

C SCOTT: First Suite for Strings - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)

LOHAN arr Lawson: Out of the Woods - King's Singers (Signum SIGCD 177)

MUSTONEN: Petite Suite - Martti Rousi (cello), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Olli Mustonen (Ondine ODE 974)

RAMEAU: Zaïs, Overture - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)

7:00 BIZET: Toreador's Song, Votre toast...Toréador, en garde, from Carmen - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Alison Morgan (sop), Jenny Duck-Chong, Sally-Anne Russell (contraltos), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

D'ESTRÉE trans Mizzi: Bransles de Malthe - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Spearhead Music SM 200)

BERWALD: Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains - Gävle SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.555370)

WAGENSEIL: Trombone Concerto in Eb - Jörgen van Rijen (tbn), Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (dir) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26708)

FRIEDMAN: Menuetto in D, after Mozart's Divertimento in D for string quartet & two horns K334 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67598)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse-scherzo - Ilya Kaler (vln), Russian Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.557690)

8:00 Beauty Spot: LUKASZEWSKI: Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67639)

PUCCINI: Scherzo in A minor; Minuet No 1 in A - Quartetto Puccini (ASV CD DCA 909)

MOLTER: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in D - Kari Kriikku (cl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/John Storgårds (Ondine ODE 1056)

JEFFES: Prelude and Yodel, from Still Life at the Penguin Café - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 425 218)

DOHNÁNYI: Ruralia Hungarica Op 32c - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67699)

DVORÁK: Prague Waltzes - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 464 647)

PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

Chamber Music

Etudes for Piano, Vol 1/1 & 2 - Philip Glass (pno) (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0009)

Company - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 79111)

The Windcatcher - Philip Glass Ensemble Woodwinds (Orange Mountain Music 0006)

Violin Sonata No 1 - Maria Bachmann (vln), Jon Klibonoff (pno) (Orange Mountain Music 7006)

STOJOWSKI: Suite in Eb Op 9 - Podlasie Opera Orch/Marcin Nalecz-Niesiolowski (Dux 0625)

CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35, Funeral March - Simon Trpceski (pno) (EMI 3 75586)

POULENC: Sinfonietta - Orchestre de Picardie/Edmon Colomer (Calliope CAL 9748)

BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Op 56 - Tasmin Little (vln), Tim Hugh (cello), Howard Shelley (pno/dir), Opera North Orch (Chandos CHAN 10695)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

MOZART: German Dances K605 - Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square/John Lubbock (Resonance CD RSN 3072)

SCHUBERT: German Dances D820 - Shai Wosner (pno) (Onyx 4073)

HAYDN: German Dances HobIX/12 - Vienna Ensemble Bella Musica/Michael Dittrich (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1057)

SEISS: German Dances - Petronel Malan (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.286)

STENHAMMAR: In the forest; Fylgia - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (Musica Sveciae MSCD 623)

How Hybrid? Global Music Mixes

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

(5) Ukulele

Small and easy to play, the ukulele has become the new recorder. Kiwi children and adults alike have recently re-discovered a secret that our Pacific neighbours have known for years. Today Megan Collins looks at the ukulele, from its early years in Hawaii, its establishment on every island, including the North, South and Stewart atolls (RNZ) (Programme 6 next Tuesday)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - North German Radio SO/Günter Wand (rec 1983) (RCA GD 60088)

Dein blaues Auge Op 59/8; Von ewiger Liebe Op 43/1; O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück Op 63/8; Der Tod, das ist die Kühle Nacht Op 96/1; Feldeinsamkeit Op 86/2; In stille Nacht - Christa Ludwig (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons (pno) (rec 1969) (EMI CMS 7 64074)

NZ musicians and composers

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

FARQUHAR: Magpies & other Birds - Jones & Co (Kiwi CD SLD 88)

MOZART: Symphony No 40 in G minor K550 - New Zealand SO/Nicholas McGegan (NZSO Live)

ALWYN: Derrybeg Fair, from The Fairy Fiddler - Royal Scottish National Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7270)

MENDELSSOHN: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93975)

BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto in A G475 - Enrico Bronzi (cello/dir), Verona Accademia i Filarmonici (Brilliant Classics 92618)

BINGE: The Watermill - Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Warner 2564 62020)

IRELAND: Sea fever; The vagabond; The bells of San Marie - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 445 946)

EDWARDS: Marimba Dances - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)

K JENKINS: Benedictus, from The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace - Guy Johnston (cello), National Youth Choir of Great Britain, London Phil/Karl Jenkins (Virgin 8 11015)

BALAKIREV: Islamey, Oriental Fantasy - Freddy Kempf (pno) (BIS SACD 1580)

VINTER: Hunter's Moon - David Pyatt (horn), London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 316)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song - Emma Johnson (cl), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (ASV CD DCA 891)

MASSENET: Meditation, from Thaïs - Nicola Benedetti (vln), London SO/Daniel Harding (DG 987 0577)

SPOHR: Variations on I am still in my youth - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66038)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555974)

WAGNER: Pilgrims' Chorus, from Tannhäuser - Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

8:00 Composer of the Week - PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

Strung Out - Francesco Peverini (vln); Piece in the Shape of a Square - Manuel Zurria (fl); How Now - Alter Ego (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0034)

Two Pages - Philip Glass (org), Michael Riesman (pno) (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79326)

10:00 European Jazz

Six programmes

(3) Capillary Action

Jonathan Pfeffer (voc/gtr/perc), John DeHaven (tpt/perc/voc), Julian Chin (acco/perc/voc), Michael Harrist (bass/perc/voc), Colin Hacklander (drums)

"Capillary Action is a rubber ball, bouncing about four walls and a stained-glass roof, each impact reshaping it into some wonderfully different object. It's the "Back To The Future" series condensed into a 30-minute soap opera, Darwin's most intellectual theories spray-painted across a Greyhound bus." (Drowned in Sound) (Swiss Radio/EBU)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Philip Glass Remixed (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0023)

Disc 1

A SCARLATTI: Agar et Ismaele esiliati, Sinfonia; Concerto No 3; San Filippo Neri, Introduttione; Concerto No 6; Il primo omicidio, Sinfonia; Concerto No 5; L'Assunzione della Beata Vergine, Sinfonia; Concerto No 4; Il trionfo della Vergine assunta in Cielo, Sinfonia; Concerto No 1; Il giardino di rose, Sinfonia; Concerto No 2 - Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (dir/harpsichord) (Decca 470 650)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

GENISHTA: Nocturne; TCHAIKOVSKY: Pezzo Capriccioso in B minor Op 62; Solo from Sleeping Beauty; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Serenade; GLAZUNOV: Elegy in memorial of Franz Liszt Op 17; Spanish Serenade Op 20/2; RACHMANINOV: Prelude Op 2/1; Oriental Dance Op 2/2; ROSLAVETS: Dance of the white girls; MOSLOV: Legende Op 5; PROKOFIEV: Adagio in C Op 97b, from Cinderella; SHOSTAKOVICH: Moderato - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Ingrid Wahlberg (pno) (Manu CD 1426)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

Te Deums: by M-A CHARPENTIER, MOZART, VERDI, PÄRT - Elisabetta Scano, Cinzia Forte (sops), Cristina Sogmaister (mezzo), Declan Kelly (ten), Riccardo Novaro (bass), St Cecilia Academy Choir & Orch/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 469 076)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

MOZART: Piano Sonatas, in C KV330; in A KV331; in F KV332 - Maria João Pires (pno) (DG 431 760)

5:05 approx - Disc 5

CHABRIER: Fete Polonaise from Le Roi malgre lui; GLINKA: Kamarinskaya; SIBELIUS: Andante festivo; GLINKA: Valse fantaisie; BOLZONI: Minuetto; DVOŘÁK: Humoresque Op 101/7; DARZINS: Valse melancolique; ELLINGTON: Solitude; SHOSTAKOVICH: Romance, from The Gadfly; MUSSORGSKY: Gopak; DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune; SCHUMANN: Abendlied Op 107/6; MEDINS: Aria; GERSHWIN: Promenade, Walking the Dog; SOUSA: The Stars and Stripes Forever - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 9227)

6:00 SALIERI: The Stolen Bucket, Overture - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223381)

RACHMANINOV: Etudes-tableaux Op 33, No 1 in F minor; No 2 in C; No 3 in Eb minor; No 6 in C# minor - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56350)

CIMAROSA: Oboe Concerto in C minor - Anthony Camden (ob), City of London Sinfonia/Nicholas Ward (Naxos 8.553991)

PRAETORIUS: Suite de Voltes, from Terpsichore - Early Music Consort of London/David Munrow (EMI 5 69555)

WAGNER: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, from Götterdämmerung - Vienna Phil/Hans Knappertsbusch (Decca 414 625)

7:00 BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini, Overture - CBSO/Louis Frémaux (EMI CDZ 7 62605)

PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)

HANDEL arr Babell: Lascia ch'io pianga, from Rinaldo - Mara Galassi (harp) (Glossa GCD 921 303)

HAMELIN: Theme and Variations (Cathy's Variations) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

PACHELBEL: Canon in D - Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (Erato ECD 55018)

8:00 Beauty Spot: DEBUSSY orch Ravel: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - Royal Flemish Phil/Daniele Callegari (Talent DOM 2929 95)

SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 - Stephanie Chase (vln), Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (ABC Classics 426 380)

TARTINI arr Jacob Concertino - Mark Walton (cl), Paul Bateman (pno) (Chalumeau EBY 001)

PARTICHELA arr Hope: Mexican Hat Dance - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2155)

SOUSA: The Washington Post - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 1 in F minor S359 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

Concert Hall, Programme 1 of 2

Violin Concerto - Robert McDuffie (vln), Houston Symphony/Christoph Eschenbach (Telarc CD 80494)

Symphony No 3 - Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.559202)

CANTELOUBE: Songs of the Auvergne Set 2 - Netania Davrath (sop), orch accompaniment/Pierre de la Roche (Vanguard 08 8002.72)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 26 in Eb Op 81a, Les Adieux - Jonathan Biss (pno) (Onyx 4082)

DVORÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 - Truls Mørk (cello), Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons (Virgin 3 63287)

GOUNOD: Symphony No 2 in Eb - Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.557463)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

MONZA ed Biondi: Sinfonia in D, La tempesta di mare - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 3 63430)

SIMONETTI: Sonata in C minor Op 5/2, Sea Storm - Red Priest (Red Priest RP 004)

BRITTEN: Fourth interlude, Storm, from Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes - New Zealand SO/Myer Fredman (Naxos 8.553107)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in Eb RV253, Storm at sea - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 365)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 13 in A D664 - Shura Cherkassky (pno) (Nimbus NI 1748)

S ADAMS: The Holy City - Malvina Major (sop), Philip Walsh (org) (Kiwi Pacific CD SLC 246)

SOR: L'Encouragement Op 34, Divertissement No 1 for two guitars - Ida Presti, Alexandre Lagoya (gtr duo) (Philips 422 979)

BARTÓK trans Kraeuter: Hungarian Folk Melodies - Jonathan Pritchard (vln), Rowan Prior (cello) (Ode CD Ode 1363)

HOLST: Suite No 2 for Military Band/Op 28/2 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9697)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Esa-Pekka Salonen (rec 2007) (DG 477 7346)

GRIEG: Six Songs Op 48, Greeting; One day, my thought; The way of the world; The secretive nightingale; The time of roses; A dream; Spring rain Op 49/6, from Six Poems by Holger Drachmann - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (rec 1993) (DG 437 521)

NZ musicians and composers

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

HERRMANN: Concerto Macabre, from the film Hangover Square - David Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

WARLOCK: The Curlew - Martyn Hill (ten), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi - Ogen Trio (Ogen OG 0010)

LEHÁR: The Merry Widow, Overture - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 891)

WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasy - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta (Teldec 0630 17045)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Rachmaninov: Flight of the Bumblebee; RACHMANINOV: Elegy Op 3/1; Barcarolle Op 10/3 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

GRANADOS: Intermezzo; Tonadilla, La Maja de Goya, from Goyescas - William Feasley (gtr) (Sonora SO 22587 CD)

SMETANA: Polka, from The Bartered Bride - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

MOZART: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)

BRIDGE: Chant d'espérance - BBC Welsh National Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10310)

GIBBONS: Songs of hope - Tonus Peregrinus/Antony Pitts (org/dir) (Naxos 8.557681)

GOTTSCHALK: The Last Hope - Alan Marks (pno) (Nimbus NI 7045/6)

REGER: An die Hoffnung - Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo), London Phil/Leon Botstein (Telarc CD 80589)

DOWLAND: Forlorn Hope Fancy - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (Brilliant Classics 93698)

VIVALDI: La speranza verdeggiando, from Orlando finto pazzo RV727 - Gemma Bertagnolli (sop), Ensemble Cordia/Stefano Veggetti (dir) (Brilliant Classics 94071)

HUME: My hope is decayed - Jordi Savall (bass viol) (Auvidis Astrée ES 9919)

MONTEVERDI: Interrotte speranze - Jan van Elsacker, Hervé Lamy (tens), Akadêmia/Françoise Lasserre (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 051 003)

ROBERTS: Hope finds a way - Armonico Consort/Christopher Monks (dir) (Signum SIGCD 180)

GLAZUNOV: Wedding March Op 21 - Moscow SO/Igor Golovschin (Naxos 8.553839)

Philosophy Talk

Presented by Ken Taylor and John Perry of Stanford University

Six programmes

(2) The Power of Thought

Human thought is an amazing thing. It has given us not only science, literature, and morality, but also superstition, slavery, and war. Thought has the power to uncover the deepest mysteries of the universe. Or to create new realities - social realities. But what makes human thought so powerful? John and Ken put this question and more to renowned cognitive scientist and best-selling author Steven Pinker (Ben Manilla Productions)

Music for Film

Four programmes

(3) A Night at the Oscars

RTE National SO/David Arnold

BERLIN: There's No Business like Show Business; WARREN: Lullaby of Broadway; HARLINE: When you wish upon a star; ALFORD: Colonel Bogey March: FAIN: Secret love; J WILLIAMS: Harry Potter Suite; BARRY: Born Free; KANDER: Cabaret; LEGRAND: Windmills of your mind; J WILLIAMS: ET; SHERMAN: Mary Poppins Medley; NEWMAN: 20th Century Fox Fanfare; JARRE: Lawrence of Arabia; Dr Zhivago; A Passage to India; HAMLISCH: The Way We Were; BARRY: Out of Africa; SCHWARTZ: That's Entertainment; PAPATHANASSIOU: Chariots of Fire; J WILLIAMS: Indiana Jones; E BERNSTEIN: The Magnificent Seven (recorded the National Concert Hall, Dublin by Irish Radio)

BRAHMS arr Joachim: Hungarian Dances, Vol 1 Book 1, Nos 1 in G minor; 2 in D minor; 3 in F; 4 in B minor; 5 in G minor - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67663)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Philharmonia/Vernon Handley (RCA 74321 84112)

BORODIN: Symphony No 2 in B minor - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 17582)

11:00 REINECKE: Flute Sonata in E minor Op 167, Undine - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (EMI 3 73708)

MENDELSSOHN: Piano Sextet in D Op 110 - Dalia Ouziel (pno), Gil Sharon (vln), Ron Ephrat, Liisa Tamminen (vlas), Alexander Hülshoff (cello), Jean Sassen (dbass) (Brilliant Classics 94205)

Disc 1

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 3 in C Op 26 - Martha Argerich (pno), RIAS SO, Berlin Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Artists Live FED 049)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

DVORÁK: Five Bagatelles for two violins, cello & harmonium Op 47; String Quintet in Eb Op 97; Terzetto in C for two violins & viola Op 74 - Robert Ireland (harmonium), Patrick Ireland (vla), Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 806)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

Fairest Work of Happy Nature

BLOW: Songs & Keyboard Music - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Timothy Roberts (spinet, hpschd, chamber org), Paula Chataeuneuf (theorbo, baroque gtr) (Hyperion CDA 66646)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BAX: Cello Sonata in Eb; Folk-Tale; Sonatina in D; Legend-Sonata in F# minor - Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Yolande Wrigley (pno) (ASV CD DCA 896)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

TCHAIKOVSKY: Serenade in C for strings Op 48; String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11; Elegy; Scherzo in C minor Op 42/2 - Kremlin CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9116)

6:00 CIMAROSA: L'Impresario in Angustie, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

GRANADOS arr Miolin: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)

STENHAMMAR: Two Sentimental Romances Op 28 - Tobias Ringborg (vln), Swedish CO/Niklas Willén (Naxos 8.554287)

SULLIVAN: Dance of the Nymphs & Satyrs, from L'Ile Enchantée - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223003)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words Op 19/6, Venetian gondola song - Luba Edlina (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8948/9)

CHAUSSON: Soir de Fête - Belgian Radio SO/José Serebrier (Chandos CHAN 8369)

7:00 VERDI: Spuntato ecco il dì, from Don Carlos - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

HAHN: L'Heure exquise - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (Decca 473 168)

ARNOLD: English Dances Suite No 2 - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)

BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Variations on a theme of Tárrega - Enno Voorhorst (gtr) (Naxos 8.555718)

CORELLI: Concertino in seven parts - Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (dir) (Decca 470 296)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GLUCK: Che farò senza Euridice? from Orpheus & Euridice - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 449 206)

LILBURN: Two Diversions - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (RNZ)

LISZT: Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D, Carnival in Pest - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 412 724)

BRIAN: Festal Dance - RTE National SO/Adrian Leaper (Naxos 8.572020)

MILHAUD: Suite d'après Corrette - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6536)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - London SO/André Previn (RCA GD 87830)

PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

Film Music

The poet acts; Morning passages, from the film, The Hours - Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), Michael Riesman (pno), orchestral accompaniment/Nick Ingman (Nonesuch 79693)

Koyaanisqatsi, excerpts - Albert de Ruiter (bass), Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (Nonesuch 7559 79506)

Powaqqatsi, excerpts - Percussion ensemble, session orch/Michael Reisman (Nonesuch 7559 79192)

Naqoyqatsi - Tony Boutté (ten), Paul Houghtaling (bar), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), members of Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (Sony SK 87709)

The Thin Blue Line, End credits, from the film soundtrack - studio orchestra/Michael Riesman (Nonesuch 7559 79209)

SHOSTAKOVICH arr Barshai: Chamber Symphony in C minor Op 110a - Scottish Ensemble/Clio Gould (vln/dir) (Linn CKD 095)

PLEYEL: Piano Trio in E minor Ben435 - Trio 1790 (CPO 777 544)

SPOHR: Symphony No 8 in G Op 137 - Swiss-Italian Orch/Howard Shelley (Hyperion CDA 67802)

HUBAY orch Huszár: Viola Concerto Op 20, Second & Third movements - Péter Bársony (vla), Erkel CO/Gergely Vajda (Hungaroton Classic HCD 32626)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

PUCCINI arr Tamminga: Te Deum, from Tosca - Liuwe Tamminga (organ of St Pietro Somaldi, Lucca, Italy), Valentino Marré, Mirko Natalizi (percussion) (Passacaille 952)

DEBUSSY arr Mouton: Pelléas & Mélisande, Piano Trio - Trio Parnassus (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 1711)

HANDEL arr Temmingh: Tornami a vagheggiar, from Alcina - Stefan Temmingh (recorder), Domen Marincic (vla da gamba), Axel Wolf (lute), Olga Watts (hpschd) (Oehms Classics OC 772)

STRAUSS arr Taubmann: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Julian Reynolds, Peter Lockwood (pno duo) (Globe GLO 5153)

BERLIOZ: Beatrice & Benedict, Overture - Boston SO/Charles Munch (RCA 09026 68999)

CHERUBINI: Nemo gaudeat - Barbara Fleckenstein (sop), Barbara Müller (contralto), Bernhard Schneider, Andrew Meyer (tens), Christoph Hartkopf (bass), Harald Feller, Max Hanft (orgs), Bavarian Radio Chorus/Riccardo Muti (EMI 3 94316)

SPRATLEY: Suite Op 12b, In Outlaw Country - Tracey Redfern (tpt), Eira Lynn Jones (harp), Manchester Sinfonia/Philip Spratley (Toccata Classics TOCC 0088)

WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Vera Schlosser, Berit Lindholm, Brigitte Fassbaender, Helen Watts, Helga Dernesch, Vera Little, Marilyn Tyler, Claudia Hellmann (Valkyries), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 440 069)

TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture - London SO/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 47843)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BACH: Violin Partita No 1 in B minor BWV1002 - Ruggiero Ricci (vln) (rec 1981) (RegisC 2077)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 27 in Bb K595 - Christoph Eschenbach (pno/dir), London Phil (rec 1978) (EMI 3 81793)

NZ musicians and composers

TREMAIN: Tenera Juventa; FARQUHAR: Three of a Kind - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey, Alison Lander, Martin Ryman (pno duet) (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Boléro in G minor Op 166 - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1031)

JANÁCEK arr Breiner: Kátya Kabanová, Suite - New Zealand SO/Peter Breiner (Naxos 8.570556)

ROSSINI: Semiramide, Overture - La Scala Orch, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 448 218)

VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins RV522, from L'Estro Armonico - Jeanne Lamon (vln/dir), Geneviève Gilardeau (vln), Tafelmusik Baroque Orch (Analekta AN 2 9835)

GIGOUT: Scherzo, from Ten Pieces - Gillian Weir (organ of Milwaukee's Performing Arts Centre) (Koss KC 1013)

CPE BACH: Symphony in F Wq183/3 - Salzburg Chamber Phil/Yoon K Lee (Naxos 8.553289)

BIZET trans Mercz: Entr'acte to Act 3, from Carmen; Minuet, from L'Arlésienne Suite No 2 - János Bálint (fl), Nóra Mercz (harp) (Naxos 8.550741)

WOLF-FERRARI: Overture & Intermezzo, from Doctor Love - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)

WOODFORDE-FINDEN: Kashmiri Love Song - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lenehan (pno) (EMI 3 59488)

RÓZSA: Love Scene, from El Cid - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch International 3-7340)

TRAD arr Mizzi: Three love poems, Hula; Lahaina; Hana - Carlos Bonell (gtr) (Spearhead Music SM 200)

BRIDGE: Speak to me, my love! - Sarah Connolly (mezzo), BBC Welsh National Orch/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10310)

KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Yevgeny Sudbin (pno) (BIS SACD 1518)

WARBECK: Shakespeare in Love, theme from the motion picture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80551)

Progress, Patriotism and Protest

Three programmes in which Matthew Crawford navigates the turbulent confluence of music and politics in 20th century America.(2) A national anthem at last, music for war, Strange Fruit in the South, Frank Sinatra pleads for tolerance and Leonard Bernstein takes aim at the forces of McCarthyism (Media Maker)

Nikolai Demidenko (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30; SCHREKER: Interlude, from Der Ferne Klang; RAVEL: Daphnis & Chloé, Suites Nos 1 & 2 (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

Rhapsodies, No 1 Sz86; No 2 Sz89 - James Ehnes (vln), Andrew Armstrong (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10705)

ROUSSEL: The Spider's Feast - French National Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 3 71487)

BERG: Seven early songs, Night; Song amid the reeds; The nightingale; Crowned in dreams; Indoors; Ode to love; Summer days - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 437 515)

KUULA: South Ostrobothnian, Suite No 2 - BBC Concert Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7272)

11:00 SCHUBERT trans Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (Philips 456 871)

MARAIS arr Heinrich: Les folies d'Espagne - Palladian Ensemble (Linn CKD 221)

FIBICH: String Quartet No 2 in G Op 8 - Panocha Quartet (Supraphon SU 3470-2 131)

Disc 1

GOODWIN: Theme from 633 Squadron; Drake 400 Suite; Puppet Serenade; New Zealand Suite; Arabian Celebration; Venus Waltz; Prisoners of War March; Minuet in Blue; Theme from The Trap; Girl with a Dream; Theme from Lancelot & Guinevere - New Zealand SO/Ron Goodwin (Marco Polo 8.223518)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances; JOACHIM: Andantino in A minor; Romance in Bb - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553026)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

STRIGGIO: Ecce beatam lucem; Missa Ecco sì beato giorno; GALILEI: Contrapunto Secondo; STRIGGIO: Fuggi, spene mia; O giovenil ardire; Altr'io che queste spighe; D'ogni gratia et d'amor; O de la belle Etruria invitto Duce; Caro dolce ben mio; Miser'oimè; Spem in alium (Sarum plainchant); TALLIS: Spem in alium - I Fagiolini/Robert Hollingworth (Decca 478 2734) 3:25 approx - Disc 4

DECRÜCK: Sonata in C#; DELVINCOURT: Croquembouches; SANCAN: Lamento et Rondo; Maurice: Tableaux de Provence; Köchlin: Etudes for saxophone and piano Op 188; DESENCLOS: Prélude, Cadence et Finale - Claude Delangle (sax), Odile Delangle (pno) (BIS CD 1130)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

RAWSTHORNE: Bagatelles; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Delius; HOUGH: Valse Enigmatique Nos 1 & 2; ELGAR: In Smyrna; REYNOLDS: Two Poems in Homage to Fauré; BANTOCK arr Hough: Song to the Seals; BOWEN: Reverie d'amour Op 20/2; Serious Dance Op 51/2; The way to Polden (an ambling tune) Op 76; BRIDGE: The Dew Fairy; Heart's Ease; LEIGHTON: Six Studies (Study-Variations) Op 56 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67267)

6:00 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV arr Palmer: Song of India, from Sadko - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 462 712)

GESUALDO: Canzon franzese del principe; STELLA: Prima canzon; MARCQUE: prima gagliarda; LOMBARDO: Gagliarda - The Earl his viols (Profil PH 10057)

RR BENNETT: Little Suite - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2113)

RAVEL: Menuet antique - Marielle Labèque (pno) (KML 1111)

DURUFLÉ: Four Motets on Gregorian themes Op 10, Ubi caritas et amor; Tota pulchra es; Tu es Petrus; Tantum ergo - Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse (Signum SIGCD 163)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in G minor RV316a, La Stravaganza Op 4/6 - Rachel Podger (vln), Arte Dei Suonatori (Channel Classics CCS 19598)

7:00 ROSSINI: The Silken Ladder, Overture - London CO/Christopher Warren-Green (Signum Classics SIG CD 201)

SCHMITT arr Watkins/Chatron: Andante & Scherzo for harp & string quartet - Sandrine Chatron (harp), Elias String Quartet (Ambroisie AMB 9978)

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

COPLAND: Vocalise for flute & piano - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker - Royal Phil/George Weldon (EMI 7 94431)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ROTA arr Lencsés: Elegy - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

ORTIZ: Romanesca - Hespèrion XXI (Alia Vox AV 9820)

HUBICKI: Irish fantasy - James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10322)

KREISLER: Sicilienne & Rigaudon, in the style of Francoeur - Akiko Suwanai (vln), Philharmonia/Charles Dutoit (Philips 475 6189)

BRAHMS orch Juon: Hungarian Dance No 4 in F# minor - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)

GIULIANI: Variations on a theme by Handel Op 107, Harmonious Blacksmith - Slava Grigoryan (gtr) (ABC Classics 472 224)

MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

PHILIP GLASS (b1937)

Concert Hall, Programme 2 of 2

Saxophone Concerto - Rascher Saxophone Quartet (Orange Mountain Music 0006)

Symphony No 8 - Linz Bruckner Orch/Dennis Russell Davies (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0028)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 12 - Martha Argerich (pno) (RCA 74321 98836)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Chamber Concerto for oboe & string orchestra - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Stuttgart Arcata CO/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 6 in C D589, Little - Cologne Gürzenich Orch/Günter Wand (Testament SBT 1364)

BRITTEN: A Charm of Lullabies - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 471 581)

BRITTEN: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc CD 80743)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

KLEMPERER: Recollections - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Alun Francis (CPO 999 987)

MEYERBEER: Le ricordanze - Sivan Rotem (sop), Jonathan Zak (pno) (Naxos 8.572367)

HUMMEL: Fantaisie in C, Recollections of Paganini - Madoka Inui (pno) (Naxos 8.557836)

J STRAUSS I arr Rot: Recollections of Ernst or The Carnival of Venice - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (DG 477 6225)

VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - St Cecilia National Academy Chorus & Orch, Rome/Carlo Franci (Decca 417 721)

BEETHOVEN: Third movement, Presto agitato, from Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1906.08)

BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Berlin Phil/James Levine (DG 445 823)

BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (EMI 7 94431)

DVORÁK: Song to the Moon, from Rusalka - Renée Fleming (sop), London SO/Georg Solti (Decca 455 760)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (rec 1995) (BIS CD 863)

Q PORTER: Viola Concerto - Eliesha Nelson (vla), Northwest Sinfonia/John McLaughlin Williams (rec 2008) (Sono Luminus DSL 90911)

NZ musicians and composers

CHOPIN: Mazurkas Op 30 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

NORMAN: Little Jack Horner; The evader as plum puller; A song about the pie, from Plum Song - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 1995-1996/Roger Stevenson (NZSSC)

SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1 - Anthony Ferner (fl), Gerard Willems (pno) (Anthony Ferner)

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

WEBER: Invitation to the Dance - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 336)

PERGOLESI: Violin Concerto in Bb - Giuliano Carmignola (vln), Mozart Orch/Claudio Abbado (Archiv 477 8077)

HAMELIN: Etude No 3 in B minor, after Paganini-Liszt, from 12 Etudes in all the minor keys - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

ELGAR: Serenade for Strings Op 20 - English CO/Paul Goodwin (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7258)

JL BACH: Motet, Das ist meine Freude - Rickman Godlee (cello), Martin Peck (dbass), Andrew Lamb (org), Christopher Allsop (organ), Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow (Conifer 75605 51306)

STENHAMMAR ed Lysell: Prelude & Bourrée - Gävle SO/Hannu Koivula (Naxos 8.572186)

BEETHOVEN: Rondo a capriccio in G Op 129, Rage over a lost penny - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Mirare MIR 9972)

HANDEL: O ruddier than the cherry, from Acis & Galatea - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 453 480)

BELLINATI: A Furiosa - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10512)

FERRABOSCO THE ELDER: Dolci ire - Huelgas Ensemble/Paul van Nevel (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1874)

MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - BBC Concert Orch/Barry Wordsworth (Decca 473 862)

ELLINGTON: Fast & Furious - Daniel Barenboim (pno) (Teldec 3984 25252)

RESPIGHI: Violin Sonata in E minor, after Bach's Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023 - Michael Erxleben (vln/dir), New Berlin CO (Capriccio 10 563)

WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.553981)

The Critic's Chair

Dianne James reviews recent releases (RNZ)

WOMAD Taranaki 2011

Eleven programmes

(11) Gala Concert

The gala is a tradition of the WOMAD festival that brings together many of the artists and their diverse musical styles. The resulting fusion of sounds and rhythms is unique to every Festival and every performance. Tonight's music director and creative juggler, bringing together performers from 17 Hippies, Faiz Ali Faiz, Horace Andy and Sola Rosa is UK artist and producer Nitin Sawhney (RNZ)

Symphony No 7 in E - Bavarian State Orch/Kent Nagano (Sony 88697 90945)

BACH arr Tarkmann: Concerto for oboe, strings & continuo - Albrecht Mayer (ob), English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)

BUTTERWORTH: Six songs from A Shropshire Lad - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Iain Burnside (pno) (BBC Music BBC MM 298)

MARX: Spring Music, from Nature Trilogy - Vienna Radio SO/Johannes Wildner (CPO 777 320)

11:00 TELEMANN: Overture-Suite in D TWV55/D6 - Siegfried Pank (vla da gamba), Christine Schornsheim (hpschd), Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik (Profil PH 10057)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 4 in E minor Op 44/2 - Elias String Quartet (Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0028)