Schedules for 24 - 30 March, 2012

Disc 1

ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19; Symphony No 2 in D Op 11 - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in C; de BOISMORTIER: Concerto in B minor: TELEMANN: Concerto in E; de BOISMORTIER: Sonata No 6 in A minor; SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in D minor; TELEMANN: Concerto in F; de BOISMORTIER: Concerto in A minor; Sonata No 3 in E minor; SHICKHARDT: Concerto for four treble recorders in G - Sirena Recorder Quartet (BIS CD 1234)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

BODY: People look East; GRIFFITHS: Dormi Jesu; BYARS: An heavenly song; WHITEHEAD: Qui Natus Est; EASTGATE: Estas in Exilium; TREMAIN: Tenera Juventa; FARQUHAR: Three of a kind; J RITCHIE: Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace; RIVE: And is there care in heaven?; WELLS: Blow me eyes; TRAD arr Mews: Three Maori songs; MEWS: Ghosts, fire and water; FISHER: Pounamu; de CASTRO-ROBINSON: Chaos of Delight III - Auckland University Festival Choir/Peter Godfrey, Auckland University Singers/Karen Grylls (Kiwi CD SLD 108)

3:15 approx - Disc 4

DUSSEK: Sonatas, in G Op 51; in G Op 35/2; in Bb Op 39/3; Grand Sonata in Eb Op 75 - Fredrick Marvin (pno) (Dorian DIS 80138)

4:30 approx - Disc 5

WATTS: Metropolis; MORLEY: Rotten Row; LANE: London Salute; GUNNING: Concerto for saxophone and orchestra; TATE: London Fields, Suite; WOOD: London Landmarks; LEWIS: Festival of London March - John Harle (sax), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland, ASMF/Christopher Gunning, Paul Lewis (ASV CDD WHL 2138)

6:00 WAGNER: Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - BBC Phil/Edward Downes (BBC Music BBC MM 257)

RODRIGO: Invocation & Dance - Adriano Del Sal (gtr) (Naxos 8.572657)

DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Strasbourg Phil/Marc Albrecht (PentaTone PTC 5186 336)

ALBINONI: Sonata in C in five parts Op 2/2 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

COPLAND: El Salón México - London Phil/John Pritchard (EMI CDB 7 62037)

7:00 SUPPÉ: The Beautiful Galatea, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Teldec 8.43240)

PIAZZOLLA: Contrabajissimo - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

GRIEG: The Wounded Heart; Last Spring, from Elegiac Melodies Op 34 - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)

STANFORD: Fantasy in A minor for horn quintet - Stephen Stirling (horn), RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67434)

WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8375)

8:00 SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 - Fanny Clamagirand (vln), Sinfonia Finlandia/Patrick Gallois (Naxos 8.572037)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - Susan Lynn (vln), Thomas Waddington (cello), Audrey Douglas (harp), English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5019)

KORNGOLD: Military March in Bb - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10433)

HANDEL: Recorder Sonata in D minor HWV367 (Fitzwilliam) - László Czidra (recorder), Zsolt Harsányi (bsn), Zsuzsa Pertis (hpschd) (Naxos 8.550700)

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - Moscow Radio SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01797)

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

PURCELL: The Fairy Queen Instrumental Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Sony SK 66169)

RODE: Duo in C, Book 2/2 - Nicolas & Rudolf Koeckert (vlns) (Naxos 8.572604)

BRAHMS: Liebeslieder Waltzes Op 52 - Robert Shaw Festival Singers/Robert Shaw, Norman Mackenzie, John Wustman (pno duet) (Telarc CD 80326)

BACH: Flute Sonata in A BWV1032 - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Robert Veyron-Lacroix (hpschd), Jean Huchot (cello) (EMI 5 69642)

ARAUXO: Tiento No 28 on the seventh tone - Jeremy West (cornetto), Timothy Roberts (org) (Hyperion CDA 66977)

RIES: Piano Concerto in Ab Op 151, Gruss an den Rhein - Christopher Hinterhuber (pno), New Zealand SO/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.557638)

(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

(4) Duos with a difference (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

Aam Zameen: Common Ground - Kiran Ahluwalia

On the face of it, writes Songlines music magazine's Li Robbins, Kiran Ahluwalia doesn't have a lot in common with Touareg band Tinariwen.

Yet the Indian-Canadian singer who's best known for performances of ghazals and Punjabi folk songs manages to blend her music with the hypnotic groove of the desert blues band in her latest album, Aam Zameen: Common Ground (Kiran Music KM-2011)

2010 NZSM Composers Competition

SQUIRE: String Quartet No 2 - Tabea Squire, Arna Shaw (vlns), John Roxburgh (vla), Charley Davenport (cello)

T LAMBERT: The Passing of Time - electroacoustic work TOWNSHEND: Down the Rabbit Hole - Arna Shaw Jenna Pascoe (vlns), John Roxburgh (vla), Winnie Nichol (cello)

HOOKER: Field Murmurs - electroacoustic

J CLARKE: Pharaoh & Sand - Jun He, Joanna Lee (vlns), Andrew Filmer (vla), Charley Davenport (cello)

JOHNSTON: Submerge - electroacoustic

MARGETIC: Hommage à WL - Tabea Squire (vln), John Roxburgh (vla), Charley Davenport (cello), Graeme Finnie (dbass), Alex Morton (horn), Andrzej Nowicki (cl), Justus Rozemond (cl/bcl), Sam Jury (pno), Ben Whitton (percussion)

CONTAG: Two Micro-Caprices - Andrzej Nowicki (fl), electroacoustic work

JOHNSON/ERSKINE: Yamoto-damashii/Gendruwo - Bridget Johnson (magnetic tapes), Jason Erskine (ESuling) HUTCHINS: Hommage à Tati, première partie, Playtime - electroacoustic (recorded in the Adam Concert Room, Victoria University, Wellington by RNZ)

BACEWICZ: Concerto for string orchestra - New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 67783)

SZYMANOWSKI trans Wilkomirski: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 9 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), John York (pno) (Nimbus NI 5862)

WEINBERG: Symphony No 3 in B minor Op 45 - Gothenberg SO/Thord Svedlund (Chandos CHAN 5089)

NZ musicians and composers

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

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 17 in Bb K570 - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 253)

BESSER: At-Onement; Temptation; Return; Klez - Jonathan Besser (pno), Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin (gtr), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (acco), Peter Scott (dbass), Yair Katz (perc) (Atoll ACD 409)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Fourth movement, Finale, from Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 - Wellington Orch/James Sedares (Wgtn Sinfonia)

SCHUMANN: Liederkreis Op 24 - Werner Güra (ten), Christoph Berner (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1842)

RAVEL: Two Hebrew Melodies; Five Popular Greek Melodies - Laurent Naouri (bar), Inva Mula (sop), David Abramovitz (pno) (Naxos 8.554176-77)

SCHUMANN: Night song Op 96/1; The hermit Op 83/3; The two grenadiers Op 49/1; Dedication Op 25/1; Heaven shed a tear Op 37/1; From "Eastern roses" Op 25/25; My lovely star! Op 101/4; In conclusion Op 25/26 - Matthias Goerne (bar), Eric Schneider (pno) (Decca 475 6012)

Direct from Wellington Town Hall

NZSO Soloists/Vesa-Matti Leppänen (dir)

YOUNG: Portrait (World première performance & broadcast)

PÄRT: Fratres

(Interval)

BIZET arr SHCHEDRIN: Carmen Suite (RNZ)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Rhapsody No 3 in Ab minor Op 45 - Royal Phil/Rafael Kubelík (EMI 5 62863)

MENOTTI: Triple Concerto a Tre - London SO/David Amos (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 6010)

11:00 SVENDSEN: String Quartet in A minor Op 1 - Oslo String Quartet (CPO 999 858)

BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 5/2 - Miklós Perényi (cello), András Schiff (pno) (ECM 1819/20 (472 4012))

Disc 1

WALFORD DAVIES: March Past of the Royal Air Force; GLYN: Legend of the Lake, Suite for Small Orchestra; HARTY: Londonderry Air; Field: Rondo in Ab; HAMILTON: Overture 1912; FANSHAW: Theme from Tarka the Otter; Serenata, Mother and Child; SLASKI: Frank Lloyd Wright Suite - London SO/Neil Thomson, Royal Ballet Orch & City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV Whiteline CD WHL 2149)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

HAYDN: Piano Trios, No 43 in C HobXV/27; No 44 in E HobXV/28; No 45 in Eb HobXV/29; No 42 in Eb HobXV/30 - Robert Levin (fpno), Vera Beth (vln), Anner Bylsma (cello) (Sony SK 53120)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

LISZT: A Faust Symphony - Siegfried Jerusalem (ten), Chicago Chorus & SO/Georg Solti (Decca 417 399)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40; PROKOFIEV: Cello Sonata in C Op 119; BRITTEN: Cello Sonata in C Op 65 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Dejan Lazić (pno) (Channel Classics CCS20098)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

CPE BACH: Keyboard Concertos, in G minor H409; in A H411; in D H421 - Miklós Spányi (hpschd), Concerto Armonico (BIS CD 767)

PAULUS: The Road Home - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7518)

FERRARI: Queste pungente spine; ROSSI: Voglio morire; LEGRENZI: Lumi, potete piangere - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Nuria Rial (sop), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

VASKS: Fifth movement, Meditation, from String Quartet No 4 - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79695)

HOWELLS: Requiem - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7518)

FINZI: Welcome sweet & sacred feast Op 27/3 - Choir of St John's College, Cambridge/Christopher Robinson, Christopher Whitton (org) (Naxos 8.555792)

BRAHMS: Chorale Prelude, O Gott, du frommer Gott - Douglas Mews (organ of Wellington Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1030)

MACMILLAN: Give me justice O God; Videns Dominus - Cappella Nova/Alan Tavener (Linn CKD 301)

VIVALDI: Sonata in Eb RV130, Al Santo Sepolcro; Stabat Mater RV621 - Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Theatre of Early Music (BIS SACD 1546)

TURNAGE: Milo - Guy Johnston (cello) (Orchid Classics ORC 100010)

WHITACRE: I thank you God for most this amazing day - Conspirare/Craig Hella Johnson (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7518)

ELGAR: Chanson de matin Op 15/2 - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

TCHAIKOVSKY: None but the lonely heart Op 6/6 - Ian Partridge (ten), Jennifer Partridge (pno) (Upbeat Classics URCD 143)

C STAMITZ: Second movement, Romance: Andantino, from Cello Concerto No 1 in G - Christian Benda (cello), Prague CO (Naxos 8.551140)

LISZT: Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este, from Années de Pèlerinage, Year 3 - Jorge Bolet (pno) (Decca 411 803)

SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix, from Samson et Dalila - Jennifer Larmore (mezzo), Vienna Radio SO/Bertrand de Billy (Teldec 8573 87193)

DRING: Second movement, Andante semplice, from Trio for flute, oboe & piano - Nancy Ruffer (fl), John Anderson (ob), Helen Crayford (pno) (Dutton CDLX 7181)

LILBURN: Fourth movement, Andante, from Diversions for Strings - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ)

TALLIS: Sing & Glorify - The Sixteen, Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (Coro CORSACD 16016)

A look at the life and music of LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805) presented by Peter Hoar (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Cello Sonata in C G74 - Natalia Pavlutskaya, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)

Flute Quintet in G minor G426 - Carlo Ipata (fl), Auser Musici (Hyperion CDA 67646)

Being Mendelssohn

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

(6) MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trios, No 1 in D minor Op 49; No 2 in C minor Op 66 - Menahem Pressler (pno), Eugene Drucker (vln), David Finckel (cello) (Music@Menlo Live 2009/6)

SUGATA: Dancing Girl in the Orient, from Sketches of the Desert (Suite in Oriental Style Op 10) - Kanagawa Phil/Kazuhiko Komatsu (Naxos 8.570319)

TURINA: Danza, from Oriental Garden - Albert Guinovart (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7009)

RACHMANINOV: Oriental Dance Op 2/2 - Moray Welsh (cello), Martin Roscoe (pno) (Black Box BBM 1044)

FREITAS BRANCO: Vathek, Symphonic Poem in the form of variations on an Oriental Theme - RTE National SO/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.572624)

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Vintage Bartók

Suite Sz62 - Géza Anda (pno) (rec 1955) (Audite 23.410)

Violin Concerto No 2 Sz112 - Ivry Gitlis (vln), Vienna SO/Jascha Horenstein (rec 1954-7) (Brilliant Classics 9145)

No 2, from Three Burlesques Sz47; Allegro Barbaro Sz49; transc Szigeti: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Joseph Szigeti (vln), Béla Bartók (pno) (EMI 5 55031)

Elizabeth Futral

American coloratura soprano Elizabeth Futral talks with David Morriss (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(12) ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, an opera in two acts

Count Almaviva enlists the aid of Seville's beloved barber, Figaro, in his attempts to woo the spunky Rosina in Rossini's delightful farce

Rosina……………….. Diana Damrau

Doctor Bartolo………. John Del Carlo

Count Almaviva……... Colin Lee

Figaro………………... Rodion Pogossov

Fiorello………………. Edward Parks

Don Basilio………….. Ferruccio Furlanetto

Berta…………………. Claudia Waite

Ambrogio……………. Rob Besserer

Sergeant……………... Mark Schowalter

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Maurizio Benini (EBU)

NZ musicians and composers

PIGOVAT: Nigun - Dominion String Quartet (Atoll ACD 114)

GAVIN: Autumnscape; In Vocation; Rajasthani Heart - Duncan Haynes (cello), Jim Langabeer (fl), Babu Chatterji (tabla), Gitbox (Rattle RAT D005)

CARR: The End of the Golden Weather - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Kiwi Pacific CD SLD 111)

Nine programmes

(3) With William Dart (RNZ)

Gisborne Music Competition 2011

Four programmes

(3) Performances from the semi-final round

BRAHMS: First movement, Allegro, from Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108; GREENBAUM: Third movement, the infinite heartbeat, from Violin Sonata - Olivia Francis (vln), Grace Francis (pno)

BACH: Second movement, Adagio, from Flute Sonata in G minor BWV1020; DUBOIS: Third movement, Aria, from Saxophone Concerto No 2 - Reuben Chin (alto sax), Richard Mapp (pno)

GINASTERA: Puneña; RACHMANINOV: Third movement, Andante, from Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19; BEETHOVEN: First movement, Allegro, ma non tanto, from Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 - Santiago Cañón Valencia (cello), Rosemary Barnes (pno)

TELEMANN: Fantasia No 6; PROKOFIEV: First & second movements, Moderato; Allegretto scherzando, from Flute Sonata in D Op 94 - Yi Wei Angus Lee (fl), Rosemary Barnes (pno)

FRANCK: Fourth movement, Allegretto poco mosso, from Violin Sonata in A; WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasy - Shauno Isomura (vln), Kent Isomura (pno) (recorded in the Gisborne War Memorial Theatre by RNZ)

Missa brevis Op 89 - Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 5852)

Cherry Blossom Songs Op 8 - Christian Immler (bar), Erik Levi (pno) (Nimbus NI 5730/1)

To Sleep Op 94 - Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford/Stephen Darlington (Nimbus NI 5852)

KORNGOLD: Sursum Corda Op 13, symphonic overture - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10432)

MOZART: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Claire Briggs (horn), Royal Liverpool Phil/Stephen Kovacevich (EMI 3 82227)

GLAZUNOV: Chopiniana Op 46 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 315)

11:00 SCHUMANN: Violin Sonata No 3 in A minor Op posth - Ulf Wallin (vln), Roland Pöntinen (pno) (BIS SACD 1784)

HAHN: Le Ruban Dénoué, twelve waltzes for two pianos - Huseyin Sermet, Kun Woo Paik (pno duo) (Auvidis Valois V 4658)

Disc 1

MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonie Concertanti Op 2, No 6 in C; No 1 in Bb; No 2 in E; No 5 in D; No 3 in G; No 4 in A - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

The Sidewalks of New York, Tin Pan Alley

Arrangements of songs by Berlin, Blake, Cohan, Dresser, Handy, Joplin, Kern et al - Various artists, Uri Caine (pno) (Winter & Winter 910 038)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

MENDELSSOHN: Athalia Op 74 - Letizia Scherrer, Katalin Halmai (sops), Daniela Sindram (contralto), Ulrike Goetz, Rudolf Guckelsberger (speakers), Gächinger Kantorei, Stuttgart, Stuttgart Radio SO/Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler CD 98.486)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

LEIFS: Quartetto No 1 Op 21, Mors et vita; Quartet No 2 Op 36, Vita et mors; Quartetto No 3 Op 64, El Greco - Yggdrasil Quartet (BIS CD 691)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

BOCCHERINI: Concerto in A; Sonata No 7 in Bb G535; Sonata in D G17; Concerto in G G480; Sonata No 6 in A G4 - Les Basses Rénunies/Bruno Cocset (Alpha 084)

6:00 RAMEAU: Air tendre pour les Muses, from Le temple de la gloire - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

METCALF: Septet for harp, flute, clarinet & strings - Eleanor Turner (harp), Philippa Davies (fl), David Campbell (cl), Solstice Quartet (Signum SIGCD 203)

GRANADOS arr Henry Wood: Spanish Dance No 4, Villanesca - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 216)

RIES: Piano Sonatina in F Op 5/2 - Susan Kagan (pno) (Naxos 8.570743)

MENDELSSOHN: Concert Piece in F minor Op 113 - Ludmila Peterková (cl), Nicolas Baldeyrou (basset horn), Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek (Supraphon SU 3554)

WIRÉN: March, from Serenade for Strings - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553596)

7:00 HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 456 502)

SIBELIUS: Serenade No 2 in G minor Op 69b - Ida Haendel (vln), Bournemouth SO/Paavo Berglund (EMI 5 74200)

FRANCAIX: Divertissement - Gaudier Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67036)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS orch Foster: Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes, No 2, Rhosymedre; No 3, Hyfrydol - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49745)

JONGEN: Soleil à midi Op 33/1 - Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 586)

BERNSTEIN: Times Square, 1944, from On the Town, Dance Episodes - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68786)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SATIE: Je te veux - Jill Gomez (sop), John Constable (pno) (Unicorn-Kanchana DKP CD 9055)

HUMPERDINCK: Humoresque in E - Bamberg Sinfonia/Karl Anton Rickenbacher (Koch 3-1197)

ALBENIZ: Tango espagñol - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9059)

GUASTAVINO arr Cueto: La rosa y el sauce - José Miguel Cueto (vln), St Petersburg SO/Vladimir Lande (Marquis 81407)

BIZET: Three Musical Sketches , Ronde turque in A minor; Serenade in Db; Caprice in A minor - Julia Severus (pno) (Naxos 8.570831-32)

RUTTER: Cantate Domino - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 66947)

A BUTTERWORTH: Gigues Op 42 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Arthur Butterworth (Dutton CDLX 7253)

LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)

Symphony in D minor G506, La casa del diavolo - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (DHM RD 77867)

Se d'un amor tiranno G557 - Marta Almajano (sop), Christophe Coin (cello/dir), Limoges Baroque Ensemble (Astree Auvidis E 8517)

String Quintet in E G275 - La Magnifica Comunità (Brilliant Classics 92889)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 4509 91184)

CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Onyx 4036)

BACEWICZ: Violin Concerto No 2 - Joanna Kurkowicz (vln), Polish Radio SO/Lukasz Borowicz (Chandos CHAN 10673)

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

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 131 - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Frankfurt Radio SO/Paavo Järvi (Ondine ODE 1195)

FERRER: Fantasy on the Quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 446 090)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Fantasia on Serbian Themes Op 6 - USSR Academic SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Olympia OCD 211)

SCHUBERT: Impromptus D899 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Avie AV 2158)

VERDI: Ave Maria, from Otello - Maria Callas (sop), Paris Conservatoire Orch/Nicola Rescigno (EMI 5 57062)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: Let honour be given to the holy spirit - Anonymous 4 (Harmonia Mundi 90 7200)

WAGNER: Tannhäuser, Overture - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 474 377)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor K491 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno/dir), Cleveland Orch (rec 2008) (Decca 478 1524)

DVORÁK: The Noon Witch Op 108 - Czech Phil/Charles Mackerras (rec 2008) (Supraphon SU 4012)

NZ musicians and composers

MARTINU: Quartet for oboe, violin, cello & piano - Joel Marangella (ob), Charmian Gadd (vln), Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Kathryn Selby (pno) (Naxos 8.553916)

LISZT: From the Cradle to the Grave - New Zealand SO/Michael Halász (Naxos 8.553355)

GRIFFITHS: Lie Deep, My Love, excerpts, Earth does at length; Blow, wind of fruitfulness - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

J RITCHIE: Three Whimsies, Full fathom five; Tell me, where is fancy bred; Blow, blow thou Winter wind - John Mills (gtr) (RNZ)

HOLST: St Paul's Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 340 220)

BACH arr Watts: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208 - Canadian Brass (RCA RCD 1-3554)

SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Naxos 8.554265)

FIELD arr Lane: Concertino for flute & chamber orchestra - Jennifer Stinton (fl), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7151)

JG GRAUN: Sinfonia Grosso in D - Vienna Academy/Martin Haselböck (CPO 999 887)

MORRICONE arr Erquiaga: Cinema Paradiso - Steve Erquiaga (gtr) (Imaginary Road 536 765)

SILVESTROV: Second movement, Andantino, from Post scriptum - Cornelius Dufallo (vln), Jenny Lin (pno) (Koch KICCD 7740)

ALLEGRI: Canario - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

WARLOCK: Serenade - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 318)

SAINT-SAËNS: Oboe Sonata in D Op 166 - Nicholas Daniel (ob), Julius Drake (pno) (Cala CACD 1017)

STERNDALE BENNETT: The Wood Nymphs, Overture - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 206)

HANDEL: Care selve, from Atalanta - Arleen Augér (sop), Mostly Mozart Orch/Gerard Schwarz (Delos CD 3026)

ORNSTEIN: Morning in the woods - Janice Weber (pno) (Naxos 8.559104)

J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Wilfried Scharf (zither), Vienna SO/Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone PTC 5186 052)

A look at the life and music of LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805) presented by Peter Hoar (RNZ)

String Quintet in C G324, La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid - Eckart Runge (cello), Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2092)

Cello Concerto in C G477 - Enrico Bronzi (cello/dir), Verona Accademia i Filarmonici (Brilliant Classics 92618)

And the Garden was full of Voices

Gao Ping (pno)

DEBUSSY: Images, Book 2; BODY: Five Melodies for Piano; DE CASTRO-ROBINSON: and the garden was full of voices; GAO PING: Outside the Window; TAKEMITSU: Rain Tree Sketch I; Rain Tree Sketch II; DEBUSSY: L'Isle Joyeuse; GAO PING: Perhaps - Song of Burial (recorded in the Music Theatre, University of Auckland by RNZ)

COPLAND: Organ Symphony - Paul Jacobs (organ of Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco), San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media 821936 0038)

Cuban Dance - New World Symphony (Argo 436 737)

BACKOFEN: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 15 - Jane Booth (cl), Eybler Quartet, Max Mandel (vla) (Analekta AN 2 9949)

RUBBRA: Improvisations on Virginal Pieces by Giles Farnaby - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Hans-Hubert Schönzeler (Chandos CHAN 8378)

GRIEG: Holberg Suite - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Onyx 4037)

11:00 SILVESTROV: Post scriptum - Cornelius Dufallo (vln), Jenny Lin (pno) (Koch KICCD 7740)

Diptychon - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (GB Records BCGBCD 07)

OFFENBACH: Suite for two cellos Op 54/1 - Roland Pidoux, Etienne Péclard (cellos) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1043)

Disc 1

MAHLER: Symphony No 10 in F# - Berlin SO/Kurt Sanderling (Berlin Classics 009 4422 BC)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Violin Sonatas, No 1 in B minor BWV1014; No 2 in A BWV1015; No 3 in E BWV1016; No 4 in C minor BWV1017; No 5 in F minor BWV1018 - Reinhard Goebel (vln), Robert Hill (hpschd) (Archiv 427 152)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

MOZART: Mass No 4 in C minor K139, Waisenhaus; Mass No 11 in C K257, Credo - Susanne Mentzer (sop), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (contralto), Neil Mackie (ten), Stephen Roberts (bass), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English CO/Stephen Cleobury (Argo 421 365)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

GELINEK: Air des mystère d'Isis; LISZT: Ave verum corpus; CZERNY: Fantaisie brillante; BEETHOVEN: Variations on Se vuol ballare from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; THALBERG: Lacrimosa; Fantasia on Mozart's Don Giovanni; MOZART arr Bizet: Là ci darem la mano; FISCHER: Das Donnerwetter; KEMPFF: Pastorale variée; KATSARIS: In memoriam Mozart; Mozartiana - Cyprien Katsaris (pno) (Sony SK 52551)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BRIDGE: Suite for String Orchestra; DELIUS: Sonata for String Orchestra; BRIDGE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook - NZSO Chamber Orch/Nicholas Braithwaite (Koch International 3-7139)

6:00 BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - USSR Academy SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Chant du Monde LDC 278 782)

MAHLER arr Gottwald: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, from Rückert-Lieder - Accentus Chamber Choir/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 4947)

DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - Curtis SO/Christoph Eschenbach (Ondine ODE 1141)

HAHN: Soliloque et Forlane - Yuko Inoue (vla), Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67391)

J STRAUSS II arr Schoenberg: Roses from the South - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

7:00 ROSSINI arr Perry: The Thieving Magpie, Overture - London SO/Piero Gamba (Decca 425 505)

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

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile, from String Quartet No 1 - Vytautas Sondeckis (cello), Lithuanian CO/David Geringas (Naxos 8.554381)

BESSER arr Besser/Prosser: Wellington Harbour - Jonathan Besser (pno), Christopher Prosser (vln) (Kiwi CD SLD 114)

WALTON: Façade Suite No 2 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

8:00 Beauty Spot: TRAD: Suo-Gân - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Welsh National Opera Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)

SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Royal Phil/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 552)

MERTZ: Fantasy on themes from Verdi's Rigoletto Op 63 - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 446 090)

STRAVINSKY:arr Stravinsky/Dushkin: The Firebird, excerpts, Berceuse; Prélude et Ronde des princesses; Scherzo - Anthony Marwood (vln), Thomas Adès (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67723)

SVENDSEN: Sigurd Slembe, Symphonic Prelude to Björnson's play - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)

Violin Sonata in G minor Op 5/5 (G29) - Emilio Moreno (vln), Jacques Ogg (hpschd) (Glossa GCD C 80306)

Symphony in A G508 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10604)

Oboe Quintet in A Op 45/4 - Sarah Francis (ob), Allegri String Quartet (Decca 433 173)

LALO: Cello Concerto in D minor - Pierre Fournier (cello), Lamoureux Orch/Jean Martinon (DG 457 761)

STENHAMMAR: Piano Sonata in G minor - Martin Sturfält (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67689)

BRAHMS: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 51 - Fine Arts Quartet (Music & Arts CD 1154 (8))

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Symphony No 2 in F# minor, Antar - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (Telarc CD 80131)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

NIN: Cantos populares españoles, excerpts, Andalusian song; Vito; Asturiana; Polo - Lyne Fortin (sop), Esther Gonthier (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9972)

RODRIGO: Music for a Garden - Granada City Orch/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1764)

TORROBA: La vi salir de Marbella - Lyne Fortin (sop), Esther Gonthier (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9972)

LEHRER arr Marshall: I hold your hand in mine - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

How Hybrid? Global Music Mixes

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

(6) Accordion

A relatively recent instrument the accordion was invented in the early 1800s and is a treasured 'squeeze-box' in localities as varied as France, Chechnia, South Africa and Malaysia. Megan Collins concludes her series on global musical mixes with a look at the accordion and its cousin the concertina (RNZ)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No 2, A London Symphony - London Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI 5 86592)

NZ musicians and composers

MCLEOD: Childhood - Bach Choir/Roy Tankersley (Kiwi SLD 74)

RAUTAVAARA: Apotheosis - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570069)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Quartet in C WoO36/3 - New Zealand Piano Quartet (Naxos 8.570998)

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

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro, excerpts, Overture; March - Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30479)

HALVORSEN: Passacaglia after Handel - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Yuri Zhislin (vla) (Naxos 8.572522)

DELIUS: On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Collins Classics 16082)

TELEMANN: Trumpet Concerto in D - John Wallace (tpt), English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5189)

FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557889)

WAGNER: Forest Murmurs, from Siegfried - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (Victrola 7819-2-RV)

JOPLIN arr Körmendi: Elite Syncopations - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

JOPLIN arr Perlman: The Easy Winners - Leila Josefowicz (vln), John Novacek (pno) (Philips 462 948)

JOPLIN arr Rawsthorne: The Entertainer - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Manu CD MANU 1539)

JOPLIN arr Crespo: Ragtime Dance - German Brass/Enrique Crespo (EMI CDC 7 49170)

MEYERBEER: Six canzonettes italiennes - Sivan Rotem (sop), Jonathan Zak (pno) (Naxos 8.572367)

RUTTER: Five traditional songs, The girl I left behind me; O waly, waly; The British Grenadiers; Golden slumbers; Dashing away with the smoothing iron - Nordic Chamber Choir/Nicol Matt (Bayer BR 100 334)

HAYDN: Symphony No 26 in D minor, Lamentation - English Consort/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 463 731)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

9:00 European Jazz

Six programmes

(4) Emile Parisien Quartet - Emile Parisien (sax), Julien Touéry (pno), Ivan Gelugne (bass), Sylvain Darrifourcq (drums)

Winner of the Instrumental Music Revelation of the Year in the 2009 Victoires du Jazz (Radio France)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

GADE: Echos of Ossian Op 1; Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 15; Andante-Allegro energico-Andante; Symphony No 6 in G minor Op 32 - Danish National SO/Christopher Hogwood (Chandos CHAN 9795)

1:20 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Partita in A minor BWV1013; HOTTETERRE: Airs et Brunettes, excerpts; WEISS arr Kuijken: Suite in G; VIVALDI arr Rousseau: Four Seasons, Spring RV269; CPE BACH: Flute Sonata in A minor Wq132; FISCHER: Minueto with variations - Barthold Kuijken (transverse fl) (Accent ACC 20144)

2:35 approx - Disc 3

G IVES: There is a land of pure love; Ego sum panis vivus; In pace; Lord, is it I?; A song of Divine Love; Lullaby; Missa Brevis; The Edington Service - Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford/Bill Ives, Jonathon Hardy, Richard Pinel (org) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7420)

3:50 approx - Disc 4

LALO: Symphonie Espagnole Op 21; Norwegian Fantasy; Cello Concerto - Pierre Amoyal (vln), Frederic Lodéon (cello), Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Paul Paray, Philharmonia/Charles Dutoit (Erato 2564 60226)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

BRAHMS: Piano Sonata in F minor Op 5/3; BERG: Piano Sonata Op 1; BARTÓK: Out Doors Sz81; SCRIABIN: Etude Op 2/1 - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Gold CV-S 006G)

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

PURCELL: Fantasia in F, Upon one note (in 5 parts); In Nomine in G minor (in 6 parts); In Nomine in G minor, Dorian (in 7 parts) - Fretwork (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7502)

BRITTEN: Choral Dances, from Gloriana - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9511)

CHOPIN arr Sarasate: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2 - Joanna Madroszkiewicz (vln), Paul Gulda (pno) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1296)

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet before parting, from Romeo & Juliet - Royal Phil/Daniele Gatti (Conifer 75605 51343)

7:00 MONCAYO: Huapango - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

SATIE: Gymnopédie No 1; Gnossienne No 1 - John Anderson (ob), Simon Wynberg (gtr) (Chandos CHAN 6581)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 304980)

GALLON: Récit et Allegro - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

GRIEG: Homage March, from Sigurd Jorsalfar - National Phil/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 421 634)

8:00 Beauty Spot: THE DOORS arr & orch Coleman: The Unknown Soldier, from The Doors Concerto - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Tran Quang Hai (dan trahn), Prague SO/Peter Scholes (Decca 467 350)

NIELSEN: Helios Overture - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

WIENIAWSKI: Russian Carnival - Marat Bisengaliev (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.550744)

WEBERN: Slow movement - Carmina Quartet (Denon CO 79462)

BIZET: Jeux d'enfants - Mexico City Phil/Enrique Bátiz (Sanctuary CD RSN 3046)

LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)

Introduction & Fandango - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Delos DE 3144)

Stabat Mater G352 - Sophie Karthäuser (sop), Les Folies Françoises (Ricercar RIC 244)

MOERAN: String Quartet No 1 in A minor - Melbourne String Quartet (Chandos CHAN 8465)

VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 7 - New World Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (RCA 09026 68538)

ALBENIZ: Spanish Songs Op 232 - Rafael Orozco (pno) (Auvidis Valois V 4663)

PAGANINI: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 6 - Hilary Hahn (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Eiji Oue (DG 477 6232)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Sextet in Eb Op 81b - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 0594)

MORLEY: Joyne hands - Robert Tear (ten), Julian Bream Consort (RCA RD 87801)

SALIERI: Symphony in D, The Venetian - Lukas Consort/Viktor Lukas (CampionCD 1330)

HILL: String Quartet No 4 in C minor - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)

J STRAUSS II: Czárdás, from Die Fledermaus - Malvina Major (sop), New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Kiwi CD SLC 221)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite - London Phil/Vernon Handley (EMI CD EMX 9508)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PEROTINUS arr Garbarek: Beata Viscera - Jan Garbarek (sax), Hilliard Ensemble (rel 1994) (ECM 1525)

GIBBONS: Peascod Time (The Hunt's Up); Pavan, Lord Salisbury - Phantasm (rec 2003) (Avie AV 0032)

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 - Zoltán Kocsis (pno), San Francisco SO/Edo de Waart (rec 1982) (Philips 446 199)

NZ musicians and composers

BECK: Sinfonia in Eb Op 1/4 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

BELLINI: Oh! Quante volte, from Capulets & Montagues - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Kiwi CD KML 2)

HUE: Fantaisie - Marya Martin (fl), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar TRL 030)

HARRIS: Music for Jonny - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)

SCHUMANN: Die rote Hanne Op 31/3 - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Graham Johnson (pno), members of the Ex Cathedra Consort (Hyperion CDJ 33108)

MASSENET: Orchestral Suite No 4, Scènes pittoresques - New Zealand SO/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553125)

SMETANA: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride - Janácek Phil/Theodore Kuchar (Brilliant Classics 93634)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Autumn - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Linn CKD 365)

PONCE arr Peña: Estrellita - Lily Afshar (gtr) (Summit DCD 236)

CHAPLIN arr Ogermann: Smile, from Modern Times - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Telarc 0630 17222)

TALLIS arr Kronos: Spem in alium - Kronos Quartet (Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79242)

DEBUSSY: Première rapsodie - Gervase de Peyer (cl), London SO/Rudolf Kempe (BBC Legends BBCL 4087)

GRAINGER: Blithe Bells - University of Missouri Wind Ensemble/Thomas O'Neal (Naxos 8.572108)

POULENC: Banalités - Véronique Gens (sop), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Virgin VC 5 45360)

REGER: Der Einsiedler Op 144a - Alexander Learmonth (bar), Consortium/Andrew-John Smith, Christopher Glynn (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67762)

LISZT: Les Préludes - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10341)

BOWERMAN: An Island Fantasy - Diana Galvydyte (vln), Jakob Fichert (pno) (Champs Hill CHRCD 005)

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

Philosophy Talk

Presented by Ken Taylor and John Perry of Stanford University

Six programmes

(3) Philosophy in Fiction

Philosophers think a lot about fiction. But do novelists think about philosophy? Do philosophers make good fictional characters? Can good stories be built around philosophical problems? When awarding its Genius prize to philosopher-novelist Rebecca Goldstein, the MacArthur Foundation said "[her] writings emerge as brilliant arguments for the belief that fiction in our time may be the best vehicle for involving readers in questions of morality and existence.'' Ken and John explore philosophy in fiction with writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (Ben Manilla Productions)

Music for Film

Four programmes

(4) Victor Villena (bandoneòn), Radio France Phil/Christophe Mangou

TIOMKIN arr Palmer: High Noon, Suite No 2; Strangers on a Train, Suite; SUJANOVIC: Rêves et désirs (2009 France Musique/Sacem Film Music Prize); JARRE: Doctor Zhivago, Suite; Lawrence of Arabia, Suite (recorded in the Olivier Messiaen Hall, Radio France Broadcasting House by French Radio)

BRAHMS: Nänie Op 82 - Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572694)

PLEYEL ed Rampal: Flute Concerto in C Ben106 - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia (Naxos 8.572550)

SCHUBERT: Rondo in A D951 - Paul Lewis, Steven Osborne (pno duet) (Hyperion CDA 67665)

IRELAND ed Mackerras: The Overlanders, Suite - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 240)

HAYDN: Divertimento in G HobII/G8 - London Wind Soloists (Testament SBT 1346)

SVENDSEN: Carnival in Paris - Latvian National SO/Terje Mikkelsen (CPO 777 372)

11:00 ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32 - Christiaan Bor (vln), Nathaniel Rosen (cello), Jerome Lowenthal (pno) (Brilliant Classics 93081)

MOMPOU arr Lovelady: Variations on a theme of Chopin - Slava Grigoryan & Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs) (ABC Classics 476 6088)

Disc 1

ROSSINI: String Sonata No 1 in G; Variations for clarinet & string quartet; String Sonata No 3 in C; Serenata; String Sonata No 6 in D; Variations for clarinet & chamber orchestra - Dimitri Ashkenazy (cl), Bologna State Theatre Phil/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 433 701)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

PIAZZOLLA: Concerto for bandoneón, strings & percussion; ROTA: Concerto for strings; WAXMAN: Sinfonietta for string orchestra & timpani; HEIDEN: Concertino for string orchestra - Lothar Hensel (bandoneón), Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss/Johannes Goritzki (Capriccio 10 565)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

El Cancionero de Medinaceli

Instrumental and vocal music from P Guerrero, F Guerrero, Cebrián, de Morata, de Cabezón, de Cristo & Mudarra - Hespèrion XX/Jordi Savall (Astrée Auvidis E 8764)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

C SCHUMANN: Three Preludes & Fugues Op 16; BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Robert Schumann Op 9; SCHUNCKE: Grande Sonata in G minor Op 3; SCHUMANN: Toccata Op 7; Songs of Dawn Op 133 - Sylviane Deferne (pno) (CBC MVCD 1078)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

Landmarks

ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No 4; MENDELSSOHN: Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night's Dream; OFFENBACH: Intermezzo and Barcarolle, from Tales of Hoffman; KHACHATURIAN: Sabre Dance, from Gayaneh; ELGAR: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations; SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture; SIBELIUS: Finlandia; SAINT-SAËNS: First movement, Part 2, Poco adagio, from Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ; OFFENBACH: Can-Can, from Gaité Parisienne; MASCAGNI: Intermezzo, from Cavalleria Rusticana; KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia, from Spartacus; GINASTERA: Malambo, from Estancia - Martin Setchell (org), Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD 401)

6:00 QUILTER arr Tomlinson: Country Pieces - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223444)

CAZZATI/MEALLI: Passacaglia - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

SCHUMANN: Mignon Op 79/29; Der Nussbaum Op 25/3; Aufträge Op 77/5 - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901 753)

SEIXAS: Sinfonia in Bb - Algarve Orch/Alvaro Cassuto (Naxos 8.557207)

VORÍSEK: Rondo Op 11 - Kocian Quartet (Praga PRD 250 204)

BAX: Morning Song, Maytime in Sussex - Ashley Wass (pno), Bournemouth SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.572597)

7:00 M HAYDN: Divertimento in G - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 591)

LILBURN: Three Sea Changes - Margaret Nielsen (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)

HOHNE arr Graham: Slavonic Fantasy - Evelyn Glennie (xylophone), Black Dyke Band/James Watson (RCA 09026 63234)

DVORÁK: Miniatures Op 75 - members of Vienna String Sextet (EMI CDC 5 55272)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: O LINDBERG arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)

MARTUCCI: Colore orientale Op 44/3 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570932)

HALVORSEN: Sarabande con variazioni on a theme of Handel - Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Yuri Zhislin (vla) (Naxos 8.572522)

SAINT-SAËNS: Wedding Cake, Caprice-Valse Op 76 - Jean-Philippe Collard (pno), Royal Phil/André Previn (EMI CDC 7 49757)

HANDEL: Where'er you walk, from Semele - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

ELGAR: Three Bavarian Dances - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)

Overture; Hearts enslaved by love, from Clementina - María Bayo (sop), Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (Naïve E 8885)

Symphony in C G515 - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10604)

Piano Quintet No 6 in C G418 - Patrick Cohen (fpno), Mosaïque Quartet (Auvidis Astrée E 8721)

HERBERT: Serenade for Strings Op 12 - London Octave/Kypros Markou (Dutton CDLX 7238)

BOSE: Piano Suite No 1 Op 9 - Alexandra Oehler (pno) (CPO 777 201)

VASKS: Cor Anglais Concerto - Normunds Sne (cor anglais/dir), Sinfonietta Riga (Wergo WER 6705)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 703)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

LAURO: Venezuelan Waltz No 4 - Julie Bevan (gtr) (Audio Projects AP 2006)

CASTELLANOS: Suite Avileña - Venezuela SO/Jan Wagner (Naxos 8.572681)

CHOPIN: Polonaises, in C# minor Op 26/1; in Eb minor Op 26/2; in A Op 40/1, Military - Artur Rubinstein (pno) (RCA 5615-2-RC)

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 4 in A minor Op 63 - BBC SO/Malcolm Sargent (BBC Legends BBCL 4237)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Belgian violinist, Arthur Grumiaux

BACH: Violin Sonatas, No 3 in E BWV1016; No 5 in F minor BWV1018 - with Egida Giordani Sartori (hpschd) (rec 1963); WIENIAWSKI: Legend - with New Philharmonia/Edo de Waart (rec 1970); HANDEL: Violin Sonata in D HWV371 - with Robert Veyron-Lacroix (hpschd) (rec 1966) (Philips 475 7825)

NZ musicians and composers

HUMMEL: Variations on a theme by Gluck Op 57 - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

ELGAR: Funeral March, from Grania & Diarmid - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

VIVALDI: Four Seasons, Summer - Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 466 232)

NORRIS: Honk! - Saxcess (Waiteata WTA 007)

CANNABICH: Symphony No 51 in D - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554340)

DUBOIS: Toccata in G, from 12 New Pieces - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Guild GMCD 7304)

JC BACH: Artaserse, Overture - Hanover Band/Anthony Halstead (CPO 999 129)

H BLAKE: Penillion Op 571 - Madeleine Mitchell (vln), Howard Blake (pno) (Naxos 8.572083)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 3 Op 21 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

PEARSALL: Lay a garland on her hearse - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)

TRAD arr Burton/Owens: Maria walks along the shore; The nightingale came flying; The high mountains; Little red lark; Smash the windows - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 602)

POULENC: French Suite after Claude Gervaise - Lille National Orch/Jean-Claude Casadesus (Naxos 8.554241)

EINAUDI: I Giorni - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Ricordi 74321 974622)

MYSLIVECEK: Quintet No 4 in B - L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble/Carin van Heerden (dir) (CPO 777 377)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Excerpts from Eugene Onegin: Tatiana's Letter Scene - Inessa Galante (sop), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Neeme Järvi (ROH 75605 55022)

arr Grafe: Lensky's aria - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

Gremin's aria - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), New Zealand SO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

Polonaise - St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 70065)

Progress, Patriotism & Protest

Three programmes in which Matthew Crawford navigates the turbulent confluence of music and politics in 20th century America

(3) Bob Dylan declares that the times are a-changin' - but to what? George Crumb's images from a dark land or the social causes of Lou Harrison and Paul Robeson? And: opera gets topical with John Adams (Media Maker)

Direct from Auckland Town Hall

French Impressions

Catherine Bowie (fl), Auckland Philharmonia/Pierre-André Valade

RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin; IBERT: Flute Concerto

(Interval)

ROUSSEL: Symphony No 3 in G minor Op 42; RAVEL: La Valse (RNZ)

VAN EECHAUTE: Suite ancienne - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

KROMMER: Concertino Italien - Dieter Klöcker, Waldemar Wandel (cls), Stuttgart Radio SO/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (Koch 3-1077)

11:00 SCHMITT: A tour d'anches Op 97 - Berlin Soloists Ensemble (Naxos 8.570489)

LAURIDSEN: Les Chansons des Roses - Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison, Leslie De'Ath (pno) (Naxos 8.559304)

METCALF: Llwybrau Cân - Sacconi Quartet (Signum SIGCD 203)

Disc 1

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

1:15 approx - Disc 2

DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano; Images; Berceuse héroïque; Elégie; Six épigraphes antiques - Boris Berman (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9294)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

DUMONT: Motets, Christus natus est nobis; Domine salvum fac regem; Seigneur, ma puissance supreme; Quand l'esprit accable; Tristitia vestra; Bernardus Doctor; Cantate domino; Santa Caecilia; In lecturo meo; Credidi propter; O panis angelorum; Laudibus cives; Panis angelicus; O domine Deus; Laudemus dominum; Domine Salvum fac regem; Litanies de la vierge - Concert Royal of Nancy/Rene Depoutot (ADDA 581034)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

ARENSKY: Piano Concerto in F minor; Fantasia on Russian Folksongs; BORTKIEWICZ: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb - Stephen Coombs (pno), BBC Scottish SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66624)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

MARAIS: Suite in D; Suite in G; Suite in D for Robert Visée; Suite in D; Twenty Couplets - Hille Perle (vla da gamba), Lee Santana (lute) (DHM 82876 58791)

6:00 RACHMANINOV: Vocalise Op 34/14 - (London SO/André Previn (EMI CMS 7 64530)

GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Takako Nishizaki (vln), Ichiro Suzuki (gtr) (Marco Polo 8.220165)

BARTÓK: Hungarian Sketches Sz97 - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 454 430)

BENJAMIN: Five Negro Spirituals - members of the Locrian Ensemble (Dutton CDLX 7110)

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in E minor Op 6/3 - Avison Ensemble/Pavlo Beznosiuk (dir) (Linn CKD 362)

7:00 MOERAN: Overture for a Masque - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 247)

WOLF: Italian Serenade - Artis Quartet (Accord 220 802)

FAURÉ orch Aubert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Juliette Hurel (fl), Brittany Orch/Moshe Atzmon (Timpani 1C 1172)

HUBAY: Czárdás Scene No 12, My little turtle dove Op 83 - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67441/2)

FALLA: The Three-cornered Hat, Suite No 1 - Ulster Orch/Josep Caballé-Domenech (BBC Music BBC MM 255)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers - Jussi Björling (ten), Robert Merrill (bar), RCA Victor SO/Renato Cellini (RCA GD 87799)

GERSHWIN trans Heifetz: Preludes for piano - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

BRUCH: Kol Nidrei - János Starker (cello), London SO/Antal Dorati (Philips 420 873)

SAINT-SAËNS: Caprice on Danish & Russian Airs - Hexagon (Bridge 9079)

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Libor Pesek (RegisC 1099)

LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)

Guitar Quintet in D G449 - Almodis Chamber Ensemble (Columna Música 1CM 0125)

Cello Concerto in Bb G482 (original version) - Jian Wang (cello), Camerata Salzburg (DG 474 236)

String Quartet in D G249 - Frankfurt Ensemble Concertant (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1040)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel, Suite - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572787)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Dietrich Henschel (bar), Fritz Schwinghammer (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1875)

GRIEG: Violin Sonata No 2 in G Op 13 - Vadim Repin (vln), Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (DG 477 8794)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C Op 15 - Christoph Eschenbach (pno), Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Philips 456 763)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

S WAGNER: Kingdom of the Black Swan, Prelude - Rheinland-Pfalz State Phil/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 377)

STATHAM: Black Swan - Camille White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

TCHAIKOVSKY: The black swan, from Swan Lake - Erich Gruenberg (vln), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 433 861)

SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Ballet Music - Vienna Phil/Karl Münchinger (Decca 444 546)

VERDI: La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 467 620)

ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

DELIBES: Flower Duet, from Lakmé - Natalie Dessay (sop), Delphine Haidan (mezzo), Toulouse Capitole National Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 5 10568)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 5 in D Op 107, Reformation - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 415 974)

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Classic performances from the back catalogue

CHOPIN: Etudes Op 10 - Murray Perahia (pno) (rec 2001) (Sony SK 61885)

BARBER: Violin Concerto Op 14 - James Ehnes (vln), Vancouver SO/Bramwell Tovey (rec 2006) (Onyx 4016)

NZ musicians and composers

BERLIOZ: Le Corsaire, Overture - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)

WARLOCK: Six English Tunes, The witch; Daphne; Strawberry leaves; Tickle my toe; Sweet youth; A toy - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

LILBURN: Sings Harry - Robert Oliver (ten), Milton Parker (gtr) (Kiwi SLD 47)

DONIZETTI: Regnava nel silenzio, from Lucia di Lammermoor - Malvina Major (sop), Carmel Carroll (mezzo), Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 227)

F STRAUSS: Nocturno Op 7 - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

RÓZSA arr & orch Russ & Kull: The Killers, film music - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7375)

BRAHMS orch Parlow: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D - Stuttgart Radio SO/Georges Prêtre (Forlane 16770)

KREISLER: Prelude & Allegro in the style of Pugnani - Tasmin Little (vln), John Lenehan (pno) (BIS CD 1744)

ADDINSELL: Warsaw Concerto - Isador Goodman (pno), Melbourne SO/Patrick Thomas (DG 423 772)

VIVALDI: Trio Sonata in C RV82 - L'Arte dell'Arco/Federico Guglielmo (dir) (Brilliant Classics 93810)

BOTTESINI: Introduction & Variations on Carnival of Venice - Thomas Martin (dbass), Anthony Halstead (pno) (ASV CD DCA 1052)

DVORÁK: Carnival Overture - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 443 765)

PIAZZOLLA arr Benitez: Milonga del ángel - José Fernández Bardesio (gtr) (Profil PH 11002)

WAGNER orch Mottl: Der Engel, from Wesendonck Lieder - Régine Crespin (sop), French National Radio Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI CDM 7 64434)

WALDTEUFEL: Angel of Love, Waltz Op 241 - Czecho-Slovak State Phil, Kosice/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223438)

MONTEVERDI: Hor che'l ciel e la terra - Le Poème Harmonique/Vincent Dumestre (theorbo/dir) (Alpha 172)

WIDOR: Suite in E minor Op 21 - Peter Bruns (cello), Annegret Kuttner (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.294)

HAYDN: Divertimento No 4 in C - Tres Cordes String Trio (Ode CD MANU 5122)

GOTTSCHALK ed Rosenberg: Symphony No 2, A Montevideo - Hot Springs Festival SO/Richard Rosenberg (Naxos 8.559320)

The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews recent releases (RNZ)

New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra 2009

Meri Haami, Simon Jones (vocalists), Jesse Sheehan (vocalist/gtr), Max Polaczuk (gtr), Richard Thai, Peter Ruddell (ten saxes), Oscar Läven (bar sax), Josh Kelly, Kushal Talele (alto saxes), Mike Costeloe (tpt), Matt Steele (pno), Reuben Jelleyman (vibraphone), Matt Dann (percussion), Chris Wratt (drums), New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra 2009/Dave Panichi

STRAYHORN: Take the A train; FEATHER: Baby, get lost; MINTZER: Latin dance; FAT FREDDY'S DROP arr Crayford: Ernie; MANN/WEIL/STILLER/LEIBER: On Broadway; CASTILLO: Funkifize; BADU: Appletree; GARLAND: Blues by Five; PANICHI: Harry Potter; MORRISON: Moondance; HARRELL: Glass mystery; KLENNER/LEWIS: Just friends; PANICHI: Pyldriver (recorded in Expressions Theatre, Upper Hutt by RNZ)

YSAŸE: Harmonies du soir - Fine Arts Quartet, Europe Phil/Otis Klöber (Naxos 8.572559)

POENITZ: Italienische Romanze Op 27 - Laura Vinciguerra (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9179)

ALWYN: Serenade - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570145)

GLAZUNOV: Introduction & Dance of Salome - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Chandos CHAN 9824)

KUULA: Concert Suite, Orjan Poika - BBC Concert Orch/Martyn Brabbins (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7272)

MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Mihaela Ursuleasa, Lars Vogt (pno duo) (EMI 5 57798)

MEYERBEER: Les Patineurs - Hanover Radio Phil of NDR/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 336)

11:00 MARAIS: Suite in G - Jonathan Dunford, Sylvia Abramovitz (vlas da gamba,) Benjamin Perrot (theorbo), Laurent Stewart (hpschd) (Accord 472 254)

KLUGHARDT: Piano Quintet in G minor Op 43 - Olga Gollej (pno), Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1652)