Schedules for 7 - 13 April, 2012

Disc 1

J STAMITZ: Symphonies, in D Op 3/2; in Eb Op 11/3; Three Manheim Symphonies, in G; in A; in Bb; Trio in E Op 5/3 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.553194)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

ELGAR: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84; BRIDGE: Quintet in D minor for piano, two violins, viola & cello - Allan Schiller (pno), Coull String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 678)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

HAYDN: Mass in Bb HobXXII/12, Theresienmesse; Mass in G, St. Nicholas - Nancy Argenta (sop), Catherine Robbin (contralto), Michael Schade (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), English Consort & Choir/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 437 807)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

VILLA-LOBOS: Preludes, No 1 in E minor; No 2 in E; No 3 in A minor; PONCE: Preludio, Balletto & Giga; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Capriccio Diabolico; ALBÉNIZ: Asturias; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Sonata; TURINA: Fandanguillo; SOR: Introduction & Allegro Op 14 - Guillermo Fierens (gtr) (ASV CD DCA 685)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

GRIEG: Holberg Suite Op 40; Elegiac Melodies Op 34; SIBELIUS: Valse Triste Op 44; NIELSEN: Little Suite Op 1; WIRÉN: Serenade Op 11; SIBELIUS: Rakastava Op 14 - Roy Gillard (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Argo 417 132)

6:00 WAGENAAR: Romantic Intermezzo Op 13 - North West German Phil/Antony Hermus (CPO 777 479)

RYELANDT: Five Fantasy Pieces - Peter Vanhove (pno) (Pavane ADW 7463)

GRIEG: Melodies Op 53 - Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due (Naxos 8.557890)

REICHENAUER: Oboe Concerto in G - Xenia Löffler (ob), Collegium 1704/Václav Luks (dir) (Supraphon SU 4035)

VASKS: Pater noster - Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1106)

COLLINS: Santa Cecilia - BBC Concert Orch/John Wilson (Dutton CDLX 7162)

7:00 SCHUBERT: Fierabras, Overture - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.570329)

PETIT: Toccata - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1348)

FRANÇAIX: String Quartet in G - Parisii Quartet (CPO 999 779)

FIELD: Divertissement No 2 in A - Míceál O'Rourke (pno), London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10468)

FAURÉ arr anon: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Anna Noakes (fl), Gillian Tingay (harp) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2101)

WARLOCK arr Lane: Folksong Preludes - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2139)

8:00 FASCH: Concerto in D for trumpet & two oboes FWV L/D1 - Ludwig Güttler (tpt/dir), Virtuosi Saxoniae (Berlin Classics 030 0168 BC)

SMETANA: From the Homeland - Craig Stratton (vln), Sholto Kynoch (pno) (Classical CRC 1417)

DELIUS: Marche Caprice - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

BOUGHTON: Three Songs without Words - Sarah Francis (ob), members of Rasumovsky Quartet (Helios CDH 55174)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in Bb minor Op 9/1 - Nelson Freire (pno) (Decca 478 2182)

HOVHANESS: Alleluia & Fugue Op 40b - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80392)

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

BRUNA: Tiento on the first tone - Jeremy West (cornetto), Timothy Roberts (org) (Hyperion CDA 66977)

VERDI: Forse la soglia attinse, from A Masked Ball - Salvatore Licitra (ten), Mary Plazas (sop), London SO/Carlo Rizzi (Sony SK 89923)

HERZOGENBERG: Trio in D for oboe, horn & piano Op 61 - Anne Angerer (ob), Jan Wessely (horn), Oliver Triendl (pno) (CPO 777 081)

BRAHMS: String Sextet No 2 in G Op 36 - Isabelle Faust, Julia-Maria Kretz (vlns), Stefan Fehlandt, Pauline Sachse (vlas), Christoph Richter, Xenia Jankovic (cellos) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2075)

BACH: Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034 - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Robert Veyron-Lacroix (hpschd), Jean Huchot (cello) (EMI 5 69642)

SAUER: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Lawrence Foster (Hyperion CDA 66790)

(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

(6) Jazz from New Zealand including Jazz Album of the Year Finalists (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

BBC World Routes: On the Road

The first of two programmes featuring music from World Routes: On the road. It's a compilation of previously unreleased material recorded by the BBC radio series World Routes on location around the globe to celebrate its first ten years on the air (Nascente NASCE001)

Thomas Gaynor (organ of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington)

F COUPERIN: Kyrie & Gloria, from Messe pour les Paroisses; BACH: Chorale Preludes, Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit BWV672; Christe, Aller Welt Trost BWV670;

Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist; HAKIM: Vexilla Regis Prodeunt (recorded in St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ)

BRAHMS: Tragic Overture Op 81 - Vienna Phil (DG 429 403)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Berlin Phil (Testament SBT2 1439)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 9 in D minor (unfinished) - South West German Radio SO (Hänssler CD 94.604)

NZ musicians and composers

VANHAL: Sinfonia in C, Comista (Bryan C11) - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.554341)

LILBURN: Seventeen Short Pieces for guitar - Milton Parker (gtr) (Kiwi SLD 47)

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

CHAUSSON: Two Duos Op 11 - Felicity Lott (sop), Ann Murray (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (EMI 5 74206)

FAURÉ: Les matelots Op 2/2; Chanson du pêcheur Op 4/1; Les berceaux Op 23/1; La fleur qui va sur l'eau Op 85/2; L'Horizon chimérique Op 118 - Christopher Maltman (bar), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67333)

BERLIOZ: Les Nuits d'été - Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Berlin Deutsches SO/Kent Nagano (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1932)

BACH: St Matthew Passion BWV244

Evangelist…………… Paul McMahon

Christus……………… Michael Leighton Jones

Jenny Wollerman (sop), Claire Barton (mezzo), Andrew Grenon (ten), Daniel O'Connor (bass), Orpheus Choir, Choristers of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Wellington Orch/Michael Fulcher (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring - Isabelle Faust (vln), Alexander Melnikov (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2025.27)

CRAS: Quintet for flute, harp & string trio - Linos Harp Quintet (Hänssler CD 93.175)

PÄRT: Fratres, for wind octet & percussion - I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen (Telarc CD 80387)

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphony No 31 in D, Paris; Andante from K297; Symphony No 35 in D, Haffner; Symphony No 36 in C, Linz - Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam/Josef Krips (Philips 426 063)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

VIVALDI: Bassoon Concerti, No 7 in A minor RV497; No 8 in F RV485; No 27 in Eb RV483; No 3 in C RV478; No 2 in A minor RV498; No 9 in C RV480; No 24 in Bb RV502 - Daniel Smith (bsn), Zagreb Soloists/Tonko Ninic (ASV CD DCA 975)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

VARIOUS: Popular arias & folksongs - Dmitri Hvorostovsky (bar), Various orchestras & conductors (Philips 454 395)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

ROSSINI: 14 Pieces from Sins of Old Age - Alberto Portugheis (pno) (ASV CD DCA 901)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

KRAUS: Symphony in D, Sinfonia da chiesa; Symphonies, in C# minor; in C; in C minor, Symphonie funebre - Concerto Cologne (Capriccio 10 430)

ANON arr Archbishop: O gardener - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC SMCD 5215)

DESENCLOS: Pater noster - tenors of Les Eléments Chamber Choir/Joël Suhubiette, Frédéric Desenclos (org) (Hortus 009)

RHEINBERGER: Easter Hymn Op 134 - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)

RHEINBERGER: Three Pieces for cello & organ - Cäcilia Chmel (cello), Stefan Johannes Bleicher (organ of Stadtkirche, Winterthur, Switzerland) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 901 1643)

FRANCK: Alleluia!, from Choeur de Pâques - Sam Landman, Charlie Phillips, Fergus Thirlwell (trebles), King's College Choir, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Tom Winpenney (org) (EMI 5 57896)

VASKS: Sanctus, from Mass - Latvian Radio Choir, Sinfonietta Riga/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1106)

STANFORD: If ye then be risen with Christ - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom, Paul Plummer (org) (CRD 3497)

BACH: Der Himmel lacht! Die Erde jubileret - Gillian Keith (sop), James Gilchrist (ten), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 128)

GRIEG: Four Psalms Op 74 - Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 1661)

ANON: Victimae paschali laudes; TOURNEMIRE: Chorale Improvisation on Victimae paschali - Bernhard Marx (organ of St Blaise' Cathedral, Black Forest, Germany), Schola Gregoriana of the Rottenburg Academy for Church Music/Bernhard Schmid (Ars Musici 232 260)

ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op 12 - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6544)

HAHN: Si mes vers avaient des ailes! - Philip de Groote (cello), Stephen Coombs (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67391)

FIBICH: Poem, from At Twilight - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 110624)

HAYDN: Second movement, Poco adagio e cantabile, from String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV DCS 236)

JÄRNEFELT: Berceuse - Jaakko Kuusisto (vln/dir), Lahti SO (BIS CD 1753)

STÖLZEL orch Klemperer: Bist du bei mir, from the Anna Magdalena Songbook - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Chandos CHSA 5030)

GOTTSCHALK: The dying poet - Alan Marks (pno) (Nimbus NI 7045/6)

HUMPERDINCK: Children's prayer, from Hänsel & Gretel - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony MLK 62617)

MASCAGNI arr I Salonisti: Intermezzo, from Cavalleria Rusticana - I Salonisti (London 458 382)

DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite Bergamasque - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 416 698)

A look at the life and music of JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962) presented by Peter de Blois (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Sursum Corda - Stefan Kagl (organ of Herford Minster, Germany) (CPO 777 481)

Concertino pastorale - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (Carlton Classics 3036 60060)

Six programmes in which Bill McGlaughlin talks with chamber musicians in the studio

(2) Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI play instruments with ancient names but with such freshness, the music sounds composed on the spot

Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall

The ancient Hesperia and the Diaspora Sefardi

ANON: Lamento de Tristano; TRAD Jewish lullaby: Noumi, noum yaldatii; TRAD Afghanistan: Nastaran; TRAD Sephardic: La dama y el pastor

Poetry and Music

A SAVALL: L'Amor; TRAD Catalonian: La Cançó de Lladre; TRAD Bretagne: Gwerz; TRAD Catalonian: El Testamen d'Amelia

Improvisations on Ostinato Song and Dances

MURCIA: Jota; F SAVALL: Improvisation; MERULA: Sentirete una canzonetta (American Public Media)

BRAHMS: Variations on a theme by Paganini Op 35 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 456 706)

STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30 - Samuel Magad (vln), Chicago SO/Georg Solti (London 414 043)

Thomas Goss reviews recent releases (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63 - Robert Soetens (vln), BBC SO/Henry Wood (rec 1936) (BBC Music BBC MM 312)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 5 in D Op 107, Reformation - Cologne Radio SO/Dimitri Mitropoulos (rec 1957) (Medici Masters MM 014-2)

Eugene Onegin

An introduction to Tchaikovsky's opera presented by Elric Hooper and Des Wilson (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(14) VERDI: Aida, an opera in four acts

There is almost no end to the speculations we could make about the relationship of historical fact to poetic imagination, but it is easy to see how combining them became the basis for a believable, dramatically interesting story that excited the mind of a composer and resulted in one of the world's operatic masterpieces

Aida………………….. Latonia Moore

Radamès……………... Marcello Giordani

Amneris……………… Stephanie Blythe

The King…………….. Jordan Bisch

Amonasro……………. Lado Ataneli

Ramfis……………….. James Morris

Messenger…………… Adam Lawrence Herskowitz

High Priestess……….. Lori Guilbeau

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Marco Armiliato (EBU)

Nine programmes

(5) William Dart reviews new CDs from Kate Bush, Judy Collins and Rob Wasserman (RNZ)

New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra 2011/Roger Fox, Dave Lisik

SIMONS/MARKS arr Holmes: All of me; RODGERS/HART arr Wolpe: The lady is a tramp, from Babes in Arms; ARLEN/KOEHLER arr Wolpe: I've got the world on a string; FEDCHOCK: Midnight Passage; Bossa Rio; MINGUS arr Homzy: Moanin'; RICHARDSON arr Barduhn: Groove Merchant; SILVER arr Taylor: Song for my Father; DELUGG arr Holmes: Orange Coloured Sky; WYCHE/WATTS arr Nestico: Alright, Okay, You Win; FEDCHOCK: A drop in the Bucket; Easy Goin'; Skylight (recorded in Expressions by RNZ)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture - Malaysian Phil/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1387)

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

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D RV210 - Duilio M Galfetti (vln), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Naïve OP 30474)

HOVHANESS: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain - Royal Liverpool Phil/Gerard Schwarz (Telarc CD 80604)

11:00 DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9484)

REBAY: Sonata in A minor for clarinet & guitar - Luigi Magistrelli (cl), Massimo Laura (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94171)

Disc 1

ALWYN: Symphony No 3; Violin Concerto - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9187)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

TELEMANN: Sonata Corellisante No 1 in F; Sonata Corellisante No 2 in A; Canonic Duo No 1 in G; Sonata Corellisante No 3 in B minor; Canonic Duo No 2 in G minor; Sonata Corellisante No 4 in E; Canonic Duo No 3 in D; Sonata Corellisante No 5 in G minor; Canonic Duo No 4 in D minor; Sonata Corellisante No 6 in D - Micaela Comberti (vln), Jane Coe (cello), Nicholas Parle (hpschd), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0549)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

BRITTEN: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings Op 31; Les Illuminations for tenor & strings Op 8; Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments & strings Op 60 - Peter Pears (ten), Barry Tuckwell (horn), London SO, English CO/Benjamin Britten (Decca 417 153)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SNYDER: Who's sorry now?; DINICU arr Walton: Hora staccato; KREISLER arr Walton: Praeludium & Allegro; GARDNER: Mild & bitter; CAVALLINI: Adagio & Tarantella; ITURRALDE: Pequeña Czarda; PHILIPS: Clarinet Cadenza; BOTSFORD arr Walton: Black & white rag; DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme; FA SCHUBERT: The bee; RAMEAU arr Mule: Gavotte, from Le Temple de la Gloire; HERBERT: Punchinello; MATITIA: Devil's rag; SHAPIRO/CONNELLY/CAMPBELL: If I had you; CURZON: Clarinetto con moto; DRASKOCZY: Dances from Transylvania; CAVALLINI: Serenata; RAVEL: Piece in the form of a Habanera; MONTI: Czárdás; BENDIX: The butterfly; GABRIEL-MARIE arr Woody Herman: Golden Wedding - Mark Walton (cl), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private Recording)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

BACH trans Stokowski: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565; Air on the G string, from Orchestral Suite No 3; Fugue in G minor, Little Fugue BWV578; Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208; Prelude in B minor, from BWV869; Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor BWV582; Siciliano, from BWV1017; Mein Jesu, from BWV487; Chorale from the Easter Cantata; Adagio in C, from BWV564; Komm süsser Tod BWV478; Wir glauben all' an Einen Gott, Giant Fugue BWV680 - BBC Phil/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 9259)

6:00 PURCELL arr Stokowski: When I am laid in earth, from Dido & Aeneas - Royal Phil/Leopold Stokowski (Newton 880 2025)

WILLIAMS: Schindler's List theme - Tasmin Little (vln), New World Phil/Iain Sutherland (EMI 5 65808)

WEBER orch Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)

ANON: Theme & Variations for harp - Mara Galassi (harp) (Glossa GCD 921 303)

FOULDS: Henry VIII Suite Op 87 - BBC Concert Orch/Ronald Corp (Dutton CDLX 7260)

BERIOT: Nocturne in E minor, Plaintes de jeune fille - Kuniko Nagata (vln), Mark Drobinsky (cello), Hirotoshi Kasai (pno) (Talent DOM 2911 127)

7:00 ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville, Overture - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Resonance CD RSN 3023)

SULEK: Trombone sonata, Vox Gabrieli - Stefan Schulz (bass tbn), Tomoko Sawano (pno) (BIS CD 1824)

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

CHARLTON: Figure Eight - Conservatorium Guitar Ensemble/Matthew Marshall (Massey University MU002)

J STRAUSS II arr Berg: Wine, Women & Song - Gothenburg SO/Mario Venzago (Chandos CHSA 5074 (2))

8:00 Beauty Spot: VILLETTE: Complainte - Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Black Box BBM 1049)

SULLIVAN: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (Nimbus NI 7067/8)

N BOULANGER: Three Pieces for cello & piano - Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), José Gallardo (pno) (Naxos 8.572105)

BIZET arr Salzedo: Carmen, Pas de deux - City of Prague Phil/Julian Bigg (Dutton CDLX 7151)

HUTCHENS: Always afternoon - Asmira Woodward-Page (vln), Scott Davie (pno) (Artworks AW 034)

KODÁLY: Dances of Marosszék - Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati (Mercury 432 005)

JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962)

Sextet for clarinet, horn & string quartet - Robert Plane (cl), David Pyatt (horn), Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.570550)

The Forgotten Rite - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

Bagatelle - Lucy Gould (vln), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Naxos 8.570507)

Mai-Dun - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy in C Op 17 - Sviatoslav Richter (pno) (Philips 456 952)

CHAUSSON: Poème de l'amour et de la mer Op 19 - Jessye Norman (sop), Monte Carlo Phil/Armin Jordan (Erato 2292 45368)

HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 71/2 - Fitzwilliam String Quartet (Divine Art DDV 24151)

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring - New Zealand SO/Derrick Inouye (RNZ)

Schubert's Unfinished Symphony

A guided tour of Schubert's Symphony No 8 with the Auckland Philharmonia and conductor Graham Abbott

Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished - Auckland Philharmonia/Graham Abbott (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

HANDEL: Apollo e Dafne - Myrsini Margariti (sop), Nikolay Borchev (baritone), Handel Festival Orch, Halle/Bernhard Forck (vln/dir) (Avi Music 8553200)

GLINKA trans Balakirev: The Lark - Gordon Fergus-Thompson (pno) (ASV White Line CD WHL 2066)

LIADOV: Scherzo No 1 in D Op 16 - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)

PAGANINI: Fantasy on Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Ilya Gringolts (vln), Irina Ryumina (pno) (BIS CD 999)

MOZART: Mi tradi quell' alma ingrata, from Don Giovanni - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Paris National Opera Theatre Orch/Lorin Maazel (CBS MK 39208)

JC BACH: Third movement, Allegro moderato, from Keyboard Concerto in D Op 1/6 - Anthony Halstead (hpschd/dir), Hanover Band (CPO 999 299)

BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasia Op 80 - Alfred Brendel (pno), London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Bernard Haitink (Philips 420 347)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

TCHAIKOVSKY: My genius, angel, my friend!; Lullaby Op 16/1; Reconciliation Op 25/1 - Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (rec 2008) (Onyx 4034)

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No 15 in A Op 141 - Leningrad Phil/Yevgeny Mravinsky (rec 1976) (Melodiya 74321 25189)

NZ musicians and composers

HALLIDAY: Journey - Duncan Haynes (cello), Sarah Gregory (vln), Gitbox (Rattle RAT D005)

FARR: Kembang Suling - Marc Grauwels (fl), Sarah Mouradoglou (marimba) (Naxos 8.572521)

SIBELIUS: Kuolema Op 44 & Op 62 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)

HAMILTON: Three Spirituals - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

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

SUPPÉ: Light Cavalry, Overture - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80116)

PUCCINI: Crisantemi - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1495)

WAGNER: Entry of the gods into Valhalla, from Das Rheingold - Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer (EMI CDC 7 47255)

KREISLER: Liebesfreud - Maxim Vengerov (vln), Ian Brown (pno) (EMI 5 57916)

OFFENBACH: Valse de rayons, from Le Papillon - London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 411 956)

DANZI ed Klug: Variations on a theme by Mozart, Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni - Maria Kliegel (cello), Nina Tichman (pno) (Naxos 8.557613)

SHOSTAKOVICH: The Assault on Beautiful Gorky, from The Unforgettable Year 1919 Op 89 - Dmitri Alexeev (pno), English CO/Jerzy Maksymiuk (EMI CD CFP 4547)

HIGDON: Blue Cathedral - Atlanta SO/Robert Spano (Telarc CD 80596)

STANFORD: The Blue Bird Op 119/3 - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom (Decca 473 168)

SAEGUSA: The Blue Angel - Manuela Wiesler (fl), Noriko Ogawa (pno) (BIS CD 1059)

KETÈLBEY: Wedgwood Blue - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223442)

ENESCU: Concert Piece for viola & piano - Sarah-Jane Bradley (vla), Anthony Hewitt (pno) (Naxos 8.572533)

HOLST: Venus, Bringer of Peace, from Planets Suite - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (RCA 09026 68999)

BACH: Keyboard Concerto No 5 in F minor BWV1056 - András Schiff (pno), English CO/George Malcolm (Dal Segno DSPRCD 042)

A look at the life and music of JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962) presented by Peter de Blois (RNZ)

A London Overture - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

Ballade of London nights - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.570461)

Scherzo & Cortège on themes from Julius Caesar - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8994)

Music from Madrid and Toledo

Musica Sacra/Indra Hughes

VICTORIA: Regina Coeli; ORTIZ: Recercada Segunda, from Trattado de Glosas; VICTORIA: Kyrie & Gloria, from Missa pro Victoria; ORTIZ: Recercada primera, from Trattado de Glosas; VICTORIA: Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei, from Missa pro Victoria; PREZ: Mille Regretz; ORTIZ: Diminutions on Mille Regretz; de MORALES: Kyrie & Gloria, from Missa Mille Regretz; de SELMA: Fantasia X, from Primo libro de canzoni, fantasie & correnti; de MORALES: Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei, from Missa Mille Regretz (recorded at St Michael's Church, Auckland by RNZ)

Variations on Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding K613 (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7499)

Variations in G minor K360 on Hélas, j'ai perdu mon amant - with Petra Müllejans (vln) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7494)

DVORÁK: American Suite in A Op 98b - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 30010)

PIAZZOLLA: Contrabajissimo - Astoria (Fuga Libera FUG 603)

FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain - Javier Perianes (pno), BBC SO/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2099)

11:00 NOVÁK: Violin Sonata in D minor - Ivan Zenaty (vln), Martin Kasík (pno) (Supraphon SU 3978)

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - Gagliano Trio (Kiwi TRL 016)

Disc 1

KABALEVSKY: Cello Concerto No 2; GLAZUNOV: Chant du Menstrel for cello and orchestra; KHACHATURIAN: Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8579)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

BOCCHERINI: Violin Sonatas Op 5 Nos 1-6 - Ilio Barontini (hpschd), Marco Fornaciari (vln) (Florentia Musicae FLO 69001)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BRAHMS: Lieder - Elly Ameling (sop), Rudolf Jansen (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66444)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

IRELAND: A sea idyll; On a birthday morning; Soliloquy; Two pieces, April; Bergomask; Spring will not wait; Two pieces, February's child; Aubade; Ballade of London nights; Month's mind; Three pastels, A Grecian lad; The boy bishop; Puck's birthday; Columbine; Sarnia - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9250)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

MADETOJA: Comedy Overture; Symphony No 3 in A; Okon Fuoko Suite No 1; Ostrobothnians Suite - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9036)

6:00 SINDING: Romance in D Op 100 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Bournemouth SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557266)

LOEILLET trans Godowsky: Gigue - Konstantin Scherbakov (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223795)

WARLOCK: Serenade - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

TRAD arr Russell: Three Celtic Pieces, Spatter the dew; Neil Gow's lament for the death of his second wife; The bucks of Oranmore - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1001)

HANDEL arr Tarkmann: Oboe d'amore Concerto, Verdi prati - Albrecht Mayer (ob d'amore/dir), Sinfonia Varsovia (DG 476 5681)

7:00 DURUFLÉ: Four Motets on Gregorian themes Op 10 - Atlanta SO Chamber Chorus/Norman Mackenzie (Telarc CD 80654)

MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - World Orch for Peace/Valery Gergiev (Philips 475 6937)

IBERT: Three Short Pieces for wind quintet - Berlin Phil Wind Quintet (BIS CD 536)

PELÉCIS: Concertino bianco for piano & chamber orchestra - Alexei Lubimov (pno), Bremen German Chamber Phil/Heinrich Schiff (Erato 0630 12709)

CHOPIN orch Stravinsky: Waltz in Eb Op 18, Grande valse brillante - Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (BIS SACD 1874)

8:00 Beauty Spot: STRAUSS: Allerseelen - Yoshikazu Mera (countertenor), Japan Phil/Shigeo Genda (BIS CD 949)

DEBUSSY: Scottish March - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)

FALLA arr Zabaleta: Serenata andaluza - Nicanor Zabaleta (harp) (Brilliant Classics 9059)

M HAYDN: Bassoon Concertino in Bb - Laurence Perkins (bsn), Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (Hyperion CDA 67288)

TRAD arr Langford: Fantasy on British Sea Songs - Auckland Brass/Nigel Weeks (Kiwi CD SLC 247)

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

SIBELIUS: Alla marcia, from Karelia Suite - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572704)

JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962)

String Quartet No 2 in C minor - Maggini Quartet (Naxos 8.557777)

Two Songs, The Trellis; My true love hath my heart - John Mark Ainsley (ten), Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67261/2)

Legend - Piers Lane (pno), Ulster Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Hyperion CDA 67296)

MOZART: Symphony No 28 in C K200 - Danish National CO/Adam Fischer (Dacapo 6.220543)

DUBRA: Missa de Spiritu Sancto - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough, Alexander Norman (org) (Hyperion CDA 67799)

RESPIGHI rev di Vittorio: Suite for strings - Rigaudon CO of New York "Ottorino Respighi"/Salvatore di Vittorio (Naxos 8.572332)

LALO: Piano Trio No 3 in A minor Op 26 - Trio Salomon (Meridian CDE 84437)

COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto - David Singer (cl), A Far Cry Orch (Naxos 8.559667)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

HÉROLD: Piano Concerto No 2 in Eb - Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (pno), Sinfonia Varsovia/Hervé Niquet (Mirare MIR 127)

BACH: Cantata No 8, Liebster Gott - Katharine Fuge (sop), Robin Tyson (alto), Mark Padmore (ten), Thomas Guthrie (bar), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 104)

WALTON: Five Bagatelles - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (EMI CDC 5 55404)

DVORÁK: Czech Suite Op 39 - Scottish CO/Joseph Swensen (Linn CKD 241)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 6 in A minor, Tragic - New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (rec 1967) (EMI 3 65285)

NZ musicians and composers

CHOPIN: Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ)

BECK: Sinfonia in F Op 1/2 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)

WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor - Huw Williams (organ of St Paul's Cathedral, London) (Guild GMCD 7304)

MERULA: Ciaccona - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

GRIEG: Nocturne, from Lyric Suite Op 54 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 423 199)

WEBER: Clarinet Concertino in Eb Op 26 - Michael Collins (cl/dir), City of London Sinfonia (Chandos CHAN 10702)

GRANADOS transcr Martinez: Improvisation on the Jota valenciana - Douglas Riva (pno) (Naxos 8.572313)

MENDELSSOHN: The Fair Melusina, Overture Op 32 - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Black Box BBM 3005)

WHITACRE: Five Hebrew love songs, A picture; Light bride; Mostly; What snow!; Tenderness - Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, Pavào Quartet, Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew)/Eric Whitacre (Decca 274 3209)

ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Tallinn CO/Tônu Kaljuste (ECM 1745)

PÄRT: For Alina - Ralph van Raat (pno) (Naxos 8.572525)

GLIÈRE: Concert Waltz - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (Chandos CHAN 9518)

PROKOFIEV arr Barshai/Balashov: Visions fugitives Op 22, excerpts - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Onyx 4017)

RIES: La Capricciosa - Yehudi Menuhin (vln), Louis Persinger (pno) (Biddulph LAB 031)

ALBRECHTSBERGER: Prelude & Fugue in Bb - Dmitry Rachmanov, Cullan Bryant (fpno duet) (Naxos 8.572519-20)

BEETHOVEN: Fourth movement, Finale. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace, from Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 477 5864)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

9:00 European Jazz

Six programmes

(6) Dave Douglas Keystone - Dave Douglas (tpt), Ingrid Laubrock (sax), Adam Benjamin (keyb), Brad Jones (bass), Gene Lake (drums)

The New York City premiere of this project took place at Zankel Hall in 2006 as part of John Adams' In Your Ear series (Swiss Radio/EBU)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

JOSEPHS: Fanfare; GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor; DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor - Margaret Fingerhut (pno), London SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 379)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

LISZT: Legend No 2, St Francis de Paul marchand sur les flots; Piano Sonata in B minor; Grande Etude de Paganini No 3, La Campanella; Nuages Gris; Romance Oubliée; La Lugubre Gondola 2; En Rêve; Valse de l'Opera Faust - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1446)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

PEÑALOSA: Missa Ave Maria Peregrina; Sacris Solemnis; Missa Nunea fue pena mayor - Choir of Westminster Cathedral/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 66629)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

MAHLER: Symphony No 7 in B minor - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 447 756)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

HANDEL: Water Music HWV348-350; Il pastor fido HWV8c, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (Sony SK 68257)

6:00 BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein (DG 427 806)

SOR: Fantasy in A Op 46, Souvenir d'amitié - Luis Orlandini (gtr) (CPO 999 199)

FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Paul Tortelier (cello), Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 3 97722)

VIOTTI: Serenade for flute & piano Op 23/4 - Mario Carbotta (fl), Carlo Balzaretti (pno) (Dynamic CDS 620/1-2)

STRAUSS: Dance of the seven veils, from Salome - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

7:00 MOZART: Don Giovanni, Overture - Norwegian National Opera Orch/Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve OP 30479)

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

GROFÉ: On the trail, from Grand Canyon Suite - London Festival Orch/Stanley Black (Decca 425 508)

MENDELSSOHN: Variations concertantes in D Op 17 - Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10701)

BALAKIREV orch Casella: Islamey - Philharmonia/Eugene Goossens (Medici Arts MM 009)

8:00 Beauty Spot: FOERSTER: Erinnerung - Jana Bousková (harp), Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)

KALOMIRIS orch Pierné: Rhapsody No 1 - Russian State Symphonic Capella/Byron Fidetzis (Naxos 8.572451)

RACHMANINOV: Prelude in G minor Op 23/5; Serenade Op 3/5 - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno roll) (Telarc CD 80489)

J STRAUSS II: Accelerations Waltz - Vienna Johann Strauss Capelle/Michael Tomascheck (Koch International 324 073)

ALBINONI: Violin Sonata in F Op 4/3, from Sonate da Chiesa Op 4 - Alessandro Ciccolini (vln), Ad Corda (Brilliant Classics 94189)

SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16 (1895 revision) - Lahti SO/Osmo Vänskä (BIS CD 1445)

JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962)

A Downland Suite - English Sinfonia/John Farrer (Carlton Classics 3036 60060)

Cello Sonata in G minor - Alice Neary (cello), Benjamin Frith (pno) (Naxos 8.572497)

These Things Shall Be - John Carol Case (bar), London Philharmonic Choir & Orch/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 241)

BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintet in C G453, La ritirata di Madrid - Europa Galante (Virgin 5 45607)

ARENSKY: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Sergey Ostrovsky (vln), Bournemouth SO/Thomas Sanderling (Naxos 8.572631)

SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No 15 in C D840, Relique - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

NIELSEN: Symphony No 4 Op 29, The Inextinguishable - London SO/Colin Davis (LSO Live LSO 0694)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

JERSILD: Three romantic songs for unaccompanied choir, My favourite valley; Night rain; The tedious winter went its way - Academic Choir of Aarhus/Uffe Most (Danacord DACOCD 621)

DEBUSSY: Valse romantique - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 460 247)

REGER: Romance in G Op 50/1 - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), Berlin Konzerthaus Orch/Lothar Zagrosek (Hyperion CDA 67892)

KORNGOLD: Marietta's Song, from Die tote Stadt - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Philharmonia/Julius Rudel (EMI 5 56417)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 25 in G Op 79 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2003)

FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Lucia Popp (sop), Simon Estes (bbar), Leipzig Radio Chorus, Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (Philips 412 743)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SCHARWENKA: Piano Concerto No 4 in F minor Op 82 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Lawrence Foster (rec 1994) (Hyperion CDA 66790)

GRAINGER: Tribute to Foster - Monteverdi Choir, English Country Gardiner Orch/John Eliot Gardiner (rec 1994) (Philips 446 657)

NZ musicians and composers

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 3 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

WAGNER: Amfortas! Die Wunde!, from Parsifal - Susan Bullock (sop), Simon O'Neill (ten), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)

WARLOCK: Capriol Suite - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 378 680)

A RITCHIE: As long as time - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

TARTINI arr Yemtsov: Andante, from Violin Concerto in A D96 - Robin Wilson (vln), Kemp English (pno) (Manu CD MANU 5006)

WAXMAN: Rhapsody for piano & orchestra, from the film, The Paradine Case - David Buechner (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Koch 3-7225)

MUSSORGSKY orch Ravel: The Great Gate of Kiev, from Pictures at an Exhibition - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 2 17448)

RAVEL: Piece in the form of a Habanera - Chantal Juillet (vln), Pascal Rogé (pno) (Decca 448 612)

GRIEG: Solveig's song, from Peer Gynt Op 23 - Bamberg SO/Richard Kraus (DG 427 204)

ROSAS arr Ljova: Sobre las olas - Philharmonic Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra (Sony 88697 70441)

MYERS: Cavatina, from The Deer Hunter - Norbert Kraft (gtr) (Naxos 8.554400)

TCHAIKOVSKY arr Stravinsky: Bluebird pas de deux, from Sleeping Beauty - Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (BIS SACD 1874)

ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet - Vega Wind Quintet (LDR LDRC 1002)

THOMAS arr Stoltzman: Je suis Titania, from Mignon - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

JANÁCEK: The Cunning Little Vixen, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon SU 4058)

ROSSINI: Duetto buffo di due gatti - Victoria de los Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sops), Gerald Moore (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49238)

WHITACRE: The Panther, from Animal Crackers Vol 1 - Choralation/Rowan Johnston, Sheryl Clarke (pno) (Westlake Music WCH 001)

GUNNING: Five Little Pigs - Yuri Torchinsky (vln), BBC Phil/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN 10625)

TURINA: The Bullfighter's Prayer Op 34 - Andorra National CO/Gerard Claret (Nimbus NI 5570)

BACH: Sheep may safely graze, from Cantata No 208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Sony SK 60681)

HEGGIE: A lucky child, from At the Statue of Venus - Susan Graham (mezzo), Jake Heggie (pno) (Avie AV 2198)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five English Folksongs - Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer (Chandos CHAN 9425)

SVENDSEN: Norwegian Rhapsody No 4 Op 22 - South Jutland SO/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.570322)

Philosophy Talk

Presented by Ken Taylor and John Perry of Stanford University

Six programmes

(5) Gandhi

Gandhi is famous as the leader of the movement for Indian independence, which he based on his philosophy of non-violence, an important influence on Martin Luther King Jr. Gandhi's ideas and the effects of his leadership continue to influence the world and its leaders. What was the philosophical basis of these ideas? Is non-violence a strategy for a certain purpose, or the basis for a way of life? Ken and John welcome Akeel Bilgrami, Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University (Ben Manilla Productions)

Competition Galas

Three programmes

(2) Let the Peoples Sing Euroradio Choral Competition Final 2011

PALESTRINA: Pueri Hebraeorum; SARASOLA: Veni creator spiritus; BRAHMS: Ave Maria Op 12 - Adolf Fredrik's Girls' Choir, Sweden/Karin Bäckström (dir), Magnus Svensson (pno)

THOMPSON: Pueri Hebraeorum; LARSEN: The Womanly Song of God - San Francisco Girls' Chorus, USA/Susan McMane (dir)

KREEK: Sing, Sickles, A Harvest Song; MÄNTYJÄRVI: Ave Maria del Fiore; KÄHÄRÄ: Who is sleeping in thy cradle? - Tallinn Music High School Youth Choir, Estonia/Ingrid Körvits (dir)

ANON arr Dragoistinov: Granny planted an onion; Perushtitsa; Yanina (première performance): Ghu-ghu-ghu-I-ghu (première performance) - Dragostin Folk, Bulgaria/Stefan Dragostinov (dir)

J MITCHELL arr Rigtrup: Blue; MRAZ arr Johansen: Geek in the Pink; C MARTIN arr Johansen: Viva la vida - Vocal Line, Denmark/Jens Johansen (dir)

KUULA: The Melody; LIGETI: Morning; MADETOJA: De Profundis; Speravit; RAUTAVAARA: Final blessing, from All-Night Vigil - Finnish Vocal Ensemble/Eric-Olof Söderström (dir)

PETRASSI: C'ere une vecchia di Polla, from Nonsense-Songs; REGER: Abendlied; OSTRZYGA: Iuppiter - Consono Chamber Choir, Germany/Harald Jers (dir) REHNQVIST: När natten skänker frid; TRAD arr Odegaard: Som den gylne sol frembryter (première performance); RAUTAVAARA: Malagueña, from Lorca Suite - Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening, Norway/Marit Tondel Bodsberg (dir)

O LINDBERG: Pingst; POULENC: Marie, from Seven Songs; SANDSTRÖM: Biegga Luothe - Swedish Chamber Choir/Simon Phipps (dir)

TRAD Slovenian arr Copi: The Flower of Kanin Mountain; DURUFLÉ: Tota pulchra es; TRAD Mexican arr Hatfield: Las Amarillas; COPI: Child with a Sunflower (première performance) - St Stanislav's Girl's Choir, Slovenia/Helena Fojkar Zupancic (dir) (recorded in the BBC Philharmonic Studio, Media City, Salford by BBC)

ARRIAGA: Symphony in D - Il Fondamento/Paul Dombrecht (Fuga Libera FUG 522)

11:00 HAHN Piano Quartet No 3 in G - Room-Music (Hyperion CDA 67391)

BOWEN: Viola Sonata No 1 in C minor Op 18 - Bridge Duo (Naxos 8.572580)

Disc 1

SCHUBERT: Symphonies, No 5 in Bb, No 8 in B minor (completed Newbould); Entr'acte Music No 1; Ballet Music No 2, from Rosamunde - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Charles Mackerras (Virgin 7 59273)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Concerto in A minor for keyboard, flute & violin BWV1044, Triple Concerto; Keyboard Concerto in D BWV1054; Concerto in F for keyboard and 2 recorders BWV1057; Keyboard Concerto in G minor BWV1058 - Gabriel Tacchino, Bruno Rigutto, Jean-Philippe Collard, Michael Beroff (pnos), Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Philippe Bernold, Emmanuelle Reville (fls), Paris Orch Ensemble/Jean-Pierre Wallez (EMI CDC 5 55059)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BRUCKNER: Te Deum; Mass in D minor - Joan Rodgers (sop), Catherine Wyn-Davies (contralto), Keith Lewis (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Corydon Singers & Orch/Matthew Best (Hyperion CDA 66650)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

FANTINI: Trumpet Sonatas, No 1, del Colloreto; No 3, del Niccolini; No 8, del Nero; TARTINI: Concerto in D; FRANÇAIX: Sonatine; ARBAN: Fantasy & Variations on Acteon; ENESCU: Legend; HÖHNE: Slavonic Fantasy; GOEDICKE: Concert Etude; EBEN: Chagall Windows - John Wallace (tpt/cornet), Meyrick Alexander (bsn), Simon Wright (pno/hpschd/org) (EMI CDC 5 55086)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus, Overture; TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from The Sleeping Beauty; Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker; GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1; BRAHMS: Tragic Overture; STRAUSS: Dance of the Seven Veils, from Salome; Don Juan - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (Decca 417 788)

6:00 WAGNER: Lohengrin, Prelude to Act 1 - Berlin Phil/Lorin Maazel (RCA 09026 63143)

VIVALDI: Lute Concerto in D RV93 - Jakob Lindberg (lute), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 290)

DEBUSSY: L'Enfant prodique, excerpts - Adrienne Soós, Ivo Haag (pno duet) (Naxos 8.572385)

VILLA-LOBOS: José; As costureiras - South West German Radio Vocal Ensemble/Marcus Creed (Hänssler CD 93.268)

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

7:00 WALTON: Orb & Sceptre - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 420 946)

BERNSTEIN: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs - Swedish Wind Ensemble/Christian Lindberg (BIS CD 1625)

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

DIABELLI: Variations on a favourite theme Op 57 - Johannes Tappert, Thomas Müller-Pering (gtrs) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1389)

WEBER: Preciosa, Overture - Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1760)

8:00 Beauty Spot: SCHUMANN: Träumerei, from Kinderszenen Op 15 - Maria Joao Pires (pno) (Erato 4509 94692)

ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - Tasmanian SO/Ola Rudner (ABC 476 259)

STENHAMMAR: Allegro brillante in Eb for violin, viola, cello & piano - Lucia Negro (pno), members of the Tale Quartet (BIS BIS CD 764)

NIELSEN: Pan and Syrinx - South Jutland SO/Niklás Willén (Naxos 8.557164)

POULENC: Flute Sonata - William Bennett (fl), Clifford Benson (pno) (Cala CACD 1018)

JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962)

Satyricon, Overture - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 241)

Piano Concerto in Eb - Colin Horsley (pno), Royal Phil/Basil Cameron (EMI CDM 7 64716)

Fantasy-Sonata in Eb - Robert Plane (cl), Sophia Rahman (pno) (Naxos 8.570550)

RAMEAU: Les Indes galantes, Suite - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AVSA 9882)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Smetana Trio (Supraphon SU 3872)

RODRIGO: Elogio de la guitarra - Charles Ramirez (gtr) (Signum SIGCD 244)

KLUGHARDT: Violin Concerto in D Op 68 - Mirjam Tschopp (vln), Dessau Anhalt Phil/Golo Berg (CPO 777 465)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

TRAD arr Idenstam: Diptyque; Pigopolskan - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

TRAD arr Alnæs: I lay down so late; TRAD arr Nystedt: Jesus, to savour your sweet union; TRAD arr Sommerro & Pedersen: Wedding march from Valsøyfjord/Aure - Berit Opheim Versto (sop), Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Gjermund Larsen (fiddle)/Grete Pedersen (BIS SACD 1871)

TRAD arr Idenstam: Spel Jocke; IDENSTAM: Halling IV - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

ALFVÉN: Elegy, from Gustav Adolf II - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (Brilliant Classics 8974)

DONIZETTI: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'amore - Luciano Pavarotti (ten), English CO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 475 6816)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 2 in G Op 44 - Andreas Boyde (pno), Keiko Yoshono-Skiba (vln), Garbis Atmacayan (cello), Freiburg Phil/Johannes Fritzsch (Athene ATHCD 16)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

Artur Rubinstein (pno) plays Chopin

Impromptus, No 1 in Ab Op 29; No 2 in F# Op 36; No 3 in Gb Op 51; Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66; Barcarolle in F# Op 60; Three New Etudes Op posth, in F minor, Ab & Db; Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 (rec 1964) (RCA RD 89911)

NZ musicians and composers

LILBURN: Introduction & Allegro - Ithaca College Festival Orch/Grant Cooper (Kiwi CD SLD 99)

PIGOVAT: Prayer - Donald Maurice (vla), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 114)

DUBOIS: Fantaisie triomphale - Christopher Hainsworth (organ of the Church of Saint Saturnin in Cazouls-les-Béziers), Toulouse National CO/Jean-Marc Bourret (dir) (NO LABEL PABCH 0000001)

PURCELL: O let me weep! from The Fairy Queen - Rosalind Salas (sop), Restoration (Meridian CDE 84316)

SCHUBERT: Du bist die Ruh' D776 - Keith Lewis (ten), Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMI 2006)

BRIDGE: Two poems - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557167)

SOUSA: Liberty Bell - BBCSO/Leonard Slatkin (Warner 2564 61956)

MOZART: Die Königin der Nacht, from The Magic Flute - Guy Touvron (tpt), Prague CO (Ligia LIDI 010 5220-10)

BALFE arr anon: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, from The Bohemian Girl - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Catrin Finch (harp) (EMI 3 59488)

BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No 3 in F - Budapest SO/István Bogár (Naxos 8.550110)

STRAVINSKY arr Stravinsky/Dushkin: Chanson russe - Anthony Marwood (vln), Thomas Adès (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67723)

SATIE orch Debussy: Gymnopédie No 3 - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI CDC 7 49471)

DENZA arr Schoenberg: Funiculì-Funiculà - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambroisie AM 137)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Mats Bergström (gtr) (Naxos 8.572365)

DVORÁK: Scherzo capriccioso Op 66 - London SO/István Kertész (Decca 443 765)

CURTIS: Autumn leaves - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Campion CAMEO 2085)

PIAZZOLLA arr Desyatnikov: Invierno porteño, Winter, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Jonathan Morton (vln/dir), Scottish Ensemble (Signum SIGCD 231)

SINDING: Rustle of Spring - Christian Ihle Hadland (pno) (Naxos 8.572255)

DELIUS: Summer Night on the River, from Two Pieces for Small Orchestra - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Norman Del Mar (Chandos CHAN 6502)

CHAUSSON: Four Melodies Op 13 - Christine Schäfer (sop), Irwin Gage (pno) (DG 289 459 682)

MAHLER: Das Trinklied Jammer der Erde, from Das Lied von der Erde - Peter Schreier (ten), Berlin SO/Kurt Sanderling (Berlin Classics 030 0222BC)

SAINT-SAËNS: Tarantella in A minor Op 6 - members of Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)

M HAYDN: Symphony No 32 in D - German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 179)

Choral Connections

Brian Kay looks at the traditions and settings of the Psalms (RNZ)

Direct from the Auckland Town Hall

Favourite Classics

Piers Lane (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Fabrice Bollon

SCHUMANN: Overture, Scherzo & Finale Op 52; GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16

(Interval)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 (RNZ)

MENOTTI: Cantilena e Scherzo - Gillian Tingay (harp), Vanbrugh Quartet (ASV CD DCA 1156)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Suite - Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.572693)

11:00 SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6 - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 8659)

BAX: Piano Trio in Bb - Gould Piano Trio (Naxos 8.557698)

Disc 1

BERNSTEIN: Candide, Overture; FRANCK: Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Howard Shelley (pno), London SO/Geoffrey Simon (ABC 426 382)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BLISS: Introduction & Allegro; Concerto for cello & orchestra; Meditations on a Theme by John Blow - Robert Cohen (cello), Royal Phil/Barry Wordsworth (Argo 443 170)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

Choruses & Lieder by Boulanger, Hensel, C Schumann - Christine Friedek (sop), Regine Böhm, Mitsuko Shirai (mezzos), Bernhard Gärtner (ten), Hartmut Höll, Sabine Eberspächer (pnos), Heidelberg Madrigal Choir/Gerald Kegelman (Bayar BR 100 041 CD)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerti, No 3 in Bb; No 11 in Eb; J STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto in Bb; C STAMITZ: Clarinet Concerto No 10 in Bb - Sabine Meyer (cl), ASMF/Iona Brown (EMI CDC 7 54842)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

BACH: Partitas, No 5 in G BWV829; No 3 in A minor BWV827; No 6 in E minor BWV830 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (Archiv 415 493)

6:00 CIMAROSA: La Baronessa Stramba, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

HOVHANESS: Bagatelles Op 30 - Shanghai String Quartet (Delos DE 3700)

GRAINGER: Over the Hills & Far Away - Martin Jones, Richard McMahon (pno duo) (Nimbus NI 1767)

DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo & Juliet - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.557143)

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

MOZART: Horn Concerto No 1 in D K412 - Jonathan Williams (horn), CO of Europe/Alexander Schneider (COE Records CD COE 805)

7:00 ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No 2 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)

MONTEVERDI: Beatus vir - Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1250)

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

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in D Op 6/5 - Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7228/29)

LISZT: Concert Study No 3 in Db, Un Sospiro - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Music & Arts CD 723)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RACHMANINOV arr Kreisler: Daisies Op 38/3, from Six Songs Op 38 - Lydia Mordkovitch (vln), James Kirby (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10028)

MARTUCCI: Giga Op 61/3 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

BRANDT orch M Sommerhalder: Concert Piece No 2 in Eb Op 12 - Giuliano Sommerhalder (cornet), Westphalia New Phil/Heiko Mathias Förster (Solo Musica SM 125)

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

RICCI: Sinfonia in G Op 2/2 - Netherlands Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Etcetera KTC 1342)

TANSMAN: Sonatine for bassoon & piano - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)

TRAD arr Grainger: Scotch Strathspey & Reel - Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9554)

JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962)

Piano Sonata - Malcolm Binns (pno) (BMS 434 435 CD)

arr Mackerras: The Overlanders, Suite - Hallé Orch/John Wilson (Hallé CD HLL 7523)

Meditation on John Keble's Rogationtide Hymn - Stefan Kagl (organ of Herford Minster, Germany) (CPO 777 481)

BRUCH: Scottish Fantasy - James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO/Mario Bernardi (CBC SMCD 5222)

RR BENNETT: Partita - Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Trio No 1 in F Op 18 - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67538)

BRAHMS: Symphony No 3 in F Op 90 - Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons (BR Media 900 111)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

DOHNÁNYI: Rhapsody in Eb minor Op 11/4 - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67871)

ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A - London SO/Antal Dorati (Mercury 432 015)

DOHNÁNYI: Rhapsody in C Op 11/3 - Martin Roscoe (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67871)

VERDI: Willow Song & Ave Maria, from Otello - Malvina Major (sop), Margaret Findlay (mezzo), New Zealand SO/John Matheson (Kiwi CD TRL 075)

DVORÁK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 415 509)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D - Hilary Hahn (vln), ASMF/Neville Marriner (rec 2001) (Sony SK 89649)

TUBIN: Symphony No 6 - Estonian National SO/Arvo Volmer (rec 1999) (Alba ABCD 147)

NZ musicians and composers

BENJAMIN: Le Tombeau de Ravel - Murray Khouri (cl), Peter Pettinger (pno) (Continuum CCD 1074)

HOLMES: Frond - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

TRAD arr Britten: Folk Songs of England, I will give my love an apple; We go walking on the green grass; In the heat of the day; As a soldier & a sailor was a'walking one day; The sheep's in the meadow; Now come all you young fellows - Robert Oliver (ten), Milton Parker (gtr) (Kiwi SLD 47)

J STAMITZ: Orchestral Trio in A Op 1/2 - NZSO CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)

BARBER: Mutations from Bach - London Symphony Brass/Eric Crees (RegisC 1209)

CIMAROSA arr Benjamin: Oboe Concerto - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D899/4 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 245)

SIBELIUS arr Stravinsky: Canzonetta Op 62a - Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (BIS SACD 1874)

IBERT: Escales - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 432 003)

CASELLA: Sicilienne & Burlesque - Kathryn Thomas (fl), Richard Shaw (pno) (Deux-Elles DXL 1033)

F COUPERIN trans Williams: Les Barricades mystérieuses - John Williams (gtr) (CBS MK 44518)

VOLCKMAR: Piano Trio in C - Arte Ensemble (CPO 777 460)

FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English CO/Stephen Cleobury, José-Luis Garcia (vln), Peter Barley (org) (EMI 5 67523)

HOWELLS: Paradise Rondel - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9410)

ANON: Ciaccona di Paradiso, e dell'Inferno, from an anonymous collection in Milan, 1657 - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Fulvio Bettini (bar), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Virgin 6 94577)

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

PIAZZOLLA arr Crabb: Romance del Diablo - James Crabb (accordion), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (Chandos CHAN 10163)

LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No 1 - BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (Hyperion CDA 67856)

The Critic's Chair

Thomas Goss reviews recent releases (RNZ)

Quartet for The End of Time

An introduction to Messiaen's Quartet presented by Roger Smith (RNZ)

Wilma Smith (vln), Ensemble Liaison

HAYDN: Piano Trio in G HobXV/25, Gypsy; BRAHMS: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114; MESSIAEN: Quartet for the End of Time (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

MARX: Partita in modo antico - Bochum SO/Steven Sloane (ASV CD DCA 1158)

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C HobVIIb/1 - Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Potsdam Kammerakademie/Michael Sanderling (Genuin GEN 89148)

11:00 KORNGOLD: Piano Quintet in E Op 15 - Bengt Forsberg (pno), Kjell Lysell, Ulf Forsberg (vlns), Nils-Erik Sparf (vla), Mats Lidström (cello) (DG 459 631)

RIES: Flute Quartet No 3 in A minor WoO35 - Oxalys (Fuga Libera FUG 576)