Schedules for 24 - 30 November, 2012

Disc 1

LISZT: Hungarian Fantasy; Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb; Piano Concerto No 2 in A; Totentanz - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 433 075)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

PAGANINI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Op 1 - Midori Seiler (vln) (CBS MK 44944)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Die Nacht; Die Nachtigall; Wehmut; Der Gondelfahrer; Mondenschein; Nachthelle; Das Dorfchen; Die Einsiedelei; Sehnsucht; Grab und Mond; Frühlingsgesang; Liebe; Widerspruch; An den Frühling; La pastorella; Ständchen; Der Entfernten - Karl Dent, Richard Clement (tens), Martha Hart (mezzo), Norman Mackenzie (pno), Mary Akerman (gtr), Robert Shaw Chamber Singers/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80340)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

ELLER: Elegia for harp & strings; Five Pieces for string orchestra; Tone Poem, Dawn; RAID: Symphony No 1 in C minor - Eluned Pierce (harp), John Digney (ob), Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

WALTON: Façade, Long Steel Grass; STEVENS: Symphony of Liberation, Resistance; FRANKEL: First movement, from Symphony No 5; SEARLE: First movement, from Symphony No 2; FRANKEL: Carriage & Pair; WALTON: Old Sir Faulk, from Façade; Touch her soft lips & part, from Henry V; Gloria, from Christopher Columbus; ALWYN: First movement, from Lyra Angelica; Prelude to Odd Man Out; BLISS: Pastoral, The Pigeon Song, Lie strewn the white flocks; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending; LEIGHTON: Adagio molto, Third movement, from Symphony No 3 - Susana Walton (narrator), Della Jones (mezzo), Arthur Davies, Neil Mackie (tens), Michael Davis (vln), Rachel Masters (harp), Westminster Singers, London SO, Royal Scottish National Orch/Bryden Thomson, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Bournemouth SO/Richard Hickox

6:00 MYSLIVECEK: Sinfonia Concertante in G Op 2/3 - Ural Phil/Gary Brain (Toccata Classics TOCC 0023)

JONGEN: Waltz - Rachel Talitman (harp) (Classic Talent DOM 2910 74)

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

TRAD arr O'Boyle: O Waly Waly - Jane Sheldon (sop), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)

SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 111 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (Philips 456 838)

RUIZ DE RIBAYAZ: Españoletas - Gianluigi Trovesi (cl), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

7:00 MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso - Gil Shaham (vln), Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 454 647)

TRAD arr Baker: Tarantella - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)

CIMAROSA: Il Convito, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle Symphony/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3700)

BRAHMS: How lovely are thy dwellings, from A German Requiem - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80119)

MENDELSSOHN: Third movement, Adagio, from Cello Sonata No 2 in D Op 58 - Coenraad Bloemendal (cello), Valerie Tryon (pno) (Dorian DOR 90020)

BRUCH: Swedish Dances Op 63 - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Philips 420 932)

8:00 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHSA 5047)

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

HANDEL: Love sounds th'alarm, from Acis & Galatea - Ian Bostridge (ten), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Harry Bicket (EMI 3 82243)

GRIEG: Nordic Melodies Op 63, In folk style; Cow call & Peasant dance - Oslo Camerata/Stephan Barratt-Due (Naxos 8.557890)

FRANÇAIX: Divertissement - Bergen Woodwind Quintet (BIS SACD 2008)

LEHÁR: Resignation, from Das Fürstenkind - Berlin Radio SO/Michail Jurowski (CPO 999 761)

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

COCHRAN: Russian Toccata - Julian Cochran (pno) (Digital Scores EXTRACTS 2010)

RIES: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 90 - Zurich CO/Howard Griffiths (CPO 999 547)

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 - Lang Lang (pno), Paris Orch/Christoph Eschenbach (DG 477 6719)

TRAD: The foggy, foggy dew - Oscar Natzka (bass), Henri Penn (pno) (Atoll ACD 500)

GD WILSON: The shepherd boy; JAELL: Chant Romantique; DURAND: First Waltz - Alan Etherden (pno) (HMP HMPCD 0589)

DONIZETTI: Spirto gentil, from La Favorita - Vittorio Grigolo (ten), Parma Teatro Regio Orch/Pier Giorgio Morandi (Sony 88697 75260)

DEBUSSY: Violin Sonata in G minor - Max Rostal (vln), Colin Horsley (pno) (rec 1957) (Symposium 1076)

THORESEN: Mon Dieu, Mon Adoré! - Norwegian Soloists' Choir/Grete Pedersen Helgerød (Simax PSC 1130)

VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in A RV348, from La Cetra Op 9 - Simon Standage (vln), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 475 7693)

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

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

(8) Final Bar, recently departed jazz legends (RNZ)

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Hear the World

Three programmes from Hear the World, a Radio Netherlands series of live recordings made at Dutch world music venues

(2) In today's programme, host Dheera Sujan introduces music from Guinean kora player Ba Cissoko, young Cuban pianist Harold Lopez Nussa, and the Dastan Ensemble from Iran (Radio Netherlands Worldwide 2011)

NZSO Todd Corporation Young Composer Awards 2011

Two programmes

In September 2011, 13 selected young New Zealand composers had their works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Janina Nicoll talks to each composer and we hear the recording of their piece

(1) TABEA SQUIRE: Test Pattern; MAX WILKINSON: Evocation from the Seas; OLIVER HUANG XU: Palais National; CORWIN NEWALL: Hang in there; SARAH BALLARD: Nebula; ELIZABETH DE VEGT: Five/Presence; HANNAH GILMOUR: A Sigh in the Shadows - NZSO/Hamish McKeich (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

BEETHOVEN: Variations on Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen from Mozart's The Magic Flute - Pierre Fournier (cello), Friedrich Gulda (pno) (DG 477 6266)

HAYDN: String Quartet in D Op 20/4 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCS 236)

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A K488 - Michael Houstoun (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Roy Goodman (Atoll ACD 883)

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 3 in D D200 - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (RCA Red Seal 88691 96379)

NZ performers and composers

A RITCHIE: Brass Quintet - NZ Chamber Brass (Private)

HUMMEL: Rondo in Eb Op 11 - Georgina Zellan-Smith (pno) (Zellan Records ZRCD 1002)

LILBURN: Symphony No 1 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555862)

Melodies by RAVEL

Spanish song; French song (Limousin folksong); Scottish song; Italian song; Hebrew song; Song of the spinning wheel - Inva Mula, Valérie Millot (sops), Claire Brua (mezzo), Gérard Theruel, Laurent Naouri (bars), David Abramovitz (pno) (Naxos 8.554176-77)

Noël des jouets; Two Epigrammes de Clément Marot; Five Popular Greek Songs; Two Hebrew Melodies - Gerald Finley (bar), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67728)

Trois Chansons Madecasses - Nora Gubisch (mezzo), Alain Altinoglu (pno), Magali Mosnier (fl) (Naïve V 5304)

Uwe Grodd (fl), Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles (hpschd)

BACH: Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034; Trio Sonata in G BWV1039; Viola da gamba Sonata No 1 in G BWV1027; Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030 (recorded in the University of Auckland Music Theatre by RNZ)

FUCHS: Serenade No 3 in E minor Op 21 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572607)

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

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 - Prague Phil/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 3932)

RHEINBERGER: Three Sacred Songs Op 69, Morning Song; Hymn; Evening Song - Phoenix Bach Choir, Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy (Chandos CHSA 5055)

STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Larry Combs (cl), David McGill (bsn), Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (Teldec 3984 23913)

STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite - Netherlands Radio Chamber Phil/Jaap van Zweden (Octavia OVCL 00378)

11:00 REINECKE: Trio in Bb for clarinet, horn & piano Op 274 - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1295)

RODRIGO: Sonata giocosa - Tom Kerstens (gtr) (BGS CD 107)

SILVESTROV: Bagatelles, excerpts - Valentin Silvestrov (pno) (ECM 1988)

Disc 1

BLASIUS arr Koch: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in C; FIALA: Concerto in Bb for clarinet, cor anglais & orchestra; DEMAR: Clarinet Concerto in Eb - Karl Schlechta (cl), Helmut Koch (cor anglais), Kurpfalz CO/Jiri Malat (Arte Nova 74321-37299)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 27 in E minor; No 28 in A; No 29 in Bb, Hammerklavier - Jeffrey Swan (pno) (Arkadia CDAK 140.1)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BEETHOVEN: Adelaide; SCHUBERT: Frühlingsglaube D686; Die Forelle D550; Ständchen D957; Die böse Farbe D795; STRAUSS: Traum durch die Dämmerung; Cäcilie; BRAHMS: Ständchen Op 106/1; MOZART: Don Giovanni, Il mio tesoro; GIORDANO: Fedora, Amor ti vieta; Chénier, Come un bel dì di Maggio; BIZET: Carmen, Flower Song; MASSENET: Manon, The Dream; GRIEG: En Svane; En Drøm; SIBELIUS: Demanten på marssnön; Säv, säv susa; Svarta rosor; SJØBERG: Tonerna; MASCAGNI: Cavalleria rusticana, Addio alla madre; TOSTI: Ideale; L'Alba separà della luce ombra; PUCCINI: Tosca, E lucevan le stelle; La Bohème Che gelida manina; FOSTER: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair - Jussi Björling (ten), Frederick Schauwecker (pno) (RCA 82876 53379)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

MOZART: Divertimentos, No 8 in F K213; No 9 in Bb K240; No 12 in Eb K252; No 13 in F K253; No 14 in Bb K270; No 16 in Eb K289 - Octophoros (Accent ACC 8856 D)

4:55 approx - Disc 5

FAURÉ: En Prière; ANON arr Harms: Latvian Prayer; TRAD arr Ken Young: Barb'ra Ellen; O Waly Waly; The Last Rose of Summer; VILLA-LOBOS: Song of the Black Swan; FAURÉ: Nocturne; RAVEL: Habanera; FALLA: Nana; Astoriana; Cancion; RAVEL arr Maganin/Lawrence: Pavane for a Dead Princess; SAINT-SAËNS: Fantasy for Violin and Harp; MASSENET: Méditation - Dawn Harms (vln), Carolyn Mills (hp) (Atoll ACD 199)

RACHMANINOV: Lord's Prayer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (EMI CDC 5 56439)

GOUNOD: Mass No 4 in G minor - Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne/Michel Corboz, Marcelo Giannini (org) (Mirare MIR 129)

GOUNOD: Ave Maria - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)

RUTTER: I will lift up mine eyes; The Lord is my light and my salvation - Polyphony, City of London Sinfonia/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67259)

BRYARS: Laude novella; Ave regina gloriosa; Ave donna santissima; Venite a laudare - Trio Mediaeval (ECM 1869)

FINZI: Introit in F - Lesley Hatfield (vln), Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8.553566)

BACH: Cantata No 116, written for the 25th Sunday after Trinity, Lord Jesus Christ, you are prince of peace - Yukari Nonoshita (sop), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Makoto Sakurada (ten), Peter Kooy (bass), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS SACD 1451)

MENDELSSOHN: Song without Words in D Op 109 - António Meneses (cello), Gérard Wyss (pno) (Avie AV 2140)

Hear My Prayer - Tom Norrington (treble), Eton College Chapel Choir/Ralph Allwood (dir), David Goode (org) (Signum SIGCD 115)

PACHELBEL: Canon & Gigue in D - London Baroque (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1539)

MASCAGNI: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

PARADIS: Sicilienne in Eb - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)

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

MIYAGI: Haru no umi - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Rachel Gauk (gtr) (BIS CD 969)

STÖLZEL orch Klemperer: Bist du bei mir - BBC SO/Leonard Slatkin (Chandos CHSA 5030)

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

BELLINI arr anon: Casta diva, from Norma - Maurice André (tpt), François-Henri Houbart (org) (EMI CDC 7 49722)

HOLST ed Matthews: Invocation - Alexander Baillie (cello), London Phil/David Atherton (Lyrita SRCD 209)

A look at the life and music of CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) presented by Murray Khouri (R Mon 7.00pm) (RNZ)

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

(10) Thomas Hampson (bar), Craig Rutenberg (pno)

HOPKINSON: My days have been so wondrous free; FOSTER: Hard times; COPLAND: The dodger; BURLEIGH: Dark and lovely one; WARREN: God be in my heart; THOMSON: Tiger! Tiger!; BARBER: Sure on this shining night; PAULUS: A summer night, from A Heartland Portrait; IVES: In Flanders fields; FARWELL: The old man's love song; STILL: Grief; TRAD arr White: Shenandoah; COPLAND: The boatmen's dance, from Old American Songs (American Public Media)

BRUCH: Symphony No 1 in Eb Op 28 - Weimar State Orch/Michael Halasz (Naxos 8.570994)

GLAZUNOV: String Quartet No 2 in F Op 10 - Utrecht String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1237)

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

Talich conducts Dvořák

Carnival Overture - Czech Phil (rec 1935) (Naxos 8.111331)

Piano Concerto in G minor Op 33 - Frantisek Maxián (pno), Czech Phil (Supraphon SU 3825)

Slavonic Dances in D Op 46/6; in C Op 46/1 - Czech Phil (rec 1935) (Naxos 8.111331)

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Peter Shaw profiles the 20th Century's greatest lieder singer (RNZ)

The NBR NZ Opera's 2012 production of VERDI's Rigoletto, an opera in three acts

Rigoletto...................... Warwick Fyfe

Gilda............................ Emma Pearson

Duke of Mantua.......... Rafael Rojas

Sparafucile................... Ashraf Sewailam

Maddalena................... Kristin Darragh

Monterone................... Rodney Macann

Marullo........................ Matthew Landreth

Borsa............................ Derek Hill

Ceprano....................... James Clayton

Countess Ceprano........ Emma Fraser

Giovanna..................... Wendy Doyle

Usher........................... Moses Mackay

Page............................. Morag McDowell

Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, Auckland Philharmonia/Wyn Davies (recorded in the Aotea Centre, Auckland by RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: Ruy Blas, Overture - Paris Orchestral Ensemble/John Nelson (Virgin 5 45532)

FRANCK: Les Djinns - Bertrand Chamayou (pno), Royal Scottish National Orch/Stéphane Denève (Naïve V 5208)

LISZT: Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem No 6, after Victor Hugo - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (BBC Music BBC MM 336)

NZ performers and composers

MEWS: Prelude & Fugue - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 605)

HOFMANN: Flute Concerto in D - Elizabeth Hirst (fl), University of Auckland Orch/Uwe Grodd (Uni of Auckland)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Introduction; The Lilac Fairy; Adagio; Pas d'action; Pas de caractère (Puss in Boots & the White Cat); Panorama; Waltz, from Sleeping Beauty - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (NZSO)

Four programmes from the award-winning former British broadcaster Mark Coles who presents his pick of the best new music releases and demos from around the planet (1) (MCM)

The Big Sing 2012

(7) Nine programmes of highlights from the National Finale featuring Cantala (Wellington East Girls' College), Marist Stella (Marist College), Senior Chorale (Burnside High School), Con Brio (Villa Maria College), Voicemale (Westlake Boys' High School)

BIEBL: Ave Maria; MARGETIC: Et consumimur igni; GRIEG arr Karadjov: Ave Maris Stella; CHILDS: Weep no more; DEBUSSY: Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder! from Trois Chansons; TRAD arr Somers: Feller from fortune; TICHELI: Earth Song; PERGOLESI: Quando Corpus; LANG: Cantate Domino; SCHUMANN: Die Minnesänger, Op 33/2; TRAD arr Schrader: Shenandoah; BERNSTEIN arr Lojeski: Gee, Officer Krupke, from West Side Story (recorded in the Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales - Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 8756)

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

RIES: Sonate Sentimental Op 169 - Uwe Grodd (fl), Matteo Napoli (pno) (Naxos 8.572038)

HAMELIN: Con intimissimo sentimento - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67789)

HANDEL: Water Music Suite No 3 in G - Consort of London/Robert Haydon Clark (Brilliant Classics 93779)

PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 4 in Bb Op 53 for the left hand - Alexander Gavrylyuk (pno), Sydney Symphony/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Triton EXCL 00044)

FUCHS: Serenade No 5 in D Op 53 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572607)

11:00 BARTÓK: String Quartet No 1 Sz40 - New Zealand String Quartet (Manu CD MANU 1513)

BRAHMS: Fantasies Op 116 - Hardy Rittner (pno) (MDG 904 1680)

Disc 1

GRAINGER: The Warriors; HOLST: The Planets Op 32 - Monteverdi Choir, Philharmonia/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 445 860)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

LISZT arr Gounod: Hymne à Sainte Cécile; Les Sabéennes; LISZT: Rêve d'amour No 2, Seleger Tod; Vallée d'Obermann; Rêve d'amour No 1, Hohe Liebe; arr Gounod: Les Adieux; LISZT: Ballade No 2 in B minor; Six Consolations; Rêve d'amour No 3, O Lieb - Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 116)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis - Charlotte Margiono (sop), Catherine Robbin (mezzo), William Kendall (ten), Alastair Miles (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 429 779)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

KOECHLIN: Sonata for Horn Op 70; Morceau de Lecture pour cor; Fifteen Pieces Op 180; Sonneries - Barry Tuckwell (horn), Daniel Blumenthal (pno) (ASV CD DCA 716)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

VIVALDI: Concertos, in F for violin & organ RV542; in Bb for violin & oboe RV548; in C for two trumpets RV537; in G for 2 violins & 2 cellos RV575; in C for oboe RV447; in D minor for 2 violins & cello RV565 - I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 8651)

6:00 RAMEAU: Platée, Overture to Act One - Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (L'Oiseau-Lyre 455 293)

HAYDN: Second movement, Poco adagio e cantabile, from String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor - Leipzig String Quartet (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 307 1362)

WAGNER: Deux Entreactes tragiques - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5092)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Bb D935/3 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (Philips 456 245)

LARSSON: Pastoral Suite - Helsingborg SO/Okko Kamu (Naxos 8.553115)

7:00 JACOBI: Introduction & Polonaise - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Opera North Orch/Benjamin Wallfisch (Chandos CHAN 10477)

FALLA arr Kochanski: Seven Popular Spanish Songs - Jesús Angel León (vln), Miguel Angel Muñoz (pno) (Verso VRS 2018)

DRIGO arr March: Pas de deux, from Diana & Actéon - English Concert Orch/Richard Bonynge (Decca 421 818)

VERDI: Grand March, from Aida - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

8:00 Beauty Spot: PUCCINI: Doretta's dream, from La Rondine - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London Phil/John Pritchard (CBS CD 37298)

FAURÉ: Elegy Op 24 - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Michel Dalberto (pno) (Virgin Classics 0 70875)

JACOB: More Old Wine in New Bottles - Dana Chamber Winds/Stephen Gage (Naxos 8.572762)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Polonaise, from Eugene Onegin - St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Antonio Pappano (EMI 3 70065)

ALAIN: Litanies - Peter Averi (organ at Temple Square, Salt Lake City) (Kiwi CD SLC 251)

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

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)

Spartacus, Overture - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5104)

Piano Quintet in A minor Op 14 - Ensemble Musique Oblique (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1472)

Tarantella in A minor Op 6 - Sharon Bezaly (fl), Harri Mäki (cl), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS CD 1359)

MYASKOVSKY: Symphony No 24 in F minor Op 63 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689)

SALIERI: Triple Concerto - Béla Bánfalvi (vln/dir), Lajos Lencsés (ob), Károly Botvay (cello), Budapest Strings (Capriccio 10 530)

CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 35, Funeral March Sonata - Khatia Buniatishvili (pno) (Sony 88691 97129)

RESPIGHI: Metamorphoseon Modi XII - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8405)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch (1944 - August 6 2012)

One of only 2 people to have been awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and a Pulitzer Prize

HAMLISCH: The Way We Were, Theme - City of Prague Phil/Nic Raine (SilvaScreen Records 111309)

I hope I get it, from A Chorus Line - Original Cast Chorus & Orch/Don Pippin (Columbia 433 581)

JOPLIN arr Hamlisch: Solace; The Entertainer; Easy Winners, from The Sting - Marvin Hamlisch (pno/dir), studio orch (MCA 111625)

HAMLISCH: One, from A Chorus Line - Original Cast Chorus & Orch/Don Pippin (Columbia 433 581)

Nobody does it better, from The Spy Who Loved Me - Bill Cunliffe (pno), Cincinatti Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc 480 251)

BIBER: The Crucifixion and death of Jesus, from The Five Sorrowful Mysteries - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7321.22)

HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: O Ecclesia - Gothic Voices/Christopher Page (dir), Doreen Muskett (symphony) (Hyperion CDA 66039)

DUBERY: Sonatina for oboe & piano - Richard Simpson (ob), Paul Jones (pno) (Metier MSV 28523)

BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No 1 Sz36 - Thomas Zehetmair (vln), Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Berlin Classics 1529 BC)

BORODIN arr Rimsky-Korsakov/Glazunov: Prince Igor, Overture - London SO/Georg Solti (Decca 444 389)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor K457 - Mitsuko Uchida (pno) (rec 1984) (Philips 422 117)

String Quartet No 17 in Bb K458, Hunt - Jerusalem Quartet (rec 2010) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2076)

NZ performers and composers

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

VIVALDI: Concerto in G minor for two cellos RV531 - Natalia Pavlutskaya (cello), Canterbury CO/Alexander Ivashkin (cello/dir) (Alma Classics CD MANU 5031)

BEETHOVEN: Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont Op 84 - Madeleine Pierard (sop), Claus Obalski (narrator), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557264)

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

HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6/4 - Tafelmusik Baroque Orch/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9815)

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

G GABRIELI arr Crees: Sonata pian e forte - Chicago SO Brass/Mark Ridenour (Chicago SO/CSOR 901 1103)

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

SUPPÉ: Poet & Peasant, Overture - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

JANÁCEK: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs - Magdalena Kozená (mezzo), Graham Johnson (pno) (DG 463 472)

NIELSEN: Amor and the Poet, Overture Op 54 - Danish National SO/Thomas Dausgaard (Dacapo 6.220518)

GLASS: The poet acts, from the film The Hours - Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), studio orch/Nick Ingman (Nonesuch 79693)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves, from Sir John in Love - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

PUCCINI: O soave fanciulla, from La Bohème - Barbara Hendricks (sop), José Carreras (ten), French National Orch/James Conlon (Warner 2564 69689-6)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Snow Maiden, Suite - Malaysian Phil/Kees Bakels (BIS CD 1577)

A look at the life and music of CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) presented by Murray Khouri (RNZ)

New Zealand International Arts Festival 2012

Seven programmes

(7) The Sixteen/Harry Christophers

TALLIS: Nos 1-4, from Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter; Salvator mundi; MORLEY: April is in my mistress' face; GIBBONS: The silver swan; BYRD: This sweet and merry month of May; MACMILLAN: Sedebit Dominus Rex; SHEPPARD: In manus tuas III; TIPPETT: Five Negro Spirituals, from A Child of our Time; TALLIS: O nata lux; O sacrum convivium; Loquebantur variis linguis; MACMILLAN: Mitte manum tuam; BYRD: Laudibus in sanctis; BRITTEN: Choral Dances, from Gloriana; TALLIS: Nos 5-8, from Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter (recorded in Wellington Town Hall by RNZ)

BACH: Chaconne, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor BWV1004; MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 - Ray Chen (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Daniel Harding (Sony 88697 72320; Sony 88697 98410)

PROKOFIEV: Lieutenant Kijé Suite - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (Telarc SACD 60683)

DE FOSSA: Guitar Trio No 3 in F - Simon Wynberg (gtr), Martin Beaver (vln), Bryan Epperson (cello) (Naxos 8.550760)

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

11:00 KORNGOLD: Piano Quintet in E Op 15 - Henri Sigfridsson (pno), Aron Quartet (CPO 777 436)

VOLCKMAR: Clarinet Quartet in F - Arte Ensemble (CPO 777 460)

Disc 1

TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante cantabile Op 11; DVORÁK: Concerto in B minor for cello & orchestra Op 104; Rondo in G minor Op 94; ARENSKY: Chante Triste Op 56/3; DAVIDOV: Am Springbrunnen Op 20/2; DVORÁK: Waldesruhe Op 68/5 - Peter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (pno/harmonium), Netherlands Phil/Lawrence Renes (Channel Classics CCS 8695)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

JC BACH: Quintet in D Op 22/1; Sextet in C for oboe, two horns, violin, cello & keyboard; Quintets, in D Op 11/6; in C Op 11/1 - English Concert (Archiv 423 385)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

GRIEG: Leider - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 437 521)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

CHOPIN: 24 Preludes Op 28; Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Onyx 4036)

4:35 approx - Disc 5

BUFFARDIN: Concerto in E minor in five parts; BOISMORTIER: Concerto in D Op 26/6; CORRETTE: Les Sauvages et La Furstemberg, from Concerto Comique No 25 in G minor; QUENTIN le jeune: Sonata in four parts in D; Concerto in A Op 12/1; BLAVET: Concerto in four parts in A minor - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 447 286)

6:00 HAYDN: Organ Concerto in C HobXVIII/10 - Harald Hoeren (org), Cologne CO/Helmut Müller-Brühl (Naxos 8.570486)

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

SMYTHE: Moto Mojo - Helen Webby (harp) (Ode CD MANU 5144)

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

W HAYES: Sinfonia in D minor - Capriccio Basel (Capriccio 71 135)

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

7:00 MARTUCCI: Momento musicale; Minuetto - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570932)

BRITTEN: Five Waltzes - Dejan Lazic (pno) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28511)

GERSHWIN arr Brahn: I got rhythm, from Girl Crazy - Joshua Bell (vln), London SO/John Williams (Sony SK 60659)

BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

KOECHLIN: Cello Sonata Op 66 - Peter Bruns (cello), Roglit Ishay (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.258)

8:00 Beauty Spot: CHAPLIN arr Ogermann: Smile, from Modern Times - Gidon Kremer (vln), Oleg Maisenberg (pno) (Telarc 0630 17222)

LANE: Suite of Cotswold Folk Dances - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Sanctuary CD RSB 205)

BARRIOS MANGORÉ: Waltz in G Op 8/4 - Vicente Coves (gtr) (Naxos 8.572527)

KUULA: Sunrise - Accentus Chamber Choir/Eric Ericson (Naïve V 5037)

MOLTER: Oboe Concerto in Eb MWV VI/21 - Saskia Fikentscher (ob), Nova Stravaganza/Siegbert Rampe (dir) (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 341 1279)

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

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)

Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op 28 - James Ehnes (vln), Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Analekta FL 2 3151)

Symphony in F, Urbs Roma - French National Radio Orch/Jean Martinon (EMI 5 85186)

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

MOZART: String Quartet No 19 in C K465, Dissonance - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 0 70922)

MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 11 - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)

LALO: Piano Concerto in F minor - Pierre-Alain Volondat (pno), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Kees Bakels (BIS SACD 1890)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

DONOVAN: Fratella Sole, Sorella Luna, song from the film Brother Sun, Sister Moon; BAKER: Pater Noster - Alessandro Brustenghi (ten), London Session Orch/Sally Herbert (Decca 476 5014)

ANON: Invitatory, Surrexit Dominus - Benedictine Nuns of Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation (Decca 274 8264)

CHILCOTT: Irish Blessing; ARWYN: Benedictus - The Priests, Irish Film Orch/Sally Herbert (Sony 733 969)

TRAD: Antiphon, In Paradisum & Psalm 121 - Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz (Universal 176601)

MOSZKOWSKI: Spanish Dances Book 1 Op 12 - London SO/Ataúlfo Argenta (Decca 475 7747)

FIELD: Piano Concerto No 6 in C H49 - John O'Conor (pno), New Irish CO/Janos Fürst (Sound 3414)

EMMANUEL: The Great Doxology - A Capella Choir/Constantin Zorbas (Ikon IKO 9011)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BRAHMS: Piano Trio No 3 in C minor Op 101 - Trio di Trieste (rec 1966) (DG 477 030)

RAVEL: Piano Trio in A minor - Trio di Trieste (rec 1959) (DG 477 030)

NZ performers and composers

WAGNER: Prelude & Liebestod, from Tristan & Isolde - NZSO National Youth Orch 2003/Lutz Köhler (National Youth Orch 2003)

BARBER: Dover Beach Op 3 - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Belcea Quartet (EMI 5 58076)

A RITCHIE: Music for Tristan - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (SOUNZ Volume 1)

COPLAND: Billy the Kid - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.559106)

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

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

GRIEG: Anitra's Dance, from Peer Gynt - Royal Phil/Mark Ermler (Tring International TRP 996)

VERDALLE: Impromptu No 2 - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

FAURÉ: In paradisum, from Requiem Op 48 - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Richard Marlow, Richard Pearce (org) (Conifer 75605 51521)

H WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs, excerpts - David Bremner (euphonium), Ashley Brown (cello), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

MILHAUD: Suite Op 157b - Frédéric Pélassy (vln), Jean-Marc Fessard (cl), Eliane Reyes (pno) (Naxos 8.572278)

ROSSINI: Andante & Variations on Tanti palpiti, from Tancredi - Alessandro Baccini (ob), City of Adria Phil/Giorgio Fabbri (Tactus TC 791804)

HAYDN: Variations in Eb HobXVII/3 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Chartreuse TB 7)

SMETANA: The Kiss, Overture - Czech Phil/Václav Neumann (Supraphon 110624)

ARDITI: Il Bacio - Joan Sutherland (sop), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 417 780)

HUPFELD arr Kaiser-Lindemann: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Janne Saksala (dbass), 12 cellists of the Berlin Phil (EMI 5 57789)

SOUTULLO: The Legend of the Kiss, Intermezzo - Madrid Community Orch/Miguel Roa (Naxos 8.555957)

PALESTRINA: Osculetur me - Stile Antico (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7489)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Poisoned Kiss, Overture - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI 7 49770)

Kate Mead hosts a weekly forum for contemporary music

7:00 Resound

Ten programmes of New Zealand music from the RNZ archives introduced by Kenneth Young

(9) CRESSWELL: Dancing on a Volcano - NZSO/Janos Furst (RNZ)

A RITCHIE: Bele Doette - Pepe Becker (sop), Robert Orr (ob) (RNZ)

SKIPP: of Breath - 175 East (RNZ)

8:00 New Zealand in Los Angeles

Two concerts of NZ compositions at REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater in Los Angeles, organised by Glenda Keam and Mark Menzies with performers from NZ and LA

(2) CREE BROWN: Inner Bellow - Gretchen La Roche (cl)

HOLLOWAY: Stapes - Trio Terroir

WHITEHEAD: Hineraukatauri - Vinny Golia (fls), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro)

SPEAK: Epeisodos - Gretchen La Roche (cl)

GARDNER: Blessed Unrest - Trio Terroir

GOLIA/NUNNS/O'CONNOR: Improvisation - Vinny Golia (winds), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), Chris O'Connor (perc)

NORRIS: Heavy Traffic - Jonathan Stehney (cbsn), CalArts Orch/Mark Menzies

9:30 Illegal Harmonies

Ten programmes written & presented by Andrew Ford

(10) A New World Order?

Whether you feel optimistic about the future of music depends to a large degree on whether you like pigeonholes. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was possible to discern perhaps half a dozen broad streams of musical endeavour. But each of those streams has since produced so many tributaries that it becomes increasingly hard to identify trends. As the composer Judith Weir recently observed, it is even difficult these days to talk about more than an individual piece, because composers themselves keep changing their styles. The absence of a mainstream is potentially very liberating for good composers, but dangerous for those who would prefer to hide behind a stylistic 'ism'. The only 'ism' mentioned much today is post-modernism, and you can't hide behind that because it's transparent. Music by Judith Weir, Sofia Gubaidulina, Elena Kats-Chernin, Roger Smalley, Henryk Górecki, David Lumsdaine, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Brian Ferneyhough, Liza Lim, Tan Dun, Reza Vali, John Adams, György Ligeti, Kaija Saariaho, Olivier Messiaen, Bent Sørensen and Michael Tippett (ABC Classic FM)

11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

STRAUSS: Don Quixote; Death & Transfiguration - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 429 184)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

TELEMANN: Suite for recorder & strings in A minor; Recorder Concerto in C; Concerto for recorder & viola da gamba in A minor - Philip Pickett, Mark Levy (vle da gamba), New London Consort/Philip Pickett (rec/dir) (Oiseau-Lyre 433 043)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

PIPELARE: Salve Regina; OCKEGHEM: Missa de plus en plus; BINCHOIS: De plus en plus; OCKEGHEM: Credi, De Village; BARBIREAU: Osculetur me; OCKEGHEM: Gaude Maria - Clerks' Group/Edward Wickham (ASV CD GAU 153)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 14 in C# minor Op 27/2, Moonlight; No 15 in D Op 28, Pastoral; No 23 in F minor Op 57, Appassionata - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Trust MMT 2015)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

HAYDN: Symphonies, No 1 in D; No 2 in C; No 3 in G; No 4 in D; No 5 in A - Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (Hyperion CDA 66524)

6:00 VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E RV271, L'amoroso - Riccardo Minasi (vln), Il Pomo d'Oro (Naïve OP 30533)

DEBUSSY trans Roelens: Clair de lune, from Suite Bergamasque; Nocturne & Scherzo - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Alexander Dedyukhin (pno) (EMI 5 72017)

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

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

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

MOZART: Symphony No 32 in G K318 - Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Linn CKD 350)

7:00 SULLIVAN: Ruddigore, Overture - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.554165)

WAXMAN: Carmen Fantasy - Mayuko Kamio (vln), Vadim Gladkov (pno) (Sony 88697 30100)

PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut, Act 3 Intermezzo - BBC Phil/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10634)

GISMONTI arr Jervis: Baiao Malandro - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)

WALTON: Façade Suite No 1 - London Phil/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 9148)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BORTNYANSKY: Cherubic Hymn No 7 - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7318)

BORODIN: Third movement, Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Borodin Quartet (Decca 444 389)

DELIBES: Waltz & Mazurka, from Coppélia - New Zealand SO/Varujan Kojian (Kiwi CD SLC 222)

GOUNOD arr Grafe: Ah! Je veux vivre, from Romeo & Juliet - Sol Gabetta (cello), Prague Phil/Charles Olivieri-Munroe (RCA Red Seal 88697 35962)

MOMPOU: Scenes of childhood - Jordi Masó (pno) (Naxos 8.554332)

MUSSORGSKY arr Stokowski: A Night on Bare Mountain - Bournemouth SO/José Serebrier (Naxos 8.557645)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)

Symphony No 2 in A minor Op 55 - Swiss Romande Orch/Marek Janowski (PentaTone PTC 5186 357)

Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 33 - Luigi Piovano (cello), Chieti Marrucino Opera Orch/Piero Bellugi (Eloquentia EL 1024)

Le Rouet d'Omphale Op 31 - Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5104)

HAYDN: String Quartet in C Op 20/2 - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV CD DCA 622)

BRITTEN: Les Illuminations - Anne-Catherine Gillet (sop), Liège Royal Phil/Paul Daniel (Aeon AECD 1113)

DVORÁK: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky - Jacob Lateiner (pno), Jascha Heifetz (vln), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) (RCA 09026 61764)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 4 in F minor Op 36 - Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (PentaTone PTC 5186 384)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

SHORE's Scores for Film

Queen Margaret, from Suite for Richard - London Phil/Howard Shore (Angel CDQ 5 56139)

Fifth movement: The Return of the King, Hope and Memory/The White Tree/The Steward of Gondor/Cirith Ungol/Andúril, from The Lord of the Rings Symphony - Kaitlyn Lusk (sop), 21st Century Symphony Chorus & Orch/Ludwig Wicki (Howe Records HWR 1005)

Calculated risks; The verdict; I'm ready, from the film Philadelphia - studio orch/Howard Shore (Epic 457 823)

ARENSKY: Concert Valse - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 9031 77705)

CHOPIN: Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 - Evgeny Kissin (pno) (RCA 09026 63259)

BOCCHERINI: Stabat Mater G352 - Agnès Mellon (sop), Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1378)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical - London Phil/Leonard Slatkin (rec 1985) (RCA 09026 61350)

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in C WoO5 - Patricia Kopatchinskaja (vln), Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (rec 2008) (Naïve V 5174)

BRAHMS: Piano Sonata No 1 in C Op 1 - Krystian Zimerman (pno) (rec 1979) (DG 423 401)

NZ performers and composers

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

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

PLANYAVSKY: Toccata alla rumba - Gillian Weir (organ of Symphony Hall, Birmingham) (Priory PRCD 867)

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

SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture Op 96 - Toulouse Capitole Orch/Tugan Sokhiev (Naïve V 5252)

FLOTOW arr Dodgson: M'appari tutt'amor, from Martha - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Royal Phil/Plácido Domingo (CBS MK 42100)

PURCELL arr Ley: Two Trumpet Tunes & Air - Ian Tracey (organ of Liverpool Cathedral) (EMI CDB 7 62813)

ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Queensland SO/Andrew Penny (Naxos 8.553526)

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

FARQUHAR: Waltz, from Ring Round the Moon - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)

ALFVÉN: Swedish Rhapsody No 1 Op 19, Midsummer Vigil - Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi (BIS CD 385)

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)

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

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

RAVEL arr Back: Piece in the form of a habanera; Pavane for a dead princess - Emma Johnson (cl), Gordon Back (pno) (ASV CD DCA 621)

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

SMETANA: Sárka, from Má Vlast - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)

Olivier Latry

The great French organist talks with Kerry Stevens (RNZ)

Barbora Sojková, Stanislava Mihalcová (sops), Marta Fadljevicová (mezzo), Markéta Cukrová, Sylva Cmugrová, Daniela Cermáková (contraltos), Jaroslav Brezina, Cenek Svoboda, Tomás Král (tens), Jaromír Nosek (bass), Musica Florea/Marek Stryncl

ZELENKA: Magnificat in C ZWV107; Missa Nativitatis Domini ZWV8 (recorded in the Church of St Simon and St Jude, Prague by Czech Radio, Prague)

SCHUMANN: Carnaval Op 9; GERSHWIN: Piano Concerto in F - Freddy Kempf (pno), Bergen Phil/Andrew Litton (BIS CD 960; BIS SACD 1940)

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

RUTTER: Five Meditations - Royal Phil/John Rutter (Decca 476 124)

MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Suite - London SO/Barry Wordsworth (Virgin 3 91372)

11:00 FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121 - Quatuor Ysaÿe (Aeon AECD 0426)

STRAUSS: Violin Sonata in Eb Op 18 - Vilde Frang (vln), Michail Lifits (pno) (EMI 9 47639)

Disc 1

M BERKELEY: Concerto for organ and orchestra; L BERKELEY: Voices of the Night Op 86; M BERKELEY: Viola Concerto; L BERKELEY: Symphony No 2 - Paul Silverthorne (vla), Thomas Trotter (org), BBC Nat Orch of Wales/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10167)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

TORELLI: Concerto in A minor for four violins; MOSSI: Concerto in G minor Op 4/12; VALENTINI: Concerto in A minor Op 7/11; LOCATELLI: Concerto in F Op 4/12; LEO: Concerto in D - Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel (Archiv 435 393)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

PALESTRINA: Surge, illuminare; Missa Papae Marcelli; ALLEGRI: Miserere; PALESTRINA: Stabat Mater; Alma Redemptoris Mater; Magnificat primi toni; Nunc dimittis - Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips (Gimell CDGIM 994)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

BELLINATI: Jongo; HOUGHTON: Stélé; BOGDANOVIC: A fairytale with variations; BARRIOS MANGORÉ: La Catedral; DOMENICONI: Koyunbaba; HOUGHTON: God of the northern forest; Kinkachoo, I love you; KOSHKIN: Usher Waltz Op 29; MOREL: Danza Brasilera; DYENS: Fuoco, from Libra Sonatine - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

DVORÁK: Serenade in E for strings Op 22; SUK: Serenade in Eb for strings Op 6; JANÁCEK: Suite for Strings - Granada CO/Misha Rachlevsky (Claves CD 50-9013)

6:00 M HAYDN: Symphony No 12 in G - Slovak CO/Bohdan Warchal (CPO 999 154)

DVORÁK arr Poltéra: Song to the Moon, from Rusalka - Christian Poltéra (cello), Kathryn Stott (pno) (BIS SACD 1947)

MARTUCCI: Notturno Op 70/1 - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.570929)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonatas, in F minor Kk386; in F minor Kk387 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (Virgin VCD 5 45123)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - BBC Welsh National Orch/Lesley Hatfield (dir) (BBC Music BBC MM 250)

7:00 LEIGH: The Frogs, Overture; Dance - London Phil/Nicholas Braithwaite (Lyrita SRCD 289)

CABEZON: Folia, Para quien crié yo cabellos - Jordi Savall (vla da gamba), Michael Behringer (org) (Alia Vox AV 9805)

VERDI arr Genin/Pierre: Fantasy on A Masked Ball - Patrick Gallois (fl), Fabrice Pierre (harp), Richard Friedman (vln), London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (DG 445 822)

HAYDN: Piano Trio in Eb minor HobXV/31 - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67757)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz, from Eugene Onegin - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80541)

8:00 Beauty Spot: RAVEL: Dawn, from Daphnis & Chloé - London Symphony Chorus & Orch/Leopold Stokowski (London 443 331)

MOZART: Piano Sonata No 4 in Eb K282 - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 253)

DOPPLER: Hungarian Duet Op 36 - János Bálint, Imre Kovács (fls), Budapest Strings (Capriccio 10 831)

PARISH ALVARS: Fantasy on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Emmanuel Ceysson (harp) (Naïve V 5297)

J STRAUSS II: Vienna Blood Waltz - Queensland SO/Vladimir Ponkin (ABC Classics 432 250)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)

Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 22 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

Samson & Delilah, excerpts

Hymne de joie; Voici le printemps; Je viens célébrer la victoire; Danse des Prêtresses de Dagon; Printemps qui commence, from Act 1; Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix; Mais!...Non! Que Dis-je?, from Act 2; Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Act 3

An old Israelite............ Richard Kogel

Delilah......................... Christa Ludwig

Samson........................ James King

Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orch/Giuseppe Patanè (RCA Red Seal 88697 45118)

JUON: Sextet in C minor Op 22 - Oliver Triendl (pno), Thomas Grossenbacher (cello), Carmina Quartet (CPO 777 507)

HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on themes by Weber - Sao Paulo SO/John Neschling (BIS SACD 1730)

BACH: Oboe Concerto in F BWV1053 - Heinz Holliger (ob), ASMF/Iona Brown (dir) (Philips 412 851)

JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta Op 60 - Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572639)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

Lerner & Loewe on Broadway and Film

LOEWE: Overture; I wonder what the king is doing tonight; The simple joys of maidenhood; If ever I would leave you, from Camelot

King Arthur................. Richard Burton

Queen Guenevere........ Julie Andrews

Sir Lancelot................. Robert Goulet

orchestral accompaniment (Columbia 432 602)

The night they invented champagne; Gigi; Waltz at Maxim's; I'm so glad I'm not young anymore; The Parisians; Say a prayer for me tonight; Thank heaven for little girls, from Gigi - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Philips 416 499)

I'm on my way; I talk to the trees, from Paint Your Wagon

Pardner........................ Clint Eastwood

studio chorus & orch/Nelson Riddle (MCA 417 099)

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

MAYFIELD: Please send me someone to love - Thomas Quasthoff (bar), Bruno Müller (gtr), Frank Chastenier (keybd), Dieter Ilg (dbass), Wolfgang Haffner (drums) (DG 477 8614)

GRENFELL/ADDINSELL: Old Time Dancing (Stately as a Galleon) - Joyce Grenfell (vocal), orch accompaniment (EMI 8 28713)

BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Emanuel Ax (pno), Isaac Stern (vln), Jaime Laredo (vla), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony S2K 45846)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43; Valse triste, from Kuolema - Berlin SO/Kurt Sanderling (rec 1970/83) (Brilliant Classics 6328)

NZ performers and composers

EWAZEN: Concerto for flute & chamber orchestra - Marya Martin (fl), Czech Phil/Paul Polivnick (Albany TROY 477)

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

COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man - London SO/Aaron Copland (Sony MLK 64059)

A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - József Kiss (ob), Ferenc Erkel CO/Lili Aldor (dir) (Naxos 8.550556)

GLINKA: Eastern Dances in the Black Sea Castle, from Russlan & Ludmila - Moscow Radio SO/Mark Ermler (RegisC 1242)

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

FIELD: Nocturne No 5 in Bb - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)

ANDERSON: The Penny-Whistle Song - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin (RCA 09026 68048)

ROSLAVETS: Meditation - Lachezar Kostov (cello), Viktor Valkov (pno) (Naxos 8.570996)

WOOD: An Evening Song - Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223605)

HUMPERDINCK: Evening Prayer, from Hänsel & Gretel - Kathleen Battle (sop), Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Orch of St Luke's/André Previn (Sony SK 48235)

YORK: Evening Dance - Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (gtrs) (ABC 472 824)

RODGERS: Some enchanted evening, from South Pacific - Bryn Terfel (bar), English Northern Philharmonia/Paul Daniel (DG 449 163)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: An evening in Georgia - Gillian Tingay (harp), members of Fibonacci Sequence (Deux-Elles DXL 1090)

GARDINER: Evening Hymn - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers, Robert Quinney (org) (Universal 179 5732)

SINDING: Evening Mood Op 120 - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Dala Sinfonietta/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572827)

NIEMANN: Evening in Seville Op 55/2 - Stephen Hough (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67565)

PEHKONEN: Sunset & Evening Star - Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (Dutton CDLX 7246)

How will opera survive?

John Drummond presents four programmes considering The Future of Opera in the contemporary world of mass popular culture, digital technology and global financial crisis. He draws on results from a current research project called Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures based at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music

(4) Panel discussion, chaired by John Drummond, on prospects for opera as viewed in and from New Zealand - with Aidan Lang, Margaret Medlyn and Garth Wilshere (RNZ)

Alexander Gavrylyuk (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 16; RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome; Roman Festivals (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

ZEMLINSKY: Two Movements for string quintet, Allegro; Prestissimo (Mit Humor) - Zemlinsky Quartet, Josef Kluson (vla) (Praga PRD 250 284)

ELGAR: The Music Makers Op 69 - Janet Baker (mezzo), London Phil Choir & Orch/Adrian Boult (EMI CDS 7 47208)

11:00 DE LA BARRE: Suite No 6 in C - Nancy Hadden (transverse fl), Lucy Carolan (hpschd), Erin Headley (vla da gamba) (ASV CD GAU 181)

C STAMITZ: Cello Concerto No 2 in A - Michal Kanka (cello), Prague CO (Supraphon SU 4108)

BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles Op 119 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67879)

Disc 1

ELGAR: Symphony No 1 in Ab Op 55; Cockaigne Op 40 - London SO/Charles Mackerras (Argo 430 835)

1:05 approx - Disc 2

LECLAIR: Flute Sonata in E minor; BLAVET: Flute Sonata in D minor, La Vibray Op 2/2; RAMEAU: Pieces de Clavecin en concerts, Fifth concert; BARRE: Suite in G, Suite l'Inconnue; HOTTETERRE: Airs et Brunettes, Dans ces deserts paisibles; Pourquoy, doux rossignol; L'autre jour me Cloris; LECLAIR: Flute Sonata in G - Rachel Brown (fl), Mark Caudle (viol), James Johnstone (hpschd) (Chandos CHAN 0544)

2:15 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Der Einsame; Des Sängers Habe; Lied der Delphine; Lied des Florio; Mondenschein; Mignon und der Harfner; Lied der Mignon; Totengräberweise; Das Echo; An Silvia; Ständchen; Trinklied; Wiegenlied; Widerspruch; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Grab und Mond; Nachtelle; Abschied von der Erde - Christine Schäfer (sop), John Mark Ainsley (ten), Richard Jackson (bar), London Schubert Chorale/Stephen Layton, Graham Johnson (pno) (Hyperion CDJ 33026)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Boléro de concert; BACH: Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565; RAWSTHORNE: Prelude on Londonderry Air; LANG: Tuba Tune in D Op 15; LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Sortie in Eb; TCHAIKOVSKY arr Rawsthorne: Dance of the sugar plum fairy; DUBOIS: Toccata in G; RAWSTHORNE: Aria; BUXTEHUDE: Prelude, Fugue and Caconne in C BuxWV137; BACH: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068, Air; WIDOR: Symphony No 5 in F minor, Toccata; LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: Sortie in Bb; DELIBES: Sylvia, Pizzicato; LEFÉBURE-WÉLY: March in Eb; RAWSTHORNE: Hornpipe Humoresque - Kemp English (org) (Manu CD MANU 5005)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

SIBELIUS: Pelléas & Melisande Suite Op 46; Swanwhite Suite Op 54, The harp; The maidens with roses; The prince alone; Swanwhite and the prince; Song of praise; Incidental music from King Christian II Op 27 - Iceland SO/Petri Sakari (Chandos CHAN 9158)

6:00 HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in Bb Op 3/1 - Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7415)

MAXWELL DAVIES arr Eriksson: Farewell to Stromness - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC 476 701)

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

DELIUS: La Calinda, from Koanga - ASMF/Neville Marriner (London 421 390)

RAVEL arr Schmeisser: Le Tombeau de Couperin - Fourteen Berlin Flutists (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 908 1393)

CIMAROSA: Il Falegname, Overture - Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Alessandro Amoretti (Naxos 8.570508)

7:00 LALO: Romance-Sérénade - Jean-Jacques Kantorow (vln), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Kees Bakels (BIS SACD 1890)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in C minor D899/1 - Paul Lewis (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2115.16)

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

FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean Racine - Accentus, members of French National Orch/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 5137)

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

GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - Sydney SO/Edo de Waart (ABC Classics 462 013)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ROSSINI: Dal tuo stellato soglio, from Moses in Egypt - Pauline Tinsley (sop), Elizabeth Shelley (mezzo), David Hughes (ten), Robert Lloyd (bass), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Chorus & Orch/Lamberto Gardelli (EMI CDM 7 69054)

RACHMANINOV: Danse orientale Op 2/2 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Sergio Tiempo (pno) (DG 477 7235)

ZADOR: Hungarian Capriccio - Budapest SO/Mariusz Smolij (Naxos 8.572548)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in F Op 15/1 - Ivan Moravec (pno) (Supraphon SU 4097)

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

SMETANA: From Bohemia's Woods & Fields, from Má Vlast - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Antal Doráti (Newton 880 2073)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)

Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 167 - Michael Collins (cl), Michael McHale (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10637)

Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ - Gillian Weir (org), Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 8822)

BACH: English Suite No 3 in G minor BWV808 - Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Sony 88697 72728)

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

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

ENESCU: Symphony No 2 in A Op 17 - Tampere Phil/Hannu Lintu (Ondine ODE 1196)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

Music from film, the stage and international classical charts

SHOSTAKOVICH: Andante, from The Counterplan Op 33 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)

MEALOR: Le Lodi di Dio Altissimo - Alessandro Brustenghi (ten), London Session Orch/Sally Herbert (Decca 476 5014)

TRAD arr Hayward: Swing low - Russell Watson (vocalist), Arts Symphonic Chorus & Orch/William Hayward (Sony 88691 99168)

EINAUDI: Nuvole bianche - Ludovico Einaudi (pno) (Decca 476 4490)

LEGRAND: The summer knows, from Summer of '42 - Jackie Evancho (vocalist), Chris Botti (tpt), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), Reggie Hamilton (dbass), Randy Wilson (pno), Leonardo Amuedo (gtr), Abbey Road Studio Orch/Ben Foster (Columbia 8725 46655)

PARKER arr Rieu: We'll meet again; SCHRAMMEL arr Rieu: Forever Vienna - André Rieu (vln/dir), Johann Strauss Orch (Polydor 252 7846)

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

MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Serenade No 13 in G K525 - Les Folies Françoises/Patrick Cohen-Akenine (dir) (Alpha 092)

DVORÁK arr anon: Going Home - Kathleen Battle (sop), James Carter (bcl), Cyrus Chestnut (pno), Marlon Graves (gtr), Christian McBride (dbass) (Sony SK 89464)

SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 54 - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), Berlin Phil/Mariss Jansons (EMI 5 57486)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

BACH: Fantasy & Fugue in G minor BWV542 - Francesco Piemontesi (pno) (rec 2010) (Avanti 5414706 10342)

HALEVY: Rachel, quand du Seigneur, from La Juive - Roberto Alagna (ten), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Orch/Bertrand de Billy (rec 1999) (EMI 5 57012)

LISZT: Vallée d'Obermann - Francesco Piemontesi (pno) (rec 2010) (Avanti 5414706 10342)

ALBERT: Cello Concerto - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Baltimore SO/David Zinman (rec 1960) (Sony SK 57961)

NZ performers and composers

FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs Pt 1 - Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Universal 99172)

PONCE: Three Popular Mexican Songs - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Private)

J RITCHIE: Canary Wine - 1998 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (Trust MMT 2016)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 4 in E minor Op 44/2 - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)

WAGNER: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre - Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 467 620)

D SCARLATTI: Keyboard Sonata in E Kk380 - Vladimir Horowitz (pno) (DG 427 269)

SPOHR: Potpourri on Irish folksongs Op 59 - Ulf Hoelscher (vln), Berlin Radio SO/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 798)

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

GIBBONS: The silver swan; DERING: Pavan; MORLEY: My bonny lass - Canadian Brass (CBS MK 45792)

DELIUS: A Song of Summer - Philharmonia/Owain Arwel Hughes (ASV CDQS 6114)

POULENC: Three Novelettes - Charles Owen (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 035)

WEBER: Andante & Hungarian Rondo in C minor Op 35 - Jaakko Luoma (bsn), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Jean-Jacques Kantorow (BIS SACD 1620)

DUBOIS: Fiat Lux - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Atoll ACD 600)

BACH: Fourth movement, Giga, from Violin Partita No 2 in D minor BWV1004 - Itzhak Perlman (vln) (EMI 4 76811)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade mélancolique in B minor - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (EMI CDC 7 47106)

ELGAR: La Capricieuse Op 17 - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

SAINT-SAËNS: Fossils, from Carnival of the Animals - Itzhak Perlman (narrator), Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80443)

FOSS: Three American pieces - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa (EMI CDC 5 55360)

TRAD: Der Heyser Bulgar - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Klezmer Conservatory Band (EMI CDC 5 55555)

ALWYN: Suite of Scottish Dances - Royal Liverpool Phil/David Lloyd-Jones (Naxos 8.570704)

The Critic's Chair

Robert Johnson reviews of recent releases (RNZ)

Diedre Irons (pno), Haihong Liu (vln), Zhongxian Jin (vla), Rowan Prior (cello), Hiroshi Ikematsu (dbass)

ROSSINI: String Sonata No 3 in C; HUMMEL: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 87; SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout (recorded in the Ilott Theatre, Wellington by RNZ)

STANFORD: Concert Piece Op 181 - Gillian Weir (organ of Ulster Hall, Belfast), Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7002/3)

PARRY: Te Deum - BBC National Chorus & Orch of Wales/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10740)

F BENDA: Violin Concerto in C - Ivan Zenaty (vln), Prague Phil (Supraphon SU 4064)

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

FAURÉ: Pelléas & Mélisande, Concert Suite - Czech Phil/Serge Baudo (Supraphon SU 3899)

11:00 STRAUSS: Piano Quartet in C minor Op 13 - Enigma Ensemble (Balance BAL 9442-1)

SAKHNOVSKY: Cherubic Hymn No 2 - St Petersburg Chamber Choir/Nikolai Korniev (Philips 454 461)