Schedules for 14 - 20 March, 2015

Disc 1

FARQUHAR: Symphonies, Nos 1-3 - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2060)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

TARTINI: Concerto Grosso No 3 in C; Violin Concerto in A minor; Cello Concerto in D; Violin Concerto in G; Concerto Grosso No 5 in E minor - Enrico Gatti (vln), Roel Dieltiens (cello), Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1548)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater; SCARLATTI: Concertos, No 1 in F minor; No 3 in F; No 5 in D minor - Mirella Freni (sop), Teresa Berganza (contralto), Scarlatti Orch of Naples/Ettore Gracis (Archiv 427 123)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

NIELSEN: String Quartets, in F minor Op 5; in Eb Op 14; Andante Lamentoso for string quartet - Jan Johansson (dbass), Kontra Quartet (BIS CD 503)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance, Military Marches Op 39; KABALEVSKY: The Comedians Op 26; SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals; ELGAR: Salut d'amor; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves - Philharmonia/Charles Groves (Denon CO 73534)

6:00 CPE BACH: Symphony in Eb Wq183/2 - Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (dir) (Erato 2292 45361)

ALBENIZ: Tango Op 164 - Louise Bessette (pno) (Analekta AN 2 9963)

FRANÇAIX: Sérénade - Ulster Orch/Thierry Fischer (Hyperion CDA 67323)

BOWERMAN: String Quartet on a Prelude, Chorale & Fugue of César Franck - Bronte Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 033)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7540)

7:00 PURCELL: Abdelazer, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)

SCHUMANN: Arabeske in C Op 18 - Richard Farrell (pno) (Atoll ACD 909)

STRAUSS: Waltzes, from Der Rosenkavalier (second sequence) - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3707)

GLAZUNOV: Idyll - Christoph Ess (horn), Zemlinsky Quartet (Praga PRD 250 281)

STANFORD: The Lord is my shepherd - Choir of New College Oxford/Edward Higginbottom, Paul Plummer (org) (CRD 3497)

HOLST: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity, from The Planets - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein (Sony SMK 63087)

8:00 SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - Czech Phil/Libor Pesek (RegisC 1099)

KÜHNE: Fantasy on Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin - Sivan Magen (harp) (Linn CKD 441)

FIELD ed Lane: Rondo in Ab - Alan MacLean (pno), Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2149)

KROUSE: Da Chara; Air - Duo Tapas: Rupa Maitra (vln), Owen Moriarty (gtr) (Ode CD MANU 5138)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Marche Slave - Berlin Deutsches SO/Yutaka Sado (Challenge CC 72356)

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

REGER: Romance in D Op 50/2 - Tanja Becker-Bender (vln), Berlin Konzerthaus Orch/Lothar Zagrosek (Hyperion CDA 67892)

MOMPOU: Música callada, excerpts, XV: Lento - plaintif; XXII: Molto lento e tranquilo; XVI: Calme; VI: Lento; XXI: Lento - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)

MOZART: Deh vieni, from The Marriage of Figaro - Nuccia Focile (sop), Scottish CO & Chorus/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80529)

BOGDANOVIC: A Fairytale with Variations - John Couch (gtr) (John Couch JB 1000)

BOCCHERINI: Cello Concerto No 7 in G G480 - Limoges Baroque Ensemble/Christopher Coin (cello/dir) (Astree Auvidis E 8517)

BUCHANAN: Under the southern skies, from An Ocean Between Us - Rhona Fraser (sop), New Zealand Piano Quartet (RNZ)

VITALI arr Red Priest: Chaconne in G minor - Red Priest (Red Priest RP 004)

BACH: Mr Bach comes to call - Jon Granik, Tracey Moore (actors), Toronto Boys' Choir, Studio Arts Orch/Walter Babiak (Naxos SANC 1002)

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

This week's best-selling CDs

Phil Broadhurst's perspective on the international recorded jazz scene

Ten programmes

(2) The Monk lives on: further explorations of Thelonious' oeuvre (RNZ)

Indigenous music from around the world

2013 Wallace National Piano Competition

Eight programmes

(7)

RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit; RACHMANINOV: Piano Sonata No 2 in Bb minor Op 36 - Jason Bae (pno)

BACH trans Busoni: Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C BWV564; BERG Piano Sonata in B minor Op 1; MEDTNER: Piano Sonata in C minor Op 25/1, Sonata-Skazka - Eddie Giffney (pno) (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall Concert Chamber by RNZ)

DUPONT: Poème - Marie-Catherine Girod (pno), Prazák Quartet (Mirare MIR 238)

DELIUS: Poem of Life & Love - Royal Scottish National Orch/David Lloyd-Jones (Dutton CDLX 7264)

BLOCH: Violin Sonata No 2, Poème mystique - Elsa Grether (vln), Ferenc Vizi (pno) (Fuga Libera FUG 711)

NZ performers and composers

CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in F Op 6/6 - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (Arte Nova ANO 373 250)

A RITCHIE: Four Songs for baritone & piano, The Bay; My Father today; Lament for Barney Flanagan; Tangi - Matthew Leese (bar), Tom McGrath (pno) (Ode CD MANU 5032)

AKUTAGAWA: Trinita Sinfonica - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.555975)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Four Romances Op 2, Lean thy cheek to mine; Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale sings; Lullaby; From my tears - Natalia Gerassimova (sop), Alexey Martynov (ten), Mikhaïl Lanskoy (bar), Aristote Konstantinidi, Vladimir Skanavy, Ilya Scheps (pnos)

Six Romances Op 8, Where thou art, my thought flies to thee; Night; The secret; Arise, come down; In the kingdom of roses & wine; I am loved - Natalia Gerassimova (sop), Marina Choutova (mezzo), Alexey Martynov (ten), Mikhaïl Lanskoy (bar), Vladimir Skanavy, Éléna Tchéglakova, Aristote Konstantinidi, Ilya Scheps (pnos)

Four Songs Op 39, O, if thou couldst; The west dies out in pallid rose; Silence descends over the valleys; Sleep, my poor friend - Mikhaïl Lanskoy (bar), Sergey Baykov (bass), Ilya Scheps (pno)

Four Romances Op 50, The maiden & the sun; The singer; Quiet is the blue sea; I am still filled, dear friend

Five Romances Op 51, Slowly drag my days; Do not sing to me, o lovely one; Withered flower; The beauty; The rainy day has waned - Natalia Guerassimova (sop), Alexey Martynov (ten), Vladimir Skanavy, Aristote Konstantinidi (pnos) (Chant du Monde LDC 288 038/40)

Direct from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

Freddy Kempf (pno/dir), New Zealand SO

BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture Op 84; Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58

(interval)

Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor (RNZ)

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

ELLER: Five Pieces for string orchestra - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8525)

11:00 STATHAM: Pastorale - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)

NIELSEN: Nine Songs, The wildest time; Often I'm glad; Tonight; Must the flower wither; She has forgotten me; Lower your head, O flower; How sweetly in the summer evening; Sunset; The moon is slowly rising - Academic Choir of Aarhus/Uffe Most (Danacord DACOCD 621)

BRITTEN: String Quartet in F - Emperor Quartet (BIS SACD 1870)

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphonies, No 34 in C K338; No 35 in D K385; No 39 in Eb K543 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 615)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

SUK: Suite Op 21; Spring Op 22a; Summer Moods Op 22b; About Mother Op 28 - Pavel Stepán (pno) (Supraphon SU 3820)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BEETHOVEN: Adelaïde; BRAHMS: Wie Melodien; Alte Liebe; Alte die Nachtigall; Feldeinsamkeit; Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer; STRAUSS: Befreit; Nichts; Die Nacht; Heimliche Aufforderung; TCHAIKOVSKY: Blagoslavlyayu vas, lesa; Sleza drazht f tvajom rivnivom vzore; Net, tol'ka tot, kto znal; Serenada Don Zhuana; MORAWETZ: The Chimney-Sweeper; Mad Song; Grenadier; DUPARC: Phidylé; L'invitation au voyage; Le manoir de Rosamonde; Chanson triste - Mark Pedrotti (bar), Stephen Ralls (pno) (CBC MVCD 1051)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

TRAD arr Nunns/Bailey: In one breath; Wooden Man; Late summer; Not reconciled; The other door; Returning; Play; Silence; The bells; Twilight; Reflections II - Richard Nunns (traditional Māori instruments), Judy Bailey (pno) (Rattle RAT DO11)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

HANDEL: Violin Sonatas, in D Op 1/13; in F Op 1/12; in D minor; in A Op 1/3; in G minor Op 1/6; in A Op 1/10; in E Op 1/12; in G; in A minor; in C minor - Andrew Manze (vln), Richard Egarr (hpschd) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 7259)

ANON arr Ungar & Mason: Solstice hymn - Jay Ungar, Mary Lea (vlns), Abby Newton (cello), Molly Mason (dbass) (EMI 3 82225)

ANON: I was glad; The Nicene Creed; Clap your hands - Monks from the Keur Moussa Abbey (Sounds True STA A337)

HOLST: Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Third Group - BBC Singers/Justin Doyle, Sioned Williams (harp) (BBC Music BBC MM 252)

SILVESTROV: Alleluia - Kiev Chamber Choir/Mykola Hobdych (ECM 2117 (476 3316))

TSABROPOULOS: Three pieces after Byzantine hymns - Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (pno) (ECM 1888 (981 9613))

TRAD: Hanuman Chaleesa - Krishna Das (vocalist) (Triloka 410 505)

KOEHNE: A Closed World of Fine Feelings & Grand Design - Aleksandr Tsiboulski (gtr) (Naxos 8.570949)

BIEBL: Ave Maria - Stanford Chamber Chorale/Stephen M Sano (Pictoria PR 11192)

BRAHMS: Geistliches Lied Op 30 - New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2011-12/Andrew Withington, Grant Bartley (org) (NZSSC 2012)

A weekly selection of traditional and modern hymns (RNZ)

MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - London Phil/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)

WAGNER: Euch lüften, die mein Klagen, from Lohengrin - Régine Crespin (sop), French National Radio Orch/Georges Prêtre (EMI 5 58031)

PONCE arr Heifetz: Estrellita - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (EMI CDC 7 49604)

ALBINONI: Second movement, Larghetto, from Oboe Concerto in D minor Op 9/2 - Pierre Pierlot (ob), I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone (Erato 3984 22241)

CHOPIN: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 420 655)

HONEGGER: Pastorale d'été - Zurich Tonhalle Orch/David Zinman (Decca 455 352)

COPLAND: Vocalise for flute & piano - Paul Lustig Dunkel (fl), Michael Boriskin (pno) (Arabesque Z 6794)

DVORÁK: Silent Woods - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)

An overview of the life and music of MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937) marking the 140th anniversary of his birth on 7 March. Presented by Amber Read (R Mon 7pm) (RNZ)

Piano Concerto for the left hand - Michael Houstoun (pno), Auckland Philharmonia/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 102)

Resonance

Music at Menlo is a California summer music festival. The 2012 season, Resonance, marked the festival's tenth anniversary.

Six programmes

(2) SIBELIUS: String Quartet in D minor Op 56, Intimate Voices - Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie (vlns), Pierre Laponte (vla), Dane Johansen (cello)

BARBER: Dover Beach Op 3 - Kelly Markgraf (bar), Escher String Quartet: Adam Barnett-Hart, Wu Jie (vlns), Pierre Laponte (vla), Dane Johansen (cello)

CHEN: Romance of Hsiao and Ch'in - Jorja Fleezanis (vln), Jeffrey Kahane (pno) (American Public Media)

DEBUSSY: Six Epigraphes antiques - Jeffrey Kahane, Wu Han (pno duet)

ALBENIZ: Evocación, from Iberia Book 1 - Jeffrey Kahane (pno)

MAHLER: Fourth movement, Das himmlische Leben, from Symphony No 4 in G - Susanne Mentzer (mezzo), Carol Wincenc (fl/picc), James Austin Smith (ob/cor anglais), Jose Franchi-Ballester (cl), Jorja Fleezanis, Wu Jie (vlns), Pierre Laponte (vla), Nicholas Canellakis (cello), Scott Pingel (dbass), Jeffrey Kahane (pno), Hyeyeon Park (harmonium), Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh (perc) (recorded at the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton by American Public Media)

RODRIGO: Tonadilla - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 - Jean Claude Veilhan (basset cl), Stadler Quartet (K617 K617 165)

The top choices from leading overseas music magazines

ENESCU orch Bentoiu: Isis - North German Radio Choir, German Radio Phil/Peter Ruzicka (CPO 777 823)

DAMASE: Symphonie - BBC Concert Orch/Martin Yates (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7309)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge - Peter Pears (ten), Benjamin Britten (pno) (rec 1945) Zorian Quartet (Pearl GEMS 0062)

Symphony No 5 in D - London Phil/Ralph Vaughan Williams (rec 1952) (Somm SOMMCD 071)

Richard Farrell - New Zealand pianist

The recorded legacy of Richard Farrell, who died in a car crash in 1958 at the age of 31, shows a pianist of outstanding technique and insight. Peter Mechen presents four programmes reviewing the surviving recordings and talking to those who remember Farrell's playing

(1) Life and times (RNZ)

NZSO National Youth Orch/Alexander Shelley STRAUSS: Don Juan Op 20; BALLARD: Synergos; STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra Op 30 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

MOMPOU: Scenes of childhood - Arcadi Volodos (pno) (Sony 87654 33262)

HILL: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids - Australian String Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223746)

Ten programmes

(3) With William Dart (R Fri 7.00pm) (RNZ)

Metropolitan Opera Season

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

(11) A Double-Bill

TCHAIKOVSKY: Iolanta, a lyric opera in one act, based on Henrik Hertz's play King Rene's Daughter with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, the composer's brother

Iolanta.......................... Anna Netrebko

Count Vaudémont....... Piotr Beczala

Robert.......................... Aleksei Markov

King René.................... Ilya Bannik

Ibn-Hakia..................... Elchin Azizov

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Valery Gergiev

BARTÓK: Bluebeard's Castle Op 11, an opera in one act based on the French tale La Barbe bleue by Charles Parrault with libretto by Béla Balázs

Bluebeard.................... Mikhail Petrenko

Judith........................... Nadja Michael

Metropolitan Opera Orch/Valery Gergiev (EBU)

STRAVINSKY transcr compsr/Dushkin: Suite italienne - Viktoria Mullova (vln), Katia Labèque (pno) (Onyx 4015)

FRANCK: Symphonic Variations - Cédric Tiberghien (pno), Liège Royal Phil/François-Xavier Roth (Cypres CYP 7612)

RESPIGHI: Roman Festivals - Royal Phil/Josep Caballé-Domenech (Onyx 4083)

11:00 ARENSKY: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 32 - Turnovsky Trio (Trust MMT 2031)

HAYDN: String Quartet in E Op 17/1 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

Disc 1

HAYDN: Symphonies, No 80 in D minor; No 87 in A; No 89 in F - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 635)

1:10 approx - Disc 2

ROPARTZ: Cello Sonata No 1; DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata in D; MIGOT: Three Pieces for cello and piano; Dialogue No 2 - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221 105)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

PARRY: I was glad; Long since in Egypt's plenteous land, from Judith; Blest pair of sirens; BAIRSTOW: Blessed City, heavenly Salem; ELGAR: Great is the Lord; O hearken Thou; Give unto the Lord; STANFORD: Te Deum in Bb; Magnificat in Bb; Nunc dimittis in Bb; HADLEY: My beloved spake; PARRY orch Elgar: Jerusalem - Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Waynflete Singers, Bournemouth SO/David Hill, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (org) (Argo 430 836)

3:40 approx - Disc 4

BARTÓK: Mikrokosmos Vol 1 - Jenö Jandó (pno) (Koch Schwann 3-1218)

4:50 approx - Disc 5

JAMES: Concerto in D, The Four Seasons; VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537; HANDEL: A Pastoral Symphony; March, from Scapino; Sarabande; March, from Judas Maccabeus; Gavotte; Water Music, Air; Minuet; Bourée & Lentement; A Martial Symphony; Bourée; Saul, Dead March; STANLEY: Trumpet Concerto in D; PURCELL: Ayres for the Theatre; CLARKE: Trumpet Ayres - Crispian Steele-Perkins (baroque tpt), Leslie Pearson (hpschd), Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt (Carlton Classics 30366 0038)

6:00 DIEPENBROCK: Hymn for violin & orchestra - Emmy Verhey (vln), Hague Residentie Orch/Hans Vonk (Chandos CHAN 8821)

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

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

GOUNOD arr Lee: Je veux vivre, from Romeo & Juliet; Jewel Song, from Faust - Seunghee Lee (cl), Evan Solomon (pno) (Private Recording)

VIVALDI: Double Concerto in D minor RV540 for viola d'amore & lute - Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (dir) (Virgin 5 45723)

7:00 SMETANA: Skocná, from The Bartered Bride - Vienna Phil/James Levine (DG 419 768)

GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore; Irish tune from County Derry (Danny Boy); Shepherd's Hey - London Wind Orch/Denis Wick (ASV White Line CD WHL 2067)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Prelude & Fugue No 3 in A minor, from The Well-Tempered Guitars Op 199 - Arada Guitar Duo (Landor LAN 284)

BARBER: Adagio for Strings - Keller Quartet (ECM 2197)

GLINKA: Oriental Dances in Chernomor's Castle, from Ruslan & Lyudmila, Turkish Dance; Arabian Dance; Lezginka - USSR State Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Melodiya MEL CD 10 01449)

8:00 Beauty Spot: ZIPOLI arr Giovanini: Elevazione - Pierre Pierlot (ob), Bernard Fonteny (cello), Anne-Marie Beckensteiner (org), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (ABC Classics 465 086)

LIADOV: Mazurka Op 19 - Slovak Phil/Stephen Gunzenhauser (Marco Polo 8.220348)

FALLA arr Pekkera/Piatigorsky: Spanish Dance; Ritual Fire Dance - Maria Kliegel (cello), Bernd Glemser (pno) (Naxos 8.550785)

HUBAY: Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen - Livia Sohn (vln), Benjamin Loeb (pno) (Naxos 8.570202)

CAMILLERI: Concertino No 4, Summer Nights in Malta - Jennifer Micallef, Glen Inanga (pno duo) - Bournemouth SO/Brian Schembri (Diversions DDV 24126)

MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937)

Daphnis & Chloé - Camerata Singers, New York Phil/Pierre Boulez (CBS MK 33523)

BOCCHERINI: String Quintet in G minor G351 - Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67287)

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Dresden State Orch/André Previn (DG 463 790)

ALBENIZ: Iberia, Book 4, Málaga; Jerez; Eritaña - Miguel Baselga (pno) (BIS CD 1243)

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Glossa GCDSA 921116)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness - Peter Maxwell Davies (pno) (Naxos 8.572408)

GLASS trans Bolger/Dublin Guitar Quartet: String Quartet No 2, Company - Dublin Guitar Quartet (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0092)

MOZART: Adagio cantabile & Fugue in Eb; Adagio & Fugue in E K405/3, after JS Bach - Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2159)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 9 in D minor (unfinished) - South West German Radio SO/Günter Wand (Profil PH 04058)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

CHOPIN: Fantasy in F minor Op 49 - Janina Fialkowska (pno) (rec 2011) (Atma ACD 2666)

HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 76/6 - Angeles String Quartet (Philips 464 650)

DOWLAND: Forlorne Hope Fancy - Julian Bream (lute) (rec 1976) (RCA RD 89977)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Do not believe, my friend Op 6/1; It was in early Spring Op 38/2; Cuckoo Op 54/8 - Christianne Stotijn (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (rec 2008) (Onyx 4034)

NZ performers and composers

MCLEOD: Cambridge Suite - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (RNZ)

WF BACH: Sonata No 1 in E minor for two flutes F54 - Penelope Evison, Pierre Séchet (fls) (STIL 1908 SAN 80)

HANDEL: Cantata, Un'alma innamorata HWV173 - Rosalind Salas (sop), Restoration (Meridian CDE 84316)

BESSER: Summer Riffs - Besser Ensemble (Besser Music 1995a)

SCHUBERT arr Denisov: Suite of Waltzes from D145 - New Zealand SO/Alexander Lazarev (RNZ)

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Procession of the Sardar, from Caucasian Sketches Op 10 - Tasmanian SO/Shalom Ronly-Riklis (ABC Classics 464 194)

J STRAUSS II arr Dott: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Thomas Christian Ensemble (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1590)

DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 72/2 - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-92 CD)

PAGANINI arr M Nakariakov: Moto perpetuo in C Op 11 - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 4509 94554)

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

LISZT arr Milstein: Consolation No 3 in Db - Sarah Chang (vln), Sandra Rivers (pno) (EMI CDC 7 54352)

BERLIOZ: Dance of the Sylphes, from The Damnation of Faust - London SO/Leopold Stokowski (Decca 425 014)

PUCCINI arr Mikhashoff: Vissi d'arte, from Tosca - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 475 7668)

MONCAYO: Huapango - Royal Phil/Enrique Bátiz (ASV CD DCA 871)

6:00 ANON arr Shoujounian: Open for us, Lord - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop) (CBC SMCD 5215)

ANON: Gorani - Sharakan/Grigor Danielian (Celestial Harmonies 13116)

KHACHATURIAN: Overture & Pepo's Song, from Pepo - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 966)

ARUTIUNIAN: Trumpet Concerto - Alison Balsom (tpt), BBC Scottish SO/Lawrence Renes (EMI 6 78590)

KOMITAS arr Aslamazian: To Shushik, from Ten Armenian Folk Songs & Dances - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 10094)

GURDJIEFF arr Lechner/Couturier: Sayyid chant and dance No 3/Hymn No 7 - Anja Lechner (cello), François Couturier (pno) (ECM 2367)

YEGHIAZARIAN: Dances of the Fisherman; Dances of the Golden Fish; Dance of the Young Girls, from Sevan Suite No 2 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 1037)

An overview of the life and music of MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937) marking the 140th anniversary of his birth on 7 March. Presented by Amber Read (RNZ)

String Quartet in F - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

Pieces of Eight

Amanda Barclay (sop), Katherine Hodge (mezzo), Phillip Collins (ten), Matthew Landreth (bass), Erin Helyard (org), Nota Bene/Peter Walls

MONTE: Super flumina Babylonis; PHILIPS: Ecce tu pulchra es; BYRD: Quomodo cantabimus; PURCELL: Prelude in F; Hear my prayer, O Lord; LOTTI: Crucifixus; BACH: Chorale Prelude, Alle menschen müssen sterben;

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225; BRAHMS: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen; Fest- und Gedenksprüche Op 109; GREENE: Voluntary No 7 in Eb; PEARSALL: Lay a garland; HOLST: Ave Maria; PEARSALL: Great God of love; MENDELSSOHN: Songs without Words Op 19/4; Deutsche Liturgie (recorded in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington by RNZ)

ARRIAGA: String Quartet No 1 in D minor - Casals Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMI 98 7038)

RESPIGHI: Rossiniana - Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Naxos 8.557711)

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

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Serenade to Music - London Phil/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 6526)

11:00 BRIDGE: Piano Quintet in D minor - Piers Lane (pno), Goldner String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67726)

MCEWEN: Improvisations Provençales - Louise Williams (vln), David Owen Norris (pno) (EM Records EMRCD 007/008)

Disc 1

BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn; Nanie Op 82; Symphony No 4 in E minor - Berlin Radio Choir, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 435 349)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

BACH: Partitas, No 1 in Bb BWV825; No 2 in C minor BWV826; No 4 in D BWV 828 - Trevor Pinnock (hpschd) (Archiv 415 493)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

MOZART: Sinfonia in Eb K16; Va, dal furor portata K21; Or che il dover … tali e cotanti sono K36; Si mostra la sortes K209; Con ossequio, con rispetto K210; Se al labbro mio con credi K295; Clarice cara mia sposa K256; Divertimento No 3 in F K138; Per pietà, non ricercate K420; Misero! o sogno … aura, che intorno spiri K431 - Christoph Prégardien (ten), L'Orfeo Baroque Orch/Michi Gaigg (CPO 999 810)

3:35 approx - Disc 4

SZÉKELY: Quartet (1937); DVORÁK: Quartet in Eb Op 51 - New Zealand String Quartet (Atoll ACD 703)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

BINGE: Elizabethan Serenade; Scottish Rhapsody; Miss Melanie; Las Castanuelas; Madrugado; The Red Sombrero; Trade Winds; Faire Frou-Frou; String Song; Alto Saxophone Concerto in Eb; The Watermill; Scherzo, Allegro molto; The Dance of the Snowflakes; High Stepper; Prelude, The Whispering Valley; Venetian Carnival; Sailing By - Kenneth Edge (sax), Silvia Capova (pno), Slovak Radio SO/Ernest Tomlinson (Marco Polo 8.223515)

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

GLAZUNOV: Three Miniatures Op 42 - Tatjana Franová (pno) (Marco Polo 8.223151)

KREEK: Three Folksongs, Sing, sing, sickles; Sleep, little Matsik; Why are you chirping, little bird? - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Paul Hillier (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7485)

DONIZETTI arr Lencsés: Oboe Concertino in F - Lajos Lencsés (ob), Arcata CO, Stuttgart/Patrick Strub (Hänssler CD 98.467)

MOZART: Laudate Dominum, from Solemn Vespers K339 - Lucia Popp (sop), Bavarian Radio Chorus & SO/Kurt Eichhorn (RCA 09026 68606)

HEDIN: Polska poem - Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa), Gunnar Idenstam (org) (Caprice CAP 21807)

SMYTH: Two interlinked French melodies, from Entente Cordiale - City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland (ASV White Line CD WHL 2147)

7:00 DRING: Festival Scherzo for piano & strings - Martin Roscoe (pno), Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67316)

BURTON: Sonatina - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

UNGAR orch Ellisor: Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar (vln), Molly Mason (gtr), Nashville CO/Paul Gambrill (EMI 3 82225)

SIBELIUS: Spring Song Op 16 - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi (DG 457 654)

BRUCKNER: Locus iste - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67629)

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

8:00 Beauty Spot: YEDIDIA: Lullabye - Ahn Trio (EMI 5 57357)

HANDEL: Va tacito e nascosto, from Julius Caesar - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 453 480)

DUFF: Meath Pastoral - Irish CO/Fionnuala Hunt (Black Box BBM 1003)

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

HOHNE arr Gloppen: Slavonic Fantasy - Ole Edvard Antonsen (cornet), Royal Norwegian Navy Band/Ingar Bergby (BIS SACD 1598)

DUARTE: English Suite Op 31 - Andrés Segovia (gtr) (DG 477 6050)

CHABRIER: Fête Polonaise, from Le Roi malgré lui - Detroit SO/Paul Paray (Mercury 434 303)

MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937)

Miroirs - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 307)

Three poems of Stéphane Mallarmé - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Andreas Alin, Peter Rydström (fls), Lars Paulsson, Per Billman (cls), Nils-Erik Sparf, Ulf Forsberg (vlns), Matti Hirvikangas (vla), Mats Lindström (cello), Bengt Forsberg (pno) (DG 447 752)

La Valse - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 427 314)

MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C K314 - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Lithuanian CO (BIS SACD 2007)

CHABRIER: Suite Pastorale - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Mirare MIR 036)

FOERSTER: String Quartet No 1 in E Op 15 - Stamic Quartet (Supraphon SU 4050)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 15 - Maurizio Pollini (pno), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 447 041)

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F MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet in Eb - Cavaleri Quartet (Champs Hill CHRCD 085)

SCHUMANN: Abegg Variations Op 1 - Andreas Staier (fpno) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 21171)

BIBER: Violin Sonata in A, Sonata Representativa - Andrew Manze (baroque vln), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (hpschd), Romanesca (Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7134/5)

VERDI: Va pensiero, from Nabucco - Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orch/Robert Shaw (Telarc CD 80152)

CARTER: Tempo e Tempi - Susan Narucki (sop), members of Speculum Musicae (Bridge 9111)

CARDILLO: Core 'ngrato - Jonathan Antoine (ten), Latvian National Opera Orch/Julian Reynolds (Sony 88843 08537)

WAXMAN: Auld Lang Syne Variations - Gidon Kremer (vln/dir), Ula Ulijona (vla), Marta Sudraba (cello), Louis Lortie (pno) (Nonesuch 7559 79657)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HAYDN: Symphony No 91 in Eb - Vienna Phil/Karl Böhm (rec 1973) (IMG Artists 5 75944)

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Arthur Grumiaux (vln), New Philharmonia/Heinz Wallberg (rec 1973) (Philips 475 7825)

NZ performers and composers

GERSHWIN: Strike Up The Band, Overture - Christchurch SO/Marc Taddei (SCL 1999a)

DONIZETTI: Il pallor funesto, from Lucia di Lammermoor - Malvina Major (sop), Roger Creagh (bar), Auckland Philharmonia/Brian Law (Kiwi CD SLC 227)

CRESTON: Fantasy Op 42 - David Bremner (tbn), Sarah Watkins (pno) (Atoll ACD 109)

PRUDEN: Dances of Brittany - Alex Lindsay String Orch/Alex Lindsay (Kiwi CD SLD 107)

MIGOT: Dialogue No 2 - Jean-Marie Trotereau (cello), Jeffrey Grice (pno) (Integral INT 221.105)

ROSSINI orch Respighi: Galop, from La Boutique fantasque - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 455 983)

HANDEL arr Tarkmann: Air & Variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith, from Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Guilhaume Santana (bsn), Monika Razynska (hpschd) (DG 476 5681)

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

O BULL: Los Recuerdos de la Habana - Henning Kraggerud (vln), Dala Sinfonietta/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.572827)

BRAHMS: Intermezzo in Bb minor Op 117/2 - Radu Lupu (pno) (Philips 456 895)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Nation shall not lift up a sword, from Dona nobis pacem - Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5054)

SAINT-SAËNS: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Pittsburgh SO/Lorin Maazel (Sony SK 53979)

6:00 HUMPERDINCK: Hansel & Gretel, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)

GJEILO: Serenity - Phoenix Chorale/Charles Bruffy, Emmanuel Lopez (cello) (Chandos CHSA 5100)

MASSENET: Le roman d'Arlequin - Stefan Irmer (pno) (MDG 618 1729)

IBERT: Scherzetto - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (Master Performers MP 010)

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

VIEUXTEMPS arr Bailey: Souvenir d'Amérique, Variations on Yankee Doodle Op 17 - Zuill Bailey (cello), Simone Dinnerstein (pno) (Delos DE 3326)

EINAUDI: I giorni - Daniel Hope (vln), Jacques Ammon (pno), Berlin CO/Simon Halsey (DG 479 0571)

HANSON: Maypole Dances, from Merry Mount Suite - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68786)

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11:00 New Music Dreams

Disc 1

MOZART: Symphonies, No 31 in D K297; No 36 in C K425; No 38 in D K504 - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 647)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata in D minor Op 40; PROKOFIEV: Adagio Op 97; Sonata in C Op 119 - Sonia Weider-Atherton (cello), Laurent Cabasso (pno) (Auvidis Valois V 4666)

2:20 approx - Disc 3

BLOW: God spake sometime in visions; Let thy hand be strengthened; LAWES: Zadok the priest; PURCELL: My heart is inditing; I was glad; CHILD: O Lord, grant the King a long life; BLOW: Behold, O God our defender; TURNER: The King shall rejoice - Westminster Abbey Choir & Orch/Simon Preston (Archiv 419 613)

3:25 approx - Disc 4

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves; CANTELOUBE: Baïlèro, from Chants d'Auvergne; BEETHOVEN: Second movement, Andante molto mosso, from Symphony No 6, Pastoral; SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout; CHABRIER: Idylle from Suite Pastorale; MACDOWELL: To a wild rose; GRIEG: Cowkeeper's tune; MASSENET: Scenes Alsaciennes, Sous les tilleuls; DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; MACDOWELL: To a water-lily; SCHUBERT: Rosamunda, Hirtenmelodien & Hirtenchor; J STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods - Various artists (London 443 333)

4:40 approx - Disc 5

CORELLI: Sonata in E minor Op 5/8; GEMINIANI: Sonata in D Op 1/10; VERACINI: Sonata Sesta in E minor Op 1; LOCATELLI: Sonata in C Op 2/1; ALBINONI: Sonata in A minor; VIVALDI: Sonata in G minor RV58; PLATTI: Sonata in G Op 3/6 - Barthold Kuijken (transverse fl), Wieland Kuijken (cello), Robert Konen (hpschd) (Accent ACC 9177 D)

6:00 A MARCELLO: Oboe Concerto in D minor - Xenia Löffler (baroque ob), Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin/Georg Kallweit (vln/dir) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2185)

SCHUBERT: Fourth movement, Theme & Variations, from Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout - Frank Braley (pno), Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gérard Caussé (vla), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Alois Posch (dbass) (Virgin 5 45563)

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

HUMMEL: Potpourri in G minor Op 94 - Julia Neher (vla), Stuttgart CO/Michael Hofstetter (Hänssler CD 98.610)

BACH arr Stone: Trio Sonata in G BWV530 - Tempesta di Mare (Chandos CHAN 0803)

7:00 BERLIOZ: Hungarian March, from The Damnation of Faust - Philharmonia/Efrem Kurtz (EMI CDZ 7 67252)

HAYDN: Fourth movement, Finale (Allegro con brio), from String Quartet in G minor Op 74/3, Rider - Lindsay String Quartet (ASV GLD 4013)

BRITTEN: Rhapsody - Emperor Quartet (BIS SACD 1870)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite, Overture - Hallé Orch/Mark Elder (Hallé CD HLL 7540)

WAGENSEIL: Trombone Concerto in Eb - Alain Trudel (tbn/dir), Northern Sinfonia (Naxos 8.553831)

8:00 Beauty Spot: BESSER: Predawn Meditation - New Zealand SO/Derrick Inouye (RNZ)

SARASATE: Introduction & Tarantella Op 43 - Adele Anthony (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (Canary Classics CC 07)

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

CHABRIER: España - Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 452 064)

DEBUSSY: Nocturne et Scherzo - Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Alexander Dedyukhin (pno) (EMI 5 72017)

MILHAUD: Scaramouche - Claude Delangle (sax), Singapore SO/Lan Shui (BIS CD 1357)

MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937)

Jeux d'eau - Michael Endres (pno) (Oehms OC 307)

L'Heure Espagnole

Concepcion.................. Jane Berbié

Torquemada................ Jean Giraudeau

Ramiro......................... Gabriel Bacquier

Don Inigo Gomez........ José van Dam

Gonzalve..................... Michel Sénéchal

French National Radio & Television Orch/Lorin Maazel (DG 423 719)

CARTELLIERI: Parthia No 1 in Eb for Wind Sextet - Consortium Classicum (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 301 1177)

RODRIGO: Concierto madrigal - Amadeus Guitar Duo: Dale Kavanagh & Thomas Kirchhoff, Internationale Phil/Horst-Hans Bäcker (Hänssler CD 98.598)

SCHUMANN: Album Leaves Op 124 - Eric Le Sage (pno) (Alpha 169)

GLAZUNOV: Symphony No 5 in Bb Op 55 - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 286)

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BELLINATI: Jongo; SAGRERAS: El Colibri; JOBIM: A Felicidade - Jason Vieaux (gtr) (Azica ACD 71287)

VIVALDI: Chamber Concerto in D RV90, Il gardellino - Maurice Steger (recorder), I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2190)

YORK: Sunburst - Jason Vieaux (gtr) (Azica ACD 71287)

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

MONTEVERDI: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, excerpts - Bernarda Fink (contralto), Dominique Visse (mezzo), Mark Tucker (ten), David Thomas (bass), Concerto Vocale/René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8002)

KRUMPHOLZ: Harp Concerto No 6 - Lily Laskine (harp), Jean-François Paillard CO/Jean-François Paillard (Erato 2292 45084)

W LLOYD WEBBER: Fantasy Trio in B minor - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67008)

VERDI: Bella figlia dell'amore, from Rigoletto - Joan Sutherland (sop), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo), Luciano Pavarotti (ten), Sherrill Milnes (bar), London SO/Richard Bonynge (Decca 448 060)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

DUARTE: Appalachian Dreams - Sharon Isbin (gtr) (rec 1999) (Teldec 3984 25736)

WHITACRE: Five Hebrew Love Songs, A picture; Light bride; Mostly; What snow!; Tenderness - Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew), Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, Pavào Quartet/Eric Whitacre (rec 2010) (Decca 274 3209)

BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No 1 Sz83 - Maurizio Pollini (pno), Chicago SO/Claudio Abbado (rec 1979) (DG 457 909)

NZ performers and composers

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

HOWELLS: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (St Paul's Service) - Auckland Cathedral Singers/James Tibbles, Matthew Harris (org) (Corellia COR 1007)

LILBURN: Canzonettas, Nos 1 & 2 - Martin Riseley (vln), Donald Maurice (vla) (Atoll ACD 142)

BIZET: Symphony in C - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553027)

BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances, No 5 in G minor; No 6 in D - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1325)

FAURÉ: Fantaisie Op 79 - Mathieu Dufour (fl), Kuang-Hao Huang (pno) (Cedille CDR 90000 121)

VILLA-LOBOS: Prelude No 1 in E minor - Andrés Segovia (gtr) (DG 477 6050)

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Hymn to the Sun, from The Golden Cockerel - Nina Kotova (cello), Moscow CO/Constantine Orbelian (Philips 462 612)

PURCELL: Trumpet Sonata in D - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 47664)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Figaro, a concert transcription from Rossini's The Barber of Seville - Vadim Gluzman (vln), Angela Yoffe (pno) (BIS SACD 1652)

GERMAN: Nell Gwyn, Suite - Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223419)

6:00 SCRIABIN: Etudes, in C# minor Op 2/1; in C# minor Op 42/5; in D# minor Op 8/12 - Eugene Mursky (pno) (Hänssler CD 98.412)

ALBINONI: Sonata in Bb in five parts Op 2/5 - Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini (dir) (Zig Zag ZZT 090 202)

COATES: Dam Busters March - London Phil/Adrian Boult (Lyrita SRCD 246)

GLASS: Why does someone have to die?, from The Hours - Michael Riesman (pno), Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), studio orch/Nick Ingman (Nonesuch 79693)

GARDEL: Por una cabeza, from Scent of a Woman - Nicola Benedetti, Alexander Sitkovetsky (vlns), Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Ksenija Sidorova (accordion), Alexei Grynyuk (pno)

KORNGOLD: Dance Song of Pierrot, from Die tote Stadt - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (Decca 478 3529)

MORRICONE arr Friend: Medley, from the film scores - Lisa Friend (fl), Rodney Friend (vln), Martin Radford (cello), Mark Kinkaid (pno) (Signum SIGCD 199)

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New Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra talks with David Morriss about his musical life (RNZ)

Cappella Arte/Krikor Chetinyan, various soloists

VIVALDI: Stabat Mater - with Alexan Chobanov (ten), Anelia Staleva, Valentina Tencheva (vlns), Gergana Chukleva (vla), Georgi Daskalov (cello), Alexander Kolev (basso continuo)

CARISSIMI: Jubilemus omnes et Cantemus

BORTNYANSKY: Let my prayer arise

MARCELLO: Psalm 27, from Estro poetica-armonica - with Stanimira Manolova, Milena Garkova (sops), Krasimira Gyosheva (mezzo) (recorded in the Uniate Church, Plovdiv by Bulgarian Radio) (EBU)

ROTA: Divertimento concertante - Rick Stotijn (dbass), Swedish Radio SO/Mats Rondin

PIAZZOLLA arr van Prooijen: Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Rick Stotijn (dbass), Malin Broman (vln), Swedish Radio SO/Simon Crawford Phillips (Channel Classics CCS SA 33613)

MEYERBEER: The Skaters, from The Prophet - Barcelona SO/Michal Nesterowicz (Naxos 8.573076)

GIULIANI: Variazioni Concertanti Op 130 - Heinrich Albert Duo (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 603 1710)

SUK: Prague Op 26 - BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Chandos CHSA 5109)

11:00 BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor Op 30/2 - Leonidas Kavakos (vln), Enrico Pace (pno) (Decca 478 3523)

ONSLOW: Piano Trio in D minor Op 20 - Trio Cascades (CPO 777 232)

Disc 1

PROKOFIEV: Romeo & Juliet Suites Nos 1-3 - Armenian Phil/Loris Tjeknavorian (ASV CD DCA 885)

1:20 approx - Disc 2

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 6 in Bb K238; Concerto in F for three pianos & orchestra K242; Concerto in Eb for two pianos & orchestra K365 - Malcolm Bilson, Robert Levin, Melvyn Tan (fpnos), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 427 317)

2:25 approx - Disc 3

MOZART: Madamina, il catalolo è questo, from Don Giovanni; TCHAIKOVSKY: Gremin's aria, from Eugene Onegin; ROSSINI: La Calunnia è un venticello; A un dottor della mia sorte, from The Barber of Seville; MOZART: La Vendetta; Non pùi andrai; Hai già vinta la causa!…; Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro, from The Marriage of Figaro; GOUNOD: Vous qui faites l'endormie, from Faust; BOÏTO: Son lo spirito che nega, from Mefistofele; MOZART: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja; Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, from The Magic Flute; VERDI: Ehit! Paggio!…L'onore! Ladri!, from Falstaff; WAGNER: Die Frist ist um, from The Flying Dutchman - Jonathan Lemalu (bar), NZSO/James Judd (EMI 5 57605)

3:30 approx - Disc 4

TELEMANN: Suite in G, des Nations anciens et modernes; Concerto in D minor for two chalumeaux; Viola Concerto in G; Sonata for two chalumeaux; Suite in Bb, Volker Overture - Colin Lawson, Michael Harris (chalumeaux), Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (vla) (Chandos CHAN 0593)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

J STRAUSS II: Russian March; Slav Potpourri; Five Paragraphs from the Waltz Code; The Favourite, French Polka; Nikolai Quadrille on Russian Themes; Farewell to St Petersburg Waltz; The Imp, Polka-Mazurka; In the Russian Village; Romance, Sweet Tears; Niko Polka - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Michael Dittrich (Marco Polo 8.223234)

6:00 GRIEG: Elegiac Melodies Op 34, The Wounded Heart; Last Spring - Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (BIS SACD 1877)

CHOPIN: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2 - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Tartar CD TRL 069)

BUTTERWORTH: A Shropshire Lad - London Mozart Players/Hilary Davan Wetton (Naxos 8.573426)

MERK: Valse brillante Op 6 - Martin Rummel (cello), Roland Krüger (pno) (Naxos 8.572759)

BRAHMS: Second movement, Andante moderato, from Symphony No 4 in E minor Op 98 - Vienna Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 429 403)

7:00 DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Strasbourg Phil/Marc Albrecht (PentaTone PTC 5186 336)

DEMERSSEMAN: Fantasy on an original theme - Mark Walton (sax), Iola Shelley (pno) (Private)

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

IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: An evening in Georgia - Hexagon Ensemble (Etcetera KTC 1246)

VIVALDI: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 - John Wilbraham, Philip Jones (tpts), ASMF/Neville Marriner (Decca 443 768)

8:00 Beauty Spot: MURCIA/COLL arr Pluhar: Romanesca - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

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

STANFORD: Six Irish Marches - Alberto Bologni (vln), Christopher Howell (pno) (Sheva SH 100)

PIZZETTI: Three Songs - Hagai Shaham (vln), Arnon Erez (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67869)

ISASI: Suite No 2 in E Op 21 - Bilbao SO/Juan José Mena (Naxos 8.557584)

MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937)

Mother Goose Suite - Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev (pno duet) (DG 474 8172)

Le Tombeau de Couperin - Theodor Baskin (ob), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 421 458)

Violin Sonata in G - Chantal Juillet (vln), Pascal Rogé (pno) (Decca 448 612)

SCHUBERT: String Quartet No 13 in A minor D804, Rosamunde - New Zealand String Quartet (RNZ)

RESPIGHI: Belkis, Queen of Sheba - Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon (Chandos CHAN 8405)

RHEINBERGER: Piano Trio No 2 in A Op 112 - Parnassus Trio (Dabringhaus & Grimm MDG 303 0419)

GOLDMARK: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor - Joshua Bell (vln), Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony SK 65949)

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MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture - London SO/John Eliot Gardiner (LSO Live LSO 0765)

ULLMANN: Piano Sonata No 4 Op 38 - Christophe Sirodeau (pno) (BIS 2116)

MOZART: Symphony No 19 in Eb K132 - Stuttgart Radio SO/Roger Norrington (Hänssler CD 93.215)

RACHMANINOV: Blessed art thou, O Lord, from Vespers Op 37 - Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava (Ondine ODE 1206)

SCHREKER: Intermezzo Op 8 - Lucerne SO/John Axelrod (Nimbus NI 5808)

CORIGLIANO: Troubadours - Sharon Isbin (gtr), Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Virgin CDC 5 55083)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

MAHLER: Symphony No 3 in D minor - Lucretia West (mezzo), St Hedwig's Cathedral Women's Choir & Boys' Choir, Berlin Phil/John Barbirolli (rec 1969) (Testament SBT2 1350)

NZ performers and composers

FARR: Funambulistic Strains - David Bremner (tbn), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Atoll ACD 109)

J STRAUSS II: Fairy Tales from the Orient Op 444 - Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta (Sony 88875 03549)

BEETHOVEN: Rondo a capriccio in G Op 129 - Anne Queffélec (pno) (Mirare MIR 9972)

KEEN: Homeward Bound - Bryn Terfel (bar), Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Orch at Temple Square/Mack Wilberg (DG 479 1073)

KREISLER trans Rachmaninov: Liebesleid; Liebesfreud - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 470 291)

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

6:00 SPARKE: The Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)

LISZT: Nuages gris - Idil Biret (pno) (IBA 8.571281)

DEBUSSY: Nuages, from Nocturnes - Pierre V Plante (cor anglais), Montreal SO/Charles Dutoit (Decca 444 614)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The cloud-capp'd towers - Viva Voce/John Rosser (Viva Voce ACD 901)

DOWLAND: Clear & cloudy sweet as April - Rogers Covey-Crump (ten), Jakob Lindberg (lute) (BIS CD 391)

TYKWER/KLIMEK/HEIL: Prelude, The Atlas March; The Cloud Atlas Sextet for orchestra, from the film, Cloud Atlas - MDR Leipzig Radio SO/Kristian Järvi (Sony 88765 41120)

R KING: Passing Clouds - Mark Bebbington (pno) (Somm SOMMCD 0125)

REINHARDT arr Lakatos/Cséki: Nuages - Roby Lakatos (vln/dir), László Bóni (vln), Oszkár Németh (dbass), Ernest Bangó (gtr/cymbalon), Kálmán Cséki (pno)

(DG 459 642)

A Child of our Time

Rachel Hyde and David Morriss explore the background to Michael Tippett's war-time oratorio (RNZ)

Organ Symphony

Alexander Gavrylyuk (pno), John Wells (org), Auckland Philharmonia/Eckehard Stier

HONEGGER: Symphonic Movement No 1, Pacific 231; RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 1 in F# minor Op 1; Moment musical in B minor Op 16/3; SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ (recorded in the Auckland Town Hall by RNZ)

ROUSSEL: Serenade Op 30 - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Judy Loman (harp), Erika Raum (vln), Steven Dann (vla), Amanda Forsyth (cello) (Marquis 7418 13232)

SIBELIUS: The Tempest, Suite No 1 - Lahti SO/Okko Kamu (BIS SACD 1945)

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

MYASKOVSKY: Sinfonietta in A Op 10 - Russian Federation State SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

11:00 HUMMEL: Cello Sonata in A Op 104 - Jirí Bárta (cello), Hamish Milne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67521)

DOHNÁNYI: String Quartet No 1 in A Op 7 - Aviv Quartet (Naxos 8.572569)

Disc 1

ELGAR: Salut d'amour Op 12; MENDELSSOHN: Third movement, Finale, from Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64; SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction & Rondo capriccioso Op 28; BRAHMS: Third movement, Finale, from Violin Concerto in D Op 77; RAVEL: Tzigane; MASSENET: Méditation, from Thaïs; DVORÁK: Romance Op 11; BRUCH: Fifth movement, Finale: Allegro guerriero, from Scottish Fantasy Op 46; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen Op 20; LALO: Fifth movement, Finale, from Symphonie espangnole Op 21 - Various artists (RCA 09026063752)

1:15 approx - Disc 2

D'INDY: String Quartets, No 2 in E Op 45; No 1 in D Op 35 - Kodály Quartet (Marco Polo 8.223140)

2:30 approx - Disc 3

SCHUBERT: Five Goethe songs; BRAHMS: Five Lieder; BARBER: Three Songs Op 45; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel - Ernst Buscagne (bar), Tom McGrath (pno) (Genuin GMP 020202)

3:45 approx - Disc 4

TARTINI: Concerto in G for flute, strings & continuo; POKORNÝ: Flute Concerto in D Op 27; BOCCHERINI: Concerto in D; MERCANDANTE: Flute Concerto in E minor; VIVALDI: Flute Concerto in C minor RV441 - Severino Gazzelloni (fl), I Musici (Philips 420 875)

4:45 approx - Disc 5

PIAZZOLLA: Concerto for bandoneón; Trés movimientos tanguísticos porteños; Tangos - Pablo Mainetti (bandoneón), Lluis Vidal (pno), Teatre Lliure CO/Josep Pons (Harmonia Mundi HML 590 1595)

6:00 HANDEL: Oboe Concerto No 1 in Bb - Lajos Lencsés (ob), La Follia Instrumental Ensemble/Christophe Poiget (dir) (Hänssler CD 98.217)

TRAD arr Fuglseth: Lova Line - Trio Mediaeval, Birger Mistereggen (jew's harp/perc) (ECM 2003 (476 6179))

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

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

HALVORSEN: Air norvégien - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10614)

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

RAMEAU trans anon: The Hen, from Pièces de clavecin - Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc Minkowski (Archiv 477 5578)

7:00 DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance in E minor Op 46/2 - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (Testament SBT 1325)

BELLINI: Vaga luna che inargenti - Ruth Ann Swenson (sop), Warren Jones (pno) (MI 5 56158)

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

STANLEY: Trumpet Voluntary - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Anthony Newman (Sony SK 60804)

IRELAND: Decorations - John Lenehan (pno) (Naxos 8.553889)

GERMAN: Three Dances, from Henry VIII - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

8:00 Beauty Spot: GRIEG arr Reger: Ich liebe dich Op 5/3 - Yvonne Kenny (sop), Melbourne SO/Vladimir Kamirski (ABC Classics 454 511)

VILLA-LOBOS: Serenade Impressions - Eduardo Monteiro (pno) (Meridian CDE 84551)

PROKOFIEV: Dance of the five couples, from Romeo & Juliet - Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 453 439)

REGONDI: Fête villageoise Op 20 - Alberto Mesirca (gtr) (Brilliant Classics 94841)

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 399 878)

BACH arr Tchiki Duos: First movement, Prelude, from English Suite No 2 in A minor BWV807 - Colin Currie, Sam Walton (marimbas) (EMI CDZ 5 72267)

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

MAURICE RAVEL (1875- 1937)

Gaspard de la Nuit - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (Decca 478 3206)

Chansons madécasses - Jacques Herbillon (bar), Christian Lardé (fl), Pierre Degenne (cello), Théodore Paraskivesco (pno) (Calliope CAL 5893)

Boléro - Anima Eterna/Jos van Immerseel (Zig Zag ZZT 060 901)

HUMMEL trans M Nakariakov: Bassoon Concerto in F - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Lithuanian CO/Saulius Sondeckis (Teldec 0927 45313)

FAURÉ: Requiem Op 48 - Libby Crabtree (sop), James Rutherford (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier, Jonathan Scott (org) (Chandos CHAN 10113)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13 - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI 5 57167)

REINECKE: Symphony No 1 in A Op 79 - Rhenish Phil/Alfred Walter (Marco Polo 8.223117)

Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

J HOLMES: Herald Emeritus Fanfare; STEPHENSON: Duo Fantastique - Charles Schlueter, Eric Berlin (tpts), UMASS Wind Ensemble/James Patrick Miller (MSR Classics MS1506)

CORELLI transcr Anon: Violin Sonata in E minor Op 5/8 - Michala Petri (rec), Mahan Esfahani (hpschd) (Our Recordings 6.220610)

BOYCE: Symphony No 4 in F - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 419 631)

FARR: Piano Trio, Ahi - Ogen Trio (Atoll ACD 108)

SULLIVAN: I have a song to sing, o!, from The Yeomen of the Guard - Elizabeth Harwood (sop), John Reed (bar), D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Phil/Malcolm Sargent (Decca 430 095)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No 5 in F Op 103, Egyptian - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

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

Classic performances from the back catalogue

HAYDN: String Quartet in G Op 77/1 - Angeles String Quartet (rel 2000) (Philips 464 650)

HIGDON: Percussion Concerto - Colin Currie (perc), London Phil/Marin Alsop (rec 2007) LPO 0035)

NZ performers and composers

HAYDN: Keyboard Sonata No 51 in Eb HobXVI/38 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (Walsingham 3WAL 80432)

MOZART: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner - Wisconsin CO/Andrew Sewell (WCO Records CD 0001)

WALSH: I will hearken; Eternal Spirit; Behold, let us love - Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St Paul/Michael Stewart, Richard Apperley (org) (Organism ORG 017)

K YOUNG: Reverie; PRINCESS TE RANGI PAI arr Graham: Hine e Hine - Buzz Newton (euphonium), Wellington Brass Band/David Bremner (Rata RT 028)

C CHAMPAGNE: Danse villageoise - Quebec Conservatory of Music/Jacques Lacombe (Bell CD 1993)

GLIÈRE: Impromptu - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 31711)

HOVHANESS: Prayer of St Gregory - Charles Butler (tpt), Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Delos DE 3157)

D GERMAN: Festive Trumpet Tune - Martin Setchell (organ of Christchurch Town Hall) (Priory PRCD 1031)

CAZZATI/STORACE/PLUHAR: Ciaccona - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)

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

DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano - Ivan Moravec (pno) (Philips 456 910)

ROSSINI: An Italian Girl in Algiers, Overture - Metropolitan Opera Orch/James Levine (DG 445 552)

6:00 BACH arr Fischer: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 - Ryo Terakado (vln), Marcel Ponseele (ob), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS CD 961)

SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Ab D899/4 - Nikolai Demidenko (pno) (Hyperion CDA 66781)

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

DONIZETTI: Una furtiva lagrima, from L'elisir d'Amore - Plácido Domingo (ten), Los Angeles Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini (DG 415 366)

TÁRREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Bruce Paine (gtr) (Manu CD MANU 5007)

ELGAR: Romance Op 62 - Preman Tilson (bsn), New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

LEHÁR: Gold & Silver Waltz - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80547)

New Horizons

Ten programmes

(3) With William Dart (RNZ)

WOMAD Taranaki 2014

Thirteen programmes

(8) Tim Finn and Mokoomba

Tim Finn goes back in time to the first Split Enz album, and Afro-fusion band, Mokoomba, delivers an electrifying set that confirms its reputation as "Zimbabwe's generation of hope" (RNZ)

ANTILL: An Outback Overture - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.570241)

BLANCAFORT: Country Games & Dances - Miquel Villalba (pno) (Naxos 8.557333)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In the Fen Country - London Festival Orch/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 779)

RR BENNETT: Seven Country Dances, A new Dance; Lady Day; The Ladies' misfortune; Enfield Common; The Czar of Muscovy; The mulberry garden; Nobody's jig - Amy Dickson (soprano sax), Royal Scottish National Orch/George Vass (Dutton CDLX 7277)

F COUPERIN arr Bazelaire; Pièces en concert - Lynn Harrell (cello), Angeli Ensemble (Azica ACD 71265)

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

MESSNER: Salzburg Suite Op 51 - Salzburg Mozarteum Orch/Ivor Bolton (Oehms OC 734)

11:00 RESPIGHI: Five Pieces, Romanza; Aubade; Madrigale; Berceuse; Humoresque - Emy Bernecoli (vln), Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi (pno) (Naxos 8.573129)

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Quintet in A minor Op 14 - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)