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Listen to music and performing arts interviews here when it suits you, as broadcast at 4pm most days:
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Old opera, brand new production
3 Jun 2025Bruno Ravella is in Aotearoa to direct a brand new production of Puccini's La bohème for NZ Opera. Read more Audio
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A Regal Sonic Tonic
2 Jun 2025Bryan Crump presents a montage of music and historical recordings marking Kings Birthday 2025. Read more Video, Audio
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Wash the mind with a Gong Bath
30 May 2025Erika Grant is bringing her gongs to a special Listening Occasion that's part of Wellington's midwinter Lōemis Festival. Read more Audio
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Making rainbow connections
29 May 2025Tabea Squire talks about the 'building block' approach she took to writing a piece for groups taking part in this year's New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: In the late Autumn sun.
28 May 2025Bryan Crump revels in the autumn sun, while recording a few birds in the Wellington hills. Read more Audio
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Paradise lost and found
28 May 2025Briar Prastiti's new work 'The Garden' gets its New Zealand premiere this weekend. Read more Video, Audio
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The Cawthron pipes are calling
27 May 2025Myles Payne and a novel campaign to raise money for the Nelson Centre for Musical Arts' organ. Read more Audio
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Taking on Brahms in Palmerston North
26 May 2025The combined Manawatū Sinfonia and Youth Orchestra will tackle one of the pinnacles of symphonic music this King's Birthday Monday. Read more Audio
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Making music for the moving image
22 May 2025Composer Tom McLeod talks about how a bad exam and a motorcycle ride changed his life. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: In search of Autumn
21 May 2025RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump chases some Autumn leaves. Read more Audio
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Pacific Underground goes symphonic
21 May 2025Pacific Underground director Pos Mavaega, and conductor Samiu Katoa Uatahausi talk about the Ōtautahi-based performing arts collective's first gig with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Gábor Káli: never forget the child in you
20 May 2025Hungarian conductor Gábor Káli talks to RNZ Concert ahead of his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra debut. Read more Audio
05 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Keyboard Concerto in G HobXVIII/4 (3) - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Norwegian CO (EMI CDC 5 56960)
Handel, George Frideric: Sì, la voglio e l'otterrò, from Serse - Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor/director), Ensemble Artaserse (Erato 9029575966)
Awadis, Marie: Etude No 2, Breathless - Marie Awadis (piano) (DG Single)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus arr Slavinsky: Violin Sonata No 26 in Bb K378 (3) - Alexei Ogrintchouk (ob/dir), Leonid Ogrintchouk (pno) (BIS SACD 2007)
Márquez, Arturo: Dance No 2 - Simón Bolìvar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 479 0069)
Hess, Nigel: Ladies in Lavender - Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 10767)
Gershwin, George: An American in Paris - New Zealand SO/Asher Fisch (RNZ NZSO 2023-03-31)
Powell, Mel arr Walden: Clarinade - Sabine Meyer (cl), Wolfgang Meyer (cl), Bamberg Symphony big band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)
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Beethoven, Ludwig van arr Schmitt: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 (3) - Albion Ensemble (SOMM SOMMCD 070)
Brahms, Johannes: Piano Trio No 1 in B Op 8 (2) - Trio Poseidon (DAPHNE 1026)
Delibes, Leo: Flower Duet from Lakmé - Renée Fleming (sop), Susan Graham (mezzo), Philharmonia Orch (Decca 478 0125)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: French Suite No 5 in G BWV816 (3) - Tony Chen Lin (piano) (Rattle RATD080)
Smith, Alice Mary ed Graham-Jones: Andante - Angela Malsbury (cl), London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10283)
Williams, John: Star Wars, Main title - London SO/John Williams (Polydor 800096)
Bernstein, Leonard: Mambo, from West Side Story - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)
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Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in C Op 10/1 - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (DG 459 064)
Fasch, Johan Friedrich: Concerto in B minor for flute & oboe FWV L/h1 - Il Gardellino (Accent ACC 24252)
Holst, Gustav: Mars, Bringer of War, from The Planets Suite - London SO/André Previn (EMI CDS 7 90353)
Statham, Keith: Song without words - Camilla White (ob), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 (3) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 654)
Ravel, Maurice: The fairy garden, from Mother Goose Suite - BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov (BBC Music BBC MM 300)
Burton, Eldin: Sonatina - Jeffrey Khaner (fl), Hugh Sung (pno) (Avie AV 0004)
Medins, Janis: Aria - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (CHANDOS CHAN 9227)
Strauss, Richard: Heimliche Aufforderung Op 27/3 - Simon O'Neill (tenor), Terence Dennis (piano) (Decca ABC4817865)
Waller, Fats: Ain't misbehavin' - Alan Feinberg (pno) (Argo 444 457)
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Debussy, Claude: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor - Allegro vivo - James Ehnes (violin), Wendy Chen (piano) (CBC RECORDS MVCD 1138)
Dvořák, Antonín: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American - Royal Phil/Charles Rosekrans (TELARC CD 80610)
Traditional arr O'Connor/Meyer: Limerock - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 66782)
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson: The White Peacock Op 7/1 - Dallas SO/Andrew Litton (Dorian DOR 90224)
Strayhorn, Billy arr & orch Henderson: Maybe - Lena Horne (voc), Bobby Watson (sax), City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 57014)
Fauré, Gabriel trans Busser: Sicilienne, from Pelléas & Mélisande - Jean-Pierre Rampal (fl), Marielle Nordmann (harp) (SONY SK 44552)
Knipper, Lev: Song of the Steppes - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics ABC 4818575)
Bach, Johann Sebastian arr Cohen: Sanctify us by Thy goodness, from Cantata BWV22 - Alicia de Larrocha (pno) (Philips 456 886)
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