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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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Beefing up the recorder sound
15 Oct 2024Recorder soloist and ensemble director Simon Borutzki talks about the difference a bit of bass makes. Read more Video, Audio
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Cameron Pearce: Progression
11 Oct 2024The Christchurch-based composer and trumpeter has just released a new album for brass ensemble on Rattle Records. He talks with RNZ Concert's Andrew Clark about the inspiration behind the project. Read more Audio
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Soprano Sumi Jo: Part 2
10 Oct 2024South Korean soprano Sumi Jo was in New Zealand earlier this year to judge the semi-finals and final of the Lexus Song Quest. She spoke with RNZ Concert's Clarissa Dunn about her singing career. Audio
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Soprano Sumi Jo on her life and music
9 Oct 2024South Korean soprano Sumi Jo was in New Zealand earlier this year to judge the semi-finals and final of the Lexus Song Quest. She spoke with RNZ Concert's Clarissa Dunn about her singing career. Read more Video, Audio
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Dancers to join bassist at Wellington Jazz Festival
7 Oct 2024Nick Tipping talks with bassist and singer esperanza spalding, who's making her Aotearoa debut at this year's Wellington Jazz Festival. In a Festival first, she'll be joined by two dancers from the… Read more Audio
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Sounds of the Sanctuary: getting close to nature with the NZSQ
4 Oct 2024New Zealand String Quartet violist Gillian Ansell talks with RNZ Concert's Andrew Clark about Sounds of the Sanctuary, the quartet's flagship programme in their 2024 season. It's coming to the Nelson… Read more Audio
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The versatile Sherry Shelton
3 Oct 2024Organist, pianist, harpist and singer Sherry Shelton has a concert coming up in Bluff this Saturday. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Spring Sunrise
2 Oct 2024Capturing the sound of a near perfect Spring morning. Read more Audio
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Sending the music back home
2 Oct 2024Young Christchurch-raised composer Eva Bedggood talks about her latest work, which NZTrio is about to premiere in her home town. Read more Audio
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Harmony in the hay
1 Oct 2024Canturbury ceramic artist and gallery owner John Allan talks about turning an old hay shed into a music venue. Read more Audio
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Hope out of hate
30 Sep 2024Singers from the Wellington Youth Choir talk about their upcoming concert where they'll be performing a work composed in response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay American man. Read more Video, Audio
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Keeping it in the family
27 Sep 2024Visiting cellist Sterling Elliot can thank his mother for his stellar career, although he initially wanted to play the violin. Read more Video, Audio
27 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Dussek, Jan Ladislav: Sinfonia in Bb (3) - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.572683)
Berlioz, Hector: Villanelle, from Les nuits d'été - Janet Baker (mezzo), New Philharmonia/John Barbirolli (EMI 562788)
Ravel, Maurice: Noctuelles, from Miroirs - John Chen (piano) (ABC 4766834)
Respighi, Ottorino: The Cuckoo, from The Birds - Orpheus Chamber Orch (DG 437 533)
Boccherini, Luigi: String Quartet in G G223, La Tiranna - Ensemble 415 (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1334)
Pearce, Cameron: Apricity - Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Cameron Pearce (trumpet), Barrett Hocking (trumpet), Scott Taitoko (trombone), Pablo Ruiz- Henao (tuba) (Rattle RATJ1056)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Charles Neidich (cl), Orpheus CO (DG 435 875)
Finn, Tim and McLeod, Tom: Ihitai 'Avei'a - Act 1 (excerpt) - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (James Cook), Emmanuel Fonoti-Fuimaono (Tupaia), West Australian Opera, West Australian SO & Chorus/Christopher van Tuinen ( )
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Finn, Tim: I Hope I Never - Split Enz (A&M CD 4822)
Metcalfe, John: Ochre Orange Freeway - Tom Kerstens (gtr), Tom Kerstens' G Plus ensemble (REAL WORLD CDRW 175)
Strauss II, Johann: Ballet Music, from Die Fledermaus - Slovak Radio SO, Bratislava/Johannes Wildner (Marco Polo 8.223247)
Bi-Guang Tang: Liuyang River - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
Chaminade, Cecile: Poèmes provençales Op 127 (2) - Mark Viner (pno) (Piano Classics PCL10164)
Handel, George Frideric: Lascia ch'io pianga, from Rinaldo - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0650)
Smyth, Ethel: Trio in D minor (3) Scherzo, Presto con brio - Chagall Trio (Meridian CDE84286)
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Chabrier, Emmanuel: Ronde champêtre - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion SACDA 67515)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Violin Concerto in Bb RV359 - Simon Standage (vln), Academy of Ancient Music (Decca 475 7693)
Brahms, Johannes: Von ewiger Liebe Op 43/1 - Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Malcolm Martineau (piano) (LINN CKD749)
Dvořák, Antonín: Slavonic Dance Op 72 No 2 in E minor - London Phil/David Parry (X5 105)
Traditional arr Baker: Tarantella - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)
Marcel Louiguy: La vie en rose - Daniel Hope (violin), Christoph Israel (piano) (DG 4839482)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D BWV1069 (4) - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta FL 2 3134)
Catalani, Alfredo: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (pno) (Atoll ACD280)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Yeletsky's aria, from The Queen of Spades - Peter Mattei (bar), Royal Stockholm Phil/Lawrence Renes (BIS SACD 1749)
Halvorsen, Johan: Air norvégien - Marianne Thorsen (vln), Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 10614)
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Mendelssohn, Felix: Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 - Mikhail Pletnev (pno) (DG 459 634)
Delius, Frederick: Concerto for violin, cello & orchestra - Tasmin Little (vln), Paul Watkins (cello), BBC SO/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5094)
Traditional, Bulgarian: Sborenka - Hesperion XXI and friends/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AVSA 9898)
Amirov, Fikret: Piano Concerto after Arabian themes (3) - Farhad Badalbeyli (pno), Royal Phil/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.572666)
Schubert, Franz trans Maisky: An die Musik D547 - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (DG 449 817)
Copland, Aaron: Waltz, from Billy the Kid - Saint Paul CO/Hugh Wolff (Apex 2564620892)
Renie, Henriette: Danse des Lutins - Judy Loman (harp) (Naxos 8.554347)
Anonymous: Miragres fremosos - Florata (ASV CD GAU 144)
Schifrin, Lalo: Mission: Impossible, main theme - studio ensemble (Verve 530741)
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