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Moment of Calm - Piano Practice
28 Aug 2024Isn't there something magic about hearing someone practicing music as you walk past their home? RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump thinks so. So he recorded a little of that magic for this week's "Sonic"… Read more Audio
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Valuing music from different cultures
28 Aug 2024Dr Te Oti Rakena, an associate professor at the School of Music, Auckland University, is one of the editors of a new text book: Decolonising and Indigenising Music Education: First Peoples Leading… Read more Audio
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Baroque Voices turns 30
27 Aug 2024Wellington choir Baroque Voices is celebrating three decades of singing. Founder and music director Pepe Becker talks with Three to Seven's Bryan Crump. Read more Audio
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Divagations, Doodlings and Downright Lies
26 Aug 2024Lyell Cresswell's posthumously published autobiography is a wonderfully quirky read. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with one of the book's editors, Scilla Askew, about the composer and his music. Read more Audio
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The call of the pipes
23 Aug 2024Congratulations to organ building apprentice Julian Shaw, who's the recipient of a Neil Stocker Memorial Fund award. Read more Audio
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The Shortest History of Music
22 Aug 2024Writer and broadcaster Andrew Ford talks with RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump about his latest book. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Lunch by the habour
21 Aug 2024Bryan Crump recorded this week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm during lunch hour one sunny winter's day down by the waterside. Read more Audio
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Intangible Echoes
21 Aug 2024'When I am not, what will there be?' The line from Leo Tolstoy's novel The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the inspiration behind Michael F Williams' work 'Intangible Echoes', which gets its world premiere… Read more Audio
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Hannah Darroch: Music is more than a 'nice to have'
20 Aug 2024The new Chief Executive of SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music talks with Bryan Crump. Read more Video, Audio
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New Zealand Guitar Quartet: Equinox
16 Aug 2024After nearly a decade and a half of music making, the New Zealand Guitar Quartet is winding up. But not before releasing a final album. Read more Audio
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Maxim Vengerov: when body, mind and violin are one
15 Aug 2024Skipping between rehearsals and masterclasses, one of the world's best violinists finds time to drop by the RNZ studios. Read more Video, Audio
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Austin Haynes - reaching for the top
9 Aug 2024Fresh from his Lexus Song Quest success (achieving third place), countertenor Austin Haynes talks with Bryan Crump about his dual passions: singing and te reo Māori. Read more Audio
27 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Grofe, Ferde: Mississippi Suite (4) - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (Naxos 8.559007)
Milano, Francesco da arr Lislevand: Canon, La Spagna - Rolf Lislevand (lute), Marco Ambrosini (viola d amore), Thor Harald Johnsen (lute), Michael Behringer (clavichord), David Mayoral (percussion), Bjørn Kjellemyr (colascione), Giovanna Pessi (harp)/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))
Merlin, José Luis: Evocación, from Suite del recuerdo - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP 02 CD)
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 ( )
Grieg, Edvard: Holberg Suite (1) - Peter Jablonski (pno) (Decca 455 631)
Boccherini, Luigi: String Quartet in G G223, La Tiranna - Ensemble 415 (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1334)
Montero, Gabriela: Improvisation on Handel's Hallelujah - Gabriela Montero (pno) (EMI 5 14838)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor Op 73 - Charles Neidich (cl), Orpheus CO (DG 435 875)
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Kreisler, Fritz: Liebesleid - Pinchas Zukerman (vln), Marc Neikrug (pno) (Philips 416 158)
Piazzolla, Astor orch Bacalov: Adiós Nonino - Luis Bacalov (pno), Héctor Ulises Passarella (bandoneón), St Cecilia National Academy Orch, Rome/Myung-Whun Chung (DG 463 471)
Bi-Guang Tang: Liuyang River - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
Metcalfe, John: Ochre Orange Freeway - Tom Kerstens (gtr), Tom Kerstens' G Plus ensemble (REAL WORLD CDRW 175)
Chaminade, Cecile: Poèmes provençales Op 127 (2) - Mark Viner (pno) (Piano Classics PCL10164)
Ary Barroso: Aquarela do Brasil - Juan Diego Flórez (tenor), Luis Ribeiro, Matheus Jardim, Marco da Costa, Jonathan Bolívar (guitar) (SONY 19075822942)
Williams, John: Star Wars, Main title - London SO/John Williams (Polydor 800096)
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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)
Audain, Yvette: Wera - Sharon Joy Vogan (pno) (Atoll ACD700)
Anonymous: Miragres fremosos - Florata (ASV CD GAU 144)
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