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The bassoonist connecting Indigenous America with Aotearoa
10 Nov 2023Her Yakama ancestry had already inspired bassonist Jacqui Wilson to record an album of music by fellow Indigenous Americans, Taika Waititi inspired her to do the same with music by Māori. Read more Video, Audio
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Leilani Aaron Woodmore: Inside the mind of a young composer
9 Nov 2023Only 16 and already winning awards. Leilani Aaron Woodmore talks with Bryan Crump about writing the 2023 Compose Aotearoa Competition winning piece for choir which sets Te Reo Maori and Te Reo Hawai'i… Read more Video, Audio
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The sweet sound of Saxcess
8 Nov 2023Thirty years after she founded it, it looks like Debbie Rawson's quartet Saxcess has lived up to its name. Read more Audio
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In praise of Wozzeck, opera's original anti-hero
7 Nov 2023Baritone Julien Van Mellaerts convinces Bryan Crump he can't afford to miss Orchestra Wellington's performance of Berg's opera Wozzeck, in which Van Mellaerts will be singing the title role. Read more Audio
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World Choir Games: Eight months and counting
As choral festivals go, they don't come much bigger than the World Choir Games, and Aucklander John Rosser is right in the thick of it. Read more Audio
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Eliza Boom: From Gospel to German
3 Nov 2023Soprano Eliza Boom is fast establishing herself as a specialist of German repertoire based in Munich. She's back home in Aotearoa to sing some of it this month. Read more Audio
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Big Band tour hits funding pothole
2 Nov 2023He's planning to take his big band to the USA early next year, but Creative NZ's decision to reject his funding application has left Rodger Fox with a $90,000 hole he has to fill by the end of the… Read more Video, Audio
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'Wallpaper music' front and centre
1 Nov 2023She'd only been composing for a few years, but her big band work Dream Within A Dream was good enough to win Louisa Williamson the 2023 APRA Best Jazz Composition Award. Read more Video, Audio
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Plenty of symphony for Pasifika harmony
31 Oct 2023Helen Tupai's Signature Choir broke new ground when the Pasifika group sang Pasifika songs arranged and performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra last year. This month, they're taking the show… Read more Video, Audio
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King for a decade - so far
30 Oct 2023New Zealand baritone Chris Bruerton talks to Bryan Crump about the joys of being a member of one of the best known classical singing groups in the world, The King's Singers. Read more Video, Audio
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Keeping Auckland in tune: the Lewis Eady story
27 Oct 2023Kay Eady speaks with Bryan Crump about Preludes & Feuds, the history she's written on the Lewis Eady music business. Read more Audio
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Classical music: it's not a museum
26 Oct 2023Award winning Kiwi-Samoan violinist Hayden Afele-Nickel talks to Bryan Crump about getting classical music out of the museum and into the lives of all New Zealanders. Read more Audio
26 August 2025
with Bryan Crump
Copland, Aaron: Fanfare for the Common Man - Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80339)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Sonata in D for two pianos K448 (3) - Anderson & Roe Piano Duo (Steinway & Sons STNS 30022)
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (3) - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (EMI 3 72478)
Daley, Eleanor: Grandmother Moon - The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park (Hyperion CDA68465)
Kokai, Rezso: Sonatina, from Quartettino - Roeland Hendrikx Ensemble (Antarctica AR045)
Janáček, Leoš: The barn owl has not flown away! - Alain Planès (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMG 501508)
Debussy, Claude: Fêtes, from Nocturnes - Boston SO/Charles Munch (RCA 82876 59416)
Rodgers, Richard arr HERSCH: Why Can't I, from Spring is here - Dawn Upshaw, Audra McDonald (vocals), Fred Hersch (piano), Drew Gress (bass), Matt Wilson (drums) (Nonesuch 7559 79406)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Piano Trio in C HobXV/27 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 422 831)
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Liszt, Franz: Grand galop chromatique - Lang Lang (pno) (SONY 88697 89140)
Grofe, Ferde: Mississippi Suite (4) - Bournemouth SO/William T Stromberg (Naxos 8.559007)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphony in C Wq182/3 (1) - Arte dei Suonatori /Marcin Swiatkiewicz (BIS BIS2459)
Glass, Philip: String Quartet No 3, Mishima, (6) (arr for piano trio) - NZTrio (RNZ 2018)
Elgar, Edward: May Song - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Symphonic Dances Op 45 (1) - Concertgebouw Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 410 124)
Grusin, Dave: Memphis Stomp, from The Firm - Daniil Trifonov (piano) (DG 4865756)
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Chaminade, Cécile Louise Stéphanie arr Jarle Storløkken: Rondeau Op 97 - Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), tenThing (LAWO LWC1280)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Cello Sonata No 1 in Bb Op 45 (3) - António Meneses (cello), Gérard Wyss (pno) (Avie AV 2140)
Khachaturian, Aram: Scene & Dance with Crotala, from Spartacus - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (ONYX 4063)
Delius, Frederick arr Fenby: La Calinda, from Koanga - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Tartar TRL 020)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466 (3) - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Norwegian CO (EMI 500281)
Duncan, Gordon: The sleeping tune - Ally Crowley-Duncan (bagpipes) (Records DK 2021)
Ravel, Maurice: Rigaudon, from Le Tombeau de Couperin - Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 471 614)
Beethoven, Ludwig van arr Druzecky: Septet in Eb Op 20 (4) - Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble (EMI CDC 5 56817)
Hu-Wei Huang arr YI-WEN JIANG: Pictures from Bashu (Six Sichuan folk songs) - Eugenia Zukerman (fl), Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 85 in Bb, La Reine (1) - Lower Austria Tonkünstler Orch/Kristjan Järvi (PREISER PR 90765)
Stravinsky, Igor: Divertimento, from The Fairy's Kiss - Russian National Orch/Vladimir Jurowski (Pentatone PTC 5186 061)
Debussy, Claude: Arabesque No 1 - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67898)
Schubert, Franz: Fantasy in C D934 (4) - Stella Chen (vln), Henry Kramer (pno) (Platoon [PLAT17190])
Pixinguinha arr Gnattali: Vou Vivendo - Camerata Brazil/Henrique Cazes (dir) (EMI 5 56939)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cello Suite No 1 in G BWV1007 (1) - Truls Mörk (cello) (Virgin 5 45650)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Whither must I wander, from Songs of Travel - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Malcolm Martineau (pno) (DG 477 6686)
Jeffes, Simon: Music For a Found Harmonium - Penguin Cafe Orchestra (Virgin 811487)
Three to Seven
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