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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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Darren Pickering: the best lessons in life are free
30 Apr 2025With a new album out, Christchurch jazz man Darren Pickering talks about his approach to learning the art of jazz. Read more Video, Audio
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Music, gender politics and the 1906 Christchurch Exhibition
29 Apr 2025Dr Inge van Rij talks about her award-winning research into the musical politics behind a 1906 exercise in nation building. Read more Audio
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Anzac Day Sonic
25 Apr 2025RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump digs into the archives, as well as the station’s record collection to bring you music and voices revolving around our national experience of war, and aspiration for peace.
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Youth choirs converge on the capital
24 Apr 2025Three of the four national youth choirs are in the capital this April holidays for concerts and rehearsals. RNZ Concert's David Morriss catches up with Sophia Gittings from the New Zealand Youth… Read more Audio
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Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey
23 Apr 2025RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with musician and arts advocate Genevieve Lacey, in New Zealand next week to perform with the Auckland Philharmonia. Read more Video, Audio
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Copying scores in a digital age
17 Apr 2025Taran Plamondon talks about balancing his life as a horn player with working in music publishing. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Ataturk Cove
16 Apr 2025The gentle roll of the waves beneath an Anzac Day memorial forms this week's sonic Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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Reuben Brown's busy year
16 Apr 2025Bryan Crump catches up with the 2025 New Zealand Assistant Conductor-in-Residence, Reuben Brown; which means being an assistant conductor for not one, but three orchestras. Read more Audio
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Ashley Jackson's water music
15 Apr 2025African American harpist Ashley Jackson has made water the unifying theme of her new album. Read more Audio
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Classics from the East
14 Apr 2025Zoe Li is preparing for the debut concert of the Eastern Echoes Ensemble, bringing Chinese classical music to Aotearoa. Read more Audio
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Turns out you can beat a trumpet
11 Apr 2025Richard Marshall, one of the UK's top cornet players, is in Christchurch to perform with Addington Brass. Read more Audio
09 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Traditional Bulgarian: Svatba (The Wedding Procession) - Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir (Nonesuch 79165)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich orch Glazunov: Souvenir d'un lieu cher (2) - Gil Shaham (vln), Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev (DG 457 064)
Brahms, Johannes orch Parlow: Hungarian Dance No 12 in D minor - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 8885)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op 48 (3) - Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Yuja Wang (piano) (DG 4836069)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concerto in C minor for two harpsichords BWV1060 (2) - Paul Nicholson (hpschd), Robert Woolley (hpschd), members of the Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0636)
Ravel, Maurice: Sonatine - 1. Modéré - Diedre Irons (pno) (TRUST MMT 2041)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Sextet in Eb Op 81b (2) - Nash Ensemble (ASV GLD 4002)
Bizet, Georges: March, from Jeux d'enfants - New Zealand SO/Donald Johanos (Naxos 8.553596)
Schumann, Robert: Cello Concerto in A minor Op 129 - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi HMC 902197)
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Gaquere, Boris: Kopanitsa da Kalantchatska - Cavatina Duo (Cedille CDR 90000 117)
Handel, George Frideric: Sarabande, from Suite in D minor HWV437 - Daniel Hope (violin) & Friends (DG 477 8094)
Bonis, Mel: Ophélie Op 165 - Orchestre national de Metz/David Reiland (La prima volta LDV103)
Ravel, Maurice: Le Tombeau de Couperin (6) Toccata - Aristo Sham (piano) (KNS Classics 2020)
Kodály, Zoltán: Dances of Marosszék - Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)
Dvořák, Antonín: Humoresque in Gb Op 101/7 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Ayami Ikeba (pno) (DG 479 1060)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 (7) - Liliko Maeda (fl), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS SACD 1431)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Moments Musicaux Op 16 (6) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 475 6198)
Grieg, Edvard: Åse's death, from Peer Gynt - André Rieu & his Orch (UNIVERSAL 589 306)
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich: Ciaconna in A from Serenada in Mascara - Ensemble Stravaganza, Domitille Gilon (violin) Thomas Soltani (organ)/Thomas Soltani (NoMadMusic NMM116D)
Raum, Elizabeth: The Attack on Asgard, from The Legend of Heimdall - John Griffiths (tuba), Orchestra of the Capella of St. Petersburg/Richard Raum (MSR Classics LOG 14342)
Debussy, Claude: La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin, from Preludes - Víkingur Ólafsson (pno) (DG 4837701)
Hamilton, David: Polka, from Imagined Dances II - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
Handel, George Frideric: Water Music Suite No 1 in F (4) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 416 447)
Waldteufel, Émile: The Skaters, Waltz - New York Phil (Michele Records )
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Rose Adagio, from Sleeping Beauty - BBC Phil/Vassily Sinaisky (BBC Music BBC MM 100)
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Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 8 in F Op 93 (2) - Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan (DG 415 066)
Bush, Kate: Deeper Understanding - Kate Bush and featuring Trio Bulgarka (Columbia)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Divertimento in Bb K254 - Daniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim (violin), Kian Soltani (cello) (DG 4837506)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Dances from The Oprichnik - BBC Scottish SO/Alpesh Chauhan (Chandos CHSA5331)
Morricone, Ennio arr Gilles Ouellet: Main Theme, from Casualties of War - Angèle Dubeau (violin), La Pietà (Analekta AN28733)
Domeniconi, Carlo: Koyunbaba (2) - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (WAIATA 9501)
Carwithen, Doreen: Suffolk Suite (3) Suffolk Morris - Ritmico - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9524)
Wolstenholme, William: Allegretto in Eb Op17/2 - Timothy Ridout (vla), James Baillieu (pno) (Harmonia Mundi HMM90537677)
Salerno, Nicola: Tango del Mare - Quartetto Gelato (Linus 70055)
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