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Tim Dodd: 35 years of bringing the music to you
7 May 2025On the eve of his retirement, RNZ Concert Producer Tim Dodd talks about his career, and why Aotearoa needs a dedicated commercial-free music station. Read more Audio
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You can't beat the system, but you can improve on it
7 May 2025Te Rauhii, the project bringing musical instruments to Waikato children who can't usually afford them, is ten years old. Read more Audio
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Robyn Bryant's love affair with film music
6 May 2025Robyn Bryant fell in love with film music when she saw the movie Stardust. Now she's just finished the score for one of those rarest of Kiwi flicks, a romance. Read more Video, Audio
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Musical life on a C string
5 May 2025Serenity Thurlow, Principal Viola with the Christchurch Symphony, is stepping centre-stage to perform Bartók's Viola Concerto. Read more Audio
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A tale of two choirs
2 May 2025Two choirs, one World Choir Games. Ahead of the launch of a docuseries, Bryan Crump speaks to the director of one of them. Read more Video, Audio
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Diversity through the prism of music
1 May 2025Napier chorister and doctor Nik Krawchenko talks about PRISM, a musical movement to support the rainbow community in places of worship. Read more Audio
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Calm In the Lancewood
30 Apr 2025Bryan Crump was trying to record the tui song in his lancewood tree, instead he got the sound of their wings. Read more Audio
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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
17 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Yamada, Kōsaku: Overture in D - New Zealand SO/Takuo Yuasa (Naxos 8.55535)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 (3) - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena (Chandos CHAN 10748)
Cooper, Julie: Firedove - Elena Urioste (violin), Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Anna Lapwood (organ) (Sony 19802809272)
Fasch, Johan Friedrich: Concerto in D for trumpet & two oboes FWV L/D1 - Niklas Eklund (baroque tpt), Drottningholm Baroque Orch/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)
Biddington, Eric: Romance - Gretchen La Roche (cl), Julie Downard (pno) (MANU CD MANU 1558)
Debussy, Claude: La cathédrale engloutie, from Preludes, Book 1 - Paul Crossley (pno) (SONY MLK 64065)
Dvořák, Antonín: Serenade in D minor for wind instruments Op 44 (2) - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 400 020)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Horn Concerto No 1 in D HobVIId/3 - Anthony Halstead (natural hn), Hanover Band/Roy Goodman (NIMBUS NI 5190)
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Ngati Rēhia Community Kapa Haka Group: He Honore nui.
Gershwin, George: Walking the dog, from Shall we dance - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 434 274)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sinfonia, from Cantata No 52, Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion CDA68111)
Elgar, Edward: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (UNIVERSAL 99072)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 (3) - Janine Jansen (vln), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Decca 478 0651)
Rheinberger, Joseph: Suite for organ, violin & cello Op 149 (3) - Christopher Herrick (org), Paul Barritt (vln), Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 66883)
Prokofiev, Sergei: Juliet as a young girl, from Romeo & Juliet - Auckland Phil/Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Atoll ACD 102)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto in E minor for cello & bassoon RV409 (3) - Anastasia Kobekina (cello), Basel CO (Sony 19658828072)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 (3) - Claire Briggs (horn), Royal Liverpool Phil/Stephen Kovacevich (EMI 3 82227)
Glazunov, Alexander: Symphony No 1 in E Op 5, Slavyanskaya (2) - Russian State SO/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 93565)
Holmboe, Vagn: Chamber Concerto No 3 Op 21 (2) Allegro giocoso - Martin Fröst (cl), Aalborg SO/Owain Arwel Hughes (BIS CD1176)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Les Sauvages, from Les Indes galantes - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 475 7780)
Schneider, Maria: Walking by flashlight, from Winter Morning Walks - Dawn Upshaw (sop), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (vln/dir) (ArtistShare AS 0121)
Reed, Alfred: Ballade - Mark Hobson (sax), Royal New Zealand Navy Band/Owen Clarke (Royal NZ Navy NAVY 001)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Concerto in D minor for violin & piano (3) - Gidon Kremer (vln), Martha Argerich (pno), Orpheus CO (DG 427 338)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von: Dance of the Furies, from Orpheus & Euridice - Orpheus CO (DG 437 782)
Chopin, Frédéric: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Olga Kern (pno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 80 7402)
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Dvořák, Antonín: Czech Suite Op 39 (4) - Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa (SUPRAPHON SU 3867)
Herzogenberg, Heinrich von: Trio in D for oboe, horn & piano Op 61 - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 4783564)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Garden Scene, from Much Ado About Nothing Suite Op 11 - Helsinki Phil/John Storgårds (Ondine ODE 1191)
Glick, Srul Irving: Suite Hébraïque No 5 I Circle Dance - Suzanne Shulman (fl), James Campbell (cl), Andrew Dawes (vln), Daniel Domb (cello) (CBC Records MVCD 1046)
Elgar, Edward: Serenade for Strings Op 20 (2) - Philharmonia/Andrew Davis (ONYX 4025)
Puccini, Giacomo: O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil (RCA 09026 68817)
Hamilton, David: Slow waltz, from Imagined Dances II - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
Herman, Yaron: Ode to Nearness - Yaron Herman (piano) (Naive 3616847187513)
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