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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
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Moment of Calm: Ready to Rumble
10 Apr 2025Let the gentle rumble of distant thunder induce you into slumber. Read more Audio
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Trifonov does Rachmaninov
10 Apr 2025Russian-born keyboard genius Daniil Trifonov takes on the "Rach 3" with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Celebrating Music Therapy Week 2025
9 Apr 2025Renata Kuswanto talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about her work as a Neurologic Music Therapist at Southern Music Therapy in Christchurch. Read more Audio
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Taking her own musical medicine
7 Apr 2025Pauline Grogan's advocacy for the use of music for people in care became far more personal after she suffered two strokes herself. Read more Audio
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Keeping score at the movies
4 Apr 2025Dr Dan Golding talks about his part in a movie music podcast turned live show that's coming to the Aotea Centre with help from the Auckland Philharmonia. Read more Video, Audio
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Song cycle on a downward spiral
3 Apr 2025New Zealand-born, German-based tenor Jonathan Abernethy is back in Aotearoa singing a Schubert masterpiece about a bloke who went down a rabbit hole. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: School Camp
2 Apr 2025Teenage boys can get a little loud at times, but from a distance these boys enjoying a camp in the Tararua Ranges sound lovely to us. Read more Audio
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Taking up Haydn for Lent
2 Apr 2025Anne Loeser from the Wellington ensemble Camerata talks about performing a sacred Haydn masterpiece leading up to Easter. Read more Audio
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Mansfield Park on the Mainland
1 Apr 2025Director Rebecca Meltzer is part of the team turning Jane Austen's Mansfield Park into an opera. Read more Audio
13 August 2025
with Bryan Crump
Fernández, Heraclio arr Prooijen: El Diablo Suelto - Lucie Horsch (recorder), Sean Shibe (guitar) (Decca 4853192)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Sonata No 16 in C K545, For Beginners (1) - Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) (DG 4860525)
Danzi, Franz: Fantasy on Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni - Andreas Ottensamer (cl), Potsdam Chamber Academy (DG 481 4711)
Bartók, Béla: Concerto for Orchestra (5) - Chicago SO/Georg Solti (Decca 400 052)
Brahms, Johannes: Intermezzo in C Op 119/3 - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RATD131)
Hayward, Justin arr Hale: Nights in White Satin - Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), Manu Delago (drum), 12 ensemble (Decca 7779637)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Variations on a Rococo Theme - Mischa Maisky (cello), Philharmonia/Giuseppe Sinopoli (DG 431 685)
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Sinding, Christian: Rustle of Spring - Christian Ihle Hadland (pno) (Naxos 8.572255)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 4 in A Op 90, Italian (2) - Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)
Williams, Michael F: Cavatina, from Suite per antiche archi - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
Khachaturian, Aram: Dance of the Gaditanian Maidens, from Spartacus - Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits (ONYX 4063)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 92 in G, Oxford (4) - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cantata No 99, Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (1) - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 104)
Finch, Catrin: Listen to the grass grow - Seckou Keita (kora), Catrin Finch (harp) (Bendigedig BENDI2)
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Elena Kats-Chernin: Dance of the Paper Umbrellas - Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (HUSH 13)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV630 - Nicola Benedetti (vln), Scottish CO/Christian Curnyn (Decca 476 434)
Rodgers & Hart: With a Song in My Heart, from Spring Is Here - Jessye Norman (sop), Boston Pops/John Williams (Philips 422 893)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 (2) - Sol Gabetta (cello), Olga Kern (pno) (Sony 88725 43575)
Verdi, Giuseppe: Attila, Cavatina - Busseto "G.Verdi" Orch/Fausto Pedretti (Arts 47574)
Debussy, Claude: Beau soir - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Philip Moll (pno) (Decca 417289)
Lindberg, Oskar arr Milone: Andante, from Gammal fäbodspsalm - Alison Balsom (tpt), Gothenburg SO/Edward Gardner (EMI 3 53255)
Chopin, Frédéric: Nocturne in Db Op 27/2 - Maria João Pires (pno) (DG 447 096)
Pärt, Arvo: Silouan's Song (My Soul Yearns After The Lord) - Tallinn CO/Tonu Kaljuste (ECM 1505)
Cheng-Qian Xue: Miao Mountain Morning - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
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Gershwin, George: Preludes for piano (2) - Elizabeth Hayes (pno) (QUARTZ QTZ 2005)
Kozeluch, Leopold: Clarinet Concerto in Eb - Emma Johnson (cl), Royal Phil/Günther Herbig (ASV CD DCA 763)
Schubert, Franz arr Timothy Jones: Der Lindenbaum, from Winterreise - Josephine Knight (cello), Timothy Jones (horn), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) (Orchid Classics ORC100302)
Paine, Bruce: Finchdean - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP CD 04)
Binge, Ronald: The Watermill - Ruth Scott (ob), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Laudamus te, from Mass in C minor K427, Great - Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (BIS 2171)
Stravinsky, Igor arr Dushkin: Tango - Anthony Marwood (vln), Thomas Adès (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67723)
Traditional: Jovano Jovanke - Nigel Kennedy (vln), Kroke (EMI 5 57511)
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