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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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Celebrating the music of Pelham Humfrey
29 Oct 2024It's 350 years since the death of English composer Pelham Humphrey at age 27. Corrina Connor talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about why he should be remembered, and his contribution to English… Read more Audio
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Thinking about home
25 Oct 2024Actor Nathaniel Lees talks with Bryan Crump about his role as narrator in Voices New Zealand's upcoming Wellington season of Horizons, an immersive concert blending music, poetry, and song to explore… Read more Video, Audio
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Online waiata songbook goes live
24 Oct 2024Learning some of Aotearoa's best loved waiata has never been easier. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: Blackbird singing in a concrete jungle
23 Oct 2024Not all moments of calm come from the countryside, Bryan Crump recorded this blackbird singing deep in the heart of Wellington's concrete jungle. Read more Audio
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Raising the roof
23 Oct 2024All eight of Aotearoa's Anglican Cathedral Choirs are gathering for a festival this weekend. Andrew Williams is one of the singers and composers. Read more Audio
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2023 Michael Hill winner returns to New Zealand
22 Oct 2024Jenny Jin, the winner of the 2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition is back in Aotearoa to perform with the Auckland Philharmonia and tour for Chamber Music New Zealand. Read more Video, Audio
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Continuing the legacy of Rodger Fox
21 Oct 2024As well as making music, the late great Rodger Fox helped to make musicians. Bryan Crump talks with two jazz performers picking up Rodger's legacy of running workshops for young musicians. Read more Audio
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Two concertos for the price of one concert
18 Oct 2024A new clarinet concerto by NZ composer Ross Harris, and one by jazz great Artie Shaw form a double bill when British soloist Julian Bliss joins the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra this weekend. Read more Video, Audio
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Auckland Philharmonia: a hero's orchestra
17 Oct 2024Chief Executive Diana Weir shares some highlights from the orchestra's 2025 Season with Bryan Crump. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Taking you to the river
16 Oct 2024This week's Sonic Moment of Calm takes you to the river. The Tongariro River to be exact. Read more Audio
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Moving while you're sitting down
16 Oct 2024Heleen du Plessis leads her cello ensemble in a joint concert with the Dunedin City Jazz Orchestra, designed to make you feel like dancing. Read more Audio
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Beefing up the recorder sound
15 Oct 2024Recorder soloist and ensemble director Simon Borutzki talks about the difference a bit of bass makes. Read more Video, Audio
04 April 2025
with Bryan Crump
Handel, George Frideric: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon - Symphony of Harmony & Invention/Harry Christophers (Coro COR 16025)
Pärt, Arvo: Summa - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt (EMI CD EMX 2221)
Brahms, Johannes: Intermezzo in Bb Op 76/4 - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RATD131)
Bruckner, Anton: Christus factus est - Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge/David Rowland (Christ's College CCC CD 003)
Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in C minor Op 10/12, Revolutionary - Nikolai Lugansky (pno) (erato 8573 80228)
Shore, Howard: The Forest (1) - Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), National Arts Centre Orch/Alexander Shelley (Decca 4851525)
Tippett, Michael: Concerto for double string orchestra (3) - Scottish CO/Michael Tippett (Virgin VC 7 90701)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Piano Trio in C HobXV/27 - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 422 831)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sinfonia, from Cantata No 29, Wir danken dir - Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDM 7 69853)
Rodgers, Richard: The Sound of Music, Entr'acte - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 446499)
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Quintet No 1 in A Op 18 (3) - Sharon Quartet, Petra Vahle (vla) (Brilliant Classics 94205)
Debussy, Claude: Sarabande, from Pour le Piano - John Chen (piano) (ABC 4766834)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita (3) - Netherlands Wind Ensemble (NBE LIVE NBECD 017)
Doyle, Patrick: Henry V, opening & closing music from the film - May Festival Chorus, Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80551)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 (3) - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (SIMAX PSC 1292)
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Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 2 in Bb D125 (3) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 652)
Herman Hupfeld arr Williams: As time goes by, from Casablanca - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (SONY SK 60773)
Verdi, Giuseppe arr Turovsky: String Quartet in E minor (1) - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9662)
Suppé, Franz von: Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna, Overture - Emanuel Brabec (cello), Vienna Phil/Georg Solti (Decca 421 170)
Britten, Benjamin: Sonetto XXX - Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano) (Chandos CHAN20274)
Prokofiev, Sergei trans Terashima: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical (4) - Martha Argerich (pno), Yefim Bronfman (pno) (EMI 4 76871)
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio: Calata ala spagnola - Piffaro (Archiv 453 441)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Mass in B minor, Sanctus - Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orch/Ton Koopman (Challenge CC 72188)
Roussel, Albert: Serenade Op 30 (2) - Skaila Kanga (harp), ASMF Chamber Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 8621)
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Kabalevsky, Dmitri: Pathétique Overture - Russian Cinematographic SO/Walter Mnatsakanov (REGISC 1287)
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 5 in Bb D485 - Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 446 100)
Zu-Xin Jiang: Two pieces from Temple Fair - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Song without Words Op 19/1 - Denis Kozhukhin (piano) (Pentatone PTC5186734)
Encina, Juan del: Amor con fortuna - La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (dir) (Alia Vox AV 9814)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Caprice fantastique - Gil Shaham (vln), Jonathan Feldman (pno) (DG 463 483)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Overture in G, Nations Old & New (1) - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Bagatelle in G Op 126/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (pno) (EMI CDC 5 56148)
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