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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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Bill Bailey: "Comedy, in its essence, is music"
30 Oct 2025The British comedian talks with RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping about the universal languages of comedy and music. Read more Video, Audio
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New ensemble, familiar names
29 Oct 2025The newly-formed piano trio Korimako has its debut concert in Wellington next week. And while the ensemble may be new, the names are familiar - established musicians Helene Pohl (violin), Rolf… Read more Audio
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Bringing fresh air to the wind scene
23 Oct 2025New Zealand has a brand new wind band. RNZ Concert speaks with its musical director, Tom Chester. Read more Audio
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Settling The Score 2025: About Your Choices
23 Oct 2025As we look though all of the beautiful music our listeners have suggested for broadcast on Labour Day, we've seen some trends which might be of interest. Read more
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Moment of Calm: Blow the wind (a gentle) Southerly
22 Oct 2025When it's blowing nor'westerly outside, you can listen to a gentle southerly on the inside. Read more Audio
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Composing in Dmitri's shoes
22 Oct 2025Young composer Estella Wallace talks about her prize-winning piece for string quartet inspired by Shostakovich's final work. Read more Audio
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Kian Soltani and three reasons to love Dvorak
21 Oct 2025Ahead of playing it with the NZSO, cellist Kian Soltani talks about his favourite concerto. Read more Video, Audio
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Back on the bass line
20 Oct 2025Jonathan Le Cocq is bringing the theorbo to an imaginative Auckland Philharmonia baroque concert later this month. Read more Audio
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Ascending the Everest of the cello
17 Oct 2025Inbal Megiddo talks to RNZ Concert about her recording of all six of J S Bach's cello suites. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Songs of the Seagulls
16 Oct 2025Can a seagull sing a Moment of Calm? Listen and decide. Read more Audio
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Ten thousand for a talented tenor
16 Oct 2025Lawyer and arts supporter Jim Stevenson loved the sound of the tenor voice. Now a trust set up after his death is looking to support talented singers make the leap from study to a professional career.
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Pulling the strings
15 Oct 2025Wellington Youth Orchestra principal cellist Tomos Christie and prinicipal viola Solace Ward speak to RNZ Concert ahead of the orchestra's big gig in the Michael Fowler Centre. Read more Audio
03 November 2025
with Bryan Crump
Chopin, Frédéric: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano) (Decca 4871265)
Anonymous: La Ville de Montaigu - Ensemble Les Présences/Laurent Tixier & Miguel Henry (En Phases NP015)
Dvořák, Antonín: Symphony No 8 in G Op 88 (3) - Philharmonia/Charles Mackerras (SIGNUM SIGCD 183)
Strauss, Richard: Serenade in Eb for winds Op 7 - François Leleux (oboe), Ensemble Paris-Bastille (SONY 88697 74869)
Siger: De Trambaan - Siger (Trad Records TRAD021)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 28 in C K200 (4) - Prague Chamber Orchestra/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80165)
Debussy, Claude trans Bauer: Arabesque No 1 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (MASTER PERFORMERS MP 010)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Les Indes galantes - NZ Barok (Atoll ACD 813)
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Schubert, Franz: An die Musik D547 - Daniel Hope (violin), Christoph Israel (piano) (DG 4839482)
Mahler, Gustav: Blumine, symphonic movement - Bamberg Symphony /Jakub Hrůša (DG 4862932)
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb Op 29 (3) - Stephen Hough (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)
Nazareth, Ernesto: Fon-fon! - Australia Ensemble (Tall Poppies TP266)
Boccherini, Luigi: Guitar Quintet in G G450 (1) - Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar), Tokyo String Quartet (RCA RD 60421)
Brahms, Johannes arr Geringas: Sapphische Ode Op 94/4 - Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Tamás Vesmás (piano) (RNZ UB56)
Barry, John: Main theme, from Born Free - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Nic Raine (SILVASCREEN 721128)
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Wirén, Dag: Serenade for Strings (3) - Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Petri Sakari (Caprice CAP 21513)
Liszt, Franz: Rakoczy March from Hungarian Rhapsody No 15 in A minor S244 - Lang Lang (piano) (Sony 19075862332)
Meyer, Edgar: Death by triple fiddle - Joshua Bell (violin), Sam Bush (violin), Mike Marshall (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass) (SONY SK 60864)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste: Chaconne in G - Cologne Musica Antiqua/Reinhard Goebel (vln/dir) (Archiv 453 418)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 104 in D, London (3) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Colin Davis (Philips 434 153)
Mitchell, Joni: Both Sides, Now - Solem Quartet (Delphian CD34308)
Biddington, Eric: Canzonetta for Oboe and Piano - Gregory McMillan-Perry (oboe), John Pattinson (piano) (Manu CD MANU 1547)
Dvořák, Antonín: String Quartet No 13 in G Op 106 (4) - Prague String Quartet (DG 429 193)
Kreisler, Fritz: Marche miniature viennoise - Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Aude Capuçon (piano) (Virgin 3 32626)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 (1) - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 423 492)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 (3) - Julia Fischer (violin), Gordan Nikolic (viola), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra/Yakov Kreizberg (PENTATONE PTC 5186 098)
Hill, Alfred: String Quartet No 3 in A minor, Carnival - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.570491)
Gabrieli, Giovanni: Canzon primi toni C170, from Sacrae Symphoniae - Salaputia Brass/Jeroen Berwaerts (Audite 97 725)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Les tendres plaintes/Les tourbillons, from Pièces de Clavecin 1724/L'Entretien des muses - Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) (DG 4837701)
Massenet, Jules: Orchestral Suite No 2, Hungarian Scenes (5) - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail: Procession of the Sardar - Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic/Sascha Goetzel (Onyx 4124)
Monn, Georg Matthias: Cello Concerto in G minor (1) - Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Petra Müllejans (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1816)
Zumaya, Manuel de: Angélicas milicias - Coro Ciudad de La Alhambra, Ensemble Elyma/Gabriel Garrido (K617 K617 156)
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