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What piece of classical music do you love the most?
19 days agoRNZ Concert invites you to request your favourite piece of classical music. It could be an amazing movie score that stops you in your tracks, the music you walked down the aisle to, or an opera aria… Read more
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Four players for the Four Last Songs
6 Oct 2025NZTrio's Amalia Hall talks about performing a pared-back arrangement of Strauss's Four Last Songs with the soprano Emma Pearson. Read more Audio
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From Mozart to the marimba
3 Oct 2025Freelance percussionist Naoto Segawa talks about the march that put him on the road to becoming a professional musician. Read more Video, Audio
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Seeking brass in pocket
2 Oct 2025The Christchurch music institution, Woolston Brass, is fundraising to rebuild its quake damaged bandrooms. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: For whom the bell tolls.
1 Oct 2025There's something soothing about the sound of a town hall clock on a Sunday morning. This one is in Auckland. Read more Audio
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Her own Stabat Mater
1 Oct 2025Composer Victoria Kelly explains why she couldn't stick to the script in her latest choral work. Read more Audio
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Opportunity slides through the door
30 Sep 2025Ahead of his concert with the Auckland Philharmonia, British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor remembers the mystery message that galvanised his career. Read more Video, Audio
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In the footsteps of Jenny McLeod
29 Sep 2025Manawatū musician, composer and educator Kane Parsons has been awarded the 2025/26 SOUNZ Community Commission, and is planning a work for a cast of hundreds. Read more Video, Audio
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Songs of the sea reimagined for Aotearoa
26 Sep 2025Toi Toi Opera in Ōtautahi Christchurch is presenting a semi-staged production of Riders to the Sea - a short opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - along with sea-themed works by Dame… Read more Audio
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Jazz supergroup ldvf to perform at Wellington festival
25 Sep 2025Recently-formed ensemble ldvf is coming to this year's Wellington Jazz Festival in October. RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping catches up with the quartet's drummer, NZ musician Myele Manzanza. Read more Audio
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From Wellington to Warsaw
24 Sep 2025Young Wellington singer Francesca Fagan is off to Poland to take part in the finals of the Stanisław Jopek International Singing Competition - she's one of only eight international finalists, and the… Read more Video, Audio
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Chloe Chua: "the most important competition is to compete with yourself"
23 Sep 2025Rising violin star Chloe Chua will be performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonia this Thursday. She came into the studio to chat with RNZ Concert's David Morriss. Read more Video, Audio
08 October 2025
with Bryan Crump
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 91 in Eb (3) - Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/René Jacobs (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1849)
Goodman, Benny: Rachel's Dream - Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Wolfgang Meyer (clarinet), Bamberg Symphony big band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)
Berlioz, Hector: Overture, from Waverley - Bergen Philharmonic/Andrew Davis (Chandos CHSA 5118)
Lilburn, Douglas: Willow Song - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RAT D040)
Smith, Alice Mary ed Graham-Jones: Symphony in A minor (2) - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10283)
Schubert, Franz: An die Musik D547 - Daniel Hope (violin), Christoph Israel (piano) (DG 4839482)
Wagner, Richard: Siegfried Idyll - Vienna Symphony/Wolfgang Sawallisch (Philips 422 480)
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Chopin, Frédéric arr Davydov: Waltz in C# minor Op 64/2 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (piano) (Onyx ONYX4078)
Messner, Joseph: Salzburg Suite Op 51 (1) - Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/Ivor Bolton (OEHMS OC 734)
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky (1) - Ogen Trio (OGEN OG 0010)
Hess, Nigel: East Coast Pictures (1) - London Symphonic Wind Orchestra/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 9764)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 16 (2) - Daniel Barenboim (piano), Hansjörg Schellenberger (oboe), Larry Combs (clarinet), Dale Clevenger (horn), Daniele Damiano (bsn) (ERATO 4509 96359)
Gounod, Charles: Ah! Je veux vivre, from Romeo & Juliet - Pretty Yende (soprano), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Giacomo Sagripanti (Sony 88985 430152)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D BWV1069 (4) - Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (dir) (BIS SACD 1431)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Piano Trio in C HobXV/27 (3) - Beaux Arts Trio (Philips 422 831)
Fauré, Gabriel: Masques & Bergamasques (4) - BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9416)
Gnattali, Radamés arr Cazes: Variaçoes sobre o Samba do Urubú - Camerata Brazil/Henrique Cazes (dir) (EMI 5 56939)
Bruch, Max: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 (3) - Nicola Benedetti (violin), Czech Philharmonic/Jacob Hrusa (Decca 476 409)
Debussy, Claude: Suite bergamasque (1) - Angela Hewitt (piano) (Hyperion CDA 67898)
Briggs, David: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge/Stephen Layton (Hyperion CDA 67808)
Boyce, William: Symphony No 4 in F - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557278)
Ravel, Maurice arr Salzedo/Vallières: Sonatine - 1. Modéré - Valérie Milot (harp), Jocelyne Roy (flute), François Vallières (viola) (Analekta AN 2 9985)
Glass, Philip: Symphony No 3 (1) - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra/Dennis Russell Davies (Nonesuch 7559 79581)
Kapsberger, Johannes Hieronymus: Avrilla mia - Mina Kanaridis (soprano), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC 4763828)
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Schubert, Franz: Three Piano Pieces D946 (3) - Maria Joao Pires (piano) (DG 477 6607)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Violin Concerto No 3 in G K216 - Chloe Chua (violin), Singapore Symphony/Hans Graf (Pentatone PTC5187474)
Squire, William Henry: Danse Rustique - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (piano) (BIS CD 1562)
Schumann, Robert: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish (2) - Antwerp Symphony Orchestra/Philippe Herreweghe (PHI LPH040)
Albéniz, Isaac orch Arbós/Surinach: El Polo from Iberia Book 3 - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Jésus López-Cobos (TELARC 2CD 80470)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Song without Words Op 38/2; Song without Words Op 19/3, Hunter's - Tessa Birnie (piano) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da: Missa Papae Marcelli - Kyrie - Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips (Gimell CD GIM 994)
Three to Seven
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