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Moment of Calm: By the billabong
16 Jul 2025RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump is down by a billabong for this week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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Late starter, strong finisher
15 Jul 2025Abhinath Berry didn't start having regular piano lessons until his mid/late teens. Now he's on the cusp of a professional career. Read more Video, Audio
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Perianes plays French and Spanish masterpieces
14 Jul 2025Pianist Javier Perianes is in New Zealand for concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Read more Video, Audio
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Hamilton Flute Festival
11 Jul 2025It's all about the flute in Hamilton this weekend. RNZ Concert's Andrew Clark speaks with the festival's founder, Kathryn Orbell. Read more Video, Audio
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Fostering a lifelong love of music for seven decades
9 Jul 2025The Christchurch School of Music is turning 70 this year. Director Celia Stewart talks about this not-for-profit organisation with a strong focus on community, and the events planned to mark the… Read more Audio
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French horn player Gabrielle Pho
8 Jul 2025Gabrielle Pho is Section Principal of the Auckland Philharmonia horns. But in the orchestra's next concert, she'll be taking centre stage with three of her colleagues for a performance of… Read more Video, Audio
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Mate Ururoa - a Gallipoli story
7 Jul 2025This weekend, Wellington Opera premieres a chamber opera by Dame Gillian Whitehead. Read more Audio
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Pianist John Chen
3 Jul 2025Pianist John Chen is back in Aotearoa touring an all-French recital for Chamber Music New Zealand. He spoke with Bryan Crump about his love of this repertoire, and his life in Uganda where he's Deputy… Read more Audio
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Singing for a living
1 Jul 2025Canterbury-raised tenor Oliver Sewell returns to Aotearoa to sing in Auckland Philharmonia's Opera in Concert performance of Verdi's La Traviata. Read more Audio
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NZ Opera appoints its first Chorusmaster Laureate
1 Jul 2025Congratulations to composer, conductor and music historian Michael Vinten on his recent appointment as Chorusmaster Laureate. Read more Video, Audio
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Conductor Adam Johnson
30 Jun 2025Canadian conductor Adam Johnson is in New Zealand to conduct this year's NZSO National Youth Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Tim Finn: from the Enz to the Opera
27 Jun 2025Ahead of the debut broadcast in Aotearoa, Tim Finn talks to RNZ Concert about his opera "Ihitai Avei’a - Star Navigator": the story of the Tahitian navigator Tupaia, who guided Cook to Aotearoa. Read more Audio
17 July 2025
with Bryan Crump
Prokofiev, Sergei arr Rozhdestvensky: Pushkiniana (7) - Russian State SO/Dmitry Yablonsky (Naxos 8.55571)
Harvey, Richard: Forlana, from Concerto Antico - John Williams (gtr), London SO/Paul Daniel (Sony SK 68337)
Albéniz, Isaac: Lavapiés, from Iberia Book 3 - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67476/7)
Sibelius, Jean: Cantique, from Two Serious Melodies Op 77 - Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Finnish Radio SO/Nicholas Collon (Ondine ODE1468-2)
Berlioz, Hector: La Belle Voyageuse Op 2/4 - Susan Mentzer (mezzo), Montreal SO (Decca 458 915)
Beck, Franz Ignaz: Sinfonia in C Op 1/6 - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (Naxos 8.554071)
Frahm, Nils: Ambre - Nils Frahm (piano, reed organ, celeste) (Erased Tapes eratp18)
Strauss, Richard: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Joy Farrall (cl), Julie Andrews (bsn), Britten Sinfonia/Nicholas Cleobury (EMI CD EMX 2238)
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Grainger, Percy: Handel in the Strand - Penelope Thwaites (pno) (UNICORN-KANCHANA DKP CD 9127)
Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (4) - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Mariss Jansons (RCO LIVE RCO 05002)
Schubert, Franz: Ave Maria D839 - Ben Baker (vln), Julian Dyson (pno) (Ben Baker BBCD 01)
Valente, Antonio: Gallarda Napolitana - Hespèrion XXI/Jordi Savall (Alia Vox AV 9820)
Granados, Enrique arr Miolin: Andaluza, from Spanish Dances Op 37 - Anders Miolin (gtr) (BIS CD 1116)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Final Waltz & Apotheosis, from The Nutcracker - women of Ambrosian Singers, London SO/André Previn (EMI 9 67694)
Bernstein, Leonard: Mambo, from West Side Story - Simón Bolívar Youth Orch of Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel (DG 477 7457)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 (3) - Tine Thing Helseth (tpt), Norwegian CO (SIMAX PSC 1292)
Garoto, Anibal Augusto Sardinha: Desvairada - Mike Marshall (mandolin), Chris Thile (mandolin) (Sugarhill 913967)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Quintet in Bb for piano & winds (1) - Nash Ensemble (CRD 3409)
Debussy, Claude orch Finno: Symphony in B minor (3) - Lyon National Orch/Jun Märkl (Naxos 8.572583)
Arnalds, Olafur: Happiness does not wait - Angèle Dubeau (vln), La Pietà (Analekta AN28748)
Infante, Manuel: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 (1) - Hecht & Shapiro (piano duo) (Azica ACD 1201)
Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von: Symphony in A (5) - Failoni Orch/Uwe Grodd (Naxos 8.553975)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto in C for two trumpets RV537 (1) - Wynton Marsalis (tpt), English CO/Raymond Leppard (SONY SK 60804)
Wagner, Richard: In fernem land, from Lohengrin - Simon O'Neill (ten), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (EMI 4 57817)
Bowen, York: Valse harmonique - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Danny Driver (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67991)
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Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 10 in G Op 14/2 - Garrick Ohlsson (pno) (Bridge 9207)
Smith, Alice Mary ed Graham-Jones: Symphony in C minor - II. Allegretto amorevole - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (CHANDOS CHAN 10283)
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