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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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Loving the Dunedin Sound
6 Mar 2025Ahead of his performance with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Umberto Clerici explains why he loves playing with semi-professional musicians. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Country road with crickets
5 Mar 2025Take the sound of a summer night with you, no matter how cold it is outside. Read more Audio
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Taking opera on tour
5 Mar 2025Soprano Sophie Sparrow and baritone Jonathan Eyers are one half of a quartet of young singers taking a show of opera highlights around the North Island. Read more Audio
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From computer software to the concert hall
4 Mar 2025Adrien de Croy, businessman turned composer, talks to RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump about his first symphony. Read more Audio
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Ashley Brown and music beyond NZTrio
3 Mar 2025After 23 years, cellist Ashley Brown is leaving NZTrio. He speaks with RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump. Read more Audio
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Eddie Muliaumaseali'i and the Howard Morrison touch
28 Feb 2025Ahead of his performance in Rotorua's Opera in the Pā, Kiwi Samoan bass-baritone Eddie Muliaumaseali'i remembers how a meeting with a Māori music legend galvanised his singing career.
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Chopin by candlelight
27 Feb 2025Australian pianist Piers Lane returns to New Zealand to perform all of Chopin's Nocturnes. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: while the city sleeps.
26 Feb 2025After a night swim, RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump recorded the sounds of the city floating across the calm waters of Wellington harbour. Read more Audio
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Making the piano talk
26 Feb 2025Back in New Zealand for a three-concert tour, Kiwi-born, France based pianist Jeffrey Grice talks to RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump about his approach to music making. Read more Video, Audio
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Making comedy out of the classics
25 Feb 2025Ex-pat Kiwi Robbie Ellis is forging a career in music comedy in Chicago. Read more Video, Audio
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Samoan values in a choral setting
24 Feb 2025Miki Magasiva, director of Tinā, talks about the movie's choral connection. Read more Video, Audio
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Kodály in the classroom
21 Feb 2025Amelia Giles talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about Kodály Concept Music Education, studying in Hungary, and teaching a Kodály Concept-centred classroom music programme as the Music Specialist… Read more Video, Audio
12 September 2025
with Bryan Crump
Dussek, Jan Ladislav: Sinfonia in Bb (3) - Helsinki Baroque Orch/Aapo Häkkinen (Naxos 8.572683)
Ravel, Maurice: Prelude, from Le Tombeau de Couperin - Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Bamberg SO/Jakub Hrusa (DG 4836622)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Prelude & Fugue No 9 in E major BWV 878, from Well-Tempered Clav - Hélène Grimaud (pno) (DG 477 7978)
Paredes, Carlos arr Golijov: Cançâo Verdes Anos - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 7559 79490)
Brahms, Johannes orch Dvorak: Hungarian Dance No 20 in E minor - Royal Phil/Rafael Kubelík (EMI CDZ 7 62608)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da: Gloria, from Missa Confitebor tibi Domine - Yale Schola Cantorum/David Hill (Hyperion CDA 68210)
Fauré, Gabriel: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 (4) - Domus (Hyperion CDA 66166)
Britten, Benjamin: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (TELARC CD 80660)
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Dvořák, Antonín arr Waxman: Humoresque in Gb Op 101/7 - Daniel Hope (vln), Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo (DG 477 9301)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49 (1) - Renaud Capuçon (vln), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich ( (EMI 5 57468)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Flute Concerto in G RV435 - Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Australian CO/Richard Tognetti (dir) (EMI 3 47212)
Dett, Robert Nathaniel: Dance - Juba, from In The Bottoms - Denver Oldham (piano) (New World NW 367)
Traditional: The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary - Jordi Savall (viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) (Alia Vox AVSA 9865)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 (3) - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (SIMAX PSC 1180)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Keyboard Concerto in F HobXVIII/3 (3) - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno/dir), Norwegian CO (EMI CDC 5 56960)
Wieniawski, Henryk: Scherzo-Tarantella - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Philip Moll (pno) (Decca 417289)
Koehne, Graeme: To His Servant Bach, God Grants a Final Glimpse, The Morning Star - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics 476 6502)
Bach, Johann Sebastian arr Yang: Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 (2) - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Elias String Quartet (EMI 6 79018)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 5 in D Op 107, Reformation (2) - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 459 156)
Kaldalóns, Sigvaldi arr Vikingur Olafsson: Ave María - Víkingur Ólafsson (pno) (DG 4861681)
Brahms, Johannes: Clarinet Trio in A minor Op 114 (4) - Marie Ross (clarinet), Claire-Lise Démettre (cello), Petra Somlai (piano) (Centaur CRC3760)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphony in D Wq183/1 - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67924)
Monteverdi, Claudio: Ohimè ch'io cado - Pepe Becker (sop), Peter Walls (vln), Euan Murdoch (cello), Douglas Mews (hpschd) (RNZ UB52)
Harris, Ross: Moler (Painter) - The Kugels (Atoll 508166)
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Vaughan Williams, Ralph arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.555867)
Bruch, Max: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 - Nikolaj Znaider (vln), London Phil/Lawrence Foster (EMI 5 56906)
Albéniz, Isaac: El Puerto, from Iberia Book 1 - Benjamin Grosvenor (pno) (PRIVATE RECORDING 837 001)
Arne, Thomas: Overture No 7 in D - Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage (Chandos CHAN 0722)
Fauré, Gabriel: Pavane - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)
Dvořák, Antonín arr Burghauser: Waltzes Op 54 (1) - Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa (Supraphon SU 3867)
Squire, William Henry: Danse Rustique - Steven Isserlis (cello), Stephen Hough (pno) (BIS CD 1562)
Dowland, John arr Bergeron, Dagher, Slattery: Fine knacks for ladies - La Nef (Atma ACD2 2650)
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