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Moment of Calm: Blackbirds at Dawn.
17 Sep 2025Blackbirds usually don't sing in the dead of night, but they were singing a great song early one Dunedin morning. Read more Audio
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Working through the break
17 Sep 2025New Zealand String Quartet violinist Peter Clark talks with RNZ Concert part way through the quartet's latest tour. Read more Audio
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Putting Te Reo into the libretto
16 Sep 2025Ahead of its broadcast on RNZ Concert, director Kawiti Waetford talks about Toiere, a show mixing opera with Te Reo Māori. Read more Video, Audio
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Dressed for success
15 Sep 2025Hawke's Bay tenor Lila Crichton talks about his latest gig, singing for this year's World of WearableArt show in Wellington. Read more Video, Audio
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Composing in a changing climate
12 Sep 2025This year’s SOUNZ Tarling Trust Orchestral Commission winner Joshua Pearson dedicates his prize to highlighting the vulnerability of Pasifika nations to climate change. Read more Video, Audio
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You can't beat a cornetto
11 Sep 2025Danny Lucin is a go-to man when it comes to playing the cornetto in Australia and New Zealand. He and conductor Michael Stewart talk with RNZ Concert ahead of a performance of the early 17th century… Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of calm: Ruru in the Rain.
10 Sep 2025Few things are more calming in the evening than the sound of a Ruru calling - unless you're on its menu. Read more Audio
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In it for the long hall
10 Sep 2025Waikato-raised saxophonist Simon Brew talks about coming home to manage a music venue in the heart of Cambridge. Read more Audio
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Pasifika singing - it's time to talk
9 Sep 2025Pasifika singers are an increasingly big part of the New Zealand choral scene. Will Kingi and Enyah Talamaivao are part of a Choirs Aotearoa gathering which recognises that role, but will also explore… Read more Video, Audio
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Anapela Polata’ivao and Stacey Leilua: From Tinā to opera
8 Sep 2025Anapela Polata’ivao and Stacey Leilua bring a Kiwi Samoan perspective to directing the action in NZ Opera's latest production, Jonathan Dove's "The Monster in the Maze".
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Mika Cornelius: turning mushrooms into music
5 Sep 2025Universal Veil is a new work by composer and sound designer Mika Cornelius. It's inspired by the world of fungi and their life cycles. Read more Video, Audio
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Duo Enharmonics plays Mendelssohn
4 Sep 2025Pianists Beth Chen and Nicole Chao (Duo Enharmonics) with be performing a two-piano concerto by Felix Mendelssohn this weekend, with the Wairua Sinfonietta. Read more Audio
10 November 2025
with Bryan Crump
Chaminade, Cécile arr Jarle Storløkken: Rondeau Op 97 - Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), tenThing (LAWO LWC1280)
Psathas, John: Jettatura - Tony Yan Tong Chen (piano) (Rattle RAT-D112)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Oboe Concerto in C K314 (3) - François Leleux (oboe), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis (BR Media 900 710)
Raff, Joachim: Symphony No 10 in F minor Op 213, Zur Herbstzeit (1) - Philharmonia Hungarica/Werner Andreas Albert (CPO 999 536)
Traditional arr Baker: Tarantella - Aquarelle Guitar Quartet (Chandos CHAN 10609)
Hess, Nigel: Fantasy for Violin, from Ladies in Lavender - Joshua Bell (violin), Royal Philharmonic/Nigel Hess (Sony Sk 92689)
Bruckner, Anton: Os justi - Choir of Christ's College, Cambridge/David Rowland (Christ's College CCC CD 003)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Concerto in E for flute, oboe d'amore & viola d'amore TWV53/E1 - Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Albrecht Mayer (oboe d'amore), Wolfram Christ (vla d'amore), Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (vln/dir) (EMI 5 57397)
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Saint-Saëns, Camille: The Swan, from Carnival of the Animals - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), English Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 446 050)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Demande et Reponse, from Petite suite de concert Op 77 - RTE Concert Orchestra/Adrian Leaper (Marco Polo 8.223516)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 92 in G, Oxford (4) - Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)
Goodman, Benny: Rachel's Dream - Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Wolfgang Meyer (clarinet), Bamberg Symphony big band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 (2) - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (piano) (Hyperion CDA 67633)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang arr Gilles Ouellet: Marian and Robin - Angèle Dubeau (violin), La Pietà (Analekta AN28733)
Jacchini, Giuseppe Maria: Sonata in D for trumpet & strings - Alison Balsom (trumpet), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (org/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67359)
Finzi, Gerald: Fughetta, from Five Bagatelles Op 23 - Murray Khouri (clarinet), Peter Pettinger (piano) (Continuum CCD 1038)
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Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 3 in D D200 (3) - Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concerto in C minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 (1) - Ramón Ortega Quero (oboe), Janine Jansen & Friends/Janine Jansen (vln/dir) (Decca 478 5362)
Hespe, George: The Three Musketeers: Athos, Poet and Lover - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand/Nigel Weeks (Trust MMT 2049)
Respighi, Ottorino: La Primavera, from Three Botticelli Pictures - Lausanne Chamber Orchestra/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80309)
Hovhaness, Alan: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain (2) - London Symphony Orchestra/John Williams (SONY SK 62729)
Kreisler, Fritz: Schön Rosmarin - Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano) (DG 471 500)
McGlashan, Don: End Credits, from Dean Spanley - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Marc Taddei (Mana 531802)
Higdon, Jennifer: Viola Concerto (3) - Roberto Díaz (viola), Nashville Symphony Orchestra/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos 8.559823)
Prokofiev, Sergei: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical (4) - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 423 624)
Chopin, Frédéric: Nocturne in B Op 32/1 - Claudio Arrau (piano) (Philips 416 441)
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Mendelssohn, Felix: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 (3) - Leonidas Kavakos (vln/director), Salzburg Camerata (Sony 88697 43303)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Sarah Jeffrey, Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Peter Oundjian (Chandos CHSA 5201)
Calandrelli, Jorge arr Campbell: Solitude - Jess Gillam (sop sax), Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) (Decca 7779637)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Keyboard Sonata in E minor Wq59/1 - Mikhail Pletnev (piano) (DG 459 614)
Massenet, Jules: Orchestral Suite No 1 (1) - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
Goodwin, Ron: Theme from Miss Marple - Consort (PICKWICK 550645)
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky (3) - Gryphon Trio (Analekta FL 2 3110)
Mercury, Freddy arr Kristan Toczko: Love of my life - HarpistKT (Leaf Music LM283)
Three to Seven
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