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1:36 PM."The joy of performing is listening," says violinist Jennifer Koh, in New Zealand to play Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio

10:49 AM.A Spanish nobleman attacking a windmill; birdsong; drunken soldiers singing folk songs - just some of the musical depictions in NZ Barok's final concert of 2019. Read more Audio

5:00 AM.How do RNZ engineers wire up an orchestra ready for radio play? With a lot of microphones, for a start.   Read more Audio

3:11 PM.Beethoven's string quartets cross cultural divides as Quatuor Ébène performs them around the world. Read more Audio

12:36 PM.Visionary, former partner of Lou Reed and Nasa's only artist-in-residence - Laurie Anderson is taking audiences at the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts on A Trip to the Moon, on an out of body… Read more Video, Audio

12:04 PM.Violinist Amalia Hall on performing the Barber Violin Concerto with Orchestra Wellington and her recent concerts with NZTrio. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Australian dancer Roshanne Wijeyeratne has Sri Lankan heritage but has become a passionate advocate for Andalusian flamenco. She is running flamenco workshops in Auckland before bringing her show Ida… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.NZ soul singer-songwriter Louis Baker still loves the classical music his mum played him as a kid. He’ll be voting in RNZ Concert's classical music countdown Settling the Score, for an old favourite… Read more Audio

3:47 PM.Split into three generational groups (under 30s, 30-60s and over 60s) the participants in this community choral event express what they really think of each other - in song. Read more Audio

3:44 PM.Back with the NZSO after a few years in the UK playing with the Royal Philharmonic, horn player Samuel Jacobs talks with David Morriss about some of the projects he's been involved in. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Actor and director Jennifer Ward-Lealand talks about her earliest memory of music. The New Zealander of the Year 2020 says as a young girl she listened to Violetta’s aria 'Croce e delizia' from… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.When Shaan Singh of Wellington indie-pop group Drax Project needs inspiration, he turns to 16th century German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Music lover Joy Cowley chooses her favourite piece of classical music and tells us about the pleasure she gets from Debussy’s ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’. Read more Video, Audio

1:00 PM.Guitarist and songwriter Molly Tuttle will plays her first ever New Zealand show on Sunday October 13th, as part of the Americana Fest at the Tuning Fork in Auckland. She spoke with Elliott Childs… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Composer HK Gruber talks to David Morriss about returning to New Zealand for the first time since 1955 when he toured here singing in the Vienna Boys’ Choir.  This time he's here to conduct the New… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.NZ-born Holly Mathieson returns to conduct an all-Kiwi cast in NZ Opera's production Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Read more Audio

1:29 PM.The Orchestra’s Choice for the 2019 Todd Young Composer Awards references the bombing of Guernica and it has a personal connection for the young composer. Read more

1:50 PM.Dramatic coloratura soprano and astute businesswoman Madeleine Pierard has returned home from London to perform in NZ Opera's new production of The Turn of the Screw. Read more Audio

10:30 AM.From the slums of Havana to the world's greatest stages, acclaimed ballet dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta has led an extraordinary life. He has danced with the English National Ballet, National… Read more Video, Audio

10:23 AM.The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra made a  racket with a diverse programme of Zappa, Holst and the world premiere of concerto for the LA Percussion Quartet. Tony Ryan was there. Read more Video

1:00 PM.A 55-minute orchestral journey through the history of New Zealand from pre-European times to today is being performed by the NZSO this week, with the help of local school children. Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Percussion quartets are rare, and their list of instruments number in the hundreds, from marimbas to found scraps of metal and plastic. The Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Percussion Quartet is heading… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit Broadway musical School of Rock opened at the Civic in Auckland last week. A couple of the stars pop by to explain why the musical is rocking Auckland. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has been described as one of the world’s most versatile pianists. Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Austrian-New Zealand bass Anthony Robin Schneider gives Clarissa Dunn an insider's view on the challenges of singing the bass part in Beethoven's Choral Symphony. Read more Audio