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Wonderful classical, jazz and contemporary Christmas tunes
If Christmas pop tunes have a negative impact on your goodwill to all, then we have good news. RNZ Concert's resident music fans share favourite classical, contemporary and jazz pieces to restore your Christmas spirit. Video
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Unknown Country: Listening for the Sound of Aotearoa New Zealand
3 Dec 2023Award-winning writer, musician, and broadcaster Nick Bollinger investigates what differentiates New Zealand pop music from its overseas cousins, and what that can tell us about our identity in the 2023 Lilburn Lecture. Video, Audio
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Martinborough Music Festival 2023: Opening Night
10:04 am todayLunchtime Concert: Top classical musicians visit the small Wairarapa town to perform stellar chamber music, including Elgar's Romance for bassoon, Rachmaninov's cello sonata, and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence.
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Celebrating Togetherness - Ngū Kīoro, Harikoa Ake
9:00 am todayLISTEN: An exuberant and diverse crowd packed the Michael Fowler Centre for this, the first concert to a live audience by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (or any large ensemble worldwide) following the first COVID lock downs.
Programmes
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Music Alive
Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house for live concerts featuring local and international artists.
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Concert Talk
Interviews, spoken features and podcasts collected from across RNZ Concert.
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Inside Out
Nick Tipping brings you classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz.
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New Horizons
A guide to the worlds of rock, pop, country, folk and beyond, hosted by music critic William Dart.
Presenters
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Andrew Clark
Station: Concert
Programme: Mornings
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Carey McDonald
Station: Concert
Programme: Mornings
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Robyn Jaquiery
Station: Concert
Programme: Hymns on Sunday
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David Morriss
Station: Concert
Programme: Evenings
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Nick Tipping
Station: Concert
Programme: Days
Monday 04 December
3:00 PM. Three to Seven
with Bryan Crump
Handel, George Frideric: Music for the Royal Fireworks, La Réjouissance - Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis ES 9903)
Chopin, Frédéric: Waltz in Ab Op 34/1 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (DAL SEGNO DSPRCD 060)
Ibert, Jacques: Entr'acte - Anthony Ferner (fl), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)
Hahn, Gunnar: The earth is waiting - Sofia Vocal Ensemble (Footprint Records FRCD 060)
Goss, Stephen: The Albéniz Concerto (1) - Xuefei Yang (gtr), Barcelona SO/Eiji Oue (EMI 6 98361)
Caccini, Giulio: La spagnoletta - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)
Boccherini, Luigi: Symphony in C G505 - German Chamber Academy, Neuss/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 172)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben, from Zaïde - Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), London SO/Colin Davis (Decca 465 145)
4.00
Messiaen, Olivier: Quartet for the End of Time (1) Liturgie De Cristal - Erich Gruenberg (vln), Gervase de Peyer (cl), William Pleeth (cello), Michel Béroff (pno) (EMI 212688)
Adams, Peter: Proclamation, canons and dances - Jade String Quartet (Rattle RATD138)
Bizet, Georges: Symphony in C (2) - City of Birmingham SO/Louis Frémaux (EMI CDM 7 69643)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Keyboard Sonata No 44 in F HobXVI/29 (1) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67882)
Wagner, Richard: Träume, from Wesendonck Lieder - Measha Brueggergosman (sop), Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst (DG 4778773)
Mozart, Leopold: Sinfonia pastorale in G major: Allegro moderato - Edward Allen (horn), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (NAXOS 8553347)
Avison, Charles: Concerto Grosso in D Op 3/5 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (vln/dir), Avison Ensemble (Naxos 8.557905-06)
5.00
Schumann, Robert: Piano Quintet in Eb Op 44 (3) - Leif Ove Andsnes (pno), Artemis Quartet (Virgin 3 95143)
Bach, Johann Sebastian arr Tarkmann: Concerto for cor anglais, strings & continuo (1) - Albrecht Mayer (cor anglais), English Concert/Julian Podger (dir) (Decca 478 1517)
Debussy, Claude: Piano Trio in G (1) - Te Kōkī Trio (Rattle RAT D069 2017)
Saint-Saëns, Camille arr Hargreaves: French military march, from Algerian Suite - Grimethorpe Colliery Band/Peter Parkes (Chandos CHAN 4542)
Sigurbjörnsson, Thorkell: Heyr himna smiður - Voces8 (Decca 4851626)
Trad: Cherry Ripe - Tommy Reilly (harmonica), Skaila Kanga (harp) (Chandos CHAN 6643)
Marcello, Alessandro: Oboe Concerto in D minor : III. Presto - Dianne Lacelle (oboe), Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie (ATMA ACD22600)
Sullivan, Arthur: Iolanthe, Overture - Scottish CO/Alexander Faris (NIMBUS NI 7067/8)
Fauré, Gabriel: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 (2) - Domus (Hyperion CDA 66166)
6.00
Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 11 (4) - Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 4797337)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 7 in D Op 10/3 - Tessa Birnie (pno) (WALSINGHAM 3WAL 80432)
Gershwin, George: My Man's Gone Now, from Porgy and Bess - Renée Fleming (sop), New York Voices, Metropolitan Opera Orch (Decca 460567)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Trumpet Concerto in Eb HobVIIe/1 (1) - Alison Balsom (tpt), Bremen German Chamber Phil (EMI 2 16213)
Walton, William: Sonata for strings (4) - Septura (Naxos 8.573825)
Wehi Whanau: Wairua Tapu - Albert Mataafa (gtr), New Zealand Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (TRUST MMT 2048)
Schumann, Clara: Three Romances Op 22 (3) - Annie Jodry (vln), Hélène Boschi (pno) (Calliope CAL 4211)