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Festive fare from RNZ Concert

17 Dec 2025

RNZ Concert gives you the gift of music from around the world to soundtrack your summer festive season. Listen to classical concerts celebrating Christmas and the New Year in New Zealand. Here is what you can listen to, and when:

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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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    Three to Seven

    Bryan Crump brings you a mix of the fresh and the familiar from school’s out to dinner time and beyond.

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    Inside Out

    Nick Tipping brings you classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz.

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    Mornings

    Andrew Clark (Monday - Thursday) and Carey McDonald (Friday - Sunday) have all you need to start your day.

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Thursday 25 December

10:00 AM. Summer Days

Traditional: Verbum caro factum est - Chanticleer (Teldec 94563)

Martinu, Bohuslav: Christmas - Giorgio Koukl (piano) (Naxos 8.557914)

Bach, Johann Sebastian: Magnificat in Eb BWV243a - Dorothee Blotzky-Mields (soprano), Ingeborg Danz (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Gent Collegium Vocale/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1781.82)

Wells, John: Variations on Adeste Fideles - John Wells (organ) (RNZ UB09)

Torelli, Giuseppe: Concerto a quattro Op 8/6 - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)

11.00

RNZ Christmas Day Service - a service of Christmas readings, reflections and prayers presented by clergy from some of Wellington’s central city churches, with carols sung by Porirua choir Pacific Connection.

Price, Florence: Adoration - Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), tenThing (LAWO LWC1280)

Metcalfe, John: Stasis - Strings and woodwind session ensemble (Real World Records HDRW250)

12.00

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: March, from The Nutcracker Suite - Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Decca 417 300)

Liadov, Anatol: Glorification, from Festive Moods - Shostakovich Quartet (Olympia OCD 575)

Holst, Gustav: In the bleak midwinter - North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon (GIA Publications CD655)

Sammartini, Giovanni Battista: Concerto grosso in G minor Op 5/6 - Les Violons du Roy (Dorian DOR 90180)

Liszt, Franz orch Jacob, ed Lane: The Christmas Tree Suite - RTE Concert Orchestra/Gavin Sutherland (Naxos 8.572744)

Brahms, Johannes: Geistliches Wiegenlied Op 91/2 - Andrew Joyce (cello), Julia Joyce (viola), Rae de Lisle (piano) (Atoll ACD280)

Traditional arr Kathie Stewart: Innesheer Ships in Full Sail + I Saw Three Ships New Christmas reel - Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (Avie AV2396)

1.00

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra: Celebrate Christmas

BACH: Jauchzet, frohlocket, from Christmas Oratorio
BACH: Quia respexit humilitatem, from Magnificat
BACH: Pastoral Symphony, from Christmas Oratorio
MENDELSSOHN: Verleih' uns Frieden
MOZART: Laudamus te, from Mass in C minor
ARTLEY: The Ashwell Carol
MENDELSSOHN: Weihnachten
PROKOFIEV: Troika, from Lieutenant Kije Suite
STRAUSS: Wiegenlied Op 41/1
STRAUSS: An die Nacht Op 68/1
TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker Suite No 1, selections
ADAM arr Ryden: O Holy Night
RUTTER: Twelve Days of Christmas
MENDELSSOHN arr Willcocks: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
GRUBER arr Maskell: Silent Night

Anna Leese (sop), The Graduate Choir New Zealand, Auckland Phil/Benjamin Bayl

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland 17/12/22 (RNZ)

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel Leonard Weiss: Christmas Overture - Auckland Philharmonia/Leonard Weiss (RNZ)

Praetorius, Michael: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - The Graduate Choir NZ, Auckland Philharmonia/Hamish McKeich (RNZ)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Sugar Plum, Trepak, Waltz of the Flowers, from Nutcracker Suite No 1 Op 71a - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Northey (RNZ)

De Castro-Robinson, Eve: Star of Wonder - Voices NZ Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (RNZ 2019)

Anonymous ar Artley: Deck the Halls - Voices NZ Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (RNZ 2019)

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