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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.
Monday to Friday at 8pm, with Opera at 7pm on Saturday
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13 January 2026
with Clarissa Dunn
CMNZ: Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre (violin), Harumi Rhodes (violin), Richard O'Neill (viola), András Fejér (cello)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in G minor Op 74/3, Rider
Ngwenyama, Nokuthula: Flow
Beethoven, Ludwig van: String Quartet in C Op 59/3, Razumovsky
Ravel, Maurice: String Quartet in F (2)
(RNZ Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland)
Farquhar, David: Harlequin Overture - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Young (RNZ)
Vinten, Michael: Sinfonietta - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Hamish McKeich (RNZ 2012)
Dushkin, Samuel : Sicilienne - Yuka Eguchi (violin), Kemp English (piano) (RNZ)
Traditional: Efiafi, peau ongo'i vale - Filipe Manu (tenor, ukulele) (Whānau London Voices Royal Albert Hall, London)
Latest audio
Tuesday, 13 September 2022
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Van Diemen's Band - 'Borderlands'
13 Sep 2022Australian early instrument ensemble Van Diemen's Band presents a programme of largely 17th-century music by composers whose lives were affected by changing borders in Europe at the time, but whose… Read more Audio
Saturday, 10 September 2022
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Tuirina WEHI: Kia au tō moe
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Sarah BELKNER: Poem from War
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Leonie HOLMES: Land Pictures
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Rosa ELLIOTT: Light
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Rosa ELLIOTT: Out of Reach
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Cheryl CAMM: Banana Fanfare
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Dorothy KER: Snake, and Echo, from Close up of a Daisy
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Audio
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Cheryl CAMM: Motu Puketutu
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Katherine DIENES-WILLIAMS: Ave Maria
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Katherine BELL: Te Mea Nui
10 Sep 2022Performed by Luminata Voices conducted by Vanessa Kay at their concert 'Let Her Voice Shine', St Matthew's-in-the-City, Auckland, 10 September 2022. Read more Audio
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Luminata Voices - Let Her Voice Shine
10 Sep 2022A relatively new choir in Auckland, the all-woman Luminata Voices perform a concert of music by New Zealand women composers in St Matthew's-in-the-City. Their musical director Vanessa Kay conducts. Read more Audio
Music Alive
Catch the first broadcast of a new recording from New Zealand, or something from overseas - perhaps from the European Broadcasting Union, the Salzburg Festival or the Sydney Opera House. The NZSO are regular performers, and Thursdays are often the domain of the Auckland Philharmonia; You might hear an ensemble touring with Chamber Music New Zealand, something from the Wellington Jazz Festival or music from around the world via the WOMAD festival.
Tune into Music Alive on RNZ Concert on Monday to Friday at 8pm, with Opera at 7pm on Saturday
- Text to 8824 (texts cost 20 cents)
- Email concert@rnz.co.nz
- RNZ Concert Facebook Page
- Write to PO Box 123, Wellington
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Resound
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