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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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18 August 2025
with Clarissa Dunn
NZSO: Immerse 2023 Part 1, Become Ocean
TAKEMITSU: Rain Tree
ADAMS, John Luther: Become Ocean
New Zealand SO/André de Ridder
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington 28/07/23 (RNZ)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: January; November, from The Seasons Op 37 - Tony Yan Tong Chen (pno) (RNZ )
Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish - Auckland Philharmonia/Giordano Bellincampi (RNZ 2025-02-20TD)
Mahler, Gustav: Der Einsame im Herbst, from Das Lied von der Erde - Hadleigh Adams (bar), Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei (RNZ OW 2023-07-22)
Latest audio
Friday, 12 February 2021
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Alice Forrester MACKAY: Three Songs, from Maoriland
12 Feb 2021"I did but wear my wedding ring, A bare week and day, When a grey ship, a grim ship, It took my love a way". Read more Video, Audio
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Erima Maewa KAIHAU: Three Māori Songs
12 Feb 2021"Beneath a tree stricken with love I crept, Weary and lost alone I slept". Read more Video, Audio
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Paul SCHRAMM: Three Jazz Songs
12 Feb 2021"The angry wind blows, I shiver like a child. The woman’s not coming home again, I swig all the cognac, And fear for her". Read more Video, Audio
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Claude Meurisse HAYDON: Two Songs
12 Feb 2021"Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is be hind us, O'er hilltop and meadow the moon gently beams". Read more Video, Audio
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Warwick BRAITHWAITE: Dithyramb
12 Feb 2021"I will live so that my soul will nobler be". Read more Video, Audio
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Paul SCHRAMM: Four Songs for Baritone
12 Feb 2021"They drag their cells with them in blank looks, And stagger, light-deprived pilgrims, in a square, The hunted who suffocate in the stone dungeon, The hunted trampled by a paragraph". Read more Video, Audio
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Mary BRETT: Horses of the Dawn
12 Feb 2021"The soul is free; no bonds of Time nor Space Hedge it a round with fetters forg'd at birth". Read more Video, Audio
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Doris A PRENTICE: Three New Zealand Bird Songs
12 Feb 2021"Tui! Tui throssel sang... May be such a carrilon over Arthur's table rang". Read more Video, Audio
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Erima Maewa KAIHAU: Haere Ra
12 Feb 2021"This is the hour for us to say good-bye; Soon you’ll be sailing far across the sea". Read more Video, Audio
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Monday, 18 January 2021
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Joe ZAWINUL arr David Bremner: Birdland
18 Jan 2021Performed by the National Band of New Zealand conducted by David Bremner in the Dr John Gallagher Concert Chamber, Hamilton, 1 November 2020. Read more Audio
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Joseph John RICHARDS arr D Broadbent: Midwest March
18 Jan 2021Performed by the National Band of New Zealand conducted by David Bremner in the Dr John Gallagher Concert Chamber, Hamilton, 1 November 2020. Read more Audio
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Johnny RICHARDS arr Harper: La suerte de los tontos
18 Jan 2021Performed by the National Band of New Zealand conducted by David Bremner in the Dr John Gallagher Concert Chamber, Hamilton, 1 November 2020. Read more Audio
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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
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- Write to PO Box 123, Wellington
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Concert Hall Collection
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Resound
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