Music Alive

James Judd conducts the NZSO in an uplifting programme that invites us to question the range of emotions lurking beneath the music’s smiling surface.

Recorded 30 May 2024 at the Michael Fowler… Read more Audio

André de Ridder conducts the NZSO in two of Beethoven’s most dramatic works written around the same time, both in C minor - his trailblazing Fifth Symphony and the Coriolan Overture. In between you… Read more Audio

André de Ridder conducts the NZSO in George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and legendary jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ acclaimed Blues Symphony plus a work by Bryce Dessner.

Recorded at the Michael… Read more Audio

André de Ridder conducts the NZSO in John Luther Adam’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Become Ocean. And NZSO percussionists perform Tōru Takemitsu’s incredibly atmospheric piece Rain Tree. Read more Audio

LISTEN: Eight talented secondary school ensembles compete, presenting an innovative 80s jazz-fusion piece, an arrangement of Piazzolla’s tango opera, and a classic performance of Smetana’s emotional… Read more Audio

A concert exploring the big questions of life and death through works by John Psathas, Richard Strauss and Mozart - composers who have all grappled with these universal themes in profound and… Read more Audio