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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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19 August 2025
with Clarissa Dunn
NZCT: 2025 Chamber Music Contest Final
VILLA-LOBOS: Bachianas Brasileiras No 1, (1) and (3)
BACEWICZ: Quartet for four violins
BIZET arr WILBERG: Fantasy on Themes from Bizet's Carmen
SMETANA: Piano Trio in G minor Op 15, (3)
DAMASE: Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano
ROTA: Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano
PIAZZOLA arr VERHELST: Suite from Maria de Buenos Aires
WIENER: Go Between
Fellas with Cellas;4tissimo;Mérimée Quartet;Vzpominka;Les Mousquetaires;Nino Rota Trio;Los Piazzolanos;The Betwieners
Town Hall, Auckland 02/08/25 (RNZ)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Capriccio Italien Op 45 - Auckland Philharmonia/Giordano Bellincampi (RNZ)
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Friday, 5 July 2024
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New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir - Concert on the Eve of a Tour of China 2024
5 Jul 2024Aotearoa's finest high school choristers perform a concert in St Matthews-in-the-City on the eve of their departure for a short tour of China. Read more Audio
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PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5 in B-flat Op 100
5 Jul 2024NZSO National Youth Orchestra/Tianyi Lu
Recorded in Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre, 5 July, 2024 Audio
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KAPUSTIN: Concert Etude Op 40/8
5 Jul 2024Shan Liu (piano), recorded in Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre, 5 July, 2024 Read more Audio
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KHACHATURIAN: Piano Concerto in D-flat
5 Jul 2024Shan Liu (piano), NZSO National Youth Orchestra/Tianyi Lu
Recorded in Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre, 5 July, 2024 Audio
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LEOV, Jessie: Speculations on a Rainbow
5 Jul 20242024 NZSO National Youth Orchestra recorded in Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre, 5 July, 2024 Read more Audio
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NZSO National Youth Orchestra 2024
5 Jul 2024The 2024 NZSO National Youth Orchestra perform at Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre, conducted by Tianyi Lu Read more Audio
Thursday, 4 July 2024
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade Op 35
4 Jul 2024Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Alan Buribayev at their Premier Series concert, 'Scheherazade', Auckland Town Hall, 4 July 2024. Read more Audio
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Gareth FARR: The Horizon from Owhiro Bay
4 Jul 2024Performed as an encore by Sylvia Jiang at the Auckland Philharmonia's Premier Series concert, 'Scheherazade', Auckland Town Hall, 4 July 2024. Read more Audio
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PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 16
4 Jul 2024Performed by Sylvia Jiang with the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Alan Buribayev at their Premier Series concert, 'Scheherazade', Auckland Town Hall, 4 July 2024. Read more Audio
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Melody EÖTVÖS: The Saqqara Bird
4 Jul 2024Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Alan Buribayev at their Premier Series concert, 'Scheherazade', Auckland Town Hall, 4 July 2024. Read more Audio
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Auckland Philharmonia: The Eternal City
4 Jul 2024Giordano Bellincampi takes us to the country of his birth with a concert featuring all three of Ottorino Respighi's Rome triptyches. Read more Audio
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Auckland Philharmonia: Schererazade
4 Jul 2024New Zealand pianist Sylvia Jiang returns to the Auckland Philharmonia stage to play Prokofiev's daunting Second Piano Concerto, widely considered one of the most difficult pieces of all to play. The… 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
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