Music Alive

Competition winner Lixin Zhang plays the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.3 in C Op.2, Chopin's Ballade No.1 in G Minor Op.23 and Bartok's Allegro Barbaro at the 2016 Wallace National… Read more Audio

Marianna Kang plays Debussy's Jardin sous la pluie and movements 1 and 4 of Samuel Barber's Excursions at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music… Read more Audio

Marianna Kang plays Haydn's Piano Sonata in C Sharp Minor Hob 16:36 and The Lark by Mikhail Glinka (transcribed by Balakirev) at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of… Read more Audio

Emilly Fan plays Prelude No.8 'Un reflet dans le vent' at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Read more Audio

Emilly Fan plays movement one of Beethoven's Sonata No.7 in D, Op.10 No.3 and Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor Op.27 No.1 at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of… Read more Audio

Sean Yang plays Prelude in B Flat Op.23 No.2 by Rachmaninov and the third movement of Ravel's Sonatine at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music… Read more Audio

Christina Xiao plays Partita No.5 in G Praeambulum and Allemande by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Tone Clock Piece No.1 by Jenny McLeod at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the… Read more Audio

Conroy Hu plays Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricerata - Allegro con spirit and Franz Liszt's La Campanella at the 2016 Wallace National Junior Piano Competition at the University of Auckland Music Theatre.

The BBC Proms on RNZ Concert today features a tribute to the late, great, David Bowie. Read more Video

Indra Hughes provides an introduction to the wonderful 'Magnificat', written by J S Bach to celebrate the Christmas of 1723, at the end of his first year as Director of Music at St Thomas's Church in… Read more Audio

Stephen Layton, Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, returns to the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra with a typically ingenious programme, putting music of today in the context of music of… Read more Audio

Over seven weeks, RNZ Concert is bringing NZ audiences an exclusive selection of concerts from this year's BBC Proms; just weeks after they have been recorded live in London by the BBC. Read more Video