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Settling The Score 2025: Your Choice Requests
7 days agoRNZ Concert invites you to request your favourite piece of classical music. It could be an amazing movie score that stops you in your tracks, the music you walked down the aisle to, or an opera aria… Read more
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Ascending the Everest of the cello
17 Oct 2025Inbal Megiddo talks to RNZ Concert about her recording of all six of J S Bach's cello suites. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Songs of the Seagulls
16 Oct 2025Can a seagull sing a Moment of Calm? Listen and decide. Read more Audio
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Ten thousand for a talented tenor
16 Oct 2025Lawyer and arts supporter Jim Stevenson loved the sound of the tenor voice. Now a trust set up after his death is looking to support talented singers make the leap from study to a professional career.
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Pulling the strings
15 Oct 2025Wellington Youth Orchestra principal cellist Tomos Christie and prinicipal viola Solace Ward speak to RNZ Concert ahead of the orchestra's big gig in the Michael Fowler Centre. Read more Audio
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Viva Voce turns 40
14 Oct 2025The Auckland chamber choir Viva Voce has reached its fifth decade, founder and Music Director John Rosser talks to RNZ Concert ahead of the birthday celebrations. Read more Audio
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A touch of the modern
13 Oct 2025French conductor Pierre Bleuse chats with RNZ Concert ahead of directing the Auckland Philharmonia in a deliberately diabolical programme. Read more Audio
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Unwrapping Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
10 Oct 2025Audiences at Opus Orchestra's next concerts get to delve deep into one of Beethoven's best-loved works. Read more Audio
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Opera in the cathedral
9 Oct 2025Wellington Cathedral of St Paul is staging a production of Noye's Fludde - Benjamin Britten's community opera retelling the story of Noah and the Ark. RNZ Concert talks with the director, Jacqui… Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Dusk at a country station.
9 Oct 2025The South Island has Cass, the North has Ormondville. Read more Audio
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An envoy from Moomin Valley
8 Oct 2025Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto talks about his gigs with the NZSO and his family's connection with the creator of a beloved series of children's books.
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Aotearoa Jazz Orchestra debut
7 Oct 2025John Rae and Oscar Lavën talk to RNZ Concert ahead of what they hope will be a pivotal moment in the history of New Zealand jazz. Read more Audio
20 October 2025
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Bach, Johann Sebastian arr Luka & Léo Ispir: Two-part Invention in F BWV779 - Luka Ispir (violin), Léo Ispir (cello) (Erato 2173276986)
Biddington, Eric: Festival Dance - Mark Hobson (clarinet), Sarah Masters (clarinet), Gretchen Dunsmore (clarinet), Gloria Streat (bass cl) (MANU CD MANU 1558)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 (4) - Vienna Philharmonic/Christian Thielemann (SONY 88697 92717)
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Bassoon Sonata in G Op 168 (3) - Rachel Gough (bsn), Julius Drake (piano) (Cala CACD 1017)
Kanengiser, William: African Suite - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Tim Timmermans (djembe) (Sony SK 60274)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto Grosso in D minor RV565 - Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul (dir) (AVI 855 3060)
Quilter, Roger: Go, lovely rose Op 24/3 - James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano) (Chandos CHAN20322)
Glazunov, Alexander: Saxophone Concerto in Eb Op 109 - Karel Krautgartner (saxophone), Prague Symphony Orchestra/Václav Smetácek (Supraphon SU 3968)
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Shostakovich, Dmitri: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Philadelphia Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)
Ketèlbey, Albert: In the Mystic Land of Egypt - New Symphony Orchestra of London/Robert Sharples (Decca 452 987)
Jenkins, John: Sonata in 3 parts No 6 in C major, Z 795 - Ensemble Masques/Olivier Fortin (hpschd/dir) (Analekta AN 2 9905)
Rathburn, Elton: Canadian Brass Rag - Canadian Brass (CBC Records MVCD 1011)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish (2) - Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 4797337)
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio: Calata ala spagnola - Piffaro (Archiv 453 441)
Brahms, Johannes: Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op 105/1 - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (piano) (Atoll ACD280)
Krommer, Franz: Wind Partita in Bb Op 45/1 (4) - Josef Triebensee Ensemble/Jeroen Weierink (ETCETERA KTC 1141)
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Sinding, Christian: Rustle of Spring - Leon McCawley (piano) (Somm SOMMCD0680)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in C Op 76/3, Emperor (1) - Alban Berg Quartet (EMI CDC 5 56166)
Cowan, Claire: Faster than Beauty, from Jean Cocteau soundtrack - Claire Cowan, studio ensemble (Claire Cowan Music promojean)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 (4) - Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard (SIMAX PSC 1180)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sinfonia, from Cantata No 52, Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion CDA68111)
Coleridge, Matthew: Agnus Dei, from Requiem - Choir of Royal Holloway, Maxim Calver (cello), Southern Sinfonia, Simon Earl (organ)/Rupert Gough (Convivium CR081)
Glick, Srul Irving: Suite Hébraïque No 5 I Circle Dance - Suzanne Shulman (flute), James Campbell (clarinet), Andrew Dawes (violin), Daniel Domb (cello) (CBC Records MVCD 1046)
Barber, Samuel: Overture, from School for Scandal Op 5 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman (Argo 436 288)
Bizet, Georges orch Debussy: Prelude to Act 1, from Carmen Suite for orchestra No 1 - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin (TELARC SACD 60655)
Schubert, Franz: Impromptu in Eb D899/2 - Maria João Pires (piano) (DG 457550)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Overture, from The Abduction from the Seraglio - Dresden State Orchestra/Colin Davis (RCA 74321 56698)
Van Eechaute, Prosper: Suite ancienne - Peter Vanhove (piano) (PAVANE ADW 7463)
Sculthorpe, Peter: Maranoa Lullaby - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Brodsky Quartet (Challenge CC 72007)
Rodgers & Hammerstein: Overture, from The King and I - The John Wilson Orchestra (EMI 319301)
Statham, Keith: Romance No 1 - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
Vivaldi, Antonio arr Anonymous: Violin Concerto in C RV181 (1) - Franziska Fleischanderl (salterio), Il Dolce Conforto (Christophorus CHR77471)
Schumann, Robert: String Quartet in F Op 41/2 (4) - Hagen Quartet (DG 449 214)
Merritt, Stephin: Il Libro Dell'amore (The Book of Love) - The Ten Tenors (Frog in a Box 2019)
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