Navigation for Station navigation
Listen to music and performing arts interviews here when it suits you, as broadcast at 4pm most days:
-
Music professor hands over the baton
4 Dec 2023Peter Adams, a stalwart of the Dunedin music scene, is retiring as Music Professor at Otago University after more than 30 years with the institution. Read more Audio
-
Auckland composer on capital assignment
1 Dec 2023Aucklander Eve de Castro-Robinson is Orchestra Wellington's Composer-in-Residence for 2024, and she won't even have to move south. Read more Video, Audio
-
They're dancing to our music here
30 Nov 2023They met at Auckland Univesity, before heading off to opposite ends of the planet. Now composer Celeste Oram and conductor Tianyi Lu are collaborating on a new ballet in Switzerland. Read more Video, Audio
-
Catching them when they're young
We tend to focus on the masters, but every musician has to start somewhere. And that's when Christopher Norton comes to the fore. Read more Video, Audio
-
A child of the counter-revolution
27 Nov 2023Stephen Diaz had to base himself in Europe to become a professional countertenor, but that doesn't stop him from coming back to Aotearoa when he can. Read more Audio
-
Thabani Gapara: The accidental Aotearoan
24 Nov 2023Zimbabwe-born saxophone player Thabani Gapara is embracing the opportunities afforded him by his adopted homeland. Read more Audio
-
A hundred years of Disney scores
23 Nov 2023The Walt Disney Company turned a hundred last month. Cultural historian Dr Malcolm Cook talks to Bryan Crump about the role music's played in the company's success. Read more Video, Audio
-
The second coming of Matilda The Musical
22 Nov 2023A brand new production of Tim Minchin's awarding-winning show is returning to Auckland next year. Bryan Crump talks with director Grant Meese. Read more Audio
-
Singer answers the call of the Whanganui
21 Nov 2023Soprano Deborah Wai Kapohe talks with Bryan Crump about coming home to her whenua to sing in a fundraising gig for Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery. Read more Audio
-
Unlocking the mysteries of the musical mind
20 Nov 2023It seems singing to your infant does help to calm them down, but how? Dr Sam Mehr from The Music Lab at Auckland University is trying to find out. Read more Audio
-
Bringing classically-trained confidence to waiata project
17 Nov 2023Opera singer Kawiti Waetford talks to Bryan Crump about his role in a new online celebration of song in Te Reo Māori. Read more Audio
-
Music with plenty of horsepower
16 Nov 2023John Robinson from the Australian folk fusion quartet Equus talks with Bryan Crump ahead of their appearance at next year's WOMAD festival. Read more Video, Audio
06 December 2023
with Bryan Crump
Prokofiev, Sergei: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical (4) - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80289)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Cavatina, from String Quartet in Bb Op 130 - Artemis Quartet (Virgin 6 945840)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Overture, from Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor BWV1067 - Penelope Evison (fl), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble (BIS CD 249)
Spoliansky, Mischa: Heute Nacht oder nie, from Das Lied einer Nacht - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Berlin Radio SO/Jochen Rieder (Sony 88843 08771)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 104 in D, London (4) - Orch of the 18th Century/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)
Strauss, Richard: Duet Concertino for clarinet & bassoon - Larry Combs (cl), David McGill (bsn), Chicago SO/Daniel Barenboim (teldec 3984 23913)
Butterworth, George: Is my team ploughing? from Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Iain Burnside (pno) (BBC Music BBC MM 298)
4.00
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Souvenir de Florence (4) - Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson (leader) (Channel Classics CCS SA 21504)
Dvořák, Antonín: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 (3) - I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky (Chandos CHAN 9484)
Rutter, John: Gloria (1) - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Wallace Collection/Timothy Brown (Brilliant Classics 9087)
Marais, Marin: Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics ABC 4818575)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor K491 (3) - Evgeny Kissin (pno), London SO/Colin Davis (EMI 3 82879)
Brebeuf, Jean De arr Anderson: The Huron Carol - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)
5.00
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 3 in D D200 (4) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)
Schumann, Robert: Fantasy in C Op 17 (2) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67166)
Byrd, William: Laudibus in sanctis - Auckland Dorian Choir/Peter Godfrey (Ex Kiwi SLD 45)
Hofmann, Leopold: Oboe Concerto in G (1) - Stefan Schilli (ob), Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia/Béla Drahos (Naxos 8.553979)
Martynov, Vladimir: The Beatitudes - Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch 529776)
Rossini, Gioachino: The Barber of Seville, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 893)
Bush, Kate arr Lawson: This Woman's Work - Jess Gillam (saxophone), BBC Concert Orchestra/Richard Balcombe (Decca 4834862)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 (1) - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena (Chandos CHAN 10748)
6.00
Mathieu, André: Laurentienne No 2 - Alain Lefèvre (piano) (Analekta AN29275)
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Vienna Phil/André Previn (DG 474 8742)
Kern, Jerome: The Song Is You, from Music in the Air - Thomas Hampson (bar), London Sinfonietta/John McGlinn (EMI 7 54883)
Verdi, Giuseppe arr Fernie: Grand March, from Aida - Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Naxos 8.570726)
Boccherini, Luigi: String Quintet in F minor G348 (4) - Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67287)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Fantasia in D minor K397 - Tony Yan Tong Chen (piano) (Rattle RAT-D112)
Paganini, Niccolò arr Walden: Caprice No 24 - Sabine Meyer (cl), Wolfgang Meyer (cl), Bamberg Symphony big band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)
Three to Seven
Presenter
