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Cultural life inside the Loop
15 May 2025Tongan Kiwi Jack Bourke trained as a tenor. These days, his work is focused on maximising the benefit Auckland's art scene gets from the city's underground rail link. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: The Magic Bus Stop
14 May 2025If you take the No 25 bus to Highbury in Wellington and get your timing right, you might just hear a Kiwi or two when you step out the door. Read more Audio
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Pianist Ozan Biner-McGrath
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Ozan Biner-McGrath, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Levi Patel's Chinese love affair
14 May 2025Composer Levi Patel fell in love with a woman from Liuzhou. It didn't last, but his relationship with the Chinese city continues to blossom. Read more Video, Audio
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Pianist Roy Zhang
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Roy Zhang, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Getting the show on the screen
13 May 2025Composer Fergus Fry is also a natural-born producer. Read more Video, Audio
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From Bach to Beethoven with the NZSO
9 May 2025Japanese Maestro Masaaki Suzuki makes his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra debut. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Tree in the traffic.
8 May 2025In this week's Sonic Moment of Calm a busker dressed as a tree cuts through Wellington's traffic noise with some smooth sax. Read more Audio
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Tim Dodd: 35 years of bringing the music to you
7 May 2025On the eve of his retirement, RNZ Concert Producer Tim Dodd talks about his career, and why Aotearoa needs a dedicated commercial-free music station. Read more Audio
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You can't beat the system, but you can improve on it
7 May 2025Te Rauhii, the project bringing musical instruments to Waikato children who can't usually afford them, is ten years old. Read more Audio
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Robyn Bryant's love affair with film music
6 May 2025Robyn Bryant fell in love with film music when she saw the movie Stardust. Now she's just finished the score for one of those rarest of Kiwi flicks, a romance. Read more Video, Audio
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Musical life on a C string
5 May 2025Serenity Thurlow, Principal Viola with the Christchurch Symphony, is stepping centre-stage to perform Bartók's Viola Concerto. Read more Audio
09 October 2025
with Bryan Crump
Mendelssohn, Felix arr Hupka: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Fourteen Berlin Flutists (DABRINGHAUS & GRIMM MDG 908 1393)
Schumann, Robert: A beautiful summer morning Op 48 No 12 - Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano) (Signum SIGCD782)
Handel, George Frideric arr Tiny Béon: Passacaglia, from Keyboard Suite No 7 in G minor HWV432 - Xavier de Maistre (harp) (Sony 5505546X)
Martines, Marianna: Psalm 110 (1) Dixit Dominus - Salzburger Hofmusik/Wolfgang Brunner (CPO 777985)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Sonata No 12 in F K332 (3) - Mikhail Pletnev (piano) (DG 477 5788)
Holst, Gustav: Mercury, the Winged Messenger, from The Planets Suite - Royal Philharmonic/Vernon Handley (Alto ALC 1013)
Gifford, Brenda arr Jessica Wells: Bardju (Footprints) - Ensemble Offspring (ABC Classics ABC 4817995)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Violin Concerto No 4 in D K218 - Chloe Chua (violin), Singapore Symphony/Hans Graf (Pentatone PTC5187474)
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Debussy, Claude orch Büsser: Ballet, from Petite Suite - Ulster Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 8756)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Keyboard Sonata in G Wq62/19 - Mikhail Pletnev (piano) (DG 459 614)
Brahms, Johannes: Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op 120/2 (2) - Murray Khouri (clarinet), John McCabe (piano) (Continuum CCD 1027)
Traditional: Cossack Lullaby - Aida Garifullina (soprano), ORF Radio SO, Vienna/Cornelius Meister (Decca 478 8305)
Wonder, Stevie: Overjoyed - Calefax Reed Quintet (Pentatone PTC5187046)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Bassoon Concerto in C RV474 (1) - Sophie Dervaux (bassoon), La Folia Barockorchester (Berlin Classics 0303241BC)
Rossini, Gioachino: Overture, from The Barber of Seville - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 426 051)
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Stravinsky, Igor: Scherzo à la Russe - Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 32112)
Pachelbel, Charles Theodore: Magnificat - Canadian Brass & Berlin Philharmonic Brass (CBS MK 66708)
Wiedoeft, Rudy: Valse Vanité - Amy Dickson (saxophone), Catherine Milledge (piano) (Sony 88697 203072)
Price, Florence Beatrice: Symphony No 1 in E minor (4) - Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter (Naxos 8.559827)
Dring, Madeleine: Trio for flute, oboe & piano (2) - Nancy Ruffer (flute), John Anderson (oboe), Helen Crayford (piano) (DUTTON CDLX 7181)
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Quartet No 2 in Eb Op 87 (4) - Menahem Pressler (piano), members of Emerson Quartet (DG 439 868)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Prelude in G BWV541 - Martin Setchell (organ) (Pipeline Press PP2)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 4 in Bb Op 60 (3) - Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 439 900)
Verdi, Giuseppe: Libiamo ne' lieti calici, from La Traviata - Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Orchestra e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Zubin Mehta (Decca 475 459)
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Les cloches de Las Palmas, from Six Etudes Op 111 - Bertrand Chamayou (piano) (Erato 9029563426)
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Chopin, Frédéric: Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise in Eb Op 22 - Jon Nakamatsu (piano) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7218)
Lauridsen, Morten: O nata lux, from Lux aeterna - Polyphony/Stephen Layton (Hyperion SACDA 67449)
Kats-Chernin, Elena: Re-inventions: Re-invention No. 4 for Tenor Recorder - Genevieve Lacey (recorder), Flinders Quartet (ABC Classics ABC4813573)
Herbert, Victor: Serenade for Strings Op 12 (1) - London Octave/Kypros Markou (DUTTON CDLX 7238)
Assad, Sérgio: Spanish Impressions - Rafael Aguirre Miñarro (guitar) (Naxos 8.572916)
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