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Listen to music and performing arts interviews here when it suits you, as broadcast at 4pm most days:
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When musical worlds combine
18 Jul 2025Singer and composer Geneva AM and arranger and double bass player Eric Scholes talk about turning a waiata into a striking piece of classical chamber music. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: By the billabong
16 Jul 2025RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump is down by a billabong for this week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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Winds in Wellington
16 Jul 2025Ahead of this year's National Concert Band Festival, its coordinator James Bevin talks with RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump. Read more Video, Audio
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Late starter, strong finisher
15 Jul 2025Abhinath Berry didn't start having regular piano lessons until his mid/late teens. Now he's on the cusp of a professional career. Read more Video, Audio
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Perianes plays French and Spanish masterpieces
14 Jul 2025Distinguished Spanish pianist Javier Perianes is in New Zealand for concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. Read more Video, Audio
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Hamilton Flute Festival
11 Jul 2025It's all about the flute in Hamilton this weekend. RNZ Concert's Andrew Clark speaks with the festival's founder, Kathryn Orbell. Read more Video, Audio
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Charles Begg and his music stores
10 Jul 2025Social historian and writer Dr Clare Gleeson talks with RNZ Concert host David Morriss about Begg's music stores, founded by her great-great-grandfather in the 1860s and an important part of New… Read more Audio
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Fostering a lifelong love of music for seven decades
9 Jul 2025The Christchurch School of Music is turning 70 this year. Director Celia Stewart talks about this not-for-profit organisation with a strong focus on community, and the events planned to mark the… Read more Audio
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French horn player Gabrielle Pho
8 Jul 2025Gabrielle Pho is Section Principal of the Auckland Philharmonia horns. But in the orchestra's next concert, she'll be taking centre stage with three of her colleagues for a performance of… Read more Video, Audio
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Mate Ururoa - a Gallipoli story
7 Jul 2025This weekend, Wellington Opera premieres a chamber opera by Dame Gillian Whitehead. Read more Audio
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Pianist John Chen
3 Jul 2025Pianist John Chen is back in Aotearoa touring an all-French recital for Chamber Music New Zealand. He spoke with Bryan Crump about his love of this repertoire, and his life in Uganda where he's Deputy… Read more Audio
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Singing for a living
1 Jul 2025Canterbury-raised tenor Oliver Sewell returns to Aotearoa to sing in Auckland Philharmonia's Opera in Concert performance of Verdi's La Traviata. Read more Audio
04 August 2025
with Bryan Crump
Khachaturian, Aram: Masquerade, Suite (1) - Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 2023)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Keyboard Sonata No 60 in C HobXVI/50 (1) - Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) (Hyperion CDA 67554)
Lalo, Édouard: Guitarre Op 28 - Akiko Suwanai (vln), Philharmonia (Philips 475 6189)
ANON arr Stian Aareskjold: Cachua Serranita - Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Nordic Voices/Mark Bennett (LAWO [LWC1061])
Avison, Charles: Concerto Grosso No 9 in C (4) - Café Zimmermann (Alpha 31)
Coates, Eric: First Meeting (Souvenir) - Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano) (Harmoni Mundi HMM90537677)
Rusby, Kate arr Jim Clements: Underneath the stars - Voces8 (Decca 4785703)
Fuchs, Robert: Serenade No 1 in D Op 9 - Cologne CO/Christian Ludwig (Naxos 8.572222)
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Dvořák, Antonín: Slavonic Dance Op 46 No 5 in A major - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Trio No 4 in Bb Op 11 (1) - Peter Schmidl (cl), Friedrich Dolezal (cello), Erich Binder (pno (Decca 414 576)
Clementi, Muzio ed Spada: Symphony No 4 in D (3) - Rome SO/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573112)
Greenbaum, Stuart: Remote Connection - Liam Wooding (piano) (RNZ )
Koehne, Graeme: To His Servant Bach, God Grants a Final Glimpse, The Morning Star - Tasmanian SO/Richard Mills (ABC Classics 476 6502)
Boccherini, Luigi: String Quintet in G minor G351 (4) - Vanbrugh Quartet, Richard Lester (cello) (Hyperion CDA 67287)
ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND: Tiger Rag - Sabine Meyer (cl), Wolfgang Meyer (cl), Bamberg Symphony big band/Ingo Metzmacher (EMI CDC 5 56652)
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Glinka, Mikhael: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - Edmonton SO/Uri Mayer (CBC Records SMCD 5069)
Dvořák, Antonín: Czech Suite Op 39 (1) - Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa (SUPRAPHON SU 3867)
Liszt, Franz: Die Forelle - Jorge Bolet (pno) (Decca 414 575)
Halvorsen, Johan: Passacaglia after Handel - Julia Fischer (vln), Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) (Orfeo C902161A)
Fasch, Johan Friedrich: Concerto in D for trumpet & two oboes - Thomas Reiner (tpt), Southwest German CO/Sebastian Tewinkel (Naxos 8.570501)
Hess, Nigel: Ladies in Lavender - Central Band of the Royal Air Force/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 10767)
Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (3) - Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 703)
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Suite for cello & orchestra Op 16 (3) - Johannes Moser (cello), Stuttgart Radio SO/Fabrice Bollon (Hänssler CD 93.222)
Fauré, Gabriel: Après un rêve - Janine Jansen (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Decca 478 2256)
Chopin, Frédéric: Nocturne in F# minor Op 48/2 - David Fray (pno) (Erato 0190 295896478)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter (3) - Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil (DHM 82876 89504)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Cello Concerto in Bb Wq171 - Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton (NIMBUS NI 5848)
Blumenfeld, Felix: Etude for the left hand in Ab Op 36 - Nelson Goerner (pno) (Cascavelle VEL 3051)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in Eb Op 33/2, Joke (4) - Casals Quartet (HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 296 2022.23)
Ritchie, John: Suite No 2 for string orchestra, Aquarius (2) - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (TRUST MMT 2040)
Fasch, Johan Friedrich arr Chiesa: Lute Concerto in D minor (1) - Slava Grigoryan (gtr), Leonard Grigoryan (gtr), Tasmanian SO/Benjamin Northey (ABC Classics 476 5948)
Hahn, Reynaldo: L'heure exquise - Mischa Maisky (cello), Daria Hovora (pno) (Decca 473 168)
Traditional Armenia: You Beautiful Girl - Armen Stepanyan (duduk) and ensemble (American Recording Productions ARP028)
Three to Seven
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