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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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Young soprano Sarah Mileham
7 Jun 2024Winner of this year's Nicholas Tarling Aria Competition, Sarah Mileham will be performing in Manukau Symphony Orchestra's next concert as part of her prize. Read more Audio
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Hector meets Hector
6 Jun 2024What if 19th-century composer Hector Berlioz met 21st-century Chinese New Zealander Hector Wong? Poet, composer and playwright Cadence Chung has written a new play, Hector, which imagines just that… Read more Audio
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Remembering John Charles and his music
5 Jun 2024Ryan Smith talks with Bryan Crump about the contribution of composer John Charles to New Zealand film music. Charles died in early May at the age of 83, and is particularly remembered for his… Read more Video, Audio
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Mozart's Sister: the lost story of 'the other Mozart'
4 Jun 2024A film that’s screening in the Doc Edge Festival this year is exploring the intriguing possibility that Maria-Anna Mozart, sister of Wolfgang, may have had a larger part in her brother’s composing… Read more Video, Audio
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The Global Jukebox: sharing the music of many cultures
31 May 2024Dr Patrick Savage, Science Officer for The Global Jukebox project, talks with Bryan Crump about the free, interactive online database of coded songs from more than a thousand cultures around the… Read more Audio
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Interpreting the landscape of classical music
30 May 2024Rachel Leach - composer, music educator and animateur - is in New Zealand to present a series of children's concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Video, Audio
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Sanctuary: Soundscapes by Kodama 木
29 May 2024Sound artist and experimental musician Gabriel Byrne has created a soundscape to be listened to at three green spaces in Wellington, as part of this year's Loemis Festival. Read more Audio
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Fergus Byett: composing for choirs
28 May 2024Fergus Byett, Choirs Aotearoa's 2024 Composer-in-Residence, talks with Bryan Crump about what he loves about writing music when there's words involved. Read more Audio
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Rodger Fox: a tribute to the champion of New Zealand jazz
28 May 2024Nick Tipping, host of RNZ’s jazz show Inside Out, pays tribute to NZ jazz great Rodger Fox who has died at the age of 71. Read more Audio
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The Countess and the Page
27 May 2024Emma Pearson and Hanna Hipp, two of the lead roles in NZ Opera's season of Le Comte Ory, join Bryan Crump to talk about the production and their characters. Read more Audio
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New platform for Pacific choirs to showcase their talents
23 May 2024There's a new choral competition in town: the Musika Moana Choir Competition. Helen Tupai, one of organisers of the competition, talks with Bryan Crump. Read more Audio
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The amazing sound of the recorder: from sopranino to baroque bass
23 May 2024Recorder specialist Kamala Bain brings a selection of her instruments into the RNZ Concert studio, from the little sopranino recorder to the baroque bass recorder, and gives us a taste of what a… Read more Audio
24 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Septet in Eb Op 65 (4) - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 59 in A, Fire (1) - English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (Archiv 463 731)
Two-part Invention in E BWV777
Tailleferre, Germaine: Concertino (1) - Gillian Benet (harp), Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Koch 37169)
Makaroff, Nina: Spes - Cantus/Tove Ramlo-Ystad (2L 2015)
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Symphony No 5 in Bb - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur (Brilliant Classics 99926)
Kreisler, Fritz arr Rachmaninov: Liebesfreud - Sergei Rachmaninov (pno) (RCA 88697 48971)
Farquhar, David: Ring Round the Moon - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Continuum CCD 1073)
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Debussy, Claude arr Amsterdam Guitar Trio: Cortege, from Petite Suite - Amsterdam Guitar Trio (NEWTON 880 2093)
Dvořák, Antonín arr Burghauser: Waltzes Op 54 (5) - Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa (SUPRAPHON SU 3867)
Delius, Frederick arr Fenby: Fennimore & Gerda, Intermezzo - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records SMCD 5134)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring (2) - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA62)
Zipoli, Domenico arr Hunt: Elevazione - Gordon Hunt (ob/dir), Niklass Veltman (cello), Norrköping SO (BIS CD 5017)
Goodwin, Ron: Theme from Miss Marple - Consort (PICKWICK 550645)
Ewald, Victor: Brass Quintet No 3 in Db Op 7 (4) Vivo - Gomalan Brass Quintet (cpo 555680-2)
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Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 3 in D D200 (3) - CO of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)
Cowan, Claire: Faster than Beauty, from Jean Cocteau soundtrack - Claire Cowan, studio ensemble (Claire Cowan Music promojean)
Wonder, Stevie: Overjoyed - Calefax Reed Quintet (Pentatone PTC5187046)
Ritchie, Anthony: A Bugle will do - New Zealand SO/Tecwyn Evans (Atoll ACD 741)
Offenbach, Jacques: Pomme d'api, Overture - Scottish CO/Antonio de Almeida (RCA 09026 68116)
Sibelius, Jean: Romance Op 78/2 - Joshua Bell (vln), Samuel Sanders (pno) (Decca 417 891)
Bjørklund, Terje: Arctic Lines (6) Sami Song - Ola Asdahl Rokkones (alto saxophone), Arktisk Filharmoni/Per Kristian Skalstad (LAWO LWC1263)
Hahn, Reynaldo: Fêtes galantes - Susan Graham (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (Sony SK 60168)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: The Running Set - London SO/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10001)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Souvenir de Florence (3) - Endellion String Quartet, Tim Boulton (vla), Robert Cohen (cello) (CRD 3502)
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Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto Grosso in B minor RV580 (1) - Avi Avital (mandolin), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (DG 4863459)
Glazunov, Alexander: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 82 - Chloë Hanslip (vln), Swiss-Italian Orch/Alexander Vedernikov (Hyperion CDA 67940)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste: Revenez, Amours, revenez (Vénus), from Thésée, LWV 51, Prologue - Thaïs Raï-Westphal (sop), Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset (Aparté AP325)
Cui, Shi-Guang: Shandong Folk Suite - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 (3) - Munich Phil/Zubin Mehta (Münchner Philharmoniker 545235604)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Nocturne, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Orpheus CO (DG 437 782)
Farr, Gareth: Three Etudes (2) For Jeremy Fitzsimons - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)
Jacchini, Giuseppe Maria: Sonata in D for trumpet & strings - Alison Balsom (tpt), Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman (org/dir) (Hyperion CDA 67359)
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