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Moment of Calm: Cats on the keyboard
17 Apr 2024Listen to an Impromptu for Piano, by George the Cat. Read more Audio
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Embrace the music and dance
17 Apr 2024Ahead of the Royal NZ Ballet's epic Aotearoa tour performing Swan Lake, the company's executive director chooses some of his favourite music. Read more Video, Audio
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To the World's Edge and beyond
16 Apr 2024Young gifted and heading overseas, Bryan Crump speaks to talented musicians Madeleine Xiao and Lorna Zhang, joint winners of ROSL Pettman scholarships to study beyond Aotearoa in 2024. Read more Audio
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Classical and kapa haka combine to honour Māori Battalion
15 Apr 2024Bryan Crump talks with musicians involved in the Orpheus Choir's next concert on 20 April, which features Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man" and a work by Takerei Komene, "E Kiwi E". It's the world… Read more Video, Audio
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Takerei Komene
15 Apr 2024Composer Takerei Komene talks with Bryan Crump about his composition "E Iwi E". The work will be premiered in the Orpheus Choir's concert on 20 April. Audio
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Gemma New: A licence to thrill
11 Apr 2024RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump catches up with the NZSO's Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor, Gemma New. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: On the Waterfront
10 Apr 2024We're just above the low tide mark for this week's sonic Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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The mobile music therapist
10 Apr 2024Bryan Crump speaks to Emily Hunt about her musical therapy caravan, taking musical medicine to children around the Porirua and Kapiti districts. Read more Audio
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More Mana for the NZ String Quartet
9 Apr 2024Young violinist Mana Waiariki makes the jump to arts administration. Read more Audio
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Settling into the director's chair
8 Apr 2024Matthew Kereama is NZ Opera's Friedlander Resident Artist for 2024. Read more Audio
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Global warning
5 Apr 2024Percussionist Jacob Nissly and composer Adam Schoenberg are in the country for the NZSO performance of Adam's percussion concerto, "Losing Earth", which was written for Jacob. Read more Audio
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Listener Request: Audrey's pipe dream
5 Apr 2024The pipes were calling for our listener Audrey, but she wasn't calling for the pipes. Read more Audio
01 September 2025
with Bryan Crump
Anonymous: Two Springedans - The Curious Bards (Harmonia Mundi HMM905398)
Strauss, Richard: Suite in Bb for winds Op 4 (1) - François Leleux (ob), Ensemble Paris-Bastille (SONY 88697 74869)
Lilburn, Douglas: Piano Sonata (1949) (3) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D040)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von: Dance of the Furies, from Orpheus & Euridice - Ensemble Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon (Harmonia Mundi HMM902288)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 (2) - Richard Mapp (pno), New Zealand SO/James Sedares (Universal 99072)
Handel, George Frederic: Atalanta, Overture - Crispian Steele-Perkins (tpt), Tafelmusik/Jean Lamon (vln/dir) (Sony SK53365)
Puccini, Giacomo: O soave fanciulla, from La Bohème - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Roberto Alagna (ten), London SO/Richard Armstrong (Classic CD ISSUE 73)
Rosetti, Francesco Antonio ed Moesus: Bassoon Concerto in Bb (Murray C69) - Albrecht Holder (bsn), New Brandenburg PO/Nicolás Pasquet (Naxos 8.555341)
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Brahms, Johannes: Hungarian Dance No 5 in G minor - Daniel Hope (violin), Zurich CO (DG 4864994)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Allemande, from Suite in A - Alexandre Tharaud (piano) (Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8379.81)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Cello Concerto in A Wq172 (1) - Jan Vogler (cello), Munich CO/Reinhard Goebel (SONY 88697 11997)
Brouwer, Leo: Canción de Cuna (Berceuse), from Two Cuban Popular Songs - Miloš Karadaglić (gtr) (Decca 7779637)
Debussy, Claude: Le matin d'un jour de fête, from Ibéria - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (TELARC CD 80574)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Violin Sonata No 1 in D Op 12/1 (3) - Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (fortepiano) (Signum SIGCD794)
Falconieri, Andrea: Il primo libro di canzoni: Ciaccona - Australian Brandenburg Orchestra/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC 4763828)
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Ellerby, Martin: Cornet Concerto (3) - Richard Marshall (cornet), Black Dyke Band/Nicholas Childs (Doyen Recording DOY CD399)
Dvořák, Antonín: Czech Suite Op 39 (5) - Malaysian Phil/Claus Peter Flor (BIS SACD 1856)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Viola da gamba Sonata No 3 in G minor BWV1029 (1) - Mikko Perkola (vla da gamba), Aapo Häkkinen (hpschd) (Naxos 8.57021)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) (Decca 4851663)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 20 in D K133 (2) - Prague CO/Charles Mackerras (TELARC CD 80217)
Kodály, Zoltán: Esti Dal - Debrecen Kodály Choir/Peter Erdei (Hungaroton HCD32365)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 (3) - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 214)
Raff, Joachim: Romeo & Juliet, Overture - Philharmonia/Francesco d'Avalos (ASV CD DCA 793)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Preludes Op 23 No 5 in G minor: Alla marcia - Alessio Bax (pno) (SIGNUM SIGCD 264)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 100 in G, Military (4) - Orch of the 18th Century/Franz Brüggen (Philips 473 015)
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Chabrier, Emmanuel: Habanera - Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 447 751)
Rodrigo, Joaquin: Concierto andaluz - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Delaware SO/David Amado (Telarc TEL 31754)
Rodgers, Richard: A Ship Without A Sail, from Heads Up - Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Orchestra of St Luke's/Eric Stern (Nonesuch 7559 79406)
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich: Violin Sonata No 2 - David Irving (violin), Hannah Lane (triple harp), Tommie Andersson (theorbo), John O'Donnell (harpsichord, organ), Laura Vaughan (viola da gamba) (Obsidian CD718)
Debussy, Claude: Bruyères, from Preludes - Tessa Birnie (pno) (ABC Classics 476 6479)
Schumann, Robert: Symphony No 2 in C Op 61 (2) - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (BIS SACD 1519)
Constantinescu, Paul: Toccata - Mihaela Ursuleasa (pno) (Berlin Classics 1654 BC)
Kapsberger, Johannes Hieronymus: Canarios - Australian Brandenburg Orchestra/Paul Dyer (ABC Classics ABC 4763828)
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