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Moment of Calm: Nothing sticky about this wicket
28 Feb 2024At a safe distance are there many things more calming that a summer game of cricket? Here's a bit of one for your listening pleasure. Read more Audio
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Folk singing jazz
28 Feb 2024Lithuanian musician Simona Smirnova is in Aotearoa for concerts with NZ jazz musicians. She came in to the RNZ studio to talk with Bryan Crump and demonstrate her instrument, the kanklés. Read more Video, Audio
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Aivale Cole: back with the old gang
27 Feb 2024Wellington-born Samoan singer Aivale Cole is back into full-time singing, and back in Aotearoa to perform in the Auckland Festival gig The O.Gs, a celebration of the first wave of Pasifika opera… Read more Video, Audio
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Callum Allardice thinks big
26 Feb 2024Jazz guitarist and composer Callum Allardice has gone seriously big band for his new album, Cinematic Light Orchestra. Read more Video, Audio
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To Shiver the Sky
23 Feb 2024Christopher Tin's oratorio about the history of flight premieres at this year's Hamilton Arts Festival. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with one of the performers, soprano Jayne Tankersley. Read more Video, Audio
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Your opera company needs you
22 Feb 2024Frances Moore from NZ Opera talks about company's efforts to encourage New Zealanders to write new ones. Read more Audio
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Listening at the water's edge
22 Feb 2024This week's listener request on RNZ Concert's Three to Seven takes us for a winter walk after dark. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Slow Train Coming - and going
21 Feb 2024This week's sonic Moment of Calm is a slow train passing. Read more Audio
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Beyond words: remembering 15 March 2019
21 Feb 2024Moroccan singer Oum is coming to Aotearoa to help the NZSO commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks. Read more Audio
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Multiple futures, multiple flutes
20 Feb 2024NZ-born, US-based flute player Tessa Brinckman talks to Bryan Crump about her new album, Take Wing, Roll Back. Read more Audio
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Buzz Newton and the mouthpiece of destiny
19 Feb 2024RNZ Concert's Three to Seven celebrates the euphonium with one of best euphonium players in the business: New Zealander Buzz Newton. Read more Video, Audio
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Mastering the baton
16 Feb 2024Budding maestros Kira Oldfield and Reuben Brown join RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump part way through their NZSO conducting fellowships. Read more Video, Audio
15 December 2025
with Bryan Crump
Schubert, Franz: String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810 (3) Scherzo & Trio: Allegro molto - Takacs Quartet (Decca 436 843)
Tosti, Francesco Paolo: Ideale - Shiddharth (Sid) Chand (tenor), Terence Dennis (piano) (RNZ 2022)
Elgar, Edward: May Song - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)
Saint-Saens, Camille: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 22 (2) - Louis Schwizgebel (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (Aparté AP112)
Hawes, Patrick: Rain - English Chamber Orchestra/Patrick Hawes (Black Box BBM 1081)
Rutter, John: What sweeter music - Elora Festival Singers (Naxos 8.554179)
Fauré, Gabriel: Masques & Bergamasques - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 449 186)
Rameau, Jean-Philippe: L’Égyptienne - Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) (DG 4837701)
Shield, William: String Trio No 6 in Bb (3) - Dorrit Ensemble (Naxos 8.574444)
4.00
Bizet, Georges: Votre toast...Toréador, en garde, from Carmen - Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476227)
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von: Sonata No 7 in G (4) - Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort (Delphian DCD34334)
Schubert, Franz: Violin Sonatina in D D384 (3) - Marc Coppey (cello), Peter Laul (piano) (Aeon AECD 1095)
Borodin, Alexander: Symphony No 2 in B minor (2) - Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 17582)
Traditional: Sonias promenad - Väsen (Northside NSD7100)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Allegro, from Cantata No 146 - Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (DECCA 4782718)
Barrios Mangoré, Agustín: Maxixe - Thibaut Garcia (guitar) (Erato 5419772617)
d'Ambruis, Honoré: Le doux silence de nos bois - Lea Desandre (soprano), Thomas Dunford (theorbo) (Erato 5419775146)
5.00
Praetorius, Michael: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - The King's Singers (Signum SIGCD497)
Dvořák, Antonín: String Quartet No 12 in F Op 96, American (2) - Tokyo String Quartet (Harmonia Mundi HMU 80 7429)
Bizet, Georges: Habanera, from Carmen Suite - London Philharmonic/David Parry (X5 105)
Khachaturian, Aram Illich: Aysha's Monologue, from Gayaneh - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits (ONYX 4063)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Oboe Concerto in Bb Wq164 (3) - Machiko Takahashi (flute), Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra/Roland Kieft (Brilliant Classics 93988)
The Gloaming: Freedom - The Gloaming (Realworld 800208)
Brahms, Johannes trans Joachim: Hungarian Dance No 7 in A - Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano)/Günter Hermanns (DG 471 500)
Tippett, Michael: Concerto for double string orchestra (3) - Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Michael Tippett (Virgin VC 7 90701)
Elgar, Edward: Pomp & Circumstance March No 2 - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd (Naxos 8.557273)
Chopin, Frédéric: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Angela Hewitt (piano) (Hyperion CDA 67371/2)
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Traditional arr Rutter: Wexford Carol - Paul McMahon (tenor), Cantillation (ABC Classics 472 044)
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk: Bassoon Concerto in F - Jaakko Luoma (bassoon), Tapiola Sinfonietta/Janne Nisonen (Ondine ODE13242)
Edwards, Ross: Marimba Dances (3) - Evelyn Glennie (marimba) (RCA RD 60557)
Purcell, Henry: Sonata in 3 parts No 5 in A minor, Z 794 - Ensemble Masques/Olivier Fortin (hpschd/dir) (Analekta AN 2 9905)
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No 1 in E minor Op 39 (3) - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572305)
Gossec, François-Joseph: Gavotte in D - Hubert Laws (flute), Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York, Philharmonia Virtuosi/Richard Kapp (Sony MK37216)
Ibert, Jacques: Concerto for cello & wind instruments (1) - Adele Bitter (cello), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (EDA EDA48)
Williams, John: Finale, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - London Symphony Orchestra (Walt Disney D0027429M5)
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