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Plenty of symphony for Pasifika harmony
31 Oct 2023Helen Tupai's Signature Choir broke new ground when the Pasifika group sang Pasifika songs arranged and performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra last year. This month, they're taking the show… Read more Video, Audio
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King for a decade - so far
30 Oct 2023New Zealand baritone Chris Bruerton talks to Bryan Crump about the joys of being a member of one of the best known classical singing groups in the world, The King's Singers. Read more Video, Audio
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Keeping Auckland in tune: the Lewis Eady story
27 Oct 2023Kay Eady speaks with Bryan Crump about Preludes & Feuds, the history she's written on the Lewis Eady music business. Read more Audio
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Classical music: it's not a museum
26 Oct 2023Award winning Kiwi-Samoan violinist Hayden Afele-Nickel talks to Bryan Crump about getting classical music out of the museum and into the lives of all New Zealanders. Read more Audio
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Taming the big instrument in the small hours
25 Oct 2023The brilliant English organist Anna Lapwood talks to Bryan Crump about how a chance midnight meeting with electronic artist Bonobo in London's Royal Albert Hall led to a viral TikTok video. Read more Video, Audio
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Ross Harris: first the dream, then reality
24 Oct 2023Composer Ross Harris likes ambiguity. Little wonder then, that he latched onto a passing remark his wife made in French: 'Prendre ses rêves pour des réalités – let your dreams become reality'. Read more Audio
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Sherry Grant: Katherine Mansfield and me
20 Oct 2023Sherry Grant can't stop. The prolific writer and musician also can't stop thinking about Katherine Mansfield, organising an online festival in the centenary year of the author's death. She's even got… Read more Audio
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New CEO, new programme
19 Oct 2023She's turned her life upside down to take on the role of Chief Executive of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, but Diana Weir is pretty confident she's landed on her feet. Read more Video, Audio
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Boosting the keyboard with pedal power
18 Oct 2023Chris Illingworth loves pianos, especially Yamaha ones, but the keyboard maestro for English band GoGo Penguin also loves how – in this digital age – you can manipulate their sound. Read more Video, Audio
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The prime of Ms Madeleine Pierard
17 Oct 2023Soprano Madeleine Pierard is (by her own admission) stretching herself a little thin these days, singing Sibelius, Berg, Purcell and Strauss in the space of six weeks. But musically she's never been… Read more Video, Audio
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The taste of music on her fingers
16 Oct 2023Listening to music is not a passive activity according to French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède. In fact, sometimes she sits members of the audience among the players. Read more Audio
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Looking good, sounding even better
13 Oct 2023A master of the musical multiverse, Oscar Lavën can play everything from the bassoon to the trombone. He's picking up his clarinet for his latest gig, performing the music of Django Reinhardt. Read more Audio
16 September 2025
with Bryan Crump
Baker, Jack / Te KuraHuia: Ngā Atua Māori - Blue Notes (Tawa College)/Isaac Stone (RNZ 2024)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner (4) - Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1891)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: The Seasons Op 37b (4) - Yunchan Lim (piano) (Decca 4871021)
Wranitzky, Paul: Divertimento No 6 in D (1) - Vilém Veverka (oboe), Filip Dvořák (harpsichord), Wranitzky Kapelle/Marek Štilec (Arco Diva UP0235)
Rodgers, Richard: The Carousel Waltz, from Carousel - The John Wilson Orchestra (EMI 319301)
Domeniconi, Carlo: Koyunbaba (4) - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (WAIATA 9501)
Monteverdi, Claudio: Hor che 'l ciel e la terra - Cyril Auvit (ten), Jan van Elsacker (ten), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (theorbo/dir) (Virgin 2 36140)
Debussy, Claude: String Quartet in G minor Op 10 (1) - Emerson String Quartet (DG 427 320)
Handel, George Frideric: Concerto Grosso in F Op 3/4 - B'Rock (Etceterar KTC 1383)
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Grainger, Percy: Blithe Bells - Jayson Gillham (piano) (ABC Classics ABC4817686)
Richter, Franz Xaver: Sinfonia a Quattro in C minor (2) - New Dutch Academy CO/Simon Murphy (PENTATONE PTC 5186 028)
Tikao, Ariana: Te Haeata - Ariana Tikao (voice, taonga pūoro) (Private 2013)
Fauré, Gabriel: Serenade Op 98 - Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano) (BIS BIS2220)
Lilburn, Douglas: Symphony No 2 (2) - New Zealand SO/John Hopkins (Continuum CCD 1069)
Nicolai, Otto: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 456 576)
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Corelli, Arcangelo arr Geminiani: Concerto Grosso in F Op 5/10 (5) - Maurice Steger (recorder), English Concert/Laurence Cummings (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7523)
Chabrier, Emmanuel: Fête Polonaise, from Le Roi malgré lui - Detroit SO/Neeme Järvi (CHANDOS CHAN 9227)
Ireland, John orch Bye: If there were dreams to sell - Stephen Varcoe (bar), City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 8743)
Glick, Srul Irving: Suite Hébraïque No 5 III Wedding Dance - Suzanne Shulman (fl), James Campbell (cl), Andrew Dawes (vln), Daniel Domb (cello) (CBC Records MVCD 1046)
Stamitz, Johann: Orchestral Trio in F Op 1/3 (1) - New Zealand CO/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
Hildegard von Bingen: O viridissima virga - Andrew Parrott (ten), Kevin Breen (ten), Howard Milner (ten), Doreen Muskett (symphony)/Christopher Page (dir) (Hyperion CDA 66039)
Chopin, Frédéric: Berceuse in Db Op 57 - Maurizio Pollini (piano) (DG 4836475)
Rodrigo, Joaquin: Concierto de Aranjuez (3) - Craig Ogden (gtr), BBC Phil/Sachio Fujioka (Chandos CHAN 9604)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Cello Sonata No 1 in F Op 5/1 (3) - Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67633)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2) - Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie (ATMA ACD22600)
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Traditional: The Unst Boat Song - Bryn Terfel (bass), Patrick Rimes (piano), Archie Churchill-Moss (accordion) (DG 4864884)
Rota, Nino: The Godfather, Suite - La Scala Orch, Milan/Riccardo Muti (SONY SK 63359)
Parry, John: Harp Sonata No 2 in G (3) - Judy Loman (harp) (Naxos 8.554347)
Hamilton, David: Calypso Gavotte, from Imagined Dances II - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
Sinding, Christian: Symphony No 3 in F Op 121 (3) - North German Radio Phil/David Porcelijn (CPO 999 596)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Overture in D - John Wallace (tpt), John Miller (tpt), English String Orch/William Boughton (Nimbus NI 5189)
Sibelius, Jean: Serenade No 2 in G minor Op 69/2 - Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Finnish Radio SO/Nicholas Collon (Ondine ODE1468-2)
Schubert, Franz: Waltzes No 10 in B minor, No 11 in B, No 12 in E, from 38 Waltzes, Ländler and Ecossaises D145 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) (Pentatone PTC5187034)
Meyer, Edgar: Short trip home - Joshua Bell (vln), Edgar Meyer (dbass), Sam Bush (mandolin), Mike Marshall (gtr) (Sony SK 60864)
Three to Seven
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