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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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Jane Bulpin and the art of symphonic logistics
18 Sep 2025Ahead of her departure for the UK, Jane Bulpin looks back on her work as Director: Orchestral Delivery with the NZSO. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: Blackbirds at Dawn.
17 Sep 2025Blackbirds usually don't sing in the dead of night, but they were singing a great song early one Dunedin morning. Read more Audio
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Working through the break
17 Sep 2025New Zealand String Quartet violinist Peter Clark talks with RNZ Concert part way through the quartet's latest tour. Read more Audio
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Putting Te Reo into the libretto
16 Sep 2025Ahead of its broadcast on RNZ Concert, director Kawiti Waetford talks about Toiere, a show mixing opera with Te Reo Māori. Read more Video, Audio
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Dressed for success
15 Sep 2025Hawke's Bay tenor Lila Crichton talks about his latest gig, singing for this year's World of WearableArt show in Wellington. Read more Video, Audio
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Composing in a changing climate
12 Sep 2025This year’s SOUNZ Tarling Trust Orchestral Commission winner Joshua Pearson dedicates his prize to highlighting the vulnerability of Pasifika nations to climate change. Read more Video, Audio
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You can't beat a cornetto
11 Sep 2025Danny Lucin is a go-to man when it comes to playing the cornetto in Australia and New Zealand. He and conductor Michael Stewart talk with RNZ Concert ahead of a performance of the early 17th century… Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of calm: Ruru in the Rain.
10 Sep 2025Few things are more calming in the evening than the sound of a Ruru calling - unless you're on its menu. Read more Audio
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In it for the long hall
10 Sep 2025Waikato-raised saxophonist Simon Brew talks about coming home to manage a music venue in the heart of Cambridge. Read more Audio
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Pasifika singing - it's time to talk
9 Sep 2025Pasifika singers are an increasingly big part of the New Zealand choral scene. Will Kingi and Enyah Talamaivao are part of a Choirs Aotearoa gathering which recognises that role, but will also explore… Read more Video, Audio
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Anapela Polata’ivao and Stacey Leilua: From Tinā to opera
8 Sep 2025Anapela Polata’ivao and Stacey Leilua bring a Kiwi Samoan perspective to directing the action in NZ Opera's latest production, Jonathan Dove's "The Monster in the Maze".
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Mika Cornelius: turning mushrooms into music
5 Sep 2025Universal Veil is a new work by composer and sound designer Mika Cornelius. It's inspired by the world of fungi and their life cycles. Read more Video, Audio
25 November 2025
with Bryan Crump
Mayerl, Billy: White heather - Eric Parkin (piano) (Chandos CHAN8848)
Navara, Francesco: Sinfonia/Sonata in C in five parts - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2106)
Santaolalla, Gustavo arr Muji: The Last of Us, theme - Kaori Muraji (guitar) (Decca 4871490)
Dvořák, Antonín: Songs my mother taught me - Andrew Joyce (cello), Rae de Lisle (piano) (Atoll ACD280)
Verdi, Giuseppe: Grand March, from Aida - Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy (Sony MLK 66710)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concerto in C for two keyboards BWV1061 (1) - Anderson & Roe Piano Duo (Steinway & Sons STNS30033)
Monti, Vittorio: Czárdás - Greg Knowles (cimbalom), English Chamber Orchestra/Kennedy (vln/dir) (EMI 5 10568)
Sibelius, Jean: Scènes historiques, Suite No 1 Op 25 - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)
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Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth: Air "Chantons, chantons la gloire" from Judith - Héloïse Gaillard (oboe, flutes, dir), Maïlys de Villoutreys (soprano), Amarillis (Evidence Classics EVCD088)
Moszkowski, Moritz: Piano Concerto in E Op 59 (3) - Piers Lane (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Jerzy Maksymiuk (Hyperion CDA 66452)
Anonymous arr Lislevand: Tourdion - Linn Andrea Fuglseth (voice), Anna Maria Friman (voice), Rolf Lislevand (lute), Marco Ambrosini (viola d amore), Thor Harald Johnsen (lute), Michael Behringer (clavichord), David Mayoral (percussion), Bjørn Kjellemyr (mandolin), Giovanna Pe/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))
Holst, Gustav: March, from Suite No 1 for Military Band Op 28/1 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra/Timothy Reynish (Chandos CHAN 9697)
Mathias, William: Improvisations Op 10 - Ingrid Bauer (harp) (MASTER PERFORMERS MP 010)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Violin Sonata No 8 in G Op 30/3 (1) - Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano) (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2025.27)
Schumann, Robert: String Quartet in F Op 41/2 (1) - Hagen Quartet (DG 449 214)
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Hummel, Johann Nepomuk: Trumpet Concerto in Eb (3) - Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (SIMAX PSC 1292)
Poulenc, Francis: Sinfonietta (3) - French National Orchestra (Decca 452 665)
Carrillo, Isolina arr Aragón: Dos gardenias - Sarah Willis (horn), Jorge Aragón (piano), Harold Madrigal Frías (trumpet), Havana Lyceum Orchestra/José Antonio Méndez Padrón (ALPHA ALPHA578)
Dvořák, Antonín: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World (3) - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons (BR Media 900 116)
Berkeley, Lennox: O that I once past changing were - Rosie Cooper (soprano), Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Cambridge, Joseph Beadle (organ)/Anna Lapwood (Signum SIGCD714)
Weill, Kurt: Symphony No 2 (3) - Konzerthausorchester Berlin/Joana Mallwitz (DG 4865670)
Debussy, Claude: En Bâteau, from Petite Suite - Bert Lucarelli (oboe), Susan Jolles (harp) (Stradivari SCD 6034)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Overture, from Ruler of the Spirits - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.570296)
Chopin, Frédéric: Waltz in Eb Op 18, Grande valse brillante - Ingrid Fliter (piano) (EMI 5 14899)
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Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth: Aria from Violin Sonata in D minor - Héloïse Gaillard (oboe, flutes, dir), Amarillis (Evidence Classics EVCD088)
Renié, Henriette: Cello Sonata - Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Théo Fouchenneret (piano) (Bru Zane BZ2006)
Vecchi, Orfeo: Coelorum candor splenduit - Carlo Montalenti (organ), Cappella Musicale Eusebiana/Don Denis Silano (Dynamnic CDS8001)
Meyer, Edgar Marshall, Mike: Short trip home - Joshua Bell (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Sam Bush (mandolin), Mike Marshall (guitar) (Sony SK 60864)
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Symphony No 5 in Bb - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Kurt Masur (Brilliant Classics 99926)
Farr, Gareth: Taheke (2) - Bridget Douglas (flute), Carolyn Mills (hrp) (Atoll ACD 709)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Keyboard Concerto No 3 in D BWV1054 (1) - Murray Perahia (piano/director), ASMF (Sony SK 89690)
Chabrier, Emmanuel: Pièces pittoresques Nos 1-5 (5) - Emmanuel Strosser (piano) (MIRARE MIR 116)
Three to Seven
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