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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
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Duo Enharmonics plays Mendelssohn
4 Sep 2025Pianists Beth Chen and Nicole Chao (Duo Enharmonics) with be performing a two-piano concerto by Felix Mendelssohn this weekend, with the Wairua Sinfonietta. Read more Audio
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CANZ Composer Workshop 2025
3 Sep 2025Jessie Leov is one of the organisers of the 2025 CANZ Composer Workshop. She talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about what the workshop involves, and her own experience of taking part. Read more Audio
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Mahler's big bang
2 Sep 2025Mahler's Sixth Symphony asks for a percussion instrument so unusual, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra made its own. RNZ Concert followed the construction and testing of Mahler's hammer and block. Read more Video, Audio
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Fellowship of the strings
1 Sep 2025Antipodes Quartet is the first ensemble to take part in the Fellowship Programme, which is facilitated and mentored by New Zealand String Quartet, Chamber Music New Zealand and Adam Chamber Music… Read more Audio
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Mt Eden Chamber Music Festival - keeping it local
28 Aug 2025Violinist Simeon Broom grew up in Mt Eden and had the vision of creating a local festival there along the lines of the European festivals he'd played in. The Festival is celebrating 10 years this… Read more Audio
03 December 2025
with Bryan Crump
Mendelssohn, Felix: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Intermezzo - London Philharmonic/Andrew Litton (EMI CD EMX 9518)
Albinoni, Tomaso: Concerto in F for two oboes Op 9/3 (1) - Frank de Bruine (oboe), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Academy of Ancient Music/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Decca 458 129)
Smyth, Ethel: String Quintet in E Op 1 (1) - Mannheim String Quartet, Joachim Griesheimer (cello) (CPO 999 352)
Ravel, Maurice: Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas, from Mother Goose Suite - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov (BBC Music BBC MM 300)
Ritchie, John: Suite No 1 for string orchestra (1) - NZSO Chamber Orchestra/Donald Armstrong (TRUST MMT 2040)
Chopin, Frédéric: Waltz in Ab Op 42 - Alice Sara Ott (piano) (DG 477 8095)
Price, Florence: Piano Concerto in One Movement - Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (piano), Chineke!/Leslie Suganandarajah (Decca 4853996)
Palmeri, Martin: Gloria, from Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) - Annekathrin Laabs (mezzo-soprano), Sächsisches Vokalensemble, instrumental ensemble/Matthias Jung (CPO 555 092)
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Palmeri, Martin: Benedictus, from Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) - Annekathrin Laabs (mezzo-soprano), Sächsisches Vokalensemble, instrumental ensemble/Matthias Jung (CPO 555 092)
Debussy, Claude: Beau soir - Pablo Ferrández (cello), Julien Quentin (piano) (Sony 19802898632)
Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73 (3) - Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (DG 4866000)
Statham, Keith: Suite for flute & string quartet (4) - Ariana Lis (flute), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
Evans, Bill arr Distler: Song for Helen - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) (Decca 455 512)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Bassoon Concerto in F Op 75 (2) - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena (Chandos CHAN 10748)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Silent Noon, from The House of Life - Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano) (SONY 88985393032)
Strauss II, Johann: Overture, from Die Fledermaus - Vienna Philharmonic/Willi Boskovsky (Decca 421 170)
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Krommer, Franz: Allegro (3) Partita 'Concerto for 2 horns' - Josef Triebensee Ensemble/Jeroen Weierink (ETCETERA KTC 1141)
Lalo, Édouard: Guitarre Op 28 - Akiko Suwanai (violin), Philharmonia (Philips 475 6189)
Widor, Charles-Marie: Introduction & Rondo Op 72 - Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano) (Chandos CHAN 10804)
Handel, George Frideric: Harp Concerto in Bb HWV294 (1) - Maxine Eilander (harp), Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)
Traditional arr Jarkko Riihimäki: Evening song - Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nikoloz Rachveli (DG 4838586)
Poulenc, Francis: Three Novelettes - Pascal Rogé (piano) (Decca 417 438)
Head, Michael: The little road to Bethlehem - Choir of Westminster Abbey/James O'Donnell (Hyperion CDA 67716)
Barber, Samuel: Mutations from Bach - London Symphony Brass/Eric Crees (REGIS RRC 1209)
Hill, Alfred: String Quartet No 5 in Eb, Allies (2) - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572446)
Bhattacharya, Debashish: Chahat (Longing) - Debashish Bhattacharya (slide guitar) (Riverboat 330053)
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Mendelssohn, Felix Rondo capriccioso in E Op 14 Christian Li (violin), Laurence Matheson (piano) Decca 4853987
Dove, Jonathan: Flute Concerto, The Magic Flute Dances - Emily Beynon (flute), BBC Welsh National Orchestra/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10718)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Keyboard Sonata in G Wq62/19 - Mikhail Pletnev (piano) (DG 459 614)
Stamitz, Johann: Orchestral Trio in A Op 1/2 (2) - New Zealand Chamber Orchestra/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
Jacob, Gordon: Oboe Concerto No 1 (1) - Ruth Bolister (oboe), Elgar Chamber Orchestra/Stephen Bell (ASV CD DCA 1173)
Abreu, José Gomes de arr Silvetti: Tico Tico No Fubá - Daniel Barenboim (piano), Robert Kassinger (double bass), Cyro Baptista (percussion) (Teldec 3984 21482)
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