Noon
Which piece of music would you like to conduct? We’ve another listener choice today: Suppé’s Light Cavalry Overture. And we take a sneak peek at what’s coming up in this week’s Classical Chart
1pm Michael Stewart: Music for Holy Week
Photo: Tudor Consort
Michael Stewart directs The Tudor Consort in it's Wellington Cathedral of St Paul Eternal Sacrifice programme. To commemorate the final year of the World War I centenary, the Wellington choir puts a twist on its annual Good Friday presentation of Holy Week music with a programme of works written during the Great War.
1.30pm Sound art beneath an Auckland volcano
Musicians and sound artists performing Speleo Sonics concert in a cave Photo: RNZ - Tim Dodd
Tim Dodd turns speleologist and descends a Mt Eden lava cave to experience a concert of underground sound art with music by Sam Longmore, James Sullivan, Rachel Shearer, and John Bell.
2pm
The third of our Five Famous conductors is Maestro Seiji Ozawa, with a recording he made with the Boston Symphony Orchestra of Stravinsky’s The Firebird
