Upbeat

Playwright and actor Carl Bland discusses his new play Te Po. Part of the World Premiere Season at the New Zealand Festival and Auckland Arts Festival 2016, the play uses the opposites love and death… Read more Audio

Discusses and plays music featuring New Zealand bassist Paul Dyne. Audio

Competition manager Mark La Roche talks to Eva about the 5-day event which culminates in the finals this Saturday. Audio

Peter Hoar reviews the recent Auckland concert of this NZSO mini-tour featuring works by Walton, Vaughan Williams and Stravinsky. Audio

Mezzo-soprano Wendy Dawn Thompson, tenor David Hamilton and bass Martin Snell talk to Eva ahead of their performances of Handel's Messiah touring the country with various orchestras and choirs over… Read more Audio

After announcing her retirement last month, opera singer Malvina Major releases a 2 CD set retrospective of her career, Ovation: The Very Best of Malvina Major. Audio

Kenneth Young explores Peter Adams' Sonata for Clarinet and Viola. Audio

Dutch artist and City Gallery Wellington curator discuss collaborative exhibition looking at the influence of New Zealand Artist Julian Dashper Audio

Organiser and co-adjudicator of the Young Brass Musician of the Year competition previews this weekend's final. Audio

Conductor of tonight's Settling the Score concert with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. RNZ Concert's annual countdown of the most popular classical works as voted by listeners. Audio

Actor Ray Henwood goes back to his Welsh beginnings as he brings the memories of poet Dylan Thomas to the stage in the one-man show A Child's Christmas in Wales. It's been described as "one of the… Read more Audio

Jazz composer and pianist Phil Broadhurst talks about his new album Panacea - the third instalment in his Dedication Trilogy. Audio