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Upbeat
A daily music and arts interview programme which ran on RNZ Concert for many years, concluding in 2020.
Navigation for Upbeat
Upbeat concluded in 2020, Interviews, spoken features and podcasts from across RNZ Concert are now available at Concert Talk
Latest audio
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Riki Gooch: City Gallery Wellington
21 Jul 2014Musician celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori at City Gallery Wellington. Audio
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Peter Mechen: NYO Review
21 Jul 2014Review of the NZSO National Youth Orchestra's Wellington performance. Audio
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Jan-Bas Bollen and Dan Belton: RNZBC
21 Jul 2014Dutch composer and NZ choreographer talk about their collaboration for the Royal New Zealand Ballet's season of Allegro. Audio
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Sir John Trimmer and Matthew Marshall
18 Jul 2014Narrator and guitarist joining forces for a concert for this weekend's Mulled Wine Concert in Paekakariki which features Castelnuovo-Tedesco's 'Platero y yo' for guitar and narrator. Audio
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Dan Beban: Free Guitar
18 Jul 2014Upbeat experimental contributor looks at free improvising guitar players from Britain. Audio
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Voices of the Land - director Dr Paul Wolframm
18 Jul 2014NZ film maker and ethnomusicologist on the NZ Film Festival premiere of Voices of the Land featuring taonga pūoro experts Richard Nunns and Horomona Horo. Audio
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Jonathan Stone and Alex Redington: Doric String Quartet
17 Jul 2014The Doric String Quartet are back in the country for a 10-concert Chamber Music New Zealand tour. Eva talks to violinists Jonathan Stone and Alex Redington about touring from the other side of the… Read more Audio
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Gunter Herbig: Music for Guitar
17 Jul 2014Gunter introduces the late Turkish-born guitarist Mario Parodi. Audio
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Bo Skovhus: Danish Baritone
17 Jul 2014Bo Skovhus is in Auckland to sing the role of Kurwenal in Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra on Saturday. He's famous for his performances as Tchaikovsky's Eugene… Read more Audio
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Alexander Shelley and Gemma New
16 Jul 2014Eva talks to this year's NZSO National Youth Orchestra conductor and assistant conductor. Alexander Shelley is the Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra was recently appointed Music… Read more Audio
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Madison Nonoa
16 Jul 2014Hamilton based soprano Madison Nonoa and the listener's choice winner in the semi-final round of this year's Lexus Song Quest, who is performing this Sunday at St Peter's Cathedral in Hamilton. Audio
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Christina Barton and Stephen Cleland
16 Jul 2014Walters Prize Director of Wellington's Adam Art Gallery Christina Barton and Auckland Art Gallery Contemporary Curator Stephen Cleland announce the finalists for this year's Walters Prize for… Read more Audio
Upbeat
12pm-1pm Music news, talk features and interviews, new releases etc.
1pm-3pm ‘Onstage’ - highlights from RNZ’s recordings of live music performances
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A daily music and arts interview programme which ran on RNZ Concert for many years, concluding in 2020.
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