Music Alive

Percussionist Justin DeHart plays a vibrant recital which includes works from Aotearoa by Rosa Elliott, Philip Brownlee, Mark Menzies, John Psathas, and Gareth Farr. Read more Audio

Mozart's gorgeous Clarinet Quintet and Shostakovich's trenchant Second String Quartet make for a bracing contrast in this programmme. Read more Audio

Two works from the 21st Century and one of the 20th's most transcendent, Olivier Messian's Quartet for the End of Time. Read more Audio

New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir 2022 Tour, recorded at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Christchurch on 14 July 2022. Read more Audio

Soprano Jenny Wollerman and pianist Jian Liu perform the world premiere of a major song cycle by Jenny McLeod, written in 2003. Read more Audio

A variety of brilliant artists bring us a programme featuring the music of Schumann, Janáček, Piazzolla, Monti, and Florence Price. Read more Audio

Harpist Helen Webby shares a recital programme with Sergey Malov, who plays both violin and violoncello da spalla. Read more Audio

Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon treats us to a programme that puts his beloved Bartók in amongst music by Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin. Read more Audio

Music by Max Bruch, Dame Gillian Whitehead and Bela Bartok provide us with the fascinating ways that composers use song and dance in their music. Read more Audio

Literal and metaphorical New Worlds are explored by Beethoven, Dvorak and South American composer Efraim Oscher with performances by international and local artists. Read more Audio

Three performances from the Adam Chamber Music Festival: two works from the year 1919 by Rebecca Clarke and Arnold Bax along with Gareth Farr's Mondo Rondo played by the Adam Troubadour Quartet. Read more Audio

Star artists, both local and international, open the 2024 Adam Chamber Music Festival with a stimulating programme of Haydn, Schumann and Dohnányi. Read more Audio