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Listen to music and performing arts interviews here when it suits you, as broadcast at 4pm most days:
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Charlotte Naden: professional bassoonist, free time fiddler
21 Jul 2025Kiwi bassoon player Charlotte Naden talks about her "hobby" which will soon see her playing the fiddle at this year's Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Read more Video, Audio
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Bringing opera to the people
18 Jul 2025Zane Berghuis talks to RNZ Concert about his work in opera outreach. Read more Audio
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When musical worlds combine
18 Jul 2025Singer and composer Geneva AM and arranger and double bass player Eric Scholes talk about turning a waiata into a striking piece of classical chamber music. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: By the billabong
16 Jul 2025RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump is down by a billabong for this week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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Winds in Wellington
16 Jul 2025Ahead of this year's National Concert Band Festival, its coordinator James Bevin talks with RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump. Read more Video, Audio
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Late starter, strong finisher
15 Jul 2025Abhinath Berry didn't start having regular piano lessons until his mid/late teens. Now he's on the cusp of a professional career. Read more Video, Audio
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Perianes plays French and Spanish masterpieces
14 Jul 2025Distinguished Spanish pianist Javier Perianes is in New Zealand for concerts with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. Read more Video, Audio
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Hamilton Flute Festival
11 Jul 2025It's all about the flute in Hamilton this weekend. RNZ Concert's Andrew Clark speaks with the festival's founder, Kathryn Orbell. Read more Video, Audio
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Charles Begg and his music stores
10 Jul 2025Social historian and writer Dr Clare Gleeson talks with RNZ Concert host David Morriss about Begg's music stores, founded by her great-great-grandfather in the 1860s and an important part of New… Read more Audio
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Fostering a lifelong love of music for seven decades
9 Jul 2025The Christchurch School of Music is turning 70 this year. Director Celia Stewart talks about this not-for-profit organisation with a strong focus on community, and the events planned to mark the… Read more Audio
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French horn player Gabrielle Pho
8 Jul 2025Gabrielle Pho is Section Principal of the Auckland Philharmonia horns. But in the orchestra's next concert, she'll be taking centre stage with three of her colleagues for a performance of… Read more Video, Audio
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Mate Ururoa - a Gallipoli story
7 Jul 2025This weekend, Wellington Opera premieres a chamber opera by Dame Gillian Whitehead. Read more Audio
26 January 2026
with Bryan Crump
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Horn Concerto No 3 in Eb K447 (3) - Lin Jiang (horn), West Australian Symphony Orchestra/Barry Tuckwell (ABC Classics 476 5745)
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 3 in D D200 (4) - Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)
Ravel, Maurice: Menuet, from Le Tombeau de Couperin - London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 665)
Granados, Enrique: The maiden & the nightingale, from Goyescas - Alicia de Larrocha (piano) (Decca 411 958)
Shea, Jacob: Frozen World, from The Arctic Suite - Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin), Arctic Philharmonic (Sony )
Haydn, Franz Joseph: String Quartet in G Op 77/1 (4) - Emerson String Quartet (DG 471 327)
Elgar, Edward: Minuet Op 21 - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)
Le Beau, Luise Adolpha: Cello Sonata in D Op 17 - Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano) (Hyperion CDA68394)
Psathas, John: Avenoir, excerpt - Composer's studio realisation (John Psathas)
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Psathas, John: Voices at the End, Part 3 excerpt - Briar Prastiti (voice), Dawn Hardwick (piano) (John Psathas)
Psathas, John: Second-Hand Time, excerpt - Composer's studio realisation (John Psathas)
Psathas, John: the All-Seeing Sky (3) - Fabian Ziegler (percussion), Luca Staffelbach (percussion), Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei (Atoll ACD636)
Debussy, Claude: En Bateau, from Petite Suite - Bert Lucarelli (oboe), Susan Jolles (harp) (Stradivari SCD 6034)
Poulenc, Francis: Sinfonietta (4) - French National Orchestra (Decca 452 665)
Chen Gang, Zhanhao He: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (1) - Joshua Bell (violin), Singapore Chinese Orchestra (Sony 19658810972)
Shore, Howard: The Forest (3) - Miloš Karadaglić (guitar), National Arts Centre Orchestra/Alexander Shelley (Decca 4851525)
Britten, Benjamin: Simple Symphony Op 4 (2) - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Ronald Thomas (Chandos CHAN8376)
Denza, Luigi arr Schoenberg: Funiculì, funiculà - Diabolicus/Dietrich Henschel (Ambrosie AM 137)
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Sammartini, Giovanni Battista: Symphony in F JC36 (3) Allegro assai - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8557298)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Oboe Quartet in F K370 (1) - François Leleux (oboe), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Lawrence Power (viola), Sebastian Klinger (cello) (SONY 88697 28585)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Four Seasons, Spring (3) - Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin (violin) (Alpha ALPHA1005)
Danzi, Franz: Wind Quintet in G Op 67/1 (1) - Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet (BIS BISCD532)
Dvořák, Antonín: Slavonic Dance Op 72 No 1 in B major - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)
Tin, Christopher: The saddest noise - VOCES8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Christopher Tin (Decca 4858030)
Tailleferre, Germaine: Flute Sonata No 2 (2) - Ransom Wilson (flute), Christopher O'Riley (piano) (Etcetera KTC 1073)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish (4) - Vienna Philharmonic/Christoph von Dohnányi (Decca 421 769)
Schumann, Clara: Three Romances Op 22 (3) - Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Dinara Klinton (piano) (Orchid Classics ORC100313)
Holst, Gustav: A Fugal Overture - London Festival Orchestra/Ross Pople (ASV CD DCA 782)
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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Air & Dance Bacchanale, from Samson & Delilah - Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi HMM90261415)
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno: Idillio-concertino in A Op 15 - Andrea Tenaglia (oboe), Rome Symphony Orchestra/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.572921)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concerto in C minor for two harpsichords BWV1060 (2) - Paul Nicholson (harpsichord), Robert Woolley (harpsichord), members of the Purcell Quartet (Chandos CHAN 0636)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Bagatelle in G Op 126/1 - Stephen Kovacevich (piano) (EMI CDC 5 56148)
Massenet, Jules: Orchestral Suite No 2, Hungarian Scenes (5) - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Jean-Yves Ossonce (Naxos 8.553124)
Komitas: Festive Song, from Fourteen Pieces on Themes of Armenian Folk Songs - Belinfante Quartet (Mountain Records )
Schubert, Franz: Introduction & Variations on Trockne Blumen, from Die schöne Müllerin D795 - Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Paolo Giacometti (piano) (Evil Penguin EPRC0050)
Foscarini, Giovanni Paolo arr Rolf Lislevand & Thor-Harald Johnsen: Pass'e mezzo e passacalli - Rolf Lislevand (lute, baroque guitar), Concerto Stella Matutina (Sony 19075827802)
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