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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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Calm In the Lancewood
30 Apr 2025Bryan Crump was trying to record the tui song in his lancewood tree, instead he got the sound of their wings. Read more Audio
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Darren Pickering: the best lessons in life are free
30 Apr 2025With a new album out, Christchurch jazz man Darren Pickering talks about his approach to learning the art of jazz. Read more Video, Audio
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Music, gender politics and the 1906 Christchurch Exhibition
29 Apr 2025Dr Inge van Rij talks about her award-winning research into the musical politics behind a 1906 exercise in nation building. Read more Audio
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Anzac Day Sonic
25 Apr 2025RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump digs into the archives, as well as the station’s record collection to bring you music and voices revolving around our national experience of war, and aspiration for peace.
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Youth choirs converge on the capital
24 Apr 2025Three of the four national youth choirs are in the capital this April holidays for concerts and rehearsals. RNZ Concert's David Morriss catches up with Sophia Gittings from the New Zealand Youth… Read more Audio
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Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey
23 Apr 2025RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with musician and arts advocate Genevieve Lacey, in New Zealand next week to perform with the Auckland Philharmonia. Read more Video, Audio
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Copying scores in a digital age
17 Apr 2025Taran Plamondon talks about balancing his life as a horn player with working in music publishing. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Ataturk Cove
16 Apr 2025The gentle roll of the waves beneath an Anzac Day memorial forms this week's sonic Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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Reuben Brown's busy year
16 Apr 2025Bryan Crump catches up with the 2025 New Zealand Assistant Conductor-in-Residence, Reuben Brown; which means being an assistant conductor for not one, but three orchestras. Read more Audio
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Ashley Jackson's water music
15 Apr 2025African American harpist Ashley Jackson has made water the unifying theme of her new album. Read more Audio
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Classics from the East
14 Apr 2025Zoe Li is preparing for the debut concert of the Eastern Echoes Ensemble, bringing Chinese classical music to Aotearoa. Read more Audio
23 June 2025
with Bryan Crump
Scarlatti, Domenico / Dębicz, Aleksander: Domingo - Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar) & Aleksander Dębicz (piano) (Warner Classics Poland 9029513743)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Oboe Quartet in F K370 (1) - François Leleux (ob), Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Lawrence Power (vla), Sebastian Klinger (cello) (SONY 88697 28585)
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Violin Concerto No 1 in A Op 20 (3) - Kyung-Wha Chung (vln), Montreal SO (Decca 448 128)
Debussy, Claude: Les parfums de la nuit, from Ibéria - Cincinnati SO/Jesús López-Cobos (TELARC CD 80574)
Oswald, James & O'Carolan, Turlough: When She Cam Ben, She Bobbit/Kitty's Wishes - Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien & François Lazarevitch (flute) (Alpha Classics Alpha234)
Sibelius, Jean: Scènes historiques, Suite No 1 Op 25 (1) - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570068)
Gibbons, Orlando: O clap your hands - Voces8 (Signum Classics SIGCD 283)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Leonore Overture No 3 - Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard (Simax PSC 1184)
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Schubert, Franz: Piano Sonata No 21 in Bb D960 (3) - Alfred Brendel (pno) (Decca 478 2116)
Lehar, Franz: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Phil/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 446 050)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 91 in Eb (1) - Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle (EMI 3 94237)
Ravel, Maurice: Pavane for a Dead Princess - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (SONY MLK 64067)
Witt, Friedrich: Flute Concerto in G Op 8 (2) - Patrick Gallois (fl/dir), Sinfonia Finlandia (Naxos 8.572089)
Puts, Kevin arr Spede: Millennium Canons - University of Georgia Wind Ensemble/John Lynch (Naxos 8.572231)
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Hummel, Johann Nepomuk ed Hogger & Shelley: Variations in Bb Op 115 (3) - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), London Mozart Players (Chandos CHAN 10255)
Rodrigo, Joaquin: Concierto de Aranjuez (1) - Craig Ogden (gtr), BBC Phil/Sachio Fujioka (Chandos CHAN 9604)
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky (4) - Beaux Arts Trio (warner 2564 61492)
Stravinsky, Igor: Scherzo à la Russe - Budapest Festival Orch/Ivan Fischer (Channel Classics CCS SA 32112)
Binge, Ronald: The Watermill - Ruth Scott (ob), New London Orch/Ronald Corp (Hyperion CDA 66868)
Couperin, François: Les baricades mistérieuses - Jean Rondeau (harpsichord), Thomas Dunford (archlute) (Erato 9029526995)
Traditional arr Greenberg: Joli bois - Suzie Leblanc (sop), David Greenberg (vln), Chris Norman (fl), Chants d'Acadie (Atma ACD 2 2330)
Davis, Oliver: Infinite Ocean (4) - Benjamin Baker (vln), Royal Phil/Paul Bateman (Signum SIGCD590)
Ireland, John: Decorations - Mark Bebbington (piano) (Somm SOMMCD 074)
Ravel, Maurice: Alborada del Gracioso, from Miroirs - Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini (EMI 5 62746)
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Le Beau, Luise Adolpha: Cello Sonata in D Op 17 (3) Allegro vivace - Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (pno) (Hyperion CDA68394)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Piano Concerto No 12 in A K414 - Maurizio Pollini (pno/dir), Vienna Phil (DG 477 7167)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV645 - Les Basses Réunies (Alpha 139)
Han Kun Sha: Shepherd's Song - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
Page, Bernard: Your Grave Grey Eyes; Cinnamon Curls - Oliver Sewell (tenor), David Barnard (piano) (RNZ 2021-02-12DMc)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph arr Greaves: Fantasia on Greensleeves - London SO/André Previn (EMI 3 82157)
Weelkes, Thomas: Pavan No 5 - English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble (Resonus Classics RES10325)
Weissenberg, Alexis: Six arrangements of songs sung by Charles Trenet (3) - Marc-André Hamelin (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67656)
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