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Music Alive
Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house for live concerts featuring local and international artists.
Monday to Friday at 8pm, with Opera at 7pm on Saturday
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19 November 2025
with Clarissa Dunn
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 2025: Schubert and Schumann
George Li (piano), Gilles Vonsattel (piano), Paul Huang (violin), Peter Stumpf (cello)
(WFMT New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Serenade for Strings Op 48 - Orchestra Wellington/Marc Taddei (RNZ)
Brahms, Johannes: Academic Festival Overture Op 80 - Christchurch Symphony Orchestra/Luke Dollman (RNZ CSO 2023-10-14)
Ritchie, Anthony: Farewell for bassoon and string quartet - Todd Gibson-Cornish (bassoon), Donald Armstrong, Wilma Smith (vlns), Amanda Verner (viola), Matthias Balzat (cello) (RNZ MMF 2023)
Latest audio
Thursday, 27 February 2025
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YSAYE: Sonata in D minor for solo violin Op 27/3
27 Feb 2025Performed as an encore by James Ehnes at the Auckland Philharmonia's Premier Series concert, 'Brahms 3', Auckland Town Hall, 27 February 2025. Read more Audio
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BARTOK: Violin Concerto No 1 Sz36
27 Feb 2025Performed by James Ehnes and the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Premier Series concert, 'Brahms 3', Auckland Town Hall, 27 February 2025. Read more Audio
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LIGETI: Concert Românesc
27 Feb 2025Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Premier Series concert, 'Brahms 3', Auckland Town Hall, 27 March 2025. Read more Audio
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NZSO: Song of Destiny
27 Feb 2025A concert of hope, drama and triumph with music by Verdi, Brahms and Dvořák. James Judd conducts the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Voices New Zealand. Read more Audio
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Auckland Philharmonia: Brahms 3
27 Feb 2025In his second performance with the Auckland Philharmonia this season, James Ehnes brings us one of his specialties: Bartok's 1st Violin Concerto. Giordano Bellincampi conducts music by Ligeti and… Read more Audio
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
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Adam Chamber Music Festival 2024 - Grand Finale
26 Feb 2025To bring the 2024 festival to a close, all the artists join in for a final celebration. Pianists Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon play Ravel with help from their daughter Liána; Sergey Malov plays and… Read more Audio
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
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Adam Chamber Music Festival 2024 - The Romantic Bartók
25 Feb 2025Hungarian pianists Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon bring us a programme of music by their countrymen Franz Liszt and Bela Bartók - his very rarely heard Piano Quintet, written early in his life when… Read more Audio
Thursday, 20 February 2025
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MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No 3 in A minor Op 56, Scottish
20 Feb 2025Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Classic Series concert 'Ehnes & Bellincampi', Auckland Town Hall, 20 February 2025. Read more Audio
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BACH: Largo, from Sonata for solo violin No 3 in C, BWV1005
20 Feb 2025Performed as an encore by James Ehnes at the Auckland Philharmonia's Classic Series concert 'Ehnes & Bellincampi', Auckland Town Hall, 20 February 2025. Read more Audio
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BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77
20 Feb 2025Performed by James Ehnes and the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Classic Series concert 'Ehnes & Bellincampi', Auckland Town Hall, 20 February 2025. Read more Audio
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SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture
20 Feb 2025Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Classic Series concert 'Ehnes & Bellincampi', Auckland Town Hall, 20 February 2025. Read more Audio
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Auckland Philharmonia: Ehnes & Bellincampi
20 Feb 2025James Ehnes joins the orchestra for Brahms's Violin Concerto in this Classic Series concert. Giordano Bellincampi conducts. Read more Audio
Music Alive
Catch the first broadcast of a new recording from New Zealand, or something from overseas - perhaps from the European Broadcasting Union, the Salzburg Festival or the Sydney Opera House. The NZSO are regular performers, and Thursdays are often the domain of the Auckland Philharmonia; You might hear an ensemble touring with Chamber Music New Zealand, something from the Wellington Jazz Festival or music from around the world via the WOMAD festival.
Tune into Music Alive on RNZ Concert on Monday to Friday at 8pm, with Opera at 7pm on Saturday
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