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Nikki Chooi's jury service
8 Dec 2025Michael Hill International Violin Competion winner in 2013, Nikki Chooi is returning to New Zealand to help select applicants for next year's competition.
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Stoicism wins the day
5 Dec 2025Australian born, Oamaru-based composer and music teacher Nikolai Valov takes this year's Composer Aotearoa! Open Prize for his setting of the William Henley poem, Invictus. Read more Video, Audio
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The music never stops
4 Dec 2025Roger Horrocks has been writing a book about listening. Read more Audio
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Moment of a Calm: The pre-dawn Tui Chorus
3 Dec 2025You have to be up before the crack o' dawn to catch this week's "Sonic" Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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A very Latin Mass
3 Dec 2025Morag Atchison and Jono Palmer look forward to performing Martín Palmeri’s Misatango. Read more Audio
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Diedre Irons rolls over another Beethoven
2 Dec 2025Diedre Irons talks with RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump ahead of a performance of Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto this weekend. Read more Audio
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Living in a Welly Wonderland
1 Dec 2025Wellington Brass music director Dave Bremner talks to RNZ Concert ahead of the band's Christmas concert with Wellington's Signature Choir. Read more Audio
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The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate - The Musical
28 Nov 2025Shiver me timbers! Nino Raphael has created an interactive musical inspired by Margaret Mahy's much-loved children's book. Read more Audio
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David Burchell and another Messiah
27 Nov 2025Conductor David Burchell talks about City Choir Dunedin's upcoming performance of Handel's oratorio this weekend. It's one of the first of many that take place at this time of year, sung by choirs all… Read more Audio
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Opera superstar Joyce DiDonato to perform in New Zealand
26 Nov 2025The Grammy award-winning opera singer talks with RNZ Concert's Clarissa Dunn ahead of concerts in New Zealand with the NZSO. Read more Video, Audio
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Rita Paczian: look Bach, moving forward
25 Nov 2025Rita Paczian talks to RNZ Concert ahead of her final performance with Bach Musica as its director. Read more Video, Audio
11 December 2025
with Bryan Crump
Loeillet, Jean-Baptiste arr Grandjany: Toccata - Nancy Allen (harp) (EMI CDM 7 69070)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Intermezzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (DG 437 782)
Debussy, Claude arr Parkin: Beau soir - Nicola Benedetti (violin), Plínio Fernandes (guitar), Samuele Telari (accordion), Thomas Carroll (cello) (Decca 4871577)
Schumann, Robert: Piano Trio No 3 in G minor Op 110 (4) - Ilya Gringolts (violin), Dmitry Kouzov (cello), Peter Laul (piano) (ONYX 4072)
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Overture in C - Women's Philharmonic/JoAnn Falletta (Koch 37169)
Traditional arr Bergeron: Le long de la mer jolie - Suzie Leblanc (soprano), David Greenberg (violin), Chris Norman (flute), Chants d'Acadie (Atma ACD 2 2330)
Nazareth, Ernesto: Nove de Julho - Australia Ensemble (Tall Poppies TP266)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Horn Concerto No 4 in Eb K495 - Jacek Muzyk (horn), Polish Radio Amadeus Chamber Orchestra/Agnieszka Duczmal (Naxos 8.570419)
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Kreisler, Fritz: Tambourin chinois - James Ehnes (violin), Eduard Laurel (piano) (FLEURS DE LYS FL 2 3159)
Dvořák, Antonín: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 (4) - Members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 425 537)
Brahms, Johannes: Intermezzo in Eb Op 117/1 - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RATD131)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: The Representation of Chaos, from The Creation - Chamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Chamber Chorus,Christiane Oelze (soprano), Scot Weir (tenor), Peter Lika (bass) (Profil PH 07074)
Valente, Antonio: Gagliarda napolitana - Daniel Hope (violin) & Friends (DG 477 8094)
Goulet, Maxime: Mint Chocolate, Symphonic Chocolates - Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra/Adam Klemens (Maxime Goulet 2014)
Debussy, Claude orch Ravel: Danse - Ulster Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9129)
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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Septet in Eb Op 65 (4) - Nash Ensemble (Hyperion CDA 67431/2)
Boyce, William: Symphony No 2 in A - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8.557278)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben, from Christmas Oratorio, Part 4 - Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 423 232)
Walton, William: Symphony No 1 in Bb minor (2) - London Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis (LSO LIVE LSO 0076)
Penman, Alastair: Rialto - Alastair Penman (saxophone) (Private 0)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Trio No 2 in G Op 1/2 (2) - Florestan Trio (Hyperion CDA 67393)
Stamitz, Johann: Orchestral Trio in C minor Op 4/3 (1) - New Zealand Chamber Orchestra/Donald Armstrong (vln/dir) (Naxos 8.553213)
Bernstein, Leonard: Overture, from Candide - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman (Decca 452 916)
Strauss, Richard: Frühling, from Four Last Songs - Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic/Georg Solti (Decca 430 511)
Traditional Irish: Londonderry Air - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), English Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas Cleobury (Philips 446 050)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Fantasia in D minor K397 - Imogen Cooper (piano) (Avie AV 2175)
Bennett, Richard Rodney: Reflections on a Scottish folk song - Paul Watkins (cello), Philharmonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 10389)
Godard, Benjamin: Tout est fini, from Dante Op 111 - Benjamin Bernheim (tenor), Prague Philharmonia/Emmanuel Villaume (DG 4836078)
Albinoni, Tomaso: Concerto in D for 2 oboes Op 9/12 - Frank de Bruine (oboe), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (Decca 458 129)
Pixinguinha arr Gnattali: Vou Vivendo - Camerata Brazil/Henrique Cazes (dir) (EMI 5 56939)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Swan Lake Suite (1) - London Philharmonic/David Parry (X5 105)
Farr, Gareth: Three Etudes (2) For Jeremy Fitzsimons - Jeremy Fitzsimons (marimba) (Trust MMT 2058)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Two Minuets Petzold - Nicholas McGegan (harpsichord) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7042)
Three to Seven
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