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Making music for the moving image
22 May 2025Composer Tom McLeod talks about how a bad exam and a motorcycle ride changed his life. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: In search of Autumn
21 May 2025RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump chases some Autumn leaves. Read more Audio
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Pacific Underground goes symphonic
21 May 2025Pacific Underground director Pos Mavaega, and conductor Samiu Katoa Uatahausi talk about the Ōtautahi-based performing arts collective's first gig with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Gábor Káli: never forget the child in you
20 May 2025Hungarian conductor Gábor Káli talks to RNZ Concert ahead of his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra debut. Read more Audio
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Reconnecting with the sitar
19 May 2025Indian-born classical musician Shalu Garg has gone to great lengths to re-learn the sitar. Read more Video, Audio
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Bringing Edinburgh to Auckland
16 May 2025Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo creative director Alan Lane talks about bringing the show to Aotearoa in February. Read more Audio
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Dunedin Concerto Competition 2025 finalists
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Cellist Portia Bell
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Portia Bell, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Cultural life inside the Loop
15 May 2025Tongan Kiwi Jack Bourke trained as a tenor. These days, his work is focused on maximising the benefit Auckland's art scene gets from the city's underground rail link. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: The Magic Bus Stop
14 May 2025If you take the No 25 bus to Highbury in Wellington and get your timing right, you might just hear a Kiwi or two when you step out the door. Read more Audio
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Pianist Ozan Biner-McGrath
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Ozan Biner-McGrath, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Levi Patel's Chinese love affair
14 May 2025Composer Levi Patel fell in love with a woman from Liuzhou. It didn't last, but his relationship with the Chinese city continues to blossom. Read more Video, Audio
24 February 2026
with Bryan Crump
Paliotti, Antonello: Tarantella storta - Il Pomo d'Oro/Antonello Paliotti (Warner Classics 2173272780)
Bartók, Béla arr Székely: Romanian Folk Dances Sz56 - Peter Csaba (violin), Peter Frankl (piano) (PRAGA PRD 250 190)
Richter, Franz Xaver: Sinfonia a quattro in Bb (1) - New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra/Simon Murphy (PENTATONE PTC 5186 028)
Golland, John: Ballade - Kyle Lawson (cornet), Julia Cassells (piano) (Kyle Lawson Music 2025)
Stolz, Nolan: Lincoln Highway Suite (5) - Brno Philharmonic Orchestra/Mikel Toms (Ablaze 42)
Domeniconi, Carlo: Koyunbaba (4) - Matthew Marshall (guitar) (WAIATA 9501)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sinfonia, from Cantata No 174, Ich liebe den Höchsten - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion CDA68111)
Strauss, Richard: Don Juan Op 20 - New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel (DG 477 6435)
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Holst, Gustav: St Paul's Suite (4) - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9270)
Traditional: King of the Blind - The Curious Bards (Harmonia Mundi HMN916105)
Witt, Friedrich: Flute Concerto in G Op 8 (2) - Patrick Gallois (flute/director), Sinfonia Finlandia (Naxos 8.572089)
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Februar (2) from Das Jahr - Lauma Skride (pno) (Sony 88697030162)
Statham, Keith: Happy Ending - Ben Hoadley (bsn), Nicola Baker (horn), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
Kabalevsky, Dmitri: Overture, from Colas Breugnon - Edmonton Symphony Orchestra/Uri Mayer (CBC Records SMCD 5069)
Paganini, Niccolò arr Gendron: Variations on a theme by Rossini - Heinrich Schiff (cello), Samuel Sanders (piano) (Philips 420 945)
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Ravel, Maurice: Prelude, from Le Tombeau de Couperin - London Symphony Orchestra/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 665)
Fauré, Gabriel arr Louis Aubert: Fantaisie Op 79 - Catriona Ryan (flute), RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra/Jean-Luc Tingaud (Naxos 8574587)
Amiina: Kolapot - Amiina (EVER 11)
Bridge, Frank: Lament - NZSO Chamber Orchestra/Donald Armstrong (dir) (RNZ UB11)
Dowland, John arr Bergeron/Dagher/Slattery: Come again, Sweet Love - Michael Slattery (tenor), La Nef (Atma ACD2 2650)
Poulenc, Francis: Clarinet Sonata in Bb (3) - Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Tim Horton (piano) (NIMBUS NI 6121)
Edwards, Ross: Yanada - Diana Doherty (oboe) (ABC Classics 476 7173)
Dvořák, Antonín: Czech Suite Op 39 (5) - Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati (Decca 414 370)
Boulanger, Lili: Sous-Bois - Morton Trio & Friends: Arna Morton (violin), Alex Morton (horn), David McGregor (clarinet), Sharon Baylis (viola), Jeremy Garside (cello), Liam Wooding (piano) (Sous-Bois 45405)
Arnold, Malcolm: Four Scottish Dances - Philharmonia/Bryden Thomson (Chandos CHAN 8867)
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Schubert, Franz: Fantasy in F minor D940 (4) - Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy (piano duet) (Harmonia mundi )
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 - Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood (L'OISEAU-LYRE 425 696)
Chopin, Frédéric: Nocturne in C# minor Op posth - Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Philip Moll (piano) (Decca 417289)
Brahms, Johannes: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 (5) - Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 478 6775)
Fahy, Paddy: Paddy Fahy's Reel - Martin Hayes (violin), Dennis Cahill (guitar) (GREENLINNET GLCD1181)
Puccini, Giacomo: O soave fanciulla, from La Bohème - Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra/Richard Armstrong (Classic CD ISSUE 73)
Hill, Alfred: String Quartet No 6 in G, Kids (4) - Dominion Quartet (Naxos 8.572097)
Guarnieri, Camargo: Dansa Brasileira - New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Soundmark Records )
Three to Seven
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