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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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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
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Turns out you can beat a trumpet
11 Apr 2025Richard Marshall, one of the UK's top cornet players, is in Christchurch to perform with Addington Brass. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Ready to Rumble
10 Apr 2025Let the gentle rumble of distant thunder induce you into slumber. Read more Audio
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Trifonov does Rachmaninov
10 Apr 2025Russian-born keyboard genius Daniil Trifonov takes on the "Rach 3" with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Read more Audio
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Celebrating Music Therapy Week 2025
9 Apr 2025Renata Kuswanto talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about her work as a Neurologic Music Therapist at Southern Music Therapy in Christchurch. Read more Audio
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Taking her own musical medicine
7 Apr 2025Pauline Grogan's advocacy for the use of music for people in care became far more personal after she suffered two strokes herself. Read more Audio
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Keeping score at the movies
4 Apr 2025Dr Dan Golding talks about his part in a movie music podcast turned live show that's coming to the Aotea Centre with help from the Auckland Philharmonia. Read more Video, Audio
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Song cycle on a downward spiral
3 Apr 2025New Zealand-born, German-based tenor Jonathan Abernethy is back in Aotearoa singing a Schubert masterpiece about a bloke who went down a rabbit hole. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: School Camp
2 Apr 2025Teenage boys can get a little loud at times, but from a distance these boys enjoying a camp in the Tararua Ranges sound lovely to us. Read more Audio
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Taking up Haydn for Lent
2 Apr 2025Anne Loeser from the Wellington ensemble Camerata talks about performing a sacred Haydn masterpiece leading up to Easter. Read more Audio
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Mansfield Park on the Mainland
1 Apr 2025Director Rebecca Meltzer is part of the team turning Jane Austen's Mansfield Park into an opera. Read more Audio
13 February 2026
with Bryan Crump
Debussy, Claude: Toccata, from Pour le piano - Ivan Moravec (piano) (Philips 456 910)
Piazzolla, Astor: Allegro Tangabile - Tango Siempre (ARC EUCD1807)
Glazunov, Alexander: Symphony No 1 in E Op 5, Slavyanskaya (2) - Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Valeri Polyansky (Brilliant Classics 93565)
Cowan, Claire: The Food People, from Hansel and Gretel - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Hamish McKeich (Private P002363)
Lilburn, Douglas: Willow Song - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RAT D040)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Trumpet Concerto in D - Niklas Eklund (baroque trumpet), Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble/Nils-Erik Sparf (Naxos 8.553531)
Glick, Srul Irving: Kensington Market, from Old Toronto Klezmer Suite - Angèle Dubeau (violin), La Pietà (Analekta AN28721)
Strauss, Richard: Der Rosenkavalier, Concert Suite - New York Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel (DG 477 6435)
Puccini, Giacomo: Un bel dì, from Madame Butterfly - Renée Fleming (soprano), London Philharmonic/Charles Mackerras (Decca 467 049)
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Rodgers & Hammerstein: If I loved you, from Carousel - Sierra Boggess (soprano), Julian Ovenden (bass-baritone), The John Wilson Orchestra/John Wilson (EMI 319301)
Handel, George Frideric: Oboe Concerto No 1 in Bb - David Reichenberg (oboe), English Concert/Trevor Pinnock (dir) (Archiv 415 291)
Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in C minor Op 10/12, Revolutionary; Etude in Eb Op 10/11, Arpeggio - Yunchan Lim (piano) (Decca 4870122)
Williams, John: Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra (2) - Valentine Michaud (saxophone), Fabian Ziegler (percussion), City Light Orchestra/Kevin Griffiths (Prospero Classical PROSP0012)
Reicha, Anton: Wind Quintet in Eb Op 88/2 (4) - Academia Wind Quintet of Prague (Hyperion CDA 66268)
Purcell, Henry: Abdelazer, Suite - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta AN 2 9811)
Paganini, Niccolò arr Hunsberger: Moto perpetuo in C Op 11 - Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger (Sony SK 60804)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Keyboard Concerto in G HobXVIII/4 (3) - Leif Ove Andsnes (piano/director), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (EMI CDC 5 56960)
Offenbach, Jacques: Overture, from Pomme d'api - Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Antonio de Almeida (RCA 09026 68116)
Garoto, Anibal Augusto Sardinha: Desvairada - Mike Marshall (mandolin), Chris Thile (mandolin) (Sugarhill 913967)
Walton, William: Viola Concerto in C minor Op 25 (2) - Helen Callus (viola), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Marc Taddei (ASV CD DCA 1181)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Scherzo, from A Midsummer Night's Dream - London Symphony Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth (Virgin 3 91372)
Bendusi, Francesco: La Monina - Calefax Reed Quintet (MDG MDG6191043)
Dvořák, Antonín: Serenade in E for strings Op 22 (1) - Strings of the Philharmonia/Christopher Warren-Green (dir) (Chandos CHAN 6526)
Richter, Franz Xaver: Sinfonia a quattro in Bb - New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra/Simon Murphy (PENTATONE PTC 5186 028)
Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel: Abendlied - The Gesualdo Six/Owain Park (Hyperion CDA68465)
Kern, Jerome trans Mayerl: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, from Roberta - Susan Tomes (piano) (Virgin VC790745)
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Fauré, Gabriel: Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor Op 15 (2) - Trio Wanderer, Antoine Tamestit (viola) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 2032)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Violin Concerto No 2 in D K211 - Chloe Chua (violin), Singapore Symphony/Hans Graf (Pentatone PTC5187474)
Bartók, Béla: Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík Sz35a - Zoltán Kocsis (piano) (Philips 464 676)
Isaac, Heinrich: Fortuna desperata in mi - Consort Mirabile (Prospero)
Barrios Mangoré, Agustín: Confesión 'Romanza' - Thibaut Garcia (guitar) (Erato 5419772617)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24, Spring (1) - Wilma Smith (violin), Michael Houstoun (piano) (RNZ UA62)
Wagner, Richard: Prelude to Act 3, from Lohengrin - Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst (DG 4778773)
Kapsberger, Johannes Hieronymus: Kapsberger - Rolf Lislevand (theorbo), Brian Feehan (colascione), Pedro Estev (Auvidis Tempo A 6259)
Three to Seven
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