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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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Loving the Dunedin Sound
6 Mar 2025Ahead of his performance with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, conductor Umberto Clerici explains why he loves playing with semi-professional musicians. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Country road with crickets
5 Mar 2025Take the sound of a summer night with you, no matter how cold it is outside. Read more Audio
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Taking opera on tour
5 Mar 2025Soprano Sophie Sparrow and baritone Jonathan Eyers are one half of a quartet of young singers taking a show of opera highlights around the North Island. Read more Audio
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From computer software to the concert hall
4 Mar 2025Adrien de Croy, businessman turned composer, talks to RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump about his first symphony. Read more Audio
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Ashley Brown and music beyond NZTrio
3 Mar 2025After 23 years, cellist Ashley Brown is leaving NZTrio. He speaks with RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump. Read more Audio
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Eddie Muliaumaseali'i and the Howard Morrison touch
28 Feb 2025Ahead of his performance in Rotorua's Opera in the Pā, Kiwi Samoan bass-baritone Eddie Muliaumaseali'i remembers how a meeting with a Māori music legend galvanised his singing career.
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Chopin by candlelight
27 Feb 2025Australian pianist Piers Lane returns to New Zealand to perform all of Chopin's Nocturnes. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: while the city sleeps.
26 Feb 2025After a night swim, RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump recorded the sounds of the city floating across the calm waters of Wellington harbour. Read more Audio
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Making the piano talk
26 Feb 2025Back in New Zealand for a three-concert tour, Kiwi-born, France based pianist Jeffrey Grice talks to RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump about his approach to music making. Read more Video, Audio
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Making comedy out of the classics
25 Feb 2025Ex-pat Kiwi Robbie Ellis is forging a career in music comedy in Chicago. Read more Video, Audio
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Samoan values in a choral setting
24 Feb 2025Miki Magasiva, director of Tinā, talks about the movie's choral connection. Read more Video, Audio
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Kodály in the classroom
21 Feb 2025Amelia Giles talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about Kodály Concept Music Education, studying in Hungary, and teaching a Kodály Concept-centred classroom music programme as the Music Specialist… Read more Video, Audio
16 February 2026
with Bryan Crump
Corigliano, John: Tarantella, from Gazebo Dances - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra /Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN10284)
Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in C minor Op 25/12, Ocean - Yunchan Lim (piano) (Decca 4870122)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Romance No 1 in G Op 40 - Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam/Bernard Haitink (Philips 426 064)
Bonis, Mel: Soir, matin - members of Mozart Piano Quartet (DABRINGHAUS & GRIMM MDG 643 1424)
Graham, Peter: Brillante - Adam Frey (euphonium), New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Bruce Hangen (Naxos 8.570538)
Armstrong, Craig: Far from the Madding Crowd - Angèle Dubeau (violin), La Pietà (Analekta AN28748)
Mussorgsky, Modest: Overture, from Sorochinsky Fair - The Lily's Project/Fabrice Bollon (Naxos)
Schumann, Robert: Five Pieces in Folk Style Op 102 - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano) (ERATO 9341582)
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Prokofiev, Sergei: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical (1) - Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80289)
Grieg, Edvard: Air, from Holberg Suite - Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (piano) (Mirare)
Couperin, François: Sixième Concert (3) - Douglas Boyd (oboe), Harold Lester (harpsichord), Richard Lester (cello) (ASV CD DCA 656)
Herbert, Victor: March of the Toys - Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy (SONY SBK 63052)
Piazzolla, Astor arr Bragato: Invierno porteño, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Gryphon Trio (Analekta AN 2 9857)
Dvořák, Antonín: Czech Suite Op 39 (4) - Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hrusa (SUPRAPHON SU 3867)
McLachlan, Sarah: When She Loved Me, from Toy Story - The King's Singers (Warner Classics)
Ritchie, John: Partita for brass quintet (2) - NZ Chamber Brass (Private - NZCB 2007A)
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Elgar, Edward: Harmony Music No 1 - Athena Ensemble (Chandos CHAN 6553)
Schubert, Franz: Symphony No 3 in D D200 (3) - Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 653)
Chopin, Frédéric: Fantasy-Impromptu in C# minor Op 66 - Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) (EMI 5 85807)
Gabrielli, Domenico: Trumpet Sonata No 4 in D - Thomas Reiner (trumpet), Southwest German Chamber Orchestra/Sebastian Tewinkel (Naxos 8.570501)
Davis, Oliver: Voyager (1) - Kerenza Peacock (violin), Huw Watkins (piano), London Symphony Orchestra/Paul Bateman (Signum SIGCD 411)
Berkeley, Lennox: O that I once past changing were - Rosie Cooper (soprano), Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Cambridge, Joseph Beadle (organ)/Anna Lapwood (Signum SIGCD714)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV645 - Gillian Weir (organ) (PRIORY PRCD 753)
Debussy, Claude: Le matin d'un jour de fête, from Ibéria - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Jesús López-Cobos (TELARC CD 80574)
Copland, Aaron: Quiet City - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80339)
Fauré, Gabriel: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 13 (4) - Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano) (DG 471 500)
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Hedges, Anthony: Overture, from Heigham Sound - RTE Sinfonietta/Anthony Hedges (MARCO POLO 8.223886)
Mendelssohn, Felix: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Suite - London Symphony Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth (Virgin 3 91372)
Hamilton, David: Polka, from Imagined Dances II - Archi D'amore Zelanda (Atoll ACD218)
Medtner, Nikolai: Fairy-tale in D minor Op 51/1 - Geoffrey Tozer (piano) (Chandos CHAN 9050)
Grieg, Edvard: Norwegian Dance Op 63/2 - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (RCA RD 60368)
Traditional: Kalevala Melody - Martti Pokela (kantele), Eeva-Leena (kantele), Matti Kontio (kantele) (Finlandia 0630 12722)
Roman, Johan Helmich: Menuetto, from Assaggio per violino solo in G minor - Fabio Biondi (violin) (Naive V8209)
Ruiz De Ribayaz, Lucas: Españoletas - Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet), L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)
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