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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
06 February 2026
with Bryan Crump
Melbourne, Hirini: Tihore Mai - Moana & The MoaHunters (MAORIMUSIC 239108)
Anonymous arr Marek Pasieczny: Pokarekare ana - Jane Curry, Owen Moriarty (gtrs) (Naxos 8.579041)
Witt, Friedrich: Concerto for 2 Horns No 3 in F (2) - Jacek Muzyk (music), Daniel Kerdelewicz (horn), Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos)
Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in Ab Op 25/1, Aeolian Harp - Yunchan Lim (piano) (Decca 4870122)
Franchi, Dorothea: Suite for flute & harp - Anthony Ferner (flute), Helen Webby (harp) (Manu CD MANU 2050)
Satie, Eric: La Belle Excentrique - Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Toulouse Capitole Orchestra/Michel Plasson (EMI CDC 7 49471)
Ravel, Maurice: Sonata for violin & cello (4) Vif - Luka Ispir (violin), Léo Ispir (cello) (Erato 2173276986)
Sibelius, Jean: Karelia Suite - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.572704)
Lauridsen, Morten: If, alas, because I have given you my heart, from Six Fire Madrigals - Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (Atoll ACD213)
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Rolla, Alessandro: Viola Sonata in D minor Op 3/2 - Jennifer Stumm (viola), Connie Shih (piano) (Naxos 8.572010)
Grøndahl, Agathe Backer: Summer Song, from Fantasy Pieces Op 45 - Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Bjarte Engeset (Naxos 8.557018)
Suk, Josef: Summer Impressions Op 22b (1) At Noon - Margaret Fingerhut (piano) (Chandos CHAN 9026-7)
Odermatt, Gotthard: Summer, from Three Images Op 18 - Albrecht Mayer (oboe), ASMF/Mathias Mönius (Decca 478 2564)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai arr Campbell: The Snow Maiden's aria, from The Snow Maiden - Aida Garifullina (soprano), ORF Radio SO, Vienna/Cornelius Meister (Decca 478 8305)
Vinten, Michael: Sinfonietta - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Hamish McKeich (RNZ 2012)
Gieseking, Walter: Quintet for piano and winds in Bb Op 20 (3) - ensemble 4.1 (Arcantus Musikproduktion ARC15001)
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Traditional: The Dromer - Danish String Quartet (ECM 4815746)
Price, Florence Arr William Grant Still: Silk Hat and Walking Cane (3) from Dances in the Canebrakes - Malmö Opera/John Jeter (Naxos 8559952)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Keyboard Sonata No 47 in B minor HobXVI/32 - Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) (DG 4860525)
Debussy, Claude: Bruyères, from Preludes, Book 2 - Bert Lucarelli (oboe), Susan Jolles (harp) (Stradivari SCD 6034)
Barry, John: Themes from Dances with Wolves (the film score) - Cincinnati Pops Orchestra/Erich Kunzel (Telarc CD 80474)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concerto in D minor for oboe & violin BWV1060* (2) - Martin Jaenecke (violin), Michael Sieg (oboe), Viva Chamber Orchestra (VIVA CO 2003A)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 41 in C K551, Jupiter (3) - Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil (DHM 82876 89504)
Prokofiev, Sergei: Violin Sonata No 2 in D Op 94a (3) - Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Olga Sitkovetsky (piano) (Atoll ACD 513)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Symphony No 1 in G minor Op 13, Winter Daydreams (3) - Prague Symphony Orchestra/Václav Smetácek (SUPRAPHON SU 3895)
Tikao, Ariana; Fraser, Alistair: Te reo o te wai - Ariana Tikao (voice, taonga pūoro), Al Fraser (taonga pūoro) (Rattle RATD106)
Traditional arr Hart: Early one morning - Stella Dickinson (oboe), Capital Virtuosi/Paul Hart (ASV CDWHL 2118)
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Lilburn, Douglas: Violin Sonata in Eb - Elizabeth Holowell (violin), Dean Sky-Lucas (piano) (Atoll ACD 941)
Kelly, Victoria: Requiem (2) He Taurere - Anika Moa (voice), choir & ensemble (Private P002915)
Hindson, Matthew: The stars above us all - Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Northey (HUSH 013)
Enescu, George: Sérénade Lointaine - Trio Brancusi (Zig Zag ZZT 303)
York, Andrew: Sunburst - Karin Schaupp (guitar) (Warner 398423306)
Reinecke, Carl: Trio Op 274 (3) Scherzo - Trio - Trio 2 - Hexagon Ensemble (ETCETERA KTC 1295)
Warlock, Peter: Capriol Suite (5) - Bournemouth Sinfonietta/George Hurst (Chandos CHAN 8375)
Three to Seven
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