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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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Old opera, brand new production
3 Jun 2025Bruno Ravella is in Aotearoa to direct a brand new production of Puccini's La bohème for NZ Opera. Read more Audio
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Peter de Blois: singer, conductor, teacher, now ONZM
3 Jun 2025Peter de Blois talks about being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in this year's King's Birthday Honours List. Read more Audio
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A Regal Sonic Tonic
2 Jun 2025Bryan Crump presents a montage of music and historical recordings marking Kings Birthday 2025. Read more Video, Audio
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Wash the mind with a Gong Bath
30 May 2025Erika Grant is bringing her gongs to a special Listening Occasion that's part of Wellington's midwinter Lōemis Festival. Read more Audio
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Making rainbow connections
29 May 2025Tabea Squire talks about the 'building block' approach she took to writing a piece for groups taking part in this year's New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: In the late Autumn sun.
28 May 2025Bryan Crump revels in the autumn sun, while recording a few birds in the Wellington hills. Read more Audio
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Paradise lost and found
28 May 2025Briar Prastiti's new work 'The Garden' gets its New Zealand premiere this weekend. Read more Video, Audio
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The Cawthron pipes are calling
27 May 2025Myles Payne and a novel campaign to raise money for the Nelson Centre for Musical Arts' organ. Read more Audio
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Taking on Brahms in Palmerston North
26 May 2025The combined Manawatū Sinfonia and Youth Orchestra will tackle one of the pinnacles of symphonic music this King's Birthday Monday. Read more Audio
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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
18 August 2025
with Bryan Crump
Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in C Op 10/1 - Maurizio Pollini (pno) (DG 459 064)
Elgar, Edward: Minuet Op 21 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)
Vivaldi, Antonio: Concerto in C for two flutes - Jed Wentz (fl/dir), Marion Moonen (fl), Musica ad Rhenum (Challenge CC 72044)
Kreisler, Fritz: Caprice viennois - Anne-Sophie Mutter (vln), Lambert Orkis (pno) (DG 471 500)
Schubert, Franz: String Quartet No 14 in D minor D810 (3) - Lafayette String Quartet (CBC Records MVCD1149)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Oboe Concerto in F (2) - Bart Schneemann (ob), Netherlands Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Channel Classics CCS SA 21404)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Soave sia il vento, from Così fan tutte - Miah Persson (sop), Christine Rice (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bar), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (DG 477 6297)
Brel, Jacques arr Anderson and Roe: Mathilde, Marieke, et Madeleine - Anderson & Roe Piano Duo (Steinway & Sons STNS30006)
Norman, Philip: And soon it will be dawn - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (RNZ 2018)
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Liszt, Franz: Consolation No 3 in Db - François-René Duchâble (pno) (Virgin 3 63278)
Johann Strauss II: On the Beautiful Blue Danube - London Phil/David Parry (X5 105)
Walton, William: Sonata for strings (4) - Septura (Naxos 8.573825)
Grovlez, Gabriel: Sicilienne et Allegro giocoso - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), Philip Fisher (pno) (Chandos CHAN 10521)
Sibelius, Jean: Dance-Intermezzo Op 45/2 - New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen (Naxos 8.570763)
Takemitsu, Toru: Will tomorrow, I wonder, be cloudy or clear? - Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano) (Chandos CHAN20274)
Chabrier, Emmanuel: Idylle, from Suite pastorale - Swiss Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHSA 5122)
Tan Dun: The Eternal Vow, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), David Cossin (perc), Shanghai National Orch, Shanghai SO/Chen Xie Yang (Sony 693927)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, from Cantata No 147 - Alison Balsom (tpt), Balsom Ensemble/Simon Wright (Warner Classics 9029537006)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Prelude in G# minor Op 32/12 - Steven Osborne (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67700)
Ravel, Maurice: The fairy garden, from Mother Goose Suite - Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin (EMI 9 66342)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Sinfonia Concertante in Eb K364 (3) - Maxim Vengerov (vln/dir), Lawrence Power (vla), Verbier Festival CO (EMI 3 78374)
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky (4) - Beaux Arts Trio (warner 2564 61492)
Couperin, François arr Thomas Adès: Les baricades mistérieuses - Composers Ensemble/Thomas Adès (EMI 5 57610)
Grainger, Percy: Rustic Dance, from Youthful Suite - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (CBC Records 1164426)
Glazunov, Alexander: Mazurka-oberek in D - Itzhak Perlman (vln), Abbey Road Ensemble/Lawrence Foster (EMI CDC 5 55475)
Schubert, Franz: Impromptu in F minor D935/4 - Imogen Cooper (pno) (Avie AV 2157)
Gounod, Charles: Judex, from Mors et Vita - Richard Hickox Orch/Richard Hickox (Decca 448 687)
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Ewald, Victor: Brass Quintet No 3 in Db Op 7 (2) Intermezzo - Gomalan Brass Quintet (cpo 555680-2)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Oboe Concerto in A minor - Sarah Jeffrey, Toronto SO/Peter Oundjian (Chandos CHSA 5201)
Han Kun Sha: Shepherd's Song - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
Bonis, Mel: Flute Sonata Op 64 (1) - Mathilde Calderini (flute), Aurèle Marthan (piano) (Alpha ALPHA1061)
Falla, Manuel de: Neighbour's Dance & Miller's Dance - New Zealand SO/William Southgate (Continuum NZSO 100)
Rolla, Alessandro: Viola Sonata in D minor Op 3/2 - Jennifer Stumm (vla), Connie Shih (pno) (Naxos 8.57201)
Cazzati, Maurizio / Storace, Bernardo / Pluhar, Christina: Ciaccona - L'Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar (Alpha 512)
Three to Seven
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