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Seeking brass in pocket
2 Oct 2025The Christchurch music institution, Woolston Brass, is fundraising to rebuild its quake damaged bandrooms. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: For whom the bell tolls.
1 Oct 2025There's something soothing about the sound of a town hall clock on a Sunday morning. This one is in Auckland. Read more Audio
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Her own Stabat Mater
1 Oct 2025Composer Victoria Kelly explains why she couldn't stick to the script in her latest choral work. Read more Audio
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Opportunity slides through the door
30 Sep 2025Ahead of his concert with the Auckland Philharmonia, British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor remembers the mystery message that galvanised his career. Read more Video, Audio
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In the footsteps of Jenny McLeod
29 Sep 2025Manawatū musician, composer and educator Kane Parsons has been awarded the 2025/26 SOUNZ Community Commission, and is planning a work for a cast of hundreds. Read more Video, Audio
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Songs of the sea reimagined for Aotearoa
26 Sep 2025Toi Toi Opera in Ōtautahi Christchurch is presenting a semi-staged production of Riders to the Sea - a short opera by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - along with sea-themed works by Dame… Read more Audio
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Jazz supergroup ldvf to perform at Wellington festival
25 Sep 2025Recently-formed ensemble ldvf is coming to this year's Wellington Jazz Festival in October. RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping catches up with the quartet's drummer, NZ musician Myele Manzanza. Read more Audio
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From Wellington to Warsaw
24 Sep 2025Young Wellington singer Francesca Fagan is off to Poland to take part in the finals of the Stanisław Jopek International Singing Competition - she's one of only eight international finalists, and the… Read more Video, Audio
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Chloe Chua: "the most important competition is to compete with yourself"
23 Sep 2025Rising violin star Chloe Chua will be performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Auckland Philharmonia this Thursday. She came into the studio to chat with RNZ Concert's David Morriss. Read more Video, Audio
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Chamber music in the heart of the Waipā District
22 Sep 2025There's a brand new chamber music festival taking place in the Waikato town of Cambridge this weekend. RNZ Concert talks with one of the Artistic Directors, bassoonist Todd Gibson-Cornish. Read more Audio
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The unstoppable Yura Lee
19 Sep 2025Visiting musician Yura Lee hasn't been able to decide between the violin or the viola, so she plays both. Read more Audio
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Jane Bulpin and the art of symphonic logistics
18 Sep 2025Ahead of her departure for the UK, Jane Bulpin looks back on her work as Director: Orchestral Delivery with the NZSO. Read more Video, Audio
09 February 2026
with Bryan Crump
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony No 6 in D minor Op 104 (3) - Philharmonia/Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 421 069)
Piazzolla, Astor arr Bragato: Primavera Porteña, from Four Seasons in Buenos Aires - Gryphon Trio (Analekta AN 2 9857)
Howell, Dorothy: Humoresque - BBC Concert Orchestra/Rebecca Miller (Signum SIGCD763)
Puccini, Giacomo: Un bel dì, from Madame Butterfly - Renée Fleming (soprano), London Philharmonic/Charles Mackerras (Decca 467 049)
Infante, Manuel: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 (1) - Hecht & Shapiro (piano duo) (Azica ACD 1201)
Gipps, Ruth: Ambarvalia Op 70 - BBC Philharmonic/Rumon Gamba (Chandos CHAN20284)
Debussy, Claude: Sonata for flute, viola & harp (2) - Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Gerard Causse (viola) (Erato 9029577396)
Williams, Grace Mary: Penillion - Ray Allan (trumpet), Royal Philharmonic/Charles Groves (Lyrita SRCD 323)
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Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 84 in Eb (4) - Orchestra of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen (Philips 473 015)
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Suleika und Hatem - Fatma Said (soprano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone, Joseph Middleton (piano) (Warner Classics 2173245977)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Trio Sonata in C Wq147 (1) - Florilegium (Channel Classics CCS 11197)
Kodály, Zoltán: Intermezzo, from Háry János Suite - Budapest Festival Orchestra/Iván Fischer (Philips 462 824)
Farr, Gareth: The Horizon from Owhiro Bay - Henry Wong Doe (piano) (Rattle RAT D046)
D'Indy, Vincent: Symphony in A minor, Italian (3) - Brittany Orchestra/Lionel Bringuier (TIMPANI 1C 1125)
Boccherini, Luigi: Guitar Quintet in G G450 (1) - Kazuhito Yamashita (guitar), Tokyo String Quartet (RCA RD 60421)
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Parry, Hubert: March, from The Birds - London Chamber Orchestra/Christopher Warren-Green (Decca 276842)
Ibert, Jacques: Entr'acte - Anthony Ferner (flute), Helen Webby (harp) (MANU CD MANU 2050)
Dale, Rebecca: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening - Tenebrae/Nigel Short (Signum)
Schubert, Franz: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout (2) - Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin), Edgar Francis (viola), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Toby Hughes (double bass), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) (Decca 4871265)
Herschel, William: Symphony No 13 in D (1) - London Mozart Players/Matthias Bamert (Chandos CHAN 10048)
Webb, Joy arr Sebastian Haukås: Share My Yoke - Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), tenThing (LAWO LWC1280)
Anonymous arr Lislevand: La perra mora - Rolf Lislevand (lute), Marco Ambrosini (viola d amore), Thor Harald Johnsen (lute), Michael Behringer (clavichord), David Mayoral (percussion), Bjørn Kjellemyr (colascione), Giovanna Pessi (harp)/Rolf Lislevand (dir) (ECM 2088 (476 3317))
Glazunov, Alexander: Concert Waltz No 1 in D Op 47 - Bonn Beethoven Orchestra/Stefan Blunier (MDG 937 1761)
Strauss, Richard trans Godowsky: Ständchen Op 17/2 - Nelson Freire (piano) (Philips 456 781)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Oboe Concerto in C K314 (3) - Douglas Boyd (oboe), Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Paavo Berglund (ASV CD COE 808)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 (3) - Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Petra Müllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz (dirs)/Gottfried von der Goltz (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2113.14)
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno: Suite-Concertino in F Op 16 - Karen Geoghegan (bsn), BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda (Chandos CHAN 10511)
Salzedo, Carlos: Siciliana - Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 917)
Avison, Charles: Concerto Grosso in D Op 3/5 - Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin/director), Avison Ensemble (Naxos 8.557905-06)
Pauls, Raimonds: Daugava - Youth choir BALSIS/Ints Teterovskis (BALSIS)
Koch, Gareth: Rumba Flamenca - Saffire, The Australian Guitar Quartet (ABC Classics 476 701)
Smith, Alice Mary ed Graham-Jones: Symphony in C minor (3) - London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley (Chandos CHAN 10283)
Poulenc, Francis arr L Berkeley: Flute Sonata (3) - Emily Beynon (flute), BBC Welsh National Orchestra/Bramwell Tovey (Chandos CHAN 10718)
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