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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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Moment of Calm: Spring Sunrise
2 Oct 2024Capturing the sound of a near perfect Spring morning. Read more Audio
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Sending the music back home
2 Oct 2024Young Christchurch-raised composer Eva Bedggood talks about her latest work, which NZTrio is about to premiere in her home town. Read more Audio
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Harmony in the hay
1 Oct 2024Canturbury ceramic artist and gallery owner John Allan talks about turning an old hay shed into a music venue. Read more Audio
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Hope out of hate
30 Sep 2024Singers from the Wellington Youth Choir talk about their upcoming concert where they'll be performing a work composed in response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay American man. Read more Video, Audio
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Keeping it in the family
27 Sep 2024Visiting cellist Sterling Elliot can thank his mother for his stellar career, although he initially wanted to play the violin. Read more Video, Audio
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Alexandra through the looking glass
26 Sep 2024Alexandra Hope Watson is many things, from daredevil plane pilot to mathematician, but perhaps her greatest love is writing musicals. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: Calling the faithful
25 Sep 2024The sound of the minarets of Istanbul Read more Audio
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The sound of one hand playing
25 Sep 2024Pianist Jian Liu only needs one hand for his next gig, but he's working twice as hard. Read more Video, Audio
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A violinist of many colours
24 Sep 2024Violinist Tristan Carter talks to Bryan Crump about his multifaceted musical career. Read more Video, Audio
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Salina Fisher makes waves across the Pacific
23 Sep 2024One of America's top choreographers is basing her latest ballet on music by New Zealander Salina Fisher.
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Gemma's New Season
20 Sep 2024Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor, Gemma New, talks with Bryan Crump about the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's programme for next year. Read more Video, Audio
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Composer's parting gift
19 Sep 2024The dying composer Lyell Cresswell's gift to his pianist friend Stephen De Pledge was a new concerto. Now De Pledge finally gets to perform it. Read more Audio
23 September 2025
with Bryan Crump
Fauré, Gabriel: Violin Sonata No 1 in A Op 13 (3) - Wilma Smith (vln), Michael Houstoun (pno) (RNZ UA63)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Dubinushka - London SO/Neeme Järvi (Chandos CHAN 6511)
Aznavour, Charles: La bohème - Camille Thomas (Cello), Armenian State Symphony Orchestra/Sergey Smbatyan (Decca 6536870)
Dvořák, Antonín: Slavonic Dance Op 72 No 4 in D flat major - Atlanta SO/Yoel Levi (TELARC CD 80497)
Norton, Christopher: Harry's Rag - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Rattle D097)
Bruch, Max: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 (2) - Jascha Heifetz (vln), New SO of London/Malcolm Sargent (RCA RD 86214)
Martinu, Bohuslav: Promenades - Lenka Kozderková-Simková (fl), Adéla Stajnochrová (vln), Monika Knoblochová (hpschd) (Supraphon SU 3805)
Handel, George Frideric: Concerto a due cori No 1 in Bb HWV332 - English Chamber Orchestra/Raymond Leppard (Philips 422 949)
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Prokofiev, Sergei: Symphony No 1 in D Op 25, Classical (1) - Royal Phil/Yuri Simonov (REGISC 1258)
Franck, César: Symphony in D minor Op 48 (3) - Champs-Elysées Orch/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1771)
Adams, John: China Gates - Ralph van Raat (pno) (Naxos 8.559285)
Cowan, Claire: The Food People, from Hansel and Gretel - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (Private P002363)
McLeod, Jenny: Music for Four (3) - Rae de Lisle, Stephen De Pledge (pianos), Eric Renick, Lenny Sakofsky (percussion) (Atoll ACD223)
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da trans Stokowski: Adoramus te - Brussels Phil/Richard Egarr (GLOSSA GCDSA 922209)
Debussy, Claude: Poissons d'or, from Images - Cécile Ousset (pno) (Berlin Classics 1345 BC)
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Sammartini, Giovanni Battista: Symphony in F JC36 (1) Presto - Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (Naxos 8557298)
Grainger, Percy: Lullaby, from Tribute to Foster - Piers Lane (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67279)
Rota, Nino: La Dolce Vita - Czech SO/Derek Wadsworth (Silvascreen 290129)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Pas seul, from Idomeneo - Auckland Phil/Roy Goodman (Atoll ACD 883)
Marcello, Alessandro: Oboe Concerto in D minor (1) - Dianne Lacelle (oboe), Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie (ATMA ACD22600)
Canteloube, Joseph: Uno jionto postouro, from Songs of the Auvergne - Véronique Gens (sop), Lille National Orch/Jean-Claude Casadesus (Naxos 8.557491)
Alfvén, Hugo: Aftonen - Voces8 (Decca 4870458)
Chopin, Frédéric: Mazurka in C# minor Op 50/3 - Leon Fleisher (pno) (VANGUARD ATM CD 1551)
Herbert, Victor: March of the Toys - Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy (SONY SBK 63052)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Partita No 2 in G, from Die Kleine Cammer-Music - Paul Goodwin (ob), Nigel North (lute), Susan Sheppard (cello), John Toll (hpschd) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7152)
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Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Piano Sonata No 3 in C (2) - Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9389)
Smith, Alice Mary: Clarinet Sonata in A - Luigi Magistrelli (clarinet), Claudia Bracco (piano) (VDE-Gallo GALLO CD-1355)
Rossini, Gioachino: La Danza - José Carreras (ten), English CO (Philips 462 892)
O'Connor, Mark: FC's Jig - Mark O'Connor (vln), Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (Sony SK 68460)
Zelenka, Jan Dismas: Sonata No 3 in Bb for oboe, violin & bassoon (2) - Theo Plath (bassoon), Armand Djikoloum (oboe), Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe), continuo (Challenge Classics CC72977)
Holst, Gustav: Neptune, the Mystic, from The Planets Suite - women of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra/Yoel Levi (Telarc CD 80466)
Ritchie, John: Whimsies (1) Full Fathom Five - Matthew Marshall (gtr) (Rattle D097)
Joplin, Scott arr Kunzel: Maple Leaf Rag - William Tritt (pno), Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel (TELARC CD 80112)
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