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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
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Gábor Káli: never forget the child in you
20 May 2025Hungarian conductor Gábor Káli talks to RNZ Concert ahead of his New Zealand Symphony Orchestra debut. Read more Audio
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Reconnecting with the sitar
19 May 2025Indian-born classical musician Shalu Garg has gone to great lengths to re-learn the sitar. Read more Video, Audio
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Bringing Edinburgh to Auckland
16 May 2025Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo creative director Alan Lane talks about bringing the show to Aotearoa in February. Read more Audio
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Dunedin Concerto Competition 2025 finalists
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Cellist Portia Bell
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Portia Bell, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Cultural life inside the Loop
15 May 2025Tongan Kiwi Jack Bourke trained as a tenor. These days, his work is focused on maximising the benefit Auckland's art scene gets from the city's underground rail link. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: The Magic Bus Stop
14 May 2025If you take the No 25 bus to Highbury in Wellington and get your timing right, you might just hear a Kiwi or two when you step out the door. Read more Audio
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Pianist Ozan Biner-McGrath
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Ozan Biner-McGrath, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Levi Patel's Chinese love affair
14 May 2025Composer Levi Patel fell in love with a woman from Liuzhou. It didn't last, but his relationship with the Chinese city continues to blossom. Read more Video, Audio
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Pianist Roy Zhang
RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump talks with Roy Zhang, one of the three finalists in this year's Dunedin Concerto Competition. Read more Audio
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Getting the show on the screen
13 May 2025Composer Fergus Fry is also a natural-born producer. Read more Video, Audio
03 July 2025
with Bryan Crump
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Souvenir d'un lieu cher (2) - James Ehnes (vln), Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (ONYX 4076)
Weber, Carl Maria von: Clarinet Concerto No 2 in Eb Op 74 (3) - Charles Neidich (cl), Orpheus CO (DG 435 875)
Mumford & Sons arr Clements, Jim: Timshel - Voces8/Barnaby Smith (VOCES8 Records VCM174)
Brahms, Johannes: Serenade No 2 in A Op 16 (5) - London SO/Bernard Haitink (LSO LIVE LSO 0056)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Sextet in Eb Op 71 (1) - members of the CO of Europe (ASV CD COE 807)
Scherrer, Dominik: Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - unnamed ensemble (EMI 340901)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 (2) - Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) (Decca 4851630)
Dvořák, Antonín: In Nature's Realm, Overture - Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley (Chandos CHAN 7123)
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Stravinsky, Igor: Finale, from The Firebird, Suite - Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 458 142)
Beach, Amy: Piano Quintet in F# Op 67 (3) - Martin Roscoe (pno), Endellion Quartet (ASV CD DCA 932)
Toscanini, Arturo: Two pieces for string quartet (1) - Cindy Yan (vln), Miyo Yoon (vln), Vyvyan Yendoll (vla), Paul Mitchell (cello) (RNZ UC18)
Anonymous arr Yyegmalian/orch Shoujounian: Where are you, O Mother? - Isabel Bayrakdarian (sop), Elmer Iseler CO/Raffi Armenian (CBC Records SMCD 5215)
Sheng, Bright: Black Swan (after Brahms) - Seattle SO/Gerard Schwarz (Naxos 8.559679)
Paganini, Niccolò: Caprice No 21 in A, from 24 Caprices Op 1 - Augustin Hadelich (violin) (Avie AV 2180)
Schumann, Robert: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish (5) - Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo (SONY 88697 64687)
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Vivaldi, Antonio: Domine Fili Unigenite, from Gloria in D RV589 - Swiss Radio Chorus of Lugano, I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (BBC Music BBC MM 88)
Glass, Philip: The Hours, from The Hours - Michael Riesman (pno), Lyric Quartet, Chris Laurence (dbass), studio orch/Nick Ingman (NONESUCH 79693)
Ellington, Duke / Mills, Irving / Parish, Mitchell arr & orch Henderson: Sophisticated Lady - Bobby Watson (sax), City of Birmingham SO/Simon Rattle (EMI 5 57014)
Boccherini, Luigi: Guitar Quintet in D G448, Fandango (1) - Kazuhito Yamashita (gtr), Tokyo String Quartet (RCA RD 60421)
Debussy, Claude arr Heifetz: Beau soir - Janine Jansen (vln), Itamar Golan (pno) (Decca 478 2256)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale Prelude, Von Gott will ich nicht Lassen - Gillian Weir (org) (PRIORY PRCD 800)
Mozart, Leopold: Trombone Concerto in D - Jörgen van Rijen (tbn), Amsterdam Combattimento Consort/Jan Willem de Vriend (dir) (Channel Classics CCS SA 26708)
Ravel, Maurice: Menuet, from Le Tombeau de Couperin - ASMF/Neville Marriner (ASV CD DCA 517)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von: O del mio dolce ardor, from Paris & Helen - Keith Lewis (ten), NZSO Chamber Orch/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2022)
Arlen, Harold: Over the Rainbow, from The Wizard of Oz - Anne Akiko Meyers (vln), Akira Eguchi (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7762)
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Medtner, Nikolai: Fairy-tale in D minor Op 51/1 - Geoffrey Tozer (pno) (Chandos CHAN 9050)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Serenade for Strings Op 48 - Moscow Soloists/Yuri Bashmet (Onyx 4037)
Macdowell, Edward Alexander: Romance - Aisling Drury Byrne (cello), Ireland National SO/Arthur Fagen (Naxos 8.559049)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Concerto in D minor for oboe & violin BWV1060 (2) - Isabelle Faust (violin), Xenia Löffler (oboe), Berlin Academy for Early Music/Bernhard Forck (Harmonia Mundi HMM90233536)
Rutter, John: Suite Antique (5) - Duke Dobing (fl), Wayne Marshall (hpschd), City of London Sinfon/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 516)
Brahms, Johannes: Intermezzo in C Op 119/3 - Michael Houstoun (piano) (Rattle RATD131)
Traditional: The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary - Jordi Savall (viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) (Alia Vox AVSA 9865)
Three to Seven
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