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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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John Psathas: can't stop composing
26 Jan 2026John Psathas talks with RNZ Concert ahead of performances of his music at this year's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. He's also formed his own chamber music ensemble. Read more Video, Audio
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Five Fabulous Classical Concert Videos
22 Dec 2025Watch some great local classical music performances, including The Four Seasons, operatic arias including te reo Māori, Moroccan singer OUM and orchestra, opera star Joyce DiDonato, and the world… Read more Video
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VIDEO: Christmas Carols from the NZSO
20 Dec 2025As the year winds down, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra musicians perform a selection of seasonal songs including 'The Nutcracker', 'The First Noël' and 'Adorar al Niño' (Adore the Child). (VIDEO)
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David Langrish's white Christmas
19 Dec 2025Three to Seven's final interview of 2025 is quite possibly its coolest. Read more Video, Audio
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Chris Lam Sam, Music Education Animateur
18 Dec 2025Chris Lam Sam brings the magic of orchestral music to school children around the country. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: Swimmers at the Beach
17 Dec 2025We're off to the waterfront for this year's final "sonic" Moment of Calm. Read more Audio
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Singing in his mother's tongue
17 Dec 2025RNZ producer, Gaelic speaker and singer Andrew Robertson, shares his love of his native language, and some of the best examples from this year's Gaelic festival in the Scottish Highlands. Read more Audio
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Festive fare from RNZ Concert
17 Dec 2025RNZ Concert's Music Alive presents special concerts celebrating Christmas and the New Year in New Zealand. Here is what you can listen to, and when: Read more Video
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Barbershop and beyond
16 Dec 2025Porirua choir Pacific Connection caps off a stellar year with its debut album. Read more Audio
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Making music by the waves
15 Dec 2025Edith Salzmann, Music Director of the Akaroa Music Festival, talks to RNZ Concert. Read more Audio
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Go east, young man
15 Dec 2025Young New Zealand tenor Sid Chand is moving on from his studies in San Francisco to take up a singing job in Chicago. Read more Audio
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Christmas Cheer from the Auckland Philharmonia
11 Dec 2025Coming up this weekend, the Auckland Philharmonia will get audiences in the yuletide mood with a festive blend of modern Christmas favourites, orchestral classics and traditional seasonal carols. Read more Audio
27 January 2026
with Bryan Crump
German, Edward: Orpheus With His Lute - Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) (EMI CDC 5 56830)
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk: Mandolin Concerto in G (3) - Avi Avital (mandolin), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (DG 4863459)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 30 in E Op 109 (1) - Víkingur Ólafsson (piano) (DG 94867411)
Coates, Eric: Youth of Britain March - New Philharmonia/Adrian Boult (LYRITA SRCD 246)
Statham, Keith: Happy Ending - Ben Hoadley (bsn), Nicola Baker (horn), Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 881)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 (1) - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta FL 2 3134)
Gershwin, George: Piano Concerto in F (3) - Howard Shelley (piano), Philharmonia/Yan Pascal Tortelier (Chandos CHAN 9092)
Turina, Joaquín: Danzas fantásticas Op 22 - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Jesús López-Cobos (Telarc CD 80574)
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Gaultier, Ennemond: Canaries, from Suite in D minor for lute - Hopkinson Smith (lute) (Astree E 8703)
Gál, Hans: Serenade for Clarinet, Violin & Cello Op 93 (3) - Kilian Herold, Florian Donderer & Tanja Tetzlaff (AVI Music AVI8553537)
Anonymous arr Stian Aareskjold: Cachua Serranita - Norwegian Wind Ensemble/Mark Bennett (LAWO LWC1061)
Paisiello, Giovanni: Concerto for Mandolin & Strings in Eb - Avi Avital (mandolin), Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini (DG 4863459)
Farquhar, David: Anniversary Suite No 2 (6) - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Young (MANU CD MANU 1550)
Clementi, Muzio ed Spada: Symphony No 4 in D (2) - Rome Symphony Orchestra/Francesco La Vecchia (Naxos 8.573112)
Borodin, Alexander: Nocturne, from String Quartet No 2 in D - Takács Quartet (Decca 452 239)
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Handel, George Frideric: Blest be the hand, from Theodora - Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen, Louise Alder & Adam Plachetka/Jonathan Cohen (Alpha ALPHA1025)
Schumann, Robert: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 97, Rhenish (2) - Antwerp Symphony Orchestra/Philippe Herreweghe (PHI LPH040)
Buck, Ole: Estampie (3) - Wood'N'Flutes (Dacapo )
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Trio No 4 in E minor Op 90, Dumky (6) - Ogen Trio (OGEN OG 0010)
Elgar, Edward: Pomp & Circumstance March No 1 - London Philharmonic/Adrian Boult (EMI CDM 7 64015)
Traditional: Hur var du i aftes så sildig - Danish String Quartet (ECM 4815746)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus arr Czerny: Recordare, from Requiem, K626 - Jürgen Appell, Kerstin Straßburg (piano) (Genuin GEN24869)
Fauré, Gabriel: Sanctus, from Requiem Op 48 - Luc Héry (violin), Accentus, Maîtrise de Paris, members of French National Orchestra, Christophe Henry (organ)/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve V 5137)
Bissill, Richard: Valse Noire for Horn & Piano - Alexander Morton (horn), Liam Wooding (piano) (RNZ )
Brahms, Johannes: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor Op 60 (3) - Nicholas Angelich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Gautier Capuçon (cello) (Virgin 5 19310)
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Debussy, Claude arr Ferdinando Ronchini & Alexandre Roelens: Clair de lune - Laura van der Heijden (cello), Jâms Coleman (piano) (Chandos CHAN20274)
Higdon, Jennifer: Oboe Concerto - James Button (oboe), Nashville Symphony Orchestra/Giancarlo Guerrero (Naxos 8.559823)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von: Vieni appaga il tuo consorte, from Orpheus & Euridice - Elsa Dreisog (soprano). Jakub Józef Orliński, Il Giardino d'Amore (Erato )
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Horn Sonata in F Op 17 (1) - Teunis Van Der Zwart (horn), Alexander Melnikov (piano) (Harmonia Mundi HMM905351)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise (3) - Il Giardino Armonico, Kammerorchester Basel (Alpha )
Traditional: Hop High Ladies / June Apple Reel - Apollo's Fire (Avie AV2396)
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Tahiti Trot Op 16 - Philadelphia Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (EMI CDC 5 55601)
Lilburn, Douglas: Piano Sonata (1949) (3) - Margaret Nielsen (piano) (MANU CD MANU 1511)
Monteverdi, Claudio: Ma te ricogglie, o ninfa, in grembo 'l cielo, from Sistena Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata - Arcangelo (Arcangelo Arcangelo)
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