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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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Concert for Animals
5 Nov 2024RNZ Concert is offering a Guy Fawkes night radio show of music chosen to be gentle for pets, and people, during fireworks, in collaboration with SPCA. Read more
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Soothing sounds for furry friends
5 Nov 2024SPCA Scientific Officer Dr Alison Vaughan talks with Bryan Crump about how music can help keep your pets calm this Guy Fawkes night. Read more Audio
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Fifty years of keeping Music Alive
4 Nov 2024Nikki Wells, Programme Convener for Music Alive, talks with Bryan Crump about the history of the Christchurch-based amateur music club and their upcoming celebration concert at the end of this month.
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Hammer and tongs with Jenő Lisztes
1 Nov 2024Hungarian virtuoso Jenő Lisztes is bringing his hammers to the Auckland Town Hall this week to perform in a one-off cimbalom showcase. Read more Video, Audio
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Together again - Kemp English reunites with "Norma".
31 Oct 2024Kemp English talks to Bryan Crump about rekindling his relationship with "Norma", the Dunedin Town Hall organ. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Down on the farm
Keeping calm down on the farm. Read more Audio
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Coming home from the circus
30 Oct 2024Marcus Norman, recently appointed manager of Christchurch arts venue The Piano, talks with Bryan Crump. Read more Audio
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Celebrating the music of Pelham Humfrey
29 Oct 2024It's 350 years since the death of English composer Pelham Humphrey at age 27. Corrina Connor talks with RNZ Concert's David Morriss about why he should be remembered, and his contribution to English… Read more Audio
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Thinking about home
25 Oct 2024Actor Nathaniel Lees talks with Bryan Crump about his role as narrator in Voices New Zealand's upcoming Wellington season of Horizons, an immersive concert blending music, poetry, and song to explore… Read more Video, Audio
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Online waiata songbook goes live
24 Oct 2024Learning some of Aotearoa's best loved waiata has never been easier. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: Blackbird singing in a concrete jungle
23 Oct 2024Not all moments of calm come from the countryside, Bryan Crump recorded this blackbird singing deep in the heart of Wellington's concrete jungle. Read more Audio
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Raising the roof
23 Oct 2024All eight of Aotearoa's Anglican Cathedral Choirs are gathering for a festival this weekend. Andrew Williams is one of the singers and composers. Read more Audio
24 July 2025
with Bryan Crump
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: String Quartet No 1 in D Op 11 (3) - Puertas Quartet (Atoll ACD 214)
Alfvén, Hugo: Dance of the Herdmaiden, from The Mountain King - Malmö SO/James DePreist (BIS CD 570)
Biber, Heinrich I.F. von: Sonata No 7 in G (4) - Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort (Delphian DCD34334)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 6 in F Op 10/2 (3) - András Schiff (pno) (ECM 1942 (476 3100))
Kozeluch, Leopold: Clarinet Concerto in Eb (1) - Emma Johnson (cl), Royal Phil/Günther Herbig (ASV CD DCA 763)
Brahms, Johannes arr Jesse Flowers: Gar lieblich hat sich gesellet, from 49 Deutsche Volkslieder (Arr for Voice & Guitar by Jesse Flowers) - Duo Amaris (PASCHENrecords PR240088)
Traditional: Rakes of Westmeath (Irish tune with variations) - The Curious Bards (Harmonia Mundi HMN916105)
Mendelssohn, Felix: Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25 - Ingrid Fliter (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Antonio Méndez (Linn CKD555)
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Hummel, Johann Nepomuk: Piano Trio No 4 in G Op 65 (3) - Daniel Sepec (vln), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Andreas Staier (fpno) (HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 90 1955)
Ritchie, John: Suite No 1 for string orchestra (1) - NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (TRUST MMT 2040)
Brahms, Johannes: Viola Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 (4) Vivace - James Ehnes (vln), Andrew Armstrong (pno) (Onyx ONYX4256)
Sterndale Bennett, William: Caprice in E Op 22 - Howard Shelley (pno/dir), BBC Scottish SO (Hyperion CDA 67595)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009 VI. Gigue - Yo-Yo Ma (cello) (SONY 19075854652)
Kalaniemi, Maria: Erämorsian - Maria Kalaniemi (accordion), Eero Grundström (harmonium) (Åkerö Records 2019)
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Debussy, Claude: Danse - Angela Hewitt (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67898)
Villa-Lobos, Heitor: Sexteto Mistico - Members of Lontano/Odaline de la Martinez (Lorelt LNT 102)
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))
Handel, George Frideric: Non disperar, from Giulio Cesare - Emma Matthews (sop), NZSO Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong (dir) (ARTWORKS 29)
Dvořák, Antonín: String Quintet in Eb Op 97 (2) - Members of the Vienna Octet (Decca 425 537)
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel: Deep River II - Ashley Jackson (harp) (Decca 7572822)
Rachmaninov, Sergei: Moments Musicaux Op 16 (4) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (pno) (Decca 475 6198)
Walton, William: Orb & Sceptre - Royal Phil/André Previn (TELARC CD 80125)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner (4) - Symphony Nova Scotia/Georg Tintner (Naxos 8.557233)
Porter, Cole: Night And Day - Boston Pops Orch/John Williams (Sony 472352)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Partita No 4 in D BWV828 (1) - Richard Goode (pno) (NONESUCH 79483)
Dvořák, Antonín: Violin Sonata in F Op 57 - Pavel Sporcl (vln), Petr Jiríkovsky (pno) (SUPRAPHON SU 3884)
Merlin, José Luis: Zamba, from Suite del recuerdo - Bruce Paine (gtr) (PRIVATE RECORDING BNP 02 CD)
Traditional arr Kouchak: Sakura, Sakura - Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Jayson Kouchak (pno) (Philips 462 588)
Kreisler, Fritz: Sicilienne & Rigaudon, in the style of Francoeur - Akiko Suwanai (vln), Philharmonia (Philips 475 6189)
Hawes, Patrick: Pavane, from The Incredible Mrs Ritchie - Uncredited studio performance (Black Box BBM 1081)
Rutter, John: Suite Antique (5) - Duke Dobing (fl), Wayne Marshall (hpschd), City of London Sinfon/John Rutter (Collegium CSCD 516)
Brahem, Anouar: Pique-nique à Nagpur - Anouar Brahem (oud), Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion) (ECM 1792 (016 373))
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