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Bringing fresh air to the wind scene
23 Oct 2025New Zealand has a brand new wind band. RNZ Concert speaks with its musical director, Tom Chester. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Blow the wind (a gentle) Southerly
22 Oct 2025When it's blowing nor'westerly outside, you can listen to a gentle southerly on the inside. Read more Audio
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Composing in Dmitri's shoes
22 Oct 2025Young composer Estella Wallace talks about her prize-winning piece for string quartet inspired by Shostakovich's final work. Read more Audio
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Kian Soltani and three reasons to love Dvorak
21 Oct 2025Ahead of playing it with the NZSO, cellist Kian Soltani talks about his favourite concerto. Read more Video, Audio
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Back on the bass line
20 Oct 2025Jonathan Le Cocq is bringing the theorbo to an imaginative Auckland Philharmonia baroque concert later this month. Read more Audio
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Ascending the Everest of the cello
17 Oct 2025Inbal Megiddo talks to RNZ Concert about her recording of all six of J S Bach's cello suites. Read more Audio
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Moment of Calm: Songs of the Seagulls
16 Oct 2025Can a seagull sing a Moment of Calm? Listen and decide. Read more Audio
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Ten thousand for a talented tenor
16 Oct 2025Lawyer and arts supporter Jim Stevenson loved the sound of the tenor voice. Now a trust set up after his death is looking to support talented singers make the leap from study to a professional career.
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Pulling the strings
15 Oct 2025Wellington Youth Orchestra principal cellist Tomos Christie and prinicipal viola Solace Ward speak to RNZ Concert ahead of the orchestra's big gig in the Michael Fowler Centre. Read more Audio
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Viva Voce turns 40
14 Oct 2025The Auckland chamber choir Viva Voce has reached its fifth decade, founder and Music Director John Rosser talks to RNZ Concert ahead of the birthday celebrations. Read more Audio
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A touch of the modern
13 Oct 2025French conductor Pierre Bleuse chats with RNZ Concert ahead of directing the Auckland Philharmonia in a deliberately diabolical programme. Read more Audio
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Unwrapping Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
10 Oct 2025Audiences at Opus Orchestra's next concerts get to delve deep into one of Beethoven's best-loved works. Read more Audio
30 January 2026
with Bryan Crump
McGranahan, James: Hawai'i Aloha - The Rose Ensemble (Rose Records ROSE008)
Waldteufel, Émile: The Skaters, Waltz - New York Philharmonic (Michele Records )
Mozart, Wlofgang Amadeus: Là ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni, K527 - Andrè Schuen (baritone), Daniel Heide (fortepiano), Nikola Hillebrand (soprano), Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg/Roberto González-Monjas (DG 4867187)
Hershkovitz, Nitai: River Wash Me - Nikai Hershkovits (piano) (ECM 2779)
Brahms, Johannes: Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op 120/1 (4) - Marie Ross (clarinet), Petra Somlai (piano) (Centaur CRC3760)
Farrenc, Louise: Symphony No 2 in D Op 35 - IV. Andante - Allegro - North German Radio Philharmonic/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 820)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Furcht und Hoffnung (Aria), from Orpheus Act 3 - Dorothee Mields (soprano), L'Orfeo Barockorchester (DHM G010003181267S)
Yamada, Kōsaku: Kiso (Old Japanese Melody) Op 12 - Russian Philharmonic/Dmitri Yablonsky (Naxos 8.570552)
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Delibes, Léo: Flower Duet, from Lakmé - Lang Lang (piano) (DG 4859224)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor Op 5/2 (3) - Adrian Brendel (cello), Alfred Brendel (piano) (Philips 475 379)
Manu Théron, Traditional: La Vielha - Lo Cor de La Plana (Buda 301753)
Toscanini, Arturo: Berceuse - David Vine (piano) (RNZ UC18)
Godecharle, Eugène: Quartet for Harp, Violin, Viola & Bass No 1 in A (1) - Société Lunaire/Rainer Arndt (Ramée RAM2207)
Monteverdi, Claudio: Con che soavità - Nuria Rial (soprano), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (theorbo/director) (Virgin 2 36140)
Berlioz, Hector: March to the Scaffold, from Symphonie fantastique - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi (TELARC CD 80578)
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Schubert, Franz: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout (3) - John O'Conor (piano), James Vandemark (double bass), members of Cleveland Quartet (TELARC CD 80225)
Keiser, Reinhard: Overture, from The Ridiculous Prince Jodelet - Ensemble I Zefirelli (Arcantus ARC24053)
Gounod, Charles: Judex, from Mors et Vita - Richard Hickox Orchestra/Richard Hickox (Decca 448 687)
Rossini, Gioachino: Overture, from La Cenerentola - ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 893)
Shigihara, Laura arr Oeth: Everything's Alright, from To the Moon - Kaori Muraji (guitar) (Decca 4871490)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Overture, from The Abduction from the Seraglio - Dresden State Orchestra/Colin Davis (RCA 74321 56698)
Biddington, Eric: Festival Dance - Mark Hobson (clarinet), Sarah Masters (clarinet), Gretchen Dunsmore (clarinet), Gloria Streat (bass cl) (MANU CD MANU 1558)
Spohr, Louis: Overture, from The Alchemist - Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Christian Fröhlich (CPO 999 093)
Finzi, Gerald: My spirit sang all day Op 17/3 - Graduate Choir/Terence Maskell (Atoll ACD 105)
Donizetti, Gaetano: Seul sur la terre, from Dom Sébastien - Pene Pati (tenor), Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orchestra/Emmanuel Villaume (Warner Classics 9029634863)
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Ravel, Maurice: Kaddisch - Ensemble Liaison (El Records EL001)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Oboe Concerto in C K314 - François Leleux (oboe), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis (BR Media 900 710)
Arlen, Harold: Over the Rainbow, from The Wizard of Oz - Anne Akiko Meyers (violin), Akira Eguchi (piano) (KOCH KIC CD 7762)
Traditional Irish arr Percy Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry - Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Stuart Challender (ABC Classics 472 610)
Traditional arr Greenberg: Joli bois - Suzie Leblanc (soprano), David Greenberg (violin), Chris Norman (flute), Chants d'Acadie (Atma ACD 2 2330)
Grieg, Edvard arr Haaland: Butterfly; Erotikon; To Spring, from Lyric Pieces Book 3 - Fredrik Fors (clarinet), Sveinung Bjelland (piano) (2L 55)
Anonymous: Latvian Prayer - Dawn Harms (viola), Carolyn Mills (harp) (Atoll ACD 199)
Debussy, Claude: String Quartet in G minor, Op 10 (2) - Quatuor Arod (Erato 5419775233)
Three to Seven
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