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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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New community, same credo
28 Mar 2024Julian Raphael talks about bringing the spirit of community singing to Taranaki, where participation is key (even if you're slightly off). Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: The hissing of late summer lawns
27 Mar 2024As we slip into autumn we invite you to relax to the sound of late summer. Read more Audio
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The very talented Mr Carter
27 Mar 2024NZ pianist and cellist Benjamin Carter has won a scholarship to study music at London's Royal College of Music, and no, he hasn't decided which instrument to specialise in. Maybe he never will. Read more Video, Audio
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Inmo Yang and the Korean trifecta
26 Mar 2024Brilliant young Korean violinist Inmo Yang is bringing the music of Korean composer Unsuk Chin to Auckland. Read more Video, Audio
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Sacred, profane and profound
25 Mar 2024Organist and Music Director of St Paul's Cathedral Wellington, Michael Stewart, who is also Music Director of The Tudor Consort, talks about Holy Week, his busiest time of the year. Read more Video, Audio
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Maria Grenfell: Music for both sides of the Tasman
22 Mar 2024Ahead of the performance of her orchestral work "Stealing Tutunui", the Australasian composer Maria Grenfell drops by RNZ's Christchurch Studio to chat with Concert host Bryan Crump. Read more Video, Audio
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Listener request: A touch of Iceland in the Mackenzie
22 Mar 2024This week's Three to Seven listener request came from the Mackenzie Country, but there was more than a hint of Iceland about it. Read more Audio
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There's a place for you in 'Us'
21 Mar 2024Chloe Loftus is directing a mass outdoor dance event down Wellington's Cuba Street this Sunday and she'd like you to participate. Read more Video, Audio
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Moment of Calm: Pukekura Park After Dark
20 Mar 2024Release some stress with a walk through New Plymouth's Pukekura Park after dark and some sublime singing from Ireland's Lisa O'Neill. Read more Audio
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Back to school for singing
Megan Flint from the New Zealand Choral Federation is leading the charge to get our primary and intermediate school classes singing again. Read more Video, Audio
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Getting epic with the albatross
19 Mar 2024Violinist Darren Breeze and actor Geoffrey Clendon talk about reciting Coleridge's mighty poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", with live music. Read more Video, Audio
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Twenty years of sonic healing
18 Mar 2024Dame Hinewehi Mohi celebrates the 20th anniversary of her first Music Therapy Centre, and the crucial role her daughter's cerebral palsy played in its formation. Read more Audio
27 May 2024
with Bryan Crump
Simanu, T F R arr Thomas Goss: Faliu Le La - Signature Choir; New Zealand SO/Brent Stewart (RNZ )
Grainger, Percy: Hill Song No 2 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Clark Rundell (Chandos CHAN 9549)
Farrenc, Louise: Symphony No 3 in G minor Op 36 - 1. Adagio - Allegro - North German Radio Phil/Johannes Goritzki (CPO 999 603)
Evans, Bill arr Murphy/Distler: Turn Out the Stars - Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pno) (Decca 455 512)
Glazunov, Alexander: Chant du Ménestrel - Han-Na Chang (cello), Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin (EMI 5 57052)
Liszt, Franz: Piano Concerto No 1 in Eb - Nelson Freire (pno), Dresden Phil/Michel Plasson (Berlin Classics 018 5942 BC)
Armstrong, Louis: Perdido Street Blues - Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band (Philips 818651)
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Blow, John: Sonata in A - London Baroque (BIS CD 1455)
Lawson, Doyle / Waller, Charles / Yates, Robert arr Jennings: Calling My Children Home - Chanticleer (Warner Classics 2564683247)
Rodrigo, Joaquin: Concierto de Aranjuez (2) - Umberto Clerici (cello), Karin Schaupp (guitar) (ABC Classics 4816812)
Curnow, James: Blenheim Flourishes - National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand 2006/Kenneth Young (Private 1351)
Handel, George Frideric: Keyboard Suite No 5 in E HWV430 - Murray Perahia (pno) (Sony SK 62785)
Keita, Seckou arr Davide Mantovani: Tamala's Caravan Trail - Seckou Keita (kora), BBC Concert Orch/Mark Heron (Claves CD3078)
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Villa-Lobos, Heitor: Bachianas Brasileiras No 8 (3) - Sao Paulo SO/Roberto Minczuk (BIS CD 1400)
Haydn, Franz Joseph: Cello Concerto in D HobVIIb/4 (3) - Gautier Capuçon (cello), Mahler CO/Daniel Harding (Virgin 5 45560)
Allardice, Callum: Anthem - The Jac (RATTLE RATJ1029)
Janacek, Leos: Violin Sonata (2) - James Ehnes (vln), Eduard Laurel (pno) (Analekta FL 2 3191)
Ravel, Maurice: Le Tombeau de Couperin (2) - London SO/Claudio Abbado (DG 423 665)
Field, John: Piano Concerto No 3 in Eb H32 (2) - John O'Conor (pno), Scottish CO/Charles Mackerras (Telarc CD 80370)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 1 in C Op 21 (1) - Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner (Archiv 439 900)
Higdon, Jennifer: Dance Card (2) Breeze Serenade - Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen (Cedille Records CDR 90000 185)
Monteverdi, Claudio: Zefiro torna, from Scherzi musicale - Nuria Rial (sop), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (theorbo/dir) (Virgin 2 36140)
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 29 in A K201 (1) - London Mozart Players/Jane Glover (ASV CD DCA 717)
Borodin, Alexander orch Glazunov: Petite Suite - Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Chandos CHAN 9386)
arr Hazell: Watch & Pray - Angela Gheorghiu (sop), Romanian National Chamber Choir "Madriga/Ion Marin (Decca 466 102)
Telemann, Georg Philipp: Conclusion in D, from Tafelmusik - Orch of the Golden Age (Naxos 8.553731)
Qi-Chao, Liu: Red Flowers in Bloom - Shanghai Quartet (Delos DE 3308)
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