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Good Habits play live
30 Jan 2024Bonnie Schwarz and Pete Shaw are the folk duo Good Habits. They joined Bryan Crump in the studio to make some music, and talk about music making. Read more Audio
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Going for Baroque in the South Island.
29 Jan 2024Cellist Tomas Hurnik talks to Bryan Crump about how he fell in love with New Zealand and period instruments, and how he managed to combine the two. Read more Audio
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Young New Zealand embraces wind power
26 Jan 2024Bryan Crump meets some of the cast and crew of New Zealand Youth Symphonic Winds as the secondary school age band gathers in Wellington for a summer concert series. Read more Audio
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They're listening to us here
26 Jan 2024A request for listeners to show us where they're listening from got responses from around the world, even California, where Tim Morrison likes his classical music with a Kiwi accent. Three to Seven… Read more Audio
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It was the Summer of '95
James Donaldson from the Nelson School of the Musical Arts speaks to Bryan Crump about preparing to host the Adam Summer Music School, and remembers how being part of the first school in 1995 changed… Read more Audio
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Choose life. Choose an instrument.
Australian classical music broadcaster, musician and writer Ed Le Brocq extolls the virtues of learning an instrument, no matter how late you take it up. Read more Audio
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Looking after the big picture at the smaller scale
The new CEO of Chamber Music NZ, Michelle Walsh, talks to Bryan Crump about some of her favourite tunes and the art of marketing 'intimate' classical music. Read more Video, Audio
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Dunedin conductor dispenses musical medicine
New Zealand born conductor Tecwyn Evans talks about his new role planning the concert schedule for the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Denmark. Read more Audio
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Shan Liu: From YouTube tutorials to concert recitals
15 Dec 2023At age 13, Shan Liu is the youngest winner so far of the Lewis Eady National Junior Piano Competition. Less than five years ago, he couldn't even read music. Read more Video, Audio
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Paul Weaver's second wind
Paul Weaver is in the middle of peak Christmas singing season, but it's a miracle he can sing at all. Read more Audio
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Songs of the turf
13 Dec 2023Dr Kimberly Cannady talks to Bryan Crump about her exploration of Iceland's historic turf houses, and how houses made of sods of earth affect the music made in them. Read more Video, Audio
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Preparing for the mother of all drum circles
12 Dec 2023Demetrius Savai'inaea is hoping to attract thousands of would-be percussionists to Auckland's Aotea Square next March for the mother of all drumming sessions. Read more Video, Audio
06 June 2024
with Bryan Crump
Chopin, Frédéric: Etude in G# minor Op 25/6, Thirds - Yunchan Lim (piano) (Decca 4870122)
Stevens, Thomas: Variations in Olden Style (d'après Bach) - Oystein Baadsvik (tuba), Musica Vitae/Bjørn Sagstad (BIS CD 1285)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich: Suite No 4 in G Op 61, Mozartiana (3) - Scottish CO/José Serebrier (ASV CD DCA 719)
Grieg, Edvard: Norwegian Dance Op 35/2 - Alexandre Tharaud, Víkingur Ólafsson (piano duet) (Erato 5419793352)
Caccini, Giulio: La spagnoletta - Latitude 37 (ABC Classics 476 4525)
Villa-Lobos, Heitor: Chôros No 1 - Pepe Romero (gtr) (Philips 432 102)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Concerto in F for three pianos K242 - Mari Kodama (pno), Momo Kodama (pno), Karin Kei Nagano (pno), Suisse Romande Orch/Kent Nagano (Pentatone PTC5187202)
McGlashan, Don: End Credits, from Dean Spanley - New Zealand SO/Marc Taddei (Mana 531802)
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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ (4) - Simon Preston (org), Berlin Phil (DG 419 617)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Piano Sonata No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique (2) - Michael Houstoun (pno) (Rattle RAT D048)
Sibelius, Jean: Finlandia - Chineke! Orchestra/Kevin John Edusei (Signum SIGCD 515)
Byrd, William: Mass for three voices 3. Credo - Tallis Scholars/Peter Philips (Gimell 454 895)
Françaix, Jean: Quintet No 2 for flute, string trio & harp (4) - Valérie Milot (harp), François Vallières (vla), Raphaël Dubé (cello), Jocelyne Roy (fl), Antoine Bareil (vln) (Analekta AN 2 9985)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D BWV1068 (3) - Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon (dir) (Analekta FL 2 3134)
Debussy, Claude orch Busser: La soirée dans Grenade, from Estampes - Quebec SO/Yoav Talmi (Atma SACD 2 2377)
Dvořák, Antonín: Piano Quintet in A Op 81 (3) - Piers Lane (pno), Goldner String Quartet (Hyperion CDA 67805)
Welcher, Dan: All the Words to all the Songs - Alexa Still (fl), Stephen Gosling (pno) (KOCH KIC CD 7658)
Brahms, Johannes: Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 (4) - Christian Tetzlaff (vln), Lars Vogt (pno) (EMI 5 57525)
Traditional: Ar hyd y nos - Bryn Terfel (bbar), Black Mountain Chorus, Risca Male Choir, Welsh National Orch/Gareth Jones (DG 463 593)
Thomas, Ambroise: Raymond, Overture - Montreal SO (Decca 421 527)
Ibert, Jacques: Six harp pieces (2) - Lavinia Meijer (harp) (Channel Classics CCS SA 28908)
Hess, Nigel: East Coast Pictures (2) - London Symphonic Wind Orch/Nigel Hess (Chandos CHAN 9764)
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Hovhaness, Alan: Symphony No 2, Mysterious Mountain (2) - Royal Liverpool Phil/Gerard Schwarz (TELARC CD 80604)
Salieri, Antonio: Triple Concerto - Béla Bánfalvi (vln/dir), Lajos Lencsés (ob), Károly Botvay (cello), Budapest Strings (Capriccio 10 530)
Handel, George Frideric: Where'er you walk, from Semele - Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (Decca 466196)
Nakada, Yoshinao: Japanese Autumn Song - Manuela Wiesler (fl), Noriko Ogawa (pno) (BIS CD 1059)
Boccherini, Luigi: Cello Concerto in G G480 (1) - Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman (Sony SK 60680)
Liadov, Anatol: Dance of the Amazon Op 65 - Krasnoyarsk SO/Ivan Shpiller (Brilliant Classics 94077)
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