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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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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
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“Powerhouse percussion group” to perform in New Zealand for the first time
15 Mar 2024Members of the Taiwanese Ju Percussion Group and NZ composer John Psathas talk with David Morriss ahead of the ensemble's Auckland Arts Festival concert. Read more Video, Audio
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Folk musician in the post-modern world
14 Mar 2024Irish fiddler Martin Hayes talks to Bryan Crump ahead of his concert in the Auckland Town Hall. Read more Video, Audio
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A quiet place downtown
13 Mar 2024Take a walk with Bryan Crump to a sonic oasis not far from the centre of the capital city. Read more Audio
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A decade of Canterbury Nor'westers
13 Mar 2024Ten years after Bill Vail helped found it, in an effort to rejuvenate the Christchurch brass scene, Nor'west Brass is still blowing strong. Bill Vail and fellow band member Nic Scott speak with RNZ… Read more Audio
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Didgeridoo virtuoso tours NZ with Brodsky String Quartet
12 Mar 2024Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton talks to Bryan Crump ahead of his tour of Aotearoa with the Brodsky String Quartet. Read more Video, Audio
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Remembering Phil Broadhurst
11 Mar 2024Mike Booth and Ben McNicoll from the Auckland Jazz Orchestra talk about the band's tribute album to the late Kiwi jazz great, Phil Broadhurst – a project that was four years in the making. Read more Audio
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Ingrid Martin: Trans-Tasman polymath
8 Mar 2024Australian conductor Ingrid Martin is crossing the Tasman to be this year's NZ Assistant Conductor-in-Residence. Read more Video, Audio
17 May 2024
with Bryan Crump
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Symphony No 35 in D K385, Haffner (1) - Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (RCO Live RCO 06004)
Herzogenberg, Heinrich von: Trio in D for oboe, horn & piano Op 61 (4) - Albrecht Mayer (ob), Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Markus Becker (pno) (Decca 4783564)
Debussy, Claude: Reflets dans l'eau, from Images, Book 1 - Stephen Hough (piano) (Hyperion CDA68139)
Grenfell, Maria: Dancing at the Camerata - NZ Chamber Brass (Private - NZCB 2007A)
Davis, Oliver: Infinite Ocean (1) - Benjamin Baker (vln), Royal Phil/Paul Bateman (Signum SIGCD590)
Traditional: Cancion de Cuna - Kathleen Battle (sop), Grover Washington Jr (sop sax), Romero Lu (SONY SK 89464)
Britten, Benjamin: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - Cincinnati SO/Paavo Järvi (TELARC CD 80660)
Gounod, Charles: Avant de quitter ces lieux, from Faust - Peter Mattei (bar), Royal Stockholm Phil/Lawrence Renes (BIS SACD 1749)
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Eric Ewazen: Concerto for Trumpet and Strings: I. Allegro moderato - Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet), Ensemble Allegria (LAWO LWC1251)
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica (3) - Philharmonia/Christoph von Dohnányi (SIGNUM SIGCD 169)
Copland, Aaron: The cat and the mouse - Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) (Decca 4851663)
Price, Florence: Symphony No 3 in C minor (2) Andante ma non troppo - Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin (DG 4862029)
Wilson, Ken: Wind Quintet - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ UB46)
Locatelli, Pietro: Concerto in F Op 4/12 (3) - La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (dir) (Avie AV 2154)
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Infante, Manuel: Three Andalusian Dances Op 8 (1) - Hecht & Shapiro (piano duo) (Azica ACD 1201)
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Sinfonia, from Cantata No 29, Wir danken dir - Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott (EMI CDM 7 69853)
Poulenc, Francis: Sinfonietta (3) - French National Orch (Decca 452 665)
Duncan, Stuart: Here and Heaven - Aoife O'Donovan (vocals), Chris Thile (vocals/mandolin), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Edgar Meyer (dbass) (Sony 789186)
Ravel, Maurice: Jeux d'eau - Louis Lortie (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8620)
Traditional: Veni creator spiritus (chant) - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (CORO COR 16077)
André Caplet: Suite Persane (2) Mihawend - Holland Wind Players/Jeroen Weierink (Ars Produktion FCD368407)
Schumann, Clara: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 7 (3) - Angela Cheng (pno), Women's Phil/JoAnn Falletta (Koch 37169)
Tomoana, Paraire arr O'Boyle: Pokarekare ana - Alison Morgan (sop), Jenny Duck-Chong (contralto), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (bar), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis/Antony Walker (ABC 476 227)
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Grieg, Edvard: Melodies Op 53 - Bergen Phil/Ole Kristian Ruud (BIS SACD 1491)
Nielsen, Carl: Wind Quintet in E Op 43 - New London Chamber Ensemble & Guests (MERIDIAN CDE 84580)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Non più andrai, from the Marriage of Figaro - Bryn Terfel (bbar), English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner (DG 449 190)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Symphony in D Wq183/1 - Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen (dir) (Hyperion CDA 67924)
Ravel, Maurice: Une barque sur l'océan - Ryuichi Nakamura (prepared piano) (1631 Recordings )
York, Andrew: Djembe, from African Suite - Tim Timmermans (djembe), Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Sony SK 60274)
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