Midday
Baritone Will King wins the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Wellington Aria Competition, and two obituaries: renowned soprano Inge Borkh, and influential record producer James Mallinson.
1pm Young gun conductor Lionel Bringuier returns to Auckland
French conductor Lionel Bringuier returns to lead the APO for the third time in tonight’s concert The Prodigal Son. He’s had a meteoric rise in the classical world. Bringuier’s Auckland concert will be live broadcast on RNZ Concert tonight and features cellist Alban Gerhardt.
2pm
We continue exploring quartets – today, Franck’s monumental String Quartet in D, played by the Fine Arts Quartet