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Festive fare from RNZ Concert
RNZ Concert gives you the gift of music from around the world to soundtrack your summer festive season. Listen to classical concerts celebrating Christmas and the New Year in New Zealand. Here is what you can listen to, and when:
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Christmas Cheer from the Auckland Philharmonia
11 Dec 2025Coming up this weekend, the Auckland Philharmonia gets audiences in the yuletide mood with a festive blend of modern Christmas favourites, orchestral classics and traditional seasonal carols. Audio
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Mana Moana - Songs of the Pacific
15 Dec 2025LISTEN: Signature Choir and the NZSO perform songs from Tonga, Samoa, Niue, Tokelau, Fiji and the Cook Islands - popular songs of love, of faith, of Pasifika pride, songs that will bring a tear to your eyes, and make you want to move. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 December 2025
14 Dec 2025Hymns for the Third Sunday in Advent (Gaudete Sunday) include John Rutter's Angels' Carol, Rejoice! Rejoice at Christmas time by New Zealand hymn writer Bill Wallace, and Tell out, my soul, which is a paraphrase of the Magnificat. Audio
Programmes
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Music Alive
Clarissa Dunn takes you to the best seat in the house for live concerts featuring local and international artists.
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Three to Seven
Bryan Crump brings you a mix of the fresh and the familiar from school’s out to dinner time and beyond.
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Inside Out
Nick Tipping brings you classic recordings and modern masterpieces from the world of jazz.
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Mornings
Andrew Clark (Monday - Thursday) and Carey McDonald (Friday - Sunday) have all you need to start your day.
Presenters
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Nick Tipping
Station: Concert
Programme: Days
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Clarissa Dunn
Station: Concert
Programme: Music Alive
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Carey McDonald
Station: Concert
Programme: Mornings
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David Morriss
Station: Concert
Programme: Evenings
Wednesday 17 December
10:00 AM. Days
with Nick Tipping
Holst, Gustav: Intermezzo, from Suite No 1 for Military Band Op 28/1 - Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra/Timothy Reynish (Chansdos CHAN 9697)
Grainger, Percy: Molly on the Shore - BBC Philharmonic/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9584)
Higdon, Jennifer: Sky Quartet - Serafin String Quartet (Naxos 8.559752)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Cello Concerto in A Wq172 - Jan Vogler (cello), Munich Chamber Orchestra/Reinhard Goebel (SONY 88697 11997)
Rittler, Philipp Jakob arr Herbert Walser-Breuß: Ciaccona - Rolf Lislevand (lute, baroque guitar), Concerto Stella Matutina (Sony 19075827802)
Dun, Tan: Staccato Beans, from Eight memories in watercolour Op 1 - Tony Yan Tong Chen (piano) (Rattle RAT-D112)
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Bach, Johann Sebastian: Orchestral Suite No 4 in D BWV1069 (4) - Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried von der Goltz (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2113.14)
Brahms, Johannes: Symphony No 1 in C minor Op 68 - London Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink (LSO LIVE LSO 0045)
Liszt, Franz: Liebestraum No 3 in Ab - Pablo Ferrández (cello), Julien Quentin (piano) (Sony 19802898632)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Flight of the bumblebee, from Tsar Saltan - ASMF/Neville Marriner (EMI CD EMX 2169)
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Strauss II, Johann: Perpetuum Mobile Op 257 - Hallé Orchestra/John Barbirolli (BBC Legends BBCL 4038)
Jianping Tang: Fei Ge (Flying Song) [Version for Recorder and Orchestra], Pt. III - Michala Petri, (recorder) Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra/Lan Shui (OUR Recordings)
Portman, Rachel arr Jess Gillam: Flight - Jess Gillam (saxophone), Anna Lapwood (organ) (Sony 19802809272)
Howard, Bart: Fly Me To The Moon - Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams (Sony 472352)
Terry, Sonny: Airplane Blues - Sonny Terry (capitol 829372)
Tilson Thomas, Michael: You Come Here Often? - Yuja Wang (piano) (DG 4864478)
Ravel, Maurice arr Salzedo/Vallières: Sonatine - Valérie Milot (harp), Jocelyne Roy (flute), François Vallières (viola) (Analekta AN 2 9985)
Mendelssohn, Felix: String Quartet No 1 in Eb Op 12 (3) - New Zealand String Quartet (Naxos 8.570001)
de Zéspedes, Juan García: Convidando está la noche - Ensemble Caprice (Analekta 2 995722)
Corelli, Arcangelo arr Geminiani: Concerto Grosso in F Op 5/10 (5) - Maurice Steger (recorder), English Concert/Laurence Cummings (HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 90 7523)
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Telemann, Georg Philipp: Overture-Suite in D TWV55/D22 - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Vesa-Matti Leppänen (dir) (RNZ 2019)
Prokofiev, Sergei: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 19 - Ilya Gringolts (violin), Auckland Philharmonia/Eivind Aadland (RNZ)
Purcell, Henry trans Benjamin: Auckland Philharmonia - Auckland Philharmonia/Leo Hussain (RNZ Auckland Town Hall)
Squire, Tabea: He Wawata kia Māhorahora - Jenny Wollerman (soprano), Jian Liu (piano) (RNZ Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts 2022)
Gabrieli, Giovanni: Sonata pian' e forte - Auckland Philharmonia brass (RNZ)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Divertimento in D K136 - Camerata/Anne Loeser (RNZ Camerata 2019)
Schumann, Robert: Kreisleriana Op 16 - Tony Chen Lin (piano) ()
Chilcott, Robert "Bob": Nova, Nova! - Voices NZ Chamber Choir/Karen Grylls (RNZ 2019)
