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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.
Monday to Friday at 8pm, with Opera at 7pm on Saturday
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30 September 2024
with Clarissa Dunn
NZSO: Alexander Shelley Returns
HOLMES: Frond, from Three Landscapes
RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez
TARREGA: Gran Jota
BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra
Pablo Sáinz Villegas (guitar), New Zealand SO/Alexander Shelley
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington 29/07/17 (RNZ)
Gombert, Nicolas: Magnificat Tertii et Octavi Toni - Aurora IV, Tudor Consort/Michael Stewart (RNZ )
Schumann, Clara: Romance for violin & piano Op 22/2 - Donald Armstrong (violin), Jian Liu (pno) (RNZ WCMT 2023-07-16)
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Thursday, 30 June 2022
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SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 in B minor D759, Unfinished
30 Jun 2022Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Premier Series concert, 'Winter Magic', Auckland Town Hall, 30 June 2022. Read more Audio
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Sofia GUBAIDULINA: Fairytale Poem
30 Jun 2022Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Giordano Bellincampi at their Premier Series concert, 'Winter Magic', Auckland Town Hall, 30 June 2022. Read more Audio
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Music Alive: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra - Winter Magic
30 Jun 2022The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Music Director Giordano Bellincampi conducts this programme of imagination, heartache and fate. Read more Audio
Monday, 27 June 2022
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Te Matatini 50 Programme 3
27 Jun 2022Julian Wilcox and Rob Ruha, the Music Director of Te Matatini's 50th Anniversary waiata release project, introduce a selection of the songs. Audio
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Music Alive: NZSQ National Tour 2021 - Programme 2
27 Jun 2022The second of two programmes from the NZSQ's National Tour, intended to be performed in 2021 but delayed until April 2022. They give us a programme of Mozart, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn, as well as… Read more Audio
Saturday, 25 June 2022
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Te Matatini 50 Programme 2
25 Jun 2022Julian Wilcox and Rob Ruha, the Music Director of Te Matatini's 50th Anniversary waiata release project, introduce a selection of the songs. Audio
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Friday, 24 June 2022
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Gareth FARR: Ngā Hihi o Matariki
24 Jun 2022a significant work of symphonic proportions to celebrate the Māori new year, an opportunity to come together in recognition of a celestial event of uniqueness and beauty.
Ariana Tikao (Taonga Puoro)… Read more Audio
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Te Matatini 50 Programme 1
24 Jun 2022Julian Wilcox and Rob Ruha, the Music Director of Te Matatini's 50th Anniversary waiata release project, introduce a selection of the songs. Audio
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Thursday, 23 June 2022
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Ka Pō Ka Ao: Rob Ruha and the Auckland Philharmonia
23 Jun 2022To celebrate the first Matariki public holiday in June 2022, the Auckland Philharmonia put on a very special concert with Māori singer-songwriter Rob Ruha. (This RNZ Concert recording was awarded GOLD… Read more Audio
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Monday, 20 June 2022
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Music Alive: NZSQ National Tour "2021" - Programme 1
The first of two programmes from the NZSQ's National Tour, intended to be performed in 2021 but delayed until April 2022. They give us a programme of Haydn, Ligeti, and Dvorak with Gareth Farr's Te… Read more Audio
Friday, 10 June 2022
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RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27
10 Jun 2022Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by James Feddeck at their Premier Series concert, 'Ebb and Flow', Auckland Town Hall, 10 June 2022. Read more Audio
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WHITEHEAD: Song without words, for Helen Young
10 Jun 2022Performed as an encore by violinist Andrew Beer at the Auckland Philharmonia's Premier Series concert, 'Ebb and Flow', Auckland Town Hall, 10 June 2022. Read more Audio
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Music Alive
Catch the first broadcast of a new recording from New Zealand, or something from overseas - perhaps from the European Broadcasting Union, the Salzburg Festival or the Sydney Opera House. The NZSO are regular performers, and Thursdays are often the domain of the Auckland Philharmonia; You might hear an ensemble touring with Chamber Music New Zealand, something from the Wellington Jazz Festival or music from around the world via the WOMAD festival.
Tune into Music Alive on RNZ Concert on Monday to Friday at 8pm, with Opera at 7pm on Saturday
- Text to 8824 (texts cost 20 cents)
- Email concert@rnz.co.nz
- RNZ Concert Facebook Page
- Write to PO Box 123, Wellington
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