Noon
Opera Australia is going to the dogs … they are on the search for “poochinis” for the upcoming production of La bohème, and we hear a recent release of Poulenc’s cello sonata.
Photo: 123RF
1pm Classical music for kids
Never work with animals and small children. Someone should have told that to the NZSO! Hamish McKeich conducts, and Chris Lam Sam narrates, A Musical Menagerie – a family concert featuring three little pigs, a waltzing cat, a bumble bee and a thieving magpie…
Chris Lam Sam Photo: Supplied
135pm Talented pianist to make professional debut with CSO
Pianist Tony Chen Lin makes his professional debut with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra this Saturday playing Ravel’s popular Piano Concerto in G. Eva Radich speaks to Tony about recording his first solo album and playing with the CSO.
2pm
We hear who’s been shortlisted for the Walters Art Prize, and today’s famous symphony you have to hear is Dvorak’s Symphony no.8 performed by Oslo Philharmonic, conducted by Mariss Jansons.
Antonin Dvorak in 1882 Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
