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Upbeat concluded in 2020, Interviews, spoken features and podcasts from across RNZ Concert are now available at Concert Talk
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Ten things about Berlioz
8 Mar 2019“Berlioz tells it like it is. Now there was an honest man. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral.” Leonard Bernstein Read more Video, Audio
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Best of Berlioz: Five fantastique faves
7 Mar 2019Dr Inge van Rij, Associate Professor (Musicology) at the New Zealand School of Music, shares some of her favourite pieces by Berlioz to mark 150 years since the composer’s death. Read more Video, Audio
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Manukau Symphony to premiere radical Warwick Blair work
7 Mar 2019A new orchestral work by Wawrick Blair comes with the explicit instruction from its composer “no conductor”. Instead, each player is asked to play each note to their own interpretation of when it… Read more Audio
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From a master of jazz piano, to up-and-coming stars for Wellington Jazz Festival
Herbie Hancock is among the artists on the just-announced lineup for the Wellington Jazz Festival 2019. RNZ Music jazz specialist Nick Tipping appraises the artists playing at this year's event. Read more Video
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Kiri Te Kanawa's most magical moments: from Waiata to Mozart
5 Mar 2019In honour of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 75th birthday we're celebrating with a selection of the New Zealand soprano's most magical singing moments. Read more Video
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Back on Christchurch's iconic stops and keys
5 Mar 2019After eight years of silence, City Organist and the Town Hall’s organ curator Martin Setchell has reopened the Christchurch Town Hall's magnificent Reiger Organ with a series of concerts, including… Read more Video, Audio
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Audience erupts with joy as CSO reopens the Christchurch Town Hall
The Christchurch Symphony Orchestra's Phoenix concert launched their concert season and the restored Town Hall in fine style. Read more Audio
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Epic return for Christchurch Town Hall
2 Mar 2019Christchurch celebrated the re-opening of the Town Hall in style with Shapeshifter and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in concert. Read more
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Shapeshifter & CSO to open Christchurch Town Hall
1 Mar 2019The finishing touches are being put on the Christchurch Town Hall, before it’s opening gig tonight, with Shapeshifter and the CSO combining Drum and Bass with Classical florishes. Read more Audio
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The story behind the sound of the rebuilt Christchurch Town Hall
Zoe George talks with David Morriss about the significance of the reopening of the Christchurch town hall. Sir Harold Marshall discusses his design of the hall's world class acoustics. We hear… Read more Audio
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Giordano Bellincampi and the APO gives Bruckner's epic work a suitably epic rendition
1 Mar 2019Peter Hoar reviews the APO's Premier Series double bill of works by two of the Big B’s of Classical music: Beethoven and Bruckner. The Beethoven Triple Concerto is something of a rarity on concert… Read more
