Live Music
Orchestra Wellington: Fantastic Symphonies
Experience the rage, fury and opium-addled love of French composer Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique - the original anthem to sex, drugs and rock and roll. Here it is paired with it's sequel Lelio, …
Orchestra Wellington: New World
This concert features soloist Amalia Hall (violin) and features the overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Sama, a new Violin Concerto by Michael Norris, and Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
Yeyeong Jin wins the Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2023
Yeyeong Jin’s heartfelt performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto secured first place in this prestigious event and prizes including $40,000 cash, a recording contract, a multi-city tour and the loan… Audio
Orchestra Wellington: Houstoun/Triumph!
New Zealand's best-loved pianist Michael Houstoun brings 2019's epic Orchestra Wellington season to a triumphant close!
Orchestra Wellington: Fanfare for the Common Man
LISTEN: Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, and violinist Amalia Hall performing Samuel Barber's violin concerto, in an American double bill led by music director of Orchestra Wellington Marc Taddei.
APO: Kia Kaha!
This concert from 2020 has an overarching theme of tribute and hope. It is dedicated to all those who lost their lives to COVID-19, the people they left behind and everyone working to eliminate the…
NZSO: Bold Worlds
Enjoy the best of British music and two of its biggest names - composer / conductor Sir James MacMillan, and percussionist Colin Currie join the NZSO to celebrate the 2017 British & Irish Lions rugby…
Orchestra Wellington: Transfigured Night
Music by Bach and Beethoven, with a cadenza by Brahms completes this trio from three of the great 'Bs' of classical music. Beloved pianist and NZ classical music personality Diedre Irons is the…
BRAHMS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 73
Performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium of the Christchurch Town Hall, 6 May, 2023 Audio
DVORAK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53
Performed by Benjamin Morrison (violin), with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium of the Christchurch Town Hall, 6 May, 2023 Audio
PEACOCKE: White Horses
Performed by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jessica Cottis in the Douglas Lilburn Auditorium of the Christchurch Town Hall, 6 May, 2023 Audio
NZSO: Bloch & Shostakovich Enduring Spirit
LIVE: Celebrated as an inspirational conductor of Romantic and post-Romantic classical music, the New Zealand debut of Sir Donald Runnicles sees his artistry combined with that of cellist Nicolas…
APO: Má Vlast / My Homeland
Bohemia inspired Smetana to compose this musical panorama of history and landscape. Legends of fearsome warriors; Vyšehrad, the mighty fortress of ancient kings; the bucolic countryside; the battles…
APO: Best of Beethoven - The Revolutionary
The APO's ‘Pastoral’ Symphony is a tender, affectionate picture of the countryside where Beethoven pours out his joy at being in nature. The Seventh Symphony skips and leaps with vigour, yet also with…
Dimmer: I Believe You are a Star - Live at The Hollywood, September 2022
New Zealand band Dimmer's 2001 album I Believe You Are A Star is regarded as one of the best ever made in Aotearoa. RNZ recorded a unique 20th-anniversary performance in Auckland. Audio
Inspirare: Alleluia - Resolution through Celebration
LISTEN: This concert features fifteen songs celebrating the theme 'Alleluia' and 'Hallelujah', dating from the 18th Century through to 2019, performed by Wellington Choirs Inspirare and Schola… Audio
Coming up
Benee live with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
LISTEN: Pop star Benee teams up with the NZSO for a spectacular show of her award-winning songs in amazing new symphonic arrangements inspired by Disney, James Bond, even 90's trip-hop treatments… Audio
NZSO: Carnival
The NZSO has fun with music from Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka, Ravel’s La Valse, and his irrepressible Piano Concerto performed by Stephen De Pledge, as well as Clyne’s Masquerade, commissioned for…
NZ Symphony Orchestra: Mahler 3
LISTEN to the world premiere of NZ composer Robert Wīremu’s Tahuri koe ki te maunga teitei, which was written to be paired with Mahler 3, one of the greatest symphonies of all time. Featuring Sasha…
RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
National Concerto Competition 2023 first place winner Yuzhang Wu.
Performed by Yuzhang Wu (piano) with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Northey in the Douglas Lilburn… Audio