Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.2 & Concert Fantasia is a superb symphonic adventure from the New Zealand Symphony.

APO's next concert is a welcome opportunity to sample the first commission from its resident composer.

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi ensured an exhilarating night with the APO.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Final Symphony was a marketing triumph, selling out its first performance and occasioning a Saturday night re-run.

Soprano's star status guarantees local release.

The Ronisch Auckland Secondary Schools Piano Competition puts top young piano players in the spotlight.

The eight expert players of the London Conchord Ensemble delivered a high-minded Friday night variety concert.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's Aotea Centre recital was a courageous undertaking for the 72-year-old soprano. It was an evening of some entrancement.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Indian musicians combine talents for unique Diwali Festival performance.

A CD that well and truly proves Polish music is more than Chopin mazurkas and the 1960s radicalism of Krzysztof Penderecki.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra delivers an evening with a mood of celebration.

George Bernard Shaw was sometimes sceptical of composers' motives in writing requiems.

NZSO describes its annual Bold Worlds: New Frontiers concert as an exploration of contemporary international repertoire and its connections.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa says her next Auckland recital is like putting together a personal story.

A great English composer is farewelled with poetry and politics.

A full house was predictable with Vladimir Ashkenazy on the podium; it proved one of the APO's finest performances of the season.

A plane full of lucky passengers flying Qantas from Sydney to Singapore has been treated to a classical surprise at 12,000 metres

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra rewarded a spellbound Auckland Town Hall with a brilliant display of the orchestral art.

A joyous partnership brings sparkle to underrated classical gems.

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers shares her thoughts on technology and dinosaurs.

NZTrio's Sunday concert achieved a meld of East and West that fully justified its title, Glow.

NZTrio's Sunday concert achieved a meld of East and West that fully justified its title, Glow.

Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg's latest CD is a wonderful souvenir of a concert that too many missed.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's 2017 programme is a staggering achievement.

NZTrio continues to bring the music of the East and West together.

Vivat's latest project is ambitious: 10 CDs spanning 100 years of song from 1810 to 1910, decade by decade.

The Rodger Fox Big Band and NZTO's Swing into Spring concert sets the party mood in a raucous fun way.

Victor Herbert is mostly remembered for his operettas, now a new collection of his orchestral music reminds us this man had a very different life before he succumbed to the lure of Broadway.

Viva Voce is possibly the country's liveliest chamber choir; next weekend, itsHeavenly Bodies concert is inspired by The Bard's image of the orbs of heaven.

When it comes to Kiwi Big Band jazz, Rodger Fox is the man who set the template; now he's touring the country with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.