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CHRISTMAS DAY

. RNZ Concert has added a new morning live performance programme for the holidays, and today’s broadcast is just right for those all-important turkey preparations as well as being the was a sell-out at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell and featured the APO conducted by Holly Mathieson, the Graduate NZ Choir and New Zealand-born Samoan soprano Isabella Moore. There is Mozart’s , Prokofiev’s and plenty of carols. At 1.00pm, it’s a 2016 NZSO performance of the , conducted by Handel scholar Graham Abbott with the Tudor Consort and soprano Madeleine Pierard. Then, in at 8.00pm, there is Christmas music from one of the oldest cathedrals in Europe, Aachen, consecrated in 805. For something a little different, Nick Tipping presents a at 5.00pm.