Settling the Score

Choose your favourite pieces of classical music, and tell us why you love them, here.
You can hear the results on RNZ Concert between 6am - 8pm on Labour Day Monday as we celebrate the most-loved… Read more

RNZ Concert's Settling the Score poll is back for 2024. RNZ Concert presenter Maria Mo is taking the opportunity to create a soundtrack to the movie of her life. Read more Audio

Settling The Score 2023 is a big year for New Zealand composers. It might be the first time we've seen four local compositions in the top thirty, it is certainly the first time homegrown works have… Read more Video, Audio

RNZ Concert's Settling the Score poll is back. This annual survey asks listeners to select their favourite pieces of classical music, culminating in a top 30 published by RNZ. It's open from now until… Read more Audio

RNZ Concert listeners tell us why they chose this year's favourite classical music in Settling The Score 2022. Read more Video

We are celebrating your favourite classical music from 6am til 8pm on Labour Day Monday, with the Top 30 countdown running from noon til 6pm on RNZ Concert. This is what we can tell you about what you… Read more Video

With local body elections done and dusted, it's time to cast one more vote. Settling the Score is RNZ Concert's annual poll of Aotearoa's favourite classical music.Concert presenters Clarissa Dunne… Read more Audio

We received hundreds of suggestions of classical music you'd love to share with the rest of New Zealand on RNZ Concert. Here are some of the stories which inspired those choices. Read more Video, Audio

RNZ Concert's annual countdown of New Zealand's favourite classical music, Settling the Score, will take place on Labour Day.

Aotearoa Overture by Douglas Lilburn is one of the most popular pieces… Read more Audio

RNZ Concert presenter Clarissa Dunn shares a favourite short classical piece with us and the chance to join in on Settling The Score 2021:Your Choice, where you can request the classical music you'd… Read more Audio

Listeners now have the chance to make a request for STS2021:Your Choice. Read more Audio

You voted and now it's time for the big reveal: Here are New Zealand's 100 most popular pieces of classical music for 2020 - and yes, there are some surprises! Read more Video