Settling the Score: Your Choice

The tradition continues with the 20th anniversary of the New Year's Day Settling the Score Countdown from 6 am to 6pm.  This year we countdown the top 75 listener favourites. Read more

Plenty of works by NZ composers counted among RNZ Concert listeners' favourite classical works during Settling the Score 2019 . What were the most voted for, and why do you love them? Read more Video, Audio

When it comes to RNZ Concert's annual classical music poll, Settling the Score, some years there are no great surprises. But other times there are some big ones... Read more

We invited your comments when you voted in our classical music countdown Settling The Score, and they offer some interesting insights on why people vote the way they do. Read more

Settling the Score: Franz Josef Haydn is a mammoth composer, so how come he's been completely absent from the countdown of New Zealand’s favourite classical music for the past two years? Read more Video

NZ soul singer-songwriter Louis Baker still loves the classical music his mum played him as a kid. He’ll be voting in RNZ Concert's classical music countdown Settling the Score, for an old favourite… Read more Audio

There’s just one week left to vote in your favourite music for Setting the Score 2019 on Labour Day. Here are few things to keep in mind... Read more Video, Audio, Gallery

Actor and director Jennifer Ward-Lealand talks about her earliest memory of music. The New Zealander of the Year 2020 says as a young girl she listened to Violetta’s aria 'Croce e delizia' from… Read more Video, Audio

When Shaan Singh of Wellington indie-pop group Drax Project needs inspiration, he turns to 16th century German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more Audio

Music lover Joy Cowley chooses her favourite piece of classical music and tells us about the pleasure she gets from Debussy’s ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’. Read more Video, Audio

Personal preferences come to the fore in this week's competition entries... Read more