Featured Music Stories
Playing Favourites with Kim Hill
On her final Saturday Morning show, the beloved broadcaster chats to long-time colleague Bryan Crump (and surprise guests) about some of her favourite songs. Video, Audio, Gallery
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Thabani Gapara: The accidental Aotearoan
24 Nov 2023Zimbabwe-born saxophone player Thabani Gapara is embracing the opportunities afforded him by his adopted homeland. Audio
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Ahiahi: Justin DeHart & Mark Menzies
27 Nov 2023Listen to percussionist Justin DeHart and violist Mark Menzies perform innovative works by composers from Slovenia, Aotearoa and South Korea in this Asian Composers League concert, Ahiahi, held in Christchurch in 2022.
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A hundred years of Disney scores
23 Nov 2023The Walt Disney Company turned a hundred last month. Cultural historian Dr Malcolm Cook talks to Bryan Crump about the role music's played in the company's success. Video, Audio
RNZ Concert
RNZ Concert is New Zealand’s fine music network. Concert promotes New Zealand music and composition and features live broadcasts of concerts and recitals, as well as international content from other public radio broadcasters, podcasts, and on-demand programmes.
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Catching them when they're young
We tend to focus on the masters, but every musician has to start somewhere. And that's when Christopher Norton comes to the fore. Video, Audio
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A child of the counter-revolution
27 Nov 2023Stephen Diaz had to base himself in Europe to become a professional countertenor, but that doesn't stop him from coming back to Aotearoa when he can. Audio
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Music Alive: Te Kete Waiata
29 Nov 2023LISTEN: This concert is a fusion of jazz songs and te reo Māori, featuring singers Whirimako Black, Allana Goldsmith and Leon Wharekura performing during the 2023 Auckland Arts Festival.
Featured Music Programmes
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Worlds of Music 26 November, 2023
26 Nov 2023Trevor features Hindustani classical music with slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya and contemporary Andalusian music from Al-Andalus Ensemble. Audio
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Worlds of Music 19 November, 2023
19 Nov 2023Sounds from Armenia this week with master of the duduk, Djivan Gasparyan, and from India one of the world’s foremost tabla players, Subhasis Bhattacharya. Audio
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Worlds of Music 12 November, 2023
12 Nov 2023This week Trevor plays music from virtuoso oud player Rahim AlHaj and internationally renowned harpist Catrin Finch. Audio
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Worlds of Music 5 November, 2023
5 Nov 2023Music from the world with Romani Balkan brass band Fanfare Ciocărlia and Tokelauan-Tuvaluan singer and dancer Olivia Foa'i. Audio
Recent Music Stories
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NZ Live: Come Together
about 1 hour agoThis week's NZ Live is with the amazing performers from the Come Together series. Possibly the most successful LOCAL rock music series of all time, the shows have been seen by more than 40,000 Kiwis… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
11:05 am todaySomething of an indie "supergroup" containing past and present members of The Bats, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs and Toy Love, the Sundae Painters have just released a cracker debut LP. Grant Smithies… Audio
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Music reviewer Grant Smithies
11:05 am todaySomething of an indie "supergroup" containing past and present members of The Bats, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs and Toy Love, the Sundae Painters have just released a cracker debut LP. Grant Smithies… Audio
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Shane MacGowan, hard-drinking poet of The Pogues, dies at 65
The London-Irish punk who penned some of the 1980s' most haunting ballads before sinking into alcohol and drug addiction, has died.
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The Barber Shop Sessions | Episode 4: Harry
6:00 am todayHarry pays tribute to our voyaging waka and the ancestral courtyards of his hapū in two original waiata Māori written by his uncle. Video
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Music Critic: Colin Morris
30 Nov 2023Today Colin talks to Jesse about music from Jesse Colter and Steely Dan. Audio
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Music Critic: Colin Morris
30 Nov 2023Today Colin talks to Jesse about music from Jesse Colter and Steely Dan. Audio
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The TAHI 30th November 2023
On today's show Evie catches up with childhood friend and award-winning artist Vera Ellen, So’omālō chats with TAHI fan and aspiring music journalist Mia Faiumu, plus we get vulnies and reveal our… Audio
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Review: Kraftwerk's vintage men-machines perfectly at home in 2023
30 Nov 2023In an age where ChatGPT presents an approximation of human thought, Kraftwerk's man-machine feels very present, writes Nic Gorman. Video
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Collectors corner: Sheet music collector Liz Hodgson
29 Nov 2023This week for collectors corner we head to north Canterbury and meet Liz Hodgson who's got an impressive collection of sheet music. She talks to Jesse. Audio
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Music with Kirsten Zemke: Hawaiian vocal styles
29 Nov 2023Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to talk about Hawaiian music and how it emphasizes the voice. She'll talk about why many songs feature falsetto or leo ki'eki'e (high voice) and where the… Audio
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Auckland Arts Festival: He Kete Waiata
28 Nov 2023A concert that combines the world of jazz with Te Reo Māori, in a dynamic performance of original material as well as jazz standards sung by Whirimako Black, Leon Wharekura and Allana Goldsmith. Audio
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Music feature: Motown 25 with Murray Cammick
For this week's music feature we look back to 1983 when a special televised concert was held to celebrate Motown's 25th anniversary. Today we reminisce about that iconic concert with Murray Cammick. Audio
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The TAHI 28th November 2023
On today's show global country music artist Kaylee Bell chats about her new tour, the nicest man on earth Myshaan tells us when he's finally releasing his Tiktok famous waiata and we discuss some of… Audio
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Art work lights up and plays music, Matthew Tucker's creation
Artist Matthew Tucker has always loved numbers and patterns. Matthew lives with a disability and uses a wheelchair, but none of that gets in the way of his creative talent. Audio
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Asian Composers League: Ahiahi - Justin DeHart & Mark Menzies
26 Nov 2023Listen to percussionist Justin DeHart and violist Mark Menzies perform innovative works by composers from Slovenia, Aotearoa and South Korea in this Asian Composers League concert, Ahiahi, held in… Audio
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Ebony Lamb
26 Nov 2023William Dart tracks the pathway of Wellington songwriter Ebony Lamb from the band Eb & Sparrow through to the undertstated triumph of her first solo album. Audio
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Music journalism all but vanishes from our media
This week the country’s biggest arts funding agency published a plan to boost coverage of culture which has been dwindling in our media. Music reviews and writing used to be eagerly-read and… Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 November 2023
26 Nov 2023It's Christ the King Sunday, and we're also marking feast days for Saints Clement and Cecilia, and hymn writer Isaac Watts. Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 25 November 2023
25 Nov 2023On this week's Nashville Babylon there's classic blues from Jimmy Reed, reggae courtesy of Phyllis Dillon, new music from Israel Nash plus tracks to mark the anniversary of the Band's Last Waltz… Audio
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Dave Wilson: Ephemeral
25 Nov 2023Wellingtonian Dave Wilson's new album Ephemeral deals with the nature and shape of relationships. Audio
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Life Goes On
25 Nov 2023Nick looks back at the career of pianist and composer Carla Bley; plus music by Charlie Parker, Joe Zawinul, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Audio
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Introducing: NickyByNicky
25 Nov 2023This week on Introducing its the new solo project on Nick Johnston from Cut Off Your Hands - NickyByNicky Audio
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