Featured Music Stories
NZ's biggest bands go off in the 'Naki
Six60, LAB and Synthony have each rocked a crammed Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth, but probably won't make up all of the economic loss from the cancellation of the three day WOMAD festival.
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Sea shanty about NZ settlers resurfaces about 190 years later
A sea shanty called Wellerman is rising up the UK record charts about 190 years after the Weller family settled in Aotearoa. Audio
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The NZ music industry's #MeToo reckoning?
27 Jan 2021Broadcaster and music industry veteran Charlotte Ryan responds to recent revelations of harassment and exploitation, and her own experiences, within the New Zealand music industry.
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Dawn Raid - a movie about an important local record label
23 Jan 2021A new film follows the story of two Manukau Polytechnic students who turned a bootleg T-shirt business and hip-hop night at a local bar in Otara into the influential Dawn Raid Entertainment empire. 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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New in Podcast Classics
12:01 am todaySchubert's much-loved Trout Quintet is full of flowing melodies that speak of happy times. Your new 'Podcast Classic' is ready to download. Audio
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Hymns on Sunday
19 minutes agoMore listener favourites this week, including one by New Zealander Nigel Eastgate. Alongside a busy career as a GP in South Dunedin for nearly 38 years, he was also a composer of hymns including 'If I take the wings of the morning'. Audio
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Playlist: The Stars are Comforting
25 Jan 2021Beatrice Tinsley would have been 80 years old this week. Download the story of her career in astrophysics and her love of music, as described in letters to her family, from student days to her tragically early death.
Featured Music Programmes
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SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A, Trout
1 Feb 2021Your free classical podcast this month is Schubert's Trout Quintet played by Monique Lapins, Gillian Ansell, Rolf Gjelsten, Hiroshi Ikematsu and Piers Lane. Audio
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SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto
Your free classical podcast this month is Sibelius' Violin Concerto played by Vesa-Matti Leppänen and the NZSO. Audio


















