The Sunday Feature

Fifty years ago, 150 members of the Christchurch Harmonic Society Choir and Chorale travelled to England to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Arts Festival. Clarissa Dunn talks to the Music… Read more Audio, Gallery

Perhaps more than any other New Zealand composer, Douglas Lilburn's career in music was influenced and supported by broadcasting. But this was mutually beneficial, and broadcasting too gained much… Read more Audio

The distinguished NZ-born violinist, who made a famous recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, lived in retirement in London. Peter Mechen and Charlotte Wilson… Read more Video, Audio

Donald Nicolson demonstrates the various 'bells and whistles' of his Thomas Goff harpsichord. Read more Audio

The current owner of Thomas Goff's Harpsichord #6, aka "The Beast", tells James Gardner how he came into possession, the process of restoring it and the glories that it now provides. Read more

Peter Averi tells James Gardner about his experience of the new Thomas Goff harpsichord, purchased by the NZBS in 1956. Read more

Harpsichord maker John Rawson tells James Gardner about working with Thomas Goff. Read more

Harpsichord maker Peter Owen tells James Gardner about working with Thomas Goff. Read more

Instrument maker Paul Downie tells James Gardner about the process of 'restoring' the Goff harpsichord now owned by Donald Nicolson. Read more

Performer Michael Hurst and writer Ken Larsen explain to Matthew Crawford the timeless appeal of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. (RNZ). Read more Audio

When was Lilburn's landmark song-cycle 'Sings Harry' actually first performed? A few years ago, Peter Mechen asked the late Donald Munro to shed some light on the mystery, and also talked with other… Read more Audio

Tim Dodd talks to the New Zealand mezzo after a career that included the early days of Donald Munro's New Zealand Opera Company, Glyndebourne and the John Alldis Choir in London in the 1960s, and the… Read more Audio