The Sunday Feature

Thomas Goss looks at the relationship of Schubert with his publishers, especially Diabelli. Read more Audio

In the tradition of Bach himself, Rick Erickson is the Cantor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York City. Read more Audio

The wonderfully witty words and impeccable comic timing of Michael Flanders and the irresistible tunefulness and elegantly turned piano accompaniments of Donald Swann took London by storm in the 1950s… Read more Audio

Noel Coward was one of the outstanding theatrical and entertainment celebrities of the first half of the 20th-Century. His background was remarkably similar to Ivor Novello, but his songs were a pole… Read more Audio

Ivor Novello was a man of astonishing accomplishments: composer, playwright, actor, film star, producer and matinee idol but it's his songs - dripping with sentiment, romance and nostalgia - for which… Read more Audio

Vastly different personalities from significantly different backgrounds, but together Gilbert and Sullivan created magic and still give enormous pleasure to many over a hundred years later. Presented… Read more Audio

Brian Kay takes general look at the field of Words and Music, before getting down to specifics. Included amongst others are examples from Stilgoe and Skellern, Tom Lehrer, Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers… Read more Audio

Head of Piano at the New Zealand School of Music since 2011, Dr Jian Liu has an established international performing and teaching career. Jian Liu talks with Kenneth Young about his life in music. Audio

A 1947 Chicago exhibition of William Hogarth's sequence of paintings depicting "A Rake's Progress" inspired Stravinsky to compose an opera. With a clever English libretto by WH Auden & Chester… Read more Audio, Gallery

Fifty-five years after recording the country's first classical piano LP Lola Johnson talks with Peter Mechen. Read more Audio

Scottish tenor Nicky Spence's varied career spans contemporary opera, traditional opera, crossover, recital work, recording and more. Nicky Spence talks with Christine Argyle. Read more Audio

Des Wilson looks at the British gramophone industry's contribution to the war effort 100 years ago (RNZ). Read more Audio