Featured Music Stories
The Mixtape: The Bat’s Paul Kean
Musician Paul Kean from The Bats is picking the tunes on the Mixtape this week with Charlotte Ryan. Audio
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Shapeshifter celebrates 25 years: Drama, anxiety "and a ridiculous amount of good times"
25 May 2024Sam Trevethick and Nick Robinson from the NZ drum and bass band Shapeshifter get nostalgic with Charlotte Ryan. Video, Audio
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NZ jazz legend Rodger Fox dies aged 71
28 May 2024Rodger Fox founded his Big Band in 1973 and toured extensively, playing at international jazz festivals including Montreux, Monterey and New Orleans. He also taught generations of musicians at the New Zealand School of Music. Video, Audio
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Music Alive: NZSO Legacy
27 May 2024Hear the world premiere of Gillian Whitehead's retrieving the fragility of peace, Brahms’ magnificent Symphony No 1, and New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge perform Mozart 's stormy masterpiece, Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor. Conductor Alexander Shelley.
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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Fergus Byett: composing for choirs
28 May 2024Choirs Aotearoa's 2024 Composer-in-Residence, Fergus Byett, talks with Bryan Crump about what he loves about writing music when there's words involved. Audio
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The amazing sound of the recorder: from sopranino to baroque bass
23 May 2024Recorder specialist Kamala Bain brings a selection of her instruments into the RNZ Concert studio, from the little sopranino recorder to the baroque bass recorder, and gives us a taste of what a recorder can sound like in the hands of an expert. Audio
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Roger Fox: a tribute to the champion of New Zealand jazz
28 May 2024Nick Tipping, host of RNZ’s jazz show Inside Out, pays tribute to NZ jazz great Rodger Fox who has died at the age of 71. Audio
Featured Music Programmes
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NZSO: Legacy
27 May 2024Pianist Stephen De Pledge and the New Zealand SO performed this concert as part of the Orchestra's 75th anniversary celebrations. It includes the premiere of a… Video, Audio
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Auckland Philharmonia: Mozart's Clarinet
9 May 2024Annelien Van Wauwe joins the Auckland Philharmonia and conductor Jun Märkl to play Mozart's Clarinet Concerto as Mozart himself was likely to hear it -… Audio
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NZSO Beyond Words - music for the anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque Attacks
15 Mar 2024The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra presents Beyond Word, a commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque attacks with music bringing… Audio
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NZSO Beyond Words
9 Mar 2024Beyond Words is a New Zealand Symphony Orchestra concert marking the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch Mosque attacks featuring Moroccan singer-songwriter… Audio
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Music with Ian Chapman: Diamond Dogs turns 50
29 May 20242024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Diamond Dogs; one of David Bowie's more unusual albums and a work that is widely regarded as the last of his glam rock era. Audio
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Celebrating twenty years of the Wine Cellar
Hardly a month goes by in New Zealand without a venue announcing it's shutting up shop, so when a venue reaches the 20-year milestone, it's something to celebrate. Audio
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Wu-Tang Clan's rare album to be played at Tasmanian museum
The US rap group's legendary seventh studio album is set to be briefly housed at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art from next month.
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The Pre-Panel for 28 May 2024
28 May 2024Today on the Pre-Panel, Wallace Chapman previews tonight's show and producer Sam Hollis joins to discuss how pre-phone kids today discover music. Audio
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What you need to know about the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards
28 May 2024Prepare to close out Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa (New Zealand Music Month) in style - the 2024 Aotearoa Music Awards are almost here. Here's everything you can expect on the night.
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Music feature: Pixies
28 May 2024Emerging out of Boston in 1986, alternative band the Pixies was, and still is, a jarring mix of surf rock, punk, pop and usually a good bit of screaming. The Phoenix Foundation co-founder Samuel Flynn… Audio
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The TAHI 28/5/24
On today’s episode, we’re celebrating Samoan Language week, so Talofa. Poet and fashion icon Tayi Tibble opens up about her renewed commitment to her mahi, Christchurch singer/songwriter Michelle… Audio
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NZ jazz legend Rodger Fox dies
New Zealand jazz legend, Rodger Fox, has died at the age of 71. Fox founded the Rodger Fox Big Band in 1973 and toured extensively here and overseas, playing at international jazz festivals including… Audio
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The Countess and the Page
27 May 2024Emma Pearson and Hanna Hipp, two of the lead roles in NZ Opera's season of Le Comte Ory, join Bryan Crump to talk about the production and their characters. Audio
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Nicki Minaj fans fume as gig is axed after drugs arrest
Fans in the UK were left angry after the American rapper's gig in Manchester was called off at the last minute, following her arrest at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
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Kiwi Surprise and Joy
26 May 2024In his fourth programme for New Zealand Music Month, in reaction the sometimes depressing seriousness of the world around us, William Dart takes a trip around some music from our land that will… Audio
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NZ Music Month Live: Byllie-jean at the Christchurch Art Gallery
26 May 2024Byllie-jean at the Christchurch Art Gallery Video, Audio
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Five artists who prove there's more to south Auckland than hip-hop
26 May 2024Think you know the sound of south Auckland? TAHI presenter (and proud resident) So'omalo Iteni Schwalger introduces five musicians who show the local scene's range. Video
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 May 2024
26 May 2024Celebrating Trinity Sunday this week with a selection of hymns including Holy, Holy, Holy and Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us. And we mark the start of Samoan Language Week with a hymn of praise and… Audio
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Award-winning song a tribute to a 'true cowboy'
25 May 2024Holly Arrowsmith's grandfather traded belt buckles with Elvis Presley and had a sabre-tooth tiger skull in his home. Video, Audio
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Nashville Babylon: 25 May 2024
25 May 2024On this week's Nashville Babylon there's blues from Junior Wells and RL Burnside, swamp rock courtesy of Tony Joe White, reggae from Susan Cadogan plus an Americana classic from the Willard Grant… Audio
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NZ Jazz Favourites
25 May 2024In the last show for NZ Music Month 2024, Nick plays a mix of his personal favourites from the world of NZ jazz - including tracks from Callum Allardice, Allanah Goldsmith and Alchemy, and Jonathan… Audio
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Hardgroove
25 May 2024Thelonious Monk joins the Jazz Messengers; Carmen McRae sings the classics; and Roy Hargrove grooves hard. Audio
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Shapeshifter celebrates 25 years: Drama, anxiety, "and a ridiculous amount of good times”
25 May 2024Shapeshifter founding members Sam Trevethick and Nick Robinson reflect on the highs and lows of the band's 25 year career. Audio
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Best Country Music Song winner a tribute to a 'real cowboy'
25 May 2024South Island folk songwriter Holly Arrowsmith has won the 2024 APRA Best Country Music Song for 'Desert Dove' - a song about "distance, loss and grief". Video, Audio
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Voom’s Buzz Moller: The trick to writing a good song
25 May 2024Indie perennials Voom have been playing their heart-on-their-sleeve music for a long time in Aotearoa and are still releasing perfectly formed pop songs. Buzz Moller from Voom talks about the art of… Audio
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Beth Gibbons is in reflective form on her revelatory solo debut Lives Outgrown
25 May 2024The Portishead singer unveils her first album, tackling motherhood and mortality on an collection that's sometimes gloomy, but often gorgeous. Video, Audio
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Gareth Shute on his favourite Auckland venues
25 May 2024Tony Stamp is in Auckland for a guided tour of the music historian and writer's favourite local venues, in the final of this four part series. Audio
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Mapuna for 25 May 2024
Ngai Tahu academic Matthew Scobie has co-written a new book with Anna Sturman from the University of Sydney, called The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation in which they write 'the future of… Audio
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