Settling The Score
Your classical music Top 30 from Settling the Score 2024
Here are New Zealand's Top 30 favourite classical pieces - as voted in Settling the Score 2024 - and why people love them. Video, Audio
The Top 30 classical music pieces from Settling The Score 2022
RNZ Concert listeners tell us why they chose this year's favourite classical music in Settling The Score 2022. Video
A celebration of listener favourites - what to expect
We are celebrating your favourite classical music from 6am til 8pm on Labour Day Monday, with the Top 30 countdown running from noon til 6pm on RNZ Concert. This is what we can tell you about what you… Video
Settling the Score
Settling the Score is RNZ Concert's annual countdown of New Zealand's favourite classical music. Listeners have voted online for their favourite piece of classical music and Concert will spend Labour… Audio
Listeners tell us which classical music they'd love you to hear, and why
We received hundreds of suggestions of classical music you'd love to share with the rest of New Zealand on RNZ Concert. Here are some of the stories which inspired those choices. Video, Audio
Settling the Score is back for 2021
Listeners now have the chance to make a request for STS2021:Your Choice. Audio
Settling The Score 2020: The Top 100
You voted and now it's time for the big reveal: Here are New Zealand's 100 most popular pieces of classical music for 2020 - and yes, there are some surprises! Video
Settling The Score: Counting the votes, and the days
Not long now until we reveal Settling The Score 2020. RNZ Concert's countdown of Aotearoa's favorite classical music will be on the radio from 6am - 7pm Labour Day Monday. Please join us!
RNZ Music Pocket Edition 301: Hip Hop Mentors/Phoebe Rings
In this week's Pocket Edition, RNZ Concert's Nick Tipping encourages us to vote in the annual Settling the Score competition, Tony Stamp visits Auckland's community centres and mental health services… Audio
Settling the Score: Your 100 favorite classical pieces from 2019
New Zealand's top 100 favorite pieces of classical music, as voted for by the RNZ Concert audience and friends in 2019.
Your favorite NZ compositions from Settling the Score 2019
Plenty of works by NZ composers counted among RNZ Concert listeners' favourite classical works during Settling the Score 2019 . What were the most voted for, and why do you love them? Video, Audio
Epsom Girls ruffle some feathers: The Lark Descending
Epsom Girls Grammar School students have mass voted in Settling the Score for the ‘Grand March’ from Verdi’s Aida thereby knocking ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Vaughan Williams off the top perch. Audio
Settling The Score: Highlights and fun facts 2019
When it comes to RNZ Concert's annual classical music poll, Settling the Score, some years there are no great surprises. But other times there are some big ones...
Giving them a Haydn
Settling the Score: Franz Josef Haydn is a mammoth composer, so how come he's been completely absent from the countdown of New Zealand’s favourite classical music for the past two years? Video
This Time it’s Personal: Louis Baker on the music of Chopin
NZ soul singer-songwriter Louis Baker still loves the classical music his mum played him as a kid. He’ll be voting in RNZ Concert's classical music countdown Settling the Score, for an old favourite… Audio
Settling The Score: voting trends - one week left
There’s just one week left to vote in your favourite music for Setting the Score 2019 on Labour Day. Here are few things to keep in mind... Video, Audio, Gallery
This Time its Personal: Drax Project's Shaan Singh on the Bach Cello Suites
When Shaan Singh of Wellington indie-pop group Drax Project needs inspiration, he turns to 16th century German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Audio
Five things about voting for New Zealand’s most-loved classics
Each year RNZ Concert asks its listeners to vote for their Top three favourite pieces of classical music in Settling the Score. Here are five things that will make you a Settling the Score voting pro…
Settling The Score 2018: Hear The Top 75
Listen to New Zealand's favourite classical music for 2018, as voted for by RNZ Concert listeners. Video, Audio
One person's guide to voting for Setting The Score
When faced with having to choose just three favourite pieces of classical music to vote for in RNZ Concert's Settling the Score, Cynthia Morahan looks to the past, present and future for inspiration.
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