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BACH: Sarabande, from Partita No 1 in Bb
Performed by Read Gainsford at the Lewis Eady International Piano Festival, University of Auckland Music Theatre, 8 December 2023. Audio
Liliya UGAY: Raqs ("Dance")
Performed by Read Gainsford at the Lewis Eady International Piano Festival, University of Auckland Music Theatre, 8 December 2023. Audio
Music Alive: Whakatipu Festival 2022 Young Artist Recitals #4
This festival was created to give early-career NZ musicians a performance opportunity during COVID. In this concert you’ll hear music by violinist Hazuki Katsukawa, viola player Zephyr Wills, and… Audio
Lewis Eady International Piano Festival 2023: Read Gainsford
Florida-based NZ pianist Read Gainsford performs a recital themed around the idea of 'fantasy'. Audio
'Trying to recapture their glory days' - Why vinyl still spins us round and round
In an age of cloud downloads and endless streaming, there's still a love for the physical media, as RNZ's Robin Martin found at the New Plymouth Record Fair. Audio
Christmas at the cathedral
"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" goes the popular Christmas song. David Morriss finds out what the lead-up to Christmas is like for Wellington Cathedral Music Director, Michael Stewart. Audio
Music 101 with Kara Rickard
This week Kara Rickard is hosting Music 101 here from 1pm. She shares with Jesse what's happening on the music scene over the weekend, what's coming up on the show tomorrow and because Friday is new… Audio
NZ Live: The Teskey Brothers
This week for NZ Live we have the super talented Australian band The Teskey Brothers. The band, started by brothers Josh and Sam, are on tour here with their new album The Winding Way. Their concerts… Audio
First Song - Mel Stevenson
Mel Stevenson is an award-winning teenage, horn-driven, long-haired, funk band from Wellington. Growing a reputation in the Wellington music scene while also being Cuba street regulars, they draw huge… Audio
New music with Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy plays tracks off debut solo albums from Harp and Andre 3000, plus the epic prog-folk of Dublin's Lankum. Audio
The Barber Shop Sessions | Episode 5: Rachel
Rachel pays homage to one of her adored ancestors, Matiretoha, in a waiata composed by Troy & Huia Kingi, before taking to the mic and performing her original love song, I te Pō. Video
Music Alive: Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra - "Dvořák Cello Concerto"
French cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière joins the APO to perform Dvořák's ever-popular concerto in a programme that also includes the bracing Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski and a… Audio
NZSO: The Art of Fugue
NZSO Sessions 2022: Art of Fugue
Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen and principle oboe Robert Orr join with members of the NZSO to perform extracts from Bach's The Art of Fugue, his Concerto for… Audio
Taking a walk on the dark side
It's been a good year for the brilliant young musician Henry Meng. First he placed second in the National Concerto Competition, now he's just won the Todd Young Composer Award for 2023. Video, Audio
Music Critic: Matthew Crawley
Today Matthew talks to Jesse about music from Romi Wrights and Jackson Browne's cover of These Days by Julie Byrne. Audio
Mel Parsons performs her new single 'Offer Down'
Mel Parsons is hitting the road for a seven-date tour in anticipation of her new album. She's already given us a taste of what's to come with the first single 'Offer Down', which is available now… Audio
The TAHI 7th December 2023
On today’s show, we introduce you to Sharni Daze, a local artist combining house music and pop. So’omālō catches up with neo-seoul jazz musician Tusekah, and we try to figure out why streaming… Audio
Taylor Swift named Time Magazine's person of the year
The star, whose Eras tour broke box office records and provoked an inquiry into Ticketmaster's sales practices, follows the likes of Barack Obama, Greta Thunberg and Volodymyr Zelensky.
RNZ Music Pocket Edition: 6 December 2023
In Pocket Edition this week Tony stamp lifts the lid on the rare and re-pressed records of Leather Jacket Records and untouched proto punk of Palmerston North. Maggie Tweedie introduces us to new… Audio
Rip It Up now available online
Great news for fans of music journalism 13 years' worth of editions of Rip It Up - spanning 1986 to 1998 - are now available to read in full, thanks to a project from AudioCulture and Papers Past… Audio
