Called ‘the rock stars of Renaissance vocal music’, The Tallis Scholars are recognised as one of the world's great sacred music ensembles. On the eve of an Australian tour, their director Peter Phillips joins us to talk about the father of Anglican church music Thomas Tallis, singing in China, and about meeting the world’s most performed living composer, Arvo Part.

In 1916 Australia lost a musical treasure it hardly knew, the composer Frederick Septimus Kelly who was killed aged 35 leading the last major battle of the Somme offensive.

As the world digests Dylan’s Nobel prize for Literature, we’ll shine a light on Dylan’s three gospel-inspired albums Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love with self-confessed Dylan tragic and theologian Ben Myers.

Highlights from a concert of traditional, contemporary and devotional music by the SCM Chinese Music Ensemble, featuring soloists on the pipa (lute), erhu (two-stringed fiddle), dizi (flute), and the zhongruan (round-bodied lute).

We meet Divya Bhatia, Director of the Rajasthan International Folk Festival in Jodhpur set in a 600-year old hill-top fort. The festival's aim is to nourish the heritage of the master musicians of Rajasthan in north-west India.

Delhi-based singer and composer Sonam Kalra has overcome tragedy to bring together Western and Indian traditions in her unique Sufi Gospel Project.

One of India’s finest sitar soloists, Shubhendra Rao was for many years a student of one of India’s most famous musicians Ravi Shankar—the man he called guru.

From Baha’i sacred song to electro tribal, from India to Malta, from Haydn and Shape Note hymns to the ceremonial sounds of indigenous Australia, Bali, China and the Pacific - they all come together at the Sydney Sacred Music Festival.

A musical framework to contain and deal with grief, after almost 1000 years the Requiem is still alive and vital today.

We continue exploring ceremonial and sacred drum rhythms of the world with master Japanese taiko drummer Bashow Kanagawa, and Kenyan singer, dancer and musician Sam Okoth, an official Cultural Ambassador for Kenya who reveals his philosophy of rhythm.