RNZ: New Horizons

William Dart takes a brief jaunt through a number of tracks with duetting singers before settling on the new album, Anchor, from the partnership of mother and daughter Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy.

William Dart reviews the new album by the artist known as Christine and the Queens simply titled Chris, and takes a little look at some classic standards performed in a gender-switched way.

William Dart turns again to a regular favourite, British folk-rock veteran Richard Thompson and reviews his new album 13 Rivers.

William Dart looks at the thorny issue of combining rock bands with full symphony orchestras. It can often be dire, but there have been some great successes - one of them, in William's view, happening just last month in New Zealand.

William Dart gives us his tribute to the recently departed Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.

With Leonard Bernstein's big hundredth birthday this year, it's time to open the Bernstein songbook and see what various interpreters have done. William Dart unearths versions by Nina Simone, Kiri Te Kanawa, Little Richard, and Tom Waits among others.

It's been an eight-year wait for Dudley Benson's new album Zealandia. William Dart shares its very special revelations.

English musician Ray Davies (from The Kinks originally) has had a lifelong fascination with the USA, and he's released two albums under the title Americana, based on his experiences of touring and living there. William Dart investigates.

Some new local releases … William Dart takes a listen to CDs from Model Train Wreck and Bernie Griffen.

William Dart goes to the movies and investigates a few offerings from the current New Zealand International Film Festival. Inevitably, a new biopic of the German singer Nico is the perfect excuse to revisit Warholian days of Venus in Furs and Femmes Fatales