William Dart

William Dart pays tribute to Leonard Cohen by looking at his genius with word and melody and the way he could build a simple idea to transcendence. Audio

William Dart looks at Steve Abel's past recordings and gives his take on the new album Luck/Hope. Audio

Spurred on by a new release from the North Carolina band Mandolin Orange, William Dart explores a number of other choice slices of plucking heaven featuring Bill Monroe, David Grisman and Chris Thile… Audio

William Dart celebrates the Shakespeare anniversary year by looking at two recent releases - one from Paul Kelly and one from Rufus Wainwright - with settings of the Bard's sonnets. Audio

William Dart surveys the recording career of Freakwater, the alt-country band from Louisville, Kentucky fronted by Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin, including their recent release Scheherazade. Audio

William Dart reviews Shayne P. Carter's new album Offsider in the context of his previous releases and conversations between the two men about classical music. Audio

William Dart revels in a remastered reissue of The Kinks' 1972 album Everybody's In Show-Biz, and takes a quick look at James Blake's new album The Colour in Anything. Audio

William Dart pays tribute to recently-departed Auckland singer Grant P. Chilcott and leads up to that by considering the issues of good songcraft - Brian Wilson and Randy Newman serve as exemplars. Audio

William Dart looks to the nation that gave us Shirley Bassey and Mary Hopkin and discovers a few not so well-known treasures including Datblygu and 9Bach. Audio

In anticipation of NZ Opera's production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, William Dart spins a few Sondheim tracks. Audio

William Dart reviews Andrew Keoghan's recent album Every Orchid Offering. Audio

William Dart reviews bass-player/singer/songwriter Esperanza Spalding's new album Emily's D+Evolution. Audio

Returning to a topic he's touched on before, William Dart looks at "clever" music - music with far, far more going on in it than just surface. Centring on a new album by American songwriter Finnegan… Audio

William Dart revisits Kate and Anna McGarrigle's third album, Pronto Monto, first released in 1978 but never available on CD until now. Audio

After hearing Lawrence Arabia preview a number of songs in Auckland's Queen's Arcade in April 2015, William Dart was impatient for the album. Absolute Truth has finally dropped and William is… Audio

William Dart's theme is the British folk song and what happened to it in the hands of groups such as Fairport Convention, Bellowhead and Oysterband. Audio

Centring around the new tribute album to the Grateful Dead from the Red Hot label, William Dart looks also at some of the label's other releases - many of which aim to raise awareness of HIV and the… Audio

William Dart takes the opportunity of the final programme in the current series to reminisce a bit on his 36-year career hosting New Horizons. Treats include music by Ry Cooder, Anne Sofie Von Otter… Audio

William Dart reviews new releases from country artist Robbie Fulks, R&B violinist Marques Toliver, and the soul and gospel singer Mavis Staples. He ends with a tribute to Prince. Audio

Taking his title and theme from film critic Andrew Sarris's description of a group of unsung American movie directors, Expressive Esoterica, William Dart reviews recent releases from Malian singer… Audio