Review: Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography (Robert Sholl) / Messiaen in Context (ed. Robert Sholl)
Messiaen’s mysteries are illuminated in these two impressive publications.
March 24, 2025
Review: Gardener of Time: a memoir (Barry Conyngham)
A noteworthy Australian composer explores the musical gardens he has tended.
February 24, 2025
Fine Company
Thomas Edmonds talks to Jansson J. Antmann about life on the opera stage and the people he’s met along the way.
February 24, 2025
Review: My Life in Music (Antonio Pappano)
Insights and revelations abound in an essential read for opera lovers.
February 4, 2025
Review: The Instrumentalist (Harriet Constable)
A ripping yarn about musical women afloat in Vivaldi’s Venice.
December 20, 2024
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November 25, 2024
My Music with Andrew Ford
The composer, writer and broadcaster recalls a childhood full of music, the first time he saw a composer in the flesh and turning a Beatles’ song into a lullaby.
November 25, 2024
Review: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Theodore Albrecht)
This vivid account transports you to 19th-century Vienna.
November 25, 2024
The December 2024 issue of Limelight is now available
Everyone's favourite cartoon canine, a new opera inspired by one of the great Las Vegas acts, life aboard a BRAVO arts cruise and the 2024 Limelight Recordings of the Year.
November 25, 2024
Introducing the December 2024 issue of Limelight
Everyone's favourite cartoon canine, a new opera inspired by one of the great Las Vegas acts, life aboard a BRAVO arts cruise and the 2024 Limelight Recordings of the Year.
November 12, 2024
A Belated Bow
Harriet Constable talks her bestselling debut novel, The Instrumentalist, which centres on Anna Maria della Pietà, Vivaldi's star pupil.
October 21, 2024
Review: The Shortest History of Music (Andrew Ford)
Ford’s non-linear storytelling weaves a multicoloured web of musical history.
October 21, 2024
A Familiar Beat
Gillian Wills tells Jo Litson about her debut novel Big Music.
September 23, 2024