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
Review: No Autographs, Please! (Katherine Wiles)
An entertaining insider’s guide to life in the Opera Australia Chorus.
September 23, 2024
Review: Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician (Jeremy Dibble)
Dibble’s magisterial biography gets a centenary update.
August 19, 2024
A Licence to Feel
Trent Dalton shot to international fame with Boy Swallows Universe. Now, his book Love Stories will take to the stage at Brisbane Festival.
July 22, 2024
A Universal Language?
In his new book, The Shortest History of Music, Andrew Ford discusses why music is as intrinsic to human life as the air we breathe. We run an extract.
July 22, 2024
Review: Performing Wagner (Stephen Gould with F. Peter Phillips)
A book full of insights from a singer taken too soon.
July 22, 2024
Poetry and Music
James Antoniou examines how music and poetry have interlocked through the ages and explores their collaborative potential.
June 24, 2024