As Melbourne goes Ring crazy, Limelight celebrates with its annual opera special. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Shostakovich in the theatre and concert hall, an eight-hour theatrical marathon and a Vietnamese circus are highlights. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

For the first time in nearly 30 years, Sir Neville Marriner’s chamber orchestra will tour nationally in 2017. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The lively Sydney venue will host an eclectic line-up in 2017 from classical concerts to an illuminated sound bubble. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The Melbourne-based percussionist has teamed up with engineer Richard Allen to create a new revolving instrument.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows will provide the music for this headily-scented hardy perennial. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Experimental violinist Jon Rose creates a terrifying performance that brings his museum of instruments to life. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

And then there were three cycles – the Silesian Quartet’s version of Polish composer Graz˙yna Bacewicz’s seven string quartets following on the heels of the Amar Corde Quartet (on Acte Préalable) and the Lutosławksi Quartet (on Naxos), and securing her reputation as one of the best-known unknown composers around. Bacewicz died in 1969 and her quartet cycle journeys from makings of tonality that are known towards a hard-fought for personal harmonic wizardry that embraces 12-tone thinking without being overly concerned with ‘correct’ 12-tone technique. Secreted kernels of melody appear discreetly from behind shadowy, shuffling textures to anticipate the soundworld of latter-day Bartók quartets – and even Luigi Nono. Bacewicz’s cycle is noticeably more consistent and chancey than Shostakovich’s, but how depressing to read elsewhere mantras about Bacewicz the “female composer”. Music as great as this ought to leave crude gender categorising far behind. “Music as great as this ought to leave crude gender categorising far behind“ The pivot is the Fifth Quartet. Written in 1955 as she was recovering from serious injury sustained during a car crash, Bacewicz has developed her language from the broadly Neo-Classical turn-of-phrase of the Fourth Quartet – for which please… Continue reading Get unlimited digital…

The Schaubühne’s Richard III and a Floating Palais headline an “every one’s a winner” festival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

In the lead up to the group's Musica Viva tour, Trio Dali’s cellist talks about life on and off the road.

A timely reminder of the life and work of Frederick Septimus Kelly. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The AFC presents three festivals, a piano series, cocktail concerts and more as redevelopment work continues in 2107. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in