Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.

Who better than Michael Collins to light up music commissioned from Bela Bartók by America's jazz clarinet great?

Gardner decants old wine into new bottles as label turns 20.

A smart program gives Stefan Dohr the space to showcase his glorious tone, sublime phrasing and insightful interpretative vision.

The versatile and powerful accordion wasn't invented during JS Bach's lifetime, but chances are he would have used it if it had been.

No Queen but this airing of Czech chamber specials reaches sublime heights.

Hymns, barricades and cockatoo cries fill this viola-meets-synth recital.

Like any good casting director, AFCM's Jack Liebeck knows how to curate an impressive opening-night lineup.

Kathryn Selby’s program of three extraordinary piano trios culminates in a profoundly affecting performance of a wartime Shostakovich classic.

A little night music with a slice of Vienna from homecoming pianist Joseph Havlat.

Star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason talks to Clive Paget about his new album, Shostakovich & Britten, and new book, The Power of Music, a candid memoir and call to action.

This year, the Takács Quartet turns 50, while Musica Viva Australia turns 80. Both of their histories include musicians forced to flee from oppression.