Lisa Batiashvili: Prokofiev’s music is all about telling stories
The Georgian-born violinist on her new all-Prokofiev album and why she won’t be performing in Russia any time soon.
The Georgian-born violinist on her new all-Prokofiev album and why she won’t be performing in Russia any time soon.
Edward Gardner and James Ehnes whip up a fine Hungarian goulash.
Sir Andrew Davis’s fat knight offers all the requisite swagger.
Riley Lee’s shakuhachi had Lachlan Skipworth heading to Japan. Now he’s melding its haunting melodies with orchestral forces.
Thirteen of Australia and New Zealand’s most promising young classical musicians will take part in the SSO's prestigious training program.
Emanuel Ax and David Robertson launch the SSO's Mozart Celebration with dramatic orchestral fireworks.
As Decca releases Sir Georg Solti's complete Chicago Symphony recordings, the conductor’s widow talks about his musical philosophies, and why she'd never partner him at bridge.
Alsop takes up the position of in September 2019, succeeding Cornelius Meister.
With her new double bass concerto premiering in Australia, Missy Mazzoli is one of the most successful women composers around. She also has big plans to get more girls writing music.
The conductor and pianist replaces Zubin Mehta as music director in 2020.
It didn’t take much to persuade legendary pianist Emanuel Ax to come and play Mozart with the SSO. But the fact that his preparatory period would coincide with the Australian Open didn’t hurt.
Australian compositions may not immediately spring to mind when you consider the great 20th-century symphonies but, argues Rhoderick McNeill, there is a significant body of work worth celebrating.
Heated arguments and a case of musical rivalry lurk behind the four composers featured on the star violinist’s latest recording project.