As Alondra de la Parra's contract comes to an end, the orchestra's 2020 season will focus on fresh voices, with a number of young artists making their debuts with the orchestra.

John Luther Adams invites listeners into the vast desert wilderness.

Calypso, Gershwin and teenage hubris makes for spicy soul food.

Dickson pays homage to folk traditions from north and south.

Chamber orchestration is Mahler 10 as it could have been.

A superbly played conclusion to an enterprising series.

The 19th century’s most romantic of Romantics was never short of an alter ego to embody his complex musical ideas. Ahead of performances of his ever-popular Piano Concerto, Clive Paget talks to Asher Fisch and asks will the real Robert Schumann please stand up?

Elgar's "other" concerto receives a stunning performance.

Fiery Latin fretwork in de la Parra’s brilliant gala performance.

In his new concerto for Amy Dickson, Matthew Hindson harnesses the incredible flexibility of the soprano saxophone.

Composer Lachlan Skipworth tells us about collaborating with Numbulwar musician Don Nunggarrgalu on a new work commissioned for the orchestra's 30th birthday.

With Stalin bearing down on him, Shostakovich withdrew his monumental Fourth Symphony at the very last minute, consigning it to a drawer for the next 25 years. Mark Wigglesworth tells us why the score was so dangerous, and how the composer’s music changed forever.