Sacred Cow: Musical Detritus colours our attitude to music
What do we do with all the tangential stuff that colours how we experience music? Marie Kondo would know what to do with it.
What do we do with all the tangential stuff that colours how we experience music? Marie Kondo would know what to do with it.
Playing with the ELISION Ensemble for the first time was a wild ride – which is just how Ben Marks likes it. Now, he is discovering startling new possibilities for the trombone as composers explore the sounds ‘in the cracks’.
From Igor Levit to Stephen Hough the piano takes centre stage this month, but there are vocal pleasures too with Respighi songs and Christian Gerhaher’s complete Schumann.
The English composer’s talent and versatility flourished in a city and era with a huge appetite for the arts.
Vivid performances stake a claim for Lim’s strikingly distinctive sound world.
Richter’s moving response documents a devastating humanitarian crisis.
Daryl Buckley, AD of ELISION Ensemble, and Alex Raineri, AD of Brisbane Music Festival, remember a private, gentle, inspiring young man, considered one of Australia's most promising composers.
For this recital, Simon Cobcroft stepped in for regular cellist Tim Nankervis, with the trio delivering superb performances of Beethoven's 'Archduke' Trio and Haydn's Piano Trio in C.
Nicolette Fraillon fell into conducting dance, but she was quickly hooked by the artform. Music Director of The Australian Ballet since 2003, she guides Jo Litson through the history of ballet music, discusses the different kinds of collaborations between choreographers and composers, and wonders why ballet scores aren’t always given their proper due.
A joyful return to the stage turned the page on a troubled season, and marked the start of exciting new era for the ACO.
Canadian star crafts Chopin to console us in these worrying times.
Curated by Joseph Nolan, next year's program sees two of Handel's great works performed alongside a Chopin recital and an organ recital.
Warner’s visually arresting and faultless staging declares Hindemith’s masterpiece.