The composer reveals how a recording of an ice core melting broke his heart and inspired this piece of music.

The art's for sale, from Stephen Hough's erotic surge to Nathaniel Boyd en plein air.

A moderately savage Rite and an enigmatic concerto make for strange bedfellows.

Andrew Haveron, Ben Jacks, Scott Kinmont and the SSO horn section discuss Britten and Shostakovich, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and 50 Fanfares.

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra showcases its highly talented musicians in a program of 20th-century chamber works.

Another stellar release celebrating Australia's wealth of female composers.

The Australian Haydn Ensemble explores some of the arrangements that allowed amateur musicians to recreate large-scale works in a domestic setting.

The Swedish Chamber Orchestra presents a clever contrast between Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and a collection of new works.

Plenty of landmarks in an evening of intense music from the Australian String Quartet.

The finalists and first-round prize winners of the national Strike a Chord competition for secondary students, now in its second year, have been announced by Musica Viva.

A Rossini showcase puts on a display Dulcamara would be proud of.

This program of artsong concerts, performed by four solo singers for Sydney Chamber Opera, will illustrate where the modern song has found itself in the 21st century.