The Limelight Artists of the Year 2021
After a hiatus in 2020, we once again asked our reviewers and readers to vote for the Australian and International Artists of the Year. We are thrilled to announce our 2021 winners.
After a hiatus in 2020, we once again asked our reviewers and readers to vote for the Australian and International Artists of the Year. We are thrilled to announce our 2021 winners.
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’.
Canadian star crafts Chopin to console us in these worrying times.
The Australian National Academy of Music’s audacious commissioning project reaches its conclusion, with a festival in May to premiere 67 new works.
A fine Russian pianist finds the romantic soul of Bach.
Roger Dean's austraLYSIS has released five new performance recordings, demonstrating the breakdown of barriers between familiar music, and the unfamiliar.
Another monumental piano conquest by the intrepid Igor Levit.
Stephen Hough masterfully harnesses Schumann's "multitudes".
Alessandro Pittorino squeezed every inch of tonal colour from the concert organ during his improvised live accompaniment to the 1922 German expressionist horror film.
This spectacular re-opening heralds great things for Brisbane’s music scene.
November is Australian Music Month across the ABC, and ABC Classic’s concert schedule for the month features some stunning works by Australian composers – some old, some new.
The new CEO of Bundanon Trust, and former Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), explains how art and music have always been part of her DNA.
A festival exploring new ways to connect musically has been introduced to this year’s Lucerne Festival, with collaboration central to the programming.