Highlights include Brett Dean’s Hamlet, a Shakespeare adaptation akin to House of Cards, and an immersive German Requiem. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The cutting-edge US artist will discuss composing in a post-truth world and perform her work inspired by a military “blood chit”. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Ahead of his appearance with the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra, the violinist talks music, audiences, and beauty.

This "pocket opera" is musically admirable but has yet to achieve its full potential.

Quirky musical settings, arrangements of old favourites, and the inner workings of the opera singer are next year’s highlights. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The Chinese piano virtuoso opened Carnegie’s season with 14-year old prodigy Maxim Lando providing the left hand part. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

For the first time, London’s Royal Academy of Music is holding auditions in Sydney on October 14 and 15. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Can a crack creative team turn Muriel’s Wedding into the great Aussie musical? Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Slava Grigoryan and ABC Music's labels dominate the nominations, while a Kate Miller-Heidke inclusion raises eyebrows.

Classical guitarists headed for Sydney in November tell us about their favourite pieces of music for the instrument. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The Australian classical guitarist has won the Melbourne International Guitar Festival’s Concert Artist Competition. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Of all the oddballs in classical music, the French composer Erik Satie surely takes the cake. He was an artistic visionary and a bona fide eccentric, a friend to occultists, surrealists, and Dadaists, and a self-dubbed ‘phonometrist’. To describe him as ahead of his time would be something of an understatement. He wrote furniture music and produced a string of other musical experiments that prefigured Postmodernism. London-based Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa has recorded Satie’s complete set of works for piano for Sweden’s enterprising BIS label, and in this second volume there’s not a Gymnopedie in sight – not even Je te veux. The curious listener will gain a more rounded understanding of this very unique genius through works like the Sports et Divertissements (Sports and Hobbies), and Préludes Flasques pour un Chien (Flabby Preludes for a dog). The Trois Préludes du Fils des Étoiles (Three Preludes from The Son of the Stars) are particularly interesting, sounding as though they might have been sketched by that other French musical dreamer, Olivier Messiaen. The disc is almost entirely composed of miniatures and, whether strange or serious, each gives a perspective on Satie’s musical nature: mock-traditionalist, austere, and reverent, with… Continue reading Get…