This month features Spanish Baroque opera, castanets and all, pitch-perfect Mahler from Simon Rattle, and the winner of a notorious song contest (hint: it isn’t Eurovision).

The latest arts appointments and departures.

Thibaudet’s charm-filled Khachaturian is authoritative and decorative in equal parts.

Cameron Lam collects the latest releases across Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.

Where are all the Italian piano concertos? An album sets the record straight. 

The BBC said she wasn't a composer. How wrong can you get?

Víkingur Ólafsson earns his first Grammy; Caroline Shaw, Gabriela Ortiz, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil among the winners.

Rattle’s Mahler at its zenith with his new orchestra.

Chandos’s Gipps series just gets better and better.

An expressive Australian voice well-served by vivid performances.

Channelling her inner Sibelius, Grace Williams brings Wales to musical life.

Joseph Tawadros talks to Limelight about his two very different Sydney Festival gigs – and the possibility of "playing the oud in a raincoat".