Adelaide’s new festival, Illuminate Adelaide, celebrates the crossover of music and technology. This year’s line-up includes an immersive virtual reality work involving William Barton and the Australian String Quartet, and a solo improvised concert by Paul Grabowsky.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
The new Director of Artistic Programming at the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and former ABC Classic and ABC Jazz Content Manager, reflects on how his musicologist father informed his curiosity, and admits to playing the cello, badly.
Guy Noble owns up to a bad case of PCSD–Post-COVID Stress Disorder – manifested in unusual bouts of negativity, foreboding and absent-mindedness.
Ahead of a solo with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Brian Nixon explains why you will often see the timpanist with an ear close to the drum.
How the Australian Chamber Orchestra went with the flow for its latest film project.
Basque band have home ground advantage for some ripping Ravel.
Australians deserve to hear a great deal more music by First Nations peoples, women, gender non-conforming people, composers of colour, and our male contemporaries argues Felicity Wilcox.
Spanish maestro Jaime Martín should prove a hit as Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s new Chief Conductor.
Paul Goodchild retires from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra after 41 years.
The West Australian Orchestra, conductor Asher Fisch and soloists Elena Perroni and Adrian Tamburini navigated Brahms' German Requiem beautifully.
Our Recording of the Month for July comes from American conductor Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra, a remarkable album of orchestral works by Ravel. He talks to Clive Paget about the importance of the composer’s heritage and why this orchestra is uniquely placed to bring out the Basque in Ravel.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
