Fischer completes his symphonic survey with a touch of carnival.

Norwegian band heads south for a pair of hot Latin discoveries.

Utah forces excel in both national epic and Czarist bureaucracy.

Composer Ella Macens tells us how her eyes were opened to a powerful musical weapon that she’s harnessed in her work, Superimposition.

Charles Ives with Hymns Ancient and Very Modern.

Music with passion and point from a German in Hollywood.

First recording of long-lost ballet will please aficionados.

Trifonov proves a passionate Rachmaninov advocate.

French harpist Xavier de Maistre brings flair and subtlety to Vivaldi's Venice.

Seascapes, a wet acoustic, and a pianist who made a splash.

Beethoven shouldered his fair share of emotional vicissitudes over a lifetime, but his last twelve months were among the most trying of all. Clive Paget looks at the triumphs and the tragedies of the composer’s final year, while Brett Dean reflects on two of his own works that have been inspired by Beethoven’s complicated states of mind.

Daniel Carter, a protégé of Simone Young and Richard Gill, has been announced as the new General Music Director of the German house.