A soaring musical conversation between birdsong, recorders and choral masterpieces across the centuries.

A taut Sea Symphony and a rare orchestral nocturne.

Verdi’s mass is more operatic than religious music. CSO chief conductor Jessica Cottis wisely chose soloists with big voices.

Bryn Terfel moves heaven and earth in Mendelssohn’s formidable farewell blockbuster.

An audio archive sees Anna Bonitatibus turn musical detective and biographer.

Luminescence’s radiant blend of voices brings Australian premieres and new commissions into the light.

Melbourne marked the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan tragedy with the first Australian performance of the full orchestral version of Karl Jenkins' Cantata.

Ahead of a free public concert of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 in Melbourne, Peter Tregear unpacks a work that rose from the modernist margins to the top of the charts.

Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown explore the many moods of the sea in this lovely recital.

Hollis Taylor chats about her new work for Musica Viva Australia, co-composed with Jon Rose for the Latvian Radio Choir and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey.

A seafaring debut from Beth Taylor, piano albums from Mitsuko Uchida and András Schiff, opera from Verdi and Handel and a Kurt Weill blockbuster.

A potent and even suffocating reading of Britten’s masterpiece delivers a warning we ignore at our peril.