Bostridge takes us on a nightmare ride through Zender's refracted Schubert.

With a turn as Wagner’s tortured knight and an intelligent solo recital, Kaufmann makes a triumphant return to the stage. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The SOH, Australian National Academy of Music and Pacific Opera announce a new concert series in the Utzon Room. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The early music specialists will head to Australia to mark the occasion with madrigals from Cremona and Mantua.

Dame Vera Lynn rings in her centenary with an album of old favourites bolstered with brand new duets. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The ne plus ultra of Mozart boxes: with curation like this, Amadeus’s 225th death-day box will be hard to surpass.

The American label adds the French star to a stable that already includes Jonas Kaufmann and Juan Diego Flórez. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The much-loved conductor is hosting a series of spontaneous choirs, where everyone is invited and everyone can sing. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The Estonian composer, best known for his folk-inflected choral works, has died at 86 of long-term illnesses. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

A meditative, atmospheric journey through a unique and fascinating corner of sacred music.

Trust Harry Christophers and The Sixteen to get to the heart of the matter. This selection of 22 carols is an engaging mix of old and new, sung unaccompanied and without the cloying sentimentality that often mars the Christmas season and threatens to make a mockery of a story that could have particular resonance in our own age of mass human displacement. Here we have singing that conveys wonderment and joy, but also empathetically touches on the less glamorous aspects of the human condition. The older carols are not necessarily well known. As Christophers notes, some are out fashion, but none the worse for that. Traditional compositions such as This endris night with its catchy tune together with the Somerset Carol and the Gallery Carol both of which evoke innocent merriment, are all worth reviving, while better known 20th-century favourites such as Peter Warlock’s Bethlehem Down, John Ireland’s The Holy Boy and Henry Walford Davies’ O little town of Bethlehem have an appealing intimacy. A welcome stylistic variety informs the choice of newer carols. Whether it is the close harmony of Morten Lauridsen’s O magnum mysterium, the subtle but effective motoric minimalism of Howard Skempton’s Adam lay… Continue reading Get…

Super-sized Messiah: no fries, but plenty of spicy extras.