‘We celebrate a fresh song cycle by two Adelaide women: Anna Goldsworthy and Anne Cawrse. In Snapshots, Goldsworthy’s poetry reckons with love in a nontraditional way, observing how ‘failed’ relationships morph into new and different futures for families today. With splashes of humour and deep sincerity, this is like Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben (Women’s Love and Life) for the twenty-first century, and I’m so proud to present it for you here.

Quatuor Agate commissioned Last Flight from Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun as part of their ECHO Rising Stars nomination in 2024/25. I heard them play it in Barcelona and it was riveting. Despite tech advancements and social progress, aren’t we just repeating the same patterns, over and over? I don’t know the answer, but when the Chanson perpétuelle (Perpetual Song) sounds this good, the catharsis is real.’