ABC Classic concert schedule: September 2021
The ABC Classic concert schedule for September showcases the BBC Proms, plus Opera Australia's Ernani and the pick of Australia's finest orchestras.
The ABC Classic concert schedule for September showcases the BBC Proms, plus Opera Australia's Ernani and the pick of Australia's finest orchestras.
Celebrating the German composer whose farsighted innovations forever changed our approaches to composing and listening.
Dead Puppet Society's new production Ishmael is a contemporary reimagining of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, set 1000 years in the future in outer space.
Our recording of the month for September looks in detail at 1785, an incredible year in Mozart's life. Soloist Leif Ove Andsnes talks to Clive Paget about Salzburg, Vienna, and the magic of Mozart.
In the dangerous world of Joseph Stalin’s Russia, an embattled Dmitri Shostakovich unveiled a new symphony that would miraculously please both audiences and the authorities. Angus McPherson speaks to Asher Fisch and Mark Wigglesworth about the music that changed the composer’s life forever.
Australian composers Kirsten Milenko and Alex Vaughan received Roche Young Commissions in 2019; next week their pieces premiere at the Lucerne Festival.
Uncertainty around COVID and border closures have forced Hamilton to move to Germany, and The Australian Voices to search for a new artistic director and conductor.
The composer tells us about their new work for Queensland Symphony Orchestra, a "love letter" to the wondrous few years surrounding the turn of the 20th century.
Throughout August, Camerata was Artist in Residence of the Museum of Brisbane, creating musical responses to the City in the Sun exhibition. You can hear their music in performances at the Museum.
Cameron Lam's playlist for August shows composers responding in different ways to the disruption and isolation so many of us are experiencing right now.
Despite COVID chaos, CinefestOZ is scheduled to go ahead amongst some of Western Australia's most beautiful backdrops.
Dane Lam reflects on his time studying with Gianluigi Gelmetti Siena’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana from 2003-06, and life as his assistant at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Fiona Allan arrives at OA later this year with her eyes wide open, having dealt with similar challenges at the Birmingham Hippodrome due to COVID restrictions.