Across nine days in January, Angus McPherson visited the 2020 Youth Music Culture Guangdong event in Guangzhou, China, spent time with Yo-Yo Ma, and discovered how the legendary cellist’s philosophy extends far beyond music.
From eccentrics to recluses, these musicians positively thrived on social distancing. (Image courtesy of @mozart____ on Twitter)
The conductor talks to Clive Paget about his recording of Mahler's “Symphony of a Thousand” with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Limelight's Recording of the Month in April.
Discover how Yo-Yo Ma is bridging cultures with a unique event, learn about the restorative powers of music, and read up on the history of ballet music.
Things are impermanent, life is impermanent, but music and the arts are lasting joys.
JS Bach regularly tops polls as the greatest composer of all time. Today we celebrate his 335th birthday by asking some of our top Bach performers why he's so extraordinary.
Albums by Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Bryn Terfel are on the cards for the Australian baritone.
A box of Bruckner symphonies, the artistry of Monteux, and Furtwängler’s DG output.
The leading musical director has had to retire from her busy career in musical theatre due to a rare, neurodegenerative condition.
Luigi Russolo’s crazy crackling and hissing machines even got Igor Stravinsky going.
Scottish musician James Crabb was just four years old when he began playing the accordion, a relatively young instrument that’s beginning to gain a greater foothold in classical music.
Limelight critic Phillip Scott looks at recordings that were the talk of the town on their first appearance, and that have continued to impress pundits and public ever since.
The beloved ABC Classic broadcaster discusses his earliest musical memories, getting assigned the tuba on account of his height, and the prospect of introducing his son to Beethoven and Mahler.
