The Australian pianist is recording a series of albums featuring the music of Beethoven’s favourite pupil, Carl Czerny. She explains why she has reassessed the composer, and salutes his own Emperor concerto.
Committed to the Suffragist cause, Ethel Smyth gave up music for Holloway Prison.
Pianist Tony Gould tells us about recording the latest album in the Hush Foundation’s series dedicated to calming healthcare environments through the curation of carefully crafted music.
In their new book, The Song Remains the Same, Andrew Ford and Anni Heino trace the connections between love songs, anthems, protest songs, lullabies, folk songs, jazz standards, lieder and pop.
The ‘Queen of the Toy Piano’ Margaret Leng Tan reveals the pleasures and challenges of her unusual instrument, and explains why the ones in her collection are the Stradivarii of the toy piano world.
San Francisco Ballet’s HR Director Darin Conley-Buchsieb explains how changing arts culture can lead to larger audiences – and more authentic art.
John Wegner’s stellar career as a Wagnerian baritone took him all over the world, before illness forced his untimely retirement. Clive Paget meets the local boy who conquered Bayreuth.
Get to know soprano Laura Wilde ahead of her debut Down Under in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Hansel and Gretel.
The pianist, whose Schubert album has won Limelight's Recording of the Year 2019, tells us about the most terrifying piece of music he knows.
The conductor tells us about his Tristan und Isolde, Limelight's Opera Recording of the Year 2019, and what's next on his bucket list for WASO.
The German baritone tells us about his Schumann album, Limelight's Vocal Recording of the Year 2019, and why in a couple of years he plans to stop singing.
The cellist, who has won Limelight's Chamber Recording of the Year, tells us about the complications of Kabalevsky, and the power of unsupervised Shostakovich.
The musical theatre star tells us about his new album, his new cabaret show, which he performs in Sydney next month, and the tiny "shed" he is renovating in New Zealand.
