In this month’s issue, Beethoven’s Big Bang: the concert that changed everything.

The May 2015 issue of Limelight hits the newsstands today, available at retailers across Australia and digitally through Zinio.

Cover Feature: Beethoven’s Big Bang



In 1808, Beethoven packed a Viennese audience into a freezing cold hall and subjected them to over four hours of ‘new’ music. Was he mad? Or was this the greatest conert ever? And how did it change the way we listen to music today?.

Following the Lieder

A profile of Ian Bostridge, the tenor, historian, author and lieder specialist about to regale Australian audiences with his talent for song.

The Escape Artists

On Musica Viva’s 70th birthday, we look at how a handful of exiles from the Nazi terror...