Sydney Philharmonia Choirs celebrates a significant milestone with blazing performance of Handel's Samson, with soloists and choir on top form.

This always interesting arrangement draws the ear to melodic and harmonic elements that sometimes get lost, and elegantly reinforces the work’s well-crafted moments of grandiloquence.

Titled Dark With Excessive Bright, the Australian Haydn Ensemble's 11th season offers programs of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Boccherini, along with some rarer selections.

The festival frees 'the child within' with 150 artists and five premieres over 10 days, in a program that includes the Brodsky Quartet, Quatuor Van Kuijk, William Barton and Katie Yap.

This extraordinary program includes selections from the Changi Songbook, providing the right balance of light relief and ethereal beauty in contrast to the heavier themes explored.

Painstaking attention to detail by the family-run winery and exceptional musicianship make for an unmissable return to the festival after more than two years.

The UNSW ensemble offers a season lit up by Bach, Ravel, Westlake and Edwards, with guest performers that loom large in NSW and internationally.

The Australian War Memorial's musical artist in residence Chris Latham writes about the POW Requiem, which premieres on 29 October and includes nine songs from the Changi Songbook.

Cameron Lam explores choirs new and old, and the music written for them, in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

Hearing Handel's magnificent oratorio performed in mid-winter, rather than in the heat of an Australian Christmas, added to the magic.

Lieder duo cement place in top echelon with spectacular sophomore album.

This year's program features 10 concerts across three days in the beautiful border town.