Another concert chock-full of Christmas cheer from the Brandenburgs.

With top notch playing and a star turn by rising soprano Madison Nonoa, this is one tradition to hang on to.

With the MEAA conducting a survey into sexual harassment in Australian theatre, Limelight asked the orchestras about the issue.

Constantine Costi presents a touching and zany triptych of works by Monteverdi and Bach.

Look out for an underwater concert, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in Rembrandt Live, and US satirist Randy Rainbow. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Old friends and new join together for an evening of fine music making.

The company joins a long list of arts organisations and venues showing their support for same-sex marriage. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

With guests from Italy, France and Cuba, Paul Dyer’s 2018 season tells wide-ranging stories of musical journeys. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Sinkovsky's the star in an evening of baroque pearls.

In some ways, this recording is quite a departure for the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. In other ways, it isn’t. Who else but an ensemble specialising in historically-informed performances on period instruments could bring such innate understanding to the Baroque underpinnings of Grieg’s From Holberg’s Time – Suite in the Olden Style and Mendelssohn’s early String Symphony No 3 in E Minor? As for the ABO’s other novel offering – Paganini’s fiendishly difficult Violin Concerto No 4 – there’s a real lightness, crispness and suppleness required here that makes a HIP technique perfectly suited to Paganini’s OTT showmanship. This is especially the case with the ABO’s guest director and soloist, Netherlands-based violinist Shunske Sato. Concertmaster of both Concerto Köln and the Netherlands Bach Society, Sato is equally at home on modern and historical instruments. He is also clearly equally at home in repertoire as diverse as the three aforementioned works, here recorded live last year by Classic FM at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. The Grieg is given a delightful freshness, a newly-minted quality, by contrasting a generous use of portamenti with a parsimonious application of vibrato throughout. This lends a luminous clarity both to the lyrical movements such… Continue reading Get…

The ACO and Slava Grigoryan are among the artists getting a nod at Australia's independent recording awards.

A compelling physical spectacle with a rich soundtrack.