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Classical Music
news

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra announces its 2020 season

A multi-maestro line-up features seven new works by Australian composers and a Beethoven project to address climate change.

August 7, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Beethoven: Symphony Nos 6 and 8 (Vienna SO/Philippe Jordan)

Jordan’s non-period band offers Beethoven in a hurry.

July 8, 2019
Classical Music, Instrumental
CD and Other Review

Review: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol 8 (Jonathan Biss)

Biss balances Beethoven: Eight down, one to go in the American pianist’s masterly set.

July 1, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 to 5 (Mitsuko Uchida, Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle)

Uchida’s crystalline Beethoven combines care with flair.

June 14, 2019
Classical Music
news

Australia has voted Beethoven its favourite composer

The composer has taken top honours in this year's ABC Classic 100.

June 9, 2019
Classical Music, Opera, Visual Art
news

The June 2019 issue of Limelight is now on sale

Learn how Lang Lang became a more rounded artist, brush up on Opera Australia's Brett Whiteley opera, and discover the rich musical history of Notre Dame.

June 3, 2019
features

Read the June 2019 issue of Limelight online

This issue includes features on Lang Lang, Whiteley: The Opera, Gondwana Choirs, Notre Dame, Jayson Gillham, Sweeney Todd, and much more.

June 1, 2019
Classical Music
features

Jayson Gillham: Beethoven & Me

Set to play Beethoven's five piano concertos in June, Gillham talks about how the composer is at the centre of his musical existence.

May 31, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
features

Backstage with Howard Shelley

One of classical music’s famous failures, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tanked at its premiere in 1806. What’s less well-known is how the notoriously difficult composer was persuaded to recast it for piano.

May 10, 2019
Classical Music
news

Brett Dean to help Rudolf Buchbinder’s ‘new’ Diabelli project

The Australian is among 11 living composers elaborating on the theme at the heart of Beethoven’s famous Variations.

April 23, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: Australian Chamber Orchestra (Lincoln Center Great Performers, New York)

It's #AussieAussieAussie as Tognetti flies his musical flag in the Big Apple.

April 11, 2019
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: Simone Lamsma Performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

A superlative performance from Simone Lamsma, Alexander Shelley and the SSO.

April 4, 2019
Classical Music
features

Simone Lamsma: A life in violin

The Dutch violinist talks about moving countries to study at the Menuhin School age 11, her remarkably wide repertoire and the challenges of performing Beethoven’s and Sibelius’s concertos.

March 19, 2019

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