This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

In 2025, Mark Wigglesworth becomes Chief Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He talks about his approach to conducting, and his passion for cricket.

Warner boxes up a tremendous legacy from a cool customer.

This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Snap! Violinist Stefan Jackiw has sportingly uploaded footage of the moment his $30,000 bow failed him.

Sir Simon Rattle chats about Bruckner, Brexit and the London Symphony Orchestra's tour of Australia.

Everyone should have equal opportunities to access and participate in the arts, says Morwenna Collett, who discusses the value of being inclusive, a roadmap for how to get there, some Australian examples and an international case study.

Karabits evens the score in Walton’s Symphonies.

Kirill Karabits loves Kareyev to bits, but it isn’t always clear why.

José Serebrier’s new Dvořák cycle ranks with Kubelík’s, Kertesz’s, and Rowicki’s sadly overshadowed but excellent set. For me, the last three symphonies are usually the least interesting and revealing – as here, where they’re perfectly OK but unremarkable (the third movement of the Eighth lacks the sinuous elegance of other readings). Where this cycle scores is in the performances of the neglected Second, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the generous addition of other major works such as the Legends, the delightful Scherzo Capriccioso, the masterful concert overture In Nature’s Realm and a selection of Slavonic Dances in radiant performances, the Bournemouth players in top form. No young composer was more prolix than Dvořák (one of his early string quartets lasts 70 minutes!), as demonstrated in the First Symphony, subtitled The Bells Of Zlonice where the youthful rhetoric runs unchecked. The three-movement Third and the Fourth (whose last movement always reminds me of a bizarrely titled song I heard as a child on the ABC Argonauts programme: “Dashing away with a smoothing iron, she stole my heart away”) are interesting, but the Second Symphony, long a favourite of mine, is more disciplined and Serebrier has its measure, making it a real……