Cameron Lam begins 2024 with a mediation on the lost and the found in local Classical, Jazz and Sound Art for this month's playlist.

Cameron Lam explores Australian music written for brass instruments, from tubas and trombones, to double bell trumpets and a 19-century ophicleide.

Virtual orchestra revives underplayed works but not same as real thing.

Stanhope’s take on Vlad mixes a faux band with real singers.

An electronic orchestra gets some fine music into the open air.

If the music is good, does it really matter if it’s not real?

Does his digital orchestra put musicians out of work? David Stanhope says that’s not his intention, instead he is using it to bring neglected music to life – and he reckons few can spot the difference.

Get your copy of Limelight Magazine's May 2018 edition featuring Leonard Bernstein, Birgit Nilsson, Thomas Hampson and Grace Clifford.

The May 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine reveals what really motivated the original, hard-working, hard-living, musical genius – Leonard Bernstein.

Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) was an ambiguous presence in Australian music, both as a man and a composer. A sensational concert pianist in his youth (though not one to take other composers’ score markings too seriously), he befriended Grieg and Delius, and achieved considerable success in America (eventually he took US citizenship). Post-World War II he became the forgotten figure described by Barry Humphries in his memoirs: shuffling around Melbourne, struggling to maintain a Grainger museum that housed his manuscripts, home-made “music machines” and a large collection of whips and sex toys. Grainger saw himself as the future of Australian music. Certainly, he wrote a great number of musical arrangements, or ‘rambles’ as he called them (such an English word!). Most of the 61 tracks on these discs are arrangements of British folksongs, like Shepherd’s Hey, My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone, and famously English Country Gardens. They recall a world of Empire Day, folk dancing, and bland radio programmes for schools that was in its death throes when I was a kid. Imaginatively written for the piano though Grainger’s arrangements are, and as lovingly performed as they are here by Australian pianist Leslie Howard, those associations render them……