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Classical Music
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Canberra Symphony Orchestra Unveils Season 2025

CSO's 75 anniversary season features seven world premieres, works by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Holst, and new compositions by First Nations artists.

August 8, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Handel’s Water Music (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Erin Helyard and the SSO show that Mr Handel’s Water Music still floats everybody’s boat 400 years on.

July 1, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: The Mozart Album (Australian Haydn Ensemble, Erin Helyard, Skye McIntosh)

Mozart concertos joined at the HIP by Aussie favourites Helyard and McIntosh.

June 20, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Dido and Aeneas (Pinchgut Opera)

Henry Purcell’s pocket opera Dido and Aeneas is a work ripe for reconstruction.

May 31, 2024
Classical Music, Instrumental
CD and Other Review

Review: Four Hands at Home: Music for Piano Duet (Stephanie McCallum, Erin Helyard)

Four hands better than two in delightful Romantic works for piano duet.

May 17, 2024
Opera
features

Pinchgut Opera’s Dido & Aeneas: “A gift for a theatre director”

Lucy Clements has been a prime mover of new Australian work. How does she approach a Purcell masterpiece over 300 years old?

May 15, 2024
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Handel and Vivaldi Arias (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Australia’s Mr Baroque, Erin Helyard, led a splendid concert starring soprano Samantha Clarke.

April 5, 2024
Opera
news

Pinchgut Opera announces Continuo Fellow

Singer and harpsichordist Liam Green to join Pinchgut's specialist program for continuo players.

March 1, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Theodora in Concert (Opera Australia & Pinchgut Opera)

Baroque is back at the Sydney Opera House in the form of Handel's pungent tale of religious intolerance and sacrifice in a polarised society.

February 9, 2024
Opera
features

Samantha Clarke: Catch a Shooting Star

Starting 2024 as Violetta in her Opera Australia debut, soprano Samantha Clarke has a big year ahead.

December 20, 2023
Classical Music
CD and Other Review

Review: A Viennese Bouquet (Melissa Farrow, Erin Helyard)

A banquet and bouquet with fragrant 19th-century music for flute and piano.

December 14, 2023
Opera
Live Review

Review: Rinaldo (Pinchgut Opera)

Pinchgut's superlative specialist cast of singers polish Handel's 1715 hit to a dazzling shine.

December 1, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental
news

The Australian String Quartet unveils 2024 season

A bold 2024 for the Australian String Quartet with national tours, festival appearances, huge collaborations and new recordings on offer.

November 22, 2023

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