Luthiers have been making top-notch string instruments in Italy for centuries. Janet Wilson visits Roberto Cavagnoli in his Cremona studio where he is making copies of the Australian String Quartet’s original Guadagninis. She also asks some of the Australian musicians who play ‘Golden Age’ strings, what makes these highly prized (and pricey) instruments so special?

Davis’ and Müller-Schott’s Knight Errant portrait doesn’t err.

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

A Stravinsky double bill with the MSO reveals the power of Spring.

Lang Lang's playing has style but lacks intellectual rigour, while Kirill Karabits pulls off a near-perfect technical performance.

Russia and Bohemia unite in excellent harmony, in a concert featuring Vadim Gluzman and Czech maestro, Jakub Hrůša.

The Ukrainian-born violinist’s Stradivarius was slated to give the world premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto, but its former owner had other ideas.

A significant step in Australia’s journey of reconciliation.

Catching up with the global phenomenon in New York, Clive Paget discovers how those bold interpretations get developed and learns a few of the things that have made an older and wiser Lang Lang into a more rounded artist.

A winning musical combination to fight the winter blues.

The composer and soprano tells Jo Litson about Eumeralla, the first major Australian choral work written in an Indigenous language.

MSO brings life and vigour to Verdi's mass for the dead.