Discover our readers' and critics' favourite artists of 2019, learn about Beethoven's final tempestuous year, and celebrate Musica Viva as it turns 75.

The Icelandic pianist, who Limelight's critics have voted our International Artist of the Year 2019, tells us about his forays into the music of Philip Glass and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Opening with a week dedicated to First Nations performances, Iain Grandage’s first program as Artistic Director spans a Noongar language adaptation of Macbeth to Cloudstreet, Philip Glass with puppets, and Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in the park.

At first sight poles apart, Jenny Lin draws out the parallels between a minimalist icon and a Russian iconoclast.

Thrilling take on Glass’s celebration of passive resistance will have you spinning cartwheels.

Stockholm may be a long way from Darwin, but for the DSO's former Music Director it's home from home.

A celebration of American music, marking Leonard Bernstein's centenary, will air in conjunction with the station's music for Holy Week.

Philip Glass produces a great deal of music. His works unfold through the repetition of rhythmic figures, and by juxtaposing straightforward tonal chords (major and especially minor) that frequently have no traditional harmonic association with each other. It’s a recognisable sound, quite distinct from the music of his Minimalist colleagues Steve Reich and John Adams, particularly in their most recent works. Of the three, Glass has the broadest following because of the films he has scored, and operas like Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach which helped define the zeitgeist of the 1980s. This new 2-disc set brings a selection of Glass’s music for solo piano. There have been previous such compilations and a pianist named Nicolas Horvath has been recording a complete series that reached its fifth volume last year. Levingston gives us the Etudes Nos 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 17; The Illusionist Suite (based on the music for a film); Dreaming Awake, described as “a deeply enigmatic, metaphysical study in sonority”; Metamorphosis No 2 (derived from Kafka’s story), and a piece inspired by an Allan Ginsburg poem, Wichita Vortex Sutra, during which the poem is recited by actor Ethan Hawke. I do…

A live rendition of Glass's iconic hyper-score still thrills decades on.

Glass’s opera for ensemble and film is hypnotic start to Festival’s opening weekend.

The Minimalist icon and the Broadway star are among the latest recipients of the National Medal of Arts.

Glass, Lepage and some Canadian ice-skaters help Jonathan Holloway blur borders in his inaugural programme.