Slava Grigoryan leads the pack with two nominations in this year's strong pool of contenders.

Back to Bach for Slava and a luminous end to a lauded project.

The Orava Quartet's debut album on Deutsche Grammophon tops The Limelight Chart – our monthly list of Australia’s best-selling classical music albums.

Slava Grigoryan's Cello Suites Volume II on ABC Classics tops The Limelight Chart – our monthly list of Australia’s best-selling classical music albums.

With his new album on the shelves, the guitarist talks about the peace and purity of Bach – despite some noisy frogs. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Highlights include five-star ballet and opera, Adelaide Guitar Festival and international pianists Paul Lewis and Simon Trpčeski.

An audience member taken ill is a concert promoter’s nightmare, but one orchestra would take such an emergency in its stride. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

With Volume II out soon, the classical guitarist has won an ARIA Fine Arts Award for his Bach Cello Suites Volume I. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Slava Grigoryan and ABC Music's labels dominate the nominations, while a Kate Miller-Heidke inclusion raises eyebrows.

On Migration, Slava Grigoryan and the Australian String Quartet have teamed up to record three recent works written for the unusual combination of guitar and string quartet. The album is named for the first of these, a single-movement work composed in 2003 by American guitarist Ralph Towner, a name that will be more familiar to fans of the German jazz and new music record label ECM than to classical music audiences. Migration languished unrecorded until now, and Towner credits Grigoryan’s enthusiasm and prodigious skill (indeed, in his hands its complex technical demands seem effortless) as central to the success of the work’s complex scalic runs and their integration with elegantly angular string parts. It sits easily alongside Flexible Sky by Austrian guitarist and composer Wolfgang Muthspiel, a dynamic but contemplative work comprising four contrasting movements. Dark and exciting, it features beautiful glissandi, and the notable interplay between violins and guitar reflects Muthspiel’s earlier training on that instrument. Nevertheless, for Flexible Sky, Muthspiel’s approach to instrumentation is democratic, noting that for him the work is “an interactive web of equal voices”. Towner, Muthspiel and Grigoryan regularly perform together as a guitar trio, indicating a degree of intimacy and mutual… Continue reading…

Ahead of his performances in Guitarra, the Australian guitarist chats about his most recent recording projects. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

His Bach Cello Suites has been recognised at the AIR Awards, as was James Morrison and Don Burrows’ In Good Company. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in