An intriguing Australian premiere with assured accounts of old favourites.

A panoramic view of Mussorgsky and a star turn from Benjamin Beilman in Higdon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto.

We speak to David Robertson as the SSO looks to the future in a season of blockbuster concerts and new appointments, from Lang Lang’s return to Stuart Skelton in Peter Grimes.

Ahead of the Australian premiere of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto, we talk to the composer about the Beatles, gender bias and why the number 1726 had audiences scratching their heads.

Actor Don Hany was raised on a steady diet of Beethoven and Brahms, as well as Jackson and Cohen. Now learning the violin, he’s revisiting the classics while preparing for his turn as the dashing Nick Arnstein.

Women composers are wildly under-represented in Australian music across all genres but, as Rosalind Appleby discovers, a groundswell of change is gathering force.

This phenomenally gifted composer’s legacy still resounds across both popular and classical music – and now audiences can hear him playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Verdi's mighty epic infused with compelling human drama.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra CEO Emma Dunch responds to a report showing that of 3,524 works performed by 15 of the world’s major orchestras, only 82 were written by women.

The Queen of the Violin delivers warm, brilliant performances with plenty of personality.

The British pianist is touring Australia, has two CDs on release and has written his first novel. As well as discussing the priesthood, he talks to Limelight about dreams, Debussy, Rachmaninov and rentboys.

Lukáš Vondráček nailed every facet of Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, while John Wilson led a dignified, stirring rendition of Elgar's Second Symphony.