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Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Undead (Jessica O’Donoghue, Jack Symonds)

Survey of new Aussie works shows opera is alive and kicking.

February 9, 2026
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Elgar, Adès: Violin Concertos (Christian Tetzlaff, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds)

From Edwardian splendour to 21st-century edginess, Tetzlaff conquers it all.

December 5, 2025
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Thomas Adès: Orchestral Suites (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Adès)

Adès suites: alternately shocking, magic, and a hell of a lot of fun.

June 9, 2025
Classical Music, Instrumental
CD and Other Review

Review: Debussy, Komitas: Music in Time of War (Kirill Gerstein, Katia Skavani, Thomas Adès, Ruzan Mantashyan)

The music of Debussy and Komitas speaks to our own troubled times.

April 5, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music
news

Brett Dean among the winners at the 2023 Ivors Classical Awards

It's two in a row for Brett Dean, who picked up an Ivor for a chamber work last year.

November 15, 2023
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Australian composers shortlisted for the 2023 Ivors Classical Awards

Composers Brett Dean and Newton Armstrong in the running for the UK's prestigious music awards.

October 19, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Utopias (Australian String Quartet)

A memorable, unintentionally site-specific concert serves as an auspicious start to ASQ’s latest national tour.

May 11, 2023
Classical Music, Instrumental, Vocal & Choral
news

Melbourne Recital Centre launches 2023 International Classics series

Australians Siobhan Stagg, Timothy Young and Alexander Gavrylyuk join international giants Paul Lewis and Anthony Marwood for the rebranding of the venue's Great Performers series.

November 18, 2022
Classical Music, Jazz, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
news

Brett Dean wins an Ivor Novello Award

Australian Brett Dean has received an award for his song cycle Madame ma bonne soeur, with Thomas Adès, Judith Weir and Rebecca Saunders also among the winners.

November 17, 2022
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: River (Australian Chamber Orchestra)

The beautiful and shocking secrets of our rivers are conveyed through a spellbinding marriage of film and music.

October 16, 2022
Classical Music, Instrumental
CD and Other Review

Review: From Afar (Víkingur Ólafsson)

Double vision in Ólafsson’s spellbinding recital mirrored by two pianos.

October 16, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Festivals, Instrumental
news

UKARIA announces Winter-Summer Season

Throughout the second half of the year, UKARIA will draw some of the finest Australian and international musicians to the Adelaide Hills.

July 1, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Festivals
news

Four Winds announces the program for its 2022 festival

Over the Easter weekend in April, Bermagui will host some of Australia’s finest musicians from Pinchgut Opera to the Acacia Quartet.

February 18, 2022

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