Spanish pianist Javier Perianes returns for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, composed in 1809 during Napoleon’s occupation of Vienna. The program also includes Albert Schnelzer’s Through the Eye of the Pegasus, commissioned in 2021 for the 40th anniversary of the Alte Oper Frankfurt, and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2,…

Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk joins the TSO for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, describing it as the composer’s most advanced composition for piano and orchestra. “Honestly, I think it's even more interesting than his Third Piano Concerto,” he tells Limelight. Praising the TSO players’ enthusiasm and sincerity, he adds,…

TSO Concertmaster Emma McGrath, Principal Cello Jonathan Békés and guest pianist Konstantin Shamray join forces for Beethoven’s only concerto for three solo instruments. Begun in 1803 and written around the same time as the Eroica Symphony, it was originally intended for the composer’s patron and first-class pianist, the Archduke Rudolph…

Fresh from her appearance with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra at the Melbourne Recital Centre on 26 March, Australian soprano Siobhan Stagg heads to the Apple Isle for Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. Composed in 1948 with texts by Hermann Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff, the songs are Strauss’s farewell to…