Erin Helyard on getting HIP with Richard Tognetti.

October sees the 2018/19 seasons getting underway. Nicole Car’s Met debut, Yuja Wang, Jonas Kaufmann, Glenn Close and Daniel Radcliffe are some of the names making waves. Oh, and don’t forget King Kong! Classical Music NY Phil & David Robertson Known to Australians as Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony, David Robertson leads the New York Phil in Sibelius’s Second Symphony plus Garrick Ohlsson in Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the remarkable Synergy Vocals in Louis Andriessen’s TAO, part of the NYP’s celebration of the Dutch composer. BOOK NOW John Eliot Gardiner’s HIP Berlioz Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique perform two all-Berlioz concerts at Carnegie Hall offering a chance to hear the Symphonie Fantastique as the composer would have heard it, as well as its rarely performed follow-up, Lelio, plus highlights from The Trojans  and the mercurial violist Antoine Tamestit in Harold in Italy. BOOK NOW Yuja Wang: Carnegie Persepctives Yuja Wang is this year’s Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist, giving her the opportunity to unleash her curiosity and explore the challenging and unexpected. Joined in her first concert by multi-percussionist Martin Grubinger and a trio of other percussionists, they dive into music by…

Gergiev's hand on the tiller makes heavy weather of Girard's new Dutchman.

Considered by many to be the greatest composer of all time, Limelight looks at the life, times and music of the trail-blazing Ludwig van Beethoven.

A period-sound, Freudian Dutchman sails a complex sea.

The night the wizard of the keys found he could only push the little Leipziger so far.

Beethoven shouldered his fair share of emotional vicissitudes over a lifetime, but his last twelve months were among the most trying of all. Clive Paget looks at the triumphs and the tragedies of the composer’s final year, while Brett Dean reflects on two of his own works that have been inspired by Beethoven’s complicated states of mind.

Iván Fischer's thrilling, instinctual BFO Mahler Five shows us what all the fuss is about.

Gerstein offers food for thought served up through the medium of a tangy Austro-Hungarian goulash.

One of today's great string quartets delivers unique accounts of Beethoven's music of the future.

Reinhold’s fiddle drags the opera fantasia into the 20th century.

Jansen is glorious in Brahms, while León offers a rich new work and a compelling nightcap.