Hipster fivesome prove they're just as good live as they are in the studio.

The Peruvian maestro with a diary full of Australian dates talks to Clive Paget about career choices, composers who float his boat, and how a zero-waste lifestyle has enabled him to turn garbage into art.

Another generous helping proves that when it comes to women composers, Australia has always been a leading light.

Erin Helyard on getting HIP with Richard Tognetti.

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

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.