★★★★½ Tognetti’s crack band backs classy Russian mistress of the roulades. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Jarrod Carland and Shannon Pigram pull their other trading company offline following Limelight exposé as estimated debt grows.

★★★☆☆ Great band and nifty moves can’t rescue so-so dreams of low-wattage lovers. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Zubin Mehta recommends the Australian World Orchestra’s Alexander Briger for a six-concert series.

The great British accompanist aims to score 10 out of 10 travelling through Vivat’s new Decades series. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

★★★★½ Definitive performances prove madness can be catching. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

★★★★☆ Operatic “threesome” proves a perfect fit for Oz’s original party palace. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The classical music industry is furious that the ARIAs’ inappropriate categorisation snubs the whole art form.

Limelight talks to the operatic icon about life, music, the value of community, reality TV... oh, and Hillary vs Donald.

The American composer talks about new works, the loneliness of composing and the future of music. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Simon Lobelson is the latest singer required to summon the five octaves required for Maxwell Davies’ ‘mad’ King George. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

The big hitters of 19th-century song are well known, but how did they earn their reputations, who were their respected contemporaries, and how did the art form progress over time? It’s always been easy for a competent, or even an inspired composer, to get buried by the sheer overwhelming enthusiasm for a Beethoven or a Brahms, so a chance to examine the development of song from 1810 to 1910, decade by decade, might be expected to throw up a few surprises. And so it proves in the first of an excellently curated series from accompanist Malcolm Martineau and a stellar quintet of leading singers. Taking Schubert’s miracle years – 1815 and 1816 – as its starting point, Martineau chooses 16 of his finest as a peg on which to hang a thoroughgoing and eclectic selection of the greatest Lieder and song that were around at the time. Ranging across Europe, we visit Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia, German  and France in a song lover’s magical mystery tour. The under-recorded Canadian tenor Michael Schade gets the lion’s share of the disc and the majority of the Schubert. Like Peter Schreier, to whom… Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe…