Asher Fisch and his forces awake this behemoth with sensitivity and abandonment, portraying the epic life-and-death struggle as conflict, but also as progress and reconciliation.

Bychkov's new Mahler Five puts all the others in the shade.

Internationally renowned organist Joseph Nolan joins WASO for a blistering assault on music by Barber and Saint-Saëns, with Asher Fisch also leading a gorgeous account of Respighi's The Fountains of Rome.

Erin Helyard investigates the 18th-century London music market and the crucial importance of women.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Andrew Mellor does an extraordinary job in teasing the Northern soul out of the Northern silence.

Under Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen, WASO delivers a riveting Sibelius, some terrific Wagner and an evocative world premiere by Elena Kats-Chernin.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Mozart's piano sonatas, performed on his own instrument by modern master Robert Levin.

Music and neuroscience combine in a symphony of philosophical heft and power.

Behzod Abduraimov's dramatic, refined reading of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 was just one highlight in a wonderful concert also featuring Mozart and Prokofiev.

Conducted by Benjamin Northey, this evocative program of film soundtracks by Westlake, Korngold and Strauss proves beyond a doubt the need for music in one's life.