Articles

How low can you go? The search for the world's lowest voice

The hunt is on to find a singer with a seriously low range to record a new composition.

New Handel’s Water Music for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

British composers to stage 50-minute work on a barge floating down the Thames.

The 12 wackiest musical instruments

They look weird, sound weird, and many were invented by weirdos... Some here in Australia.

Dame Joan Sutherland: the true story

Richard Bonynge gives his personal account of the struggles and triumphs of his late wife, La Stupenda.

West Australian Opera appoints new artistic director

New Yorker Joseph Colaneri takes up the baton for Madama Butterfly in July.

Glee recruits two spunky classical cellists with attitude

2Cellos to star in the hit TV series' Michael Jackson special.
 
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The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

Retro charm: the glory of silent cinema is resurrected.
 

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Elizabeth Olsen; Hugh Dancy)

Spellbinding chiller: director and star both impress here.
 

BACH: Cello Suites (Michael Goldschlager)

Beautiful Bach: cellist Michael Goldschlager gives his all.
 

Espana! Songs and dances from Spain (Mischa and Lily Maisky)

A gift for expressive cantabile must be in the Maisky blood.
 

BEETHOVEN: The Symphonies; Overtures (Gewandhaus/Chailly)

This beautifully presented 5-CD set is a rather brilliant fusion of the old and the new.
 

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonies Nos 6,12 (Royal LiverpoolPO/Petrenko)

Not even Petrenko can do much with the turkey that is the Twelfth Symphony.
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Mathisha Panagoda

Bach, Banff and the Baroque

I've been busy deciphering the mysteries of Bach's Sixth Cello Suite, deep in the snow-capped Canadian mountains.
 
Sarah Noble

An Operatic Australia Day Celebration

Happy Australia Day! Oz is doing the international opera world proud.
 
Sally Whitwell

The coming attractions of cover art

I've found the perfect artist and collaborator to create the imagery for my second album. I say do judge a pianist by her cover!
 
Mathisha Panagoda

Bach on the Subway

First there was the Joshua Bell busking experiment. Now, I thought it was time to try something different, armed with the Cello Suites on the busy New York subway.
 
Wendy Lang

Bah! Humbug! Tama takes Scrooge to the airwaves

He most recently directed Opera Australia’s The Love of the Nightingale… But before that Tama Matheson recorded a captivating radio play of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
 
Sarah Noble

Das Lied von Berlin

A week of Mahler with the Berlin Philharmonic? Don't mind if I do.
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