Recording and Artists of the Year head a host of in-depth features making up a bumper holiday edition in stores now.

COVER STORY
Recording of the Year
The critics have spoken. We unveil the five category winners, plus the 2016 Limelight Recording of the Year. And following a poll and thousands of votes online, you, the public, have helped choose two Limelight Artists of the Year.

FEATURES
Barrie Kosky
Ahead of Adelaide Festival’s Saul, we talk to Australia’s one-time theatrical bad boy who is now the toast of European opera houses.

Unsung Hero
A reassessment of the music of F. S. Kelly, the Australian composer killed at the Somme whose posthumous reputation is on the up and up.

Daniil Trifonov
The rise and rise of the young Russian virtuoso and Deutsche Grammophon recording star who makes his Australian debut in March.

In the Mind’s Ear
From harps built for outer space to an orchestra of automatons, we raise an eyebrow at some of the strangest instruments that never got made.

Radical Richard
A look at Thomas Ostermeier’s theatrically compelling Berlin Schaubühne Richard...