Review: Dramatic Mozart (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
Emanuel Ax and David Robertson launch the SSO's Mozart Celebration with dramatic orchestral fireworks.
Emanuel Ax and David Robertson launch the SSO's Mozart Celebration with dramatic orchestral fireworks.
As Decca releases Sir Georg Solti's complete Chicago Symphony recordings, the conductor’s widow talks about his musical philosophies, and why she'd never partner him at bridge.
Alsop takes up the position of in September 2019, succeeding Cornelius Meister.
With her new double bass concerto premiering in Australia, Missy Mazzoli is one of the most successful women composers around. She also has big plans to get more girls writing music.
The conductor and pianist replaces Zubin Mehta as music director in 2020.
It didn’t take much to persuade legendary pianist Emanuel Ax to come and play Mozart with the SSO. But the fact that his preparatory period would coincide with the Australian Open didn’t hurt.
Australian compositions may not immediately spring to mind when you consider the great 20th-century symphonies but, argues Rhoderick McNeill, there is a significant body of work worth celebrating.
Heated arguments and a case of musical rivalry lurk behind the four composers featured on the star violinist’s latest recording project.
Sir Andrew Davis plays it cool in Antarctica.
The assaults are alleged to have taken place over a period of four decades.
In the wake of multiple allegations of sexual assault against the conductor, the RPO has announced that Dutoit will vacate his posts before his originally intended departure.
A special summer holiday bumper edition, the January/February 2018 issue of Limelight Magazine features Barrie Kosky on his daring production of The Nose. Plus, we reveal our 2017 Artists of the Year and chat with the Orava Quartet.
The orchestra turns two with an inventive, collaborative new season, featuring special guests including Anna Da Silva Chen and Umberto Clerici.