May 25, 2020
Backstage with Matt Withers
The Australian guitarist tells us about how his projects have fared in lockdown, as well as the challenges and pleasures of giving online concerts from home.
May 18, 2020
Review: Tchaikovsky: Solo Piano Works (Peter Donohoe)
Donohoe rehabilitates neglected music with revelatory playing.
May 14, 2020
Review: Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7 & 8 (Steven Osborne)
Masterworks receive masterful performances care of Osborne.
May 14, 2020
Review: Dancing to the Tremors of Time (Michael Kieran Harvey)
New works sparkle in the hands of Michael Kieran Harvey.
May 14, 2020
Review: Bach: Sei Solo (Thomas Zehetmair)
Zehetmair conquers the Everest of the solo violin repertoire.
May 4, 2020
Review: Sorabji: Sequentia Cyclica (Jonathan Powell)
An esoteric masterwork by an eccentric recluse.
May 4, 2020
Review: Brahms: The Final Piano Pieces (Stephen Hough)
Hough captures Brahms, as the final cigar is extinguished…
April 16, 2020
Review: Mozart: Piano Sonatas Vol 2 (Jean Muller)
Muller’s Mozart mission makes its point in magnificent fashion.
March 26, 2020
Sydney International Piano Competition announces competitors
Three Australians are among the 32 pianists competing in the event, which is being rescheduled for 2021.
March 11, 2020
2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards Announced
New music group Ensemble Offspring, director Barrie Kosky, and arts editor Richard Watts receive prestigious awards.
November 26, 2019
Review: Nils Frahm (Queensland Performing Arts Centre)
Meditative genre-crossing pianos and synths let down by sound issues.
November 20, 2019
Sir András Schiff: Schubert always had a unique relationship with death
The pianist, whose Schubert album has won Limelight's Recording of the Year 2019, tells us about the most terrifying piece of music he knows.
November 20, 2019
Limelight’s Instrumental Recording of the Year 2019
Fortepiano makes all the difference.