A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

Julia Wolfe’s UnEarth will be on at the Barbican in January - Barbican As the winter evenings draw in, music becomes a solace as well as a pleasure. So far this year we’ve enjoyed a Proms season for ...

Multi-CD surveys devoted to Herbert von Karajan, Pierre Boulez and Steve Reich are among the year’s finest classical-music offerings.

As usual, my retrospective list of the “best” classical and opera offerings of the year has a lot more to do with lasting impressions than definitive rankings. This was a year of big tours and bold ...

Looking back on 2025 is like trying to recount a dream — a mix of dagger-sharp details and foggy stretches that fall apart when you try to apprehend them. I seem to remember some absurd plot twists ...

Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...

The best thing about 2023, ’round these parts? It got me excited for 2024, and 2033. The prognosis for the performing arts at large, still limping after the pandemic, is anything but rosy. But then, ...

Discover a broad range of this year's most compelling classical recordings, including symphonic booty-shakers, mystic violin, ...