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

Cannons, fireworks, trumpets, and drums – with the whole orchestra to play with, classical music is the perfect accompaniment ...

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

A Rainbow in Curved Air and Shri Camel are equally enjoyable, the latter reflecting the composer’s fascination with North ...

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 ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

While I don’t subscribe to the belief that classical music should be embraced as a kind of aural sedative for harried hearts and minds, concert halls do provide a place to turn off your phone and ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

Lately it seems like every year, when I look back on my favorite classical albums, I always think, "Well, let's face it: It's been a pretty cruel year, and this is the music that helped get me through ...

Some people wonder what it would be like if some of the greatest geniuses in history came back to live in the modern world. This is the case with “ClassicaLoid,” a 2016 music anime focusing on the ...