ABC Classic

28/11/2025

Startling beauty in this haunting love song born in the grinding toil of factory labour: ‘Don’t look for me where myrtles grow; you will not find me there, my beloved. Where lives wither at the machines, there is my resting place.’
Discover the full album here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/classic/shop/crux-duo-my-place/104978418
(Music by Martin Bresnick, inspired by the poem ‘Mayn Rue Plats’ by Morris Rosenfeld, 1911. Performed by Lloyd Van’t Hoff Lloyd Van't Hoff and Lisa Moore Lisa Moore .)

28/11/2025

What if the First Fleet never made landfall? From composer Oliver John Cameron and Gamilaroi poet Luke Patterson comes ‘After the Shipwreck’, a new song cycle for tenor, viola and piano that describes nature’s forces, sits uneasily in the calmness that follows a catastrophe, and ponders life’s fragility in a world forever changed.
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From composer Oliver John Cameron and Gamilaroi poet Luke Patterson comes a new song cycle for tenor, viola and piano that describes nature’s forces, sits uneasily in the calmness that follows a catastrophe, and ponders life’s fragility in a world forever changed.

28/11/2025

That’s certainly a popular number.
 
From West Side Story to Wicked, Star Wars to The Sound of Music, join Queensland Symphony Orchestra for an iconic collection of your favourite scores from Oscar-winning and nominated films.
 
Front Row with Megan Burlem - Stream on ABC iview or Saturday afternoons on ABC TV.

28/11/2025

ARIA Award winner Andrea Lam Page performs Chopin's stunning Nocturne in C sharp minor.

27/11/2025

Eric Avery performs a calming improvisation with Tamara-Anna Cislowska.

27/11/2025

Join Alice Keath as she checks out the most exciting classical music events around the country this week on What's On. Hear it now on the free ABC listen app or on ABC Classic Wednesdays, 6pm.

Lukáš Vondráček performs Beethoven in Perth and Messiah season kicks off in Sydney and Brisbane as Alice Keath checks out the most exciting classical music events around Australia this week.

26/11/2025

William Barton performs Didge Fusion, a song in Kalkadunga language from northwest Queensland.

26/11/2025

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25/11/2025

Award-winning actor Cate Blanchett joins Tamara-Anna Cislowska on piano to read a letter from Gustav Mahler to his future bride, Alma.

25/11/2025

Front Row with Megan Burslem is back with new classical music performances.
From the joyous performances by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Signature Choir to the late Sir Andrew Davis conducting his last performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, you have a front row seat to some of the best classical concerts in Australia.
Saturday afternoons on ABC TV or stream now on ABC iview. https://iview.abc.net.au/collection/4140

24/11/2025

A beautiful day by Mary River in the NT. Cellist Jonathan Tooby from the Darwin Symphony Orchestra plays some Bach.

24/11/2025

Australian composer and pianist Nat Bartsch performs Brightness in the Hills with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the Classic 100 in Concert. This piece is a tribute to Bartsch's first piano teacher who passed away; the title reflects, as Bartsch explained to Classic Breakfast presenter Megan Burslem, her teacher was “one of those vibrant, funny, hilarious people” who always “filled up the room with brightness.”.

This concert was filmed at Hamer Hall with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, which featured highlights from the countdown, conducted by Benjamin Northey.

Stream the full Classic 100 in Concert now on ABC iview: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/classic-100-concert-2025