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27/09/2025

Larry Adler in rehearsal interviewed by the ABC in 1961.

26/09/2025

What if Dame Joan Sutherland was your singing teacher? This archival footage from 1993 reveals La Stupenda's foray into vocal coaching.

26/09/2025

The Australian String Quartet play Tchaikovsky’s First String Quartet.

25/09/2025

Australian pianist Simon Tedeschi brings Gershwin’s irresistible melodies alive: Embraceable You, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off… Gershwin never ran out of great tunes. Discover the album:

Acclaimed Australian pianist Simon Tedeschi presents highlights from the iconic catalogue of George Gershwin, including Embraceable You, Nice Work If You Can Get It and Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.

25/09/2025

Van Diemen’s Band's tour with Ensemble Kaboul, Tyalgum Music Festival begins, ChorusOz performs Mozart’s Requiem in Perth and much more. Join Alice Keath as she guides you through some of Australia’s best classical concerts and live performances, including interviews with composers and performers on What’s On, Wednesdays 6pm on ABC Classic. Hear it now on the ABC listen app

Van Diemen’s Band tours with Ensemble Kaboul, Tyalgum Music Festival begins, ChorusOz performs Mozart’s Requiem in Perth as Alice Keath checks out this week’s most exciting classical music events.

25/09/2025

Congratulations to all of the nominees in the 2025 ARIA Awards, including ABC releases by Andrea Lam and Australian Chamber Orchestra for Best Classical Album. The Australian Chamber Orchestra (Memoir of a Snail) and Michael Cassel Group Presents A (Very) Musical Christmas are nominated for Best Soundtrack. Lachlan McKenzie and Lucy Clifford up for Best Jazz Album. Electric Fields with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for Best World Album. The Wiggles, Justine Clarke and The Vegetable Plot nominated for Best Children's Album, and Emily Wurramara for Best Music Video. Discover the full list https://ab.co/4nNY9g2
(via triple j)

Best Classical Album
Andrea Lam – Piano Diary [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti – Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings and Andante
Cantabile / Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
Nat Bartsch – Forever Changed [Amica Records]
Simone Young & Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Mahler: Symphony No.2; Barton: Of The Earth
[Deutsche Grammophon Australia / Universal Music]
Sophie Hutchings – Become The Sky [Universal Music Australia / Mercury KX]

Best Jazz Album
Evans Robson Quartet – Zenith [Lamplight Records]
Lachlan McKenzie – Departures [ABC Jazz / The Orchard]
Lucy Clifford – Between Spaces of Knowing [ABC Jazz / The Orchard]
TL; DR & Peter Knight – Too Long; Didn’t Read [Earshift Music / The Planet Company-MGM]
Touch Sensitive – In Paradise [Future Classic]

Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album
Australian Chamber Orchestra – Memoir of a Snail (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [ABC Classic / The Orchard]
François Tétaz - The Surfer [Impressed Recordings / Rubber Music Pty Ltd]
Michael Cassel Group – Michael Cassel Group Presents A (Very) Musical Christmas [The Orchard]
Various Artists – How To Make Gravy [Origin Recordings]
Vidya Makan – The Lucky Country (Original Cast Album) [ORiGiN Distribution / ADA]

Best World Music Album
Electric Fields, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Live In Concert [ABC Music / The Orchard]
Gurrumul – Banbirrngu – The Orchestral Sessions [Decca Australia & Skinnyfish / UMA]
Joseph Tawadros – The Forgotten Path To Humanity [Independent / The Planet Company]
Tenzin Choegyal – Snow Flower [Warner Music Australasia / Rainbow Valley Records]
The Cat Empire – Bird in Paradise [BMG]

24/09/2025

Brahms' energetic Hungarian Dance No. 6 on two pianos. Benjamin Bayl performs with Tamara-Anna Cislowska.

24/09/2025

Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Black, Julie Andrews and other Hollywood A-listers have played on-screen roles as music teachers. They’re dedicated, charismatic, and in the case of J.K. Simmons from Whiplash, intimidating.

But on-screen portrayals of teachers are not that realistic, according to Hugh Gundlach from the University of Melbourne.

Dr Gundlach and his colleagues have just published a paper which analyses more than 50 school music teachers in films released between 1940 and 2025.

They say those films have some problems. Not only do they help shape our perception of actual music teachers, they might also influence how many people consider taking up the profession.

Films can “create a ‘cultural reality’ that is more powerful than the actual reality,” Dr Gundlach says.

Read the story to find out which are the most problematic cliches and why real music teachers like Ed Le Brocq say teaching music is incredibly rewarding. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/hollywood-portrayals-music-teachers-impact-australians/105803248

24/09/2025

Such a stunning rendition of Fauré's "Après un rêve" by Emily Sun - Violinist and Tamara-Anna Cislowska.

23/09/2025

Persian-Australian tar player and composer Hamed Sadeghi joins Vanessa Hughes on Drive Live to talk about the poetic side of Persian classical music that made him fall in love with the tar, and how he has found his musical voice in the Australian classical music scene through a range of genre-defying collaborations. Hear it now on the free ABC listen app

Drive Live with award-winning Persian-Australian tar player and composer Hamed Sadeghi

22/09/2025

A serene Elizabethan lute duet performed by Hopkinson Smith (lute) and Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano).

21/09/2025

What classical favourite have you discovered again?