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Music Class: The highs and lows of music

From the human voice, to the octobass, understand the relationships between high and low notes, and how they're strung together to create music with feeling and adventure.

black and white photo of a man singing into a microphone and holding maracas

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: SatSat 8 Feb 2025 at 1:00amTopic: Music Class

Singer-songwriter Lior on Duet

Tamara-Anna Cislowska welcomes Australian singer-songwriter Lior to perform a special rendition of his song 'This Old Love' as well as share some of his favourite music.

A portrait of singer-songwriter Lior, looking pensively at the camera against a grey studio background.

Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: SunSun 9 Feb 2025 at 1:00amTopic: Duet

Erin Helyard's special harpsichord performance for Drive Live

Erin Helyard, Artistic Director and co-founder of Pinchgut Opera and the Orchestra of the Antipodes, and self-confessed harpsichord fanatic, performs live on Classic Drive.

Erin Helyard sits at a harpsichord ready to perform

Duration: 19 minutes

Published: FriFri 7 Feb 2025 at 6:00amTopic: Classic Drive

Classic Live

TSO: Fire

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra perform Jabra Latham's Fire Music alongside two fire-themed works by Haydn and de Falla.

Andrew Seymour in a white shirt plays clarinet. Beside him is conductor Eivind Aadland in a black suit.

Duration: 4 hours

Published: Monday 10 Feb 2025 at 8:00amMon 10 Feb 2025 at 8:00amTopic: Evenings

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande: Guitar and Orchestra

Composed in 1940 and distinctly neoclassical, Joaquin Rodrigo's Concerto d'Aranjuez conjures a dreamlike Spain to help forget the horrors of the Civil War that preceded World War II.

Pablo Sáinz-Villegas against a pale blue background holding his guitar upright.

Duration: 2 hours

Published: Monday 10 Feb 2025 at 2:00amMon 10 Feb 2025 at 2:00amTopic: Lunchtime Concert

London Philharmonic Orchestra: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 and The Bells

Edward Gardner conducts two Rachmaninov masterworks including his Third Piano Concerto plus his choral symphony The Bells.

The London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra onstage at the Royal Festival Hall.

Duration: 2 hours

Published: Sunday 9 Feb 2025 at 2:00amSun 9 Feb 2025 at 2:00amTopic: Lunchtime Concert

The Met: Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck

The late Thomas Fulton conducts this archival recording of Hansel und Gretel from 1982.

Judith Blegen as Gretel, Rosalind Elias as the Witch, and Frederica von Stade as Hansel in Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel."

Duration: 3 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: Saturday 8 Feb 2025 at 9:00amSat 8 Feb 2025 at 9:00amTopic: Saturday Night at the Opera

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De-stress your life

Take time to support you! If you're sitting with stress, worry, or simply a lot on your plate. Learn the simple and powerful meditations for cultivating a sense of ease, even when you're in the midst of 'a lot', reconnect to you, with kindness.

Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds

Published: Monday 10 Feb 2025 at 7:00amMon 10 Feb 2025 at 7:00amTopic: Mindful Music

Palestrina's Mass 'Confitebor tibi'

Hope, praise, angels in song, and a tale of reformed fishers.

Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: Sunday 9 Feb 2025 at 11:00amSun 9 Feb 2025 at 11:00amTopic: For The God Who Sings

Love is in the aria

Celebrate Valentine's Day with opera's greatest love scenes.

A painting of the balcony scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Duration: 2 hours

Published: Sunday 9 Feb 2025 at 7:00amSun 9 Feb 2025 at 7:00amTopic: The Opera Show

Weekend Baroque

From splendour to serenity, the very best of the baroque.

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Duration: 2 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds

Published: Sunday 9 Feb 2025 at 4:00amSun 9 Feb 2025 at 4:00amTopic: Weekend Baroque

Read and Watch

How to set children up for success when they start learning music

Learning music can increase children's capacity for persistence and resilience. Here's how to set them up for success when they start their musical journey.

A young girl in pigtails and denim overalls sits at a piano with sheet music. Her hands are on the keys as she reads the music.

Published: 3 Feb 2025Mon 3 Feb 2025 at 10:00pm

What does it take to bring a classical music icon like Maria Callas to the screen?

From Bradley Cooper to Angelina Jolie, many A-list actors are stepping into adaptations of the classical music world. What do they have to do to give a convincing performance?

A rear shot of a female performer on stage with many roses scattered on the floor around her.

Published: 31 Jan 2025Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 1:23am

Angelina Jolie in career-high performance as opera legend Maria Callas

In Maria, Angelina Jolie channels her own celebrity and understanding of fame, the crippling demands of beauty and age, and a woman's need to author her own narrative at whatever cost.

Angelina Jolie dressed in high fashion looks out a house window.

Published: 30 Jan 2025Thu 30 Jan 2025 at 12:26am

Andrea Lam performs Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor on piano

Andrea Lam performs Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Op. Posth. on piano in Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, 2025.

Andrea Lam leans over piano in a dark room with her arm stretched. She wears a bright green dress and black belt.

Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds

Published: 29 Jan 2025Wed 29 Jan 2025 at 12:17am

ABC Classic

Featured

Music Class: The highs and lows of music

Singer-songwriter Lior on Duet

Erin Helyard's special harpsichord performance for Drive Live

Classic Live

TSO: Fire

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande: Guitar and Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra: Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 and The Bells

The Met: Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck

Featured Programs

De-stress your life

Palestrina's Mass 'Confitebor tibi'

Love is in the aria

Weekend Baroque

Read and Watch

How to set children up for success when they start learning music

What does it take to bring a classical music icon like Maria Callas to the screen?

Angelina Jolie in career-high performance as opera legend Maria Callas

Andrea Lam performs Chopin: Nocturne in C Sharp Minor on piano

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