Our December Recording of the Month is an album of songs by Respighi, a composer not especially known for his vocal writing. Ian Bostridge and Saskia Giorgini talk to Clive Paget

From Igor Levit to Stephen Hough the piano takes centre stage this month, but there are vocal pleasures too with Respighi songs and Christian Gerhaher’s complete Schumann.

With half the country in lockdown, this month’s focus is on music to soothe the spirit, from Mozart, Fauré and Pärt, to Jordi Savall’s Victorian Odyssey

The work is the brainchild of baritone Joshua Hopkins whose sister was murdered in 2015.

As she prepares to lead the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in its return to the concert hall, the conductor tells us what she's been up to during the shutdowns.

From Nicola Benedetti’s “benchmark recording” of Elgar to Lang Lang’s less successful take on Bach.

Dynamic new music projects are emerging from lockdown, Julian Day reports.

The Australian conductor discusses her synaesthesia, her new role at Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and her love of butterflies.

Find out what's on stage – and streaming online – in October from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.

Catch up on what's been in the Limelight with the top arts stories to recently make headlines.

With an ambitious new musical survey underway, Clive Paget looks at the 18th-century movement that made bold men quake with fear and women fall into a faint.

The Director of the National Gallery of Australia tells us about his mother’s inspiring passion for music, his own eclectic tastes from classical to electronic, and his love of vintage vinyl.