NZ composer Juliet Palmer asks, 'how can one live in these times and not be enraged?'

COMMENT: Step out of the shot and let it be about someone else for a while - it's not always about you.

Auckland Choral came up with an eye-catching Caspar David Friedrich image for the programme booklet of Saturday night's Hymn of Praise concert.

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.2 & Concert Fantasia is a superb symphonic adventure from the New Zealand Symphony.

APO's next concert is a welcome opportunity to sample the first commission from its resident composer.

Conductor Giordano Bellincampi ensured an exhilarating night with the APO.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's Final Symphony was a marketing triumph, selling out its first performance and occasioning a Saturday night re-run.

Soprano's star status guarantees local release.

The Ronisch Auckland Secondary Schools Piano Competition puts top young piano players in the spotlight.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Indian musicians combine talents for unique Diwali Festival performance.

For two nights next week, Epsom becomes the operatic heart of our city, writes William Dart.

A CD that well and truly proves Polish music is more than Chopin mazurkas and the 1960s radicalism of Krzysztof Penderecki.

Classical music meets high-tech gaming at the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra delivers an evening with a mood of celebration.

George Bernard Shaw was sometimes sceptical of composers' motives in writing requiems.

NZSO describes its annual Bold Worlds: New Frontiers concert as an exploration of contemporary international repertoire and its connections.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa says her next Auckland recital is like putting together a personal story.

A great English composer is farewelled with poetry and politics.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra rewarded a spellbound Auckland Town Hall with a brilliant display of the orchestral art.

Chamber Music New Zealand's QuintEssence was touted as a mini-festival, marketed with crass images of Mozart and Brahms as sparring pugilists.

Vladimir Ashkenazy is regarded as one of the greatest musicians of our time.

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers shares her thoughts on technology and dinosaurs.

A joyous partnership brings sparkle to underrated classical gems.

NZTrio's Sunday concert achieved a meld of East and West that fully justified its title, Glow.

NZTrio's Sunday concert achieved a meld of East and West that fully justified its title, Glow.

Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg's latest CD is a wonderful souvenir of a concert that too many missed.

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's 2017 programme is a staggering achievement.

NZTrio continues to bring the music of the East and West together.

Vivat's latest project is ambitious: 10 CDs spanning 100 years of song from 1810 to 1910, decade by decade.

The Rodger Fox Big Band and NZTO's Swing into Spring concert sets the party mood in a raucous fun way.