Classical music for your mental wellbeing
| | | Get ABC Classic on your phone or tablet with the ABC listen app. You can now hear eight of your favourite programs whenever you want. Right now, at the touch of a screen you could escape from your bus trip into the recordings of Jessye Norman on Legends, or accompany your drive home with the epic film scores of Hans Zimmer on Screen Sounds. With the recent release of ABC Classic on TV, there are even more ways to listen to Australia’s only national classical music network. | | | |
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| | | | Hear Ray Chen live with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, playing Bach and Mendelssohn on the Stradivarius once owned Joseph Joachim. Classic live 8:30pm, Saturday 12 October. | | | |
| | | | | What’s your favourite film score by Hans Zimmer? From Gladiator to Interstellar, see if your favourite made the list. | | | |
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| | | | Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet topped the Classic 100: Chamber Music in 2008 and this year it turns 200. Join Alice Keath by the river as she explores this beloved work at 1pm on Friday 11 October. | | | |
| | | | | Paul Kelly’s Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds has won Best Classical Album. It brings Kelly together with Alice Keath, James Ledger and the Seraphim Trio. | | | |
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| | | | ABC Classic presenter, soprano and clinical psychologist Greta Bradman shares five evidence-based tips for using classical music to support your wellbeing. | | | |
| | | | | Richard Gill and Paul Keating feature in a documentary that explores the life of Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer. Watch an exclusive excerpt from the film. | | | |
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| | | | Music was banned in Afghanistan while it was under Taliban rule. Now the country’s first all-female orchestra is touring Australia. | | | |
| | | | | The latest album in the Hush Collection of music aims to help bring optimism in tough times, in a project created to support children in hospitals. | | | |
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