Every January Australia’s young and young at heart tune in to count down the biggest new music tracks of the past year on Triple J’s Hottest 100. And every June a very different demographic vote and follow along as ABC Classic counts down Australia’s 100 favourite pieces of classical music. Each year’s Classic 100 has a different theme – 2024’s was “feelgood”, with the poll topped by Beethoven’s Symphony No 9.
This year’s countdown was steered by Megan Burslem, who also helms the ABC Classic Breakfast show. A violist and music educator, Burslem has a lifelong love of classical music. Once, while studying in Serbia, she picked up a special tool of the trade from a local luthier – which she has since lost. Here, the radio host tells us why she still mourns that missing pot of rosin, and shares the stories of two other important belongings.
