Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThis was a day that focused on Henry Wood, the artistic founder and virtually sole conductor of the Proms for nearly 50 years, and these two concerts paid tribute to him. Wood was famed for his hard work and versatility, as w... more info

Guardian Music — Bavouzet/BBC PO/Noseda (Chandos)Jean-Efflam Bavouzet certainly likes to avoid any risk of being pigeonholed. After a survey of Debussy's complete piano music, and another devoted to Haydn's sonatas, he turns his attention to Bartók's piano concertos... more info

Guardian Music — The plastic present is about to become reacquainted with a 'musical miniature of the cosmos'There is a budget-price edition of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra, for two pianos, percussion – sometimes crotales, which are essentially antique cymbals â... more info

The Telegraph — Arcanto Quartet. Rating: * * * * * more info

The Telegraph — Hallé, cond Sir Mark Elder. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — Gould/Neary/Frith (Naxos)Having already recorded John Ireland's piano trios for Naxos, the members of the Gould Trio now turn their attentions individually to his sonatas. They are not perhaps works to hear in quick succession; the faded Brahmsian st... more info

Guardian Music — Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca, two CDs)It's three years now since Vladimir Ashkenazy said that he would not be appearing in public again as a pianist. That retirement, though, has thankfully not extended to the recording studio, and since then Ashkenazy ... more info

Guardian Music — (BIS)The quiet mood of Steven Isserlis's latest disc may be partly explained by the dedication: "In loving and grateful memory" of his wife, Pauline, who died in June. But it also reflects a private project of Isserlis's dating back many years. Gener... more info

Guardian Music — Opera Holland Park; Royal Albert Hall, LondonA throbbing medieval love story safely on the wrong side of good taste, Francesca da Rimini is a triumphUntutored in the works of Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944), or "work", since his Francesca da Rimini is ... more info

Guardian Music — Mellifluous tenor outstanding in the Passions of Bach and operas of BrittenOne of the most attractive and intelligent tenors from the 1970s onwards, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, who has died aged 69, tackled a very wide repertoire. Its twin peaks were his... more info