Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonWhen Martin Taylor and Guy Barker talk about their Spirit of Django Suite they like to point out that the music should "reek of nostalgia". On the Proms premiere of this Django Reinhardt-dedicated guitar concerto – performe... more info

Guardian Music — The LPO's concert on Saturday, which we're streaming live, promises to return to one of music's perennial questions: how does music represent the world?The London Philharmonic's concert on Saturday, which we're streaming here live, raises, realises, ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonIf the Berlin Phil has anything as prosaic as a comfort zone, the bulk of this programme wasn't it. Of the five composers in the first of their two Proms, only Wagner was an obvious fit for their trademark sound, as velvety a... more info

Guardian Music — Pierre-Laurent Aimard(Deutsche Grammophon)Pierre-Laurent Aimard's much-publicised recent claim in an interview with a German newspaper that Debussy is a greater composer than Wagner is by no means original – it was also made in an influential study... more info

Guardian Music — BBCSO/Belohlávek(Chandos)A Summer's Tale is one of three symphonic poems that Josef Suk composed in the wake of his great Asrael Symphony, which he had completed in 1906 as a memorial to his wife and to his father-in-law Dvor˘ák. Jirí Be˘lohláv... more info

Guardian Music — Curator MaryAnne Stevens introduces the exhibition that forms the backdrop to the London Philharmonic's Music in the Courtyard concert on Saturday 1 SeptemberFrom Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark brings together 73 masterpie... more info

Guardian Music — Join us on Saturday 1 September at 7.30pm for the first ever classical music concert to take place in the Royal Academy's historic courtyard. The programme of French music complements the RA's current exhibition, From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonFixed points in the Proms come in many guises. One of these, never formally announced as such but an annual staple nevertheless, is the season's Oliver Knussen Prom. The Olly Prom has its own fixed points, too: a clutch of co... more info

Guardian Music — Nelson Freire(Decca)Built around works by the greatest of all Brazilian composers, Nelson Freire's celebration of piano music from his native country is pure delight. The longest of the 30 tracks here – the fifth of Villa-Lobos's Choros, a series t... more info

Guardian Music — Django Reinhardt was a Gypsy jazz genius who kept on living in his caravan long after he found fame. Guitarist and devotee Martin Taylor explains why he has written a Prom in his honourI'm always being asked when I first heard Django Reinhardt's musi... more info