Guardian Music — The British conductor Jonathan Nott brings the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra to Edinburgh. He talks about working in Europe, and his other passion, his LamborghiniThe music programme of this year's Edinburgh festival will be concluded by a rare visit t... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Los Amigos Invisibles, at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, have a friend in fellow Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel. more info

Guardian Music — It was quite a week, with the return to the Albert Hall of both Gustavo Dudamel and Nigel Kennedy, and the first time Turntables appeared as a solo instrument. What did you all make of it?The boys and girls of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra w... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — No date has been released yet for the episode, but an image showing the conductor leading a group of penguins as Elmo looks on was released.No date has been released yet for the episode, but an image showing the conductor leading a group of penguins ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThere are 4,000 Venezuelans in Britain. I don't know if all of them were in the queue for Gustavo Dudamel and his Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra's Prom, but it looked like it.At its head, the prommers who had queued since... more info

Guardian Music — There was charisma from the CBSO and brilliance from Emmanuel Pahud, but this week's star was Aurora Orchestra• Read last week's proms roundupI arrived back in London with a thud on Saturday, just in time for the evening's Prom with the CBSO and th... more info

Guardian Music — Ninety concerts over eight weeks, thousands of performers and an audience of millions – the Proms begin next Friday. Our critics pick their highlights'Mahler with Dudamel and Nigel Kennedy's unaccompanied Bach'For real Proms atmosphere it's going t... more info

Guardian Music — His Gothic Symphony is the ultimate cult neglected work by a British composer forgotten by all but the fanatical fewAfter booking opened on Saturday for the BBC Proms 2011, 87,000 tickets were sold in the first 12 hours. Amid such Glastonbury-level d... more info

Guardian Music — Simón Bolívar SO of Venezuela/Dudamel (Deutsche Grammophon)Yoking together Tchaikovsky's three orchestral works that were inspired by Shakespeare makes unarguable sense, but it's a surprisingly rare combination on disc. Perhaps the unevenness of th... more info

Guardian Music — Report concludes that Sistema Scotland project to immerse deprived children in classical music is having a positive effect and can achieve 'social transformation'Raploch, on the outskirts of Stirling in the heart of Scotland, may boast a stunning loc... more info