Guardian Music — Influential orchestral trombonist with a smooth, flowing style Arthur Wilson, who has died aged 83, will be remembered as the truly inspirational trombonist of his generation. He was a principal with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the English Chamber... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonBorn exactly a decade apart, Scriabin and Stravinsky were the two composers who in their very different ways led 20th-century Russian music towards modernism. Valery Gergiev's pairing of early Scriabin with early Stravinsky, ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonMahler 5 with a side order of Mahler 4: this might sound like the overegging of an already fabulously rich pudding.Particularly for those who had heard the Third Symphony here only the night before. But the Albert Hall was ... more info

Guardian Music — One of the most revealing classical music resources on the internet is up and runningIt's not just the saving of 6 Music – there's another good news story from the BBC today. The Proms Archive went live earlier today. OK, that may not sound like a ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe first of Haydn's two great oratorios dealt with the biblical account of creation; its successor took as its subject the four seasons, drawing on the composer's long memories of the annual rural round and the country life he grew u... more info

Guardian Music — Humphrey Burton writes: From his American perspective, Alan Rich gave Ernest Fleischmann's achievements in California the lion's share (obituary, 16 June), but those who worked with Ernest in the 1960s would argue that his spell with the London Symph... more info

Guardian Music — Singleminded manager of the Los Angeles PhilharmonicMany managing directors of symphony orchestras have flourished quite handsomely ensconced behind a desk, enacting major policy changes in meeting rooms. However, for the three decades that he ran th... more info

Guardian Music — Symphony Hall, BirminghamNext month, Andris Nelsons makes his debut at Bayreuth, conducting the new production of Lohengrin that opens the festival. The Birmingham audience that has supported Nelsons so well during his first two seasons as the City o... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe UK premiere of Gerald Barry's latest opera appeared almost unobtrusively in the middle of the otherwise regulation orchestral programme that Thomas Adès's conducted with the London Symphony Orchestra.La Plus Forte sets a French t... more info

Guardian Music — Danish composer and conductor with a reputation for championing the unfamiliarAlthough he was best known as a conductor, Ole Schmidt, who has died aged 81, first came to public notice in his native Denmark as a composer of ballets, composing three in... more info