Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonLeonidas Kavakos must be wondering if he will ever get to play the concerto Osvaldo Golijov is writing for him, which remains unfinished more than 18 months after its planned premiere. In its place, Kavakos opened his mini-residency w... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, HuddersfieldA generation and vast gulf of musical difference separates Wolfgang Rihm and his German compatriot, the composer and conductor Matthias Pintscher. But what they have in common is that both frequently look to visual art as ... more info

Guardian Music — Tenebrae/Nigel Short/London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble (LSO LIVE)Taken from a concert at last year's City of London festival, this disc interweaves Bach's D minor solo violin Partita with a selection of funereal chorales, followed by a perfo... more info

Chorus.fm — Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026EEYDW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0026EEYDW&linkCode=as2&tag=alexislegend-20) is offering a free download of *The Who* (http://thewho.com/)'s Tommy: As Performed By The... more info

Guardian Music — The violinist Alina Ibragimova doesn't do things the easy way. As a result, her playing possesses both terrifying rawness and electrifying energyThere are some performers who don't so much interpret music as become it, as if it possesses them so com... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThough Brahms and Szymanowski make for unlikely musical bedfellows, Valery Gergiev's latest project with the LSO is to perform in pairs each of the composers' four symphonies. Originally unveiled at the Edinburgh festival, the projec... more info

Guardian Music — 'You could drop in the brazen brilliance of the New York Phil's brass section – and personally, I'd want Claudio Abbado'Why has nobody invented the classical-music equivalent of fantasy football? Cherry-picking from the world's greatest musicians c... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonDuring his tenure as the London Philharmonic's principal conductor, Vladimir Jurowski has revealed a penchant for lesser-known 20th century Russian composers that has provoked charges of questionable artistic judgement and ... more info

Guardian Music — London Philharmonic, London Symphony, New Philharmonia Orchestras/ Boult(EMI) (11 CDs)"Boult came in, reeking of Horlicks," was Beecham's dismissal of his notoriously abstemious colleague. Though caricatured as a stiff-upper-lip conductor of English ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe Latvian mezzo Elīna Garanča has already sung Carmen with distinction at Covent Garden and the Met, and here she brought the role – or at least its major highlights – to the concert platform. She even included something audi... more info