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

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Vienna Philharmonic's second Prom closed with Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony, a work with which its conductor, Bernard Haitink, has long been associated. His championing of the piece in the 1980s did much to change ... more info

Guardian Music — LSO/Gergiev(LSO Live, two CDs)Over the last few years, Valery Gergiev's releases on the London Symphony Orchestra's own label have centred upon his cycle of the Mahler symphonies, with rather variable results. But back in the Russian repertory that h... more info

Guardian Music — Usher HallValery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra began their run of Brahms symphonies in Edinburgh with a performance of the First that was glorious in the end, but not without its ropey moments. The mighty sound of the LSO strings in full... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall; Cadogan Hall, LondonBerlioz's Requiem offers a mighty visual spectacle as well as an aural one. In this performance under Thierry Fischer, the row of 10 timpanists lined up behind an expanded BBC National Orchestra of Wales – at ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — It has been reported that Beady Eye will sing 'Wonderwall' at the Olympics closing ceremony later today.Liam Gallagher Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock will perform a new arrangement of the hit.The ceremony begins at 21:00 (UK Time) and ends ... more info