Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonFor her appearance in the Southbank Centre's International Piano Series, the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang chose a mostly Russian programme, spanning late-Romantics Scriabin and Rachmaninov through to the Soviet-era Prokofiev,... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonSteven Isserlis spent the first half of his career resisting playing too much Beethoven. Now he is making up for lost time. Five years ago, he performed Beethoven's complete works for cello in a single day at the Wigmor... more info

Time — Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news, because it’s classical night on Dancing with the Stars. That means 16 additional instruments, performances by Joshua Bell, Jackie Evancho, Vittorio Grigolo, and an orchestra spilling over into the ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican; Purcell Room, LondonLady Bracknell is sung by a bass. Miss Prism is a Teutonophile composer as well as a sentimental novelist. Algernon and Jack duet sweetly to a splintered, expressionist-style "Auld Lang Syne". Cecily and Gwendolen conver... more info

Guardian Music — Susan Kagan(Grand Piano)The Bonn court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-98) was Beethoven's first important piano, organ and composition teacher, the young pupil writing: "If I ever become a great man yours shall be a share of the credit." Nee... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonGerald Barry's last full-length opera, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, was based upon a screenplay. His latest, first performed last year in Los Angeles and brought to Europe for concert performances with Thomas Adès conducting B... more info

Guardian Music — Contemporary classical music is devoid of melody and appeal, all noise and no fun. At least, that's the cliche. But this is music that is very much at the heart of our modern world1. It all sounds like a squeaky gateThere are two sides to this. Fi... more info

Guardian Music — Town Hall, BirminghamThe Juilliard Quartet is one of the institutions in American music. Though two of the current lineup, viola player Samuel Rhodes and cellist Joel Krasnick, have been members since 1969 and 1974 respectively, the latest foursome o... more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThis programme consisting of three of Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano covered a period of six years during which the composer's development was prodigious. Begun in 1797, his first published work in the medium, in D, Op ... more info

Guardian Music — All nine symphonies in a week? As he prepares for his Proms extravaganza, Daniel Barenboim reveals how to make Ludwig sound modern – and why music isn't there to help us relaxIs classical music a means of escape from the world and all the worries i... more info