Guardian Music — City Halls, GlasgowSally Beamish's Percussion Concerto Dance Variations, written for Colin Currie who gave the UK premiere with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Joseph Swensen, is a work of considerable brilliance and originality. The title, howeve... more info

Guardian Music — Jermyn Street, LondonWhen Rainer Hersch started performing his mix of comedy and classical music, he found himself repeatedly compared to Victor Borge. He didn't know who Borge was – few now do – so he has made a show to tell us. Borge was a Dan... more info

Pop Justice — Inspirational Spokesperson For All Humanity Jessie J is going to try and tone down her intense fashion stylings, stating "is it really necessary to wear all that jewellery and make-up at 7am and look like a drag queen?" (Contactmusic) (http://www.con... more info

Core News — “Fabio chats to John B about his new album ‘Light Speed’. Tune in to hear how John’s dad reveled to everyone what the ‘B’ in his name stands for, his plans for Miami and, bizzarly, to get John’s Beethoven fact! Grooverider steals five m... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonWith its glittering piano part and delicately defined orchestral shapes and textures, Schoenberg's 1942 Piano Concerto is one of his most immediately accessible 12-tone works. But as with much of Schoenberg's music, it rema... more info

Guardian Music — Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Howard Shelley(Hyperion)Hyperion's cycle of Louis Spohr's symphonies, with Howard Shelley conducting the Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, has certainly been complete, and it comes to an end with these works from 1841 and... more info

Guardian Music — Rafał Blechacz(Decca)Rafał Blechacz swept the board at the 2005 Warsaw Chopin piano competition, and though he has released a recital of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven sonatas, his subsequent discs for Deutsche Grammophon have generally focused on tha... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, London"I'm not a conductor," Murray Perahia once told an interviewer with typical modesty. "I love to play the piano." Perahia has, nevertheless, been principal guest conductor of the Academy of St Martin's in the Fields for some years and... more info

Guardian Music — Conductor Sakari Oramo will raise the BBC Symphony Orchestra's game and put a smile on their faces, writes Fiona MaddocksBarely a week passes without a shuffle of conductors' chairs. Why has today's announcement that Sakari Oramo will become Chief Co... more info

Guardian Music — Faust/Orchestra Mozart/Abbado(Harmonia Mundi)The Berg and Beethoven violin concertos are not very often paired on disc, and apparently it was Claudio Abbado's idea that Isabelle Faust should record them together, with the orchestra of young professio... more info