Guardian Music — Only the brave or foolhardy would dare to reimagine some of the greatest music ever written, so how did Riccardo Chailly convince five composers to do just that?The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra should know all there is to know about Beethoven's nine ... more info

Mercury News, California — Bisanti led Stravinsky's 'Petrushka' Suite with brio and swagger, and Baek, playing off the conductor's fervent reading of the score, brought an aristocratic coolness to Beethoven's Violin Concert. more info

Topix — In a recent New York Times book review , composer John Adams opened with this line describing Gustav Mahler , the Austrian composer and conductor whose mature works include nine symphonies , miscellaneous, programmatic orchestral pieces, and dozens o... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Alt-rock vets Camper Van Beethoven and frontman David Lowery's other band Cracker are going on tour together in December & January. They'll kick off the tour in their home state of California and make their way over the east... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBartók's string quartets have been at the very heart of the Takács Quartet's repertory since the group was founded in Budapest in 1975, and it was a recording of those works that really put their name on the internationa... more info

Guardian Music — City Halls, GlasgowHebridean psalm singing and chaos theory, Jorge Luis Borges and the harmonic overtone series. Unlikely bedfellows, but Martin Suckling fuses these influences and more into his engrossing, haunting and self-assured storm, rose, tige... more info

Guardian Music — Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThis marked the start of the Hallé's Beethoven cycle, the orchestra's first, surprisingly, for 50 years. It promises to be unusual in several ways. The symphonies are spread out over the entire season, one per concert, ra... more info

Guardian Music — Ibragimova/Tiberghien (Hyperion)Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have become today's partnership of choice for violin and piano repertory. Their reputation is founded on their Beethoven, but they are just as compelling on this disc of music by... more info

Guardian Music — This season, the Barbican celebrates the genius of Beethoven in the company of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, conducted by Riccardo Chailly. They will perform all of the composer's symphonies between now and 3 November. Extra members can buy 2 ti... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra and its chorus are about to visit New York to give three concerts at the Lincoln Centre. Large-scale choral music features prominently, with Colin Davis repeating the performance of Beethoven's Missa Sole... more info