Guardian Music — St David's Hall, CardiffPianist Freddy Kempf first played a concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra when he was eight, so perhaps nothing marks the transition – often signalled in recent years – to artistic maturity more emphatically than ... more info

Guardian Music — Paul Lewis is internationally recognised as one of the finest and most sought after concert pianists of his generation. His recent survey of Beethoven's piano masterpieces including complete Beethoven Sonata and Concerto cycles, both in concert and ... more info

Guardian Music — Doric String Quartet(Chandos)The Doric Quartet's first two discs for Chandos covered the quartets of Korngold and Walton, but with Schumann's three works of Op 41, his only quartets, they move into much more mainstream territory, with less success.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The White Light Festival is an annual exploration of music's power to illuminate our interior lives. From the powerful opening chords of Beethoven's Missa solemnis to an exploration of light itself by Jennifer Tipton, to a meditation by Toni Morrison... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonCarl Nielsen, the musical pride of Denmark, has never had a UK champion persuasive enough to lift his works – bar his Fourth and perhaps Fifth Symphonies – into the repertoire. Until now, that is: it's only a shame that Colin Dav... more info

Guardian Music — The author explains how he came to abandon a conventional biography of the composer in favour of a 'club DJ' approach 'with lots of fast-forward and rewind'How did you come to write Why Mahler?I had been struggling with the question for most of my ad... more info

Guardian Music — This autumn the BBC will present a landmark season of TV and radio programmes to show how music has provided a rousing accompaniment to the march of history for 250 yearsThis was not the reception Beethoven had imagined. On 7 April 1805, when the la... more info

Guardian Music — Doric String Quartet(Chandos)This outstanding ensemble, still young, having formed while students in 1998, has already made a mark with Korngold and Walton recordings on Chandos. With this disc they move into core repertoire: Schumann's three Op 41 (... more info

The Newsroom — A UK expert reconstructs a "missing" Beethoven movement which gets its first performance in more than 200 years. more info

Guardian Music — A movement from a Beethoven composition for a string quartet discarded by the composer has been reconstructed by a musical expert at Manchester University more info