Guardian Music — Grand, LeedsOnly Janáček, having based operas on singing foxes, zombie divas and day-trips to the moon, would make his final work an almost completely static drama, based on Dostoyevsky's account of life in a Siberian gulag. It is by far the most h... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonFriday was a great day for British music, not so much on account of the swell of Parry et al billowing under Westminster Abbey's vaults, but because of the UK premiere later that day of James Clarke's marvellous piano concerto. Reflec... more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Art of Fugue was incomplete when Bach died. A compendium of contrapuntal pieces based on a theme that is regularly turned inside out and upside down over the course of its increasingly complex treatments, it was probably inten... more info

Guardian Music — St Georges, BristolFor this concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the audience were transported to Vienna, with a programme of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. It was originally to have been conducted by the late great Charles Mackerra... more info

Guardian Music — Goethe cursed attempts to set Faust to music – but composers kept trying regardless. As Terry Gilliam's version opens, Stuart Jeffries recounts a litany of depression, devils and duelsThere is a curse on any composer rash enough to set Goethe's Fau... more info

Guardian Music — (Challenge Classics)This is a family affair: two generations of Kuijkens – Veronica, Sigiswald, Sara and Wieland – play Beethoven's three middle-period Opus 59 Quartets, the "Rasumovskys". The set may not replace existing favourites in a heavily ... more info

Mercury News, California — The program, featuring Brahms' passionate Symphony No. 3 in F major, Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto and Rouse's 'The Infernal Machine,' continues through Saturday. more info

Guardian Music — What happened when one of jazz's top stars – Tim Garland – was asked to write a concerto for the London Symphony Orchestra? Organised chaosIt's not long in conversation with saxophonist and composer Tim Garland before it seems necessary to place ... more info

Guardian Music — Carroll/Williams(Orchid Classics)Thomas Carroll and Llyr Willams's performances of both Beethoven's A major Cello Sonata and the Brahms work in F major make you wish the Welsh duo would record the remainder of both composer's cello-and-piano works a... more info

The Independent — He gave up his dream of being an opera singer to join a fledgling consumer electronics maker. Norio Ohga will be remembered by most as the man who developed the compact disc, pushing for a diameter of 12cm to allow for 75 minutes of uninterrupted mus... more info