Mercury News, California — From Gregorian chants and Handel's "Messiah" to Beethoven's 9th Symphony and John Adams' "El Niño," no art form better evokes the ineffable glory of God than music. more info

Detroit Free Press — Opus 9 Series Sept. 10: James Ehnes, violin; Andrew Armstrong, piano. Music by Tartini, Beethoven, Paganini, Elgar. Sept. 17: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with Michael Tree, viola, and Harold Robinson, bass. Music by Beethoven, Ellen Taaffe Zwili... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonDig around in secondhand shops and you may turn up old volumes of Feldman's Sixpenny Editions, which provided innocent enjoyment to earlier generations of young pianists. Gerald Barry pays tribute to them in his new 20-min... more info

Guardian Music — Town Hall, CheltenhamFor this Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert at Cheltenham, their principal conductor, Kirill Karabits, had devised a programme pairing Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with Berg's Violin Concerto. Presenting works from the first a... more info

Guardian Music — Schubert has been a lifelong passion for pianist and author Graham Johnson. Four decades on, has he achieved nirvana?Nowadays every accompanist and many a solo pianist wants to perform Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise – works so ico... more info

Guardian Music — Fairfield Hall, CroydonWritten to obtain his doctorate in music in 1899, Vaughan Williams's early Mass may have achieved its immediate purpose, but was shelved, and no performance took place. Four years ago, the conductor Alan Tongue came across it i... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonHaving a famous father didn't further Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's career while he was alive, and it certainly doesn't help it now. Johann Sebastian's second son is today so much in his father's shadow that this programme b... more info

Totally Fuzzy — JPR said... Dave Rawlings Machine and Special Guests The Theater at Largo Los Angeles, CA January 7th, 2009 AUD http://spontaneouswednesday.blogspot.com Record Fiend said... Melvin Sparks - Sparks! (superb jazz-on-the-verge-of-funk debut LP from 197... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra's principal conductor has his sceptics, and they are rarely more vocal than when it comes to his Mahler. It's fast, flashy and lacking proper schooling – or so the usual charges run, ascribing to Gergie... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonSchubert's last three sonatas, which made up the latest of Maurizio Pollini's five London recitals this season, have a unity and are hewn from the same materials in ways that Beethoven's final three, played by Pollini here ... more info