Topix — Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. Composers can be great in many ways, but very few have been great in so many ways, to such degrees and so often as Ludwig van Beeth... more info

Guardian Music — PJ Harvey, LondonThough at times she's had a strangely mid-Atlantic kind of persona (part queen of the Delta blues, part farmer's wife), recently Polly Harvey has focused her attention closer to home. Her 2007 album White Chalk found her haunting Bri... more info

Guardian Music — Kuss Quartet(Onyx)Schubert's G major work arguably presents more interpretative challenges than any other 19th-century quartet after Beethoven, and for all the Kuss Quartet's considerable qualities as an ensemble, they fall well short of meeting thos... more info

Guardian Music — Alexei Lubimov(Zig-Zag Territoires)It was fascinating to listen to Alexei Lubimov playing Beethoven's last three sonatas on an Alois Graff piano of 1828, just a few days after hearing Maurizio Pollini's magisterial accounts of the same works in the R... more info

The Telegraph — Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), Minnesota Orchestra, cond Osmo Vänskä. Rating: * * * * * more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonHaving paid his respects to Bach in the opening programme, Maurizio Pollini's five-recital odyssey through the piano literature moved on to the 19th century, and to the works that form the core of his repertoire. This month... more info

Guardian Music — Colston Hall, BristolOn their home patch, the Vienna Tonkünstler orchestra balance classical with contemporary repertoire. On their UK tour, however, they have played safe with Beethoven and Brahms as main fare. As yet, neither their principal condu... more info

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Guardian Music — Lazić/Australian Chamber Orchestra/Tognetti(Channel Classics)Croatian pianist-composer Dejan Lazić will doubtless add to his reputation for erratic brilliance with this recording of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto. Recorded live in Sydney in 2009, it ... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIn the UK, we primarily think of David Zinman as a Mahlerian, thanks to his often exceptional recordings of the composer's symphonies with the Zurich Tonhalle. There's always been more to him, however, and for his debut wi... more info