Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonBartók lay at the centre of this BBC Symphony Orchestra Prom under David Robertson. Before the interval, Richard Goode was the soloist in the Third Piano Concerto. Famed for his interpretations of the classical repertoire, a... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonYannick Nézet-Séguin has big shoes to fill at the Rotterdam Philharmonic, where he took over from Valery Gergiev in 2008. His first Prom at the orchestra's helm was not the sensation some might have hoped for; but then Gerg... more info

Guardian Music — Switzerland; Royal Albert Hall, LondonFringed by dozens of tiny flickering night-lights, the stage of Lucerne's sleek white lakeside concert hall was transformed last weekend into a grey, shambolic dungeon for a semi-staging of Fidelio, conducted by ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonWith Mikhail Pletnev having withdrawn, having being charged with child molestation in Thailand last month, it was conductor Andrey Boreyko who bailed out the Russian National Orchestra in their first Prom for 14 years. If the... more info

All About Jazz — Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven and God I have written an article for the new magazine, The Scope. The Scope is an internationally distributed English language magazine with writing that focuses on travel, environment, geopolitics, arts and cultur... more info

Guardian Music — If Evelyn Glennie gets her way, one day every orchestra will have a stone xylophone. Martin Wainwright on a strange musical experiment in YorkshireAs he chatted with friends last year under the grand portico of Leeds university, Dr Kia Ng, a special... more info

Guardian Music — Kabara/Vlatkovic/Sinfonia Cracovia/Penderecki (Channel Classics)Krzysztof Penderecki has long maintained that his concertos contain some of his most intimate and personal music, though the two recorded here take us into very different emotional terri... more info

Guardian Music — Dismiss their music as light entertainment at your peril. Rodgers and Hammerstein deserve to be treated as seriously as Beethoven and Mahler, argues conductor John WilsonLast year I brought the John Wilson Orchestra to the Royal Albert Hall for its P... more info

Scotsman.com — ROLL over Beethoven! The great German composer's genetic code has been turned into a classical composition to be premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week. more info

Guardian Music — (Accent) (Decca)Two approaches to Beethoven's sonatas which could not be more strongly contrasted: Kurosaki is well known as a period-instrument orchestral leader, while Dusinberre is the leader of the Takács Quartet. The wiry, plangent sound of Kur... more info