Guardian Music — Peacock, LondonAnthony van Laast, director of Blaze, is not exaggerating when he declares that hip-hop is the dance form of the 21st century. It is so deeply embedded it has even showed up on the Royal Ballet stage. But if its influence is pervasive,... more info

Mercury News, California — In a San Francisco recital Tuesday, Adès performed his own music '” a U.S. premiere '” amid works by Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Janacek and Prokofiev. His affinity for those composers is deep. The program proved enigmatic and quietly unsettling... more info

The Telegraph — Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Angela Hewitt (piano). Rating: * * * * * more info

Scotsman.com — BROKEN BELLS: BROKEN BELLS **** COLUMBIA, £10.99 more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is dividing its Beethoven-symphony cycle between four conductors. Vladimir Jurowski opened the series, and now Iván Fischer is conducting two programmes, before Charles Mackerra... more info

Guardian Music — It's one of the great ironies of the classical concert experience – the most explosive, exhilarating music is often greeted by total silence. Let our applause be heard, says Alex RossLast autumn, Barack Obama hosted an evening of classical mus... more info

Live Daily — Singer/songwriter Mark Linkous, who performed and recorded under the name Sparklehorse, committed suicide Saturday in Tennessee. He was 47 years old. According to his manager, Shelby Meade, Linkous shot himself in an alley outside a friend's home.... more info

Guardian Music — Nelson Freire(Decca, two CDs)Though the multinational labels apparently remain intent on signing up more young pianists who might sell discs as much on their looks as on their talent, it is good to see that the recording career of Nelson Freire is st... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonDuring the Congress of Vienna, when the European map was redrawn following a decade of Napoleonic interventions, Beethoven was commissioned to write a work to hymn the occasion and the new beginning it seemed to offer. The result, the... more info

Buffalo News, New York — Romanian pianist Radu Lupu gave what may have been his first-ever concert in Buffalo Monday in the Flickinger Performing Arts Center at Nichols School. The recital, part of the Ramsi P. Tick Memorial Concert Series, was unusual. more info