Guardian Music — Nash Ensemble(Onyx)Apart from their obvious 19th-century Russian connections, the common denominator between the three works here, all gorgeously played by the Nash Ensemble, is a strange one. The scoring of all of them includes two cellos — Glazun... more info

Popdose — I once remarked that if the Germans had won World War II, everything in Western pop music would have sounded like Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus.” For that alone, the Allied effort should be judged worthwhile. Mozart was hot in the mid 80s, thanks la... more info

Guardian Music — Heaven, LondonNew productions of familiar operas are often so far-fetched that you're lost without a programme to help piece together what does happen with what's supposed to happen. Not at London nightclub Heaven, however, where Richard Crichton and... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonDaniel Barenboim's Bruckner Project with the Berlin Staatskapelle opened last night with the Seventh Symphony paired with Mozart's C Minor Piano Concerto K491. By his own extraordinary standards, the Project itself seems mo... more info

Guardian Music — Vogt/Uhl/Deutsche Oper Berlin/Schneider (Sony)We've heard too little of tenor Klaus Florian Vogt in the UK and next to nothing of him in the 18th and 19th century German roles that have made him popular on the European mainland. Helden ("Heroes"), hi... more info

Guardian Music — This revisionist account of Mozart's early life reclaims one of history's lost women. If only the film weren't so turgidRené Féret's earnest and ponderously acted movie is partly a feminist reclaiming of one of history's lost women, and also a revi... more info

Guardian Music — Sex-crazed business man? Gay icon? Drug addict or anti-imperialist cipher? The many faces of Don GiovanniIn the Don Giovanni that has just opened in Paris, the eponymous hero has become an irredeemable sex pest of a businessman. Too much power and se... more info

Guardian Music — Einstein on the Beach finally reaches Britain, Daniel Barenboim brings Bruckner to London, and a 50th-anniversary performance for Britten's War RequiemThe Bruckner ProjectDaniel Barenboim's latest London residency with the Berlin Staatskapelle focuse... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDC Jackson's comic drama of sexual and financial shenanigans among Edinburgh's banking elite relies heavily on its two sources: Beaumarchais's 1784 comedy The Marriage of Figaro (with scenes of aristocratic double-dealing "so c... more info

Guardian Music — Cadogan Hall, LondonIt is three decades since Joshua Bell began performing on the world's stages, but his playing still has something alluringly boyish about it, an impression reinforced by the pudding-basin haircut he has sported unchanged since his... more info