Said the Gramophone — Mozart's Sister - "Chained Together". There is a game to obsession, to aftermath. Play it like you would play dead, play hopscotch, play a wheezy old keyboard. Put on a mask, take it off, cock your head and smile.... more info

Guardian Music — 'A French critic once said I played like a sewing machine. I'll always remember that'What got you started?During the second world war, my father somehow got the idea that his children should learn the piano. After the war, my mother picked him up at ... more info

Guardian Music — Brangwyn Hall, SwanseaThe Brangwyn Hall acoustic lends a lovely overall warmth to any music, but this concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Brazilian conductor Roberto Minczuk was made up of two such totally different halves as to deny... more info

Mercury News, California — It's the usual mammoth assemblage: plenty of Mozart, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Mahler, along with a clutch of new and recent works (Jörg Widmann, John Adams, Samuel Carl Adams) and many famous guests (soprano Renée Fleming and pianist András Schiff... more info

Guardian Music — Danny Driver (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Macdonald (Hyperion)Erik Chisholm (1904-65) was a remarkable Scotsman, an accomplished composer, pianist and organist who conducted the British premieres of Mozart's Idomeneo and Berlioz's The Tro... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonWith its glittering piano part and delicately defined orchestral shapes and textures, Schoenberg's 1942 Piano Concerto is one of his most immediately accessible 12-tone works. But as with much of Schoenberg's music, it rema... more info

Detroit Free Press — The vast majority of Michigan Opera Theatre's repertoire has spanned from roughly 1780 to 1925 -- Mozart to late Puccini -- with occasional forays into modern and contemporary fare. more info

Guardian Music — Rafał Blechacz(Decca)Rafał Blechacz swept the board at the 2005 Warsaw Chopin piano competition, and though he has released a recital of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven sonatas, his subsequent discs for Deutsche Grammophon have generally focused on tha... more info

Guardian Music — Millennium Centre, CardiffAnthony Negus's reputation may primarily be as a conductor of Wagner, but he is also a Mozartian through and through, as he proved in this revival of the Welsh National Opera and Gran Teatre del Liceu co-production. Negus br... more info

Guardian Music — My friend John Marshall, who has died of a brain aneurysm aged 49, was a natural impresario who believed passionately in "giving that sense of joy which is what I think the theatre is for". To list some of the names associated with his opera company ... more info