Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonLa Clemenza di Tito, Mozart's great examination of the relationships between desire, power and altruism, is the most severe of his major operas, and can sometimes have more impact in concert than in the theatre, where excessive direct... more info

Guardian Music — Queen's Hall, EdinburghWonderful Two-Headed Nightingale, a new double concerto by British composer Luke Bedford, is a bold, dense and arresting blast of a composition – a work that forcefully reiterates Bedford's voice and brilliantly showcased its... more info

Guardian Music — British pianist had dozens of recordings by other artists passed off as her own by husband William Barrington-CoupeBBC1 is to broadcast a Victoria Wood-scripted biopic of reclusive British pianist Joyce Hatto, whose husband was responsible for a noto... more info

Detroit Free Press — Gustav Mahler sought to cram into his music an entire universe of sounds and experience, which begs an interesting question: How do you start such a journey? One of the composer's most dramatic answers opens the Symphony No. 5, the second half of... more info

Guardian Music — The pop world is this week mourning Whitney Houston's early death, but talented musicians have long lived too fast and died too youngThe great and not-so-good of pop music don't have a monopoly on tragically premature demises. Classical composers hav... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonThe final instalment of the Royal Opera's Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy is a revival by Leah Hausman of David McVicar's 2006 production of Le Nozze di Figaro. This, in many respects, is the finest staging of the three, though anyo... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House; Wilton's Music Hall; St Sepulchre-without-Newgate; Royal Festival Hall, LondonBoom-diddy-boom. Opera is always obsessed with the foibles and frailties of the human heart, but no librettist carried a better stethoscope than Lorenzo ... more info

Guardian Music — Ann Hallenberg, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre de Champs-Elysées/Herreweghe (PHI)Brahms had an intense interest in musical history, reviving baroque and renaissance music, editing Mozart, and an antique air hangs over this beautiful sequence of ra... more info

Guardian Music — Marlowe, CanterburyDuring the first minutes of Alston's latest work, it takes a serious effort of will to focus on the dance. At the back of the stage are 19 boys from Canterbury Cathedral choir, who sing the music for his setting of A Ceremony of C... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum; Barbican, LondonCourtesy of a premium 0871 phone number, I heard the entire first movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto last week when trying to buy a mattress. After enjoying the well played cadenza and the rousing recapitulation, I put t... more info