Guardian Music — Ruiten/Sandhoff/Balzer/Bauer/RIAS Kammerchor/Academie für Alte Musik Berlin/Rademann (Harmonia Mundi)Following on the heels of the release of John Eliot Gardiner's disc of music by Johann Sebastian's older cousin, Johann Christoph Bach, come thes... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe programme for Markus Stenz's London Philharmonic concert flanked Mark-Anthony Turnage's viola concerto On Opened Ground with music by Mozart and Strauss. Questions have been raised about the quality of Turnage's recent ... more info

Topix — Peter Mattei in the title role and Barbara Frittoli as Donna Elvira in Mozart's "Don Giovanni." Photo: Contributed Photo / CT We may skirt the matter of whether or not Mozart's " Don Giovanni " is the greatest opera ever written, but few will deny th... more info

Guardian Music — Masterly musicologist with a powerful and inspiring impactIan Kemp, who has died aged 80, was an internationally recognised authority on the music of Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill and Michael Tippett, and had a powerful and inspiring impact as publishe... more info

Impose Magazine — I remember watching Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's 'The Magic Flute' (1975) as a kid. My mum took me to see it because it was my favorite piece of music at the time. Maybe I identified with the fact that Mozart was a child when he wrote it. This w... more info

Mercury News, California — Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the vilest of them all?That would have to be Don Giovanni, the legendary lecher, whose reprehensible crimes against women are once again playing out on the War Memorial House stage in a cunning new staging of the Mo... more info

Altsounds — 'Weightless' a specially-designed ambient track by Marconi Union is scientifically proven to be more relaxing than having a massage or listening to tunes by Adele, Mozart, Coldplay and more*. In just 48 hours, almost 5000 cash-strapped British ... more info

DrownedInSound — If you don't know by now (this number one hundred and twelve, where you been?), Spotifriday is basically a weekly playlist of the best bits of our past seven days. Think of it like one of them cover mount cassettes you used to get with Melody Maker b... more info

Guardian Music — After nearly two decades abroad, Jeffrey Tate returns to Covent Garden. So why the wait, asks Tom ServiceJeffrey Tate is coming back to Covent Garden. This is the opera house that heralded the start of his career in music, where he was the first pers... more info

Guardian Music — Perth Concert HallClassic Schubertiads are modelled on the kind of Viennese soirees that Schubert himself enjoyed, long evenings of singing and informal chamber music around the drawing room piano. Schubert would have tried out much of his own music ... more info