Guardian Music — Worcester Cathedral/Huntingdon Hall, WorcesterElgar remains the staple of Three Choirs festival, but this early commemoration of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 saw the brave choice of John Adams's work On the Transmigration of Souls, written for the f... more info

Guardian Music — Petroc Trelawny writes: Michael Bukht (obituary, 8 August) recruited me to the soon-to-be-launched Classic FM from a job with British Forces Radio in Hong Kong. When I arrived, he told me he had three simple instructions for his on-air staff: "smile,... more info

Guardian Music — Forget bagpipes. When it comes to Scottish mountains, only Dvořák's will doDriving from London up to the north-west Highlands of Scotland the other week, I made my own version of a songline. A songline, according to Aboriginal cultures, is a musica... more info

Guardian Music — TV chef known to viewers as Michael Barry, the 'crafty cook' of the Food and Drink Programme, he was also a co-founder of Classic FMMichael Bukht, who has died aged 69 after a period of ill health, successfully led a double life. Some knew that his w... more info

Guardian Music — Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Madonna fail to make it into Radio 4 listeners' top choices for Desert island DiscsElvis Presley, Michael Jackson and Madonna failed to get one song onto a top 100 Desert Island Discs playlist chosen by listeners to... more info

Guardian Music — (Champs Hill)Before you say a word, Latvia's Ksenija Sidorova takes them out of your mouth: "It will be a while before the phrase 'I play the classical accordion' doesn't sound unusual or funny." Her determination to extend the instrument's reputatio... more info

Guardian Music — Ksenija Sidorova(Champs Hill)The contemporary repertoire for solo accordion is growing steadily, if slowly. The Latvian-born Ksenija Sidorova, who trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, supplements her performances of bespoke works by Nordh... more info

Guardian Music — Bright, young and full of ideas, the Aurora Orchestra meld classical music with anything from jazz to tango to Nico Muhly. Nick Shave meets their dynamic leaderIt's one thing to launch an orchestra; it's quite another to make it a success at a time w... more info

Mercury News, California — Second Midusmmer Mozart program repeats through Sunday. more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonFrance has an outstanding crop of pianists in their 20s, 30s and 40s, including Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Cédric Tiberghien, François-Frédéric Guy and Lise de la Salle. But on this evidence David Fray, though widely admired in his... more info