Guardian Music — Israeli conductor voices support for non-violence and Palestinian state during performance for schoolchildren and NGO workersThe orchestra arrived with the impact of a presidential motorcade, in armoured cars, with sirens wailing and flanked by dozen... more info

Guardian Music — St Georges, BristolFor this concert by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the audience were transported to Vienna, with a programme of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. It was originally to have been conducted by the late great Charles Mackerra... more info

Guardian Music — Goethe cursed attempts to set Faust to music – but composers kept trying regardless. As Terry Gilliam's version opens, Stuart Jeffries recounts a litany of depression, devils and duelsThere is a curse on any composer rash enough to set Goethe's Fau... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Augustana is an American rock band from San Diego, California who are signed to the Epic Records record label and are best known for their singles, "Boston" and "Sweet and Low." Augustana's self-titled, fourth full-length album was released on... more info

Guardian Music — Salzburg; BirminghamFourteen months ago, scandal nearly destroyed the Salzburg Easter festival. This annual event, founded by Herbert von Karajan in 1967, is a compact, private version of the more extended and glitzy summer festival, held amid the ba... more info

Guardian Music — Prince Charles' selections for his son's wedding would not have been out of place at any event in the last hundred yearsThe word is that Prince Charles took a tight personal grip of the music for his eldest son's wedding. If so, the programme in West... more info

Guardian Music — Colston Hall, BristolAs the Philharmonia's Mahler cycle with Lorin Maazel continues, it's hard to resist the observation that this is as much about Maazel as it is Mahler: the Colston Hall programme was even parcelled with a brochure about his ownÂ... more info

Guardian Music — What happened when one of jazz's top stars – Tim Garland – was asked to write a concerto for the London Symphony Orchestra? Organised chaosIt's not long in conversation with saxophonist and composer Tim Garland before it seems necessary to place ... more info

Guardian Music — UK's first chamber orchestra says stakes are high as it appeals for money to keep goingThe chamber orchestra London Mozart Players is facing a real and serious threat of closure and this week issued something of an emergency plea for money to keep g... more info

The Telegraph — The Pied Piper of classical music on the trials and rewards of a life in music and his quest to take classical 'to the people'. Plus: an extract from his new book reveals Mozart's bitchier side more info