Mercury News, California — The choral-orchestral program features Mozart's Mass, Morton Feldman's 'Rothko Chappel' and Ukrainian composer Mindaugas Urbaitis' 'Lacrimosa.' more info

Guardian Music — Forward-thinking and unorthodox, CPE Bach was once regarded as the superior musician of the Bach dynasty. Guy Dammann argues for an underrated and overshadowed composer"Bach is the father. We are the children!" No one with a smattering of musical kno... more info

Guardian Music — Opera Explained: La Traviata and the SmartPass Guide to King LearOpera Explained: An Introduction to Verdi – La Traviata, by Thomson Smillie, read by David Timson (68mins, Naxos, £5.95)Enlightenment for the price of a pizza, Italy's other great gi... more info

Guardian Music — A new version of ETO's Fantastic Mr Fox casts 250 children. Roald Dahl would approveWe are surrounded by strange things: guns and goblets, pebble-shaped buns and a goose that has keeled over. Amid the props in a cramped east London rehearsal studio, ... more info

ContactMusic — Conductor SIR COLIN DAVIS shocked opera fans when he collapsed before reaching the podium for a performance at London's Royal Opera House on Wednesday (16Feb11).The 83 year old was set to conduct Mozart's The Magic Flute at the revered venue when he ... more info

Guardian Music — Colston Hall, BristolOn their home patch, the Vienna Tonkünstler orchestra balance classical with contemporary repertoire. On their UK tour, however, they have played safe with Beethoven and Brahms as main fare. As yet, neither their principal condu... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonStrauss always said Nietzsche was the most important intellectual influence on his life and work, a statement many people have doubted over the years. The ambiguous ending of Also Sprach Zarathustra, based on Nietzsche's magnum opus, ... more info

The Telegraph — Mitsuko Uchida, Cleveland Orchestra. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonThere are no particular weaknesses in this latest Covent Garden revival of David McVicar's dependable darkness-into-light Die Zauberflöte, first seen in 2003. But there is also only one truly stand-out presence: the 83-year-... more info

Guardian Music — Degout/LucasIn the UK we think of Stéphane Degout primarily in terms of Mozart, forgetting, perhaps, that he's also one of today's finest exponents of French song. This disc redresses the balance. The recording is on the close side, catching the occ... more info