Guardian Music — Could a 'popular movement' to support arts projects with online donations be the next step for cultural philanthropy?Today a new website, wedidthis.org.uk, opens for business. It's an intriguing idea: it hopes to support specific arts projects via do... more info

Guardian Music — An American list of the top 10 composers of all time will raise a few highbrow eyebrowsFor a fortnight, the classical music critic of the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, has been engaged in a curious task: determining the top 10 composers of all t... more info

Guardian Music — Classical music executive with Decca, EMI and WarnerPeter Andry, one of the leading executives of the golden age of recording, has died aged 83. In a career that took him to three major companies of the postwar era – Decca, EMI and Warner – he cu... more info

Guardian Music — Queen's Hall, EdinburghThis was the first concert in the SCO's Stravinsky series, but the revelation of the night was Robin Ticciati's Tchaikovsky. Hearing him conduct The Nutcracker after Stravinsky's 1936 ballet Jeu de Cartes and one of Haydn's str... more info

Guardian Music — Is compiling a list of the top 10 composers of all time a fatuous exercise, amusing parlourgame or serious pursuit?For the past fortnight, the classical music critic of the New York Times, Anthony Tommasini, has been engaged in a curious task: determ... more info

Guardian Music — Principal flute with the LPO who played with easy vitalityThe easy vitality of the flautist Richard Adeney, who has died aged 90, made him a very popular soloist and recitalist. He appeared with several of the chamber orchestras that began to flouris... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, London"Oh, shit," Juan Diego Flórez remarked after a memory lapse caused him to screw up an aria from Rossini's Messa di Gloria. Flórez, for many, has always been Mr Squeaky-Clean, and to say he swears is a bit like saying that... more info

Guardian Music — Kristian Bezuidenhout(Harmonia Mundi)Kristian Bezuidenhout separates the C major and C minor sonatas with two of Mozart's most extraordinary late piano pieces. He plays a modern fortepiano modelled on a Viennese instrument from the very beginning of... more info

Guardian Music — Hoddinott Hall, CardiffThis BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert under Howard Shelley seemed to be based on the assumption that – even after Radio 3's recent Mozartfest – an audience can't have too much of a good thing. The first half featured... more info

Guardian Music — Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolTwo Italian debutants, Ottavio Dantone and Désirée Rancatore, have left me rather fazed. Neither is unfamiliar in the UK. Dantone, tall, willowy and elegant, is music director of the Ravenna-based Accademia Bizantina, oc... more info