Pitchfork — Photo by Frederick Johnson Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Mayb... more info

Guardian Music — Queen's Hall, EdinburghOn paper, this looked to be a safe programme of Haydn, Mozart and Prokofiev from the SCO, with a local son as soloist to ensure a packed Queen's Hall. Yet the concert to which the near-capacity Edinburgh audience was treated ac... more info

Guardian Music — Eminent violinist and orchestra leaderThe distinguished violinist Max Salpeter, who has died aged 101, led such orchestras as the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Mozart Players, New London Orchestra, Boyd Neel Orchestra, Pro-Arte Orchestra and the rec... more info

Guardian Music — Pushy father, rebellious sonIn 1756, Leopold Mozart, a violin teacher from Salzburg, and his wife, Anna Maria Pertl, had a son, their seventh child, whom they named Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus. The Mozarts lived in a small flat with c... more info

Guardian Music — For his latest Sacred Music series, Simon Russell Beale has tracked down today's greatest exponents. He tells Tom Service why this is so much more than mood musicThere's a musical coup in Simon Russell Beale's second series of programmes on Sacred Mu... more info

Guardian Music — Cangemi/Mingardo/Orchestra Mozart/Abbado(DG)The second instalment of Claudio Abbado's Pergolesi series takes us into unfamiliar and revelatory territory. The main work is the Saint Emidius Mass, written in the wake of the Naples earthquakes of 1732 ... more info

Guardian Music — Philip Langridge, who has died aged 70, was heir to a distinctive native traditionGreat tenor voices are stereotypically Italian, Spanish, sometimes German, even Welsh. But the untimely death of Philip Langridge at 70 at the weekend should remind us ... more info

Guardian Music — Leading British tenor committed to the theatrical dimension of the operatic stageWith the death of Philip Langridge from bowel cancer at the age of 70, the musical world has lost a singer widely regarded as one of the finest tenors of his generation... more info

The Telegraph — Southbank Sinfonia, cond Simon Over. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — Canterbury cathedral organist with a flair for new music, and an inspired choirmasterAllan Wicks, who has died aged 86, was one of the most inspired and charismatic choirmasters of his generation and a brilliant interpreter of 20th-century organ mu... more info