The American band were declared best international group at France's NRJ awards ... then the presenter realised he'd read the wrong name on the cardThis weekend, someone accidentally gave a music prize to the Black Eyed Peas. The American hip-hop gro... more info

Guardian Music — The American band were declared best international group at France's NRJ awards ... then the presenter realised he'd read the wrong name on the cardThis weekend, someone accidentally gave a music prize to the Black Eyed Peas. The American hip-hop gro... more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonI've never met anyone who has heard Brahms' Horn Trio and not loved it. In many ways it is a quirky piece: the first movement follows a rather archaic scheme associated with baroque church music, and the seldom-revisited combinati... more info

Guardian Music — A female conductor is still seen as such a novelty in the UK, yet one of our most internationally acclaimed maestros is a womanJulia Jones rightly upbraided me when I interviewed her for tomorrow's Music Matters on Radio 3. "It's only in England that... more info

All About Jazz — Among my collection of articles musing on the death or waning days of jazz, my favorite (so far) appeared in the spring 1997 issue of the Wilson Quarterly. Embellished with an engraving of Wynton Marsalis's face pasted atop a lace-cuffed frock coat a... more info

Guardian Music — Derby school cuts number of students behaving badly by subjecting them to an hour of classical musicClassical music is behind a Derby school's success in cutting the number of pupils behaving badly by more than half, a head teacher said today.Brian W... more info

Scotsman.com — ALFRED BRENDEL * * * * * Mozart Piano Concerto No 9, Beethoven Piano Sonata No 13 Decca 478 2116, £15.99 more info

Guardian Music — Pianist and composer appointed to conducting staff of Seattle SymphonyBritish musical prodigy Alexander Prior has secured his first professional appointment with an orchestra at the age of only 17, it was confirmed today.Prior, who was playing the pi... more info

Guardian Music — (Virgin Classics)Mention the name Bach in the 18th century and people would probably have assumed you were referring not to Johann Sebastian but his youngest son Johann Christian, who trained in Italy before moving to London, where he acquired a repu... more info

Guardian Music — What pieces of music would you happily never hear again?Alan Bennett's diary for 2009, published as the annual January treat in the London Review of Books, contains an amusing entry for 20 February. "It's years," writes Bennett, "since I was on Deser... more info