Guardian Music — Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Claudio Abbado and tenor Joseph Calleja also among winners at the prestigious classical music awards ceremonyThe Gramophone awards – the Oscars of classical music – recognised some of the recording industry's brightest... more info

Guardian Music — Karthauser/Ovenden/Penda/Chappuis/Freiburgh Baroque O/Jacobs(Harmonia Mundi, three CDs)For each new recording in his cycle of Mozart's operas, René Jacobs conjures something unexpected, whether it's in the casting, interpretation or, as this time wi... more info

Guardian Music — Sadler's Wells, LondonThe San Francisco Ballet was founded in 1933, but the company's prominence on the world stage dates from 1985, when Helgi Tomasson became director. Today, with a mostly abstract repertoire and an international lineup of dancers,... more info

Guardian Music — Celebrated for his productions of Giselle and The Rite of Spring, the Irish choreographer now tackles Julius Caesar at the ENO. He tells Nicholas Wroe how he found dance in HandelWhen the Irish choreographer and director Michael Keegan-Dolan was 17 ... more info

Guardian Music — Capuçon/Vienna PO/Harding(Virgin Classics)One outstanding version of Berg's Violin Concerto has already appeared this year, Isabelle Faust's performance with Claudio Abbado and the Orchestra Mozart, which was paired with Beethoven's concerto. Renaud... more info

Guardian Music — It's 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today's top players assess his legacy?It still sounds like nothing you've ever heard, however many times you listen to it: Glenn Gould's first re... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum; Peacock theatre, LondonFour fluttering doves, a flying bird's nest, white columns, hieroglyphs, the blue-haired Queen of the Night: after 25 years and 14 revivals English National Opera's classic staging of Mozart's The Magic Flute launche... more info

Guardian Music — Rival legacies of classical pioneers to be honoured in 2013 with worldwide bonanza of recordings and performancesTwo of opera's greatest contemporaries, pioneers of their era, are to compete for public honour once again next year. January marks the b... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonThough Nicholas Hytner's staging of Mozart's opera has been a popular staple of English National Opera's repertory for 23 years, the company has announced that its present revival will be its last. Whatever replaces it, it is sure to ... more info

Guardian Music — Theatr Hafren, NewtownThere's plenty of sex in Don Giovanni: Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, saw to that. With rape and murder in the opening scene, it's already explicit enough, you might suppose. Yet in updating the action in Mid-Wales Opera... more info