Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonAlexander Zemlinsky's only symphonic poem, The Mermaid (Die Seejungfrau), based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale about the water nymph who yearned to experience human love, is still a bit of a rarity. Zemlinsky withdrew the scor... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonArthur Honegger's dramatic oratorio formed the opening gesture in what the London Symphony Orchestra called its Joan of Arc weekend, with Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, written as a score to Carl Dreyer's film The Passion of Jo... more info

Guardian Music — Thursday is decision day in Wakefield for an organisation which has made the city famous among amateur musicians and theatre groups across the UKMusic makers across the north of England, and indeed more widely, are on tenterhooks as the countdown tic... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican Hall, LondonThis concert in celebration of Steve Reich's birthday – the American composer turned 75 two weeks ago – began with the sound of clapping and ended with an ovation. Both were inevitable. Reich himself partnered Neil Percy in... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra and its chorus are about to visit New York to give three concerts at the Lincoln Centre. Large-scale choral music features prominently, with Colin Davis repeating the performance of Beethoven's Missa Sole... more info

Guardian Music — Few musicians have founded more orchestras and found time to be chief conductor of La Scala and the Berlin PhilharmonicFew orchestral concerts in years have had the classical music public's anticipatory juices running as strongly as those by Claudio ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonCarl Nielsen, the musical pride of Denmark, has never had a UK champion persuasive enough to lift his works – bar his Fourth and perhaps Fifth Symphonies – into the repertoire. Until now, that is: it's only a shame that Colin Dav... more info

Guardian Music — City Halls, GlasgowJames MacMillan's setting of the Passion was first heard in London more than three years ago, so this Scottish premiere was choreographed as a homecoming of sorts. It was the BBCSSO's season opener, with their chief conductor Donal... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThis has been a heart-on-sleeve week for the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. They opened the season with a showcase for the winners of this year's Tchaikovsky competition; a few days later they were back with the same co... more info

The Telegraph — Bruch: Violin Concerto No1; Ole Bull: Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso. Charlie Siem (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, cond Andrew Gourlay. more info