Guardian Music — Scoring a silent film is a daunting responsibility. But Nitin Sawhney jumped at a chance to breathe musical life into the dark cinematic world of Yogoto No YumeIhave been a film and television composer for many years, but have only scored one silent ... more info

Guardian Music — Recording studios made famous by the Beatles get Grade II status within week of publicised threat to their futureAbbey Road, the London recording studios immortalised by the Beatles album, has become part of the nation's treasury of listed buildings,... more info

Guardian Music — Government will make quick decision on English Heritage recommendation as EMI plans saleAn application to list the famous Abbey Road studios, a pop music shrine since 1969 when it gave its name to the Beatles album, will be fast-tracked by the govern... more info

Guardian Music — Singer reveals on BBC's Newsnight that some people may be working to secure survival of the studio linked with the BeatlesSir Paul McCartney has said he hopes the famous Abbey Road studios can be saved after reportedly being put up for sale by owner ... more info

Guardian Music — Building made famous by 1969 fab four album and its celebrated cover still draws fans from around the worldFrom the outside it still looks like what it once was: a Georgian town house in the suburbs of north London with a famous pedestrian crossing o... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Recording venue made famous by the Beatles album set to fetch £10M plusAbbey Road, one of the world's most famous recording studios, has been put up for sale.According to the Financial Times, owners EMI are reckoned to want tens of millions of pou... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThere has been a lot of Beethoven in London of late, much of it high-profile and all of it high-class. At the South Bank, Daniel Barenboim's performances of the concertos with the Berlin Staatskapelle coincided with the OAE's ­symp... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonIn Colin Davis's long career in the opera house, Verdi has never figured prominently among his specialities. With the London Symphony, though, he seems to filling that gap. There have been live recordings of Falstaff and the Requiem a... more info

Guardian Music — We often talk about the transformative power of music, but for flautist Gareth Davies, Mahler's 10th Symphony inspired a remarkable recoveryTomorrow night at the Barbican, the London Symphony Orchestra play Mahler's 10th Symphony, in Deryck Cooke's c... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonFor all the confidence and accomplishment of Jörg Widmann's music, there's something profoundly unsatisfying, almost trivial about it. The latest significant Widmann score to reach London is his 2007 violin concerto, composed for C... more info