Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonDavid Robertson is best known to UK audiences as the BBC Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor. Since 2005, however, he has also been music director of the St Louis Symphony, which he brought to London for their Prom... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Proms, Desert Island Discs, Sir David Attenborough – how many Great British institutions can the BBC expect the Albert Hall to contain at once? The radio programme took over the Proms for a 70th birthday shindig hosted,... more info

Guardian Music — From Birmingham's Beethoven cycle to Oliver Knussen at 60 and ENO's Pilgrim's Progress, the best in a packed season of classical-music highlightsBirmingham Beethoven cycle All the symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas and chamber music will be include... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, London"It's a monster - but one of the best," is how pianist Yefim Bronfman described Brahms's Second Piano Concerto, the opening work in Simon Rattle's second Prom with the Berlin Philharmonic. "I'm not sure you can ever truly kno... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Mozart Clarinet Concerto we know and love is not quite the one he wrote: it's a tweaking of a work for the now-extinct basset clarinet, which has a handful of low notes that the modern clarinet cannot plumb. A picture of ... more info

Guardian Music — Assembly HallBritain has apparently become a nation of dancers, or at least a nation addicted to TV dance shows. The finale of this short, entertaining production sees the entire audience getting to their feet in response to instructions from the sta... more info

Guardian Music — Playfoot/London Voices/LSO/Kaufman (LSO Live)Among the greatest Hollywood composers, Dimitri Tiomkin once made an Oscar acceptance speech in which he thanked Brahms, Strauss, Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov for teaching him his craft. He was much derid... more info

Guardian Music — American virtuoso violinist known for his devotion to Paganini's music and techniqueThe American violinist Ruggiero Ricci, who has died aged 94, was a virtuoso of the old school – combining technical mastery with exceptional skills as a musical com... more info

Guardian Music — Maxim Rysanov (viola), Kristina Blaumane (cello), Jacob Katsnelson (piano)(Onyx)Arranging and unearthing are key words here. Following two outstanding Brahms discs for Onyx in a similar mixed-repertoire format, virtuoso violist Maxim Rysanov and frie... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThere's nothing quite like Beethoven's Choral Symphony, especially if you hear it three times over one weekend. Beginning with 27 July's magnificent Prom, which I listened to again on iPlayer the following day (just to chec... more info