Guardian Music — St David's Hall, CardiffThe 50th anniversary of Mozart's death in 1841 saw his widow, Constanze, help found the Salzburg orchestra, which in 1908 took the Mozarteum name it still proudly bears today. This direct link with Wolfgang Amadeus is both cal... more info

Detroit Free Press — Marathon concerts or complete cycles devoted to a single composer happen with enough frequency that they've become a trope in classical music. But they're still rare enough to qualify as a special event. more info

Scotsman.com — Garrow's Law Sunday, BBC1 Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask Friday, BBC4 Roll Over Beethoven - The Chess Records Saga Friday, BBC4 more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBeethoven last year, Bartók next. But there are no themes or cycles for the Takács's London visits this season. Instead, their Southbank concerts simply pick plums from the string quartet repertoire. Haydn's Op 71 quarte... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonSpira Mirabilis is a new European chamber orchestra that does things differently. They play without a conductor, to begin with. In this they are by no means alone, but their repertoire is associated with ideas of strong in... more info

Guardian Music — French composer's fourth symphony, heralded as a missing link in classical music history, will be performed in London tomorrowA classical music "missing link" that was lost for 200 years and has hardly been heard since it was written by its pioneerin... more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS - Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven co-founder and frontman David Lowery has announced plans to release a collection of songs, The Palace Guards, that he's recorded separate from those iconic alternative rock bands. But he's not calling it.... more info

Topix — It says a lot for Stephen Hartke 's "Night Songs for a Desert Flower" that when the Brentano String Quartet performed the work alongside quartets by Haydn and Beethoven at Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, it seemed fully a part of the continuum: a m... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonMost British orchestras are marking the Mahler anniversaries this year and next with cycles of the symphonies. The London Philharmonic, however, is concentrating on the orchestral song cycles and the works that lie outside ... more info

Guardian Music — Complete tracks up to nine minutes long to appear as part of specialist classical music chartBBC Radio 3 is making complete classical music tracks available for download for free for the first time today, one of the station's most significant giveawa... more info