Guardian Music — Hoddinott Hall, CardiffCombining Schoenberg, Berg and Webern in one programme would strike most as an eyewatering challenge. Music from the first Viennese school is usually required to sweeten the bitter pill of the second but, despite the absence of... more info

Idolator — Just when you thought the art form of music couldn’t possibly get taken to a higher level than Soulja Boy Tell Em’s last hit, “Kiss Me Thru The Phone”—a song that makes us shiver with the joy of living just from recalling our very first lis... more info

Guardian Music — From classical music to comic hero-baiting pop-punk ... take a trip through the depths of Steven Wells's music tasteSteven Wells, the late and legendary NME and Guardian journalist, died one year ago today. Among the many moved to write in tribute 12... more info

Scotsman.com — MUSICIAN and writer Harvey Sachs was struck by the idea of taking a single important year in musical history and writing about events of the time, using the music as focal poi more info

Guardian Music — Whoever at the BBC is responsible for this travesty of musical opportunism has a dark heart indeedWell, it finally happened. The worlds of library music and TV sports montage combined yesterday to conjure the single most nauseating, tasteless, and li... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe last time I heard Paul Lewis in recital, he was playing Liszt's great B minor Sonata. That was a rather soft-edged performance, of a work that really doesn't need quite so much TLC. There was Liszt in this latest Festi... more info

Guardian Music — Tom Service examines two extracts that explore the duality, transcendence and heightened awareness of musicA couple of quotes on music to get your week started, which strangely resonated with each other when I read them, whatever their wildly differe... more info

Topix — Mark Kanny is the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's classical music critic and can be reached at 412-320-7877 or via e-mail. At last, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performed Ludwig van Beethoven's highly dramatic and highly sublime S... more info

Guardian Music — 'My guiltiest pleasure? Cheese'Katie Melua, 25, was born in Georgia. When she was eight, the family left for Northern Ireland and in her teens they moved to England, where she went to the Brit School for Performing Arts. Her first two albums were glo... more info

The Telegraph — Kammerorchester Basel, cond Giovanni Antonini. Rating: * * more info