The Telegraph — Ivan Hewett is thrilled by the OAE's approach to Beethoven's symphonies. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — Daniel Barenboim is determined to give Schoenberg's 'difficult' work its due during his residency at the South Bank – a battle the composer knew would be tough 80 years agoAs Daniel Barenboim's four-concert cycle of Beethoven's Piano Concertos... more info

Guardian Music — (RCA)Nikolaj Znaider has the good ­fortune to play an extraordinary violin – the 1741 Guarnerius del Gesu that once belonged to Fritz Kreisler – that ­Kreisler used for the premiere of the ­Elgar concerto, with the composer Â... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe Beethoven survey that the Takács Quartet are presenting piecemeal in London this season is the group's first complete cycle for five years. Individual Beethoven quartets have featured in their programmes in the inte... more info

Altsounds — With influences from Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Glass, to their peers such as Arcade Fire, Daft Punk, and Sufjan Stevens, the eleven piece orchestral rock band, Emanuel And The Fear, create extravagant and climactic, intelligent and complex arrangeme... more info

The Telegraph — The flamboyant pianist's concerrt series, starting tomorrow, will be London's most thrilling musical event for many years, says Damian Thompson. more info

The Telegraph — Damian Thompson explores the different recordings of Beethoven's piano music. more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThis American mezzo has developed a sufficient following to offer her Wigmore programme twice. It's a well-planned affair, consisting entirely of Italian songs almost entirely by Italian composers. Odd man out is Beethoven, who pe... more info

Buffalo News, New York — Ordinarily, the Daedalus Quartet looks young and fresh-faced. But on Monday, when they sat down to play Beethoven's Op. 131, they seemed to take the weight of the world on their shoulders. more info

Guardian Music — Daniel Barenboim's imminent concerts will partner Beethoven with the atonal genius of Schoenberg. Marshall Marcus on the pianist's passion for a 20th-century visionaryThis week Daniel Barenboim – pianist, conductor, polymath and one-man Middle... more info