Guardian Music — Once fundamental to musical education, Mozart's symphonies are now being pushed to the cultural marginsMost people would find the claim that the modern world is seriously losing touch with the music of Mozart a ludicrous one. After all, Mozart is Moz... more info

Guardian Music — Glamorous soprano who made her name playing opera's neurotic modern heroinesBlessed with the looks of Elizabeth Taylor and a voice like Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's, the American soprano Evelyn Lear, who has died aged 86, had a good deal going for her. No... more info

Guardian Music — Opera's a major strand of this year's Proms festival. Here's some of my highlightsI must declare a soupçon of an interest here: I will be a little involved in the wee festival that starts tonight and will be a classical music soundtrack to the summe... more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonFirst the Florestans. Now the Leopolds. Lady Bracknell would surely have had something incisive to say about the demise last year of Britain's leading piano trio and, now, of our premier practitioners of the less extensive string ... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonIt may be the profession he states on his tax returns, but it comes as something of a surprise to discover that Uri Caine is a rather good jazz pianist. Most of his albums cast him as musical director for some wonderful but slig... more info

Guardian Music — Sage, GatesheadThe Sage has a remarkable theatrical record considering it isn't even a theatre. The Northern Sinfonia's semi-staged cycle of Mozart–Da Ponte operas was impressive; the premiere of Tod Machover's Skellig marked a first venture int... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, East Neuk of FifeThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra has been de facto house band at East Neuk since the get-go – the festival first grew out of a summer concert series given by the orchestra around the bucolic south-east of Fife. And t... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Glyndebourne, east Sussex; Royal Festival Hall, LondonMen and supermen, aristocratic women and suicidal Trojan Wags, ancient Carthage, modern Venezuela, a pre-Columbian tropical jungle and a groovy 1960s-style conga: last w... more info

Guardian Music — GlyndebourneLe Nozze di Figaro may be Glyndebourne's signature work, but it is 12 years since the last new production of Mozart's social satire was unveiled there. That version, which closed a Da Ponte trilogy by departing director of productions Gra... more info

Mercury News, California — Carmel Bach Festival, Music@Menlo, Midsummer Mozart, Festival del Sol boast exciting lineups. more info