Guardian Music — Watch a performance of Mozart's Requiem with the Aurora orchestra and the choir of King's College, Cambridge. Available until the end of Christmas Day more info

Guardian Music — Boasting a budget version of the wall of sound, James Bennett's music is haunted by the Spector of past pop erasHometown: Kirkby Lonsdale.The lineup: James Bennett (vocals, music).The background: A reader of this column recently bemoaned the lack of ... more info

Guardian Music — Fiona Maddocks and Nicholas Kenyon choose a selection of classical CDs that were overlooked this yearShostakovich: Songs for the FrontSoloists of the Russkaya Conservatoria Chamber Capella (Toccata)During the siege of Leningrad (1941-44), Shostakovic... more info

Guardian Music — Watch the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the Aurora orchestra perform Mozart's Requiem, live from Kings Place in London, at 8.30pm GMT on Monday 19 December more info

Guardian Music — To watch the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the Aurora orchestra perform Mozart's Requiem, live from Kings Place in London, tune in on Monday 19 December at 8.30pm GMTOn Monday 19 December, the Guardian is live streaming the Aurora orchestr... more info

Guardian Music — On Monday 19 December, the Guardian is live streaming the Aurora orchestra's performance of Mozart's Requiem, featuring the choir of King's College, Cambridge, from Kings Place in London. Here's why the mysteries of Mozart's final piece are richer an... more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Swiss flautist Emmanuel Pahud, who became the Berlin Philharmonic's principal at the age of 22, has inherited the mantle of universal popularity previously worn by his Berlin predecessor, James Galway. Deservedly so, for his h... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican Hall, LondonWhenever Colin Davis conducts, which, in his 80s, he now sits down to do, the effect is serene. Though Davis has never been strictly metronomic in his approach, there's a palpable sense of direction. This elusive quality, which D... more info

Guardian Music — Austerity was out of sight in Milan last week as a starry Don Giovanni opened La Scala's first season under Daniel Barenboim. There's an operatic renaissance in nearby Turin, too, led by Milanese maestro Gianandrea NosedaPolice with riot shields cord... more info

Guardian Music — Grümmer/Lorengar/Köth/Grobe/Fischer-Dieskau/Berry/Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin/Fricsay (Arthaus Musik, 2 DVDs)This famous Don Giovanni was first broadcast in September 1961 to mark the opening of the Deutsche Opera in west Berli... more info