Guardian Music — City Halls, GlasgowThis concert showed the best and worst of Donald Runnicles. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor recently extended his contract for another three years, and the vast, luscious colours he drew in extracts from Der R... more info

Guardian Music — Assembly Rooms, BathThe Mozartfest, this year celebrating its 20th anniversary, opened with a performance by the Emerson String Quartet of two of Mozart's Prussian quartets, K589 and 590, the last he wrote.The Emersons' characteristic transparency he... more info

Guardian Music — Perth Concert HallSonatas for piano and violin: the clue is in the syntax. Mozart, himself a brilliant pianist, built on a chamber music tradition in which string instruments regularly played a support role – even well into the 19th century, the pi... more info

Detroit Free Press — There was the germ of an intriguing idea behind the uneven 2002 production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" conceived by director Bernard Uzan for Michigan Opera Theatre in consort with Montreal Opera and Opera Carolina. more info

Guardian Music — Orchestra Mozart/Abbado(Deutsche Grammophon)Claudio Abbado continues to move with the times: these two masterpieces flow effortlessly at speeds several notches faster than his 1980 recording of No 40 with a larger orchestra. Nothing is hurried, and e... more info

Guardian Music — Romania's Mr Jazz who sought perfection as player, composer and teacherThe jazz pianist and double bass player Johnny Raducanu has died of a heart attack aged 79. For more than 30 years he had been pre-eminent in Romania as performer, composer and te... more info

Altsounds — *Mozart Parties* aka singer-songwriter *James Bennett* released his debut single this week on Merok Records (home to early releases from *Klaxons, Crystal Castles, Salem, Titus Andronicus* and *Teengirl Fantasy*). http://soundcloud.com/merokrecords... more info

Guardian Music — The maverick and eccentric Percy Grainger rated himself more highly than Mozart and TchaikovskyFew melodies have become quite as insinuatingly popular as Percy Grainger's arrangement of the traditional air In an English Country Garden. The piece ha... more info

NME - The Daily Download — We haven't heard much from LA duo Kisses lately, so they've kindly donated a free MP3 download to NME.com to remind us that they're still out there making ever-so-lovely music. While the band were on tour last year, they often brought out a cover ... more info

Detroit Free Press — "The Marriage of Figaro" finds Mozart working at the absolute peak of his powers, delineating character and drama through music with breathtaking efficiency, turning out sublime melodies as easily as other composers wrote their names and juggling str... more info