Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonWith London residencies at Kings Place and LSO St Luke's, the Aurora Orchestra, founded six years ago, is riding high, and after their latest concert it is easy to understand why. The players are young and dexterous; enthusiasm and... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonHaving a famous father didn't further Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's career while he was alive, and it certainly doesn't help it now. Johann Sebastian's second son is today so much in his father's shadow that this programme b... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Tam Borman said... Bedreigde Stad Mix Tracklist: Louis de Meester : Muziek bij een gedicht van Paul Van Ostaijen "Bedreigde Stad" voor declamator en geluidsband. Ennio Morricone : Esplicitamente Sospeso Sten Hanson : Lettre d'un étranger Thomas Leer... more info

Guardian Music — Symphony Hall, BostonRight at the end of Harrison Birtwistle's new Violin Concerto, which Christian Tetzlaff premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, there was a weird, shimmering combination of sounds: a rattle of castanets, a static chord in t... more info

Topix — Harry Christophers, artistic director of the Handel and Haydn Society. Next season, Harry Christophers will lead the Handel and Haydn Society in Bach's "St. Matthew Passion'' and Mozart's "Coronation'' Mass. more info

Totally Fuzzy — W said... DRIVE-IN MOVIES AT REDUX This week watch "FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS" (1960) and grab some music... * FRANK SINATRA Sinatra At The Sands (1966) * FRANK SINATRA Sinatra And Sextet: Live In Paris (1962/1994) * THE RAT PACK At Villa Venice, Chic... more info

Guardian Music — English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner(SDG)Though John Eliot Gardiner's cycle of Bach cantatas on his own record label is now complete, there is evidently still plenty of material left in the archives of the English Baroque Soloists for future releases â€... more info

Totally Fuzzy — soundhaus said... The Clash – The Clash (1977) The Clash – Give ‘Em Enough Rope (1978) The Clash – London Calling (1979) The Clash – Sandinista! (1980) The Clash – Combat Rock (1982) The Clash – Cut the Crap (1985) The Clash – Super B... more info

Guardian Music — Staging tends to take precedence over singing, at least if critics are to be believed. But surely it's the music that really matters"For here, nothing is talked about except Figaro, nothing is played, blown, sung and whistled." So wrote Mozart about ... more info

Guardian Music — Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterMarking the centenary of someone's retirement would doubtless be regarded as eccentric in some quarters. The Hallé, however, is currently commemorating one of its greats, the conductor Hans Richter, whose work with the or... more info