Guardian Music — Quatuor Diotima(Naive)Admired by Beethoven and Schubert, George Onslow (1784-1853) has become that rare phenomenon, a composer who was internationally popular in his own lifetime and for a considerable time afterwards, yet who virtually vanished in t... more info

Guardian Music — My highlights from the season to comeThis morning, as Radio 3 controller Roger Wright talked a group of arts journalists through the 2010 BBC Proms season in the Royal College of Music, the surprise was that there was not one but two "last nights" in... more info

Detroit Free Press — Composers rarely sound more like themselves than in a Requiem Mass. Berlioz reveals his hallucinatory originality, Brahms his formal lyricism, Verdi his ear for theater. Mozart's Requiem is an expression of his sublime soul and the purity of his... more info

Guardian Music — Scottish CO/Mackerras(Linn, two CDs)Charles Mackerras and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra follow up their outstanding set of the last four Mozart symphonies with almost equally impressive accounts of their predecessors, omitting only the little G mino... more info

Guardian Music — Founder of the classical music label Harmonia MundiBernard Coutaz, who has died of a heart attack aged 87, was the founder and general director of Harmonia Mundi, the oldest independent classical music label in existence. For more than half a century... more info

Guardian Music — Classical tenor and skilful interpreter of Scottish popular songOne of the most accomplished classical tenors of his generation, Kenneth McKellar, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 82, spent the majority of his career performing the popular and ... more info

Guardian Music — Bicentenary of Rauzzini's death dominated by question: was he a castrato, or just a natural male soprano?His gravestone is barely noticeable on the floor of Bath Abbey, walked over and ignored by thousands each week, while a commemorative plaque is h... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonStéphane Denève is a conductor with a sharp eye for grand dramatic gestures, but his ear for the finer details is not always so sure. His thoughtfully conceived programmes can amount to less than the sum of their par... more info

Guardian Music — Radio 3 will play top serious classical hits at breakfast and drivetime – though be prepared to gag at this week's No 1"Radio 3" and "chart countdown" aren't phrases that usually appear in the same sentence. But – hold on to your hats! ... more info

Detroit Free Press — Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton and just about any other philandering sports star, celebrity or politician you can think of can't hold a candle to Don Giovanni, the most prolific womanizer in opera -- and the bad-boy antihero title character of one of... more info