Few composers thought bigger, or longer, than Bruckner, who constantly revised his colossal works – in the case of this final symphony, spending nine years writing and still not completing it before his death, leading to a plethora of posthumous fourth movement “completions” over the past three decades.

It's not uncommon for Western composers like Tavener to bring Eastern influences into their work, but much rarer for an Indian classicist to operate in the Western tradition, as Ravi Shankar does here in his Symphony, which follows the classical four-movement structure but incorporates sitar (played by Shankar's daughter Anoushka) and raga scales into the orchestration.

The world-famous conductor Kurt Masur is recovering in hospital in Paris after he fell off a podium during a concert.

The furtive opening bars of Mozart’s C minor Piano Concerto No. 24 were shrouded in a mellowness of tone that made them welcoming rather than darkly unsettling and as the well upholstered sound of the venerable Staatskapelle Berlin took hold we were cast back into an era of sound and style that was altogether “other”. And then - final confirmation - the piano entered.

A showcase for three young conductors, a malfunction at the printers, and for the first time in my experience no programmes for the audience and the prospect of blind-tasting their talents.

In the second instalment of their recording of all 15 Shostakovich string quartets, the American Pacifica again leaven the mix with another, contemporary, Russian composer, this time Prokofiev, whose thoughtful String Quartet No 2 is added to Shostakovich's Quartets 1-4, the first of these written when the composer was 32.

Former teen virtuoso Joshua Bell has an orchestra all of his own to play with, but are two hands really enough?

The starting point for this intriguing programme from young US ensemble The Knights is Morton Feldman's suggestion that part of the magic of Schubert is "that kind of hovering, as if you're in a register you've never heard".

When you are arguably the greatest violinist in the world a four-year “time out” from the public arena can seem like an eternity.

Such is Berlioz’ persuasive theatricality that even when he is rearranging Shakespeare one is inclined to ask not what the Bard is doing for him but rather what he is doing for the Bard.

For the New York Philharmonic to have embarked upon a London residency without Mahler in their portfolio would have been unconscionable.

The incompleteness of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony was due not to death but deliberate neglect.