Tosca as screen idol

Pianist Lucy Parham’s ‘words and music’ Rêverie of the life of Debussy, narrated by Simon Russell Beale

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Come and sing Mozart’s Requiem; The Well-Tempered Clavier; Alan Brownjohn poems; Uilleann piper Calum Stewart

Sunday lunchtime cantatas at the Royal Academy of Music

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Debussy at the Barbican; London A Capella Festival; Ian Page and the Mozartists; jazz violinist Piotr Jordan

Genesis reborn – Sir Simon Rattle conducts film composer Nathaniel Shilkret’s composite work of ‘broken promises’

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Joshua Bell; Amahl and the Night Visitors; The King’s Singers; Rebel Yell Jazz Orchestra

Listen: it’s Baroque music reinvented at a new three-day festival in partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Haydn’s The Creation; I Musicanti at Conway Hall; Sir Simon Rattle and opera star Magdalena Kožená

Season’s greeting from Raymond Gubbay

Bernstein at the Barbican: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO to mark the American composer’s centenary

Classical and Jazz news: The Renaissance Singers; Wilde Roses; Massive Violins

Catch Messiaen’s great organ work ‘meditations’ at St Michael’s

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: LGBT charity concert; North Camden Chorus; Greater Europe Peace Orchestra; Art Deco Night Owls

My dad, the unlikely Russian spy

Take a pew for the Messiah

Biber’s ‘Joyful Mysteries’ revealed at St Dominic’s Priory

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Chamber festival at St Anne’s; LSO’s Choral Christmas; ‘drop ins’ at the British Museum; cello recital at Foundling Museum

Hats off to Michael Nyman

Highgate Chamber Music Festival gets back to ‘Rustic Roots’ this year with a folk theme