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For all that the Wainwright family history is littered with fairly well-publicised spats, when two of them get together and sing they can't half harmonise.

Orchestre de l'Opera National de Paris/Philippe Jordan

A couple of years ago, you knew exactly where you stood with Scottish indie-folk bands.

Well folks, it's almost here.

IF the players in the Michelangelo String Quartet made a single strategic miscalculation in their six-concert cycle of Beethoven's String Quartets, which concluded on Wednesday night in Perth, then it was in that final concert and occurred in their performance of the sixth and last of Beethoven's early opus 18 set.

THE14th instalment of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award is looking for young traditional musicians and singers who would like to follow in the footsteps of previous winners including Emily Smith, Stuart Cassells and Ewan Robertson, all of whom have gone on to successful careers.

It's somehow reassuring to learn that Pink Martini were once capable of slip-ups because their performances these days are almost too good to be true.

Over the past few decades, with his career set to cruise control as album after album of rock'n'soul covers and American Songbook standards filled the supermarket racks, how often did Rod Stewart glance up from his bank statements and consider winning back credibility with a twilight-years set of original songs?

How are you going to get people to pay to see an amateur opera company, when they can watch the very best singers in the world, live at the New York Met in the comfort of their cinema?

Saxophonist Joshua Redman may have the most beautiful tone of any current exponent of his instrument.

For the last decade the BBC's much-vaunted annual Sound Of - list has ranked the hottest new musical talents.

l GAELIC arts club Ceol's Craic collaborates with An Lochran for the last event in its 2012/13 programme, a night of ballads, love, and murder at Glasgow's CCA on May 25 from 7.30pm.

1958: Move It by Cliff Richard and the Drifters

IN a funny way, Steven Osborne's long-awaited performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, which the pianist played on Thursday night with the BBC SSO and conductor Andrew Manze, was a thought-provoking experience, but not, perhaps, in the way you might expect.