OAE/Schiff review – Mendelssohn deep dive is charged with energy and colour
Two of Mendelssohn’s symphonies plus his second piano concerto were almost too much of a good thing, but not when played with such delicacy and spirit
Adams: Girls of the Golden West album review – California gold rush opera has a definitive recording
The opera met with a mixed response on its 2017 premiere. After two reworkings, and with many of its original cast reprising their roles, this premiere recording is a rich and energetic mix
Ute Lemper review – intimate and mesmerising show celebrates an inimitable performer
The German chanteuse enters her seventh decade with her velvet voice and characteristic wit intact
This Proms season ticks all the boxes and promises special things
After the disruptions of Covid, director David Pickard has managed to balance innovation with tradition in his final year of programming the festival
BBC unveils 2024 Proms lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco
The 81-year-old conductor makes a rare UK visit with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, while Yo-Yo Ma, Doctor Who, Florence Welch, Sam Smith and Rule, Britannia! all feature
‘I’m not humble. I expect miracles’: why violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja wants to blow you out of your seat
She plays barefoot in jeans with a thrilling unpredictability that makes every show electric. Ahead of a performance that promises to transform the concert stage into a living room, we meet the whirlwind violinist
Sir Andrew Davis obituary
One of Britain’s greatest conductors widely admired for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms
Sir Andrew Davis, ex-chief conductor of BBC Symphony Orchestra, dies aged 80
Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestras
Lucia di Lammermoor review – a vocally breathtaking, disturbing to witness descent into madness
Nadine Sierra is sensationally good as Lucia in this revival of Katie Mitchell’s production of Donizetti’s romantic tragedy – a dark, thoughtful and sometimes shocking interpretation for the post-#MeToo era
The week in classical: Roman Fever/ The Human Voice; NYO, National Youth Brass Band; Celebrating Sir Neville Marriner – review
Pegasus Opera sparks change; teenage brass players show their mettle; and the ASMF do their founder proud
Southbank Sinfonia/Reynolds review – remarkable young orchestra shows that less can be more
Lee Reynolds’ reduced arrangements of Schoenberg and Mahler were convincing and involving
The Ballad of Hattie and James review – a musical friendship comes back into tune
Sophie Thompson and Charles Edwards are delightful as the unlikely pair thrown together by a school production as teenagers and reunited late in life
Simon Boccanegra review – vast forces bring Verdi’s ‘fiasco’ to vivid life
Opera Rara joined with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder for this semi-staged performance of the original version of Verdi’s opera
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – Spence soars in otherwise passion-light period instrument recording
Paul McCreesh’s historically informed performance of the composer’s greatest choral work has many gains but ultimately never really catches fire
Music in Time of War: Debussy and Komitas album review – fascinating collection of composer’s final works
Claude Debussy’s piano music written in the last few years of his life interspersed with works by ethnomusicologist and composer Komitas Vardapet