BBCSO/Gaffigan review – all-American evening of sleek grooves and edge-of-seat Barber
The UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Concerto for Orchestra was playful and punchy, before elegant Gershwin and noirish Barber
Hillborg: Lost Landscapes album review – sonic imagination and luminous colours
Unconventional instrumentation adds to the filmic feeling of these three works by the Swedish composer, played on this recording by a powerhouse orchestra on top form
Bruckner Symphony No 3 album review – Anima Eterna’s period instruments bring visceral drama
There’s bone-crushing intensity in this striking recording of the original version of the Bruckner’s third. Pablo Heras-Casado teases out vital, almost operatic detail
We’re going to party like it’s 1629… the masques, the music and the mayhem of Banqueting House
What music soundtracked 17th-century England? Ahead of a DJ set in Banqueting House, Georgia Mann looks at the wild, the experimental, the melancholic – and why a theorbo caused a security alert
From sensation to spectacular, to silence: the strange history of Coleridge-Taylor’s Song of Hiawatha
Chances to hear Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral masterpiece in concert are rare. Ahead of its belated Edinburgh festival premiere with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, we look at the epic work - and its epic baggage
LA Phil/Dudamel; Fantasia Orchestra / Fetherstonhaugh/Glennie reviews – high-contrast programming
The first of two evening proms began with the Los Angeles Phil’s polished but polite Beethoven and intoxicating Adès. Later, the Fantasia orchestra’s bitty playlist-type programme only occasionally sparked into life.
Juilliard Orch/Royal Academy Symphony Orch / Salonen/Frang review – student players let rip, eventually
Esa-Pekka Salonen led an orchestra of players from London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School through 20th-century classics with Vilde Frang the electrifying soloist in Berg’s Violin Concerto
The Galloping Cure review – powerful new opera tackles the opioid crisis with bite and black comedy
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s new music theatre work boasts a richly textured score with a direct but sophisticated musical language. Daniela Mack is ideal as the conflicted doctor as its heart
Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles / György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments review – Bristol Proms reach for the heavenly
Sunday afternoon’s two concerts, closing the Proms’ Bristol weekend, brought the superlative Tenebrae, and Sakari Oramo swapping baton for bow to duet with his wife
‘This is asking a lot of the buttocks’: my 23-hour Wagner marathon on a rock hard seat in a heatwave
How does it feel to be locked into a venue notorious for its unpadded seating to experience a full-throttle Ring cycle and more? Our critic found out at the 150th anniversary of the mighty Bayreuth festival
William Orbit obituary
Musician and record producer who reignited Madonna’s career with his work on her 1998 album Ray of Light
National Youth Orchestra/Adès review – assured young musicians end their season all guns blazing
Thunderous timpani, stereo harps, a supersized horn section and 160 teenagers combined for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Adès’s Dante and a Liszt waltz
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Venditti review – a fervent but lithe-limbed Stabat Mater
Nil Venditti’s animated account of Rossini’s choral work embraced its lyricism and theatricality – paired on the bill with the Proms debut of Respighi’s Church Windows
Oberon review – part panto, part grand opera, Weber’s final work has charm but doesn’t quite convince
There’s a new narration delivered by Tamsin Greig and the crack forces of the Monteverdi Choir, the ORR and world-class singers, all led by Mark Elder, but the 200-year-old piece remains a strange hybrid
Grieg Lyric Pieces album review – Feltsman brings a probing flexibility that transforms this music
Feltsman’s comprehensive survey of the Lyric Pieces is revelatory and authoritative