BBCSO/Oramo review – elemental Sibelius to buoyant Beethoven

Sakari Oramo saluted Sibelius’s 150th birthday, while adding a couple of rugged and glistening Nordic works and rounding off with Beethoven’s Seventh

BBCSO/Vänskä review – each symphony possesses an organic life of its own

Under Vänskä’s remarkable approach Sibelius’s Fifth, Sixth and Seventh symphonies ebbed and flowed in a process that felt both natural and logical

Prom 13: BBCSO/Mälkki/Josefowicz review – committed and astoundingly vivid

Luca Francesconi’s very effective violin concerto was played with tremendous commitment by Leila Josefowicz and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Susanna Mälkki

BBC Proms; Igor Levit review – fanfares and fireworks

There were firsts and feasts – and Haydn – at week one of the Proms. Plus, an astonishing recital by Igor Levit

Prom 7: BBCSO/Davis/Simpson review – Hugh Wood draws inspiration from Donne

The best passages of Wood’s new choral work were beautifully judged; Mark Simpson made Nielsen’s tricky clarinet concerto seem straightforward

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo review – embraces Nielsen at face value

Conductor Sakaris Oramo showed Nielsen’s sixth symphony in its best light, while pianist Denis Kozhukhin’s Rachmaninov concerto was sure and sober

BBCSO/Davis – Arthur Bliss’s Morning Heroes finely judged

Andrew Davis and the BBC orchestra did full honour, with Samuel West as orator, to Bliss’s first world war remembrance ‘symphony’

BBCSO/Nesterowicz/Osborne review – Rouse’s overture is lively but unmemorable

Rouse’s Prospero’s Rooms did not leave a deep impression; colourful Lutosławski and Osborne’s brilliant Beethoven fared better

BBCSO/Vedernikov/Henschel review – Mahler ambitiously reinvented

Dietrich Henschel sings with a blazing intensity in this multimedia transformation of Wunderhorn, but other elements work less well

BBCSO/Oramo review – totally assured conducting, immaculate playing

Sakari Oramo achieves incisive clarity in his juxtaposition of Nielsen’s great fifth symphony with works by Ravel and Prokofiev

Boulez at 90 review – a viscerally exciting tribute

Under Thierry Fischer, the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s playing offered a powerful reminder of Boulez’s place in the pantheon of 20th-century music

BBCSO/Oramo review – like green shoots breaking through concrete

Carl Nielsen’s hymn to the elemental power of nature, his ‘Inextinguishable’ Fourth, had an unstoppable life-force in this thrillingly affirmative performance

BBCSO/Storgårds review – severe and ear-splitting

The premiere of Brett Dean’s The Last Days of Socrates was fascinating, but hard-going at times, writes Erica Jeal

BBCSO/Oramo review – electrifying Rachmaninov and Nielsen with nobility

Nielsen’s Third Symphony was ferocious, but Federico Colli’s Rachmaninov had the grandest passions, writes Tim Ashley

Havergal Brian: The Tigers CD review – 1983 recording is vivid rather than refined

The once lost opera - a picaresque based on the composer’s experience as an army recruit in 1914 – rampages across stylistic boundaries but lacks dramatic focus, writes Andrew Clements