The Ordering of Moses review – Dett’s oratorio thrills on its belated UK premiere

Joshua Weilerstein conducted the CBSO in a rare outing for the African American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett’s vivid and impassioned ‘sacred cantata’

The Cunning Little Vixen review – CBSO’s concert staging has care but misses vital charm

Elena Tsallagova was a feisty vixen and the CBSO’s playing under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was outstanding in a more matter-of-fact interpretation of Janáček’s opera than one normally hears

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – Adès’ ghostly Buñuel showpiece sees the light

A centenary celebration – coming to the Proms tonight – included an Ades premiere and, 75 years after its composition, Ruth Gipps’s second symphony

CBSO/Gardner review – heft, glitter and fizz as Birmingham orchestra return to the stage

Stephen Hough dazzled as the soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Fourth Piano Concerto in a programme that also included Debussy and Missy Mazzoli

CBSO 100th Birthday Celebration review – Simon Rattle makes sparks fly as orchestra reunites

The Birmingham orchestra’s first post-lockdown concert was a rich mix that took in Elgar, Stravinsky and Slumdog Millionaire

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – Unsuk Chin’s showpiece Spira is full of flair

Two new works (Unsuk Chin and Taylor-West) had fluency and flair, and two Beethoven symphonies were both light and lucid under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – massed forces rise to a monumental Mahler

Mid-way through a Mahler symphony cycle, the conductor brought tremendous energy to his Eighth, with the female soloists, particularly, glorious

Cheltenham music festival review – rousing premieres by female composers

The festival honoured a pledge for gender parity with striking new work by Judith Weir, Dani Howard and Thea Musgrave

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – excitement and grandeur for epic Mahler

Although occasionally the focus became blurred, the CBSO were superb and vocally this was an immaculate performance

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – ambitious tone poems and kinetic art

This refined outing of painter/composer Čiurlionis came complete with Norman Perryman’s live paintings

CBSO/Anderszewski review – energy and quality radiate from the keyboard

Conducting from the piano, Anderszewski brought elegance, wit and clarity to a programme of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla/Kremer review – keening emotions and vivid humanity

A weekend dedicated to the composer Mieczysław Weinberg featured the first British performance of his anguished 21st Symphony, dedicated to victims of the Warsaw ghetto

CBSO/Wellber review – ecstatic Dvořák and ardent Bartók

Omer Meir Wellber impressed at Glyndebourne this year and here brought a superb freshness, with the subtle violinist Gidon Kremer equally fine

Roussel: Évocations; Pour Une Fête de Printemps; Suite in F review – French rarities served with refinement

Influenced by Debussy and the first world war, Albert Roussel’s work deserves a wider audience

The week in classical: La traviata; Debussy festival; Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: A Reimagining – review

A clunky libretto isn’t the only hazard in ENO’s scrambled new Traviata. Elsewhere, a luscious celebration of Debussy, and Vivaldi with puppets – and a few tears