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

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

Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets album review – drama, imagination and sonic flair

Clarinettist Mark Von de Wiel performs music by Anna Clyne, Ruth Gipps and Weber

Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac

For the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless mess

BBCSO/Järvi/Kavakos review – virtuosic violinist makes fiendishly light work of Tchaikovsky

The intricate concerto was paired with the world premiere of Dani Howard’s likable Concerto for Brass and a lush Scriabin symphony, all admirably led by Paavo Järvi

Aurora Orchestra/ Collon review – Freud analyses Mahler to decipher music from the heart

An acted prelude by Jane Mitchell teased out the composer’s motivations for his engrossing First Symphony before the orchestra assayed the work from memory

Parsifal review – blood, lust and goth energy fuel Wagner’s Grail quest

Big-screen closeups augment operatic action in Jay Scheib’s colourful production, with strong singers led by Andreas Schager and Miina-Liisa Värelä but inconsistent orchestral playing

Tao of Glass review – stage magic as McDermott meditates on the minimalist master

This multifaceted and intensely personal homage to – and collaboration with – composer Philip Glass is a transcendent tapestry suffused with joy and wonder.

John Tilbury: At Home album review – an eclectic and extraordinary treasure trove

The great interpreter of Morton Feldman and a towering figure of experimental music signs off with four discs of intimate, revelatory recordings

BBCSSO/Wigglesworth / Booth review – Brett Dean’s song cycle is rich and strange

Soprano Clare Booth, Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish gave the world premiere of Dean’s theatrical and engaging The World’s Wife. Elgar’s 1st didn’t quite achieve lift-off but Weir’s Moon and Star had sweep and shimmer

Die Fledermaus review – Strauss staging has flourish and froth, but not enough fizz

Liam Steel relocates Johann Strauss’s operetta to London 1929 to create the feel of a Noël Coward-style farce. Rebecca Bottone, Olivia Carrell and Clare Presland shine amid a strong cast.