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Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, Verklärte Nacht, Die Jakobsleiter album review – a compelling and impressive collection

Five works by the modernist composer, all taken from concerts given by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, include a magnificent performance of the oratorio fragment Die Jakobsleiter

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Opp 12 no 2 & 96 album review – sheer joie de vivre

Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson end their cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas with energised and immaculate performances

Tosca review – Natalya Romaniw is riveting in WNO’s season-opener

The Welsh-Ukrainian singer was in ravishing voice, and the orchestra brought richness to a reduced score, while Edward Dick’s production seemed chillingly relevant

LSO/Pappano review – big, bold and filled with blazing conviction

Bernstein’s Symphony No 3 evoked the Cuban missile crisis before Copland’s Third Symphony lifted us on a tide of postwar optimism

Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey review – Lauren Laverne helms an insight-free night that goes out with a bang

Coliseum, LondonIf you wanted to learn about the composer’s female influences, you would have been disappointed – but the arias eventually built to an electric climax

Last Night of the Proms review – star turns, good-natured flag waving and a rich Rule, Britannia!

Bill Bailey played a mean typewriter, Brian May and Roger Taylor raised laughs with Bohemian Rhapsody and trumpeter Alison Balsom bid a poignant farewell at just 46

Sinfonia of London – weapons-grade energy and contagious dynamism

Conductor John Wilson has made this orchestra one of the best in Britain, and violinist James Ehnes was the ideal soloist in a performance that took flight instantly

Sarah Connolly/Joseph Middleton: The World Feels Dusty album review – powerful narrations spanning Ella Fitzgerald to Emily Dickinson

With sweeping, full colour piano Connolly and Middleton pay attention to every word, every harmonic shift in a performance of appealing immediacy

Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests

Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict directed by Oliver Mears

The Kanneh-Masons: River of Music album review – a fond familial affair

Welsh folk songs and an original composition sit alongside Liszt, Chopin, Handel and Elgar in a misty-eyed first half, before a more monochrome performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet

Vienna Philharmonic/ Welser-Möst review – mighty ensemble strike gold with Bruckner

The Austrian legends glided through Mozart and Tchaikovsky but found grand and powerful direction in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony

Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

The ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie Coleman

L’heure espagnole/The Bear review – Scottish opera pairs Ravel with Walton in pacy pantomimic staging

Jacopo Spirei’s double-bill of Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and Walton’s The Bear is huge fun, with baritone Daniel Barrett particularly impressive

Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto; Helios; Symphony No 5 album review – suavity and elegance from Gardner’s Bergen Phil

The teeming textures of Nielsen’s 5th symphony are controlled with care and refinement by Edward Gardner, with the Bergen Philharmonic – and soloist Alessandro Carbonare – outstanding

Mozart: Six String Quintets album review – deep understanding of these under-appreciated works

Spunicunifait (their name taken from a nonsense word used by Mozart) perform these six quintets with flexibility and easy athleticism

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