Hallé/Wong review – new conductor commands an utterly gripping performance

Conducting without a score, Kahchun Wong beguiled as he maintained ultraprecise coordination and built to a powerful, cosmic-scale finale

The Veil of the Temple – powerful expressive talents on display in eight-hour choral epic

The opening concert of this year’s Edinburgh international festival saw conductor Sofi Jeannin put in a remarkable shift marshalling combined choirs

Lim/CBSO/Yamada review – wonderful Rachmaninov and a swirling Sinfonia

Young Korean Yunchan Lim naturally conjured a willing audience into silence with his commanding range after an alarm disrupted the popular pianist’s Prom

BBCPhil/Weilerstein/Fröst; Arvo Pärt at 90 review – star clarinettist captivates and delights

The evening’s two proms brought wildly contrasting energies. The BBC Phil were on blistering form and, late-night, the Estonian Philharmonic Choir were immaculate even if the programme felt a little bland

Chromatic Renaissance album review – Exaudi negotiate these writhing lines with exemplary precision

Exaudi, directed by James Weeks, explore late 16th-century choral works in this fascinating and involving disc

The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals album review – a joyful reminder of the richness of Claudio Arrau

Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest

BBCNOW/Otaka/Kholodenko review – Rachmaninov fills seats but magic is missing

Soloist Vadym Kholodekno brought little subtlety to the ever popular second piano concerto, works by two Polish composers, Lutoslawsi and Grażyna Bacewicz fared better in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert

BBCSSO/Wigglesworth/Batsashvili review – detailed and monumental Bruckner

The BBC Scottish chief conductor’s reading of Bruckner’s Seventh was thoughtful and balanced. Mariam Batsashvili was an enthralling soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20.

The Traitors Prom review – iconic show’s greatest hits turn the melodrama up to 11

Claudia Winkleman hosted while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra expertly negotiated orchestrated covers including Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo alongside a smattering of Saint-Saëns and Puccini

King of Kings: Orchestral Transcriptions of Bach by Andrew Davis album review – the late conductor’s first love

Davis’s fastidious and thoroughly musical orchestrations of Bach’s organ works become a touching memorial as Martyn Brabbins steps in to finish the recordings

Ginastera: String Quartets album review – compelling and colourful

The passionate settings of Spanish poetry in the Argentinian composer’s third string quartet are the real discovery of this career-spanning trilogy

Ensemble Intercontemporain/ Bleuse review – from a clown to a clarinet and Cathy Berberian

Royal Albert Hall, LondonA late-night Prom devoted to the music of Berio and Boulez (both born 100 years ago) demonstrated the intricacy, zaniness and sheer imagination of the two composers

Shibe/BBCPhil/Bihlmaier review – vivid, vibrant and exuberant virtuosity

Mark Simpson’s vibrant new work for Sean Shibe was the centrepiece of a polychromatic Prom that began with Strauss and ended with a vividly told Symphonie Fantastique

Lucia di Lammermoor review – Jennifer France is a delight in touching and convincing Donizetti staging

The unforced warmth of France’s heroine wins the audience’s sympathy from the outset in Cecilia Stinton’s thoughtful new staging of the bel canto bloodbath

First night of the Proms review – Batiashvili’s magnificent Sibelius opens the festival

An oddly disparate programme, including an Errollyn Wallen world premiere and a Vaughan Williams rarity, didn’t quite cohere in this opening concert, but all was outstandingly played