Chloe Chua: Mozart Violin Concertos album review – teenage prodigy’s interpretations are balanced and mature

The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit.

Julieth Lozano Rolong – Alma: Ibero-American Songs album review – Colombian soprano’s captivating debut

Supported beautifully by pianist João Araújo, and with songs by composers from seven countries, this recording offers a wealth of colour from a hugely promising performer

Salome review – a frankly astonishing concert performance

Asmik Grigorian heads one of the finest casts you could hope to hear, and every flicker of detail and colour in Strauss’s score hits home, as Antonio Pappano’s first season with the LSO climaxes in remarkable style

Recital for a World Gone to Sh*t review – full-throttle fury meets beautiful, blistering verse

Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh’s outstanding delivery of poetry from the 2018 anthology was interspersed with excellent, yet slightly overshadowed performances from baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton

Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D959; Moments Musicaux album review – grandeur and grace from Steven Osborne

His grasp of Schubert’s scale and ebullience means this is among the finest recordings of one of the composer’s final sonatas

Steve Reich: Jacob’s Ladder; Traveler’s Prayer album review – at nearly 90, he’s as energetic as ever

The consistent harmonics of Traveler’s Prayer are an unfamiliar side to the US composer’s output while the exuberant Jacob’s Ladder brings back his familiar propulsive figures

Cover Her / Scenes from Under Milk Wood reviews – music for an unsettlingly vivid torture scene

New works at Spitalfields music festival by Litha Efthymiou and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade brought a 3rd-century teenage martyr and the chattering rhythms of Dylan Thomas’s poetry vividly to life

Le Nozze di Figaro review – astute period staging of Mozart’s masterpiece is as poignant as it is funny

Glyndebourne, SussexMariame Clément allows the story of the predatory Count to resonate across the centuries in this exhilaratingly well performed and eye-catching production

Adès, Leith, Marsey: Orchestral Works album review – an impressive collection marks a productive association

This brings together new works of his own and by composers he admires that Thomas Adès has conducted at Bridgewater Hall during his residency with the Hallé

Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Op 87 album review – Avdeeva brings a light touch in an accomplished performance

It’s fascinating to compare this nuanced set with the performance by the Soviet pianist who inspired Shostakovich in 1950

Pelléas et Mélisande review – Longborough’s staging is accomplished and atmospheric

Anthony Negus is attentive to the subtleties of Debussy’s translucent score, and, matched by Jenny Ogilvie’s darkly mysterious production, this makes for one of the most successful shows Longborough festival has ever mounted

Les Indes Galantes review – popping, leaps and whoops in immersive and spellbinding Rameau

Director Bintou Dembélé infuses this potentially problematic colonial tale with an irresistible blend of pop culture and inclusivity for an imaginative first staging in the UK

Semele review – Pretty Yende is a spirited but sketchy heroine in inconsistent Handel staging

Alice Coote’s vengeful Juno steals the show in Oliver Mears’ bleak and occasionally fussy production

Aurora Orchestra/Collon/Power review – Italian immersion with introspective Berlioz and extrovert Mendelssohn

Pairing Mendelssohn’s sun-filled Italian symphony with Berlioz’s broodingly romantic Harold en Italie – with actor Charlotte Ritchie on hand to bring Berlioz’s own voice to life - the Aurora Orchestra were on irresistible form

Bantock: The Seal Woman album review – Celtic folk opera that never quite gets its head above water

Granville Bantock’s story of a Selkie emerging from the sea is a century-old curio whose beauty has faded over the years