Sea Beneath the Skin/Song of the Earth review – sea, sand and ceremony as Mahler’s song cycle makes waves

Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio’s chant-filled music-theatre piece – performed by Theatre of Kiribati and Britten Sinfonia – pushes Mahler into uncharted waters

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

Penarth chamber music festival review – scaled-down Mahler’s Fourth Symphony emerges as if newly minted

The joy and anarchy of Mahler were brilliantly captured, alongside wild Shostakovich and mellow Brahms

LPO/Gardner review – no recording could match the visceral thrill of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony live

Gardner’s pacing was virtuosic as his cast of hundreds proved the Southbank Centre’s maxim that you cannot experience the Multitudes festival at home

Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – reduced Mahler still packs a punch

A chamber reduction of Das Lied von der Erde formed the centrepiece of this spring-themed concert

Mahler Symphony No 3 album review – slightly sub-par outing for ‘least hysterical’ work

Curiously the Czech Philharmonic, ideally placed as an interpreter of Mahler, don’t achieve the necessary ecstatic intensity here

Mahler: Symphony No7 album review – sheer brilliance: this is one of the finest Mahler 7’s on disc

Simon Rattle and the BRSO’s account of Mahler’s tricky seventh symphony is direct and vivid.

Hallé/Wong review – a thrilling and radiant Mahler 2 sees the orchestra at the height of its powers

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterNew principal conductor Kahchun Wong held the balance between restraint and muscle and, with soloists Sarah Connolly and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, made this ‘Resurrection’ unforgettable

The week in classical: Eugene Onegin; Last Night of the Proms; Mahler: Symphony No 2 ‘Resurrection’ – review

Plucky Northern Ireland Opera triumphs with elegant, homegrown Tchaikovsky; Stephen Hough and Angel Blue rise above the pomp; and biblical car park Mahler

The week in classical: 74th Aldeburgh Festival; Werther – review

From thundering Thorvaldsdóttir to late-night Bach, it’s a standout year for Britten’s music festival, while at the ROH Jonas Kaufmann made a subdued Werther

Borletti-Buitoni Trust at 20 review – first footholds celebrated by benificaries of musical trust

Musicians including Mitsuko Uchida, James Newby and the Apollon Musagète Quartet were part of a weekend of concerts marking 20 years of the trust that supports those at the beginning of their careers

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde review – Gerhaher and Beczała give late masterpiece new life

Heard in a less usual male-voice pairing and with a piano reduction of the full orchestral score, there are more gains than losses to be found here

LPO/Gardner review – Brett Dean provides tantalising prelude to cool Mahler

World premiere of this extract from Dean’s ‘planned opera’ was full of vivid colour and ear-catching textures. The Mahler that followed was stylish and unsentimental

BBC Singers/LSO review – music, and words, of power as Rattle protests vandalism of UK’s musical life

Superbly executed Mahler was given fire by the addition of Poulenc’s work from the just saved BBC Singers – and a fierce attack on arts funding by the conductor

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Harding review – gorgeous Mahler with expressionist edge

Daniel Harding led a modernist interpretation of Mahler’s Ninth full of fierce drama, eloquence and intensity, in the orchestra’s thrilling return to this hall