Simón Bolívar SO/Dudamel: Mahler Symphony No 7 CD review – never unravels the symphony’s enigmas

Gustavo Dudamel and Simón Bolívar’s deliver a well-played take on Mahler’s challenging work, but it doesn’t measure up to classic accounts, writes Andrew Clements

Prom 18: BBCPhil/Tharaud/Mena review – Birtwistle, Ravel and Mahler

Mena's Mahler was unindulgent but still gorgeous, writes Erica Jeal

Alma & Gustav Mahler: Lieder review – warm, instinctive, golden-voiced

The Mahlers are beautifully served by Karen Cargill on her debut solo recital, writes Fiona Maddocks

Hallé/Elder review – Mahler’s elegiac Ninth stuns the hall into silence

In a programme that took in Brahms's funeral anthem Nänie, Mark Elder marshalled the Hallé with perfect sincerity and tact, writes Alfred Hickling

Mahler: Symphony No 5 – review

Iván Fisher and his Budapest players are on glorious form in what could become a benchmark account of Mahler's great Fifth Symphony, writes Fiona Maddocks

Bournemouth SO/Dausgaard – review

With Dausgaard in robust form, Radu Lupu brought wonder to the familiar with his masterful renditions of Bartók and Schubert, writes Andrew Clements

Prom 35: BRSO/Jansons – review

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra took on Mahler's huge Resurrection Symphony, a blockbuster perfectly suited to the Albert Hall, writes George Hall

Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde – review

Alice Coote's exquisite colouration in the great song-symphony makes this disc worthwhile, but Klemperer's 1964 account is still the benchmark, writes Andrew Clements

RLPO/Petrenko – review

As with much of his Mahler, Petrenko's interpretation was hard-edged and fiercely unsentimental, writes Tim Ashley

Mahler: Das Klagende Lied; Berg: Lulu Suite – review

Boulez's 2011 Salzburg festival reverts back to the shorter version of Mahler's cantata - to first-rate effect, says Andrew Clements

Gerald Finley/Julius Drake – review

Most of Schubert's songs, as well as Mahler's, identify specific characters in particular situations, and Finley seized all opportunities for a fully dramatic approach, says George Hall

Mahler: Symphony No 1 – review

There's a brilliant transparency to the playing on this recording of Mahler's Symphony No 1, writes Nicholas Kenyon

Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda – review

Mahler's Seventh is a work of troubling extremes but here it was turned into a gaudy parade of images, writes Andrew Clements

Prom 21: Aldeburgh World Orchestra/Elder

Charlotte Bray's BBC commission held its own against three 20th-century masterworks, writes Andrew Clements

LSO/Michael Tilson Thomas – review

Tilson Thomas's former orchestra played superbly for him in this second of a trio of Mahler concerts, which focused on the ever-astonishing first symphony, writes Martin Kettle