Scottish Ensemble – review

The Scottish Ensemble's programme was all about homages and featured nimble, tightly sprung and sonorous playing, writes Andrew Clements

CBSO/Rattle – review

Jane Irwin relished the freedom that Rattle's expansive conducting allowed her in the closing Mahler cycle performance, writes Andrew Clements

LPO/Jurowski – review

The LPO offered a lifeline to concert-goers suffering Mahler fatigue by ending its uncommonly probing Mahler series with songs, writes Erica Jeal

Philharmonia/Maazel – review

This concert was equally about Lorin Maazel – and it didn't do this part of the Philharmonia's Mahler cycle any favours, writes Rian Evans

LPO/Vladimir Jurowski – review

This intelligent and revealing contribution to the Mahler anniversary celebrations didn't contain a single note by Mahler, writes Andrew Clements

Philharmonia/Maazel – review

Lorin Maazel's approach to Mahler is quixotic – he describes the symphonies as "like spaceships, forever orbiting and sending out signals", which may sound spaced-out, but his Mahler is a cosmic experience, writes Alfred Hickling

RLPO/Petrenko – review

Vasily Petrenko's ranting, brutal interpretation of Mahler's Sixth was a high point of the Liverpool Philharmonic's anniversary cycle, writes Tim Ashley

LSO/Gergiev – review

The LSO's principal conductor hit on an authentically Mahlerian paradox in his rendition of the Ninth, says Guy Dammann

CBSO/Sakari Oramo – review

In this performance of Mahler's unfinished 10th Symphony the CBSO played magnificently for their former chief, writes Andrew Clements