Dvořák: Symphony No 9 album review – Shani brings a natural freshness to a familiar work
The conductor, soon to finish an eight-year tenure at the helm of the Dutch orchestra, leaves the orchestra in good shape
La Traviata review – gripping and genuinely moving staging opens Garsington’s summer season
Louisa Muller’s richly detailed production of Verdi’s tragedy is elevated by Madison Leonard’s magnetic Violetta and Douglas Boyd’s musical direction that reinvigorates the familiar score
Colin Matthews: Seascapes album review – the songs teem with detail
Soprano Claire Booth and baritone Marcus Farnsworth celebrate the influential British composer’s kaleidoscopic soundworld with this collection of four song cycles
Iceage: For Love of Grace & the Hereafter review – Danish punks ace sixth stellar album on the trot
The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting music
La Fanciulla del West review – insightful staging reveals the power of Puccini’s maverick masterpiece
Martin Lloyd-Evans’s credible production roots the action in time and place. Amanda Echalaz is a richly drawn and touching Minnie and conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren adds colour and drama
125th anniversary gala concert review – back to 1901 as Wigmore celebrates birthday playing to its strengths
The veteran chamber music venue kicked off a celebratory two-week festival with a starry lineup of performers playing works that had featured on the first ever programme
Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody
After three unlikely Top 10 albums in the 90s, the trio are back – and on the basis of this rapid-fire set, you hope they’ll stick around
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – at 83, his gift for melody still astounds
From nostalgic returns to his Liverpool childhood to a crazed Glastonbury fantasia, these are songs written with real purpose and a master’s finesse
Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment
The Scottish electronic duo remain hugely influential – but their new album’s interrogation of religion is dubious, and the drum programming is worse still
Tosca review – Puccini’s high-octane bloodbath bonanza makes for a shocking festival kick-off
Caitlin Gotimer’s Tosca goes from 0-60 in mere moments while the London Philharmonic unlock the barely contained violence in Ted Huffman’s long-awaited exceptional staging
Dido and Aeneas review – close your eyes and this was a tremendous performance
The Monteverdi Choir’s account of Purcell’s opera was delivered with devastating clarity, but it was somewhat smothered beneath a 200ft ship’s hull
Doja Cat review – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection
Moving seamlessly through extravagant choreography between bubblegum–rap and darker, rockier material, the singer is always in full command
Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt: Almost Waking review – cellist and guitarist unite for tender harmonies and torrid tangles
The Guatemalan newcomer and US veteran find striking common ground on an intimate collaboration full of agitation, complexity and uncanny chemistry
Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud review – harmonic openness for Louis Malle’s haunting noir thriller
The trumpeter’s improvised soundtrack for the new wave director’s 1957 film still glows with sensuality, tension and nocturnal beauty in this lavish reissue
Or, the Whale album review – Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee collaboration offers intimacy and joy
These eight tracks, a mix of new compositions and arrangements of existing work, are tender and imaginative