Prom 46: NYJO/Armstrong/Barker review – jazzy Prom is a riot of sounds
The National Youth Jazz Orchestra swagger through works by Stan Kenton and former member Laura Jurd, plus an original arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue
Prom 42: Estonian Festival Orchestra/Järvi review – Pärt grips but Buniatishvili disappoints
Making their Proms debut, the Estonian Orchestra showed their quality in an all-Nordic programme, marred by Khatia Buniatishvili’s theatrical performance
Prom 41: BBCSO/Gardner review – Vaughan Williams rarity of strikingly good music
Edward Gardner led a fine performance of choral music written after the first world war, with Jean-Guihen Queyras a refined soloist in Elgar’s cello concerto
Prom 38: West Side Story review – a white-hot fusion of pop and classical
Shorn of dancing and dialogue, this slim concert performance led by the John Wilson Orchestra sent shivers down the spine
Prom 21: BBCSSO/Volkov review – burst of Alpine air in Haas’s Proms debut
The Austrian composer’s Concerto Grosso No 1 and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony were nimbly scaled by the BBC Scottish
Prom 17: BBCNOW/Brabbins review – affirmative, jaunty, with hints of school assembly
The Proms’ centenary-year tribute to Hubert Parry, the composer of Jerusalem, paired his tight Fifth symphony and a choral work with Vaughan Williams and Holst
Prom 18: MusicAeterna/Currentzis review – more Beethoven-sounding than ever before
In his first prom, Teodor Currentzis, ever the showman, pushed his players until the Second and Fifth Symphonies sounded as radical as they must have when new
The week in classical: BBC Proms 11, 12, 13; The Rape of Lucretia – review
Less is more for Karina Canellakis at the Proms, but it’s no holds barred for Mahler 8. And Grimeborn gets off to a gripping start
Prom 11: BBCNOW/Thomas Søndergård review – bowing out in style
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s principal conductor signs off with a performance of heady abandon
London Sinfonietta/George Benjamin review – austere first world war meditation
Benjamin conducts four new pieces with care and intensity but comes into his own with works of ritual mourning by Stravinsky and Messiaen
The week in classical: BBC Proms; Ariadne auf Naxos – review
There was plenty to dazzle in week one of the Proms. Elsewhere, Strauss with an added twist
Home listening: from a Richard Strauss rarity to Stephen Dogdson
Fairytale stuff from the RSNO and Sian Edwards, and a virtuosic first instalment from Karolos
The week in classical: Europe and the World; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – review
Treasures abound in the British Museum’s first music festival. Plus, unmissable Shostakovich
British Youth Opera; Vienna Philharmonic/Harding; András Schiff – review
Potential opera stars seize their moment. Plus, two miraculous hours of Bach from András Schiff
VPO/Harding review – Mahler given violence, lyricism and uneasy beauty
Daniel Harding’s interpretation of Mahler’s Sixth darkened ominously as it went, with a final plunge into despair that was disquieting in the extreme