Aurora Orchestra/Collon review – high impact and high intensity as Shostakovich’s fifth is brought to life

A blistering performance of Shostakovich’s fifth symphony was preceded by a virtuosic and spectacular dramatic exploration the work that, however, could have had more bite

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Hisaishi review – frothing strings and quacking brass as Studio Ghibli’s composer debuts

Switching between podium and piano, Joe Hisaishi’s suite from The Boy and the Heron sparked joy, but Reich’s demanding Desert Music was vibrant and hypnotic

BBCSO/Ollikainen review – Stravinsky’s sacrificial dance had serrated edges

An exhilarating Rite of Spring and a cool-as-ice Bolero were high points in a Prom that also included the UK premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s luminous Cello Concerto

LPO/Gardner/Akhmetshina review – Tippett’s rose lake sounds glorious

Star mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina shone in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, part of a vivid London Philharmonic programme of music evoking fairytales and far horizons

Budapest Festival Orchestra / Fischer review – palpable joy in a vivid Prom pairing of Beethoven and Bluebeard

Conductor Iván Fischer and his players teased out the tiny details in a stirring Seventh Symphony, while Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle was full of grisly Hungarian intensity

BBCNOW/Venditti review – ​20th-century British classics shine at a potent patriotic Prom

Including a sugary Rutter premiere, the rarities were a slightly mixed bag, but the classics – The Lark Ascending, Enigma Variations and more – simply soared

BBCSO/Lintu review – ​there’s a good reason these Boulez and Mahler works aren’t often performed

Despite eye-catching percussion and deluxe orchestral playing, these strange, overlong pieces are for die-hards only

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

Lim/CBSO/Yamada review – wonderful Rachmaninov and a swirling Sinfonia

Young Korean Yunchan Lim naturally conjured a willing audience into silence with his commanding range after an alarm disrupted the popular pianist’s Prom

BBCNOW/Otaka/Kholodenko review – Rachmaninov fills seats but magic is missing

Soloist Vadym Kholodekno brought little subtlety to the ever popular second piano concerto, works by two Polish composers, Lutoslawsi and Grażyna Bacewicz fared better in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert

BBCSSO/Wigglesworth/Batsashvili review – detailed and monumental Bruckner

The BBC Scottish chief conductor’s reading of Bruckner’s Seventh was thoughtful and balanced. Mariam Batsashvili was an enthralling soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20.

Ensemble Intercontemporain/ Bleuse review – from a clown to a clarinet and Cathy Berberian

Royal Albert Hall, LondonA late-night Prom devoted to the music of Berio and Boulez (both born 100 years ago) demonstrated the intricacy, zaniness and sheer imagination of the two composers

Shibe/BBCPhil/Bihlmaier review – vivid, vibrant and exuberant virtuosity

Mark Simpson’s vibrant new work for Sean Shibe was the centrepiece of a polychromatic Prom that began with Strauss and ended with a vividly told Symphonie Fantastique

Last Night of the Proms review – pauses stretched patience but warmth and a Mexican wave won out

Pianist Stephen Hough was magical, soprano Angel Blue was on velvet-voiced form and a sporting theme brought inspired silliness

Florence + the Machine: Symphony of Lungs review – one crescendo of ecstasy after another

An appropriately maximal reading of debut album Lungs, made with Jules Buckley’s orchestra at Prom 69, provides a grand stage for Welch’s even grander voice