Prom 60: Vienna Phil/Ax/Haitink review – a beautiful, masterful farewell

Bernard Haitink chose Beethoven and Bruckner for his final UK concert. His flowing and authoritative interpretation of the latter’s 7th symphony foregrounded the music’s beauty but not at the expense of structure

Prom 58: BBC Scottish SO/Volkov review – thrilling and beguiling

The playing was alert and incisive in a wide-ranging programme that included Tchaikovsky and a new work by Linda Catlin Smith

Prom 55: Jephtha review – vivid outing for Handel’s last oratorio

Richard Egarr balanced intensity with reflection, despite cuts to the score, and Allan Clayton was effortless in the title role

Prom 53: BBCSO/Davis review – brilliant energy and genuine beauty

Andrew Davis led a rare and bewitching outing of Hugh Woods’s Scene from Comus, while Sarah Connolly was striking in The Music Makers

Prom 52: Britten Sinfonia/Wigglesworth review – connecting the dots from Mozart to modernity

In a bill of works by great composers, influenced by other great composers, Wigglesworth’s intricate, beautifully coloured Piano Concerto held its own

Prom 49: The Lost Words review – Beethoven to beatboxing as climate crisis set to music

Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s bestselling book inspired this ambitious family Prom that celebrated the natural world

Prom 44: LSO/Rattle review – virtuosic Varèse and quick-witted Koechlin

An all-20th-century programme showcased the wit and brilliance of Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, although Belshazzar’s Feast lacked bite

Prom 41: LPO/Jurowski review – Russian novelties surprise and delight

Turn of the century compositions by Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Lyadov make up a superbly played programme led by Vladimir Jurowski

Prom 40: OAE/Hough review – a riot of orchestral colour

Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, Stephen Hough played Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 on the monarch’s own piano with fuss-free finesse

The week in classical: Proms 32, 34 & 35; Rinaldo review – happy returns all round

Proms veterans Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim work their magic once more

Prom 35: BBCSSO/Brabbins review – muscular birthday celebration

Martyn Brabbins celebrated his 60th by conducting new music based on Elgar’s Enigma Variations – commissioned from 14 composers for the occasion

Home listening: a must for RVW fans, and more

Vaughan Williams’s incidental music for an abandoned production of Richard II has been recorded for the first time

Prom 25: Gabetta/BBCSO/Stasevska review – stirring and spirited

Dalia Stasevska established a strong rapport with orchestra and audience in fresh and fluid readings of Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, while Sol Gabetta gave shape and intimacy to Mieczysław’s cello concerto

Prom 20: Kuusisto / BBCSSO / Dausgaard review – strikingly unusual twists

A new take on Sibelius is played with tremendous conviction by the Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Home listening: Bach on harpsichord, piano, organ… take your pick

Revelatory Mahan Esfahani, Keith Jarrett live in 1987 and Olivier Latry at the Proms