London Symphony Orchestra/Tilson Thomas

If Matthias Goerne wobbled, the orchestra stayed solid, colouring the songs’ narratives with hues the singer whispered or missed

Bad Boys: tenors play lovers; basses play villains

Bryn Terfel is now far more than a singer. He’s a national institution, at least in the land of his fathers

Maria di Rohan

Donizetti’s two-hour thriller allows us no deeper examination of the three main characters than is necessary

Hilliard Ensemble/Arditti String Quartet

A fine three-concert mini-festival ranged from Renaissance motets to recent commissions

Philharmonia/Pletnev

A fusion of intense precision and nonchalance is at the heart of Pletnev’s character and music-making

BBCSO/ Wigglesworth

Ryan Wigglesworth’s song cycle Augenlieder, performed with Claire Booth, glittered with skill in this refreshing concert

Fantastic four

Paul Driver salutes Britain's contemporary champions and hails a modern master

James MacMillan: Still agitato after all these years

The composer is approaching 50 but is still up for a fight

London Symphony Orchestra

Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony presented by Christoph Eschenbach and the well-oiled machine of the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Three stars for Renee Fleming at Festival Hall

It was a more compact display than her last London recital, but lustre there still was, and the gleam of star power

Philip Langridge

Langridge celebrated his unique way with English music: at once tough and tender, strongly yet subtly inflected

Rodgers/ Martineau

Settings of the same words showed how the infinite variety of Pushkin’s verse called forth the same in his composers

Jenufa

At first Giselle Allen as Jenufa seems just too fragile. But, thrillingly, we watch her grow, slowly and compellingly

Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Knussen

The landscape of intermittently driven intensity and windy fragments was brilliantly conveyed by the SCO

London Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi

With the orchestra’s shining precision, rounded tones and spirited emotions, this was a golden night

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko

Family feeling among orchestras is rare, and it was this spirit that helped the musicians to glide so suavely around Prokofiev’s mercurial...

Schumann Lieder

Thomas Quasthoff’s Barbican series in honour of the voice ended gently with a hushed, sighing hymn to love

London Sinfonietta/Reich

The ovation after Music for 18 Musicians suggested that Steve Reich’s brand of minimalism hasn’t lost its hypnotic allure

An imperfect Finnish

Paul Driver is beaten by Rautavaara's percussion concerto, but finds much to celebrate in the Britten Sinfonia's bill

Striking Sparks with Bergman

The Mael brothers’ new album takes a poke at Hollywood

London Symphony Orchestra/Tilson Thomas

If Matthias Goerne wobbled, the orchestra stayed solid, colouring the songs’ narratives with hues the singer whispered or missed

Bad Boys: tenors play lovers; basses play villains

Bryn Terfel is now far more than a singer. He’s a national institution, at least in the land of his fathers

Maria di Rohan

Donizetti’s two-hour thriller allows us no deeper examination of the three main characters than is necessary

Hilliard Ensemble/Arditti String Quartet

A fine three-concert mini-festival ranged from Renaissance motets to recent commissions

Philharmonia/Pletnev

A fusion of intense precision and nonchalance is at the heart of Pletnev’s character and music-making