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Staatsoper Hannover’s new production of The Turn of the Screw packs a punch, both musically and dramatically.

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Thierry Fischer explore Gallic music both familiar and unfamiliar.

In their latest contribution to the Berlin Festival, Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, brought together brooding Berg and sunny Dvořák.

A rare Enescu symphony makes an appearance in the latest of the LPO’s year-long series exploring works across the centuries.

The Philharmonia marked the start of its 75th anniversary year with an absorbing portrait of the French horn in solo and orchestral guises.

A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.

David McVicar’s imaginative staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute comes back for its eighth run at the Royal Opera with an excellent new cast.

The Philharmonia Orchestra’s Weimar Berlin series came to an end with a fascinating programme of the familiar and unfamiliar.

Despite engaging vocal performances and vivid orchestral playing, the Philharmonia Orchestra’s exploration of Weimar-era Berlin’s cabaret world added up to less than the sum of its parts.

The UK stage debut of Offenbach’s neglected Fantasio reveals a musical sizzler, but directorially it needs a more sympathetic touch than Garsington musters.

Grange Park Opera’s new production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess makes for a searingly effective evening of music and drama.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and its conductor laureate Sir Andrew Davis brought three seemingly disparate orchestral works, united by their songfulness and ravishing sounds, vividly to life.

The veteran Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt proved an illuminating tour guide through a pair of early 19th-century programmatic symphonies.

Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili’s sequence of Rachmaninov songs were a highlight of an all-Russian programme conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Composer-conductor Peter Eötvös’ attempt to portray the concept of parallel universes in music remained strangely earthbound in its UK premiere.

A rare appearance by Radu Lupu proves that a concerto soloist doesn’t have to be showy to thrill an audience.