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The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel and cuatro player Jorge Glem set the Edinburgh International Festival alight with a mix of Venezuelan music and a terrific Mahler 1. 

In a warm Glasgow homecoming, Sir Donald Runnicles gives a magnificent, moving Mahler 9, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 

A cast of hundreds – if not a thousand – assembles under Vasily Petrenko for a performance of grandeur and power in the Royal Albert Hall. 

In a week when the world has mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Daniel Harding and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform a programme exploring death and the disintegration of life.

Kirill Petrenko juxtaposes darkness and light with the Berlin Philharmonic at the BBC Proms.

From performing Mahler in a pared-down chamber arrangement in an empty hall two years ago, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra returns to the “full fat” variety in a packed Usher Hall. 

The Czech conductor makes the short hop from Salzburg to replace Riccardo Chailly in an all-Mahler programme at the Lucerne Festival.