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An attempt to recover Mahler's original sound world yields compelling, not always convincing results at the BBC Proms. 

At just 50 singers, the choir of Arcangelo produce a remarkable feat of choral singing to bring Bach's masterpiece to life at a packed Royal Albert Hall.

Paweł Kapuła and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra make hay with a variegated Proms, opening with Hans Werner Henze's orchestral fantasy on Schubert’s Erlkönig.

Isabelle Faust joins the FBO for a performance of Schumann's Violin Concerto, a work embargoed by the composer's friends after his death. 

Making his BBC Proms debut, Lahav Shani brings the Munich Philharmonic, days before becoming its new Chief Conductor. 

Simone Lamsma is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto, holding the Proms audience in the palm of her hands.

Moving Elgar and gripping Tchaikovsky from the Berliner Philharmoniker and their Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, effortlessly at the top of their game.

Les Siècles and Jakob Lehmann are joined by four fine soloists for Berlioz’s “dramatic legend” on Goethe's Faust. 

The New Yorkers show their qualities in a blissful Mahler Fourth, with soloist Joyce DiDonato also wowing the Royal Albert Hall.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the Proms with an all-Strauss programme, bringing his charges from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and soprano Elza van den Heever for a slice of Salome.

Gautier Capuçon's devotional performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto shares the limelight with Alain Altinoglu's pulsating performance of Varèse’s Amériques. 

Intriguing Bushra El-Turk and stylish Haydn precede Mahler’s epic symphonic song cycle from the BBC Philharmonic and Anja Bihlmaier, with expressive and dramatic solo singing.

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra a shattering – but also moving – account of the Grande Messe des morts at the Royal Albert Hall

James Gaffigan's programme ranges from Wynton Marsalis’s fizzing but elusive new work for orchestra, Gershwin’s stylish Piano Concerto to a compelling account of Barber’s First Symphony.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic achieve lift-off in Beethoven – just – but miss the landing in Gabriela Ortiz's political drama.

The LA Phil take two journeys – to the countryside and through the nine Circle of Hell – on their long overdue return to the BBC Proms... with variable results. 

At the Royal Albert Hall Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts joyful and convivial performances of Stravinsky and Bartók, and Vilda Frang gives a rapturous reading of Berg's violin concerto.

Works of religious stimulus are given outstanding performances under the baton of rising star Nil Venditti.

The composer’s final opera is virtually impossible to stage comfortably, but Sir Mark Elder makes a convincing case for more regular outings of its beautiful music.

Alexandra Dariescu makes a compelling Proms debut in Nadia Boulanger's unjustly neglected Fantaisie variée, which bridges late Romanticism and Impressionism.

Soloist and orchestra seem out of sync in a Proms programme that also features solid Dvořák and a Zimmermann curiosity.

A musical and dramatic exploration of Mahler’s First Symphony by Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra. 

Between energetic Haydn and Schumann, Daniel Lozakovich brings freshness to Max Bruch's evergreen First Violin Concerto as Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen concludes a European tour at the BBC Proms.

Alena Baeva is the soloist in a performance of Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto lacking a little kitsch. 

New songs and an old symphony revive happy memories under Ryan Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms.

Cellist Guy Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony for a Prom journeying from humanity's darkest shadows to radiant optimism.

Strauss is a Proms favourite, but it was some songs from Canteloube, beautifully delivered by Louise Alder, that make the greatest impression at the LPO's Prom. 

Pianist brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen spar with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Poulenc before John Adams’ epic Harmonium.

John Wilson embraces Respighi's panoramic impressions of Rome in an action-packed Italian day trip at the BBC Proms. 

A rare outing for Szymanowski's Stabat Mater forms the highlight of an imaginatively 'spiritual' Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are persuasive in Also sprach Zarathustra, less so in Sibelius. Thomas Dunford soothes with Dowland and Purcell.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a nod to #America250 and Yunchan Lim plays Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto in G. 

Video projections in the Royal Albert Hall enhance MacMillan’s Sleeping Beauty for English National Ballet but the lack of real set and wings makes the stage seem bare and bleak.

Few violin concertos soar from the first bar as Erich Korngold’s does, especially as in Ray Chen's high-wire account at the Royal Albert Hall. 

Sir Peter Wright’s beautiful Nutcracker ticks every box with Birmingham Royal Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall.

John Wilson brings his Sinfonia of London to the BBC Proms to crown the Ravel 150 celebrations with a glowing performance of his hedonistic symphonie chorégraphique.

Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic give a masterclass in virtuosic elegance in Mozrt, but lack edge and passion in Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. 

Franz Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic enthral at the BBC Proms with magical accounts of Bruckner's last symphony and extracts from Berg's Lulu Suite.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s BBC Proms matinee proves an ideal opportunity to demonstrate their strengths in a programme of Respighi, Milhaud and Vaughan Williams. 

Jonathon Heyward steps in to conduct Chineke! in two UK premieres and Shostakovich's rip-roaring Tenth Symphony. 

David Pountney's vernacular translation and Ruth Knight's vivid staging lent a thrilling immediacy to Shostakovich's chilling opera.

An eclectic programme including evocative Sámi joiks from and powerful Shostakovich performed from memory by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Ryan Bancroft’s LSO programme, inherited from Simon Rattle, mixes attractive English folksong-inspired pieces with more challenging, late 20th-century works.

Despite the disruption, the musicians of the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín continue their interesting programme of Sutherland, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky.

Marie Jacquot makes her BBC Proms debut with great performances of Bizet, Saint-Saëns and Augusta Holmès, while Inmo Yang dazzles in Sarasate. 

The German violinist gives us plenty of Czech brio in Dvořák; conductor and orchestra display many good qualities but fail to thrill.

Janine Jansen joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for Prokofiev in a brilliantly conceived programme ending with Bartók’s ebullient Concerto for Orchestra. 

In the first of two concerts at the BBC Proms, Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra give a thrilling performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and a glowing exposition of Berio's Rendering. 

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that blends two modern works with Beethoven's Ninth.