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David Robertson makes a successful debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, substituting for Michael Tilson Thomas, in a hyper-romantic programme of Berg and Mahler.

A glorious musical feast for the 60th birthday celebrations of Berlin's magnificent Philharmonie includes music by Boris Blacher and a world premiere by Milica Djordjević. 

Virtuoso violin fireworks were on brilliant display in Noah Bendix-Balgley's own Klezmer Concerto, while the Baltimore Symphony and conductor Fabien Gabel presented an impassioned, memorably probing Mahler Five.

Klaus Mäkelä returns to Cleveland for a program of extremes in contrast and character: Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and a concerto for orchestra by Unsuk Chin.

Elizabeth Watts is the soloist in the UK premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's song cycle Till Dawning, and this composer also unveils his take on another's Fifth Symphony.

Works by Mahler and Stravinsky bookend this Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert, but the world premiere shakes the dust off a century-old concerto by Feodor Akimenko.

The Icelandic pianist plays an excellent John Adams concerto followed by an exceptional encore. The Philharmonia's Mahler 5 shows many fine qualities.

Andris Nelsons conducts the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Berlioz and Mahler. 

Manfred Honeck builds a magnificent monument of sound conducting the DSO Berlin in Mahler's Fifth Symphony, the highlight of the evening, preceded by violinist James Ehnes who brilliantly recreates Mozart's Third Concerto.

Vasily Petrenko juxtaposes two very different fifth symphonies, from two different generations of Viennese composers on his return to Liverpool.

This special concert saw the debut of the Proms Festival Orchestra, made up entirely from leading freelance musicians.

The towering Fifth Symphony was cohesive and unusually refined, while Peter Mattei brought elegance and passion to Kindertotenlieder.

The players of the Budapest Festival Orchestra once again proved themselves to be a remarkably cohesive ensemble.

Clarion details from start to finish result in a spectacular Mahler Fifth from Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra

Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a lively Mendelssohn concerto and elegant Mahler Fifth.

Louis Lortie amazes in the Schubert-Liszt Wanderer Fantasy, while The Philadelphia Orchestra under Nézet-Séguin struggles but ultimately triumphs with Mahler's Fifth.

Olga Neuwirth’s complex but arresting Masaot / Clocks Without Hands opened the program, but it was the orchestra’s Mahler’s Symphony no. 5 that the audience will remember for the overpowering effect of this performance.

Emanuel Ax’s extraordinary gift for musical collaborations was especially evident in Mozart's E flat major concerto. 

The London Symphony Orchestra excel in an intense evening of Britten and Mahler at the Barbican.

The pairing of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Violin Concerto of Brahms felt conspicuously like a calling card from an orchestra that sees itself as a contender for wider recognition, on this showing with good reason.

Rafael Payare demonstrates his mastery of a late Romantic score and together with the RPO partners Lise de la Salle in an early piano concerto by Mozart.

Robert Trevino conducts the RLPO in a stormy Mahler 5th after a deeply personal account Mozart's Clarinet Concerto by Julian Bliss

Susanna Mälkki’s choppy, uneven Mahler 5, preceded by a Steve Reich world première. 

Gergiev and Abduraimov create magic in a dazzling Rachmaninov Rhapsody.

While the Tonhalle’s concert season officially began about a month ago, Paavo Järvi launched his own appointment here with demanding repertoire that met with great enthusiasm. 

The new Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester leads a passionate rendering of Mahler 5, while Håkan Hardenberger gives a masterclass in trumpet colour.

Recreating the programme from Leonard Bernstein's first Prom, Thomas Dausgaard forged his own route through Mahler's Fifth. 

Robert Treviño conducts the LPO in tension-filled accounts of Rachmaninov and Mahler. 

How do you prepare a new production at a major opera house, then stroll across the Thames to lead a fine and distinctive Mahler Five? 

It was another evening staring into the abyss courtesy of the London Symphony Orchestra, with Britten's Violin Concerto paired with Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

A satisfying performance overall with many rousing moments but not without its instances of missed opportunity.

Yuja Wang joins Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic for Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto. 

Ludovic Morlot closes his sixth Seattle Symphony season with a challenging program of Ligeti's Requiem and Mahler's Fifth that raises the stakes for musical 'redemption'. 

Stunning musicianship and passionate commitment gave two repertoire works a new lease of life. 

A concert of remarkable clarity, turning the structural challenges of Haydn and Mahler into dramatic virtues.

The Venezuelan maestro conducts a programme of early 20th-century works with the BBC Philharmonic .

Joining Maestro Christoph Eschenbach and the musicians of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for a tour across the United States, Chen headlined a pops concert of Austro-German music, complete with a riveting interpretation of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and an sufficient performance of Mahler’s Fifth.

The Washington Performing Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – cause for celebration indeed – and its opening concert showcased one of the world’s finest orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw, under the baton of Semyon Bychkov.

Solid performances of chunky classics.

An enterprising programme featuring a rare Haydn symphony, a new work by Charlotte Bray and Mahler 5, played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo and with Guy Johnston as cello soloist.

Marin Alsop led the musicians of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening in the New York première of Kevin Puts and James Bartolomeo’s The City and a valiantly led execution of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

Mahler 5 shows the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at its most expressive. 

JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Symphony deliver a poetic and powerful Mahler Fifth Symphony, plus a Glazunov Violin Concerto that positively sparkled.

Vasily Petrenko conducted the Oslo Philharmonic in a magnificent evening of Grieg, Mahler and Rachmaninov with Simon Trpčeski

Where should the ideal Mahler 5 sit on the Bernstein-to-Boulez spectrum? Saraste and the LPO had a persuasive answer.

The South Netherlands Philharmonic (philharmonie zuidnederland) introduced its new chief conductor, Dmitry Liss, in a demanding programme.

It is odd to pair a seven-minute world première with a 72-minute Mahler Symphony, but there is so much life packed in to John Corigliano’s STOMP for Orchestra, that the two halves of Houston Symphony Orchestra’s concert felt surprisingly well balanced.

To launch its 2015-16 season, the Essen Philharmonic set a new work inspired by life’s transience against the infinities of Mahler.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the EUYO at the Ravello Festival, in an unusual pairing of Verdi and Mahler.