Performer: Sally Matthews

Anssi Karttunen  gracefully mastered the difficulties of Magnus Lindberg's score, marrying the serialist tendencies of his early opuses with more ear-pleasing tonal figments.

A welcome return to the Glyndebourne Festival for Melly Still's staging, which brings out the full emotional range of Dvořák’s fairytale of denial, heartbreak and forgiveness.

A wonderful evening of unforced, smiling music-making from Bernard Haitink, Isabelle Faust and the London Symphony Orchestra. 

Bernard Haitink celebrated an early 90th birthday conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a searching, joyous account of Beethoven's “Choral” Symphony.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's First World War opera both moves and dazzles at the Barbican.

It was especially effective to hear the line “One ever hangs where shelled roads part” with the vast hanging crucifix with its portrait of Christ dominating the scene behind.