Performer: Swedish Radio Choir

The celebrated cellist becomes the first instrumentalist to be presented the Birgit Nilsson Prize by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf at the official Award Ceremony in Stockholm.

Andrew Staples creates an austere, monochrome semi-staging that's strangely appropriate to the times; Peter Mattei and John Lundgren lead an excellent cast.

Although filled with beauty and sweetly played, the fragmentation of the symphony felt too disruptive.

The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra present two works at the Berwaldhallen that both look to the past and future.

A true audiovisual experience, Anders Hillborg's Aeterna, a collaboration with two Swedish film-makers, results in a compelling portrait of the fragility that underlies our relationship with our planet.