Performer: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

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.

Beethoven’s salvo for peace and brotherhood shares a Philadelphia Orchestra program with William Grant Still’s newly reorchestrated Wood Notes.

Battling short attention spans, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra delivers a riveting performance of Bruckner 8 in their summer series at Carnegie Hall.

Hélène Grimaud and Emily D'Angelo join Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a varied and variable program of Gershwin and Bernstein.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the premiere of For Marilyn Crispell alongside the 1873 version of Bruckner’s “Wagner Symphony”, the Third.

This season, new operas are depositing characters in limbo between this life and the next – from Lincoln in Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, to Bassem Akiki’s supernatural retelling of the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. 

How is the classical music world changing? Looking back on a dizzying year, we pay particular attention to performers’ international connectedness. Documenting more than 30,000 events, Bachtrack’s statistics provide valuable insight into an unstable world.

Ahead of the release of Maestro, starring and directed by Bradley Cooper, Leonard Bernstein’s oldest daughter discusses her father’s impact on her life and the music world at large.