Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London

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.