Work: Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59: Suite

Plenty of richness is evident in Runnicles’ Strauss and Brahms in Auckland Town Hall, with Madeleine Pierard a radiant soloist in the Four Last Songs.

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.

At the Berlin Philharmonie, Franz Welser-Möst guides the audience through two centuries of Viennese music, including the German premiere of Bernd Deutsch's Intensity.