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Mahler’s Third Symphony is a huge undertaking, impressively played by the BBCSO, followed by a rare late-night excursion into contemporary works

This stunning Prom featured Stephen Hough balancing bravura with lyricism in Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto, the premiere of Grace-Evangeline Mason’s quietly effective Ablaze the Moon and a finely judged reading of Mahler’s First Symphony

Chart-topping Górecki becomes exquisite spectacle at ENO; Mahler’s Third is worth the wait; plus, the Finnish flourish of Klaus Mäkelä

World premiere of this extract from Dean’s ‘planned opera’ was full of vivid colour and ear-catching textures. The Mahler that followed was stylish and unsentimental

Ryan Wigglesworth composes a finessed Monteverdi Magnificat with the elegant, expansive assistance of wife and soprano Sophie Bevan and a virtuosic choir

A trio of young conductors vie for a job with the Hallé; Barbara Hannigan takes Mahler at his word; and Antonio Pappano makes a thriller of Puccini’s final opera

The great soprano was as expressively generous as ever but Nina Stemme was ill-served by her duo partner Magnus Svensson in this recital that featured Mahler and Wagner at its centre

Tár is set in the contemporary world of Western classical music and centres on Lydia Tár, one of the world's most prolific composer-conductors and first ever female music director of a major German orchestra. While the film has the look and feel of a biopic, Lydia Tár is a fictional…

Director Todd Field has gone through great pains, including on a podcast for the Los Angeles Times, to explain his great effort to get the world of classical music right in “Tár.”