Turandot review – with high energy, mighty voices and delicacy, epic staging feels newly minted

Andrei Serban’s 1984 production of Puccini’s final opera is meticulously revived with Sondra Radvanovsky and SeokJong Baek both stellar in the central roles. In the pit, Rafael Payare brings care and lightness to the score

Nash Ensemble at 60 review – world premieres and evocative old favourites

From Simon Holt’s bird-like Acrobats on a Loose Wire to Helen Grime’s haunting Long Have I Lain Beside the Water, the four new works join more than 330 commissioned over the past six decades

Uproar review – shimmering premieres showcase the dynamism of Welsh new music ensemble

Ligeti’s mesmerising Chamber Concerto was the centrepiece of this Wales-focused concert, which moved from hedonistic piano to crystalline celeste

LPO/Edusei review – devastating Wijeratne and Martinů meet zany fun with Zappa

London Philharmonic programme brought together aching music of exile and displacement with kooky excursions by the pop fusion guru

Mahler Symphony No 3 album review – slightly sub-par outing for ‘least hysterical’ work

Curiously the Czech Philharmonic, ideally placed as an interpreter of Mahler, don’t achieve the necessary ecstatic intensity here

Fauré: La Bonne Chanson and Other Songs album review – the ecstasy of unbuttoned love

The later, string-quintet version of Fauré’s song cycle, celebrating his affection for the married Emma Bardac, is sung and played with beauty and finesse

Levit/Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer review – edgy Prokofiev baffles and compels

Under Iván Fischer’s baton, clarinettist Ákos Ács and pianist Igor Levit guided the orchestra to hurtling heights – buzzing speaker notwithstanding

Czech Phil/Bychkov review – fiendish Mozart duo contrasts with gargantuan Mahler

The Labèque sisters gave an uncannily composite performance of Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos, then chief conductor Semyon Bychkov took the Czech Philharmonic through a mighty rendering of Mahler’s Fifth

L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato review – dazzling opening to London Handel festival

Jonathan Cohen and his crack baroque ensemble Arcangelo seized upon the colourful pastoral with relish, lighting up Handel’s own parish church

The week in classical: The Makropulos Affair; Uprising – review

Orla Boylan captivates in Olivia Fuchs’s masterly Scottish Opera Janáček. And Jonathan Dove’s rousing new community opera puts down firm roots

Dunedin Consort/Butt review – A bog, but not standard as Fennessy’s new cantata premieres

Inspired by the ancient Faddan More Psalter unearthed after 1,000 years, the Dunedin Consort’s commission was direct and timeless in an utterly convincing way

Mozart: Serenades; Gran Partita review – bright tones and period-instrument agility

The Gran Partita is a supreme instrumental masterpiece and Baldeyrou and his ensemble do it full justice in this first disc of a Mozart series

Organised Delirium: Piano Sonatas by Boulez, Shostakovich, Bartók and Eisler album review – coruscating and exceptional

Stefanovich brings total mastery, athleticism and power to her recordings of Boulez’s second sonata, and other 20th-century piano works

LPO/Guggeis review – Wagner and Strauss touches both body and soul

Renée Fleming brought her communicative gifts to Strauss’s Four Last Songs in a programme dominated by Wagner. Making his LPO debut, Thomas Guggeis was an urgent presence

Uprising review – ravishingly sung opera rails against older generation destroying the planet

Teenage climate activist Lola struggles with school and family, while damaged nature is given its own voice