Strozzi: Virtuosissima Sirena album review – Laura Catrani enchants with music from a true Venetian revolutionary

A sumptuous, elegant account of Barbara Strozzi’s 17th-century vocal music – performed with warmth, clarity and persuasive expressive freedom

Earth and Other Planets review – reimagined Holst with harmonica and a hoedown

Left-field duo Stevens & Pound threaded funky folk stylings with poetry by Robert Macfarlane and virtuoso playing by Britten Sinfonia to create The Silent Planet, a rethinking of Holst’s Planets Suite, with the addition of the newly composed Earth

Ben Goldscheider/ Richard Uttley review – a horn, a piano … and a braying donkey

This was a richly satisfying and moving concert of music that ranged from Mahler and Schumann to Simon Holt’s the Bell and Oliver Leith’s Eeyore

LPO/Jurowski review – Mahler’s 10th is full of colour, and the composer’s pain, in Barshai’s completion

Rudolf Barshai’s audacious completion of Mahler’s final unfinished symphony slathers on the colour, and its diverse timbral details came over loud and clear thanks to the LPO’s playing and Vladimir Jurowski’s textural lucidity

BBCSO/BBC Singers/Brabbins: UnEarth review – Wolfe faces the climate crisis head on

Julia Wolfe’s oratorio, here in its UK premiere, is evocative and striking, but its thudding final movement felt heavy-handed

Riot Ensemble review – from meditations to mariachi in new music of maximal difference

The new music group’s engaging programme of works by Corie Rose Soumah, Anna Meredith, Alex Paxton and Eden Lonsdale moved from the swaggering to the subtle

Havergal Brian: The Gothic album review – Ole Schmidt tames a vast, eccentric score

A 1980 live recording reveals the Danish conductor’s assured handling of a colossal symphony – a balance of architectural clarity and gothic extravagance

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas album review – Capuçon brings warmth, restraint and reflection

These performances of Bach’s solo works are elegant and persuasive – balancing a modern tone with an alert awareness of period style

GBSR Duo: For Philip Guston review – Feldman’s marathon minimalism rewards deep listening

At over four hours without a break, Morton Feldman’s work dedicated to his artist friend is challenging, but in a rare live performance, the concentration of its performers made it an unforgettable experiencence

BBCSO/Schuldt review – Phibbs cello concerto brings cohesion to uneven programme

Clemens Schuldt kept the volume high in an inconsistent evening in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra ranged across Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet, Mel Bonis’s Ophélie and a suite from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

Death of Gesualdo review – a creepy and compelling combination of beauty and horror

The twisted life and sublime music of the murderous Renaissance composer is examined with style

CBSO/Yamada review – Moore’s trombone adventures into Fujikura’s sonic oceans

Dai Fujikura’s elusive trombone concerto was given its UK premiere by Peter Moore, who made its colours and textures sing; a persuasive but perhaps too sunny reading of Mahler’s first symphony followed in the concert’s second half

Brahms: Late Piano Works album review – Anderszewski leans into the sorrow of these intimate miniatures

Darkness hangs over a fluid and distinctively emotional take on a dozen introspective works

Igor Stravinsky: Late Works album review – kudos to Reuss for bringing this spellbinding music to life

Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer’s most austere period

The Makropulos Affair review – Simon Rattle leads a sensational and thrilling semi-staging

The tension barely let up for two hours as Rattle led the London Symphony Orchestra and a commanding cast through this vital account of Janáček’s opera.