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In a warm Glasgow homecoming, Sir Donald Runnicles gives a magnificent, moving Mahler 9, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. 

A cast of hundreds – if not a thousand – assembles under Vasily Petrenko for a performance of grandeur and power in the Royal Albert Hall. 

In a week when the world has mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Daniel Harding and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perform a programme exploring death and the disintegration of life.

Kirill Petrenko juxtaposes darkness and light with the Berlin Philharmonic at the BBC Proms.

From performing Mahler in a pared-down chamber arrangement in an empty hall two years ago, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra returns to the “full fat” variety in a packed Usher Hall. 

The Czech conductor makes the short hop from Salzburg to replace Riccardo Chailly in an all-Mahler programme at the Lucerne Festival. 

The LSO’s Conductor Laureate, Michael Tilson Thomas, takes his time over Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, while Lukás Vondráček seeks out the extremes in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto.