A work by the conductor’s father Ivan Karabits celebrated Kyiv, and Felix Klieser’s brought zest and panache to Mozart, but the sheer skill and audacity of the BSO in Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony was awe-inspiring

The Ukrainian conductor led his orchestra through a programme of Ukrainian and Russian music, culminating in a near perfect performance of Shostakovich’s Fourth

The BBC Symphony Orchestra’s guest conductor Kirill Karabits and pianist Anna Fedorova brought music from their homeland to an enthusiastic audience

A century after its composition, Feodor Akimenko’s Cello Concerto finally had its premiere, in an outstanding concert that also featured Stravinsky and Mahler

Strong performances offset the misery in ENO’s new production of Poul Ruders’s opera. Elsewhere, Easter organ music and a cosmic world premiere

The Ukranian-born chief conductor brought the crowd to their feet before and after a powerful programme of Sibelius, Bax and Elizabeth Ogonek

With Kirill Karabits replacing Simon Rattle on the podium, works by Bartók and Miklós Rózsa were brilliantly played. It’s hard to imagine a better performance of the latter’s virtuosic violin concerto

Proms on consecutive evenings featured premieres of Augusta Read Thomas’s Dance Foldings and Mason Bates’s Auditorium. Both full of interest, the former work felt the more successful

Kirill Karabits was hypnotic as the Bournemouth Symphony marked the first anniversary of Krzysztof Penderecki’s death

Lighthouse, Poole
Liszt’s poetic work merits a listen, but was easily outshone by Hummel and a ravishing Rosenkavalier

Musicologist David Trippet skilfully reconstructs a Liszt opera fragment, illustrating the composer’s fertile musical mind

Blood and guts meet a kinky Santa in Adena Jacobs’s provocative new ENO production of Strauss’s opera. And Royal Opera’s Ring ends on a high

Sardanapalo to premiere in Germany after Cambridge academic translates and deciphers neglected sketchbook

Kara Karayev was a patriotic, Soviet-approved composer who drew on the folk music of his fatherland, as well as the musical worlds of Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov

Prokofiev was paired with Shostakovich on a night when Kirill Karabits brought out the full tragic power of the latter’s Eight symphony

Cape Town Opera’s musical tribute to South Africa’s great leader returns in a buoyant new touring production

Kirill Karabits leads the BSO in Dutilleux’s cello concerto Tout un Monde Lointain with civilised refinement, giving way to the broad-brush bold colours of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony