Levellers @ Shepherd's Bush Empire, London | The folk-rock legends celebrate the 30th anniversary of their Zeitgeist album with a show of hard-hitting lyrics, spiralling intensity and beautiful melodies

Wyldest - The Universe Is Loading | All about growth and resilience, Zoë Mead's latest details a personal universe that has eventually loaded

Runo Plum - Patching | A languid, wistful and understated introduction to a musician we'll be hearing a lot more from

The Devil's Den review – Druid, Dolmen and the Devil in Leeds' Howard Assembly Room | Opera North and Shadwell Opera partner to bring an obscure story to life

Philharmonia Orchestra review – Jakub Hrůša conducts Mahler at the Royal Festival Hall | Jakub Hrůša and the Philharmonia navigate Mahler’s elusive Seventh Symphony with luminous clarity and sweep, delivering a performance of imagination and power that outshone a few bumps along the way

The Lemonheads - Love Chant | Their first album of new material in 20 years makes the case that Evan Dando has lost none of his old magic

Danny Brown - Stardust | The Detroit rapper sounds recharged and energetic on his sixth album

Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts | This maximalist listening experience of breadth and depth is richly rewarding - and an entirely stunning achievement

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra review – Simon Rattle conducts Janáček and Bruckner at the Barbican | Simon Rattle returns to the Barbican with the BRSO for an electrifying Taras Bulba and an eloquent, beautifully paced, radiantly played Bruckner 7 – an evening that cements this partnership’s…

The Railway Children review – a new opera journeys from Glyndebourne to the Southbank | Mark-Anthony Turnage’s take on the classic book enjoys a semi-staged performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

Symphonic Gospel Celebration review – LSO and over three hundred voices at Barbican Hall | London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Community Voices are joined by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for a powerful evening of Spirituals and Gospel

Dead Man Walking review – a complete triumph for English National Opera | ENO’s Dead Man Walking, the first professional staging of Jake Heggie’s opera in the UK, grips from first note to last – a stark, humane triumph led by Christine Rice and Michael Mayes on blistering form as Sister Helen…

The Leipzig Legacy review – Spiritato knock Bach out of the park at Smith Square Hall | Specialist Baroque group Spiritato work their usual magic with works by Fasch, Graupner and J S Bach in another concert from The London Baroque Festival

Rosalía - Lux | Backed by the London Symphony Orchestra and featuring Björk and Yves Tumor, the Catalan superstar's latest is a dizzying, unmatchable experience

Midlake - A Bridge To Far | Modern-folk-rock outfit raise the bar on sixth album, equal parts quiet enchantment and bold dynamism

Spanish Sketches review – Sinfonia Smith Square’s unconventional but enjoyable contribution to LFBM | Music with a Spanish flavour from the 16th to the 21st centuries for the London Festival of Baroque Music

Philharmonia Orchestra review – Thomas Søndergård conducts Wagner, Strauss and Tchaikovsky at the Royal Festival Hall | Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha joins Thomas Søndergård and the Philharmonia in a luminous evening of music-making that explores love, loss and transformation, in a fitting…

Stella Donnelly - Love And Fortune | The follow-up to 2022's Flood is a more reflective, inward looking collection, having been inspired by a falling out with a formerly close friend

Der Wald / Lucrezia review – two one act operas at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama | Interesting rarities showcase singers’ talents to the full

The Makropulos Case review – mesmerising Janáček at Royal Ballet and Opera | Jakub Hrůša’s electrifying conducting and Ausrine Stundyte’s commanding Emilia Marty anchor Katie Mitchell’s provocative new take on Janáček’s strange, spellbinding opera in a first for Covent Garden

Cat Burns - How To Be Human | The Celebrity Traitors star is first and foremost a songwriter of rare talent who is unafraid to show her real self

Khovanshchina review – a superb revival of Mussorgsky’s epic in Berlin | Claud Guth’s gripping revival of Khovanshchina at the Staatsoper Berlin turns Mussorgsky’s vast operatic canvas into an evening of rare intensity, that’s both brilliantly staged and sung

Sean Panikkar interview – Makropulos, Mitchell and the alchemy of singing truth | We caught up with acclaimed tenor Sean Panikkar on the eve of his return to Covent Garden as Albert Gregor in the company’s first ever staging of Janáček’s The Makropulos Case

Tristan und Isolde review – incandescent Wagner at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin | Sublime music-making from Donald Runnicles and an outstanding cast can’t disguise the dramatic emptiness of Michael Thalheimer’s new Tristan und Isolde in Berlin

La bohème review – Opera North revives their go-to production in Leeds | Both snow and tears flow in Puccini's tale of Bohemian life in Paris

Florence And The Machine - Everybody Scream | An urgent and vital testimony to survival and rebirth, Florence Welch's sixth album is a defiant middle finger to doubters

!A la fiesta zagales¡ review – Spanish Baroque Christmas comes early at Wigmore Hall | 17th and 18th century jácaras and villancicos from Cantoria, one of Spain’s leading early-music ensembles

The Charlatans - We Are Love | With a subtle enhancement of the band's sound, this is an album built on atmosphere and feel

Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome To The Pleasuredome: "The most enticing, dangerous pop sensation since the Sex Pistols" | The Liverpool gang's riotous debut led the way and paved the future. This 7CD super deluxe edition demonstrates that it has barely dated

Dave - The Boy Who Played The Harp | The British rapper’s third album is a particularly serious affair, tackling religion, guilt and the allure of fame

Lily Allen - West End Girl | This extraordinary comeback record belongs in the long list of great break-up albums, but it's also one of the best pop albums of the year

Smote - Songs From The Free House | Daniel Foggin's ethereal otherworld, fleshed out by creeping drones and a flute, exists as a half-way house between Sunn O))) and Jethro Tull

Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble review – Bruckner as chamber music at the Wigmore Hall | A beautifully planned concert with a clear concept

Wallen and Hughes recital review – songs by Britten, Ives and Wallen at Wigmore Hall | Soprano Ruby Hughes teams up with pianist and Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen to present a lunchtime programme of art song

Llŷr Williams and Simon Lepper review – a divine Sunday morning at the Wigmore Hall | A superlative set of performances characterised by clarity and sensitivity

Ein deutsches Requiem review – The Purcell Singers bring clarity and distinction to Brahms at Sinfonia Smith Square | The Purcell Singers under their newly appointed director Benjamin Kirk perform Brahms’ greatest choral work in its piano duet version

Circa Waves - Death & Love Part 2 | This celebration of life and survival is, despite its traumatic origins, not a depressing or morbid listen

Idlewild @ KOKO, London | Returning Scottish guitar noiseniks showcase excellent new album alongside spikier, ragged selections from their past

Hannah Jadagu - Describe | Second album from American singer songwriter sees her evolve her dreamy, languid indie-pop

Götterdämmerung review – an accomplished performance from The London Opera Company at Smith Square Hall | A semi-staged but completely committed presentation of the final opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen

Tame Impala - Deadbeat | Kevin Parker's latest offering is patchy and overly synthetic, failing to hit the heights of his generation defining previous albums

Gesualdo Passione review – Renaissance polyphony meets 21st century urban street dancing at Barbican Hall | Les Arts Florissants and Amala Dianor Company present the Passion story through a challenging fusion of music and dance

Sudan Archives - THE BPM | American polymath creates a vibrant, energetic atmosphere on her bustling house party of a third album

Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun | Los Angeles outfit's second album mixes hardcore punk and pop rock with sincerity and passion with infectious results

Bar Italia - Some Like It Hot | London trio's fifth album in as many years shows them to still be a work in progress, but when they hit the right notes they sound utterly thrilling

The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre | Rich in ideas and confidence, the follow-up to Prelude To Ecstasy takes the concept of 'the difficult second album', screws it up in a ball and throws it over its shoulder while laughing

Tanita Tikaram - LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) | One of our most expressive vocalists offers up a sequel of sorts to her debut album Ancient Heart

AFI - Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… | The Californians' 12th album feels like the culmination of what the band have been trying to do for over a decade

Albert Herring review – Britten's comic opera arrives at English National Opera for the first time | Superb singing and playing anchor ENO’s first-ever Albert Herring, even if Antony McDonald’s semi-staging drains some of the fizz in the way it anchors the action

Jake Arditti interview – finding the bite in Amanzio | As he tackles the villainous Amanzio in Handel’s Giustino at Royal Ballet and Opera, rising star Jake Arditti talks risk-taking on stage, building character through text and the expanding horizon for countertenors