Riccardo Muti, in what felt like a victory lap, returned to Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic’s annual three-day series of concerts.

This May, the world’s leading orchestras and soloists gather in Amsterdam for a grand celebration of all things Mahler – a city the composer described as his “second musical homeland”.

He is to start a five-year term as chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Netherlands in 2027-28 after his contracts in Norway and France expire. Mäkelä will become CSO ...