Fiona Maddocks’s best classical music of 2017

Opera for babies, late-night Bach, Debussy to die for, plus women – and men – making waves• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullWhichever way you shake 2017, it was the year of Rattle. Simon Rattle. Appointed music director of the London Symphony Orchestra two years ago, galloping in ever louder and quicker like a Rossini crescendo, he finally arrived. The first official concerts began in September. This Is Rattle, blasted the series title. It looked like hype but