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Gérard Caussé and Nicholas Angelich impress in Brahms, while Mischa Maisky joins Martha Argerich in Shostakovich. 

Saturday saw the BBC Symphony Orchestra open their 2013/14 season with an evening of firsts. Not only was this Sakari Oramo’s first Barbican season concert as Chief Conductor, but the programme placed a première by leading “spectral” composer Tristan Murail alongside Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto and Mahler’s First Symphony.