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Franz Welser-Möst selected a Schubert symphony and the first act of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to open the Cleveland Orchestra season.

The remarkable youth orchestra that is the Waseda Symphony from Tokyo performs a programme of western Romantic music conducted by Kazufumi Yamashita together with a knockout contemporary Japanese work.

A superb partnership between Osmo Vänskä and the LPO created a thrilling account of Elgar’s First Symphony but put Korngold’s Violin Concerto in the shade.