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A thoughtfully conceived and well-executed BBCSO programme, if not gaining more than the sum of its respective parts. 

Pekka Kuusisto and the SCO burst with energy in UK premieres from Anna Clyne and Helen Grime with soprano Ruby Hughes.

A short, tender MacMillan piece, filmic Sibelius and an astonishing percussion concerto from Rautavaara written for – and performed by – Colin Currie rounds off a successful SCO digital series of concerts.

I’ve heard the Japan Philharmonic on several occasions in the past, but this was the first time with Inkinen, and the difference was startling. In previous encounters with this orchestra I noted a rather bright, at times even glaring sound. No longer. Inkinen has instilled instead a generously warm, even, glowing sonority and depth of sound that one hears in Europe’s finest ensembles.