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An uneven performance takes the edge off an evening of innovative music in Cleveland.

 Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra gave a searching examination of Prokofiev's first three symphonies and the Violin Concerto no. 1, each half showing us the contrast between light and shade, airiness and density.

Valery Gergiev has drilled the Prokofiev idiom into the LSO to great acclaim. His Mariinsky Orchestra has it running through their veins.