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How much emotion is too much emotion? After drily sardonic Adès and tender Shostakovich, the Hallé shows what happens when Tchaikovsky’s music is over-indulged.  

Rachmaninov and Prokofiev not only shared a first name. In their individual ways they helped define Russianness too. Anna Vinnitskaya, Juraj Valčuha and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester are here the exponents.

Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony, in partnership with musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, present a new work from Mingdu Li, Glière’s Horn concerto and an immense Shostakovich 11.

Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony is given its first performance in Poole in a Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert which included another opportunity to hear the music of Feodor Akimenko.