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Andrew Manze crowns an excellent concert in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall with Borodin's colourful Second Symphony. 

After a hiatus of five years, Singapore Symphony's Conductor Laureate Lan Shui returns for a poignant Mahler 1. 

John Storgårds and the London Philharmonic Orchestra couple Julian Anderson’s evocative Van Gogh Blue with an exhilarating Beethoven’s Seventh, while Simone Lamsma is dynamic and expansive in Nielsen.

How to compare Nielsen and Ives? Possible similarities aside, however, the impact of their work is, on the whole, wildly contrasting.

The Oslo Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko, and violinist James Ehnes give a dazzling performance of Nielsen's Violin Concerto, but fall flat in a strangely brutal performance of Sibelius' Symphony no. 1.