Performer: Werner Güra

Opening Klosters Music, Enrico Onofri proves that Classical-era music can still work well seen from a later perspective. 

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha is the pick of the soloists in a weighty reading of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang under Kazuki Yamada. But can Schubert's Fifth withstand the same approach? 

The elegance of the First Symphony served as a perfect curtain raiser for the mammoth, exultant Ninth.