Slobodeniouk’s calm, clean direction helped hold the sprawling symphony tightly together, ensuring that even the softest, slowest-moving passages had a compelling edge.

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and the orchestra carried over their good balances and clearly defined textures into scintillating accounts of two popular symphonic poems by Richard Strauss.

The SSO under clear and decisive direction from conductor Dima Slobodeniouk with guest concertmaster Raphael Christ, gave performances of vital intensity, brilliant colour and well-pointed precision, full of surging and occasionally lubricious spirit.

Finely modelled sound aesthetic in which dance-like lightness and transparency flourished...