Devotees of the dinner-party game Guess the Composer have a gift in Glière's Third Symphony. Composed in Russia between 1909 and 1911, this epic unsurprisingly resonates with the rich augmented-chord exoticism of Skryabin and the colourful enchantment of Stravinsky's Firebird. But mystical harmonies from Wagner's Parsifal also waft by, and there are reminiscences of the wild rides of Liszt's Mazeppa and Schoenberg's Gurrelieder. Also referenced are the Orthodox chants of Mussorgsky and much more.

But it is not simply a compendium of late Romantic scores. It has an individual identity and, for all its sprawling 80 minutes, an impressive cogency. Vassily Sinaisky shaped this large-scale canvas with a masterly command, drawing superbly crafted playing from the BBC Philharmonic.

The slow second movement, Nightingale the Robber, was outstanding. The sense of foreboding, with rasps of contra-bassoon, in the dark forest eventually gave way to the rapturous music to which Nightingale's three daughters attempt to subvert the knightly hero Ilya Muromets.

Extraordinary that this work has not been heard previously at the Proms. A rather more regular visitor is Rakhmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. But this warhorse sounded remarkably fresh in Sinaisky's account with Nelson Goerner as soloist. They charted an unusually coherent trajectory from the bell-like clarity of the opening variations to the voluptuous D flat major of the celebrated 18th and on to the demonic sphere of the Dies Irae.

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