Rarely, rarely comest thou BBC spirit of delight!

* An explanation for non-Elgarians: the score of Elgar's Second Sympony is headed by the opening line of Shelley's Invocation - "Rarely, rarely comest thou spirit of delight!"
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I agree about the current high calibre of the BBC SSO under Runnicles, but then I would say that! Certainly the repeat of the concert in Edinburgh was very fine.
As far as the BBC SO goes, I'll be curious to hear how Oramo gets on with them at the end of the month. I admire him greatly and notice that his contract with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra ends at about the same time as Bělohlávek's does.