Lucky BBC Symphony Orchestra. Jiří Belohlávek will be missed as their chief conductor but his replacement, Sakari Oramo, is an inspired appointment. He's in blistering form here with his Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in vivid readings of Prokofiev's two "war" symphonies. The fifth, from 1944, sets out to portray the greatness of the human spirit, and Oramo invests the expansive opening andante and intense, emotional adagio with rare power and authority. Socialist realist heroics are absent from Symphony No 6, written only a year later as a lamentation for the psychological impact of war and condemned by the comrades as a "formalist perversion". Oramo guides us through its devastated landscape with clarity and compassion.