Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) was better known in his lifetime as a virtuoso pianist and one-time conductor of the Boston Pops. The Italian composer also spearheaded the revival of interest in the music of Vivaldi, in itself worth remembering. Casella studied in Paris with Fauré, and rubbed shoulders with Stravinsky, Debussy, Mahler and Richard Strauss – all of whom would influence his own music, which has been somewhat forgotten. Not by Gianandrea Noseda, who is back with the BBC Philharmonic for a fourth volume of Casella’s orchestral works. In addition to the Symphonic Fragments from Le Couvent sur l’eau, Op 19 and a dark Elegia eroica, Op 29 for large orchestra, the main work here is the expansive, romantic Symphony No 1, worth hearing for its desolate, poetic slow movement and its soaring, melodic finale.