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Some in the audience might have been unfamiliar with this chronically underprogrammed composer, but his alluringly chromatic score had much to please them: the lush orchestration of Brahms and Romantic gestures of Tchaikovsky, tightly packaged with the breathlessness of a Dvorak concert overture.

With no words and barely a pause, a Lamborghini going from zero to 60 in the blink of an eye, the orchestra launched into the galloping grandeur of Szymanowski’s Concert Overture.

They include a concert overture by Florence B Price, who was the first black woman in the US to be recognised as a symphonic composer.

Here he offers Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony along with the overture to Victor Hugo’s play “Ruy Blas” and the concert overture “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.”

The 1942 concert overture by the grandly named São Paulo-born Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, dedicated to Aaron Copland, was scored with no percussion except timpani.