City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Ravel's storybook suite and his colourful transformation of Musorgsky's black-and-white Pictures frame Stravinsky's 'fantastical scherzo' and a highly-praised new French song-cycle from France's senior composer - introduced to the UK by the CBSO earlier this year - setting epistolary texts by Solzhenitsyn, Rilke, Van Gogh and Prithwindra Mukherjee.