Rhenish

Stiff at first in the Montgomery, he gradually relaxed into more organic gestures in the Barber and Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony.

In these concerts you can hear Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony made liltingly fresh and a livelier account of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements than was heard in San Francisco.

“Supper, sir? Cold beef and the best bread in the county? A jug of ale or some Rhenish wine?”

Thursday’s program included a revelatory performance of Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the outstanding Russian soloist Daniil Trifonov and a magisterial account of Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony.

RWE is Germany’s largest operator of coal-fired power plants and employs about 10,000 staff in the Rhenish coal mining area, which also includes power plants.