Prom 45: BBCSO/Stasevska review – weighty premiere of a penniless composer’s symphony of love

The rest of Stasevska’s programme was unproblematic. The mezzo Jamie Barton was the creamy-toned soloist in Mahler’s Rückert Líeder, steering a nice path between cool detachment and emotional indulgence, before Stasevska conducted Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. One could quibble with details of her reading – the transition from first movement to scherzo seemed less controlled than it could be; the faster section at the centre of slow movement seemed a little rushed – but the sense of purpose driving the performance from the first bar to the extraordinary final chords was unmistakable, and the BBCSO delivered it thrillingly.