Sakari Oramo's fondness for the more obscure corners of early 20th-century English music – John Foulds, Granville Bantock, Arnold Bax – was a feature of his programming with the CBSO and has continued into his work with the BBC Symphony. But as this account of Elgar's First Symphony shows, he is a top-drawer interpreter of the more mainstream homegrown repertory too. It's a finely judged and paced performance, one that avoids extremes but still manages to give a tremendous sense of cumulative momentum to the whole work. A violinist himself, Oramo has always obtained a wonderfully refined string tone from the orchestras he conducts, and the hushed playing of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, especially in the closing pages of the slow movement and the introduction to the finale, is strikingly effective. With the Cockaigne overture as an affectionately shaped fill-up, it's not a revelation on the level of Barenboim's recent disc of the Second Symphony, but still well worth hearing.