Dmitri Kabalevsky’s two-movement First Symphony (1932) combines local colour and sustained development to enjoyable effect. Even finer is its successor of two years later, a three-movement work of considerable assurance and melodic appeal. Both tuneful fill-ups derive from Kabalevsky’s score for the 1957 film, The Sisters. Tangily authentic, enthusiastic music-making, accorded vivid, if at times uncomfortably strident sound.'