Recorded live from a single performance at the Teatro Regio, Torino, Noseda conjures up an utterly charming and winning performance of The Resurrection symphony that has all the immediacy, frisson and tenseness of a live performance eliciting moments where breath is held and fingers crossed that there will no false starts or wrong notes or faltering breath.

Noseda conducts with a delicacy and lightness of touch that is never over-emphatic or stylistic but always has his players under perfect control. Momentum never falters and is sustained from beginning to end. I was so absorbed in the music that its conclusion comes as a bit of surprise - surely not ‘this’ soon - and then the applause ( yep! I love it, many hate it) - on this occasion for me it was completely expected and felt normal.

The recording is a rare gem recreating a nigh-on perfect acoustic of the venue to the extent that one can sense and feel being seated in the curved auditorium of this grand theatre with its sumptuous modern furnishings. Its intimacy will captivate… and this in only stereo!

Instrument textures are tangibly real, one senses players listening attentively to their colleagues and responding sympathetically, always at the right moment and in the right spirit. One feels the forward momentum of the work building all the time. Ethereal harp interventions, emphatic timpani strikes and sumptuous sonorous strings weave their magic through a tapestry of the finest colours. This is music making that grabs heart strings from the very first bar and never lessens its grip.

Nothing can be perfect, brass sometimes seems too distant and the balance is not always perfect. The final movement is a little too raucous, one senses that Maestro Noseda has loosened the reigns just a little too much and in one or two places there is some untidiness but only a curmudgeon would raise serious concerns about these minor indiscretions.

All-in-all this is one of the most enjoyable and successful SACD to have come to my attention. No matter you have a half-dozen or more recordings of The Resurrection Symphony on your shelves and your overdraft limit is in mortal peril this is one disc that you should not miss.