At yesterday's Victoria Symphony concert their new Principal Guest Conductoir (a 27-year old called Yannick Nezet-Seguin, a name to watch) announced that they would be playing the second movement of Brahms 1 in the recently reconstructed original version and that this as far as he knew only the 2nd performance in N America. Does anyone know anything about this? They had not announced it previously and it wasn't mentioned in the programme notes. A quick web search revealed nothing. Although the music had the same themes anbd same overall shape there were a few spots where, for those of us who know the music very well, it was very disconcerting: hamornies and orchestration were very different in place. I wonder who did the reconstructiuon (and when) and why it was necessary. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]