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‘Time of Change: Journey through the Twentieth Century’ is how one of London’s major orchestras heads its publicity for the new season.

But it’s impossible not to stifle a yawn of surprise as one reads the proudly marshalled highlights. ‘Mahler’s impressive Symphony 4’ is the earliest (completed 1900); next in time comes Vaughan Williams’s Tallis Fantasia (1910), then the suite from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (1920). Bart