'Magic’ (de Volkskrant), ‘mythical’ (Trouw), ‘a triumph’ (NRC): the concert version of the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin can only be described in superlatives. The next stage: Siegfried.

Elgar’s wistful Cello Concerto and Shostakovich’s melancholic Sixth Symphony end on a light-hearted note with a dancing tune à la Rimsky-Korsakov. All’s well that ends well?