What does the waltz mean to you? For most, when listening to its more familiar manifestations – Strauss’s Blue Danube, for example – it epitomises elegant civility, an untroubled charm and order, ...

Rufinatscha evidently had a gift for a melody full of sunshine. This hour-long D major symphony (his last, from 1865) is full of them and one of the best, in the Trio, glides along with an unlikely ...