Michael Tilson Thomas, since taking up the SFS’s reins in 1995, has developed this great West Coast ensemble into a fearless and ever-questing orchestra with a devoted following. But all good things come to an end: MTT hands the baton to Esa-Pekka Salonen at the end of the 2019-20 season, but not before adding to his dizzyingly broad recorded catalogue. A suave and slightly underwhelming Pathétique (though undeniably well played) was succeeded by Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette which Mike Ashman admired as a ‘typically well-prepared and fluent account’.