Goehr premiere, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, review One of the great things about the BBC facility called "Listen Again" is that it casts an interesting retrospective light on concerts that are also broadcast. After you've slept on it, and are mulling over the concert the next morning, which is the piece you really want to hear again? In the case of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert last Friday, the choice was easy - which isn't to say that the concert as a whole wasn't enjoyable. It was filled with unexpected pleasures, beginning with a symphony by that rarely heard Soviet composer Nikolay Myaskovsky. His 10th symphony from 1927 was inspired by a melodramatic poem by Pushkin in which a man is pursued to his death by a bronze horseman. Oliver Knussen and the orchestra made it seem urgent and daring, and let some much-needed light into its clotted orchestration. Niccolò Castiglioni's Concerto was only a third the length of Myaskovsky's symphony, but its witty and abrupt musical mobiles were even more engrossing. And Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony had an amazing urgency and bite, even though we heard the piece in the heavily upholstered orchestral version Schoenberg made in the 1930s. All these delivered an instant pay-off. Alongside them was something very different, a piece for which the phrase "delayed gratification" might have been invented. This was When Adam Fell, a new piece commissioned from Alexander Goehr to mark his 80th birthday. The title refers to the vertiginous falls in Bach's chorale prelude Durch Adams Fall, which inspired the piece. Goehr teases out their implications in a myriad highly coloured harmonic and melodic gestures, fraught with urgent melancholy. With most new pieces, one simply takes things as they come. With this piece - as often happens with Goehr - I found I was saying under my breath, "Yes, yes! Go on!," urging all its fascinating shards to coalesce and burgeon into something long-breathed - in short, to become what it ought to be. The fact that it didn't, quite, was frustrating. But the way Goehr's piece seems to burrow ever deeper into its own substance, rather than building to a "grand statement," was also moving in its way. The piece has a sharp subtle flavour, well worth savouring. Hear this concert on the BBC iPlayer via the Radio 3 website