The record industry now produces so much music on so many CDs per month that it is not at all unusual to receive simultaneous accounts of the same piece. This happened recently when two versions of Schumann’s Second Symphony arrived. One, which the postman had to ring for because the slot couldn’t accommodate the packaging, was from a major record label and featured a well-known multinational chamber orchestra of quality soloists under a high-flying young Canadian conductor attracting plaudits whenever he appears. The other, which flew in with the bills, was from a young Midlands-based chamber orchestra of jobbing musicians under an American conductor who had worked with them for several years, travelling to their base in Stratford-upon-Avon from his home in Cardiff, south Wal