London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev

Barbican Hall, London
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Valery Gergiev conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
London Symphony Orchestra

Russian pianist Denis Matsuev, acclaimed for his formidable virtuosity and the controlled power of his playing, is the LSO’s featured artist this season.

He opens the 2014/15 series with two all-Russian programmes under the LSO’s outgoing Music Director, Valery Gergiev. Here he tackles Prokofiev’s dazzling Third Concerto, between Shostakovich’s best-loved symphony and the first in a symphonic cycle inspired by Dante’s 'Divine Comedy' by one of Shostakovich’s most prolific pupils.

Boris Tishchenko : Dante Symphony No 1 (‘Among the Living’)
Sergei Prokofiev : Piano Concerto No 3
Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No 10