Under the baton of maestro Gergiev the London Symphony Orchestra will be performing two concerts – at the Barbican Centre in London (19 February) and at the new building of the Philharmonie de Paris which opened last month (22 February). The programmes of both concerts consist entirely of Russian music. The playbill of the first features Mily Balakirev’s tone poem Tamara, Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony. The solo in the Glazunov Concerto will be performed by Roman Simović,a renowned violinist, jury member of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition and leader of the London Symphony Orchestra.
The programme for the evening in Paris includes Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and First Symphony. The solo will be performed by Valery Gergiev’s frequent collaborator Denis Matsuev, recipient of the 1st prize at the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition and jury member of the XV Competition.
It is well known that maestro Gergiev is currently Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra – he was offered the position in 2004 following a triumphant series of all of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonies to mark one hundred years since the famed British orchestra was established. Over the course of the next ten years Valery Gergiev conducted the orchestra in some three hundred concerts and appeared in numerous recordings for the LSO Live label. October 2015 will see a series of concerts by maestro Gergiev with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican to commemorate two musical geniuses of the 20th century – Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók.
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