Performance on 3 - 29/10/2007

With Tom Service. The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates John Adams' 60th birthday with a programme in which he conducts his own music and a new work by Colin Matthews, described as 'four different ways of looking at the same thing'. Plus former New Generation Artist Alban Gerhardt brings a tribute to the late Mstislav Rostropovich through the powerful work written especially for him by Benjamin Britten. Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra Matthews: Reflected Images (London premiere) Adams: Choruses from The Death of Klinghoffer Alban Gerhardt (cello) BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra John Adams (conductor).