Performance on 3 - LSO, Valery Gergiev

Presented by Ian Skelly The LSO and Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in Debussy's L'apres midi, two symphonies by Stravinsky and the premiere of James Macmillan's Violin Concerto. Vadim Repin joins the LSO in the premiere of James MacMillan's latest work, a new Violin Concerto, as part of the orchestra's season-long celebration of the composer's 50th birthday. Three masterpieces frame the new work: Debussy's enticing Prélude á l'après-midi d'un Faune, of which his biographer claimed, when it was written in 1894, 'nothing like it existed in music,' and two of Stravinsky's greatest neo-classical works. DEBUSSY: Prélude á l'après-midi d'un Faune STRAVINSKY: Symphony in C JAMES MACMILLAN: Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms Vadim Repin violin London Symphony orchestra and Chorus Valery Gergiev conductor Followed by: The art of organ improvisation - Magnus Williamson at the organ of Peterborough Cathedral.