London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Programme to include:

Magnus Lindberg: Chorale
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3
Interval
Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 in C minor

The London Philharmonic Orchestra launches its new season with Shostakovich, Prokofiev and a contemporary masterpiece.

Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony was composed at the height of the war in 1943. In it he attempted to confront the catastrophic violence and suffering Russians were being forced to witness daily.

In the Symphony's chilling 'Allegro' is Shostakovich's vision of the machine of war. The music is driven forward by tension, not through tunes but through mechanical and demonic rhythms.

To open the season, Vladimir Jurowski also conducts Prokofiev's scurrying Third Piano Concerto and Chorale - a luminous masterpiece after Bach by new Composer in Residence Magnus Lindberg, one of the greatest orchestral craftsmen alive.