A landmark concert sees the Berlin Philharmonic perform for the first time in London under its new Chief Conductor Designate, Kirill Petrenko. 鈥業n this work Mahler鈥檚 spirit is resurrected,鈥� said a colleague of Franz Schmidt鈥檚 Fourth Symphony, a piece whose Romantic character is charged with the grief of personal loss. Dynamic pianist Yuja Wang is the soloist in Prokofiev鈥檚 Third Piano Concerto, with its explosive closing battle of wills between soloist and orchestra. The concert opens with Dukas鈥檚 exotic, Impressionistic ballet score La p茅ri, prefaced by the arresting curtain-raising fanfare the composer later added.

Image: Yuja Wang 漏 Norbert Kniat