Susanna Mälkki conducts Liadov and Sibelius | London Philharmonic Orchestra

Susanna Mälkki makes her debut conducting the Orchestra in a concert culminating in the work that established one of the most significant symphonic composing careers in history: the gripping, insistent and ultimately uplifting First Symphony by the man who would discover a whole new world of symphonic expression, Jean Sibelius. Before that, silver medallist at the 2013 Van Cliburn Piano Competition, Beatrice Rana, plays Prokofiev’s sardonic and virtuosic Piano Concerto No 2. Mälkki opens the concert with an imposing tone poem from a composer who suffered more than most: the terrifying From the Apocalypse by the near-forgotten Russian romantic Anatol Liadov.