London Philharmonic Orchestra: 2017 - Gavrylyuk plays Prokofiev

‘Alexander Gavrylyuk is, easily, the most compelling pianist of his generation’, wrote one critic after this exceptional Ukrainian pianist appeared at the 2017 BBC Proms – ‘a monumental master … unassuming and completely dedicated to his art.’ So imagine the thrill when he joins Thomas Søndergård in Prokofiev’s ferocious Third Piano Concerto: by turns brilliant, anarchic and breathtakingly beautiful. It’s a fiery climax to a concert whose 2020 Vision takes in Schubert’s ebullient Sixth Symphony of 1817, Ravel’s poignant homage to fallen friends in 1917, and Metacosmos: created in 2017 by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and inspired, she says, by ‘the natural balance between beauty and chaos’.