Canellakis conducts Brahms | London Philharmonic Orchestra

There’s something extraordinary about the partnership between the LPO and its Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis: ‘Conductor and orchestra have explosive chemistry’, declared one review earlier this year. So imagine the intensity when she joins the celebrated American pianist Emanuel Ax in Brahms’s First Piano Concerto: a volcanic outpouring of passion and poetry from a genius at the height of his youthful powers. Brett Dean’s Memorials, meanwhile, retell three modern tragedies in vivid orchestral colours – and The Wild Dove, by Brahms’s great friend Dvorák, finds dark secrets within a Czech folk tale. More than meets the ear …