Valery Gergiev, fresh from his appointment as chief conductor of the Münchner Philharmoniker in 2015, takes his new ensemble to the BBC Proms for a concert of the utmost in drama and vivid musicianship. The brilliant young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov performs Rachmaninov’s thrillingly virtuosic Piano Concerto No.3, while the Russian stage and film actor Alexei Petrenko recites the text in Galina Ustvolskaya’s resonant and profound Symphony No.3 ‘Jesus Messiah, Save Us!’. The programme also features a hypnotic Ravel Boléro, an alternately tender, florid and witty Rosenkavalier Suite, and the rousing Hungarian March by Berlioz.

Valery Gergiev is artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the Münchner Philharmoniker and the World Orchestra for Peace, chair of the organizational committee of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, honorary president of the Edinburgh International Festival and dean of the faculty of arts at the St Petersburg State University. He has led numerous composer cycles in New York, London, Paris and other international cities and he has introduced audiences around the world to several rarely performed Russian operas. Valery Gergiev staged the first Russian production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in St Petersburg, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, New York and London. Gergiev also champions many contemporary Russian composers.

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1
Language: English and Russian
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
DVD 9