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An evening of first-class music making from one of the UK's top orchestras in a varied programme that showed off the strengths of all concerned.  

A sprightly MTT seemed to be in the right place among the fellows of the New World Symphony, his brainchild, in a program where youth was prevalent.

The RSNO continues its cycle of Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos to celebrate its 125th season, coupled with some Russian fairy-tale magic and a rare outing for Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony.

Valery Gergiev led an athletic pilgrimage through composer-pianist Sergei Prokofiev’s five Piano Concerti, in numerical order, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

What on paper might have looked like a circus act – wheeling out three pianists to plough through Prokofiev’s five piano concertos – turned out to be a fascinating opportunity to compare and contrast.