Performer: Denis Kozhukhin

Paavo Järvi gave a real sense of occasion to the evening, though the Berlioz neither embraced frenzy nor nodded to the fantastical. 

In the year of the centenary of Claude Debussy's death, pianist Denis Kozhukhin gave a heady and colourful performance of music by Debussy and George Gerswhin, a composer deeply influenced by his French counterpart.

Santtu-Matias Rouvali oozed enthusiasm and musicality with the Philharmonia in this all-Russian programme of Kabalevsky and Mussorgsky.

There were piano arpeggios that could have come from the pen of no other composer

Sir Simon Rattle steers the LSO through a sequence of Haydn’s most forward-looking pieces while Denis Kozhukhin, as a late stand-in, is immense in Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto.