The London Philharmonic returns for its first appearance since November 2006, this time under the direction of the exciting young conductor Vladimir Jurowski, who succeeded Kurt Masur as the orchestra’s principal conductor in 2007. Jurowski conducts Tchaikovsky’s rarely-performed Manfred Symphony, which is based on a poem by Lord Byron and the only one of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies that is not numbered. Janine Jansen, a young violinist who has been a huge star in her native Holland ever since her Concertgebouw debut at the age of 10, makes her UMS debut.

A Prelude Dinner precedes the performance, with talk by Timothy Walker, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Program
· Pintscher : Towards Osiris (2005)
· Mozart : Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 (1775)
· Tchaikovsky : Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 (1885)